Hi Veronika, l feel totally energised after reading this post. 🙏😊 The vibrational hum, the silent sounds of space and life force, the energetic forms and patterns buzzing in, through and around us. The spiralling and looping timelines of infinite expansiveness. I don’t understand it but l feel it somehow. The mystery so resonates with me because l just trust the Universe and accept that this fractal of our human self may not necessarily be meant to understand it all because we are designed to explore and in that endeavour we are creators 😊💜🙏, as your research and work show. Curiosity and wonder is central to our experience, even though we humans try to control the uncontrollable, as you point out in your summary. All fascinating. Thank you 😊💜🙏
How wonderful, Simone, thank you! 💙🙏 ✨ I felt energised writing it too.
"this fractal of our human self may not necessarily be meant to understand it all because we are designed to explore and in that endeavour we are creators" ~ I love that. Yes! I cannot say I fully understand it either. How can we grasp something as vast as this? And yet, when we write and read about it, the vibrations buzz "through and around us", as you put so very well.
I also didn't quite understand what happened when I wrote this piece... because, spiralling and looping timelines of infinite expansiveness... all I can say is, it was great fun to write. 🎶 ♪ ♬
I think there is no space. We live in a sea of consciousness, Constantly expanding with limited ability to see many light spectrum’s possibilities, waveforms, energies, frequencies and possibly beings from other densities. We are entering a new age and few of us have any idea what the many changes will be. I feel optimistic and even excited to still be here to see how we create this new era we’ve looked forward to for my entire lifetime. I will relinquish space for peace.
I wholeheartedly resonate with these thought vibrations 〰〰
Maybe that's part of the point, that we have no idea about the changes. Perhaps inklings? Premonitions? But no clear vision, or knowing, yet, otherwise it wouldn't be new.
Exciting new timespaces await somewhere in spacetime 💙 🙏 ✨
I always read your post immediately if possible and I give my first thoughts in response as I hope it helps you understand what your words inspire in us.
I could do a better job of writing if I wait but it would also change my response somehow.
Oh, I totally understand that Sammie, and I'm grateful. I love your responses of first thoughts. Spontaneity is precious and rare, especially in an age where everyone edits themselves so much...
Splendid canter through linear time in your finale. I will not say 'at the end'. 😊👍Great!
I like your insight into classical Greek personifications. That is indeed a capacity of the human mind. Our culture tends to get all 'science' about it. This was not a naïve culture: the diameter of the earth came to be measured accurately in their time.
A short story: our eldest when a baby had taken as they do to waving back to people when they waved. One windy morning carrying her toward the house the trees were waving vigorously, a crowd above the building. She waved happily back.
CS Lewis in the Epilogue to his 'Discarded Image' finishes with remarks about 'Models', the framing of a cosmos that can change with culture. I go back to reading it from time to time. (h/t by the way to JM Greer who pointed to that book.)
Quote: "But each [Model] no less surely reflects the prevalent psychology of an age almost as much as it reflects the state of that age's knowledge. Hardly any battery of new facts could have persuaded a Greek that the universe had an attribute so repugnant to him as infinity; hardly any such battery could persuade a modern that it was hierarchical."
We might look further East for other models... it seems never ending. 😊
Finale, yes! This popped out quite unexpectedly, of its own accord, and I let it be whatever it wanted to be. Reading Janna Levin's insights into the 'soundtrack of the universe' and 'space wobbling like a drum' obviously set the tone for this piece.
Ever since I have decided to leave 'academic writing behind' ~ and got some practice in fiction writing under my aspiring author's belt ~ I have found great freedom and joy in picking up some threads of thought from our classical Greek ancestors. Their stories were anything but naïve. Such complexity, keen observation, and vivid imagination...
Your lovely baby daughter must have had some of that in her blood already when waving back at the trees.
Thank you for the mention of CS Lewis 'Discarded Image' too. The quote seems pertinent to my parallel substack too, which very much about models, and how they make us experience the world, life, ourselves.
And so many new contemporary models too... what if we're only at the beginning? 🤔💭 🎶 ♪ ♬ ✨ 😉
Oh, Veronika, thank you SO much for this post! ❤️ I'm not even sure where I'd want to begin commenting because it's filled with such insightful goodness. I love the six surprises. I've often wondered about gravity being a measurable force of love itself. The way the earth holds us to her. The way the cosmos hold the earth. I have this three container model that my guides showed me of space, time and being. When put together as spacetimebeing and equating that with gravity, we see that the 1960s hippy culture was right all along: it's all love, man. Thank you again for this dive into space. I'm going to read this one again and again.
Thank you for the suggestion, and putting me on this track. I think it's been one of the most surprising, mindwobbling and exhilarating wordcasts I've written to date
spacetimebeing ~ I love it! Thanks for being here and doing your work 🔥🙏 💕 ✨
Fabulous research Veronika. How fleeting our experience of space time, and always so abstract, but when I settle in and feel it as you described, I fall into a much larger rhythm of understanding. (One I can’t access with my mind, it’s as if your words set the stage, play the a sides, and then set us free.)
Beautiful resonance with the wobbling drum of space, Kimberly! 💗🙏
With this particular wordcast I can see the experience and inner space of the writer (in relation to the topic) spill over directly into the reader experience, echoing from within another mindscape... 'as if your words set the stage...' what an amazing observation! ...of course, that's what we all do as writers (poets, painters, photographers, dancers, musicians, performers, creative producers of any art-form) ✨ 🎶 ♪ ♬
Linear and finite time given here such depth and insight--and the paradoxes abound with we know and what we think we know. I was quite moved by this post, Veronika.
I'm not sure what it is with this word 'space'. It was totally not what I expected. What did I expect? Certainly not that it started out meaning 'time', or how it pulled me into its own story.
I love the idea that space is not empty and that we're all interconnected and touching. Space as TIME seems surprising at first, but then after settling into it, it makes sense. In this current age, I would imagine that there will be big leaps and bounds into the awareness and knowledge of what SPACE is and what it means. Wonderful post, Veronika, xo
Yes, my initial reaction was surprise too. But then, given that we are all connected and connecting across time and space with increasing ease and speed, and looking at diverse interpretations in other cultures and eras, it made more and more sense to me. Spacetime began to 'fall into place', literally.
I now imagine these threads throughout timespace and spacetime that connect us all with each other. Isn't that quite something else?! 🕸️ And Grandmother Spider 🕷 can get busy weaving again... xxx
“They competed for space and ran out of time”- that line sums it up for me perfectly and I loved that poetic storytelling at the end. So well said in all the spaces between those words as well!
As a Greek, I love the Kairos and Chronos themes. I lean into the questions of what is “place” compared to space. Is space the child of place or is place the child of space? Are they just siblings? Partners?
The same goes for time and age. I love how Robert Harrison said ““The most sophisticated philosophers think of age as a function of time, yet a careful phenomenological analysis reveals that we should instead think of time as a function of age. After all, any concept we may have of time has a way of growing old, of succumbing to an aging process.”
Time and space. Age and place. The four cardinal directions of the universe. Maybe they’re all the same thing like the Incas thought?
Thanks for this journey through language.
I love the responses on this thread as well.
I agree somewhere in here consciousness is singing and dancing.
That mythopoeic piece in the finale just popped out and took on a life of its own. First trotting along at a leisurely pace, then speeding up into canter, then galloping, and finally coming to a screeching halt... I love when a piece of writing does that. You must have similar experiences when a 'poem is writing you'...
Time and aging... that's of course another story. Time as a function of age. Thank you for mentioning Robert Harrison 💙 🙏 ✨
Cheers Tim ✨ 😉 🥂 I also never knew that spacetime can have such intoxicating effects until I let it sweep me into those stratospheric realms and beyond...
Veronika, your exploration of space, blending mythology with scientific discoveries, wonderfully unravels the timeless mysteries and deep connections that have shaped our understanding of the universe. Coincidentally, my last newsletter is titled “Per Aspera Ad Astra”. It's wonderful when such synchronicities occur - like the universe itself is weaving threads of connection between our thoughts. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to exploring more of your words.
I know, Deborah! Having just discovered your sparkling substack space for free ranging ovines, I am equally delighted to witness coinciding writings (and parallel life paths...?) in synchrony. ✨ 💕 ✨
Hi Veronika, l feel totally energised after reading this post. 🙏😊 The vibrational hum, the silent sounds of space and life force, the energetic forms and patterns buzzing in, through and around us. The spiralling and looping timelines of infinite expansiveness. I don’t understand it but l feel it somehow. The mystery so resonates with me because l just trust the Universe and accept that this fractal of our human self may not necessarily be meant to understand it all because we are designed to explore and in that endeavour we are creators 😊💜🙏, as your research and work show. Curiosity and wonder is central to our experience, even though we humans try to control the uncontrollable, as you point out in your summary. All fascinating. Thank you 😊💜🙏
How wonderful, Simone, thank you! 💙🙏 ✨ I felt energised writing it too.
"this fractal of our human self may not necessarily be meant to understand it all because we are designed to explore and in that endeavour we are creators" ~ I love that. Yes! I cannot say I fully understand it either. How can we grasp something as vast as this? And yet, when we write and read about it, the vibrations buzz "through and around us", as you put so very well.
I also didn't quite understand what happened when I wrote this piece... because, spiralling and looping timelines of infinite expansiveness... all I can say is, it was great fun to write. 🎶 ♪ ♬
😊💫✍️💜
I think there is no space. We live in a sea of consciousness, Constantly expanding with limited ability to see many light spectrum’s possibilities, waveforms, energies, frequencies and possibly beings from other densities. We are entering a new age and few of us have any idea what the many changes will be. I feel optimistic and even excited to still be here to see how we create this new era we’ve looked forward to for my entire lifetime. I will relinquish space for peace.
I wholeheartedly resonate with these thought vibrations 〰〰
Maybe that's part of the point, that we have no idea about the changes. Perhaps inklings? Premonitions? But no clear vision, or knowing, yet, otherwise it wouldn't be new.
Exciting new timespaces await somewhere in spacetime 💙 🙏 ✨
I always read your post immediately if possible and I give my first thoughts in response as I hope it helps you understand what your words inspire in us.
I could do a better job of writing if I wait but it would also change my response somehow.
Oh, I totally understand that Sammie, and I'm grateful. I love your responses of first thoughts. Spontaneity is precious and rare, especially in an age where everyone edits themselves so much...
Thanks again Veronika.
Splendid canter through linear time in your finale. I will not say 'at the end'. 😊👍Great!
I like your insight into classical Greek personifications. That is indeed a capacity of the human mind. Our culture tends to get all 'science' about it. This was not a naïve culture: the diameter of the earth came to be measured accurately in their time.
A short story: our eldest when a baby had taken as they do to waving back to people when they waved. One windy morning carrying her toward the house the trees were waving vigorously, a crowd above the building. She waved happily back.
CS Lewis in the Epilogue to his 'Discarded Image' finishes with remarks about 'Models', the framing of a cosmos that can change with culture. I go back to reading it from time to time. (h/t by the way to JM Greer who pointed to that book.)
Quote: "But each [Model] no less surely reflects the prevalent psychology of an age almost as much as it reflects the state of that age's knowledge. Hardly any battery of new facts could have persuaded a Greek that the universe had an attribute so repugnant to him as infinity; hardly any such battery could persuade a modern that it was hierarchical."
We might look further East for other models... it seems never ending. 😊
Finale, yes! This popped out quite unexpectedly, of its own accord, and I let it be whatever it wanted to be. Reading Janna Levin's insights into the 'soundtrack of the universe' and 'space wobbling like a drum' obviously set the tone for this piece.
Ever since I have decided to leave 'academic writing behind' ~ and got some practice in fiction writing under my aspiring author's belt ~ I have found great freedom and joy in picking up some threads of thought from our classical Greek ancestors. Their stories were anything but naïve. Such complexity, keen observation, and vivid imagination...
Your lovely baby daughter must have had some of that in her blood already when waving back at the trees.
Thank you for the mention of CS Lewis 'Discarded Image' too. The quote seems pertinent to my parallel substack too, which very much about models, and how they make us experience the world, life, ourselves.
And so many new contemporary models too... what if we're only at the beginning? 🤔💭 🎶 ♪ ♬ ✨ 😉
I hope.👍
Oh, Veronika, thank you SO much for this post! ❤️ I'm not even sure where I'd want to begin commenting because it's filled with such insightful goodness. I love the six surprises. I've often wondered about gravity being a measurable force of love itself. The way the earth holds us to her. The way the cosmos hold the earth. I have this three container model that my guides showed me of space, time and being. When put together as spacetimebeing and equating that with gravity, we see that the 1960s hippy culture was right all along: it's all love, man. Thank you again for this dive into space. I'm going to read this one again and again.
You're welcome Jenna 💕😊
Thank you for the suggestion, and putting me on this track. I think it's been one of the most surprising, mindwobbling and exhilarating wordcasts I've written to date
spacetimebeing ~ I love it! Thanks for being here and doing your work 🔥🙏 💕 ✨
Fabulous research Veronika. How fleeting our experience of space time, and always so abstract, but when I settle in and feel it as you described, I fall into a much larger rhythm of understanding. (One I can’t access with my mind, it’s as if your words set the stage, play the a sides, and then set us free.)
Beautiful resonance with the wobbling drum of space, Kimberly! 💗🙏
With this particular wordcast I can see the experience and inner space of the writer (in relation to the topic) spill over directly into the reader experience, echoing from within another mindscape... 'as if your words set the stage...' what an amazing observation! ...of course, that's what we all do as writers (poets, painters, photographers, dancers, musicians, performers, creative producers of any art-form) ✨ 🎶 ♪ ♬
Linear and finite time given here such depth and insight--and the paradoxes abound with we know and what we think we know. I was quite moved by this post, Veronika.
Oh thank you, Mary! This means so much.
I'm not sure what it is with this word 'space'. It was totally not what I expected. What did I expect? Certainly not that it started out meaning 'time', or how it pulled me into its own story.
I love the idea that space is not empty and that we're all interconnected and touching. Space as TIME seems surprising at first, but then after settling into it, it makes sense. In this current age, I would imagine that there will be big leaps and bounds into the awareness and knowledge of what SPACE is and what it means. Wonderful post, Veronika, xo
Thank you so much, Lani 💙 🙏 ✨
Yes, my initial reaction was surprise too. But then, given that we are all connected and connecting across time and space with increasing ease and speed, and looking at diverse interpretations in other cultures and eras, it made more and more sense to me. Spacetime began to 'fall into place', literally.
I now imagine these threads throughout timespace and spacetime that connect us all with each other. Isn't that quite something else?! 🕸️ And Grandmother Spider 🕷 can get busy weaving again... xxx
Oh Veronika I absolutely loved this!
“They competed for space and ran out of time”- that line sums it up for me perfectly and I loved that poetic storytelling at the end. So well said in all the spaces between those words as well!
As a Greek, I love the Kairos and Chronos themes. I lean into the questions of what is “place” compared to space. Is space the child of place or is place the child of space? Are they just siblings? Partners?
The same goes for time and age. I love how Robert Harrison said ““The most sophisticated philosophers think of age as a function of time, yet a careful phenomenological analysis reveals that we should instead think of time as a function of age. After all, any concept we may have of time has a way of growing old, of succumbing to an aging process.”
Time and space. Age and place. The four cardinal directions of the universe. Maybe they’re all the same thing like the Incas thought?
Thanks for this journey through language.
I love the responses on this thread as well.
I agree somewhere in here consciousness is singing and dancing.
🙏❤️
That mythopoeic piece in the finale just popped out and took on a life of its own. First trotting along at a leisurely pace, then speeding up into canter, then galloping, and finally coming to a screeching halt... I love when a piece of writing does that. You must have similar experiences when a 'poem is writing you'...
Time and aging... that's of course another story. Time as a function of age. Thank you for mentioning Robert Harrison 💙 🙏 ✨
Love it! Yes something is writing me. Sometimes I catch a quick glimpse. 🙏❤️
Fascinating read! I woke up to find myself lost in time and space and I hadn't even been drinking. :-).
Cheers Tim ✨ 😉 🥂 I also never knew that spacetime can have such intoxicating effects until I let it sweep me into those stratospheric realms and beyond...
Veronika, your exploration of space, blending mythology with scientific discoveries, wonderfully unravels the timeless mysteries and deep connections that have shaped our understanding of the universe. Coincidentally, my last newsletter is titled “Per Aspera Ad Astra”. It's wonderful when such synchronicities occur - like the universe itself is weaving threads of connection between our thoughts. Thank you for sharing. I look forward to exploring more of your words.
I know, Deborah! Having just discovered your sparkling substack space for free ranging ovines, I am equally delighted to witness coinciding writings (and parallel life paths...?) in synchrony. ✨ 💕 ✨
Your ewe-nique 'free ranging ovines' did make me laugh! This 'liberated sheep in her post shepherd world' thanks you.
Eternal spacetime,
boundless cyclical plenum.
Fence-free clockless room?
Beautiful!
A perfect "elevator pitch" for this wordcast
A sparkling Thank You, Marisol 💙 🙏 ✨
Elevate she does.
Veronica’s wise wordcasts,
challenge at its best.
You don't cease to amaze, Marisol!
A bubbling spring of haikus....
What an astonishing gift, and filled with such acuity of knowledge and senses 💕 ✨
To pay attention,
to share impressions, lessons.
An earnest practice. :)
an earnest practice indeed, and most worthwhile 🙏 ✨