Infinite. One.

[Doreen Peri]

Infinity is my favorite concept. That's why I named this website Studio8 because 8 is the symbol of infinity sideways. Infinite possibilities. My absolute favorite number... 8. It's such a beautiful number, isn't it? Just to know there are infinite possibilities, that the number pi never ends. Just to know that life goes on and on and probably has gone on forever since there was no beginning and will be no end. Just like love. Love is life, infinitely expressed.

1.

Infinity divided by zero,
infinity divided by one...
these are concepts I often explore.
I love the mathematical metaphors.

2.

I've used infinite numbers
to round off equations
into a finite figures so I could
better get a grasp of them,
scribbled my heart in notes
on multiple napkins,
the backs of paper bags,
tossed out rags found in the trash,
stashed them away in boxes
piled as high as the sky is high...
infinite poems asking infinite whys,
fluent seemingly never ending tries
to determine the distance of love,
the length of it, the breadth of it,
the circumference, the illumination
of it's permanent tail, sailed from one
galaxy to the next, each heart connecting
like an investment, a gamble, a bet
it wouldn't end, the sending of my spirit
past the vast universe into the wherefore
art thous, the seeking of paths, each starshine
vast and almost impossible to comprehend
and i often send myself messages again
and again, as if when i receive them, i could
begin for just one tiny moment to spend
my entire finite inhales and exhales,
lifting veils of doubt, my shouts running
out of time, my music to the beat of a lost
rhyme seeping through wormholes into einstein
theories, always nearly getting there, but not
quite nearly, never quite reaching the destination
because there is none, really, and so I feel my way
around, a blind woman with a cane too short to reach
the infinite space I attempt to track and trace between
one heartbeat and the next, tapping out text on the
infinite surface of the back of my mind's eye and i
cannot see, i'm masked, i'm crashing into the center
of the atom, the sun being a vast expansion of a nuclei,
and oh god how i wish i could touch the surface of the moon,
place my fingers on saturn's rings, dream the infinite dream
of awakening.... take the vacant stares and turn them into light,
invite the purpose of it all into connecting starlit constellations,
until orion's belt envelopes me and i can see again all the possibilities
in plain view, all love encompassed, all trust surfacing on a mobius strip
plane, the tip of my vanity raining down until it disappears entirely to become
a grain of sand won by the beach, so hand in hand we could reach
the infinite wonder of dreams,
beams of light so tight inside our irises,
wise to the connection between beings,
enlightened with the orbit of each of our
individual solar systems, each being the
center of theirs surrounded by loved ones,
each being being infinitely humanly connected,
each being being one because we all are all one,
you know, we all are all one, infinitely one,
and so i thank you for the inspiration, take my place
here at the station, awed by the creation of it all,
awed by the evolution of spirits combined,
entwined in unity, free to be complete,
infinitely sweet like a nectarine, succulent
as a peach.... please tell me please how
i can teach infinity? how i can learn its methods,
its ways! please tell me how i can succumb
to the oneness of infinite purpose! please tell me
where to turn when the infinite path is spurned onto
another unexpected route! I turn my shout into a whisper
now... hushhhhhhh.... hushhhhh.... I feel the infinite
rush of such truths begin to soar and more than that
i am sure i am meant to be saying every word i say
while daylight plays on the horizon like a painting
made by the hand of the universe itself, watercolor
dreams, infinitely dripped and seamed together
just as they're supposed to be.
just as they're supposed to be.
infinitely.
infinitely.
One.

[neologistic]

This is amazing. I feel like a repeating record but I love the flow and felt it, it's very powerful, felt like a release just to read it

[dadio]

Classic poem, Doreen.

[justwalt]

...please tell me please how i can teach infinity?
how i can learn its methods, its ways! please tell
me how i can succumb to the oneness of infinite purpose!
please tell me where to turn when the infinite path
is spurned onto another unexpected route!

Great piece of your thoughts, doreen.

The following was my last reply on a post in AC, but I think
it might apply somewhat.


Seek and ye shall find... but find, and ye shall seek again.


I don't consider the "cyclic" existence anymore... though the prospect of eternity
may well be seen as the wheel spinning, I see the wheel as also traveling in a single
directional fashion... events having progressed to now, and continuing to progress
as existence itself is expressed, forward, ever changing, ever advancing, to states
beyond our momentary comprehension. This structure has an intelligence... or has
developed an intelligence, in that at the least, we humans are the local means, by
which this universe has become aware of itself.

scientists are now beginning to agree with what was once ancient knowledge, that
the whole of what is... is simply, a consciousness. And that we are an expression of
this consciousness, here and now.

This planet will eventually perish, be it by the sun's expansion, a collision with another object in space, or some other future event... but nothing is lost, it just changes. We are not the latest form of creative expression here. And we are not the first either.

In the realms of consciousness, there may be a counterpart to our being... (a spirit).
I think it it is a natural... evolutionary requirement, necessary for the moment, to give rise to this form of life that we know now. But greater things will become the future.

I thought I needed a whole answer, but there cannot be one... the whole is infinite.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqqq4jBqbiM

Live for today... is all that we can do.

[saw]

yes, the fascination of measuring it all, is always there, trying to define the dimensions some way that will make it all clear to us, and let us know we are on the right path, but in's like trying to catch the wind most days,
an elusive bugger, yet it doesn't stop us, 'cause that's what humans do,
we try to chip away at the facade, make a dent in the infinite puzzle....

[creativesoul]

such eloquence-

[mnaz]

wow, excellent, Doreen..

yes, math is one big (semi-useful) metaphor...

who was that guy who wrote a book back in the '40s or '50s about taking some pill or something to shrink down to the size of atoms and such, and he just kept shrinking down through universe after universe, splashed down as a giant in lake erie or something. seriously. an actual book. damn, now i'll have to google it.

well, it's a mind-screw, so i just run with 1/0 for now. haha...

[Steve Plonk]

Doreen, Excellent spiritual and mathematical metaphors...Reminds me of
a koan of some kind...a huge koan or puzzle for the mind's eye.
The number eight is also precious to me. I call the number, "The Great Eight".
I really reveled in the date August 8, 2008 at 8:00 am. (The Chinese got a
kick out of that date, too.) Numerology is a fascinating hobby.

[Doreen Peri]

thank you to all for reading and attention to this piece

sorry i haven't had the time to reply individually or keep up with reading and replying here lately

somebody told me they didn't "get it"..... I thought it was pretty simple myself

just words flowing about the universality of connection between people

i'm glad i'm connected to all of you.

thinking this might work spoken... I'm going to try that

all of your replies were special to me

i know this is long... sorry.. thought i was going to write infinitely couldn't stop!