Currently reading "The Living Energy Universe" by Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek. I might get into his full hypothesis later, but for now I want to focus on one aspect: Water has "emergent" properties, can these be predicted by the individual properties of hydrogen and oxygen?
First let's pick a few emergent properties of water that are uncommon to most other compounds:
1. Solid water is lighter than liquid water
2. All snowflakes are unique
3. Capillary action/ electrostatic adhesion
4. Ionic action/ formation of acids and bases
5. Life
The interaction between oxygen and hydrogen seems easy to predict, but I think my familiarity with water is coloring my perceptions. Oxygen seems important- it is active in all living tissues to a great extent. Its electronegativity plays into this quite a bit- in descending order, the most electronegative elements are:
Fluorine
Oxygen
Chlorine
Nitrogen
Bromine
Iodine
Sulfur
Selenium
Carbon
Gold
Tungsten
Lead
and so on.
Then let's look at the relative abundance of the most common elements in the solar system:
Hydrogen 1- 705,700 ppm
Helium 4- 275,200 ppm
Oxygen 16- 5,920 ppm
Carbon 12- 3,032 ppm
Neon 20- 1,548 ppm
Iron 56- 1,169 ppm
Nitrogen 14- 1,105 ppm
Silicon 28- 653 ppm
Magnesium 24- 513 ppm
Sulfur 32- 396 ppm
Neon 22- 208
And it gets small after that.
However, the earth is 47% oxygen by weight. Most of the earth is composed of silicon dioxide and pretty much all of the rest is composed of some other metal oxide. All of the other bodies in the solar system have similar properties, being mostly composed of silicon dioxide, save for the sun, Jupiter and Saturn, that are composed of Hydrogen and Helium. Taking this data into account, the atoms are available to make water. However, hydrogen would rather be a gas and oxygen would rather form rock.
I am reminded of my friend Zach who plays the trumpet. He once mentioned shopping for a high-end trumpet in Germany. He explained to me that some of these trumpets included various mixes of copper and zinc in different ways, and that some of the richer tones from these finer metals wouldn't even be heard unless an expert was playing the instrument. This is like the tuning of the planetary system. Only earth, which represents the trumpet being played just right, can cause water to emerge. On the other planets, sound is surely formed, but not at such a perfect tone as earth.
When a planet is placed at the right location relative to the power sources of the galaxy, liquid water forms. Oxygen usually forms solid oxides with the other common elements that are out there, but in the right conditions it forms a liquid that has some properties fundamentally unique when compared to any other substance.
One of the most important properties for this exercise is that solid water floats. When a pool of most of these oxides solidifies, it does so from the bottom (coolest near the crust) to the top (warmest near the sun). Water, however, floats to the top of the pool and is then warmed again by the sun. The densest water at the bottom of the pool is actually above freezing at 4° C. This is unlike any other oxide, where the densest material at the bottom of the pool would be at the freezing point of the oxide. So water alone naturally forms a special crystalline structure that prevents it from freezing totally.
More powerful is water's ionic abilities. It naturally disassociates just a little so that there are always ions present. Add in some ionic impurities and it carries an electric charge very well. But that's not all, it can also interact with highly reactive species like chlorine, fluorine and sodium to become a powerfully ionic substance that can react with almost any other element to greater and greater degrees.
And its greatest role is what it does form to life. This requires interaction with carbon, but the ions in water can be charge-separated to form energetic systems the complexities of which aren't seen anywhere else. It can create quantum effects that absorb energy from the environment and channel that energy to perpetuate specific patterns. Life, in other words.
Schwartz's main point is to look at this as a system, as opposed to discrete effects that happen to interact at this particular place in the universe. It's not like there are any other phenomena that generate such a wide array of unique properties. The universe seems to be designed to have "waterness" at certain points- and waterness leads to life.
This is the crux of the emergent property argument that systems thinking proposes. Looking at the properties of oxygen and hydrogen alone may lead you to what water is and how water will behave, perhaps even leading to the assumption of snow crystals and the ionic effects so unique to water. But could we assume that life would exist unless we knew it was possible first? Could a consciousness conceive of hydrogen and oxygen, and not water, and write out enough equations to theorize that life as we know it could not exist in the absence of water?
I doubt it. It would require a leap of faith to propose such a thing if we used our modern scientific rigor. There just aren't any combinations of 2 common elements that lead to such effects. In fact, pretty much all combinations of 2 common elements lead to a simple substance that has a linear phase transition diagram- hard and dense at low temps, slowly melting to less dense liquid, slowly evaporating to thin gas, slowly expanding to a diffuse plasma. Nothing else has such a wide array of differing and interacting electrical effects. No substance forms a crystalline matrix when frozen that is less dense than the liquid form thus causing the substance to circulate and distribute energy even over its volume. Few substances can be mixed with various other common elements to generate varying ionic and electrical effects. No substance makes up 70% to 90% of living matter apart from water.
So here we see systems thinking. I think another aspect to this is the lack of generalization. We often assume, due to lack of sheer processing power, that third and fourth order effects can be generalized, i.e. solids are more dense than their liquid counterparts. If we can see that the system of the universe inevitably produces water and therefore life, that such a phenomenon is inherent in the structure of matter, then we see the whole universe is life, all aspects of existence are participating. Assuming that all things are separate and obey a concrete set of laws generalizable across all similar phenomena fails to predict the most influential phenomenon in the universe- life.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Gerald O'Donnell has some good things to say
I've been listening to Gerald O'Donnell's podcasts from his site, Probable Future. This is the second time I've listened, and the first since having my revelation, so I'm getting more out of it.
I figured something out this morning about co-creation and competitive creation. Gerald was talking with an interviewer and the interviewer posed a scenario: person A wants chocolate ice cream, and person B wants vanilla. Only one type of ice cream can be ordered, so whose intentions win out?
I think this depends on two things, the level of connection they have to the reality that has structured the idea of ice cream (and the idea of the restaurant, the chair they are sitting in, etc.) and the level of connection they have to each other.
If they lack a tight connection, as in they haven't communicated with each other, barely know each other's names and will not make a tighter connection to each other in the future, then it's entirely possible that person A will have chocolate ice cream served in their universe and person B will have vanilla served in theirs. The weird thing is that, if one were to access the information about that meal from person A's perspective, person A will be eating chocolate ice cream, and if you access that same information from person B's perspective, person A will be eating vanilla ice cream. The same principle applies if we look at what flavor person B is eating, it depends 100% on the perspective.
What if the two people do share a tight connection? Then the flavor chosen depends on each person's degree of connection to the local overmind, or the matrix or the One or whatever. Whoever has the greater connection will have a greater influence on the outcome of the situation and the other person won't get the flavor they want.
This is all assuming that both people have a degree of connection to the One in order to influence their reality. If they only possess a trickle of connection, it's more likely the local overmind will impose whatever flavor has the lowest path of resistance.
I figured something out this morning about co-creation and competitive creation. Gerald was talking with an interviewer and the interviewer posed a scenario: person A wants chocolate ice cream, and person B wants vanilla. Only one type of ice cream can be ordered, so whose intentions win out?
I think this depends on two things, the level of connection they have to the reality that has structured the idea of ice cream (and the idea of the restaurant, the chair they are sitting in, etc.) and the level of connection they have to each other.
If they lack a tight connection, as in they haven't communicated with each other, barely know each other's names and will not make a tighter connection to each other in the future, then it's entirely possible that person A will have chocolate ice cream served in their universe and person B will have vanilla served in theirs. The weird thing is that, if one were to access the information about that meal from person A's perspective, person A will be eating chocolate ice cream, and if you access that same information from person B's perspective, person A will be eating vanilla ice cream. The same principle applies if we look at what flavor person B is eating, it depends 100% on the perspective.
What if the two people do share a tight connection? Then the flavor chosen depends on each person's degree of connection to the local overmind, or the matrix or the One or whatever. Whoever has the greater connection will have a greater influence on the outcome of the situation and the other person won't get the flavor they want.
This is all assuming that both people have a degree of connection to the One in order to influence their reality. If they only possess a trickle of connection, it's more likely the local overmind will impose whatever flavor has the lowest path of resistance.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Notes on Conscious Breathing by Joy Manné
There are connections everywhere, no one theorist has all the right answers to your reality.
Except you, of course.
Manné mentions the idea of separating from the body as a consequence of trauma. Traumatic events are stored in the body holographically as memories. If we experience a trauma that our Selves can't deal with without becoming non-functional, we repress that trauma.
Repression is useful and good, most of us can't deal with trauma when it happens, we need to process it slowly and according to our own inner machinery. However, repression is like damming up a river, it is not sustainable by its nature. Eventually the dam will wither and fail. Also, a dam is not a component of a healthy, functioning earth- it is an unbalanced phenomenon. We want that water to be flowing freely, changing according to gravity and other earthly phenomena- we don't want it to stay as its own object, stuck somewhere with no hope of flushing.
So, while repressing trauma is healthy in the moment, it also results in two negative consequences-
1. The portion of our Self holding the memory goes unused, which is like a broken key on a piano, we can't play some tunes with the somatic instrument because we're missing a note.
2. It takes energy to sustain the dam- energy that is best used for just about anything else.
Manné mentions some of her patients that cannot "feel" their bodies or even be present at all as a result of trauma. These people have dammed all of their somatic rivers such that only a trickle of water reaches their present consciousness and allows them to function. The piano keys available to them only play a narrow repertoire of tunes.
So Manné says this is why we get stuck in repetitive patterns when we haven't processed our trauma properly. With all 88 keys available, not only can we change the song we're playing, we also have every song in the universe available to us.
On page 96, Manné mentions a man named James who has powerful political views that he sees as dictating his perceived failure. "Society", "the rich", his family, his wife, all of these are out to take him down, and he cannot see what it is about himself that allows such victimhood to occur. "James has not got enough free energy for objective observation and assessment of his behavior" she writes.
This is important because it shows that we need energy that we don't use for repression to be happy, and there is a threshold amount without which a seed of contentment cannot grow into a happiness plant. This James character never figures it out and eventually stops going to sessions.
On page 102, Manné says a great thing about taking time out for meditation. "As long as we are choosing our time out, we are also choosing our 'time in'. When we are not choosing, we have grounding and awareness problems. For some people these problems are so severe that they cannot be present at all. Sufferers from severe mental illnesses are afflicted in this way."
I've said for years that the big difference between crazy people on the street and everyone else is that the people on the street can't choose when they are crazy. Most, if not all, of us are crazy at least sometimes during the week. People are homeless because they can't choose when to be crazy, and often end up acting out on the job. So those of us that choose to meditate are also making a better choice as to when our crazy comes out- not where it's destructive.
Except you, of course.
Manné mentions the idea of separating from the body as a consequence of trauma. Traumatic events are stored in the body holographically as memories. If we experience a trauma that our Selves can't deal with without becoming non-functional, we repress that trauma.
Repression is useful and good, most of us can't deal with trauma when it happens, we need to process it slowly and according to our own inner machinery. However, repression is like damming up a river, it is not sustainable by its nature. Eventually the dam will wither and fail. Also, a dam is not a component of a healthy, functioning earth- it is an unbalanced phenomenon. We want that water to be flowing freely, changing according to gravity and other earthly phenomena- we don't want it to stay as its own object, stuck somewhere with no hope of flushing.
So, while repressing trauma is healthy in the moment, it also results in two negative consequences-
1. The portion of our Self holding the memory goes unused, which is like a broken key on a piano, we can't play some tunes with the somatic instrument because we're missing a note.
2. It takes energy to sustain the dam- energy that is best used for just about anything else.
Manné mentions some of her patients that cannot "feel" their bodies or even be present at all as a result of trauma. These people have dammed all of their somatic rivers such that only a trickle of water reaches their present consciousness and allows them to function. The piano keys available to them only play a narrow repertoire of tunes.
So Manné says this is why we get stuck in repetitive patterns when we haven't processed our trauma properly. With all 88 keys available, not only can we change the song we're playing, we also have every song in the universe available to us.
On page 96, Manné mentions a man named James who has powerful political views that he sees as dictating his perceived failure. "Society", "the rich", his family, his wife, all of these are out to take him down, and he cannot see what it is about himself that allows such victimhood to occur. "James has not got enough free energy for objective observation and assessment of his behavior" she writes.
This is important because it shows that we need energy that we don't use for repression to be happy, and there is a threshold amount without which a seed of contentment cannot grow into a happiness plant. This James character never figures it out and eventually stops going to sessions.
On page 102, Manné says a great thing about taking time out for meditation. "As long as we are choosing our time out, we are also choosing our 'time in'. When we are not choosing, we have grounding and awareness problems. For some people these problems are so severe that they cannot be present at all. Sufferers from severe mental illnesses are afflicted in this way."
I've said for years that the big difference between crazy people on the street and everyone else is that the people on the street can't choose when they are crazy. Most, if not all, of us are crazy at least sometimes during the week. People are homeless because they can't choose when to be crazy, and often end up acting out on the job. So those of us that choose to meditate are also making a better choice as to when our crazy comes out- not where it's destructive.
Launch Post
I've got to start somewhere with this.
On July 1st I connected to the Earth Mother for the first time. She gifted me with a connection to her, the benefits of which I won't try to explain just yet. In a nutshell, she removed my fear and caused me to act like a really nice person.
Going forward, I'm going to try and write down interesting things I come across in my further research.
The name of this blog refers to the idea that sound is everything, everything is composed of vibrating particles of light. Not light like a beam of photons, but potential light that is stored as in a battery. A battery never glows, but can easily be made to generate light. Electrons move about inside a computer, and if observed from a certain perspective, like an arc, they are light. However, in the computer, their patterns are amplified so only certain patterns are vibrated to light the monitor. This is all very similar to how the mind works.
This light that I speak of is synonymous with pure thought. All things are vibrated into existence by conscious thought.
Obviously, the world is changing, the background hum is getting louder and more noticeable, until eventually it will be the sound of thunder changing the Earth and the Human to different conscious levels. So I ask this thunder, and it can hear me for it is just as conscious as I-
Where we goin'?
Also, Brian Regan.
On July 1st I connected to the Earth Mother for the first time. She gifted me with a connection to her, the benefits of which I won't try to explain just yet. In a nutshell, she removed my fear and caused me to act like a really nice person.
Going forward, I'm going to try and write down interesting things I come across in my further research.
The name of this blog refers to the idea that sound is everything, everything is composed of vibrating particles of light. Not light like a beam of photons, but potential light that is stored as in a battery. A battery never glows, but can easily be made to generate light. Electrons move about inside a computer, and if observed from a certain perspective, like an arc, they are light. However, in the computer, their patterns are amplified so only certain patterns are vibrated to light the monitor. This is all very similar to how the mind works.
This light that I speak of is synonymous with pure thought. All things are vibrated into existence by conscious thought.
Obviously, the world is changing, the background hum is getting louder and more noticeable, until eventually it will be the sound of thunder changing the Earth and the Human to different conscious levels. So I ask this thunder, and it can hear me for it is just as conscious as I-
Where we goin'?
Also, Brian Regan.
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