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 13 Jul 2006 @ 04:34, by judih. Ideas, Creativity
A call to sisters (and brothers of heart) to unite, join hands, sing out to positive connections of hope.
Enough hatred in the world to sink a planet. Let's try another tune. More >
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 11 Jul 2006 @ 23:50, by ming. Communication
"Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your
words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny." --Anonymous I was just watching The Secret, a 1.5 hour film about .... well, it isn't that it is that secret, or is it? The Law of Attraction. A bunch of inspiring motivational speakers and authors tell you, very well, and very convincingly, about what might be the biggest secret you need to know in your life. It costs a couple of dollars to see it online, but if, like me, you're on a Mac Intel that their video system can't handle, you can look around and find it on YouTube or in Wikipedia.
Next to my bed is the book Ask and it is Given, which teaches exactly the same thing. And, well, there are lots and lots of books that do so. The Master Key System is a cheap e-book. There are lots, and there has been for a long time. In 1957, Earl Nightingale, the co-founder of the Nightingale-Conant Corporation, and a famous motivational speaker and author made a record called "The Greatest Secret". Same secret.
And, yes, lots of folks would automatically be completely unwilling to accept such a far-out and naive new age idea. Doesn't matter. The proof is in the pudding. It is a concept that pretty much is self-proving. Except for the annoying aspect that if it doesn't work for you, it is for the same reason as why it works, and one is quite likely to reject it.
The simple point is that you get what you focus on in life. You get the types of experiences that you consistently think about, that you feel you're likely to get, that you expect and that you believe in. You attract to you that which you're emanating.
With what we've learned from quantum physics that doesn't have to be as outlandish an idea as you might think. Who is observing and how they're observing will influence what is observed. You can't say with certainty what is there without taking into consideration how it is observed and by who. Well, certainly at the quantum level, but, to the chagrin of some scientists, a lot of folks have found that to apply quite well to life in general. It is rather easy to understand, and in many ways easy to demonstrate. You go out into traffic and look for red cars, and you'll see a whole lot. Our senses are filters, as are our brains, so if you focus on a particular wavelength of stuff, it should be no great surprise that you'll get it. It should not be an extraordinary mental jump to the hypothesis that life works like that all the time. Whatever you focus on, you'll see more of it. Or more tangibly, you'll get more of it. Whatever you're thinking all the time, you'll be it. Whatever you're believing will tend to be validated. You think you have problems, and you're looking for problems - you'll have problems.
It can be put very simply by calling it "attraction". You attract that which, uhm, you're attracting. I.e that which you're broadcasting strongly that you want. If you tell everybody you know that you're looking to adopt a kitten, you'll attract a kitten in no time. No surprise. If you didn't tell anybody, it would be harder. But even if you told just yourself, and you thought a lot about getting a kitten, you'd probably succeed. You'd probably succeed a little faster if you put a picture of a cute kitten on your refrigerator, and you looked at that every day. That would make you think about it, feel positive about it, look forward to it, look for it, and be ready for it. And if any kitten should be available in your environment, you'd be quite likely to run into it.
The funny, or not so funny, thing is that it works just the same whether you think about the positive or negative version of it. I.e. whether you want it or "don't want it". It is a well-know fact for a hypnotist or an NLP practitioner that negatives don't matter at all in the mind. Whether you think "I don't want to burn myself" or you think "I want to burn myself", it has pretty much the same result. Both will be a message to yourself, to your nervous system, and to your general environment that you're looking to burn yourself. Psychology in general seems to be unfamiliar with that, as are usually public leaders. That's what gives rise to stupid campaigns like "Say NO to Drugs!". Or "Don't Smoke!", or "Don't have Sex!" or whatever it is. It is like when I tell you "Don't think about a pink elephant!". You can not even process what I'm saying without thinking about a pink elephant in some way. Whether there's a "no" or a "don't" in there or not, it is a suggestion to think about what I'm putting forward. And a hypnotist can tell you that it is probably more effective as a suggestion if it is camouflaged as a negative than if it is as a positive order. "You don't have to.. Get really relaxed!" works much better than "Get relaxed right now!"
So, same thing with your own thoughts and feelings. Whether you're getting worked up about wanting something or about wanting it to go away, if you spend a lot of energy on creating it in your thoughts and feelings, you're just the same attracting the actual experience to you.
That gives the rich-get-richer, poor-get-poorer effect. I.e. you automatically get more of what you already have. No sinister motives have to be assigned to anybody to explain that. If you make a lot of money, and you have proof of being good at it, and you spend a lot of thoughts on imagining how you'll do even better, and you look for it, and you expect it ... then you'll be very likely to succeed, and get more of it. If you spend your energy on lamenting what you don't have, and how hard and impossible it is, and you react negatively to the obstacles you find in your way, you're naturally attracting more of the same.
The hard part here is of course how to change one's direction, if one doesn't like it. Mainly because of that feedback loop. You see what you don't like, you get irritated about it, think about it, curse it, complain about it. It is hard to suddenly spend one's creative powers on something entirely different. It is so much easier when one already is going in that direction.
If one decides to give it a try, one might quite likely give up too easily. Lots of people believe in the power of positive thinking. So, maybe you'll start saying affirmations. You might tell yourself every morning that everything is perfect, and all that you need is coming to you. And, well, if you start believing it, and you act accordingly, you're probably good. That might do it. But if you don't really feel it, it doesn't matter what you say to yourself. The point is that you attract that which you believe, that which you sincerely feel, consistently. And if you start feeling something different, it might take weeks before you see any result of that. And in the meantime you might well have decided that it didn't work, and you go back to your old unsuccessful ways of trying to change your world. In order to change and to change your circumstances, you have to keep going in a new direction long enough for it to actually manifest.
In my own experience, I've never found anything to contradict the law of attraction. I've worked as a counselor with hundreds of clients, and I've always found that they had a life that corresponded with their internal make-up. They had pretty much the successes and failures that they expected to have. They could do or not do pretty much what they believed they could. They might not be happy with what they got, but they generally had gotten exactly what they were asking for. And the only workable approach to personal change I've found would be to change your mind and start asking for something else, and believing you ought to have something else happening.
Despite that, I must admit that I personally find it as hard as anybody else to change my direction in life if things aren't going my way. At least sometimes I do. When things are flowing in a good direction, it is easy to make more good things happen. But if proof is stacking up that you aren't doing well at it, it is a little too easy to believe it.
Then it is nice to have some good meta-beliefs. Like, personally, I believe that things always work out. It is a little vague, and that doesn't tell me when or how, but I know that all problems eventually get sorted out. I mean, I've made it this far, so of course they do. And it is nice to be able to look back at past experiences where one has accomplished something against the odds, simply by keeping focused on it.
The Law of Attraction is kind of annoying, unless one has mastered it. You get that which you put out. Pisses me off a bit. It would be so nice to blame somebody else if you don't succeed in something. Much harder to admit one just didn't agree with oneself well enough. But on the other hand, it could be the most positive and mind-blowing thing to know about life, in comparison with which all other details will pale. Wherever you currently are, you can do whatever you want, as long as you're clear about it and you focus on it. More >
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 11 Jul 2006 @ 21:50, by b. Travel
Today in Mumbai, India, in the city once called Bombay, trains blew up and hundreds may have been killed. A short few months ago I was living there and saw first hand the contrasts between the Hindu and Muslim's way of life. Hindu's are a happy peoply who love their unity and harmoney.
Muslim women are covered from head to toe and masked. Muslim men for the most part wear distinctive clothes that sets them apart from other Indians. Muslim's lives are dictated to by Koranic rule. All life actions are referenced by one book. There are over 800 million Hindu's and 200 million Muslims in India. In 1948 Muslims were able to chop off part of India and call it Pakistan. Many Muslims emigrated to their new country and Hindu's came back to India.
The real contrast is that Muslims came into India in the form of Arab raiding, migrating, conquering. It was from these Arabs that took over Hindu temples and made mosques of them is how Islam came to India. Muslims who are influenced by Iran Shia are coming in conflict with the native Arab Muslims.
Both sects have a revisionist historical perspective of India that is not shared by the Hindu majority. Thus clashes.
The filthy violent eruption of explosions against innocent passengers on trains today is an example of extremism taken to the final measures by Muslims. These people who did this want to threaten Hindu's into submission to their policies,historical perspective, doctrines and dogma. More over the perpetrators of crime against humanity want to dictate India foreign policy, tax Hindu's and control Hindu religious sites. They also want another part of India broken off to form yet another Muslim country.
It is not going to happen. The trident of Hindu religion is sharp and Hindu's are not afraid to use it. In India there is rule of law. Not Sharia law. I think that the world will see that India has good police and a strong military who will swiftly bring these perpetrators of violence and murder to justice. Can Allah really want to embrace Muslims with the blood of innocents on their hands and in their heart? More >
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11 Jul 2006 @ 19:20, by swanny. Government, Public Sector
July 11, 2006
Canada
Hi all...
at the lib...
well we've spoke of leadership before...
and heart or conscience is a fair good leader
as Martin Luther was bent to....
but then there is the evolution of democracy
which some still say is only majority rules
but in truth or intent was the greatest good
for the greatest number....
and yet how do we determine greatest good?
Which makes the question on the ballot a 2 parter
so Natural global leadership is needed to balance the
long term aspirations and needs with the short term
and restore some honesty and honor to the equation
and institutions.... so
forming a Natural global Democracy....
tough job....
a take on the United Democracies of Earth but
still what is the greatest good....
and then still what is the greatest good for the greatest
number
well these things I have been pondering
but we have achieved this....
look around.... still a bit rocky and sucky
but this is somewhat more sustainable than before
though a little taken for granted but
look around , we have achieved "this"....
and for that we should give thanks
ed More >
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 11 Jul 2006 @ 15:12, by mre. Internet
The world is experiencing a tremendous surge towards human unity. Necessity drives us and we are pulled by a vision of a friendly world that has its act together and does the smart thing. But we have a big hurdle to get over, and that is figuring out how to make "unity and diversity" really work. This is what Josep L.I. Ortega is addressing in his congenial "Statement for Unity of Action", which also, by the way, provides us an excellent map of the movement for world citizenship and democratic global governance. His main point is that the various trends within that movement need to support each other and unite on an agenda in an umbrella organization. Only in this way can the movement achieve the numbers and credibility it needs to succeed. More >
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 11 Jul 2006 @ 01:30, by freo7. Personal Development
Appreciation, Mental Focus & Intention Exercise 2 Share, A Law Of Attraction Exercise Extra-ordinaire` - just follow the flow and then fill in your own words of LIFE ~ This works 4 me!!!!!!!!!!
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 10 Jul 2006 @ 08:53, by jazzolog. Government, Public Sector
I fell in love with the wings of birds
The light of spring on them!
---Chora
In the light of flowers
I travel
Just for the sake of traveling.
---Soen Nakagawa
The mind creates the abyss, and the heart crosses it.
---Sri Nisargadatta
The author in Providence last weekend among friends and a couple of generations too.
Some replies received to the post I put out yesterday, which was sort of about global warming but involved a sense of futility as well, have motivated me to get my act together. I didn't start out writing on the Internet about political things, but somehow or other during these Bush years, when concerns about the "mainstream media" in this country come from all sides, I started sending stuff to friends and contacts that I hoped would be helpful in keeping discussion going. I think that media problem may motivate much of the blogging revolution for people. Where do you find out what's really going on in the world? Ordinarily I sprinkle links and footnotes all over such pieces, which is how I learned to do research for social studies papers and debating. I'm not going to do that this time because I need to speak from my own history and experience. I see no other way to address those replies.
I know a couple guys online I've never met face-to-face who like to keep things jumping with really basic questions. I hesitate to summarize what they stand for...and they are very different people...but they share a sort of warrior mentality. They live in the US---I think---and seem ready to survive, if necessary, with a knife and some matches...or with nothing if those luxuries are not available. So whenever I post about a political solution to something, one or the other or both generally jump in with both feet.
One of the guys grew up in the inner city but now lives in the Arizona desert, very close to the recent fires. His nickname is Bushman, for a couple of reasons probably...but I think he is available to do landscape work and tend your bushes. He wrote back the following: "It's all right here. Cleansed by fire, again." And he included a link to some Hopi prophecies. He means he's ready to ride it out with things as they are, rather than muck about with government agencies trying to regulate everything.
The other fellow changes his nickname about once a month and currently is going by Darklander. Here's what he has to say: "Fear is a good tactic that all hierarchs love to use to keep the sheeple in line. Stop voting for these dingbats (sure doesn't do you any good!), disband the military, stop sending your sons and daughters to Moloch, quit the 501 3C 'Corporate' churches, find out who you really are... be free from the lot of the rot. Nah, easier to blame it on, ah, global warming..."
Now I like both these guys a great deal. For one thing, they have great wit and keep me laughing. Nothing is better in the midst of argument and struggle. I have a friend here in Athens something like Bushman and Darklander, who just retired from 3 decades of teaching industrial tech and intends to move into a cave and become a cannibal. What do I say to people like this...and why does it matter? More >
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 9 Jul 2006 @ 14:44, by jhs. Philosophy
As we not only have the technology to undo the illusions of the matrix piece by piece, we also understand more of 'technological/scientific' foundations, beginning with its geometry and the classifications of its basic components every day.
One mantra should not miss in all what we are doing:
Vigilance is the price of freedom!
(I don't like using 'absolutes' and therefore skipped the proverbial 'eternal')
Every tool can be used or abused.
Maybe we should discard the notion of 'learning' and regard it is as 'implanting':
as Beings we already know everything that is true: we just need to remember more and more of it.
In contrast, 'learning' adds new (artificial!) data on top of all the (still) existing illusions.
Not only that... More >
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9 Jul 2006 @ 13:30, by vector8. Spirituality
[["Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be." (Science and Health)
"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." (Psalm 91: 11-12)]]
I believe Love is all there is and Love is expressing in infinite ways as ideas and thought forms. These ideas and thought forms of Love are angels. While these angels, or messengers of Love, can appear human or other physical forms, majority of the time they are invisible to the senses. Yet, we are always surrounded by angels that are always meeting our needs. We simply need to be aware that they do exist and know how to invoke them. More >
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 8 Jul 2006 @ 18:09, by judih. Travel
It's a fantastic descent, taking a road from the Negev city of Arad and moving down past signs that tell you how low you go. More >
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