THE MEANING OF LIGHT IN THE UFO EXPERIENCE
“I saw the Light, Praise the Lord, I saw the Light!” Hank Williams --1948
Note: The following material is submitted from a chapter in my UFO book. It examines some of the esoteric origins of the meaning of light and its relationship to the UFO encounter. Elements of my examination draw from mythological interpretation of light and the UFO archetype and are based, in part, on the studies of the metaphysical studies of C.G. Jung.
Oneness University - 1.5 Million People Attending This Week
The Oneness Deeksha Blessing was one of those things I heard about. I have a rule that if something comes up in my reality from 3 or more sources that I cannot relate, consciousness is trying to tell me something. I then turn some attention to it. I had this experience with the Oneness Blessing in July, 2007. I have since found this to be evolutionary for me and for many others.
"I want to know God's thoughts ... the rest are details."
Well we all know who said that ... Einstein himself. Now although I have never read any in depth book on the man, it seems readily apparent that what Einstein must have been musing over - some time prior to spitting that comment off the tip of his tongue - must have been his recognition that the thoughts of God are in fact .... The Meta Mind of the Universe ... His Unified Field never declared.
Forgiving Deceitful People
In the teleseminar “What is Consciousness Anyway?”, Dr. Hawkins said we need to become more loving to be able to move up to level 500. Then there was discussion about how can one be loving and develop in consciousness, while being stressed by deceitful people. A particular political figure was mentioned.
I think the answer is in forgiveness. Not forgiveness in the sense of someone has done something wrong and should be punished, and I forgive him for his wrong action (and aren't I wonderful?). There's a deeper level of forgiveness. If we can accept that all people have a
HEALTHY, LASTING RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH TANTRA
In the book TANTRA, The Way of Acceptance, Osho informs us:
“This is the Tantra message: don’t live a repressed life, otherwise you live not at all. Live a life of expression, creativity, joy. Live the way existence wanted you to live; live the natural way.”
New to the blog
I have never blogged before. Not sure I have that much to share. At this time in my life I find myself in the middle of a transition. One that will hopefully lead me on an interesting journey. I am not working right now. It seems that the stress of my former job has finally brought me to a stop. I can no longer do the job and be "OK". So I am concentrating on persuing my interest in Reiki and becoming a Reiki Master. I just aquired my Reiki III on Labor Day weekend.
God Answered: Ho O Pono Pono
In my “Full Circle” blog, I asked, “God, what are you teaching me now?” God answered.
First, I received an email comment from a friend, Christine Riley. She suggested I say “Ho O Pono Pono” because it cleanses the soul and helps reconnect to my inner child. She said the words mean, “I’m sorry, please forgive me, and I love you.”
Bringing Chakra Awareness into Daily Consciousness
At the November 11 Chrysalis Wisdom Council, I met with Rachel Besserman over the phone because her computer is currently in the shop. Earlier, Jeff DeCelles and I did our Wisdom Council by Webcam, but he still is having hardware problems, and he wanted to sit this one out to let Rachel experience the process.
Common Ground
Rachel and I quickly came to an agreement that bringing chakra awareness into daily consciousness would be a juicy topic to explore with this Wisdom Council. We have each found that the activities and concerns of daily life sometimes leave us too distracted for regular chakra practice. However, incorporating chakra awareness into daily life is even more important than regular chakra practice—and thus, although it’s more of a challenge, the rewards of succeeding are also greater.
Values, Lifestyle and Community Glue
My last entry raises a couple of questions. Why is it that the quality of life in the Findhorn Community is high even though the economic standard of living is relatively low? And why is it that money and the things it can buy are less important here than in mainstream society? Please forgive me if I leave you to google for further information - it takes too long to enter all the links in HTML, and experience shows that the Shift in Action site will not link to exact pages. I also can't find a way to insert photos. For a fully linked and illustrated version go to my Gaia blog
God: Great Imperceptible 'Ink Blot'?
Hi Nahu,
Thank you for your stimulating blog Left/Right Brain Contributions to Our Knowledge of Spirit. I found my response was going to be too long as a comment attached to your blog so here I am with another. Your definitional information checks pretty much with what I learned in my Koine Greek classes in theological school where I received a good 12th century education. My professors completely dismissed the meaning of the word 'God' as 'speculation' when they proclaimed that their God was no longer a being to speculate about but masculine, obsessed with bloody sacrifice, and generally the real deal (absolute). (For more on that see my blog Why I Transcended Christianity http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/3679)
Trusting Our Inner Wisdom
Caroline Myss makes it crystal clear just how important our seemingly little unconscious or semi-conscious decisions each day can be - and how much they reveal about whether we are still in "tribal consciousness" giving away our energy to the group as we shy away from following our own inner wisdom out of fear of what our spouse or coworker or neighbor will think - or- on the other hand, whether we are comfortable and familiar enough with ourselves to trust our inner wisdom and understand that those who disapprove are saying in the only way they know how that they love us and fear they are losing us. In that case, we can feel compassion for the very people that we might have feared before we truly came to know and trust ourselves.
Maria's Pilgrimage to the Peruvian Amazon: 2nd Blog
SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 2008
THE PURGE
Before doing the Ayahuasca medicine, we were required to cleanse ourselves from the dense energies of our daily lives. This entailed using a tea of Amazonian tobacco to induce vomiting. The vomiting creates an opening to the flow of energy within our body's core. When a person resists vomiting or isn't able to vomit, this signals the healers that they have a powerful psycho-somatic or mental block in their chakras around solar plexus, heart and throat.
Challenges in Integral Noetic Communications
I don't know about you but in my integral (sensory and parasensory) communications exchanges with carnate and discarnate entities -- both individuals and groups -- I have experienced as many as six kinds of messages, many of them metaphoric therefore usually ambiguous and often subject to misunderstanding. These messages may include:
Declaration of Interdependence
When contemplating this week’s column, my thoughts turned to the idea of creating a Declaration of Interdependence, which would be designed to encourage a more mature expression of the American impulse.
Psi Trainer 2.0 - An intriguing tool for the CyberMage on your list
Some of this community are likely to be familiar with the Global Consciousness Project, and our beloved Dean Radin's related work using electronic devices called "random number generators" or REG's, as means to get direct mind-to-matter interaction documented.
Honoring the Sacred Core of Islam
Americans have a singular challenge in relating to Islam, a challenge that long predates 9/11 and Al Queda. People across the political spectrum assume that Islam is more likely to goad its followers into religious violence than other religions. Others, who are more cautious, differentiate radical extremism from the peace-loving core. The more reactive factions in the West go so far as to make slurs about the religion as a whole and assume the only solution is war. Across the full spectrum of politics, there is an uneasy feeling that the modern West and Islam are like oil and water. Healing this split may be the single most essential act in creating a true global community.
The One Single Universal Question ... & Carl Jung's Wierd Mind
The One Single Universal Question --- that has been controlling my mind!
Something very strange is going on.
Four days ago it was my birthday. Four days ago was Friday. Four days ago a book was dropped off by the postman at my friend, Dr. Cramer’s office. That was all the same day. My friend opened it … looked it over for a few minutes and thought “Now this is something Larry would like to see.”
Leary's Eight-Circuit Model
Throughout my metaphysical career I have been a great connoisseur of systems of analysis, and after having taken up and set down a great many of them, the one that I find myself returning to most frequently is Timothy Leary's eight-circuit model.
C G Jung - "The Dioscuri"
I received an email recently from Dr. Arthur Funkhouser of Berne in Switzerland. Art forwarded me an email that had been sent to him by a friend from Australia. Art wished to let me know the similarities between my theory of the Daemon-Eidolon Dyad and those of the great psycho-analyst Carl Gustav Jung. Jung uses the term Dioscuri. I have been long aware of Jung's writings but it was new to me exactly how similar to mine they are. Here an extended quote from his book "Concerning Rebirth" -
Shakuhachi Room
What a wonderful idea. Thank you.
True Love
We have all experienced love of some sort -- platonic love, romantic love, agape love, puppy love, sexual love, parental love, “tough” love -- but how do we know when it’s true love and not just a form of manipulation? In his book, Secrets of the Heart, Khalil Gibran suggests one possible test for real love. He tells about a priest who was walking along a road when he discovered a man lying in a ditch -- bruised, bloody, and nearly unconscious. The priest asked, "Who are you?” The man whispered through his pain, “I am Satan.” The priest recoiled, saying, “Oh, I cannot help you,” and began to move away.
Reconciliation and Forgiveness
Christmas is an appropriate time to ponder the power of reconciliation and forgiveness. Often personal trauma haunts us until we find a place of healing and forgiveness. And often the trauma of war reaches down the generations and centuries, only to explode again when the time is ripe. The only way out is collective healing. Several years ago, in 1999, the Findhorn Foundation hosted an unforgettable conference on Forgiveness. Today, I’d like to share a few of the stories that still stay with me to illustrate the power of this approach.
Earth2100.TV
Probably all ShiftInActionites will be interested and happy to know what ABC-TV is doing to help facilitate 'The Shift'. Prefaced with, "To change our future, first we must imagine it," ABC announced an unprecedented television and internet event. It is asking us to help answer what we know is probably the most important question of our time — What will our world be like over the next one hundred years if we don’t act now to save our troubled planet?
IS CHANGE ALWAYS GOOD?
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin, "The Origin of Species"
In terms of imperative our environment is God and in a chaos of change, slams the emergent organism with a blizzard of demands. It is only the most highly mutable genome that can adapt and survive its bombardment.
Primary Health for All
In a 2006 SIA blog titled "My One Shift? Mutual Integral Health Consciousness World-Wide," I proposed that world health -- individual mind-body, social and ecosystem health -- is prerequisite to realizing world peace and laid out a rationale supporting my position. But I did not enunciate a plan for bringing about world health. As if to fill the void in my blog, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University Jeffrey D. Sachs has outlined ten resolutions in Scientific American magazine which if put into action could globally ensure this basic human right at almost unnoticeable cost. Following is a digest of his article. What are your feelings and thoughts about his approach?
Gay and Lesbian
In recent times the question of Gay and Lesbian has become a topic of big controversy. I would like to give you with this essay some different angels to look at this. Lets first look at it from a physical point of view. I think most of us will agree that having some thing put up your anus is not what it was designed for. And I suppose this is the biggest argument form a physical point of view. What we must also remember is that using your hands or mouth (or any other part) for sexual gratification is also not what it was made for. But nobody makes a big fuss about that. So physically we should only have sex to have a baby and that’s it.
Dawn Patrol
“Every saint has a past
and every sinner has a future”
Oscar Wilde
It’s Sunday and despite consuming a little more red wine than I originally intended the previous evening I am awake before the 5 am alarm. I must be a little dehydrated because my tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth which feels like the bottom of a cockatoo’s cage. I meander my way to the kitchen for a large, cold water.
Preaching to the Choir
Over the weekend I received a forwarded email from a family member, created apparently, to generate fear. During the next few months as we get closer to the American Presidential election, I'm sure we will hear nasty things about both candidates and I'm equally sure that both candidates possess unique merits and will do the best job they can, if elected.
On the fence?
A short parable came to my mind today:
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"A lion was captured and placed in a large yard surrounded by a high fence. He soon became acquainted with the social life of the other lions who had been there a long time. The lions had divided themselves into several clubs, each with its own activities. One group met regularly to hate and slander the captors. Another group met to sing sentimentally about a future jungle having no fences. And a third group met to secretly plot violence against the other groups.
Forgiveness is a refreshing beverage
A continuation of my first blog…
Although my alcoholic-father's overt Catholic influence was the socially appropriate view of my community, there was another energetic influence of power/force which fueled my "sacred contract-quest” through my mother, a psychic/astrologer. Unfortunately, this influence was much less credible within our home- NOT -for all the reasons one might guess: ‘she was a woman’, ‘she was woo-woo’, ‘her ideology was not logical’….yada, yada, yada. None of these mattered in my home….even with my father. What usurped my mother’s credibility with me and the others in my family was my mother’s unwillingness to seek/ask for help; she had been sexually abused by her maternal grandfather, became pregnant, and had an abortion at the age of 12—the year was 1945. Thus, in spite of her brilliance, powerful connection with the good of the universe, and loving heart, amazing teacher, genius at her psychic craft/art, ….and fascinating human being-- her unwillingness to seek psychotherapeutic clinical care due to her pride, eroded my respect for her.
So Many People Have Come to the Oneness University This Week
I posted a copy of an email I received from Michael Milner. He is in India at the opening and consecration of the Oneness University. Most of us in the West have either not heard of this or have only heard of it in passing. First, some information on Michael as I am adding an email I just received from him and it would help if there was a little information on who he is and what he is about. I know Michael and he and his wife Suzanne are extraordinary people.
Catherine Austin Fitts
Friends, family, and I have lately been appreciating the work of Catherine Austin Fitts. She did a Shift in Action teleseminar back in January of 2006 [here] and is continuing to put out material which is increasingly valuable as our national economic situation deteriorates.
Eagle's egg - We are better than we know
Hi to all!
I found this nice story and I like to share it with you:
A man found an eagle's egg and put it in a nest of a barnyard hen. The eaglet hatched with the brood of chicks and grew up with them.
Shift Is Happening
You know that bumper sticker that states: “Shift Happens?. It should read “Shift Is Happening?. Folks way smarter and in-tuned than me are reporting that a major dimensional shift--the kind of tumultuous and transformational shift that has been predicted for millennia—is well underway and that it’s time to strap in and choose which ride you want to take. The ride to Hell in a hand basket or the Big Game of accessing the intelligence necessary to change ourselves and our culture in time meet the specifications of the very near future. What does your heart desire.
Exploring the Evolution of Consciousness, Conscious Evolution and the Mayans
In my explorations of consciousness, the Mayan Calendar would keep coming up. It has been accepted that the Mayans had an amazing understanding of astronomy and the movement of the stars and planets. They were very mathematical. Ok, lot's of ancient people's had abilities and skills, which have been lost over time. The Mayans as many ancient people lived far closer to nature than we do today. They did not go from their air-conditioned house to their air-conditioned car to their air-conditioned office. They saw the land, the plants, the animals and the sky. What consciousness would we have if we lived in nature?
Calibration method would need to be clarified for me.
Dr. Hawkins offers many spiritually enlightened concepts and truly opens the mind to many possibilities and concepts.
For me though, his method of discerning truth needs to be established further. Many people should be able to achieve similar values for a specific question if the calibration system offered pure truth; however, it seems that ego cannot be parted from this system no matter how hard you try.
Cosmic Cycles, Astrology, Oneness & Healthful Freedom
Thank you, Lori, for your energetic and interesting interpretation of what you see as "The Modern View of Astrology and the Devaluation of Ancient Wisdom." Back in the 60s I was one of those intrigued by ancient astrology and immersed myself in its study. One of the first things I discovered was at one time astrologers believed in a ten house Zodiac. Later, a twelve house Zodiac, and most recently, a fourteen house Zodiac (the newly discovered thirteenth and fourteenth houses being Ophicus the serpent handler and Cetus the whale). Under the twelve house Zodiac I was typed a Scorpio and under the fourteenth a Libra. I found that change significantly bolixed up my identification, creating brain cramps galore. Which was I, Scorpio or Libra? There was no objective criterion for clearly making the distinction.
What are you most grateful about in your life?
Being Me .... it's taken many years to appreciate that being me is the thing I'm most grateful for in my life.
Nassim Haramein recommendation
I confess to a certain degree of skepticism about the claims that abound in the realm of "the new physics," which invariably take data from one level of reality and extrapolate to all levels.
Because quantum physicists have supplanted high priests in our culture, this intellectual sleight of hand is often overlooked and even celebrated.
Report on Seattle's Awaken the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium 12/09/06
On December 9, 2006, IONS NW hosted an event called Awaken the Dreamer: Changing the Dream Symposium, produced by The Pachamama Alliance, sponsored by several Northwest organizations (listed below).
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The all day Awaken the Dreamer Symposium is a powerful multi-media event which invites community exploration of the questions: Where on Earth are we going? And what can we do about it? The information imparted is shocking, inspiring, and evocative, moving people to action on behalf of Changing the Dream of the North, an imperative call to environmental and social justice action.
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The 12/09 Seattle meeting of networks of networks was an historic phenomenon! Several groups in the region converged at Evergreen Elementary School which donated the use of its theater. 150 people came at the busiest time of year to rally on behalf of environmental sustainabilty, social justice, and spiritual fulfillment. Long time activists, youth change groups, educators, ministers, politicians, and change agents of all kinds convened with their wisdom and interest in the program.
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A creative and hard working volunteer crew transformed the Evergreen Elementary school theater for an ambiance of community building. They served a complimentary lunch free of disposable products and completely organic. There was a great feeling of community and much sharing, including some public announcements of current regional projects already in the works. In all people were deeply moved with this amazing event. Some people wept and some were angry. Most were inspired to gratefulness for an opportunity to participate in the event. Some participants signed a networking list created which is featured below.
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Although, there are several hundred facilitators trained to give the Symposium around the world, a new model of collaboration was fielded through the facilitation of this particular event with Pachamama's ATD Program Director Jon Love together with Mark Dubois. With the convening of several diverse Northwest organizations, the event was unprecedented. And it began a regional presence for the The Pachamama Alliance.
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Over 40 people indicated that they wanted to be trained as facilitators. So a follow up will actually take place with an upcoming Seattle facilitator training, March 15 (6 PM) to March 18 (5 PM), 2007 and an additional Practicum set for April 21 and 22, 2007 where participants will work with media and tools hands on. The Heritage Institute will host this first regional training.
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Several participants clustered together by city and region to continue meeting for various emergent projects based on group interest. These special focus groups agreed to meet in their local neighborhoods (across the bio-region), designating a point person to convene regular meetings focusing on special interests, conversations, and collaborative projects. Thus, several local and regional focus groups were seeded. IONS NW was asked to collate and post that information through Susan Burns at sburns@ionsnw.org.
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Many educators in the room from Education networks expressed interest in adapting the program for youth. With a newly gathered crew of educator interest, the Symposium is now being modified for schools. Evergreen Elementary has scheduled the first Symposium for teachers and students. In addition, the local facilitator trainings will lead to some teacher trainings in the region with CEU's offered for teachers by The Heritage Institute.
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The event was a great kick start for a growing Pachamama presence for the bioregeion. Several participants expressed interest in becoming part of future program development. Some met the following day to see how to bring the message to other organizations. A new model for regional training has emerged with the adaptation for regional training, educator, as well as parent and student training.
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The Seattle team of volunteers who helped make the event amazing expressed interest in supporting future Northwest Symposium, trainings, and program development. These were Mark Dubois, Susan Burns, Melissa Drakeford, Sarah Keenan, Fred Lanphear, Donna Manders, Karilen Mays, John F Reed, and Mike Schut.
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Collaborating organizations were
The Modern View of Astrology & the Devaluation of Ancient Wisdom
In due course of Time, our modern views of astrology will be recognized as comically dim-witted. There is the view of the majority of scientists and other ‘objective’ intellectuals who criticize astrology as superstition and fantasy; and there is view of certain religions that astrology is somehow evil and a perversion of Divine will. There is also the view of many yogis and ‘progressive’, ‘post-modern’ and ‘integral’ thinkers who cannot, for the life of them, imagine that astrology has anything to do with anything in terms of developing a more integral awareness of our lives on planet Earth. And, of course, there is the view of many more ‘progressive’ and ‘new age’ thinkers, the view that astrology is a valid system by which to understand an individual’s life patterns, destiny and interrelations.
LSD chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann dies at 102
Albert Hofmann, 11 January 1906 – 29 April 2008
The following is an obituary by my friends Dieter A. Hagenbach and Lucius Wertmüller
At the age of 102 years, Albert Hofmann died peacefully last Tuesday morning, 29th April, in his home near Basel, Switzerland. Still last weekend we talked to him, and he expressed his great joy about the blooming plants and the fresh green of the meadows and trees around his house. His vitality and his open mind conducted him until his last breath.
Being Congruent About My Multiple Sclerosis
I can’t really say that I feel blessed that I have multiple sclerosis. But even though I saw my mother quickly progress from diagnosis to wheelchair and eventually die from MS-related complications, my illness causes me far less anxiety than you might expect.
On occasion, I have been able to say to others—and mean it—that my illness has been a truly great teacher. I’ve never been able to stay in that grateful place for a very long time, but I have been there. When I’ve been there, I was close to praising the illness for its existence. I just wish that I could congruently stay in this grateful state for longer periods of time.
Will I ever be able to develop a congruent position in which I truly cherish my disease completely? Perhaps—if I can accomplish everything that I describe in this blog. Or perhaps I can truly cherish the path itself for what it is, no matter what I’m personally able to accomplish in my own heart.
We’ll see.
Nivikalpa Samadhi
I am really pleased to find that my lectures attract a very broad spectrum of people from many traditions. This really adds to the cross-fertilisation of ideas when we have our open sessions at the end. It is interesting that Buddhists and Yoga teachers seem to be particularly interested in the implications of my theory. In a recent talk I did in the beautiful town of Totnes in Devon for example there were two ladies who followed the Thai Forest Tradition (Wat Nong Pah Pong - วัดหนองป่าพง) who engaged me in two separate, and fascinating, conversations. After meeting the Buddhist monk Ekkagato Bhikkhu at the Forest Hermitage near Warwick last summer I have been following up some themes that he suggested to me that hot, and very enlightening, afternoon
NDE?!
I was sharing a house with two other single men around my own age (27 at the time)and was in excellent health. I had decided to have an early night and went to bed. Prior to going to sleep I was reading Ouspensky's "New Model of the Universe" (the chapter on the 4th dimension). I was alone in my room apart from my German Shepherd dog which slept at the foot of my bed. I hadn't been asleep very long when I was awakened by a chill running up and down my spine. It was extremely cold and felt as if I was being blasted with liquid nitrogen or similar. I had the feeling that there was a "presence" in the room and I was terrified. I lay flat on my back, not daring to move and listening to the dog breathing in her sleep at the foot of the bed. I could not bring myself to look around the room but remember sensing the presence of 2 nuns in traditional black habits.
Seeing I to I
This week I have been watching the DVD I received and reading some in the books I ordered on the brain and neuroplasticity. The idea of the brain changing is not new to me. I was exploring this in the 1980's when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. At that time I did not think the brain could not change, I just accepted it could and does.
Jean Houston Essential Shifts
During the Essential Shifts Luncheon teleseminar today we heard the Jean Houston and James O'Dea interview and I was so moved by many of the things they brought up. Is anyone else particularly interested in Jean Houston?
How to Meditate
For me meditation is like taking a rocket in to space. Where the different parts of the rocket relate to the different aspects of a human. So first of all there is the hull of the space rocket. This represents your body. The hull of the rocket needs to be air tight and strong enough to protect the rocket in open space. So to your body needs to be healthy and relaxed while meditating. There is lots of different positions but that is not so important, as long as you are comfortable and no noise to disturb you. Next there is the engine of the rocket. This gives the rocket the power to break earth gravity and travel through space. This relates to your will power. The stronger your will power the further you can travel. Next is the fuel of the rocket. The more fuel the further it can travel. The better quality fuel the better the performance. This relates to your emotions. This is the most important. What emotion do you choose ? Are you able to generate this emotion ? This also relate to the quality of your meditation and region in the spiritual world that you will visit. I use music to help me generate emotions. Next you get the pilot of the space rocket. This relates to your mind. Your mind directs the direction and destination of your journey, just like a pilot. In your mind you visualize the picture of your destination. This picture can change as you go along. There is also the navigation book. This is your imagination. The bigger your imagination the more places you can go to in the spiritual world.
Implicit Memory Scripting: Noetic Intervention in Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Just five weeks away from graduating with honors from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. degree in judicial studies, Bill was riding his bicycle one night when he and a pickup truck collided. Bill incurred a right hemisphere brain contusion and was comatose for 68 days. After long months of physical therapy he became mostly ambulatory, and despite best available medication averaged two to five seizures per month.
ARE OUR GENES GOD?
Are we, as Richard Dawkins suggests, sacrifices to our genes, or do we have a choice in the matter?
The question that arises is how far do we take the sacrificial equation? For instance Dawkins portrays us as:
Being in Love or Love Being in Me
The topic for February is Love. We even have a day for celebrating our love or at least our relationship love, Valentine's Day. Being in love is usually associated with being in love with another person.
EGO AND PERSPECTIVE
There is much talk about the term "ego" which is generally meant to describe one's ID, that is, the label we attach to self versus non-self, or concensus and non-concensus reality. Thus, that which we identify with, we tend to think of as SELF and of course, everything else would naturally fall into the the category of 'not self.'
The path to enlightenment?
Last year a Buddhist monk travelled from Australia to meet me.
In a letter to me explained that he had found a copy of a paper I had published in the Journal of Near-Death Studies lying on the floor of a hut in his monastery in Western Australia (The Bodhinyana Monastery in Serpentine, WA). He knew as soon as he picked it up that it was of great importance. As with many Buddhist monks Ekaggata is a very well read individual with a great interest in particle physics and neurology. However he was particularly fascinated by my Daemon-Eidolon Dyad and my new approach to the concept of The Eternal Return (Reccurance). (for those interested a free copy of this paper is available for download from the 'Contact' page of my website -
Transforming Philanthropy with a New World Map
Giving Philanthropists the Power to See the World They Want to Create
The Problem: We live in a world which is literally awash in data and information that has swamped our systems of representing and understanding it, precisely at a moment in Human history when we most need to understand this information. The World Wide Web is a vast and remarkable resource, but viewing web pages a page at a time through a web browser fails to satisfy our need to get the “big picture” and takes waaaaaay too long to grok the fullness.
Know Your Integral Anima-Animus Profile?
In most monotheistic belief systems -- including organized religions -- believers see themselves as reflections of their deity. That's one reason their particular form of 'God' is very often described as being an anthropomorphized male or female. Many mystics, those who experience direct union with our timeless Source, have seen beyond the two poles to something more transcendant. They look beyond the either/or poles of gender and see a 'transparent oneness' or 'timeless coitus of equally important but complementary opposites' that transcends male and female. Some have envisaged this ultimate union as the psychospiritual 'divine androgyny'. In this post I provide a self-profiling process for experiencing the intrapersonal erotic union of feminine and masculine intelligences and for continuing cocreative conceiving and birthing of creative ideas, concepts and forms.
If a shift happened, would we know?
If there were a great shift, would we know? Maybe, we would be and maybe we are, already different. Much of what we believe we know and are taught is not even true; it is mythology of the time. This can setoff intense cognitive dissonance. So, if some information that challenges our normal view comes up and sets off cognitive dissonance, how could we handle a great shift? Maybe, our minds would need to check out for moment and simply wake up to a new world. Maybe we would come to feel the world was always this way and our memories would adjust to make it so, just as history is constantly rewritten.
Shift Magzine #15 article "The Eco Trauma and Recovery of Being"
This article for me changed the way I am viewing who I really am, without before ever having an adequate way of expressing it in a relationship way to how I and I am sure many others have been living our lives… “My-Our living” in an “Eco Trauma of Being” resonated in every fiber of my existence…
Transforming the Atlantic Hurricane Season - Introduction
SUMMARY: Living on the Louisiana coast for over 3 decades, I have learned valuable lessons on how our thoughts, prayers and intentions can affect water and the weather. Being impacted by Hurricanes Lili, Katrina and Rita in the past 5 years has steepened my learning curve, connected me to a rich set of new friends and new ideas, including many assocoated with IONS, and given me the bold idea that our intentions can significantly alter the Atlantic hurricane season.
We are smart enough to know that the best efforts of those of us currently working together will still be insufficient to master such a daunting task. Before we proceed much further, then, we would like to engage the efforts of other interested parties who might be able to assist or work together with us in some way. To this end, I am submitting below the first of a number of blog entries that will outline things we have learned and questions we have. We would appreciate your careful consideration.
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I moved to Louisiana in 1972, to a small town, Abbeville (pop. 15,000), that is located about 20 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. With the exception of a 2-1/2 year stay in South India, I have been here ever since, so I have been able to sink deeper roots here than I have anywhere else I have lived.
THE TWO WAY STREET OF CREATOR AND CREATED
On the autopoetics relationship between the Whole and its Parts. This blog is based in part on the following:
"In Maturana’s viewpoint, the term "autopoiesis" expresses what he called "the center of the constitutive dynamics of living systems". To live this dynamics in an autonomous way, living systems need to obtain resources from the environment in which they live. In other words, they are simultaneously autonomic and dependent systems. So, this condition is clearly a paradox. This self-contradictory condition cannot be adequately understood by linear thinking, according to which everything must be reduced to the binary model yes/no, or/or. When dealing with living beings, things, and events, linear thinking begins by dividing them. The next step is the analysis of the separate parts. No attempts are made to look for the dynamic relationships that exists between them." (See below:)
Putting Things Into Perspective
I was clearing out some old files tonight and found this piece that somebody, somewhere along the line had sent me. I kept it because I liked it then promptly forgot about it - until tonight. It's anonymous but the author is likely a woman; a woman who has been driven to the edge and decided to "Shift" rather than implode. Obviously this shift is on a deeply personal level but the mechanics and underlying framework which support it can be applied to the broader spectrum. It seems more than a cry in the night and its passion is what touches me most. I hope you take benefit from it.
Maria's Pilgrimage to the Peruvian Amazon: 3rd Blog
TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2008
THE SECOND CEREMONY
Much to my surprise, the second ceremony with Madre Ayahuasca was very different from the first. For one, it was four times as strong. We realized later that the strength of the journey has less to do with how much you drink and more to do with the shaman leading the ceremony.
A programme that teaches Mindful Living
The ACM Living Awareness programme offers to integrate educational, diagnostic, wellness and contemplative practices to take learners on a journey beyond traditional views and practically open up their awareness to an interconnected reality.
Boston Harbor Islands
Oooh I am excited to explore these islands . just hours away from my doorstep.
We booked a campsite . . and an ocean view!
support your local nature beauty at www.reserveamerica.org
let's pour our travel tax dollars into our own communities.
In Search of Ignorance
IN SEARCH OF IGNORANCE
Cultivating a Beginner’s Mind
H B Gelatt
“Genuine ignorance is profitable because it leads to
humility, curiosity and open-mindedness.” John Dewey
A lot of people are working on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Not many people are even discussing Genuine Ignorance (GI). I believe ignorance has been getting a bad rap. Perhaps that is because in our culture we believe that intelligence is a good thing to have, even if it’s artificial, and ignorance is a bad thing to have, even if it’s genuine. But if we could promote genuine ignorance as being profitable, it might catch on. In America, being profitable is probably more popular than being intelligent.
My Most Transformative Group Experiences
Laying aside the somewhat incoherent Dionysian events of my adolescence in the 70's, the most impactful experiences I've had in group settings center on a practice of collective toning, synergized by Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync offering titled "Resonant Tuning", which became our term for the practice. The Hemi-Sync products are based on auditory driving of the neurologic system to induce increased connectivity between brain hemispheres at specific brainwave frequency ranges.
Knowing within the Body
Current discussions and explorations of consciousness focus around the mind or the mental process. It is my view that this approach is self limiting. In the following I will attempt to express my view via words. I invite the reader to engage both thought and feeling as they read the words I have written.
America's Trajectory
Suddenly, George W. Bush looks and sounds a lot like F.D.R. Apparently the Federal government is going to spend $200 billion to remake New Orleans, and prevent anything like what happened in the aftermath of Katrina from recurring there, or anywhere else in the nation. From here on out, when local governments appear on the verge of being outclassed by a combination of circumstances and incompetence, the Federal machinery, probably spearheaded by the military, will descend with overwhelming capability and turn mere confusion into an orderly and humanitarian response. And it seems clear, after seeing what happened to New Orleans, that no rational person would want it any other way.
A Scattering of Doves
Coming upon sunset, folks; Mountain Daylight Time - olde Chicago tune playing on XM Satellite radio "My Hour in the Shower" - hmmmmm, back in '68 there mighta been a feelin' like a true need for an hour long shower. Forty years? Right now it is right next door, along with copious proclaimin', big and strong, delivered from atop a standing stone. A young quail, we call him Dan.
My sweetheart's in the shower, as we speak, and I am watching the long shadows upon the desert floor.
Determining What Matters and What is Important
I don't how what each of us writes comes to each of us. For me, it is as if I am in my car and I begin to feel it shaking. This is the shaking and booming that happens when a person with an enormous sub woofer in their car pulls alongside. There is no escape. The low frequency vibrations permeate everything. My car shakes. I shake and my attention is pulled into this whether I like it or not.
My Ten Commitments (alternative to the 10 commandments)
In the interest of full disclosure of my intentions, my commitments are . . .
1. TO BE HUMBLE IN THE PRESENCE of the transcendent and inherent Mystery and wonder in nature. To consider humility a virtue as I experience the awesome mystery and wonder that abounds in the physical universe. Seek and enjoy experiences of timeless mystery and wonder that transcend, yet permeate, the physical universe.
When Mockingbirds Dance
"The sleeping hours takes this part
Through traffic, telephones and fear
Put out your problems with the cat
Escape until a bell you hear
Our reasons are the same
But there's no one we can blame
For there's nowhere we need go
And the only truth we know comes so easily"
~ the Moody Blues
My gainful employment is showing, in the way I view things, at times. 'The displaying of wares' precedes what I do, which is: facilitate the transference of wares from merchant to consumer. Smiles come from Jeffrey de Celles' calloused wrench-wringing hands - thanks, man - as I consider software, hardware, wetware, and things of that nature. Yeah, my hands ache after a hard day's work, just as my psych ciruits are usually rattled from diligence - and the emotions? Shhhhh, don't ask!
Mission statement for 21st Century Ministries
Vision/Mission: To provide students with the insight, knowledge, skills necessary to consciously and deliberately create a vision of the future they desire and to make that vision manifest. Fundamental to this mission is the requirement that students be able to “Learn what they need to learn when they need to learn it.” In short, learning how to learn. The University of Metaphysics and University of Sedona are great starting places for those interested in an alternative education. You can learn more about the schools at my website: www.21stcenturyministries.com