Day 9 of 30 Days, 30 Posts - Inversion

Falling up and growing backwards. Upside down, inside out, and topsy-turvy. Why? Because the inverse is always true too. There must be this contrast and contradiction. The ability to discriminate self from other is what enables individuality to develop. The infinite finitizes itself, allowing creative self-reflection and feedback. The One Self becomes Not-Self, giving the appearance of many (or Self and Other).

"Today I stumbled upon something that no man has ever stumbled upon before. They'll write about me in history books for generations to come. And yet, moments ago, it was unfathomable not only to myself but to mankind as a whole. It's hard to describe but it was as easy as... how do I explain this, I said something that wasn't!" - The Invention of Lying

The original fallacy is this idea of separation. Yet, without this contrast, we wouldn't be able to differentiate up from down, in from out, self from other, or one experience from the next. When we are on the "Path of Return" to unity consciousness, these lines of division begin to blur as we enter the gray area of the Twilight Zone.

Looking at the words invent and invert, we can see they are clearly closely related. To invert something is to turn it into its opposite, or to reverse the direction. To invent something is to create something new, something that hasn't ever been before. Something from no-thing.

But to create something new is really to recombine elements of the old, the pre-existing, in a different way. This is constantly taking place with the birth of every new being. It's another way, another combination, of the One Self to be.

The majority of human beings identify themselves with the outer. They believe they live in a world that's outside of and removed from their inner one. This is a sort of extroversion, which might be represented by the inverted pentagram. But on the flip-side we have those rarer individuals that align internally, understanding that the outer world is a reflection of the inner state. This, too, is an inversion. But it's an inversion of the commonly-held belief that the world is separate from the individual.

The majority versus the select few. Another contrast. If "The Devil is God inverted", then God is also The Devil inverted. The pentagram is "upright" (as opposed to "down and wrong"). If we dive deep enough, we find that the other has a tendency to start taking on the traits of its alleged opposite. For instance: The notion of forward. Forward means to move toward the future, to pass something along, or to go toward the front. But when we take a look at its root, fore-, we see that it can denote just the opposite: Before, prior to, former.

When Spirit descends into manifestation, it initiates a process of condensing and clothing itself in matter. The further it descends into form, the slower its vibration becomes. So much so that the indwelling spark, so deeply buried in darkness of substance, completely forgets the nothingness and nowhere from whence it came. When it ascends again, or returns, just the opposite happens. The tiny spark ignites, intensifies, undresses, and begins to remember.

If Aries is the first sign of initiation and doing,
and Pisces is the last sign of undoing,
then Aries is also the sign of coming full circle to fulfillment.

Two movies with similar themes worth checking out are Upside Down (note the plot point of inverse matter) and Patema Inverted. It's recommended that you watch them back-to-back and pay attention to both its similarities and differences.

This concludes today's article for my 30 Days, 30 Posts challenge. Tomorrow's topic of discussion is Transparency. Yesterday's article was on Laundry.