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There are blanks in this blog...no trip diary from my journey came about...no completion of personal intonations explained...living in a quantum soup....so here's the scoop -

An assignment given to a class of psychology students at a well known university - was that they were to keep an ongoing journal and spend the semester eavesdropping on people's conversations - determining what tense the people were talking in - past, present or future, and recording this for a study.

At the end of the semester the class turned in their results, they were compiled and here is what they discovered:

76% of all conversations were in the past
21% in the future
3% in the present.

Now I can only speak for myself - but these seem to be some pretty crazy stats that actually make a lot of sense looking at our collective state of being.

Where and what are we thinking about? Apparently situations we can do nothing about.

We can see from these stats that we spend a great deal of our communications in fantasy - the past. Situations that have been filtered and influenced by our experience and interpretations and stored as chemical and electrical signals. Ok, oversimplified? Modern science has many times demonstrated how easily our perceptions and memories are manipulated.

Science has, for example mapped deja vu as impulses in the brain and determined that it is a remembrance occurring simultaneously to an experience.

In other words - it feels like you are remembering something - because you are in a chemical and electrical state of remembering what you are experiencing as it happens. Crossed wires as it were.

Two people witnessing the same event at the same time will independently describe two different and distinct occurrences.

Just have a look at how history was written as compared to what archeologists are discovering -

we really have to admit - there is no way to know if what we remember is accurate or true.

One thing we do know - the one thing we can lay claim to as a constant in accuracy - is what is going on right now - at this very moment - as you read this word...here.

Only 3% of the time though? I mean sheesh!

This disturbed me - I made a commitment to be mindful of what I converse about. I now make an effort to speak in the present tense - I make an effort to take walks and be aware of as much as possible around me. Scents, temperature on my skin, breeze, sounds and visuals. Even sensing the energy of other beings and practicing connecting with it.

Experiencing everything as it happens - well so far not everything...but being mindful to take in as much as possible - and every time I practice - to expand that a little further.

In that space of "now" is where the magic lives in it's most concentrated form - being now is a beautiful "quantum" exercise - the importance of illusions is redirected to the experience. Dedicating all sensory abilities to feeling and recording experiences - instead of events.

Try this if you want - nature is a great place to start - take a walk and notice everything you possibly can as if you were seeing it for the first time...examine it from aesthetic and functional viewpoints....realize you too come from the same source as this object or being you are examining. take it in completely - use all of your senses - and yes - gut or heart feelings are one of your sense.

When you have completed your walk - take a moment to notice how acute your senses are. Notice how even your skin is alive - your hairs sense movement - you feel presence of other life.

Amazing as it seems right now at this moment of heightened sensory acuteness - to our ancient selves - this was a natural state to be in. Wouldn't that be cool - to always feel so alive and connected! The more I practice this exercise - the longer the acuity stays. It really is something else! Have fun and enjoy your wondrous life filled with breath and sensory delight.

with love,

Tee