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Was wondering if anyone has read any of Michael Moorcock’s writings and what their views are on it in reference to Taoism?
In particular, I find it interesting that Law and Chaos are neither good nor bad (he also features something called “the Grey Lords”)…both necessary, but destructive when stagnant/senile (Taoist, much?), so, what can be gleaned is the necessity of, what he names, Cosmic Balance, which features prominently in one of the incarnations of the Eternal Champion, Corum, I’ve yet to read.
(The Eternal Champion being a sort-of meta-being that incarnates across, what he named, the Multiverse, to either willingly or begrudgingly serve to save the Multiverse from its destruction from all manner of threat that serve, or are, the disillusioned powers of Law or Chaos or both [though I get the sense that the “gods”, as such, are more like Buddhist devas in that they serve the archetypal role of/for their god-form but if they refuse to abdicate their position when their nearly-limitless life is up {aforementioned senility/stagnation} all manner of hell breaks loose; but this is my own interpretation and not clearly explicit or implicit save for an active mind])
Suffice to say, the imagery is an extremely palpable, creative interpretation of what the Taoists and such have observed throughout the ages
I was ruminating on similarities between Bruce’s definition of the body of the Tao (in Taoist Sexual Meditation) “…goes beyond and includes all and everything in all universes, places and times.”, and Mike’s literary Multiverse.
Mike’s Multiverse (if I can explain it in anyway that does it justice [which this probably won’t]), I think, is a pretty good way of getting at the body of the Tao conceptually.
All realities (times, places, universes) coexisting and fractally organized from super-dense to super-gaseous like a magical-matryoshka (“magical” in the sense that each are hidden from view by scale of size/density [small and dense or large and gaseous] and fractal self-similarity).
One of the more interesting tidbits is how he says space is a dimension of time, which is great to connect to Bruce’s notion of fourth or real-time; makes it tangible
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Though, as the body of the Tao “goes beyond and includes” the aforementioned model, it is extremely exciting and stimulating to consider and discover through meditation/dissolving that which is beyond such a mind-blowing literary-device!
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