Everything is Made of Energy Stuff

(Picture me, in all my glorious chubbyness, shaking off that last post..)

Blah-blech-che-cha-soop-psbbt...

Ok, back in my color...

I always thought vibration... Vibration is energy...

Vibration like frequency...

Like, a high, piercing note, (high freq) gets beyond my hearing, and then maybe I can see it?

Idk, lol...

But, just as you can feel the "thump" of the bass, maybe we are vibrating so slowly that we "feel" solid because we are holding a long, low, note....

Are you the magician?
Are you the trick?
Are you the observer, witnessing the act?
Or are you all three?
Most tend to have a tunnel vision, one eye open, subjective or personal view...

Thank you Rickie, for sharing your "thoughts".
Much more than mere words...
They echo through us all...

The realization is a profound one, indeed!

I have hope for the courage you just demonstrated.
I applaud and commend your willing spirit.
Peace and respect.

Something to meditate on, this topic is...

It occurs to me, Rickie, that in my rush to defend your reason for posting, I neglected to share my thoughts on the actual topic presented. Apologies, and here's my take on it for what it's worth.

At some point in life, most of us will wonder if we are part of something larger than us. We will wonder if we are just the result of accidental chemistry and biology. We will question our place in the universe and how we fit in with everything else. These are highly personal questions about our very existence, and each of us will come to answer them in our own ways. Some of us may seek answers our entire lives and never feel content with one answer. Others will live our lives blissfully unaware of such questions and simply "be".

Exploring these questions is the reason I am here. It is the reason I choose to call myself "Jedi". This temple has proven to be an environment filled with other curious explorers willing to discuss these questions and so many others. On occasion I will run across someone casting judgement or outwardly disagreeing with the things I choose to believe or explore, but that is good too. It is how I learn, and everyone here is a worthy teacher in one way or another.

I'm thankful that you were willing to share your recent contemplations, and I hope you will continue.

Rickie The Grey wrote: I've been thinking about this a lot lately...

It's all energy, everything is energy. It's organized and vibrates differently but it is all energy.

We are energy. We're all connected, everything is connected.

That much seems to be true, and its fascinating to contemplate things like that, how solid is an illusion to us... in both sight and touch. The perception of energy seems to define the point of view which is commonly taken as the extent of reality.... but so much lies outside our perception as well as it being illusory. Exercising this is a good technique to break away from habitual conceptualization, something which probably reinforces a curious and inquisitive mindset IMO.

In some Buddhism they say the difference between living and non-living matter is its capacity to observe itself as living, and its that basic concept of awareness as being the only important attribute... and all other things are manifestations of distraction from that awareness. Gets a bit heady sometimes
:S

Very good Rickie. Here's some references in the field of science to go with the philosophy (or spiritual contemplation even):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.html#.U827k_ldWSo

http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/physics/energy/intro.html

http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/01/q-is-it-true-that-all-matter-is-simply-condensed-energy/

http://www.lifetrainings.com/We-are-made-of-Energy-not-Matter.html

I appreciate the sentiment.

Ricky, thank you for sharing this, not only for sharing but for starting this discussion, this is how I realized how important is to communicate with respect and assertiveness. Actually my current meditations ended lately on some similar thoughts and it is great that you shared them here.

Sometimes I don't give myself enough time to come here as share the thoughts I got, but it is something, that you and everyone else that actually do, that encourage people like me to come and share.

Thanks again

Technically we are just a collection of energy, biochemical, bioelectrical, etc...as I sit I'm a mass of potential energy, when I get up and stroll across the room I'm a mass of kinetic energy, when I speak I release heat energy and vibrate air molecules creating sound...

Becoming one with everything is simple..just open your mind to it rather than slamming the door shut....or use some super glue or duct tape ....

Super glue for the non believers :laugh:

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.” - Douglas Adams

:laugh:

Dude, you should check out the big ball of timey wimey thread. It's got a lot of cool theories in it.

Right now I'm studying pilot wave theory. The whole of quantum mechanics can be explained by it plus it's a continuous theory. It relates to this thread because there is a theory that space-time interacts with energy at multiples of a fundamental frequency(the de Broglie wavelength). So when you say it's all energy and vibrates, that's true... according to pilot wave theory. When you say we are all connected to everything, that's true too because our pilot waves interact and form superposition nodes(see principle of superposition), and things that are like double-slit interference, as seen in this animated gif