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This narrative opens up a dialogue of sorts that mimics The Universal Embrace visually by ‘seeing the unseen’, or letting us ‘read between the lines’. In the words above, the relationally between physical and passed people is expressed. Carly Stasko said in her ‘Re-volutionary healing’, that a work must start with a challenge, then courage, then play, then love (Beattie, 2009, p. pp 114) . In terms of creating meaning, the experience above was an example of a pivotal moment in which I place myself and everyone in the context of mortality.

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11.5 The Universal Embrace.

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‘Universal’ applies to all peoples, energetic and sentient beings, living, past and future, and underlines the

commonness, the reconciliation with the self and the resonance with the macroscopic creator and the microscopic

God-self.

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Originally, I came up with the terms, ‘Phi, Spirit and Society’ as themes for the narratives in this exegesis because in them I could existentially explore pragmatic and also complex themes, yet also the bigger 'meaning of life' questions, and reflection. I was also interested to construct an idea where I could explore the complexity of two people

embracing, in particular to celebrate my sexuality of being a gay man much like the artist William Yang has done in his creative narrative (Feneley, 1998). It has helped me shape the process, to draw together art and science and in the same way, provide a way of defining and understanding relationships. In particular the number of relationships I was considering evolved like a trinity of the circle square and triangle, in that they were the relationship with the self, the relationship to others, and the relationship to broader society and the universe.

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In a way, phi is a totally unique number that has been calculated to about 20 billion decimal points thus far. It has an endless yet paradoxically finite philosophical uniqueness. I think that is a great metaphor for life and its experiences.

It is also a fitting metaphor for how the mind, and its choices and education can evolve over time, always unique, always changing with more information and experiences. I think it is also necessary to articulate, or at least I subscribe to a belief that I am a subset of something greater than myself. It is the macroscopic and microscopic. I am a part of everything and everything is a part of me. In this way the self is related to another in the universal embrace, in that we all belong, in some way, to the same thing and to one another.

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In a society this is a way of communicating and having some order, peace, meaning and contentment. Mary Beattie in her book ‘The Quest for Meaning’ refers to Dewey’s interpretation of education, as the ‘reconstruction of experience’ (Beattie, 2009 pp 29), a process by which ‘The Universal Embrace’ has been written both in a constructivist way visually and through narrative, especially in my re-written dialogue to my inner adolescent.

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In a biological sense, direct communication and order or disorder exist within the biological family, the relationship to our mothers and fathers, grandparents and siblings. In broader life, friends and acquaintances also become sisters and brothers, mentors and parental figures in life. In a way, Jungian archetypes resonate with familiar orders of our feelings of a masculine god, or a mother earth, a virgin saint or a chosen one, and these can exist across all family, religion, our place, and our acquaintances and friendships. I am aware that as an artist I have a strong sense of existentialism. All of these rhizomatic relations have and can create meaning in our lives. In a way my relationship with my partner and his relationship to my person have changed us both from being quite reckless and discordant to one that bears more harmony and responsibility.

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It is my feeling we all choose our path before we come here, manifesting on earth in human form. Importantly, we must all consider ourselves relative to the time we live and the technologies available to us to help understand the world. A civilisation far in the future may study our technology as a point of interest in which technological singularity might exist.

The following drawing was from when I was nineteen. In it, beings have liberated themselves from space/time by understanding the building blocks - the circle, square, triangle of all things - and the genesis of all forms. They hang around the anthropomorphic telephone pole, which is autobiographical in nature. Looking back, I feel there were negative entities surrounding me at the time.

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11.6 Death Meets Science and Singularity?

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Technological singularity is a concept put forward by some futurists that describe a time when artificial intelligence eclipses and passes human intelligence. In theory once an intelligent machine is capable of replicating itself to even more intelligent dimensions, it is anticipated as the ‘event horizon‘ beyond which humanity's relationship to the world and machines becomes unknown and unforeseeable (Carvalko, 2012). This theory provides an interesting perception on death in the context of a possibly immortal science.

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Death is a mystery informed by religious belief and myth and inescapable to all. To consider another way of justifying ‘spirituality’ is that we could all be an experiment or game on someone's computer billions of years into the future, that could also potentially be a rational possibility. The potential age of technological singularity is nigh and a new renaissance of looking at life may be in order.

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I am becoming more interested in the way science is meeting human reproduction, about how we can use eugenics to make a version of people that is reasonably ‘better’ in some shape or form, or selecting better attributes in terms of eliminating disease, but also in terms of what people think we should be like. I consider this to be very dangerous and

rich with ethical concerns (Buchanan, 2007). In another dimensional look at the eugenics of the genome which this article addresses, how might we attach that principle to our thoughts and actions in general throughout life? Perhaps the best quote I remember that relates to this is:

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts, 
 Your thoughts become your words, 
 Your words become your actions, 
 Your actions become your habits, 
 Your habits become your values, 
 Your values become your destiny.”