Our Own Personal Rainbow

A rainbow. It requires three ingredients: moisture, sunlight, and consciousness. The latter. That is what I wish to speak about.

You may be familiar with the thought experiment “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?”

The rainbow is refracted light. However, it requires us to be seen. It requires an observer to be noticed in the fashion which I describe.

Scientifically, sunlight is being refracted through rain drops or mist or other such moisture, however, it is the observer who creates the rainbow. Without us observing it, there is no rainbow: there is just rain, and sunlight.

And, when you and I are standing next to each other, admiring that beautiful arc of color in sky, we do not see the same rainbow. It will be unique for either of us, depending on the location at which we are standing, relative to that phenomenon that appears to us in the sky.

A beautiful ghostly image, that disappears the moment we stop paying attention to it, or when the sun is obscured, or when it stops precipitating: whichever of those three come first.

Our own personal rainbow—and this notion, when understood, applies to much more than rainbows. 🌈

WHO IS MIKE VITALE?

I am a storyteller, songwriter, singer, music producer, traveling musician, Jungian dream analyst, all-around curious fellow (Spiritual, Mathematical Historical, Scientific), Taoist, and much much more, based out of Los Angeles, California. I’m constantly releasing new music, in all sorts of different genres. You can listen to me below, on Spotify:

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Good Morning

I try my best to go on these morning walks.

Sometimes I just think. Sometimes I listen to music. Sometimes I write. Sometimes I listen to podcasts and audio books or whatever else seems nourishing.

This morning I was listening to an idea that John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist, had in regard to The Universe.

Him and several other Physicists saw that we are active participants in what we perceive as reality. The Universe is dreaming us up, just as we are dreaming up our own existence by everything we say, think, touch, and feel.

I like this idea. It is the basis of Quantum Theories and the computers being built right now with qubits. Possibilities. Infinite possibilities. A cloud of possibilities with one manifestation at the present moment, determined by the duality of these two dreamers, dreaming at the same time with each other.

But in real world terms, it can be as simple as saying good morning to the person you pass by on a morning walk, or as complicated as believing you can make a difference in this world. You do regardless.

Think about it. And Good Morning by the way.

WHO IS MIKE VITALE?

I am a storyteller, songwriter, singer, music producer, traveling musician, Jungian dream analyst, all-around curious fellow (Spiritual, Mathematical Historical, Scientific), Taoist, and much much more, based out of Los Angeles, California. I’m constantly releasing new music, in all sorts of different genres. You can listen to me below, on Spotify:

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Imago

It is a very old word—with several meanings. 

In Biology, Imago is used to describe the very last stage of an insect's life cycle. It is the stage of maturity. The last phase of its ultimate development and its final metamorphosis: the imaginal phase.

In psychology, it is used to describe,

n. an unconscious mental image of another person, that influences the way in which an individual relates to others. 

Have you ever thought about that?

We create mental images of people... and despite our best efforts, we might never be operating from a place of fully formed knowledge on a person, especially when we start casting judgment.

It is a term that can be used to make differentiation between what we might perceive verses the objective reality of an individual. It is extremely subjective—personal to each of us—and is very much filtered through our unique experiences and history, growing as a human being and as an individual.

If we are to make a distinction between actuality and the way we perceive it, an image or representation of a person is the best we can do.

Perception.

Perhaps our growth, our maturity, our metaphorical metamorphosis in which we emerge from our chrysalis, lightly brushing our wings, preparing to take flight, begins with the notion that we are all completely clueless, and that we know nothing, especially in so far as it pertains to someone else.

There is plenty of inner space to explore—a lifetimes worth, and perhaps through that exploration of oneself, we may better communicate with those around us.

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