As Graeme Dott battled his way to the Snooker Grand Prix Final against Tom Ford, his opponent was several times credited with improvements in mentality thanks to working with a ‘mind coach’. Less spoken of is Graeme's own struggle against depression (BBC article linked behind the image: image courtesy Wikipedia). In the closing stages, Tom came back to square the match until Graeme took on a difficult shot, fluked two reds and landed plum on the black for the frame. Snooker is unique in many respects, not least because the table plays too. Other ball games rely on straightforward laws of physics - whether you’re winding from the tee across turf or kicking a football to a team-mate, the ground doesn’t play one off against the other like the green baize does. You’ll often hear commentators say that when the balls are with you, they’re with you, and when they’re against you, there’s nothing you can do. The table, as Steve Davis said, is very much a third player. All ball games are psychological to some degree. But generally speaking, consistency comes to light in a singular performance. Not so in snooker. A player can turn from one frame of mind to the other in a matter of minutes, from elation to catastrophe in one foul swoop. Perhaps this is the reason it’s become so popular. If you can handle the silence, there’s never a dull moment. Ali Carter (meet him here) is another player with troubled stories to tell. Battling cancer and various mental frailties to reach his present form, he’s enjoying an increasing level of well-deserved popularity in the wake of fraught experiences. In the UK Championship final, he showed the merit of his talent. His personality exudes quiet warmth and backing him is joyful, like a real fire in winter. The thing that sets snooker apart is rooted in quantum principles. Mechanics come into it with angles and geometric analyses, but you don’t get down to a ball and work out the maths. I know how it feels when the object ball ‘talks’ to you, telling you exactly where to strike, while your job is to wait for that point of accuracy as you feather and make sure you cue the white to leave it in the right place for later. You judge an angle walking into the shot, but successful execution is as reliant on the ball telling you what to do as it is on your notion of where the pocket is. So-called ‘blind shots’ where you can’t even see the pocket show this communication system at work. Attitude on the table also makes a big difference. Flukes happen in favour of one player or the other, but rare it is to get a fluke and land yourself with the next pot when you’re just not ‘into’ the game. You’re much more likely to end up snookered from a fluke if you’re feeling in any way fragile. This tendency for the table to intervene can change on a moment-by-moment basis, so whatever is going through a player’s mind is as important as what’s on the cloth at the time. That's me there, by the way, 38 years ago. Things were different then. Mental health is big potatoes right now. We hear many stories of vulnerability and valiant journeys to success across the whole range of popular sports - snooker is no league winner there. But in terms of its ruthlessness in forcing you to take account of quantum law, snooker is unparalleled. There are direct synergies between learning to play snooker and learning valuable tools in mentality. Like life, it’s tough - in getting proficient enough to beat the odds, you dedicate yourself to the task. But wherever you get to, it’s worth it, just as someone promised life would be.
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Two words synonymous with change. Spires are spiral by design, and words that contain this geodesic are rare. You can breathe easy - respiration says so. "Geodesic" might seem like an ambiguous term here, but bear with the definition as on dictionary.com: "Noun. A curve that locally minimizes the distance between two points on any mathematically defined space, such as a curved manifold. Equivalently, it is a path of minimal curvature. In noncurved three-dimensional space, the geodesic is a straight line." Spires (architecturally) are typically considered to comprise straight lines from a collection of points (at the base) to a single point (at the apex) - a spiral is comprised of curves denoting the shortest possible path from one point to the next traversing the circumference at any given point in the geometry of the spire. A differential addressed by WikiDiff thus: "... the difference between spiral and spire is that spiral is (geometry) a curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point while spire is (geometry) the part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. As nouns the difference between spiral and spire is that spiral is (geometry) a curve that is the locus of a point that rotates about a fixed point while continuously increasing its distance from that point while spire is or spire can be one of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. As verbs the difference between spiral and spire is that spiral is to move along the path of a spiral or helix while spire is of a seed, plant etc: to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate or spire can be (obsolete) to breathe. As a adjective spiral is helical, like a spiral." So the two definitions seem related but confusing, although it could easily be said that "spiral" is the collective noun for "spire". The seedling uncoils from a spiral, developing in a Fibonacci sequence of cellular repetitions to produce its adult form. Notwithstanding that all this is metaphorically describing something we already understand. Like the helix of that DNA strand we've never seen other than in CGI... Okay, so enough of that. What about real life? There's so much doom and gloom around that it's hard to think straight. In the UK, we found ourselves sold down the river by our leaders. Being British, we're likely only to sulk quietly in our little boxes and complain to each other over the odd drink. History repeats itself, civilisations get corrupted. The point of origin seems always to be money. Oh dear, never mind, it'll all come right in the end. At the top of any apex is a singular point at which you can say, "there it ends". There may well be a new beginning after the point of completion, of course, but that phase of life is over, as it were; the spire of your aspiration has reached the singularity where the laws of physics break down. Inspiration being the fuel that gets us there, it stands to reason (if you credit language with any synchronicity in its creation, that is) that "Insp" is 'within' and "Asp" is 'without', or 'lies back of' as Florence Scovel Shinn put it. Look her up via the link - she was way ahead of her time. Should we aspire to share our inspirations in the course of ascension from baseline to singularity, we touch a lot of lives. Family, loved ones of all kinds, even those harder to love can take a moment from an inspiration you shared. Inspired thus, even if fleetingly, they can take a step up their own staircase to the next level, which you helped them to manifest. Let's for a moment let nothing be coincidence. That DNA spiral repeated throughout your physical form, it lets us know that the foundations of nature - including our own composition - rely on spiral networks to exist. In science you're likely to find a similar word referencing all kinds of variants - the word is "Chiral". scroll through the list here in Wikipedia and the correlations become very clear. Better still, read the brilliant article by Philip Ball, linked to the image of bees above. Exploring the foundations of Quantum Mechanics, you'll find it opens doors to new appreciations and ways of thinking that prove extremely useful over time. Arguments over choice v. destiny will rage on no doubt, but at the end of the day it's your life, my life, all lives with those chiralities to contend with. We can always start again, any time we like. Paradox happens to us all the time. We wish for something and it appears, manifested, in a way we didn't expect. We expect certain cycles in life and somehow they seem to be there, even though we don't consciously realise we expected them. We are faced with ironies in the way things play out as opposed to the way we wanted them to be, and learn eventually to stop expecting life to get any easier, even though it might.... There are quantum principles which account for this, and thus more evidence that we live in accordance with those principles. Uncertainty is the big one, but it needs extrapolating a bit beyond the dry-as-dust commonly-coached constraint that the Uncertainty Principle only applies to measurements of electrons and other things of the very much smaller than us, preferably in a laboratory and at the very least invisible to the naked eye. Ever wondered why nothing turns out exactly as you anticipated? I mean, it can get close, but there'll be variations. Curve balls, if you like. The unexpected will turn up for the party. Although there's not a lot said in orthodox corridors along such lines, this could have a lot to do with the multiverse. After all, if there are multiplicate universes to choose from at any given moment who's to say we're not travelling between them all the time without knowing that we are? Which version of you had fruit loops for breakfast and which one went for toast? If, as seems to be the undeniable case (c'mon, please - someone argue with me...?), we exist in particle format for infinitesimally small slices of Present Time, what about the rest of us? Unless it's Now, we're just waves. And it's the wave form, in all particle experiments, that holds the meat of uncertainty. By the time a wave's turned into a particle, it's already one thing or the other. So then there's wave-particle duality, which doubled up with Uncertainty means that nothing can ever happen the same way twice, but it can call in any number of close relatives in the Probability department. The 'duality' bit is the fact that everything (in or out of a laboratory) is wave and particle at the same time, so yes, the way you think does make a difference and events will come along whether you want them to or not. Everything we encounter that demands a choice of action is just another double slit - one choice sees you go through that door while another version of you goes through the other but to the Observer watching you from outside the test equipment you appear to go through both doors at the same time! Hows that for logic? Someone's going to catch on.... These two principles are needs-must for any serious enquirer, for without a handle on the nature of Now, we stand little hope of living in it, of 'being Present' as it's put... of dropping that dangerous past-future anxiety and getting the hang of what it means to 'Go with the Flow' - of life, time, circumstance, you name it, all of it winging merrily along not waiting for anyone to keep up or put the book down. Third, though there are probably more principles to fit into the paradox listing, non-locality is also known as entanglement, and thought to relate in some way to quantum gravity. This principle allows for all actions (and thoughts - take care of those!) to flow into the non-local entanglement of everything that could happen or be actioned or thought by someone else, thereby ensuring that we all subscribe to a fractal pattern of events creating history. Much to our despair, at times, for we can do nothing about what others do, and tend to overweigh our own importance anyway, forgetting how small we are and that this planet is infinitesimally smaller in the grand scale of things than we think it is. The picture links to a Science News article dedicated to entanglement; look out for gems on how this universal phenomenon relates to you (me, everything...:) ) via the nature of information...! Wherever our placement in human history may lie, it also contributes to universal history, and being conscious, we might be rather rare, who knows.... we could be on the brink of a new paradigm that puts our paradoxes back in Pandora's box for a quick review of the situation.... We could be very, very small indeed...... SUMMER UPDATE
Live videos at the Quantumology Group, plus the chance to compare notes on the metaphysics! Scientists have seriously theorised that the soul does not die, but exits the body at death and 'goes back to the Universe'. How can this happen, scientifically speaking? For while the soul lives with us, here in this reality, it must be manifesting itself somehow. As the article behind the cliffhanger explains, the computation of the soul seems to reside in microtubules. But the composite soul, given that ghosts are seen generally with clothes on, doesn't stop there. Most people, even if they're skeptical, have had some experience of metaphysics - whether it's something to do with dimensions or spirits, the experience goes into the 'spooky' category, where Einstein put non-locality. Quarks - or more specifically, quark matter - make/s up around 27% of our mass. [Thanks to Vladimir Kekelidze at SQM19 for that piece of invaluable information.] Quarks have the strange ability to oscillate (from one version of themselves, known as a 'flavour', to another), sharing this ability only with (as far as we know) the neutrino. So what if this quark matter is the material on which our cellular and soulular bodies hinge together? There's pretty good ground for this theory, if you take the breadth of probabilities into account. Oscillation takes place at speeds we don't know about, while scientists are still arguing over the speed-of-light problem (whether it can be exceeded, thus violating general relativity, or whether quantum processes naturally bypass the problem by ignoring time altogether). Where two particles are involved in the process, there arises the issue of non-separability, argued between Einstein and Schroedinger and expanded upon usefully here. In searching for the substance of the soul, or the energy signature which survives death, we could be looking for that part of quark-gluon plasma that exists simultaneously within this dimension (the one our 5 senses perceive) and in other dimensions (including whichever dimension our energy goes to after we die). When we wear our clothes, they become part of us. Walking around with clothes on feels so natural that it could be said the quark matter of our clothes and that of our bodies becomes entangled, which is not difficult to imagine being the case, and if (as is usually so) we die with clothes on, it would make sense, perhaps, that clothes and body share whatever separation takes place between this realm and the next. Should quark matter prove to be the bridge between the 3D particle format we have to live with (on the strictly surface level of consciousness) and the dimensions or branes housing those other existences Everett and his fans are fully aware have to be there, this knowledge gives us a gateway to explore those Other Options on our world-line more effectively. By simple virtue of knowing they are there, Other Options become infinitely more attractive, and the more we believe in that awful 'Law of Attraction' stuff having some kind of basis in real science, the more obvious it becomes that the Now is more important than the Was and the What Is leads to What Will Be through a finely balanced combination of oscillation and choice. More than likely, you've pondered the life-after-death scenario as I have, and concluded that there must be something in it, as Dr Lanza would have us believe. I believe some time ago he said something about microtubules..... All images have their origins linked behind them - shadow-like, but definitely there.
Mental health is the biggest thing since sliced bread these days. Big corporations are investing in the labels that mean something to the general populace, making a poultice if you like, so that they can be seen to care about something they don't understand. Is there any evidence of reduced stigma against people with mental health issues? "No," they (have to) say, "but we're working on it," with training programmes for middle management ticking the right boxes. But we're not fooled, even if it all sounds great, because deep down we know it's just another sham. Quantum biology is also hot property, offering the tantalising opportunity to consider evolution as a quantum leap through a wormhole (if you're inclined towards singularities), or tunnelling one's way through a probability well to come out the other side as something ‘evolved'. Mathematically it might be difficult to determine how much we should have evolved in the time already spent on this planet we're busily desecrating, and / versus how much we've spent spinning around technology we should - perhaps - have got past by now. No-one quite knows where quantum physics came from - it had a few fathers all at once, about 100 years ago. Should we now be reaching a point of natural evolution (which transcends the tendency towards self-destruction) does it not make sense that the raft of ‘mental illnesses' we're still struggling to assimilate have hailed in our direction because it's time to wake up, this reality is upon us and needs to be heard, felt, seen, understood because now is the time it's going to matter more than ever before....??? Bipolar - experience of emotional polarity. Depression - pressed to view the darkest things of life and be challenged to find the light in them. Schizophrenia - a convenient way to cross the metaphysical divide into realms where ‘other (inhabited) dimensions' might lurk - heaven forbid anyone to say this is Woo, because nobody knows. Nobody knows for sure. ADHD - an escape from inertia. Autism - fast track to genius capacity. And so the beat goes on, hinting that we can categorise in a different way, without the constraints on the labels and the constant battering of bias into the equation. If you're a scientist with a ‘mental health issue', perhaps you're blessed. B flat? Maybe we're on the warpath for all the wrong reasons. Or maybe we're still trying to find out what's good in the way we really are. Behind the pics, there's evidence..... Let's get really scientific and see what the scientists say. Wave forms are what we're riding, all the time - only being made of particles right now, at the present moment, the You that was just reading that has now become an Advanced wave packet, and the You yet to get to the next sentence is waiting in the form of Retarded waves (those that travel forwards in time). In between the two, You right now are reading this with eyes made of particles that have collapsed the wave function, transmitting information into a brain that has also collapsed the wave function, simultaneously with all the other parts of you and of everything you see around you, which - you guessed it - has also been collapsing the wave function at exactly the same time. So in all this leaping about from one particular scenario to the next, let's look at the language - a particular event is, yes, an event in which our particles (and everyone else's) converged to engage in a 'particle moment' that our memory - wherever that is - can remember. But it's gone now. No going back to the past that isn't here and can never be again..... Meanwhile, here you are reading me in particle reality, subjected to the four forces of nature - the strong, weak, gravitational and electromagnetic. Each of these forces has a corresponding particle that 'carries' it - the photon carries electromagnetism, the gluons that bond our quarkish material carry the strong force; the graviton hasn't been found yet (because its cuddly relationship with infinity causes a few problems), and as for the weak force, well... there are Bosons, W and Z bosons in particular, carrying weak force, which is only found to operate (experimentally) over the shortest of possible subatomic distances. But there's more to the weak force than meets the eye, for like the neutrino and the strangeness of quark-gluon plasma, the weak force carries certain conundrums. In allowing for oscillation, it breaks rules. In fact it violates them, like charge-parity for instance, and could well be involved in the phenomenon of entanglement, although at the time of writing there's no scientific evidence for this - investigation is, let's say, in the Restricted Zone. Let's say we've got to grips with some of this stuff in everyday life, knowing it's there. We know that gravity holds us steady on a planet revolving at a little more than 1,000mph in its spin at the Equator, while it revolves around the Sun at 67,000mph. (Just because we don't feel the G-force doesn't mean it isn't there.) We know too that the electromagnetic spectrum affords us a glimmer of opportunity to see what's going on thanks to visible light (which itself makes up just 0.0035 of the whole EM spectrum). The strong and weak forces hold our bodies (along with all other matter) together, but only the weak force allows for flexibility. The weak force enables transitions from one thing to another. And quoting Wikipedia, "The weak interaction is the only fundamental interaction that breaks parity-symmetry, and similarly, the only one to break charge parity symmetry." So now we've got an idea of the strangeness of this force, what about an Alogy? Take a look at the article (from PhysicsWorld) behind this last picture and you will read that: "The experiment establishes for the first time that the weak charge on the electron varies with distance — a phenomenon called “running”. Also worth considering is the neutrino's interaction with the Weak Force and the problems it created ... : warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/staff/academic/boyd/warwick_week/neutrino_physics/weak.pdf Ok. We're running - fine. What we do know, deep down, is that all these components of Nature make us what we are, and we want to be better at being what we are than we have been for some time now, given that civilization is beginning to crack and we haven't even got our own houses in order. Critical is it not to take account of our mass and know what drives it, that we might make use of fuel in more interesting ways, to illuminate constraints and get us far enough from constants to experience some wonderment before that, too, vanishes under Fermi's Paradox. UPDATE 2020
Quantumology's Facebook Group is growing apace and actively producing some very interesting discussions. Please come along and join the fun! Tricy Trix came from a German company formed in 1931 and was launched as a rival to Meccano for children with technical minds. Being able to build your own electrical circuitry was a huge buzz for youngsters of the time, and it would be interesting to know how many of those older minds are giving fresh consideration to spiritual templates. Kids once poring over boxes like this one will now be living through a phase of life marked by retirement - casting for purpose amid the tending of roses, when the body slows down and frustration ramps up faster than a failing memory. This might in itself be an era of major transformation but those of us yet to get there, too young to remember Tricy Trix, are going through stages of our own in preparation for a shared future while we're all still alive to see it. While politics falls apart and the systematic order of everything (even the Standard Model of physics) crumbles under the weight of heavy evidence, we're finding radical ways of doing things we hadn't thought about before. We are all suddenly interested in The Now and working out how to live in it successfully. Historically burdened with constant pressure to worry about past mistakes and plan for invisible futures, we currently exist in a state of flux, having to re-wire our circuitry and even strip the windings out completely to make way for new ones. The core of a transformer, as I discovered some time ago, is commonly shaped like an E - we know that E = Energy in Einstein's famous equation. We're having to learn more about energy and how it works than we ever thought possible, because we're having to accept that its strange laws apply to us. The Universe is a mystery that starts (and probably finishes) with quantum mechanics. Everything is energy, our electrons are flashing in and out of various states while taking on and releasing photons, our quarks are oscillating from one flavour to another and neutrinos are flying through us all the time from the Sun. We're suddenly having to take account of all this, because our position - at the precipice of planetary disaster - demands that we know everything there possibly is to know about our capacity for optimisation, and at the heart of our multi-tasking capability is the discrete application of energy from one Source (yes, that one, whatever you want to call it) to various other points of contact (i.e. the relationships around us) with enough voltage to cause desired effects without blowing everyone's brains out. Transformative layering in the electro-technical world uses insulators, commonly made of paper in those dinky little versions you find in old radios, to prevent cross-contamination of current. We can liken these insulators to what we would call Boundaries. It's pointless to shove all our energies into one basket and hope something resembling a coherent way of life is going to arise from our effort. We have to temper our resources using methods at our disposal - at times it's right to write letters on the paper, while at other times it's better to keep our own counsel and just know we've quietly wrapped a protective layer around our hearts. Our core essence is all we have, to rely on and to connect with. The core of a transformer is magnetic, and much engineering goes on to ensure that the magnetism is appropriately channelled (see link behind the pic). Now that essential correlations between a transformer and our Selves have been corroborated, we can look at the mechanism with fresh eyes, and see that the way we channel our energies has a great deal to do with successfully navigating the quantum field we live in. In fact it's fair to say that without some degree of precision in personal self-management, our currents are likely to get into a bit of a mess. I know mine have. Take heart. We only have to see the paradox to grasp the paradigm. There are toroids everywhere - in our personal EM field, in the wiring of radio components, in the torus of Time. We grew up in an era of technological advancement but are still scantily clad in preparation for what's to come. We need some fortitude in the quantum mechanical stakes, and only by delving into deeper analogies are we going to have a hope of learning how it works. The beauty of it all is in the detail, along with the devils that drive the mistakes, so in looking at life from beyond the sunset it shouldn't be hard to see where it all went, this Time we were given, and make sense of the patterns we wove as we walked. Returning from SQM where physicists talked about quarks and shared some humour with me, I took note in all seriousness - the fire driving new physics seems in danger of being quenched by hard reluctance to share principles at hand, instead to guard one's niche against 'different science', relying on constraints and 'renormalisation' to get rid of unwanted complications - something we can't do in the real world unless we streamline our directional attention. Get to the link behind the picture and scroll to Paragraph 6 - that should be enough to let you know what I mean. Over on the Dot Net site, this post was written in response to caged attitudes - they're unhelpful at best, destructive at worst, and do nothing to further the evolution of thought we should be enjoying by now. The world as we know it has been savaged by money and we face an apocalypse within most of our lifetimes. Amid this tide of potential disaster, some of us are steadfast on paths we didn't choose, not making much money and not worrying that we can't afford things, able to pay for what we need and knowing that's good enough, wishing the ones holding the power would wake up to what could be done but resigned to the fact that it's probably much too late anyway, because there's no sign of anything slowing up that earns someone with far too much an extra few bucks.
While we're on the quest for unconditionalism, nature has answers she's not sharing with us yet. We've got to work for this, get rid of old paradigms with the same dismissive insensitivity as scientists scrap infinities. We're all lost, broken, abandoned or abused, conditioned into past-future anxiety ("If you don't do this now, this will happen in the future." Or "Look at what you've done, there'll be hell to pay for that.") and assured that if we don't get on the bandwagon we're going to hopelessly fail. Memes murmur of self-love while ruthlessly attacking narcissism, leaving us confused rather than confident. The way through the maze isn't going to be as easy as laying a mezzanine floor. If you believe in infinity, and you feel it's a good thing, step up to your own plate and wait. This is a universe we live in - we know it's very big, we're not sure what it really looks like (this is a computer-generated impression based on the cosmic microwave background), or how it began other than it might have happened very suddenly, and how many others there are to weave in and out of now that we've got a Multiverse to consider is anybody's guess. We're going somewhere, you and I. Somewhere only we know. Only we're not at all sure where that is, or how we're going to get there. Never mind, eh. Someone said there was a plan...... Where you are now is all that is, for the past is dead and the future doesn't exist. Yet. That's not to say that you stop moving, of course. Nor that the past and future have no bearing on your present, for they hold equal sway over evolution - yours and mine included. Have you noticed how we seem to be part of a wave, a movement of the moment, being more 'awake' as they call it, getting a hang of being in the Now, and learning in the process to place ourselves on the vibrational frequency that works best for us, instead of being hauled about across the spectrum of Up and Down, which our quarks might well have been responsible for. The electrons in our atoms are doing this all the time, shifting from one energy state to another (high or low), gaining or forsaking photons in so doing. Mirror the situation, since it is the same for us. When we were less aware of this energetic flux, we faced a foothold situation, invaded by an aggressive force that had to be contained. In failing to contain it, we flew into rages, floods of tears, black depressions and/or manic mania. Mental health became a visible problem because we were all actively exhibiting the worst of its symptoms. That's no bad thing, as we tend to agree, for it highlights the root of the problem to illuminate its source - a generic issue with negativity we were less than well equipped to handle. Now, living in the paradigm shift we've been pushed into one way or another, the mechanics of electromagnetism, quantum entanglement, gravity and uncertainty have ceased to be the strangers they once were. We've come to accept the quantum nature of our natural state, and are learning to live with it to a greater or lesser extent, depending on the openness of mind and the keenness we have to follow rabbit holes into the unknown. WIth the world as it is, we have to consider ourselves on track to take the force of whatever needs to happen next, knowing it's out of our hands. Circumstances we may have faced in relation to others and within ourselves have provided the necessary information to identify a foothold situation and avoid it at all costs. We're not likely to repeat our mistakes given the key performance indicators in our stories of the past. Inherent factors in the price we paid for being blind to painful lessons until we passed the point of no return were relevant to our personal growth process whether we wished for them or not, and if retrocausality is real, which it is, our movement is neither linear nor one-directional, it's a well of probabilities we have to work our way through as we go bouncing along in the rubber ring of toroidal Time. So if you feel stuck, fear not, the stickiness won't last. Freedoms we're heading for will have prices of their own, very different from the ones already paid. Perhaps we'll find the penalties easier to take, granting our rights to the game as the game grants us the right to play within it. Perhaps living in the Now as we are learning to do will earn us passage to free-fall skywards, beyond the grip of gravity that holds us fast in physics only. Above the physics, metaphysics awaits, lofty and transparent, seen to be invisible until we are upon it, immersed, bound by synchronicity and fuelled by energies we barely understand. Once there, we know the flight won't last - we've been here before, younger and less wise to its tempestuous temporarity, flocking in our droves to states of mind we didn't know we shared with so many others. Now we find we're not alone on this wave we ride; it will take us where we've never been before, in the company of others to accompany the realms we were ever duty bound to seek.
So walk with grace, wings on your feet, as walking on air, each step another breath, a mere spacetime point to step back from and observe, to take in your stride in following kindly the lord of the dance, wherever he may be, whatever form he takes for you, and trust. Above all, trust. Your path is unique, but the fractal of universal existence is woven into the galactic fabric ahead of the words we speak, so in silence we may work with it, and thanks we may give to those who work with us et al. Superposition is a situation wherein one thing can be two things at once. Or, two things are required to make one thing. Quantum superposition plainly puts the wave equation at the top of its sample file, since this is scientifically the most obvious visible example of something (a photon or electron) being two things at once (a wave and a particle). We are of course much bigger than the photons / electrons stuffed into our bodily framework, and scientists tend to think that this factor precludes us from experiencing quantum effects. Size matters, to a positivist. The larger you are, the less likely you are to be applied to the Uncertainty Principle. However, you can always enter a state of superposition, even if you're an elephant, for it all depends on the way you look at something as to whether it's one or two things being whatever they are at once. We find it really difficult to see ourselves. We are often guilty of believing we're right about things. When it comes to the way people behave, we often feel justified in behaving as we do and that the other party has behaved in such a way as to 'make' us do or say certain things. Cause and effect, seen from this perspective, puts the cause in someone else's camp and places us in the position of Recipient, the one being affected. This is victim mentality, and we all fall victim to this mentality some of the time. Unless we live atop a Tibetan mountain with tigers as friends and very small bowls of food. In the hall of mirrors, the other party would be equally justified in harbouring a belief that they are affected by the way we do things. Where both parties in this scenario are missing the point is that we are our own singularity. In a spin, we only have ourselves to pull us out of it. Others can be kind, which is helpful. They can be moderate, which we might or might not like. And they can be horrible, which puts us back in the spin again but doesn't preclude us from the superposition. The most obvious example of this superposed state existing in social media circles currently is the Empath v. Narcissist war, waged by empaths (loudly) against their oppressors (usually silent) Behaving Badly in close relationships. Narcissistic behaviour apparently excludes people from being spiritual, 'Awake', or qualified to Love, the irony of which lies in the definition of Empathy (just type it in and you'll find this): the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. synonyms: affinity with, rapport with, sympathy with, understanding of, sensitivity towards, sensibility to, identification with, awareness of, fellowship with, fellow feeling for, like-mindedness, togetherness, closeness to; informal chemistry Therefore it stands to reason that an Empath doing battle with anyone would preclude the Empath, at the time of conflict, from being an Empath. What about the Narcissist? Well, the dictionary will explain that the Narcissist is: having or showing an excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one's physical appearance. synonyms: vain, in love with oneself, self-loving, self-admiring, wrapped up in oneself, self-absorbed, self-obsessed, conceited, self-centred, self-regarding, egotistic, egotistical, egoistic,egocentric, egomaniac In the war of words across all sites, advocacy of Self-Love abounds among the 'Awakened'. You have to love yourself, they say, before you can hope to love anyone else/attract the right kind of love/give love. So effectively, you should be so in love with yourself that you centre yourself in the setting of your own boundaries, right? Your self-worth should be such that you are able to wrap yourself up with confidence. Self-regard, it would seem, is pretty essential. And you are strongly advised to admire your version of personal achievement. But ego is a big no-no. You can't have one of those, for if you do, you are in danger of being a... a... yes you could turn into a Narcissist. And that would never do. Whatever these words mean to you, please try to temper the desire to jump on a bandwagon from which to throw stones at other people. In the Hall of Mirrors, the learning curve is no joke. We have to take responsibility for the most bizarre aspects of our lives, even if only as observers. We can observe without fostering hatred or resentment, if we really want to. We can train ourselves out of boiling in our own thoughts. And if we work on this, who knows? They do say it's the thought that counts. Perhaps we can find time enough for counting, when the dealing's done. |
AuthorKathy is the author of Quantumology. She met up with quantum mechanics in 1997, pledging allegiance to its sources thereafter. These are her personal thoughts and testimonies. Archives
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