Dear Reader,
Consciousness is complex, but can be curated. Here's how.
Our regular surf networking event is coming up next week. It's a great opportunity to enjoy the ocean and meet some great people, and you don't need any experience of surfing.
A friend and I joined another networking event: The Better Business Network. It happens each month at C-Space here in Newquay. Beforehand we were looking out over the ocean and were moved to ponder the waves. We could see majestic, corduroy lines sweeping into the bay, curving in silently from the wide Atlantic. It was wonderful to consider that these smooth shapes were the arrival of pure energy, completing their journey across thousands of miles of ocean.
I tried to articulate the sense I had that waves are not really quite ... there. Waves are not water. Water is involved, but the wave moves on and the water doesn't. What's happening?
At that moment, some starlings flew by and we talked about murmurations. Same mystery. A single starling doesn't murmur. Yet the whole effect is real, and magical.
It wasn't until someone sent me something else the next day that I found the language for this: Emergence - what happens when a system produces something that its individual components couldn't do by themselves. Murmuration emerges.
That piece used as its examples: water, and starlings. Which I found strangely synchronous. Although since reading about Jung and synchronicity a week or so ago, I have experienced a lot of it! (My dreams have also been unusually vivid since reading about them too.)
What does all this, and surf networking, teach us about consciousness? It's an emergent property. And then the question is, what conditions can we curate in order to create positive, magical murmurations in our lives and experiences?
Three things:
- Positive activity
- Positive interaction
- Positive thought
It's hard to imagine what could achieve all three of these better than surf networking.
Let me know your thoughts, I'd love to hear from you. Or you can see my calendar here and book in for a chat.
I'm playing regular gigs as usual with The Harbour Buoys so we can chat there too. Come to a gig and experience our upbeat, singalong, dance-along, eat-along, trumpet-fuelled party tunes, as well as the marvellous emergent experience that is live music.
Best wishes and speak soon,
Adam
