What do you see in the space inside this tiny shell. The whole shell is about 1 1/2 inches tall. Can you feel the history of events that wore it thin? Can you imagine the energies that have flowed through that gap? Or is it empty space? Is it different than the space around you? Or is it the same? There is only one thing.
[This chapter concludes the “assignment” from my Spirit Guide, See Do, to examine the complexities of our mundane reality. The specific construct given me to examine was a hypothetical cube ¼ inch on a side, floating in the air about a foot in front of my face. This final meditation on our temporal reality will be followed by an examination of “See Do reality.”]
And even if we insist on visualizing an entire atom with all of its constituent particles being whole and right there, they are impossibly small. One example is to see the nucleus of an atom as a pinhead in the center of a stadium. Out in the stands would be the electrons, much smaller than that pinhead.
The rest is just empty space.
Empty “Space” full of “clouds of probabilities” that also have no individual history and that are not limited to any specific volume, or location, in Space or Time.
I think I may be starting to see the value of this lesson.
That is what I have been working on with this meditation. It has sent me down many paths of research and exposed me to many new and amazing ideas. I’ve read things about all these subjects in order to reach what is even now, the most rudimentary understanding, if I could be so bold as to label it “understanding” at all.
And in between, I have been looking at other infinities. Infinities beyond the nearly incomprehensible complexity of “reality” inside our quarter-inch cube.
As I’ve thought about it and walked around a bit today, I’ve come to understand that this meditation on the most basic reality is, in fact, just the beginning. This little cube of space in front of my face is a place where we might have thought not much was happening. But there is so much there. And then, to extend this line of inquiry into places where there obviously is more going on? Well, that is yet to come, I think.
My mind goes to thoughts of living cells and molecules and the energies within those worlds. The complexity of an instant inside us. And I come back to the interconnectedness of everything.
It’s mind expanding and tempting to start again. There is no Time. Time does not exist. But to us, this thing we call Time is all we can detect. There is only one thing. Everything is connected.
I am told, by See Do, that the path to integrating all of this is through the complexity, through the infinities. Not through simplification. It is not a “concept” that you can hold in your hand, like a big number that you know, and can write, but have no true concept of. It is real. It is everything. And it is all, and all at once.
This is the beginning. It is more than a simple exercise of the mind. It is a meditation that is always accessible now. Hold it all and you are closer to the truth.
Take it with you and walk with it. Allow the complexity of the world into your heart. Into your True Being.
With our mind we can travel beyond our senses. With our mind open we can reach greater sensitivity to all the movements around us. And through us. In True Being we can reach out.
There is something here. And I am getting closer to it.
And I am ready.
— continued (Next: Are you ready for the realities of See Do reality?)
Heaviness. Lightness. Gravity. The duck is bouyant because its body is displacing more mass of water than the duck's own total mass. So the duck is pushed down into the water by gravity and the heavier water, held in place by gravity, pushes back. And the duck floats, completely unaware of the perfect and intimate communications going on around it -- between itself, the water, the Earth, the moon and beyond.
[This chapter continues the “assignment” from my Spirit Guide, See Do, to examine the complexities of our mundane reality. The specific construct given me to examine is a hypothetical cube ¼ inch on a side, floating in the air about a foot in front of my face. These meditations on our temporal reality will be followed by an examination of “See Do reality.”]
And there is one more force passing through our quarter inch cube of air. It is the weakest of Nature’s four big forces, well behind the Strong Nuclear Force, the Weak Nuclear Force, and Electromagnetism. In fact, I nearly left it out. It is Gravity. Something that in our world is so ubiquitous as to be almost forgotten.
The force of Gravity moves through our cube too. And in every direction. Of course, the most obvious direction is “down,” pulling the masses of all those molecules toward the center of the Earth’s mass.
But what is this stuff? What is Gravity? A wave, a particle, what? The truth is that right at the moment, there is no good answer. The theories haven’t quite cracked the code of this one yet.
But there is something going on. Something is happening. You are held to the mass of the Earth by something. And somehow, you are held to the very center of that mass. Somehow every bit of the Earth and everything on it is interacting instantaneously and letting every other bit know the sum. Instantaneously. And all that information goes through the cube.
You can easily prove it. Get a nice hefty pen and hold it vertically just above the cube. And let it go. Whatever force is pulling it down had to pass through the cube. And it did so with a force that was exactly, precisely, perfectly proportional to the difference in mass between the Earth and the pen. Consider the calculation. Imagine calculating the difference between the entire planet and the pen. But you don’t have to. It’s done automatically. And perfectly. It’s Gravity.
But it’s not very strong. When it comes to ferrous metals, most any dime-store magnet exhibits more power. But it is incredible pervasive.
In fact, it apparently extends its grip infinitely. Our Moon easily lifts the seas. Our planet is held fast to the Sun, over ninety-three million miles away. And our Sun is held in orbit around the galactic center over twenty-four thousand light-years away. Our Milky Way galaxy itself is being pulled toward something heavier. Everything is. And the combined effect of all mass has an effect on everything everywhere. And all that information is somehow transiting our cube. All that information. Right now.
The exact weight of that pen when you let it go was contingent on all of it. Was the moon up? The Sun? They may have had a tiny, tiny, miniscule effect, but the information was there. And part of the calculation.
Back inside our little cube the most obvious effect of Gravity is the air pressure. Our air molecules are under the weight of all the air above them. That’s roughly sixty miles of air pushing down. The pressure comes to nearly fifteen pounds of pressure per square inch holding our little cube together.
Many see Gravity as one proof of instantaneous action at a distance. And frankly, if you can prove otherwise, please let me know.
It’s all moving through our little cube. An amount of information that reaches the infinite. A simply staggering quantity of data. Meditate on that a while. I’ll be back with more to think about.
— continued (Next: The bigger energies inside our cube.)
