The Infinite and the Alephbet

You had no say in what is contained within the depths of you or what you are contained within, outside of you:

You are the meeting point, or end result, of all of what is above you, alive or not, and all of what is below you, alive or not. You are constantly changing, along with all of what is above and below.

With infinite ever-changing complexity on the inside and outside, how could you possibly ever understand yourself fully and completely – how can you avoid to explain the nature of electrons and galaxies to fully explain yourself – how can you isolate your existence as completely separate from the existence of electrons and galaxies? You wouldn’t even exist if these were not there, in the first place!

When you consider a specific cell within you, you can’t help but to define it as part of you. The way a particular cell within you differentiates, and acts and reacts to things, is intimately tied in with the nature of you as a whole, and its position and function within you.

Likewise, how can you possibly satisfactorily define yourself without understanding the Earth upon which we live. The way we grow, walk, and talk, are all intimately tied in with the nature of conditions on the surface of Earth. Our two eyes are aligned to give us a wide view on the horizon, for example, and our bodies are adapted to this amount of gravity, etc…

Seeing as we don’t produce any oils or sugars, at all, and many other basic nutrients, we would simply not exist without plants and other critters, large and microscopic, that help maintain the biosphere. Can we therefore separate our living selves from these other living things as well? The living cohesion between us and them right now, might not be as graceful as at other times. Maybe in other ages, we understand and cultivate our relationship with plants and wildlife in a manner that is reciprocally beneficial and we come to understand ourselves as integral to and dependent upon bioregions or even Earth as a whole – we come to interact with our surroundings in such a way as to definitely consider ourselves as active participants in larger living organisms (with minds of their own) (with existences of their own), including non-human participants as well.

Setting plants and critters aside, odds are you are probably interacting with other people, on the outside, in organised systems of all sorts. So, you are part of larger living organisms, larger living entities, larger living “creatures”. The talk of the town might often be reverberating throughout your mind, maybe even regularly. The worries and hopes for prospects in the organized groups you are a part of might even take center stage in your mind’s daily focus at times.

A living entity is more than just a sum of interaction between its immediate parts. You are, along with every other living creature, the end result of infinite living interactions within, and infinite living interactions outside, and infinite living interactions transpiring through you at all times.

The full definition of the mind of a living entity is more than just the sum of signals – sum of echoes – sum of communication between its immediate constituents. The mind of any living entity is the end result of infinite signals, infinite echoes, infinite communication, between living entities inside, outside and moving through it, at all times.

The entirety of your mind, all of “you”, from what you sense to what you do, all of your thoughts and how they make you feel – your entire living essence, is brought forth from the interactions between smaller living creatures, with distinct minds of their own, like your living cells, communicating and acting together.

At the same time, your mind cannot help but be affected and directed by things happening outside you – all the signals and interactions with things on the outside, living and innanimate.

You are a vast network of trillions of microscopic living creatures interacting together, each with their own individual bewildering intricacies, which nobody will ever fully understand, and whose behaviour nobody will ever be able to fully predict.

Your cells each have a mind of their own. And you have a mind of your own. Yet, “you” are “your” cells. Your distinct mind is the result of the common experience and common activity of a group of cells – a group of distinct minds. You, are thinking about “your” cells, with your cells.

Each living entity has a mind, in that each living entity can be conscious of what is outside itself, conscious of what is inside itself, can remember what it has been conscious of, can contemplate upon what it remembers, and can act in a coordinated way in context with this thinking, to do what it has a will to achieve.

For example, when a plant root tip is growing, and it is sensing which direction to move and grow toward, the cells want to find the best path toward nutritious comfortable soil, and they can sense their surroundings, like water, nitrogen or gravity, they can remember from moment to moment where the bad directions are and where the good directions are, and can systematically adjust growth and motion to change directions in the soil, as it cunningly moves around like a worm or snake would (see Stephano Mancuso), and as all the different cells in the plant root tip discuss the different options at each moment (employing neurotransmitters to do so) – deciding what sort of coordinated motion and growth patterns to execute, their deliberation, no matter how heated the debate gets in desperate times of drought, or being stuck in a lazy gardener’s backyard – no matter what the drama that drives the conversation between the cells at the tip of the plant root – their communication – their banter – that is thought.

In a plant with millions of root tips, this local thought (at a single growing tip) would almost certainly be sub-conscious local thought most or all the time, only rarely sending loud signals to other parts of the plant that might be hearkened unto by the other roots or the above-ground organs as well. But, maybe root crops, or plants with only a few major roots (Rhubarb, Asparagus), maybe in this case the dominance of individual root tips and their deliberations would take greater prominence at the forefront of the plant’s mind as a whole? Mmmmmmmm…. Food for thought!

You can become conscious of a thing only by encountering it physically, or by physically encountering an echo of other things encountering it physically.

No matter which way you go about being conscious of anything, there would always have to be some sort of motion of real matter between you and the thing you are conscious of, no matter how many times the echo has to be relayed, no matter how different the entities passing along the echo may be, whether the echo is relayed by living entities or by non-living entities, no matter how accurate a signal is being relayed. Even when you touch something directly, you are still only going to receive a sort of echo from the thing – a physical echo which takes time to deliver. Even when you become conscious of something indirectly (without touching it directly), some sort of thing or stuff, whatever it may be, has to bounce from or be emitted from what you are conscious of and reach you, physically.

All consciousness is physical, even if many indirect signals/echoes seem whispy and intangible and non-physical to us, like sound-waves or light-waves.

A small fish might become conscious of a shark by rays of light bouncing off the shark, and into the small fish’s eye, then that signal of light is broadcast to the other cells in the fish (“echoes” of the sight of the shark reaching the other fish cells).

If some of the fish cells get bit by the shark, the cells in the afflicted region can send echoes of that painful bite to the other cells in the fish, thereby producing an instance of self-consciousness.

In whatever manner the cells of a fish can all receive a similar echo of what’s going on in the world, the multi-cellular organism as a whole can become conscious of things, from those common experiences – those common signals – the common receipt of those echoes of events by all the cells at generally the same moment.

Just as we don't all read the same newspaper, every day, so too do certain cells within you focus on specific things moreso than other cells. Particular states of consciousness can have varying degrees of being broadcast to some portion of your cellular population. The echoes of events don't necessarily propagate their way and register all the way down the line, with every last one of your 37 trillion cells, for every event.

Just as we don’t all read the same newspaper at the same time, so too do our cells receive echoes of events in succession, no matter how fast that succession may proceed. Imagine a creature, in just a simple disk shape, but just one cell thick – a flat one-cell-thick pancake-shaped creature – and now imagine a common thing for its cells to be conscious of: a ray of sunlight. If you were to slow the event way down to observe the first individual light waves within the sun-ray reaching the cells of this flat creature, you would notice that one light wave struck one cell first, then another, and so on, so that even with this direct contact with the ray of light, the whole creature is still conscious of the ray of light in some sort of succession among its cells. No realization is truly instantaneous.

Every process in the minds of all living entities involves these echoes – these actual physical things that are bouncing around – physical entities, alive or not, relaying echoes of events between and throughout its living constituents.

The echoes can be passed along by multiple entities in succession, and some of the entities passing along the echo might be so small and intangible that it seems like some sort of non-physical spirit is at work, but whatever that is, it is still physical entities, alive or not, transferring those echoes between your living constituents.

When living constituents of a living entity, like your cells, want to discuss things, share their opinions, reminisce or recollect with others on past events, coordinate some future activity, or maybe just uselessly banter about trivialities, they do so by tossing physical signals between one another.

Your cells bouncing ideas around, or trying to get other cells to do something in particular, or maybe to perform a rehearsed scripted play to the other trillions of cells within you – whatever the business may be between multiple living entities within, their communication is the process we call "thought".

Some thespian cells, from whatever region within you, may have been paying attention to what was going on with your life during the day (the combined life experience of all of your cells – of all your 37 trillion cells), and are trying to get you to watch their scripted production at night, maybe to prove a point, or maybe to make a joke, or maybe to foreshadow what tomorrow will bring, or maybe to point out something the other 37 trillion cells forgot about or failed to notice during the day. If the symbolism of the dream fails to hit home, the scripted production might repeat the next night.

Just as you may, at a given time, communicate with a particular individual in a group, without informing the rest of the group of the conversation, so too are many thoughts within yourself not broadcast to all of your other cells. They may be broadcast at a later date, to the other cells, but the original local discussion would be a sub-conscious thought.

The various ways in which memory can persist or be brought to consciousness, are as numerous as the various ways in which an echo can be re-propagated or re-instigated after forming some sort of mark on structure of some sort, allowing the echo to reverberate back to active signals again. Memory could just be called Re-Consciousness. The structure echoes can make a mark upon, can even consist of living entities (even associated indirectly – an indirect structure). For memory to register, the re-instigated echoes must reach living constituents of yours.

One can remember a thought – a discussion between living constituents (like your cells). This is what we call “understanding” or “beliefs” – the memory of thought.

Perception is when consciousness occurs, and some living constituents bring certain associated memories to mind – they broadcast something else as a result of being conscious of something. It may have more to do with automatic associations, in some cases, rather than thinking deeply. The associations might have been previously formed by thinking, or they could have been associated by countless other means, and maybe only shallow thinking is then applied when the association is brought to consciousness.

Volition or Will is simply thought (communication between living constituents), where one or more living constituents is trying to get the other constituents in the group to do something – to carry out some sort of objective, forcefully or not.

Wisdom and Intelligence are not distinct processes of the mind – they are subjective judgment calls on the quality of thought – a wise creature or an intelligent creature, is one who is very "good" at thinking. What one may see as wise, another might judge to be not so wise at all.

There is no such thing as “extra-sensory perception”. If you sense something outside of the senses that you have defined, this does not allow you to define your experience as coming from outside of actual physical entities interacting – sending signals that physically reach your living cells somehow – signals that you can sense physically. The sense at play is simply undefined, and even though it may be microscopic, it would still require physical events – signals – echoes being relayed.

A living entity, such as yourself, cannot know, observe, sense or otherwise be conscious of the entire infinite universe – all of its numberless unique finite entities, even with the most sophisticated instruments or the most broadly travelled messengers or other intermediaries, or by focusing and redirecting echoes of other things toward yourself, or by referring to associated groups of things with numbers or any other kind of symbol. Here are just a few reasons why:

If consciousness can only occur with resistance – the echoes from events bouncing onto you and bouncing through and between your living constituents, then when you are busy encountering one thing, your capacity to encounter other things is physically blocked at those points.

The intermediaries you encounter (the entities transferring signals and echoes), which make you conscious of other entities indirectly, also have the infinite within, so when you focus on the source of the intermediaries instead of the intermediaries themselves, you are excluding all of that infinite information.

If there are infinite entities moving in infinite different directions, then how could they ever all be going toward you or sending echoes toward you for you to be conscious of them all.

Signals and echoes eventually fade because they are incessantly encountering resistance themselves, however slight that resistance might be. There is no absolute vacuum where echoes could propagate forever without encountering resistance to slow them down.

Seeing as all of what you are conscious is relayed as echoes – delayed signals – signals from the past, then by the time you are finally conscious of something, it has already changed.

Everything is constantly changing, or, more precisely: nothing ever stands still. The now is always unfolding into something new, but it still remains now.

During the now, we may become conscious of echoes of what used to be in the now, in a past moment in the eternal ever-present universe.

During the now, we may forecast what the now will look like, in a future moment in the eternal ever-present universe.

Time is a useful concept. Speed is a useful concept. Rhythms of things happening over time – that’s a useful concept. These abstract concepts, with only loose ties to the reality of the ever-present universe, are useful ways of thinking about the now – what the now was like in the past, and projecting what the now might be like in the future.

There is no maximum speed inherent in any kind of entity if there are infinite entities in the universe. Speed is a comparison of motion between entities, and so to measure the true speed of one, you would have to measure the speed of all other infinite entities, which are moving in ever-changing unique ways.

Even though there may be no inherent speed limit, this does not mean that any entity can manage to speed up endlessly without any sort of restriction, to infinite speed. That’s impossible, for many reasons. Each entity is incessantly encountering others, even if this resistance is imperceptible to us. There is no vacuum – no absolutely void space anywhere, in which an entity may cease to act upon or cease to be acted upon by other entities. There may be areas void of certain kinds of entities, but within this “void” are innumerable itty bitty entities even if they are imperceptible to us.

Your rhythms (as a whole) are generally faster than entities larger than you, and generally slower than entities smaller than you.

A fly perceives you as lumbering around slowly, like we perceive elephants lumbering around slowly. An elephant perceives you moving around quickly like you perceive a mouse scurrying around. A fly can be fully conscious of something much quicker than you because it has fewer cells to broadcast the echoes of consciousness. This is one reason we are so “bugged” by bugs.

It generally takes longer for a single message to propagate throughout the consciousness of an elephant than it does in creatures smaller than the elephant. In other words, it generally takes more time for an echo to propagate from the first cell to all the other cells within an elephant, than it does within a fly. The echoes and signals are moving through and between roughly the same kinds of constituents (cells, tissues and organs), but in the case of the elephant, the echoes and signals are moving throughout a much larger grouping – a larger broadcasting area. Therefore, many signals can be broadcast throughout your consciousness in the same period that it takes to send only one signal throughout the elephant’s consciousness.

This is why elephants are annoyed by mice scurrying around them – the same reason we are annoyed by flies scurrying around us. This is why your childhood seemed to have gone by so much slower than your full-grown existence. This is why, when you were a child, all the older folk seemed to behave so much slower; and once you are fully grown, kids seem to behave with such greater speed compared to what you remember from your youth. Movies, I remember clearly from childhood, used to be soooooo long and epic; whereas now the credits roll before I know it.

This applies not only to consciousness, it also applies to any other aspect of the mind. All processes of the mind involve echoes in motion – physical echoes from events of resistance with other things, therefore the size of the living entity hosting the mind affects the speed at which all of the processes of that mind operate.

Super-small entities, relative to you, enjoy such extremely speedier relative rhythms that one of your footsteps may span aeons for them.

Likewise, super-huge entities, relative to you, like a galaxy, seem to be frozen in a snap-shot.

If you were the size of an atom, you would see things flying around the nucleus much slower; and if you were the size of a planet, you would see things flying around the sun much quicker.

When you perceive the regular action of really large entities, from your size, like watching the earth slowly orbiting the sun and spinning on its axis in a regular pattern, it may seem that the rhythms are more stable, constant, and the repetitions more similar, compared with the actions of smaller entities. Seeing as the actions of the larger entities generally take longer to play out relative to you, you tend to notice fewer repetitions and you therefore have a harder time noticing change in the general process, and are therefore limited in being able to discern the 'paths' or 'directions' or 'functions' of the earth, if any, and how it changes, if it does so noticeably through the course of its existence.

When you behold the activities of super-small entities, from your size, like watching electrons quickly spin around the nucleus, you see so many more repetitions of the activity, so you can get a sense of their ultimate effect and purposes and inter-relationships with other things, by observing the combined effect of countless repetitions of activities; but because of the speed of activity and change, the physical properties and location of the things involved becomes harder to pinpoint.

The larger the entities you look at, the more you lose track of their activity, until you end up looking at galaxies, where you can’t understand much of their activity at all, you’re instead stuck staring at a still photograph – you’re stuck analyzing their physical properties at a very static and knowable location.

The smaller the entities you look at, the more you lose track of their physical properties, until you end up looking at sub-atomic particles, where you really start to lose track of their properties, while you can get an excellent sense of their activity and ultimate effect of their activities, because you can observe oodles upon oodles of repetitions of activities.

So, with super-large entities, we can figure out their physical structure and location very well, but are mostly blind to what they do; whereas with super-small entities, we can figure out what these things are doing very well, but are mostly blind to their physical structure and location.

When you, from your viewpoint, at your size, behold the super-small, with its more rapid and ever-changing action relative to you, everything seems to be inter-related and inter-dependent; whereas when you behold the super-big, where you don’t notice much action between the different parts and not much change at all, everything seems to have its own separate existence with little inter-relation and little inter-dependency.

To say that you are made up of infinite smaller living entities in a tree of life is not to imply that this ‘tree’ is static and rigid and unchanging.

At some small enough level, the relative speed of existence makes it so that many more individual living entities are born or perish or significantly change every instant than we see in a lifetime at our size. Many more bonds are broken and many more cemented relative to our realm, every moment. To maintain the infinite tree of life within you, a constant change of constituents is taking place – constant birth and death, constant joining and leaving of constituents, constant engaging and withdrawing of participation among the living entities on all of the branches of the tree of life within you.

To say that you are made up of infinite smaller living entities in a tree of life is not to imply that every living entity within it is actively aware of you and engaged in your living network. Each constituent of the tree of life within you pretty much tends to matters near to its own general area and size.

A single super-duper-tiny creature within you, with a fleeting existence relative to yours may contribute to living systems within, at some super-deep branch on the tree of life within, which contributes to larger living systems within, and which ultimately contributes to your living activity; but this tiny fleeting creature within you is probably not aware of your activity, as a whole, that it had "contributed" to. Its entire existence might have been so fleeting, relative to yours, that it would never have had the chance to observe and understand any of your rhythms, any of your activity, any of your habits, any of your dreams, etc... just like how feel when you look up at the galaxy you are contained within. Events are so rare within your galaxy - the intervals between events are so long, and the parts seemingly unrelated, that you feel like a stranger in your own galaxy. You don't really identify with your home galaxy. It's just something "out there". For a silly example:

So, according to this song-writer, the Milky Way is something “out there” – something that we are not already a part of.

A super-duper-tiny creature within you also feels distant and disconnected from you as a whole, if it ever even gets the opportunity to behold you as a whole.

The living constituents of a living entity (like the living cells animating your living self) have the advantage of being able to communicate between each other and deliberate about things at their relatively accelerated rate of activity. This can make your thought seem to transpire instantaneously. A thought can seem to occur all at once, but each smaller entity below generally has more of an opportunity to reflect upon and prepare its contribution to the larger coordinated actions and discussions above.

Each living entity is organized (animated) by the communication between its living constituents (like between your cells). This communication is what we call "thought". Understanding is simply the memory of thinking. Senses and thought are limited, therefore, all understanding is belief. Therefore, belief cannot be gotten rid of. However imperfect working from beliefs is, even the simple worm in the soil, and the fern in the undergrowth depend upon them.

When two cells within a worm, or two cells within a growing plant root tip, discuss things, and discuss the details of multiple different signals (echoes) from their environment indicating, say, where food and nutrients might be at, they can come to a conclusion of which direction is best to move toward, but this is only an opinion that they arrive at, with limited consciousness, and limited reasoning, it is only a belief of what the best course of action is to take. A growing plant root tip might believe that the best course of action is to grow toward a stream, but it might dry up most of the year, and so the belief that growing toward it is the best course of action would be in error.

While thinking about something, or recalling a certain understanding of something, this can change all manner of activities that your cells engage in, exciting or inhibiting their metabolism or changing their focus to a particular process or otherwise altering their activity. You might hear news or think a thought that changes your cells’ anticipation of what sort of work is expected of them in the coming days and weeks. Maybe some cells disagree with others on what your collective should really believe or should really be focusing on. Some cells might be discussing details only with a few other cells, while others talk about different things, and then may get a chance to speak to other cells about it later, bringing it further to the forefront of your consciousness. Some cells might be trying to silence other cells from saying their piece. Some might be ignoring what’s going on in the big picture, and just seek reward or mischief. All this banter, commotion, or simple chit chat between cells, as the conversations ripple throughout your body of cells, might change the biochemistry and activity of the cells further. All this activity, stemming from thought or recalling previous thoughts – that is what we call emotions. A topic of conversation within you might lead to other ideas (new thinking), which leads to new emotions, but at the end of the day, emotions do not exist without thoughts as their initial driving force.

The fact that cells can communicate much quicker between themselves than we can with other people, and the fact that soooo many thoughts and memories can be brought to mind at the same time, and whose emotional flavours may get mixed in with emotions from other active thoughts, this leads to possible emotional states which seem to instantaneously provide the drive to do something, or to think further, or to answer a complex question very quickly, but it is not emotions, in of themselves, that accomplish this deep “intuition” or “instinct”. The credit goes to individual souls within you – some of the trillions of cells, deliberating and acting together. Your living constituents, your cells, can be inspired and driven by emotions, and they can induce emotions by what they say and do, but it is the minds of your cells that provide you with your intuition and instinct and impetus to act.

If an art critic says “I feel that your painting belongs in the garbage dump”, it is not really that feeling that brought him to this conclusion. He has been judging artwork for years, and has all sorts of bits of understanding (from all of his thinking over the years), which may include thousands of factors, which may be processed by many different cells, which are all crying out their opinions of the piece at generally the same time. These individual bits of understanding may blend together into some indescribable nearly instantaneous feeling, as those opinions are broadcast to your other cells at generally the same time.

Single cells can reason and feel and make decisions. Cells are able to communicate with each other. Therefore, even a simple worm or fern inherently has some form of thought at work within it, even though the operation of a worm or grass plant, and the complexity of communication between those cells may be simplistic. Simplicity of mind is not evidence of absence of thought.

There is a background tone of emotions within each living creature, which is set by all of the understanding that it has formed, especially the understanding that you frequently bring to mind (broadcast regularly to a good majority of your cells).

Emotions will traverse and ripple throughout a worm or fern differently than throughout our bodies of cells, so thought and understanding are, of course, not the only things that affect how emotions play out and affect further thought and activity. If the art critic was suffering from a cold, his understanding would translate into emotions in a different way, but whatever emotion he will have concerning the artwork will still stem from his thinking and understanding initially, which are accomplished by his living cells and their communication and interaction, which are, of course, influenced by the current ripples of emotions.

Thoughts may induce feelings, which may move us to think fresh thoughts (or re-think old thoughts), which may induce fresh feelings, and so on. This interplay is continuous, ever-present, and tightly intertwined. The true credit belongs to the living minds of your living constituents, with minds of their own, communicating together, agreeing or disagreeing with each other, rallying each other, suppressing each other, helping each other, oppressing each other, congratulating each other, frustrated with each other, admiring each other, and any other interplay that goes on between sentient individuals in complex societies.

There are only so many of any type, and each individual of a type is unique from all others.

Each type of prolific thing had some sort of start, at some point in time. At some point in time, the first electron appeared; at some point in time, the first galaxy appeared. Then, to reproduce more creatures of a type, it takes time. Well then, there cannot possibly be an infinite number of electrons or an infinite number of galaxies, or an infinite number of any type of thing, because there has only been a limited amount of time for these to proliferate.

This even holds true if you maintain the crackpot assumption that electrons and galaxies are innanimate, lifeless and “self-assembled” from “basic machine-like rules of physics”. Even in this bland robotic view of the universe, at some point the first electron appeared; at some point, the first galaxy appeared; and, if it takes time to “self-assemble”, then, the number of electrons is finite, and the number of galaxies is finite.

With an inifinite amount of time for things to both proliferate and perish, eventually, there will be no more electrons; eventually, there will be no more multicellular creatures; eventually, there will be no more galaxies. It is ridiculous to imagine any type of thing successfully proliferating and keeping the same species of creatures alive for eternity. Worry not, other living creatures will proliferate into the voids left by the eventual dissapearance of creatures we are familiar with today.

Each living creature is animated by multiple smaller living creatures, communicating and acting together. If this is the definition of life, then you would never be able to find a fundamental building block – each creature would be infinitely divisible – each creature would be made of smaller creatures, to infinity. If living things are infinitely divisible – then this means the universe cannot be compressed or expanded as a whole, and therefore cannot start or stop as a whole. Infininte life within life requires an infinite eternal universe. If this is the definition of life, then any new living entity can only be created by pre-existing living entities interacting. If this is the definition of life, then Life had no Origin, and Time never “started”.

You are infinitely divisible, infinitely large, and infinitely complex, like everything else in the universe.

The insides of a nutshell are just as big as the insides of a nut-tree, a nut-tree forest, a planet with a whole bunch of nut-tree-forests, or a galaxy with a whole bunch of planets, or an electron within a nutshell. There is no limit to how much a thing can be divided. There are always smaller bits. A galaxy doesn’t have more stuff within it, than you do within you – you both have an uncountable number of things within. Each thing or creature within you is unique, but it also shares characteristics common with you and every other thing in the universe.

No finite entities, like clusters of galaxies, could claim to be the largest parts of the universe. In an infinite universe, things assembled take all shapes and sizes. There is no “final frontier”. Every entity is contained within larger entities, each unique, but each also exhibiting common characteristics with all others.

These scraggly scribblings might not seem like much, but they offer us the very oldest known ancestors to the letters of our alphabet (our ABCs). This is Proto-Sinaitic, or, as it will be referred to in this work: Proto-Semitic, the ancestor of Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, and other Semitic scripts. It was discovered in a few fragmentary inscriptions in the Sinai peninsula of Egypt as well as near the Nile at Wadi El-Hol. They date to sometime in the Bronze Age.

Not all of the glyphs have been discovered, and only one word from the scant inscriptions has been deciphered. The letter-slots that are blank are those that either have not been found or identified at all and there is no strong guess as to its identity. The letter-slots that are shaded but have letters, indicate only potential candidates, without certainty. Here is a list of other possible values listed by various scholars for some of the characters found in the various fragmentary Proto-Semitic inscriptions:

Here is a chart with a selection of various descendant scripts, with Nabataean believed to be the ancestor of the Arabic script:

In order to clearly and efficiently demonstrate common symbolic meaning between Hebrew, Aramaic and Arabic terms, all spellings will be in this next script, whatever the source language may be – all terms will be drawn in this common script. In order to accomplish this, the Proto-Semitic script (the earliest common ancestor), which has missing (undiscovered) glyphs, needed to be completed, so glyphs from Early Aramaic and the Hebrew block-letter script were used to fill in the missing slots in the Proto-Semitic script, and the Nabatean alef is just so much more interesting and elegant and less idolotrous than the calf, especially when highlighted in gold:

q is a symbol that represents multiple entities (two or more), which are separate from one another. Like vapour in the open air, like dust freely blowing in the wind, like strangers walking in a crowd without any relation at all. When q is made of really small and rarefied things, it can give the sense of empty space, but no portion of space is absolutely empty. All portions of space that seem empty have some matter in it. q is the absence of bonds that maintain matter. Matter is represented by the next letter, a

a represents multiple entities (two or more), which are attached to one another, or otherwise maintaining static direct contact (like you and the earth as you stand still). These bonds give us what we call matter or structure.

z represents a combination of q and a It is the nearness or inter-mingling of entities. A sort of disconnected connectedness. It can be the quasi-structure of things divided by holes, crevices, gaps, clefts, breaches, etc..., like a solar system or a flock of birds, or those cumulonimbus clouds (where the water particles sort of keep together). Also, it can be a relationship between things which are directly touching, but not in a static way, like the relationship between a table and a ‘top’ spinning on the table – when both the table and the spinning ‘top’ are considered together, it forms a sort of disconnected connection. When the ‘top’ stops spinning, and just sits on the table, then that would be more like a z is entities staying ‘with’ or ‘near’ one another but not being directly joined or maintaining static direct contact with one another – whatever its substance may be, by whatever means it is maintained, however distant the entities may be from one another, and however long (or brief) it may exist.

Hands tightly interlocked together would be more like a , some sort of solid structure.

Hands rubbing, or hands held slightly apart, but still maintaining proximity, would be more like z

Even when you have your hands stretched out as far as possible, they are still pretty much maintaining some nearness to some degree.

No matter how much you squeeze your hands tightly together, you can never really close the gap to form perfect absolute unbroken matter. There will always be some sort of "empty" space between them, or between any two entities bound together, even with the strongest “glue”.

When you were holding your hands near to one another with a slight gap –z , imagine an amoeba on the tip of one of your fingers, looking out across this expanse. For the amoeba, the other hand is quite a distance away – it is not at all near, it sees more q than z between the hands.

The next three letters represent all the individual entities within q, a, and z, whether they are alive or not, considered in their simple physical external relationship to other things. These next 3 letters are literally a “surface” understanding of the entities – how their physical surface relates to other things.

w represents individual entities where they are separate from others – essentially ‘pointing’ toward q

s represents individual entities where they are bound to others (or otherwise maintaining static direct contact) – essentially ‘pointing’ toward a

x represents individual entities where they are near or ‘with’ others without maintaining static direct contact – essentially ‘pointing’ toward z x may be hovering around, it may be indirectly attached, it may be rubbing up against, skimming upon, or it may be moving throughout the interior of the entities with which it is associated, or it may be intertwined with them while not directly bound to them and not maintaining static direct contact. And any other sort of ‘nearness’ or ‘intermingling’ or ‘proximal association’.

If you are playing hockey outdoors, and you’re the goalie, you are standing firm on the ground – so you are a s in relation to the earth. You foolishly chose not to wear a helmet so your head is exposed directly to the sky – making you a w in relation to the heavens. At the same time, you are taking slap-shots and players are slamming into you, and spectators are shouting waves of disparaging remarks through the air toward you, so you are a x in relation to other things around you.

e is the motion of w It is the motion of entities where they are unbound. Like a puck flying freely in the air.

d is the motion of s It is the motion of entities where they are stuck to or maintaining static direct contact with other entities. Like the flicking of a puck with a hockey stick (as the puck is being pushed).

c is the motion of x It is the motion of entities where they are near others or otherwise staying ‘with’ other entities, but are not attached or maintaining static direct contact. Like a puck sliding on the ice.

r is the resistance of w It is the resistance that occurs when entities encounter other entities from which they are separate. Like a player dodging another player’s check. Like a puck bouncing on the sideboards.

f is the resistance of s It is the resistance that occurs when entities engage other entities to which they are stuck or maintaining static direct contact. Like a goalie catching and squeezing the puck in his glove. Like the reverberating waves of grumbling throughout a spectator’s bones as the goal is prevented.

v is the resistance of x It is the resistance that occurs when entities engage with other entities to which they are ‘near’ or otherwise staying ‘with’. Like a player’s scraping his skates on the ice. Like the puck flying through the goalie’s kneepads and hitting the kneepads along the way. Like the spectator’s hands clapping together repeatedly. Like the goalie scratching his head, wondering what just happened.

t represents life which is less restricted, tethered, tied-down or constrained and which is more fresh, spontaneous, unconditioned or open-minded.

g represents life which is more habitual, repetitive, continual, persistent, focused, entrenched, pre-determined, concrete, predictable or rigid.

The letters before these – the ones we talked about at the hockey game, were physically much more simplistic. Living activity, on the other hand, involves oodles of different physical actions and interactions all as part of the same integrated coordinated activity. All your limbs, organs and all your cells, from those in your bones, to those running through the rivers in your body, to those defending it all on the skin; all of these can be part of the same single living activity. You might be acting inside and on the world outside at many different physical points all as part of the same distinct living action.

i is non-living entities in more unbound and loose and rarefied form – like vapour or mash potatoes.

k is non-living entities in more bound and tight and condensed form – like ice or gold coins.

Even though these two letters represent the stuff and things when you get lots and lots and lots of entities not acting in a living way together, i and k also refer to just a small number of entities (even just 2) which are not interacting in an organized unified way together – like a few strangers sitting together on the bus, each minding his/her own business, or two cutthroat competitors in the world of business. Considered together, the competitors form a non-living entity.

o is the coming together, combining, joining, binding, bonding, placing together, etc...

l is the breaking free, the splitting, separating, parting, expulsion, releasing, etc…

“He hath formed, weighed, transmuted, composed, and created with these twenty-two letters every living being, and every soul yet uncreated… … For He indeed showed the mode of combination of the letters, each with each, Aleph with all, and all with Aleph. Thus in combining all together in pairs are produced these two hundred and thirty-one gates of knowledge.”

Jacob starts out as a real shady character. Besides pilfering the best livestock from his employer with crafty deceit and complaining about wages all day long, he supplants his poor hard-working brother Esau’s birthright by cornering Esau into signing away the family inheritence to himself; and then, even when Isaac, their father, was on his deathbed breathing his last, Jacob deceitfully arranges to get Isaac’s blessing, leaving no divine favor for Esau. A real class act.

Later on though, Jacob feels all guilty and comes crying back to Esau bearing gifts, to show he wants to make peace – to find favour in the sight of Esau. Jacob’s name is then changed to Israel, and Esau forgives him.

By extension, it can mean: tracked by, or investigated (by following footprints). It can also mean: to grab by the heel.

Genesis 27:36

yaqfx tsa zxq cfy ajzw yajzwga ut kjfaf qv-wsxva dzi ytgt jvt dzi wxsva yaqfx tdq-qldv da wxst

Then he said, "Is he not rightly named Jacob, for he has supplanted me these two times? He took away my birthright, and behold, now he has taken away my blessing." And he said, "Have you not reserved a blessing for me?"

Then, Jacob’s name is changed to Israel when folks see that he is now Conducting himself Rightly, after coming to make peace with Esau with open arms and plenty of gifts.

(for those who noticed that I supplanted the Seen of Israel for a Sheen, note that YShRVN (acxyg) with a Sheen, as in Deuteronomy 32:15 is “an honorary name for Israel”.

Esau, in the narrative, is a hairy harding-working buffed man of the field – a hunter providing food, while his lazy smooth-skinned brother Jacob prefers to sit around all day in his tent, scheming how to pilfer from other people’s hard work.

When these twin brothers were born, Jacob was literally holding onto the heel of Esau, then later, he is metaphorically holding his heel.

In the modern world, you can see these two classes of people – those who innovate, create, produce and work to bring home the bread; and then there are oodles of lazy-ass people sitting around all day in their apartments, playing video games and vaping, scheming for a quick buck with bitcoin bullshit, producing no wealth.

These books, these names, are not about one-time events in the past, they are ever-present happenings in infinite living organisms – infinite complex societies. How can this be said with absolute confidence? Well, in just this one section, there are simply way too many coincidences:

Esau, as his name implies, is a hard working hairy man of the field providing for his people.

Jacob is renamed Israel, who, as the name implies, turned to Conducting himself Rightly, Honestly, Correctly and Righteously toward Esau.

Add to this the fact that the names Jacob and Esau are opposites – the fact that this pair forms a perfect framework to explore the eternal struggle between those who sit around complaining all day and those who roll up their sleeves and do hard work to put food on the table, this eternal struggle, which underlies a lot of modern political and societal troubles, is alluded to in pairing these two names, whose symbolic interpration would be evident to anybody reading the Hebrew text.

Jacob held Esau’s heel not just metaphorically in life, but physically at birth.

And the pair together form a clear contrast between two opposing ways of life, Loafers versus Breadwinners, which just so happens to be the central theme of these few chapters!

The fact that oodles of other characters and places in scripture can be demonsrated to match their nature in the narratives, reveals plainly and clearly that there is more to scripture than just fooling people with wild superstition and controling their minds with nonsense – there is more to the names and stories of the prophets, angels, demons and of God than can be found in translations into English – there is much more intelligence imbued in these books than modern science-zombies would ever allow for. In fact, the people that wrote these works were much more intelligent and much more broad-minded than Big Bang Bozos today.

Wouldn’t you love to live in a entire land of people doing Right by Others? Isn’t that what you would really love to be part of someday? The journey to this promised land from a land of distress, its establishment in the prosperous unified monarchy, and its dissolution afterwards, is one of many overarching narratives throughout this immensely rich and thoughtful composition from ancient times.