What good timing - I get to run on about my latest philosophical clarity, post pictures and mark it all with my 800th post!
Okay, first the Story:
I was reading a book on eels. Yes, the kind that swim in the water. It was a children's book, checked out of the local library by a friend of mine for her daughter (who bless her heart at 7 years of age likes to check out books on eels and Queen Elizabeth I ) and it wasn't particularly interesting. I was dismayed to find the Shrieking Eels weren't in it (inconceivable!) but I was struck by a line in the Electric Eels part that began my philosophical exploration. It was explaining how electric eels have special organs along the sides of their bodies that produce this incredible electric charge. They apparently can stun a human or other large animal. It went on to say that the eels were able to amplify their electricity through these organs and then it made the statement that has been on my mind ever since: "All animals have an electric field."
Now that statement may not mean a whole lot to many of you, in which case I encourage you to skip ahead to my pictures and then reply with a post along such lines as "lovely pictures old chap but I have no idea what you're talking about." I would be very appreciative of that. But to know me in depth is to know that I have a fascination with the supernatural, metaphysical world; as seen through the eyes of science. Let's say that I have experienced some pretty far out "shtuff" in my life and I'll spare the details but let's say for the sake of relevance that it has left me with the strong desire to prove what I've experienced through science. To make these "spiritual" phenomenon more tangible and able to be reproduced in a scientific manner.
Hang with me here.
So I pick up this book about eels written for children and it says "all animals have an electric field" and I am shocked (!). My mind immediately begins to draw connections; "all animals have an electric field, which means that humans have an electric field too. Can some people see this field? Is that what an "aura" is? Is that what a "halo" is? Is the electric field around a person's head what the biblical painters were depicting in their representations of Jesus? Is it possible to be sensitive enough to this "field" that you can sense it? Feel it? Interact with it? This might explain quite a bit of our human phenomenon. How can you "sense" when someone's in the room? Can you "feel" the electric field of this person interacting with yours? Does that help explain why touching another is so important? Why a hug feels so good? Are we really interacting just as physical beings, or is there an "energy" component to us, as well?" My mind went on with these thoughts for some time.
Fast forward to: today.
I am driving up through the Shehandoah Valley, having spent a great weekend in the mountains (see photos) and feeling very calm, relaxed, and centered (as evidenced by the fact that I was doing the speed limit ) As I drive up the valley on this beautiful day I see the mountains off in the distance, these grand peaks called the Applachians and more specifically, the Blue Ridge Mountains. I marvel at these peaks and they bring to me a smile. I wonder: what is it about mounatins? We love them, are attracted to them. Why? I remember my reading of the eel book: I remember that we all have an electric "charge." I think to myself: is it due in part to the physical makeup of the rocks? Do they "excite" us in some way? Is there a particular interaction between our electricity and the granite and other minerals? Does it "ground" us?! I wonder this as I drive up I81 toward northern Virginia and traffic and shopping hell...
"We are electric. We are electric."
Okay... enough waxing philosophic here are my pictures of the "grounding" Blue Ridge Mountains retouched to look as I remember them and also the lovely waterfall that I hiked to.
I wander what effect the effect of water is on our fields...
Ah, for another rambling post