ABUNDANCE - THE UNIVERSAL FLOW EQUATION

THE UNIVERSAL FLOW EQUATION

It came as a revelation to me one day that the equations I was learning in Electrical Circuits class were variations of the same equations I was learning in Fluid Mechanics class, for airflow and water flow. There were variations because air is compressible and water isn’t, for example, but the structure, form and principle of the relationships were the same.

The formula for electromagnetism, and the generation of magnetic flux by the movement of electricity, also followed the form of the relationship, which by now I called the Universal Flow Equation. I no longer had to memorize any formulas for my classes, but could derive everything I needed from the Universal Flow Equation!

The form of the Universal Flow Equation is this:

[FLOW] = [A CONSTANT] times [PRESSURE CREATING FLOW] divided by [RESISTANCE TO FLOW]

Of course the units vary according to the type of flow being considered, and the constant varies accordingly as well.

For electricity it is the flow of current:

AMPERES = VOLTS / OHMS,

with the constant already used to calculate the Ohms of resistance for each particular material.

For water, it is:

VOLUME = C X HEAD/AREA CROSS SECTION OF PIPE

where ‘head’ is the term for static pressure caused by the depth of water, and C is a constant coefficient.


ALL LIFE IS A FLOW OF ENERGY

Eventually I encountered the study of metaphysics, and came to see all of life as a flow of energy in various forms. Then, I learned to see us as living our lives in the flow of ideas, I learned that we can ‘tune’ our minds to the flow to open up our lives to greater things, or close them down and constrict our experience.

The same equation fits, but the mathematics is far less precise.

FLOW = PRESSURE / RESISTANCE

So what corresponds to these quantities in the mental and metaphysical realm?

First, let’s look at PRESSURE. What is the thing that corresponds to pressure in the realm of thought? It is DESIRE. Desire is a form of love, so we could expand our equation to use LOVE as the motive force in our life. Love is another word for God in action, so this seems to fit. GOD is just our word for the source of all motive force, the source of all change.

What creates this pressure? Desire is created by a vision of what could be, as compared to what is. Desire is formed by a thought that there is more that we could be, more that we could have, more that we could experience. This vision, by the Law of Attraction, then attracts us toward it, and also attracts to it all things needed for its fulfillment. Thus, pressure creates FLOW in the world.

This bears some thinking about. How can the Universal Spirit, which we have said encompasses all things, all possibilities, infinitely, have any Desire? What is there to desire?

There is only one answer that comes to mind – that is, to express those possibilities, that potentiality, as fully and as completely as possible. Not only that, but to view that expression from as many points of view as possible, so that potential becomes actuality or manifestation, and actuality is witnessed or experienced in an infinitude of ways. Thus potential is realized, and possibility becomes actuality.

So, desire is not something that happens by whim or in spontaneous bursts. Desire is built in to the character of the Universe as a fundamental property.

Now let’s look at RESISTANCE. This is the tendency for flow to be blocked, or constricted.

What are the ways in which resistance is created?

In the case of electricity, the material itself plays a role. In the case of metaphysics, this is not the case, since all things are made from the same substance. Thought transcends all substance, and is not conditioned by it. So material or substance is a constant in the field of thought, and is therefore a constant in our equation.

In the case of either electricity or water, another cause of resistance is a constriction of the pipe or the conductor. The channel is made smaller, and the flow is affected.

Think of the ways in which we can make ourselves smaller. We are made smaller by our own beliefs about our worthiness, our capability, or our sense of what is right. Therefore it is BELIEF, which determines our resistance to flow, and our ACCEPTANCE of flow is dependent on our belief. Acceptance is the exact opposite, the inverse, of resistance.

So, our equation for all things metaphysical is:

FLOW = DESIRE X ACCEPTANCE, where

ACCEPTANCE = 1 / RESISTANCE


What kinds of flow are we talking about here, in the mental realm? Some of them are:

Prosperity Wisdom Joy
Peace Courage Faith
Beauty Harmony

Notice that all of these things have Love at their core, and all can be attracted through Desire and Acceptance. If we can control the flow of these things, our worldly experience will parallel our mental one.

Note also that FEAR is the opposite of DESIRE, and works like a negative pressure, which causes a stoppage or even reversal of the flow in our life.

This blog entry is adapted from my book, "THE LITTLE BOOK OF TRUTH AND WISDOM", which is available at www.lulu.com.

ABUNDANCE AND OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM

ABUNDANCE

Perhaps the greatest part of the illusion of our material world is the idea of lack and limitation. Our modern civilization is based on it. The regulation of money, wages, and investment in the economy is entirely for the purpose of distributing scarce resources. It is founded on scarcity.

The notion of economic theory is founded on the idea of a zero-sum game; that is, if you have more of one thing, you must have less of something else. It began as observation, but soon became a controlling factor, as the theories are used to allocate resources and make both political and business decisions.

It is further assumed that scarcity operates throughout nature, so that we can only have more if someone else has less. This teaches us to feel guilt for all that we do have, so that we are prevented from enjoyment of anything. Since we cannot enjoy what we have, we neglect to feel grateful. The absence of gratitude in our thinking leads to unconscious avoidance of opportunity, and pushes prosperity away from us.

The most dangerous idea in our economic system may be that things derive their value from scarcity; that there is no such thing as intrinsic value. Scarcity is contrived in order to maintain the value of goods. People apply this to themselves to destroy their self-esteem, reasoning that abilities they hold in common with many others are therefore valueless.

Again, this is a case of a belief system which does not serve us well. Is an egg, sausage or steak less tasty when eggs, pork or beef are more plentiful? Are they less nutritious? Yet we expect to pay less for them if they are not scarce, and we allow farmers to become bankrupt due to low prices if there is a plentiful supply. We have lost sight of the concept of intrinsic worth.

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OUR MAGICAL WORLD - 5

The real magic is when we realize that God is in all the spaces of the universe. The suns and the planets and the rocks and trees and people are just the material forms that have arisen out of that powerful space. The things we see are made from that which is invisible, and the source is more vast that we can imagine.

You know by now that your form is not you – it’s just your form. The intelligence that is you is occupying your form – just for now. Someday it will move on – perhaps to a new form, if that’s what you want. You have come from the magic, and you are here to experience time, space, and matter . Eventually you will return to the magic- to those other dimensions – those other universes – to that place where the sub-atomic particles go when they are tunneling from place to place.

You see, we are not the magic. We are the magicians, and we just have no memory of the magic we have made.

When we remember, won’t that be something?

That will be real magic.

OUR MAGICAL WORLD - 4

God has always been the name that we use when the mystery and the magic of life goes beyond what we can reach; past our understanding. God used to be the name for wind and weather; for the mysteries of sexuality, for the raw emotions that seemed to take over people’s minds. At various times, each of these was taken as the work of one or many Gods.

A wise Rabbi said, “God to us is always just the next level of Mind above where we are.”

I like that. God is the mystery, and God is the Magic of life – and no matter how much we grow or learn, there is always that next level above where we are, where God is waiting for us to catch up.

The God of the Old Testament seems to us today to have far too many human frailties – anger, jealousy, not to mention a tendency for genocide. The God of the New Testament is much more a God of Love, but many people have confined Him to a human form, ignoring the vastness and universality of the Intelligence that underlies everything that is.

Someone said, “As soon as you think you know something, you limit the Vastness.” We meet people every day who think they know about God, about Jesus, about the Bible. These people are limiting the vastness – any human concept does that. God is not in the pages of a book - any more than there is a pumpkin pie in the pages of a recipe book - nor is God in the body of one long-dead teacher. The vastness cannot be so limited. We must not confuse the map with the territory, or the symbol with the reality.

OUR MAGICAL WORLD - 3

To me, it is magic to think that our minds, using some quantum effect we still have not discovered, may be reaching into or through an alternate universe. What are we doing – what are we contacting – when we use prayer treatment to alter the path of our life and our world?

Now please don’t go thinking we are like some kind of flying saucer cult, and the green men are going to come and take us away! But we do believe that mind and matter are linked in a mysterious way, and that we can explore that mystery – in fact we are meant to explore that mystery, until that vast Intelligence we call God is able to work through our consciousness and express in this world all the wondrous Good that lies in the invisible world of thought and vision. We do believe there is a kind of magic in that, and your own life can be an example of it.

Back to the mystery inside the atom – it gets more and more magical. It turns out that each 'wavicle' inside the atom is actually just a ripple in the fabric of space – what we think of as empty space! Some of these ripples are looped back on themselves, and some a just open-ended. These have become known as Strings, and string theory is upsetting to most physicists, because this theory tells us that there isn’t any there, there. The material world is nothing at all, except a set of wiggles in space itself.

Along with this idea is another incredible discovery – that every point in space actually has a potential energy so vast that we are surrounded by a power beyond our imagining. It is in us, through us, and all around us – DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?

Well, it’s only a theory, at this point. So there is still more magic to be uncovered.

OUR MAGICAL WORLD - 2

All these cells are made of organized molecules, collections of atoms that operate in that fluid environment that we were born into a couple of billion years ago. The atoms that make up our molecules are no different that the atoms that are all around us in the world. These atoms interact in a simple and predictable way, as chemistry dictates. The result is very complicated, as we can see. Just why is that we can see that?

Oh, the molecules…. They are made of a standard set of atoms, which were made in the giant suns of the early universe, between ten and fifteen billion years ago. We are made of very standard building blocks, found around the Earth and around the universe. Nothing very fancy about that.

Inside our atoms – all atoms, there is mostly empty space – almost ALL empty space, and a collection of things that act sometimes like particles, and sometimes like waves – you could call them wavicles, I suppose. You see, they are particles, only when we try to locate them; the rest of the time they aren’t. They are waves only when we try to measure them; the rest of the time they’re not. When they are particles, they bump into things and bounce; but when they are waves, they go right through things.

In fact, sometimes they don’t actually go through things, but they disappear from our universe on one side of a boundary, and reappear on the other side. This is called tunneling, but some think that the tunnel is through some other universe. This was discovered by a Welsh physicist, Brian Josephson, who earned a Nobel prize along with Leo Esaki of Sony Corporation in 1973.

(In my fourth year of Engineering in about 1967, a friend and I became interested in 'tunnel' diodes, or Esaki diodes, and borrowed a rare one from a graduate research lab to build a simple FM radio tuner on our lab bench. It worked quite well, receiving several local stations, but we were sworn to return it to the lab ASAP. Inside the Esaki diode, the 'magic' that made it work was something called a "Josephson Junction.")

Dr Josephson, by the way, currently researches psychic phenomena, and runs the mind-matter unification project at Cambridge in England as part of his quantum physics research, according to Wikipedia.

OUR MAGICAL WORLD

We tend to think our lives are pretty ordinary, most of the time. We sleep, we wake, we eat, we bathe, we do various other very human and possibly animal acts, and we do most of them unconsciously – that is, we don’t think very deeply into them.

People who think deeply about stuff are few and far between, and we think of them as not too practical. After all, there is money to earn, things to buy, and food to prepare. There are things to clean, and errands to run.

When we do stop and really think about things, we uncover the magical in the everyday.

What makes us think there is something we call God behind all of this? Because when we dig deeply, we run into impenetrable barriers. We run into the magical, and we are left without any explanation, other than some intelligence is at work.

Here’s what we know about what we’re made of. We are, each of us, about 80% water. Not just any water, but water that happens to have just about the same salt and mineral content as seawater. That’s because the cells that travel about in our blood stream had their start, ten billion years ago, in the oceans of the world. We are a collective organism, using dozens of the types of cells that evolved individually as our symbiotic servants. We are the life of the Earth, in its latest effort to reach the pinnacle of aware intelligence.

Our blood cells, several types, roam our arteries and veins independently, each with its own purpose, like otters and beavers in a stream but without any idea where the stream comes from, or where it goes.

Each of our cells contains tiny sub-organisms that roam the cell independently, carrying and converting food to energy, and supporting our master programming, our DNA.

UNIVERSE, FORM AND MIND

All things we can sense and experience, this world that we typically call "real", is the unfoldment of the original energy-stuff of the universe. Everything we are, and everything we can see is the substance of the original 'Big Bang' that was the starting point of the universe.

With telescopes and space probes, we know the universe is expanding outward. Working backward from the outward motion, it is estimated that the material universe began around twenty billion years ago, and was originally smaller than a basketball in size.

This is the story of the creation of what we call FORM, which is to say, of things that can be measured, with beginnings and endings, with the four dimensions of length, width, height, and time, or duration.

Most people believe that Form is only half the story. Behind form is Intelligence, or Mind, which is the organizing principle, making form out of the formless, order out of chaos.

Forms are the stepping stone from unconscious Mind to Consciousness. Mind can only know things as FORM, and mind creates form as It comes to know things. Therefore as God expands Its knowledge of Itself, more forms are created, and energy must flow into the forms that are created. Hence God knows itself as US, and as the entire created universe. As It does so, we are created, and the universe is created.

As Mind evolves, thought evolves, and we observe that the world evolves to keep pace. Creation and Evolution are but two sides of the same coin. Creation does not occur from outside, as we commonly think of it, but as an unfoldment from within.

FACTS, INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM

There is a process by which we humans progress in our handling of intelligence. When you read this, ask yourself where you are operating on the scale of processing the nature of the world through your own intelligence.

We operate from our senses, however many there are. I know there are the usual five, but psychological feeling and intuition can add to those as inputs to our thought process, and imagination may also fit in there somewhere. This already brings us to eight senses, if we choose to see things that way!

These are sources of the elements that we begin to process. We could consider them data, of which some are facts, some are opinions, some are impressions. Do we really know which are which - and is there really a difference? Can we really trust what we think we see, any more than we trust what we emotionally feel? To wonder about these may be the beginning of wisdom!

Facts are of no value in themselves, unless we put them into a framework, or context. Then they become information. If I say "A jeep is heading for a fence", that may be a fact (or not) but it gives you no context. If I say "Your son's Jeep is heading for your fence", suddenly the context makes it information for you.

Now, if you take the latter 'information', and add to it the meanings that you have attached to those things, both what your son means to you, what the Jeep means (e.g., a brand-new, valuable possession) and the fence (which you just rebuilt yesterday) and it becomes critical knowledge to you, especially if you have time to act on it in the moment.

When we can place knowledge into a wider philosophy, that becomes wisdom. Knowing when you should take quick action, and when there is no point, allows a certain level of calm that can be brought to all things in life. The essence of wisdom is to see the connectedness between all things, including between ourselves and the wider universe around us. When our sense of isolation and separation is seen as an illusion of the senses, then we have a new way to interpret and bring meaning to all that we see.

POLITICS, ENTERTAINMENT AND THE PLAY OF ILLUSION

It has been amusing to watch the interplay of political candidates, their handlers and their associates, and the continual parade of pundits that inhabit the cable news talk shows. People apparently make careers out of punditry, which is nothing more than personal opinion, only loosely connected to the facts.

The looping of controversial comments from the distant or not-so-distant past, ad nauseam, by people not directly connected to any campaign, is one way of spicing up the stream of 'non-news' by creating controversy out of next-to-nothing.

When Marshall McLuhan published "Understanding Media", in which he stated "The Medium is the Message", he was a prophet of our times. What we are seeing in these 'fake' controversies and the substitution of pundit opinion for news facts, is the direct result of creating the 500 channel universe, while not really wanting to spend the money to fill it with meaningful programming. It is cheaper to manufacture news than to go out and find it.

Punditry on the 'News' channels is the equivalent of 'reality' shows on entertainment channels. Neither is 'real' at all, but a fabricated pseudo-reality to fill up space.

The late Alphonse Ouimet, once the head of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, once wrote that television channels do not try to carry what people want to watch. They carry what people are WILLING to watch, given that it is on. This, it turns out, maximizes the total number of viewers, and thus appeals the most to sponsors. So if you can't find anything you really like on TV, it is because there has been no real effort to please any particular group of viewers - the game is to grip the eyeballs with some sort of adrenaline-causing controversy or dilemma, and then carry it on until it's time for the commercial.

Just remember, almost nothing you see is rooted in reality. When you watch TV, you are looking at a stream of lighted pixels, driven by a box of electronics, and fed by a carefully crafted media machine designed to titillate, to enrage, to amaze or to excite. Your job, presumably, is to stay glued, and behave as any modern adrenaline addict should.

End of rant - now, take a walk outdoors!

FROM "MAXI-MIND" - A BOOK ON CREATIVE THINKING

Most people drift through life without questioning their day-to-day actions or their real wants and desires. Motivated by short-term gratification, they look forward to the next cold beer, eggs and toast in the morning, the baseball game or the football game. Rarely do they ever see themselves placed against the larger canvas of the universe, the world, the human race, or even their local community.

That larger sense of fitting or belonging to a greater picture is left to a precious few. Those who have it share a sense of self-worth, of meaning, which leads them to greater happiness and success in their life.

This larger mental picture is drawn for us by our power of creativity. It is our ability to imagine, to have vision, that helps us put ourselves in that picture. Our role in that big picture gives us our goals for the future, our purpose in life.

Research has shown that eighty-four per cent of people feel that they are under-employed or under-utilised. Thirty per cent of people are less than happy with their relationships. Only FIVE PER CENT of people have written goals for their life.

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An overwhelming majority are just drifting, taking the path of least resistance. These people are easy, vulnerable prey for modern advertising or social pressure - anything that will tell them what they ought to do and who they ought to be. Most of our useful citizens are caught up in this kind of ‘rat-race’, working from school to retirement by putting one foot in front of the other, and conforming to the norm.

In the game of life, as in a race, the winner only leads by a tiny bit of distance--by a footstep, by a 'nose'. That tiny edge may be given by doing just one thing better than the rest, or it may be a dozen, a hundred, small insignificant differences where they do something just a tiny bit better. Those differences can come from keeping our eye on the goal, the target, instead of on short-term 'trivial pursuits'.