Perhaps spurred on by processing the grief…
Going through the myriad failures of our Democratic Party over these years…
Some of these I have highlighted in other Blog entries…
I have been reading others pontificating, ad nauseum…
Not doing that this time…
Much weirder thoughts to process this morning.
These thoughts started on my bike ride yesterday afternoon.
I do not listen to music or podcasts when biking, I just enjoy the changing scenery and muse…
First was processing hearing something about witnessed UFO sightings by highly trained Airforce personnel, clearly seeing something that should not be possible with current human technology.Can’t find the original reference, some low-level info here:
https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/uaps.htm
Then my musings went to the conundrum of dark matter and dark energy:
“The universe is made up of three components: normal or visible matter (5%), dark matter (27%), and dark energy (68%).”
“Scientists today think dark matter exists in a vast, web-like structure that winds through the whole universe – a gravitational scaffold that attracts most of the cosmos’ normal matter. They’ve determined that dark matter isn’t composed of known particles of matter because the universe would look very different if it were. The search for what makes up dark matter continues.”
“Dark energy may compose roughly 68% of the universe, but scientists know even less about it than they do about dark matter. But something like dark energy must exist to explain the universe’s accelerating expansion.” https://science.nasa.gov/universe/overview/building-blocks/
The first time I came upon this information a few years ago, my first thoughts were: “WTF! “
I am no physicist, but I do have a science PhD and an MD, and for 30 plus years have read Science News and 2 astronomy magazines…
Clearly, the more we know, the more we realize how profound is our level of ignorance of how everything works…
It seems we don’t know squat!
Heretic!
So, let us start from a position of profound ignorance…
What can we speculate upon?
I then was thinking about the book “Flatland.” This is about a 2-dimensional world, where 2-dimensional beings cannot understand a 3-dimensional being.
In some ways a parallel to the allegory of Plato’s Cave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69F7GhASOdM
According to string theory there may perhaps 11 dimensions…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory
So let us theorize a being that travels in at least just 1 extra dimension…
That being could enter and exit our 3- dimensional world, and we could only glimpse a small slice of that being.
This being could move objects around in our world that would seem to be impossible.
Perhaps an explanation for the unexplainable, such as UFO sightings and the effects on our Universe of what we label dark matter and energy.
Maybe each of us are extensions of higher dimensional beings…
As in Douglas Adams’ pandimensional beings that look like mice…
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/475365-these-creatures-you-call-mice-you-see-they-are-not
Perhaps we, and the entire Cosmos, are an extension of one higher dimensional being…
Oh well, then we get back to something we can label as” G-d, or Source,” the speculations that arise out of the study of the mystical centers of all religions, as per Houston Smith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huston_Smith
As I have labeled “Everything-That-Is and Everything-That-Is-Not.”
Everything-That-Is, perhaps being that 5% visible matter…
Everything-That-Is-Not,” is everything else, pure potential, including the potential of dark matter (27%), and dark energy (68%).
My next musings related to our relationship to this potential extra dimensional being or concept. Since we are an extension of this Source, can we not look back into the Source, is that what happens in meditation or in deep dreamless sleep?
Do we get back to being Source…
Is that how we get back to “Winning the Game?”
Not “Winning” as in there are winners and losers, not being the human with the most stuff as a winner, perhaps “Winning” as realizing there is a “Game” being played, and being played at a higher level than we are able to comprehend…
Perhaps the Lila of Hinduism…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lila_(Hinduism)
Perhaps, through this contact feeling the interconnectedness of all things…
Leading to profound compassion for our own small self, and all of us “Other” small selves…And then realizing there is no “Other.”
Maybe leading us to working toward the betterment of all beings and all things…
In whatever way we are able…
Perhaps “Winning the Game” is to get to a place of gratitude, perhaps even a level of satisfaction, if not even happiness, right now, in this very moment…
Does not mean we cannot have sadness and grief for our suffering and the suffering of others…
Does not mean we cannot worry about the potential of future suffering for ourselves and others…
However, we do not let the grief and worry stop us from the gratitude of being given this life…
To appreciate the places we find Truth and Beauty…
Perhaps that is Winning the Game…
Namaste