LIFE CYCLES

We can then understand more about the infinite nature of ecosystems by gaining a better understanding of the finite nature of economic systems.

This in one sense is equivalent to understanding more about immortality by gaining a better understanding of mortality, or understanding more about the quantum realms by gaining a better understanding of particles and waveforms.

In doing so, we begin to approach and understand infinity better, and so then position ourselves to go beyond it.

Everything is connected, so you can really start at any point and swiftly find your way to understanding the whole, uniquely tailored to your own personality and preferences.

In economic circles, no pun intended, it is known that business activity exhibits rhythms and cycles. It is then logical to infer that our ego or thinking consciousness also observes rhythms and cycles, given that all business activity is a product of our mental action. By studying the operation of the economic markets, we can then arrive at some interesting insights into the artificer aspects of our natural selves.

Fortunately, much of this work has been done for us, especially in the data-rich fields of the financial markets, by independent minds which I think of as deep market observers. They go by many names, including Elliott in the 1930s and Hurst in the 1970s.

Both Elliott and Hurst, and others such as Dow (as in Dow Jones), noticed that price charts exhibit certain patterns over time. Hurst in particular, noticing that such patterning was fractal in nature, and being of an engineering mind, chose to “deconstruct” the fractal patterns. On deconstruction, he found that the “whole” fractal pattern could be split into a series of sinusoidal waveforms (sine waves), across various frequencies or periods, small through to large.

Hurst’s work is probably the most thorough in showing how business activity and the movement of money operates in a multi-layered cyclic fashion, akin to life cycles we also observe in natural ecosystems. A most obvious life cycle we notice in ecosystems is the phasing of Earth seasons, and for our purposes here this is probably the most useful analogy to adopt and develop going forward, as the seasons do not really show as a birth and a death, but as a continual cyclic process of outward expression and inward reflection, or in simple terms, of work and rest.



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