John Dunn

It is not space and time that are infinite, but rather my mind

Sunday, 3 March 2024 at 21:47

I gather to myself time as a fabric of thought. I open a door to the Logos and experience time as presence. (Thus spake Eros)

It is not space and time that are infinite, but rather my mind

If space were to escape the limitations of my mind, it would rest fixed, in equilibrium, complete and undisturbed as the interminable oneness of Ananke’s realm. As a fixed and finite thing outside my mind space would be an abstraction, nothing, a fallen thought, a fallen angel.

It is not space that is infinite, but rather my mind. My mind is the home of cosmic space. There is not a space which contains my mind. My mind is infinite, whilst space is finite. Space is finite in my mind, without being a fixed finite thing. Space is only conceivable through my thinking.

My thinking does not set the limit, and then cease to think. My thinking is unfailingly absolute, the Beginning always, ever setting and at the same time never establishing the limit. Space, however vast is always within my mind. My mind is superior to it, and can look beyond its limits towards remoter limits. There is no space without limit, but there is no limit that is not negated by my mind. It is not space that is infinite, but rather my mind; and as with space, so the same applies to time. I dominate space and time

Before the Beginning, space and time reigned supreme. There Ananke lay alone in a state of undifferentiated Oneness and equilibrium. Her’s the endless repeating cycle, her’s the infinite cosmos.

"I am all that has been and is and shall be; and no mortal has ever lifted my garment."

Ananke lay alone, untouched, unpenetrated, undefiled… until violated by Eros. My mind is Eros. I am opposed to the infinite cosmos, unifying it in my mind. I dominate space and time, breaking through and thrusting beyond every limit. I subdue and triumph over the cosmos by withdrawing myself from its laws.

What I am thinking of is as it is thought and not otherwise. I cannot think of anything but the truth in distinction from its contrary the false. And the truth is the absolute, for it cannot be but what it is. Truth is not subject to the spatiality and temporality of natural things; it transcends them in my thinking about them. Truth is eternal, it is not born, it does not die. The eternity of truth implies the eternity of my thinking in which truth is revealed.

Truth is transcendent and so too is my mind. Revealing truth means revealing the eternal also, capax Dei, feeling that I participate in the eternal. My thinking is eternal truth. My mind is Eros, Love, the Logos.

© John Dunn.

Riding the lanes of Cambridgeshire’s chalk hills to medieval Duxford

Saturday, 2 March 2024 at 20:27

Published at 8pm Friday 1st March

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Riding the lanes of Cambridgeshire’s chalk hills to medieval Duxford

Hello and welcome, thanks for joining me on the ride today.

An excursion along the lanes of Cambridgeshire’s chalk hills to see two medieval treasures, with a nineteenth century windmill thrown in for good measure.

Great Chishill Windmill is not to be missed, an amazing example of rural engineering

A rare unrestored church in Duxford is explored, where not only architecture of the Middle Ages is discovered, but something too of the medieval mind.

Then on to the thirteenth century Duxford Chapel, a religious building, intimately connected to the history of an important road, now bypassed and hidden from most travellers who race by.

For now, I'm done.

© John Dunn.

Space and time are in me, the transcendental ego


Friday, 1 March 2024 at 19:32

The multiplicity returns to the One. All multiplicity returns to the light of the Logos from whence it came











Space and time are in me, the transcendental ego


My glance cast upon the world dictates the multiplicity of all things, the manifold of differences which are nevertheless held together as one in my living thinking. Were I to think of nature existing before me or independently of me, indeed beyond me in any way, I would be thinking of the eternal equilibrium, the realm of Ananke, where 1=0.



All my past too is compresent in my living thinking. True, I have my past, just as experiences and learning are remembered, but what I retain is what I experience now, and the intellect with which I now understand is not the one with which I formerly understood, because having once understood my intellect is enlarged.



Now, in my present thinking, when I bring to mind the past from my life, moments seared into my soul, now with a sad regret, now with a passionate yearning, now with joy and now with sorrow, I am not comparing two realities, one present one past. To do so would be to compare two abstractions apart from me, devoid of me. Rather, I am comparing experiences that are equally present in my thinking, equally present because all my past is compresent in the present thinking me.

In other words, space and time are in me. I am the eternal present on which all the rays of time converge and from which all radiate. I will not set time up before me as pure time without my mind. I am the reality on which all realities are centred and from which all realities radiate. I am not in space and time, but space and time are in me, the transcendental ego. Space and time do not exist apart from me in their pure and abstract diversity. They have a real multiplicity, but only in the life which my mind makes for them by realising in them its own unity.

© John Dunn.