My exposure to the idea of string theory has been minimal indeed, and that's just fine with me.  What I mean is simply this:  I have never found it necessary or desirable to dig too deep into the scientific end of it for one simple reason that is entirely personal to me:  I can run the risk of getting absorbed and even lost in the minutiae of the theories, or even having my attention hooked by the details - IOW, trying so hard to "understand" that I may actually thwart actual understanding.  I'm the type of person who, when I start something, tends to take it to the limit - and though this may not sound rational on the surface, I've truly discovered that that isn't always a good thing for me.  In fact, I would say the same thing about my exposure to other forms of shamanic practice.  I've never really studied it and have no great desire to do so, because ultimately all true shamanic practices are the "same" at the level of Intent.  And, indeed, the same could probably be said for all true quantum theory.  The fact that they are often describing the same events - the shaman through the eyes of magic, the scientist through the lens of his microscope - is just icing on the cake.

What's interesting is that quantum science is beginning to be able to write equations for what shamans have simply Known through gnosis & experience since before the idea of time itself sprang into being.  That's cool.  We don't begrudge the slow kids their need for special tools and lengthy procedures to arrive at what has been obvious all along.   Garlic is good for you.  Consciousness is a field of energy attached to a body but not "of" the body.  Energy creates matter, not the other way around.  Thou art god.   The scientists seem to think they've discovered something altogether new because that's what they have to believe in order to facilitate their own validations.  And that's okay, too.

What's interesting about "string theory" in more shamanic terms is that it was expressed by Carlos Castaneda as the "filaments" of energy which a seer may see when looking at a luminous form, or even just seeing the underlying structure of the so-called "physical" world or what it really is - an energetic "history" of events which have formed "strings" of "memory" stretching into infinity in both directions - past and future, if linear time must be considered part of the equation at all.  The tree was once a seed which was previously a different tree which sprang from a different seed, prior to The Mutation, but dependent on the pollen on a honeybee's leg, who came from a hive of bees, whose queen came from a distant location, swept to the forest by a strong storm which was the result of a butterfly flapping her wings on the other side of the ocean at the dawn of time, at the edge of the abyss, just after the universe called herself into being with a thought, which was the spontaneous parthenogenesis of self-creation, and contained within it the blueprint for all evolution, for each part of the whole was imbued with the will of the whole, and no matter how far those filaments of energy may stretch, each being has within itself the ability to create its own singularity of consciousness through the process of spinning a new thread which is its own beginning... alpha and omega, worlds without end.

And so on...  Now, of course, that's my own shamanic vision and gnosis of string theory, which would certainly cause the nearest quantum physicist to run screaming, I suspect.    That's what I really liked about that movie, WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW.  Really brought together the visions of the mystics with the language of the scientists and showed that both are saying the same thing.  One speaks in word-pictures, while the other speaks in numbers and squiggly lines =-+<#2>.  Having been a *ahem* somewhat less than impeccable student in math, my natural predilection was to lean toward seeing and Knowing on an intuitive level. 

Speaking again of string theory, I have always found it interesting that my very first visual vision while engaging the mushroom ally was of a giant red spider at the center of the universe, spinning it all into being.  Her web was the "is".  And upon later reflection, I came to realize each of us is the spider at the center of the universe.  What we spin into filaments of energy (force to go through the motions of actually occurring) determines the answer to the first question:  "Who are you?"

Fascinating stuff, no matter which side of the bridge one views it from.

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