In Part I of the Closed Circle, we discussed the analogy of the closed circle being the idea that any act is an act upon itself. In this discussion, I will go into more depth.

Let’s look at an extension of the idea that “giving” is also “taking away.” What this means is that when a person takes something away from someone else perceived to be “separate” from him or her, this results in that person also having a “taking away” experience. This is the essence of Aesop’s fable of the dog and the bone. It may be better understood if it is seen as the gift of “giving the take-away act” so then what the person receives in return is the gift of “the giving of the take-away act.” This paradox is not easily seen.

If the act becomes observation, then the observer sees himself or herself taking the action, and the act becomes the event. In this realm, the observer clearly is able to see that the act is upon him or herself. We find this result throughout all our experiments in quantum mechanics.

To apply this concept more broadly, this is the same as saying that in any action:  there is only one of us.

 If the act is within the confines of family: there is only one of us. If the action is within the context of society: there is only one of us. When extended to the context of the planet: there is only one of us; applied to the context of the universe: there is only one of us.

In terms of Physics, the extension of the concept becomes Newton’s “Third Law of Motion”:  every action has an opposite or equal reaction. This is so because in the closed circle the object applying the action is always applying it to itself. When it receives the action it initiated, it appears to be a reaction coming from the opposite direction.

The widest application of this idea can be expressed in the concept that “to give” the experience is “to know” it. This is so because the concept of connectivity dictates that the gift of experience is always on oneself, and in that way one comes to know it.

Within the context of “Space” and “Time,” this may very difficult to see. But if we retain the concept of zero-sum energy within the universe, then the energetic change in shifting from one probability to another, i.e. carrying out an action requires the change to be returned. The consequence of the return is the action being revisited to the origin. This is a requirement in a reality that arises from different probabilities. Otherwise one would really have to create something from nothing, fully violating Von Neuman’s observation that “actuality is mathematically impossible.”