Tygarjas Twyrls Blog

In response to a comment about a reference I made in an earlier posting, that reference being about one existing so as to “transmute energy,” without further delay:

Transmutation of energy, ah yes . . .

The Basics:

On the most basic level, we eat. We take in a particular substance, and turn it into other substances by transmuting it via our various bodily functions, the first of which being mastication. And as a result of the initial intake of what we commonly refer to as food, what is created is various forms of matter capable of building the cells that sustain our various organs and workings; that is of course aside from the waste that feeds other manifestations of existence; soil insects, etc . . . So the basics is that from ingestion of food our bodies can grow, heal, and be sustained on the one hand, and on the other hand seeds can be planted, spiders and birds can eat, etc . . . Food is transmuted from one form into others. And a part of this basic food transmutation is the transmutation from solid substance into a form of substance that ultimately is utilized by the body as energy, i.e. fat. And that energy keeps the metabolism going which enables foods to be transmuted, almost like a sort of perpetual motion machine that works via the process of food intake. That is to say, we peoples work as a perpetual motion machine dependent on the two principles of taking in substance from outside so as to transmute them inside.

The beginning of the none-basics:

What we commonly refer to as food may be considered as not necessarily that which is very literally ingested orally. Food may be considered as anything taken in by a being. For example, water, air, or light. Sound could be considered food; touch. Or perhaps food isn’t the word so much as stimuli, but not just stimuli, substance. The substance of oxygen, the substance of light waves, the substance of sound waves, the substance of the electrons effecting communication in one’s mind via the stimulus effecting sensory organs. When one comes down to it, anything outside of ones being that enters one’s being can be considered as food.

The reason for considering stimulation as food is because what is taken in is changed, converted, transmuted, into something different. And by law, something on the one hand more subtle, and on the other hand more coarse. From one substance, two substances are derived, which in turn are processed into other substances, which sometimes result in the creation of the original substance, and sometimes creates something else altogether. This is the basic principle for the complex processes of the great turning of substances and energies into other substances and energies within the human form so that some part of those substances and energies are returned to outside the human form for the utilization of other processes in the universe, Earth or otherwise. The human form takes stuff in, turns it into other stuff, uses some of it, and sends the rest back out for other processes in the universe to utilize, and for that matter live by, just as humans live by substances taken in from outside of them.

This is the basics of transmutation. Next I’ll describe why this answers the question of what the usefulness is of being alive as a being privy to the inevitability of the suffering of its own existence.

Chou!