Reflections

The past week has been a blur of making new friendships, and building on existing ones. I feel most blessed and awed by the love and trust that has come so naturally into these relationships. Which makes the next piece bitter sweet. WE ARE GOING TO KINGSTON! We received our visa granting documents today and plan to be on the Sunday evening flight home. I’ve been bubbling over thinking about our return with a fresh outlook and widened perspective.

Happy Birthday to Philip (singing), he is a quarter of a century old, but Alicia (our best friend) decided he might actually be two. So she baked him an amazing cake and put a big number 2 candle on top. She then proceeded to give him an Elmo card, which wished him a happy 2^nd birthday, a little toy car, and a picture book that teaches him about his mouth. I don’t know why she gave him the book; I doubt he’ll be able to read until he is at least 4. I hope she doesn’t expect me to read it to him.

Also this week, I celebrated my 6 week anniversary of arriving in Cayman with a long session of quantum mechanics and mind boggling properties of the physical universe. I figure it was my anniversary; I deserve a little break to focus on the physical plane. Now when people ask what I learned in Cayman, I can say:

I relearned that one cannot simultaneously measure, with definite accuracy, the momentum and the location of say, an electron. The more accurately one property is measured the less accurately the other measurement will be.

I also found that Quantum Wave Function Entanglement is being used by many scientists to draw conclusion about the underlying oneness of our physical reality, and even the harmony of science and religion. When the wave functions of two or more particles become entangled they can travel to opposite ends of the planet and still hold a perfect influence over each other. Their entanglement might cause one to spin up while the other spins down until they simultaneously shift into an alternative spins, perfectly balanced against each other, across untold distance. This can go on forever as far as we know. But the moment one particle is disturbed, without an instants delay, the other, no matter where it is, contradicts the disturbing force to maintain the balance, and the wave function collapses. Now that’s beautiful! (this is not scientific fact, it is just my understanding from what I have looked into so far)

The words of Abdu'l-Baha remind me: “ As a Persian Poet has written: -- ‘The Celestial Universe is so formed that the under world reflects the upper world.’ That is to say whatever exists in heaven is reflected in this phenomenal world.” Hearing this I find even greater beauty in this connecting, unifying, balancing occurrence scientists are calling Entanglement. I will let you decide for yourself what heavenly truth it reflects.

It is really getting late, so I will have to sign off for now. Perhaps next week I will have more to say about what I learned from my time in Cayman. Until then… Make a new friend! They will change your life.

(Mercy, Chris, Philip): Chris has reminded me to learn something new every day. He derives more fun from one game of Frisbee than most people are lucky to have all week. His exuberance for life is should be a mandatory curriculum in every primary school. Thanks Chris!