Nothing really matters ? Dark matter ? Amenti

Nothing really matters – Dark matter – Amenti

My Dark Secret

I am a Void Walker and for me, nothing really matters.

We are not comfortable with nothing. No-thing. The ego panics in nothingness. With nothing to relate to, nothing to measure itself against, what is it then? It is this very aspect that frightens most people about death, the possibility of becoming nothing. Being no-thing. In nothingness the ego, as we know it, cease to exist and that can be very frightening. It is Chaos.

Whereas most people fear the nothingness, I realized as a young child that it is what I desired most. I felt myself inexplicably drawn to the nothingness, yet, "what you desire most, you also fear most," which sets up inside oneself a dyadic tension, that leads you to sooner or later face your fear and ultimately to embrace it.

In the general perception of the Dark is synonymous with the unknown, and as such the unknown has become associated with a negative perception. a Deep fear seem to exist in the psyche of the general consciousness in facing the unknown as from the present vantage point the unknown contains no certainty. In today's world we are only taught to deal with what is concrete and sure. In the structure of society, the unpredictable does not exist. Provision is only made for the known unpredictable, yet time and again the whole applecart gets upset by the unpredictable unknown and we throw our arms up in despair and call it an Act of God. Ah ha, so we do acknowledge that within the unknown exist god.

" In the beginning darkness existed, enveloped in darkness..." Rig-Veda, Mandala

"He (Thoth) supposes the beginnings of all things to consist of a dark Mist of a spiritual nature, or as it were a Breath of Dark Mists, and of a turbid Chaos black as Erebus, that these were boundless..." Hermetic texts – Sanchuniathon

We try to understand ourselves only in terms of the known, but we must acknowledge that the majority of what we are, is unknown. What percentage of our brains do we use? And the other 90%? what influence do the unknown part of us have on what we are? (Remember the so-called Junk DNA?)

"Scientists in the field now estimate that the unseen matter makes up about 90 percent or perhaps 99 percent of the universe mass. We know now that our universe is full of that shadow matter. Our very own Milky Way is full of it and we are unaware of it through our sense perception. We cannot see it because we see mainly by means of electromagnetism, and shadow matter does not emit light. Also, it is not detectable by radio telescopes, infrared, or x-ray instruments. Furthermore, shadow matter passes freely through ordinary matter, so that we cannot feel it like we feel ordinary objects that we touch. However, the presence of the dark matter is detectable by the gravitational effects in the galaxies of universe. " Reginald Crosley

"With the Egyptians, Darkness was the mystery of all mysteries. As Damacius (On the First Principles) says; 'Of the First Principle (Amenti) the Egyptians said nothing; but characterised it as a darkness beyond all intellectual conception – a thrice unknown Darkness." G.R.S. Mead, T.G. Hermes, Vol. I

In ancient Egyptian terminology, the circle, the uninterrupted line represent the “undivided”, the undivided would appear to the divided as nothing. In the creation myth using symbolism of developing circle, the next stage is the circle containing a dot; “When the absolute power became centred.” In Ancient Egyptian believes the concept of zero was perceived to be an abomination. There is in reality never nothing, although it may appear as nothing . I think the whole concept of “black matter” best represent our perception of nothingness. That which is beyond comprehension appears as nothing but it does not mean that it does not exist.

Carl Jung said that within each of us are resources of information and wisdom which are usually overlooked. He called this aspect of human experience the Transcendent Function. Our waking personality is only a small fraction of who we are. Jung described it as a small, bright spot on a large sphere. Our normal consciousness represents the small bright spot, our unconsciousness, the vast unexplored sphere of the universe.

“The valley spirit not dying

is called the mysterious female.

The opening of the mysterious female

is called the root of heaven and earth.

Continuous, on the brink of existence,

to put it into practice, don't try to force it.”

Loa Tzu

 
One then has to conclude that “emptiness, nothingness” is Yin in nature and that is the inequivalent of an inert energy, the Black Goddess from which all emerges..

 
" Black holes ain't that black..." Stephan Hawking

"At first the Supreme Reality appears to the inner eye as darkness. This apparent darkness is, however, in itself light, dazzling and blinding in its splendour, and it gradually becomes visible as such, when the spiritual vision is purged and strengthened and renewed by the stripping off of all love for the relative, the dependent, the phenomenal, and by the assiduous practice of all moral virtues." -  W.S. Lilly, The Great Enigma

What brings this gradual stripping, purifying that cleans us of grit and impurities that block the spontaneous flow of our inherent creativity?

Even if we do nothing about it, 'The school of hard knocks' will come and bring us understanding, if we are willing. What we have to face is disillusionment. It is the Dark Night of the Soul.

As above, so below. As within, so without.

Facing the unknown, the dark,the unpredictable, is facing chaos. How do we navigate in chaos?

" ... for perchance we can learn to remain lucid, aware, in the midst of the emptiness, the void, the no-thingness, for then full illumination and liberation become possible, non-dual realization." - Tau Malachi