Love is a 3 Step Spiral

The heart creates chaos...

The brain creates complexity...

The senses confuse the two - they cloud our souls with pure beauty and pain...

LOVE is a 3-Step-Spiral.

This is the introduction to three of the main emphases of my philosophy – Chaos. Complexity. And Love. “The heart creates chaos.” This is symbolic on mainly two levels. 1.) The beating of our heart is affected by our health, which in turn is affected to what we do to our bodies. A stimulant will mostly increase the beats per minute, and a depressant will mostly decrease the bpm. The rhythmic beating of our hearts forces blood through the alleys and motorways that are our veins and arteries. Which in turn forces blood through arterioles and capillaries, (the hallways of our body). All of this effects the organs where the supplies of oxygen and what have you are delivered. “Not all ideas are made to get along, some back up traffic like accidents on highways” – something you do not normally want occurring in your bloodstream. Basically what I'm getting at is, the well being of our body is very chaotic, and is in some small way based on the rhythmic pulsations from the center of where love is symbolized. The speed in which our heart decides to work is ancillary to the outside stimulants (and depressants) we have all around us. Drugs are the main stimulants/depressants we think of. But the flux between up and down is controlled by more than just drugs. Each one of our senses plays a key part. This will be covered more in depth in later chapters. 2.) Chaos deriving from the heart also can be looked at on a relationship level. The roles others played with others in your lives and your amount of devotion to them is highly chaotic. You may love someone one day, and hate them the next – only to love them again with more passion than you ever experienced with them before the falling out. There are two main types of love. Love for one's family, and love for anyone not included as family. Which is easier understood as platonic and non-platonic love. Non-platonic love is compounded in strength when coupled with platonic endearment as well. Ayn Rand states that “Only the person who extols the purity of a love devoid of desire is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.” But choosing the one you will ultimately devote your life to (if you are into that sort of commitment) is a chaotic spiral.

“The brain creates complexity.” A mind is a beautiful thing to waste. To me it seems like people forget that they have the ability to think, before they do something. But if only that was true, the trick is not to think about it. If you mind was pure then you would not have to think if an action you are going to initiate will give you “bad” or “good” karma. Your instinct would be correct all the time. That is the thing, it is – we just don't understand why. The brain is the source of complexity in our minds, and complexity is a beautiful thing. It is infinitely more beautiful if you can begin to understand what is going on with all of your senses and how complex systems work. What the brain does is take all of the electrical impulses that originate from your nerves and turn them into something that you consider to be your “reality.” It is impossible to explain a complex system, like your reality. But you can get close. You have to understand that you have 5 earthly senses. They compose five different sources for stimulation and depression. Consider if we only had 2 senses, say sight and hearing. Wouldn't the world and our bodies be a much easier place to manage? What about 1, even 0? A complex system refers to a system of many parts wherein all parts are nonlinear in fashion. Complex systems are more than the sum of their parts, due to their nonlinear nature.

I'm going to introduce harmonics into the equation. You have five senses, all contributing to the stimulation of your body, and mind – you have chemical reactions inside your body from what you have ingested, or failed to ingest (if you starve yourself you use your hypothalamus more dominantly and your brain reverts to cannibalism) – and you have your thoughts. These three factors indicate whether you are being stimulated or depressed at any given moment. But let us think about this mathematically. Say the senses hold one third of the ability to stimulate or depress your body, chemical reactions hold one third, and your mind holds one third (note that this is not true as the balance is ever changing). Now that means that each sense holds about 6.66% of the ability to calm you down or speed you up. Chemical reactions hold about 33.3% so the drugs you take have a drastic impact on your “well being.” And your thoughts hold about 33.3%, (this area is often overlooked). Well what I'm getting at is assign a numeric value to each of these three parts, positive, negative, or zero. Add them all up and what do you get, something very harmonic. Always changing but moving from number to number back and fourth depending on your senses, the chemicals in your body, and your thoughts. Meditation seeks to clear the mind of all thought, thus eliminating a factor from the equation. This can be very helpful in curing mania. The key is, to be in a meditative state while you are doing that which requires thought but only as much as you can handle, very tricky – yet a practice I seem to be improving at day by day. Meditation does not need to be practiced with the eyes shut, (although that helps because you are cutting off most of one of your senses).

And now we get to “Love is a 3-step spiral.” I think the musical group Wolfsheim defined love almost perfectly by saying “love is doing no harm.” If you truly love someone you will do no harm to them. And if you do harm them with an act of treason possibly, on accident, you feel sorrow an remorse; or else you do not truly love them. I am in love. I am in love with the world around me, and day by day I try and do it no harm. I am in love with every living being, I may not like some of them sometimes, but still my love is endearing and enduring. I choose a vegan lifestyle because I believe that it is disharmonious to destroy the life of everything I am blessed to see around me in order to sustain my own – frankly because it is not necessary, and I believe that life is sacred.