Dancing Emptiness

Yesterday I was looking for an image that really expressed the essence of this research. No, actually this goes further than 'research' because this sounds too much like a laboratory set-up where the observer is not part of the experiment. Wrong, the observer is right in the middle of it, participating and influencing the outcome. So let's call this an inquiry instead.

The theme of this inquiry is the similarity of patterns arising in our world. There is no real need to understand why and how these patterns arise. Their manifestation is miraculous to us and can be admired without knowing the reason of their existence. Instead this inquiry focuses on similarity between these patterns. Actually the similarity of patterns is a (meta-)pattern itself. Observation is an action. An observer pattern interacts with an object pattern, like interfering waves, creating a new pattern. The pattern is not built from subatomic particles, it is more like condensed nothingness. It is not a dead, inactive nothingness, but an emptiness full of potential. A lot of people call it Consciousness. Consciousness is the stage for things to happen.

This next picture expresses this relation between formless Consciousness and its patterns very well for me. It is a scene from Hindu mythology where Shiva, representing Consciousness, and Shakti personified as the goddess Parvati, representing the patterns (energy) manifesting in our universe, dance.


This is the dance of Consciousness observing itself through the manifestations of patterns. This is the dance that takes place every second, everywhere in every universe.