The Creation of the Physical Reality

One of the things that I’ve understood (but not necessarily as in a knowhow or knowledgeable  way) since I was a child is that, we as human beings are able to influence the physical reality. The question that I have pondered and still do study today has to do with how and how much of a role do we humans play in the creating the formations of this physical reality.

The reason that I’m writing about this today has to do with a mango tree and a large branch that broke off from it right before my eyes earlier today. This is the branch that grew so quickly from the tree, as though it were going enter right into my balcony of the apartment where I live. Mangos started appearing, lots of them, so close that I could simply reach out and pick them. Which I would have done in  time, had that branch not snapped off.

Standing in the shower earlier today while looking out the window, I spied a lone mango which I hadn’t noticed before. “Hi mango” I said as I often to do to the mangos and the mango tree. Not more than a second or two went by; I heard a loud snap and I watched as that big branch collapsed.  I felt a little sad and I couldn’t help but ask, what or how much of a role did I play in that outcome, that collapse? I (for lack of a better word) observe and monitor events, sometimes over the course of many, many years. So for me, it’s not so much of a question of “if” I influence the world around me, it’s how and how much.

Ever notice how a car just won’t start for one person, but then another person gets in and starts it right up? Whereas some would call that, coincidence, I prefer to refer to that as a result of focused or directed intention. Are we not connected to everything? Does our intention not influence with everything that we are connected with?

About 15 years ago when my partner and I bought a new house, my dream house back in those days. I wanted so much to have trees growing in the back on the western side, that I used to imagine a big tree growing there and providing shade with lots of leaves . Several years went by, at least 5 to ten and then one day, I noticed that a tree had taken root very close to the back of the house. At first it grew rather slowly, but then just in the last two to three years, it doubled and tripled in size. Nowadays, it just keeps on growing and it’s so close to our house, only inches away from an overhanging roof of the first floor. I wondered about the effect that big typhoon winds  might have on the movement of the branches of that tree. I even thought about trimming the tree or dare I say cutting it down. But then I remembered how much I had wanted that tree. So I’ve decided just to let it be, talk to it occasionally and ask it to please be careful not to hit or damage the roof. Lol, I’m still monitoring the situation.

So, here I am once again wandering about the role I/we play, take and/or accept as responsible human beings. I don’t buy into the idea or definition of a coincidence being an occurrence or outflow that just happens to happen. Instead I define coincidence as an outcome or result of two or more actions coming together and/or colliding in the same moment as a result of the starting-point intentions of all the actions that came together to make up that particular moment. My point is that, I’m certain that, we humans (and of course nature and the animal kingdom) are far more responsible for creating the physical reality of our surroundings than most of us would even venture to imagine.

I have a theory about this that would take me awhile to explain, so I’ll just lay the basics of it here. As human beings consisting of a mind conscious energy, beings and physical bodies, we, we, we… Lol, the words don’t seem ready to come out. I guess it is, as am I, still a work in progress in the process of understanding the physical reality, how things work and our responsibilities that come with standing as this reality. Anyway, we do actually create the physical reality and I’m sure it’s really cool how it works, especially the technicalities, as well as the changes that seem to be occurring.  Have you noticed how the consequences we create seem to be playing out more immediately?

That being said (or not), there is also a scientific rationale for why the branch of the mango tree grew so quickly and presented me with so many mangos. As I had wanted a little more light in that area of my apartment, I began turning on the balcony light every night about a year ago and I guess that the tree just extended its branch for the light and decided that would be a good place to grow a bunch of fruit. As to why the branch happened to break just at that moment that I said “Hi mango,” I think it had something to do with the weight of the rain, my sound perhaps and of course the tree. Six green mangos also fell right inside of my balcony. Maybe I’ll make Thai green mango salad.

The Most Difficult Part of Writing

I often say that the most difficult part of writing is writing the first word. I don’t have the words that I will write all planed out. However, I have found that once I begin writing, the words eventually just seem to pan out as though it were the words writing themselves out and not me. This makes sense to me because, as I was telling my students today, “In the beginning there was the word and the word was…” Some say “god” and some say “sound.” I say that the word, god and sound are one in/and/of the same. Therefore, to say that, the word is god as the creator (and not the other way around) as the power that creates is perhaps not so far fetched. For, what am I, what are we but the words we speak as the sounds we create? And what is it that we create - ourselves as the words we sound. We as sound are the words we create as ourselves; hence the importance (I guess) of being of sound mind to stand equal with the body of sound.

That being said, perhaps not as precisely (or rightly) as I am able to say, yet nevertheless said, I have an idea, an old idea of mine and it goes like this. As words are the building blocks or DNA/design of ourselves and this physical reality, shouldn’t we be able to manipulate, create or at least change reality to an extent via our words? I’ve written about this before, how the magic of magicians used to “really” alter the physical reality. Somewhere along the line, I guess that art seems to have been lost. I have often thought that it should stay lost. Even when I heard someone say that the age of magic would return, I had no interest in it because it is not a permanent solution and sometimes creates even bigger problems. However, as so much of the world does seem to be going to pot, hell in a handbag or whatever it is that they say, perhaps what the world needs now is a little magic - as spells or words specifically directed.

Actually, it’s not magic like abracadabra and the genie appears. It’s simply or difficulty a matter of writing out the correct words, sometimes called spells and this is what I plan on experimenting with for a while, writing spells and casting them out into our reality. I realize that this may sound strange to some. However, for me it’s one of those certainties that I’ve had for quite some time. In short, I “believe” or perhaps I should say “theorize” that words as spells written and cast correctly may become quite a force of reality. The key to understand (and also why I have not spent so much time on this) is that the force we create with words is not permanent. In other words, the spells of one, cast into a lot of many may for a moment have what appears to be a big impact, kind of like a smartphone battery wired to turn over the engine of a car. It will do it, but only for a moment. Of course, if there are many batteries working together, then the effects will be longer lasting. Ideally, all the batteries could one day be connected and focused on creating the same outcome, that which is best for all.

This is why in the past I have encouraged others to target our words for maximum impact to the benefit of others. Key here to writing right and casting such words or spells is to do so from the starting point intention of creating outflows that are best for all. The risk in all of this is that, in supporting one area, another one may be diminished. Again, this is all just a theory/belief and this post is but a record and a warm up as part of my experiment to support the solutions that are ready to be implemented.

The Tree That I Wished For

The home that I live in with my partner during summer vacation, winter vacation and sometimes on weekends was once the home/house that I dreamed of and wished for. To the east, there is a view of the main gate, a large community area and a park of green grass, trees and stone laden pathways. In the back, facing west there is a farm of rice paddies and buildings of the city beyond that. All of this is in the middle of Taiwan’s third most populated city.

When we first moved in, it was just me and my golden retriever puppy named Happy. Soon the city began planting trees in the park and I used to imagine what they would look like ten years from then. I was very satisfied at the time with my house and the front view. However, I couldn’t seem to stop wishing there were more greenery in the back facing west. Apparently the farmer had decided to let all that land sit idle for few years and I guess he started that just about when we move in.

As having no greenery back there just wasn’t part of my dream, I decided to plant my own tree. So I went an bought a pine tree, carried it back there and I planted it so that it would grow in front of my window, provide shade in the summer time and greenery for my view. Soon thereafter the farmer contacted me and said that I couldn’t just go planting trees on his land. Not having much of an argument to stand on, I agreed and sadly I unplanted my tree and replanted in the park. A couple of years later some city workers dug that tree up and replaced it with another kind of tree. I guess it just wasn’t part of their plan.

Nevertheless, I continued to imagine and wish for trees back there. Then one day, I saw that a tree had begun to grow right behind my house. I guessed it was the farmer who planted it, but I don’t know for sure. Soon after that, another tree, kind of like one of those fast growing vine trees began to grow very close to the concrete wall of our house and I guess the foundation of our building. As it grew, I became somewhat concerned that it’s roots might grow under the foundation of our building and perhaps do some damage. I also wondered if, during a typhoon, the overhanging roof on the first floor. Sometimes, I have considered the prospect of trimming the tree or even cutting it down. However, as I have no evidence no evidence that it will cause damage, so why should I cut it down. After all, it is kind of what I asked for.

So I’ve been talking to the tree, like at talk to many things, explaining how important it is not to damage the house with its branches or the foundation with its roots. And no, they don’t talk back to me. Or maybe they do and theirs is a language of expression rather than words. Sometimes a big spider that wonders around our house does occasionally hang out on the wall and seem to stare at me, especially when there’s tension in the air. Anyway, getting back to the tree, in looking at this subject the other day, I recalled the image of how I had so often imagined the greenery growing back there. You know what’s funny? The physical picture that I view now is very, very similar to what I had quite often wished for and imagined going back about forteen years. Actually, it’s more than I had hoped for. Thus, I am reminded of the saying, be careful what you wish for, because once the seed is planted, it may grow beyond what you wished for.

Communication Creation, Feb, 11, 2017

So, I had an epiphany in relation to communication creation. Now it is a question of changing my knowing to an understanding. However, before I even post that sentence with the word, epiphany, I am going to check the internet for (let’s call it) a common understanding of the word. Then, I am going to check my own definition to see if they are both aligned in-order to communicate my intention as best I am able.  Not really as best I am able, but close enough for now.

Epiphany (according to Merriam-Webster): “a (1) :  a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) :  an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) :  an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b :  a revealing scene or moment.” Yes, epiphany is the word I will choose to use here, for now.

What was my epiphany about? Words and the communication creation process, that has been compromised by a lack of awareness of how we communicate to create from the within of ourselves to the without of the world system. At this moment, I am not in a position to verbalize clearly or type out everything I know, because it is still a knowing, not an understanding. However, I  will (over time) pull this knowing out of me, piece by piece to place it here and there to see where it fits as I rewrite and revise until it is right and all of the pieces fit into place.  

I had read that, Jesus said to become the living word or something like that, but, I did not understand the dynamics or science behind such a statement. However (and this is where my epiphany comes in), I am now beginning to see the science or relationship lines embedded into and as the words as the tools of communication, the tools of creation. Now, the process for me is to extract, for lack of a better word or technique as of yet, the essence of my knowing, so to change myself from a knowing to an understanding.

Do these sentences look scrambled? From my perspective, they are extremely scrambled; nevertheless, this is my method or process of extracting and unscrambling information from inside of me. Sometimes, it's like pulling relevant information out of the air, but most of the time it's like extracting a deep splinter that been embedded close to the bone. Thus, I often end up utilizing a lot of time and many words to write right, just one sentence to the point, that I am satisfied that my intention embedded into the sentence will be communicated clearly and not easily be misinterpreted or misrepresented. This is not to say that the sentence is complete, but that my intention embedded into and as the words of the sentence is aligned with what I intend to communicate/create in consideration of those to whom I am communicating.

For example, in searching for a clear definition of the word, democracy, I probably ended up writing fifty to one-hundred pages, often setting the project down for a while, then going back to it, revising it here and there, until I arrived at the following. Democracy is a form of collective decision-making, wherein the degree of democracy expressed by the collective is equivalent to the degree by which all members of the collective have the opportunity to participate equally in all of the decision-making processes that affect the collective. It sounds simple enough; so, why did it take me more than a year to come up with?

Why must one write so many words just to arrive at one clear, succinct definition of intention to then communicate one's intention? The answer (in short) is because, I/we have entangled ourselves into and as so many different definitions, embedded in our words, thereby contradicting or countermanding with unrealized meanings, the intent of our communication, which ends up compromising our communication, thereby creating unintended outflows.

Words cast in spells, mold the clay that form the world.

From the within to the without, communication-creation requires two or more. This is why redefining our words in order to be certain of our intentions - as the main ingredients embedded into and as our words - is an essential step in the communication/creation process.  However, even though one's communication may be of a benevolent starting-point, this does not necessarily mean that his or her communication will result in benevolent outflows. Why? Because the complete “meaning” of the words cast in spells, that molded the clay into and as the world, has not been understood.

This is perhaps another dimension of the communication/creation process, one that I intend to explore and perhaps unveil. That being said, the journey may take quite some time. Thus, I will include this renewed purpose in my personal process. After all, as communication creation requires two or more, what we create will never be anything more or better than the least each other's intentions, even the suppressed and/or hidden ones.   Hence, the importance of each one's personal process.