Tag: Beach

2025-0123h-3210 Austin, TX

Last night I was going through old photos and I found some pictures I had taken of my journal. This morning, I looked at my journal photos again and decided to post them. Here they are, with transcription. I will save my thoughts on these until another day. The one extra synchronicity I will add is I just realized that I met Carmel on One, Two, Three – more precisely on One, Two, Three, Two, Zero, One, Three. Not in Jan but in Dec – you can do the math.

2016-0227-1019 Brenda’s French Soul Food, SF – Wow! (page 1)

“Wow!”

I texted Carmel from the lighthouse yesterday morning. I had gotten up early to catch the sunrise. It was my last day working at Apple and I wanted to experience the full day and start it off right. Charlie wanted to go too, so I got his leash and some poop bags and we walked down to West Cliff. As we walked along, we came upon the spot where I had taken the picture I used on the cover of Surfing the Multiverse. I looked down and saw a young man and his dog. It reminded me of when I had taken the picture and how I had wished I had known the gentleman’s name so I could acknowledge him.

2016-0229 Lou’s Fish Shack, Fisherman’s Wharf SF – What’s the Chance? (pages 2 & 3)

“What’s the chance?”, I thought to myself. A quick mental calculation resulted in “quite small” as an answer.

2017-0123M-1219 Samsung, Austin TX – Fast Forward

Fast Forward almost a year. I haven’t been writing and today decided that I would get back to it. As fate would have it (or as the synchronistic probabilities of the universe would have it), today was my first day at a new building at Samsung. I joined Samsung last year after leaving Apple. My first day at Samsung was 3/21. Today, being 1/23, I was remembering my start date and also wondering about the universe where I still worked at Apple. As I drove into work, I lost my way and ended up in the wrong office complex. I realized this when I noticed that the offices were Apple’s design center. This coincidence was also notable because yesterday I found myself searching jobs at Apple. I wasn’t sure why at the time and I didn’t look too carefully. Now it is clear to me that I am surfing near to universes where I am working at Apple, especially the Austin design center. I had considered transferring to the Austin design center last year.

2017-0123M-1300 Samsung, Austin, TX – Back to What’s the Chance (page 4)

So where was I in the story of my last day at Apple? Oh yes, I see now as I catch up with you, I was walking along West Cliff in Santa Cruz when I spied someone down on the beach with a dog and it reminded me of the picture I had taken for my 1st book back cover. Well, as odds would have it, the man looked nothing like the one I had taken a picture of, and so I continued walking.

This may be a good time to mention a universe surfing skill I have learned. Just as the wave surfer waits to catch a good wave, the universe surfer can identify conditions that are good for surfing between universes.

2017-0123M-1315 Samsung, Austin – Major Changes Bring Universes Together (Page 5)

When there are changes occurring in your life, then you are in an area of the multiverse in which many different (“far away”) universes are nearby and interfering with each other. This is much different than when you are having a day of habit when you are surrounded by universes very much like your own. As such, you should pay special attention to any thoughts, however fleeting, that cross your mind. These thoughts are from your quantum mind in other universes coupling with your classical mind in the universe you are experiencing classically. So, when I imagine I see the man and his dog from my photo and then quickly realize that it’s not them, I need to pay attention. And I need to pay attention especially so since its a day of high change.

2017-0123M-1320 Austin – Listen to your Quantum Mind (page 6)

As I continued walking down West Cliff, I arrived at the entrance to Dog Beach. There was some safety tape across the entrance for some reason and I paused to ponder why. I was still feeling a pull to go down to dog beach, plus I knew Charlie would enjoy it even if I didn’t manage to surf any universes. As I was paused at the entrance, a man and his dog walked by and I asked the man if he came there often – hoping that he might know the man in the picture on my phone. He waved me away as if he couldn’t be bothered and began walking down the steps to the beach. As he walked down, I noticed his dog looked very familiar. Could it be the same dog in my photo?!

2017-0123M-1325 Austin – In Search of a Dog (part 1) (page 7)

I search my phone for the photo I had taken six months prior. I found it- same dog! Or at least it looked the same from the photo. As my heart stated beating faster, I stepped over the safety tape and made my way down to Dog Beach. As I got to the beach, I looked around and saw no one. I began walking down to the area where I had first taken the photo. As the hidden area of the beach revealed itself, I saw the man and his dog. I approached him and tried to explain how I had taken a picture of him six months ago, had written a book, and had been looking for him. He waved me off as if I were crazy. I persevered and asked for his contact info so I could send him a copy of the book and asked for his permission to use the photo.

2017-0123-1330 – In Search of Dog (part 2) (page 8)

He said I could use the photo but he didn’t want a copy of the book, and he went on his way. I felt like there must have been a reason why I had thought about meeting him, and then had met him. Certainly today was when we were supposed to meet and become connected. As he walked away, I thought about how close I was to knowing how he was and how I wanted to acknowledge him in the book credits. I decided to follow him and try again. He walked down to the lighthouse and then out to the cliffs where the surfers jump into the sea. The sun was rising or had just risen as I approached. I began to engage him again.

“Excuse me, …”, I said.

2017-0123-1340 – “Move it! You’re in my View!”

“Move it! You’re in my View!”, he yelled at me. I was startled by his passion.

“Stop following me! I don’t want to talk to you.”

Wow, I had not expected that. I thought I had been universe surfing according to the book. I had been noticing “days of change”. I had been paying attention to “fleeting thoughts” and to “unexpected events”. I had made choices which I thought would increase my chances of experiencing classically the universe I desired. Unfortunately, I was only solo surfing. I was not tandem surfing. I realized as I walked away that I needed to understand and write about tandem surfing. And I already knew the title of the book –

“Move it! You’re in My View!”