31. Stabilisation as the fundamental condition for manifest existence
In the EC/HE theory it is not substance that makes something real, but stability. What appears as particles, objects, identities, thoughts or experiences consists of relational patterns that maintain sufficient stability to be experienced through the Experience Circle.
The manifest is therefore not built of fixed things, but of stable relational organisations in KNOWING. When such stability is maintained, it appears as lasting experience, structure or identity in the manifest world. When stability breaks down, experience is reorganised and manifestation changes, dissolves or disappears.
Stability is not evenly distributed through the emergence tree. The earlier an attractor arises in emergence development, the greater stability it tends to have. The reason is that later attractors are built around and on the basis of the earlier ones. Each new stabilisation incorporates and organises relations that already exist. The early attractors thus become gradually interwoven into ever larger parts of the total structure — and are strengthened by everything that subsequently rests upon them.
This makes early attractors very difficult to reorganise. A reorganisation at high levels in the emergence tree can affect local structures without changing the fundamental attractors beneath. But if an early and fundamental attractor is reorganised, all later stabilisations that build upon it are simultaneously affected.
The relationship can be compared to a tree. The leaves can move, fall off or be replaced without the trunk or roots changing. But if the roots are destroyed, the entire tree is affected. In the same way the earliest attractors organise the fundamental stability conditions upon which later levels of experience, physics, identity and manifestation rest.
Manifest existence is temporary stabilisation of relations through resonance and Attractor Dynamics — not permanent being in itself. What is experienced as lasting and fixed consists of structures with deep anchorage in the emergence tree. What is experienced as fleeting and changeable consists of structures near the leaves.
