Category: Parallel Reality

2025 Day 29: New Year of the Wood Snake

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As I’m typing this, the beautiful being in the apartment I’m visiting is getting ready to have an Ecstatic Dance inside. I have a choice now. I can continue typing OR I can stop typing and start dancing. Both universes exist regardless of the choice I make. Neither universe is of lesser value than the other. My quantum self will experience both. My classical self will experience writing now, and dancing later. I will finish this blog post first …

As the Year of the Wood Snake (乙巳, Yǐ Sì) begins, we are invited into a space of transformation, wisdom, and adaptability. The Snake, in Chinese tradition, is an intuitive navigator—one that moves between shadows and light, sensing the unseen and shifting effortlessly through obstacles. The Wood element brings an added layer of growth, flexibility, and resilience.

Universe Surfing can be thought of as the conscious movement between possibilities—the shedding of past skins and the emergence into new timelines.

The Wood Snake and Universe Surfing

The Snake thrives in subtlety, navigating through unseen forces, much like the way we experience quantum reality—the multiverse in which infinite versions of our choices play out. We surf through these possibilities not as passive observers, but as active participants, shifting realities with every decision, every intuition, and every unexpected moment.

The Wood Snake year calls us to embrace this movement, to sense the energetic flow of the universe, and to trust in our ability to shape our experience. In this spirit, let’s revisit the Three Hypotheses of Universe Surfing, now through the lens of the Snake’s wisdom.

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 1 – All Parallel Classical Universes Hold Equal Reality

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 1 – The classical universe we experience is equal in reality to the multitude of parallel classical universes that we do not experience.

Just as a Snake sheds its skin, revealing a new but equally real form beneath, we are constantly shifting between realities, even if we only experience one at a time. Each moment contains an interwoven web of potential timelines, and the version we perceive is simply the one we have tuned into—not the only one that exists.

The Wood Snake does not resist change—it embodies it. And as we step into 2025, the invitation is to release attachment to a singular, linear narrative. Whether we choose to dance or write, both universes are real. The wisdom of the Snake reminds us that we do not need to fear change, for every moment of loss, transformation, or uncertainty is also a doorway to new possibilities.

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 2 – Unexpected Events as Windows to Possible Futures

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 2 – Unexpected events are more connected to your possible futures than to your possible pasts, and therefore are useful signposts and windows to your possible futures.

In the mythos of the Snake, it is often a guardian of hidden knowledge—the whisper of insight in the darkness, the flash of intuition before a choice. When an unexpected event occurs—whether a moment of synchronicity or a sudden shift in plans—it is not random. It is a glimpse into a branching universe where other potentials are waiting.

The Snake moves without hesitation, sensing the right path not through force but through deep internal knowing. This year, we are invited to pay attention to disruptions in our paths, to treat them not as obstacles but as signposts to alternative futures. A missed train, a chance encounter, a sudden change in plans—all of these are moments where we stand at the threshold of parallel worlds, invited to peek beyond the veil of our expectations.

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 3 – The Non-Directionality of Time

Universe Surfing Hypothesis 3 – Related events influence each other and the order in which we experience two events gives us the classical impression that one event caused the other.

The Wood Snake weaves through past, present, and future, reminding us that time is not a fixed stream but a spiral, folding in on itself in ways we may not always perceive. Events that seem to be “causes” may in fact be the echoes of a future already in motion. The choices we make now ripple backward and forward, shifting the intersections of possibility in ways we might only recognize much later.

In the Year of the Wood Snake, we are called to trust the timing of things, to embrace the idea that every moment is interconnected—not as linear progressions, but as interwoven threads of experience. When an opportunity arises, ask: Is this a calling from my future self? When a challenge appears, consider: Is this an invitation to shift my path in ways I have not yet seen?

The Snake reminds us that wisdom is not just found in analysis but in deep, embodied knowing. Sometimes, we must simply move forward, even when the path is unseen.

Surfing the Year Ahead

As we step into 2025, we are surfing a universe of infinite choices, synchronicities, and realities. The Wood Snake invites us to move with purpose yet fluidity, to sense the unseen pathways, and to trust in our ability to adapt. Shed the skins of past limitations. Let intuition be your compass. The universes unfold before us, waiting to be explored.

新年快乐，万事如意！ (Xīnnián kuàilè, wànshì rúyì!)
Happy New Year! May everything go as you wish!

… such a sweet dance I just had, classically just now and my quantum self while I was blogging. In fact, while I was blogging, I noticed myself being pulled into the dance from time to time. Z was dancing with a lot of Shakti energy and it was difficult for me to stay focused in my Shiva energy.

2025 Day 25: Tandem Surfing – Quantum Constraints (page 14)

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The last two days I have been posting images from my journal written eight years ago. The journal pages are the beginning of a second book on universe surfing that I started writing then.

2025 Day 23: One, Two, Three – Synchronicity
2025 Day 24: Tandem Surfing – Page 10 – Sunrise

The two posts above cover pages 1-13. I’ll continue now with page 14.

2017-0125W-0800 Home, Austin – Quantum Constraints (page 14)

Your quantum constraints are a small subset of your classical constraints. They include very few constraints in the literal sense, as we are only truly constrained by the physical laws of the universe, or multiverse if you will. From a more practical sense, you can think of them as the constraints on your parallel selves in nearby universes, were nearby universes are the most probable universes you might find yourself in were you to leave your current one. As you sense universes farther away, you will notice that many of the constraints on you in this universe are not present. Others may be however. It’s helpful in unisurfing to have a good understanding of your quantum constraint field.

2017-0125W-0815 Home, Austin – Quantum Constraint Field – Part 1 (page 15)

As I ponder this for the first time, I realize that an entire book could be written on the Quantum Constraint Field. For now, please allow me to use the simple analogy of an actual field with hills and valleys. Notice that this field in your mind does not have any discontinuities – the height of the field at one location is close to the height at a nearby location. We will save the calculus for another data, and now imagine a field of trees and rocks. Add a pond in the field and a log cabin. Let’s call this one universe. Now imagine a second universe where everything is there but in a different place. If we consider only these two universes and assign each an equal probability of occurring, then each thing has a 50% probability of being where it is in universe 1 and a 50% probability of being where it is in universe 2.

2017-0125W-1200 Jack Allen’s Kitchen, Austin, TX – Quantum Constraint Field – Part 2 (page 16)

If you were to walk across the field in universe 1, you would likely need to take a different path than you would in universe 2 in order to avoid the obstacles. The trees, rocks, pond, and cabin are all constraints on the path you can take. Now imagine that the cabin is not an obstacle but your destination and in both universes, it’s on the far side of the field but in a different corner. Your challenge is to get to the cabin as efficiently as you can without getting wet. There is one more rule for this game to make it interesting and educational. As you move, every step you take has a 50% chance to change the universe from one universe to the other. Think now about a strategy for winning this challenge.

2025 Day 22: Revisiting Habits in the Multiverse

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Five years ago I wrote 2020 Day 22: Habits in the Multiverse. Today, I would like to revisit this blog post and update it. In the blog post, I discussed how in one universe, I write a daily blog, and in a neighboring universe, I don’t. By deliberately focusing on my “new habit” universe, I attracted more of those “new habit” universes to be closer to me, increasing the likelihood that I would daily blog.

I continue to find value in universe surfing as a mental model to assist me in understanding and navigating the world. Whether habit formation requires 19 days, 29.5 days, or 12 lunar months, continuing to focus on the habit daily is the most important universe surfing technique. Focus is the energy that resonates in parallel universes and brings them closer to you. You have free will over your focus. Focus on the habit. For creating a habit, focus itself is enough. Whether you actually do the habit or not is less in your control. Regularly focus on the habit you are trying to create. Practice self-awareness of whether you actually do the habit or not. Notice any resistance and be curious about where the resistance is coming from.

In my last blog post, I said I would revisit “did some universe surfing magic” in a future blog post. This is that future post. When I say I “did some universe surfing magic,” I’m essentially describing the process of consciously shifting my attention and energy toward a version of reality—one in which a particular outcome or habit already exists. It builds on two core ideas:

1. Resonance: We all carry an energetic signature, influenced by our emotions, thoughts, and physical sensations. By deliberately aligning that energetic signature with the feeling or state we want—such as Love, Compassion, or a new habit—we “tune in” to the parallel universes where that state is already established. It’s akin to setting a radio dial; you carefully adjust your thoughts, feelings, and bodily awareness until you lock onto the station broadcasting that specific vibe.

2. Embodiment: Once you’ve identified the state you want to resonate with, you practice embodying it deeply. Yoga, meditation, Qi Gong, and similar practices teach us how to direct energy through breath, movement, and focused awareness. By unifying your mind, emotions, and physical sensation of that new habit or state, you effectively “surf” closer to the version of yourself—and the parallel universes—where the habit is a lived reality.

The “magic” part is less about supernatural forces and more about the surprising power of sustained intention. Over time, as you keep revisiting this specific resonance, you’ll notice that your external actions begin to align with it more consistently. You might spontaneously feel motivated to wake up earlier and blog, or naturally gravitate toward people who share your vision of living with more compassion. From the outside, these shifts can look almost magical, but they are underpinned by the everyday work of repeated focus and embodied practice.

2025 Day 4: Silo and Time Travel

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A few days ago AZ and I watched another episode of Silo, a dystopian Apple TV series. The setting is on Earth in the future in a huge underground silo. The surface of Earth is apparently not supportive of life. Whenever someone requests to go out, they are forced to leave the silo. Everyone watches a presumed live feed. It shows them walking outside. They clean the outside camera and then fall to the ground after they walk away. I relate to Martha, the reclusive electrical engineer and mentor to Juliette. I also relate to Juliette, the determined seeker of truth.

The dystopian future presented in Silo is like a parallel universe. It’s a realistic potential future for us living in the timeline we are in. It exists as a potential in the same way as the multitude of other potential futures.

Our minds and nervous system are trained to predict possible futures. This internal sensing of the futures near and far is a trait seemingly shared by all life. We then react based on our beliefs about these potential futures. We have free will to focus our attention on certain beliefs and away from other beliefs. Our external senses give us real-time information about our environment. We internally classify our external sensory experiences. Due to the limited fidelity of our external senses, we can erroneously interpret these experiences. We can also erroneously interpret these external sensory experiences due to our internal sensory experiences.

I highly recommend watching Silo!

Going Deeper: Imagine a reality in which time travel was not only theoretically possible, but a normal action available to all. Many movies have explored time travel. In my imagined time traveling reality, I can only travel energetically and not physically. I can energetically experience any time and can also have influence in that time. It’s exponentially easier for me to time travel in my own experienced time line, past or future. I can silently whisper messages to my past or future self, and similarly hear messages. It’s enough for me now to explore this timeless communication with myself. I have not tried to do it with others.

20210124u Day 390: Personal Observations

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I wasn’t planning to write today. Something seems to be bubbling up and I’m not sure what it is. I hope that by writing my thoughts down now, whatever it is will reveal itself.

I just got off the phone with my beloved. We had a somewhat heated discussion about white privilege due to my not accepting my beloved’s belief in the importance that white privilege has played in benefiting me throughout my life. We found common ground in agreeing that racism exists in the world and the world would be better if it did not. We also agreed that many white people have benefited from white privilege. We also agreed that I have also benefited from white privilege. However, we disagreed as to the extent that white privilege played a role. I believe that the vast majority of my personal achievements would have been possible regardless of my race or skin color. I even believe that there’s a chance I may have benefited additionally as a minority due to affirmative action programs in existence during my education and early career. As I type this however, I’m becoming aware of certain times in which I felt “blessed”, or lucky, and I’m wondering now if my luck was due to the color of my skin, or my race, or being male, or some other discriminatory factor. I have to admit that there were times in my life that I have received large benefits and have not really been able to logically explain or understand from where these benefits came. I can accept the possibility that white privilege, male privilege, religious privilege, or some other privilege was a larger factor than I have previously believed.

Before my heated discussion, I watched a few videos – a press briefing from the new white house administration, and a couple videos on financial bubbles forming due to the easy money flowing through the system in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. I was pleased to hear Dr. Fauci present a reality that felt in alignment with the reality I believe to be true. I especially liked when he answered a question by saying he didn’t know the answer and that the Biden administration was adopting a policy of only answering questions for which there is a known answer – not making something up on the spot just to have an answer. For the financial videos, I was glad to see Dr. Ron Paul doing well on Kitco news and still promoting liberty, reduced government and sound monetary policy. I’m attracted to him because he does not pledge allegiance to either political party and has a consistent set of beliefs. I don’t agree with all of his beliefs, but at least I can follow his logic when he explains why he holds them. One of the other videos was an interview by Bloomberg news of an individual who seemed to be reading a prepared statement warning Robinhoodlers and Stonks purchasers that one day the FED will not come to their rescue.

Also, today, like every day this year, I had a conversation with my Aunt who is on the board of directors of my condo HOA. At the end of 2020, like a final kick in the ass, our HOA found out that our management company had been stealing our money for the last 5 years and that we were broke with over $30K in debt. I’m now in a universe in which I’m working full-time helping our HOA get back on it’s feet. I hope to use this full-time effort I’m putting forth to tunnel to a universe in which I’m putting in similar effort towards something meaningful AND also getting paid for it.

What are the chances? I just checked to see what was happening on Nov 1, 2016, the day that $25K was moved from the HOA money market to checking. The next day another $25K was moved and then all $50K was moved out of our control to another HOA. This was Election Day 2016! The same time period when most people around the world felt a huge shift from the normal time line to a very unexpected time line. The conclusion of this fraudulent activity ended about the same time that Trump left office. What are the chances? Synchronicity.