Credo: Conclusions (*)

As soon as I started to learn about the concept of Brahman, I began to realise how much this ancient concept of reality acknowledges and embraces concepts that quantum physics and quantum cosmology are only just beginning to comprehend.
We are shown how to conduct ourselves through examples set down in various holy books.
The commonality of such guidance, received from such widely diverse sources, suggests to me a guiding and common humanity...a reference to a common font of truth.
The concept of Brahman tells me that Now is only one aspect of a reality that is constantly changing, growing and reducing.
Brane cosomology tells us that a different reality may only be a millimetre away.
Mandelbrot shows us that everything is simply a pattern that repeats, varying slightly, through dimensions we are only just beginning to suspect exist.
Religion, to me, has never been about accepting what someone else tells me is the best way to access a god: it has always been about personally searching for what is true, and, upon finding truth, test its transparency by holding it up against the fierce light of logic, finally to weigh the data against what my "heart/soul/atman" tells me is real.
It seems to me that I have found what to a Buddhist would be enlightenment;
to a Hindu moksha;
to a Christian salvation:
I have found a belief that I truly feel presents an intellectually plausible, and morally laudable, concept by which to live, and to grow, now, and in each and every possible iteration that may be.
This is my concept, and applicable only to me.
I do not ask others to believe or accept it: that is between you and your reality.
If, however, anyone might find food for thought within my conclusions, please partake.
I am happy with these “Conclusions”:
they have been a long time coming.


Credo: Conclusions (*)

I believe that,
at the moment of our death,
we are instantly rejoined with all that we ever were.

We will exist simultaneously
with all the events that have made up our lives.

We will be aware:
we will have the power,
at all temporal levels of our existence,
to change
all aspects of our lives,
constantly,
for the better.

We will labour with joy.

The changes that we make will spiral,
a constantly changing Mandelbrot fractal,
and we will exist in all of the spirals,
and be aware.

We spiral inward and outward,
in all dimensions,
each new loop swirling towards perfection.

We will know that,
although we will always strive to achieve a perfection
that seems attainable,
perfection exists only in the perfect joy
of being responsible and appreciative
in this moment
of existence.

I know that this is true:
I am doing it now.

I am living in this moment,
knowing that this moment is only
one constantly changing spiral,
in which each fractal iteration
contains an awareness of self.

This is Brahman,
and I am part of it.

~James D. Fanning
11 August, 2010




* My conclusions are based upon the following sources:

For moral guidance:

The Torah, The Koran, The Bible, The Vedas, The Upanisads, Gautama Siddharta, Gandalf, Terry Goodkind, walking in the fog with Ranger, dear Terry, my children, and, last but by no means least, the incredible Sherri S. Tepper.

For intellectual satisfaction:

Mandelbrot, Quantum Mechanics in general, and String Theory and Brane Cosmology in particular, Pachelbel’s “Canon”, M. C. Escher, Pink Floyd’s “Animals”, the wonder of language, and the foundation of my life, Robert Frost’s wonderfully ironic “The Road Not Taken.”