Yeshua, may he rest in peace, is happy to be remembered. Elohim is happy to have been involved with creating the one who birthed this blog and is so enchanted with the interconnections between spirtuality and science.

The quotes you unearth are always the icing on the delicious cake of each new posting.

Namaste,
Sistah D

Your idea that Hermes Trismegistos’ saying “As above, so below” suggests the gradient-reduced state is already there inspires new ideas in me about analogies between mysticism and NET, spirituality and science: In Kabbalah, our physical ‘lower world’ is thought to be a reflection of the spiritual ‘upper world’. In Mahayana Buddhism, the Dharmadatu state, in which Buddha nature is realized, is thought to be ever-present (as Tath?gatagarbha—the ‘womb of Buddhahood’ within).

“As above, so below” also strikes me as a poetic hint to physicists seeking to reconcile general relativity (‘above’) and quantum mechanics (‘below’). Perhaps the Emerald Tablets’ intuition was correct, and there truly are unifying physical laws not yet discovered.

Regarding the correction you suggested—I’ll be writing a revised blog after typing this comment reply and posting it ASAP, with great appreciation for your contribution. Thank you again!

And didn’t Jesus something like “The high will be made low and the low high; the first shall be last and the last first”? And don’t forget Hermes Trismegistos, the Emerald Tablets, “As above, so below”–although that suggests the “gradient-reduced” state is already there!

I’m not sure that I would say when “NET proposes that when gradients appear, life evolves to reduce them. Perhaps life on Earth evolved to reduce the temperature gradient between the hot sun and cold space” Life has probably evolved to reduce the solar gradient, but other systems–Benard cells, BZ reactions (see my Amazon site), tornados–spontaneously arise to reduce other gradients. Not just life. Also I don’t believe it’s technically a temperature gradient that life is reducing so much as an electromagnetic (quantum packet) gradient between the quality energy of the sun and the low quality energy of background space; life also does measurably reduce the temperature gradient but it has bigger fish to fry.
In other words, reducing the temperature gradient (which rain forest ecosystems are best at) is secondary and more a sign of life reducing the gradient between the high quality energy of the sun and low energy outer space.

My Amazon Blog is here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/A1MWAQCQ1G3CL3/ref=cm_blog_dp_artist_blog

Thanks again,