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2025 Day 24: Tandem Surfing – Page 10 – Sunrise

2025-0124F-1212 Radio East, Austin TX

I’m sitting in the sun with K as she get’s ready to host her cleanse. I just finished posting pictures from my journal from 8 years ago (2025 Day 23: One, Two, Three – Synchronicity). In this post, I am going to continue posting pictures from my journal from eight years ago today.

12 minutes ago, I was walking behind the back fence here at Radio East and I saw something shiny on the ground. It was a quarter, and then another quarter, and then a dime. Sixty! I quickly calculated. Wow!

K had just asked me about my birthday and what year I was born. I turn sixty this year! I’ve was already feeling the synchronicities around this number due to these past blog posts:

2025 Day 21: 60 Ways I can help Healers
2020 Day 21: Surfing Universes – Life Coach – 60 Needs that Healers Have
2025 Day 19: Why is 19 sacred?

Anyway, back to eight years ago. I’ll comment on these another time. For now, I will just post them raw.

2017-0124T Sunrise – Austin, TX – Sunrise (page 10)

As I sit in my open doorway and watch the sun rise on another beautiful day, I feel joy, happiness, serenity, and a desire to change the electronic music playing … please wait … ok. Laura Marling’s “When were you Happy? (and How Long has that Been)” station is now playing.

"Wouldn't it be a thing
To live somewhere quietly where there's a breeze
And there's a moon for us to be"

From the lens of tandem surfing, this line from the song reveals some ideas we can use. To tandem surf successfully with someone else, it requires:

  1. a reason to surf together
  2. a quiet environment
  3. a gentle “breeze”

2017-0124T-0800 Home, Austin – A Reason for us to Be (page 11)

To “be” means to enjoy the present moment, or to at least experience it – joy or sadness. Solo unisurfing is about being present in the moment, classically experiencing it, quantum experiencing, sensing the possibilities, knowing why certain future possibilities are important to you, knowing why the present moment is important to you, and making choices that guide you to the present moments you desire and that increase the probability of future possibilities you desire. Knowing why helps you sort through your desires. Likewise, for tandem unisurfing, knowing why for “us to be” and jointly knowing the future possibilities for “us” and why that union is desirable, along with making choices together, allowing for an enjoyable tandem unisurfing experience.

2017-0124T-1680 BBRovers, Austin – Know WHY you want what you want (page 12)

When solo unisurfing, you can begin surfing as soon as you know what you want. With tandem unisurfing, it is necessary to know not only what you want, but WHY you want it. Knowing WHY is also beneficial for solo unisurfing, so it’s good to get into the habit of asking yourself WHY you want a particular experience. As you explore your answer to WHY, consider your quantum self and sense all of the different answers to WHY. Compare these answers to the answers that your classical self is aware of. Once you and your surfing partner have a good understanding of the motivations of your quantum selves, then compare these motivations. By knowing each other’s WHY answers, you can have greater success in tandem surfing.

2017-0124T-1630 BBRovers, Austin, TX – A Quiet Environment (page 13)

By “quiet environment”, I mean not many external forces constraining your actions. Often it appears that we have many constraints, whether it’s our job, our mortgage, our family, etc. It is important to understand which of these are fixed constraints and which are flexible. To help you gain clarity, consider your quantum self, who has made different choices. What constraints does your quantum self have? Only those constraints where are shared …

Pool time with Ian

Parden the interruption, but pool is definitely not a quiet activity, especially with this pool table ihat is missing a plastic corner protector.

2025 Day 23: One, Two, Three – Synchronicity

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!”