The Rotating Phasor of Existence

I'm back. I made it through the week and have a long weekend to look forward to for Monday is a public holiday. Looks like I'm still living the pandemic life, working from home and only going out on weekends to shop for groceries and run errands. 

Everyone has their lives changed in some way by the pandemic. In my case, it was an opportunity to lie low and take stock of things. It was a welcome break in a way. Initially I didn't feel comfortable being cooped up in the house for the whole week but I got used to it. (Perhaps this is how convicts get used to prison life too?). 

I think humans are very adaptable creatures. We can get used to almost anything. The instinct for survival will drive us to re-adjust and reorientate ourselves, like how plants seek sunlight and water. Every moment, a thought emerges in the mind. A thought is like the essence of the moment--the summation of many minute impulses within the body, culminating with a state, a thought, which could trigger a series of other thoughts that lead to physical action.  

Action is what changes the world. Actions are nothing but the gross manifestation of thought, which stems from the wellspring of creation. Every thought is a petal in the blossoming flower of creation, and expression of the universe's desire to manifest.

Examine the qualities of your thought--this continuous stream of energy that emanates from the depths of your being. This stream of consciousness only ceases when you die. Or does it? 

Every electrical engineering student knows that the alternating current can be modelled by a rotating vector or "phasor' in the complex plane. It is a mathematical representation of a sinusoidal wave function using complex numbers with a real and imaginary component. As the vector rotates at a regular frequency around the origin in the complex plane, the current alternates between positive and negative: when it is manifesting its real component, you can measure it; when it falls to zero, it's actually maximising its imaginary component (i or √-1). The current appears to vanish from the real world only to complete a cycle in the imaginary one. 

Perhaps life, death and rebirth is like that? The energy stream does not cease, it simply manifest in another realm before reappearing again. Is the imaginary axis of the complex plane, the proverbial heaven and hell? The life phasor is merely rotating in the complex plane of existence.

I can see such metaphors and analogies between our scientific models and what we usually relegate to the spiritual or occult everywhere. The more I reflect on things, the more of such insights I get. It is what I live for. It is what I try to work out in these blog posts of mine. I see cosmic grandeur in even the most humdrum experiences of life.

At the heart of existence is something simple and beautiful; this rising and falling of thoughts--harmonics within a larger cycle of evolution and involution.  Let's all marvel at the divine phasor, rotating in a magnificent Shaivite dance of creation and destruction.