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Welcome back to the Cube Philosophy Podcast. I'm Jake and I'm genuinely glad you're here.
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In this episode, we're going to explore the body and how the cube really got its body, how this concept got a body known as the cube. And so let's just jump right into it. The way I got there was what I call the eternity experiment. And the eternity experiment, as I understand, is an intellectual exercise that I tried to take away all of the orientational footholds that we use. And I'm kind of piggybacking off of Dr. Stegmaier's work as I've become more just recently associated with his work a couple weeks ago. And it's been influencing me and it's giving me more academic language to say I was basically stripping away all the footholds I could possibly find in order to orient myself at the deepest fundamental root level that I could possibly find. As he says, you do not search, you find. And so as I sat there in this idea of eternity, what ended up happening to my mind is once you scale out beyond basically life and death because you're a finite being. But even if you could live eternally, eternally, well, then at a certain level, now you're still dealing with the potential that the sun could actually still explode. You're watching the procession of the equinox go around and around. And you're seeing these ages come and go 2000 years of history rise and falls of civilizations. Your own body may be changed or go through things. What kind of being are you watching eternity? The thought that you can even experience in our mind is a really unique thing about us humans. And so as I was there, the only way out was paradox. The fact is you can never leave eternity because I realized eternity absorbs every living moment if it's real. So in a way we are an eternity right now as we quote unquote understand it. And therefore, how do I step back into now? If they're scaled out enough, everything was everything. Then you have to be able to differentiate. My reality is not yours and your reality is not mine. Now there's true differentiation. Now there's an ability to say what is here or there. And more importantly, now that's what I brought back with the question from that was now what do we do with the space in between us? And that's how we're setting up at the micro, meso and macro scales, right? How we're setting up our homes, how we're setting up our neighborhoods, how we're setting up our communities, how we're setting up our cities, how we're setting up our states, how we're setting up our nation, how we're setting up
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and at each scale you start, it keeps affecting things as I talked about in the mind episode. So affecting in what way and affecting then that's influence, right? If things are affecting one another, they're influencing each other. At what scale and at what measure and in what way? Well, that's where we would have to look all the knowledge we can find all the foot holds, if you will, all the ways that we can survey and say, yep, this is doing this to that. This is where we end up with science, right? We try to look for a repeatable, a method, a hypothesis, a theory as to how something works and then constrain that theory down to specific methods, ways of functioning, behaving that moment to arrive at a particular conclusion or outcome. And if you can repeat that over and over again, well, and then you can start trusting it more and more. And then eventually you can trust it pretty much without even questioning it. And that's what it is to eventually develop healthy routines in your life. But again, coming out of eternity, hopefully I didn't stay there too long,
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but it's still making sense. If my reality is not yours, as we work with the space in between us, we can see there's influence and knowledge. And if you mix all that together, the last two parts that I really came up with or kind of really found was whether or not we call it positive or negative. One person sees it positive that you just stole that person's whatever killed that guy or defended whatever, or another person sees that is horrible and negative. And that's actually mostly positive. That's actually really calling something good or bad rather than actually even saying positive or negative because positive and negative don't have to be good or bad. It's just one is more optimal as we understand it. And yet if you do not account for the negative that exists, I mean, we're human beings, but we create a byproduct that if we're not careful where we put it, we create other problems and diseases. This is why we have porta potties and outhouses and all this stuff to say, hey, we're going to, we still affect how each other lives and moves and breathes, even if we never see each other, especially with inside of our own communities. So now we're going to take on ways of social ethically, morally. Um, and that I believe is more positive and that's because we can acknowledge the things that are negative. This is where we end up with jails and prisons. And how do we arrive at the way the world that we have functioning? What is good to keep and what is something that needs to be restructured? That's why I'm saying, well, how do we share the space in between us? I don't have all the answers. All I have is methods, my methods of how I'm figuring out how I'm arriving at my answers and see if they line up with yours. And as I share that with you, hmm. So how grounded am I when I'm doing that? How stable is my internal reality while I share that you, while I share this, I'm going to pick up the little mini cube here. Well, I share what I called the ink map, right? So that's influence,
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influence, negative, right? Influence, negative. Maybe I was bringing a little closer. So there's influence and
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negative. And then what would that be? Knowledge. All right. And then my reality. Another's reality
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and positive. So that's the ink map. And if you mix all of those almost non-academic language together, but that would describe if two humans meet, now you have an interaction. They can share knowledge and be influenced by each other. It could be a positive interaction or a negative interaction. And that's what we physically see from the outside. But as they carry that along throughout their lives, sometimes interaction that happened 10 years ago now affects you where before it didn't, what changed? And therefore you aren't necessarily the same person that obviously you lived as a decade that it didn't bother you. Now all of a sudden, it's irritating to you somehow. It's like a question within the current foothold that you had. And now you need to kind of reorient to find your way again.
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And as the language that I have for it now, and then cool, we're only a few minutes into the show here, eight minutes so far, as I can see. And I really want to be able to share these how, because that is the concept that created this physical idea. And if you believe that those six faces kind of make that up, and then you can recognize as I held up that cube, and as you can look at these cubes, there's space in the midst of all of these. Right? They're hollow. It's, I mean, this one's magnetic. I can just pull it off here and show you, you know, that's the invisible center. And if I took the invisible G, and I slid it in there, oh, that's not letting me.
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But the whole point is that could then sit there.
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And this is why I got away from more of the magnets. It's a little more tricky to... there it goes.
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So that's the invisible center to which we can recognize it's there. Now you got to see that there was there. But as soon as it goes back, we are so prone to forget there's an invisible dimension going on always. Just as there's a physical dimension going on always.
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And so how do you ground that invisible dimension inside yourself? What is that center? As so many people, is it brainwaves? Are we actually a soul? What is what is happening? How do you choose to yourself? How does your internal world structured? What words are you giving it? Because as you're a baby being born into this world, you're learning, you're orienting in the moment. And yet you're already starting from the body that you're born into, whether male or female, or again a blend. It's there is this structure you're already starting with. And you either orient to that properly in a way that helps you flourish and thrive, or you're constantly struggling just to survive. And the thing is the base of thriving is survival. It really is. We have to be surviving so that we can thrive. And I don't need to get into all that again. Nations rise, fall, all that stuff. It's we're eternity experiment. I don't really want to go any deeper into that.
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But hopefully now you can see why when I say this is a body of the work and trying to physically represent it, using even the invisible as a representation, even though knowing it's always invisible. This is where cube philosophy is a very practical and real philosophy. And we should get into it now, right? Show you these monstrosities, put this in my lap and everything, and readjust this just a little bit here. All right, here we go. So I already showed you a little mini cube. And by the way, this mini cube, this is what it's like to hold truth. It kind of holds together. And then it can just fall apart, because there was nothing stable. You think you understood what was true, but it's really not. It's why it kind of takes this, this way of holding it properly, so it doesn't fall apart. Right? My truth is not your truth. But at the same time, we're both sharing one truth. So when I say the cube at every level teaches like I did in my very first episode, I really mean that I mean that these these teach us things that the way that all one of these magnets here, as you can see, in fact, that's a little point out here. So this was my first video. This thing, as I explained, and my book connect, how big this thing is, it's 18 inches, it's ridiculous. It's ridiculously heavy, too. And look, there's no space. I mean, I had to remember that this was even a domain at the time, it wasn't even called the domain, I just called them boxes, and these became cells, right? Because boxes and cells and an entire face. Right? I mean, that's this, and it's sharp, it's got nasty edges, and all of that. I mean, and how do you even know which faces what? Like, what is up? There's no way to differentiate this thing. And my daughter hated even seeing or play with it. She's like, Dad, it's got no color. Totally horrible. I was like, that's a really good point, girl. So she influenced me, right? And it changed the idea, the concept, because the real world externalization of any concept now starts showing you things. It shows you where you were wrong, where it was false. So then, or where it just couldn't function, not so much false, it just couldn't function well. And that's what we do, right? I mean, gosh, if you're doing technology, robotics, you have this idea, you put it together, and then you're like, wait, it's not doing exactly what I want it to do. I'll make this little adjustment. You don't have to get rid of everything. It's not collapsing everything or completely starting from scratch. Sometimes it's just, let's make the proper adjustment. So next gen, number two,
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number two was still steel. So still kind of heavy. Funny enough, this is actually a Gorilla tape and some foam on the edges that I padded up so it wouldn't quite hurt as much or dent the counter or anything. And it started me to help, you know, put the colors in the space. This space in between was extremely helpful for me because now I could actually see the domains and allow them to be worked with way, way easier. And that one I worked with for a long time. It was a lot of fun. And then, so that was second generation. Things got better, but it was still really heavy. And trying to put that thing in your lap and trying to work on a board at each time, or it kind of became inconvenient. So as I already touched a little bit earlier, this was third generation. This is where I thought it would be so cool to have magnets on the side. And then we will put it together. But to get the magnets in there and to have it fit and look like a cube, trying to bevel this edge back and then get the magnets to line up. And then any time,
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you see, it doesn't quote fully hold nearly as well as the one with the brackets. And that's fourth generation. And that's why. Because you can hold together magnetized or you can
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be fixed by certain brackets and those can still slide in and out and they have to hold tension just right. We'll get into the brackets. Again, the cube at every level teaches the right amount of space, the right amount of hold, what kind of hold, in what measure, for what reason.
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And so what I found though, was these magnets here on the side, if I kind of slid it along at certain layers, it would sometimes pick up, not always, but sometimes it would pick up the tops of these magnets or other magnets because the other ones on the side. So they were kind of messing with each other a lot. It was fun and I'm really glad that I got to have this. Something else about these original versions, I didn't know exactly how I was going to stick them yet. Or rather get it to hold properly. And so the original of these, this is actually just a magnetic strip holding a magnetic strip. So sometimes it works, but sometimes they bounce around and they're a real pain in the butt and they want to fly off of each other. And that's why these things can fall off so easily. So the magnets didn't have the proper hold. You're not trying to have equality of everything. It's about having the, so you need the ferrous sheets,
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and then you need the actual magnetic pull to that, which, you know, give her in the receiver.
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Then, get to this final last one here.
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So last generation. This is my actual version that I now get to use here. That comes even with the invisible G. All right. Even has the holes for being able to hang it up on the wall. So in the morning, that's kind of become my practice, my exercise, so I can remember to acknowledge my being and what is, to observe what is and be awake to the tension, right? Whether or not I'm doing something automatically or by choice. And if I'm aligned with myself and aligned with my environment as well, if I feel balanced and supported, as I support myself, if I'm in flow and if I'm rooted in my body and in my mind,
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right? So those are the words. These are some words that help orient me and help ground me in the morning. And this is where this gets to be a lot of fun right here. So this cube that I have here, allows me now to pop off the brackets. By the way, white for the light, black for the dark.
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Yeah, there's a lot of symbolism in here. Just minor, nothing major. Just enough though.
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And this allows me then to pull off an entire face, sit down with it, work with it, and then reattach it when I need to. I can, as you see, the bracket is here, but that's still the same. I could hang it up on the wall. I could have all of them hung up on the wall if I wanted to and see them strung out or, you know, displayed rather. And that could also be helpful.
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Being able to physically touch and see, you don't, you don't use all of it.
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Much of it is actually reduced down to what I call the 777. All of these words that you're seeing here, this might feel really overwhelming, but again, go all the way back to eternity. My reality isn't yours. And how are we going to share the space in between us? Should we ground the negative and the negative reveals what true grounding is? And so this is why I created this.
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I needed a way to ground myself and I needed a way to orient myself. I didn't realize that's what I was creating back then. I'm actually really grateful to Dr. Stegmaier because now, as I go it means so much more to me. It means so much more to me to be able to say compass, orientation, find a way to navigate.
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It means so much more to me now to be able to say compass, orientation.
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Hmm. How are you orienting yourself in this unsurveyable and uncertain world? Journey, process. As you find your way through this world, as it grows, as you, as, as things are hard and wonderful and soft and amazing, the process. And you can handle all that uncertainty because you carry home, a stable home in your heart. Or you can always remember my reality is not yours.
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And that doesn't mean we have to argue, but it means that we do and can have our own stability.
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Always.
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And you can truly know thyself and then share yourself with others.
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Compass, journey, home. Till next time.