Reclusland

It seems that these ideas and theories have been simmering in the back of my head for a while now.  This summer at the beach, for example, the sand and the sea gave me an insight into the nature of awareness.

As anyone who has spent time watching the ocean knows,  the sand along the tide line is warn flat by the constant washing of the tide water over  it.   With just the water and the sand together, they naturally create a perfect equilibrium: smooth, flat, densely packed sand, with water flowing back and forth across the top of it.

However, as anyone who has spent time in the ocean can also tell you, when you  stand just inside the tide line and let the waves wash over your feet, the weight of your presence causes the retreating waves to carve valleys out of the sand beneath your feet, soon leaving you buried up to your  ankles in a mix of sandy water.  This is same way that quicksand works, just not as quick.

Such does the consciousness of an observer act upon reality.  With your very awareness, you bring the world around you into being out of the tide of information signals flowing through your nervous system.  You create the dips and valleys in the sands of reality, that would otherwise be pressed flat by waves.

Also, Einstein suggested that we think of gravity as a “bending” in space time; massive bodies having the same kind effect on the space-time continuum…