So, it turns out, we don’t know much. From the island of Maui to the comfort of the chairs we are reading this in, we are all lacking information. It’s true that we don’t know enough to worry, but the need for more of it is insatiable.
I recently learned that the universe is 99.99% plasma for example. What do I do with that? What is it? Well, it’s everything. Robert Temple lays all this out in his new book A New Science of Heaven. He explains how our focus on the material world—or the atom-based reality—has only got us started; he feels we are at the beginning of science, not nearly even close to the end. You see, plasma is not atom-based. It’s something else entirely. And it seems to be conscious as well.
Robert makes this point that we are IN the Sun, not around it. If you imagine plasma traveling the solar winds and dancing with photons, you can begin to see how we are enveloped IN IT, not around it. Also, to see our star as a node amongst the trillions of other stars within trillions of other galaxies in which plasma—within much of it—is unseen yet connecting everything together, then, when we see that we are bio-plasmic beings temporarily wearing our bodies, living within our star (a node in the universe), it quickly conjures another version of the universe to mind (at least it does for me).
Seen in a fractal-like way with the neurons of the brain, we live on but one synapse among a plasma-filled sea of countless others. I suppose it’s just another way of seeing the interconnectivity of all things but with a touch of science and soul. Plasma is wild.
This is where my mind has been this Sunday—well, here and awkwardly wrapped around the quincunx (I’ll be teaching a class on it tonight; link below). It’s also my way of coping with the unsustainable amount of stress and anxiety I am seeing in the world at the moment, feeling strong winds of it myself. Nestling into big ideas like Robert presents in his book makes me feel comfortable in the chaos—especially when the moon is headed for Pluto. I hope it does for you as well.
Enjoy what you find below and thank you for opening.
-adam
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And here is my latest piece of prose about seeing planets as ‘extended phenotypes."‘
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JUL 26
The world is indeed unnerving these days. It's been smoky again in Seattle, so I had my house closed up with a fan and air purifier on in 85 degree heat yesterday. The smoke messes with my nervous system. It's a fight or flight trigger... It was so hot and stuffy in here that I finally gave up and threw open the windows before bed. Combined with the news that somehow works it's way around and between the filters I place on it, I found myself tossing and turning much of the night and got up this morning feeling like I'd been mud-wrestling all night. I guess I need a book like that that takes me out of reality.
All of the above, and the Skelligs, sweet magical Skelligs...