I was doing some research, trying to find words for how to go about manifesting. In the middle of that research, I had a couple of conversations that are worth reporting just as they happenned.
paul_hunt3: what can you tell me about the art of manifesting?
svava thornson: I think manifesting gets faster as you get more practice
paul_hunt3: how do you start?
svava thornson: by hopeing for things
svava thornson: and then working towards making them happen
paul_hunt3: so it is quite natural
svava thornson: prayer is a huge organized religion way of telling people how to manifest
svava thornson: you tell them. You can have anything you want (most of the time) but you have to tell people, even if it's just between yourself and the powers that be
svava thornson: and then you have to act in accordance to make that happen
paul_hunt3: it helps if you have pre charged your social environment
svava thornson: yes
svava thornson: but that comes with practice too
svava thornson: if everyone is used to you getting what you ask for, they just assume that if you've asked it's going to happen so they do it or act like it has already happened
paul_hunt3: acting as if...
paul_hunt3: another magic piece
svava thornson: when I mentioned to Emoe that you guys were looking to start a restaurant or wanted someone else to, somewhere in it I mentioned IF and he corrected me and said "WHEN!, it is your parents who want it"
paul_hunt3: that is a charged example
svava thornson: ya
svava thornson: but most people know that if you really want something you get it
svava thornson: even if it involves you making it happen
svava thornson: especially if it involves you making it happen
paul_hunt3: it boils down to expectations
paul_hunt3: faith
paul_hunt3: if you don't expect it to happen, you don't invest in it
svava thornson: and neither will anyone else
paul_hunt3: the converse works too
svava thornson: very much so
paul_hunt3 : I just copied all this into my worksheet
paul_hunt3 : I'm doing a report on manifesting
svava thornson : oh?
paul_hunt3 : george breed asked me to
svava thornson : what else do you know about it?
paul_hunt3 : i found about 4 links to good websites that teach it
paul_hunt3 : amber and i took a manifesting class in 99 and it changed both of our lives
svava thornson : remember when we read the reluctant messiah together
paul_hunt3 : yea
svava thornson : that had almost everything to do with manifesting
paul_hunt3 : very much
svava thornson : although it was a fantasy book that explained it best to me
paul_hunt3 : which?
svava thornson : it was somewhere in the rift series
svava thornson : there was this old crazy magician who insisted there was no magic
svava thornson : which was charming and all but way down the line. he explained to the main character why there was no magic
paul_hunt3 : yes?
svava thornson : and it involved him describing something similar to subatomic particles, or the energy that holds it together and communicating with them
svava thornson : it is what everything is made up of, EVERYTHING
svava thornson : and if you ask them to they'll do anything you want
svava thornson : it wasn't magic, it was communication
svava thornson : but the way he described it really made anything at all possible
paul_hunt3 : Ahhhh
svava thornson : and all you had to do was communicate (manifest)svava thornson: and when I do reiki or those kinds of things what they teach you to do is to communicate with the very essence of energy, at the level in which it holds all things together
svava thornson : they teach you that energy follows intention. . or where/what you are thinking about
paul_hunt3 : that explains the power of attention
svava thornson : you can literally create, destroy, restructure anything simply with energy manipulation, although I prefer to communicate and ask rather than manipulate
paul_hunt3 : the essence of the art
svava thornson : magic actual magic not parlor tricks is whole heartedly possible
svava thornson : but few do it because they don't believe they can, or they don't want to deal with the consequences
paul_hunt3 : but as you say, it's not magic
svava thornson : right
svava thornson : but it could easily look like it
svava thornson : and people could study and learn to do "magic" without understanding what it actually is
svava thornson : ritual can be very powerful
paul_hunt3 : ritual encodes expectations
svava thornson : yes
svava thornson : if you do this, and believe this will happen because of it. . .
svava thornson : you'll be posting your report on manifesting right?
paul_hunt3 : yup
paul_hunt3 : part of my report might be this conversation
svava thornson : cool
svava thornson : I'd like to see the websites on it too
paul_hunt3 :A book called "Beginner's guide to manifesting
paul_hunt3 : INNERLIGHT the art of manifesting (comes with meditation music)
paul_hunt3 : unifying.com/manifesting
paul_hunt3 : A different channel on the topic
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Monday, December 26, 2005
Alternate cosmology
Imagine a raindrop in mid air. Now imagine that our entire three dimensional universe is just the surface of a similar raindrop in 4 dimensional space.
For conceptual purposes, we will call the 4D fluid that makes up this big raindrop "water". As we zoom way down into the tiniest details of this surface, we notice little jets of water entering at a right angle to the surface. Each jet punctures the surface tension and drags a little of the surface water into the raindrop center.
From our 3D point of view, each of those jets looks like the tiniest particle of matter. Zoom in close and they look like tiny black holes through which the very fluid of space is being lost. Because fluid is always flowing into these partcles, they are attracted to each other. That gives rise to the behaviour of gravity.
This concept was introduced to me by "the teacher" about 20 years ago (in a most undignified way). At the time I imagined explaining that as I accepted the Nobel prize. At the time I was also saying that science had too many things to change before they could begin accepting such a different explaination of the universe.
I let the subject drop, but every 5 years or so something would tantalize me. Also, a new finding (such as dark energy) would pop up and puzzle the science community because it didn't fit known theories. Reading about the puzzled scientists I would shout to myself "DUH! It's just commen sense in my theory."
Many things have changed, and now theoretical cosmologists are looking for new ideas. I don't have the mathematics horsepower to see if this hypo-theory makes sense yet. I guess I need to be introduced to somebody in physics who has the guts, intuition, and skills to check it out.
For conceptual purposes, we will call the 4D fluid that makes up this big raindrop "water". As we zoom way down into the tiniest details of this surface, we notice little jets of water entering at a right angle to the surface. Each jet punctures the surface tension and drags a little of the surface water into the raindrop center.
From our 3D point of view, each of those jets looks like the tiniest particle of matter. Zoom in close and they look like tiny black holes through which the very fluid of space is being lost. Because fluid is always flowing into these partcles, they are attracted to each other. That gives rise to the behaviour of gravity.
This concept was introduced to me by "the teacher" about 20 years ago (in a most undignified way). At the time I imagined explaining that as I accepted the Nobel prize. At the time I was also saying that science had too many things to change before they could begin accepting such a different explaination of the universe.
I let the subject drop, but every 5 years or so something would tantalize me. Also, a new finding (such as dark energy) would pop up and puzzle the science community because it didn't fit known theories. Reading about the puzzled scientists I would shout to myself "DUH! It's just commen sense in my theory."
Many things have changed, and now theoretical cosmologists are looking for new ideas. I don't have the mathematics horsepower to see if this hypo-theory makes sense yet. I guess I need to be introduced to somebody in physics who has the guts, intuition, and skills to check it out.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Can you catch a virus by internet?
I read Solee's website about her being sick. With just the right amount of incubation time, yesterday the flu hit me like a ton of bricks.
I had just been marveling that this has been a very good season, I hadn't had any illness this fall. So, do you think I got nailed because I thought about it, or because I caught it from Solee?
I had just been marveling that this has been a very good season, I hadn't had any illness this fall. So, do you think I got nailed because I thought about it, or because I caught it from Solee?
Sunday, December 18, 2005
Perfection
I have been struggling with the practical side of perfection. I have seen many times how having stuff that is too nice causes more grief than pleasure.
When we had three little kids, I concluded that it wasn’t worth getting so upset about all the things they broke or defaced. Sure, they had to learn to take care of things, but I didn’t have to go nuts trying to maintain possessions that are too nice for kids. I just sighed and concluded that I wasn’t going to have anything nice for the next 20 years.
It has been more than 20 years. I can have nearly any possession I want. During that time I learned that there is very little additional value to having really fine stuff. The real value in life is enjoying people and having a mission.
This philosophy affects my tastes in housing. While some folks obsess about imperfections in their finely finished woodwork, my house will be a little more rustic and perhaps a little less finished. As a place to interact with life, my house will always be a work in progress, so forgive the imperfections.
I will save obsessing and pursuit of perfection for my mission.
When we had three little kids, I concluded that it wasn’t worth getting so upset about all the things they broke or defaced. Sure, they had to learn to take care of things, but I didn’t have to go nuts trying to maintain possessions that are too nice for kids. I just sighed and concluded that I wasn’t going to have anything nice for the next 20 years.
It has been more than 20 years. I can have nearly any possession I want. During that time I learned that there is very little additional value to having really fine stuff. The real value in life is enjoying people and having a mission.
This philosophy affects my tastes in housing. While some folks obsess about imperfections in their finely finished woodwork, my house will be a little more rustic and perhaps a little less finished. As a place to interact with life, my house will always be a work in progress, so forgive the imperfections.
I will save obsessing and pursuit of perfection for my mission.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Manifesting keeps happening faster.
(Of course it helps if you hustle too.)
Remember a few blogs ago I mentioned Fair Conversion?
Last night, the fair board voted unanimously to include a focus on renewable energy and sustainable living.
Now the fun part and the hard work begins. There are a million ideas that this opens up. I will list some of those ideas at the HUG web site.
It is kind of cool that the fair will be renewed and sustained by choosing to focus on Renewable and Sustainable living.
Remember a few blogs ago I mentioned Fair Conversion?
Last night, the fair board voted unanimously to include a focus on renewable energy and sustainable living.
Now the fun part and the hard work begins. There are a million ideas that this opens up. I will list some of those ideas at the HUG web site.
It is kind of cool that the fair will be renewed and sustained by choosing to focus on Renewable and Sustainable living.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
A better fit
Around here we often talk about forming an idyllic community. We have it well established in our minds that the current economic system is all about pumping money uphill. It also tends to entrap people to keep on feeding that pump by making them totally dependent on the big system for food, fuel and housing.
The emerging answers center on shortening the economic loops; such as: we and our neighbors might raise much of our own food and fuel, and live in houses that heat themselves. Then we aren’t dependent on everything in the big system working perfectly. It is economically more efficient, healthier, and more stable. Then we deal with the big economy more for our wants, not our needs.
While chatting with Raya about how we would make a better economy and lifestyle, she asked "Can it work to live like a Hobbit and still be connected to the world?"
I answered “Yes, but we want to meet the larger economy hand in hand, not with its hand on our throat.”
The emerging answers center on shortening the economic loops; such as: we and our neighbors might raise much of our own food and fuel, and live in houses that heat themselves. Then we aren’t dependent on everything in the big system working perfectly. It is economically more efficient, healthier, and more stable. Then we deal with the big economy more for our wants, not our needs.
While chatting with Raya about how we would make a better economy and lifestyle, she asked "Can it work to live like a Hobbit and still be connected to the world?"
I answered “Yes, but we want to meet the larger economy hand in hand, not with its hand on our throat.”
Manifesting and fun facts
I have marveled many times lately at how fast the universe presents me with something I asked for or the answer to a question. All I have to do is pay attention.
Just today I was wondering how the name for the Star Wars character R2D2 came about. Tonight I bumped into a fun facts web site. There it was…
When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
A few other fun facts that caught my attention:
Comments about our major institutions...
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
Comments about our nutrition...
In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
The average North Korean 7-year-old is almost three inches shorter than the average South Korean 7-year-old.
Who is the dominant species?
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
Time to outlaw those wild teddys...
Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears
Ever have that feeling?
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.
Just today I was wondering how the name for the Star Wars character R2D2 came about. Tonight I bumped into a fun facts web site. There it was…
When George Lucas was mixing the American Graffiti soundtrack, he numbered the reels of film starting with an R and numbered the dialog starting with a D. Sound designer Walter Murch asked George for Reel 2, Dialog 2 by saying "R2D2". George liked the way that sounded so much he integrated that into another project he was working on.
A few other fun facts that caught my attention:
Comments about our major institutions...
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike each year than all the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
At General Motors, the cost of health care for employees now exceeds the cost of steel.
The United States has five percent of the world's population, but twenty-five percent of the world's prison population.
Comments about our nutrition...
In 1991, the average bra size in the United States was 34B. Today it's 36C.
In 1985, the most popular waist size for men's pants was 32. In 2003, it's 36.
In 2004, one in six girls in the United States enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.
The average North Korean 7-year-old is almost three inches shorter than the average South Korean 7-year-old.
Who is the dominant species?
For every person on earth, there are an estimated 200 million insects.
Time to outlaw those wild teddys...
Each year, more people are killed by teddy bears than by grizzly bears
Ever have that feeling?
A female ferret will die if it goes into heat and cannot find a mate.
Dolly Parton once lost a Dolly Parton Look-Alike contest.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Practice
For several years now I have had a little voice whispering in my brain, telling me to eat foods that are more alive. I am slowly learning to change eating habits as we learn more about food and nutrition.
Lynn and I spent the evening putting hundreds of pounds of various sproutable organic seeds into zip-lock baggies and 5 gallon buckets. Our goal is to learn to actually practice eating sprouted everything. This is not to say that we will go nuts and eat nothing but sprouts. This is just another gentle nudge to eat healthier and more nutritious foods.
I have to marvel at how difficult it is to actually change living habits. We can talk about it. We can all agree to it. Sometimes we even go so far as to start it. But do we stick to it?
Not likely.
The basic laws of physics apply to our spirit too.
Newton's first law:
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Just change the word "object" to "habit" and it's talking about you and me at our essence. That means we need to apply big force (such as the pain of necessity) to get any quick change in our habits. The other way to to change our direction is to apply a small force, constantly, for a very long time.
I have patience and persistance. I can do that.
Lynn and I spent the evening putting hundreds of pounds of various sproutable organic seeds into zip-lock baggies and 5 gallon buckets. Our goal is to learn to actually practice eating sprouted everything. This is not to say that we will go nuts and eat nothing but sprouts. This is just another gentle nudge to eat healthier and more nutritious foods.
I have to marvel at how difficult it is to actually change living habits. We can talk about it. We can all agree to it. Sometimes we even go so far as to start it. But do we stick to it?
Not likely.
The basic laws of physics apply to our spirit too.
Newton's first law:
Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.
Just change the word "object" to "habit" and it's talking about you and me at our essence. That means we need to apply big force (such as the pain of necessity) to get any quick change in our habits. The other way to to change our direction is to apply a small force, constantly, for a very long time.
I have patience and persistance. I can do that.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
SUN grocks it
Remember my post last friday titled "Dream On"?
I was introducing the idea of the gift economy, and dreaming of the day Microsoft decides to give away all its popular software. SUN microsystems just did exactly that, and for the same reasons I was dreaming of.
SUN says they don't intend to give away all their revenue. They are getting rid of barriers to revenue.
I truly wish them well. I hope they have a lot of business success because they gave away their software.
I was introducing the idea of the gift economy, and dreaming of the day Microsoft decides to give away all its popular software. SUN microsystems just did exactly that, and for the same reasons I was dreaming of.
SUN says they don't intend to give away all their revenue. They are getting rid of barriers to revenue.
I truly wish them well. I hope they have a lot of business success because they gave away their software.
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