The world around us

The world around us:

In todays modern life ideals we don't have nearly as much time to look around us as much as those in ancient or previous times. In a lot of the research I have compiled ancient megalithic structures like stonehenge can be interpreted using an intellectual profile study, and we can speculate much around our ancestors - in doing so this may help us to understand ourselves, although its really quite fascinating when you look at structures like stonehenge and Avebury among many others.

When Alexander Thom reviewed many of these ancient sites, and more recently Gerald Hawkins along with a lot of archeology, some surprising details were concluded including astronomical alignments and universal measurements such as the megalithic yard. This casts some new opinions about the intelligence of these ancient people. 

More recently Jon Morris had concluded that it is extremely possible that some of these structures were used to teach the idea of a fixed world in which the earth revolved around the sun, so almost like a part college/teaching centre function, and centuries ahead of its time. This has helped to build an intellectual profile, implying that from a very early age mankind has understood and needed to understand the world around us, and not just in religious terms.

In nature there are some really remarkable organisms, and the system as a whole is a fine tuned machine, where nothing is wasted and every part of the process is in harmony. The cycle of life is a great example and a great example of the system of nature is Slime mould, the largest single celled organism. For an organism of this type it shows remarkable intelligent behaviour, when a slime mould mass or mound is physically separated, the cells find their way back to re-unite.

We can look at other organisms and even nature as a whole, which is amazing really, we are able to distinguish between the whole and the parts, even while being a part of the system ourselves! Imagine if your blood cells became self aware and started to understand the other parts of the body. In many ways we are just like those red blood cells existing within nature!

There are many ways in which we can see the evidence of nature, and its self replicating parameters. We learn about the life death sequence of a rainforest in school, when something dies, parts of nature – other organisms, digest the material. Life can continue in another form, from our perspective nature as a collective is eternal, parts of the system die and new life is given, and the cycle continues. When you view this cycle as a whole it is remarkable efficient and in fact nothing dies, it just transforms. We only view the ending part as we are an integral part of the system and for us it does in fact die, but what happens if we can perceive our lives beyond this limit?

There are rules within nature, laws if you will, and the most well known is the fibonacci sequence, it is the sequence in which Rabbits breed, plants grow, and the dimensions of spiral shells can be found conforming to. This is known as the golden ratio, and it would imply that nature has its own rules, or laws. Nature seems to provide the scope for randomness to occur, but in fact nature is not random, however complex and seemingly random it may appear. In this way I tend to view nature as a system, as a whole or as described later a level of consciousness.

Excersize:

For this excersize you will need to take a walk in your nearest natural habitat, it could even be your garden, but I would advise you go somewhere you have not been to before or visit less frequently. The excersize we are going to embark on is called mindfulness, which simply put is experiencing in full the world around us. This excersize tends to work better if you just walk, preferably keeping to the tracks, but imagine you are a child on a nature trail for the very first time. The mindset we are going to have is one of optimism, and observation. Mindfulness is all about experiencing with all of the senses, so we breath in the smell of nature take in its beauty through the sights, so we look at a tree follow the branches, how many branches does it have, what colour what does the tree smell of, touch the bark, is it hairy, is there algae? As we walk we should enjoy the sensation of nature giving us life, air, and remarkable sights. Remember the trees, branches and everything else conforms to laws and rules, and it is all completely unique, no tree is the same. How remarkable is this? A system which is so complex, it dies, gives life, follows a pattern but is completely unique. Take a look at the animals, what do they look like, what colour are they, where do they live, what are they doing, what does it eat, where does it live, what happens when it dies - how does the cycle continue beyond its life?

So we can view nature collectively, and independently, when we view this from outside we can see that an intelligence exists, perhaps not an intelligence which is self aware like ourselves, but an innocent unemotional intelligence which exists in single celled life operating within the system. as well as this we have the system as a whole which recycles itself, in complete harmony, all while maintaining a completely complex uniqueness within itself. It is easy to see how one can describe nature as mother earth, and how this may have formed the early earth worship religions and beliefs in ancient times.

The universe as one: 

In effect we have no limits to our perception, and intent, which is again pretty amazing, we can imagine at any point anything we wish. However large to however small. So why not start with everything.

Imagine all life, the universe absolutely everything as one. When I think of this I imagine a sphere, a 3 dimensional perfect sphere. Nothing exists outside of this sphere, everything in its entirety exists within this sphere. This can be described as the top level, oneness, wholeness, unity. This is how we envision everything, in a positive light. 

I have learned recently seeing the good in things is an important trait so when I view this I get a sense of innocent and extreme perfection and beauty.  I refer to this everything in this trait as an infinite consciousness, the unity of everything we know and can see and the energy and the "behind the scenes also".

Excersize:

This excersize is designed to get you to think about where you sit within the universe, in that we can use our consciousness to imagine ourselves at different levels. 

So imagine that everything is this circle, or sphere of perfection, a perfect white circle (white as all colour combined is equal to white). 

An Electron is supposed to be very close to a perfect sphere, put another way, if the electron was magnified to the size of the solar system, it would deviate from immaculate rotundity by a magnitude equivalent to a human hair, which is almost perfect - a pretty good creation by anything by our standards. 

Is this principle also not similar to the planets and orbits, i.e electrons orbiting the nucleus. Nature seems to be scaled, at every level from the slime mould intelligence, to nature as a whole self replicating using a series of rules. So can we be described as mini universes? I like to think so, so lets meditate using the earlier practice. After initiating, try to imagine everything in the universe as a sphere, then imagine yourself as a smaller universe, as a sphere within that sphere.

Then imagine that in your belly theres an even smaller universe, an electron, almost perfect sphere, except that it is a perfect sphere. Imagine that this sphere inside your belly is in fact the universe.

Imagine that the universe being this sphere can be perceived from within or outside, that is the amazing potential that we have being a part of the universe, and I think that that in itself is truly remarkable. Ponder on this for while, imagine the universe! 

The future Is In Your Hands

If you haven't watched or read books about the "Law Of Attraction" then do so, a good introduction to this is "The Secret". There seems to be a direct link with what we do and think to what happens to us, down to events which are out of our control, i.e bumping into someone in the street being a direct result of our thought process. The secret describes the law of attraction as a cosmic force, I suggest it is not cosmic or mystical but completely obvious if you stop and watch the things around you and the effect your mindset can have on them.

This in itself is not possible unless you refine the way things may occur, for instance, how does this work for everyone? This theory of the multiverse may help:

I was told when growing up to think of the universe as a multiverse, and my thought process interpreted this as the universe being almost like a spiral, and that there are many versions of this moment in time, and we are switching through those versions based on the actions which we take. I was always taught that my decisions and even mind set was important to the future I hoped to have. 

This is based on the universe being a kind of reflector, reflecting the projections of our own mind and actions, the interesting thing about this is that as long as you believe in these actions then the circumstances will manifest themselves. This to me implies a lack of moral intelligence, and that there is no deliberate judgement figure behind this like a traditional God like figure smiting and punishing us, I see it like much more of a reflector, as speculated earlier, doing what it does, the only way it can, reacting to us all individually, and collectively. The research of Rupert Sheldrake (mentioned later, would again seem to compliment the law of attraction), as well as the theory I am proposing.

Goal setting:

A great excersize to do, at any time is goal setting. I often find myself doing this when things feel wayward, or direction has been lost, or something changes in life. In the self motivational industry we call this course correction, it allows you to take control and get back on track to where you need to be. It can make a huge difference to people and their lives, in the way of affirmation. When you write these goals down you are saying that you really want this, almost conditioning yourself, thus synchronising yourself with what you need to become.

Goal setting is important, but you have to want it, and for the right reasons, the other important thing is to set yourself realistic but challenging goals. For example If you set a goal for becoming a millionaire then this is frivolous as it is extremely hard to get to that point without other goals, and also there is no reason behind this, it is known as a whim and you may not achieve it. If you had a genuine desire to reach people across the world and to inspire change on a global basis, this may seem unachievable but truth be told its a true motivator!

The key also is to set short term goals and long term goals, a good mix of the two.

Imagine yourself climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, imagine getting yourself a map and focussing on the summit. Would you ever reach it, maybe, maybe not. The trick is to make smaller goals in order to achieve and reward yourself to give you the motivation to continue and succeed. For each part you feel good, looking upon the remarkable view, and continuing onto the next one. When you get to the top you will have achieved a lot more and will feel stronger because of it. 

Your goals have to reflect you as well, and you must be prepared to change them as you change and develop, the goals should compliment and challenge you, not hinder or de-motivate you.

They should incorporate every part of your life as well, challenging you in your relationships, work life and social life. Financial goals should be enablers to open up further challenges and aid you to achieve more, financial for the sake of being richer will not make you happy unless you have other goals to challenge you. All the successful entrepreneurs didn't set out merely wishing to be millionaires, if you take a look they had "vision", and this vision will be incorporated by short and long term goals.

So get yourself some paper:

1.  Write down 20 short term and then 20 long term goals on two pieces of paper. 

-They can be anything you want from taking part in a marathon, to running a successful business, the best way is to write down anything that comes in to your head, and then home in on things you want.

2.  With your 20 long and 20 short term goals, write down the reason for the goal, why you want to achieve it and the benefit, also consider further goals and what these may lead on to.

3.  Following the rules above refine your goals to an ideal number of around 5 short and 5 long term goals. 

-Now be completely honest with yourself, on what makes YOU happy, not what other people want, and not what society says you should have. This is harder than you think.

4.  look at your short and long term goals, and ensure that they compliment each other, ensure that your short term goals are realistic, and achievable and that these build up to a long term goal. The idea is to take baby steps toward your major goals, and reward yourself when you have achieved a short term goal, tell yourself well done!

5.  When you have them, these genuine goals should be written on your ceiling, on the toilet door, anywhere where you will look at them. Remind yourself of what you want, and if you feel that a goal is too far out of sight, introduce a smaller short term goal which will give you the motivation to to get to the more challenging ones. Don't give up and be prepared to change and ensure your goals reflect the true motivation behind the changes. Remember: Course correcting is an ongoing process.

I wish you luck in your goals!