• Feynman: Go Beyond Everyday Thinking

Don’t only think about your process or the process of others. Have courage, experience and follow your experiences until they explain themselves.

We learned this from a great teacher. “You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts”. -

Richard Feynman, Nobel laureate.

• Einstein’s Metaskills

Curiosity creates the passion to follow unknown processes. That allows people and Nature to reveal Her wonders. We learned this from our favorite re-searcher.

“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” —Albert Einstein — To Carl Seelig on March 11,1952.

• Taoism’s wu-wei means “not doing”.

It’s crucial to symptom work and large group facilitation! Everyone understands “doing”. Take control +do things! But “doing” can burn you out. Not-doing, is something only your Taoist sage, your dreaming-body, or contemplative mind knows how to “do”. It’s a practice. But can it be taught?

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• General Relativity
  

We are now pondering what dream and body experiences are connected with Einstein’s general  theory of relativity.  This theory explains how things move through the universe in connection with the energy and curvature in any given area of our universe. It may sound  “far out”, but then,  dreams and body experiences (not the medical descriptions of these experiences) go beyond conventional concepts of time and space and may be more closely connected with relativity’s 4 dimensional spacetime.

In “Universe in a Nutshell” Stephen Hawking wrote (Fig 1.11):

“Einstein [realized] that the equivalence [between gravity and acceleration] would work if spacetime were curved and not flat, as had been assumed hitherto.”

In “SpaceTime and Geometry” p.2  Sean Carroll wrote:

“Gravity is not actually a ‘force,’ … A charged particle in an electric field feels an acceleration … in contrast a particle in a gravitational field moves along a [geodesic] path that is the closest thing there is to a straight [world] line [in 4D space-time]. Such particles do not feel acceleration; they are freely-falling. … think of a ball flying through the air as being more truly ‘unaccelerated’ than one sitting on a table; the one sitting at a table is being deflected away from the geodesic it would like to be on (which is why we feel a force on our feet as we stand on Earth.)”

Arny’s question: What is the psychological significance of “falling freely”,  in contrast to “standing on the earth.” Is “free fall” what we experience by following the “dreaming body” ?

(thanks to theoretical physicist Jack Sarfatti for pointing to the above quoted material)

We have been researching the meaning of connecting to the environment. Can we really feel the “rhythm of the earth”, and get in touch with it? As we were pondering this question, we came across the following video of how parrots dance…like us.

Perhaps the idea of dancing together with the earth is not just an inner experience .

In her new article, ”Union and Creative Emptiness: Set Theory as a Tool for Exploring our Inner Worlds,” Anne Willmann explains and uses mathematical concepts from set theory to elucidate the big U and many other aspects of processwork. Thank you Anne for this paper!

Click the following link to read her 17 page paper. set-theory-and-processwork-anne-willmann

Anne’s email address is willmann@clear.net.nz.  She is the principal of an international school in New Zealand.

Dr. Quantum Explains Entanglement

How quantum-like stuff coming from the same source remains mysteriously connected –as if space barely existed –can help us understand more about people and community. In addition, quantum entanglement will enable us to develop new practices for inner and outer work this next year. We loved finding some simple, popular explanations of quantum entanglement on the web. Listen and watch Dr. Quantum as he gives us one such (very popular!) explanation. Enjoy the video!

Dreaming and the Earth’s Fields

Perhaps all animals have a compass, that is a “sixth” sense about how to be “in tune” with the earth.

Recent studies of aerial photographs taken of animals on the earth indicate that cows, elk, deer and possibly all animals sense the earth’s magnetic field, and know how to align themselves with the north/south direction.  According to professor John Phillips, a sensory biologist from Virginia Tech University, in the US, this magnetic ability might be “virtually ubiquitous in the animal kingdom”.  That is, this ability is everywhere.  He adds “We need to think about some really fundamental things that this sensory ability provides in animals.” (Se below for the full BBC article.)

For us, this sixth sense is important information.  Arny’s most recent book, “Earth Based Psychology” centers on people’s ability to associate feelings and dream experiences with directions, and use them to interpret dreams, and find their “way” through inner life and outer relationship situations. E.B.P. was derived from a combination of Richard Feynman’s theories about how particles move, and Australian Aboriginal and shamanistic Native American abilities to know when and where to move, at a given moment.

In brief, dreaming means among other things, following the earth’s magnetic field.

Download “Animal Directional Sensitivity” (568Kb PDF file)

Mind of God?

Because we have been studying the physics of “entanglement”, we were happy to read the recent attempts of physicists to explain this remarkable and “counter-intuitive” quantum phenomenon. Simply stated, entanglement occurs when two particles that were once close together and part of the same quantum system, remain instantaneously connected even though they may become vastly separated at opposite ends of the universe.  Is there a possible signal connecting them? Einstein called their “entangled” connection, “spooky action at a distance.” We know that Einstein was often quoted wondering about the nature of what he called, “The Mind of God.” (See below.) Is this “Mind” behind those “spooky”  entanglements? Or are there (as yet) unknown signals, traveling many times faster than the speed of light? Download the full article below.

Download “Entanglement remains a mystery” from Physicsworld.com, August 13, 2008 (92Kb PDF file)

Einstein’s Question

In this photo, Albert Einstein wants to know What are the thoughts behind the structure and patterns of our universe? In Einstein’s mind, knowing those patterns, would be knowing “The Mind Of God”.

We too wonder about “the Mind of God”. But perhaps the very question about the nature of the universe is itself a “koan”? That is, such questions may be something that are not really meant to be answered!  Perhaps that question about the nature of the universe is a puzzle that is meant to throw us into an altered state of openness.

We think that state of openness itself is an answer to Einstein.  The fundamental pattern of our universe must be the capacity to wonder, and reflect. Everything gets interested and starts wondering or at least “sniffing” something else.

In any case, after seeing so many different kinds of ongoing conflicts, and moments of the most incredible resolutions this year, we too sense there is a kind of self-reflecting “mind in our universe” that appears frequently even in the worst mess. For one reason or another, perhaps many people, even those in conflict are directly or indirectly unified at least in wishing to know: “What is God’s Mind?”

(This picture comes from an Einstein Poster in my office… and appears on Physlink.com)

Brain Makes Decision Ten Seconds Before We Know It!

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany found that we know what we will do, many seconds before we actually realize our decisions. See http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080415_brain.htm This research supports the idea that our “process minds” have valuable early awareness we need more access to. Through such access, we can know things at the essence level, before our everyday primary process is aware of what happens! This could help us to avoid accidents.