CONCERNING BLACK HOLES
(From a journal by the writer Jeff Stafford)
I often wonder whether those so-called
Black Holes in space, to which astronomers often draw our attention these days,
are really collapsed stars, as is supposed, and not Spiritual Globes tending
towards ultimate unity in some transcendental Beyond. Would a collapsed star really leave a black
hole behind, I ask myself? And, despite
my respect for professional opinion, I remain sceptical. The Universe is undoubtedly a strange place,
but is it necessarily as strange as some authoritative people would have us
believe? I mean why, for instance,
should Multiple Universes come to supplant the old universe, which, in any
case, is probably the only one? I
cannot, as yet, find a satisfactory answer to this question, since there is no
clear evidence that Multiple Universes do in fact exist, even though some
people now talk of them.
4th May.
Yes, the thought grows on me that Black
Holes could well be Spiritual Globes rather than collapsed stars. After all, there is no reason (short of
ignorance) to assume that transcendent spirit, to which certain more advanced
life-forms could already have given rise, is necessarily bright and shiny, like
a star. If you associate God with the
Clear Light of the Void, then you might think so. But, to me, God ... as a condition of supreme being ... is essence rather than appearance, and
therefore not something that could be seen.
In fact, God isn't a 'something' at all, and so the term 'Clear Light of
the Void' seems to me inadequate for defining what would be a state of supreme being in a consummate mind.
5th May.
You cannot really see a Black Hole, even
through the most powerful telescope, but only a void that appears denser than
the surrounding void of space. Doubtless,
the Spiritual Globes tending towards one another in the transcendental Beyond
would be different from space - a presence of pure spirit in each globe that
might well suggest, to an inquisitive telescoped eye, a denser void than the
void surrounding it. After all, there
could be no greater antithesis than that between the stars, as the most primal
doing, and these hypothetical Spiritual Globes, as the ultimate being - except,
perhaps, the numerical antithesis between stars as multiple and, when all
Spiritual Globes have finally converged together into one ultimate Spiritual
Globe, the Omega Absolute as indivisible.
But that would be a quantitative difference, whereas the former is
qualitative, as between doing and being.
6th May.
Apparently the position of these Black
Holes in space is constantly changing, so that a kind of kaleidoscopic pattern
appears against the void to suggest to some astronomers and scientists the
possibility of Multiple Universes. Again,
my old scepticism leaps to the fore and I wonder whether a collapsed star would
really need to change its position in the aforementioned manner, thereby giving
rise to the analogy with a kaleidoscope?
But if a Black Hole was really a Spiritual Globe instead of a
collapsed star, then their constant changes of position would make more sense
to me, since it would be in the order of Spiritual Globes to converge towards
one another in an ever-growing process of drawing towards ultimate oneness in
the final Spiritual Globe of ... the Omega Absolute. Those constant changes of position in space
which Black Holes are alleged to undergo would thus signify the convergence of
pure spirit towards larger wholes, and would accordingly have nothing
whatsoever to do with the supposition of Multiple Universes, which is more than
likely an aspect of contemporary scientific subjectivity, in conformity with
the quasi-mystical requirements of the age.
7th May.
I wrote yesterday that a convergence of
transcendent spirit towards the objective of the Omega Absolute could already
be happening on the transcendental plane, and am no less convinced today that
this could actually be the case. After
all, there is no reason why a more advanced life-form than ourselves, elsewhere
in the Universe, shouldn't already have attained to transcendence, and so have
become Spiritual Globes. Such a life
form would have been at the superbeing stage of
evolution ... as new brains artificially supported and sustained in maximum
collectivization. Every planet on which
intelligent evolving life exists would sooner or later have to become populated
by Superbeings, if transcendence was to be
achieved. Life would have to pass
through the successive stages of post-human evolution throughout the Universe
... before Spiritual Globes became possible.
You cannot jump from the human level straight to the transcendental
Beyond, no matter what the traditional ignorance of fools or superstitious
people might suggest to the contrary!
Everything must await its proper time, and every life-sustaining planet pass through a post-human millennium ... before life can
gravitate to that ultimate peak.
8th May.
The transcendental Beyond is above and
beyond the human, superhuman, and superbeing stages
of evolution. The stars don't exist in
the transcendental Beyond but in space, which is
timeless and void. The stars are the
roots of evolution, so to speak, and thus, in comparison with the sun, even the
earth is a bit transcendent - a stalk on which the flower of humanity develops
and must continue to develop through successive post-human life forms, before
transcendence can be attained to in the bliss of pure spirit, which may well
appear like a Black Hole from Earth. For
a Black Hole is certainly antithetical to a white presence, or star, and
thereby suggestive of the furthest possible evolutionary remove from the
stellar roots of the Universe.
9th May.
Prior to me, humanity had no knowledge of
Spiritual Globes, not knowing anything much about Supermen or Superbeings either.
Consequently one cannot be surprised that astronomers should interpret
Black Holes as collapsed stars, since they do at least know something about
stars and would therefore be inclined to relate a Black Hole to them. But relating Black Holes to stars or, rather,
to collapsed stars doesn’t explain why such stars should leave a black hole
behind, nor why the hole so left must continue to change positions with other
such holes in a seemingly never-ending kaleidoscopic pattern! The lack of a transcendental perspective
doesn't help to explain what does exist, but, on the contrary, leaves certain
loose-ends and absurdities unaccounted for.
10th May.
What really happens when a star
collapses? Does it become matter, like
the moon, or does it fade into nothingness?
If the former, could one see it from millions of miles away, even with
the help of a giant telescope? If the
latter, why should nothingness be perceptible as a dense void, or Black
Hole? For me, the latter likelihood
takes precedence over the former one, though I cannot rule it out as an impossibility. A
star may collapse into a dense substance or it may explode into dust and
eventual nothingness. Either way, we're
unlikely to see it as a Black Hole. In
fact, we're unlikely to see it at all!
11th May.
But if a Black Hole really is a Spiritual
Globe, how long will it take before evolution runs its course and reaches an
eternal consummation in God, which is to say, the ultimate Spiritual
Globe? We cannot of course be certain,
though we can hazard a guess that it will take millions of years, bearing in
mind our own relative backwardness in regard to our pre-millennial status as
human beings. For there is no
possibility of the Omega Absolute coming to pass until every life-sustaining planet
throughout the Universe has delivered-up its quota of spirit to the
transcendental Beyond, and all such quotas have converged towards one another
to establish an ultimate unity - in complete contrast to the divergent nature
of the numerous stars. Evolution being a
journey, as it were, from the Alpha Absolutes (of the stars) to the Omega
Absolute (of the supreme level of being) via life-sustaining planets such as
the earth, there can be no question of God truly coming to pass in the Universe
before this ultimate unity has been achieved.
Only then will God be fully manifest - the quantitative and the
qualitative coming together in a synthesis which transcends all opposites, the
stars passing or having passed away ... to leave the void to the perfected
being, whose condition is eternal bliss. Perhaps that bliss will fill the ultimate
Black Hole?
