Coming through my anguish with a psychopath and his nutter/taker clan, coupled with the upheavals in dealing with the bullying 5-month episode of my young grandson, and witnessing the repercussions of the abusively browbeating workplace to both of my adult daughters, I found myself wondering what could the answer for "humanity's quest" truly be.
I read a marvelous book, How Children Succeed - grit, curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character by Paul Tough. In this wondrous evaluation of studies, the author reveals his belief that optimism has died in most of our cultural experience. Is that what have felt? I spoke with my daughters and to my utter surprise, they were unaware of a time of upbeat optimism. For me, I remember the Space Race and my fascination with physics and quantum mechanics. This led me to question my sense of "nothing changes" that I had developed from my direct observation and participation of events over the last few years.
Watching some older TV shows such as "Quincy, Medical Examiner," I noted the exhilarating energy of "fighting the good fight" against all odds. I began to ponder the effect of New Age type "let it all just flow" ideals and why I felt bereft of vigorously active purpose.
Just as I have been toying with the thoughts about optimism, I came across a Nova TV documentary called "The Fabric of the Cosmos - Multiverse." In this production, a delightfully communicative physicist, Brian Greene, ushers us along a journey of "what if" the mathematics are correct that we are living in but one universe. A host of ground breaking physicists such as Alan Guth and Michio Kaku along with numerous others of different nationalities offer reasons for the validity of this hypothesis. The cosmos is filled with ever expanding dark energy which houses limitless numbers of universes and within this dark matter exist dimensions of hyperspace where higher dimensions exist between the universes - the number being 11 where stability is maintained.
Scientists cannot yet prove the "truth" of this assumption made from mathematical evaluations, but it answers many questions regarding inspections of this reality. Why does this strike me as movingly hopeful? Because there exists endless possibility and even within that boundless offering, the concept that we and all of creation is not unique. There may be others-of-ourselves" out there beyond the boundaries of our universe who are like us or like us with variations. Duplicates would be inevitable with the mathematical probabilities. Evolution for these players may have taken an infinite number of turns. Also, existences may not be anything similar to ours and life may not be matter related. We have not made contact with these other universes because light cannot reach our own with the infinitely expanding dark matter pushing universes apart in eternally expanding multiverses. Professor Kaku enjoys describing this as the "Mind of God where Cosmic music resonates between universes and dimensions of hyperspace."
Dr. Kaku's study of the String Theory states that all potential particles are made of these vibrating strings and that these strings take on the properties of these loops depending on how they vibrate. The extra dimensions are circular shapes wrapped around the quivering strands, forming DNA of the universe.
What occurred to me is that the cosmic dimensions around the cables remind me of emotions where the possibilities of our existence are created and changed by these energies. This leads to an amazingly rich tapestry of deeper understanding of reality.
So, optimism appears to be a heightened dimension where we can affect with unbelievable results to our personal lives and spiritual expectations. The New Age thinkers may not have been totally off the mark any more than religious followers. We have the playing card of choosing our emotional state and this in turn alters the energy text of the strings which make up our particles and thus reality.
Surviving ordeals may leave one with a sense of being "stuck." This, however, is only a "sense"...a temporary and changeable state. WOW!...
"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." ~Tolkien
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