Workshop Day in Virginia Beach

In a few hours I'll be heading to do a workshop. These workshops are fun because I get to talk about my experiences and spiritual matters with other people who have the same desire. For those of you reading my blogs I will give you a little insight of my hour talk:

"We are vibrational beings –

            We live in a vibrational world.  Most of the time we are unaware of our vibrations and their impact on our lives. When you turn on your radio you aren’t hearing music. The speaker is moving quickly back and forth in such a way to move the air surrounding it to create certain waves. Your ears pick up those vibrational waves, process it and interpret it as music.

            Your eyes don’t notice those vibrations floating through the air to your ears, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there and happening. You see a rainbow and you awe at its beauty. You see all of these colors and then they disappear. Where did they go? The sun hit the water vapor at such a way that the mist acted like a prism and split the frequencies of the white light in to lower frequencies of color. Your eyes picked up those frequencies, but your ears reported that nothing is there.

            Dinner is now being served. You sit down at your favorite French restaurant and the waiter brings over a nice bottle of wine. He opens it and hands you the cork. Your eyes see that the wine is red and your ears heard the popping of the cork. You sniff the cork and your sense of smell tells you whether it smells like bad vinegar or a good wine. Your sense of smell has informed you that the wine is drinkable. Your nose is enjoying the sensation of the wine’s aroma as it picks up hints of blueberry, currants, apricots and such. The waiter pours you a glass and you swish it around where your eyes once again become involved as you watch the red liquid leave a residue on the side of the glass. You remembered it being called legs and something about that being important. Your nose and your eyes again have become involved in the wine, but your sense of taste is still waiting. Then you take the wine stem involving your sense of touch. You feel the awkward weight of the liquid precariously balancing itself above your hand on thin sliver of glass. You swish the wine around and observe it moving from side to side all around the glass. Now you are ready - you close your eyes in order to accentuate your taste buds and finally take a sip of wine and ah it tastes so good. You look to the waiter with a slight nod. He then pours to the rest of the table. Wow, you’ve involved all of your senses in the process of taking one sip of wine. What an experience to enjoy! All cylinders were firing at once and they brought with them a wonderful sensation. All five of your senses have contributed to this one act and they are all saying one thing. Savor the moment and that is exactly what you do.

Makes you want to have glass of wine right now, doesn’t it?  At least I want one.

All of your senses agree on the wine experience, so .... does that make the experience more concrete? More real than listening to a song on the radio? Watching a sunset?  No it doesn’t.

So we can agree that just because a sense or two doesn’t pick up what others do, doesn’t invalidate the experience. Correct?

Let’s go one step further and say what if I were to lead you blindfolded into a dark room and place a clothes pin on your nose. I told you to open your mouth and then I poured in a small taste of wine. Would you have the same experience? No. So your senses DO make the experience more real, or maybe they just make it more pleasurable. Does that mean the wine in the second scenario isn’t as good as the one in the first? No. By eliminating some of your senses, you have eliminated part of the enjoyment of experience. But the wine hasn’t changed. What if I removed all of your senses concerning drinking the wine. If none of your five senses picked it up, does that invalidate the experience? Is the wine still good? Ah, that’s a little tougher to answer isn’t it, because we depend on our senses to control our world. Could there be other things in our world that contribute to the way we live that simply go unnoticed because our senses are unable to pick them up? That is what we are going to uncover today in this workshop. (I will discuss more of this on my blog in the coming days.)

Nameste'

Barry Brown, Author
"A Journey to Balance - Making Sense of It All"