AWARENESS / NOISE

Awareness is the flashlight beam of attention.  Some people are penlights held close to a surface.  Their world is small and bright.  Other people are large flashlights whose beam covers a bigger area.  Some are spotlights who light up huge fields.  In each case, the area that is lighted is the world that particular individual lives in.

The size of our flashlight depends on what we pay attention to.  If I am a penlight that is curious to see more, I can pull back from the surface and light up a bigger spot.  I can keep backing up to see more, more and more.  My curiosity will cause my beam to grow and, without noticing it, I will become a bigger flashlight living in a bigger world.

This is all about what I pay attention to and how much attention I pay to it.  If my attention is diluted or clouded, I can’t see as well and my world gets smaller.  I am living in a fog.

Our media provide the fog by overstimulating and misdirecting our attention.  Our media provide the noise that blocks the signal of our clarity.  This noise can overwhelm the signal.  We can become confused.  We can become lost.

Fortunately, we have remedies to this confusion. 

We need to get quiet.  Inwardly, we can bring our attention the here and now with meditation and mindfulness.  Outwardly, we can turn off the TV and radio and put down our cell phones.

The noise has an on/off switch.  Use it.

SOLID REALITY

The universe is vibrational in nature.  It consists entirely of patterns of energy.  There is nothing “solid” about the physical world that we perceive.  The three dimensional world is the major hat trick of our brains.  The solid world exists only in our perceptions.

Our brains, the most powerful computers in the known universe, interpret the vibrational inputs of our senses, edit them into a plausible theory and feed them back to us.  What we experience is a seamless, 360 degree, surround sound, smellavision, feely world.  It is the best virtual reality experience known to humans.

When we delve into physics, we find that the atom that we once visualized as a miniature solar system of tiny discrete BBs whizzing about in concentric orbits in empty space has been reconceptualized.  It is now seen as an arrangement of energy packets called quanta.  The subatomic particle has morphed into a probability wave.  What we are left with is patterns of energy in vast spaces.  And, we don’t know what energy is.

This is how something as insubstantial as a thought can have the power to affect the “solid” physical world?  A thought is patterned energy.  It interacts with the patterned energy of the “world”.  In a nutshell, this is how thoughts become things.

And, people generate thoughts.

HELLO FELLOW ADVENTURERS

We are all works in progress.  We came to the planet ready to learn the ways of life on Earth and to master them.  We came to find our unique path and to have fun doing it.

Happiness is our universal goal, no matter what flavor “happiness” is for us as individuals.

  

Every choice we make in the daily-ness of our lives is made because we think that it will help us to feel better, to be happier.

There is a lot to learn and to experience and there is no operator’s manual for life.  We humans have an advantage, though.  We do not have to do it alone. We do not have to make every single mistake ourselves.  We can share and learn from each other.

It is in the spirit of camaraderie, cooperation and mutual aid as fellow life adventurers that I have created this blog in hopes of finding kindred spirits.  What do you say?

Joe Mendla