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Laws Of Memory : Part 16 : Law Of Cycles
Tarun Pradhaan
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# Laws of Memory Part 16 Welcome to Pure Experiences. This is a series on Laws of Memory. We continue our journey with the next law. It is called the Law of Cycles. ## 13 Law of Cycles This law says that events are repetitive in nature. Phenomena repeat. There is a circularity in whatever is observed, or everything is cyclic. So we can observe around us to find if anything is cyclic or not, or to find something which is an exception to this law. You can use your direct observation, direct experience. So at the gross level, level of the world and objects, we can see some cycles. For example, simple cycles like day and night, seasons, years, rotation of sun, moon, and other bodies in the sky. We also see cycles of rain, snow, flood, drought, and rise and fall of tides in the ocean. In atmosphere, we can see cycles of oxygen, nitrogen, water, and so on. At the smaller scales, we see patterns of repetition and orbits of atoms and particles. They are going in cycles. Machines, clocks, they have cyclic parts in them. Then at the level of the body, we see a really big cycle: the cycle of death and birth. And there are cycles of pain, pleasure, sickness, health, activity, inactivity, waking state, sleepall these are seen in the body. The body goes through a cycle of 24 hours, which is synchronized with the sun. It is called circadian cycle. And for creatures that hunt in the night, there are cycles that are synchronized with the moon. There are many biological cycles: heartbeat, breathing, these are cyclic events. And probably you'll find more because body is a very complex mechanism. But these cycles are seen in growth and division of the cells, and death of the cells itself. And there is a cycle in DNA itself: the replication and protein synthesis and all, these are cyclic events. So we already see that most of our lives are cyclic. There are approximately 12-year cycles, phases in the life of a person. Now at the level of mind, psychological level, we have cycles of happiness, sadness, various other emotions. They come and go, they repeat in cycles. And amazing thing is, many of our habits are cyclic. They keep coming again and again in forms of tendencies. Our desires are cyclic, they keep repeating. Very common desires are desire to eat, and so on. Desires related to body, but they happen in the mind also. And for many people, their thoughts are cyclic. They keep repeating the same thoughts. Whatever is impressed in the memory plays back again and again and again. Some people are annoyed by this thing. They think it is a suffering of some kind. And yes, it is, because it is unwanted. At the spiritual level, we have cycles of reincarnation, rebirth. There are more cycles at the level of causal body, and there are karmic cycles. So the Law of Cycles is manifested on all the planes of existence, all the dimensions, all the layers of memory. Some cycles are big, some are small. The small cycles, like vibration of light, you cannot even see it, it is so fast. Vibration of soundsound is a cyclic event. And many more cyclic events, they are fast. But some are really big, like climate cycles where many times the whole earth freezes, then the ice melts and everything is flooded, then again lands emerge, life continues. And there are more cycles like cycles of rise and fall of civilizations, countries. They keep disappearing and other countries and other civilizations, other people, they reappear. They are really big cycles. And finally, there are cycles of formation of stars and deaths of stars. And we can assume that there are cycles where the whole universe is destroyed and then something again appears. There is a very wide range of cycles. It is seen everywhere, and they are seen in all sizes, all durations. And if you observe very carefully, you will see cycles within cycles, like a gear box, like a old clock. The full cycle of hour hand takes 60 cycles of minute hand, and then second hand goes even faster. So our measurement of time is good example of cycles within cycles. So we get a micro-climate cycle, a micro-weather cycle throughout the day: morning cold, afternoon hot, evening cold, and so on, which is corresponding to the yearly cycles of winter and summer, and in between times, which is corresponding to the bigger cycle of ice ages and desert ages and whatnot. So small cycles create big cycles, and these big cycles create even bigger cycles. You can break them down like this if you observe very carefully. So you will see a very good cycle within cycle: moon cycles the earth, earth cycles the sun, and the sun is cycling the center of the galaxy, and who knows what this galaxy is rotating around. So anyway, our direct observation shows cycles. What if you find something which is not cyclic? Either you can say it is an exception, or you can say that it is a part of a cycle which is beyond my perception. For example, an insect or a butterfly that lives for a few days, few months, will not know anything about the yearly cycles, annual phenomena. So if the cycle is very big, it is beyond our perception. It looks like it is linear. It goes in a straight line. And similarly, if the cycle is very small, very fast, it is beyond our perception. And either we see it as stationary, like an atom, molecule, or we don't even see it. Our senses do not capture it. What about random phenomena? Our senses also stop here. But mathematics continues. Mathematics can say that a random event is a cycle of zero time, almost zero. And reverse is also true, that random event is a cycle of infinity. It will repeat after infinite time. So whatever you like, you can take it. And yes, it is possible for us to find some exceptions, and you have the choice to reject it as non-cyclic, or assume it as a part of a bigger cycle, which is beyond our perception. So we can assume, we can imagine that what is the smallest cycle? And yes, it will be infinitely small, but never zero. And what is the largest cycle? It will be infinite. It goes on, and probably never repeats, it never completes. It is so big. ## Cyclic Vibration So all the abstractions and theory here. Now we can try to find a reason, cause of cycles. It is very easy. The model of vibrations says that vibration is cyclic. It goes up, then it goes down. It completes a circle. As we have seen in the study of different other lawsLaw of Polarity, Law of Impermanence, and so onthe vibration is a complete cycle. And then this cycle repeats as a vibrating pattern. And these repeating patterns, they form combinations and complex structures, fractal structures of vibrations. So in the heart of the structure or the bigger phenomena are microscopic cycles of the primordial change or the binary cycle, binary state change. So everything is made up of these tiny, non-physical, non-mental vibration cycles. And therefore, cycles are manifested in every event, everything that exists. Of course, it is an illusion, so cycles are also illusion. Time itself is an illusion. Time seems to run in cycles. Things seem to repeat, and this is because the events are repeating, events are cyclic. They go in a circle. So a good example of structures forming out of smaller cycles is sound, music. Sound is nothing but vibration of air. So different frequencies of vibration means different speeds of cycles. And if you take any sound, voice, or music, you will see that it is made up of repeating vibrations. Sounds repeat, and they combine. These cycles, they form the voice or the sound or the music. So the music that goes in cycles is called beats, and it is very pleasing. And if the song is also cyclic, it has some kind of rhythm, repetition, then it is piece of art. Another good example is a PC, where the electronic circuits are operating in cycles: voltages that go positive, negative, millions or trillions of times per second. The final output is various kinds of events or appearances on the screen: pictures, documents, sounds, music, movies, so on. Same way, human brain is operating on cyclic electrical pulses that can be measured easily. And not only brain, the whole body operates on electrical pulses, some or the other kinds. And so, you will find many examples of vibrating patterns underlying most of the phenomena. If we assume that everything is made up of vibrations, patterns in the memory, then yes, everything is by default cyclic. Sometimes the structures go so complicated and so big that you cannot detect the cycle, it is too big. It appears as a straight line, just like a very big curve looks like flat, straight line in a small area, small section. And even the tiniest of phenomena which can be detected are cyclic, because obviously, everything appears as a memory pattern that is vibrational, and vibrations are cycles. Using this model, we can safely say that everything is cycles, and therefore, it is a law. This cannot be broken. Yes, different other models of illusion will produce different results. So you can see that if you take the Law of Cycles as the truth, relative truth, and there are no random phenomena, and there is no linear time. There is no linear history and linear future. It all cycles back, repeats. And there is no end, because cycles do not end. There is no actual time. So this makes the illusion somewhat predictable, but very interesting, because it gives us an illusion that we can know something. For example, we saw the cycles of day and night. We can predict that there will be more days and nights, more seasons and more years. Cycles give us an illusion that we know something, which is very good. So we saw that the Law of Polarity says that in the nature of the events or phenomena, they change and they become opposite. And the Law of Cycles adds to it that not only the events change from positive to negative, they again change into positive and then again change into negative. So it repeats endlessly, there is no end of switching of polarities. This is how the vibration goes, and the same vibration is seen in all the levels of manifestation, right from tiniest vibration, fundamental vibration, to the whole existence. The whole existence is nothing but a cycle. So we can safely assume that everything gets destroyed periodically. These periods are very big, beyond human understanding. And everything gets recreated, reassembles. Complex forms, they appear again and again and again, and the same thing is seen at lower levels, even at the faster levels. So how many kinds of cycles can be there? And the answer is infinite. How many durations or frequencies of cycles can be there? Infinite. How many phenomena can we have that are cyclic? And the answer is infinite. It is very rich. ## Prediction Another question is, some cycles can be predicted, just like we found in the case of days and nights. Can we predict some other cycles? For example, the rise and fall of countries, or changes of economies, financial markets, stock markets, because these look like they are cyclic, sometimes they look like they are random. Or can we predict what will happen in my next birth? What will happen after 1 million years in my life? Because the cycle means that there is no real death. Law of Cycles ensures that you don't completely die. And that is probably positive thing for some people and not so positive for many people. But there will be some kind of cycle of life and death, it predicts. So, can we know all these things? And the answer is yes and no. And many people know in information theory and computation, the more information we have, the easier it is to predict what will happen. Some phenomena are very simple, so tiny bit of information is enough to predict something. But those events that are cyclic, but they are made up of very complex patterns of cycles, you can assume a very complicated machinery made up of millions of gears of different sizes going in at different speeds, some are going in reverse also, some are forward, it becomes almost impossible to get the final outcome or a state of that machine after, let us say, 1,000 cycles or million cycles of a specific kind. But if you can plot or measure the speed and diameter and some more information of every gear in the machine, even though it has thousands and millions of gears, a good enough computer can calculate any state of that machine. Suppose that machine is playing a piano, any good computer, given all those that information, measurements, can reproduce the symphony or whatever the tune that is being played. If that machine is playing, let us say, a drama of puppets, mechanical puppets, yes, good enough calculation with extremely precise measurements of that machine will give us some idea of what will happen in that drama in few minutes or few hours. So theoretically, it is possible. But the more complex the event is, more information is needed and we need more computation, more intelligence. Computation here you can take it as equal to intelligence. We need more information and more intelligence to predict. Simple things, obviously we can predict. Complicated things, we can estimate using probability. That is not prediction, but is good enough. We have 80% chance of rain. Because rain is a very complex cyclic phenomenon, but if you accumulate a lot of information of the parameters of atmosphere, you can say something about rain, what will happen in that specific part of the land. So if you collect a lot of information in the body, you can predict what will happen to that body, if there are any diseases, chances of diseases, whatever, it's possible. At least you can get a probability, if not exact number. Same way, if you build a machine which has very high intelligence, such as an AI, and feed it the stock market data, it will predict something which is better than humans. Probably people are doing it, we don't know. Same in the gambling and so on. The amount of information these things will take will be huge. Same way, if you want to predict tiny events, it will take more information. And coming back to our question, which is interesting for us: what will happen in my life, future prediction, isn't it, astrology? What will happen after 1,000 births? And you will need enormous amount of data to even calculate the probability correctly. And for a human being, it is very safe to say they are unpredictable. They are not deterministic. Although the Law of Cycles says you can predict, give me more information, I'll tell you. More information, more fidelity, more accuracy. But it will require more computation, more intelligence. And there is another limit to what can be predicted, that is time itself, because it will take some time to run that calculation. And if the events are complexcycles within cycles within cycles, 1,000 timesthen probably the machine itself will take more time to calculate than the duration of the event. That means the rain will start falling before the computer predicts chances of rain. So it will take a million years to tell what will happen in next 100 years, and that is worthless. There are limits to what can be predicted, how much information can we process. And there is one more limit: that if you want to predict something using Law of Cycles, it takes energy. It will take almost too much power to run that computer computation. So energy is also a limit. And those who are in computer science and machine intelligence field, they know there are some very fundamental limits. Still, you can bypass some of them. You can use some tricks. You can use one law to overcome the other law, like we say in occult. So if you use quantum physics and so on, you can do those computations quickly. Anyway, this is getting too much technical. We come back to human-centric, because that's what we want, we are selfish. Humans have a very small intelligence, although it is remarkable. There is nothing more intelligent than human brain in known universe. So it takes very less amount of energy, it takes a decent amount of time, but it can predict things. For example, you can easily say that if I throw water, it will go downstream. That much prediction, that much we know. If you throw a stone in the air, better run away because it's going to fall on your head. And many things that help in our survival. If I see honeybees, yes, predict that after few steps, few meters, I'll get honey. If you see a wild animal, violent animal, the brain or the mind can predict something bad can happen and we run away. If you see your friend after a long time, you can predict that he needs money or something else. So humans have adapted their intelligence to survive, not to predict everything accurately, not to see all the cycles precisely. Human beings are very limited. They are evolved, they have adapted to see exactly those cycles that are necessary for survival. We are good at that, but we are very bad about anything else at all. We cannot predict it, cannot even think about it. There is no knowledge, and there is no possibility of knowledge of cycles. So so many limits, and therefore, the Law of Cycles is enigmatic. Things show up sometimes. We don't know why they happen, but we get an intuition that there is a reason for this, and that is called synchronicity. There are people in spiritual circles and occult people, and ordinary people call them crazy, but they are not crazy. They have a bigger intuition. They have some spiritual power to see what can happen and why something has happened. Exactly. If not exactly, somewhat, approximately. So humans are limited, but there can be more complex structures, creatures, minds that are more capable, that can process more information, and that can predict better. ## Rising Above Cycles And yes, humans have an agency. So we can interrupt some cycles, and we can start some cycles. Both interruption and starting of cycles takes power. So only powerful people can do that. So that gives us a clue how to rise above this Law of Cycles. And obviously, you cannot stop the law from operating, but you can use this law if you want some kind of advantage. So like I said, it takes a lot of intelligence, power, and energy to not only predict, but to also change the cycles. It is possible to change them, fortunately. And the key to that intelligence and power is spiritual evolution. There is nothing in existence that will limit your intelligence, your power, your capability. There are no such rules. But human form is limited. So if you want to do all these thingspredict the future, start the cycle, stop the cycle, and so on, change the cyclesthe only way is to drop the limitation of human beings. You must evolve above human level. Those who are dreaming of achieving some kind of powers or something, or those who think that simply listening to this series will give them something, they are delusional. You need to grow up. You need to progress, evolve. Only then it is possible to take advantage of all these laws. So that sounds discouraging, but this is the bitter truth. And while we are in the human form, while we are still evolving, trying to evolve, we can still use the Law of Cycles. Knowledge is a beginning. Know that there are cycles. At least we'll come to know that things repeat. If I do this, yes, there is a possibility that it will repeat. Should I do this? Think about it. For example, you take up a job. Now the same lifestyle will repeat. Every day you go there, do the same thing, approximately same things, and the cycle repeats. You started the cycle. But yes, you can end it. Same way, if you settle in a married life, you will see that your life has become cyclic. It is like run-of-a-mill, literally. And if you do some spiritual practice, the practice will repeat again and again. This is true at the level of body also, that sometimes a person becomes addicted to something. Did something, it produced reward in the mind, in the nervous system. Now the nervous system wants it again. The person says, "I want this," and the cycle repeats. This is not a virtuous cycle, it is addiction that will come up again and again. So as a human being, you have a little bit of power to start or stop something. I gave you some examples. Do you want to start those cycles or not? You can decide. If you start, let us say, spiritual practice, yes, it will continue as a cycle. But this is a positive cycle. It will cause evolution, it will cause progress. Same for many other things that we do in our lives. It is psychological many times. You lie once, then it becomes a cycle of lies and deceptions. To hide one lie, you need to tell 10 more lies. It is a cycle many people can see. So this much knowledge will save you from the trap of cycles, especially those that we don't want, that you don't want. But it is not possible to destroy the Law of Cycles. So choose correctly. Choose your cycles correctly. Now on the matter of prediction, yes, it will require growing up beyond human to probably something really big, a structure in the memory that is really powerful, and then it becomes possible to predict complex events. But by then, you won't remain a human, and then you will lose interest in predicting anything which is concerning survival or human activities. We don't know how advanced these structures are, what are they predicting, what are their doings. It's beyond human capability. It is like an ant trying to understand what humans do. What do they think? What do they say? The ant cannot possibly predict even 1%. The cycles in the life of ant are very small, very simple. So same way, human being cannot predict what the advanced beings do. So how advanced can you go? And the answer is again, infinite. There is no limit to evolution. Evolution is infinite. It is a play. The error that happens is, human beings think that I can become powerful, and I can know something or I can do something which is useful for a human. It is possible, yes, but it is not intelligent. It is not wise to do anything with all these powers, including the power over cycles. That is why nobody disturbs any cycle. Nobody starts anything, nobody stops anything. They simply rise above. That is the meaning of rising above, that you don't cause a mess in the machinery of existence that is operating perfectly. It is perfect as it is. All you can do is you can climb the ladder of machinery, become a bigger machinery or part of a bigger system. That is possible. The only way is to evolve, to progress spiritually. There is no other way. There are some practical things you can do, tips. By identifying some cycles and all, you can predict a little bit. You can also predict what will happen to other people, and you can either go close to them or you can create a distance from them. Sometimes that is intelligent. You see some destructive cycles in somebody. If you don't want the Law of Interconnectedness to affect you, because you will get caught in those cycles, you must distance yourself. Break the connections as much as possible. So those who are very sensitive, very intelligent, have higher kind of intelligence than ordinary people, they can see some cycles and they operate almost magically. So we'll continue our discussion on other laws of memory. Thank you for listening to Pure Experiences. --- This article is a formatted transcript of a video in the series of videos on my YouTube channel **Pure Experiences**. Laws of Memory Video Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKBCXU2oaNU