Jamzen writes:
>I've sometimes had similar images come to mind when I'm trying to
>understand human interaction. But "vibration" carries such a burden of
>occult wisdom and such twaddle that I work like the devil himself to be
>absolutely clear what I'm thinking about. Are we talking here about how
>the currents of rumor and opinion, for example, can oscillate around a
>mean in response to some disturbing event? Or singly, about how a
>disturbance in my relation with a fellow employee -- sharp words, or
>perhaps only sharp thoughts communicated in a gesture or a tone of voice
>-- can propagate "outward" in our subsequent relations with other people,
>over a period of hours or days? And how these can then generate their own
>"backwash" waves, visiting me in areas and at times that seem completely
>unrelated to their origin?
One model for thinking about these things which I find helpful is that of
an interconnected web. In daily life, there are a nearly infinite number
of possibilities waiting to be realized. (This is more than "twaddle, a
lovely word <g>, but is in fact a supposition of high energy physics about
the nature of quantum reality.) Those possibilities which are realized
become nexus points, connections between one realized possibility and
another. Our lives, lived singly then, are a web of realized possibilities
(I could have been one thing, or another, I could have chosen one thing,
or another.) Further, as each one of us lives in relationship to a vast
number of other entities (persons, organizations, etc.) we become nexus
points (interconnections) between these other sets of realized
possibilities. Life is then spent weaving the web, the fabric of which
encompasses all that is.
So, whetever affects one part of the web, whatever occurs at one point in
the series of interconnected realized possibilities, affects all of us. No
person is an island, etc . . . We cannot live in a world where injustice
happens and not be affected; we cannot live in a society where commerce
can be separated from morality and not be affected; we cannot work in a
place where sharks swim unmolested, molesting, and not be affected.
More wackiness, I fear-- but hopefully not twadlle. Help me de-twaddleize
<g>.
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