2007年10月29日
Rebalancing
Today I'd just like to share with you an excerpt from Jeremy Narby's 'Intelligence in Nature'.
"[In 'primitive' cultures] where indigenous people are trying hard to join what they perceive to be the exciting world of the future, shamanism begins to look like old-fashioned hocus-pocus and is quietly forgotten. In one way or another, the arrival of modernity and its paraphernalia is usually the death knell of these different, primitive, animist, whatever you want to call them, worldviews. The interesting re-flux of that central current of history is that just as 'primitive' worldviews die out in the hinterlands of the new global system, they take root at its center. To the urban middle classes, already saturated with modernity's paraphernalia and bored with the world bled of meanings they seem to entrain, shamanism, voodoo, witchcraft, all things primitive, suddenly seem extremely appealing. It is an interesting historical crisscross. To the so-called primitive, marginalized, and usually powerless, the promise of the modern is things, ease and security. To the so-called modern, the promise of the primitive is the one thing he or she lacks - meaning. This primitive rush for the modern and the modern rush for the primitive is one of the weird but well-recognized features of the current cultural landscape of our world. Many of us spend out lives traversing it."
"[In 'primitive' cultures] where indigenous people are trying hard to join what they perceive to be the exciting world of the future, shamanism begins to look like old-fashioned hocus-pocus and is quietly forgotten. In one way or another, the arrival of modernity and its paraphernalia is usually the death knell of these different, primitive, animist, whatever you want to call them, worldviews. The interesting re-flux of that central current of history is that just as 'primitive' worldviews die out in the hinterlands of the new global system, they take root at its center. To the urban middle classes, already saturated with modernity's paraphernalia and bored with the world bled of meanings they seem to entrain, shamanism, voodoo, witchcraft, all things primitive, suddenly seem extremely appealing. It is an interesting historical crisscross. To the so-called primitive, marginalized, and usually powerless, the promise of the modern is things, ease and security. To the so-called modern, the promise of the primitive is the one thing he or she lacks - meaning. This primitive rush for the modern and the modern rush for the primitive is one of the weird but well-recognized features of the current cultural landscape of our world. Many of us spend out lives traversing it."
2007年10月24日
Looming threat
"So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon."
George Bush is on the Warpath again. I wonder how long we've realistically got until World War III? 100 years? 50? 10? 5? 1?
Reminds me of an Einstein quote:
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
2007年10月23日
Choices continued...
Well, here we are again. The Burmese people are still living under an oppressive regime, and their pro-democratic protests were crushed by the military. Darfur in Sudan is still the worst human rights disaster afflicting the planet this century. Literally as you read this innocent people are being murdered there.
What can we do about it? Protest? Wish? Pray? Fight? Do nothing?
Putting good energy out into the universe through wishes or prayer may make some subtle changes on an energetic level, but the fact is it doesn't stop the slaughter. We can wish all we like for Darfur, Burma, or even for saving the Amazon, but wishing simply does not stop life from being cut down.
So what to do? Do we absorb ourselves in the sadness of the endless problems? Should we all become charity workers and try and give aid to the problem areas? Really, what can we do?
We all want a better world, one of love and happiness. But how do we get it? Contribute our energies to some of the problems appearing in front of us? If you do that, then you have to ignore the problems not immediately infront of you. If you pray for Burma, then you forget about Darfur. If you pray for Darfur, you forget about the Amazon. Well, what the hell can you we do then?
I think the only way we can truly help the world become the world we want it to be is through spreading love in an effort of manifesting consciousness change.
Energies put out into the world spread like ripples. You can choose which energies you wish to spread.
The thing is, if we - the people who really want change - don't try to change the way humankind think, or try to make some changes somehow, then the world is going to continue as it always has.
If human consciousness does not change, it's going to go on like this until we're using nuclear weapons against each other. It's going to go on until we've destroyed all the old forests on the planet out of greed, leaving barren, unbreathable air. It's going to go on until we no longer have a planet we can live on.
The Mayans pointed out 2012 as the turning point for human kind. Maybe they were wrong, maybe they were right - it doesn't matter. The fact is that right now the world needs changing, and we are the people who need to do it.
What can we do about it? Protest? Wish? Pray? Fight? Do nothing?
Putting good energy out into the universe through wishes or prayer may make some subtle changes on an energetic level, but the fact is it doesn't stop the slaughter. We can wish all we like for Darfur, Burma, or even for saving the Amazon, but wishing simply does not stop life from being cut down.
So what to do? Do we absorb ourselves in the sadness of the endless problems? Should we all become charity workers and try and give aid to the problem areas? Really, what can we do?
We all want a better world, one of love and happiness. But how do we get it? Contribute our energies to some of the problems appearing in front of us? If you do that, then you have to ignore the problems not immediately infront of you. If you pray for Burma, then you forget about Darfur. If you pray for Darfur, you forget about the Amazon. Well, what the hell can you we do then?
I think the only way we can truly help the world become the world we want it to be is through spreading love in an effort of manifesting consciousness change.
Energies put out into the world spread like ripples. You can choose which energies you wish to spread.
The thing is, if we - the people who really want change - don't try to change the way humankind think, or try to make some changes somehow, then the world is going to continue as it always has.
If human consciousness does not change, it's going to go on like this until we're using nuclear weapons against each other. It's going to go on until we've destroyed all the old forests on the planet out of greed, leaving barren, unbreathable air. It's going to go on until we no longer have a planet we can live on.
The Mayans pointed out 2012 as the turning point for human kind. Maybe they were wrong, maybe they were right - it doesn't matter. The fact is that right now the world needs changing, and we are the people who need to do it.
2007年10月20日
Lacking Time
If you have time to chatter Read books If you have time to read Walk into mountain, desert and ocean If you have time to walk Sing Songs and dance If you have time to dance Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot -Nanao Sakaki | 
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2007年10月14日
2007年10月12日
Right vs Left Brain
The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Link here
If you see her turning clockwise, you use more of the right side of your brain. If you see her turning anti-clockwise, you use more of the left side of your brain.
Link here
If you see her turning clockwise, you use more of the right side of your brain. If you see her turning anti-clockwise, you use more of the left side of your brain.
2007年10月11日
A secret for you
From:
Post Secret
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard
2007年10月06日
Choices
Having a look through the various news stories headlining day after day, it's very easy to get the impression that the world we live in is a horrendous, dangerous, scary, evil, hateful and ugly place. And it is.
It really is a horrible place. In every corner of the world we see people acting out of terrible evil, inflicting suffering and pain on others and the world around them. Every day somewhere there is war, famine, murder, rape, robbery, and a supreme and incomprehensible suffering.
YET, at the same time, the world we live in is the most incredibly beautiful, loving, kind, compassionate, inspiring, nurturing, sublime and exotic platform for existence we can possibly imagine.
There are such incredible forces of love, compassion, peace and kindness that no matter how bad things get, and no matter how much evil and darkness there is in the world, love always shines through.
Energy spreads and attracts. When you see people act with love and compassion, it inspires you to do the same. Just as when you see people act with hatred, it is hard not to feel anger at them and do the same.
We live in a dichotomy - a world of two voices - a world of choices. We can take part in whichever vibration we choose. We can act with love and kindness as easily as we can act with cruetly and hate.
The world is right now in as dangerous a situation as it has ever been. The great forests are disappearing before our eyes, global warming is slowly revealing itself to be the unstoppable monster that we dreaded it to be, huge military powers are arming themselves and dragging us into what looks to become a third world war. Atrocities are becoming commonplace as we realise that we are living in a world partaking of a tremendous state of lovelessness.
We are in need of a consciousness change more than ever. My feeling is that unless we the people instigate this change, then change will be thrust upon us.
More to come...
It really is a horrible place. In every corner of the world we see people acting out of terrible evil, inflicting suffering and pain on others and the world around them. Every day somewhere there is war, famine, murder, rape, robbery, and a supreme and incomprehensible suffering.
YET, at the same time, the world we live in is the most incredibly beautiful, loving, kind, compassionate, inspiring, nurturing, sublime and exotic platform for existence we can possibly imagine.
There are such incredible forces of love, compassion, peace and kindness that no matter how bad things get, and no matter how much evil and darkness there is in the world, love always shines through.
Energy spreads and attracts. When you see people act with love and compassion, it inspires you to do the same. Just as when you see people act with hatred, it is hard not to feel anger at them and do the same.
We live in a dichotomy - a world of two voices - a world of choices. We can take part in whichever vibration we choose. We can act with love and kindness as easily as we can act with cruetly and hate.
The world is right now in as dangerous a situation as it has ever been. The great forests are disappearing before our eyes, global warming is slowly revealing itself to be the unstoppable monster that we dreaded it to be, huge military powers are arming themselves and dragging us into what looks to become a third world war. Atrocities are becoming commonplace as we realise that we are living in a world partaking of a tremendous state of lovelessness.
We are in need of a consciousness change more than ever. My feeling is that unless we the people instigate this change, then change will be thrust upon us.
More to come...
2007年10月04日
2007年10月04日
New Supernatural Interview
New Supernatural Interview, Graham Hancock talking on Coast to Coast AM with Art Bell
28th September 2007
Supernatural, Part 1
Supernatural, Part 2
Supernatural, Part 3
Supernatural, Part 4
Supernatural, Part 5
Supernatural, Part 6
Supernatural, Part 7
Supernatural, Part 8
Supernatural, Part 9
Supernatural, Part 10
Supernatural, Part 11
Supernatural, Part 12
28th September 2007
Supernatural, Part 1
Supernatural, Part 2
Supernatural, Part 3
Supernatural, Part 4
Supernatural, Part 5
Supernatural, Part 6
Supernatural, Part 7
Supernatural, Part 8
Supernatural, Part 9
Supernatural, Part 10
Supernatural, Part 11
Supernatural, Part 12
