An Essay Rambling on Void Meditation and Cosmic Nonsense (A Cult of Cthulhu Study)

This is an excerpt on the study and contemplation section of void meditation while combining some already explored philosophies, experiences, and thoughts. As an avid lover of space and the concept of cosmic studies and philosophy, I really had to cut off some of the ramblings I had begun and recondense it somewhere else.


I understood Void Meditation as disconnecting entirely from the surrounding stimuli and connecting to the essence of the deep nothingness of the void itself. It is a way to gain perspective of yourself and the cosmic whole of everything. When asked about the "Basics" of VM in the exam, there isn't necessarily anything that is basic about it. The concepts of "Binding Oneself to the Void" is a task that heavily revolves around our sense of being alone and isolate, separated from everything, adrift in space and time, it is not basic but an intense situation that makes up a hearty understanding of our place is the cosmic wholeness of it all. It is the embracing of "The Great Silence" as it is worded in the lesson. To embrace the "Stagnant motionlessness of deep space". Which is ironic in and of itself for space is not as empty as we think it is. It is breathing and thriving and moving and shifting with particles and radiation and elements, gases, sounds, elements in the forms of rocks and debris and materials absolutely everywhere.


We may look and see such vast distances between worlds and asteroids or the general masses within “Space” itself and the reality is that so very much of it is more closely knit together than we even understand. We measure things in a scale that is easy for our minds to comprehend as we ourselves are just so small by comparison. But the reality is that our perspectives absolutely need to adjust in order to grasp the scale of things. Planets are closer than we understand. Gravity expands distances and is a measurable force that we experience even while hundreds of parsecs away are a lot closer than we know.


Imagine that. To us, to our relative size in the world, we may see distance as massive but on a cosmological scale it is all quite nearby. So to imagine ourselves in VM as being alone and isolated in deep dark space is not exactly as realistic as it sounds. But we are indeed close by within the proper perspectives to nearby planets and star and moons and chemicals and substances. We are literally experiencing the stardust and particles from Sirius at all times because we are that “Close By”. So in a way, to me, Void Meditation actually really won’t isolate me in ways I may think but connect me closer to the cosmic whole of the everything beyond us. It may be pushing back the essence of my sofa or my dog or the neighbour outside mowing her lawn. It disconnects me from the earth I am sitting upon and instead it connects me to the prospects of everything else out there that breathes in the cosmos.


And I often do this. I go for walks and hikes at night to places where air and light pollution is less dense. And I look “Up”. I understand though that I am gazing down into the abyss of a hundred thousand million stars gazing back. Mostly void, partially stars. But between those we experience so much more than we cannot see or interact with within the confines of our bares hands and the naked eye. Cosmic rays are still sending particles across the entire vastness of nothing. The largest reservoir of water we are aware of is actually in space. It is within APM 08279+5255, a quasar that is rapidly pushing and pulling atoms together at such a rate that they smash into one another creating water.


The milky way smells like rum but tastes like raspberries because of the particles of ethyl formate. We know that there are over 100,000,000 goldilocks planets within a habitable distance from our home planet. We are complexly close and yet distant from things that we fail to understand. the reality is that we are closer and more knit than we even realise. Our measurement of distance in both space and time can be adjusted in perspective. But the biases that we operate on really change out philosophical outlook on the hostility of the universe versus the chemical density of our entire understanding of the cosmic whole. We are together and bound so densely to things that are so far away even by cosmic standards that we fail to understand it. We share base atoms with things so long and even things far far gone that we are carbon footprints of things that are no longer and the things that will be simultaneously.

“The only elements created in the big bang were hydrogen, helium and a little bit of lithium, all the stuff that makes your life livable, those elements were created in the big bang. And the only place that they were created within the big bang were in the fiery cores of the stars. And the only way that they could get into your body is if the stars were kind enough to explode.”


For me, Void Meditation is indeed going to involve so very much with disconnecting into the here and now. But it is an exchange for the connection and the companionship of the deep vast and endless possibilities that anchor my very essence to the complex relationship my even most subatomic particles have to the cosmic whole of the universe and everything in it. It will more so be networking me and my connection to the cosmic whole through companionable silence and understanding for the vast and infinite impossible possibilities that are always dancing on the precipice of the intensity of our universe and everything beyond.