Transcending the Mutual Reality Accord

“When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.” -Arther C. Clark

I was driving to work through traffic and, feeling a little ill, began to apply a healing modality known as “body talk.” This involves, in this particular instance, tapping the head and heart to “synchronize” the operations of the brain with those of the rest of the body (the theory derives from the claim that the brain and heart come from the same cell mass during embryonic development, and that they must “work together” in order for health to exist). At any rate, of course I thought about how strange that must look to other drivers, me tapping my head and chest while driving along. Then again, not much stranger than people appearing to chat blithely away into thin air when in fact they are conversing on their cell phones! We’ve gotten used to the “cell phone monologue,” to some degree, and are no longer surprised by it. But Body Talk is another matter, like so much that goes beyond the consensus reality.

This got me to thinking about how marvelous and creative life is. It operates way beyond our comprehension and far outside that which we consider our comfortable cosmology. What we accept is primarily what we can symbolize with the common language. Things that move beyond that are frequently labeled superstition. Even many things (perhaps like this blog posting) that attempt to speak of things outside the common reality, even if they speak of real experience, verified with confidence, are still not accepted due to their apparent dissonance with the “Mutual Reality Accord.” But that is well and good, because it is another “unalienable right” that one may accept or deny what one chooses (of course, one must also pay the price either in being wrong, or, sometimes, in being right).

Back to Body Talk and other “mysterious phenomena.” Energy and Information determine the course of events in the universe. Information provides the form energy takes and the rule by which energy flows. Energy “enlivens” the form. Information is, then, the geometry of the physical reality, while energy enlivens that geometry. With the purposeful “tapping” of Body Talk (similar in fact to the Chinese medical modality known as Do In), we have both energy and information. Who’s to say that that energy and information do not enter a causal web that extends beyond the scope of the current understandings of science? Any real scientist must admit that history is filled with perceived false relations that turned out to be real. Where you have both energy and information, and especially verification (even if personal in nature), there are reasonable grounds to accept, even if only provisionally, that a causal relationship is at play.

As for myself, it isn’t important that anyone believe me, or even accept that there is a greater reality beyond current “knowledge.” I’ve lived long enough and experimented sufficiently with life to have confidence in my own experience. That is the basis for living and it isn’t necessary that others agree in order to go on enjoying the fullness of life. If one keeps integrity with one’s self, then certainly one’s choices will justify themselves. Even the ones that turn out to be a mistake, if taken sincerely in a context of conscious discovery, become a blessing and justify the quest for an ever greater understanding and awareness.