Meditation: Beauty trumps all in the noosphere
TYPE: Schematism
PURPOSE: This Audio-visual Meditation reminds that sexual beauty is such a terrible power in the noosphere because it is the very mode of production for the biosphere, its mother.
CONTEXT:
The most beautiful female of all Star Trek episodes beams aboard. The Big Four are determined to treat their Elaan like any other passenger. When her functionaries kneel in respect before her beaming aboard, the Big Four remain standing. But when she arrives, they succumb.
Sexual beauty has no reality in mathematical physics, yet it is the high-point of biological survival. Beauty is the illusion projected by our fitness intuition when it finds high fitness. In the big picture (atoms and the void), beauty is nothing. But for the sexual organism, haunted as it is by the trauma of meiosis, it is The Beloved. Deepest spiritual love is just the phenomenological face of an ontological fact—that the quality of our immortality depends on the fitness of our mate. This the supreme value in the biosphere.
KRYTON: Do honor to the Dohlman of Elas.
(Petri kneels)
KRYTON: Glory to Elaan, Dohlman of Elas.
(A woman in little more than a high-necked bathing suit is beamed aboard. She is beautiful, but slightly sullen. The Enterprise officers kneel.)
METHOD: Feel compassion for the enslavement of your will to biologic. For a discussion of how the dependent nature of the subject is handled brilliantly by Bhakti Vaishnavism, click here.
TIMESTAMP: 02:26