Widows and Widowers
I have been exchanging views with a young widow who is in deep mourning after the recent demise of her much-loved mate. She finds solace in the invisible arms of her God
I am a middle-aged widower who's mourning for my recently lost mate is over-ruled by the alchemy of a still-virile male physique that continues to produce copious amounts of testosterone, which, without the regular domestication of loving sexual intercourse drives the male hormones towards rapacious impulses and imagery.
In simple terms the accustomed feelings of gentle and constructive husbandry that I have enjoyed over the past 25 years of marital bliss, have, despite the ravages of age, returned to the youthful, savage, relentless drive of mate-hunting.
This surge of kundulini energy and focus is clearly evident on the racquetball court where I easily out-last, out-play and demolish the youthful power of my husky young sons. On the golf course I am once again unleashing enough power to smash the ball 300 yards. And our once calm and peaceful household is now more and more frequently interrupted by my challenging roars of male dominance.
So there you have it
It took me a while to figure out what the hell was wrong with me.
Now that I know
it is only fair that you know
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 19, 2009
The Critera for World peace & Economic Prosperity
b[b]]Imprinting the Custodian Ethic[/b][/b]
The recipe for a universally acceptable prescription that can establish a
global base of equal opportunity, and thereby promote peaceful coexistence
among all people, will never be found in the mix of any existing
systems of human government. In the present competitive milieu, the law
of the jungle will prevail; the eight hundred-pound gorilla will get most
of the bananas and the whole point and purpose of the cultivation of the
human spirit is thereby reduced to a meaningless exercise.
The basic reason why the solution to world peace fails us has been fully
articulated in[i] Psyche-Genetics.[/i] It has stated repeatedly that the fundamental
social and spiritual value of meticulous sharing that sustains the peace
and harmony in every cultured human family, has been hopelessly buried
under an artificial global economic structure that encourages several thousand
dispirit societies to all compete, independently and unequally, for the
biggest piece of the pie that they can get their hands on. The problem is
compounded when it is realized that we have artificially decided on how
big the pie should be. We have yet to realize that each individual human
being possesses enough latent creative power to replace a thousand-fold,
the amount of energy he or she consumes in a lifetime. The pie in fact, is
infinite and our argument over it, superficial.
So what is to be done about the situation as it stands? It is obvious that the
spiritual eye of most of us is closed, leaving us unable to see into the future
and recognize the marvelous feast our Father has laid out for us after so
many tens of thousands of generations of labor and hope.
But what our evolution has done is make the analytical half of our collective
psyche, if not fully operational, at least focused enough to see that the
current global situation is highly precarious. Under our current systems of
international management only a tiny fraction of the people on the planet
are enjoying the luxuries and full benefits of economic security. And in
the future, as our numbers keep growing, the gap between rich and poor
can only grow wider.
What we need is an entire planet makeover. The major hurdle confronting
us is the fact that there is no quick fix. The current policy of zero-population
growth is not only unnatural and morally reprehensible, all it will do
in the long run at best, is keep the wolves of global hunger at bay – not
produce the Garden of Eden our ancestors have worked for. Even if we all
get together and agree on mass change and begin to institute it tomorrow,
it will be at least a generation before any significant results will begin
to appear. In today’s atmosphere of short-term expectations, arriving at
a long-term consensus is going to be difficult, and implementing it even
more so.
The first reality that we have to face is that we have to return to the fundamental
family and extended-family values that defined our humanity and
separated us from the apes in the first place. We have to refocus our faith
on the compassionate nature of the Divine spirit that lives inside all of us.
In order for that to happen, the false foundations and synthetic edifice of
the Tower of Babel that we have constructed has to be dismantled. Either
we do it ourselves in an orderly manner, or forces beyond our control will
bring it crumbling down over our heads.
If we cannot all see what will work for us, at least we should all be able
to agree on what does not. In this era of ever-increasing global interdependence,
the whole world has to realize that the Age of National Independence;
competing political ideologies, scientifically-controlled determinism
and religious Protest should be buried and put to rest as soon as
possible, before this dying Age’s inability to deal with world poverty and
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, make nuclear war a terminal
reality for all life on the planet.
World consensus on what shape that future should take can only be
achieved initially via a universally accepted education policy, based on
the commonalty of basic social values and the spiritual essence of Atomic
Consciousness.
If an education based on nuclear theory is to be introduced to the psyche of
the world child without a conflict between physics and metaphysics, then
the charismatic attributes of sub-atomic particles currently under observation
in quantum mechanics needs to be more holistically understood and
articulated.
This Nuclear Age education designed to develop the dual nature of the human
psyche and evoke not only our technological ingenuity to deal with
the large scale planet management projects that lie ahead of us, but also
our soul power of compassionate understanding and thereby put an end to
the immaturity of ideological warfare, must be based on the recognition of
the commonalty of the Divine nature of our collective consciousness and
the Cosmic laws of Cause and Effect that govern our ethical behavior.
The human ego has to let go of the gross concept that the human form is
the only magical association of atomic forces that is capable of expressing
consciousness. Beauty of Form and behavior are expressed throughout the
entire Universe.
We have to rise above the biological impulses that are behind our current
reactions to environmental demands. The present urgency among
the industrialized nations of the World to achieve nuclear capability, not
simply as an alternative energy resource, or for reasons of national pride
and independence, but also (overtly or covertly) to arm themselves with
weapons of mass destruction, are subconsciously motivated by an ethical
imperative to achieve parity. That evolutionary principle is inviolate. No
man can be eternally subservient to another, nor can any nation. Global
thermo-nuclear warfare is therefore, most definitely on our horizon and
will certainly take place unless we make a concerted spiritual effort to
forestall it.
In previous Ages, environmental pressures demanding mass change have
traditionally been relieved through all-out war with a resultant period of
utter chaos before the New Age paradigm settled in. Population pressures
this time are global wide and conventional war no longer an option. The
present danger is magnified by the fact that we are only vaguely aware of
the underlying forces that are pushing us into the future. Our military supremacy
cannot protect the status quo forever. Nineteen young men with
box-cutters revealed how vulnerable we really are. International terrorist
organizations are determined to get their hands on fission material and will
eventually succeed.
What needs to be more fully understood by the powers that are currently
trying to defuse the global situation is that the drive for equality via nuclear
parity is profoundly spiritual as well as superficially political. The Nuclear
Equation has not yet factored in the infinite force of spiritual power that
resides inside Dark Matter. It is our manifest destiny for each and every
one of us to evoke and make use of that power. Without the assurance
that hard-won metaphysical insight provides, the unification of universal
forces can never be achieved and the presence of Dark Matter will forever
remain mysterious.
The question then, is what global policy can be instituted right now that
can defuse tensions and work towards achieving the equality that all humans
yearn for.
In order to answer what is perhaps the most pertinent question of this moment
in time, we need to look very carefully at exactly what the evolution
of human progression is telling us.
The recipe for a universally acceptable prescription that can establish a
global base of equal opportunity, and thereby promote peaceful coexistence
among all people, will never be found in the mix of any existing
systems of human government. In the present competitive milieu, the law
of the jungle will prevail; the eight hundred-pound gorilla will get most
of the bananas and the whole point and purpose of the cultivation of the
human spirit is thereby reduced to a meaningless exercise.
The basic reason why the solution to world peace fails us has been fully
articulated in[i] Psyche-Genetics.[/i] It has stated repeatedly that the fundamental
social and spiritual value of meticulous sharing that sustains the peace
and harmony in every cultured human family, has been hopelessly buried
under an artificial global economic structure that encourages several thousand
dispirit societies to all compete, independently and unequally, for the
biggest piece of the pie that they can get their hands on. The problem is
compounded when it is realized that we have artificially decided on how
big the pie should be. We have yet to realize that each individual human
being possesses enough latent creative power to replace a thousand-fold,
the amount of energy he or she consumes in a lifetime. The pie in fact, is
infinite and our argument over it, superficial.
So what is to be done about the situation as it stands? It is obvious that the
spiritual eye of most of us is closed, leaving us unable to see into the future
and recognize the marvelous feast our Father has laid out for us after so
many tens of thousands of generations of labor and hope.
But what our evolution has done is make the analytical half of our collective
psyche, if not fully operational, at least focused enough to see that the
current global situation is highly precarious. Under our current systems of
international management only a tiny fraction of the people on the planet
are enjoying the luxuries and full benefits of economic security. And in
the future, as our numbers keep growing, the gap between rich and poor
can only grow wider.
What we need is an entire planet makeover. The major hurdle confronting
us is the fact that there is no quick fix. The current policy of zero-population
growth is not only unnatural and morally reprehensible, all it will do
in the long run at best, is keep the wolves of global hunger at bay – not
produce the Garden of Eden our ancestors have worked for. Even if we all
get together and agree on mass change and begin to institute it tomorrow,
it will be at least a generation before any significant results will begin
to appear. In today’s atmosphere of short-term expectations, arriving at
a long-term consensus is going to be difficult, and implementing it even
more so.
The first reality that we have to face is that we have to return to the fundamental
family and extended-family values that defined our humanity and
separated us from the apes in the first place. We have to refocus our faith
on the compassionate nature of the Divine spirit that lives inside all of us.
In order for that to happen, the false foundations and synthetic edifice of
the Tower of Babel that we have constructed has to be dismantled. Either
we do it ourselves in an orderly manner, or forces beyond our control will
bring it crumbling down over our heads.
If we cannot all see what will work for us, at least we should all be able
to agree on what does not. In this era of ever-increasing global interdependence,
the whole world has to realize that the Age of National Independence;
competing political ideologies, scientifically-controlled determinism
and religious Protest should be buried and put to rest as soon as
possible, before this dying Age’s inability to deal with world poverty and
the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, make nuclear war a terminal
reality for all life on the planet.
World consensus on what shape that future should take can only be
achieved initially via a universally accepted education policy, based on
the commonalty of basic social values and the spiritual essence of Atomic
Consciousness.
If an education based on nuclear theory is to be introduced to the psyche of
the world child without a conflict between physics and metaphysics, then
the charismatic attributes of sub-atomic particles currently under observation
in quantum mechanics needs to be more holistically understood and
articulated.
This Nuclear Age education designed to develop the dual nature of the human
psyche and evoke not only our technological ingenuity to deal with
the large scale planet management projects that lie ahead of us, but also
our soul power of compassionate understanding and thereby put an end to
the immaturity of ideological warfare, must be based on the recognition of
the commonalty of the Divine nature of our collective consciousness and
the Cosmic laws of Cause and Effect that govern our ethical behavior.
The human ego has to let go of the gross concept that the human form is
the only magical association of atomic forces that is capable of expressing
consciousness. Beauty of Form and behavior are expressed throughout the
entire Universe.
We have to rise above the biological impulses that are behind our current
reactions to environmental demands. The present urgency among
the industrialized nations of the World to achieve nuclear capability, not
simply as an alternative energy resource, or for reasons of national pride
and independence, but also (overtly or covertly) to arm themselves with
weapons of mass destruction, are subconsciously motivated by an ethical
imperative to achieve parity. That evolutionary principle is inviolate. No
man can be eternally subservient to another, nor can any nation. Global
thermo-nuclear warfare is therefore, most definitely on our horizon and
will certainly take place unless we make a concerted spiritual effort to
forestall it.
In previous Ages, environmental pressures demanding mass change have
traditionally been relieved through all-out war with a resultant period of
utter chaos before the New Age paradigm settled in. Population pressures
this time are global wide and conventional war no longer an option. The
present danger is magnified by the fact that we are only vaguely aware of
the underlying forces that are pushing us into the future. Our military supremacy
cannot protect the status quo forever. Nineteen young men with
box-cutters revealed how vulnerable we really are. International terrorist
organizations are determined to get their hands on fission material and will
eventually succeed.
What needs to be more fully understood by the powers that are currently
trying to defuse the global situation is that the drive for equality via nuclear
parity is profoundly spiritual as well as superficially political. The Nuclear
Equation has not yet factored in the infinite force of spiritual power that
resides inside Dark Matter. It is our manifest destiny for each and every
one of us to evoke and make use of that power. Without the assurance
that hard-won metaphysical insight provides, the unification of universal
forces can never be achieved and the presence of Dark Matter will forever
remain mysterious.
The question then, is what global policy can be instituted right now that
can defuse tensions and work towards achieving the equality that all humans
yearn for.
In order to answer what is perhaps the most pertinent question of this moment
in time, we need to look very carefully at exactly what the evolution
of human progression is telling us.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Bush Truth Commission
The Truth Commission proposed by Senator Leahy presents all of us with perhaps the only bright light that can lead this country out of the many dark crevices we have fallen into in our national and individual pursuit, not of happiness, but of wealth and power. The Commission's potential for cleaning our house and putting all of us back on the road toward honor and dignity in ourselves and our national purpose, reaches far beyond exposing the wrong-doings of the Bush Administration or any economic stimulus package that the Obama Administration may propose.
The beauty of it is that it will cost very little money and, if handled carefully and with tact, it may well snowball into accomplishing much, much, more than the goal it is currently proposing.
As a former state prosecutor the Senator is well aware of how the legal system works against itself - with the accused seeking every legal loophole to avoid prosecution. In this sense half the Law works to find the truth and the other half works to obscure it. He has said that such an approach against the trespasses of the Bush Administration would cost millions and take up to fifteen years to determine and end up punishing only those minions at the bottom of the pile.
By granting full immunity to all who come forward to confess their part in any and every machination to circumvent laws, we do not have a nation ratting on itself, but the opportunity for a once honorable people to finally vomit up all and everything vile contaminant that has blinded, demeaned and weakened us, not only in the eyes of an anxious world, but in the depths of our own hearts.
It is my hope that the value of such a forgiving Christian approach spreads far and wide into every dark corner of every institution in the nation - not with the object of punishing any single person or group, but of restoring ourselves and our nation to good health.
S.W. Pringle
Director Global Stewardship Foundation
The beauty of it is that it will cost very little money and, if handled carefully and with tact, it may well snowball into accomplishing much, much, more than the goal it is currently proposing.
As a former state prosecutor the Senator is well aware of how the legal system works against itself - with the accused seeking every legal loophole to avoid prosecution. In this sense half the Law works to find the truth and the other half works to obscure it. He has said that such an approach against the trespasses of the Bush Administration would cost millions and take up to fifteen years to determine and end up punishing only those minions at the bottom of the pile.
By granting full immunity to all who come forward to confess their part in any and every machination to circumvent laws, we do not have a nation ratting on itself, but the opportunity for a once honorable people to finally vomit up all and everything vile contaminant that has blinded, demeaned and weakened us, not only in the eyes of an anxious world, but in the depths of our own hearts.
It is my hope that the value of such a forgiving Christian approach spreads far and wide into every dark corner of every institution in the nation - not with the object of punishing any single person or group, but of restoring ourselves and our nation to good health.
S.W. Pringle
Director Global Stewardship Foundation
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Natural Consciousness
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4696315n[/url]
If elephants have the sort of representational abilities you're attributing to them, we should be able to get elephants to learn things from pictures (the location of food, for instance). Or, they should be able to draw novel representations, and not only the ones they've been trained to draw. We have no evidence that they are able to do either.
Elephants have more than just a reptilian brain stem. That's all any of us need for basic survival. A cortex helps us to analyze things. They have a cortex. Not as big as ours, but big enough to have an analytical and intuitive consciousness far above the limits you are trying to ascribe to them. They are not automated consciousnesses. That friendship with the tiny dog and the concern for its illness, the presentation of a flower; all show that they profess as much aesthetic appreciation and empathy with other species, if not more, than we do. They do not destroy other specie senselessly like we do. When an elephants sees a mouse, it does not trample on it. Dolphins have an even bigger brains than ours. Why? Who is to argue that they have might have a far better knowledge and understanding of the greater portion of this planet than we will ever attain?
Life is not just about collating data. It is about experiencing it. A King might not believe that a low-born peasant shares the same values. But that is because of bigotry and nurturing. Are we pseudo-intellectually bigoted about the intelligence of "low born" animals? How sure are you that we are not?
We never invented ourselves. Nature produced us. We all evolved out of the same first cell. Everything that was ever to be, had to be already imprinted in it. We are extensions of Natural consciousness, born of this earth, not aliens injected from some other dimension. We belong to the primate specie. Our base consciousness is natural. It is shared by all of Nature. Birds sing. We sing. Males battle for supremacy. Birds fall in love for life. Dogs mourn the death of human friends. Our specie developed a reflective ego. Why, only God knows. But it separated us from our natural base. Ever since then we have being trying to find our way back to God consciousness - through religion and science. That effort defines our survival dynamic. Animals and plants never got lost. They are God's repository. And every now and then He sends us message through one of them, via the gift of a flower, to remind the prodigal gambler of our natural family and our shared family values.
If elephants have the sort of representational abilities you're attributing to them, we should be able to get elephants to learn things from pictures (the location of food, for instance). Or, they should be able to draw novel representations, and not only the ones they've been trained to draw. We have no evidence that they are able to do either.
Elephants have more than just a reptilian brain stem. That's all any of us need for basic survival. A cortex helps us to analyze things. They have a cortex. Not as big as ours, but big enough to have an analytical and intuitive consciousness far above the limits you are trying to ascribe to them. They are not automated consciousnesses. That friendship with the tiny dog and the concern for its illness, the presentation of a flower; all show that they profess as much aesthetic appreciation and empathy with other species, if not more, than we do. They do not destroy other specie senselessly like we do. When an elephants sees a mouse, it does not trample on it. Dolphins have an even bigger brains than ours. Why? Who is to argue that they have might have a far better knowledge and understanding of the greater portion of this planet than we will ever attain?
Life is not just about collating data. It is about experiencing it. A King might not believe that a low-born peasant shares the same values. But that is because of bigotry and nurturing. Are we pseudo-intellectually bigoted about the intelligence of "low born" animals? How sure are you that we are not?
We never invented ourselves. Nature produced us. We all evolved out of the same first cell. Everything that was ever to be, had to be already imprinted in it. We are extensions of Natural consciousness, born of this earth, not aliens injected from some other dimension. We belong to the primate specie. Our base consciousness is natural. It is shared by all of Nature. Birds sing. We sing. Males battle for supremacy. Birds fall in love for life. Dogs mourn the death of human friends. Our specie developed a reflective ego. Why, only God knows. But it separated us from our natural base. Ever since then we have being trying to find our way back to God consciousness - through religion and science. That effort defines our survival dynamic. Animals and plants never got lost. They are God's repository. And every now and then He sends us message through one of them, via the gift of a flower, to remind the prodigal gambler of our natural family and our shared family values.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Goodness & Badness
Define Goodness and Badness
Goodness: The evolution of consciousness from infnat naivete to cosmic sagaciousness
Badness: The Random dynamic
Does "random dynamic" exist in your perspective?I mean, you take god for granted and god is omniscience/omnipotent/omnipresent for you,most probably.
If so, it doesn't leave room for something other than god's intention.
Everything is god and good and by god for god for good of god, and so on.
Where is the badness you think of?
Very good question.
Indeed, God does not play dice with the universe. But He is not completely immune to the odd flutter now and then. So he added a joker or two to the pack. This ensures that no end-game can be absolutely computed. It also ensures that He can never be bored by the game. He has to stay alert and keep making tiny adjustements to His creation, ere it fall over the edge into chaos. In this sense randomness is Good.
Do you really think that humans can continue to multiply indefinitely?
And how about all other creatures?
The evolution of human consciousness is on a set cycle - with a definable beginning and end. We are about a quarter of the way into the cycle. Actually you and I are having this conversation at a very exciting moment in the cycle. Only four mass shifts of consciousness have taken place over the past 2.5 million years. The last one happened around 500. B.C. when human intellect had developed enough to challenge religious dogma and set off on a self-determinant tangent. That teenage rebellion of trying to analyze the infinite is now almost over. Einstein popped the Newtonian bubble. The universe is not a clock. So now that the clock has stopped, we are all caught up in an eerie time warp. We don't know what to do without a watch. The alarm button won't work either. It is a rather scary moment, I will admit. Millions of us are half awake. We are urging the rest of us to put away the dice. We have got stop gambling with the stocks and bonds of the family estate. Fast cars, fast women, playing Russian roulette with nuclear guns has got to end. The prodigal son has got to return to Our Father's house. The omens for mass change are all in place. We have a new doctrine in Nuclear Theory. Confidence in government and the economy is in a major free fall. All of this is telling a complacent collective conscious that it is time to move on, clock or no clock.
So, in answer to question: No. We will not multiply indefinitely and over-populate every planet in the universe.
But we still have a ways to go before we grow old and die on the home planet. How long each of the next development ages will take, only God knows. In the meantime, we have to press on with our evolutionary journey. We need families in order to continue towards our cosmic destiny. We must continue to breed. The larger each family group, the easier it is to socialize each child. This of course flies in the face of conventional wisdom. But zero population growth is an abomination. Nature will not allow it. She never developed this big brain in order for it to go negative on Her.
Is it really good if cockroaches and all other things multiplied to fill all spaces? :D
How about germs and bacteria and virus? Should they continue to multiply in your body to be good?
I have already mentioned that big brain of ours. And also that desperate teenage quest to find a logical answer to the meaning of existence. It was not a side trip after all. That whole age has given us the precise technology we need to successfully manage an entire planet in a sustainable way, while we continue to double our population every generation.
We know that the sun provides us with enough daily calories to support 1000 billion humans, as well as the existing ecology. Some say 2000 billion. So we know the limit, which is a good indication of the end-game for us.
So now the big brain must devise ways and meant to occupy less and less s earth space in order to allow our numbers to grow, without hurting the ecology. In fact, we have an initial huge task of cleaning up an age of untidy industrial effort - and getting it back to the way Nature had it in the first place. So the obvious answer for continued growth is for our specie to go UP not sprawl OUT.
High rise living.
High Rise farming.
High rise industry.
Mega ergonomic human hives, that generate their own clean energy, harvest water from the atmosphere, complete with tree-lined boulevards, plantations, streams and waterfalls. With the rest of nature a escalator ride from the entrances.
So in answer to your question. Don't worry about the rest of creation. Nature will keep it in in symbiosis. There will be no roaches indoors. No infestation. No need for deadly chemicals.
Other than your personal fear and worrying (about yourself and your family and maybe for others), are there any motivation to think about "goodness" and "badness", especially in non-relative manner?
I am a philosopher Worry is what I do. It would be nice if a got a small salary for it. But such is life.
"You have said elsewhere that Old fashioned family values are central to Goodness without them we are going nowhere"
"Family value" can vary wildly from one tribe/culture to another, which may lead to "goodness" relativism.
Not so. Who told to you that?
Every single culture on the planet originated from a common family group 2,5 million years ago. The family values that were established during the formative stages of the Stone and Bronze Ages, which constitute 99.9% of our time evolving a social and spiritual consciousness, remain common to every human culture on the planet.
What's the exact content of your "old fashioned family value"?
Amazing. the perfect final question!
Here are our seven basic survival ethics, in order of development between infancy and sagehood
1. Sharing
2. chores (home and garden)
3. courage
4. loving
5. conscientiousness (craftsmanship}
6. vision (intuition - expressed through art)
7. intellect (analysis - expressed through technology}
It is the parents responsibility to ensure that the first six ethics are seated by puberty
This produces an ethical self-policed consciousness, quite able to master text books without assistance
This "miracle of education" cannot be done artificially inside a state classroom
It has to be accomplished in the home environment, by BOTH parents.
It is the best investment any nation can make in its own future
It does away with the entire waste of heavily policed social administration (up to 60% of the GNP)
Goodness: The evolution of consciousness from infnat naivete to cosmic sagaciousness
Badness: The Random dynamic
Does "random dynamic" exist in your perspective?I mean, you take god for granted and god is omniscience/omnipotent/omnipresent for you,most probably.
If so, it doesn't leave room for something other than god's intention.
Everything is god and good and by god for god for good of god, and so on.
Where is the badness you think of?
Very good question.
Indeed, God does not play dice with the universe. But He is not completely immune to the odd flutter now and then. So he added a joker or two to the pack. This ensures that no end-game can be absolutely computed. It also ensures that He can never be bored by the game. He has to stay alert and keep making tiny adjustements to His creation, ere it fall over the edge into chaos. In this sense randomness is Good.
Do you really think that humans can continue to multiply indefinitely?
And how about all other creatures?
The evolution of human consciousness is on a set cycle - with a definable beginning and end. We are about a quarter of the way into the cycle. Actually you and I are having this conversation at a very exciting moment in the cycle. Only four mass shifts of consciousness have taken place over the past 2.5 million years. The last one happened around 500. B.C. when human intellect had developed enough to challenge religious dogma and set off on a self-determinant tangent. That teenage rebellion of trying to analyze the infinite is now almost over. Einstein popped the Newtonian bubble. The universe is not a clock. So now that the clock has stopped, we are all caught up in an eerie time warp. We don't know what to do without a watch. The alarm button won't work either. It is a rather scary moment, I will admit. Millions of us are half awake. We are urging the rest of us to put away the dice. We have got stop gambling with the stocks and bonds of the family estate. Fast cars, fast women, playing Russian roulette with nuclear guns has got to end. The prodigal son has got to return to Our Father's house. The omens for mass change are all in place. We have a new doctrine in Nuclear Theory. Confidence in government and the economy is in a major free fall. All of this is telling a complacent collective conscious that it is time to move on, clock or no clock.
So, in answer to question: No. We will not multiply indefinitely and over-populate every planet in the universe.
But we still have a ways to go before we grow old and die on the home planet. How long each of the next development ages will take, only God knows. In the meantime, we have to press on with our evolutionary journey. We need families in order to continue towards our cosmic destiny. We must continue to breed. The larger each family group, the easier it is to socialize each child. This of course flies in the face of conventional wisdom. But zero population growth is an abomination. Nature will not allow it. She never developed this big brain in order for it to go negative on Her.
Is it really good if cockroaches and all other things multiplied to fill all spaces? :D
How about germs and bacteria and virus? Should they continue to multiply in your body to be good?
I have already mentioned that big brain of ours. And also that desperate teenage quest to find a logical answer to the meaning of existence. It was not a side trip after all. That whole age has given us the precise technology we need to successfully manage an entire planet in a sustainable way, while we continue to double our population every generation.
We know that the sun provides us with enough daily calories to support 1000 billion humans, as well as the existing ecology. Some say 2000 billion. So we know the limit, which is a good indication of the end-game for us.
So now the big brain must devise ways and meant to occupy less and less s earth space in order to allow our numbers to grow, without hurting the ecology. In fact, we have an initial huge task of cleaning up an age of untidy industrial effort - and getting it back to the way Nature had it in the first place. So the obvious answer for continued growth is for our specie to go UP not sprawl OUT.
High rise living.
High Rise farming.
High rise industry.
Mega ergonomic human hives, that generate their own clean energy, harvest water from the atmosphere, complete with tree-lined boulevards, plantations, streams and waterfalls. With the rest of nature a escalator ride from the entrances.
So in answer to your question. Don't worry about the rest of creation. Nature will keep it in in symbiosis. There will be no roaches indoors. No infestation. No need for deadly chemicals.
Other than your personal fear and worrying (about yourself and your family and maybe for others), are there any motivation to think about "goodness" and "badness", especially in non-relative manner?
I am a philosopher Worry is what I do. It would be nice if a got a small salary for it. But such is life.
"You have said elsewhere that Old fashioned family values are central to Goodness without them we are going nowhere"
"Family value" can vary wildly from one tribe/culture to another, which may lead to "goodness" relativism.
Not so. Who told to you that?
Every single culture on the planet originated from a common family group 2,5 million years ago. The family values that were established during the formative stages of the Stone and Bronze Ages, which constitute 99.9% of our time evolving a social and spiritual consciousness, remain common to every human culture on the planet.
What's the exact content of your "old fashioned family value"?
Amazing. the perfect final question!
Here are our seven basic survival ethics, in order of development between infancy and sagehood
1. Sharing
2. chores (home and garden)
3. courage
4. loving
5. conscientiousness (craftsmanship}
6. vision (intuition - expressed through art)
7. intellect (analysis - expressed through technology}
It is the parents responsibility to ensure that the first six ethics are seated by puberty
This produces an ethical self-policed consciousness, quite able to master text books without assistance
This "miracle of education" cannot be done artificially inside a state classroom
It has to be accomplished in the home environment, by BOTH parents.
It is the best investment any nation can make in its own future
It does away with the entire waste of heavily policed social administration (up to 60% of the GNP)
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Man & Beast - A Shared Consciounsess
There is no way that I can detect in the following video on UTUBE that it may be faked in any way.
It it is true then it radically alters our consciousness as regard our human relationship with Mother Nature.
The execution of the drawing you are about to see is as thoughtful, spiritual and masterful as anything a Picasso could produce.
It reveals a consciousness that, in essence, is no different from ours.
There are no words I can use to describe the impact it has had on my psyche.
In the space of ten minutes it has altered my entire world view.
Just for starters, from a personal behavioral aspect it has immediately and radically altered my own attitude towards eating the flesh of any animal. I have suddenly and irrevocably become a vegetarian.
I now feel that commercial animal slaughter it is akin to murder, mass genocide in fact.
I would be greatly interested to know if it strikes anybody else the same way.
[quote] In my opinion the trainer is the one who directs the painting, not the elephant. Whether the elephant understands that it's painting an elephant is hard to say, it likely does not understand. Some dogs look at televisions and see a blur, some will bark at other dogs they see on television.
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Here is a critique from my brother. He has been a professional artist and set designer in Hollywood for the past twenty years.
The amazing thing about the elephant's art, is that she drew it from an abstract single line starting from the trunk to the hind foot, inclined for perspective of it's elevation from the ground. Then repeated that incline again for the forefoot on the same side, The flower was incredible. Two daubs of paint, red on the tip and yellow on the body of the brush and she fan painted the flower head floating in space with a 'hot' center ... the whole image is a romantic ballet ... a dancing elephant. Divine inspiration? Perhaps, but one thing for certain, she painted like a pro ... no different than Picasso. Express the line ... fill in the details.
If any person wants to decide that all of that technique was accomplished by a mahout pulling on an elephant's ear and that the animal had little to do with it, you are entirely free to do so. What I do know from my art classes is that it is incredibly difficult to get a bunch of artistically inept, analytically indoctrinated intellectuals to accomplish anything that remotely approaches art. That elephant class did just that. And if anybody does not find that reaching into the depths of their psyche then I am indeed sorry for the heartfelt numbness of our specie.
It it is true then it radically alters our consciousness as regard our human relationship with Mother Nature.
The execution of the drawing you are about to see is as thoughtful, spiritual and masterful as anything a Picasso could produce.
It reveals a consciousness that, in essence, is no different from ours.
There are no words I can use to describe the impact it has had on my psyche.
In the space of ten minutes it has altered my entire world view.
Just for starters, from a personal behavioral aspect it has immediately and radically altered my own attitude towards eating the flesh of any animal. I have suddenly and irrevocably become a vegetarian.
I now feel that commercial animal slaughter it is akin to murder, mass genocide in fact.
I would be greatly interested to know if it strikes anybody else the same way.
[quote] In my opinion the trainer is the one who directs the painting, not the elephant. Whether the elephant understands that it's painting an elephant is hard to say, it likely does not understand. Some dogs look at televisions and see a blur, some will bark at other dogs they see on television.
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Here is a critique from my brother. He has been a professional artist and set designer in Hollywood for the past twenty years.
The amazing thing about the elephant's art, is that she drew it from an abstract single line starting from the trunk to the hind foot, inclined for perspective of it's elevation from the ground. Then repeated that incline again for the forefoot on the same side, The flower was incredible. Two daubs of paint, red on the tip and yellow on the body of the brush and she fan painted the flower head floating in space with a 'hot' center ... the whole image is a romantic ballet ... a dancing elephant. Divine inspiration? Perhaps, but one thing for certain, she painted like a pro ... no different than Picasso. Express the line ... fill in the details.
If any person wants to decide that all of that technique was accomplished by a mahout pulling on an elephant's ear and that the animal had little to do with it, you are entirely free to do so. What I do know from my art classes is that it is incredibly difficult to get a bunch of artistically inept, analytically indoctrinated intellectuals to accomplish anything that remotely approaches art. That elephant class did just that. And if anybody does not find that reaching into the depths of their psyche then I am indeed sorry for the heartfelt numbness of our specie.
Monday, February 02, 2009
Death, Intuition & the Collective Consciousness
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It appears to me that many humans are certain of an afterlife which I take to be a paradox, i.e. a logical contradiction. i.e. P and not P existing simultaneously.
It seems that we have a great dread of death and religion is our means for shoving our dread of death deep back into the unconscious so that we do not have to live with the anxiety of the consciousness of death.
I was an atheist throughout my late teens and twenties. That was my youthful pseudo-intellectual argument - fear of death made religion an opiate.. But even in atheism the specter of death does not impinge on daily consciousness, at least not until the fourth quarter of life. The whole point and focus of retirement is a preparation for death. There is no fear, other than hoping it is not a painful one. It allows for full savor of the life lived. Also time for correction. In the end the arms of death are welcome. (I am now 67 and know full well where of I speak.) There are of course elders who fear death right to then end. IMO it is because they are guilt-ridden and have not had the courage to review their trespasses.
What is your definition of intuition?
Basically, inspiration.
During experiments in the separation of the two hemispheres of the cortex, Prof. Roger Sperry has proved that each side of the brain has different modes of comprehension. The left side processes analytical information, intuitive insights are made on the right.
It is my belief that the intuitive side of the brain is the repository of 20 billion years of evolutionary experiences. From that vast resource inspired idealization surfaces in consciousness when the pressures of increasingly complex survival imperatives demand new solutions. The analytical side then takes over, systematizes the idea and then designs methods of practical application. That analysis is of course an expression of my intuitive insights. I have no proof of it. New advances in brain scanning will eventually tell us more exactly how consciousness works.
What do you mean by "collective consciousness"?
A little known hero of mine, Eugene Marais, a South African naturalist, once conducted an ESP experiment on a hive of termites, back in 1905. His findings were published in a treatise called "The Soul of the White Ant."
He drove a one eighth inch steel plate between the queen's chamber and the other half of the hive. There was no change of the behavior of each individual termite. But when the plate size was increased to a quarter inch, the behavior of the ants on the wrong side of the plate became erratic. That is the natural proof that consciousness can become collective.
I believe that the evolution of human consciousness is gradually leading us in that same direction. In a very real sense the advances in human communication mediums - oral. scripture, telegraph, radio, television and now the internet are all exoteric expressions of our collective consciousness. In another sense our central government serves as our collective consciousness. And yet another - our religions of Belief are also essential expressions of the collective will.
My intuition tells me that as our social and spiritual consciousness continues to evolve, we will transcend the artificial mediums of communication and directly achieve our natural esoteric potential
It appears to me that many humans are certain of an afterlife which I take to be a paradox, i.e. a logical contradiction. i.e. P and not P existing simultaneously.
It seems that we have a great dread of death and religion is our means for shoving our dread of death deep back into the unconscious so that we do not have to live with the anxiety of the consciousness of death.
I was an atheist throughout my late teens and twenties. That was my youthful pseudo-intellectual argument - fear of death made religion an opiate.. But even in atheism the specter of death does not impinge on daily consciousness, at least not until the fourth quarter of life. The whole point and focus of retirement is a preparation for death. There is no fear, other than hoping it is not a painful one. It allows for full savor of the life lived. Also time for correction. In the end the arms of death are welcome. (I am now 67 and know full well where of I speak.) There are of course elders who fear death right to then end. IMO it is because they are guilt-ridden and have not had the courage to review their trespasses.
What is your definition of intuition?
Basically, inspiration.
During experiments in the separation of the two hemispheres of the cortex, Prof. Roger Sperry has proved that each side of the brain has different modes of comprehension. The left side processes analytical information, intuitive insights are made on the right.
It is my belief that the intuitive side of the brain is the repository of 20 billion years of evolutionary experiences. From that vast resource inspired idealization surfaces in consciousness when the pressures of increasingly complex survival imperatives demand new solutions. The analytical side then takes over, systematizes the idea and then designs methods of practical application. That analysis is of course an expression of my intuitive insights. I have no proof of it. New advances in brain scanning will eventually tell us more exactly how consciousness works.
What do you mean by "collective consciousness"?
A little known hero of mine, Eugene Marais, a South African naturalist, once conducted an ESP experiment on a hive of termites, back in 1905. His findings were published in a treatise called "The Soul of the White Ant."
He drove a one eighth inch steel plate between the queen's chamber and the other half of the hive. There was no change of the behavior of each individual termite. But when the plate size was increased to a quarter inch, the behavior of the ants on the wrong side of the plate became erratic. That is the natural proof that consciousness can become collective.
I believe that the evolution of human consciousness is gradually leading us in that same direction. In a very real sense the advances in human communication mediums - oral. scripture, telegraph, radio, television and now the internet are all exoteric expressions of our collective consciousness. In another sense our central government serves as our collective consciousness. And yet another - our religions of Belief are also essential expressions of the collective will.
My intuition tells me that as our social and spiritual consciousness continues to evolve, we will transcend the artificial mediums of communication and directly achieve our natural esoteric potential
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