“Living in Flow” with Sky Nelson-Isaacs

Fractal Friends

Sky Isaacs-Nelson is a musician, author and physics educator who is building a foundation for a scientific understanding of synchronicity in our modern world.

He recently wrote a book called Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World. In this book he skillfully navigates the landscape between new age philosophy and hard science. He is a great science educator who is able to translate complex concepts into accessible and easy to understand language.

And this conversation is a great example of how he is able to bring clarity to these concepts that are so full of paradox and mystery.

In this conversation, Sky and I talk about the distinction between making the world the way we want by force of intention, vs. making a clear intention and then letting the universe take care of the work. We discuss how the experiences in our life are a reflection of our choices. We explore the question about whether the universe is inherently friendly or unfriendly, whether it is uncaring or if it is responsive to our intentions. And given the nature of the content, we talk about the tricky dance between scientifically explaining the trippy world of quantum physics and making it personally relevant without slipping into new-age "woo" language.

Living in Flow

When we align with circumstance, circumstance aligns with us. In his book Sky explains how our choices create meaning, translating current and original ideas from theoretical physics and quantum mechanics into accessible, actionable steps that we can all take to live lives in better alignment with who we are and who we want to be.
Living in Flow helps us develop an informed relationship to meaning-making and purposefulness in our lives. From this we can align ourselves more effectively within our personal, professional, and community relationships to live more in flow. Get the book here.

Check out Sky's online course: Living in Flow

Other Resources:

Here are links for some of the things we discuss in the episode:

Crystallin Dillion, creator of the T Group which focuses on people showing up in our lives as the right people we need; in order to learn what we need to learn, and whatever they're doing is actually a reflection of what we're bringing to the conversation.

Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley is the bestselling guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. This book describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. =

The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts while viewing the earth from outer space.

Jason Silva is a modern day philosopher. Check out this video: ”The Fear of Being Fully Alive”

Here's an article to learn more about the many worlds theory of quantum physics.

The theologian that I talk about in this episode is Huston Smith. Here is an interview with Smith from To the Best of Our Knowledge.

Music

Stand for Me is Sky Nelson's newest album. It begins with the song “Real Human Being,” which we play at the end of this episode. This song came to Sky in a dream.

Download the full album here: https://skynelson.bandcamp.com/releases

Go to fractalfriends.us for more resources.