Well, today is the last day of 2009. What a journey it has been! We have seen such water under the bridges of our lives, such that we could never have imagined before. There are things and ideas in place now that even fifteen, twenty years ago we would never have thought of.
The increasing rate of connectivity has become a crazy spiralling avalanche descending on us with increasing volume. We are connected now in ways that even the science fiction writers, those wise-men of future things-to-be had dared not envisage.
What fuels this incredibly dizzying ride of connectivity we are on is our own intense desire to be connected. Faster better stronger longer higher shorter wider thinner - we are barrelling down the highway to super-connectivity at such a pace that we won't even have the opportunity to blink when we pass that point. And then, from Super- to Hyper-Connectivity.
At some point (presumably) our technology will fail us. Electrons can only be whipped faster to a certain point, even light-speed computation won't satisfy us for long. We need to look beyond the nuts and bolts of our current thinking and look for different ways to satisfy the powerful urge to communicate.
I often muse that we won't really be satisfied until we gain the ability to communicate at the speed of thought, the speed of predictive instant-icity. Yes, I just made that up, but probably that's the result of trying to describe something that doesn't yet exist.
Someplace somewhere recently I was reading that the human brain communicates at hyper-speed. The point of the article (Note-to-self: must dig that one out again) was that the physical properties of our neurones and the synaptic reactions were limited to the physical/chemical properties of the nerves etc. themselves. The point being that our thinking is faster than the physical properties of our bodies could sustain.
Simply put, we think faster than our bodies should allow us to.
Certainly, someone, somewhere will figure out the mechanics (quantum or otherwise) of this enigma. But the analogy is hidden in there. We long for, we yearn and strive for that same kind of connectivity with others which we experience inside our own minds.
Effectively, we yearn for an almost telepathic connectivity. Who was it that said "Everything Old is New again..."?
Imagine a world where the Internet was instantly accessible. Perhaps not the WWW as we know it now. What if, for instance, we could plug into the echoes Plato, Socrates, Tesla, Einstein, you, me - the world?
If we are all drops in an ocean of reality, surely we must be able to connect with one another in some way other than through mechanistic playthings? Surely, a "meeting of the minds" must be possible?
Perhaps we are paving the way for this with our toys and machinery. Perhaps we are creating a consciousness of connectivity that is pushing us into Hyper-Connectivity. And, methinks, if I am connected to you in a way that is as intimate and immediate as that which I can envisage, perhaps then I will understand you, and you will understand me.
Perhaps that Hyper-Connectivity will enable us to become the Creative Genii (Geniuses) that we truly are. Perhaps when we cannot hide in compartmentalised secrecy, wars and misunderstandings and deceit can no longer stand in the light of Hyper-Connectivity.
What a world would that be! Bring it on, bring it strong! I'm up for it right now - so where do I plug in?
What a way to burst into 2010! I can't wait!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Simply Feeding Life
Maybe it's this time of year. Christmas always has an introspective lead-up to it. Amongst all the frenzy and the buzz, there's also a sense of taking stock, of taking a sobering look at the year that was, and all the promises we made to it, back when it was fresh and newly minted.
Life is as Life does, but that seems barely a pale excuse given the fresh anticipation we held of it back then. Was that only 11 months ago, we entered with much fanfare, hype and anticipation into the empty room of a new twelve-month? Hmm...
Looking back personally, I realise I've simply been feeding Life. Reactively responding to and attending to its needs and necessities, doting on it with the distracted attention of a parent watching the telly while mechanically feeding the baby, missing at times, and wiping away the stains amidst much fussing and clucking. Such is, I find, the attention I pay to Life.
Yet Life is as much full of promise as a new-born, and the attention we pay to it over the intervening years we get back in spades after a time. Perhaps it's patience we have un-learned? The patience, perhaps, of a farmer planning crops and harvests years in advance. Perhaps we've lost that kind of personal vision?
I've come to a personal undestanding, for me at least, that Life requires more than just feeding. It requires love and patience and understanding, and being involved. If Life, to me now is a mechanical rote of days in and out, then perhaps I'm just getting out what I put in.
Maybe what's needed is a bit of engagement. After all, how often have I spoken to my life of my dreams and aspirations, my likes and loves, dislikes and druthers? Seriously! We blithely utter "Affirmations" to no-one or no-thing in particular and half anticipate that it might work. Why not tell it to Our Life? Well... Me to My Life. Sit down, have a conversation with it! Why not?
Oh you're right! Maybe I've partaken of too much Spirit, and not enough Christmas. Yet I can't help feeling like I need to do something differently with My Life next year. Maybe this is it, maybe not. But the inevitable introspection drives me to look at all sorts of different - some might say absurd - possibilities to alleviate the faint disquiet I feel at this time of year.
Hmm.. perhaps also, I might just need a good cup of tea...
Life is as Life does, but that seems barely a pale excuse given the fresh anticipation we held of it back then. Was that only 11 months ago, we entered with much fanfare, hype and anticipation into the empty room of a new twelve-month? Hmm...
Looking back personally, I realise I've simply been feeding Life. Reactively responding to and attending to its needs and necessities, doting on it with the distracted attention of a parent watching the telly while mechanically feeding the baby, missing at times, and wiping away the stains amidst much fussing and clucking. Such is, I find, the attention I pay to Life.
Yet Life is as much full of promise as a new-born, and the attention we pay to it over the intervening years we get back in spades after a time. Perhaps it's patience we have un-learned? The patience, perhaps, of a farmer planning crops and harvests years in advance. Perhaps we've lost that kind of personal vision?
I've come to a personal undestanding, for me at least, that Life requires more than just feeding. It requires love and patience and understanding, and being involved. If Life, to me now is a mechanical rote of days in and out, then perhaps I'm just getting out what I put in.
Maybe what's needed is a bit of engagement. After all, how often have I spoken to my life of my dreams and aspirations, my likes and loves, dislikes and druthers? Seriously! We blithely utter "Affirmations" to no-one or no-thing in particular and half anticipate that it might work. Why not tell it to Our Life? Well... Me to My Life. Sit down, have a conversation with it! Why not?
Oh you're right! Maybe I've partaken of too much Spirit, and not enough Christmas. Yet I can't help feeling like I need to do something differently with My Life next year. Maybe this is it, maybe not. But the inevitable introspection drives me to look at all sorts of different - some might say absurd - possibilities to alleviate the faint disquiet I feel at this time of year.
Hmm.. perhaps also, I might just need a good cup of tea...
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Repost: LifeQuist joins the Resonant Networks Network
I'm excited today. The LifeQuist blog is being copied to the new site Resonant Networks. [www.ResonantNetworks.net]
Resonance is the definitive collaboration, it defines the interactivity of one or more vibrational sources as they reach out and interact with each other.
It's in the spaces between that the harmonies occur. Like one raindrop on a still pool of water, radiating out until its rings touch, ripple through and subtly play with the energies of another drop. It is a mathematical ballet, based on distance and frequency and predetermined physics. But it is beautiful and un-predictable.
Unpredictable because, the randomness of a drop of falling water relative to any other constantly creates new patterns and interactions. If we are all, metaphorically speaking, a drop of water, it is by our unique position, our unique place in the world that we define our individual selves.
We interact, we resonate with others in the same pool. We give of ourselves by the very act of living and being. By our interactions we create amazing music. In the spaces in between
Resonance is the definitive collaboration, it defines the interactivity of one or more vibrational sources as they reach out and interact with each other.
It's in the spaces between that the harmonies occur. Like one raindrop on a still pool of water, radiating out until its rings touch, ripple through and subtly play with the energies of another drop. It is a mathematical ballet, based on distance and frequency and predetermined physics. But it is beautiful and un-predictable.
Unpredictable because, the randomness of a drop of falling water relative to any other constantly creates new patterns and interactions. If we are all, metaphorically speaking, a drop of water, it is by our unique position, our unique place in the world that we define our individual selves.
We interact, we resonate with others in the same pool. We give of ourselves by the very act of living and being. By our interactions we create amazing music. In the spaces in between
Monday, December 7, 2009
LifeQuist joins the Resonant Networks network
I'm excited today. The LifeQuist blog is being copied to the new site Resonant Networks. [www.ResonantNetworks.net]
Resonance is the definitive collaboration, it defines the interactivity of one or more vibrational sources as they reach out and interact with each other.
It's in the spaces between that the harmonies occur. Like one raindrop on a still pool of water, radiating out until its rings touch, ripple through and subtly play with the energies of another drop. It is a mathematical ballet, based on distance and frequency and predetermined physics. But it is beautiful and un-predictable.
Unpredictable because, the randomness of a drop of falling water relative to any other constantly creates new patterns and interactions. If we are all, metaphorically speaking, a drop of water, it is by our unique position, our unique place in the world that we define our individual selves.
We interact, we resonate with others in the same pool. We give of ourselves by the very act of living and being. By our interactions we create amazing music. In the spaces in between.
Resonance is the definitive collaboration, it defines the interactivity of one or more vibrational sources as they reach out and interact with each other.
It's in the spaces between that the harmonies occur. Like one raindrop on a still pool of water, radiating out until its rings touch, ripple through and subtly play with the energies of another drop. It is a mathematical ballet, based on distance and frequency and predetermined physics. But it is beautiful and un-predictable.
Unpredictable because, the randomness of a drop of falling water relative to any other constantly creates new patterns and interactions. If we are all, metaphorically speaking, a drop of water, it is by our unique position, our unique place in the world that we define our individual selves.
We interact, we resonate with others in the same pool. We give of ourselves by the very act of living and being. By our interactions we create amazing music. In the spaces in between.
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