Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
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Mathematics
A capacity for mathematics requires an uncomfortable, if not difficult kind of experience. Effecting mathematics simply requires practice. A capacity'for and executing how'to are related, but wholly separate..related in that, as one's capacity for mathematics increases, so does one's ability to use it as an analytical tool, terms for communication, or medium of personal expression.
A capacity for math requires the experience of something that is not even a number. This something is nothing, or zero. Without experiencing zero, numbers cannot be conceived, contrary to what historical evidence might suggest to some. Some evidence of ancient mathematics does not show the symbol, zero. The idea of zero was comprehended, but no doubt, not a very practical one then. Nevertheless, experiences of nothingness, isolation, aloneness, disappointment...prove not only to be useful, but essential for the conception of zero and capacities of mathematics.
Comprehension of zero is inevitable after experiencing nothingness..or loss. The greater the accumulation of loss, the greater is one's sense of zero, and the more profound can one's comprehension of math become..because loss count farther than any number.
Also, zero is an extreme that exists in contrast to its opposite, which is infinity. One sense goes no where, the other forever goes. The more zero is experienced, the more a moment feels infinity long. Everything is experienced by one open to all and everything. And all that is, this 'all and everything' is infinite, even if it is an effect or sense due to limitations. As these limitations are carried into atonement with 'all and everything,' one experiences zero and infinity, one is enabled to conceive 'infinity.' If one is closed to 'all and everything,' the nature of those self'imposed borders determine the degree of comprehension of zero and infinity. With one closed..seriously closed from 'all and everything,' one's sense of zero and infinity becomes seriously limited, and it is just a matter of time for what is left to take charge and direct one's life thereafter.
Without zero and infinity or one's zero'infinity faculty, mathematics cannot be comprehended. Without experiencing zero and infinity, one's capacity for mathematics cannot increase. The rational, the irrational..the continuous, the discontinuous, even the imaginary world could not be fully comprehended and enabled. All moments of emptiness, aloneness, isolation add'up. And if they accumulate as loss within one open to the world beyond, one's sense of zero'infinity becomes progressively stronger, one becomes compensated, and evolves on..with the faculty and perhaps the means to avoid the same loss.
These two mutually created faculties are symbiotic and form the basis, as one, through which mathematics imports itself into the world. From all of one's boundaryless accumulated moments of emptiness comes an evermore profound sense of zero'infinity. Both dimensions of a single faculty develop within a space, arrayed as necessary, called the imaginary of light. Without the imaginary, one could not visualize numbers, their separation, nor the lack of separation as infinitely small numbers are assigned to points and together form a continuous line, plane, or solid in an imaginary space. The more isolation experienced, the greater is one's zero'infinity and one's zero'infinity imagination, and one's ability to visualize.
What seems to be the worst of experience actually empowers one to improve their circumstances through one's improved imagination, a fail'safe process within a steady'state cosmos for one who can deconstruct the boundaries, as necessary, and prevented permanent ones from forming.
Without zero'infinity and its associated powers of imagination, one cannot comprehend the irrational and continuous, nor the rational and discontinuous..all, essential dimensions of mathematics. The worst of human experience within one closed, can become the worst nightmare; within one open, a great inspiration.
As in all failure, one is accountable for whether or not, one has capitalized from it. And if a dark menacing cloud persists over one's head, there is always math...one's zero'infinity, its inscrutable but perfectly comprehensible rational and irrational imaginary, its numbers, and assigned points of line, plane, and solid..in all their continuous or discontinuous ways.