Spencer Heath Archive

Item 417

Taping by Spencer MacCallum from conversation with Heath.

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     For the life of me, I can’t see why so much is made of energy and action being discontinuous, and time also, since time is only the measure and the manner in which energy proceeds into actuality — reality . . . . . . /incomplete/ or Plato’s unreality, since his reality was the principles .. and in that way he was hinting that reality is those things which endure …

    The absolute reality composed of an infinitude of tiny bits, some of which bits are incorporated in each one of us, according to the amount of mass, motion and time involved. The great mystery of the trinity is the unity of the three elements which constitute events, and in their infinite aspect, the absolute event, which is God.

    This concept of events as the sole realities, and of the absolute event as divinity, is certainly one of the most important religious and philosophic concepts which modern physics has made possible.

/Aside:/ That’s my own personal horn I’m blowing as a contributor to the philosophy of the future.

    In these remarks, I have stressed the importance of discontinuity, but for practical purposes it is more important to recognize and observe the principle than it is to philosophize about it. Like the multiplication table; we don^’t talk about it, we use it.