NON-DUALITY Quotes

“Meta-ontological thought does not conceive the world as an aggregate of distinct existences that appear and disappear within a pre-existing space and time. On the contrary, space, time, and entities co-emerge within a dimensionless field that cannot be described through the categories of classical metaphysics. This field is neither a transcendent substance nor a cosmic substratum. It is the Co-Whole of spatiotemporal dimensions, which could simultaneously be called One-All, All-Nothing, or Infinite Zero. These three names do not describe different realities. They constitute different approaches to the same dimensionless condition. One-All indicates that multiplicity is not the fragmentation of an original unity but its uninterrupted mode of self-differentiation. All-Nothing indicates that this universality is never a completed object nor an absolute presence, but an open infinitude of possibilities that cannot be exhausted by any form. Infinite Zero indicates that this infinitude is not devoid of reality; on the contrary, it constitutes the creative matrix of all possible worlds. Within this dimensionless condition, the distinctions that organize ordinary human experience lose their primordial character. Birth is not an absolute beginning, nor is death an ultimate end. Both constitute local differentiations of a continuous cosmic Rhythm that neither begins nor is completed within linear time.

What we call “birth” is the formation of a particular form within the Co-Whole. What we call “death” is the transformation of that form into new relations and new rhythms. Neither one nor the other exhausts the reality of the entity, because the entity never coincides completely with the particular form through which it becomes perceptible. Therefore the born does not stand opposed to the unborn. The unborn is not a future possibility nor a preceding state. It is the uninterrupted co-presence of all those rhythms that have not yet crystallized into a particular form but already participate in the constitution of every form. Every birth carries the unborn within it, not as absence but as an unlimited horizon of possibilities. In the same way, the living does not stand opposed to the dead. Every entity co-carries all the tensions of the spatiotemporal Rhythm: those that human consciousness names birth and death, visibility and invisibility, past and future. These names do not describe separate realities; they constitute conceptual and linguistic cuts within the uninterrupted Co-Whole of the Infinite Zero. Spatiotemporal localization does not exhaust the ontological constitution of an entity. The fact that we experience ourselves as localized in a particular place and time does not imply that the totality of the relations that constitute us is limited to this biological experience. If identity is constituted by the Co-Whole of spatiotemporal relations, then every entity participates in a reality that exceeds its apparent localization.

Life and death are two local names that human consciousness gives to different phases of an uninterrupted transformation. What changes is the form, not the Rhythm that co-weaves it with the totality of other forms. Death is not the negation of life, just as life is not the negation of death. Both coexist as different densities of the same dimensionless becoming. The shift becomes even deeper when we examine the distinction between the visible, the unseen, and the invisible. The visible does not constitute the totality of reality but only that level of Rhythm that becomes perceptible within the specific capacities of human perception. The unseen is not that which temporarily lies outside our gaze. It is that which cannot appear as an object without altering its nature. The invisible, finally, does not constitute a second, secret world behind the sensible world. It designates the dimensionless condition from which every form of visibility becomes possible.”
― Alexis Karpouzos, NON-DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE

“In the cosmic dance of swirling lights,
Where stars are born and darkness fights,
The universe whispers secrets old,
In silver threads and dust of gold.

Galaxies twirl in elegant grace,
Each a part of the endless space,
Planets orbit in silent tunes,
Around their suns, like drifting balloons.

Mysteries hide in the blackest night,
Beyond the reach of human sight,
Yet we gaze up with hopeful eyes,
Dreaming of truths beyond the skies.

Infinite worlds, both big and small,
The universe holds them, one and all,
A canvas vast for us to explore,
Its beauty, a siren call to implore.
So let us journey through the stars,
Past the confines of our earthly bars,
For in the universe, we find our place,
A tiny speck, in its grand embrace.”
― Alexis Karpouzos, NON-DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE