Coincidance - Principia Discordia

170 COINCIDANCE
The cords of all link back, strandentwining cable of all flesh.
That is why mystic monks. Will you be as gods? Gaze in your
omphalos. Hello! Kinch here. Put me on to Edenville. Aleph,
alpha: nought, nought, one.
The double helix of the DNA does indeed look like a "strandentwining cable"
and it is distinctly odd that Joyce seems to have had the ALP and 0 and 1
binary symbols in mind so long before FW. (Stephen's thought seems to be
that mystic monks, gazing into their omphaos or navels, eventually tune in
to the genetic memory going back to the dawn of life which become the
of FW. It is curious that Mendel, a monk, was the first to intuit the
mathematical formulae of genetics, is it not?)
All this begins to recall the diagram which appears in most of the books of
Wilhelm Reich:
This originated in Reich's The Function of the Orgasm and was intended to
illustrate how an energetic process could take two seemingly "opposite"
forms, mental (psychological) and physical (somatic); it underlies Reich's
philosophy of psychosomatic unity. Later, under the influence of Bruno of
Nola—with whom he increasingly identified as his own problems with the
New Inquisition increased—Reich came to apply the same duality-in-unity
diagram to all sorts of processes and eventually expanded it into a
cosmological principle which he admitted was similar to the dialectical
pantheism of Bruno; Reich never noted that it was also similar to Taoism
and / Ching.
In this connection, it is interesting that Joseph Needham, in his Science and
Civilization in China (Volume II) calls Bruno one of the two Occidental
philosophers to have a basically Taoist outlook. The other Occidental Taoist,
according to Needham, is the medieval mystic, Nicholas of Cusa, who is
curiously invoked in a passage from FVV which also mentions Bruno. It is on
pages 49-50:
Me drames, O'Loughlins, has come through! Now let the
centuple celves of my egourge as Micholas de Cusack calls them
... by the coincidance of their contraries reamgamerge in that
indentity of undiscernibles where the Baxters and the Fleshmans
may they cease to bedivil uns and .. . this outstandin Brown
candlestock melt Nolan's into peese!