Does Phi indicate Simulation? | How Simulacra AND understanding Golden Ratio can Set You Free

Since logos has so many meanings in ancient Greek, ranging from the scientific to the mystical, it is best left untranslated. Logos designates the power of reason, or pattern, to the ordering of things, and the principle of relationship. In general, it has the following meanings. Order or pattern. Ratio or proportion. Reason, both in the sense of rationality and in the sense of an articulation of the cause of something, and a principle of mediation and harmony between extremes. This is interesting. We have been led to assume that logos is non-dual, that is, a singularity, the word.

This has two important implications. A, this primordial logos emanated from a non-dual source, requiring a duality-based existence. A monad splitting itself into parts to experience itself. By speaking information representing itself into a void of which it is not. Naturally, the splitting apart was a distinct ratio, a golden ratio of non-repeating numbers, that could go on forever without ever having to cycle back onto itself. Mathematics that ensure no direct copies are made. So every time it duplicates, its new twin has the full impression that it is its own thing independently. Every copy would be forgetful of its source creator.

But there’s a side effect. If those new sections attempted to create their own copies while ignorant of their source, they would be working with an incomplete chain of information. Duplications would inevitably be copies of copies instead of reflections of the original source. This feels really familiar. Perpetually familiar. Almost as if the Gnostic texts were, dare I say, scientific documents based in undiscovered mathematics, I digress. And B, you forgot there was two parts to that. Yeah, me too when writing this. And B, this translation of a translation collapsing into a mistranslation might be the defining moment that separated science from spirituality.

Let’s think about it. It’s no secret that these two studies used to be one. We talk about Hermetics all the time here. But modern science is based in a dualistic reality where reactions take place as causal. Translating the word of God as non-dual would surely undercut any spiritual notion from what we clearly observe in the mechanics of today’s science. The source of which would be put aside as anti-existent because it can’t be measured. What if this swipe of the pen-simulacrum is what took God out of the math equation, only to re-emerge later under a different name, a hypothetical unified field.

This disconnect would not only have modern material science chasing a copy of a copy, but would easily catapult it into Simulacrum. In other words, a business model. In any case, we are ignoring a core causal reality structure in every moment that we are alive due to being cut off at that particular ratio. This forgetting has us born blind and separated. Perhaps this elusive thing that we call enlightenment is just a matter of how good our memory is. There is a reason we came into the earth realm in a wet, electrical, fragile suit of emotions.

We stray far away from source, really testing the limits of our soul’s boundaries, only to eventually return again and again, stronger and stronger. This is a cornerstone of every religion, even Abrahamic ones, if you dig around enough. The biggest difference coming from esoteric tradition, alchemy, and the mystery schools is whether or not we can overcome our living amnesia while wearing this emotional suit. That is, to remember pure, unobstructed source while we are way out here, cast like bait to archons of jealous fury and the temptation of muses who thrive on the fringe of the furthest reaches of this cosmic Mandela.

To remember who we are while stuck in the flesh is how and why we die before we die. All of a sudden, and I mean before you know it, the simulation is no longer a trap. And a Simulacrum becomes the greatest tool to see through the illusion, a quickening, so to speak, because this tool is alchemical in one very important sense. Once you see through the walls of your cube, you can’t throw it in reverse, Terry. Neti Neti, a Buddhist axiom, meaning not this, not that, works to back engineer our logic, a kind of process of elimination that leaves us with nothing left but the original selfhood.

Self-subjective initiation isn’t strict to just Eastern mysticism and Western alchemy, but is, I think, illustrated best in the mythic wisdom of the native Hobie. When each successive period of development concludes with catastrophic destruction to world and mankind, he passes on to the next. The four lower centers, as they successively descend in man, decrease in purity of consciousness and increase in grossness of physical function. In the fourth stage of development, he reaches the lowest and midpoint of the journey. The fourth world, the present one, is the full expression of man’s ruthless materialism and imperialistic will, and man himself reflects the overriding gross appetites of the flesh.

With this turn, man rises upward, bringing into predominant function each of the higher centers. The door at the crown of his head then opens, and he merges into the wholeness of all creation whence he sprang. It is a road of life he has traveled by his own free will. He has traveled by his own free will, exhausting every capacity for good and evil that he may know himself at last as a finite part of infinity. Ignoring the fact that that sounds just like the Eastern Hindu Kundalini chakra system, but on the literal other side of the world before boats, we can learn multitudes from this passage alone.

It reminds us that we must be parted from what we depend on in order to grow. This is why Jung describes the archetypes of the orphan and the widow as intrinsic to everyone on the process of individuation. Like Uncle Karl said, there is no coming to consciousness without pain. This is why our Gnostic Sophia wandered off from the perfection of Pleroma to experience confusion through amnesia, and to see if she could still create wholeness while untethered from her consort, the Monad. Moving in perfect sequence, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, and 144, etc.

But all the while, ignoring the very source that makes those numbers exist in the first place, the zero. The reason for Phi’s infinite compounding growth is built into itself as an unquenchable thirst to return to zero. It is a living and evolving reaction springing from the absence of the zero, or rest. And this is where Simulacra can really sneak up on you, as either A, existentially terrifying, or B, as a beacon of hope. Because a simulated reality means that meaning, past, present, or future, is entirely programmable to those who are initiated into understanding its code.

Is that a stretch? You want proof, don’t you? Well, the best I can do is declassified CIA docs, quantum science, and a story of titanic proportions. Come on board, and let’s get our feet wet. [tr:trw].