Connections
A post I made a few weeks ago was actually inspired by a comment that someone left on my blog. Nothing in the comment had anything to do with what I said; I just happened to be in a certain frame of mind when I read it and it caused me to think of what I eventually wrote about.
It's interesting the kinds of connections we all share. How something you do or say can have a profound affect on someone else and you would be none the wiser; heck, whatever you do or say can be completely unrelated to the actions it induces in the other person. Could it be the Butterfly Effect? Perhaps, I can't really deny it, nor confirm it, but it is interesting to ponder over.
One of my beliefs -- that I still have a hard time fully accepting -- is that we're all one. I know it may sound crazy, but it's something I accepted once the idea was presented to me. Like all faith-based beliefs I have no facts to prove it, there's just something about the concept that rings true to me -- and in learning over the years the sound of my intuitive voice I'm coming to learn when things are true. The concept would be somewhat like, say, this "one" figure being a computer monitor, and every individual thing would be a pixel of the monitor. Each pixel is unique. The pixels themselves may be seen in various ways, e.g. the multitude of images that can be produced, but there are still pixels comprising the images, and everything's viewed on the monitor.
A question I once asked myself long ago is what is it that separates me from the ground. When I touch it we connect where my feet touch the ground. Yet, what is it that defines the boundary between me and it when we're connected? It's a thought exercise, but an intriguing one.
I recently ran across a really fascinating site that combined elements of philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics to set forth a different model of reality. Instead of reality being composed of particles, i.e. atoms -- or computer monitor pixels per my example -- reality is instead a continuous wave medium akin to water. The concept of empty space has no meaning in the model as there is no emptiness, in fact there's just the medium. Individual things that we perceive, i.e. matter, are not individual things at all. Rather, matter is the perception of viewing the center point of vibrating waves. Imagine a sphere that vibrates, pulses in and out. The area around which the sphere pulsates, its center, is matter. That area is real, of course, but it is no different from the medium it's a part of, it's just a particularly dense area of the medium. An area where the medium has coalesced.
It took me a while to wrap my head around the theory, but, that same ring of truth I'm used to hearing I heard again. It's like when I write a computer program and I stumble upon a way of doing something that seems so perfect in its design it can be done no better way: everything fits into a harmony. It's like an "ah-ha" moment, the light bulb goes off in your head. I had that moment because it fit into other things I had previously decided to accept as true; on faith. Especially my explanation involving density of the medium, for which I'll term energy.
If it were true, the theory, then it might help to explain how we as humans can affect and be affected by others even when it seems we're separate. Because, we're not.