Tumultuous Thursdays: Wondering if that Elusive Happy Place Exists in a Parallel World?

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder...-Henry David Thoreau"

Photo copyright of Meady's Musings Production 2009.

Since we've started back actively blogging and on our last Maniac Mondays posting we recalled that elusive happy place when we were talking about work/life balance and so we thought that on this Tumultuous Thursday we'd retrieve and complete this blog posting we started to write exactly one year ago but never completed. So let's pick it back up where we left off one year ago...


Today on Tumultuous Thursdays we are wondering about Parallel Worlds again! And we think it's all coming together too...you see we can now see the merging between two blogs we wrote in the past one in 2009 and one in 2010. One of the blogs is about parallel worlds/lives and the other is about 'finding that elusive happy place'.


-Parallel Lives...Parallel Worlds?
-Finding that Elusive Happy Place!


And we have been thinking all day long of the trains of thought colliding i.e. does our elusive happy place exist in a parallel world? Is our longing for that elusive happy place rooted in our need to return to that world? It makes sense really...no wonder the happy place is elusive...it's always escaping from us into a parallel world! And it's why the longing is so real and deep to find it back...go back to it...

Now the guys over on the UCP desk will no doubt call this parallel world...heaven or the spirit plane and we're not disputing this...indeed one parallel world might indeed be heaven or for that matter hell. But here on Meady's Musings Tumultuous Thursdays we are proporting something else!

Suppose just like in the TV series 'Sliders' there exists infinite worlds where basically every possible outcome is played out...

So...if the plate broke in this world you are in now...there is some parallel world where it didn't...and these worlds are infinite so a new world would exist for every little tangentially different thing that happens! But it's not the little differences we pine over...it's the big ones although granted as how the web of the universal space time continuum is everything is connected...and it is little effects that lead a chain of events that create the big ones...well...


Hmmm...so in one parallel universe you're married to someone else or attended a different school or you are a world class athlete because you didn't fall and damage your knee like you did in this universe etc. But of course those big events were triggered by little things...like someone knocked down a bottle of water on the floor and you skidded thus damaging your knee...and the reason the person knocked down the water is because a mosquito was buzzing in his ear and he was trying to swat it away when he accidentally knocked the bottle of water over.

Hmmm...what is funnier is how we are even by all coincidence recalling and thus retrieving this blog post exactly one year to the date and now trying to go into it and complete it and now realizing that to some extent we perhaps even conflict with it one year later...

I mean because as much as the elusive happy place could exist in another parallel world...so too there must be worlds that are sadder than we would like? And rally wouldn't all the worlds be like this one...dynamic?

So what we are saying is that one year into the unfolding of the Universe called life is it possible that we here at Meady's Musings Production have also changed in our beliefs? Hopefully we've become more enlightened? But we think now...we really do more believe in the Buddhist or Zen-like 'Power of Now' and so now we think that no matter which parallel world you are in 'that elusive happy place' can be in it and it can be right here and right now! :) And like the it is said by Henry David Thoreau in one of our favourite quotes of all time:

"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder..."

But now that kinda of talk is more what you'd expect of us on our Maniac Mondays postings...after all this is Tumultuous Thursdays and you want to hear us talk about parallel worlds not just quote beautiful things...so let's consider the idea again...

Can that elusive happy place exist in a parallel world?

And our answer to that would be yes! But if we lived daily in that parallel world...it would not be our elusive happy place anymore...in that if we always wanted to be a movie star and it always eluded us but we have that fame and fortune there in a parallel world...the movie star we are in that parallel might then crave our world...as she might for instance want not to be famous and have a more private life like the one you might have now...

So you see no matter which part of the Universe you sit in your elusive happy place will always be just that...'elusive'! :)

Unless you take the wise advice of Henry David Thoreau and not let your happiness be elusive by simply letting things be and not chasing it...

So immerse yourself into your work like us for instance...like how we put our noses to the grind on a Studious Saturdays and write as we must...the little mouse sharpens all the pencils and the Purple Elephant hoses down the house with his trunk to keep it clean so that we can spend hours writing...and in doing the very thing we love by the end of a few hours of writing we are happy again because while we were doing the thing we love the elusive butterfly of happiness came and sat on our shoulder! And that just makes us smile! :)

But yes there must be parallel worlds where things we wish for here exist there...and perhaps who knows some of the fluid from there leaks into our world here and vice versa...

An Apology on a Wednesday...

AN APOLOGY TO READERS YET AGAIN!

Oh dear! We’ve not done as we planned or promised last week and that cannot be a good thing or a reader’s treat! We’ve not blogged on Tumultuous Thursdays about dreams and dreaming nor made fun of them on Funtastic Fridays...to be honest we really don’t know what to say…

But we aren’t almost even here this week too…the muse the muse always blame the muse…the Purple Elephant and the Little Mouse they are firmly planted though-Thank you! But the muse he is actually flashing right now as I speak or type! Not flashing as going naked after all he is a manicou so already au naturel so no…no…I mean he seems to be here for a second and then disappears another but he slips back and forth from here to not here so quickly that he almost appears to be going on and off like a blinking light! Oh dear!…I’m told it happens when you travel too often and in close succession across parallel worlds…there comes a time when you are neither here nor there or anywhere…oh dear! Unless perhaps you’re everywhere!

Luckily as of this morning… the Little mouse came to my door…he was perched on the shoulder of the Purple Elephant so he could reach up to the level of my ears so I could hear him. “Aaaaww!” was my first cry when he incredibly bashfully bestowed onto me a bouquet made of four purple flowers and three sunflowers with sprigs of this twig or the other all wrapped together in a bow and said,

“Miss Dubay this will make him stay for sure!”

then the Purple Elephant trumpeted unfortunately waking the whole house up! You see we have guests, not as many as last Christmas but quite a few monkeys are with us but they luckily weren’t in bad spirits and instead decided to have an early breakfast scratching their heads while they peeled their bananas as they also tried to solve the problem of my manicou muse for me! Mouse, elephant and monkeys all poured over the ‘Book of Words and Light’ where they read of the use of purple flowers, sunflowers but more so that the use of love and light and yep UCP-Universal Collective Prayer could help me! So we followed the book and then ‘poof’ and as I looked up from where I knelt with sunflower pollens glistening from my cheeks…there it unfolded before me…and Lo and Behold there was my muse again fully formed standing all solid, not blinking, safe and sound before me!

You see in all seriousness and reality I recalled that all my words and speech come from the Divine Mother upon whom I ought to surrender! It’s not like I’ve not done so time and time again in the past as I’ve often shared on UCP but of lately I think I needed to be reminded…reminded that she is the speech…in the form of the Vedic Goddess Saraswati she rides a swan and is the ‘vac’ which translated from the Sanskrit means the speech, the word…the spoken word…the voice… However she is also the Goddess of learning and so really one cannot have even any writing without her since when we type it comes forth from an inner voice…so I had lost my voice both inner and outer…but me and all the animals sat in UCP and surrendered onto the Divine Mother in the form of Saraswati who according to this lovely Vedic prayer sits in the middle of our palms…she was always there… if we only had looked to see! …with the Goddess Lakshmi at our finger tips and Govinda at the base of the palms...



So too in the words of Don Henley in the movie Michael…it came through our hands!

Don Henley - Through Your Hands Lyrics
"You were dreamin'
On a park bench
'bout a broad highway somewhere
When the music from the carillon
Seemed to hurl your heart out there
Past the scientific darkness
Past the fireflies that float
To an angel bending down
To wrap you in his warmest coat

And you ask
What am I not doing
He says
Your voice cannot command
In time you will move mountains
And it will come through your hands

Still you argue for an option
Still you angle for your case
Like you wouldn't know a burning bush
If it blew up in your face
Yeah, we scheme about the future
And we dream about the past
When just a simple reaching out
Might build a bridge that lasts

And you ask
What am I not doing
He says
Your voice cannot command
In time you will move mountains
And it will come through your hands
Through your hands

So whatever your hands find to do
You must do with all your heart
There are thoughts enough
To blow men's minds
And tear great worlds apart
There's a healing touch to find you
On that broad highway somewhere
To lift you high
As music flyin'
Through the angel's hair

Don't ask what you are not doing
Because your voice cannot command
In time we will move mountains
And it will come through your hands"

So I post to you really today on a Wednesday but I will back track the blog post I’m about to do on Meady’s Musings and it will read as a Maniac Mondays post to keep with the format of the blog. While on UCP, I will be publishing as of today. So now I am all good thanks to the Goddess Saraswati and will continue my dreams and dreaming series on Meady’s Musings and today on UCP will launch that God series! Shiv it is as we launch that series! And on Meady’s Musings get those pillows out…it’s dream time! (Of course this post will appear as if it was done the Monday before)

Tumultuous Thursdays:Life is But a Dream!

Picture taken at Suzhou sometimes called the 'Venice of China' or 'Venice of the East'. Copyright Meady's Musings Production, June 2010.

Since we here at Meady's Musings Production returned from China to our homeland we have been dreaming and dreaming and remembering our dreams in details and they have been stepping into our real life almost even! :) Perhaps it's all the row, row, row your boating that took place when we visited Suzhou in China as seen in picture above or perhaps we're just at that place in time...

But first of all I shall answer the question I left you all with last...where exactly is that muse? Well he's a bit shaken and still not himself 100% but I was able to track him down...he did indeed slip into a parallel world...in fact in that world no one ate manicous and he told me he feels as a result he found the answer to the question 'Me Eat Manicou?' LOL! But really I'm thankful to all the scientists who showed up to help me find him...with all their PhD glory! The professor from Sliders came, Doc from Back to the Future finally showed up (apparently he was in the year 2012 and not too happy as usual...he had some disturbing news for Marty!Awww!...what we would give to glimpse 1985 again!)but I was particularly impressed that he also went back in time and brought back to the future for me the original professor from Gilligan's Island! OMG!

But anyway now that my muse is at hand let me get on with the topic at hand...Dreams and Dreaming and to ponder the question is life but a dream? Like the nursery rhyme goes...

" Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream. "

Now as I said my muse is back but still not 100% so there is much for me to say on this topic and I won't try to say much today or about all of my adventures in one go! So we're going to start another ongoing series on Meady's Musings! Yippy! It's going to be called 'Dreams and Dreaming'

So for tonight on this Tumultuous Thursday I will leave you to your dreams...whatever they may come but hopefully they are sweet! :) And I will simply give you a taste of things to come in the new series.

-Stories from my dreams

-Discussions on the ever going philosophical question...is life but a dream? For when I wake up having dreamt a butterfly...am I a woman dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I'm a woman?

-Lucid dreaming and I might ask some of my friends to guest blog for this as they are more expert on it than I!

-Are dreams a connecting place? For past lives? Parallel worlds? The infinite divine? What about telepathic connections during dreams...do estranged lovers truly meet in their dreams?

So tune in folks to my dreams that is! :) And for now the series will take place under Maniac Mondays, Tumultuous Thursdays and Funtastic Fridays until all the dream stories are done! But each day will capture the topic in the normal style in which it is written so for instance on Funtastic Fridays expect cartoons on the topic and lighthearted banter, while on Maniac Mondays expect more of the dream stories and on Tumultuous Thursdays expect us to dive deep into the metaphysical and technical side of dreams and dreaming...so you might learn the most about lucid dreaming for instance on that day!

Anyway goodnight my dear readers and sweet dreams to you my friends! :)

So let's discuss our dreams! You are welcome to write in and tell us about yours too! :)

Parallel Lives...Parallel Worlds?

Do you ever wonder about it? Followers of Meady's Musings will know yes I do wonder about it...as can be referenced here and here And now the time has finally come to continue my wonderment in depth and I hope to have you join me on this quest...

I have had over the past few years had this reoccurring dream (not often though about a couple times) where I live in this house with my mother...she is the same physical mother I have now and at the core...the very essence she is the same being...same soul I figure...and that shines out...it is what really marks her for me...but in the dream...she is also different. She even looks slightly different physically...like how one's looks change if they change their lifestyle and sense of style etc. The mother in the dream also has slightly different body language etc based on her different life experiences perhaps.

I'm also different in the same way in the dream as I just described about my mother...and although seriously at some deep core level I know the love and attachment between us is the same as in my normal, real, waking life...we have a slightly different relationship on the surface in this dream world...because we are a bit different and so the dynamic is a bit different.

The most interesting thing about this dream is the house and in how much detail I can picture and feel it...it's kinda in a different dimension in a way too...it seems not to be in this world...or not of this world in some ways...like suspended somewhere isolated from everything else like I don't get the sense that there is a real outdoors that we can go out into or like a street out the front...also an odd feeling that there is neither a night or day in this place just one dim twilight? Yet still the oddest thing is out at the front I get a hint in the dream don't ask me how I know this or perhaps you can say it is mumbo jumbo madness of the dream state except this dream is so deep as in it weighs on my emotions heavily and drainingly...the kind where you wake up disturbed and it stays with you...so don't think it is a random mumbo jumbo dream. Well in the dream I just get the idea that out front the house if there were streets etc. in the first place it would open out to San Francisco but at the back of the house I know for sure it is a beach front...I see the sand through the windows and hear the ocean...and some how it doesn't seem to be a cold beach but a warm beach...at least Southern California...not Northern...so how can this be? But in the quaintess of the dream you get the feeling that yes the back doors would open to a beach but the front of the house no...as if the front and back doors of the house open to two different locations...And in the house I can still recall such details although the last time I had this dream was almost 6 months ago but I can still tell you how the rooms felt how they were shaped...there is this very huge kitchen that very little cooking goes on in...with long brightly lit stretches...the cooking being little is very much in contrast to my real life mother's habits...but yet in the dream that same mother although cooks not as often has just made us a batch of something to snack on...and it seems later on we might be expecting guests...these guests seem to be very important and related to her career...I think she is about to get a promotion. Also in the dream I for sure know I'm the only child and my mother and I are inseparable...in the real world I have two brothers and although am close with my mother I'm so certainly not the only child...and my mum so certainly not the career woman type...

Now all of this even to recall now is very draining for me...it is why I've taken so long to come back on here and post although I had promised you readers to get back on with this parallel worlds business sooner...but I was doing this post more than 2 weeks ago and it was just too spooky to continue it back then...I felt myself seeing that place and I had to stop! Serious! Even now I feel a bit weirdy but I've come back biting my lips to carry out the promised task...

The universe sure works in mysterious ways though...Since starting this post more than 2 weeks or so ago and leaving it stagnant I've also stumbled on the works of Dr. Michio Kaku...I was drawn into this Parallel Worlds thing more by my own real life experiences and I've seen the TV series Sliders (so OK some might say that is why in my dream the house is in San Franciso but it could just be too cause I've visited there a couple times or it could really be where the portal exists! :) )...and even before I've just for years and years believed that for sure Parallel Worlds and Universes existed but had never heard of Dr. Kaku although had about a month or two ago stumbled on this NOVA series TV show that so happened to be running on PBS just the day after I stumbled on it on the station's website and so was able to view it...so on this show I had learned about Shrodinger and his cat and Hugh Everett but not Dr. Kaku...but as I had left this post stagnant I stumbled upon Dr. Kaku having a talk with Deepak Uncle on Intent! :) right... here! So now I'm waiting for my delivery from Amazon of these two books...can't wait to talk about them on here!



So now I feel more confident about my musings...thinkings...and ramblings...cause well known Physicists...well they I can use to verify that I'm not just a crazy person...there are facts on this too! I'm no Physicist however but for sure I believe in as much as we are all allowed our own beliefs even if they can't be proven...I believe especially for each big life decision we make I believe in this life we go on with the one that was made of course and can never get the other reality back...but out there somewhere that reality exists...we can't get to go into it though and so really we shouldn't waste must time hankering over it...but knowing this helps us explain the weirdness we sometimes feel and perhaps in some small way makes us not take things so seriously too...for even though we can't have x reality and very much have to live y's one instead...hey somewhere out there x lives on...and perhaps a certain element of us is connected to it somewhere out there in the universal fluid...cause it is a different world's version of us no? So we must somehow be connected in some limited way to our billion versions of ourselves out there? To me it is here a drawing might help...but I don't have the time to draw tonight...perhaps I'll draw it some time soon as we continue on this journey though...

I know I must have just served to confuse readers in all billion worlds I exist in! :) Or maybe I should have more faith in my reader's ability to be open to my madness! :) But I say if there are these parallel worlds and universes well surely too if we are just different elements of ourselves in these worlds...well on some small subtle level we must all be connected no? So really even though me must hammer down and live in this world and carry on with things...we are really never 100% only of this world...at some level all the worlds must communicate with one another...I'm not sure yet how this happens or what it means...and of course too I have no proof...but perhaps it is a bit of Lewis Carroll's Through The Looking Glass...


It's is why I shared my dream with you because I believe the profound feeling I have for it...well it could be a way of communicating a parallel life or universe in which I live with my mum...I shared it with my mum and she was most intrigued...felt it could be true...totally bought into it with all smiles!:) Amazing! And she has never seen Sliders as far as I know so there! It couldn't have influenced her! :)

But what do you all think? Would love to hear you views and continue on ... on this quest into Parallel Lives...Parallel Worlds and indeed Reincarnation as we go too...Please come join me and share your views and ideas on this and feel free to critique mines...also for sure will continue to discuss the works of noted minds in the fields...like Dr. Kaku, Dr. Weiss and other related literature on the topics.