Week Three-Synchronicity

Connectivity- I think i just experienced a form of "unproductive" connectivity. I just logged on to post to this blog and before i could even type the first word i received a text from a friend asking me if i wanted to go out. Maybe that doesn't sound so profound but it has happened for the past three blog entries! not sure that's a positive effect but it sure shows some sort of connection, does it not?

Synchronicity- without going into too many specifies here i seem to experience synchronistic occurrences often. i usually refer to my friends that i have on the east coast. just because they are so far away and far removed from my daily activities. on top of that, there is also a three hour time difference between us. But over and over again, at least once a week, there are synchronistic things that happen. I think that due to the convenience of technology, ironically enough, these instances can be realized more readily. What i am referring to here is texting. there are many times when something will happen that reminds me of a friend, or an event and i send off a text to a friend. and wouldn't you believe that they often experience something similar at the same time. if it wasn't for the simplicity of texting maybe those occurrences would go unnoticed. I wouldn't take the time out of my daily activities just to call a friend ever time a thought or emotion relating to them pops into my world, but sending a text is quick and easy. and through this simple form of communication i can see synchronistic phenomena...does that sound like a Verizon add or what? lol

Week Two- Quantum Mechanics

Reflections on Uncertainty.... I wonder why when people of our time hear of things being uncertain they feel uncomfortable. What is it about who we are as a culture, that things of uncertain nature frighten us? why must me understand "everything"? why does "understanding or "putting things is boxes and straight lines" make us feel comfortable? Our streets, our houses, and our schedules are all arranged in neat linear fashion to make us feel secure. Is this possibly a gross projection of our vast misunderstanding of nature? shouldn't ideas such as Uncertainty make us feel alive? make us feel like a part of the unknown? the mysterious? Maybe civilization, through a long drawn out path of mathematics, is finally bto come full circle through the understanding of Quantum Physics. Did we have to go so far in the rationalists direction in order to come back to what ancient civilizations knew? this i wonder...

Causality....Well i guess its easy to say that of coarse cause and effect can be experienced on a daily basis. without causality its hard to imagine that anyone could get anything done in life. for instance, you have a goal and to make that goal come to pass you go through a specific series of tasks that you assume will bring you the desired results. but as i type that sentence i immediately realize that things don't always turn out as you planned. so right there in that example we can see how causality is true and false....

Is The Universe Weird...In one word, YES. i guess first thing we have to do in seriously asking that question is to define what the word weird means. Here are two definitions i found online, they are: 1) of relating to, or suggesting of the preternatural or supernatural. 2) of a strikingly odd or strange character. So i stand Strong on my first idea that the universe is weird. Maybe if we were able to see things for how they are and not for how we expect them to be we would see the universe as natural and normal. but until we all forget what we have been taught for the past few hundred years I'm sure we can all agree the universe is WEIRD...

Week One

the main reason that i am attracted to Chinese Medicine is because i feel it is a complete system which explains the movements through the cycles of what we call life. And, although there is a very analytical side to TCM it stays balanced by explaining its paradigm through poetic means. To me Chinese Medicine is a bridge between the known and the unknown, the large and the small, the healthy and the ill, the left and the right portions of the brain, and of coarse the yin and the yang. Furthermore, the everlasting strength and persistence that Chinese medicine shows in the face of many sceptics and many many years of cultural, physical, "scientific" and political changes is something that is quite admirable...

Physics to me in its academic form is something that is way over my head. I enjoy math and numbers but my lack of "keeping up" with mathematical skills since leaving high school keeps the inner workings (the equations) farm from my grip of understanding. but with that said, the conceptual side of Physics is something that i am readily attracted to. There are many interesting YouTube videos out there on quantum physics that i have been watching for a few years now. They range from highly scientific and mathematical to way too "new agey". But somewhere in the middle of these extremes is a great amount of thought provoking videos. I invite anyone who is curious about physics to check out what is floating around on YouTube. i guarantee a few hours of your life will disappear once you open that can of worms. (talk about bending time. lol)...

I think it is a common phenomena that everyone experiences some perception of time speeding up and slowing down. the specifics of the stories aren't very important to list but the fact that all people despite age, gender, location have spoke of time as something that isn't constant. I think that this notion reveals to us that no matter how hard we try to make static "laws" and try to organize reality into many concise boxes (which may or may not help us make sense of the universe) there will always exist the non-linear influence of personal experience that will color and change what is perceived as reality. Maybe it would benefit some people to give up the boxes and straight lines and just fall in trust with life being an ever changing phenomena...