New Year, New Decade, New Beginnings,
New Energy
A new year is a wonderful time to start something new
in our lives, whether it be to adopt a new resolution,
turn over a new leaf so to speak, start a new self-improving
habit or curtail one that no longer serves us. It’s
a good time for either small-to-medium sized incremental
alterations or for wholesale shifts.
As
our friend Adamus recently pointed out – there’s
nothing particularly special about the New Year (or
new decade, century or millennium for that matter) with
respect to instituting desired changes, transformation
or house-cleaning. New Year’s Day is just a marker
– a reminder of the perennial existence of the
fact that change and transformation are inherent aspects
of “The System in Creation.”
The System – How it Really Works
In
this system, flux or dynamic change is the norm rather
than the exception. The infinite, expansive, now moment
takes precedence over the perception of the universe
as a clockwork with time running down, or of the illusion
that randomness, along with entropy (the tendency toward
increased messiness or disorder) is relentlessly increasing
such that the physical universe will eventually suffer
a so-called heat death – that all the energy within
it will dissipate leaving the universe in a deep freeze.
Nevertheless,
this system is characterized by two other qualities.
Together all three represent key factors (in my view)
of the constitution of New Energy. One of these is non-linearity
and the other is the phenomenon referred to by the technical
term chaos (vs. the colloquial or non-technical use
of the term).
Getting off of the linear
Non-linearity
is simply the absence and the opposite of linearity.
Linear systems or processes rely on the principals of
proportionality, superposition and distribution. Superposition
means that causes or effects add to or subtract from
one another (as in the phenomena of destructive interference
– a term a good deal less ominous than it may
sound). For example, if I double the amount of force
I apply to pushing a cart, it will accelerate by twice
the base amount. If I apply double the effort to something,
I achieve twice the amount of work. If I’m employed
halftime, then increase my hours to fulltime, I double
my paycheck, etc.
An
example of destructive interference is two spatially
coincident transverse waves (such as ocean or light
waves) in which one wave’s peak or crest is canceled
out by a spatially coincident wave trough. If you are
a swimmer exactly midway between these two you experience
no mechanical force or pull upon you whatsoever. These
are all proportionate systems and up until about the
early 1960’s we believed that most natural systems
were predominantly linear in their essence. The laws
of proportionate linear systems were codified by the
great natural philosopher and metaphysician Isaac Newton
in the 17th century. Anyone who has studied high school
or college freshmen physics has spent at least a few
semesters delving into the psyche and soul of Sir Isaac.
We
began to recognize certain “anomalies” out
there (there really is no “out there” out
there) and over the last half century or so we have
realized that there are whole classes of natural systems
(mechanical, chemical, biological, social, economic,
cultural, etc.) that behave non-linearly, sometimes
in quite far from linear ways.
From
around the 1940s through the 1960’s physicists
learned how to harness the tremendous energy pent up
within the nucleus of the atom. They learned about the
neutron chain reaction – an example of a far-from-linear
phenomena that can unleash energies that exist in stars.
In the 1930’s we learned about economic systems
that can suddenly crash. We learned about biological
systems that can suddenly “turn on” (come
alive) or shut down (“die”). We learned
about so-called catastrophes (technical term) such as
a sand pile that avalanches when one more grain of sand
is dropped on it, similar to an avalanche of snow on
a mountain.
We’ve
learned about systems that can suddenly and spontaneously
change their mode of functioning, for example a trotting
horse suddenly breaks into a gallop when she reaches
a certain speed. Water reaching the boiling point or
freezing (a complete change of state), volcanic eruptions,
so-called swarm behavior (a flock of birds or school
of fish that suddenly changes direction all together
at once, for example) are additional examples.
Now
we realize that these kinds of systems that we formerly
thought were nature’s oddballs are actually more
of the rule in nature now – and that linear systems
are almost the exceptions.
Chaos rules
We
also discovered another kind of system, one that is
actually a particular type of non-linear system. It
is referred to as chaotic. These are systems that appear
by all usual measures and observations to behave in
a random or stochastic manner. Their behaviors are hardly,
if at all, predictable based on their past behavior.
Yet, it turns out that there is a definite underlying
order that governs their behaviors – ones that
appear accidental or random in nature, without
much apparent rhyme or reason as to why the system does
what it does. The earth’s weather was discovered
to be such a system. The lottery happens to be another
example, as is the stock market, your heart’s
rhythm pattern and your brain’s electrical activity.
Oh
I can hear you thinking – “Michael, are
you telling us that our heart rhythms are an ‘accident
waiting to happen’ or that our brains just produce
random thoughts?” (mine? Very likely; yours? …
;-)).
It
turns out that chaos is both a gift and a blessing.
It is an opposing “force” to regularization/monotony,
to being forever locked into stereotypical behaviors,
habits, addictions, lack of flexibility and non-adaptability.
It is an extraordinary agent of energetic balancing
and rebalancing. Although its effects can be disconcerting
or even devastating, I contend that chaos is actually
very good news for us all, always has been, and always
will be.
The
existence of a myriad of possibilities and potentialities
is chaos’s playground. In a chaotic system both
are virtually and effectively limitless – like
the outcomes of a game of bridge or chess – and
they are, generally speaking, all equally available
to the human that allows herself to choose from among
them. When one has access to a system with lots of potentials/choices,
there is also a practically unlimited amount of information
available to them.
If
it is the case that the System in Creation is fundamentally
nonlinear and/or chaotic in nature then a logical conclusion
is that each of us has ready access to this virtually
limitless quantity of information. One might even conclude
that that information is within us, an integral part
of who we are. A channel likely recognizes this. We
are all channels, just that some of us are more conscious/aware
of that fact than others.
The flipside: order out of chaos
Fortunately
these systems have a flipside: they can easily behave
in an orderly, predictable manner. The system is free
to choose a limited behavioral repertoire. This can
occur through a simple inducement imposed from “outside”
(even with the application of a very small, low energy
impulse to it) or spontaneously. And that is a major
characteristic of such systems: small shifts may lead
to profound behavioral changes.
An
example of a small change is the passage of time itself:
from one second to the next, one day to the next, the
“old story” is laid to rest while functioning
as the seed-beginning of a whole new dynamic –
of a totally brand new story. The old earth makes way
for the new earth, the old energy gives birth to New
Energy.
So
what we see with such systems is that seeming
opposites of nature or behavior exist together naturally
in a balanced, integrative or symbiotic relationship.
This should (if you will permit me to use that word)
give us pause because this is revelatory. We may see
that there are many such systems which are a confluence
of seeming opposites. And it may prompt us to ask the
question: “what other types of systems or effects
are there that impact me where apparent opposites exist
in a balance as one?” Asking a question such as
this may be the beginning of the acquisition of awareness
and of true wisdom. It may even lead to a profound shift
in one’s life as it has in mine, more than once.
There
is upside and downside potential here for us. We’ve
all been to restaurants with extensive menus. There
are times we appreciate this, yet other times the choices
can seem overwhelmingly complex and we’d just
as soon have someone else order for us. Unless we can
find a way to narrow down the choices to a select few
that may serve us, then the “buffet” could
actually pose a threat to our human selves.
So
what’s in it for us?
The
next question to ask ourselves might be, how can we
use this information personally, to help us attain more
joy and fulfillment and live more harmoniously, peacefully
and effectively? One way is to deliberately apply the
realization that “things are not always what they
seem or appear to be.”
What
we may observe to be an accidental process, or to put
it more bluntly – an apparent disaster –
may simply be a particular manifestation of a chaotic
system that comprises a large number of alternative
outcomes. Our brains/minds attempt to identify patterns
hidden within a myriad of noise stimuli that bombards
our senses constantly. They do this by filtering out
the confusing signals. After all, if one cannot detect
the snake or stealthy lion suddenly leaping at you in
the jungle, your current human incarnation may be over.
When
our brains are unsuccessful in extracting the essential
information needed to survive (and thus to thrive) within
the environment, the system can be strained or even
just break down. But if we allow ourselves the expansion
of consciousness that comes with the realization that
chaotic systems are ubiquitous in nature, and that almost
every one of them is characterized by a primary underlying
orderliness, then we reduce the chances that we will
become immobilized. We even have the opportunity to
turn a particular situation around rather quickly and
thoroughly (we sometimes refer to this as transformation).
We
can “take advantage” of the chaos and even
turn it into a vehicle that will take us where we need
to be in order to achieve success. One of the little
understood characteristics of such systems is that they
are capable of displaying behaviors that can easily
move us closer to our objectives with only the gentlest
of coaxing (vs. having to impose a huge force or energy
upon it). The key to this “turning of the tide”
in our favor is the timing and the applied direction
of that coaxing. With increased understanding of and
insight into how such systems work, these two factors
are more apt to reveal themselves allowing us to use
them to our benefit.
Nothing’s
really changed, except for the words we’ve used
to describe it all
This
brings us back to our discussion in last month’s
newsletter. Our ancient masters of wisdom and understanding
were fully conversant with nonlinear and chaotic systems,
they simply used different words to describe these.
The manner with which they did so and taught their students
was very different from how both clergy and scientists
do so today. Those sages of old spoke of nonlinear and
chaotic systems using theological terminology and dialogue
– specifically describing the omniscience, omnipresence,
and omnipotence of God. Unfortunately, people became
confused, believing that these masters were talking
about a remote, transcendent God, one totally outside
ourselves, rather than a God of nearness/immanence –
the God within and without that is one with all that
is.
As
I mentioned last month, the masters of Kabbalah
– those whose antennae were/are tuned to station
“Divine Intelligence Radio,” referred to
God using the moniker “Without Bound” -
as infinite existence-beingness itself, and One with
every iota of the System in Creation. Master Tobias
couched all this using the expression/reminder, “you
are God also.”
Shedding fear, angst and other distracting illusions
In
her book Is God Pink? Dying to Heal, Mary Jo
Rapini, 50, a psychotherapist of terminally ill patients,
describes her near death experience (NDE) after suffering
a brain aneurysm while working out one day in a Lubbock,
Texas gym, seven years ago. Mary Jo had listened to
many of her patients discuss NDE’s. She believed
that there was a rational, scientific explanation for
all of them. At the same time she was terrified of becoming
ill and of dying like some of her patients.
She
sublimated her fear by obsessively working out. She
was running marathons and participating in triathlons
– and vastly overdoing it. While preparing for
an event one day, she suddenly experienced massive agony
(she thought she broke her neck). She lost control of
her body and thought she was drowning. She immediately
underwent emergency brain surgery. Mary Jo experienced
a tunnel with pink light engulfing her. She felt deeply
loved and did not want to leave. She reported that she
knew she was in the presence of her Source – God,
who spoke to her and told her she needed to return.
The
experience was profound enough to change her whole life,
as she reports. Her fear of death totally vanished during
her recovery. Previously, when her patients would tell
her they had a tumor she would check her own body, but
that habit disappeared after her surgery. Then she got
in touch with limitlessness. “I think all of us
make excuses for why we can’t achieve what we
want to do. But in all honesty there’s nothing
that you can’t do in this life if you really want
it” she said. Mary Jo believes that the aneurysm
was “probably the biggest blessing that God has
ever given me.”
No
one need suffer in any way in order to both experience
and utilize the blessings of the gift of our limitlessness.
No matter what our present circumstances happen to be
– whether we find ourselves experiencing illness,
“loss” of a loved one (death is an illusion
and no one is ever truly lost), financial difficulties,
career change, foreclosure, job loss, family issues,
and others. If we choose to consciously and deliberately
remain in touch with and be aware of our true essence
of limitlessness within, rather than to delude ourselves
into believing that the circumstances of our human lives
are our actual truth – then that is the extent
to which we permit ourselves to experience soul expansion,
growth of spirit, life satisfaction and victory.
May
each of us experience a total and complete victory over
our human limitations (eminently do-able in the present
New Energy times). In so doing we afford ourselves the
opportunity of relentless ascension, ever approaching
our Source, our Self.
May
this New Year be for all of us one of new beginnings,
new opportunities, many blessings, and abundant, accessible
and utilizable New Energy.
“I
AM with you all-ways.”
Dr. Brandt is the author of the soon to be completed
book “Insights into the New Energy.” Michael
was a tenured medical professor and research scientist-engineer
working in a major health sciences university in Texas.
He has degrees in physics (BS) and biomedical engineering
(MS and PhD). He has performed research into the human
brain-mind, the heart, and the immune system for over
24 years. Currently he researches and markets various
green technologies for home and businesses – in
particular green computers that more than pay for themselves
with the savings in energy and maintenance costs. His
most important work is in teaching how science and Spirit
relate to each other. He applies this information in
his counseling and energy healing practice. For further
information please link to Michael’s website www.DivineHealingPrayers.com.
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©
Copyright 2010, Dr. Michael E. Brandt, Houston, TX.
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