March 2016 – Frequency Soup

Choice, One Source of Shadow

Justin Frank / March 27, 2016

In the piece “Choice and Appreciation” I proposed the possibility that there is a flow of choices all the way from the “big bang” to my moment-by-moment choices right now. From an energetic perspective, that means that every single choice upstream has some impact on the energy that is represented as me, since I am sourced by the entirety of that stream.

I’ll return to my “Siemens” analogy about levels of awareness. Choices made upstream always will have some impact downstream. Those upstream choices will impact a wider array of downstream people and processes in their organization but typically at a more subtle level. Upstream choices are reflected in me primarily as moods, ways of being, tendencies, worldview, and the like. They can act like an overarching steering mechanism. They obviously are experienced, but I tend to be most aware of them when I’m not actively engaged in anything. What is most visibly impactful are the choices made with clear and present attention. Conscious choices will most often override upstream intent because, as I’ve pointed out, downstream shorter wavelengths tend to mask the longer ones. You’re not likely to be thinking about your overall commitment to life while you’re zipping down a mountainside on a snowboard or trying to put a squirming child into a car seat. Though your overall commitment is reflected in your individual choices here, making an impact in this world still requires taking action within these local frequency levels where it can be experienced and appreciated.

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Polarities

Certainty and Freedom

Justin Frank / March 20, 2016

I think that when anyone has an insight, on almost any topic, that very state of insight has as its natural energy, the space of simple certainty; a sense of knowing. This is, I believe, indicative of thoughts that appear when tapping into any of the longer energetic wavelengths. An insight shared from that deep space carries with it a solid sense of certainty. As I experience them, longer wavelengths live in the background and thus are the relatively stable canvas on which my everyday experiences are alighted. So when a new insight is tapped from that wider field and expressed, the listener may feel the impact of the words landing as fact. Declared facts, by their nature, eliminate options contradictory to the stated position so can be experienced as restrictive to the listener. Just as when you are fully focused on some task, everything outside of that area of focused attention disappears from your experience. Certainty pushes alternate frequencies/perspectives to the sideline.

Now one of the most fundament aspects of Being, is freedom. Being is unencumbered at its origin. I think that most would agree that at Being’s deepest level absolute freedom is one of its fundamental attributes. And since it lies there in our depths, it is one of our fundamental attributes too. Thus anything we experience as impinging on that absolute freedom can evoke a dissonance that can reverberate downstream from the natural depth at which our boundlessness resides.

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Justin Frank / March 10, 2016

A Kermit reference, not a meme

As a very young child I occasionally had the experience of a vortex pulling me down into complete loneliness and isolation. It felt very much to me like water going down a drain. At the very bottom of that oppressive well I would occasionally drop into complete silence, which was a refuge of sorts for me. The problem was that the world always called me out of that place and its doorstep was just as painful on the way out as it was on the way in. But at some distance away, where the gravity was not so strong, there was a space of melancholy that I was very comfortable in. I didn’t mind hanging out there despite the fact that I was still alone. It also served very well with the few friends that I had. Listening to people from that place seemed to comfort them and that way of connecting did mitigate, very briefly, the loneliness of my perceived isolation.

When I was about 7, I started wanting to be 60. That was retirement age then and I didn’t think that I could make it through what was looking to be a very long life. I remember waking up mornings wondering how I was going to make it through another day. The way that I experienced time back then, my days seemed eternal. Moment by moment dragged on, one after another, at what seemed an endless pace. My only respite was to stay as busy as possible, which would bypass the time-sense temporarily. But another issue was that in experiencing time in that moment-by-moment fashion, remembering things over longer intervals was often not easy. I’d read a story at school and felt a visceral sense of what the characters had experienced but most of the details that I was queried about afterwards did not stay with me. I’d keep having to refer back to the text for answers, which did not typically allow me to get the work done in the allotted time. This had me thinking that I may not even be able to adequately function in life even if I could endure the experiential eon that it would take to get to 60.

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