Introducing This Magic Sea
A biological exploration of what life is and how it evolved.
Understanding the phenomenon of life is like a mental hologram; comprehend one aspect of the process of life and you can expand your knowledge of life in an almost infinite number of directions.
There is a problem, however. Understanding the phenomenon of life has been evasive because our language and philosophical foundations polarize discussions about the process of life into either physical or spiritual issues. This polarization actively prevents our understanding of the process of life.
So, let's put those well beaten "serious" paths and polarizations aside and plunge into another, more entertaining and light hearted approach. Let's side-step our parochial human perspective and look at life from the viewpoint of life in the Sea. Think of it as a riddle, with the links leading off to clues on solving the riddle. Here it is.
A challenge from the creatures of This Magic Sea
The creatures of Sea challenge you to understand their Thread of Awareness from the viewpoint of each phrase, and as a threaded message connecting all the phrases.
The best way to explore This Magic Sea is to first read the entire message without clicking on any links so you have an overview of the subject. Each term in the menu is a highly compact summary of a whole area of understanding. Don't worry on the first reading if you can't figure out what is being said - and please try to read it through without agreeing or disagreeing or stopping to wonder about a particular phrase. The riddle uses familiar words, but their definitions may be unexpected.
From the menu follow your curiosity through the links to find clues to the meaning of each phrase in the riddle. In each expansion of every phrase you will find cross links that allow you to navigate through This Magic Sea guided only by your own thread of awareness.
Contents Definitions
We voyage This Magic Sea
bound for destinations
of knowledge and understanding
Beyond horizons of perceptions, we discover what we can not see or touch, but know only by its behavior.
We alter our field of perception, become new patterns of behavior.
We lengthen our interval of awareness, perceive new levels of change.
We appear, as we learn, To Be, To Change, To Have Direction
is one intercommunication within This Magic Sea.
We are the thread of awareness in chaos.
We are a crystal memory in a Magic Sea.
We are the image at the focus of awareness, as sunlight flows through the lens of mind.
We are life, and life is thought made visible
We are a web of communications clustered into focal points of I Am.
We appear as information flows through the webs of communications.
We are patterns of behavior
We are the dance of sunlight with the elements of Sea.
We are one acting as many,
We are many acting as one
Each one a single awareness
perceiving
remembering
responding
seeking survival
One, divided again and again,
into many focal points of learning.
Our constant change in relative position creates error in expected cycles.
When the unexpected happens,
Our constant change in relative position creates error in expected cycles.
When the unexpected happens,
adjusts for survival
always tracking
The error of expectations.
Distortion of expected cycles by constant change is the error of expectations.
Mind is what awareness does
Mind is perception,
memory,
response.
always tracking
The error of expectations.
Distortion of expected cycles by constant change is the error of expectations.
Mind is what awareness does
Mind is perception,
memory,
response.
Perception, Memory, Response
Focus sunlight and sea
to form our crystal skeleton
Within This Magic Sea.
Each one of us knows awareness
at our own interval of change
But we change together on many levels
at intervals too fast,
as awareness moves toward the development of new sensory abilities
to satisfy the desire to know the error in expectations
to satisfy the desire to know the error in expectations
and thus survive.
We struggle in nets of conception
threading perception through ancient recall.
We are the Caverns of Sea's Remembering
reflecting our journey through the horizons of our own perceptions
We struggle in nets of conception
threading perception through ancient recall.
We are the Caverns of Sea's Remembering
reflecting our journey through the horizons of our own perceptions
As we lift into new patterns of knowing.
we learn to swim in many forms
we grow eyes and a new level of knowing becomes visibility
We are the interplay of sea, air, shore and sun yet.
We are unbounded by our shores.
We rise above the islands as clouds, burst upon the land as rain, and as
We flow back into ourselves
We dance Earth's atoms with radiance from Sun,
forming prismatic patterns of one divided into many.
We are harmonic waves of communications
We are concepts weaving new patterns of awareness
We are a web of thought tangled with focal points of I AM;
One web of communication as wide as Sea
divided again and again through all the eons of becoming
into all the threads of awareness
into all the concepts of perception
into all the focal points of learning
all nested one within the other
seeking together
extending the dance of sun and sea
Within This Magic Sea of Knowledge.
we learn to swim in many forms
we grow eyes and a new level of knowing becomes visibility
We are the interplay of sea, air, shore and sun yet.
We are unbounded by our shores.
We rise above the islands as clouds, burst upon the land as rain, and as
We flow back into ourselves
We dance Earth's atoms with radiance from Sun,
forming prismatic patterns of one divided into many.
We are harmonic waves of communications
We are concepts weaving new patterns of awareness
We are a web of thought tangled with focal points of I AM;
One web of communication as wide as Sea
divided again and again through all the eons of becoming
into all the threads of awareness
into all the concepts of perception
into all the focal points of learning
all nested one within the other
seeking together
extending the dance of sun and sea
Within This Magic Sea of Knowledge.