John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readApr 9, 2023

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What if we are looking at it all wrong?

It seems common wisdom is to get up real close and study all the details, but the effect seems we all spiral into various rabbit holes of specialization.

What if we just stepped back and let the big picture present itself?

I have to say I avoided formal education with a passion. As I saw it at the time, it was trade school for desk work and I wasn't going to spend my life behind a desk. Besides which, this was the 70's and those office towers of clerks, secretaries, middle managers, etc, were all about to be seriously reduced by computers and outsourcing. Though since replaced by the kudzu of programmers churning out gobbledygook, to keep minds occupied.

Here are some ideas from my journeys;

We look at time backwards. As these mobile organisms, this sentient interface between body and situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our experience of time is as the present moving past to future, but the reality is that activity and the resulting change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color sound. Frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees of activity.

Energy goes past to future, because the patterns generated coalesce and dissolve, future to past. Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive system processing the energy, the nervous system sorting the forms/information and the circulation system as feedback between them.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in, so this dichotomy of synchronizing pulling in, as harmonization radiates out extends across our reality, so it can be a long journey covering even a few of the bases.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

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