The Gaian Dragon: March 2012

Saturday, March 31, 2012

TEDx Philosophy of Science 18

TEDx Philosophy of Science 18

TEDxCaltech - Leonard Susskind - Richard Feynman

TEDxCairo - Fatma Said - The Day When The People Changed !

TEDxYYC - David Damberger - Learning from Failure

TEDxDirigo - Zoe Weil - The World Becomes What You Teach

TEDxSydney - Rachel Botsman - Collaborative Consumption Author Presents Compelling Case for

TEDxCreativeCoast - Diana Keough - Life Story

TEDx - One Year and Counting - Presented at TEDGlobal 2010

TEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn't Bike with a Helmet

TEDxSanJoseCA - Jeff Greason - Rocket Scientist: Making Space Pay and Having Fun Doing It

TEDxCalgary - Naheed Nenshi - Calgary 3.0

Earth Justice Blogs Digest Two

Earth Justice Blogs Digest Two

Earth Justice Blogs 11

Earth Justice Blogs 12

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Earth Justice Blogs 14

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Earth Justice Blogs 17

Earth Justice Blogs 18

Earth Justice Blogs 19

Earth Justice Blogs 20

Earth Justice Blogs Digest One

Our Hospitality (1923) Buster Keaton

Our Hospitality (1923) Buster Keaton

Classic Folk Music : Pete Seeger 10

Classic Folk Music : Pete Seeger 10

Banks of Marble - by Pete Seeger

Pete Seeger, Dar Williams, David Bernz & Rivertown Kids sing SOLARTOPIA! Wind & Solar Power

GIVE PEACE A CHANCE w/ Pete Seeger & Gang @ JOHN LENNON'S 70th Birthday Tribute Concert

"Quite Early Morning" Pete Seeger and the Rivertown Kids!

Pete Seeger - sailing down my golden river

Pete Seeger - What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor?

Pete Seeger Clementine

Pete Seeger - "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

Pete Seeger - "Buffalo Gals"

Pete Seegar - It Takes A Worried Man

Why

Charlie Parker - All the things you are

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Why

By James Clair Lewis

The Material World is a Realm of both Order & Chaos. There is a dynamic tension between the two, which generates obstacles. A good attitude to take towards these obstacles, is that they are here to make things interesting. With that attitude, you'll never be crushed by anything that happens, and are very likely to figure out the solution to anything that comes up.

An important Pattern I've noticed, shows when the major problems will arise. When a person drifts along through life, never questioning anything, and merely doing what they are told, and believing just what they are told to believe, then things seem to move fairly smoothly for them. BUT, such a person won't be making any Spiritual Advancement that way, since they are drifting along a negative stream.

Then, let's say that, that person notices that there is a whole lot more to Life, than they have been told, and they decide to find out what that is. It is at this point that they will stop flowing along with the negative stream, and begin to find out about the positive stream, and attempt to get into it. Guess what happens then? Muwhahahaha! I bet you've been here...

Between the positive stream, and the negative stream, there is a whole lot of turbulance. While in the negative stream, one doesn't really deal with their Karma very much at all, so it simply accumulates. But, when one decides to switch from the negative stream to the positive stream, then one becomes vulnerable to all sorts of calamities. At this point a person doesn't really know how the Universe operates, (so they don't know how to apply the Cosmic Laws properly), and suddenly they are exposed to the Momentum of everything that they had NOT been dealing with before.

So when a person first sets their feet upon The Path, they usually get creamed. I've been through it, and I've seen enough other people go through it, that I now recognize it as one of Life's Patterns. It really is quite dependable. As a matter of fact, that is what our species is going through right now on this planet. Humanity is on the verge of a Great Spiritual Awakening, and just as it is for an individual, so it is for all of us together. um... you've probably noticed.

When a person emerges from the turbulence, having learned their lessons, then they enter into the positive stream. Living in the positive stream, is where you get to be consciously creative with the things that you do. This is a great Joy, but it is not without obstacles, since there is always that dynamic tension in the Material World, generated by the fact that this is a realm of both Order & Chaos. The challenges you meet on the positive stream, may be even greater, than what you deal with in the turbulence, but they exist on a wider scale beyond your personal Ego, and the rewards for solving them are the Brightest Blessings of all.

These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world

Magick Pond

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Friday, March 30, 2012

TED TALKS 18

TED TALKS 18

Chris Anderson (TED): A vision for TED

Robin Chase: Getting cars off the road and data into the skies

Jaime Lerner: Sing a song of sustainable cities

David Macaulay: All roads lead to Rome Antics

Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view

Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration

Pamelia Kurstin: Theremin, the untouchable music

George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn

Moshe Safdie: What makes a building unique?

Jill Sobule & Julia Sweeney: The Jill & Julia Show

OxFam America Videos 1

OxFam America Videos 1

Forgotten Communities, Unmet Promises

Coldplay's Chris Martin for the Make Trade Fair campaign

Poverty PSA 01

Oxfam and MySpace: Rock for Darfur

Stars Align for Oxfam America Unwrapped

Starbucks Day of Action

Public Health at Risk in Thailand

Reform the 2007 Farm Bill

Oxfam Internacional en Perú (Español)

Oxfam International in Peru (English translation)

The Hemp Revolution

The Hemp Revolution

What you lose on the Spiritual Path

RAVI SHANKAR & GEORGE HARRISON. PRABHUJEE

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What you lose on the Spiritual Path

By James Clair Lewis

There are schools of Mystical thought that say that Spiritual progress should be measured by what you lose. That's a difficult concept for the Western mind to wrap itself around. So let me put it to you this way :

Let's say you've got a really nice dependable car. It has a nice design, the engine runs well, and it gets good mileage, BUT you haven't washed the thing since you bought it. Since it looks filthy, the cops tend to pull you over rather frequently, (they do do that, you know). Your neighbors don't want to talk with you, because your car makes the neighborhood look trashy. You go to work & do a good job, but your co-workers keep at a distance, and perhaps you get skipped over for a raise or a promotion.

All this stuff happens, because you've never washed your car. So what is this dirt on the car? It is the trappings of Ego. There is nothing wrong with the car itself. It's fine. It's a good car. It's just that a filthy Ego can really stink. That's why mean people suck. They've got dirt, & dead leaves, and bird crap encrusted all over themselves, and why would anybody in their right mind want to be near any of that?

Engaging in Spritual Practices is like washing your filthy car, and making it clean. You can even go further, and do Deep Meditation. That's like washing your car, and then waxing it, until it really shines. It's the same car, but the appearance is a whole lot different. This is why you lose things as you go along on the Spiritual Path... and what you lose, is all stuff you never needed anyway.

These animated Moving Mandalas are very large files. Please click on the pic, and wait for it to load. The Contemplation will be very enabling, carrying your Mind beyond the mundane world

Golden Turquoise

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