To grasp the workings of the universe, one must return to the child’s experiment: a simple electric generator, where a coil of wire—once set in motion—was tricked into turning endlessly.
This illusion of perpetual motion produced flashes of energy: each one a moment of work, a burst of becoming.
This is the universe’s mechanism: One eternally recurring movement. One twist. One flash. One task: To reconcile the resistance that birthed the twist.
”The eternal hourglass flips again and again…” – Nietzsche.
The flash is emotional. The resistance is feeling. Max Planck measured its heartbeat: 6.62607015 × 10⁻³⁴ joule-seconds—the quantum of action.
Each photon, each moment, is a packet of possibility – it is thought.
Thinking is movement of thought.
“Thought is movement… yet thought also attempts to hold fast to itself and seek security.” – David Bohm.
The primal resistance is everywhere at once. It is the Captain of this Ship of Fools.
The crew fights for the helm, blind to the art of navigation.
“We are governed not by wisdom, but by the sum of who we think we are.” – Plato.
And so we sail, a ship of fools, fooled by our own reflections, yet guided by the twist we all enacted.
“Ultimately, the entire universe... has to be understood as a single undivided whole.” – David Bohm.
painting: Hieronymous Bosch (1415-1615)
