Ghost of Elvis wrote:
Does this relate to the idea that cold is finite, where heat is infinite?
Hell is contraction (cold), also limited; Heaven is expansion (heat), and without limits.
What that means is that "cold" doesn't exist save as a relative, but never absolute, absence of heat.
It's interesting what heat and cold actually are to the unconscious. Cold is contraction, but it is also order, structure and clarity. And heat is also passion, disorder, destruction. In zen, cold is often a metaphor of awakening - the cold air of the mountaintop, the man drinking water who knows in himself how cool it is. And in ordinary language, there is "crystalline clarity" and the "flames of passion". And then heat is flow and energy, while cold is stasis, but cold is also superconductivity, which is the lack of resistance to the flow of energy. And finally, expansion is also separation, and contraction is also synthesis. Pretty confusing shit. Just free associating here, don't know what it means. But gnosis has had an icy quality to it for me.
Also it seems like cooling and condensation has been on the bill for the gaian enterprise. The earth has gone from an extremely hot state of molten disorder to a much cooler state of much greater density and complexity and is now apparently sprouting some kind of low-temperature neurological circuit grid through its mammallian appendages.
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