THE THEORY OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE

The THEORY OF ETERNAL RECURRENCE is based on the LAW OF REPETITION, which means, basically, that everything tends to repeat itself unless acted upon an outside force. This simple description,however, needs much more elaboration than can be given here at the moment. Any action or event will continue to exist in an infinite universe and this means that INFINITY has to existence and that everything has to exist in ETERNITY. However, because something might exist infinitely does not mean that such existence is ABSOLUTE. The ABSOLUTE is another matter, another topic. The notion of TIME is generally thought of as linear, going from PAST to PRESENT to FUTURE and our general notions of Time may well appear confused and erroneous. As an example of all the foregoing, the old adage of 'YOU CANNOT STEP INTO THE SAME STREAM TWICE' implies an everchanging world or state of affairs or existence. The origins of the Stream and Yourself, the STEPPER are seldom considered and a number of other aspects ignored(such as the temperature of the water you step in and the depth,etc.) or considered irrelevant. However, the river or stream, brook or rill, lake or pond, into which one might step does not vanish nor does the stepper and so you could repeat stepping into the stream as long as the stream and yourself exist. This is often ignored. But an eternal existence of yourself and the stream cannot be assumed by the ordinary mind. While the perception that you cannot step into the same stream twice persists, the fact is that all actions by both the stream and the stepper have changed the Phenomena, that is, the Observer alters the state,the scene, the process,etc. or the experiment. Whether this particular consideration or 'scientific' notion is of any help to 'observers' remains to be seen. To better understand that everything repeats itself, we need only hold up a mirror to ourselves and focus it in such a way that it relfects our image as shown in another or several mirrors and we will see an infinite number of self-images,endlessly repeated as long as we hold the mirrors properly. This 'amusement' if we 'reflect' upon it, should enable us to get a glimpse of many possibilities and serve to stimulate us into going further in our studies,all of which involve various 'DIMENSIONS' of SPACE & TIME' which seem obscure to us now in our present state of awareness.