Saturday, June 8, 2013
Online Reader - Project Gutenberg
Online Reader - Project Gutenberg Want some free books, they may not be what you are looking for but, this project is worthwhile and it costs nothing to try and read them ...
Friday, June 7, 2013
Explore. Dream. Discover. if you live near Palm Springs...
Explore. Dream. Discover. see what is happening...
CARMEN CAVALLARO - ADIOS
Carmen Cavallaro was pouring out of our radio in the days before TV, Mom and Dad loved this kind of music, and because of them ...so do I.
Sunrise Serenade By Los Indios Tabajaras
you know I am coming to the end when I get to my beautiful guitars found in the forest....in the magic of a Brazilian forest this wonderful music....imagination...!!!
The Doors- Light My Fire
there is a similarity here....maybe that is why Jose decided to record the song....it was right for Jose...and right for The Doors...Wow...what music...
Ricky Nelson - Garden Party
Ah! Ricky....this was a favorite, another worn out record....loved , loved Ricky
Guy Mitchell - Singing The Blues
you can't lose listening to an upbeat....you don't have to cry with this....my record wore out, as I danced and vacuumed around the house.
Betty Clooney - A Guy Is A Guy
Bet you didn't know that Rosemary Clooney had a sister with a great voice too!
Artie Shaw and Tony Pastor, Jeepers Creepers.wmv
I published this before and I thought that Tony Pastor was an early Tony Bennet....wrong! The voice you just heard on Indian Love Call was Tony Pastor with Artie Shaw.
Jose Feliciano & Johnny Cash
This ole country gal, really loves Jose Feliciano, and it just goes to show that everything blends together...what if we said Johnny Cash made too much money so he can't appear with Jose Feliciano, we have to even it out? Hmmmm?
INDIAN LOVE CALL ~ Slim Whitman 1951 .wmv
Here is yodeling... in song...and I love it...just an old country gal.... (Mars Attacks....Slim Whitman made the Martian heads explode?) Is that right?
Frank Ifield - I remember you (1962)
Now you know there is lots of country in my song loving memory....This was the version of the song I loved.
Jo Stafford (playlist)
This is a great song, and ready to be heard again....one of my favorites..I even like the yodel version I published before, will try and find again.
Jo Stafford - Something To Remember You By
Jo Stafford makes it even more romantic, but I do love both versions, Vera Lynn and Jo Stafford.
Vera Lynn - Something To Remember You By - 1931
A wonderful voice that kept the British Troops hopeful, and she transferred to our troops and to our shore, we loved her too...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Who Owns the Future?: Jaron Lanier: 9781451654967: Amazon.com: Books
Who Owns the Future?: Jaron Lanier: 9781451654967: Amazon.com: Books I am still thinking about this, it is causing me lots of thought....and as fate happens.... this morning I picked up an edition of +Shift which I loved and saved. the first article I read again, now had more meaning. Why Science Needs Art because my argument is that the arts give us another view, which we need before we continue to trample and destroy everything we have built up...(That is my personal opinion, what appears not only in my world, but in the world of many who grew up in what we consider a different United States) The article is in the September-November edition 2008 What a wonderful, thoughtful magazine, sorely missed.
Proust Was a Neuroscientist: Jonah Lehrer: 9780547085906: Amazon.com: Books I read this book about a year or two, ago. It in no way is trying to state that artists discover science before scientists, as the first review on Amazon seems to indicate,( from my point of view), but then we non- scientists, bounce all over the place...What do we know?
Rather, it is a different thinking that is put forth, a romantic, or wandering intellect that sees beyond its nose, beyond everyday events and dreams into the future, Maybe it is our way of coming on new discoveries, they are prime to be found, so the simple act of observation, or a creation that pours from an artist, are the prime that brings the well water to the surface.
I thought I had reviewed Proust on Amazon, but have not found the review... I would have read it from a different perspective then, because I had an awakening when I listenedd to Jaron on Book TV... that the goal he maintains is blinding him ( again a personal observation)... it is an admirable goal...the goal to even out the distribution of money in society...
However, I still think we need to do the algorithm on people, their differences, their ability what they love about living and creating, and the group that does not want to contribute, and then those that are unable to contribute......before we think about evening out the distribution of money, then we will have a starting point, but not until we solve the problem of the "makers of chaos"
Its deep thinking, lots of things we do are determined by what we think will happen, no one sees the future, then bam! We created a new chaos...!!
What do you think...? Lets unite +Jaron Lanier with +Jonah Lehrer...and see where those marvelous minds will take us? Please let me be the first to know about the excitment ...
Proust Was a Neuroscientist: Jonah Lehrer: 9780547085906: Amazon.com: Books I read this book about a year or two, ago. It in no way is trying to state that artists discover science before scientists, as the first review on Amazon seems to indicate,( from my point of view), but then we non- scientists, bounce all over the place...What do we know?
Rather, it is a different thinking that is put forth, a romantic, or wandering intellect that sees beyond its nose, beyond everyday events and dreams into the future, Maybe it is our way of coming on new discoveries, they are prime to be found, so the simple act of observation, or a creation that pours from an artist, are the prime that brings the well water to the surface.
I thought I had reviewed Proust on Amazon, but have not found the review... I would have read it from a different perspective then, because I had an awakening when I listenedd to Jaron on Book TV... that the goal he maintains is blinding him ( again a personal observation)... it is an admirable goal...the goal to even out the distribution of money in society...
However, I still think we need to do the algorithm on people, their differences, their ability what they love about living and creating, and the group that does not want to contribute, and then those that are unable to contribute......before we think about evening out the distribution of money, then we will have a starting point, but not until we solve the problem of the "makers of chaos"
Its deep thinking, lots of things we do are determined by what we think will happen, no one sees the future, then bam! We created a new chaos...!!
What do you think...? Lets unite +Jaron Lanier with +Jonah Lehrer...and see where those marvelous minds will take us? Please let me be the first to know about the excitment ...
Barry White - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone
Had to do Barry White , too! Was sitting in a restaurant 2 weeks ago and this wonderful voice placed an order next to me....I thought Barry White had come back....and said so....in fact other patrons spoke up and agreed with me.
A wonderful voice....
A wonderful voice....
Joe Cocker - Ain't No Sunshine
just had to give you a little of Joe Cocker in comparison...nice husky type voice...is he still recording?
Jose Feliciano - Ain't No Sunshine
Comin backkkkkk....just love Jose Feliciano, is he bringing out any new albums?
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Carousel Theatre | Led Zeppelin - Official Website
Carousel Theatre | Led Zeppelin - Official Website A long long time ago, this entertainment center brought thousands of people to Framingham. Ken's Steak House was humming with business, and so was the Monticello, across Rt 9, everyone benefited.
Jimmy Buffet - George Straight - Alan Jackson - "Hey Good looking"
Oh, my Gosh! LISTEN TO THIS....its the best! Wow! How lucky can we get to have them all together....and they are Cookin!
Hank Williams - Hey Good Lookin' (with lyrics)
This was the beginning of country crossing over to mainstream....we loved it.....as you can see in my previous post.
kitty kallen - hey good lookin'
The Wellworth in Framingham blasted this on the jukeboxes, as we wanted to jump up and Jitterbug, out on the main drag, the cars would parade through town, like they did in all the small towns in America.
Kitty Kallen - If I Give My Heart to You (1959)
Of all the recordings of this song, this was my favorite....and it is ripe for another come back...bet you never heard this before either...(unless you are my age...!)
Joni James sings "How Important Can It Be?"
Her voice suits this song so well, and this is a song that lingers with you....what do you think.....?
Joni James - Why Don't You Believe Me
This is another song, waiting to be rediscovered. Joni James, had a beautiful voice and ...of course we played her records over and over.....then over again....can you see why? If it was a knock down success once, it has to resonate again! Wonderful sounds to calm the world down with love and romance again....
BILLY ECKSTINE (playlist) a nice selection, and many can be purchased on one album
I am sure I chose this before, but...I could not find, I'm Your's....so I substituted this so you could hear the tone of his voice and imagine his singing, I'm Yours.. the tone of voice is very important to the success of the song. The deeper voice makes it sexier...but that is just my opinion, what do you think....??
Eddie Fisher - I'm Yours
My bet is this song will be a hit again....I'd like to hear a Billy Eckstine sounding voice do it...a little more depth than Eddie....but this is not to say that we did not love this song, by Eddie Fisher....it was wonderful...I thought Billy Eckstine did it too....that is why his voice is with me on this recording...
Math and Science (playlist) and Jaron Lanier, Who Owns the Future
just thinking again about chaos and + Jaron Lanier and his new book, Who Owns the Future. I am sure you know I am not a scientist or I would not think this way. It occurs to me that algorithms can not control chaos, nor can we, as the frequent swings in the market and the economy show us... I listen to incredibly beautiful music...which comes from chaos ....so why are we trying to change nature? Chaos is beautiful, is part of nature, it is what makes the world tick, the cycles of nature are chaotic...warm and cold periods in our climate thru the centuries, the glory of the birthing of icebergs, the Artic summer, the Northern Lights, sunspots and more.. Maybe the algorithms can't control chaos, but the music chaos produces might be the answer to why we should let it be, and learn to live with it, rather than to try and change it, maybe the music of chaos will help us understand chaos better..?.
How can we live with chaos and even out society which seems to be the goal that is causing us to try to change the mechanism of the world, according to Jaron Lanier on Book TV? Wow! that is a powerful statement....Maybe we have to rethink our goal? Jaron has the ability to think positive...he is a wonderful thinker, hope I can get him off the negative approach of restrains and to the positive approach....with my ramblings...
Can we ever even out society that is full of chaos, with people of varying skills and thought processes etc.? Should we do an algorithm first to level off the chaos between each individual in the world before we try and control the algorithms of the chaos they produce? I think so...this elephant might not go down!
Has anyone figured out how much we have accomplished in the 100 years we have been in the Age of OIL? That too is a powerful statement....what has the Age of OIL made possible for mankind? Would mankind be better served if we let chaos lead us to the future, as it has done through out history? Just think of the strides we have made to even out society in our country, with the advent of the Age of Oil, in such a short time. My Dad , one little everyman example, came to America as many immigrants did near the turn of the century, from a one or two room home with 4-5 or more people , no electricity, no central heat, no personal transportation, just a goat that helped them earn a living,when he sold it's milk door to door as a small boy.
In the America of 1916 when he touched our shores.......Oh ! how the world changed for my Dad and his family....just think about the instant improvement in lives, manufacturing was producing jobs, cars began to take the place of horses and carriages, medicine was improving and the Wow!.... opportunity to move into a home where you had a bedroom of your own!
Chaos and competition.....stirred the oil industry....and as soon as the Baron of oil got too big, the government immediately began to think of ways to restrain him and in that instant he thought of ways to beat the competition and the government....read, The Prize...
Imagine how the Ark of the Covenant shocked and changed the battlegrounds of the past, when it shot out its magic (nuclear?) rays. Many of us are aware that there is a spontaneous combustion in the desert sand. Could this have been the weapon in the Ark that killed everyone around it? An invention of man that leveled the playing field, or did it control the playing field? Doesn't competition level the playing field?
Think once more beyond trying to level the playing field thru conquering chaos, and imagine the business world, where we actually make it easier for the giants to survive and take more of the money. How do we do it?...By making it harder through restrains, taxes,regulations, fees, applications, delays , hearings and all the stuff we pile on to a new business venture. By the time the new business gets started it is behind the 8 ball. Even existing businesses are regulated to death or near death, so that jobs are constrained by the lack of ability of businesses to use their spare capital to grow. The purpose of a business is to grow, just as humans grow, to expand, to make jobs, to create and satisfy the public with their needs....otherwise there is no point in having a business.
Chaos that is created in Washington is where the problem is....its time to evaluate all the rules and regulations, taxing strategies, and other constrains on ideas that create new businesses and competition. Lets do some algorithms on restrains on business? Whoopie, I hope someone that thinks algorithms is reading this....help this country....get out from under!
Our country became great when men and women with ideas were allowed to develop them without these crushing restrains . Each new business creates jobs, and each of us has an obligation to climb the ladder...doing so, we make room for those behind us. This is how jobs are created . Happiness is having a job, a career, something to point to as a life of productive worth, restraining the winners, costs jobs, so compete with them!
For my humble opinion, I like to work toward the positive and not the negative. More good things happen with that approach, rather than worrying about how much Facebook is earning, or how much Google is earning,and how we can spread the wealth by restraining them. Let's open the doors to competition and watch the chaos evolve, LET IT HAPPEN! Hmmm, maybe we will create jobs and magically the middle class will again improve as it did in the 50's.
My life with my hardworking immigrant Dad, was idyllic. He even took two jobs so he would have the money to start his own business. That is still what America is all about, but we are doing a good job of squashing it......We are killing the elephant !But then.....what do I know....its a confusing world!
How can we live with chaos and even out society which seems to be the goal that is causing us to try to change the mechanism of the world, according to Jaron Lanier on Book TV? Wow! that is a powerful statement....Maybe we have to rethink our goal? Jaron has the ability to think positive...he is a wonderful thinker, hope I can get him off the negative approach of restrains and to the positive approach....with my ramblings...
Can we ever even out society that is full of chaos, with people of varying skills and thought processes etc.? Should we do an algorithm first to level off the chaos between each individual in the world before we try and control the algorithms of the chaos they produce? I think so...this elephant might not go down!
Has anyone figured out how much we have accomplished in the 100 years we have been in the Age of OIL? That too is a powerful statement....what has the Age of OIL made possible for mankind? Would mankind be better served if we let chaos lead us to the future, as it has done through out history? Just think of the strides we have made to even out society in our country, with the advent of the Age of Oil, in such a short time. My Dad , one little everyman example, came to America as many immigrants did near the turn of the century, from a one or two room home with 4-5 or more people , no electricity, no central heat, no personal transportation, just a goat that helped them earn a living,when he sold it's milk door to door as a small boy.
In the America of 1916 when he touched our shores.......Oh ! how the world changed for my Dad and his family....just think about the instant improvement in lives, manufacturing was producing jobs, cars began to take the place of horses and carriages, medicine was improving and the Wow!.... opportunity to move into a home where you had a bedroom of your own!
Chaos and competition.....stirred the oil industry....and as soon as the Baron of oil got too big, the government immediately began to think of ways to restrain him and in that instant he thought of ways to beat the competition and the government....read, The Prize...
Imagine how the Ark of the Covenant shocked and changed the battlegrounds of the past, when it shot out its magic (nuclear?) rays. Many of us are aware that there is a spontaneous combustion in the desert sand. Could this have been the weapon in the Ark that killed everyone around it? An invention of man that leveled the playing field, or did it control the playing field? Doesn't competition level the playing field?
Think once more beyond trying to level the playing field thru conquering chaos, and imagine the business world, where we actually make it easier for the giants to survive and take more of the money. How do we do it?...By making it harder through restrains, taxes,regulations, fees, applications, delays , hearings and all the stuff we pile on to a new business venture. By the time the new business gets started it is behind the 8 ball. Even existing businesses are regulated to death or near death, so that jobs are constrained by the lack of ability of businesses to use their spare capital to grow. The purpose of a business is to grow, just as humans grow, to expand, to make jobs, to create and satisfy the public with their needs....otherwise there is no point in having a business.
Chaos that is created in Washington is where the problem is....its time to evaluate all the rules and regulations, taxing strategies, and other constrains on ideas that create new businesses and competition. Lets do some algorithms on restrains on business? Whoopie, I hope someone that thinks algorithms is reading this....help this country....get out from under!
Our country became great when men and women with ideas were allowed to develop them without these crushing restrains . Each new business creates jobs, and each of us has an obligation to climb the ladder...doing so, we make room for those behind us. This is how jobs are created . Happiness is having a job, a career, something to point to as a life of productive worth, restraining the winners, costs jobs, so compete with them!
For my humble opinion, I like to work toward the positive and not the negative. More good things happen with that approach, rather than worrying about how much Facebook is earning, or how much Google is earning,and how we can spread the wealth by restraining them. Let's open the doors to competition and watch the chaos evolve, LET IT HAPPEN! Hmmm, maybe we will create jobs and magically the middle class will again improve as it did in the 50's.
My life with my hardworking immigrant Dad, was idyllic. He even took two jobs so he would have the money to start his own business. That is still what America is all about, but we are doing a good job of squashing it......We are killing the elephant !But then.....what do I know....its a confusing world!
Monday, June 3, 2013
Readers Catalog from the University of Chicago Press
Readers Catalog from the University of Chicago Press Just another site for books that are not popular market books, rather for more serious readers...
Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover How and Where Breast Tumor Cells Become Dormant and What Causes Them to Become Metastatic « Berkeley Lab News Center
Berkeley Lab Researchers Discover How and Where Breast Tumor Cells Become Dormant and What Causes Them to Become Metastatic « Berkeley Lab News Center
Just a little chaos to lead us down the road to more discoveries on how to treat cancer....the chaotic threat!
Just a little chaos to lead us down the road to more discoveries on how to treat cancer....the chaotic threat!
Water, Consciousness & Intent: Dr. Masaru Emoto
Just a follow up to the sound of water....incredible isn't it?
Who knows how to kill an elephant? Who Owns the Future, a new book.....
Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier (May 7, 2013)
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Okay, I finally got to the book that started my 4 hour thinking session....about music and .......
It is my opinion that Jaron is brilliant, but like all scientists, they see what they want to see in their algorithms, life is more than that, it is beyond chaos theory, buried in it and surviving in it... it is.bursting forth with the very ideas that Jaron puts forth,( but lacking the rounded ideas that come from other disciplines, maybe)....I am a maybe person, who knows, the answer to all our concerns ? is it possible to even out society? Just the differences in people...I think are the constrain to evening out society.
Jaron mentions how discovery of machines costs jobs....The world is a better place by all our discoveries....the revolution of the machine age cost jobs BUT..... they were made up in sales and new manufacturing, and transportation and building of stores, roads, and those businesses gave fodder to more businesses growing up around them....etc...we have brought so many people out of poverty just by our freedom of creativity....when something works, why do we want to change it? Is there good reason to create the havoc of Obama care" for the 17% who don't have health care"
I think I recall that figure as he stated the quote above....think about that, and we don't even have a grip on the consequences of Obama care....will it cost jobs? Will it create jobs and more costs?
So, why would advent of computers cause the middle class to teeter and fall....to me it is more than that, it is a complicated world of rising wages and pensions that the population can not continue to pay. The fire fighters, at the start... for example 10 could support the pension of the one retiring....now it is an incredible number of workers who are needed to pay for the one person retiring.....it is something to look up...how many does it take to pay the pension of each public union worker as they retire. Just looking at that chart indicates it is a problem which we are not dealing with...chaos is in charge here for sure.
Maybe, it is calling for a change in how we choose and elect our leaders, a change in how we collect taxes and determine our budgets. It is having educated qualified leaders elected who understand the complications of modern society....that realize chaos theory may never give us any answer except that we have to let it lead us because maybe it will continue to improve society . Unbridled freedom requries chaos...it. brought us to the United States, maybe chaos theory can look at what the rapid and ever fast changing rules , regulations and rising taxation is doing to ideas, inventions and job creation? Wouldn't you start by examining the obvious problem, before inventing another problem, that we can't predict, just guess at....all the people earning nickels and dimes from their facebook pages will probably resent having to pay taxes on that, then what.?? Everytime we make a change, we have a consequence....Why do we always need to look at the breadwinners and their success and think we have to tear them down, what about the jobs they created that go with their tear down...??
As Jaron himself, seemed to say in his talk on tv this morning ...Obama care is headed to the same problem we have faced in the economic world, a crash!
Freedom has to be first and foremost, for individuals. We fought for it, Civil Rights, World Wars and now that the freedom fights are waning, we are looking for more ways to make people slaves....that is what free benefits to able bodied people creates...it disinherits them from their life goals. How dare we be so bold, I ask?
Freedom has to be first and foremost, for individuals. We fought for it, Civil Rights, World Wars and now that the freedom fights are waning, we are looking for more ways to make people slaves....that is what free benefits to able bodied people creates...it disinherits them from their life goals. How dare we be so bold, I ask?
Anyway...I don't have answers, I have thoughts, I have questions, and I am sure you do too! I would hate to see the internet constrained, taxed and sites like your facebook account for sale....
Who knows how to kill an elephant? I think we have great ideas in this country to kill our fabulous free society, don't you?
Wow, have I been wondering, but it just shows that we can't make decisions from mathmatical formulas, it is a chaotic unbridled world!
This is copied from the site below, which presents some interesting thinking........
Wagner's original score to Parsifal; listen to: Good Friday Spell or (Prelude to Act 1)
It may be the greatest secret on the spiritual path. Most of today's music is a hindrance not a help. This has been written about from ancient Greece and even more so today but has fallen on deaf ears. Why? Because this very same music makes us feel good, relieves our stress and tensions, releases anger and we're happier listening to it, so it can't be bad.Sources and other books on Music:
Before investigating why feeling good may be bad, lets review the evidence published and otherwise documented.
Dr. John Diamond published a book called BK, Behavioral Kinesiology, later changed to Your Body Doesn't Lie. He relates the story of feeling terrible one fine day in New York City. Being a health practitioner set him on a path of deduction. He wanted to know what common elements over two days made him feel ill. The only thing he could come up with was a visit to the record store Sam Goodys each day. But why would that effect him that way? The clue came when he realized the same song was played both days in the store. Voila! the common denominator. He just happened to be an expert in kinesiology and so began his odyssey of muscle testing himself and other people listening to various kinds of rock and roll for that is what he heard in Sam Goodys. The results startled him. The harder the 'rock' the weaker people became. From that harmless side trip to a record store, began a new career for Dr. Diamond. He has gone on to write several books on the positive side of music, discovering that even the consciousness and abilities of a conductor can effect how much 'energy' comes from a performance or recording.
In their 1973 classic, The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird devote a whole chapter on how music affects plants, called 'The Harmonic Life of Plants.' Dr. T.C. Singh, head of the Dept. of Botany at Annamalai University discovered that ragas helped plants grow. He observed this down to the microscopic level as well. They go on to describe several other experiments in Canada and the United States in the 50's and 60's where plants and crops grew faster and healthier when listening to Bach, Gershwin and certain sound frequencies.
The book continues to relate the story of a former organist and mezzo soprano, Mrs. Retallack, who decided to become a biology student. She remembered one of those experiments using music and set out to do some controlled experiments with her Professor, Francis Broman. Two other students intrigued by Mrs. Retallack's lead, conducted their own tests and:
"ran an eight-week experiment on summer squashes, broadcasting music from two Denver radio stations into their chambers, one specializing in heavily accented rock, the other in classical music.She went on to address critics by showing that plants indeed did shun rock music. She played rock first on one side of the plants then on the other. Each time the plants turned away, growing in the opposite direction. She went on to test various types of music and percussive sounds with varying results. Her research gained her exposure in newspapers and even on CBS. Some of this notoriety also brought the usual bag of skeptical scientists who immediately dismissed the findings with flippant remarks like, 'plants have no ears.'
The cucurbits were hardly indifferent to the two musical forms: those exposed to Haydn, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, and other eighteenth and nineteenth-century European scores grew toward the transmitter radio, one of them even twining itself lovingly around it. The other squashes grew away from the rock broadcasts and even tried to climb the slippery walls of their cage.
Impressed with her friends' success, Mrs. Retallack ran a series of similar trials early in 1969 with corn, squash, petunias, zinnias and marigolds; she noticed the same effect. The rock music caused some of the plants first to grow either abnormally tall and put out excessively small leaves, or remain stunted. Within a fortnight all the marigolds had died, but only six feet away identical marigolds, enjoying classical strains, were flowering. More interestingly, Mrs. Retallack found that even during the first week the rock-stimulated plants were using much more water than the classically entertained vegetation, but apparently enjoying it less, since examination of the roots on the eighteenth day revealed that soil growth was sparse in the first group, averaging only about an inch, whereas in the second it was thick, tangled, and about four times as long." The Secret Life of Plants, p. 154-155
In another study, reported by Insight Magazine, April 4, 1988, physicist Dr. Harvey Bird (Fairleigh Dickinson University) and neurobiologist Dr. Gervasia Schreckenberg (Georgian Court College) wanted to see how music affects animals. They used three groups of mice. One group heard voodoo music, another Strauss Waltzes and the third silence. The music was played at low levels so that loud volume would not be a factor. The mice had to run through a maze to find their food. The mice that listened to the voodoo music had a difficult time finding the food until it got so bad they were hopelessly lost. The other two groups had no problem finding the food. In fact, the mice listening to the Waltz music did slightly better. All groups received a break of silence for three weeks. The voodoo music group still got lost but the others had no problem finding their way back to the food. At the end of the experiments the brains were examined and compared. The rock/voodoo group did not fair well. There was excessive branching of the neuronal dentrites and significant increases in mRNA. Dr. Schreckenberg explains:
"We believe that the mice were trying to compensate for this constant bombardment of disharmonic noise," says the neurobiologist. "They were struggling against the chaos. If more connections among the neurons had been made, it would have been a good thing. But instead there were no more connections, just wild growth of the neurons. ... As a result of the exposure to the disharmonic sounds," she says, "we believe there was less capacity for memory in the exposed mice."A high school student, David Merrell, who had won awards at science fairs conducted a similar type experiment with mice and a maze. The group subjected to the rock music did far worse navigating the course. In David's words, "I had to cut my project short because all the hard-rock mice killed each other. None of the classical mice did that at all." (Nexus Magazine 12\97; Washington Times 7\2\97).
If you trace Rock back to it's roots, Big Band and Jazz, then go back a couple steps further, you'll end up in New Orleans and Haiti and ultimately back to the voodoo beat, the drum beat of Africa. Why is the beat so debilitating? One can point to syncopation or stress on the off or weak beat. For example, the Waltz has three beats with the natural emphasis on the first: One, two, three; One, two, three. Change that emphasis to the last weak beat and you get: da, da, dumb; da, da, dumb. That's a syncopated rock beat. That explains the mechanics but not the effect.
It is almost as though the first beat of the waltz is a space or cosmic interval. God sends the energy and then the soul listening, hears and feels the initial wave of life force within the heart. The interchange takes place as the soul pauses to make atunement with the God above, then responds with the second and third beats. A beat with no emphasis on any beat seems mechanized not attuned to the cosmic cadences. The emphasis on the last beat seems to make a statement that the physical plane is most important in this exchange, that the ego supercedes the Divine intent. The final beat says 'there will be no divine interchange, the energy will stay right here.'
In the beginning, we were spiritual beings, equally created and filled with Light . What we do with that Light is our choice. We have free will. This Light courses through the meridians and chakras as chi, light, fire and energy even filling the spaces in blood molecules. The major energy centers are the chakras as seen below.
- Crown (yellow)
- Third Eye (green)
- Throat (blue)
- Heart (pink)
- Solar Plexus (purple)
- Soul (violet)
- Base of the Spine (white)
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It is these seven energy centers that get affected by the syncopation. They are intended to be spinning at different frequencies and are supposed to look like the pure colors above. Our desires, wrong behavior, thoughts, emotions and outside forces can alter the color and slow down the spinning, even stopping the wheel of the chakras completely. I hope to show that what is actually happening is that the vibration and beat of discordant music sets up a direction and flow of energy that passes through the chakras, creating friction, simulating the spinning of these chakras and therefore, making us feel good. Our chakras are so sullied by the vagaries of modern day life that we crave relief. Rock music brings those chakras back to life but only for a moment. If we had the chakras above, we would instantly recognize the assault upon our Light.
Science points to this hypothesis as it continues to explore the effects of sound impacting matter. Sound travels through the ethers in waves and patterns. Several scientists have studied how sound creates shapes and patterns. Hans Jenny used clay materials, sands, and liquids. He created the form on the left, below. This particular frequency is setting up a Tai Chi kind of flow. In another experiment (right) at the Univ. of Texas, Scientific American (November 1996) reports on a device called an oscillon. Different frequencies made tiny brass spheres form pillars (additional link).
In both experiments, many different patterns resulted. Most of the time, the medium used was lifted up, defying gravity, as if it had a mind of it's own, wanting, yearning to explore beyond it's own physical universe and limitations. While some might say the sound created heat in the liquids causing it to rise, the same cannot be said of the numerous inert substances used, such as the two above. No, it was the sound causing movement. Each frequency has it's own little dance. Imagine the effect on us, not only on our spiritual body but on the 70% of water within us.
Researcher, Masaru Emoto, has done some revolutionary work on how water is affected by sounds, words and music. He subjected water and water crystals to different sounds, even swear words. Pure water looks like a beautifully formed crystal, a unique pattern like a snow flake. Polluted water looks like mud. Normal looking water turned to the intricate crystal pattern when prayed over or when classical music was played. When negative thoughts or even words like 'Hitler' were used, it turned to an amorphous non-descript glob like the one below. This same effect happened when heavy metal rock music was played and can be seen in the picture immediately below and at this link: Miraculous Messages of Water.
Left: The music of Bach impacts a water molecule and crystal.
Right: Heavy Metal music impacting a water molecule
Go back to the plants. When they died and shriveled up but thrived with classical music, they still had physical light and nutrients in the soil. Other studies have proven that plants also have auric fields, smaller, but there. It is that energy or Light that is being siphoned away from them, causing extreme trauma even death. We have greater Light than plants and animals as God gives it to us to do with what we will, for a short time. We can use it correctly or squander it. When that beat rolls in, it presses the Light out and down, just as it did with the water crystals. It goes down to the lower chakras rather than going back to God.
As it goes down, it's passing through those sluggish chakras. The friction stimulates them. It feels good even giving people the sense of power; but the real power comes from God and is the pure Light of the chakras. The energy drops down to that bottom, base of the spine chakra, creating an over-sexed society but that 'feels good' so it 'can't be that bad.' The light is lost. Light that would have fed the other chakras on the way back to God. The love in the heart could have increased or the mind of Christ could have expanded with the opening of the crown chakra. Sex is good, but all the time? Do we need to be thinking about it as much as we do?
The spiritually inclined of old, east and west, knew these principles. Below is an ancient symbol called a Shri Yantra depicted over the centuries with slight variations but always with the interlaced triangles. It represents the Aum or Om, the unifying sound representing all sounds that come from God. It can place one in contact with God and the God in each one. The figure on the right shows the pattern when the Om is spoken into an electronic device. There are sounds and music that help mankind connect with his divine potential and with God.
Left: Indian Shri Yantra depicting the Aum mantra
Right: Aum mantra spoken into an electronic transmitter (from Ajit Mookerjee collection)
PlatoHe wrote in the Republic:"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated, graceful."Later he writes in the Republic about the negative effects on society:"The introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperilling the whole State: since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions."In Laws he wrote:"Through foolishness they deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong in music -- that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By their work and their theories they infected the masses with the presumption to think themselves adequate judges ... As it was, the criterion was not music, but a reputation for promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking."Another statue of Greek philosophy, standing equally tall in history, Aristotle said:"emotions of any kind are produced by melody and rhythm; therefore by music a man becomes accustomed to feeling the right emotions; music has thus the power to form character, and the various kinds of music based on the various modes, may be distinguished by their effects on character---one, for example, working in the direction of melancholy, another of effeminacy; one encouraging abandonment, another self-control, another enthusiasm, and so on through the series."As with many theories and studies of this nature, there is an element of faith. Hopefully more research will come to the fore. Look for it on the internet. It pops up occasionally. To understand why Plato is concerned for our souls, why Aristotle warns of character, why plants turn away from rock, why animals become disoriented and water crystals turn to mud; you can try your own simple experiment.
Pick a morning, the earlier the better. Do some prayers or mantras and meditate for at least 15 minutes or longer. Ask God, Jesus, the Blessed Virgin, or Maitreya to show you the truth. Then play some rock or rap music and meditate on what is happening. I think you'll find that the energies flow downward, not back to God but give rise to feelings of anger, sex or even a false sense of empowerment. Try to analyze that sense of power. Is it true? Does it come from God and/or your true Self or is it ephemeral, an illusory emotion whipped up by a frenetic beat?
Here's another test. Put yourself in a good space again. Wait till you're calm and attuned to the subtle vibrations of the spirit. Then listen to a traditional rendition of the Star Spangled Banner by a famous Opera star like Robert Merrill (he opens the Yankee games--hey, I just had a thought, maybe that's the real reason they've won so often. It's not the money!), or someone else who sustains notes and sings it as it is supposed to be sung. You can feel the power and majesty of the song. It is actually thrilling. The thrill is not just self generated, there is a movement of energy (and light) as demonstrated above. The sustained notes, sung with power and, yes, even love or devotion moves molecules and unseen prana, odic forces, orgone energy, chi, light, whatever you want to call it; into pathways and invisible grids of sound rays that benefit all who hear or feel the radiance emanating.
Now, listen to one of the modern versions sung at a championship game. The singers add all sorts of curlicues and ever changing notes at the end of words. Picture what happens to the clay and sand formation above, or the shri yantra. It's going to be a jangled, chaotic mess, kind of like a nightmarish picture of modern art. There is a correlation. People's emotional bodies are out of whack for various reasons. Their astral bodies may look like a Klee painting or a Picasso. Therefore this type of music and art resonates with them, so much so, they probably think I'm nuts. That's okay, some will know what I'm saying here. The quest to contact the Divine within and above, is a daily occurrence. It takes effort. Music is intended to aid that path.
The world and it's ways loves a yo-yo. The string is let out. We learn advanced spiritual techniques. We strive, do better, climb up the spiritual path of the world's mainstream religions or the feel good philosophies of today's movements. We stay at that plateau for awhile, feeling connected to God, to pure Love and wanting to serve the Christ in others. But these paths are lacking certain spiritual truths. One of these is a secret the vampires of the Spirit do not want you to know. They know how easy it is to steal the Light. The string gets jerked back. They pull on your chain. The Light garnered in the chakras is lost in a fit of anger, a moment of lust, depression, etc. Add the rock\rap beat to those emotions and you have the perfect formula for keeping the populace dumb and happy while sucking their Light and preventing them from becoming their true divine potential.
The world wants you to be a yo-yo, to love that rock and rap beat, because as we all know, it feels sooo good.William House
Editor, Reverse Spins
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Mandelbrot - The Secret Life of Chaos - BBC 4 Preview
Here we go.....self similarity....in our body, in nature, in the world we create, and the world we try to create...with ideas, that are then restrained by rules regulations and taxation....Maybe the whole idea I have is to vague to convey, but when listening to this Guru of the technology world, I agreed and disagreed. Sometimes I wonder if the beauty of science is so captivating that the thought of Socializing and improving the world becomes grander than the rules of nature, of chaos theory, of the fact that every individual has a different path, a different set of genes, of intelligence, a different way to approach his/her purpose on earth...and we can not do it with algorithms. Even my author admits, that he is unsure if we can change the world...and even out the flow of money......as he blames the computer for the failure of jobs for the middle class.....WHICH I DO NOT AGREE WITH....I think he has to delve more into chaos theory, and the restrains on companies created by rules and regulations, and the jump to conclusions...Even in Chaos theory, delving deep down, things smooth out and recover.....sooooooo!!!!! More to come, just remember, what do I know...???
Steven Strogatz - Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: Part 6a
IMHO In My Humble Opinion
Today, I listened to the author of a new book , on the book program on Tv...then I decided to check on Chaos theory, based on what I was hearing from this program.
These two quotes come from the site, above in blue...IMHO
Then I decided to listen to the music created .....and think about the quotes below....
"physics is no longer simply the study of subatomic particles in a billion-dollar particle accelerator, but the study of chaotic systems and how they work".
"Music can be created using fractals as well. Using the Lorenz attractor, Diana S. Dabby, a graduate student in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has created variations of musical themes. ("Bach to Chaos: Chaotic Variations on a Classical Theme", Science News, Dec. 24, 1994) By associating the musical notes of a piece of music like Bach's Prelude in C with the x coordinates of the Lorenz attractor, and running a computer program, she has created variations of the theme of the song. Most musicians who hear the new sounds believe that the variations are very musical and creative".
Stay tuned, maybe you know where I am going.....