537.40 Game of Universe: Individuality and Degrees of Freedom

537.41 We may define the individual as one way the game of Universe could have eventuated to date. Universe is the omnidirectional, omnifrequency game of chess in which with each turn of the play there are 12 vectorial degrees of freedom: six positive and six negative moves to be made. This is a phenomenon of frequencies and periodicities. Each individual is a complete game of Universe from beginning to end. This is why each of us individuals is so much alike and yet completely different, a unique and individual way of playing the game with each of the omnidirectional degrees of freedom. With the six positive and the six negative omnidirectional degrees-of-freedom moves to be made at each turn of the play, the individual can move to any cosmic point that is not occupied and can move back over the same points or move on to new ones. (See Fig. 537.10.) Intellect as “god” can play all these incredibly different games in all these different ways and at all the differential rates at the same time. (See Sec. 1002.12.)

537.42 The individual differentiates position in Universe. The six degrees of freedom operate at every turn of the play. Just think of the frequencies per second of each of the chemical elements that make up the individual human body and then think of the periodicities of those frequencies.

537.43 That each individual is a complete integrity is one of the reasons I don’t have to make any effort in loving my fellow human. (In the first-person plural of we-even the I even classes itself with the other. Each individual integrity has a steering effect, and like all steering effects it goes from one aberration to another. Certain individuals may be very wide aberrations from all the corruption that’s going on in Universe, acting as just one of those infrequent and very wide aberrations so that Universe can hold its center. At that center sphere is the two, and you turn inside-outand only the tetrahedron turns inside out. The other side of the Universe is not like the other side of the river; it is an inside-outing.)

537.44 We regard each individual as the special case, but consciousness as the generalization. Like the bumper sticker, “The Real World is Special Case. ” Reality is special case. You and I are sitting here, and no one else can be sitting right where we are. This is the kind of reality that the newspapers miss: they write about reality as if we were all the same realities, as if we were all the same things. If you and I are sitting here, we couldn’t possibly be anywhere else.

537.45 There are many different realities. This is the difference between reality and generalization. There is only one generalization. The only reason the radio works is that it has no interference. The game of Universe can be played on any one of the fantastically large number of the quadrillions of quadrillions of frequencies: the game can be played any way just so long as there is no interference on the frequency you are using, so long as there are not two pieces in the same vector equilibrium at the same time.

537.46 What is important about the individual and important about the Universe is that neither is exempt from any of the rules. Universe is the sumtotal, and the individual is the special case. Universe is the aggregate of all the generalized principles. Each individual is one of the illions of ways the game of Universe could be played.