still
with me in this thought experiment? Great! It’s time to shift
gears and start thinking about your mind. If you grew up in a Western
culture, you probably thought of your body as your physical self,
your mind as mostly your brain circuitry and emotional makeup (with
maybe a touch of something else, not sure what, but some kind of “higher
consciousness”—again not sure where that exactly resides—might
be in the brain, might not), and finally a soul, which definitely
exists on another plane of existence, and which is really hard
to connect to, but some part of it, at least, is either connected
to your body or somehow lodged in the physical—again, not
sure how or where, somehow our religion just skipped over that
detail.
A lot of vague stuff here, isn’t there? About the only clear-cut thing
is the soul/body split. That’s pretty firm. Except it isn’t. Not
to a whole new generation of scientists and philosophers.
So put that old model aside, and let’s think about a new one. In this model,
you, your entire YOU, are like a string of musical notes, from the lowest, low
note to the highest high note. So high and so low, in fact, that you can’t
see or hear where they begin or end. You can hear some of these low notes—the
ones that make up your physical body. They’re made up of the atoms and
molecules in your body.
But now let’s go up the scale. The midtones are your mind. Hmmmmm. Hear
their sounds? All day long, as thoughts, inspiration, dreams, breakthroughs,
deja vu. And the highest notes, the ones that are just out of your hearing (because
after all, the lowest notes of your body only have a limited spectrum that can “hear”)
are your soul.
way
of looking at your body, mind, and soul is as a continuum of frequencies. Frequencies
are simply measurements of waves. As physics professor Goswani puts it, frequencies
are simply “how fast a wave wiggles.” Just about everything can be
measured in terms of frequencies. Light frequencies make up both visible and
invisible spectrums. You can see red light as the color red. But you can’t
see ultraviolet light—that’s the light that gives you a sunburn.
Sounds also travel in frequencies. Dogs hear frequencies that we can’t.
Our radios and cell phones pick up frequencies that are around us all the time—all
through the air—that we can’t hear.
My point is that our physical bodies are very limited in perceiving frequency
spectrums, or wave energy. But because we can’t hear or see it does not
mean that, say, TV signals don’t exist.
In fact, all life—everything in our solar system, is made of wave energy
at its source. You are, I am, and so is the computer you are looking at right
now. This background wave energy that makes up everything is the Flow itself.
And all the smaller, subdivided wave frequencies that make up the concrete objects
in the Universe are simply different “tunings” of this energy. Just
by virtue of existing, you are participating in the Universal Flow right now,
at this very moment.Your Flow (the Flow that makes up You) and the Flow of everything
you are interacting with are mixing and colliding with each other right now,
indeed existing as PART OF one another. This includes your thoughts, other people’s
thoughts, the frequencies of light and color around you, the frequencies of the
electrons spinning in every physical object surrounding you. Which, interestingly,
leads us right back to your hand. Can you see what’s in the empty spaces
between those atoms now? The Flow—the radiant energy of all things, stored,
ultimately, as wave information.
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