I feel a sense of poetic symbolism when I put these words together as a title. I have heard of and seen a photo of Barak and Michelle Obama on the “Rising Sun,” the yacht of David Geffen. They were reported to be there along with celebrities Oprah, Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen. But why you ask, have I added “Butterfly Effect” to my title? Ah, that is because I sense a tiny insignificant action will have the eventual global effects, consequences, from the other side of the world, Tahiti. So, the storm, the churning chaos on this side of the world will assume the shape, the final form of those positive thoughts of FLOTUS, OPRAH and company through the laws of Chaos Theory.
The Churn that lies within that pupate form contributes all of the random actions and energy. Here on the side of the world we see the meaningless thousands of thousands of things moving through their incomprehensible cause and effect relationships as a nearly infinite set of variables. That is our inexplicable world. We struggle to make sense, explain, grasp at controls or guess at some rational meaning. But, to truly, intuitively “see” means we must not control, not grasp at meanings, explanations and sense.
FLOTUS, OPRAH and company are our celebrity symbols of our selves. We gather in small groups, discuss what we don’t like, what we would want to see as our world “instead of” the nonsense and a strange electricity permeates the air. We feel excitement, inspiration; our imaginations light up and A BUTTERFLY EFFECT takes flight. Unseen is this force. Unseen is this subatomic form which takes shape yet it contains a plan, an embryonic blue print of the destined macrocosmic form which lies at the end of The Churn; at the end of the long path of countless fractal permutations.
A small but significant percent of a percent of us dream, meditate, and converse with each other flowing in that savory stream of energy. Electric inspiration charges the air around us. We feel aware, awoke, alive and we participate in that DREAMING. FLOTUS, OPRAH and company are my celebrity symbols for the thousands and thousands of butterfly wings stirring. They are you and I. We may not even realize what we are doing. But we participate. Each of us at our own level of awareness are forming a future.
And then we return to a patience and practice that might be considered mundane, banal or just born of simple everyday ceremonies of daily work and daily bread. The Churn continues. “Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.” And as in the conclusion of “The Tempest” we are reminded “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life, is rounded with a sleep.”
We eventually learn to go within to find true control; each of us at our own pace. There we find our true essence and we are each conscious beings becoming more conscious of our consciousness.
I am encouraged to lead with this overall view as my introduction to the deeper aspects I see in “The Churn.” I will continue with a series of connect the dots articles to give more form to this vision. Next Title: The Caterpillar, The Churn, and the End of Times