BE HERE NOW

[la_belle_laide]

Lately I've been trying to train myself to be in the moment, you know, like not thinking about what I have to do next and when I will be where I want to be, which more often than not is at my home writing. Sad, huh? Like Yoda said of Luke, "Never his mind on where he was, what he was doing." I'm trying to not be so much like that, and there are a few times when I'm absolutely right there with myself and not trying to imagine myself a half hour into the future, two hours, six hours, the next week. One is obviously when I'm at home writing. Outside playing with my dogs. A lot of the time in the summer, when I'm swimming, or having those terrific summer parties I love so much. Doing Hula for sure, but really dancing, not just rehearsing moves, like for instance during semi-weekly rehearsals. More often than not in those cases, I'm thinking of the stuff I have to do when I leave there. On a roller coaster, involved in a book or movie (although I'm not sure that counts as "being there" since I'm really in a story,) and when I'm training really hard at Kung Fu. When I'm with my family, during family gatherings or just when the kids come over and we're playing video games, or all sitting in my Mom's kitchen.

One of the major times when I'm totally there in the moment is when Kim is at my house and we're having one of our huge conversations. Lately we've been watching lots of movies about perception, the nature of reality, quantum, and the power of the mind. We keep pausing these shows to discuss different ideas, philosophies, to search for alternatives and extra layers. I guess we're both looking for something outside of religion, Fate, nurture, nature, free will. I guess you could call it a "soul" but that's got too many connotations. The conversations are really far more than interesting; anyone who's had a good friend who was actually really smart knows what goes on during these kinds of deeply philosophical conversations. You can go crazy, and you might go crazy if you were facing these things alone. Anyway, that's another one of those times where I'm totally zen, like right there in the moment. And sometimes I think, Thank whatever force it was out of any of the above that made us friends, because I don't know anyone else who will go to that place with me, especially over a slice of balsamic pizza.

Other tidbits: 1) Happy birthday to Leto brother with the great eyes. ^_^ 2) Supposedly, today was the last arctically cold day of the season. 3) Tai Chi tomorrow, during which I will find a medium amount of zen (although that seems a contradiciton in ideas,) and then Hula, during which I will be thinking about all the stuff I have to buy at the grocery store. Maybe I'll get a movie and some strawberries, have a long soak in the bath later in the evening and make it my favorite kind of night. Sunday? NOTHING. And I'll be there for it, totally.

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Emotion in the moment

[davejackson.livejournal.com]

Emote, moment, ? Just realized there might be something there ... Probably cause I am cutting and pasting what I just wrote outside in a word processing program - Enjoy!


Well, since you are back on the universe theme, I'll see if I can put my take on one aspect together. Let's say there was a big bang, but that gravity wants to pull it all back together, but then that would lead to another big bang. What I call a Big Bang Expansion-Contraction (BBEC?). So if there is one, then it is a short extension that there are many. Helps if you believe in the cycle of things, the circle of life, the Yin and the Yang, and other forms of natural balance.

The other component of the interesting equation is emotion. My personal philosophy is that God prefers high intensity emotion. What God is, or why high emotion, is a different thread, but for now, high intensity is the key. Oh, and my opinion of late is that the high intensity emotion he(she) prefers is Love, but since humans are the way they are, he(she) will take whatever we will give, but clearly for me, Love is the preference for the power of the universe.

So putting the two together, BBEC's pass through empty universe, but leave anchor points of intense emotional states of mind which humans with an open mind of exercised creativity can experience. Basically, I was trying to explain the feeling of Deja Vu, the feeling that I did this before, and was wondering how that could be. I also get premonitions fairly often, and wanted to have an understanding of what it was I could possibly be feeling. I don't necessarily want to kill the possibility of raw prediction of the future, but I am not currently a fan of pre-defined fate. I think it is a necessity that free will and combination of circumstance can change the future. As an extension, it is an everchanging BBEC cycle, but not so different each time. Actually, if God were to get his(her) most direct input, it might occur at the moment of Beginning, and then after that, can only alter (altar) the development of life through pressure, like blowing with breath instead of pushing with hand. And like a Ouji board, all hands have a role in providing for the development of the future. But the main point is that we get to tap into the last BBEC if we want to, and are able to.

So Deja Vu is explainable, and believable for an opened mind. We WERE here before. We did do this before. But it is an echo. Slightly different, a little wierd. And different by the combination of the change at the Beginning, and the minor changes that living beings could implement over time. We do play our lives out in roles that are pretty predictable and to get someone to behave out of their self-definition of "normal" essentially requires an act of God.

So then there are these anchor points of high intensity emotional states that exist as a BBEC passes through pure empty space and living things can tap into them and ride them like a bird rides waves of electromagnetism and gravity contours to migrate.

The concept helps provide an explanation for Nostradamus, he was seeing a slight different, prior BBEC, and writing about what he saw, rather than pure prediction of the unknown future, hence the slight differences. Kind of like peeking at the Teacher's book with the answers in it, but you've got the last (earlier) edition.

So it is kind of cool that our emotions transcend space and time by billions of years, and part of being in the moment is to both leave our own trail of high intensity emotions, and read and ride the contours of what went before. But you still have to go food shopping.

Re: Emotion in the moment

[shonagonchan.livejournal.com]

Hi Dave! Good to read from you. I like this a lot! It's so odd (or actually not so odd I guess) that you should bring this up, because this is similar to some of the conversations I've had recently, and also is kind of a big part of the novel I'm working on (specifically the Why of things and the repitition.) My favorite hypothesis has been the Multiverse one: we know what we know because it's all happening at once. On the other hand, I have heard the idea of the BBEC tossed around and it also makes sense. I guess it comes down to what your idea of eternity is, how much will "fit" into one universe, and how many universes will "fit" into eternity, even though that, like "medium Zen" seems a contradiction in terms. (I only use it because my brain is too small for infinity. ;D )

It very nearly sounds like magic, what you're talking about with tapping into energy and using it to shape things that are to come. If so, that's how I see magic, too. Keep in mind that I'm nowhere near Christian or religious as I say things like this, but I do have some pronounced pagan leanings. Though I definitely try not to let any of that stuff filter into any conversations I'm having about things like hard science. I try to be decorous on both sides of the issue. ;)

Re: Emotion in the moment

[davejackson.livejournal.com]

How about everywhen? Pretty cool when you can tap into it : )) (without drugs, obviously.)

Reminds me ... There was a PBS show about language, culture, and meaning (I think) and they had a little Doonesbury Animation where, in answer to some sort of question about the moon (lunar eclispe, maybe), he describes all of the scientific understandings in a technically correct manner, at which point Zonker walks into frame and describes it even better as, "Oh WOW! LOOK at the MOOOON!"

As for the other sides of things, I have been tapping into my core (soul?) intuition and listening to a lot of what it tells me. Not nearly as heavy as it sounds, I use it for ALL kinds of stuff, like to go straight or turn here to get home. Both ways work, but I just do what comes into my mind as an answer. Sometimes really unique consequences occur as a result, other times, I just get home.

Used it some during Oceans. Had a blast with it!

One more tangent, am I an okay person cause I drink Kona coffee? Is there a PC Hawaian issue I should know about. How about buying land, there. Saw a cute piece of undeveloped land on Maui. ;-) Just a little over budget.