The Great Conjunction & 2021

[Cagliostro_the_Impossible]

I wish all of you good cheer as 2020 comes to a close. This, the year where most have "gone to the mountains" as Zarathustra would agree, and it's not at all clear when to race back down again.
Lot 49 (pg. 14):
"The ordered swirl of the houses and streets, from this high angle, sprang at her now with the same unexpected, astonishing clarity as the circuit card had. Though she knew even less about radios than about Southern Californians, there were to both outward patterns a hieroglyphic sense of concealed meaning, of an intent to communicate."
I've been stuck on Transistors lately. Inevitably, they become ICs (Integrated Circuits), but the idea per se. As saith in the holy texts of Electronic Instrumentation ( curiously highlighted in the passage I'm referencing) "...the transistor is a control device in which a small change in base voltage can produce a relatively large change in the collector current."
It seems important given that a vast collective unconsciousness has been, and is now continuously in the process of a mass upload into an inorganic alien machine, to recognize the most basic components, witch contains the core intellectual functioning of the human race, as an empty vessel hurtles itself through the harsh vacuum of space, for centuries if it must, towards the closest earth-like planet. It seems dependent upon the equilibrium concentrations of electrons and holes on either Silicon or Germanium. These concentrations are heavily influenced by environmental thermal and/or optical processes.
It must have an intrinsic beauty to it. The Victorian elegance of Maxwell's equations. The conservation laws, in a dc circuit (or rectification using those lovely little diodes) where Kirchhoff (not Kerkhoff, the secret key guy, both of whom a dangerously intoxicated undergraduate self would confuse), and modern solid state physics i.e. Quantum Theory; a future is constructed right before our eyes...
Fiat lux, right? Er, wait.. no, Let there be life... and from whence did the organic spring from the inorganic... At the Mountains of Madness! One of the most brilliant coups, the Faustian Miller-Urey experiment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller%E2%80%93Urey_experiment), taking a mixture of what was thought to be the elemental composition of the earth, i.e. hydrogen, water, ammonia, and methane...adding heat & electrical current & time ... to produce organic proteins... bio-molecules: lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, and nucleotides...
To the transcendental... The ghost escapes into an ancient hermetic tradition. Seemingly random, though esoterically significant, arrangement... the subtle metaphysics of the soul... mostly symbolic, and immortal explorers of the realm... the yogis of the Upanishads... and the ancient alchemists... lost somewhere in the tarot or wheel of the zodiac... the wheel of Dharma, the Buddha siting poised 'neath the Bodhi tree as the ghoul Mara seeks his attention ... to find a union of soul & body or Mind & Matter, somewhere...anywhere in The Greek mysterion...Heraclitus, Pythagoras, and his acolyte Plato...
That will of Empedocles to jump into the volcano, knowing that he will be reborn as a God...
Wisdom from GR (pg.315):
"Proud man," said the Nguarorerue. "What are these data, if not direct revelation? Where have they come from, if not from the Rocket which is to be? How do you presume to compare a number you have only derived on paper with a number that is the Rocket's own? Avoid pride, and design to some compromise value."

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