Chapter 12: A Dark Energy Self-Portrait

Stillness is compelling me to think, to write, to question, to speculate, to dare, to dream, to wonder, to ask, to know.

From my own inertia, inertons, entropy comes a particular anxiety and quest for answers.

Questions emerge that I cannot reach...

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Is the Shroud of Turin a dark energy self-portrait of Jesus Christ?

Is it our first visible image of dark energy, the cosmological constant?

Does the three dimensional holographic information found on the photographs of the figure on the Shroud make it a tangible example of isotropy and homogeneity (meaning it looks the same and has uniformity from all directions and in every location)?

Does the image of the Shroud beg us to find new ways to image the cosmos?

Could an image of Shroud face be hidden in a map of the stars, galaxies,constellations?

Just as dots appear to be subatomically sprayed onto surface of the Shroud cloth, are stars too sprayed into space to formulate an image with the same holographic info as the Shroud? If we take the grandest look at the stars can we see this subatomic particle spray that forms the image?

Is there some alignment inherent in astronomical information that is already mapped and could lead us to the image of the Shroud, possibly inside some cluster of stars?

Is the linen cloth of the Shroud akin to an existing veil of stars in our galaxy, billowing and in flux like the Northern Lights?

The space that holds and binds the stars, dark energy, the stillness that contains all, dark matter... does any of it form an image if we use positive space to read the negative space?

Are the stars and what is in between the stars really our “road map for the soul”?

Is the path of questioning an expression of dark matter?

Does the darkness form the image—in the same way that we get a positive image from the photographic negative of the Shroud?

Are all physical bodies vessels and inward expressions of stillness and dark matter?

Is a blast of insight an event horizon?

Is the secret me the secret you and the secret everyone? Are we all one subatomic particle?
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The more still my body is
the more my mind awakens and expands

I am fluid and in flux
I keep trying to impose a static state of this or that
when it's all undulating beyond my control
The aliveness is in the flux and flow

The mind opens and expands in bursts
then quiets and rests

The survival instinct is there
so we can keep asking and exploring
Our desire and instinct to stay alive
is the fundamental question we yearn to answer

Alive = flow and flux
Dead = still
Alive = still
Dead = flow and flux

Being = dark energy
Thought = the Singularity
Being = the Singularity
Thought = dark energy

Answers pin us down
Questions keep us moving