You probably didn't appreciate from HB149's statement that universal rhythms are converted into electromagnetism, that I was suggesting we are literally living inside a reflection - a sorcerous illusion, a hall of mirrors (HB20).
For example, P150 has (last para) the case of protein folding being converted into the numbers of an algorithm. While there's no reason Man can't advance into the future, what tends to happen is that our ability to act independently without assistance is compromised wholesale.
In other words, by advance modern Man means to become non-viable as a primitive. Why is that important? Because the human form is tens of thousands of years old - see abnormal or 'micro-evolution HB132.
Anything primitive and old doesn't change and obeys the rhythms of the stars by spontaneously folding into shape. This is Bruce Lee's response-in-time that has no routine and is outside routine. It is pure expressive rhythm, flexing as it goes.
It is Sarah Vaughan or Liza Minnelli or Lee Perry or Grace Slick; those who practice routine then rise above it.
Routine and expression are two separate things; one exists in time, the other is predetermined. In primitive nature there exists an unthinking expression that is very real.
So, when saying natural rhythms are being converted (by advance), this is the result of routine or number (algorithm). Inductive reason since the time of Newton (C4-C6) is the ultimate routine, allowing of no unthinking expression.
In that sense it is not real - and hence we live inside a reflection (electromagnetism or number). The reflection is ultras convincing -almost better than the real thing! But the difference is clear from this quote from Mishima's Spring Snow.
The ancient ceremony fell on the seventeenth if August according to the lunar calendar. A large wooden basin filled with water was placed in the garden to catch a reflection of the moon, and appropriate offerings were made. If the sky was overcast on thus August night of his fifteenth year, bad fortune was expected to dof the boy who stood before the basin, for the rest of his life.. Since this ceremony during his fifteenth year was to determine his lifetime fortune, Kiyoaki felt as though his very soul, naked, had been set there on the wet grass. The wooden sides I'd the basin expressed his outer self; the disk of water, which they in turn defined, expressed his inner. Everyone was silent, so the sounds of insects throughout the garden filled his ears as never before. He gazed earnestly into the basin.. Then all if a sudden the black water in the basin, which had seemed impenetrably obscure, cleared, and there diectly in its centre shone a tiny image of the full moon.(Random House, page 34,35)
The Japanese ritual uses the moon as a symbol of the psyche. The moon is a highly symbolic object in that it is highly symmetrical to the day's orb (Artemis and Apollo). In the real, unthinking universe (of the psyche), objects are symbolic, not material.
The material world is created by routine; in other words, by converting natural expression into number (algorithm, as with Musk, natch.)
A primitive world is created by belief, as was suggested by the findings at Gobeklitepe (prev). Belief springs from the physical activities of the freely expressive body, whether in herding animals, in agriculture or in hunt regathering.
From the physical activities and the beliefs develop the formalities of a society, such as feudal Japan. A formal, feudal order is liable to be highly symbolic. The graces are alive.
A material society kills symbolism with routine. The routines of feudal Japan are symbolic while the routines of modern Japan are material. There's some overlap, but this is evident throughput Mishima's book.
Hence, modern Japan may be increasingly divorced from ritual symbolism, and there are even calls for Geishas to go! This is the mindbloc of materialism. Materialism increases information, but at the cost of primal rhythm. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
For example, here's a letter from Journey #4
'Dear Mr Macalistaire,
I be right glad to be makin yur acquaintinsship as fur as I be also a man what has an appreshiashin fur a lan what has no civileesashin no farms and no shoutin just trees an sky an considibull silens, an as yue appears to be a man a reespeck an good guts an quick wits as I be an a damblain good shot.
I enjoyed readin your adventurs an think they wus wrote an drawd right good except yus occashunally looked a lot like Benjamin Frankelin.
This ain't much but a letter of thank yue an encourigmint as I be a 33 year old green mountain Vermont persin with no suggedtshun but fur ta luk-out any earthpigs carryin swords as they mighty mean littil crittirs espeshully wet.'
It's like saying everything is law and logic - and there is a long section in Spring Snow on the difference between natural (Socratic) law and the Asian tradition of Manu, which includes the origin of the cosmos (psyche).
Law is something that acts on existence, so it either includes the concept in its own writings as does Manu, or it is simply a construct of logic that cannot overstep its bounds
The bounds of nature, which is something you could say is found in the down-home lingo of the above letter. That is to say, the activities of the body, like a rabbit or a pig, are the reality of living in nature by trackin, shootin, firin up and fryin.
This was also the reality in the days of Aristotle, in a way, when the peaceful havens of secluded places were hallowed under the boughs above. It is even more the tradition of Diogenes in his barrel!
The primitive is hallowed whereas the law can just be an ass. This is even truer of western science - previously known as 'natural philosophy' - which has become an unnatural alien invasion.
In our reality facts are also fictions in that they are facts of weakness that attract the ego of acolytes to the mirror of nothingness (HB20).
The one thing that can be said to be real is the balance found in the reflection of Mishima's bowl ritual, as it is symbolic of natural symmetry in the universe (psyche).
A world where natural balance is missing has the weakness of facts - which are also fictions of this world that lacks balance, or realism.
Reality and symbolism are closely tied by natural balance. A woman's figure is symbolic of fertility. An earthpig is symbolic of having an earthbound snout - etc.
Losing track of symbolism is also losing track of realism, in the forests and mountains and glens that lie under the heavens above.
