20200515F Day 136: Mountain Biking Down Aptos Fire Road

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Looking South to Rio Del Mar Beach, Aptos, CA – May 15, 2020 (Credit: SurfingTheUniverse.com)

20200515F Santa Cruz, CA – Today was a good exercise in feeling into the different universes around me in order to get to the one that I wanted. It was difficult to find the beginning of the biking trail where my brother was waiting. My brother had given me directions that led me and my beloved down a dirt road. Multiple times I felt like I was on the wrong road and wanted to back down the road or turn around whenever there was room. Each time, my beloved said “No, keep going so we can find your brother”, and I would continue. In the moment I continued, I believed I was on the right road but then shortly after I would lose faith again. I also had not really been excited about going mountain biking whereas my beloved was much more excited to go. It’s interesting to look back now and see how our different interest levels allowed us to be surrounded by a different number of universes.

It’s obvious to me now that my beloved was surrounded by more universes in which we did go mountain biking. This allowed her to more accurately feel whether or now we were on the correct road and should continue. She knew also if we turned around, we would be closer to the universe where we didn’t go mountain biking.

I’m glad that we eventually found my brother and family and friends. It was a fun ride down to the beach!

20191223M Day -8: Lady Bird Lake Reflections from Austin, Texas

Lady Bird Lake – Austin, TX – Dec 23, 2019 (Credit: SurfingTheUniverse.com)

20200515F Santa Cruz, CA: Back in December, I was in Austin. My beloved flew in for the holidays. We walked along Lady Bird Lake during the day. It was a beautiful sunny day.

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Lady Bird Lake – Austin, TX – Dec 23, 2019 (Credit: SurfingTheUniverse.com)

Meanwhile, the press was reporting on how this flu season was turning out different than past flu seasons. I’m not sure who decided that the unusual flu season would be the focus of the news and medical press on this day. Here is an article that caught my eye:

Rare B Flu Strain Causing Early Surge This Season from passporthealthusa.com

Here are some quotes of interest:

Dave Osthus is a statistician and flu forecaster at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Osthus explained that the current “2019/20 season is already worse than three of the past 20 flu seasons ever were, and the worst part of the flu season—historically late December through early March—hasn’t happened yet.”

especially this one ending with “worst than imagined”:

Looking at the influenza trends, the CDC was able to publicize that the flu season has “about a 40% chance of a peak in late December, a 30% chance of a peak in January, and a 25% chance of a peak in February.” These numbers may change as the season continues, but the outcome will remain the same or even become worse than imagined.

Looking back in time, it was reported in May that the 2018-2019 flu season was also “unusual”:

The just-ended 2018-2019 flu season was relatively mild compared to the last season, during which nearly 80,000 people in the U.S. died of flu-related illness.

The 2018-2019 season has been unusual, though, because the flu came in two waves: one that peaked at the end of December, and a second that peaked in early March.

It seems that “unusual” flu seasons will be the usual for the foreseeable future.

 

20200514h Day 135: Mask Requirements at The Food Bin – No Bandanas, Scarves, or Valves

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Mask Requirements at The Food Bin, Santa Cruz, CA – May 14, 2020 (Credit: SurfingTheUniverse.com)

20200514h Santa Cruz, CA: Today, I went shopping at the local grocery story and found the sign at the entrance interesting. While some stores have been selling bandanas for use as wearing masks, and some people have been using scarves or wrapping their head with their shirt, The Food Bin in Santa Cruz, CA is not supporting these actions. Nor or they supporting masks with valves. Instead, you need to have a mask with two straps, ties, or ear loops. It must cover your face from nose to chin. If you arrive at the store without such a mask, you can purchase one at the Herb Store next door.

For me, this is another example of how universes merge together and how the energetic energy of probabilities ripple out to nearby universes. We have universes around us in which different types of masks are the norm, and universes around us in which no masks are the norm. I expect to see a variety of different normals as I continue to surf towards the exit of this pandemic wormhole. I still expect June 8th of this year to be an exit point. Although, in the current universe I feel other unexpected events are on the horizon and I’m curious what new universes I will see as I exit this pandemic wormhole.

20191224T Day -7: Dried Cacao and SARS-CoV-2 share visual similarity

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Mysterious shapes at the bottom of my cacao mug – Austin, Texas – Dec 23, 2019

20200514h Santa Cruz, CA: On the 24th of December, 2019, a bronchoalveolar lavage fluid sample from a patient with influenza of unknown origin was sent from Wuhan Central Hospital to Vision Medicals in Guangzhou. Vision Medicals is a private company that specializes in meta genomic massive parallel sequencing analysis. Three days later, Vision Medicals notified Wuhan Central Hospital that the sample contained a novel coronavirus (Reference: Wikipedia Pandemic Timeline).

What does this have to do with the mysterious shapes at the bottom of my cacao mug? Well, in looking more closely at the full shape, I now see a spherical shape that resembles a coronavirus. Compare with this image of SARS-CoV-2:

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SARS-CoV-2

I found the SARS-CoV-2 image in a May 4th, 2020 article from Cornell by Krishna Ramanujan: Structure of COVID-19 virus hints at key to high infection rate. The news article reviews some findings from a May 1st, 2020 paper in the Journal of Molecular Biology: Phylogenetic Analysis and Structural Modeling of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Reveals an Evolutionary Distinct and Proteolytically Sensitive Activation Loop.

An interesting quote from this paper is:

Structural modeling of SARS-CoV-2 S reveals a proteolytically sensitive loop

The alignment in Figure 3(b) shows a four-amino-acid insertion 681PRRA684, as well as a conserved arginine corresponding to R685 at the S1/S2 site of the SARS-CoV-2. This insertion, which appears to be unique among lineage B betacoronaviruses, suggests a differential mechanism of activation for the SARS-CoV-2 compared to other SARS-CoV and SARS-like BatCoV.

and in the Discussion section:

In this study, we show the presence of a distinct insert that maps to the S1/S2 priming loop of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is not shared with SARS-CoV or any SARS-related viruses in Betacoronavirus lineage B.

20200513W Day 134: Tandem Surfing

Surfers at Steamer Lane, Santa Cruz, CA – 20200513W (Credit: SurfingTheUniverse.com)

20200513W Santa Cruz, CA: Today, I went mountain biking down with my beloved and my brother with family. We started at twin gates on Empire Grade and rode down a branching set of trails to the ocean, where I took a pictures of the surfers at Steamer Lane. One pair of surfers riding the same wave reminds me of tandem universe surfing – riding the waves of probability through parallel universes with someone else.

With solo universe surfing, I have found that an understanding of the following concepts  is useful in surfing towards a universe of my choosing.

  1. I do not exist as a classical being in a single classical universe filled with particles of mass moving about in a somewhat predictable manner, but instead I exist as a quantum being in a single quantum universe filled with probability waves moving about in a somewhat predictable manner.
  2. The Many Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics provides me a good model of the quantum universe.
  3. Synchronicities are valuable signposts that show me some of my possible futures. A sequence of synchronicities informs me that I’m close to a particular universe..
  4. Just as I can move my attention to different parts of my classical body, I can also move my attention to different classical bodies. By moving my attention, I can energetically visit parallel worlds.
  5. By regularly focusing my attention on a parallel world, I can not only sense that parallel world energetically, but I can move the center of my attention to that parallel world so that it appears to me as a different classical world.
  6. Anything not expressively prohibited by the laws of physics is allowed. This principle can be used to filter out non-viable worlds to visit and to select the path by which it is easiest to travel to a parallel world.

With tandem surfing, two people can jointly travel to a parallel world. They both must be practiced solo surfers. They need to communicate and “sync up” to understand the characteristics of the nearby universes around them. They also need to be specific in defining the characteristics of the future universes to which they wish to surf together.