Universal Wave - hidden in plain sight

Chapter 2: Background

I have researched some, not much, but enough to know that you may recognize what I am about to describe, at least in part, by other names. To name a few: a calling, the guiding light, conscientiousness, the holy spirit, panpsychism (or not), a string theory, consciousness field theory, quantum consciousness, a fifth fundamental force, or simply a feeling in your heart of something greater.

I have intentionally not included God in that list of names because 'God', for most, is so closely tied to religion. What I want to share with you existed long before religion and would exist still even if there were no religion.

When I was only 5 years old I had never heard most all of those words. Over time, the closer I've looked at what's driving my curiosity and guiding me it seems to encompass all of those things, including God, all wrapped into one. I am calling this force that drives me, simply, the Universal Wave.

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There are several reasons why now is the time to share my thoughts with you.

I've been studying this for many years now and my understanding is becoming more clear as to how I may be able to successfully communicate it.

Secondly, the distractions that occupy our daily lives (which are many) continue to grow more numerous and more consuming at an exponential pace. Humans need clarity. As individuals we must be able to focus more on ourselves and less on what distracts us if we are going to participate effectively in our own lives. If you gain nothing else, perhaps you will see these massive invasive distractions for what they are and learn some ways to avoid them.

Thirdly, for better or worse, the Universal Wave is telling me now is the time I must share this with others regardless of how effective my personal delivery may be - as my grandmother would have said, the time is nigh.

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I believe that a definitive identification of the Universal Wave is certainly possible. And when proven, it will make clear the interconnectedness of consciousness and science and mathematics. Thus closing the great divide that exists between the two today. For some, this, in turn, will make scientific advancements more acceptable. And, for others, this will make it easier to see that there is so much more to life than meets the eye and bring many new discoveries to light.

Until then, from a simplier, less scientific point of view, the effects of the Universal Wave can be found everywhere; all around us. I believe these effects are irrefutable. While scientific proof may require mathematical knowledge that has yet to have been uncovered, a common-sense approach simply requires observation, thought, and a little courage to see what is hidden in plain sight. If I can provide you with only a glimpse of the Universal Wave, it may make it easier to realize how you, and everyone, holds a special place and purpose both in the vast universe and in the everyday world around us. And that glimpse will turn into a curiosity. And that curiosity will turn into an understanding.

If you have a little time to consider the Universal Wave you have little to lose and a lot to gain.

Chapter 3: The Hypothesis

Here goes it. Simply stated, the Universal Wave hypothesis proposes the existence of a physical property of time and space (i.e., a wave) whose patterns purposefully influence all movement, both mind and matter.

This simplified statement by no means implies this wave will be easy to definitively identify. The Wave may take many paths, twists, turns, shapes, and sizes and maybe even travel in dimensions that are new to us. In fact, the search for the Universal Wave may test the bounds of human comprehension.

The key to the hypothesis is to recognize this fundamental force of nature does not merely exist, it exist because it has a purpose.

But again, we don't have to prove it exists to see the effects of the Universal Wave that surround us.

Chapter 4: Enlightenment

I got my first hint of a Universal Wave at a very early age. In particular, having grown up and been raised in a Baptist church, I was told that anyone who was not baptized would burn in hell. At the age of five I hadn't seen much of the world, but I had watched a lot of Tarzan movies on rainy summer days when I couldn't be outside playing. So I asked my Mom 'what about the natives in the jungle that have no churches or preachers that could baptize them. Are they going to go to hell?' I was told there are no exceptions, and yes, they would go to hell. Something deep inside of me found that answer profoundly unfair and very difficult to believe.

Quite some time later on I began wrestling with the idea of how could the various religions, with all the good intentions they stand for, have allowed their differences to have caused so many wars and conflicts over the ages.

So I did a little research. What I found out was that the world's religions have much more in common than they have differences. I learned that a long, long time ago (relatively speaking) there was a time called the Axial Age which refers to a time when "the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid down simultaneously and independently in China, India, Persia, Judea, and Greece. And these are the recorded foundations upon which humanity still subsists today." Similarties such as the Golden Rule (treat others as you would have others treat you) and the importance of prayer are the foundations of all major religions.

War is not an option if you follow the Golden Rule.

This did not help me at all to figure out why religions fight and want to kill one another, but did start me wondering how can ideas possibly just pop into peoples head all over the world all at the same time.

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I did more searching and I ran across a documented phenomenon called multiple discovery, or simultaneous invention, where "most scientific discoveries and inventions are made independently and more or less simultaneously by many people from all corners of the globe." So I find out there are numerous instances where ideas didn't just pop into one person's head. Ideas pop to people's head all over the world all at the same time! Nobel Prizes are often awarded to 2 or 3 individuals who have independently made the same discovery. More than 10 individuals may have actually invented flight; though here in the US the Wright Brothers have always received the credit. It often depends on where you live as to who you're told gets credit for a great idea that just 'popped' in their heads.

Were all these multiple discoveries and inventions coincidence? Synchronicity? Maybe, but that gut feeling inside of me made me think that maybe all this doesn't just happen by accident. In fact, it is really hard to imagine that so many things could just happen accidentally, simultaneously, independently, all over the world, time and time again, purely by mere chance!

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But we live in the era of science and technology. It's called the era of science and technology for a reason. Advances in science and technology over the past 100 years are beyond remarkable and have improved our lives in so many ways. It is hard to keep it all straight, and we wonder how managed to exist without it. With all of these advances, physical comfort and technological progress have become the ultimate markers of a successful life.

I mentioned earlier the numerous distractions that invade our daily lives. Science is one of those distractions. For better or worse, science tells us if you can't prove it, it is not worthy of consideration. We should worry that we have allowed this distraction to create a world that is technically advanced but existentially impoverished, a world where we possess incredible tools to change the world but struggle to find a reason to do so.

I vividly recall an incident from when I was just a kid, probably around 10 years old. I was in my grade school geography class, and we were studying a map of the world. I don't remember exactly why we were looking at the map, but I remember pointing out to my teacher how it looks to me like the shape of Africa and the shape of South American appear to match almost perfectly. I suggested to the teacher that the two may have been connected at one time. Why I recall the moment so vividly was my teacher's reaction. She emphatically said that was impossible. She seemed almost offended that I would even suggest such a dumb idea. I thought the two continents having once been joined was an obvious assumption. I did not realize it at the time, and at the risk of dating myself, I realize now that in 1964, I was an actual active participant in a multiple-discovery event. It was between 1961 and 1965 that scientists were discovering Plate Tectonics, which proved that South America and Africa were, in fact, once connected. It wasn't until 1968 that Plate Tectonics became public knowledge.

The point being, history is full of "consensus" ideas that were eventually overturned by better data. I could write several pages on those ideas, but that is really not necessary. Let's just leave it at this: the Earth is no longer the center of the Universe.

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Science aside, I do not believe that finding connectivity in seemingly unrelated events is necessarily a psychological flaw. So I started thinking maybe there are lots of things, not just moral beliefs and important discoveries, that are connected to or influenced by a force that has thus far escaped observation and identification. In other words, an order to things, maybe and order to most everthing.

As if to discourage that way of thinking there are those who say that given an infinite amount of time, a monkey randomly hitting keys on a typewriter will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. What they don't tell you about that idea is that it would take longer than the universe is old for Shakespeare's works to randomly appear in that manner.

There was a renowned astronomer and mathematician who said it best: the likelihood of life spontaneously forming is as improbable as a tornado in a junkyard assembling a Boeing 747. Another argued that "random mutations" (like those needed to create life) are like "typos" in a computer program; no matter how many typos you introduce to a program, you will never get a more complex, better-functioning program - you will only get a crash.

To me, logic suggests that believing things happen by accident requires significantly more faith than believing good things happen for a reason.

Block out of your mind as many distractions as possible and then you are ready to see.

Chapter 5: How We See the Universal Wave

The Universal Wave presents itself visually in patterns.

These patterns surround us every day.

waves in water

waves in clouds

waves in sand

complex waves in sand

The sand, clouds and water in the photos above had been put into motion mostly by wind and the resulting patterns you see is their natural tendency to follow the patterns in the ebb and flow of the Universal Wave. On a much smaller scale, that you can't see, the Universal Wave is also influencing the atoms of the molecules that make up air in the wind and the atoms of the molecules that make up the sand, clouds and water giving them their fundamental characterists which in turn controls their actions. What we see, are waves.

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Watching videos of waves is not at all like actually being there watching waves it in person. When watching the motion of waves in water or the swaying of grass in person you get a deep sense of calmness, serenity, and relaxation. This experience, often described as mesmerizing or hypnotic, helps to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, and slow your heart rate. The repetitive, cyclical motion of waves or grass swaying lets you experience nature's rhythm, helping to soothe the mind and disconnect from the constant demands of daily life. In person, you get the full effects. In person, you not only see the waves, you can also feel the force that helped create the waves.

We see waves everywhere because they are everywhere.

Chapter 6: Prelude to Understanding

We observe the Universal Wave all around us in visible wave patterns. What is harder to see, and imagine, is how those wave patterns effect us and everything around us, but they do.

As a foundation for understanding how the Universal Wave effects us, we can look at how the Universal Wave handles a much bigger task. The Universe is alive with constant movement. It is vast almost beyond comprehension. It is orderly to perfection.

The picture of the night sky shown below was taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (the newest and most powerful telescope, 100 times more powerful than its predecessor). In this picture, you can count over 7,000 galaxies. Each of those galaxies, on average, contains 100 billion stars.

Amazingly, this picture covers only an area of the night sky equal to the size of a grain of sand held up at arm's length.

At that scale, it would take approximately 26,000,000 pictures to photograph the entire sky. Adding all the 26,000,000 pictures together, you get more than two trillion galaxies in total. And, two trillion galaxies times 100 billion stars adds up to an unimaginable 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the Universe.

To try to put 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in prospective, imagine a hand full of sand. Now try imagining how many grains of sand are in your hand. There are a lot; maybe as many of 400,000 grains of sand. Now try to image how many handfulls of sand there are on Earth. There are roughly 250 to 300 stars for every grain of sand on Earth (not just in your hand, but 250 to 300 stars for every gain of sand on Earth). All those grains of sand from all the beaches and all the deserts on Earth, times 250 to 300 stars is how many stars there are in the Universe.

To understand how rideculously large that number is I asked AI 'how long would it take to visit all those stars'. AI said 'it would take roughly 63 trillion years even if you could teleport between them (instantly) and spend only one second at each star'. 63 trillion years. ok.

Even though there are more stars can you imagine, everyone of those 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars are forever changing and giving off energy for new life. They also spin neatly and orderly into galaxies. These galaxies then cluster together into groups, which are part of even larger clusters, eventually forming massive superclusters that make up the "cosmic web" of the universe. The Universal Wave has been organizing, and continues to organize, all that complexity for billions and billions of years. Constantly moving. Constantly changing. Constantly evolving.

The cosmic web. The blue lines are the primary paths of the Universal Wave. The little dots are massive superclusters of galaxies.

The point being, we are a tiny tiny little part of something really really really big. And, it has been around for long long long time. And, the universe is vast, far beyond anyone's abilty to comprehend. The Universe is amazing beyond words.

The point being, as big and as complex as The Universe is the Universal Wave keeps it all working while contantly changing and improving it. And, it has been around for long long long time. As my grandmother would have said: 'It is good because it has withstood the test of time.'

Something that has been around that long is likely to be around that much longer because is works. The Universal is not challenged with creation, that is what it does naturally, orderly, and continually. We are just a small part of it. And we should be glad we are a part of it.

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Struggling on how to put into words how absolutely amazing and alive the universe is, I backed away from my tendency to not research other points of view and, again, decided to ask AI 'why does the universe seem almost magical'?

It took a few seconds, but AI scoured the web, and all of earth's stored knowledge and did a pretty good job of putting it into words:

'The universe appears almost magical due to the impossibly precise "fine-tuning" of physical constants required for life, the emergence of complex, self-organizing structures from simple beginnings, and the sheer, almost unimaginable scale of cosmic phenomena. The universe's behavior—from subatomic particles to expanding galaxies—exhibits a perfection, order, and deep connection to consciousness that suggests a profound and purposeful design.'

AI expounds on that saying, here are the key reasons the universe feels magical:

Fine-Tuning of Physical Constants: The fundamental forces of nature (gravity, electromagnetism, nuclear forces) are tuned with such high precision that even minute changes would render life impossible. For instance, the ratio of electromagnetic force to gravitational force is so specific that it seems designed rather than coincidental.

Emergence of Complex Life: The transition from a simple, hot, and dense Big Bang state to the complex, ordered structure of stars, galaxies, and biological life feels miraculous. The universe seems to possess an inherent drive toward complexity.

The Cosmic Web and Large-Scale Structure: The universe is organized, with matter forming massive, interconnected structures rather than being scattered randomly.

Consciousness and the Observer Effect: The universe appears to be structured in a way that allows for, and perhaps depends on, intelligent observers to experience its beauty, leading to theories that consciousness is central to the universe's purpose. (that's one wierd way of putting it and where AI began running out of ideas)

So when AI says 'there is perfection, order, and deep connection to consciousness in the Universe which exhibits a profound and purposeful design', it is easy to see the Univeral Wave is the driving force that AI is describing.

Chapter 7: How We React to the Universal Wave.

The Universal Wave drives our minds. Appreciation, Awe, Admiration, Love, Reverence, Inspiration, Marvel, Enchantment, Astonishment, Joy, Happiness are some of the things we feel that are directly connected to the Universal Wave.

One of my first things to consider is music.

I believe that when a highly talented musician performs they are connecting to and projecting the beauty of the ebb and flow the Universal Wave offers. When we see that projection we internally recognize it as that same force that drives us all. We are drawn to it in appreciation, awe, joy, and happiness.

Observations suggest that these musicians not only play music but feel the music. Not only can the musician feel the music, their audience can feel the music as well. This feeling is evidenced by the musicians' and audiences' emotional connection to the music.

If an artist is truely skilled in their art, you can feel the art. If music, or a song, has ever given you chill that runs down your back or arms, or made your eyes start watering with joy, then you know what I mean. This emotion is triggered more easily when subconsciencely you recognize the artist is inspired to a level of near perfection.

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I believe we are intuitively aware of the Univeral Wave as a force that constantly moves us and guides us toward self improvement and becoming the best we can be. Therefore when we see something, or someone, that exhibits authenticity and profound effort our emotions 'reach out' as if to reward them for their achievement.

Whatever it is, we are able to recognize natural beauty and heart felt attempts toward perfection when we see it. And when we see it, it makes us feel good. We know, that at least for the moment, we are in tune with the Universal Wave and how it is motivating us, driving us, and inspiring us.

It is not just music that envokes postive emotional feelings. We feel other forms of art as well: paintings, literature, and architecture. And it is not just art that envokes postive emotionally feelings. We feel awe, marvel, and enchantment when we look at Mother Nature's handywork. We feel admiration and inspiration when we see athletes 'in the zone' being the best they can be. It inspires us to do our best when we see the best being exhibited by others. The Universal Wave is always driving us to do whatever we do and to do our best. From that we learn and we improve (not necessarily in that order).