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"

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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...

Tumultuous Thursdays:Does Planet EarthTurn Slowly?

Amazing Photo taken by James Neeley. All rights reserved. Check out his profile on flickr

I've been wondering this for some time now...and then came the start of this New Year 2010 and to the strain of that Fireflies song more than ever I was wondering if it was just that "I'd liked to make myself believe that planet earth turns slowly"...but does it or doesn't it?

Well first of all if it doesn't turn slowly I think for sure we need to make ourselves believe it does...else if we didn't we'd feel just like how I was feeling at the start of 2010 until I was able to have my talks with Shiv in the meditation cave and be all centered again...Shiv does it for me...but really we have to forget the true nature of the Universe...make ourselves believe or perhaps the Universe itself or the Universe pictured in the form of Shiv makes us believe it...else if we took in the full awesomeness of it...well...we'd feel like a runaway cablecar careening through outerspace dodging cosmic blasts!

I mean think about it just like that magnifique pic I have up from Mr. Neeley where people are being pulled in by centripetal forces on a ferris wheel...well as we stand on planet earth the number of forces tugging at us are immense! And really planet earth is not moving slowly at all infact according to this site planet earth moves 1040 mph! It reminds me so much of well when I'm driving on the highway sometimes...if I pull myself out and try to think about the dynamics of what is going on I freak! But when I slightly switch off and just go with the flow of the traffic I move into it like a cosmic dance in a way...so I think it's the same thing with us on planet earth as a whole or more so us as part of this larger space that is made up of matter and antimatter...you have to make yourself believe it's slow and center yourself else well you gonna FREAK OUT!

I mean but even if you switch off and go into it...isn't it amazing just the kinda speeds this little human body has to go through being bombarded by all these bigger bodies in the Universe and all these forces tugging on us...according to Newton's law of universal gravitation here are the forces bearing down on little us!

Diagrams republished from this site.




And on planet earth that little g also known as gravity works up to be 9.8 meters per sec squared!And the big G is a fella for equality he is the same everywhere in the Universe barging in at a grand approximation of 6.673×10−11 N m2 kg−2 What a ride! Damn no wonder on some days I feel so tired or upheaved...tumultuous even...hence from here on these Thurs talks will be themed Tumultuous Thursdays!

And no wonder our poor little bodies are just crumbling away at the mercy of these forces! So yep you can make yourself believe planet earth turns slowly but for sure them forces are taking their toll! So what is a little body to do? I say the most you can do is surrender to it! Go into it with no resistance...as Deepak Uncle coins it...the Law of Least Effort...so just jump in and go with the flow...merge with the cosmic soup and learn its dance well so you aren't part of its fall out but instead in tune with the dance...

How to learn the dance?...well last I heard them fireflies or lightning bugs were teaching...

"'Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten thousand lightning bugs
As they tried to teach me how to dance"

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.