True Love Waits – 10.20.16

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We let anger get the best of us.

We have no idea why we feel we must behave a certain way,

When it’s all just a quest,

A voyage to find our lost selves,

We plow through, but forcefully,

Hurting the ones we love,

Unintentionally,

All because our soul is screaming to break free,

But we did not know.

We did not understand.

So we created sparks,

Turmoil and waves,

A collateral damage

Which still remains,

And it’s not until that moment

That it all clicks.

That we could have gotten to our destination,

In another way,

A better way.

There is always, a gentle way,

To seek our truths.

It starts with forgiveness.

~gg

“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

 

The Human Connection and Quantum Entanglement – October 7, 2016

Has science turned romantic?

I would have never expected a subject that relies on facts learned through experiments and observation to have such passionate and seductive undertones.

As a young child, I never really cared for science.  I felt science was always doing it’s best to define what we could perceive before us; always trying to solve and quantify life.

I was never fond of defining much of anything;  for to define is to limit, and with this particular theme in mind, I never took much interest in the studies of science.

However, it was only when I started experiencing this sort of unexplained magnetic pull towards certain people upon meeting;  complete strangers that in some cases crossed my path in some of the rarest and most inexplicable ways that I started philosophizing over these type of strange connections.
At some point I realized that all of these magnetic meetings proved to be a shared and real connection. Some which were there at a very specific point in time of my life, simply to teach me a lesson, or serve its purpose. While others permeated so strongly that they could not even be explained.
This is when I became fascinated with the theory of quantum entanglement.
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Displayed at the San Francisco, CA Exploratorium

The magnetic pull.  

Have you ever wondered why it is that we are somehow forced (without explanation) towards one particular person over another?  How do these almost crazy serendipitous connections occur, where everything instantly feels so familiar that it’s almost as if we’ve met before?   All these feelings, which almost feel like memories of home, rushing through our bodies without even an exchange of words.

Have you ever connected with someone in a real spooky way?  For example, dreaming of someone that you’d never spoken to before, or feeling drawn to a stranger in such a away that you were intuitively prompted to muster up the courage and reach out to them; your very first words to them so strangely in sync with whatever they had going on in their life at that very moment, that the impact of those words changed their life instantaneously, as well as yours, forever?

Have you ever met someone and instantly knew you would spend infinite amounts of moments with them. A love at first sight sort of connection; a sort of premonition of what was to come .  
Yet, how is it that we can feel as if we have fallen in love with someone without really truly knowing them?
These type of “deep” connections transcend the understanding of what we know or have defined for ourselves as “real.”
Connections that transcend both time and space; maybe even reaching across multiple dimensions.

Them comes the world of Quantum Physics.

Quantum Physics suggests that:

everything in the universe has BOTH a particle and wave nature, at the same time.”  

“Properly speaking, the objects described by quantum physics are neither particles nor waves, but a third category that shares some properties of waves (a characteristic frequency and wavelength, some spread over space) and some properties of particles (they’re generally countable and can be localized to some degree)”

source : Forbes Magazine

Basically speaking, the universe is but an infinitely vast symphony of vibrations; a large sea of energy. Nothing is solid.  Electrons, photons, and atoms in the quantum physics world are waves (not little atom or electron balls as we learned in school).

The quantum physics is in the waves; Light is made of waves and also particles.

Energy is therefore a spectrum of color emitted through light.  This spectrum of color corresponding to a particular wavelength, and light being nature’s way of transferring energy through space.  All  of which is derived but from frequencies and wavelengths.

Absolutely brilliant!

Our eyes are sensitive to light which lies in a very small region of the electromagnetic spectrum labeled “visible light”. This “visible light” corresponds to a wavelength range of 400 – 700 nanometers (nm) and a color range of violet through red. The human eye is not capable of “seeing” radiation with wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.  

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Picture from Forbes 

 The idea of timelessness.

And then there is timing.  They say that timing is everything, and when it comes to human interaction and connections, there have been so many times that at first glance timing may not have appeared to be in one’s favor.

Yet, when looking back and connecting the dots, it would more than likely appear that everything actually happened in divine order.

The timing for each event and any particular occurrence has been perfectly calculated within our story. For whatever’s happened up to now was supposed to happen when it happened.

Time is an illusion which merely exists so that everything does not happen at once.

 

Whereby, as explained by Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity: time, space, matter, and energy are locked together in a beautiful and intimate, maybe even sexual, embrace.

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“…for us physicists believe the separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, although a convincing one.”  ~ Albert Einstein

One aspect of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity is that we now understand that space and time are merged into a four-dimensional space-time, a “block universe,”  where time is like space, but with precise coordinates, an order or direction of time and even causation,  for which all points are projected as a temporal perspective by the observer of the reality.

” Time is tense less, all points equally “real,” so that future and past are no less real than the present”

source: Science.com

 And so, this is where Infinity comes in.  Infinity has always been my favorite mathematical symbol.  The idea of timeliness, eternal life. An infinite array possibilities, of everything and nothingness as one – now that’s what I call sexy.

What more romantic than the idea that everything in the universe is infinite, including energy, and therefore, ourselves.  The idea that time does not truly exist; well at least not as we know it.

So, if time and space are merely but an illusion, then couldn’t it be possible to feel “entangled” to someone across time and space, including those we have never even met, or at least not in that particular observable moment that we call “the present”?

Now that we’ve had some Romance, here comes the Real Passion – Quantum Entanglement.

Quantum Mechanics, a branch of physics, describes it as particles of light in love; “whereby  it is possible to have particles that are so intimately linked that a change to one affects the other, even when they are separated at a distance.”

This idea, called “entanglement,” is part of the branch of physics called quantum mechanics, a description of the way the world works at the level of atoms and particles that are even smaller. Quantum mechanics says that at these very tiny scales, some properties of particles are based entirely on probability. In other words, nothing is certain until it happens.

Fast Facts:

› Entangled particles influence each other instantaneously even when they are physically far apart.

› In the 1960s, theoretical physicist John Bell proposed that a model of reality with hidden variables must allow for this entanglement.

› Three papers published in 2015 support Bell’s hypothesis.

source: NASA California Institute of Technology 

Albert Einstein described it as “spooky action at a distance,” but in other words what quantum entanglement suggests is that when two or more particles (usually electrons or photons) interact, their wave function becomes entangled in such a way that some properties of each particle are now dependent on what happens to the other particle.
Entangled particles would remain “connected” even if they were on opposite sides of the universe; so intimately bound that one particle would “know” what the other is doing.
Real entanglement experiments have been performed successfully demonstrating that if one particle is affected by a force or measurement, when entangled, the other reacts at the same moment, even if they are separated by an abysmal amount of space.
And to go a little deeper here, in an article entitled “Quantum Entanglement Could Stretch Across time” scientists also suggest that entanglement may also bind particles not only across space, but also “across time.
Why?  Well as mentioned earlier on, time does not exist.  It is merely an illusion.

Deep Connections as Entangled Particles?

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Image from Space.com

And so if time does not exist, and if we are merely made up of energy, vibrating particles that could become entangled across any distance and space, could it be possible that for those deep heart connections that we experience,  that our souls are somehow bound to one another, having been entangled in some other time or space; be it the past, the future, or in some other part of the universe or dimension?

Could the quantum mechanics theory of entanglement explain why sometimes souls recognize each other upon meeting?

Does the universe conspire for certain souls to meet each other in a particular point in time; in a particular lifetime, or have our particles become entangled, and therefore destined to simply find one another?

Could this be a scientific explanation for intuitively understanding another soul without ever truly knowing them?

In fact, we may never really know the answers to these questions during our lifetime, but what a beautiful orchestrated love story stemming from these eye-opening science theories of quantum physics.

~gg

 

 

Infinity – 8.1.2016

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Sun Analemma in ancient Delphi, Greece. Photographer Anthony Ayuomamitis Source:National Geographic

You feel it, don’t you?

The way the storms move inside your chest?

Does your skin crawl with every breathe you take?

When did you notice it?

That full heaviness that sets in right in middle of your chest.

It’s new, isn’t it?

You don’t even know where it comes from,

Or when it was that it first appeared.

But it’s the interconnectedness of it all.

The feel of the gravitational pull of the earth.

Pushing you forward, setting you onto your destined course.

An infinite oneness;

A mixture of both

joy and the pain;

fear and the love;

And all because….we are one.

~gg

 

 

 

 

Hard and clear – July 23, 2016

“Write hard and clear about what hurts.” ~Ernest Hemingway

Ironically it’s very seldom that we truly know the root cause of our suffering.

We feel so lonely we seek solace in others.

We become completely bored with the shallowness of it all, but blindly continue to seek more of the same.

We work to live, not live to work.

We wonder why we chose to live this way, but never do anything about it because at birth we were given a set of life instructions indicating the way our life was to be.

But then one day we start questioning everything. The little things. Because it doesn’t make sense. 

Because the way we were told to be is a perfect formula for numbness.

So you finally remember that you came here to live and not die a slow death.

So you dance. And you love with an unconditional love, so great, that it’s unfathomable.

And then one day you realize that what hurts is something very different than what you had initially expected.

It has transmuted into something with more grandeur, as you start feeling the pain of the world.

And alas there’s the pain of missing someone that you have never even met.

~gg

A Sweet Tragedy ~ July 20, 2016


Do you ever wonder why we recreate history ?
What is it that compels us to relive the same situation again with a different person, when we know how things will end?

Is it because we believe that since we have been here before it will hurt less?

Or is it because we are still too arrogant to think we could  change the result?

Too soon one falls in love, and too soon that person finds the woman of his dreams.

Having been here before, does that make one sort of a sweet catalyst for the other person’s discovery of true romantic love?

Is one’s unconditional love simple a gateway to a world the other person never new existed?

With one’s tragedy being that one would lose that other person forever; yet be forever selflessly happy for them?

And still, one would repeat history again if one could.

Even though it desperately hurts.

Just to love them again.

Just to be able to have them in one’s life just one more time.

~gg

Flashbacks of Non-Existent Moments – July 13, 2016

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Did I fall in love with you today, or was it yesterday?

As for here, we have never even met.

Was it in a different time, or in a different place beyond this universe?

Am I loving you right now?

Do we find ourselves currently together, but in a different land foreign to this world?

Flashbacks of moments that never existed,

I can still taste the scent of your hypnotizing energy.

I know nothing about you, yet I know everything.

Drawn to you, you visit and speak to me with love, but in my dreams.

The earth signals to us as our frequencies grow stronger, succumbing to each other’s desire to find one another.

Is this part of a game we both agreed to play together?

One where we decided to place ourselves in each side of the world, only to see if we could magnetically, and without a physical meeting, find one another?

Because what a wonderful feeling it is to know that you are in this world.

~gg

A Dream within a Dream ~ July 5, 2016

We met at my childhood home.

It had been so long since we last saw each other.

I was anxious and excited.

I ran to the front door quietly, as to not wake my sleeping mom.

I could see him parking his car out front.

As he got out of his car and commenced walking towards me, I could feel my face blushing, gleaming with delight.
I could not believe he was actually there in front of me.

Worried that someone would see him, I barely looked at him and awkwardly beckoned him into my dark and quiet home.

I was sneaking him inside my childhood bedroom, and didn’t want my mom knowing he was there.

Leading him down the dark and long hallway, I  showed him to my room. 

He walked inside, and I followed. My back towards him as I locked the door, I could already feel his firey energy on the other side of the room. Still. Waiting.

As I turned to face him, we both stood silently for a moment, just looking at each other. As we both smiled big penetrating smiles, I analyzed each and every detail in his face. 

Taking in his energy which tasted so familiar, I admired his being. I had longed to be in his presence again for so long.

He looked different, but the same. 

Our bodies now becoming two magnets that could no longer resist each other, swiftly met in the middle of the bedroom.

Caught in a long awaited embrace, our energies combined and danced together beneath a deep passionate kiss. 

It was rain after a long drought. A frozen moment in time.

I felt so much passion. So much love. So much pleasure.

We made love for what felt like hours. We took breaks in between catching up on lost time. 

We had conversations between kisses, and then we would get lost in passionate love making again.

But once the sun started rising, he had to go. 

He promised he would come back to see me later that day.

I let him out of the house, and watched, satisfied, as he drove off.

And then, I woke up.

~gg

Quote from a Poem by Edgar Allen Poe

Sunkissed – June 16, 2016

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I’ll meet you in that seldomly occuring space  between the sun and the moon,

Where my breath escapes me.

A rare meeting of lovers located at two different ends of the world,

The North and South poles anxious to live the splendor of their union,

From the East he awakens in all his grandeur;

An eternity of oceans and worlds away, he waits.

Casting her glow from the West she starts ascending towards him.

Floating, beaming with an air of mystery and seduction she smiles her devilish smile.

Such a beautiful finale to the day’s end,

Passion oozing into the sky, as when heat waves evaporate into the air,

Culminating in an explosion of love caused by their long awaited kiss goodbye.

~gg

 

 

A Letter to Guarded Hearts – June 9, 2016

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We are not supposed to say what we feel.

We fear that in doing so,

We will expose ourselves too much;

That we might lose in the very same game that we ourselves choose to play.

We long for connection, but deny it to ourselves.

We prefer superficiality to guard ourselves from any pain.

We choose emptiness, at the slightest idea of missing someone.

But, I ask you this, do you really feel alive?

~gg

The Power to Freeze Time – June 2, 2016

Mesmerizing eyes drawing her out of the crowd.

Bold and overpowering, she held off just for a moment, denying the over reaching call of his stare.

She waited. 

Intense and alluring, she playfully swayed as he intensely commanded her attention. She could sense his presence from behind.

She waited.

Like an eagle about to fetch his prey, his bold eyes beckoned at her.

She turned.

Eyes colliding like starts collapsing into each other in an atomic reaction of never ending love.

Time had stopped.

 Together they had the power to freeze time.


Picture taken by me on May 15, 2016 Key West, FL