Sky Blue Pinky Purple

2012-02-08T23:50:00.001-08:00

Our definition of healing is to enter with mercy and awareness that which we have held back from in judgment and fear and anger.
-Stephen Levine

Fidalgo Island 2012

2012-02-07T22:50:00.000-08:00

Fidalgo Island where we went as kids.

view from road to Fidalgo cabin

big rock down the beach

front of the cabin from the top of the path to the beach

south view to the point

Fidalgo is surrounded by tide flats. The tide went out so far you could not see it.

2012-02-07T22:28:00.001-08:00

“I invite more loving and supportive people and relationships into my life!”

Leonard Cohen - Come Healing Lyrics

2012-01-31T20:51:00.000-08:00

Behold the gates of mercy
In arbitrary space
And none of us deserving
Of cruelty or the grace

O, gather up the brokenness
Bring it to me now
The fragrance of those promises
You never dared to vow

The splinters that you carried
The cross you left behind
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

O, solitude of longing
Where love has been confined
Come healing of the body
Come healing of the mind

O, see the darkness yielding
That tore the light apart
Come healing of the reason
Come healing of the heart

O, troubledness concealing
An undivided love
The heart beneath is teaching
To the broken heart above

And let the heavens falter
Let the earth proclaim
Come healing of the altar
Come healing of the name

O, longing of the branches
To lift the little bud
O, longing of the arteries
To purify the blood

And let the heavens hear it
The penitential hymn
Come healing of the spirit
Come healing of the limb

BELIEFS

2012-01-30T18:22:00.000-08:00

“A belief is not an idea held by the mind, it is an idea that holds the mind” Elly Roselle

~Irish Blessing

2012-01-27T21:16:00.000-08:00

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.

Anne Lamott

2012-01-24T20:10:00.000-08:00

Age has given me what I was looking for my entire life – it gave me me. It provided the time and experience and failures and triumphs and friends who helped me step into the shape that had been waiting for me all my life… I not only get along with me most of the time now, I am militantly and maternally on my own side. ~ Anne Lamott

Food and Stress

2012-01-18T00:22:00.000-08:00

From the Women to Women Website:

"Many of us turn to food when we're stressed, but did you know timing your meals and snacks can also help limit stress?

When you let yourself get too hungry, you can experience low blood sugar levels.

This puts additional stress on your body and makes your adrenal glands work even harder -- which may lead to an adrenal imbalance with symptoms like fatigue, weight gain, and irritability.

We recommend the following schedule to help lessen your adrenal burden:
• If possible, eat breakfast by 8:00 AM or within an hour of getting up.
• Try to eat lunch between 11:00 AM and noon.
• Eat a nutritious snack between 2:00 and 3:00 PM to get you through the natural energy dip around 3:00 or 4:00 PM.
• Make an effort to eat dinner around 5:00 or 6:00 PM.

The signs of an adrenal problem include: fatigue, weight gain, bouts of acne, sugar cravings, and intolerance to cold.

People who are chronically stressed may have adrenals that are producing higher levels of cortisol and adrenaline than they can sustain, and eventually become worn down, even exhausted. Without properly functioning adrenals, the body loses its ability to settle down, relax, sleep, and rejuvenate.

What is Adaptisol™?
Formulated to address the most common symptoms of overworked adrenals, and using the latest research on phytotherapy to reduce the negative side effects of stress, Adaptisol is a natural, holistic adrenal-support supplement.

It features standardized extracts of ancient herbs known for their adaptogenic properties:

Astragalus Root — used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for thousands of years to support the immune system and help protect the body from physical, mental, or emotional stress.

Siberian Ginseng (Eleutherococcus senticosus) — prized for its ability to reduce fatigue, increase energy, and enhance mental clarity. Also widely used to boost the immune system and immune system response.

Rhodiola — a medicinal plant used for centuries in Russia and Scandinavia to improve response to physical stress, enhance immune function, and reduce fatigue.

Cordyceps — an East Asian extract used since antiquity to promote overall good health and, more specifically, to replenish immune system function. It also appears to act as an antioxidant in the body, protecting it from free-radical damage.

How will Adaptisol™ help me?
Provides an increase in energy levels, giving you endurance throughout the day.
Helps to bolster the immune system so you stay well.
Aids the body’s natural ability to adapt to stress.
Enhances mental clarity.

What is Serinisol™?
Women to Women’s Serinisol is a completely natural supplement that helps to support reduction of adrenal over activity — specifically the cortisol levels.

Our formula is designed for women who need to “quiet down” over exerted cortisol levels.

How will Serinisol help me?
Aids in the reduction of cortisol.
Assists the body’s natural ability to counter occasional stress.
Improves sleep.
Enhances mental clarity.
Helps reduce sporadic feelings of anxiousness.
Promotes relaxation.
Improves mood."

Opening Sacred Space

2012-01-17T19:25:00.000-08:00

Alberto Villoldo - Closing Sacred Space

2012-01-17T19:24:00.000-08:00

Did you know that the Earth has a heartbeat?

2012-01-01T20:43:00.000-08:00

Yes! It is called the Schumann Cavity Resonance, the frequency of the Earth.
Earth's electrical resonance, the Schumann Resonance, is the result of the make up of Earth as a spherical resonator. This resonator is the result of the conductivity of Earth, the insulative properties of the lower atmosphere and a highly charged and conductive ionosphere. This combination creates a spherical capacitor as well as a resonator. Quite a large amount of electrical energy is stored in this capacitor.

Since its discovery up 'til 1986 the Earth's "heartbeat" was a constant 7.8 Hertz per second. Since then it raised dramatically up to 10 Hertz per second, up to 1998. After that, magnetic properties of the Earth have dramatically dropped and is expected to reach its zero point in 2012.

It is said that our brain waves have a frequency component that matches that of Earth base resonance. This frequency is strongest when we meditate. We seem to be somehow connected to Earth through her electrical field.

While earth's "pulse" rate is rising, her magnetic field strength, on the other hand, is declining.

The electrical current flow to the Earth, except through lightning, is a result of the highly ionized hydrogen particles spewed out from the sun. The positive charges, which are basically protons, have a relatively high mass as compared to the negatively charged electrons. These massive positive charges blast through the atmosphere and land on the Earth and can be considered an electrical current.

This ionospheric (sphere of ions) charge creates an electrical shield around the Earth. This shield then becomes the outer conductor of an electrical sphere (the Earth) within a sphere (the ionosphere). The atmosphere is a dielectric insulator, which separates the two. Thus a spherical capacitor as well as a spherical resonator is created and maintained. Electrical signals of sufficient wavelength (low frequency) are wave-guided around and around between this "sphere within a sphere" and is known as the base Schumann Resonance of 7.8Hz mainly traveling from West to East.

The sun flips its magnetic poles every 11 years. The next flip should take place in 2012.

Edited from Earth's Magnetic Field, Resonance and Us

By L. Oliver Duffy

2012-01-01T20:11:00.000-08:00

There are exactly 2012 days between the June 20, 2007 Summer Solstice and the December 21, 2012 Winter Solstice.

Can someone who’s lazy really be a successful professional?

2012-01-01T18:54:00.000-08:00

Marc Allen: How You Can Be Lazy Yet Successful:

"The answer is: Yes, absolutely!

There are a lot of people who have understood and mastered time and money enough so that they’re successful and lazy as well.

How did they do it?

In a great many different creative ways of course — everyone is absolutely unique and develops their own unique methods that lead them to success.

The way I did it was so simple that I can teach it to nearly everyone:
The day I turned 30, I took a sheet of paper and wrote “Ideal Scene” at the top. Then I dared to dream the kind of life I wanted ideally. It included financial success, but it also included having a life of ease. I didn’t want to work too hard.

I wanted plenty of time for other creative things, and for family, and fun. In fact — ideally — I wanted to be pretty lazy a lot of the time. That’s my natural inclination, and has been since I was a kid.

My ideal is to work when I feel like it, and not work when I feel like doing something else.

I started affirming that I was becoming successful — in fact I was creating the life of my dreams — in an easy and relaxed manner, a healthy and positive way, in its own perfect time, for the highest good of all.

After I affirmed it a few thousand times over a few years, some pretty remarkable changes started happening in my life — including going from rags to riches, in my own lazy way.

Is it possible to be lazy and productive at the same time?
Absolutely.

Most of us think that we have to be active all the time to be really productive. And where does that lead? To burnout, or illness, or something else that limits or destroys your productivity.

But if we allow ourselves to be lazy, what happens for almost every healthy being is that after a period of time, we wake up one day and find we’re filled with energy. There’s nothing we’d rather do than be highly productive.

So many people feel they have to work 40 or 50 or even 60 hours a week — but half the time, they’re not being productive anyway.

Sometimes during the day it would be far better to take a nap, because you wake up with more energy and get more done in the long run.

I live my ideal week: I don’t do mornings, ever. I have no plans before noon. I don’t do Mondays either: That’s my day to myself, with no plans at all (my favorite day of the week).

When I go into my office Tuesday afternoon, I’m energized. I really look forward to it — there’s nothing I’d rather be doing. I work Tuesday through Thursday afternoons, usually. Friday afternoon is a swing day — I might work or do something else. Saturday I’m at home. And Sunday is family day — I never work on Sunday.

That’s a fairly lazy week — I usually don’t work much over 20 or 25 hours a week. But it’s enough: I’ve built a company that has fulfilled my dreams in every way, including financially, for the past 30 years."

These words are powerful, life-changing words:

The dreamers are the saviors of the world.

- James Allen, As You Think

2011-12-26T01:04:00.000-08:00

Water Dragon Year 2012 Lunar Months

Feb - Water Tiger
March - Water Hare
April - Wood Dragon
May - Wood Serpent
June - Fire Horse
July - Fire Sheep
Aug - Earth Monkey
Sep - Earth Phoenix
Oct - Metal Dog
Nov - Metal Pig
Dec - Water Rat
Jan - Water Ox

Eating Well for Optimum Health

2011-12-13T23:56:00.000-08:00

by Andrew Weil, MD

Cooking starts with imagination, with conceiving, picturing, and anticipating the look and smell and taste of something wonderful to eat.

It then involves manipulation of a vast number of variables to bring the concept into reality.

You have an idea in mind that you want to create. The task of the cook is to translate vision into reality, to manifest in the real world a creation that begins in the mind.

What is that if not practical magic?

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Once you understand the principles of cooking and have mastered the art of it, you can apply it in other situations.

Mastery of the art of cooking requires that you develop your power of observation and the clarity of your imagination.

You learn how to manage time, deal with unexpected developments, and not fall into states of frustration and despair when your efforts fail to develop the way you want them to.

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Numerology

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Zero is a powerful number which brings great transformational change, sometimes occurring in a profound manner. Emptiness but containing everything. The emptiness of true freedom. The Sacred Void.

The number 1 represents new beginnings and about the creation of potential energy.

2 in numerological terms represents the duality. 2 is the number that symbolizes the feminine and maternal being, emotions, love feelings, patience, conciliation, overview, humaneness and universal service.

The number 3 in numerology represents the catalyst, new integration and wholeness. 3 also represents communication of all kinds.

4 is Gaia. It is Mother Earth, an Earth Energy. Number 4 in numerological terms is an Earth number and involves structure, the four directions. The four elements of earth, air, water and fire. 4 is the number that characterizes what is objective, material, tangible, order and construction. It's a grounding number.

5 expresses the essence of CHANGE. 5 indicates the necessity to maintain an independent spirit, free and open to possibilities, facing all kind of changes that could come into our lives. 5 tells of the need to change personal patterns of consciousness and to seek real freedom, to learn the true meaning of freedom.

The number 6 is the center. It represents communication, prayer and access to the Higher-Self. Six relates to tact, beauty and harmony.

Number 7 represents Divinity. In numerological terms, seven has the energy of sacredness.

8 is considered to be the number of karmic influences, hard work and lessons learned through experience. More than any other number, 8 seeks money, financial abundance and material success.

9 stands for completion. It represents change, invention and growth which comes from inspiration. 9 is the number that symbolizes compassion, vision of the whole, humanness and universal service.

10 is a higher octave of the number one and signifies an end of an important cycle.

Eleven stands for illumination and mastery. 11 is the first master number. 11 is considered the path of spiritual awareness and knowledge. The 11 is the most intuitive of all numbers. It represents a channel to the subconscious.

Twelve is a higher octave of the number three and is an indicator of great understanding and wisdom.

Thirteen is considered to signify the end of a cycle. Thirteen’s real significance is related to sacred geometry and the platonic solids. And the creation pattern shown in the Flower of Life, symbolizing the never ending destruction and creation of life.
The sum of thirteen is 91, (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13), which is each number of days in a season.

The 22 is the most powerful of all numbers. It is often called the Master Builder. The 22 can turn the most ambitious of dreams into reality. It is potentially the most successful of all numbers. It has many of the inspirational insights of the 11, combined with the practicality and methodical nature of the 4. It is unlimited, yet disciplined.

The 33 is the most influential of all numbers. It is the Master Teacher. The 33 combines the 11 and the 22 and brings their potential to another level. When expressed to the fullest, the 33 lacks all personal ambition, and instead focuses its considerable abilities toward the spiritual uplifting of mankind. What makes the 33 especially impressive, is the high level of sincere devotion, seeking understanding and wisdom.

The number 11 represents the vision.
The number 22 combines vision with action.
The number 33 offers guidance to the world.

The New Sun

2011-11-16T01:21:00.000-08:00

Head of the Mayan Elders Don Alejandro on 2012 - Apocalypse or New Sun?
from the film "The Shift of the Ages"

"Every 5,200 years we come to this point when the planet Earth becomes dark for 60 or 70 hours. We cannot see the sun. Why?

Because the science of the Mayan astronomers learned that Earth was always going around the sun, but now we are getting closer until we enter the central magnetic axis.

There is a great axis above the planet Earth that makes all the stars and the planets move. And so while the Earth passes through that axis, we cannot see the rays of the sun. We are inside.

Once the Earth re-emerges from the axis, we will then be able to see the New Sun, but what I cannot tell you is if it is actually the same sun, or if it is a different sun.

So I tell you, do not be afraid. The Sun will go dark, the planet Earth will not see the Sun, but we should understand, it will be like the New Year. That is what we should do when the day comes.

We are lost to the correct date.

The Maya during the nights of darkness, never lose their fire, which will be the torch that illuminates the long night, before the New Sun comes."

Increasing Earth Vibration

2011-11-16T01:16:00.000-08:00

There is a rising of the frequency of the planet as measured by the Schumann Resonance, which is essentially defined as the heartbeat of the Earth.

The Schumann resonances (SR) are a set of spectrum peaks in the extremely low frequency (ELF) portion of the Earth's electromagnetic field spectrum. Schumann resonances are global electromagnetic resonances, excited by lightning discharges between the Earth's surface and the ionosphere.

For centuries, the Earth vibrated at approximately 7.8 mhz cycles/second. However, since 1980, that number has been rising steadily, and now stands at over 12 mhz.

When it hits the magical number of 13 mhz, the Earth, and human consciousness, is predicted to make a dramatic evolutionary shift.

Balance of Time

2011-11-16T00:45:00.000-08:00

From: Miracles and Inspiration: Change Your Concsiousness - Change Your Life
2012 – The Evolution of Consciousness, Spirit and Planet Earth

According to Mayan and 2012 expert, José Arguëlles, by ensuring that the thirteen-month (or thirteen-moon) calendar was destroyed, and never to be adhered to again, the world has remained in a state of perpetual chaos and imbalance for hundreds of years, by the indoctrination of the twelve-month calendar.

And thus ensuring that the world and its people can be more easily controlled by those in the circles of the power elite. (For more on the Mayan and thirteen-month calendar, please visit our José Arguëlles section.)

Where the thirteen-month calendar was perpetual, harmonious and consistent with the Earth and the Universe, the twelve-month calendar was equally erratic, disharmonious and inconsistent, thus keeping the human consciousness out of sync with the rhythms and balance of the Divine source.

The Vatican had literally managed to alter time as they (the ancient cultures) had come to know it.

Organic Green Roots

2011-11-07T19:29:00.000-08:00

Embedded with Organic Green Roots is the intention to connect and draw sustenance with what I call the inner ecology of the spirit that unites us all.

This is the inner rhetoric of nature that we feel in your heart. It helps us cleanse our soul and garden our spirits. Once we become connected in this manner, this intention begins to radiate all around us to encourage others to tap their roots and get connected. Acting environmentally responsible is a natural extention and manifestation of feeling this in your heart.

We learn to compost our "inner weeds" as we move forward, sowing the seeds of environmental respect with each other.

Let's weed out hate and sow the seeds of peace.

...Marc Daniels on Organic Green Roots Facebook Page

An Opening

2011-09-16T09:09:00.001-07:00

"A person

is not a thing or a process,

but an opening

through which the absolute manifests."

-- Martin Heidegger

It's wonder.

2011-08-31T22:29:00.000-07:00

And then sit in the spray of a waterfall and watch the water that's always coming and always going and always here. It's wonder. It's awe.
(paraphrased from as interview with Jane Goodall

Danny Wright, Piano

2011-08-15T11:29:00.000-07:00

2011-08-14T00:22:00.000-07:00

"In this Food

I see the pressence of Entire Universe

Supporting me"

Mayumi Oda

Growing organic foods, in natural, contemplative living communities, will offer people healing, contentment, compassionate aloha, and the renewal of creativity.

Her voice sounds like a crystal bowl ringing out a call to breathe,

to pay attention,

to really see,

and to act wisely on what we see.

A daily gardening routine can be truly therapeutic and relaxing.

The human body quickly begins to feel connected with the earth.

Fears or anxieties can be wiped clean simply by taking care of the mother earth.

The aim of Mayumi’s life has a more expansive and long-range target.

Mayumi’s art extends to the geo-political arena

where she also works as a global activist, participating in anti-nuclear campaigns worldwide.

In 1992, she founded Plutonium Free Future to help prevent nuclear disaster.

The full circle of life produces healthy children, clean water, safe food and homes that are protected, and far away from the nuclear industry and its bed-partner, the weapons industry.

She co-founded a non-profit group called INOCHI, which is Japanese for “life force"

and another group called United Earth,

a network of Japanese and overseas contacts doing direct aid in areas affected by disasters.

Now, 66 years after being bombed in Japan,

Mayumi shares that healing experience with others,

waking up a new generation with the power of her voice,

the beauty of her vision,

and the strength of her hands.

Every open heart who hears the ring of truth from the woman who sees and paints goddesses

can aim toward the same target:

a sane, healthy, loving planet.

You can help the Morokino project or United Earth.
Donate now by sending checks made out to INOCHI and mail them to Mayumi Oda, Ginger Hill Farm, P.O. Box 1907, Kealakekua, HI 96750.

SLOOH - Total Lunar Eclipse LIVE - June 15, 2011

2011-06-15T12:17:00.000-07:00

SLOOH - Total Lunar Eclipse LIVE - June 15, 2011

“Manhattanhenge”,

2011-06-12T23:45:00.000-07:00

On May 11, 2011, at roughly 8:17 pm New Yorkers got a chance to experience “Manhattanhenge”, the semi-annual occurrence where the setting sun aligns perfectly with east-west streets.

A second date this year is expected to take place on Monday, July 11 at 8:25 p.m.

Photo Credit: Anthony Behar/Sipa Press via AP Images

SWIMMING in LOVE as LOVE CUZZY and SOUL SIBLINGS

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Fill your moments!

2011-03-18T10:49:00.001-07:00

Fill your moments with action, and there will be little time left for worry.

Fill your moments with meaning, and there will be little time left for despair.

Fill your days with discovery, and you will fill your life with valuable knowledge.

Fill your hours with caring, compassion and respect, and you will fill your world with love and friendship.

Fill your thoughts with positive possibilities, and the best things in life will surely be within your reach.

Fill your words with encouragement and enthusiasm, and you'll often find people and circumstances lining up in your favor.

Fill your efforts with purpose, persistence, diligence and integrity, and your life will be filled with valuable achievements.

Fill your heart with a love of truth and goodness, and your soul will be filled with the treasure of wisdom.

Your life is a most precious gift. Fill every corner of it with the best that you can.

-- Ralph Marston

A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation

2011-03-02T10:24:00.000-08:00

howjsay . com

Funny Horse

2011-03-01T10:45:00.000-08:00

2011-03-01T09:58:00.000-08:00

spirals and torus

2011-02-27T19:11:00.000-08:00

"The double vortex creating the torus on the right! It takes some imagination but have a look at the double vortex on the left, doesn’t it look like a tree? The bottom vortex are the roots, the top is the foliage.

The torus is an apple shape. In the right picture it is rather easy to see the apple.

The snake that seduced Eve to eat the apple from the tree is the Phi spiral that perfectly describes the torus.

The story of Adam and Eve, could well be references to the way the material world is constructed from the aether.

What if the fall from paradise started when from the Oneness of the Creator, his eternal consciousness, the aether, the first torus shape was created?"

...The doughnut torus...

The characters of the Hebrew alphabet are projections of a ‘special form’ on the faces of a tetrahedron seen from different angles!
The Phi spiral describes the surface of the torus, the basic element of matter. Now if we put the Phi spiral inside a tetrahedron and then slowly revolve it around a pivot axis, and shine a light from behind the Phi spiral, all of the Hebrew characters will show up as the shadows on the inside face of the tetrahedron. Winter claims that the characters of the Hebrew alphabet are the projections of a Golden Mean spiral.

Edited from Science and the Scriptures
http://www.soulinvitation.com/

Biologic Architecture and the Fractal Field

2011-02-27T12:20:00.000-08:00

"Biologic Architecture is the set of rules which determine which symmetry or quality of electric field allows all biologic structures to thrive.

The opposite of the death and disease creating electrosmog and steel and aluminum cages which visibly inhibit ALL growth - biologic architecture puts into practice the simple rules which allow building and community plans to make FRACTAL and rose petal like charge fields which puts charge into everything based on DNA. All of biology uses this principle - to attract the charge field (spirit / chi / orgone / barraka / shakti ) - into perfect compression - called LIFE ITSELF!

Genes are like all living things - they are based on PHI (Golden Mean) and fractality precisely because only constructive charge compression allows all biologic memory (survival) to be stored - and allows that same field effect (life force is what biologic capacitors eat) - to radiate efficiently into the electric flower of self organization called growth, healing, attention, bliss, and ultimately what must go thru death by compression successfully.

Studying the symmetry of electric fields causing health versus disease an overwhelming simple and yet compelling rule or pattern has emerged.

First we learned that Re-Dox (Oxidation - Reduction Potential or electron availability TO REACT) potential can effectively predict whether ANY liquid inside biology is going to create HEALTH versus DISEASE.

Later it emerges that in effect the Re-Dox is nothing more than A MEASURE OF FRACTALITY.

This is because - first - a free electron itself is nothing more than an electrical black hole (implosive fractal) - and further than the electrical symmetry which ALLOWS an electron to GET DISTRIBUTED EFFICIENTLY (effectively - definition of life itself!) is precisely the fractal (and non-destructive charge) compression which always precedes EFFICIENT CHARGE DISTRIBUTION.

In other words- biology heals and thrives ONLY when it can get first the compression right so that a charge radiance (fractal or perfectly branched ) charge distribution results. This then spits out infection, inflammation and restores electrical self-organization.

This is evidenced in multiple ways- including the very word PHYlotaxis, SCION (SCIence), diVINE, etc - which all simply mean THE PERFECT BRANCHING OR DISTRIBUTION OF CHARGE resulting from fractality. (REAL grail physics).

Medically this is evidenced in numerous ways, for example:

- in the way perfect branching, electrical fractality, and harmonic inclusiveness ALWAYS predict the healthy heart/EKG/HRV versus virtually ALL chronic disease.

- in the way Szent Gyorgyi showed that triplet state electron charge distribution in super-ordered (fractal / dodec/ clathrate cage) WATER- was always the descriminating factor between health cells and cancer. (book:"Electronic Biology and Cancer" etc.)

- in way a strong negative ion wind ("Cell Care Therapy" links at soulinvitation.com/fractalfield ) when administered therapeutically will dramatically evict inflammation and infection from virtually any biologic tissue. In that article for example we strongly suggest that not only does fractality in LIQUID (ReDox) predict and measure viability (survival) in general -but FRACTALITY IN AIR - does the same! ( See IGA 'torsional' capacitive field technology - measuring fractality in AIR - the residual weak implosive capacitive field which is the signature of ALL LIFE

( links: soulinvitation.com/fractalfield , soulinvitation.com/phaseconjugation .
Also see how we have been measuring the ability to self-organize the weak charge field around ANYTHING ALIVE - can measure freshness , vitality, life-force - at soulinvitation.com/biophoton )

SO- what is the practical upstart of all these exciting new insights. NOW we can UNDERSTAND all the dozens of studies which show that a FRACTAL FIELD (earlier for example named orgone - which now has an electrical definition: a biologically recursive / implosive charge field)- DRAMATICALLY SERVES SEED GERMINATION. ( soulinvitation.com/germination and pics below).

The FRACTAL FIELD - revolutionizes most everything in science - from the essential principle of the CAUSE of gravity, consciousness/bliss, healing, and all growth - to the principle of teaching peacemaking as science. Fractality of charge IS the self-organizing electrical principle of life itself.

Applying this to architecture - we now see exactly why the design of living space - must be exactly that - an electrically living space.

An electrically alive space (sometimes called 'sacred') - is simply the space where charge can breathe efficiently and thus achieve the (multiply connected / holographic and fractal) distributed resonance called awareness.

It is very much like the scene in the Gurjieff movie ('Meetings with Remarkable Men') where the prize goes to the one WHO CAN CREATE AN ECHO !

Ability to return to center (self-refer) for waves and charge - defines birth of self awareness.

So - in effect - to create healing - and bliss / peak experience (end A.D.D / addiction / disease) we now can state with absolute electrical precision that the function of architecture is absolutely the SKILL TO BUILD A BIOLOGICALLY FRACTAL (phase conjugate) CAPACITOR!

If these rules are followed - ( in conjunction with live food + happy DNA diet + yoga kinesthetic) biology will be healed and bliss will erupt spontaneously.

The charge field of your (bliss) DNA and EKG (compassionate heart) and PHYLOTACTIC BIOLOGY - look like a ROSE."

The concept of Biologic Architecture was pioneered by Dan Winter. He has been teaching Scientific principles behind Feng Shui internationally for many years. ( fengshuiseminars.com ). With a background in Electrical Engineering, Systems Analysis, Psychophysiology - he is credited in the literature with inventing and pioneering "Heart Coherence". In addition to his "HeartTuner" & "BlissTuner" inventions ( goldenmean.info ) he has developed systems for measuring Life Force and Freshness and Tree Health - ( soulinvitation.com/biophoton ) using capacitive coupling - weak charge field power spectra. He has developed fundamentally exciting new concepts for supporting biology electrically- namely- that electrical fractality measureably predicts ability of all environments to support life (in both liquid and air). Please see the references www.soulinvitation.com/fractalfield.

hope for creative living

2011-02-24T00:06:00.000-08:00

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.

We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Our hope for creative living lies in our ability to reestablish the spiritual needs of our lives in personal character and social justice.

Without this spiritual and moral reawakening we shall destroy ourselves in the misuse of our own instruments."

--Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Energy Into Information

2011-02-21T20:10:00.000-08:00

Edited from The Universe is a Fractal Superorganism

Endophysics is the analysis of how the human observer transforms what he perceives with his senses and languages, deforming reality.

The ultimate meaning of endophysics is that only the entire Universe carries all the information and energy, all the time cycles and frequencies, and all the extensions and space there is.

Both languages and knowledges complement each other to illuminate the meaning of each part of reality.

All organic systems of reality are systems that constantly transform back and forth ‘energy into information’. Reality is an organic fractal of energy and information.

Initially, we observed the spatial energy and temporal information, the rhythms and frequencies of the cycles and motions of the Universe, with our senses.

So we saw space with our eyes and ‘deform’ that space with our emotions and perceptions creating art. And we saw time – the casual sequences of events – with our words and explained it with the ‘dimensions of past, present and future’.

The ways in which the fractal Universe creates and destroys reality are intimately related to those 3 dimensions of time.

There are 2 fundamental forms of space, lineal energy and cyclical information, and their importance of explaining the organic functions of bodies, brains, particles and fields.

96% of the Universe is made of spatial energies and informations we cannot perceive (dark matter and dark energy).

Humans select with their senses a limited quantity of space and time cycles, which they harmonize and perceive with light. So our ‘space’ is only the light-space we see. And so our limited space has exactly the same 3 perpendicular dimensions that a light field has: height-electric field, width-magnetic field and length-the light speed.

Because the Universe has several fractal layers, in physical space there is at least another entire ‘membrane of space-time’, the gravitational membrane of dark energy and dark matter (quarks) that we do not perceive.

Regarding time, the problem is even deeper because while space has been well studied and we just need an upgrade of what we know, the concept of time has been grossly misrepresented by the use of clocks, which killed the causality of time.

The basic concepts in which the fractal paradigm is based is that, in the fractal Universe, all is a repetition.  Physicists who study only a definition of time, expressed by Galileo with his formula v=s/t, t=v/s, have reduced time studies to the analysis of ‘change in the motion of things’.

And indeed, time is change. We perceive time as the change of reality. If things wouldn’t change we would say that time doesn’t change, doesn’t move. But the study of motions and translations in space, while important, is not the study of all the processes of change in the Universe.

The life/death or ‘existential cycles’ of beings appear, grow, evolve and disappear constantly in reality. Those types of time/change have never been analyzed by physicists because neither clocks, nor mathematics, are the proper languages to study them.

They have been thoroughly studied by philosophers of science and biologists with words and its 3 dimensions of past, what becomes extinct, present, what constantly seems to appear unchanged, and future, what changes and evolves and reproduces in the future.

Increasing levels of complexity, from 0 to 10, are exactly the 10 scales of the fractal Universe, after which the ‘game of existence’ repeats the same self-similar forms.

Fractal Organisms exist as cells of super-organisms in 3 Universal scales of space/time:
1-3 Atoms
4-6: Socio-biological Organisms
      4-5: Life
       5-6: Civilizations
7-9: Gravitational Systems

Our Fractal Universe transforming energy and information.

2011-02-20T20:19:00.000-08:00

This is edited from
The Universe is a Fractal Superorganism

What if we live in a Fractal Universe of self-generative patterns = cycles of information?

The science of Complexity study the generation of information in the Universe. We have learned that information is generated with the same abundance that energy is.

‘The Universe constantly transforms back and forth energy into information: E<=>I’

The Universe is a fractal of 2 motions:
-space & O-time broken in ∞
-energic fields/bodies + O-informative heads/particles: ∑exi=st

Thus there is not only a Principle or arrow of energy also called entropy that constantly expands, creates space and accelerates the motions of space, but also an arrow or principle of information that constantly implodes, creates form, in/form/ation.

And those 2 inverse motions in their eternal transformations into each other create the reality you observe.

All what exists is a combination of those 2 motions.

All what we see is form, information being created and destroyed, transformed in other forms in action, in-form-ations, forms with motion, with energy. So all comes to this: forms and motion.

We are all fractal pieces of light space-time, which evolved into complex forms of in/form/ation. We are made of evolved light-space.

We exist in four dimensions, two of energy, a plane of lineal motions, and two of information, cyclical motions, whose bites and bits combine to create all the fractal organisms of reality, all the shapes you see, from the informative particles of physical space to the cyclical, neuronal path/thoughts of your spherical head.

What matters is that now we can understand how energy becomes information, how geometrical space and clocks of time combine.

Energy never dies but constantly trans/forms itself into in/form/ation and vice versa.

So the essence of a dynamic, physical space-time field is the combination and transformation of bidimensional, high in-form-ation into bidimensional, flat scales of energy.

When both fields merge, they create a real three-dimensional wave form, which adds a fourth dimension of frequency or rhythm, as in a ray of light, the simplest space-time field, made of two perpendicular planes: one of electric information with the dimension of height and frequency, and one of magnetic energy, with the dimension of width and speed.

In the realm of physics, one of the main proofs of such bidimensionality and the properties of information described before is the fact that it is the only explanation we have of a recently discovered phenomenon that the holographic principle says information is bidimensional and the discovery that when we become smaller back into the quantum world, dimensions diminish into two dimensions.

The holographic principle, a key element of modern physics, says information in the Universe is bidimensional. Even human beings create three dimensionalities, combining two dimensions of form perceived by each eye. Indeed, two dimensions of time-information and two dimensions of space-energy combine in all beings to create all systems of reality.

The principle of conservation of energy and information becomes the fundamental equation of the fractal Universe since all that exists requires both—energetic limbs/forces and informative cycles/heads to become a real four-dimensional being of the Universe.

Those restraints are indeed a key guide to consider which beings are stable and exist and which beings are unstable fantasies that do not follow the laws of balance and harmony of reality.

The new paradigm that cosmologists have arrived at by several routes is an infinite fractal hierarchy that has “universes” within “universes” without end.

There is no edge or boundary of the Universe; space is infinite in all directions.

What we used to refer to as “The Universe” can be more appropriately called the “observable universe” (note the small “u”) or the “Hubble Volume,” and it is only a tiny part of what one might call our “metagalaxy” or “level 1 universe”.

We currently have no way of determining the size of our metagalaxy or the number of galaxies it contains, but we could reasonably assume that both figures would be vastly beyond anything previously contemplated.

Time is also infinite in the unbounded Organic universe.

Whereas our Hubble Volume may have come into being and began to expand approximately 13.7 billion years ago, the Universe has always existed and always will. Parts of the Universe may be created or annihilated, may undergo expansion or contraction, but the infinite fractal hierarchy remains unchanged overall, and thus is without any temporal limits.

In the infinite fractal paradigm there is no limit to size scales; the hierarchy is infinite in scale.

An infinite Organic universe extends without limits to ever bigger and ever smaller scales.

In an infinite fractal hierarchy there is no center of the Universe, nor any preferred reference frame.

Some say that the Universe is built in fractal scales made of pieces which occupy a piece of vital space and last a quantity of informative time.

Fractal equations create forms as life does.

Fractal equations create self-similar “cells,” as life does.

And in fact, they use the same term. Fractal equations are also called generator equations, as they are the mother cells that encode the information needed to repeat a living form. Finally a fractal equation will create a pattern of interconnected parts, which put together reproduce a whole, self-similar to their parts, as organisms do.

Since when we see any continuous point of time/space in detail, it grows, becoming both, dynamic and discontinuous, made of quanta, moving in self-similar paths that are separated as independent beings, but pegged to each other in networks by flows of energy and information.

The Universe is constructed through those networks of parts that become wholes and grow in bigger scales, departing from its two essential formal motions, the line of energy and the cycle of information.

This is the ultimate meaning of duality.

All can exist in two states, sometimes acting as a network and sometimes as a wave-flow, in many different scales: masses or charges or clocks or heads are all species of information, but they swim over a field or body of energy and sometimes gauge information and sometimes move.

This duality gives origin to many paradoxes, as the properties of energy and information are inverted, and yet reality is always a combination of both. So particles of information are also waves of energy. Forms that seem static information can also be perceived as moving energy.

Information is static since to perceive a form, we need to focus on its edges, and movement blurs form.

So the mind perceives information in stillness, as when we read. Yet energy is motion, and since all dual complementary systems have information and energy (physical particles and forces in quantum physics), we can perceive or measure all beings, including the Earth as entities/waves in motion or as static forms/particles.

But given the limits of our visual and instrumental systems, we can’t perceive both things at the same time. Therefore, the uncertainty of measure and perception is human while nature is dual.

Our “space” is made of light, and light has a Cartesian perpendicular structure, with three perpendicular fields (height/electric field, width/magnetic field and length, speed).

This is what fractal theorists mean when they affirm that space-time is fractal. We float and exist in a “sea” of light space-time, made of H-Planck units of light, which are “actions of energy and information”: E × V = K.

Thus our light space-time is of energy and information, and we are evolved beings of light. But the Universe is fractal, is made of scales. And so there is another world of dark gravitational energy and matter that we do not perceive, the world of quarks, masses, and gravitational, invisible waves, described by Einstein’s relativity.

All particles are non-Euclidean waves as points have height and volume. Non-Euclidean points acquire volume when we approach them. And so planes acquire volume, structure, and movement.

The space-time Universe thus becomes a discontinuous world of fractal points that grow in size as we come closer to the next scale, made of networks of points sharing waves of energy and information. And so we can define any discontinuous, relative, fractal space as a “plane of fractal points communicated by waves of energy and information” (fourth postulate), which becomes the organic unit of reality.

From the informative point of view, systems change in the speed or motion of things.

When a system acquires forms, it slows down. When a system loses dimensions, it speeds up.

Mass stores much more information than waves in physical bidimensional vortices.

We are all pieces made of fractal cellular points that occupy spaces, move, and last a certain time.
All points have a volume when we enlarge them, as cells grow when we look at them with a microscope. Such organic points are like the stars in the sky. If you look at them with the naked eye, they are points without breadth, but when you come closer to them, they grow.

Thus, there is a bigger Universe which we do not fully perceive, made of gravitational dark energies and point-particles called quarks, as we are “limited, perceptive beings” that only see light.

We are part of a network of electronic flows of energy and form of light nature, and we float in a bigger dark Universe.

In non-Euclidean geometries, a space is not static, but a moving group of points in cyclical movement. So in the same way, the space-time that fills reality is made of points, which have movement. They are a series of moving cyclical vortices, the points of the smaller fractal scale of gravitational reality, Einstein’s definition of masses, as cyclical whirls of space-time.

The holographic principle that defines information as bidimensional—a cyclical physical vortex.

Thus, suddenly mathematics stop being an “abstract” construct, a continuous plane drawn by Descartes and imposed into nature by Newton, and becomes a series of “vital geometries,” entities that have a quantity of vital space, made of networks of non-Euclidean points, particles, cells, or stars of a galaxy.

And all those different scales of reality, made of networks of non-Euclidean points, can be explained, both as mathematical structures and organic structures, since an organism is merely a ternary system with a network of energetic and informative points/cells that create the limbs and head of the organism and its intermediate reproductive wavelike body.

A fractal is a system of self-similar cells generated by a feed-back equation that transforms energy into information.

This complex definition of a fractal being can be made more precise when we understand the meaning of the generator equation of a fractal in the real world, beyond the language of mathematics.

Any informative code can be a generator equation of a fractal being.

A human fractal is generated by the code of information of the genome; a mathematical fractal is generated by a much simpler equation.

The Universe and all its systems are in that sense fractals with different generating equations of different complexities.

The universe converts energy into information (motion into form).

Yet what unify them all are the two “essential” geometries that combine to paint the four-dimensional fractal beings of the Universe, spatial energy and temporal information. And this is what fractal theorists mean by a Universe made of fractal energy and information.

The Question

2011-02-18T10:01:00.001-08:00

If Genetically Modified or Engineered crops and food is the answer, we sure didn’t understand the question.

Wage Peace:

2011-02-18T09:44:00.000-08:00

Here is my adaptation of a poem written on 9/11/2001.
Please see the original below.
Please click here to see the original on BareWitness.com.

Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in emergency response and rubble,

breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in fear

and breathe out sleeping children and freshly planted organic fields.

Breathe in confusion

and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen

and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Imagine grief

and remember love

with an outbreath of beauty.

Wage peace with your listening:

hearing sirens, pray loud.

Wage peace with your actions:

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music,

Swim in the deep end and reach the other side.

Wage peace with your words:

Learn to say, I am sorry, please forgive me

memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,

bearing a new beginning that is sweet and delicious.

Remember who you are.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice,

send out a message of peace

as you release what has been and what is

and breath life into new dreams of what will be.

Act as if balance and harmony have already arrived.

Celebrate today.

Here is Judyth's poem:
Judyth Hill

September 11, 2001
Judyth Hill is a stand-up poet and teacher of poetry, living in amazed and grateful beauty where the Rockies meet the Plains, in Northern New Mexico. Her six published books of poetry include Presence of Angels, Men Need Space, and her collection of poems of her land, Black Hollyhock, First Light, from La Alameda Press. She was described by the St. Helena Examiner as, “Energy with skin”.

Wage Peace

Wage peace with your breath.

Breathe in firemen and rubble,

breathe out whole buildings and flocks of red wing blackbirds.

Breathe in terrorists

and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields.

Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees.

Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact.

Wage peace with your listening: hearing sirens, pray loud.

Remember your tools: flower seeds, clothes pins, clean rivers.

Make soup.

Play music, memorize the words for thank you in three languages.

Learn to knit, and make a hat.

Think of chaos as dancing raspberries,

imagine grief

as the outbreath of beauty or the gesture of fish.

Swim for the other side.

Wage peace.

Never has the world seemed so fresh and precious:

Have a cup of tea and rejoice.

Act as if armistice has already arrived.

Celebrate today.

Tragic Heroes

2011-02-05T19:40:00.000-08:00

Tragic Heroes

Undivided Wholeness

2011-01-27T20:38:00.000-08:00

Dr. David Bohm was a quantum physicist who made contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology.

In collaboration with Stanford neuroscientist Karl Pribram, Bohm was involved in the early development of the holonomic model of the functioning of the brain, a model for human cognition that is drastically different from conventionally accepted ideas.

Bohm worked with Pribram on the theory that the brain operates in a manner similar to a hologram, in accordance with quantum mathematical principles and the characteristics of wave patterns.

"When Bohm speaks of the undivided wholeness of the cosmos and the super-implicate order that is behind and within all things, he invokes religious ideas of an ineffable and unknowable ground of being.

The meeting ground for science and religion is indeed upon us. We live in very exciting times. Now is the time for dialogue across what is known as science and religion or spirituality, and between and among disciplines, in a search for what Buckminster Fuller called "comprehensivist" thinking in the largest patterned integrity that is trans-disciplinary and "wholistic" without borders, a non-habitual, non-determined, non-local thought that is connected with Spirit.

It is what IONS (Institute for Noetic Sciences) would call noetic consciousness, what Emerson called the Oversoul, and Jung referred to as the collective unconscious. It could be the outcome of what cultural linguist Matthew Bronson has called "Big Tent Science."

The real illusion that has permeated Western consciousness is our imagined separation from the natural world.

Now that the quantum revolution has exposed the impossibility of separating the observer from the observed, reuniting our current science with the ancient sciences among indigenous peoples, the concept of nonlocal thought and radical interconnection with the natural world is being re-understood.

It is my desire that education, and all of society, be re-envisioned with this connection in mind."

GLENN APARICIO PARRY - Native Wisdom in a Quantum World

Cherokee Prophecies

2011-01-15T21:58:00.000-08:00

Cherokee Prophecies - Crystalinks

1986 Continental Indigenous Council,
Fairbanks, Alaska
By Lee Brown, Cherokee

There was the cycle of the mineral, the rock.
There was the cycle of the plant.
And now we are in the cycle of the animal coming to the end of that and beginning the cycle of the human being.
When we get into the cycle of the human being, the highest and greatest powers that we have will be released to us.

At the beginning of this cycle of time, long ago, the Great Spirit made an appearance and gathered the peoples of this earth together, and said to the human beings. "I'm going to send you to four directions and over time I'm going to change you to four colors.

I'm going to give you some teachings, and you will call these the Original Teachings; when you come back together with each other, you will share these so that you can live and have peace on Earth, and a great civilization will come about.

During the cycle of time, I'm going to give each of you two stone tablets. When I give you those stone tablets, don't cast them upon the ground. If any of the sisters and brothers cast their tablets on the ground, not only will human beings have a hard time, but almost the earth itself will die."

And so He gave each of us a responsibility, and we call that the Guardianship.

To the Indian people, the red people, He gave the Guardianship of the Earth. We are to learn during this cycle of time the teachings of the Earth; the plants that grow from the Earth; the foods that you can eat, and the herbs that heal. Then, when we came back together with the other sisters and brothers, we could share this knowledge with them. Something good was to happen on the Earth.

To the South He gave the yellow race of people the Guardianship of the Wind. They were to learn about the sky and breathing and how to take that within ourselves for spiritual advancement. They were to share that with us at this time.

To the West He gave the black race of people the Guardianship of the Water. They were to learn the teachings of the water, which is the chief of the elements, being the most humble and the most powerful. The elders have told me that the black people would bring the teachings of the water.

To the North He gave the white race of people the Guardianship of the Fire. If you look at the center of many of the things they do, you will find the fire. They say a light bulb is the white man's fire. If you look at the center of a car you will find a spark. If you look at the center of the airplane and the train you will find the fire. The fire consumes, and also moves. This is why it was the white sisters and brothers who began to move upon the face of the earth and reunite us as a human family.

And so a long time passed, and the Great Spirit gave each of the four races two stone tablets.

Ours are kept at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona at Four Corners Area on Third Mesa.

I talked to people from the black race, and their stone tablets are at the foot of Mount Kenya. They are kept by the Kukuyu Tribe.

I was at an Indian spiritual gathering about 15 years ago.
A medicine man from South Dakota put a beaded medicine wheel in the middle of the gathering. It had the four colors from the four directions; he asked the people, "Where is this from?" They said, "Probably Montana, or South Dakota, maybe Saskatchewan." He said, "This is from Kenya." It was beaded just like ours, with the same colors.

The stone tablets of the yellow race of people are kept by the Tibetans. If you went straight through the Hopi Reservation to the other side of the world, you would come out in Tibet. The Tibetan word for sun is the Hopi word for moon, and the Hopi word for sun is the Tibetan word for moon.

The guardians of the traditions of the people of Europe are the Swiss. In Switzerland, they still have a day when each family brings out its mask. They still know the colors of the families, and they still know the symbols, some of them.

Each of these four peoples happen to live in the mountains.

Each of the four races went to their directions and learned their teachings.

It was in Newsweek not long ago that eight out of ten foods that people eat on the earth are developed here in the western hemisphere, because that is our Guardianship -- to learn the teachings of the earth and the things that grow from the Earth.

We were given a sacred handshake to demonstrate, when we came back together as sisters and brothers, that we still remember the teachings.

It was indicated on the stone tablets that the Hopis had that the first sisters and brothers who would come back to them would come as turtles across the land. They would be human beings, but they would come as turtles. So when the time came close, the Hopis were at a special village to welcome the turtles that would come across the land.
They got up in the morning and looked out at the sunrise. They looked out across the desert, and they saw the Spanish conquistadores coming, covered in armor, like turtles across the land. So this was them. So they went out to the Spanish man, and they extended their hand, hoping for the handshake. But into the hand the Spanish man dropped a trinket. And so word spread throughout North America that there was going to be a hard time, that maybe some of the brothers and sisters had forgotten the sacredness of all things and all the human beings were going to suffer for this on the Earth.

So tribes began to send people to the mountains to have visions to try to figure out how they could survive.

At that time there were 100,000 cities in the Mississippi Valley alone, called the mound civilization: cities built on great mounds. Those mounds are still there. They began to try to learn to live off the land because they knew a hard time was going to come. They began to send people to have visions to see how we could survive this time.

They were told in the prophecies that we should try to remind all the people that would come here of the sacredness of all things. If we could do that, then there would be peace on Earth. But if we did not do that, if we had not come together as a human family, the Great Spirit would grab the earth with His hand and shake it.

The elders on the west coast prophesied that they would then begin to build a black ribbon. And on this black ribbon there would move a bug. And when you begin to see this bug moving on the land, that was the sign for the First Shaking of the Earth. The First Shaking of the Earth would be so violent that this bug would be shaken off the earth into the air and it would begin to move and fly in the air. And by the end of this shaking this bug will be in the air around the world. Behind it would be a trail of dirt and eventually the whole sky of the entire earth would become dirty from these trails of dirt, and this would cause many diseases that would get more and more complicated. So the bug moving on the land, of course it's easy to see now. In 1908 the Model-T Ford was mass-produced for the first time. So the elders knew the First Shaking of the Earth was about to come about -- that was the First World War.

In the First World War the airplane came into wide usage for the first time. That was that bug moving into the sky. And so they knew something very important would happen. There would be an attempt to make peace on earth on the west coast of this land, and so the elders began to watch for this.

They began to hear that there was going to be a League of Nations in San Francisco, so the elders gathered in Arizona around 1920 or so, and they wrote a letter to Woodrow Wilson. They asked if the Indian people could be included in the League of Nations.

The United States Supreme Court had held that a reservation is a separate and semi-sovereign nation, not a part of the United States but protected by it. This became a concern because people didn¹t want the reservations to become more and more separate. They didn't want them to be considered nations. So they did not write back, and the Native people were left out of the League of Nations so that circle was incomplete.

In the League of Nations circle there was a southern door, the yellow people; there was a western door, the black people; there was a northern door, the white people; but the eastern door was not attended. The elders knew that peace would not come on the Earth until the circle of humanity is complete, until all the four colors sat in the circle and shared their teachings, then peace would come on earth.

So they knew things would happen. Things would speed up a little it.

There would be a cobweb built around the earth, and people would talk across this cobweb. When this talking cobweb, the telephone, was built around the earth, a sign of life would appear in the east, but it would tilt and bring death (the Swastika of the Nazis). It would come with the sun. But the sun itself would rise one day, not in the east but in the west (the rising sun of the Japanese Empire).

So the elders said, "When you see the sun rising in the east, and you see the sign of life reversed and tilted in the east, you will know that the Great Death is to come upon the earth. Now is when the Great Spirit will grab the earth again in His hand and shake it, and this shaking will be worse than the first."

So the sign of life reversed and tilted, we call that the Swastika, and the rising sun in the east was the Rising Sun of Japan. These two symbols are carved in stone in Arizona. When the elders saw these two flags, they knew that these were the signs that the earth was to be shaken again.

The worse misuse of the Guardianship of the fire is called the gourd of ashes. They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air. It will make the people like blades of grass in the prairie fire, and things will not grow for many seasons. The atomic bomb, the gourd of ashes, it was the best-kept secret in the history of the US. The elders wanted to speak about it in 1920.

They would have spoken of it and foretold its coming if they could have entered into the League of Nations. The elders tried to contact President Roosevelt to ask him not to use the gourd of ashes because it would have a great effect on the earth and eventually cause even greater destruction and a the Third Shaking of the Earth, the Third World War.

So they knew after the Second Shaking of the Earth when they saw the gourd of ashes fall from the sky, there would be an attempt to make peace on the other side of this land. And because the peace attempt on the west coast had failed, they would build a special house on the east coast of this Turtle Island, and all the nations and peoples of the Earth would come to this house, and it would be called the House of Mica, and it would shine like the mica on the desert shines.

So the elders began to see they were building the United Nations made out of glass that reflects like the mica on the desert so they knew this was the House of Mica, and all the peoples of the earth should go to it. So they met and talked about this. They said that in the 1920's they had written and they had not been responded to, so they said this time we'd better go to the front door of the House of Mica because things might get a lot worse.

So elders representing a number of tribes drove to New York City. When the United Nations opened, they went to the front door of the house of Mica and they said these words, "We represent the indigenous people of North America, and we wish to address the nations of the Earth. We're going to give you four days to consider whether or not we will be allowed to speak."

They retreated to one of the Six Nations Reserves in New York State. Four days later they came back, and I believe the nations of the earth heard that the Indians had come to the door. And they voted to let the Indians in. They wanted to hear what they had to say. But the United States is one of five nations of the United Nations with a veto power, and still they were concerned because this time the Native sovereignty was even stronger. And I believe they vetoed the entrance of the Native people.

So then they knew other things would happen on the Earth. So they retreated to the Six Nations Reserve, and they talked about this, and they said the time is really getting close now -- 1949. They said, "We're going to divide the United States into four sections, and each year we¹re going to have a gathering. We're going to call these the White Roots of Peace Gatherings."

They began to have these around 1950. And they authorized certain people to speak in English for the first time about these prophecies.

One that I used to listen to many times, over and over, was Thomas Banyaca. He was authorized to speak in English about what was on the stone tablets, and he has dedicated his life to doing this.

And they began to tell us at these gatherings, "You're going to see a time in your lifetime when the human beings are going to find the blueprint that makes us." They call that now DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. They said, "They're going to cut this blueprint." They call that now genetic splicing. And they said they're going to make new animals upon the Earth, and they're going to think these are going to help us. And it's going to seem like they do help us. But maybe the grandchildren and great-grandchildren are going to suffer.

The elders said long ago, "They will release these things, and they will use them." This is going to be released not too long from now. They are making new animals. The elders talked about this. "You will see new animals, and even the old animals will come back, animals that people thought had disappeared. They will find them here and there. They'll begin to reappear."

"You're going to see a time when the eagle will fly its highest in the night, and it will land upon the moon. And at that time, many of the Native people will be sleeping, which symbolically means they have lost their teachings. We're at that time now. The Eagle has landed on the moon, 1969. When that spaceship landed, they sent back the message, "The Eagle has landed."

Traditionally, Native people from clear up in the Inuit region have shared with us this prophecy, clear down to the Quechuas in South America.

At this time you're going to see that things will speed up, that people on the Earth will move faster and faster. Grandchildren will not have time for grandparents. Parents will not have time for children. It will seem like time is going faster and faster.

The elders advised us that, as things speed up, you yourself should slow down. The faster things go, the slower you go.

Because there's going to come a time when the Earth is going to be shaken a third time. The Great Spirit has shaken the Earth two times: the First and Second World Wars to remind us that we are a human family, to remind us that we should have greeted each other as brothers and sisters. We had a chance after each shaking to come together in a circle that would have brought peace on earth, but we missed that.

Now they are talking about the sign for the Third Shaking of the Earth. They said they're going to build what the elders called the house in the sky. In the 1950's they talked about this: they will build a house and throw it in the sky. When you see people living in the sky on a permanent basis, you will know the Great Spirit is about to grab the earth, this time not with one hand, but with both hands.

When this house is in the sky, the Great Spirit is going to shake the Earth a third time, and whoever dropped that gourd of ashes, upon them it is going to drop.
They say at that time there will be villages in this land so great that when you stand in the villages you will not be able to see out, and in the prophecies these are called villages of stone, or prairies of stone. And they said the stone will grow up from the ground, and you will not be able to see beyond the village. At the center of each and every one of these villages will be Native people, and they will walk as hollow shells upon a prairie of stone.

They said hollow shells, which means they will have lost any of their traditional understandings; they will be empty within.

They said that, after the Eagle lands on the moon, some of these people will begin to leave these prairies of stone and come home and take up some of the old ways and begin to make themselves reborn, because it's a new day.

But many will not.

And they said there's going to come a time when in the morning the sun is going to rise, and this village of stone will be there, and in the evening there would just be steam coming from the ground. They will be as steam. And in the center of many of those villages of stone, when they turn to steam, the Native people will turn to steam also because they never woke up and left the village.

They say there's going to be the Third Shaking of the Earth. It's not going to be a good thing to see, but we will survive it. We will survive it.

And when we survive it, there's going to be another attempt to make a circle of the human beings on the earth. And this time the Native people will not have to petition to join but will be invited to enter the circle because they say the attitude toward us will have changed by then. People will let us into the circle, and all the four colors of the four directions will share their wisdom, and there will be a peace on earth. This is coming close.

The prophecies are always either/or. We could have come together way back there in 1565, and we could have had a great civilization, but we didn't.

Always along the path of these prophecies, we could have come together. We still could. If we could stop the racial and religious disharmony, we would not have to go through this third shaking.

The elders say the chance of that is pretty slim. It seems to me like it's pretty slim, too. But they say what we can do is we can cushion it so it won't be quite as bad.

How do we do this? We do this by sharing the teaching that will reunite us.

In the years 2004 through 20012, a phenomenon is foreseen in the heavens in which
feathers will appear on the head of the Rattlesnake. Its glowing eyes will open. It will
grow wings, hands, and arms, and its hands will hold a bowl of blood. The seven rattles
of its tail will resemble the roots of a tree,” the Pleiades Tree of the Beginning.”

This will correspond to the transit of Venus, a very rare alignment of Earth, Venus, and the sun in
which is appears from Earth as if Venus is crossing the face of the sun. A Venus transit
occurred on June 8, 2004, and astronomers predict it will happen again on June 5-6,
2012. The Cherokee calendar also says that the world will come to an end in 2012, just as
the Mayans do. To the Cherokee, “the end” in 2012 signifies that all will be reborn.

Cosmic Cross

2011-01-15T19:56:00.000-08:00

The purple line is the Galactic Center and the yellow line is the path of our Sun.
On the winter soltice, December 21, 2012, our sun will cross the path of the Galactic Center creating what is referred to as the Cosmic Cross.

Native American Ouroboros

2011-01-15T19:38:00.000-08:00

Native American Ouroboros

magic square

2011-01-15T01:29:00.001-08:00

An 8x8 magic square can be constructed by placing the numbers 1 - 64 in sequence, and then reversing the order of the green positions. The total of any line gives us 260, the number of days in the Tzolkin, the Mayan sacred calendar.

64    2    3 61   60   6      7    8
9 55   54   12   13   51 50   16
17   47   46   20   21   43   42   24
40 26   27   37   36   30 31   32
33   34   35   29   28   38   39 25
41   23   22   44   45   19 18   48
49   15   14 52 53 11 10 56
8 58 59    5     4 62 63   1

dirt and seeds

2011-01-08T23:57:00.001-08:00

I believe in dirt and seeds and I know how to use them.

The New Galactic Cycle, a time of profound transition: the Galactic Equator, the 26,000 year Precessional Cycle, Winter Solstice 2012

2011-01-08T23:55:00.000-08:00

Edited from 2012 - THE ASTRONOMY CONNECTION by RODERICK MARLING

The cyclic movements of Nature, the Sun, Moon, Planets and Stars, indicate a Natural Order to Reality, a living and intelligent Universe, a Cosmos of increasing complexity with repeating patterns and cycles enfolded within even larger cycles of order.

One of the most basic of these natural cycles is the rotation of the Earth on its axis. Because the Earth rotates one complete revolution every 24 hours we observe the reoccurring periods of day and night.

The Moon revolves around the Earth every 29.5 days, giving us the concept of the month as it appears in its different phases from New Moon to Full and once again back to New.

Then there is the observable cycle of the year, as the Earth dances around the Sun in an elliptical orbit taking 365.25 days to complete one revolution.

Every year, the Sun appears on the Spring Equinox or Winter Solstice at a specific place on the horizon signaling the New Year.

Over time, the Sun no longer appears in the same place it did just 70 years before, but moves one full degree (the equivalent to the diameter of the Sun - times two). This slow movement, called the Precession of the Equinox, causes the Equinox Sun to appear to slip backward against the backdrop of the stars.

Because the Earth is spinning, the forces of the gravitational pull of the Moon and the Sun, make the axis of the Earth wobble, shifting ever so slowly. Gradually the polar axis that was at one time aligned with a particular star begins to shift until it is aligned with another star.

Right now the Earth's axis at the North Pole points to the star Polaris – which appropriately we call the Pole Star.

But 5,000 years ago the north celestial pole aligned to the star called Alpha Draconis.

Eight thousand years in the future the pole star will be Vega.

This Precessional movement then is the same motion responsible for the shift of the location of the Equinoxes and the Solstices.

The ancient astronomers detected the long term Precessional motion of the Sun through the back drop of the constellations and calculated the length of this Cycle to around 25,600 to 26,000 years.

This means that the Sun that marks the Spring Equinox which now appears in front of the background of stars in the constellation of Pisces, in about 500 years will rise in the constellation of Aquarius. It will continue to shift backwards through the various constellations Capricorn, Sagittarius, etc., until in about 26,000 years it will arrive back to the exact same point in Pisces.

At one time many civilizations on Earth were aware of this natural cycle of the Earth and incorporated it into their cosmologies and concepts of Time in various ways.

Each one reflecting a slightly different interpretation and meaning, but in their different ways they all held the Precessional Cycle as involving nothing less than the Cosmic process of Life's evolution, subtly influencing all of Earth's Life Forms to move to higher levels of organization and complexity.

It came to symbolize the Spiritual Process of Unfolding Consciousness on our planet.

What is important here is that this belief was actually based on an observable astronomical cycle: every 72 years the Solstice and Equinox Sun appeared to move backward through the constellations one degree - as a hand on a clock indicating the hours of the day.

In this Cosmic Clock however, the hand or marker in motion is the specific location of the Equinox or Solstice Sunrise, while the face of the clock is represented by the relatively stationary constellations of the stars.

This Precessional Cycle became incorporated into the Mayan Cosmology and relates to their long count calendar and specifically to the year 2012.

In tradition, the Winter Solstice on December 21 was celebrated as the Sun's birthday. The sunrise on December 21 symbolizes the first sunrise, and the start of the New Year is a celebration of the beginning of Time.

Why the Winter Solstice in the year 2012 is so important?

In the Mayan long count calendar a cycle of 5,200 years ends on this date.

It also points to a rare astronomical alignment which only happens once every 26,000 years.

The auspicious year of 2012 indicated in the long count calendar illuminates the fact that the Precessional movement of the Winter Solstice Sun will gradually bring its position into alignment with the very center of our Galaxy.

For the Maya, this is like the last stroke of Midnight on New Year's Eve, only in 2012 the New Year is the New Galactic Year of 26,000 solar years.

The Galactic Clock will be at zero point and a New Precessional Cycle will begin.

What is so important about the Milky Way and why were the Maya even concerned with it?

Our planet, the Sun, and the entire solar system has its origins at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

We also have recently found that our Galaxy is 70,000 light years in diameter, with most of its 400 billion stars concentrated in the great central bulge.

To the ancient Maya, the Milky Way Galaxy represented the Great Cosmic Mother from which all Life was birthed. The great central bulge at Her center was perceived as the Cosmic Womb.They saw our Galactic Mother stretching out across the night sky and recognized the place where we all had come from.

Within the central bulge there is what looks like a dark corridor, known as the dark rift. To the Maya it was referred to by many names but the most pertinent here is their reference to this area as the "birthing place".

Considering then the significance of the 2012 date in the Mayan calendar, it has been discovered that this year specifically points to a period of time when the December Solstice Sun aligns with and arises out from the backdrop of the dark rift, the "Galactic Birth Canal" in the central bulge.

It's as if the Sun is actually being birthed anew from the Galactic Womb.

The astronomical alignment of the Precessional Cycle of the Winter Solstice and Galactic Center represents the "Zero Point" on the Cosmic Clock, thus marking the beginning of the New Age in our evolutionary journey in consciousness.

It tells us that a New Sun is born, a New Year has dawned, a New Galactic Cycle has begun, and the transformation of our World is well underway.

The big secret in this particular story is that we need not wait for the Winter Solstice in the year 2012 to recognize that we are entering into this time of profound transition.

For according to the most recent astronomical calculations the Solstice Meridian actually coincided most precisely with the Galactic Equator between 1998 and 1999.

In 1998 the Winter Solstice Sun began to cross over the Galactic Equator. Considering that the Sun is so large (about one half a degree wide) and the motion is so slow, our Sun will not be completely across the Equator and fully into the new Galactic Hemisphere until 2018.

The Mayan 2012 date is simply an indicator to this 20-year period of transition, seen as the birthing process of the New Age and the beginning point of the New Precessional Cycle of 26,000 years.

Perhaps the greatest gift the Mayan culture has given our world is the Zero Point to the Precessional Cycle of 26,000 years.

Through the 2012 date in their calendar, they have indicated the importance of the Galactic Equator and its relevance to the Precessional Cycle, thus giving us the ability to now pinpoint the exact Time on our Galactic Clock.

Over the span of the 20 year transitional period as the Solstice Sun crosses the Galactic Equator and moves in to a new hemisphere, we will indeed witness the falling away of the old structures and the birthing of the new.

Happy New Year 2011 - Hindu Sanskrit Hymn for Peace.

2011-01-01T15:03:00.000-08:00

Lyrics: Sanskrit
सर्वेषां स्वस्ति भवतु । सर्वेषां शान्तिर्भवतु ।
सर्वेषां पूर्नं भवतु । सर्वेषां मड्गलं भवतु ॥
सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः। सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु। मा कश्चित् दुःख भाग्भवेत्॥

Lyrics: English
Sarveshaam Svastir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Shaantir Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Purnam Bhavatu
Sarveshaam Mangalam Bhavatu

Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah
Sarve Santu Niramayaah
Sarve Bhardrani Pashyantu
Maa Kadhchit Duhkhabhahg Bhavet

Meaning:
May good befall all.
May there be peace for all.
May all experience wholeness.
May all experience that which is favored by fortune.

May all be happy.
May all be healthy.
May all experience all that is good and
let no one suffer.

Motivation is like bathing :)

2010-12-30T12:35:00.001-08:00

"People often say that motivation doesn't last.
Well, neither does bathing -
that's why we recommended it daily."

Zig Ziglar

Health benefits of kissing!

2010-12-10T01:01:00.001-08:00

From BEST KISSES

The health benefits of kissing have been documented in medical studies offering amazing advantages for a long and healthy life.

1.Those who kiss their partner goodbye each morning live five years longer than those who don’t.

2.Kissing is great for self-esteem. It makes you feel appreciated and helps your state of mind.

3.Kissing burns calories, 2-3 calories a minute and can double your metabolic rate. Research claims that three passionate kisses a day (at least lasting 20 seconds each) will cause you to loose an entire extra pound! It's time to start that kissing diet!

4.Kissing is a known stress-reliever. Passionate kissing relieves tension, reduces negative energy and produces a sense of well being, lowering your cortisol ‘stress’ hormone.

5.Kissing uses 30 facial muscles and it helps keep the facial muscles tight, preventing baggy cheeks! The tension in the muscles caused by a passionate kiss helps smooth the skin and increases the circulation.

6.Kissing is good for the heart, as it creates an adrenaline which causes your heart to pump more blood around your body. Frequent kissing has scientifically been proven to stabilize cardiovascular activity, decrease blood pressure and cholesterol.

7.Those who kiss quite frequently are less likely to suffer from stomach, bladder and blood infections.

8.During a kiss, natural antibiotics are secreted in the saliva. Also, the saliva contains a type of anesthetic that helps relieve pain.

9.Kissing reduces anxiety and stops the 'noise' in your mind. It increases the levels of oxytocin, an extremely calming hormone that produces a feeling of peace.

10.The endorphins produced by kissing are 200 times more powerful than morphine.

2010-11-26T23:03:00.000-08:00

God dwells within you ... as you.

il dolce far niente

2010-11-26T22:22:00.001-08:00

the sweetness of doing nothing

vivere una vita piena --to live a full life

lasciarsi vivere -- to let oneself live, to take things as they come

sapere vivere -- to know how to live, to know how to get along with people

Il tempo non aspetta nessuno. Raccogli ogni momento che ti rimane, perché ha un grande valore.

Time waits for no one. Grasp every minute that remains because it has great value.

trust your heart if the seas catch fire

2010-11-10T23:30:00.000-08:00

dive for dreams
or a slogan may topple you
(trees are their roots
and wind is wind)
trust your heart
if the seas catch fire
(and live by love
though the stars walk backward)
honour the past
but welcome the future
(and dance your death
away at the wedding)
never mind a world
with its villains or heroes
(for good likes girls
and tomorrow and the earth)
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves, since Doom
(with white longest hands
neating each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds
-before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were

e.e.cummings

Love from Dr. Seuss

2010-11-02T10:00:00.001-07:00

“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

~ Dr Seuss (1904-1991), American writer & cartoonist [Theodor Seuss Geiseler],

As quoted in "Somewhere in the Middle of Love" (2007) by Lisa A. Lipscomb, p. 31

Gazing into an abyss.

2010-10-28T20:07:00.000-07:00

"And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."

"Und wenn du lange in einen Abgrund blickst, blickt der Abgrund auch in dich hinein."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844 - 1900)

Section 146 of Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil," in the section entitled "Epigrams and Interludes".

The second half of the quote is an extension of the first, warning that when you seek to understand the "abyss," or the darker elements of life or truth, the abyss enters you as well.

The lover of knowledge cannot remain merely an observer. In observing the abyss, or "dangerous truths," you cannot avoid the consequences of this newfound knowledge.

less and less to say

2010-09-29T09:35:00.000-07:00

"As my prayers became more attentive and inward I had less and less to say.

I finally became completely silent.

I started to listen - which is even further removed from speaking.

I first thought that prayer entailed speaking. I then learnt that prayer is hearing, not merely being silent.

That is how it is.

To pray does not mean to listen to oneself speaking. Prayer involves becoming silent, and being silent, and waiting until God is heard."

Soren Kierkegaard

2010-09-28T09:38:00.000-07:00

Halau U'hane Lomilomi Lapa'au

2010-09-26T21:43:00.000-07:00

This weekend I added to my O'hana by becoming a part of Halau U'hane Lomilomi Lapa'au with Kahuna Uncle Harry U'hane Jim and Auntie Sila Lehua Bray Jim.

It is a great honor to be accepted into the Halau of traditional Hawaiian teachers.

Aloha nui no, pomaika'i ne au. I am so grateful for all the blessings that surround me.

MANIFESTING WITH MOLDING CLAY

2010-06-20T23:53:00.000-07:00

MANIFESTING WITH MOLDING CLAY INSTRUCTIONS
1) Write down your desires or wishes that you want to unfold in your life on a small piece of paper, maybe about four inches square.

2) Focus on those words for about a half an hour or so.

3) Roll that piece of paper into a ball.

4) Get some molding clay, or even Play-Doh, and create a ball about the size of a golf ball or a tennis ball, depending on what will fit into the size of your hand. You want to be able to place that ball of clay comfortably in your hands, so that you can squeeze it using just one hand, while having your other hand free to go about your daily business.

5) Put the ball of clay in your hands and focus on the words of that paper as you squeeze it. Do this for at least three hours, at the minimum, more if you would prefer.

6) Then forget about your desires and wishes that you wrote down on that paper and consciously release them to the universe, or the Divine, or to God, or to whatever you believe in or works best for you, with the confidence that IT WILL take care of manifesting those desires for you.

7) Then, after two weeks, your should see your desires manifest as you had written on that paper.

Science and the Scriptures

2010-06-20T21:18:00.001-07:00

"The biggest secret of creation is hidden in the first sentence of Genesis.

In the original Hebrew version of the Bible, Genesis starts with the word "Be-resjiet" meaning ‘at first’ or ‘in principle’. It has been translated in modern versions of the Bible into ‘in the beginning’.

Everyone knows the starting phrase of Genesis however few know that the whole essence of creation was put into that first word....The sacred Hebrew alphabet was designed with a clear intention to convey the very essence of creation and to teach later generations what the "Be-resjiet",the principle of creation, really is.

The characters of the Hebrew alphabet are projections of a ‘special form’ on the faces of a tetrahedron seen from different angles!

Stan Tenen called the ‘special form’ in the tetrahedron ‘the flame letter in the tent’.

***( I have removed the graphic of the flame letter in the tent, by Dan Winter due to a conflict that has come to my attention between Winter and Tenen's copywrited work. I am grateful to Levanah Tenen for bringing this to my attention and will research the information provided by Levanah Tenen who is the wife and working partner of Stan Tenen. Please see more about the legal action involved at www.danwinter.com)***

Ms. Tenen says "that the Federal Court acknowledged the truth of this matter: that Mr. Winter had plagiarized our work, distorting and publishing it prematurely against our express wishes."

Ms. Tenen shared this information from MIT-trained, award-winning industrial designer James Fournier:

"Regardless of whether or not Mr. Winter started his projection process with a golden mean function, he has altered the true projection of a golden mean form so that his depictions cross the equatorial plane at a near-90-degree angle. He has also arranged for the "flame-vortex" to be exactly one and one half turns. This occurs only on Mr. Tenen's sculpture; it is not technically determined. For all these reasons I conclude therefore that Mr. Winter chose parameters for his computer modeling program, not to match the golden mean, but specifically and primarily so that the result would duplicate Mr. Tenen's copyright sculpture."

...The authors of Genesis quite deliberately wanted to convey this knowledge to future generations. All that was required was that we needed to evolve to a level of scientific understanding and sooner or later the significance of the scripture would be revealed.

In a letter to the LDS community, Stan Tenen explains:
"The letter-text led to a particular geometry. I first took this geometry to represent a model light or flame. Later, I realized that this was not functional, even though it generated shapes that matched all the Hebrew letters of a particular alphabet.Later, during an exploration of the Jewish ritual of tefillin, I realized that what I had taken to be a flame was actually a model hand, and given the known properties of our hands, everything else then fell in place."

...When the actual Hebrew character is pronounced out loud, it will take on the shape of the character. Both Stan Tenen and Dr. Hans Jenny (Cymatics) independently indicated this fact. Hans Jenny recorded the vocal expression of the letter on a plate of sand. The vibrations in the voice pronouncing the Hebrew letter caused the sand grains to take on the actual shape of the Hebrew character!"

Please see more information about Tenen's work at:
The 3,10 Torus Knot, Ring, Sphere, Tetrahelix and Hand.

GROWTH AND UNFURLMENT OF THE 3,10 KNOT
Displaying 3 pairs (RGB) of First Hand(tm) Models

THE 3,10 KNOT Growing, Blossoming, and Fading
Continuous Creation: A Fruit Tree Yielding Fruit whose Seed is In Itself-Genesis 1.11
Displaying Six First Hand(tm) Models in Rainbow Order

Parts of this are edited from Science and the Scriptures
and also see
Pineal Gland - DMT - DNA - Tetrahedron - 2012

The Superstring theory from physics, the Platonic solids from geometry, the Octave in music.

2010-06-20T20:27:00.000-07:00

"The Superstring theory postulates that all matter in the universe is connected by an infinite number of miniscule, vibrating "strings" of a yet undiscovered energy that pulsate back and forth in spirals from one single point in space.

All these strings vibrate out the exact same distance (forming a perfect sphere), and then vibrate back to the point of origin. There are so many strings that some are bound to cross over at certain "node" points, and all strings that form nodes do so in the exact same place relative to the length of the string. At these node points, the energy would be stronger, because they contain the energy of two strings working together rather than just one. Farther out on the string, other node points also form where the strings intersect, all in the same relative position on the length of the string.

If you connected all these nodes, you would find yourself drawing 3D geometrical objects, but not just any 3D geometrical objects. All lines have to be the same length, with sides the same shape, and each angle the same - all fitting perfectly into a sphere. There are only five known geometrical patterns that fit this criteria called the Platonic or Sacred Solids, which include the Octahedron, Tetrahedron, Cube, Dodecahedron, and Icosahedron.

We know that everything in our existence emits sound according to its own vibrational frequency and we theorize that both sound and light have a so far unknown common ancestor or archetype.

Stars not only shine with light, but they are known to sing......indeed, the very soul of the universe is musical! Trees have also been noted to sing - there are many reports of audible hums coming from certain kinds of trees. If you disturb an object in any way, you will start a vibrational process in that object, and it will start vibrating at it's own unique natural frequency. The natural frequency of any object is known as its resonance. If this frequency or resonance is within the range of human hearing, you will hear a sound being emitted, such as when guitar string is plucked. If the frequency is out of range, you will be oblivious to the sound, even though there is indeed sound being produced.

We have the 5 platonic solids, which as we have seen are actually vibrational crystals. Since everything in the universe is vibrating, there must be some relation between these solids and the musical scale. We can add a sphere to each side of the platonic solids to make 7, but where do we get the 8th shape to correspond to the octave? Basically all we have to do is use the Icosahedron twice. It is the logical choice because all the other shapes can be derived from it. It is simply vibrating at a higher frequency on the right side. So now we start seeing some order in all this, as we have matched up two of the important vibrational qualities of our existence - sound (resonance) and form (geometry).

Now, light vibrates too - and when it does it produces the different colors of the spectrum, as we can easily see by looking at a rainbow. There are seven basic colors in the rainbow - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Matching these with the octave is easy - just add red at a higher vibrational rate to the end of the color sequence. Therefore, if singing the octave (do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do), you could match the colors in the rainbow - C=do=red, D=re=orange, E=mi=yellow, F=fa=green, G=so=blue, A=la=indigo, B=ti=violet, C=do=red.

Therefore, in our 3D universe, we are singing an E tone (or faster harmonics of E), and our basic structure is a yellow (or harmonic variation of yellow) octahedra. This is our reality in its most basic vibrational form."

The Superstring theory from physics, the Platonic solids from geometry, the Octave in music.

Do Re Mi

2010-06-20T14:54:00.000-07:00

"When you know the notes to sing
You can sing most anything"

"The beginning base value of music understanding.

Using the syllables ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la as names for the six tones, C to A, an Italian monk named Guido d'Arezzo (990-1050) created the system of Solmization, a system of using syllables, especially sol-fa like syllables, to represent the tones of the scale (known as the Guido System).

Each hexachord could start on G, C or F. Modern musicians think in terms of octaves. The concept of hexachords was fundamental to music theory throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Hexachord(from Gk. hex, ‘six’, chordē, ‘string’).

A scale segment consisting of six adjacent notes with the interval pattern tone–tone–semitone–tone–tone:

the ‘natural’ hexachord (hexachordum naturale)
C–D–E–F–G–A,

the ‘soft’ hexachord (hexachordum molle)
F–G–A–B♭–C–D,

and the ‘hard’ hexachord (hexachordum durum)
G–A–B–C–D–E.

Later in history 'Ut' was replaced by the more easily singable 'Do,' and another syllable, si or ti, was added at the end, giving the scale of seven syllables called do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti, which forms the present basic system of singing names for the tones of the scale.

The syllable sol was later shortened to 'So,' making all of the syllables uniform in spelling and all ending with a vowel.

Initially written by Paolo Diacono as a hymn to Saint John the Baptist (ca 720 - 799), the Latin words "Ut queant laxis, Resonare fibris, Mira gestorum, Famuli tuorum, Solve polluti, Labii reatum,"

1. UT - Queant Laxis (later changed to "DO")
2. RE - Sonare Fibris
3. MI - Ra Gestorum
4. FA - Muli Tuorum
5. SOL - Ve Polluti
6. LA - 0 Bii reatum

gamut: A complete range or the entire series of recognized notes.
\Gam"ut\, n. [F. gamme + ut the name of a musical note.

Gamma, the Greek letter Γ, used to represent the first lowest tone of (G) in the Medieval Scale
gamma gam·ma (gām'ə) n.

Symbol γ The third letter of the Greek alphabet.

The third item in a series or system of classification.

In the modern scale, "C" is the third letter of the alphabet, but the first note of the middle scale.

ut:
noun:
1: the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere
2: the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: do, doh]

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The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies – “The Perfect Circle of Sound”

"The Solfeggio frequencies contain the six pure tonal notes that were once used to make up the ancient musical scale. Each of the six Solfeggio frequencies correspond to, not only a note on the tonal scale, but to a cycle per second hz frequency number, and to a specific color, and, ultimately, to a particular chakra in the body.

For instance, middle C is related to the 528 hz frequency tone, which is associated to the color green, which, in turn, is related to the heart chakra. It is the third note on the scale and relates to the note "MI" on the scale and derives from the phrase "MI-ra gestorum" in Latin meaning "miracle."

"528 cycles per second is literally the core creative frequency of nature. It is love. The 528 hz frequency is known as, the "528 Miracle," because it has the remarkable capacity to heal and repair DNA within the body and is the exact frequency that has been used by genetic biochemists. Green, of course, is the primary color of our Mother Earth, because our planet vibrates to the frequency of love or of the heart.

These original Solfeggio frequencies, still have the capacity to transform your life in miraculous ways. Their origins date back to ancient times when they were sung in the Gregorian chants during religious ceremonies in churches of that time. But mysteriously, around 1050 AD, they mysteriously disappeared, presumably lost forever.

These chants contained special tones or frequencies which, when sung in harmony, and in Latin, were believed to impart tremendous spiritual blessings during religious masses. Apparently, the combination of these sacred tones and the Latin intonation, had the power to penetrate deep into the recesses of the subconscious mind and promote great healing and transformation."

UT – 396 Hz – Liberating Guilt and Fear

RE – 417 Hz – Undoing Situations and Facilitating Change

MI – 528 Hz – Transformation and Miracles (DNA Repair)

FA – 639 Hz – Connecting/Relationships

SOL – 741 Hz – Expression/Solutions

LA – 852 Hz – Awakening Intuition

The Ancient Solfeggio Frequencies – “The Perfect Circle of Sound”

Magic Square

2010-06-17T21:37:00.000-07:00

The magic derives from the fact that numbers arranged in a square of equal sides all add to the same total, coming and going, up and down, and even on the diagonal.

6 ..... 1 ..... 8

7 ..... 5 ..... 3

2 ..... 9 ..... 4

The total always adds to 15 (row, column or diagonal).

The total of any three rows or columns is 45.

In the Sun Magic Square: the magic constant is 111, three ones.
The sum of all the numbers of the square is 666.

The Library of Halexandria

This is the gift of the Great Turning.

2010-06-14T00:09:00.000-07:00

"When we open our eyes to what is happening, even when it breaks our hearts, we discover our true size; for our heart, when it breaks open, can hold the whole universe.

We discover how speaking the truth of our anguish for the world brings down the walls between us, drawing us into deep solidarity. That solidarity, with our neighbors and all that lives, is all the more real for the uncertainty we face.

When we stop distracting ourselves by trying to figure the chances of success or failure, our minds and hearts are liberated into the present moment. This moment then becomes alive, charged with possibilities, as we realize how lucky we are to be alive now, to take part in this planetary adventure."

Joanna Macy wrote this article as part of Stop Global Warming Cold, the Spring 2008 issue of YES! Magazine. Joanna is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory and deep ecology, whose latest book is World as Lover, World as Self. She lives in Berkeley, CA. www.joannamacy.net

SYSTEMS FAILURE in the GULF

2010-06-10T12:38:00.000-07:00

This has been edited from an article written by Margaret Wheatley for YES! Magazine:

We must deepen our understanding of what's happening in the Gulf and what it means for our future. And what it means for us right now. "My sadness over our American Sea is becoming unspeakable. Few, and not I, can imagine the damage that will be done for generations to come.”

An oil company executive has said, 'I've been in the deep water drilling business for years and none of us can figure out how this happened. Nothing that should have stopped it worked. And the damage is limitless. 25,000 barrels a day is the more realistic number. It will take months to stop it much less clean it up. Nobody knows how to do this.'

This is a major SYSTEMS FAIL. The Gulf Coast has always been sacrificed for oil and industry. By everyone. SYSTEMS FAIL. Game over.

What do we do with our anger, our outrage, our frustration, our impotence as we tune into what's happening there? How do we avoid being consumed by these dark, swirling emotions that, like oil in the Gulf, destroy life's capacities? How do we persevere, and find the strength and faith to keep working for what we believe in?

If you're watching or reading the news, do you feel as I do how broken we are as a people?

We have choice here, as a nation, and as individuals. We can recognize that we're in new territory, that we're truly lost.

Well, nothing is working as it should. We find ourselves prisoners of arrogant technology magnified by insistent greed.

People who are lost in the mountains or wilderness, who either survive or die by the choices they make, at first fight to make their old maps work. They do everything possible to make the old maps fit the present circumstance-but they never can.

In wilderness situations, this grasping goes on until the person is confronted with the fact that they're about to die. They will survive only if they acknowledge that there's no way out of their present peril; they must give up their old maps and acknowledge that they're truly lost. Once they recognize this, they begin to notice where they really are, what's going on, what's useful information available here and now.

They make new maps and find their way home.

Laurence Gonzales, in his book Extreme Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, writes: "Not being lost is not a matter of getting back to where you started from; it is a decision not to be lost wherever you happen to find yourself. It's simply saying, `I'm not lost, I'm right here.'"

I hold in my heart the vision of what's possible if we realize that, with the Gulf tragedy, nobody knows what to do, we're in new territory, we're lost.

I don't think we have a choice here. We have to come together to find what's needed for the Gulf, its people, and all its living beings. But will we make this choice? I have no idea.

Margaret Wheatley wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions.

Margaret is an internationally acclaimed writer, speaker, and teacher. Her books include Leadership and the New Science and, most recently Perseverance.

She is co-founder and President emerita of The Berkana Institute, a charitable foundation that works with people around the world who strengthen their communities using the wisdom and wealth already present in their people, traditions, and environment.

The solstice gateways and the polar-to-solar shift.

2010-06-06T22:36:00.000-07:00

"The ancient Mayan tradition, which is really congruent with Traditional sciences, reconstructs the traditional Mesoamerican wisdom and, in seeking an explanation for the Mayan calendar 2012 end-date, led to the precession and the alignments to the Galactic Center.

The Galactic Center is apparently one of the gateways in Vedic cosmology. The Galactic Center may well be considered to be the Hypercosmic Sun, the Well of Remembrance, the Sundoor at World’s End, the eye of the heart, the cosmic center, the Holy Grail, etc.

It is an academic and scholarly challenge to demonstrate how ancient metaphysicians and cosmologists — not to mention astronomers — had attached their eschatological doctrines to the rare alignment of solstice sun and galactic heart.

The alignment of the solstice sun on December 21, 2012 at 11:11 AM GMT with the galactic equator of the Milky Way, with the Galactic Center nearby.

The precessional movement of “the sun” closer to “the grand center” causes the full expression of a Golden Age of Light, a time indicated in Vedic and Hindu traditions as occurring a dozen or so millennia ago. As such, it must be the precessional motion of the June solstice sun around the grand center that is indicated, because the June solstice sun was “closest to” the Galactic Center roughly 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. This “closeness” is in terms of alignment (as viewed from earth), not distance.

In the year 2012 the Galactic Center is at 27 Sagittarius (within 3 degrees of the winter solstice). On the winter solstice of 2012, the Galactic Center will be rising heliacally just before dawn, in a way reminiscent of how the Maya observed Venus's last morningstar appearance.

This basically follows the "1 degree every 72 years" rule of precession. In this way, back in 3114 B.C. the sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree on Oct 10th, which is 72 degrees, or 1/5th of the ecliptic from the winter solstice.

The Fall Equinox sun conjuncted the Sacred Tree about 6400 years ago (1/4th of a precessional cycle). Ancient cultures in Mesopotamia may have recognized this alignment, and called it a Golden Age. The fall from this state of alignment may be responsible for the original Fall from Paradise myth, which filtered out to the Judaic tradition.

Where the Galactic Equator (not to be confused with Galactic Center) crosses the ecliptic in Sagittarius just happens to be where the dark rift in the Milky Way begins. This is a dark bifurcation in the Milky Way caused by interstellar dust clouds. To observers on earth, it appears as a dark road which begins near the ecliptic and stretches along the Milky Way up towards Polaris.

December 21, 2012. On that day, our sun will cross the plane of the Milky Way Galaxy, an event that only happens once every 25,800 years. December 21st, 2012 (13.0.0.0.0 in the Mayan Long Count) represents an extremely close conjunction of the winter solstice sun with the crossing point of Galactic Equator and the ecliptic, what the ancient Maya recognized as the Sacred Tree.

At 11:11 AM GMT on December 21, 2012 A.D., the band of the Milky Way, whose center is called the Galactic Equator, and the ecliptic which can be seen by tracing a roughly horizontal path through the center of the chart of the planets, line up so that the sun is exactly in the center, which is often referred to as the Sacred Tree.

It is critical to understand that the winter solstice sun rarely conjuncts the Sacred Tree. In fact, this is an event that has been coming to resonance very slowly over thousands and thousands of years.

For early Mayan / Mesoamerican skywatchers, the slow approach of the winter solstice sun to the Sacred Tree was seen as a critical process, the culmination of which was surely worthy of being called 13.0.0.0.0, the end of a World Age. The channel would then be open through the winter solstice doorway, up the Sacred Tree to the center of the churning heavens, the Heart of Sky.

An age may come to an end and be replaced by a new age where different realities are present. This transition from one age to another is often the subject of eschatological discussion. So, instead of "the end of the world" we may speak of "the end of the age" and be referring to the end of "life as we know it" and the beginning of a new reality. Indeed, most apocalyptic literature (and movies) do not deal with the "end of time" but rather with the end of a certain period of time, the end of life as it is now, and the beginning of a new period of time. It is usually a crisis that brings an end to current reality and ushers in a new way of living / thinking / being."

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The solstice gateways and the polar-to-solar shift

Gene Control

2010-05-13T09:52:00.000-07:00

Gene Control

Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation

2010-05-06T11:53:00.000-07:00

Mother’s Day for Peace: A Dramatic Reading of Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation

Arise then, women of this day!

2010-05-06T11:35:00.000-07:00

After the heartbreak and deep wounding of the U.S. Civil War, Julia Ward Howe was moved to write the Mother's Day Proclamation in 1870. It reads:

"Arise then, women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether your baptism be that of water or tears!

"Say firmly: 'We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies.

Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have taught them of charity, mercy and patience.

We women of one country will be too tender of those of another to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.'

"From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own. It says, 'Disarm, disarm!'

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor does violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace, each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar but of God.

"In the name of womanhood and of humanity, I earnestly ask that a general congress of women without limit of nationality may be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient and at the earliest period consistent with its objects, to promote the alliance of the different nationalities, the amicable settlement of international questions, the great and general interests of peace."

Fish

2010-05-02T01:25:00.000-07:00

Fish: "Add a touch of nature to your page with these hungry little fish. Watch them as they follow your mouse hoping you will feed them by clicking the surface of the water."

The Way

2010-04-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

The Way is long. so let us go together.
When the Way is difficult, let us help each other.
The Way is joyful, let us share it.
The Way is ours alone, let us go in love.
The Way grows before us, now let us begin.
-Zen Invocation

Creative Imagination

2010-04-20T21:56:00.001-07:00

"I can't believe that!" said Alice.

"Can't you?" the queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again, draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

From "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll

A little something from Wordsworth

2010-04-09T09:26:00.000-07:00

"I have felt a presence that disturbs me with the joy of elevated thoughts;
a sense sublime of something far more deeply interfused,
whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
and the round ocean and the living air,
and the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
emotion and a spirit, that impels all thinking things,
all objects of all thought,
and rolls through all things."

William Wordsworth

Time is priceless.

2010-03-22T23:01:00.000-07:00

Time is priceless, yet it costs us nothing.

You can do anything you want with it, but you can’t own it.

You can spend it, but you can’t keep it.

And once you’ve lost it, there’s no getting it back.

Allison DuBois from the TV show "MEDIUM"

2010-02-27T14:14:00.000-08:00

Torie's new New Zealand nickname is Toi Toi. One of her many nicknames is Toe Toe and that is pronounced Toi Toi in the native language of Maori. That and the color of the native New Zealand plant is the color of Torie's hair. The non-native pampass grass is whiter in color.

Toi Toi (pronounced as 'toy toy') is the Maori word for a plant (spelled toe toe) that is native to New Zealand.

Toi Toi is a common spelling for this grass, though Toe Toe is preferred by botanists. They are both Maori words, and both sound the same!

There are four similar species (Cortaderia toetoe, Cortaderia fulvida, Cortaderia splendens and Cortaderia richardii) found in different areas in New Zealand. They are all closely related to that undesirable introduced Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana or Cortaderia jubata). The plant commonly seen and referred to as toi toi by 95% of New Zealand is in fact an exotic pampas grass which comes from South America.

Optical Delusion

2010-02-17T13:23:00.000-08:00

"A human being is part of the whole called by us the Universe.

We experiences ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest...

a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures,

and the whole of nature in all of its beauty...."

-- Albert Einstein

Practical Intuition for Success

2010-02-07T11:38:00.000-08:00

"Today we join our energy and intuition to find peace and hope by re-directing every moment towards a positive outcome.

Let us commit to go in and redirect any and all old patterns that are contrary to our New Reality, magnetize the parts that draw the New Reality to us, neutralize our defenses to our own good fortune and put each others awareness on the healing joy and connection we share. Let's really galvanize our energy for change!"

Link to Practical Intuition for Success by Laura Day

Link to Laura Day's FaceBook page

Seeking Knowledge

2010-01-29T09:02:00.000-08:00

"In seeking knowledge,
the first step is silence
the second listening,
the third remembering,
the forth practicing,
and the fifth -
teaching others."
-- Ibn Gabirol

Campaign for Creativity

2010-01-03T21:40:00.000-08:00

"believe in your creative potential,
enjoy the creative process,
try something new,
explore new possibilities,
but most of all
believe."

Donna Downey

Learning is finding out what you already know.

2010-01-03T21:34:00.001-08:00

Learning is finding out what you already know.
Doing is demonstrating that you know it.
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you.
~ Richard Bach (from Illusions)

Theory of Relativity

2009-12-20T23:40:00.000-08:00

Matter and energy tell time and space where to be.

Time and space tell matter and energy how to look.

Mattew Stanley
B.Sc., B.A., 1998, Rochester;
M.A., Ph.D. 2004, Harvard

From The History Channel: Einstein: Einstein's Nobel Prize

Matthew Stanley teaches and researches the history and philosophy of science.

He holds degrees in astronomy, religion, physics, and the history of science, and is interested in the connections between science and the wider culture.

He is the author of Practical Mystic: Religion, Science, and A.S. Eddington, which examines how scientists reconcile their religious beliefs and professional lives.

Currently, he is writing a book that explores how science changed from its historical theistic foundations to its modern naturalistic ones.

Professor Stanley is also developing a project on science in war, and he is part of a nationwide effort to use the humanities to improve science education in the college classroom.

He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, the British Academy, and the Max Planck Institute.

Remember this?

2009-12-15T17:46:00.001-08:00

Love to eat them mousies
Mousie's what I love to eat.
Bite they little heads off
Nibble on they tiny feet.

-- B. Kliban

Effective Organizations

2009-12-13T18:00:00.000-08:00

Please click through to the following link for more resources on creating effective organizations at this website address: http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/am/effective_organizations.html

To be effective long term, human organizations must be based on good principles, focused on appropriate purposes, environmentally fit, and adaptive.

This is no easy challenge, in part because many organizations are legacies of the past, based on bad or out-of-date principles, focused on wrong purposes, and neither environmentally fit nor adaptive.

An effective organization:
•is focused in its mission;
•allows its people to take risks and occasionally fail ("empowerment"'s more important flipside);
•is "flat"; it allows information to flow in both directions, usually through a lack of hierarchy;
•provides opportunities for advancement through initiative;
•has flexible rules and incentives;
•recognizes both teams and individuals for their accomplishments;

As we ponder what we might do differently we need to remember four rules:

Start where you are.

Use what you have (and what you can readily get your hands on).

Do what you can.

Pause to reflect and learn from your mistakes, from the mistakes of others, and from things/ideas/practices that work.

Additional Operational Rule(s):
•Reuse, Renew, Recycle

Great illustration of the craft of thoughtful visual and structured thinking.

2009-12-13T17:20:00.000-08:00

David McCandless and Stefanie Posavec
from Information Is Beautiful
have created this Left vs. Right concept map
to help explain the differences in political opinions.

They created two versions: One for the U.S. (top) and one for the World (below).

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvright_US.html

There are two versions with different colours: a US and a World version. This is because the US and Switzerland are the only countries in the world where red = right wing and blue = left wing.

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/leftvright_world.html

Click on the links below each illustration to go to full page views that are easier to read.

Aries New Moon Treasure Mapping

2009-12-13T00:31:00.000-08:00

Peggy Malnati writes in her blog, WalkSoftly2’s Blog, Commentary & Tools for Life’s Journey

"I read a really interesting astrology write-up last evening, March 26, 2009, by Tracy Cook. It was about today’s Aries New Moon — an event that occurs once a year when both the Sun and Moon are conjunct (in the same degree of the same sign at the same time) in Aries.

Many astrologers and metaphysicians consider that the true start of the new year — at least in a zodiacal sense — occurs not on 1 January when the Gregorian calendar changes, and not when the vernal equinox occurs (on or about 20/21 March), but when the Aries New Moon falls.

Anyway, the gist of Ms. Cook’s message was that each year the Aries New Moon is the perfect time to make a treasure map of what you want to manifest in your life in the coming 3-12 months. This is because the Aries New Moon is the start of the new zodiacal year and Aries rules (among other things) new beginnings and sight, so it becomes the perfect time for you to envision and out-picture what you want your life to look and feel like. (Any New Moon is great for doing something similar for the next 28-day Moon cycle.)..."

Tracy Cook at Tracy's Astro Salon
A cozy spot in cyberspace where we talk astrology.

"They are made on Aries new moon, because that is the first sign of the zodiac. Aries is when you plant your seeds. It is the real beginning of the New Year. It should not be confused with the first day of spring, which is usually on March 19 or March 20. New moon means the sun and moon are in the same degree. For those who don't know much about astrology (which is totally okay) Aries is the sign of SIGHT. So, that's why it is so important to have pictures of what you want. You need to visualize it. Or if you don't do photos/pictures.. Put up words. It is just important for you to SEE THEM.

1-abundance
2-fame/reputation
3-relationship
4-family
5-health
6-creativity
7-self knowledge (and travel)
8-work
9-helpful people and angels."

Joseph Chilton Pierce

2009-12-08T21:03:00.001-08:00

"The creation and separation of a unique personality out of this unity of awareness is the developmental way to create a creator."

DRAGON

2009-12-06T21:59:00.000-08:00

Disability Rights Advocates
& Government Oversight Network

Art of the Possible

2009-12-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

I wanted to share a wonderful quote from a book by poet and activist, Adrienne Rich, Art of the Possible. (p.109)

In 1987 the late Supreme Court Justice William Brennan said that "formal reason severed from the insights of passion is a major threat to due-process principles. Due process asks whether government has treated someone fairly, whether individual dignity has been honored, whether the worth of an individual has been acknowledged. Officials can not always silence these questions by pointing to rational action taken according to standard rules. They must plumb their conduct more deeply, seeking answers in more complex equations of human nature and experience."

The Greatest Discovery

2009-12-03T12:18:00.000-08:00

"The greatest discovery of the 19th century was not in the realm of the physical sciences, but the power of the subconscious mind touched by faith. Any individual can tap into an eternal reservoir of power that will enable them to overcome any problem that may arise. All weaknesses can be overcome, bodily healing, financial independence, spiritual awakening, and prosperity beyond your wildest dreams. This is the superstructure of happiness."

William James, Harvard Psychologist, the Father of American Psychology

Silva UltraMind System

2009-12-02T21:24:00.001-08:00

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."
- Kahill Gibran

The pursuit of gratitude!

2009-12-02T20:32:00.000-08:00

Mollyanna on Gratitude

When we plunge into gratitude there is no need to aspire to anything greater, because gratitude is gratitude.

And we can be in this state immediately without any equipment but a willing heart and perhaps a nudge from this Flower Essence mix: Gratitude, the new Venus Garden combination mix, that can show us the way to this state of being.

In addition to what Pollyanna would say, the truth is that gratitude is alchemy at its most miraculous.

It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

2009-11-19T14:49:00.000-08:00

In Words that Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear, marketing expert, Frank Luntz (please note - I do not agree with his politics or his ethics) offers insights into finding and using the right words to achieve your goals.

The key to communication is to place yourself in the listener's situation and understand his or her deepest thoughts and beliefs. What the listener perceives constitutes the listener's reality.

Based on his experience as a political and corporate pollster he recommends 11 rules for effective communication:
1. Use small words.
2. Use short sentences.
3. Credibility is as important as philosophy.
4. Consistency matters.
5. Novelty: offer something new.
6. Sound and texture matter.
7. Speak aspirationally.
8. Visualize.
9. Ask a question.
10. Provide context and explain relevance.
11. Visual imagery matters.

Luntz does not stop there.
He adds:
1. Never assume knowledge or awareness.
2. Get the order right.
3. Gender can obstruct understanding.
4. It's about the children.
5. How you define determines how you are received.

We are all subject to the power of language.
Words spell the difference between success and failure.
"It's not what you say--it's what people hear."

Cool Internet Stuff

2009-11-19T14:36:00.000-08:00

The Spin Myth
Google Sidewiki
Gumas. Marketing
Blidget

Beyond the realms of daily existence.

2009-11-01T15:21:00.000-08:00

Searching an infinite Where,

Probing a bottomless When,

Dreamfully wandering,

Ceaselessly pondering,

What is the Wherefore of men:

Bartering life for a There,

Selling his soul for a Then,

Baffling obscurity,Conning futurity,

Usefulest, wisest of men!

Grasping the Present of Life,

Seizing a definite Now,

Labouring thornfully,

Banishing scornfully

Doubts of his Whither and How:

Spending his substance in Strife,

Working a practical How,

Letting obscurity

Rest on futurity,

Usefuler, wiser, I trow.

James Kenneth Stephen

satirical poet

From the collection of poems: LAPSUS CALAMI 1891

(Virginia Woolf's cousin)

Sacred Geometry - the link between humans and the Divine

2009-10-27T10:07:00.000-07:00

Nine: If we take the triune brain and apply the three types of processing to the three levels of the human energy system (physical, soul and spirit), we come up with a nine-fold matrix that represents the completion of the human experience.

The same three-by-three matrix symbolizes the nine houses of the Bagua (Feng Shui).

The final number in the Decad, Nine carries the energy of completion, the ultimate step before a new cycle begins with Ten.

Thus Nine is the most sacred, the highest perfection/order/balance, the holiest energy to which we can aspire – the horizon of endeavor.

In its aspect as the boundary between human consciousness and transcendence, Nine also symbolizes journeys and extremes. Nine years the Achaeans besieged Troy, and Odysseus spent a further nine on his journey back to Ithaca. Ceres searched nine days for her daughter Koré, who afterwards dwelt nine months per year in the Underworld.

Other Greek Nines include the Muses, and many other sacred families.

Any religion based upon the triple goddess also revered nines as the thrice-sacred number.

The Egyptian pantheon contained nine gods and goddesses, overseeing the “nine bows” of humanity.

Medieval Christianity recognized nine crowns of kingship, nine crosses, nine orders of angels and nine circles, gates and rivers of Hell.

We see this extended in the 99 Names of God, 99 beads of the Islamic rosary, Abraham’s 99 years before being called by God, etc.

Arithmetically, nines have many curious properties. Every multiple of nine reduces to nine when we add the digits together. Fractions of nine repeat single digits. Through the exposed remainders, casting out the nines reveals the essential characteristics of numbers.

Like the heptagon, nonagons are impossible to construct accurately through the vesica pisces.

We can approach the horizon, but it inevitably recedes from our reach.

However, an excellent approximation can be made through the star hexagon.

Even more significant than the nonagon is the Enneagram, symbol of the process of the principles of transformation. Most commonly seen in the personality types first developed by the Sufis and more recently presented by Naranja and Palmer. The Enneagram depicts processes,and also the route of transformation available to those seeking spiritual transform-ation.

By recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of a one’s particular character, conscious witness (and therefore change) becomes easier.

Through the process of the Enneagram, the soul walks a path that that combines seven (spiritual strength) and nine (completion) in search of evolving consciousness.

Sacred Geometry - the link between humans and the Divine
https://site.humanenergyscience.com/Sacred_Geometry.html

2009-10-21T00:13:00.001-07:00

A question

that sometimes drives me hazy:

am I

or are the others crazy?

Albert Einstein

ARIES

2009-10-10T23:36:00.000-07:00

Arians want to stand out from the crowd and have all the will to succeed. They are basically uncomplicated, direct in their approach and able to cope in a straightforward manner with the day to day problems of life. Their ability to see clearly the essential elements of important decisions is both enviable and convincing.

Sally Swanlund, RHS Class of '74

2009-10-07T10:01:00.000-07:00

A good time was had by all this past weekend in Seattle for our Roosevelt HS'74 35th reunion....good friends...good food...good pictures...we really are the most charming, classy, entertaining class EVER...

My maiden name was Sally Swanlund. I got tired of spelling it, so when I got married, I took my Great Grandpa's name (Lincoln DeMarcus Holmes), because I am closest to that part of the family.......and I like how it sounds! I am also related to famous Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes who was my Great Grandpa's Uncle.