Apr 28: 🥁 In Step with the Universe

Finding sacred synchronicity through our internal clocks

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Thomas Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, 1750

Apr 28: Biological Clock Gene Discovered: Anniversary

If you wish to understand the Universe,
think of energy, frequency, and vibration.
—Nikola Tesla

The universe has a big secret.

Everything you experience—the chair you’re sitting in, the device you’re reading this on, the tree outside your window, the stars in the galaxies—is only five percent of what we know about our world. Scientists tell us the other ninety-five percent is invisible dark matter and energy.

If most of the universe is made of nothing, why does it look the way it does?

What we experience through our limited five senses is a version of an infinite, underlying reality. It’s like viewing the world through a social media filter that adapts to species-specific perceptions.

A dragonfly dances through an ultra-multi-colored world you cannot see as it flies over your head. Manta rays navigate through electromagnetic fields you can’t detect within the same waters you swim. Your resident eight-eyed house spider has a 360-degree view of your living room, whereas you have limited peripheral vision.

The Rhythms Behind Reality

Georgiana Houghton, Glory Be to God, 1864

The universe’s foundation is an invisible sea of energetic patterns, waves, and frequencies that our human-adapted filter converts into physical material we can perceive through our senses.

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Erwin Schrodinger explained: “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.”

Humans don’t understand the universe.

We can speculate about reality, project our struggles and desires upon the great void around us, but we only understand a tiny sliver of what is out there. We might as well pay attention to our big toe when focusing on the five percent. There’s so much more to experience if we open ourselves to the invisible phenomena surrounding us.

Despite our ignorance of the cosmos, one thing is clear: the next moment holds boundless possibilities to experience the world as energy, vibration, and light.

In 2023, astrophysicists published evidence for gravitational wave signals in The Astrophysical Journal Letters. They discovered what might be the universe’s hidden sheet music—a “cosmic background” made up of ripples across the canvas of spacetime itself.

Imagine the universe as an enormous cosmic orchestra, each celestial body its own musician, every landmass, structure, and living being its distinct note. Much like the chorus of humming cicadas, the universe resonates harmoniously with a slow, profound rhythm that permeates all existence.

Over a hundred years ago, Einstein rocked the scientific world with his groundbreaking theory of general relativity. In this new framework, space and time meld together into a pliable fabric not unlike a bed sheet that ripples when flicked.

Everything hums in harmony with constant motion, balance, and rhythm, whether gazing at the stars or an ant’s nest.

The Circadian Gene and the Symphony of Life

A Theory of Pure Design, Harmony, Balance, Rhythm, 1907

Twenty-five years ago today, a groundbreaking discovery unlocked one of the profound mysteries underlying all life on Earth—the biological clock gene that controls our circadian rhythms.

This tiny genetic timekeeper emerged from the cosmic choreography, a silent conductor coordinating the rise and fall of nearly every biological process.

This anniversary reminds us that we are not merely random beings adrift in a meaningless universe. Instead, we are part of an exquisitely timed dance woven into the very fabric of existence itself that Einstein described.

The rhythms of day and night, ebb and flow, birth and death all unfold in sublime synchronicity under the watching baton of our inner timepiece.  

Whatever has the nature to arise will also pass away. —Buddha

This primordial clock exists as much within the human heart as within every cell of our bodies. It is the metronome of our consciousness, calibrating our sleep rhythms, metabolism, moods, and thoughts.

When we lose touch with this inner beat, we become discordant—mentally, physically, and spiritually out of tune.

And until we realize we are all part of this rhythm of life, together, integrated within the same cosmic dance, we will continue to see ourselves separate, thereby justifying the killing of children for the sake of war, the destruction of the environment for profit, and the disregard of those in need, which is only ourselves.

This Week’s Inspiration: Listen to The Rhythm of The Universe

According to MIT School of Science, gravitational waves could reveal how fast our universe expands.

Here's an example of extreme mass ratio binary gravitational waves generated by the spiraling of stellar-mass compact bodies captured by massive black holes. 

I challenge you to listen to this recording without the hair on the back of your neck rising.

Let me know your reaction and other thoughts in the comments.

Gravitational waves make the universe itself vibrate. ― Brian Clegg

Birds on wire under the moon by Mary Tase