TED TALKS 98
Svante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence
Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?
Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
Edward Tenner: Unintended consequences
Sarah Kaminsky: My father the forger
Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive
Raghava KK: Shake up your story
Yasheng Huang: Does democracy stifle economic growth?
Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
TED TALKS 98
Pop Classical : The Ahn Trio
Pop Classical : The Ahn Trio
Ahn Trio - Lullaby For My Favorite Insomniac EPK
Ahn Trio & DJ Spooky performing Riders on the Storm
'March of the Gypsy Fiddler' (III) Ahn Trio, Composed by Mark O'Connor
Solitary Singer, Ahn Trio and Ema Brabcova
Ahn Trio performing "Samba" by Paul Schoenfield
Ahn Trio in Sweden rehearsing "Mantiqueira" by Nelson Ayres
The Ahn Trio w/Michael Nyman piece "The Heart Asks Pleasure"
Ahn Trio plays the famous "Butterfly Lovers" with the CNSO in Beijing
The Ahn Trio: A modern take on piano, violin, cello
Leonard Susskind : The Theoretical Minimum
Leonard Susskind : The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 1 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 2 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 3 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 4 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 5 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 6 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 7 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 8 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 9 | The Theoretical Minimum
Lecture 10 | The Theoretical Minimum
Classic Jazz : Duke Ellington 3
Alex Grey : Oversoul
Alex Grey is one of the great artistic geniuses of our times. His mystical visions incorporate exacting detailed attention to internal anatomy, and the processes of Life. So I couldn't resist making these animated versions of his masterpiece, OverSoul. Click the avatar to see these Animations
You can find more of Alex Grey's artwork at his Official Website
TED TALKS 97
TED TALKS 97
Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
Jessica Green: Are we filtering the wrong microbes?
Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?
Alex Steffen: The shareable future of cities
Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue
Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace
Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars
Marco Tempest: The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
Dan Ariely: Beware conflicts of interest
Monday, October 29, 2012
Classic Country : John Denver 1
Sunday, October 28, 2012
The Astral Realm
The term, Astral Travel, is a misnomer, since the Astral Plane is not a spacial dimension, like the Material World. How do you measure distance, where things are only separated by thought, and the speed of thought is instantaneous? We exist simultaneously within all four Octaves of Reality: Spiritual, Mental, Astral, and Physical. Separation is merely a function of the focus of consciousness. So you don't actually go anywhere, when you are on the Astral Plane. The matrix of your Chakras, acupuncture meridians, etc, (which is what your Astral Body really is), remain in place relative to your Physical Body. If the Astral Body left the physical body, then the physical body would disintegrate.
What people see as a body while focused in the Astral Plane, is just a thoughtform the mind creates in order to help you relate to what you are experiencing. It is just a habit & a convenience, which provides you with a reference point. Sometimes when I'm focused in the Astral realm while sleeping, I'll see myself as having a body with clothes on. Why would I need clothes on the Astral Plane? How come I can change them, or why don't they match the physical clothes I wear while awake & focused on the Material Realm?
When I refocus my consciousness into the Astral Realm while physically awake, I don't see myself as having an "astral body" at all. Then I'm just a focal point of reference, and if I see anything at all that represents me, it is just a field of energy. This is because the Astral Realm is a symbolic realm, which doesn't make it unreal at all, since the forms of these symbolic representations are the fields of energy about which the Material Plane takes its shapes.
The conventions of form & distance exist only as a convenience that your Mind employs for relating to the experience. If you expect to see it, then you will. When you are accustomed to focusing your awareness into the Astral Plane, then those convenient references, simply melt away.
When you see or feel an aura, you are percieving on the Astral Plane. You are still here, but your consciousness is percieving information that exists on the Astral Plane. I generally use the Astral Plane as a chatroom for communicating with people instantaneously across distance on the Physical Plane. That's pretty useful, considering that I am a horribly slow typist... and phone bills can get very expensive.
In Hinduism & Buddhism they teach that the Material World is an illusion. The illusion is that the Material World is solid. Fields of energies from the higher planes condense to the point of apparent solidity. There are no elementary particles, atoms, molecules, or solid objects. It appears that way, because mind focused on the Material Plane vibrates at that rate, and while vibrating at that rate, things appear solid. Actually, there are only fields of vibration, and the flow of energies between.
Above the Astral Plane are the Mental and Spiritual Octaves of Reality. There are conferences where Enlightened Souls who don't happen to currently have physical bodies, give instruction, and you can mingle quite freely, depending upon where on the Spectrum of Consciousness, you happen to be, as an individual. The Universe is much bigger, and much smaller, than we imagine...
Surfing along the lower boundary of the Astral Plane, where it impinges upon the Material World, is a narrow corridor often mistaken for the true Astral Plane. Here you may refocus your awareness around distant locations to do what is known as Remote Viewing. Both Soviet & American Intelligence Agencies have employed this, because the applications for espionage are pretty obvious. Most people would never be aware of the presense of a Remote Viewer, although cats & dogs frequently are. With a great deal of practice, significant amounts of detail can be gleaned, as in the reading of documents in otherwise secured places.
I don't use this very much, but once while practicing Remote Viewing, I visited Shambala beneath Tibet. There I saw a Tibetian Lama reading a book. He looked up from his book, turned in my direction, smiled & waved. Then he went back to his reading... Nothing unusual about that...
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
Leonard Susskind : Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Leonard Susskind : Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 1 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 2 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 3 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 4 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 5 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 6 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 7 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 8 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 9 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Lecture 10 | Modern Physics: Statistical Mechanics
Bill Moyers & Company 10
Bill Moyers & Company 10
Bill Moyers Essay: What's Behind Grover Norquist's Pledge?
Moyers & Company Show 148: Big Media's Power Play
Bernie Sanders on Why Big Media Shouldn't Get Bigger
Mickey Edwards on How Conservatives Have Lost Their Way
Preview: Ending the Silence on Climate Change
Preview: Why Single-Degree Climate Changes Matter
Preview: Paul Krugman on Moyers & Company
Bill Moyers Essay: The 'Crony Capitalist Blowout'
Moyers & Company Preview: Larry Cohen on Filibuster Reform
Larry Cohen on Fighting the Silent Filibuster
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