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without presupposition, ecstatically aware and selfless, it is God’s gift realized, a joyfully awake and nonjudgmental empty state of transcendence. As we sit, we work at feeling this in the brain of the enigmatically smiling stone Buddha.

The externally inactive state of high internal activity, the Bhagavad-Gita’s formlessness in the world of form, inaction in the world of action, has a natural mathematical representation in the simultaneously expanding and contracting motions of hyperbolic dynamics and its associated entropic descriptors. How can this kind of formlessness equip us for almost instantaneous knowing? In a resting state of uniform hyperbolicity that only looks like randomness, accurate impressions of others can arise quickly and from only a few data points of observation. In the late 1960’s, University of California mathematician, Rufus Bowen, proved the now famous shadow theorem. This says that in dynamical states of hyperbolicity, directly observable on the screen in computer simulations, the first few points of the on-going wild dynamical dance that appears to jump randomly from here to there on the computer screen, counter-intuitively will quickly outline the entire skeleton of its future global shape, its geometry, though more time of observation is required to realize this structure in full detail. The contracting motions on the stable surface of action, called a manifold, “iron down” all the points onto the unstable manifold that serves to outline the shape of the attractor of all starting points. In such a system, observation of just the first few points outline the whole. Intuition, anticipatory knowing and that which some call prophesy, may be expressions of the hyperbolic brain’s mind doing dynamical shadowing.

To review briefly, hyperbolic brain flow is made up of three decomposable components: (1) The apparently predictable one along the main road of the action, going straight ahead and round and round on a throughway called the center manifold—analogous perhaps to what might be a sequentially logical development; (2) Intersecting the center manifold transversally is a field of influence moving the action away from the center manifold with out-of-the-box motion, exploring side paths of unpredictably new, creative possibility called the unstable manifold, we might think about inspired risk-taking, impulsive associations in thought; (3) Another transversally intersecting field of influence, which conservatively, rationally, “irons

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