Thoughts on Energy and Learning.
Potential energy is energy that is stored within a system. It exists when there is a force that tends to pull an object back towards some original position when the object is displaced. This force is often called a restoring force. For example, when a spring is stretched to the left, it exerts a force to the right so as to return to its original, unstretched position. Similarly, when a weight is lifted up, the force of gravity will try to bring it back down to its original position. The initial steps of stretching the spring or lifting the weight both require energy to perform. According to the principle of conservation of energy, energy cannot be created or destroyed; hence this energy cannot disappear. Instead, it is stored as potential energy. If the spring is released or the weight is dropped, this stored energy will be converted into kinetic energy by the restoring force - elasticity in the case of the spring, and gravity in the case of the weight.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy )
How does this apply to social movements, groups, and people? How does it apply to occult philosophy?
The key seems to be that energy can not be destroyed or created, merely aggregated or released. Potential is collected by a disruptive force pushing against the base level, and elevating themselves over the plane (to use the gravity example) This energy is then released as the group falls back into the masses.
Apologists who reconcile an occult philosophy are using the stored energy of the philosophy (or other disruptive technology they are reconciling) and returning it to the common body they are reconciling it to.
People who wish to cause change will be able to use the stored energy of the disruptive technology as a starting point, and then work from their, conserving their own energy on the climb to the pinnacle of previous achievements.
One possible explanation of the oscillating nature of revolutions may be the momentum built up reabsorbing a disruptive revolution is not always eaten completely when it hits the normative state, but has enough potential that people emerge on the other side, arguing, nominally, against an old movement which actually died some time ago, but in reality, using that energy to forward new goals which are part of their own movement, which was merely started from the reclamation of the energy of the previous opposing movement. Looking at the push for equality which became a push for preferential treatment is one simple example. Looking at the vector of America as a whole is another.
If this is the case, do apologists for a movement actually contribute to creating stronger opponents of a thing?
I'm curious what the OTO's trajectory is. Are they just burning off the potential that Crowley built up? If so, where are they headed? Are they building up a store of new potential energy? If so, what vector will it be released into?
What forces brought the Masons into existence, and how does the organization of today relate to the original ideas, and the ideas of the herd which surrounds them? What is their vector?
How do the people of San Francisco and Los Angeles relate to the rest of America, and how has this changed over the years? I think the same energy dynamics can be seen in our now incredibly litigious culture, smoking bans, and the like, when contrasted to the spirit of these cities 50 years ago.
How do I relate to my parents and grandparents? How much have I been influenced by their beliefs, and what trajectory am I on?
This kinetic energy transformation is, I believe, at the heart of the 0=2 equation, and I'm getting a real kick out of trying to map the process out in everything around me. :)
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Every man and woman is a star, a source of light and life (and gravity!) to those that revolve around them. The good people at NASA are able to launch a small craft from within our atmosphere at a large body, and use that bodies gravity well to sling shot the craft out and an amazing speed, and with a new trajectory. The people we aim at have the power to do this as well. I am looking at my associations and my work now, not only asking if I'm being disruptive enough, but also looking at what I'm aiming at and trying to foresee what effect they have had on the trajectory of others, and what effect they may have on my own.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_energy )
How does this apply to social movements, groups, and people? How does it apply to occult philosophy?
The key seems to be that energy can not be destroyed or created, merely aggregated or released. Potential is collected by a disruptive force pushing against the base level, and elevating themselves over the plane (to use the gravity example) This energy is then released as the group falls back into the masses.
Apologists who reconcile an occult philosophy are using the stored energy of the philosophy (or other disruptive technology they are reconciling) and returning it to the common body they are reconciling it to.
People who wish to cause change will be able to use the stored energy of the disruptive technology as a starting point, and then work from their, conserving their own energy on the climb to the pinnacle of previous achievements.
One possible explanation of the oscillating nature of revolutions may be the momentum built up reabsorbing a disruptive revolution is not always eaten completely when it hits the normative state, but has enough potential that people emerge on the other side, arguing, nominally, against an old movement which actually died some time ago, but in reality, using that energy to forward new goals which are part of their own movement, which was merely started from the reclamation of the energy of the previous opposing movement. Looking at the push for equality which became a push for preferential treatment is one simple example. Looking at the vector of America as a whole is another.
If this is the case, do apologists for a movement actually contribute to creating stronger opponents of a thing?
I'm curious what the OTO's trajectory is. Are they just burning off the potential that Crowley built up? If so, where are they headed? Are they building up a store of new potential energy? If so, what vector will it be released into?
What forces brought the Masons into existence, and how does the organization of today relate to the original ideas, and the ideas of the herd which surrounds them? What is their vector?
How do the people of San Francisco and Los Angeles relate to the rest of America, and how has this changed over the years? I think the same energy dynamics can be seen in our now incredibly litigious culture, smoking bans, and the like, when contrasted to the spirit of these cities 50 years ago.
How do I relate to my parents and grandparents? How much have I been influenced by their beliefs, and what trajectory am I on?
This kinetic energy transformation is, I believe, at the heart of the 0=2 equation, and I'm getting a real kick out of trying to map the process out in everything around me. :)
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Every man and woman is a star, a source of light and life (and gravity!) to those that revolve around them. The good people at NASA are able to launch a small craft from within our atmosphere at a large body, and use that bodies gravity well to sling shot the craft out and an amazing speed, and with a new trajectory. The people we aim at have the power to do this as well. I am looking at my associations and my work now, not only asking if I'm being disruptive enough, but also looking at what I'm aiming at and trying to foresee what effect they have had on the trajectory of others, and what effect they may have on my own.