{"id":74,"date":"2013-02-05T14:33:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T11:25:13","slug":"evolutionary-view-of-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/evolutionary-view-of-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we see Energy as &#8220;man in transition&#8221;? <small>&#8211; An Evolutionary view of Energy<\/small>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"romanfirst\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">I<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\"><strong>The world as energy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Viewing the world as energy demands that we see life as a flow.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">When life is a flow, it manifests itself as a fractal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_217\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/evolutionary-view-of-energy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\" wp-image-264  \" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" title=\"evolutionary-view-of-energy\" src=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/evolutionary-view-of-energy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/evolutionary-view-of-energy.jpg 283w, https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/evolutionary-view-of-energy-210x197.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal of life as a flow<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each level of the fractal carries the flow of energy \u2013 called creation, maintenance, destruction, and interregnum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each level of the fractal can also be perceived through the lens of space, time, and causation.<br \/>\nWithin each level, all these three dimensions are \u201ccreated in situ\u201d when the fractal comes into existence and \u201cdie in situ\u201d when the fractal disappears from existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Why view the world as energy or \u201csristi\u201d?<br \/>\nThere are two reasons why this energy view of the universe is useful. One, it enables man to explain \u201cname &amp; form\u201d; two, it enables man to explain the \u201cflow of life\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">II<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>An evolutionary view of energy<br \/>\n<\/strong>Energy becomes an evolutionary concept, when the cycle of creation, maintenance, destruction and interregnum becomes an evolutionary cycle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This shift takes place when man transforms his concept of energy \u2013 from energy as the independent, trans-human, universal flow of life to energy as man in transition from lower energy states to higher energy states.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: justify;\">Energy states represent the \u201chomeostatic\u201d structures or patterns of energy that the universe accepts as valid, due to the larger and smaller architectures of the universe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Homeostatic structures carry emergent properties related to knowledge, emotion, behavior, action, desire, and dependence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The shift from one energy state to the next energy state represents a simultaneous transformation in all emergent properties of the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When man climbs up from one energy state to another \u2013 he is said to have evolved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central challenge is: how to enable him to climb relentlessly and comfortably from \u201clower\u201d energy states associate with emergent properties of lust, greed, anger, pain, suffering to \u201chigher\u201d energy states of universality, loving behavior, kindness, compassion, etc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">III<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The concept of ego in the view of energy as life<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Ego represents both an unreality and a reality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a reality in the energy view of the universe, ego represents an \u201cenergy knot\u201d \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/yogaspirit.co.uk\/2010\/03\/03\/the-granthis\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>granthi<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an unreality in the energy view of the universe, ego represents the \u201ctotality of knowledge\u201d represented in the \u201cunit principle\u201d or \u201cfractal unit\u201d of energy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When ego is dissolved wholly, it means that the unit fractal with all its concepts of creation, destruction, maintenance etc. stand invalidated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When ego strengthens, it means that the possibility of alternative visions of existence becomes harder to obtain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy becomes an evolutionary concept, when the cycle of creation, maintenance, destruction and interregnum becomes an evolutionary cycle.<\/p>\n<p>This shift takes place when man transforms his concept of energy \u2013 from energy as the independent, trans-human, universal flow of life to energy as man in transition from lower energy states to higher energy states<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[237,105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9435,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/9435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}