Event Temples, 6 Heart Virtues and Emotional Self Mastery
Greetings, I have discovered a free site that caused me to experience what I call "affirmation chills". I get them when I'm onto something important. It is www.EventTemples.com. I have received permission from the webmaster to post excerpts from the "Project Intro" that follows these comments. You will also find a free online e-paper called "Living From the Heart" and the Project Intro in its entirety.
Interview about the Hoffman Process, the Brain, and Healing
Here's an article called "Mysteries of the Brain, Mysteries of Healing
An Interview with Professor Bruce Price, M.D. Summer, 2005"
This was sent to me by a Member of IONS. I'd love to hear about other people's experience with the Hoffman process.
Interested in getting Jo Dunning as a guest speaker here.
I would love to see Jo Dunning here as a guest speaker. She is a wonderful speaker and offers energy work while she is being interviewed. She is a very powerful healer. Her greatest gift is to expand consciousness and accelerate spiritual growth for those who attend her events either in person or in a teleconference.
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 earthly 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?
What If Reincarnation Is Real?, by Paul Von Ward
WHAT IF REINCARNATION IS REAL?
by Paul Von Ward
The Latin-based word "reincarnation" and its antecedents in Greek, Sanskrit, Bantu, and many other languages have focused conversations in all cultures for millennia. But what do they really mean?
Reenchantment of the World 1995 version
Over ten years ago at Harvard's Divinity School I wrote a paper--"Reenchantment of the World". Al Gore was our Vice President and I had high hopes for change. I still do. I have attached this paper below since only myself and my professor ever read it and I'd like to share it further. It is somewhat dated but some of it seems timeless.
EventTemples -- the new website by the Wingmakers
I would like to share with you a new creation that I have found to be incredibly fascinating, insightful and beautiful. The unlimited possibilities that are waiting to unfold through this are highly positive and so revolutionary that it is safe to say that the ideas, energies, and actions proposed are new to this world and certainly to modern human cultures.
James, the principle creator of the WingMakers and Lyricus
materials and websites, has launched his next innovation for
the web:
EventTemples
http://www.eventtemples.com
2012, the Mayan Calendar and 'The Final Days'
Some thoughts on the 2012 ‘end time’ mania, its origins, its logic, [by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet] inspired by the article in the New York Times 1 July 2007 edition ‘The Final Days’ by Benjamin Anastas:
The Sacred Wound, by Margaret Wolff
Each of us has a sacred wound. It is what makes us both human and divine. It weaves its way into the warp and weft of our lives like an invisible thread that tugs at the twilight of our longing; it twists our unconscious into knots until, one day, it shapeshifts into an arrow that pierces our complacency and cannot be denied. If we embrace our sacred wound, if we make peace with it, it delivers us into the waiting arms of Spirit. From that moment on, we live with greater abandon and compassion, with renewed purpose and profound gratitude. No longer shackled by the fears that keep us inextricably bound, we are free to become who we always hoped we could be for we know now that when we lay ourselves and all that we hold dear at the feet of the Divine Compassion, we are made whole.
Response to "The Memory of Mind": Three Kinds of Memory Plus a Probable Fourth
Hi Lawrence ~
I started this post as a direct response to your Share but discovered I couldn't attach a couple of pertinent articles unless I made it an original Share in its own right. I have indulged in paraphrasing your questions some. In doing so, I hope I haven't changed your intended meaning. Based on my 'working hypotheses', the short answer to your questions is there is empirical evidence of three kinds of memory -- conscious, immortal, and divine plus a probable fourth called "universal memory". For the long answer, read on.
Yahoo Study Group of 'The Gnosic Circle' & Supramental Cosmology
An ongoing Yahoo group is being set up for students interested in approaching/studying the work of Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet. The group will be studying The Magical Carousel and The Gnostic Circle* in the context of the Supramental Yoga, the evolution of Consciousness, and the establishment of a Gnostic Civilization based on Knowledge of the Whole.
NEWEST Discussion Ideas for Community Groups -- As of October 29, 2008
If you want to skip the introduction and go to the latest discussion topic and discussion questions just scroll down to the section titled LIST OF ARTICLES.
INTRODUCTION
At least two or three meetings a month our IONS New Options Group in Amherst, MA discusses articles from various sources: Shift, Discovery, Ode, Science and Spirit, eSkeptic, Scientific American, What is Enlightenment?, Psychology Today, Quackwatch, the worldwideweb, et cetera. Typically I prepare six to eight open-ended process questions around which our semi-free-wheeling discussions are organized. This dynamic semi-structured process encourages discussants to interject their own questions and comments. When we conclude our meeting the feeling is 'we did it together . . . it was our meeting, not just the facilitator's. We have been using this process for over ten years and I attribute to it much of the excitement, sense of discussant ownership, enthusiasm, comraderie and steady attendance (average about 19 per meeting) characteristic of our group.
Still Quiet Place: Mindfulness for young children
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Scientific research and the general media tell us young children's lives are increasingly stressful. The guided practices on this unique CD invite and instruct children to breathe, pay attention to their inner world, and discover a natural place of peace inside of themselves. Over time children learn that the Still Quiet Place is a reliable source of comfort and wisdom in their complex lives. The playful practices on this CD make the proven benefits of Mindfulness accessible to children ages three years and older. Mindfulness is simply bringing your attention into the present moment. |
For more than two decades, scientific research has documented the physical, mental, and emotional benefits of practicing Mindfulness. The adult market is saturated with best-selling books and CDs. However, there are only a few books for parents and teachers interested in teaching Mindfulness to children. Currently there do not appear to be any other resources which make the stress-reducing practices of Mindfulness directly accessible to children.
Ahhh, Sweet Mystery of Meaning
Hi Lawrence, again you've sent up some great questions from the bottom of the Grand Canyon. You may well feel you have discoursed with me enough but I just couldn't resist taking a crack at responding. I have repeated your questions with my responses following each, respectively.
How I define myself and my beliefs
I am not sure I know how to post a comment to a previous theme but here goes.
Re: How I define myself and my beliefs
By: John K Arnold 2 - 23 - 07
Henry David Thoreau has often been quoted as saying ..."I think not so much the farmer owns the cows as the cows own the farmer."
James O’Dea interview with Allan Hunkin
James O'Dea and Allan Hunkin discuss the new book "The Untehered Soul" on Allan's podcast series, The Written Voices.
Listen now (rightclick to download), or go to podcast page.
Donor Spotlight: David Ritchey - Sensitivity and the Transpersonal Experience
"I have always been fascinated by the question 'what is "really" real,'" says IONS member David Ritchey, whose initial connection to IONS was in his support of the 1987 IONS conference, “The Greater Self: New Frontiers in Exceptional Abilities.” This fascination is revealed consistently in his life from his interest in the subjective reality of strong emotional experiences, to his illusion-making through his avocation as a magician, to his manipulation of reality using digital photography, to his work as a clinical hypnotherapist.
Seven Steps to Integral Organization Transformation
In this article I recount the noetic-based process I used in facilitating a five-year transformational company-wide endeavor from scratch. The project ended only because the critical mass of this still transforming medium-sized Fortune 500 company became so attractive financially and qualitatively it was wooed and ultimately purchased by another. The article includes a description of the seven steps (including pitfalls) plus five maps of consciousness, one of which presents "40+ Options for Empathetically Responding to Conflict."
The Science of Peace
The Science of Peace a Mind-expanding series of evocative one hour documentary programs viewed from Experiencing Noetic Consciousness -- The day science begins to study nonphysical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. —Nikola Tesla—
Are you preparing for Shift into the 5th Dimension?
It is my understanding that the Earth is almost ready to shift back into a 5th Dimensional Vibration and if I have extracted the information I’ve received correctly then a Polar-Shift will happen at the same time and this all might very well be in 2012 as many believe. The Polar-Shift I see happening is from a Magnetic North back to a True North, maybe not a major shift that would turn the earth upside-down but one that I’m sure will be felt.
Awake while asleep
Hello,
I was very excited yesterday when I received the Shift Magazine about death. It is a very interesting subject for me. I feel that I communicate in several ways with other beings. One way is with numbers and another is orbs in pictures. I have had orbs in my pictures even before digital cameras. I was excited to read in the magazine about the book "The Orb Project" and also the website.
Of Saints & Scientists: The Soul's Dark Nights
Before Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung popularized the phrase, the sixteenth century Spanish mystic St. John of the Cross coined the term “the dark night of the soul” to describe an archetypally trying and characteristic stage in spiritual growth.
Free Spiritual Art > posters, wallpaper, favorite pieces
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Nothing New Under the Sun: Implications for the Dissemination of Galactic Knowledge
Nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
"All You Need is Love" —Lennon/McCartney
Nothing New Under the Sun: Implications for the Dissemination of Galactic Knowledge
Thomas Beck, Ph.D. and Janet Colli, Ph.D.
Diffusion theory argues that given the vast amount of time the universe has existed, extraterrestrials have had plenty of time to cross the Milky Way galaxy and establish a community of civilizations. One implication of this hypothetical, intra-galactic dispersion of civilizations deserves mention. Namely, that every known—and as yet unknown—innovation of human genesis has probably already occurred countless times within these advanced civilizations. The sheer number alone of civilizations that have hypothetically existed for eons supports this. The idea that there is nothing new under the sun may be true, after all.
Or more accurately, there is nothing new under the suns. Just how many suns exist has recently undergone radical revision. In 1961, Astronomer Frank Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of planets with intelligent species in our Milky Way galaxy. The percentages plugged into Drake's 7 variables were mostly educated guesswork, based on a 1961 understanding of the size and nature of the universe. But Drake's equation did provide a starting point to think about the possibility that we are not alone in the universe.
Drake's equation yields an estimate of 1,000 intelligent civilizations in our own Milky Way galaxy—that alone contains several hundred billion stars. Multiply 1,000 by the 100 billion or so galaxies in the universe to get 100 trillion civilizations. Change one or two arbitrary variables and the case can easily be made for a quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) intelligent species in the universe. And given that the universe may actually be unlimited in size, the number of intelligent species could be far larger than we dare guess.
Scientific estimates of the visible universe's size are under renewed scrutiny due to recent discoveries of the Hubble telescope. The 2004 Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF) survey provided a look at the edge of the visible universe and in so doing, cast doubt on earlier estimates of its age.
Thirteen billion light years from Earth, in a region of space a mere 500 million years after the Big Bang, a giant spiral galaxy has been discovered. This unexpected enigma, named HUDF-JD2, is located in the constellation Fornax, below Orion. HUDF-JD2 is conservatively estimated to contain 1.6 trillion stars. But this mature spiral system—8 times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy—shouldn't be there at all. The light from those galaxies took 13 billion years to arrive at the Hubble telescope. 13 billion years ago, so soon after the Big Bang creation-of-the-universe, mature galaxies should have been nonexistent. The upshot is that the universe may be vastly bigger and older than astronomers thought. In fact, it may be infinite—and teeming with intelligent life.
We could just as easily estimate a quintillion (1018 or a billion billion) civilizations in our visible universe alone, based on 1% of 1% of an estimated 100 sextillion (1023 or ten-thousand, billion billion) stars. Most of these hypothesized billions of civilizations are assuredly far older than humanity. Indeed, the pinnacle of human technology included ox carts barely a century ago, a form of transport that still prevails today in some regions. That we haven't yet achieved interstellar travel may place us near the bottom of the cosmic evolutionary ladder.
As the Vogon Starship Captain in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy said, "What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri. Oh, for heaven's sake, mankind, it's only four light-years away. I'm sorry but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's your own lookout. . . . Apathetic bloody planet."
Just as the bipedal phenotype is likely a highly efficient body form, ubiquitous throughout the universe, there may be pervasive trends of consciousness, too. Patterns. Great minds tend to think alike, even with earthlings such as Darwin and Wallace, or Edison and Tesla. Given a quintillion civilizations, it's a safe bet that a good handful have already evolved along a path similar to ours. It is comforting to think that distant peoples have surmounted internal combustion engines, healed spinal cord injuries, and eradicated illnesses such as AIDS and cancer. Countless worlds must have made the synaptic connection that overpopulation, nuclear annihilation and global warming—are threats to survival of their species. And they did something about those threats, something that with any luck we'll soon re-discover.
Remarkable ideas that await human exploration may have long since come and gone on a billion planets. Maybe it is time for a quantum leap in consciousness, a leapfrog to a higher level of problem solving. The sorry condition of our planet suggests it is already past due.
Consider the dilemma of detecting signals from distant civilizations. The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) may not be the most efficient method on any planet. Any advanced civilization that travels between stars would surely communicate between stars. Our Milky Way galaxy may be some 50,000 light years in diameter, so it would take 50,000 years for radio signals to cross that distance. Given our billions-of-years old galaxy, why has SETI failed to intercept a single signal of intelligent origin? Oh, for heaven's sake, humankind. Get a clue. Vogons don't rely on radio waves to keep in touch.
Transmitting messages using some form of non-local means may be de rigueur for star-faring species. Non-local or instantaneous signals that do not diminish over long distances need not rely on giant dish antennas such as those used by SETI. NASA's large dish antennas capture signals from its interplanetary probes (such as Mars Landers) that are extremely weak by the time they reach Earth. The signal strength from our space probes is roughly equal to a fly landing on a giant dish antenna, coming from only light-minutes away. Transmitted radio messages from stars many light-years distant would be far too weak to detect.
Indeed, we may already possess a rudimentary form of the non-local, bio-communications technology practiced by Douglas Adams' Vogons—the prototype for countless civilizations. Sentient consciousness may be a principle aspect of non-local technology in much the same way that scientific remote viewing (SRV) utilizes human consciousness to "view" distant objects. Or extrasensory perception (ESP), for that matter. It's reassuring to think we may be on the right track in using our consciousness to "tune in."
Think of the human body as a functional "antenna," picking up higher-order signals from the very fabric of space-time. That musical, artistic and mathematical prodigies may simply "tap into," download, and transcribe information from a field of consciousness is hardly a new idea. Edgar Cayce, the "sleeping prophet" (or medical savant) told of accessing the "akashic hall of records," that repository of all knowledge, likened to the universe's supercomputer system. But where does that leave humanity if epiphanies, visionary and creative genius, not to mention scientific insights that lead to novel technological innovations—are ultimately cosmic plagiarisms? Unless we've compiled eons of fines for breach of celestial copyright, it could serve as a much needed confidence booster that we, like distant peoples, can get past the systems failures that constitute an impasse on this planet. Besides, we've already garnered considerable skill in accessing this pool of knowledge ourselves, on our very own planet.
Take the Tibetan Buddhist "treasure finders" (tertons), who exemplify non-local communicators. These are tantric masters who discover terma: sacred objects, texts, or teachings hidden by the masters of one age to await discovery in the future. Many practices Tibetans have been doing for centuries have been "discovered" this way. The terma found in dreams, visionary experience, and in deep, waking states of consciousness constitute "mind treasures" (gong-ter). Such stability of dream consciousness is required that entire volumes of teachings may be transmitted in sequence over successive nights, with each night's dream starting where the previous night's had ended.
Mind treasures exist in a field of consciousness; teachings are found irrespective of culture or historical period. Any culture can potentially access our inherent wisdom body. Not strictly Buddhist teachings, they are knowledge for all humanity. And given diffusion theory, we theoretically have access to the wisdom, scientific insights and technological innovations—of other sentient beings as well. Such "spiritual technologies" as Buddhist treasure-finding have the potential to propel us beyond the systems failures that threaten our survival as a species. As for the underlying physical mechanisms of non-local communication—consciousness research, physics, and cosmology offer some interesting theories.
The zero-point field is the underlying source of all matter and energy in the universe, including dark matter. Cosmic dark matter, a vast cloud of low-mass particles near absolute zero, is considered by some physicists to be a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Laboratory BECs are formed when a handful of atoms merge and their wave patterns become indistinguishable, to form one giant "atom." Dark matter could provide the physical medium necessary for cosmic-scale, instantaneous communication, for BECs are non-local, behaving like one huge atom. In that case, a physical coupling mechanism would need to exist between the brain and a cosmic BEC. This would be crucial for non-local "telepathic" communication.
Furthermore, the condensate "disintegrates" upon warming as its unique structure is quickly overwhelmed by heat, and its coherence is lost. The slightest thermal provocation will completely disrupt a BEC that forms at a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero (–459 Fahrenheit; -273° Celsius; 0° Kelvin). Similarly, as any meditator knows, the flood of physical sensations and inner imagery continually disrupts and prevents coherence of mind. With practice, the mind can become extremely quiet; ultimately the mind-body becomes coherent and "awakened." Human physiology would thereby be rendered capable of tapping into the vast cosmological-scale "mind."
Such information as Tibetan gong-ter is accessed non-locally—whether spontaneously or with intent—when a certain level of development is reached. Individual development is required to access the wisdom inherent in consciousness itself. Now, that's something we can all engage in, especially given the planetary challenges we face. Meditation. Prayer. Whatever gets you to where you can access the "mind field," where every innovation of human genesis has likely occurred countless times—where there really is nothing new under the suns.
The more I go inside,
Byron Belitsos' Review of Matthew Gilbert's book, Workplace Revolution
The Workplace Revolution:
Restoring Trust in Business and Bringing Meaning to Our Work
By Matthew Gilbert
Reviewed by Byron Belitsos
This short, well-organized, and ambitious book is designed for anyone who has wandered through the corridors of American business in a largely futile search for work that is meaningful, less-than-stressful, and consistent with one’s personal values—that is, most everyone who works and has a conscience. Among its many strengths, The Workplace Revolution offers an edifying survey of the entire waterfront of current corporate behavior, from its lowest points (Enron and WorldCom, for example) to the emergence of the “corporate integrity? and “conscious business? movements, and provides a lucid description of the predicaments facing workers in today’s disenchanted workplace. The author draws us in with a conversational and sometimes self-revelatory style, leading us along through an adept and encyclopedic summary of the relevant business literature in passages laced with useful, balanced insights—and, thankfully, practical spiritual wisdom.
The Personal Inner Hologram, Part 2: VISUAL ESSAY: The routine functioning of the Personal Inner Hologram
The seven images that follow tell a story that visually illustrates the normal ebb and flow of thoughts, feelings and associative memories that appear and disappear in the inner theater of the Personal Inner Hologram. Imagine these thoughts to take place spontaneously within the story’s central character as part of her normal thinking and feeling. She is the observer and principle creator of her personal reality and is constantly customizing and assisting in its design. The whole series of thoughts symbolized below, occur effortlessly inside herself in just a few seconds of time.
How Quantum Physics Reveils Life’s Biggest Mystery
What leads to disappointing experiences in your life? Probably when things didn’t work out the way you wanted them to. Since the sixties we know already that we are our own creators. If we are - why doesn’t all our creations manifest? How come there is still a tremendous amount of suffering in the world? How is it possible that people can’t get rid of illness and diseases. Why would someone create a divorce or a bankruptcy or just being depressed?
Dawn of a New Era [The TROPICAL ZODIAC & VEDIC STUDIES]
The following article by Patrizia Norelli-Bachelet, was originally published 4 July 2007 on the yahoo forum ‘Restoration of Vedic Wisdom.’ It will be of interest to those interested in astrology and/or to those interested in Vedic Studies and the process by which India recovers the forgotten Sanatana Dharma and helps the world remember eternal truths of Being and Becoming. The author leads the current movement to recognize and reinstate the Tropical (Sayana) Zodiac as the true Vedic Year (also called the Vedic Sacrifice). Ms. Norelli-Bachelet writes that the current practice of using the Sidereal (Niryana) Zodiac to determine the timing of important festivals and individual horoscopes is ‘Un-Vedic’.
Viagra Falls: Let the Hard Truth Be Known
How could I forget?! On October 6, 2006 I posted a Share titled Integral Healthful Aging: My Noetic-Based Checklist with nary a mention of a vital matter. Now I recall but it took viewing the new hilarious on-the-way-to-Broadway stage play Viagra Falls and a post-viewing discussion with a friend to jog my memory. My friend popped the question, "Bob, do you use Viagra?"
New Edgar Mitchell DVD Released
SMPI (www.FascinatingPeople.com) is pleased to announce the release of an award-winning DVD narrated by Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot in 1971 and Nobel Peace Prize nominee in 2005. Timely and timeless messages poignantly detailed in The View From Space – A Message of Peace are enhanced by an expanded menu with personal interviews, awe-inspiring visuals from NASA, The Hubble Telescope, and Artist-Astronaut Alan Bean. Music complements the audio / visual effects with background and accompanying songs / music by Armand, Don and Angelina, Jonn Serrie, Elaine Silver, Steve Halpern and Hummingbird Productions with Kids For Saving Earth, featuring the Promise Song.
Cultivating the Shaman's Heart in the Journey to Wild Divine
06:36 MDT, 07-06-06. Three months of morning practice with the Journey to Wild Divine biofeedback software prompt this report. I have been using a Monroe Hemi-Sync Metamusic CD in concert with J.W.D.(The Passage), for three weeks, with marked enhancement of my ability to achieve the physiological shifts central to the game. Today I used The Shaman's Heart, a meditative toned 72 minute composition. Another favored piece is Dreamseed, a 54 minute work featuring didgereedoo performance.
ToWo - Media and Trauma-Healing project - South Africa
"Talking out Walking on" ToWo
Media and Trauma-Healing project - South Africa, Ethiopia, Israel
www.ToWogroup.blogspot.com
Preface
The new Rural South Africa constitution guarantees women's rights and protection. But in practice these ideas have not filtered down to rural areas at all. And indeed the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa has highlighted the plight of women in rural communities.. let alone in surrounding African countries. Often the victims of oppressive practices, malicious superstitions, violence and rape, women have been thrown out of their own houses and led to believe they deserve the abuse they are subjected to and are strongly encouraged to suffer their lot alone and in silence.
"GLOBALSHIFT!: Why, How, and When" by Ervin Laszlo
GLOBALSHIFT!
Why, How, and When
by Ervin Laszlo
To Shift or Not to Shift: That Is Not the Question
Had he lived today, Hamlet would affirm with more conviction than ever: the question is, to be or not to be. He would be right. But it is not the skull of an individual that Hamlet would ponder, but the living Earth. Will we survive on this planet, or become extinct like the dinosaurs?
Noetic Explorers' Top Ten
Hello All,
As an 11-year IONS Community Group leader, I'd like to report on our Memphis group, Noetic Explorers. We've been meeting monthly, and my-o-my, have we learned a lot! Most of my Memphis-area friends have been made through leading this group. It’s a huge benefit for many, to say nothing about what we've learned or been exposed to over these years.
The Method for Translating Strategic Intention into ACTION
The Method for Translating Strategic Intention into ACTION
This information is given freely, with no expectation of benefit or return. It is a brief synthesis of more than 25 years of exploration, experimentation and learning >>>
Right Brain Values in a Left Brain Business
In Riane Eisler’s recent SIA video she explores why we need to “value” the stereotypically "softer" aspects of life, such as care-giving in an economic context. What she is perhaps drawing our attention to is the right brain, relational, connectivity issues and tells us that companies with “caring policies … have a higher return to shareholders…a 500% return on investment.” (see ) http://www.shiftinaction.com/discover/videos/riane_eisler/two
Rules of the Road Never Traveled
RULES OF THE ROAD NEVER TRAVELED
No One Has Been to Your Future
H B Gelatt
Two roads diverged in a wood
And I took the one less traveled
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
Widening clinical research actions to better cancer outcomes (power thinking, emotions, physiology, DNA)
Research, opinions, actions by survivors and beliefs all point out that directly using our individual thinking and emotions could influence our general wellbeing, physiology and DNA health outcomes.
Pros And Cons on "The Secret"
“Dispelling Myopic Musings”
By: Lawrence of Supai
© 2007
The following thoughts are in response
to the recent discussions regarding
Integral Yoga, Integral Theory & Evolutionary Spirituality: A Missing Piece
(Below is an email exchange, sparked by Christopher Sierzchula who found an article I wrote and contacted me through the Shift in Action website. The article was entitled ‘Andrew Cohen’s Evolutionary Enlightenment and A Buried Interview with Patrizia Norelli- Bachelet’*. The interview referred to was conducted by Craig Hamilton, former senior editor of What is Enlightenment magazine, who is currently scheduled to be a presenter at CIIS’s AUM Integral Yoga Conference at the Institute of Noetic Science - IONS - in June of 2007**).
Heroine Chic- the SHEro's Journey
I wanted a pony for my twelfth birthday. Dad gave me a .22 rifle and an NRA membership.
It has been said (or argued) that there are seven, or eleven comedies and dramas, depending which school of thought you subscribe to. Unless we’re talking about a game of craps or a convenience store, I don’t agree with those numbers. I contend there is but one story-
The Large Hadron Collider.
LHC, the Large Hadron Collider, and the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.
http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
The Blind Men, the Elephant and You
THE BLIND MEN, THE ELEPHANT AND YOU
Your Mental Map IS the Territory.
H B Gelatt
We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are. Anais Nin
Let’s face it; you and I are “visually impaired’ observers. Our worldview is always a partial worldview. You don’t see everything because the way you see things is the way you see things. I see things the way I see things. Everyone doesn’t see things that way. And what you and I can see is the tip of the iceberg; 90% is hidden. This means we don’t see and can’t see the whole. There is always much more that we see, Thich Nhat Hahn.
Video presentation: Jill Bolte Taylor describes her own stroke
Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuro-anatomist and gifted speaker who suffered a stroke in 1996. In this video presentation, she describes her subjective experiences before, during, and after the event.
I hope that SIA members interested in the convergence of science and spirituality will want to invest 18 minutes to watch this video. Links to the video: At Ted.com or At microclesia.com
IONS Community "Consciousness Cruise," November 15-20
Don't miss the boat!
A “CONSCIOUSNESS CRUISE” NOVEMBER 15TH to 20TH, 2008 And you are invited to join us!
Seth and Jane Roberts
I believe Seth/Jane Roberts may have triggered many people into changing their belief system about spirituality and what they know of in physics in the 1960's and 1970's. I found his and her books fascinating and fitting my gut beliefs growing up.
Royal Bank of Scotland (Rothchilds) Predicts U.S. Currency Collapse - Three Months
You likely heard the news coming from the Royal Bank of Scotland (the Rothchilds) predicting some acute downturn in the markets or more specifically, the collapse of the U.S. dollar. Morgan Stanley weighed in with the same outlook. They are predicting this will occur in three months time.
behaviors and thought patterns
In my opinion addiction is a pattern of thought.
Most of the time it is something that is a learned way of thinking taught to us at a young age. If this is true then you can learn new ways of thinking. There are many different things in life that people can get hooked on. It's all about what direction you focus your attention and thoughts.
The Torii Story
In seeking a spiritual understanding to my existence in the universe, I came across the concept that a Torii, a Japanese sacred structure, was representative of the bottom section of a circle describing all of creation. A Torii is a set of two poles with a cross beam, or two. It looks like a pi symbol standing on the land. With this in mind, and being a constructor, the idea came to me to decorate a small island in Lagoon Pond between Martha’s Vineyard Shipyard and Hines Point.
USA 10 steps to fascism?
Just look at the definition of fascism and compare it to the USA's current system. We have to change this. We have to push for the department of peace. I don't know if we are going to be able to save this country if we don't.
Are You Totally Out of Your Mind ! ... ?
Are You Totally Out of Your Mind?
An Unexpected Exile
Nearly three years ago the Havasupai Tribe invited me to live with them at the bottom of the 3,000 foot world famous Grand Canyon. Summer temperatures char and melt brass doorknobs … thunder storms shake loosen one’s dental crowns … while horizontal rains called monsoons brings a new meaning to wind surfing. When my wife heard of these provocations … she literally asked me “Are you totally Out Of Your Mind?”
Romantic love vs Spiritual love
Recently a group of us over at Zaadz have been having a wonderful discussion on Romantic love vs spiritual love. This is something I have been cogitating on for some time over many years.
Power thinking, emotions, physiology, DNA and cancer outcomes
Our cancer research organisation seeks your comments, discussion, involvement,ideas and as volunteers in our search to arrive at causal and/or remedial links between cancer DNA and our physiology through our thinking and emotions.
Avoiding Responsibilities in Life
Every day, in so very many ways, people from all walks of life avoid taking responsibility for their actions, using denial and obstructive tactics. Even something as simple as accepting responsibility for parking their car outside the designated zone is unacceptable to them.
Perfect Portriature
The year of the mirror...reflecting the essential nature of oneself in relationship to the dance of life.
What is the mirror? How do you create and define the mirror of oneself...that mirror which creates the world you experience.
Part II - Pros And Cons on "The Secret"
Part II
First of all, words are symbols arousing man’s beliefs which invoke emotional states of awareness thus creating and framing his perceptual observations. If it was not so, words would have neither causal meaning nor behavioral effects. Second, we have named (created a word for) the cosmic space-time place where we live as “the universe.”, [Latin < uni + versus ] yet uni means “one or single” and versus - is a term that means “to turn to an alternate or opposite”. I shutter to think that this poor little mis-fortunate belief was genetically mis-informed right from its etymological birth.
My First 'Paravisual' Emerged During Psychic Healing
Have you added paravisual to your repertoire of paranormal options? To those yet to have a paravisual experience it may be of interest that I had my first such experience, not in a corporate business teambuilding setting as I described in a recent blog (cited later), but in a leading-edge group psychic healing workshop. It was designed and led by renowned research and clinical psychologist Lawrence LeShan and held after the 1970 Association for Humanistic Psychology conference in Miami on the secluded spacious Eden-like estate of Margaret Adams (daughter of Colonel Sanders).
Tired? Suggest You Don't Blame the Turkey
If you are one of the fortunate ones whose body can be healthy and full functioning on a vegetarian nutrition regimen you may not think this article is for you. Well, you may be partially right for as nutrition writer Rich Maloof (2007) points out overeating and drinking are more likely to make you feel sleepy than eating turkey. On the other hand, it is also true that the amino acid L-tryptophan in turkey is popularly cited as a kind of dietary sedative, but nutritionist Samantha Heller lays bare the urban myth.
What if one million people celebrated happiness the same day?
I had the urge to help making the world happier and from this place I had a dream. Let's celebrate the International Happiness Day on July 10th with a shared intention, conciuous intention, of making the world happier. In my dream, I saw one million people huging, smiling, with happy "banners", and so. I saw them listening 9th Symphony by Beethoven, and Bob Marley Don't worry be happy.
The Self Development Scam?
I am a marketing consultant and copywriter to the personal development industry and I know that one of the recommended keys to success in this field is playing on human beings desire for instant gratification:
Coping With Three 'Difficult' Behaviors: An Integral Noetic Approach
When I think of interdependent relationships with others it is easy for me to idealize mutually empathetic and cooperative communications with them. In reality, more often than not I find myself trying to relate to people who exhibit all sorts of difficult behaviors . . . the overly competitive tough battler, the oppressively friendly do-gooder, and the overly nitpicking rational thinker. How can I effectively relate interdependently with them?
The God Theory
Last week's Teleseminar guest was astrophysicist Bernard Haisch talking about his book The God Theory. If you didn't get to hear the teleseminar live, you may want to download it!
Donor Spotlight: Brenda Sanders
“It started suddenly with an uncontrollable jerk as I sat on a straight backed chair in a small rustic cottage in Rio Caliente Resort. Then came a loud inner roar like the sound of water rushing, followed by the searing image in my mind’s eye of hot white light shooting up my spine, through my brain and out the top of my head. The force was so strong that my head flew backward as my arms flung upward, fingers splayed and palms raised to the heavens. Accompanied by a strong, hot dry wind the light drew me up and out of my body to an expanded universe where everything was vividly alive, conscious and interconnected,” writes IONS Circle member Brenda Sanders in ‘What is Really Real,’ a chapter in Peak Vitality, an anthology recently released by Elite Books.
The LIGHT of HyperConscious Mind
Hello everyone,
If you don't mind- I thought I would start a discussion on what I like to call the HyperConscious Mind/or "the Light" for short :)
During a fairly intense time in my life, I discovered meditation...
UNIVERSAL PEACE CALENDAR
a new tool for reminding humanity of our UNITY has just been created: the Universal Peace Calendar.
It´s composed of 20×13 symbols given by psychic children and the celebration days of all major religions.
The Memory of Mind
Can the "Mind" Remember?
For purposes of this post, I refer to the "Mind" as a distinct process separate, apart from, and not dependent upon the body's "Brain" mass.
For those that have either had or read about Near Death Experiences (NDE's) or Out of Body Experiences (OBE's) have you ever wondered where our memories are stored?
Healing the Planet - Be inspired by the possibility of a miracle to the crisis facing planet earth.
– An unusual opportunity and certainly an unusual vehicle.
Two miracles happened in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2002. Shelley Yates and her son were drowned in a flooded marsh. They not only lived to tell the tale, but are better than ever. Shelley was "dead" for fifteen minutes and relates how beings of light told her how to draw energy to save herself and her small son.
SHARE YOUR GIFTS IN THE TRIBAL HOLOGRAM
Long before the advent of modern concepts of medicine and psychotherapy, in fact, in the origins of these sciences, as they are now collectively known, mankind pooled its natural healing and intuitive skills; and I am not speaking here of pseudo or sensationalistic trickery or magic.
Things That Go Bump In The Night - A Real Story …“This Week.”
Bob wrote in his recent post "Whether we know it or not we're all street corner psychics,"
See his prior post entitled “Mind Reading is the Latest Discussion Idea for IONS Community Groups” (see: http://www.shiftinaction.com/node/5249#comment-1145 )
Holographic Awareness, Part 2: The Whole in every part
Can you “see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour?” (William Blake). I say that you can and you are, but most people do not recognize that they are constantly touching the infinite, nor do they appreciate the expansive, all-encompassing nature of their normal, every-day, here-and-now awareness.
A hurrucane headed toward the coast of Texas.
My dear and lovely new friend is on Padre Island and the news is claiming that a 95 mile an hour hurricane is headed for the island and will hit at noon today. Michelle, the weather looks fierce and my hopes and prayers are with you. I hope I am mistaken as to your whereabouts. If I am right about the location, I hope you left the Island as they are now saying it is impossible to get to the mainland until the winds subside to 45 miles per hour. Michelle Casto is a blogger on "Declare." This is being blogged on July 23, 2008 and within a few days will not be relevant.
LISTEN TO THE CHILDREN
“And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?” Matthew 21:16
Sitting in my office in an upstairs apartment with an open window and listening to the sound of children playing their creative, spontaneous games outside, took me back to my own childhood. In the eyes of an adult out of touch with their own inner child, it would have appeared that I too, as a child, roamed aimlessly about, without reason or purpose. But it was with a purposeful intention that I disappeared, going down to the river, or escaping to the sanctity of a nearby woods—in these places I had time to create a special, magical world that could free me from the harsh reality adults had provided. I had discovered, on my own, that the world could become my sanctuary of creativity, a wonderful place where I transformed into Bomba the Jungle boy or Tarzan, communicating with my animal friends, or become for a day, a daring explorer riding the treacherous currents of the Ohio River, just like Columbus or Tom Sawyer aboard a makeshift raft. One wonder’s how I survived in this magical world--perhaps it was something in the magic of believing in myself, that kept me safe.