John Dunn

New YouTube video To the lowest land point in the UK: Below sea level in the Cambridgeshire Fens

Wednesday, 20 December 2023 at 21:26

New YouTube video

To the lowest land point in the UK: Below sea level in the Cambridgeshire Fens

To see and hear, please click here

I continue my pursuit of the historical, quirky and unusual features of the English countryside in the Fenlands of the eastern England. In doingso I reach lows in my motorcycling experience. Passing through the village of Holme, I ride into the Holme Fen Nature Reserve and largest silver birch forest of lowland England There I visit the Holme Posts at the lowest land point in the UK, before riding along the lowest classified road in the UK.

The Fens are the naturally marshy region of eastern England, drained centuries ago, resulting in a flat, low-lying agricultural region supported by a system of drainage channels, man-made rivers and water pumping stations.

The Fens have an atmosphere all of their own which I find fascinating.One place in the Fens has been on my list to visit, and, well, that’s where I’m heading now. The place is Holme Fen, the lowest point on the map in the UK.

If you enjoy the ride please like, subscribe, perhaps even share, I’ll then let you know when I’m next out and about. For now I’m done.Motorcycle Honda CB500F

© John Dunn.

The seekers of truth ask Eros

Tuesday, 19 December 2023 at 23:04

The seekers of truth ask Eros

Thus spake Eros:

You ask: how can I know such things? How can I know the fate of those who have not encountered Love?

Understand, you seekers of the truth, that the Beginning is a constant, now, in active thinking, and the cosmic Beginning can only ever be a metaphor for man’s own Beginning. Once understood in this way, a personal narrative could almost already be written. There was nothing before the Beginning, a nothing that equated to an infinite, interminable oneness. That was the fallen state into which I was born. I was not the first, the Devil beat me to it, as did the Devil’s children, who want to drag everyone down with them. They succeed with most, but not all. Satan tempted Christ to his realm, where power might be exerted over a temporal world; you know,stones into bread, defying gravity, ruling over nations. Christ’s rejection of Satan was an assertion of the point I made above, that there’s nothing outside my living thinking, that is, nothing but death.

The good news at a personal level, to be taken from the cosmic narrative, is that death precedes life. But this needs a chronology to work as a metaphorical narrative which is not sustainable, because the Beginning is now and it is always, or it is nothing. The interminable equilibrium must be violated at every moment for being to be. No chronology means Beginning, always. There is nothing before or after the beginning.

The beginning is a constant, now, in my living thinking. There is nothing outside my thinking, that is, nothing but death; believe me, I have been there. It is a world where thoughts are reflected back as entities in their own right, with magical existences in their own right, a world where the abstract takes on the appearance of the concrete, where living thinking is objectified as dead matter. I was once there, before the Beginning, before my encounter with Love, where there is unity, one nothing. I believed that I could pick and choose my way through the seemingly ready-made material options laid out before me, but the options were illusory. Yes, I was there, thrown into the reflected worldat birth, a fallen state, but I knew no other. I return there still in my moments of death.

That is how I know the fate of those who have not encountered Love?

© John Dunn.

Eros answers the seekers of truth

Sunday, 17 December 2023 at 14:05

Eros answers the seekers of truth

You ask: if true will is the divine gift of Love, what about those who are condemned to a life devoid of Love, who have never encountered Love, who have never passed through the fire of passion? What of those who reject Love, who crucify Love?

Before I answer this question, you must first accept that Before and after the Beginning there is nothing. The beginning is a constant, now, in active thinking; it is life. All outside active thinking is no-thing; it is death. What is outside of active thinking? A reflected world, where the products of active thinking are reflected back as entities in their own right, as though with existences in their own right, divorced from the Logos; it is a world where the abstract takes on the appearance of the concrete, where living thinking is objectified as dead matter.



To fall outside is to fall into the One, the indiscriminate Oneness, the realm of Ananke. Satan fell to the outside and occupied the objective. To fall into abstraction is to fall to nothing, and nothing is death. Adam and Eve followed Satan to the outside and death, and we too are born fallen to face death. Satan tempted Adam through Eve into knowledge, which is knowledge of an objectivised world, in which both were condemned to exist. They were condemned to a ‘choosing will’ that originates in thought reflected back as material ‘reality’, that believes it can pick and choose its way through the seemingly ready-made material options laid out before it. Adam and Eve objectivised each other and were ashamed of what they wanted, but it never stopped them wanting. Satan tempted Jesus to come over to the objectivised world, where power might be exerted over a temporal realm. The rejection of Satan is the rejection of death and an acceptance of the Beginning, always, an acceptance of Love.

My answer to your question is this: he who has not encountered Love, or who rejects and crucifies Love, is condemned to a ‘choosing will’.

© John Dunn.

Fallen angel: abstraction, no-thing, no-being, death



Sunday, 17 December 2023 at 13:58

Fallen angel: abstraction, no-thing, no-being, death



All in all, when that all is reduced to its absolute limit of reduction, i.e. the reduction of the religionists, the supposed nought (0) before the supposed one-off beginning, or the supposed nought (0) before the so-called big bang, then we are dealing with a nought (0) that is one and all. 0 = 1.



The concrete actuality of anything can only exist now, in Creation, in the Beginning , always. To believe in a self-sustaining oneness of nothing that preceded a Beginning before all our Beginnings, that has nothing to do with our participation, is to believe in an abstraction, a no-thing, a no-being, death.

The darkness of nothing, i.e. death, as preserved by the Prince of Darkness and his followers, is uncovered for what it is - a death cult. The fall away from active thinking is the lot of the fallen angel, the Devil and the Devil’s children who live amongst us. Adam and Eve were tempted to fall too, with the result that we are all born fallen.



What are all these falling metaphors driving at? The answer is that to exist outside of the constant, active, creative, Beginning, is to be subsumed into the one, the interminable equilibrium of Ananke that comes before the Beginning, the state of objectified ‘reality’, the ready-made nature into which we are seemingly dropped.



The saving grace is that this state of subsumption, this death, comes before the awakening. The cosmic Beginning is the metaphor for man’s own Beginning, and that Beginning is always, for ever and ever.

© John Dunn.

Love and the divine implications

Friday, 15 December 2023 at 21:35

Erotic love on the walls of Konark Sun Temple, disrupting the equilibrium

Love and the divine implications



What existed before the Beginning, or if you are of the religion of science,what existed before the Big Bang? Well, there was nothing, no thing, no being. This is hard to imagine, to say the very least. I have tried my best to ‘picture’ it by mythologising it. I resort to personification, calling this state of nothingness Ananke, goddess of determinateness and fate, goddess of the interminable, infinite, and uninterrupted equilibrium. Nothing, so my mythology tells, is the realm of Ananke, the realm of oneness. For the Beginning to happen there must be a penetration of the oneness, a violation of Ananke.

It is in the intervention that the mystery lies, because it exists beyond the oneness. What is that mystery, the Originatory Principle as I have termed it, that which will not be explained, that which will not be objectified? The mystery is Love, but to fully understand, hold on to the idea that all origin stories are metaphors for the individual experience

There was not, or is not, a before, a beginning and an afterwards, there is only a now. All past and all future is in the present. The Beginning is always, the Creation a constant. A corrected translation of John 1 serves to emphasise the point. Using another of my Word options, John’s Gospel begins: In the beginning is living thinking, and living thinking is with God, and living thinking is God.

The implications of this constant Creation for those who reject the dead, reflected thought of an illusory, presupposed ‘reality’, turning instead to the living thinking by which the light of the Logos shines upon the Earth, are thus hugely divine. The living God did not walk amongst us in the distant past, he walks. He is within the ones who live in a concrete rather than an illusory reality. He dwelleth in the ones for whom the Beginning is always.

Again, hold on to the idea that all origin stories are metaphors for the individual experience. What is the mystery, the Originatory Principle as I have termed it, that which intervenes in the oneness? The mystery is Love.

He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.’ (1 John 4:16)

© John Dunn.

The Beginning is always or it is nothing

Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 18:01

The Beginning is always or it is nothing

Correcting the mistranslated Bible

If there is an imminence possible with the Logos, and I have stated repeatedly that it is possible in the realm of living, active and non-objectifying thought, then where will the Logos be found?



A Logos that finds me, or to which I return, is out of the question, as that would involve a presupposed existence that is tantamount to idolatry; it would objectify the the idea of the Logos, making of it an abstraction, a non-entity. The Logos can only be living thinking, the Creation always, the Beginning always, Love. It is always present, never past. The mistranslation in the Bible must be amended to make this clear.


In the beginning was the Word should read In the Beginning is the Word. As discussed above, the Word, in the context of John 1:1, is universally understood to mean the Logos, which is a concept of the intellect meaning the Truth, a concept dependent upon the thinking Mind.

If the Logos is coterminous with Mind, then Mind is God and God is Love. This means that any one of Logos, Mind, God or Love, would be better in the correct translation than Word. I choose one of these in my preferred translation: In the Beginning is Love, and Love is with God, and Love is God.

The Logos, the living God, as the living thinking of Mind, dwells in rather than amongst us. There is agreement with this elsewhere in the Bible: God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16)


To understand the Beginning as a Big Bang, one-off, event is to objectify the Logos making of it an abstraction, a non-entity. This is exactly what the mistranslation of the Bible does; it crucifies God. Where then is the Beginning, and how can it be discovered without objectifying it and thereby idolising an abstraction?



The answer to this is that the Beginning is always or it is nothing. The Beginning is living thinking, not dead thought. Here we come to the Originatory Principle for which there is no explanation. Here we come to the mystery. That which will not be objectified or rationalised into abstraction is Love. Immanence with the Logos is to be found in Love.

© John Dunn.

Before and after the Beginning

Wednesday, 13 December 2023 at 20:22

Before and after the Beginning



The thinking subject’s divine potential has its moment in the original connectivity with the Logos. However, this moment is not the thinking subject’s reality, who loses this moment. The thinking subject thus loses the possibility of an essential reality, since it believes that thought relates to objects or phenomena outside itself, and not to its own shaping power. Thought fails to see within itself the relation with the Logos that is immediate to it. It transfers this relation outside of itself. We not do the same to the Logos, i.e. to the Originatory Principle itself, and the resultant externalisation and deification of God is the act of idolatry that I have discussed repeatedly.

The departure from the possibility of an essential reality is that which is expressed through the metaphor of the Fall, which separates man from God. Loss of connectivity to the Logos, loss of God, loss of Love, is the Fall. Fallen thought relates to objects or phenomena outside itself,and not to its own shaping power. Thought which is one with the Logos at its inception falls away from the Logos, as a falling angel. Dead thought.

The fallen world is the world before the Beginning, Ananke’s realm. The indispensable condition of understanding life after the Beginning is that the object must not be detached from the subject and posited in itself, independent, as though it could self-project its own existence. An object which appears to have its own self-projecting existence can only be presupposed abstractly in a way which renders it dead. It is the separation of the Logos from the thinking subject that results in the objectivising that I have described repeatedly elsewhere as idolatry.



Connectivity,or immanence with the Logos is an attempted metaphorical expression of living thinking. The Logos is living thinking, but there is no thought dead or alive without mind. Johann Angelus Silesius, 17th century priest poet knew this and attempted to express the coterminology as follows:



“I know that without me no God can live; were I brought to naught, he would of necessity have to give up the ghost.”

© John Dunn.