Part One: The song Natural Science brings many things to mind.
The ideas that come to mind are infinite. I could probably write a lot more about this amazing song, and probably will. You could delightfully ponder over the enlightening, educating, and deep lyrics written by the late author and lyricist Neil Peart, of Rush. Also, a master percussionist and drummer.
"When the ebbing tide retreats along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tide pools in a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet, a complete society
A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea" Neil Peart
When you think of natural science, what images come to mind?
Have you ever looked at song lyrics and they have opened you up to a new way of life through the author's life-enhancing discourse?
If we look at the first line of one of my favourite Rush songs we see that water, a natural substance retreats to show a pool of activity.
Just like the shoreline in the first line, we all have our edges, the outer regions that we are contained in, our shell, (excuse the pun), or the extent of our everyday lives and how far or close that extends.
Do we ebb and flow, back and forth along this rocky shoreline we experience called human existence?
With there being an infinitely deep space above the clouds, do those who look down on us (of which many believe exist) wonder what all the little creatures are up to below them? Could it be that as we look into a rock pool, we are ourselves contained in one? And so on. Worlds within worlds within...
If nature had to start somewhere it surely had to start out there in the dark cosmos. One universe begets another...When we think of the word world, do we think of worlds within worlds, because that is what nature, the universe, has provided somehow?
Suppose we sat like a china Buddha on a sideboard, deep breathing, and contemplating, looking into someone else's world. The Buddha of course has the answers deep within his breath, his belly, and his internal universe.
But most of us are too busy, too consumed with what we should have, our destiny, to enjoy naval gazing.
Some of us would like to be the ruler of the rock pool we inhabit. Others wish to be the creature with all the pearls. Some even go after octopuses and then realize the multitude of tentacles have entrapped them.
By seeing beyond the perimeter of our existence, or the edge of the pool that contains us we can bathe in the infinite creation of the cosmos. And learn from something far more wonderous than we ever imagined.
But what if there is more out there than we ever envisaged?
If we stay in our pool and never reach out beyond or venture to the sea, we stagnate. Become bored. If life is a journey, a voyage of discovery outside our imminent surroundings, then going downstream could be the journey that life is.
The ideas that come to mind are infinite. I could probably write a lot more about this amazing song, and probably will. You could delightfully ponder over the enlightening, educating, and deep lyrics written by the late author and lyricist Neil Peart, of Rush. Also, a master percussionist and drummer.
"When the ebbing tide retreats along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tide pools in a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet, a complete society
A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea" Neil Peart
When you think of natural science, what images come to mind?
Have you ever looked at song lyrics and they have opened you up to a new way of life through the author's life-enhancing discourse?
If we look at the first line of one of my favourite Rush songs we see that water, a natural substance retreats to show a pool of activity.
Just like the shoreline in the first line, we all have our edges, the outer regions that we are contained in, our shell, (excuse the pun), or the extent of our everyday lives and how far or close that extends.
Do we ebb and flow, back and forth along this rocky shoreline we experience called human existence?
With there being an infinitely deep space above the clouds, do those who look down on us (of which many believe exist) wonder what all the little creatures are up to below them? Could it be that as we look into a rock pool, we are ourselves contained in one? And so on. Worlds within worlds within...
If nature had to start somewhere it surely had to start out there in the dark cosmos. One universe begets another...When we think of the word world, do we think of worlds within worlds, because that is what nature, the universe, has provided somehow?
Suppose we sat like a china Buddha on a sideboard, deep breathing, and contemplating, looking into someone else's world. The Buddha of course has the answers deep within his breath, his belly, and his internal universe.
But most of us are too busy, too consumed with what we should have, our destiny, to enjoy naval gazing.
Some of us would like to be the ruler of the rock pool we inhabit. Others wish to be the creature with all the pearls. Some even go after octopuses and then realize the multitude of tentacles have entrapped them.
By seeing beyond the perimeter of our existence, or the edge of the pool that contains us we can bathe in the infinite creation of the cosmos. And learn from something far more wonderous than we ever imagined.
But what if there is more out there than we ever envisaged?
If we stay in our pool and never reach out beyond or venture to the sea, we stagnate. Become bored. If life is a journey, a voyage of discovery outside our imminent surroundings, then going downstream could be the journey that life is.
© Sonya Lawrence/Vukomanovic 29th June 2023
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