The Butterfly Effect

There is a branch of mathematics that studies the phenomenon of chaos. There is an effect in chaos math coined by Edward Norton Lorenz called "The Butterfly Effect" (You may have seen the movie with the same title) and it goes something like this: "Can a butterfly flapping it's wings in Brazil create a tornado in Texas?" Chaos mathematicians say yes. Sometimes little events affect other little events eventually cascading unpredictably into very large events. Everything in the universe is interconnected, especially occurrences. Who is to say how these little events can gain momentum and turn into something larger. Like this blog for example. Can I really predict how my writing will affect the people who read it? If you are new to ideas like these and some part of you accepts them, they could completely change the way you view the world. That's a big event! So how does this tie into everything that I have been talking about this week?

Quantum events, little ripples of energy, can cascade into very large events too. If you have been paying attention to the last few posts, you know that conscious observation somehow influences and changes quantum events. This is on a very small scale.
But it is literally another dimension. That sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, but it is true. I find it amazing that scientists have discovered a new dimension that behaves according to a different set of natural laws. You can influence that dimension by paying attention to where your thoughts go on an ongoing basis. I would argue that there are a set of thoughts that you cater to chronically or even obsessively and these "beliefs" are defining your reality. I recently changed my beliefs on the subject of synchronicity and I now experience them more often. I believe that they were already happening to me, I just decided to pay attention to them. But knowing what I know about the quantum interactions occurring between my brain and reality, can I really rule out the possibility that I have somehow influenced conditions to be more conducive to synchronicities? I don't know. I do know that I experience them more often now. Who can say. There is also a new branch of mathematics that studies synchronicity and if you want to learn more about it, you can read the book "Sync" by Steven Strogatz. (I'm sure I will be talking about it in upcoming posts).