Life as Lived … In Reality

I’ve been thinking of entropy.

Wait! Don’t stop reading yet. I promise it will get simpler, and you may get a chance to see your life through a different set of eyes. Please try to keep an open mind - which is of critical importance.

·      Energy is unbounded. It has no limits. Left to its own devices it will spread and spread and spread until it dissipates. Think of a kettle of hot water - ever so slowly it will decrease in heat until it reaches room temperature. That is entropy.

·      However, it became hot water in the first place because of the infusion of energy from a heating element of some kind, whether wood fire, gas flame, or electric coil. Energy was put it into the water.

·      Albert Einstein created his famous E=MC2 equation which proposes that any form, whether a human body, or a rock, or a planet, is nothing but concentrated energy. Compress enough energy and it becomes form. So, you and I are nothing but compressed energy.

·      Somehow, through processes no human understands, that compressed entity called you or me was given a consciousness called Life. And from that consciousness comes animation and an ego, a self that is required for being human.

·      But all energy must dissipate because entropy is a universal law unto itself. Which means that you and I must ever so slowly wind down until the energy of us is dispersed and we return to the proverbial dust.

·      Except to the degree we can find new sources of energy and somehow bring them into our being, in which case the new energy enlivens us. In a way that’s what light and food and air and water do, they infuse us with energy.

·      So too with new ideas, and experiences. They bring with them new energy, new psychic fuel, which is part of life force itself. Man does not live by bread alone, but by spirit as well.

·      Yet the human ego resists these new infusions of ideas and experiences because they can be uncomfortable, and disquieting, and disruptive.

·      The very thing we need, new psychic energy, we resist. It would be as if we were to refuse light, and food, and water.

·      But wait, there’s more. When we restrict, when we fast or retreat, when we be still, the energy already within us is magnified for a time.

·      Just for a moment, think about the way we breathe. Inhale. Brief pause, Exhale. Brief pause. Repeat.

·      What if that is the cycle of life itself? Energy in. Be still and assimilate. Energy out. Pause and re-assimilate. Or perhaps it is the reverse: release, assimilate, infuse, re-assimilate. Or maybe it doesn’t matter since it is a cycle.

·      The point is that life itself requires an interchange of infusion and release with essential pauses between for stabilization to occur before the next cycle.

·      You, my dear friend, are nothing but an exchange of energy happening over and over again. Which means that bringing in new energy, physical and psychic, is essential. Also that letting go of old energy, physical and psychic, is essential.

·      And the fundamental challenge is that our human egos become attached to a status quo and resist. Is it any wonder that we need new infusions? Or that those infusions need to be varied? Or that an open mind is essential?

What if the point of living is to practice as much energy exchange as possible? To be psycho-spiritual dynamos that contribute to the creation by maximizing energy exchange? Not just taking in but pouring forth? What if your life and mine are part of the trillions of tiny points of light-filled contribution? And as long as we are taking in, letting go, and exchanging energy, we are fulfilling our purpose? At the same time, there is only one Life, of which we all partake, because there is only one Energy?

We are in this together. Along with everything else in creation.

Seeing True™

Everything belongs. Nothing is lost.  

Seeing True™ in Action 

Given all that headiness, let’s make this simple.

We need energy in every imaginable form. What will you do today and this week to provide it?

·      What foods and liquids will best fuel you?

·      What physical activities will increase your energy resources?

·      Where can you gain new ideas or information?

·      How will you receive spiritual inspiration or aspiration?

Now for the big one. Do you see that the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic is in fact a huge environmental dynamo from which you and I can gain immense energy? What might we do with that? What good might come of it?