Views from the Trees

I’ve wanted to share ideas for quite a while but wasn't sure folks would find the ideasd interesting. I've decided to give it a try and see what happens.
My mind is full of the most intriguing perceptions and a growing desire to share them. I have spent every moment of the past forty years peeking through the veil so to speak, to understand what our world is and how it works. This digging has revealed a few trinkets and bobbles. When I find one of these trinkets I want to share it but usually I’m met with blank stares or a wall of preconceptions preventing the revealing of the hidden beauty.  An idea came to me this morning what was preventing the beauty from showing. It had to do with view point and at the same time I thought, hey these ideas might make a good article for a newsletter or in this case a blog. So here goes.

The view from the forest floor is different from the view from the canopy. When on the forest floor you can see the different trees, smell the damp earthly smell of forest, feel the cool earth between your fingers, hear the songs of the birds and the rustle of hidden creatures, and sense the energy of life pulsing through the branches, the leaves, the bushes, the birds and animals.  While if you climb the tree before you and look out over the great expanse you experience a different world, you can see the forest reaching up into the mountains, outposts exploring new worlds, you can see flocks of birds flying in formation, smell the ozone breath of the forest as it exhales, the very spark of life, you can feel the wind blowing and the forest responding to it, and here you can sense the spirit of the forest being embrace by the sky and earth.

Notice neither perception precludes the other; neither is more or less than other. They are but different viewpoints.  In the coming issues I would like us to take a journey into this forest. As explorers you’ll need your mind open and suspend your internal editor, for a bit. If you’re hoping for an end to the journey, go ahead and release that preconception, there is no destination, just different vistas along our stroll. Some parts of the trail will be hot and dry while others will be full of excitement and wonder. Our sojourns will take us from smallest bits of matter, into the inner workings of life, along the great river of time, and even beyond the edge of the universe. It is a journey of our minds.

Possible future topics

• Does Free Will require the creation of energy?
• What is Time?
• Quantum world
• Does size matter? From quarks to super clusters
• Twinkle, Twinkle, Flash - Life cycle of stars
• Magic, waves on a puddle
• Bad Omens and Superstition from a different point of view
• When the gods leave hoof prints
• The scale of Man - comparison of kingdoms, languages, kitty cats and pop-corn

Until next time, I’ll leave you with a quote from Shakespeare,

And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

 Hamlet Act 1, scene 5, 159–167