Order and chaos as fundamental concepts of options. Chaos theory

Ever wondered why chaos is needed and how to avoid it? Chaos is devastation, suffering, order is stability, security, prosperity. But order is not always good, and chaos is not always bad. IN Nazi Germany order, as it was understood there, brought prosperity to Germany, and suffering to other peoples. And in modern society those in power are trying to build such an order so that only they feel good, but such a bias sooner or later ends in an explosion, as protest moods grow on the part of those who are dissatisfied with such an “order” and want a fair distribution of wealth and rights. In the history of states, wars, devastation, chaos and times of relative stability are constantly present. After cataclysms, a person seeks to restore order, because only in conditions of stability, security, predictability, confidence in the future, he feels comfortable. But then, despite the seeming stability and security, chaos inevitably arises. Entire civilizations burned in his furnace. Why and how to avoid “good-bad” drops? We experience these changes every day. Ups, necessarily ends in a fall. Why, how to prevent this?.. Only the mind, which must be developed, can level these differences. And the differences “good - bad” arise due to the instability of the psyche, which creates fear. The alternation of the activity of the two halves of the brain is inherent in man (and in every living being) by nature. This is necessary for a two-sided, objective assessment of reality, in order to comprehend it, otherwise you simply cannot survive. The greater the pressure on the psyche of fear, the stronger the difference "good - bad." Fear hinders the stability of the psyche, and in order to cope with it, we wedge on different “correctness”, which sets thinking in a one-sided direction, which is accompanied by a breakdown in the opposite extreme. Any extreme sooner or later leads to a dead end, from which CHAOS helps to escape by force. It sweeps away all the set up correctness that has failed and led to a dead end, breaks down all logical constructions in order to develop and build new approaches to the deadlock situation that has arisen, and from scratch begin to build a new order corresponding to the changed conditions. That is, under these conditions, chaos brings renewal, although the process itself is very painful. Persistence on incorrectness, which was previously considered correct, but under changed conditions has ceased to be correct, can lead to death. Breaking habitual ties is always painful .... If chaos is allowed to grow and become unmanageable, it can lead to a catastrophe on a planetary scale. Slipping into disaster is prevented by fear, which forces us to reconsider previous approaches to solving problems, but often this happens belatedly, when a person is already on the verge of death. Reason forces us to be proactive, but, unfortunately, it is still poorly developed among people and consumption at any cost is in the first place. Society has not yet matured to reasonable behavior and it will be fear, chaos that follows unreasonable behavior that will force it to rationality .... And what is the essence of the mind, because it will still be based on the differences "good - bad", on the alternation of the activity of opposites, on which life itself is based? And there will always be a bias towards “I want”, that is, consumption, without which a person cannot survive. The essence of the mind is to level these differences, to reduce the amplitude of fluctuations between opposites, then there will be no “first I did it, and then I thought or didn’t think at all”, but there will be a viewing of the final result from “I want” and making a reasonable decision that will allow and desire satisfy, and do not harm yourself. The mind severely restricts the ambitions of the EGO, if they go to the detriment of the whole. Will this suppression of desires succeed, will it not harm the animal instincts on which life is based, because “I want” is primary? How to catch this fine line and what role does chaos play in all this? The mind does not suppress the instincts, on the contrary, it gives them complete freedom. By allowing, they limit themselves, but through understanding the situation. The mind makes the consciousness pure, and the emotions completely liberated. What contributes to their emancipation? Emotional chaos that the brain strives for. But this is not a random throwing of emotions, but their transfer to a state of “emotional broth”, from which they are extracted from the situation. Remember the state when you found yourself in deadlock situations from which there was no way out. Fear wedged you on the familiar, promoted as "correctness" and you could not break out of this vicious circle. You were bogged down by depression, until the chaos completely destroyed all the “correct” constructions that had been set up and forced you to start rethinking the situation from a “clean slate” in a new way. That is, it was the transfer of thoughts to a state of chaos in which there is no logic that allowed you to reconsider your attitude to the situation that failed and develop new approaches to solving the “unsolvable problem”. It happens that fear is so stuck on the problem that depression becomes the “norm of life” and then life becomes not a joy. In this case, you should try to let go of the problem, “do not give a damn” about it, let your thoughts float freely and get enough sleep. During deep sleep, the brain itself will return to itself a state of correctness, through the collapse of all improperly built emotional connections and transferring them to a state of emotional broth. At the same time, we must stop clinging to the old, which has failed, and subject it to harsh criticism. You need to shake yourself up properly and wake up from a depressive hibernation .... The transfer of emotions into a state of "emotional broth" makes thinking flexible, not conservative, able to perceive the world directly, without self-deception, and use all feelings to comprehend reality, without dividing them into "bad" and "good". The state of "emotional soup" can be called "intelligent chaos". The more stable your attention, the stronger your energy power, the smaller the amplitude of fluctuations between opposites, the less distorted the feelings, the more reasonable, the more correct the decisions you make, the less likely it is to fall into chaos, since there is no one-sided orientation of thinking, which means there is no accumulation of irritations, with a fall to the opposite extreme. It's like on a tightrope with a pole over an abyss. The more stable the balance (the smaller the differences between balancing), the farther, wider and deeper you see, because the fear of falling into the abyss is less pressing on you and you can relax to a greater extent. As soon as there is a threat to fall down, fear arises, which creates chaos, which, in turn, forces you to break up the wrongly built connections that led to the emergence of a dangerous situation and adjust your actions taking into account all factors, that is, use your intuition .... Sustained attention is beneficial to the individual in every way. It is the mind that guides a person along the divine path of development. It also prevents the accumulation of irritations and the emergence of chaos. Reason allows you to flexibly adapt to constantly changing conditions and self-renewal all the time, without resorting to the surgical intervention of chaos. 07/21/2016

Today we will talk about chaos and order. All over the world, in all ancient religions and views, there was an explanation for such a thing as chaos.

For example, in the "Theogony" of Hesiod, we see that chaos gave birth to all the gods, that is, all the Greek deities known to us come from chaos - from the Thunderer Zeus to the Hekatoncheirs, which have many forms.

In China, chaos was depicted as a circle or an egg, from which everything arises - it arises from the emptiness of this circle, from a circle, more precisely, even from a jade ring, which you have seen many times in museums.

Ancient India speaks of the great cycles of chaos - Pralayas or Maha-Pralayas. During Maha-Pralaya, life sleeps, everything sleeps, and, according to ancient books, there is no sea, no earth, no starry sky. Older Tibetan texts, such as the pre-Buddha Book of Dzyan, say the same thing. In the beginning, nothing existed, everything was in a state of waiting; the two first causes, as a kind of first pair, conceive everything: Prakriti or Mulaprakriti (primary matter), and Purusha (spirit).

We meet chaos in the Jewish Kabbalah, where it is said about Adam Kadmon - not about Adam and Eve, but about the first Adam, about Adam Kadmon, the first who arises from Chaos; in the Sefer Iezira, also at the beginning, Keter, the Crown, is born, as the initiator, the cause of everything manifested - Malkut and Shekini.

In the view of the inhabitants of ancient Sumer, Babylon and all the peoples who inhabited the eastern mountains and the region between the Tigris and the Euphrates, chaos is a huge object or a large diorite stone that arose from black, unknown waters, and these waters cannot be defined.

You also know that in the biblical Old Testament, which Christians borrowed from the Jews, it says that in the beginning there was nothing, and God created the earth and heaven.

Even the peoples of pre-Columbian America, for us a little exotic and little known, both in the Popol Vuh and in the Chilam Balam also mention chaos as the source of all things; in all books and codes that have come down to us, chaos is described as the opposite of the cosmos, that is, the order that must arise.

You also know that, according to Plato, chaos precedes every manifestation. After him come pure, abstract and absolute archetypes, they gradually, step by step, descend into matter until they create the Universe and man. This idea was repeated by Plotinus and Marcion in the Neoplatonic doctrine of the Macrocosm and the microcosm: the Macrocosm, the Universe, arises from chaos and gives rise to the microcosm - a small life, or man, the image and reflection of the Universe.

Similar views existed even among the North American Algonquins: Manitou, the god of lightning and sky, appeared from a dark starless night or from the jaws of a wolf.

The concept of chaos is also found among the peoples of Northern Europe. In Germanic mythology and Scandinavians, chaos is the beginning of all things. They tried to give it some kind of image, but it is difficult to give an image to that which is unimaginable, to describe that which cannot be described, and therefore they call it Gimnungagap. It is something like a vast frozen abyss, where everything exists in potential, and not in reality; it is a bottomless abyss full of frozen dust with a block of ice in the very center. This block is licked by a creature resembling a cow, licking until it gives shape to the primary elements that are to be incarnated.

Even today in English villages they talk about Humpty Dumpty - a character whose head, colliding with a wall, breaks into a thousand pieces, and from these pieces gnomes and many other fabulous creatures are then born. The same happens with the Hindu deity Padma-pani, whose white head crumbles into many colors and shades that balance the universe.

So, we see that all peoples at all times and throughout the Earth asked themselves the most important question that worries us today: what is chaos, what is order, what can we learn about them, how important it is for us, how to apply it in life?

We, ladies and gentlemen, live in special times. Why? The point is not only in the crisis of our system, but also in the fact that cosmically, that is, according to astrology, in 1950 we entered the Age of Aquarius. Aquarius, water, the alchemist's alkahest, the universal solvent - this is what brings chaos with it. I would like to clarify that these astrological connections have nothing to do with the notes in the newspapers, where they write: “It is better for Libra not to leave the house today - trouble may happen. Devs are waiting for a pleasant surprise or good luck in love. No, absolutely nothing in common. I'm talking about ancient astrology, I'm talking quite seriously and from a scientific point of view. It's not news to you that the human body, for example, for the most part consists of water - of liquids, flowing substances; in a sense, physically we are an "unstable colloid" and all unstable colloids are affected by magnetic fields. Since the celestial bodies are huge polarized magnetic masses, it is obvious that the position of the celestial bodies can affect us both physically and mentally. It is also obvious that the cosmic rays penetrating us in this moment, - not all, because some are absorbed when colliding with different objects - reach not only each individual, but all of us together. And we are witnessing a kind of gradual change in the individual consciousness, and consequently, the collective consciousness of humanity.

They are not that easy to spot. It happens sometimes in life. Let's say, shaving in front of a mirror, I suddenly peer into the reflection and exclaim: "Who is this fifty-year-old fat man?" And it turns out that this old fat man is me! What happened? Yes, time has just passed, and the one who considered himself a young guy suddenly realizes that he is no longer a young man. A child whom we have not seen for three or four years appears before us already dressed like an adult, and we exclaim: “How you have grown! You are already quite big, a real man!” But he grew up simply because time passed. The thing is that time flows so slowly that we hardly notice it. Time flows so slowly that we can catch its movement only with the help of the science that is so necessary for all of us - History. After all, if we look at our photographs of twenty years ago, we will see that now we are completely different. And in the same way, if we, having called on history to help, return in our thoughts and consciousness through time and see what happened in Greece, Rome, in the Middle Ages, etc., then we will understand how humanity has changed over time . It is not only about physical change, but also about psychological and spiritual.

So, the Age of Aquarius is in full swing, an era in which chaos rules. In other words, today everything is more or less in a state of chaos. But before I jump into this discussion, I would like to give precise definition some words, otherwise we will not understand each other. One of the features of this more or less chaotic stage is that words can be used in different meanings, including those that are completely opposite to the original one. This is a crisis of our language, a crisis of our speech: very often we cannot correctly understand each other, even different generations, speaking the same language, use different expressions and do not come to an understanding.

First, it should be noted that people usually associate the concept of chaos with freedom and say: “No, we do not want order! Give us such freedom that everyone can do what they want! But if “everyone does what he wants”, this is not yet freedom. Since none of us is a Buddha and is absolutely free, since we are not able to do what we want, we have to do what we can and what our instincts, fears and limitations allow us to do. And this is the truth. The truth that we sometimes refuse to accept, but which I must convey to you, because as a philosopher I am obliged to tell the truth. Like you and I, we are not free, because we have not freed ourselves from a huge number of restrictions, which, it seems, are not necessary to enumerate, but with which we cannot be free. We are ready to take seriously the one who said: "Stop the Earth, I want to get off!" But this is pointless: we can even hit the Earth a thousand times, but it will not stop, and we will not be able to “get off”. And not only can we not go beyond the planet Earth, sometimes we cannot go beyond family problems, political traditions, the economic situation, we cannot, for example, change our gender and age. Each of us has our own limitations - someone understands something better, someone worse, some perceive it this way, others differently. Someone will take pity on a stray dog ​​and take it in his arms, and someone, perhaps, will give her a kick. It depends on our inner reaction, on the kindness of the heart, or on what our image of a dog is associated with.

Then the first thing we must do is stop identifying chaos with freedom. Freedom is not in chaos, freedom is precisely in order. Of course, you know how graphite - the core of a pencil - differs from diamond. Both are made of carbon, both are exactly the same, but in graphite the molecules are arranged absolutely randomly, in other words, they have no rhythm, and therefore do not let light through. Thanks to this, you can write with graphite: graphite breaks easily, and if you run it over paper, particles of it will remain on it. However, draw a diamond across the paper, and you will see that it cuts it. Because a diamond has order, a system, its molecules are built in such a way that light and power pass through them, its molecules are very tightly assembled, and as much as order reigns in the structure of diamond, chaos dominates in the structure of graphite.

On the other hand, everything connected with order is now identified exclusively with transnational companies or with military structures. But let's ask ourselves: why are they so collected? You may have some of the leaders of large enterprises or the military, but for the rest, I declare that entrepreneurs and the military love order so much because they want to go to the market with their products or win the battle. They know that a disorganized person will not sell his product and win the war. And one more thing: who is called for help during a major disaster, a big forest fire, if climbers are lost in the mountains, or when a ship is wrecked? Military. The name is not hippies, but the military. Why? Because they are trained and can really help. So, we must understand that in this sense, order allows you to create a whole theory of life: maintaining order, a person does not lose his freedom, but, on the contrary, gains it.

Nowadays, many praise disorder, anarchy - everything that destroys and divides. But if we really have decided to return to nature, if we are aware of the crisis in our system, let's, dear friends, ask ourselves the simplest questions. Let us assume that we all recognize the human right to strike. Wonderful. I know that the right to strike is a very controversial issue, so today we will not discuss it. Of course, the strike has certain reasons: social injustice, rising prices, pressure from different strata of society, etc., but let's now calmly ask ourselves: would we allow our hearts to go on strike at this moment? No. Why? Because the strike of the heart is called cardiac arrest and means death. Would we give our lungs the right to refuse to perform their functions? No, because it means the cessation of breathing. Would young people like a long sex strike? Of course not.

We all value what we have by nature, and we do not want to spoil it. We want the eyebrows to be above our eyes, not below them, so that the teeth are in the mouth, and the fingers are on the hand. What can I do with fingers growing at the back of my head? Just scratch your head. That is, we need everything to be in its place. My whole body, the body of each of you, the body of any person is the best example of the embodiment of order and a harmonious system. The one who created the body is very intelligent (although some say that it arose by itself - a brilliant statement!). We do not just have arteries, veins, nerves - our arterial, venous and nervous system so skillfully intertwined that sometimes they use the same hole in the bone tissue to pass through the bone. So does a good surgeon. Do you think a good surgeon comes to the patient and says: “Well, fat man, where do we start the operation?” No, a good surgeon knows - that's why he performs the operation - where to make the first incision in order to get to the sore spot, to the tumor, to the damaged organ. After the operation, he will sew up the incision, “fix” it, in order to return the patient to his original state.

If these simple principles that we apply in Everyday life and which the doctor uses in medical practice (after all, the question of life worries everyone), we would apply to everything, then we would understand how important it is to overcome our stage of chaos and achieve order. My friends, order is not something harsh, rigid, frozen. Often, when we talk about order, we immediately imagine a man with a whip, usually in uniform, and the unfortunate ones that obediently wander beside him. No, this is not order. Have you seen the birds fly? How do bustards, geese, other large birds fly - randomly or in an organized manner? Certainly organized. And if the little snow particles didn't gather together, they wouldn't be able to fall to the ground. There is order in the mountains and in the rivers. In nature, everything is balanced, which once again proves to us the importance of this system of order, the order of the deep, fundamental, and not from scary stories about people in uniform. No, the order is not to wear boots or to wear shoes. It is something much deeper. Man is essentially physically ordered, psychologically he still has to become so, and spiritually he is an archetype, a spark of that order that reigns in nature.

Now, in the Age of Aquarius, when the forces of water, dissolving and dispersing, prevail, it is worth thinking about how to be organized. How to achieve order? How to apply what we just talked about? Whether you like these ideas or not, can they be put into practice? Yes, you can. The simple fact is that the disunity, alienation and general chaos that prevails today make their application very difficult.

As a rule, we are very disorganized, we prefer disorder, and even the connection between our mind and body is not strong enough. Sometimes we do something physically, like frying an egg, and at the same time we think about an article we have to write, poetry, whatever. And later, when we sit down to write an article, we are haunted by the image of scrambled eggs. We must overcome this inner division. I'm talking to you now, but I could, for example, sit down and start playing chess. Of course, that would be just stupidity on my part, and it would mean disrespect to everyone who took the time to come and listen to me today. Firstly, I would lose the game, because I cannot play and speak at the same time, and secondly, you would not understand anything either, because I would constantly calculate moves and think about whether to move as a bishop or a pawn. In other words, you cannot do several things at the same time. More than a thousand years ago, Muhammad said: "It is impossible to climb two camels at once."

There is no order in how we eat: most often we do not sit down at the table, but have a snack on the go so as not to waste precious time. The system of "fast food" in the form of a division into everyday and festive menus has firmly entered our everyday life: we usually eat almost standing up, and when guests come to us, we cook only to sit at the table together. It seems to us that sitting at the table is the privilege of the Etruscan princes. We do not even notice how gradually we limit ourselves in everything. Have you heard about music salons in 19th century houses? Yes, at that time a musical salon with a piano was the most common occurrence. But what about today? Alas, today we listen to the radio, tape recorder, records performed by someone else, but we have forgotten how to do anything ourselves. We cannot sit down at the piano and play or sing for our friends. We can only listen to songs sung by someone else, and in our chaos it turns into a real slavery. The same applies not only to nutrition, but also to many other things.

Agree, a completely absurd form of "social pressure" is a railroad strike. Tell me, please, who suffers from them? Millionaires who can rent a plane, wealthy people who own a car, or poor people who can only travel by train? The answer is obvious. Of course, much is out of fashion today, much is a thing of the past, there is much we do not know at all, and in conditions of chaos we put up with such methods, and sometimes even support them, instead of overcoming them.

How to overcome? Individually - starting with getting to know myself, learning to distinguish where my physical, mental, emotional and mental part begins and ends. Where am I, who am I? What I can? What abilities are already developed, and what are not yet manifested? Can I play the piano, can I paint, can I sculpt statues, or can I just read, walk, play football - what am I good for anyway? What is psychologically capable of? Can I keep the conversation going? Can I not respond with animal rudeness to insults? Am I capable of real, sincere feelings, can I not be hypocritical? Can I comprehend pure and sublime ideas with my mind, because my mind does not always go to all sorts of tricks for its own benefit? This self-knowledge allows us to be truly free. And if we know ourselves, together we will create a more just society, where there will be less wars and violence. Many times from this small philosophical rostrum in the "New Acropolis" it sounded: humanity will be saved from troubles not by abstruse formulas and theories, not by models of a probable future; it will overcome all difficulties and move on only thanks to its strength and real actions. And only so. We will not make the world a better place with slogans on the walls. First, we must become better ourselves and try to infect our relatives, friends, employees, classmates with our example, which means making a real discovery by meeting our Self again, rediscovering the inner, spiritual power of a person, because this power cannot be forged.

You can shackle the hands and feet of a person, but not the soul, not the spirit. Soul, spirit, imagination, fantasy are above any prison, any chains, restrictions, illnesses, above age and distances. We must develop an inner strength that will allow us to live in harmony with nature again, because we need to return to nature, but not by the methods of modern environmental organizations - banning hikes and tearing down flags; no, this does not mean a return to nature, it means a return to the Stone Age.

Chaos and order

The mind of a man is like a crystal dressed in a strict form with even shining edges, an infinite number of edges. Sometimes a shadow of feelings runs along these edges, trying to break out. When this happens, immediately a thought appears from the depths of the mind, which surrounds these feelings and closes them in its diamond embrace.

The mind - mu - of a woman is an empty space in which the chaos of feelings roams freely. Sometimes scattered thoughts float in this emptiness, which are immediately carried away with a hurricane of feelings and emotions.

If you look at the mind of a man from the chaos of female feelings and emotions, he seems dull, fixated and limited by his own thoughts. There is a feeling of male obstruction. A woman overcomes these stupidity, obsession and obstruction either by cunning, or by completely destroying the established order, for example, by cheating on her husband so that he finds out. In the latter case, the woman's actions are a gift for the man, a gift because he has a chance to come to life.

If you look from a man's straightforward mind at the emptiness, at the chaos that reigns in a woman, a man is terrified of unpredictability. There are no directions in a woman's mind, there is none of the predictability that exists in logic. This horror of chaos is overcome with the help of iron rules. This creates predictability in a man's life.

Living in the male mind, a man knows and with the help of knowledge, rules and logical premises can foresee and build a predictable future. In the female mind of the future, predictable by knowledge and rules, no, there is knowledge.

Keeping differs from knowledge in that it is alive and constantly changing depending on the situation, while knowledge is always frozen and therefore unsuitable for a new situation.

Awareness wakes up the more the more the bottom is open: the more the man and woman are connected to their genitals.