Another interesting item of Global warming news
Why am I seeing more than the usual amount of info about this topic lately?
Do you suppose God is trying to give us a message?
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
Getting at the root?
In reference to an earlier post
I_Wonder said...
"Structure tends to suppress creativity...
With no structure, you can do nothing."
There's some tension between these statements. I accept both as 'true' but they tend to repel one another like matching poles of a magnet.
I think I can assert "structure spurs creativity" and accept it as 'true' also.
I agree with the full post and with your paraphrase, but I still have a nagging feeling that there's more in these two (or three) statements.
Paul said...
With no structure, you can do nothing. With a little structure you can get creative.
With a lot of structure, you can get creative at higher levels. But for the higher level to function well, it must be on a stable platform. That demands predictability and conformity in the supporting structure.
People want to create. To make their supporting platform (nature) more predictable, they dam rivers, flatten terrain, clear trees, kill or domesticate animals, and eliminate germs and bugs.
Corporations and governments want to create. To make their supporting platform (people) more predictable, they will...
(fill in the blank)
(ouch)
I_Wonder said...
"Structure tends to suppress creativity...
With no structure, you can do nothing."
There's some tension between these statements. I accept both as 'true' but they tend to repel one another like matching poles of a magnet.
I think I can assert "structure spurs creativity" and accept it as 'true' also.
I agree with the full post and with your paraphrase, but I still have a nagging feeling that there's more in these two (or three) statements.
Paul said...
With no structure, you can do nothing. With a little structure you can get creative.
With a lot of structure, you can get creative at higher levels. But for the higher level to function well, it must be on a stable platform. That demands predictability and conformity in the supporting structure.
People want to create. To make their supporting platform (nature) more predictable, they dam rivers, flatten terrain, clear trees, kill or domesticate animals, and eliminate germs and bugs.
Corporations and governments want to create. To make their supporting platform (people) more predictable, they will...
(fill in the blank)
(ouch)
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Fast Times
January has been moving at a breakneck speed around here. Everything we are doing seems to be good stuff, and it is fun. No moss is gathering on us this year.
Lots of new learning, new friends, new employees, new organizations, new responsibilities, new buildings planned, even all new knotty pine paneling and shelves in my living room.
Whew! No wonder it feels fast.
We asked for these opportunities.
We are getting them.
May we have fun with them, and do the world a lot of good.
Lots of new learning, new friends, new employees, new organizations, new responsibilities, new buildings planned, even all new knotty pine paneling and shelves in my living room.
Whew! No wonder it feels fast.
We asked for these opportunities.
We are getting them.
May we have fun with them, and do the world a lot of good.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Where we are
Evolution needs the edge.
Life happens on the edge.
Structure tends to suppress creativity...
With no structure, you can do nothing.
With some structure the sky is the limit.
With much structure, you can do big things;
crush the competition,
force things to be just like you.
Evolution requires competition and noise, progeny and death.
When you are evolving, you are life.
When you no longer evolve you become soil; support for active life forms.
Life happens on the edge.
Structure tends to suppress creativity...
With no structure, you can do nothing.
With some structure the sky is the limit.
With much structure, you can do big things;
crush the competition,
force things to be just like you.
Evolution requires competition and noise, progeny and death.
When you are evolving, you are life.
When you no longer evolve you become soil; support for active life forms.
Personal energy, same as chemistry
Deploying energy is usually about making and breaking bonds.
Energy seems to be all about expectations. Energy is stored in motion or in bonds. Motion includes thermal kinetic and probably radiation. Bonds include any fields, electric, magnetic, gravitational, and chemical. Sometimes it takes energy to create a bond. Sometimes energy is released. In any case we are trading bonding and motion.
We already know that motion is possible because of inertia. Inertia is expectation. And bond is a continued expectation of advantages.
Every bond is for better and worse. It comes with advantages and costs. Making and breaking bonds usually involves substantial energy. That is why lawyers and undertakers make a lot of money. They support you just as a huge amount of energy is in flux. Doctors and realtors also benefit from changes in expectations making huge energy available.
Energy seems to be all about expectations. Energy is stored in motion or in bonds. Motion includes thermal kinetic and probably radiation. Bonds include any fields, electric, magnetic, gravitational, and chemical. Sometimes it takes energy to create a bond. Sometimes energy is released. In any case we are trading bonding and motion.
We already know that motion is possible because of inertia. Inertia is expectation. And bond is a continued expectation of advantages.
Every bond is for better and worse. It comes with advantages and costs. Making and breaking bonds usually involves substantial energy. That is why lawyers and undertakers make a lot of money. They support you just as a huge amount of energy is in flux. Doctors and realtors also benefit from changes in expectations making huge energy available.
Maybe we should start a church
Lots of interesting and weird things happen here and we often find ourselves exclaiming “Huddha thunk it!” We decided that these exclamations are proof that, subconsciously, we inherently understand how such things happen.
Huddha is a mischievous minor demigoddess, very good at creating reality by thinking. She is often credited with obscure realities within our world.
HUDDHA; the goddess of creation, creativity, discovery, and thinking.
Of course, to run a successful church, we need a leader; so I imagine we will have to run a "help wanted" ad in the paper. Something like this…
Charismatic leader needed: for a young cult, aspiring to promote minor demigod who specializes in manifesting obscure realities. No weirdoes please.
Huddha is a mischievous minor demigoddess, very good at creating reality by thinking. She is often credited with obscure realities within our world.
HUDDHA; the goddess of creation, creativity, discovery, and thinking.
Of course, to run a successful church, we need a leader; so I imagine we will have to run a "help wanted" ad in the paper. Something like this…
Charismatic leader needed: for a young cult, aspiring to promote minor demigod who specializes in manifesting obscure realities. No weirdoes please.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Be prepared for it
I found this on a manifesting site...
4-step success formula
1: You need to know what you want. You need to have your goals.
2: You need to have a burning desire to achieve the goal.
3: You need to program your goals into your subconscious mind.
4: You need to take massive action to accumulate the necessary experience and knowledge so that you are competent enough for your goals.
Number 4 is what got my attention:
You need to take MASSIVE action.
Not to make it happen, but to be prepared to handle it well. You could wish for a million watts of power, but if you got it without knowing how to deal with it, POOF!
It is true of a million dollars too.
In my mind, there is also a subtle interplay between being prepared and being worthy.
4-step success formula
1: You need to know what you want. You need to have your goals.
2: You need to have a burning desire to achieve the goal.
3: You need to program your goals into your subconscious mind.
4: You need to take massive action to accumulate the necessary experience and knowledge so that you are competent enough for your goals.
Number 4 is what got my attention:
You need to take MASSIVE action.
Not to make it happen, but to be prepared to handle it well. You could wish for a million watts of power, but if you got it without knowing how to deal with it, POOF!
It is true of a million dollars too.
In my mind, there is also a subtle interplay between being prepared and being worthy.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Sunday, January 08, 2006
Infinite patience brings immediate rewards
This saying tickled me the first time I heard it. It is both ironic and a mind stretcher. If you are infinitely patient, you don’t need immediate reward… but you get it.
Eventually the teacher explained that it also is a great manifesting tool. It creates a series of outcomes that are on every manifesting checklist.
Your infinite patience first collapses time in your mind,
Then it collapses time in “reality”.
I asked for more clarity. (I said “Huh?”)
It works like this…
If you define what you want,
and then you are infinitely patient about it,
you relax.
You are not attached to the outcome.
In infinite time, it has to happen eventually,
so, you can have perfect faith,
so you act as if it is inevitable.
Then it is.
Eventually the teacher explained that it also is a great manifesting tool. It creates a series of outcomes that are on every manifesting checklist.
Your infinite patience first collapses time in your mind,
Then it collapses time in “reality”.
I asked for more clarity. (I said “Huh?”)
It works like this…
If you define what you want,
and then you are infinitely patient about it,
you relax.
You are not attached to the outcome.
In infinite time, it has to happen eventually,
so, you can have perfect faith,
so you act as if it is inevitable.
Then it is.
Are we there yet?
Society seems to be getting more empathetic, more caring, more connected. Of course we still have a long way to go, lots of inequities, but look back 50 years.
We had raging race inequities that were accepted by law and society. No one even dared mention homosexuality. Women had many fewer options. Communists were to be feared and hated. Anyone who ever watched tv shows knew that the only good indian was a dead indian.
Today we are so much more one global civilization. We are on the path toward understanding our connectedness. All we have to do is survive the journey.
We had raging race inequities that were accepted by law and society. No one even dared mention homosexuality. Women had many fewer options. Communists were to be feared and hated. Anyone who ever watched tv shows knew that the only good indian was a dead indian.
Today we are so much more one global civilization. We are on the path toward understanding our connectedness. All we have to do is survive the journey.
Dealing with abundance
The population of any living thing tends to expand quickly until some critical item becomes scarce. Then the population stops expanding and starts competing. That creates evolutionary pressure. The individuals that deal most effectively with the scarcity survive and reproduce.
We are the result of a lot of evolution. Scarcity and competition is very deeply ingrained into our genes, perhaps into the very essence of our universe. It is how we get “better”.
What would happen if we didn’t have any scarcity? What if any and all of us could create whatever we want?
Maybe we would “wake up” from the game we have been playing.
Perhaps Douglas Adams was right. In his Hitchhiker’s Guide series of books he speculates that… if anybody ever figures out the universe, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Some people think this has already happened.
We are the result of a lot of evolution. Scarcity and competition is very deeply ingrained into our genes, perhaps into the very essence of our universe. It is how we get “better”.
What would happen if we didn’t have any scarcity? What if any and all of us could create whatever we want?
Maybe we would “wake up” from the game we have been playing.
Perhaps Douglas Adams was right. In his Hitchhiker’s Guide series of books he speculates that… if anybody ever figures out the universe, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. Some people think this has already happened.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
No attachment to the outcome
No attachment to the outcome?
What?!
That was one of the concepts that I found hard to swallow. How does one decide what they want, and fully expect it, without being attached to the outcome?
It's my goal. I'm striving for it. Of course I'm attached.
It took a while to absorb the underpinnings…
YOU don’t create the outcome. You don’t strive for it.
You allow the universe to create the outcome. It is a gift. As such, you don’t really own it, and you have nothing to lose. You are so busy following the interesting and abundant path of life that you are surprised, thrilled, appreciative, when the gift does show up.
Similar to walking in the woods and finding blueberries.
What?!
That was one of the concepts that I found hard to swallow. How does one decide what they want, and fully expect it, without being attached to the outcome?
It's my goal. I'm striving for it. Of course I'm attached.
It took a while to absorb the underpinnings…
YOU don’t create the outcome. You don’t strive for it.
You allow the universe to create the outcome. It is a gift. As such, you don’t really own it, and you have nothing to lose. You are so busy following the interesting and abundant path of life that you are surprised, thrilled, appreciative, when the gift does show up.
Similar to walking in the woods and finding blueberries.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Words are so limiting!
Words are a one dimensional substitute; merely pointers to one facet of the multidimensional, powerful and spiritual real thing. But a pointer is a valuable tool.
When I was contemplating how to post about manifesting, I realized that I didn’t have words for what it was or how to do it. After a little internet research, the words came flooding out. After finding words, I began to realize that those were the tools used to teach me this topic. It was after the principles turned into everyday practice that the words faded away, replaced by the grandeur of the real thing.
There are dozens of potential posts I could do about manifesting lessons. Does anyone want to see a long series of them?
When I was contemplating how to post about manifesting, I realized that I didn’t have words for what it was or how to do it. After a little internet research, the words came flooding out. After finding words, I began to realize that those were the tools used to teach me this topic. It was after the principles turned into everyday practice that the words faded away, replaced by the grandeur of the real thing.
There are dozens of potential posts I could do about manifesting lessons. Does anyone want to see a long series of them?
Happy Dancing Pink Elephant
Try hard NOT to think about a Pink Elephant with Red Toes, wearing a Tutu, Happily Dancing a ballet.
Read it again. Focus on it.
Were you successful NOT thinking about it?
I’m betting that your mind created the picture rather vividly.
The universe is a big mind that works pretty much the same way. It creates what you focus on. So DON’T tell it what you don’t want.
Some teachers explain that the universe doesn’t understand negatives. If you state what you don’t want, you will create what you don’t want.
Tell the universe vivid descriptions of what you do want. Always in positive terms.
Read it again. Focus on it.
Were you successful NOT thinking about it?
I’m betting that your mind created the picture rather vividly.
The universe is a big mind that works pretty much the same way. It creates what you focus on. So DON’T tell it what you don’t want.
Some teachers explain that the universe doesn’t understand negatives. If you state what you don’t want, you will create what you don’t want.
Tell the universe vivid descriptions of what you do want. Always in positive terms.
What is manifesting?
Manifesting is allowing the universe to provide whatever you ask for.
Everyone is naturally good at manifesting.
Learning how to use manifesting to do good in your life is a lifelong spiritual undertaking. However, you don't have to be a master at it. Any step you take in that direction creates a better life.
Everyone is naturally good at manifesting.
Learning how to use manifesting to do good in your life is a lifelong spiritual undertaking. However, you don't have to be a master at it. Any step you take in that direction creates a better life.
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