#inthought - Everything as Energy

"Everything is essentially energy"

this is a quote that has been seen passing around through the pages of the interwebs, and there has been no proof who the original Author of the quote was but it has mostly been attributed to Albert Einstein. This is not the important part, what is important is what the statement is trying to share as a trail of thought. Why would Einstein be attributed to this quote? my 2cents:

I will say this with a scientific mind, this is an easy base for understanding, as in my view science is the observation of our physical reality in broken bits. We break it up to study it, and then eventually compile the whole. When observing everything, all that is happening is simply looking, looking at everything, matter, objects, plants, insects, trees, everything came into being because energy was converted into one form or another. Energy is never still, it is always moving, and therefore this statement makes a profound shift to the way one would see things. It would mean, everything, absolutely everything we see is all energy, and is all moving, even the seemingly solid non moving objects are moving all the time. Physics studies all matter, and the way this matter is related to energy, and the famous equation by Einstein famously related energy to matter with his equation that changed the modern world:

                                            Energy = mass x the speed of light x speed of light

The basics explanation of this equation with a non scientific mind, for easy understanding is that mass that interacts with light in space has energy within it. Where it may seem that the equation may not hold place in our minds is how this can all be. The simple way of looking at it is that, any object that can be seen has energy, the proof of this was observed by a famous scientist Max Planck who related energy to frequency with his equation:

                                       Energy = h(Planck's constant) x frequency

While avoiding to put this into a mathematics class, the simplest way to understand this equation is that all energy is frequency, so why Plancks constant?, well remember in Einsteins equation, the fact of the seer proves the energy mass balance, so Planck was the seer, so to keep the equation true, we have to incorporate the one who made the observation, and that is through the constant. It is actually a calculated number and Planck was the person who calculated it, and the number will never change therefore he is the observer of the number. The study of sound has shown all matter to be vibrating at its own specific frequency from the chair in your room, to your cell phone, to your television and even you as the individual, and you probably vibrate at the highest frequency pf everything around you, which is what brings about interaction.

Lets simplify,

how does this all relate to you? If all is energy, and we seek knowledge of all these energies, but where do we study them, the beauty of this observation is that when everything is moving, and you keep still, you can observe all these types of energies as they move through you.That is the beauty of being human, all these energies are contained within you. Heat, as warmth, electricity and magnetism as your heartbeats, sexual energy, wind energy in your lungs, light in your eyes. . . . all one has to do to see them is to be still. In a world where everything is constantly moving, it can be easy to see how we are all channels of energy, and your state of being determines which energy you channel and where the energy goes, and what it creates. Being aware of this may fundamentally change the way one sees their reality.

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Faster than the speed of shutter

It was a summer morning spending time on a little garden of flowers, aimlessly drifting away in thought. Lucky for me I had a camera when many of the butterflies and little insects came to feed on their pollen. Now this post is not about the subject of the thoughts but rather an amazing little insect or bird that passed by.  Tiny as it was, the speed of the flutter of its wings gave it the look of an insect, but the finesse of its flight with a beak as thin as the head of a needle and the segmented body of a sea creature this wonder of nature still has me wondering whether it was a bird. To probe into the creature was to keep it still in time with the camera, it turned into a battle of capture as it jumped from flower to flower with the speed only a high shutter speed could conquer.

It seemed success would be achieved through a quick shutter speed, and pulling it tighter and tighter would only limit the image as it got dimmer and dimmer, as I feared it would slowly disappear and be just a mere memory the  rays of the sun pierced through to save the day and illuminated the flowerbed as if the storm has just passed, but the ballet had just begun as now armed with a quick shutter it became a game of chase, clicking away in and around the shadows  it would be until later that I would see the bounty as I got hints of the creature, here I share the spoils….enjoy this wonder I share.  

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Bird in the Bush

Birds are wonderous little creatures that give nature its voice. Ive set out to discover the many species of bird on the Southern African tree tops. The following pictures have been shot in various locations from Rustenburg, South Africa to Rasesa, Botswana. I'll be adding more as I come across and capture the many little birds that capture my eye.

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Mopipi o thuntse

Mopipi is a popular tree in the southern african region, and can mostly be found in semi-arid locations of the region. Largely concentrated in the south eastern part of Botswana, the trees rarely grow in clusters and would usually be found dotted around the land. Noticably always on ploughing fields standing lone and strong as it is the culture of the people to never cut the tree down. It does seem to have a sacred and mystic aura about it, even when one sits in its cool shade shielding the strong Botswana sun that we all love to hate.

So, why the topic mopipi o thuntse?, well in the setswana language o thuntse is a verb used to describe the state of the tree, which is the time it has produced flowers, which translated to saying that it has blossomed. I wondered why the blossom of this tree was so important and something spoken about with the people of the region. It was interesting to discover as i had the opportunity to during the last couple of months, which is the transition from winter to spring to summer, which happens rather quickly in these parts.

Rainfall had been irregular and on a massive decline in the past two or three years, and the land had been very dry with dams almost empty on a cold July afternoon when taking a bush walk with a friend when we noticed this tree that was lush green with bright yellow dottings that resembled cotton balls strewn all over the tree. Now this being an unusual sight during the time of the season i was in doubt as to wether it was natural. As we approached the tree there were flower stems made up of thousands of tiny little flowers that would bear the fruit known as motlopi. I asked why this tree seemed out of place with flowering like the rest of the plants in the area and was later told that the tree grew only where there was lots of underground water, and the flowering of the tree is a sign that the lands thirst was going to be quenched with bountiful rain. Something that was hard to beleive since it was the middle of winter, but as time progressed I was shown many more signs in nature that showed the rains were coming such as the falling of a chichiboa from its nest tree the acacia was also a sign that rains were coming. So i waited and observed, and months later in november rains are showering the bush and the knowledge say that this is the earliest it has rained in four years and it was a sign that the skies were plenty with rain.

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she gave me (pink) flowers

There is  a lot that trees can tell us, if we just see. The seeing can also take another dimension, as it has been said before, "perception creates reality". This can never be any more true than in nature as the mind chooses what to see therefore it creates its own reality according to the way one may choose.

I was taking a walk in town to a friends house, camera in hand and mind open. I came across this beautiful tree that was made up of a green bark, thorns and flowers. How magnificent! I did not care much for its name or why it was there, but just being aware of its beauty was enough. 

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Update: 1 Oct 2012

Its been a timeless six months. A lot has been revealed, a lot has been observed, and a lot has to be covered. In this series of inthought articles I will be covering and uncovering all that takes place to journey within the self because that is where we have to start.

These articles I will be sharing to help bring understanding to the self and to remove that thorn that has been irritating you at the back of your mind. The journey of this understanding can take any path and it has to start from the inside, that being our thoughts which are the basis of our actions from there we will move out but I can only take you so far, as the journey has to be continued by you. Next inthought article will touch thought itself.

The rest of the site we will be observing nature through exploration and photography.

enjoy.

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Of Emotions Colours and the Seasons

The sun rises, the sun sets, we wake, we sleep, we work we rest, we entertain, we get entertained. These are the daily chores in our everyday lives...and we live in different worlds with different experiences, but one thing remains...we are human and we have emotions which differ and change throughout our daily lives.

We are all different from each other in much the way that we are similar. We all experience the same set of emotions, and since we live different lives these emotions come in different ways at different times and in different intensities. We have all learnt to understand our emotions and the emotions of others, and we have all learnt to manage them. It has been said that one of the biggest developments of mankind is understanding this thing called emotion, and through this understanding we have been able to develop relationships, maintain them, and end them. Some say the most important thing in life is to understand and manage the relationships we have with other people, be it our parents, peers, or acquaintances, business partners etc. This is how we have learnt to live with each other and how we have learnt to manipulate the daily activities of our lives and what we have set out to do. The fundamental aspect of all this is, Emotion: sadness, anger, fear, happiness, excitement, nonchalance....the list is goes on and on. These emotions guide our thoughts, and consequently our actions or vice versa and through action we are able to achieve many of that which has led to where we are as mankind today. 

So lets simplify this and move inwards so as to put this into context of  how this relates to colour and the seasons. We are living in an increasingly fast paced world and there is a great deal of expectation that we put into our daily lives, and this plays havoc with our emotions which change countless times a day as we go through our daily activities and this may leave one rather exhausted both physically and mentally or otherwise. Any person that wants to cope in this fast paced world we live in would realise that the most important aspect of our being is to keep things in order both inwardly (in our minds) and outwardly (in our physical being). As we attempt to do this we deal with a lot of our emotions by putting them in their right place and right mind. We expose ourselves to pleasures and pain; and we seek justification for each time we do this. This pleasure will come from satisfying our desires, through any of our senses together or individually - sight, smell, taste, touch (feel), hearing. These all tie back to thought of the mind, which is in direct connection with our emotions. 

We satisfy our desires by indulging ourselves in that which gives us pleasure,  both knowingly and unknowingly. When we knowingly indulge in that which gives us pleasure, we are stimulating one or more of the senses either in isolation or in unison, but we can never really address them all, and that always leads to temporary or incomplete fulfillment of our emotions, of which the feeling ceases once the stimulus is removed. We then have to question as to whether there can ever be complete fulfillment of our emotions, and what of this unknowing  fulfillment of our desires..?

I will explore unknowing fulfillment....

....you know it is sometimes said that happiness comes from enjoying life's simple pleasures. I have often wondered about the simple pleasures that were being referred to. I have often observed this, and also come to my own about this, and it seems it is enjoying the best of what nature has to offer. Some often have fulfillment from just taking a walk in nature and completely immersing myself in the moment taking in the colours. Walking along a crystal clear stream, listening to the water trickle along the rocks, hearing the birds sing, seeing the explosion of colours as the sun pierces through the clouds and trees, the fresh air, the hills, the sway of trees, and removing all of life's complexities that have been created by man, removing the ego from the self and actually realising there is more to life that all the superficial satisfaction thats put before us. 

The beauty of all this is that I can never really get bored of all these stimuli, they keep fascinating me as nature has a way of keeping itself interesting. It changes throughout all the year, as it cycles through all the seasons and sheds its skin of the old and brings about renewal. This always tends to bring about a renewal in our emotions aswell, and most of us do not even realise this...it is involuntary. I  would like to use spring as an example because of the explosion of colours as nature restarts its engines for yet another cycle of life. Nature and man celebrates spring in different parts of the world, through different religions, festivites, rituals and cultural acknowledgements. Each season has its own story its own joys and its own sorrows, the harshest of which is winter, which represents struggle and survival for all life on earth. The colours of nature seem to tone down during this period as the plants lose their leaves and the leaves lose their colour. It has been investigated and it has been proven that colour has an effect on the way we feel, it is a stimulus that has a strong correlation with our emotions.

What is colour anyway..? We see colours as light bounces off objects, and light is a wave with different wavelengths and each wavelength represents a different colour; this is what has given rise to what scientists call the light spectrum - a representation of light of all different wavelengths giving different colours. A physicist who has studied this at depth will tell you that different waves with different wavelengths carries with it different energy levels. Our eyes are the receptors for colour and there is a limit to the wavelength of colours we can see. It is often on the two extreme ends of the colour spectrum infrared light and ultraviolet light, but all that is in between we can percieve. This got me thinking that, all the different energies of the different colours gives us a particular type of energy as we see it - it is all transfer of energy.

Colours on the low end of the spectrum such as reds tend to represent strong emotional responses, such as fear, anxiety, anger, love etc/ red is a colour with the longest wavelength and has the least energy, as we move up the spectrum to orange we tend to see a representation of warmth, happiness, hope etc.Colours in the middle of the spectrum such as greens  represent a calm, serenity and nature and as we move up to the high energy colours such as blues and violets represent good energy, spirituality and upliftment. Thats just the general jist of it, and it is a lot more complex than I have put it out here.

We often share the best of natures colours, scents and tastes with our fellow human beings , from giving the gift of flowers to our loved ones, to sharing a drink, a fruit, a walk in the park....the list goes on. We are all trying to capture that piece of  natures brilliance -the brilliance which has given us (man) that simple pleasure which has evoked emotions that bring us inner calm and peace because THAT is what has given us complete fulfillment. There is nothing wrong with allowing ourselves to stop once in a while and enjoy life's simple pleasures and completely immerse ourselves in the best of what nature has to offer.

As the first rains pour on the parched earth, new life beckon, new opportunities arise and it shall be all over again.

 I am reminded of a quote while reading a book from a philosopher:
"...And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth  thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth. But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels  for ever in flight."
-Kahlil Gibran ( from the book "The Prophet" ISBN: 978-0-86852-048-3)

Cheers

kMoe

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