Song 19 of 26 - Positive Vibes

The nineteenth of the 26 songs is called "Positive Vibes". Scroll down below the following videos for the lyrics and a brief discussion of how this song ties into the project. A blog post which lists all 26 songs, including 1 video for each song can be found by clicking here.


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In "Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means", physicist Albert-Laszlo Barabasi shows us how everything from epidemics to internet fads to consciousness can be thought of as networked nodes that are interacting in complex ways. In "Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order", Steven Strogatz shows us how entrainment and synchrony can be viewed as an underlying explanation for order, from the origins of the universe to pendulum clocks, from fireflies to the stock market. Again and again we are reminded of our overriding theme introduced in song 1: Everything Fits Together.

By now, as we've worked through these songs, we have come to think of each living thing as being a part of a pattern across the dimensions, and we have also thought about how actions as simple as our physical stance and our mental attitude can have profound effects on the branching set of possibilities available to us, or the fifth-dimensional trajectory that we're on. This is how so many self-help techniques are able to be effective, including deep breathing and positive visualization. And this is how one person can enter a room and change the way everyone else is feeling, simply by the positive or negative "vibe" they are giving off. Is this the kind of entrainment Steven Strogatz is talking about in his book? Only peripherally: I am taking his ideas and making a slightly larger leap than he does. But it is less of a leap to move from my ideas to another book I love, Daniel Levitin's "This is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession". How does music affect us so deeply, and how is so much of what can be encoded into a song able to communicate universally? I propose that this is the same kind of entrainment that we are thinking about with the (admittedly hippy-dippy) concept of this song, "Positive Vibes".

Is it possible to help someone else just by sending good thoughts their way? Is it possible that saying a prayer for a friend in need might cause some good fortune to come their way? Hey, even if you don't believe in such things, as the song says "it sure can't hurt". If all we are is patterns in the information that is reality, then there are certainly far stranger possibilities than this one to consider.


POSITIVE VIBES
words and music (c) by Rob Bryanton (SOCAN)

Positive vibes, I will be sending
Positive vibes your way
Sure can’t hurt, and it just might help
To send you positive vibes - every day

And isn’t it a mystery
How it all goes together
Looking back through history
Have you ever wondered whether
When a country falls
Or somebody succeeds
What was causin it all
Was it just their deeds?
Or was there something more in behind?

Positive vibes, I will be sending
Positive vibes your way
Sure can’t hurt, and it just might help
To send you positive vibes - every day

Not tryin to get all mystical
But I’ve always had a suspicion
That there’s more than just the physical
Hidden in the composition
Of the things we do
What we think and feel
I believe it’s true
I believe it’s real
That we can help to make things all right

With positive vibes, I will be sending
Positive vibes your way
Sure can’t hurt, and it just might help
To send you positive vibes - every day

There are things that we can never know
There are places we can never go
There are things we have to just believe
And this is what works for me:

Positive vibes, I will be sending
Positive vibes your way
Sure can’t hurt, and it just might help
To send you positive vibes - every day


Here are some other blog entries about the ideas behind this song:
Vibrations and Energy
Waveform in the Ten Dimensions
Living in the Fifth Dimension
Gravity and Light
What Do You Want to Change?
Constructive Interference

Next song: 20 of 26 - Hang a Left at the Lights