I would like to see what you might say about the following questions. I will post the answer after I receive some responses in comments.
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What is the Milky Way? Why does it appear as a band in the sky? Why are October skies so blue?
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My response to your questions is rooted in one of the most fascinating ideas I’ve heard you talk about- a distinction between Euclidean geometry (the way we normally think about space) and Rheimannian geometry (the possibility that space is curved, has no edge, and each of us are the center).
From a Euclidean view- the milky way is just a collection of stuff that has randomly reformed into a pinwheel shape. We are infinitessimal, standing at the edge looking in. The sky is blue because of an accidental atmosphere- otherwise it would be black.
But… from that place where each star is a nexus… each of us are at the center… and our perception of color and shape are an overlay that misleads us… I’m speechless and feel awe.
Haha are these trick questions? With observable phenomena we can say a variety of things to describe it.The milky way being a cluster of stars being viewed from the inside. Even if we layed out the exact scientific parameters for what we are observing we still would miss what it truly is. I guess in physical existence these things are only manifestations of the divine current of energy flowing at the base of existence. Can’t really be described in any terms we know, but we can try! Maybe October skies just want to very blue haha.
You told my dad and I your theory about why the sky is so blue. But it’s also the month when Rama kick Ravana’s butt. So it feels fitting that the sky wold be so blue during this month. And maybe on a less scientific level the milky way could, or would be the bindu point of the universe. I have a question aswell. When we hear the stories about the ‘churning of the milky ocean’, I feel like it’s not the ocean here on earth (maybe itis) but perhaps it is the milky way? It was the creation of our galaxy.
Orin,
The ocean is the vast expanse of the transcendent. The churning between polar opposites birthed relativity. The finest end product of that churning brings all back to oneness… i.e. the nectar of immortality that truly heals. See?
I suspect you are seeking answers a bit more esoteric than this but I’ll give it a go. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy or chakra within the universe. Because we are situated on one of the spiral arms, it appears as a band across the sky.
October skies are so blue because it is a Vata season — dry, windy, cold, enabling the atmosphere to be clearer.
Makes prefect sense.
Patricia wins the prize for what I was looking for regarding the Milky Way. Our galaxy is like a huge spinning plate. We are a dot in that plate. When you look out along the plane of that plate, you see the cloud of other stars in our galaxy.
Still waiting for explanation of ‘October Skies’.
So many great insights here. Hm astrophysics is interesting, but everything is interesting. I know ultimately what I must pursue, but it is the worldly pursuits which I am unsure of. I guess they tend to follow in line with the higher aim?
Maybe the drier air means less clouds. I think their density scatters all the wavelengths of the sunlight so much that the light reflected is white. The clearer (less humidity) sky scatters the short blue and violet wavelengths almost exclusively while the longer lengths pass through without being scattered.
Thinking about the mapping….
The sky is blue because of you! The abundance of harvest is Guru season, right? Jupitar (yellow sapphire) emits blue cosmic rays. Blessings to the Guru. -Hayley
Eddie,
You bring up a beautiful topic here. It will best be addressed in a video blog. In the upcoming Mother Divine course, I will create it.
I keep coming back to this waiting for an answer of why the sky is so blue this time of year. Every day I now look at the sky and ponder, haha. Let me just ask this, does it have any relation to Shiva’s relationship to the Goddess and to Maya? This is a straight up guess, really just trying to elicit a response.
God Bless,
Erik
The Milky Way is that cosmic dream of abundant flow, first
encountered at our mother’s breast, made visible.
Every way, every river needs a boundary, a ribbon is what
we choose to see. Limits.
In Texas it’s this blue more often then not, gives me a greater
appreciation for the cloud. And the fabulous imagining of seeing all
manner of things out there.
If I recall my Astronomy classes correctly, Earth’s angle from the Sun (approaching the autumnal equinox) causes light waves to travel through more atmosphere, causing more scattering of the light spectrum…toward the bluer end of the spectrum. The angle of Earth is due to our tilted axis…which adjusts it’s angle of wobble very 28,000 years.
Our divine hearing can discern individual instruments in an orchestra, but our divine sight or brain sometimes interprets multiple color wavelengths as just one single color. Our sense of sight apparently interprets what are actually blue-violet light waves as a mix of blue and white light waves, and thus we perceive the sky as light blue.
On another level, that color of perception, touches something within us much deeper than physical sight…it seems to speak to a deep sense of infinite possibility (omnipotence perhaps), hence Blue Sky optimism. Yet more than our deep sense of spirituality, I suspect Brahmarshi might say it maps onto a particular level or point where consciousness starts to expand it’s infinite structure and then collapses somewhat into a cluster…retaining a blue-sky hint of the infinite. Perhaps that correlates to a place where our greatest optimism and “The Blues” merge…? 🙂
I think the artists and poets capture it better than science…
Mr. Blue Sky by Jeff Lynne (with Electric Light Orchestra)
Hey there mister blue
We’re so pleased to be with you
Look around see what you do
Ev’rybody smiles at you…..