The Arrow Paradox

Fractals!!

2011-07-04T08:01:00.001-07:00

Athene's Theory of Everything

2011-06-28T19:47:00.001-07:00

Beyond Me

2011-06-28T19:42:00.000-07:00

Beyond Me from frank huguenard on Vimeo.

Floating in the Air

2010-11-16T09:24:00.001-08:00

3D reality through sound!

2010-09-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

Check out this vid it lets you experience a space through sound! FREAKY! wear headphones

Mandelbox Animation

2010-08-31T05:51:00.001-07:00

Under water Room

2010-08-31T05:50:00.001-07:00

Asteroids Discovered in the last 30 years

2010-08-31T05:49:00.001-07:00

Mouse head with Bird legs???

2010-08-23T10:20:00.001-07:00

The Prometheus Device

2010-08-12T11:44:00.000-07:00

Brent Everett bringing superpower that much closer to real life

Dolphin Assisted Birth

2010-07-26T09:44:00.000-07:00

Free Fall underwater base jump

2010-06-14T09:26:00.001-07:00

AMAZING!

The Media Revolution

2010-04-10T16:44:00.001-07:00

Geek-A-rific!

2010-04-07T06:44:00.000-07:00

3D Interactive desktop (G-speak)

2010-02-27T10:42:00.001-08:00

weird I was just talking about this! what a coincidence! or maybe just synchronicity

you may have already seen this technology here:

Makes you think

2010-02-20T19:24:00.000-08:00

A different way to look at the same thing

2010-02-19T11:37:00.000-08:00

Monkey Chant from Bali

2010-01-21T10:09:00.000-08:00

if you've seen Avatar this may look familiar

Underground Fortress of Solitude in Mexico??

2010-01-21T10:06:00.001-08:00

Ayurveda

2010-01-13T06:30:00.000-08:00

The Art Of Being

MIRROR/RORRIM Neurons

2010-01-06T06:56:00.001-08:00

The Illusion Of Complexity

2009-12-14T14:23:00.000-08:00

Grow Your own home

2009-11-30T15:21:00.000-08:00

Electromagnetic Mind control?

2009-11-16T11:11:00.000-08:00

The Quantum Phenomena

2009-11-16T11:03:00.000-08:00

"We are all connected"

2009-11-02T06:22:00.000-08:00

Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson,and the great Bill Nye! break it down for ya!

Vibration is everywhere

2009-10-17T13:58:00.001-07:00

Karma Kula (Mystic Warrior) Episode One

2009-10-17T13:46:00.001-07:00

One of the best web series I've seen!!!

I would recommend watching full screen HD!

Conciousness and Matter

2009-10-12T07:01:00.000-07:00

Anyone Else Concerned about Bombing the Moon?

2009-10-08T10:37:00.000-07:00

Check this article out.

notice it's dated June 17th at least a good month before they announced water on the moon? interesting....hmm?

Star Trek vs Star Wars?

2009-09-28T07:14:00.000-07:00

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Where the Hell is Matt?

2009-09-27T06:16:00.002-07:00

Stoomtroopers' 9/11

2009-09-24T17:57:00.000-07:00

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Sacred Geometry

2009-09-18T09:02:00.001-07:00

Can you see time?

2009-09-17T19:09:00.000-07:00

Imagine if you could see time laid out in front of you, or surrounding your body. And you could physically point to specific dates in space.

Important dates might stand out - birthdays, anniversaries. And you could scan a visible timeline - to check if you were available - whenever you made plans. No actual diary necessary.

According to Julia Simner, a psychologist from the University of Edinburgh, there is a reasonable chance you can. And that you may use the experience, unconsciously, every day.
Read more

I'll be happy when.....

2009-09-15T10:59:00.000-07:00

Graham Hancock

2009-09-11T16:41:00.000-07:00

Electricity from water

2009-09-10T06:04:00.001-07:00

God?

2009-09-10T06:01:00.000-07:00

a seven part series which debates the existence of god

Radiating Field of Consciousness

2009-08-20T13:26:00.000-07:00

Waldorf Education

2009-08-10T20:42:00.001-07:00

Corrupt Teaching

2009-08-10T20:40:00.000-07:00

Chi's Healing Effects

2009-08-10T20:39:00.001-07:00

Soundlessdawn

2009-07-30T07:27:00.000-07:00

This is a video collection of a psychonaught self named soundlessdawn
his videos are a resonance observation between pop culture, mainstream media, and ancient myth. very cool watch

his youtube channel here

Spiritual Nature of Photons

2009-07-19T06:06:00.000-07:00

Photon

Floating water bridge

2009-07-18T08:34:00.000-07:00

When water in two beakers is exposed to a high voltage, a floating water bridge forms between the beakers.

While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O scale, which is thought to be responsible for many of water’s unique properties. However, the nature of this structure, governed by hydrogen bonds, is currently unknown.

article found here

Bioelectric field and Chi

2009-07-18T08:06:00.000-07:00

Bioelectric Field

The area of bioelectric field phenomena is rich with studies that may have a direct impact on the health and well-being of humans in the coming years and decades. Some examples of focused research in this science include the examination of the ionic currents in and near the heart, studies of electrical patterns during an active brain seizure and research into the nature of cardiac de-fibrillation.

As in many other fields of endeavor, the recent advances in computing hardware and software development techniques have brought about great demand for more sophisticated simulation tools in this area. Recognizing this need, scientists at the National Institutes for Health (NIH) have undertaken the challenge through the development of a Problem Solving Environment, or PSE, for use in bioelectric field studies. The PSE, dubbed BioPSE, is a great example of integrated
computing in a modern simulation setting.

A visit to the project web site -- http://www.sci.utah.edu/ncrr/research/re... -- will show that the NIH researchers have divided the problem into three pieces: modeling, simulation, and visualization. In this setting, modeling is described as a quantitative description of the physical features
of a human body. In general, such modeling consists of a series of geometric shapes joined together to form a representation of a certain body part or area of the body. Simulation, on the other
hand, gives a quantitative description of the function of body structures, utilizing the results of the modeling efforts. Of course, being conceptual creatures, humans have a hard time making heads or tails of piles of numbers, so visualization is an essential piece in order to be able to interpret the results of the modeling and simulation.

---- Bioelectromagnetism (sometimes equated with bioelectricity) refers to the electrical, magnetic or electromagnetic fields produced by living cells, tissues or organisms. Examples include the cellmembrane potential and the electric currents that flow in nerves and muscles, as a result of action potentials. It is not to be confused with bioelectromagnetics, which deals with the effect on life from external electromagnetism Biological cells use bioelectricity to store metabolic energy, to do work or trigger internal changes, and to signal one another. Bioelectromagnetism is the electric current produced by action potentials along with the magnetic fields they generate through the phenomenon ofelectromagnetism.

Bioelectromagnetism
is studied primarily through the techniques of electrophysiology. In the late eighteenth century, the
Italian physician and physicist Luigi Galvani first recorded the phenomenon while dissecting a frog at a table where he had been conducting experiments with static electricity. Galvani coined the term animal electricity to describe the phenomenon, while contemporaries labeled it galvanism. Galvani and contemporaries regarded muscle activation as resulting from an electrical fluid or substance in the nerves.

Bioelectromagnetism is an aspect of all living things, including all plants and animals. Some animals have acute bioelectric sensors, and others, such as migratory birds, are believed to navigate in part by orienting with respect to the Earth's magnetic field. Also,sharks are more sensitive to local interaction in electromagnetic fields than most humans. Other animals, such as the electric eel, are able to generate large electric fields outside their bodies.

In the life sciences,biomedical engineering uses concepts of circuit theory, molecular biology, pharmacology, and bioelectricity. Bioelectromagnetism is associated with biorhythms and chronobiology. Biofeedback is used in physiology and psychology to monitor rhythmic cycles of physical, mental, and emotional characteristics and as a technique for teaching the control of bioelectric functions.

Bioelectromagnetism involves the interaction of ions . Bioelectromagnetism is sometimes difficult to understand because of the differing types of bioelectricity, such as brainwaves, myoelectricity (e.g., heart-muscle phenomena), and other related subdivisions of the same general bioelectromagnetic phenomena. One such phenomenon is a brainwave, which neurophysiology studies, where bioelectromagnetic fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex are detectable with an electroencephalograph. This is primarily studied in the brain by way of electroencephalograms.

Electricity, defined by Merriam-Webster, is as follows: a

fundamental form of energy observable in positive and negative forms
that occurs naturally (as in lightning) or is produced (as in a
generator) and that is expensed in terms of the movement and
interaction of electrons.

Generally speaking, when thinking of electricity, we think of it as
something external to our human bodies: the naturally occurring lightning and human created technology being two said instances. There is, however, a form of electricity that is
prevalent in every living creature: bioelectricity.

Bioelectricity is the electric phenomena related to living organisms. It is bioelectricity that enables a shark to map the ocean floor. It is bio-electromagnetic phenomena that enable migratory birds to travel great distances at the same time each year with the accuracy we have only been able to reproduce with maps and GPS. It is bioelectricity that enables the electric eel to generate large fields of current outside their bodies.

The difference of electricity vs. bioelectricity is in degree, not in kind. Whereas a lightning bolt can exceed temperatures of 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit (30,000 degrees Celsius), that same current runs through the human body, just on a smaller scale.

In fact, the human body runs largely off of [bio] electricity and has organs dedicated to sensing electromagnetic impulses, both inside and outside the human body. The pineal and pituitary glands are both directly tied to the human body's ability to sense and actively experience electromagnetic phenomenon.

The pineal gland is the evolutionary descendant of our ancestors' ability to perceive light. It also regulates the circadian rhythms of the body, biological rhythms that are attuned to the day-night cycle, (Celtoslavica, Electricity and Human Consciousness); these 'rhythms' can be and have been disrupted by electromagnetic fields, both naturally occurring as well as man-made. The pituitary gland controls and influences all other hormonal organs which report back to the pituitary gland(Celtoslavica, Electricity and Human Consciousness); in fact, the pituitary gland is largely responsible for the overall functioning and efficiency of the human nervous system.

The nervous system in human beings is based entirely off of the ability to transmit electric pulses. Every cell within the human body pumps ions (e.g. that which makes up the quantum field), in and
out of the cell for energy purposes; this is called the Sodium-Potassium pump, and can be found in all animal life. Said energy, in the biological animal, is called "adenosine triphosphate"
(ATP); biologists and biochemist alike have noted that ATP can be neutral, or carry a charge (plus or minus), and is, infact, a charged particle which the cells use for energy. ATP is the final
product of the digestive cycle and further exemplifies the human being's connection (and ability) to experience and manipulate the electromagnetic fields that permeate the Universe.

"Bio-magnetism: An Awesome Force in Our Lives," an article published by Reader's Digest (January 1983), highlights some of the [still] cutting edge concepts the scientific community is, and has been, practicing:"When a patient with a broken leg that is not healing properly comes to Dr. Basset (Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City, NY), he is likely to go home with two heavy pads connected by wires to a box that can plug into an electrical wall socket. The patient puts one pad on each side of his broken bone and turns on the device. Coils of wire in the pad induce a pulsing electromagnetic field into his flesh and
bone -- a field of energy that somehow commands the bone to heal itself."

As postulated by the scientists interviewed in the article, it makes sense that human beings have the innate ability to sense electromagnetic phenomena:

"We live on a sun-lit planet, and most living things have acquired some means to use the light. We live in a world filled with sounds, and most living things have developed a means to sense vibrations. Since our planet is also a giant magnet, it should not surprise us to discover that we and many other living things have a sensitivity to Earth's magnetic-force field."

As we look from large-scale physics, e.g., the lightning bolt and the sodium-potassium pump, to smaller scale electromagnetic phenomenon, we find ourselves in the realm of quantum mechanics. Light is an electromagnetic phenomenon. Light is both a wave and a particle. In terms of quantum mechanics, electricity and light are the same. The oscillations of the impulses create the divergent effects. Microwaves, radio waves, even the non-lethal weapons of the
US Army (such as the Active Denial System) are based out of electromagnetic fields.

Chi, too, is an electromagnetic phenomenon. Chi is energy; light energy; bio-electromagnetic energy; electricity. The degree of strength in an electromagnetic impulse is the difference between the heart pumping vs. a heart attack. When building chi, it is important to understand, important to know, that the electricity you are both introducing to your body as well as augmenting within your body, can be controlled/manipulated by your mind; without direct and focused intent, the electrical impulses will be raw, hot, and uncomfortable.

In the previously quoted Reader's Digest article, researchers as far back as 1983 were able to accelerate cellular regeneration in adult rats by intruding electromagnetic waves to afflicted parts of their bodies; humans too, have been shown to have enhanced healing
at the cellular level when electromagnet fields are introduced. At the same time, it has been well documented that people exposed to high intensity electromagnetic fields, such as those created by power-line generators, are more susceptible to cancerous develops, such as leukemia.

A qualified Chi Power instructor can teach the chi gung practitioner how to harness this energy in a healing fashion, without painful side-effects. The difference being similar to an invigorating spa-
massage vs. being seated in an electric chair at half-power; the choice is simple, and is ultimately yours.

Verification of Individual Identification Method Using Bioelectric Potential of Plant during Human Walking

Shigeki Hirobayashi, Yusuke Tamura, Tatsuo Yamabuchi, and Toshio Yoshizawa

Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, 3190 Gohuku, Toyama 930-8555, Japan

(Received October 4, 2006; accepted December 2, 2006; published online April 5, 2007)

In this study, we monitored electromagnetic waves generated by human activity and investigated a method for individual identification by looking at the bioelectric potential of a rubber tree. Four subjects were asked to walk in place at a distance of 60 cm from a rubber tree while we measured variations in the bioelectric potential of the tree as produced by the stepping. The results confirmed that electromagnetic waves generated by a human subject walking in place produce a measurable response in the bioelectric potential of a plant. It was also found that this variation in bioelectric potential varies in synchrony with each subject's walking pace. The spectral envelope of the observed signal was approximated using a straight line and the distribution of the coefficients of this line was plotted. Even for a simple straight-line approximation, we demonstrated that this coefficient distribution varies considerably among individual subjects.

original article here

Knights of the Old Republic MMO

2009-07-18T07:58:00.000-07:00

When this comes out I'll never leave my house

Anakin Redux
Hilarious

The Growing Earth?

2009-07-15T07:14:00.000-07:00

We are Infinite

2009-07-11T16:15:00.001-07:00

Your genes are not your fate

2009-07-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

Great Talk with Dean Ornish from TED

For more awesome videos click the link to the left.

Breathe with the Earth for 90 seconds

2009-07-02T14:36:00.000-07:00

Return to source (Philosophy and the Matrix)

2009-06-30T06:00:00.001-07:00

The Zeitgeist Movement (activist arm of the venus project)

2009-06-26T10:26:00.000-07:00

Interesting orientation about the Zeitgeist Movement (not the zeitgeist movie!) worth a watch

check out the venus project here

Electric Universe (Plasma Cosmology)

2009-06-20T11:25:00.000-07:00

Worth a watch makes you think about everything in a different way
Oh by the way the ocean's also conduct electricity
and electricity also holds matter together hmmmmm????

Electricity and Matter

2009-06-20T11:23:00.001-07:00

This is an instructive video part 1 of 4

Jamie Smart - NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programing)

2009-06-16T08:57:00.000-07:00

The Focus Creation Cycle

"because"

John Chang

2009-06-15T06:59:00.000-07:00

amazing!

This sculpture is also pretty amazing it is a copy of M.C. Escher's drawing

The Spiral

2009-06-14T07:22:00.001-07:00

Nassim Haramein Unified Field Theory

2009-06-14T07:19:00.001-07:00

Part 1 of 45 Yikes lots of info here

Emoto's Water Experiments (try it at home!)

2009-06-12T08:24:00.000-07:00

The effects of Mind on water....if you haven't checked out the water documentary click the link to the left Water the great mystery

How to meditate

2009-06-12T07:17:00.000-07:00

Here is a little video explaining what meditation is and how to do it.
You'll have to do a little searching on youtube to find the full video but it's on there.

There are many types of meditation it is useful to explore more than one.

Terminator Penguins from MASSIVE DYNAMIC

2009-06-12T07:11:00.000-07:00

crazy!

I'll Take your brain to another DIMENSION

2009-06-06T19:33:00.001-07:00

The Evolution Of Soul And Nervous System

2009-06-03T18:50:00.000-07:00

Music and Passion by Benjamin Zander

2009-06-01T08:36:00.000-07:00

Amazing and inspirational talk from Benjamin Zander

Stars and Stones 1 of 9

2009-06-01T05:32:00.000-07:00

This presentation is nine parts of 10mins each and is very heady! it take a couple watching to get a good grasp of what is being said, however it is worth the watch. lots of things to think about

The Black Hole at the Heart of Astronomy

2009-05-30T12:19:00.000-07:00

This is a long article about how stars and black holes may actually be an electrical phenomena its pretty weighted with technical terms but informative none the less.
Here

Lightning in slow motion

2009-05-30T12:17:00.000-07:00

Electric Universe!
Check it out

Closer to Truth

2009-05-30T12:08:00.000-07:00

Closer To Truth is the definitive series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God, a global journey in search of the vital ideas of existence. It is the most complete, compelling, and accessible series on Cosmos, Consciousness and God ever produced for television. free online

Here

Self-Actualization, Abraham Maslow

2009-05-29T07:11:00.000-07:00

"Self Actualization is the intrinsic growth of what is already in the organism, or more accurately, of what the organism is."
-Abraham Maslow

Most psychologists study the minds of sick people, Maslow studied the minds of healthy people.

Self-actualization implies the attainment of the basic needs of physiological, safety/security, love/belongingness, and self-esteem

Characteristics of Self Actualizing People

Realistic

Realistically oriented, SA persons have a more efficient perception of reality, they have comfortable relations with it. This is extended to all areas of life. SA persons are unthreatened, unfrightened by the unknown. they have a superior ability to reason, to see the truth. They are logical and efficient.

Acceptance

Accept themselves, others and the natural world the way they are. Sees human nature as is, have a lack of crippling guilt or shame, enjoy themselves without regret or apology, they have no unnecessary inhibitions.

Spontaneity, Simplicity, Naturalness

Spontaneous in their inner life, thoughts and impulses, they are unhampered by convention. Their ethics is autonomous, they are individuals, and are motivated to continual growth.

Problem Centering

Focus on problems outside themselves, other centered. They have a mission in life requiring much energy, their mission is their reason for existence. They are serene, characterized by a lack of worry, and are devoted to duty.

Detachment: The Need for Privacy

Alone but not lonely, unflappable, retain dignity amid confusion and personal misfortunes, objective. They are self starters, responsible for themselves, own their behavior.

Autonomy: Independent of Culture and Environment

SA's rely on inner self for satisfaction. Stable in the face of hard knocks, they are self contained, independent from love and respect.

Continued Freshness of Appreciation

Have a fresh rather than stereotyped appreciation of people and things. Appreciation of the basic good in life, moment to moment living is thrilling, transcending and spiritual. They live the present moment to the fullest.

Peak experiences

"Feelings of limitless horizons opening up to the vision, the feeling of being simultaneously more powerful and also more helpless than one ever was before, the feeling of ecstacy and wonder and awe, the loss of placement in time and space with, finally, the conviction that something extremely important and valuable had happened, so that the subject was to some extent transformed and strengthened even in his daily life by such experiences." Abraham Maslow

Maslow asked his subjects to think of the most wonderful experience or experiences of their lives--the happiest moments, extatic moments, moments of rapture, perhaps from being in live, or from listening to music or suddenly "being hit" by a book or a painting or from some great creative moment. He found that people undergoing peak experiences felt more integrated, more at one with the world, more in command of their own lives, more spontaneous, less aware of space and time, more perceptive, more self determined, more playful.

Effects of peak experiences:

The removal of neurotic symptoms
A tendency to view oneself in a more healthy way
Change in one's view of other people and of one's relations with them
Change in one's view of the world
The release of creativity, spontaneity and expressiveness
A tendency to remember the experience and to try to duplicate it
A tendency to view life in general as more worthwhile.

Gemeinschaftsgefuhl

Identification, sympathy, and affection for mankind, kinship with the good, the bad and the ugly, older-brother attitude. Truth is clear to him, can see things others cannot see.

Interpersonal relations

Profound, intimate relationships with few. Capable of greater love than others consider possible. Benevolence, affection and friendliness shown to everyone.

Democratic values and attitudes

Able to learn from anyone, humble. Friendly with anyone regardless of class, education, political belief, race or color.

Discrimination: means and ends, Good and Evil

Do not confuse between means and ends. They do no do wrong. Enjoy the here and now, getting to goal--not just the result. They make the most tedious task an enjoyable game. They have their own inner moral standards (appearing amoral to others).

Philosophical, unhostile sense of humor

Jokes are teaching metaphors, intrinsic to the situation, spontaneous, can laugh at themselves, never make jokes that hurt others.

Creativity

Inborn uniqueness that carries over into everything they do, see the real and true more easily, original, inventive and less inhibited.

Resistance to enculturation: Transcendence of any particular culture

Inner detachment from culture, folkways are used but of no consequence, calm long term culture improvement, indignation with injustice, inner autonomy and outer acceptance. Transcend the environment rather than just cope.

Imperfections

Painfully aware of own imperfections, joyfully aware of own growth process. Impatient with self when stuck, real life pain, not imagined.

Values

Philosophical acceptance of the nature of his self, human nature, social life, nature, physical reality, remains realistically human.

Resolution of dichotomies

Polar opposites merge into a third, higher phenomenon, as though the two have united, work becomes play, most childlike person is most wise, opposite forces no longer felt as a conflict. Desires are in excellent accord with reason.

Maslow says there are two processes necessary for self-actualization: self exploration and action. The deeper the self exploration, the closer one comes to self-actualization.

EIGHT WAYS TO SELF ACTUALIZE

1. Experience things fully, vividly, selflessly. Throw yourself into the experiencing of something: concentrate on it fully, let it totally absorb you.
2. Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
3. Let the self emerge. Try to shut out the external clues as to what you should think, feel, say, and so on, and let your experience enable you to say what you truly feel.
4.When in doubt, be honest. If you look into yourself and are honest, you will also take responsibility. Taking responsibility is self-actualizing.
5. Listen to your own tastes. Be prepared to be unpopular.
6. Use your intelligence, work to do well the things you want to do, no matter how insignificant they seem to be.
7. Make peak experiencing more likely: get rid of illusions and false notions. Learn what you are good at and what your potentialities are not.
8. Find out who you are, what you are, what you like and don't like, what is good and what is bad for you, where you are going, what your mission is. Opening yourself up to yourself in this way means identifying defenses--and then finding the courage to give them up.

SELF ACTUALIZATION

Maslow (1954), believed that man has a natural drive to healthiness, or self actualization. He believed that man has basic, (biological and psychological) needs that have to be fulfilled in order to be free enough to feel the desire for the higher levels of realization. He also believed that the organism has the natural, unconscious and innate capacity to seek its needs. (Maslow 1968)

In other words, man has an internal, natural, drive to become the best possible person he can be.

"...he has within him a pressure toward unity of personality, toward spontaneous expressiveness, toward full individuality and identity, toward seeing the truth rather than being blind, toward being creative, toward being good, and a lot else. That is, the human being is so constructed that he presses toward what most people would call good values, toward serenity, kindness, courage, honesty, love, unselfishness, and goodness." (Maslow, 1968, p. 155.)

Maslow believed that not only does the organism know what it needs to eat to maintain itself healthy, but also man knows intuitively what he needs to become the best possible, mentally healthy and happy "being". I use the word "being" because Maslow goes far beyond what the average person considers good physical and mental health. He talked about higher consciousness, esthetic and peak experiences, and Being. He stressed the importance of moral and ethical behavior that will lead man naturally to discovering, becoming himself.

"The state of being without a system of values is psychopathogenic, we are learning. The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense he needs sunlight, calcium or love. This I have called the "cognitive need to understand." The value- illnesses which result from valuelessness are called variously anhedonia, anomie, apathy, amorality, hopelessness, cynicism, etc., and can become somatic illness as well. Historically, we are in a value interregnum in which all externally given value systems have proven failures (political, economic, religious, etc.) e.g., nothing is worth dying for. What man needs but doesn't have, he seeks for unceasingly, and he becomes dangerously ready to jump at any hope, good or bad. The cure for this disease is obvious. We need a validated, usable system of human values that we can believe in and devote ourselves to (be willing to die for), because they are true rather than because we are exhorted to "believe and have faith." Such an empirically based Weltanschauung seems now to be a real possibility, at least in theoretical outline." (Maslow, 1968, p. 206.)

Morality then is natural. If we use our capacity to think, are honest, sincere and open, we arrive at moral and ethical behavior naturally. The problem is to not destroy our ability to become ourselves.

"Pure spontaneity consists of free, uninhibited uncontrolled, trusting, unpremeditated expression of the self, i.e., of the psychic forces, with minimal interference by consciousness. Control, will, caution, self-criticism, measure, deliberateness are the brakes upon this expression made intrinsically necessary by the laws of the social and natural world, and secondarily, made necessary by the fear of the psyche itself." (1968, p. 197.)

To me, this means listening to the inner self, the unconscious, the spirit.

"This ability of healthier people to dip into the unconscious and preconscious, to use and value their primary processes instead of fearing them, to accept their impulses instead of always controlling them, to be able to regress voluntarily without fear, turns out to be one of the main conditions of creativity."
"This development toward the concept of a healthy unconscious and of a healthy irrationality, sharpens our awareness of the limitations of purely abstract thinking, of verbal thinking and of analytic thinking. If our hope is to describe the world fully, a place is necessary for preverbal, ineffable, metaphorical, primary process, concrete-experience, intuitive and esthetic types of cognition, for there are certain aspects of reality which can be cognized in no other way." (p. 208)

Meditation, self-hypnosis, imagery and the like are sources of discovering our inner being. To become self-actualized, Maslow said we need two things, inner exploration and action.

"An important existential problem is posed by the fact that self-actualizing persons (and all people in their peak- experiences) occasionally live out-of-time and out-of-the- world (atemporal and aspatial) even though mostly they must live in the outer world. Living in the inner psychic world (which is ruled by psychic laws and not by the laws of outer-reality), i.e., the world of experience, of emotion, of wishes and fears and hopes, of love of poetry, art and fantasy, is different from living in and adapting to the non-psychic reality which runs by laws he never made and which are not essential to his nature even though he has to live by them. (He could, after all, live in other kinds of worlds, as any science fiction fan knows.) The person who is not afraid of this inner, psychic world, can enjoy it to such an extent that it may be called Heaven by contrast with the more effortful, fatiguing, externally responsible world of "reality," of striving and coping, of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood. This is true even though the healthier person can also adapt more easily and enjoyably to the "real" world, and has better "reality testing," i.e., doesn't confuse it with his inner psychic world." (p. 213)

Maslow has made a case for natural, human goodness. Man is basically good, not evil, he has the capacity to be an efficient, healthy and happy person. But he must nurture the capacity with awareness, honesty, introspection and maintain his freedom: to freely respond to internal and external events (values), to be himself at all costs. The knowledge that man has this capacity motivates him to realize it. It also obliges him to actively work toward self realization. We cannot not respond to the call that a value makes on us. This whole discussion shows the importance of studying Values and Ethics. We are obliged to discover the range of our possible moral behavior. If we are capable of being healthy and happy, then we are obliged to work toward that goal.

The Force Trainer

2009-05-28T15:11:00.000-07:00

Coming soon to a toystore near you the force trainer! Allows users bio-feedback/awareness training through EEG technology due for release this fall.

I can't even pretend that I'm not insanely excited for this device

may the force be with you

WATER THE GREAT MYSTERY

2009-05-28T09:35:00.000-07:00

BLESS YOUR WATER!
This documentray is pertaining to the amazing effects and affects of water and how that relates to us on a personal level. this video bridges connections in your mind about water's importance.

The Arrow Paradox

2009-05-28T09:25:00.000-07:00

"If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."
-Aristotle

In the arrow paradox, Zeno states that for motion to be occurring, an object must change the position which it occupies. He gives an example of an arrow in flight. He states that in any one instant of time, for the arrow to be moving it must either move to where it is, or it must move to where it is not. It cannot move to where it is not, because this is a single instant, and it cannot move to where it is because it is already there. In other words, in any instant of time there is no motion occurring, because an instant is a snapshot. Therefore, if it cannot move in a single instant it cannot move in any instant, making any motion impossible.

Logically this makes sense however in our experience we have what appears to be motion?

Time Vortex

2009-05-27T09:11:00.001-07:00