Rhythms, Waves, Vibrations, Polarities and Mutual Arisings.
William Blake
The concept of ‘vibrations’ is somewhat contaminated - one of those trigger words that can act as a block , rather than an aid, to understanding. It feels like part of the lexicography of the New Age. Good vibrations. Healing vibrations. The vibration of the universe. Vibes.
Alan Watts helped me put that prejudice to one side and begin to understand what is in fact, obvious when you think about it for even a moment. That is to say that everything is vibrations. Vibrations and rhythms and pulses and waves of energy.
As William Blake observed “Energy is eternal delight”
The idea that everything is vibration is not a theory. It is a simple, observable scientific fact. It is another way of saying ‘everything comes and goes’.
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