So that’s the power of intention working within the quantum, from Tom Kenyon. Shamans use the power of intention to get to where they want to go in the quantum — to them, the power of intention is like rocket fuel.
The chaos theorists refer to the quantum or shamanic dimension as the fourth dimension. The gateways to the fourth dimension exist in the quantum-sized, subatomic cracks between the other three dimensions.
Each of the four dimensions is governed by one of the four attractors: the Point Attractor, the Cycle Attractor, the Torus Attractor and the Strange Attractor.
These four “chaos attractors” are what create balance, and bring order out the chaos that the universe appears to be – or rather, there is a pattern, but it’s one so huge we cannot perceive it. For instance, when an ant crawls across a Persian rug, he would consider the pattern to be chaos.
It’s the same with us. But we can use the four attractors as we would anchors in a stormy sea.
Unfortunately, most of us only use three of them – and we need to learn to use the fourth more, the Strange Attractor, the god particle which can help us to create our lives into how we want them to be.
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Simple, linear systems that are causal and predictable are the exception in the universe, not the rule. Most of the universe works in jumps, in a non-linear fashion that cannot be exactly predicted. It is infinitely complex. Freedom and free will - the Strange Attractors - prevail over rules and determinacy.
Yet chaos is no enemy and destroyer of cosmos, for from out of chaos a higher order always appears, but this order comes spontaneously and unpredictably. It is "self-organized." The creation of the universe is an ongoing process, not just a one-time event at the beginning. All and everything - and everyone - is part of this creative process. Over time all systems - from molecules, to life, to galactic clusters - are continually creating new organizations and patterns from out of featurelessness and chaos.
The world is not a clock. It is a game, a game of chance and choice. In the game, random processes - chance and serendipity - allow room for free will, individuality and unpredictable creativity.
The universe is governed by laws, but the laws are of a different kind than previously thought. .. They are not written in stone, they are general. They leave infinite room for creativity within certain general parameters. A few fundamental principals exist to establish the parameters, but the Law governs much more loosely than previously thought. The Laws are subject to changes and modifications over time and depend upon the particular facts. ... Self organization is the rule, not the exception....
According to chaos theorists, our greatest successes arise not from a steady, plodding, inexorable, mechanical motion towards a desired goal — but from failure. So then a new, fresh and exciting paradigm can arise, like the phoenix from the ashes of the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Phoenician myths, the Mesopotamian sun disks or Garuda of the Indian Vedas.
It's a triumph of revolution over evolution - and could possibly apply to the rise of HSS after the extinction of the Neanderthals.
At the microcosmic or quantum level, the four attractors are the four forces: electromagnetism, gravity and the strong and weak forces.
This matches, in humans, to the four attractors: sensing (Point Attractor), thinking (Cycle Attractor), feeling (Torus Attractor) and willing (Strange Attractor), which can be compared to the power of intention.
Learning how each of these works can help us to understand how our consciousness functions, and also how to use our will, or power of intention, to be aware of the fourth dimension.
Point Attractor
The Point Attractor governs the first dimension, the line. So if a person is governed by the Point Attractor, they are usually attracted or repelled from activities like positive or negative poles, but fixated on one desire. It is single-minded desire on a fixed point and is usually dictated by how we feel.
Homer Simpson is a typical Point Attractor type. He will eat hamburgers until he bursts if it makes him feel good. His desire is not tempered by sensing or thinking that stuffing himself is not a good idea, or a willingness to control his desire.
Cycle Attractor
The desires that are governed by the second dimension Cycle Attractor, as its name suggests, are more cyclical. It is like a circling magnet – first attracting and then repelling, and then attracting again.
A typical example of a Cycle Attractor type is someone gets so drunk that they have a horrendous hangover the next morning, and so they swear to anyone who will listen that they will never get drunk again. However, by evening time, the urge to drink has kicked in again, and besides, they say, they need ‘a hair of the dog’. They end up consuming the whole coat of the dog, and its whiskers too ... and so on it goes.
Torus Attractor
The cycling in the third dimension Torus Attractor is more complex that the Cycle Attractor. Although it repeats itself, like a cycle, it also moves forward at the same time. This creates a fair amount of irregularity and complexity in the pattern.
It is made up of a spiralling circle on many planes that may, or may not, eventually hook up with itself after completing one or more full revolutions.
The predator prey system in Nature is a typical example of the Torus Attractor in action, as it fluctuates all the time but somehow manages to maintain a balance. Thus Predators A may be very successful in attacking Predators B. This leaves Predators C with no-one to prey on them, thus making them remarkably effective in their preying on Predators D and so on. This continues until Predators B manage to restore their population levels.
Strange Attractor
So as you can see, the Point Attractor, the Cycle Attractor and the Torus Attractor keep us rooted in the finite world, either going backwards and forwards, or round and round in circles.
Some people are extremely content with going on holiday to the same place every year, or only eating one type of cuisine, or even making the same old mistakes ... and their views are to be respected.
However, others see their life like an empty canvas, just waiting for them to splash the paint on it. And when that canvas is finished, starting another one ... and then another ... and another ad infinitum.
Those are the people who will want to know about the Strange Attractor - and I'm afraid in this Lorenz fractal he does look pretty strange.
The Strange Attractor can appear to be a little bit scary to start with as there appears to be no apparent order to its action. But no matter how chaotic it seems, there is a kind of order — of a subtle, fractal kind — and a beautiful one too, that only appears over time when viewed from the right perspective. It’s a bit like when you’re in a forest, you can’t see the wood for the trees. However, the wood is there.
For those who watch Frasier, the elopement of Niles and Daphne was a classic Strange Attractor moment. Niles was on his honeymoon with his new wife, Mel, and they were at Daphne’s wedding to Donny. Both Niles and Daphne thought very highly of their partners – but they had a raging and irrational passion for each other. Anyway, just before the service was about to begin, Daphne suddenly ran out in her white, puffball wedding dress to the camper van where Niles was sitting, and drove them both off into the sunset.
The Strange Attractor is connected to our will – our will for change, our will to explore pastures new, our will for an adventure, our will to create a new world, our will to take a risk — our will for our life to be a life and not just an existence. But it’s not a headlong, foolish rush to insanity. There may be a sense of risk, but one that we know instinctively is right, that sings its truth to us even though our sensible plans may all be laid in another direction. It’s a risk that we know that if we don’t take, we may as well put up our slippered feet in our velvet-lined coffin and wait for the Grim Reaper to come a-knocking.
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