Process - Part 2

“The rebirth of things in Process is stormy, violent, and mindless.  Creating passion is not logical or reasonable or conventional.  It is capricious, and random, and accidental, and governed not at all unless Chance be the Governor.  Reason and logic come only late in time as passions cool and maturation begins (and human consciousness attempts to make sense of it all).  But even then, logic teeters precariously on the edge of passion’s mysteries.”

May I stop you there?

Of course.

Why “rebirth?  Why not just, ‘The birth of things?’

“Birth” seems too singular an event.  From this continuous Process, things emerge and disappear only to be recreated in another form in another place and time – cosmic recycling on a billion-year scale.

 So the cosmic cocktail is shaken and left to coalesce into meaningful forms if conditions allow?

That’s how I see it – a collection of energy and elements adhering to fundamental laws over millennia and eventually taking form.  Shall I proceed?

Please do. 

“Process needs its wild, flamboyant, sensual, and erotic stage.  It needs it over and over again, for creation never ceases, and Eros too is love:  without it there would be no birth at all.

“As stage gives way to stage, the time for stabilizing and organizing and systematizing arrives.  So that stage arrived within one miniscule expression of Process, set inconspicuously in the vastness of its greater Self.

“First, that which is called 'earth,' and later that which is called 'water,' emerged as new expressions of Process in this place.  There was 'light' to stimulate new possibilities:  earth, water, and light, the local trinity from which everything on Earth emerged and upon which the continuing novelties of Process depend.

“And Process moved more deliberately…more slowly but still at random:  one huge, unconscious experiment with interrelationships and interdependencies, active in the trinity of earth, water, and light until simplicities gathered to form marvelous complexities while keeping their own identities intact…a joining in which the individual was improved in the company of other individuals and not erased by such associations.  Simple systems produced more intricate ones until these yielded to systemic Wholes capable of replicating themselves…AND THERE WAS LIFE…a vibrating new possibility for Process to express itself.”

Order out of chaos then, right Professor?  “One huge unconscious experiment,” that could have turned out completely differently and perhaps did elsewhere depending on the material, the conditions, and random burps along the way.

What appears chaotic to one may seem perfectly orchestrated to another and vice versa.  Regardless of how such interrelationships were instigated, the final result was that Process achieved the ability to recreate itself and stepped beyond the inanimate to the animate.

Please continue.