Want to understand more about life, about telepathy, and other strange events? Think morphic resonance and Rupert Sheldrake. He is the Galileo of our time, for some thinkers, and then for others who are open to new discoveries, he is a leader in out of the box thinking....with research and studies for back up.
Go to Rupert Sheldrake in your browser to find his web site. this is someone thinking beyond the box, who has been working in this field for years. His studies point to interesting theories of what and why we are formed, and how. I know people that can see the morphic form and for those that can not there is a machine available that shows it. It is a magnetic field for those of you new to this thought.
MORPHIC RESONANCE AND MORPHIC FIELDS
An Introduction
by Rupert Sheldrake
In the hypothesis of formative causation, discussed in detail in my books A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE and THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST, I propose that memory is inherent in nature. Most of the so-called laws of nature are more like habits.
My interest in evolutionary habits arose when I was engaged in research in developmental biology, and was reinforced by reading Charles Darwin, for whom the habits of organisms were of central importance. As Francis Huxley has pointed out, Darwin’s most famous book could more appropriately have been entitled The Origin of Habits.
Morphic fields in biology
Over the course of fifteen years of research on plant development, I came to the conclusion that for understanding the development of plants, their morphogenesis, genes and gene products are not enough. Morphogenesis also depends on organizing fields. The same arguments apply to the development of animals. Since the 1920s many developmental biologists have proposed that biological organization depends on fields, variously called biological fields, or developmental fields, or positional fields, or morphogenetic fields.
All cells come from other cells, and all cells inherit fields of organization. Genes are part of this organization. They play an essential role. But they do not explain the organization itself. Why not?
Thanks to molecular biology, we know what genes do. They enable organisms to make particular proteins. Other genes are involved in the control of protein synthesis. Identifiable genes are switched on and particular proteins made at the beginning of new developmental processes. Some of these developmental switch genes, like the Hox genes in fruit flies, worms, fish and mammals, are very similar. In evolutionary terms, they are highly conserved. But switching on genes such as these cannot in itself determine form, otherwise fruit flies would not look different from us.
Many organisms live as free cells, including many yeasts, bacteria and amoebas. Some form complex mineral skeletons, as in diatoms and radiolarians, spectacularly pictured in the nineteenth century by Ernst Haeckel. Just making the right proteins at the right times cannot explain the complex skeletons of such structures without many other forces coming into play, including the organizing activity of cell membranes and microtubules.
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Most developmental biologists accept the need for a holistic or integrative conception of living organization. Otherwise biology will go on floundering, even drowning, in oceans of data, as yet more genomes are sequenced, genes are cloned and proteins are characterized.
I suggest that morphogenetic fields work by imposing patterns on otherwise random or indeterminate patterns of activity. For example they cause microtubules to crystallize in one part of the cell rather than another, even though the subunits from which they are made are present throughout the cell.
Morphogenetic fields are not fixed forever, but evolve. The fields of Afghan hounds and poodles have become different from those of their common ancestors, wolves. How are these fields inherited? I propose that that they are transmitted from past members of the species through a kind of non-local resonance, called morphic resonance.
The fields organizing the activity of the nervous system are likewise inherited through morphic resonance, conveying a collective, instinctive memory. Each individual both draws upon and contributes to the collective memory of the species. This means that new patterns of behaviour can spread more rapidly than would otherwise be possible. For example, if rats of a particular breed learn a new trick in Harvard, then rats of that breed should be able to learn the same trick faster all over the world, say in Edinburgh and Melbourne. There is already evidence from laboratory experiments (discussed in A NEW SCIENCE OF LIFE) that this actually happens.
The resonance of a brain with its own past states also helps to explain the memories of individual animals and humans. There is no need for all memories to be “stored” inside the brain.
Social groups are likewise organized by fields, as in schools of fish and flocks of birds. Human societies have memories that are transmitted through the culture of the group, and are most explicitly communicated through the ritual re-enactment of a founding story or myth, as in the Jewish Passover celebration, the Christian Holy Communion and the American thanksgiving dinner, through which the past become present through a kind of resonance with those who have performed the same rituals before.
The memory of nature
From the point of view of the hypothesis of morphic resonance, there is no need to suppose that all the laws of nature sprang into being fully formed at the moment of the Big Bang, like a kind of cosmic Napoleonic code, or that they exist in a metaphysical realm beyond time and space.
Before the general acceptance of the Big Bang theory in the 1960s, eternal laws seemed to make sense. The universe itself was thought to be eternal and evolution was confined to the biological realm. But we now live in a radically evolutionary universe.
If we want to stick to the idea of natural laws, we could say that as nature itself evolves, the laws of nature also evolve, just as human laws evolve over time. But then how would natural laws be remembered or enforced? The law metaphor is embarrassingly anthropomorphic. Habits are less human-centred. Many kinds of organisms have habits, but only humans have laws. The habits of nature depend on non-local similarity reinforcement. Through morphic resonance, the patterns of activity in self-organizing systems are influenced by similar patterns in the past, giving each species and each kind of self-organizing system a collective memory.
I believe that the natural selection of habits will play an essential part in any integrated theory of evolution, including not just biological evolution, but also physical, chemical, cosmic, social, mental and cultural evolution (as discussed in THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST ).
Habits are subject to natural selection; and the more often they are repeated, the more probable they become, other things being equal. Animals inherit the successful habits of their species as instincts. We inherit bodily, emotional, mental and cultural habits, including the habits of our languages.
Fields of the mind
Morphic fields underlie our mental activity and our perceptions, and lead to a new theory of vision, as discussed in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT. The existence of these fields is experimentally testable through the sense of being stared at itself. There is already much evidence that this sense really exists Papers on Staring
You can take part in a staring experiment yourself through this web site. Staring Experiments
The morphic fields of social groups connect together members of the group even when they are many miles apart, and provide channels of communication through which organisms can stay in touch at a distance. They help provide an explanation for telepathy. There is now good evidence that many species of animals are telepathic, and telepathy seems to be a normal means of animal communication, as discussed in my book DOGS THAT KNOW WHEN THEIR OWNERS ARE COMING HOME. Telepathy is normal not paranormal, natural not supernatural, and is also common between people, especially people who know each other well.
In the modern world, the commonest kind of human telepathy occurs in connection with telephone calls. More than 80% of the population say they have thought of someone for no apparent reason, who then called; or that they have known who was calling before picking up the phone in a way that seems telepathic. Controlled experiments on telephone telepathy have given repeatable positive results that are highly significant statistically, as summarized in THE SENSE OF BEING STARED AT and described in detailed technical papers which you can read on this web site. Papers on Telepathy Telepathy also occurs in connection with emails, and anyone who is interested can now test how telepathic they are in the online telepathy test. Experiments Online
The morphic fields of mental activity are not confined to the insides of our heads. They extend far beyond our brain though intention and attention. We are already familiar with the idea of fields extending beyond the material objects in which they are rooted: for example magnetic fields extend beyond the surfaces of magnets; the earth’s gravitational field extends far beyond the surface of the earth, keeping the moon in its orbit; and the fields of a cell phone stretch out far beyond the phone itself. Likewise the fields of our minds extend far beyond our brains.
February 2005
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Sunday, May 30, 2010
"Cool" June Christy - Taking A Chance On Love
June Christy, don't miss this wonderful Jazz singer, here are some of her best songs, you can listen to samples. I had You Tube with ..A Nightingale sang in Berkley Square but, it refused to follow me, so you can find that there.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Lake Placid, New York in the Adirondacks
Lke Placid was the staging location for our antique Bentely Drivers Club. We drove all around the area, and I particularly liked Lake George.
If you are looking for a vacation spot, we stayed at the Crowne Plaza, right down town, in Lake Placid.. From there you can take day trips to the other lakes, including Lake Champlain. It is beautiful country. Lake Placid was the site of the Oympics and has summer ski jump, skating arena, and more....The trip is about 5 hours out the Mass Pike and up route 87, to 73 to 86, right into the center of town the Crowne Plaza is up a steep hill on the left.
If you are looking for a vacation spot, we stayed at the Crowne Plaza, right down town, in Lake Placid.. From there you can take day trips to the other lakes, including Lake Champlain. It is beautiful country. Lake Placid was the site of the Oympics and has summer ski jump, skating arena, and more....The trip is about 5 hours out the Mass Pike and up route 87, to 73 to 86, right into the center of town the Crowne Plaza is up a steep hill on the left.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
E-book $10.00 loaded with music of the 50's
Order on your Kindle, and travel back to the 50's, in this story ! The music of the time brings alive the scenes, as Meggie recalls her past, and meets with her friends who tell her their stories.
Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No Good
you have to own this! I pray that she makes it off drugs, what a bright future, if she can keep herself alive!
Follow me and you will find the greatest music of last 50 years! I hope you agree
My goal is to keep alive the music that sent us crazy, and made us want to dance. You need to start a collection, because at some point in time, the production will stop and they will be lost to the future!
Barry White - Can't Get Enough Of Your Love Baby.
This is a must in any collection of the greatest years in music. Barry White!!!!
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia
You have to own this album, it has great music...and the grands will love it too! Introduce them to the great music we had!
Most fabulous housing opportunity in a generation
CREATE THE FUTURE WITH FAFARD REAL ESTATE,
COME SEE OUR HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION,
CHECK THE PRICES, MORTGAGE RATES, AND EVALUATE YOUR FUTURE!
Here are some things to consider. Young new buyers, especially
MEET THE SUBURBS...LEARN THE ROADS, LEARN THE VALUE OF MOVING WEST, AS THE PILGRIMS DID! THE BURBS ARE GROWING, AND YOU WILL BE MAKING THEM WHAT THEY WILL BE! Join us in creating the future, come see the new construction on Silver Lake Road,Bellingham our Gloria Jean is fantastic, as is our Garden Party, all new homes coming soon! Come see our Garden Party under construction in Uxbridge, the Super Coach in Ashland, the Galleria in Hopkinton, the Sovereign in Marlboro, and two fabulous homes going up in Natick in our million dollar neighborhood, near the hospital. Don't lose the most fabulous opportunity to buy right in a generation!
The dollar has devalued about 30% , how can your recoup that loss? The bank interest will not do it, and gold is too high, but maybe dropping in value now too! Why not buy something you can use?
Paying rent? Will you ever recover the expenditure, and will your dollars bring back the investment you make in rent? Doubt it!
$200,000 for new home in Uxbridge , Mass. 20 mintues to (T) and Rt 140 Franklin, 1/2 way between major routes, 395 and 495....located just off major route 146...and only 30 minutes to Framingham.
Cut through Upton over to 495 Hopkinton, EMC, and Mass Pike connection...lots of secret roads...
Save thousands, maybe more than you will spend on gas, over 5 years?. Did you know that most people sell their homes in the first 5 years, and move up? We have sold 3-4 homes to repeat people over the past years, they started in Ashland with a condo 40 years ago for $39,990, for example and moved to one of our new houses for $59,990 and then to another new house for $79,900 etc., increasing their investment while selling their previous home for more money! Homes puchased in the $50,000 price range are now in the high $300.000 price range. Traditionally, real estate increases in value, through the years, as the population expands, and grows into the suburbs. iNVESTING IN SOMETHING YOU CAN LIVE IN, is worth considering!
INTEREST RATES, COULD BE STARTING TO GO UP IN THE NEXT MONTH!
Imagine, buying your home home for $200,000! It might work out less than rent, depending on your downpayment. Mortgages rates are still under 5%, what a deal, and you may only have a month before interest rates start up again. Once housing activity shows health, the mortgage rates will rise, they have to!
Sell for less and still make money? Talk to Howard or Tim 508-881-6662
I have known some very clever folks, who sold their house for less than they wanted in this market, so they could get a great deal on a new house. Yes, they took less than they wanted, but they still made money and invested in the future, by getting a new house. Look at your home and see if you are willing to take a risk, sell for less, and get your dream home now, while rates are low and new home prices are still low enough.
Buy new, avoid the big replacement bills of aging homes, and neighborhoods!
Retired? Want to share expenses with the children yet, keep your privacy, talk to Tim at 508-881-6662, Sunday thru Thursday
We have a couple of special homes for live alone retired singles, who want to keep thier money in real estate.
Holden, near major routes 290, 495, has a comfortable first floor bedroom , floor plan if you live alone, or if you have a family living with you, they have their own 3 rooms upstairs. Living area, and two bedrooms, or choose from many plans. Uxbridge, a single family on condominium land, great for retiree;s and we can build you one with a first floor bedroom, unfinished second floor, saves you money!
SELECTION: BEST IN THE AREA 508-881-6662
SINGLE FAMILY, from hi $300,000s to million plus
Locations, Natick, Holliston, Marlboro just off 495 and Marlboro near the Wayside Inn, off Rt 20
Single family
Hi $200,000s up, Bellingham large acre plus, minus lots near Silver Lake, minutes to T and 495/140
$200,000 up Uxbridge ( on condominium land) , minutes to 3 major highways 146,395, 495, 140 (T) and even Framingham Rt 9
COME SEE OUR HOMES UNDER CONSTRUCTION,
CHECK THE PRICES, MORTGAGE RATES, AND EVALUATE YOUR FUTURE!
Here are some things to consider. Young new buyers, especially
MEET THE SUBURBS...LEARN THE ROADS, LEARN THE VALUE OF MOVING WEST, AS THE PILGRIMS DID! THE BURBS ARE GROWING, AND YOU WILL BE MAKING THEM WHAT THEY WILL BE! Join us in creating the future, come see the new construction on Silver Lake Road,Bellingham our Gloria Jean is fantastic, as is our Garden Party, all new homes coming soon! Come see our Garden Party under construction in Uxbridge, the Super Coach in Ashland, the Galleria in Hopkinton, the Sovereign in Marlboro, and two fabulous homes going up in Natick in our million dollar neighborhood, near the hospital. Don't lose the most fabulous opportunity to buy right in a generation!
The dollar has devalued about 30% , how can your recoup that loss? The bank interest will not do it, and gold is too high, but maybe dropping in value now too! Why not buy something you can use?
Paying rent? Will you ever recover the expenditure, and will your dollars bring back the investment you make in rent? Doubt it!
$200,000 for new home in Uxbridge , Mass. 20 mintues to (T) and Rt 140 Franklin, 1/2 way between major routes, 395 and 495....located just off major route 146...and only 30 minutes to Framingham.
Cut through Upton over to 495 Hopkinton, EMC, and Mass Pike connection...lots of secret roads...
Save thousands, maybe more than you will spend on gas, over 5 years?. Did you know that most people sell their homes in the first 5 years, and move up? We have sold 3-4 homes to repeat people over the past years, they started in Ashland with a condo 40 years ago for $39,990, for example and moved to one of our new houses for $59,990 and then to another new house for $79,900 etc., increasing their investment while selling their previous home for more money! Homes puchased in the $50,000 price range are now in the high $300.000 price range. Traditionally, real estate increases in value, through the years, as the population expands, and grows into the suburbs. iNVESTING IN SOMETHING YOU CAN LIVE IN, is worth considering!
INTEREST RATES, COULD BE STARTING TO GO UP IN THE NEXT MONTH!
Imagine, buying your home home for $200,000! It might work out less than rent, depending on your downpayment. Mortgages rates are still under 5%, what a deal, and you may only have a month before interest rates start up again. Once housing activity shows health, the mortgage rates will rise, they have to!
Sell for less and still make money? Talk to Howard or Tim 508-881-6662
I have known some very clever folks, who sold their house for less than they wanted in this market, so they could get a great deal on a new house. Yes, they took less than they wanted, but they still made money and invested in the future, by getting a new house. Look at your home and see if you are willing to take a risk, sell for less, and get your dream home now, while rates are low and new home prices are still low enough.
Buy new, avoid the big replacement bills of aging homes, and neighborhoods!
Retired? Want to share expenses with the children yet, keep your privacy, talk to Tim at 508-881-6662, Sunday thru Thursday
We have a couple of special homes for live alone retired singles, who want to keep thier money in real estate.
Holden, near major routes 290, 495, has a comfortable first floor bedroom , floor plan if you live alone, or if you have a family living with you, they have their own 3 rooms upstairs. Living area, and two bedrooms, or choose from many plans. Uxbridge, a single family on condominium land, great for retiree;s and we can build you one with a first floor bedroom, unfinished second floor, saves you money!
SELECTION: BEST IN THE AREA 508-881-6662
SINGLE FAMILY, from hi $300,000s to million plus
Locations, Natick, Holliston, Marlboro just off 495 and Marlboro near the Wayside Inn, off Rt 20
Single family
Hi $200,000s up, Bellingham large acre plus, minus lots near Silver Lake, minutes to T and 495/140
$200,000 up Uxbridge ( on condominium land) , minutes to 3 major highways 146,395, 495, 140 (T) and even Framingham Rt 9
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Yoostar Home Greenscreen Kit - Video Library - The New York Times
Yoostar Home Greenscreen Kit - Video Library - The New York Times
Jess Barron is the expert on this, thought you might enjoy seeing what you can do
Jess Barron is the expert on this, thought you might enjoy seeing what you can do
Alex Britti, Joe Cocker & Pavarotti
I do not know where to get this, if anyone knows....advise me. For all Joe Cocker fans, he travels in some pretty high company!
Teach me Tonight
Collectors, this is probably the best version of Teach me Tonight... and she is going to be hard to find....Make Love to Me was another great hit.
Enya - (2000) A Day Without Rain - 04 Tempus Vernum
Music of now....Enya, Tempus Vernum...
great listening!
great listening!
Dinah Washington Teach Me Tonight
Collectors be sure you don't miss this one Dinah Washington, before it is too late!
"My Foolish Heart" singer Billy Eckstine
another collector album that might be hard to get, so try and find the songs by Billy that defined the 50's...on an album as soon as you can.
Billy Eckstine - I Apologise
Another collector album....This album is getting harder and harder to get, Amazon says they do not have the song....maybe you will have to go looking on the net. It is dynamite singing by a crooner that does not get enough attention. He was really fabulous for us!
Buddy Holly - True Love Ways
Introducing you to Buddy Holly he had a monster hit with this song... you at least need an album of Buddy Holly if you are building a collection of the best songs ever...Buddy Holly Songs: Buddy Holly Discography, Not Fade Away, Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day, True Love Ways, Bo Diddley, Brown Eyed Handsome Man
You have to have Peggy Sue! There is a diner off Route 10 in one of the desert states, named Peggy Sue's diner, all 50's style , posters, and food....a fun place to stop if you drive across country....Rent a Motor home if you are going to do it, bring your own bathroom, be smart!
You have to have Peggy Sue! There is a diner off Route 10 in one of the desert states, named Peggy Sue's diner, all 50's style , posters, and food....a fun place to stop if you drive across country....Rent a Motor home if you are going to do it, bring your own bathroom, be smart!
The Forgotton Garden by Kate Morton
Here is a book I could not put down. I reached a point where I could no longer read my factual novels. Burnout! So went looking for something thick to travel with. Oops! The suspense is so good, that I read aprx two thirds of the novel last night , to page 389
I wanted to go to sleep but pushed on....there were some blahs, where I did some speed reading, you know checking the first sentence, glancing the paragraph, (they could have been omitted) but the desire to continue was there! I am going to finish the book today, I know that! I have two others to start on for the week, just relax novels, fun and no pondering why this or that.
The Forgotten Garden, is story that will glue you to the book, it changes scenes, and has space, from England to Australia and back. It has morals to think about, and it focuses on different characters in different time periods, so it meets all the requirements of a good novel, while you wonder about the mystery in the book. Who is Nan, where did she come from? She was found on the dock in Austrailia at 4 years old.
She did not know she was a foundling , but when she discovered that she fell apart and so begins the quest to solve the mystery! It is a clever plot, well thought out....a beach read!
I wanted to go to sleep but pushed on....there were some blahs, where I did some speed reading, you know checking the first sentence, glancing the paragraph, (they could have been omitted) but the desire to continue was there! I am going to finish the book today, I know that! I have two others to start on for the week, just relax novels, fun and no pondering why this or that.
The Forgotten Garden, is story that will glue you to the book, it changes scenes, and has space, from England to Australia and back. It has morals to think about, and it focuses on different characters in different time periods, so it meets all the requirements of a good novel, while you wonder about the mystery in the book. Who is Nan, where did she come from? She was found on the dock in Austrailia at 4 years old.
She did not know she was a foundling , but when she discovered that she fell apart and so begins the quest to solve the mystery! It is a clever plot, well thought out....a beach read!
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Looking for Ancestors/
Ancestry.com is a great place to start...on line and then you can delve deeper with databases if you need to...
We found our great grandparents who immigrated to the United States in 1900, with their children and children's spouses, if married. We found all the birth dates of aunts and uncles. It is a fun project, because you can see how hard they worked to earn passage money. All of the maternal family came as laborers and most likely all were stone masons, they settled in New Haven ,Connecticut,
We found our great grandparents who immigrated to the United States in 1900, with their children and children's spouses, if married. We found all the birth dates of aunts and uncles. It is a fun project, because you can see how hard they worked to earn passage money. All of the maternal family came as laborers and most likely all were stone masons, they settled in New Haven ,Connecticut,
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Towns are going crazy!
Real Estate is in bad shape.....but the towns are not able to figure it out...!!! Instead of encouraging new construction to keep people employed, and bring in taxes, they are increasing the fees to builders, some of them are outrageous, and will be challenged, costing the towns more money to defend themselves in court.
The cost of building roads, is going up big time....try 30% or more...
The cost of all goods and supplies will sky rocket if oil continues to be on an upward climb.
Work in Framingham, Natick , Metrowest area.....do yourself a favor....
LEARN ABOUT THE SUBURB LOCATIONS, SAVE MONEY AND MAYBE LIVE FOR LESS THAN RENT!
The best buys on the market, are inexpensive new construction, which we are building in three towns.
$200,000 and up Uxbridge, Mass, 30 minutes to Framingham
Hi $200's up Bellingham, (love the Garden Party!, 2 bedrooms , 1 bath ,2 car garage) 5 + min to 495/and T, 25min Fram
Mid $300's up Marlboro, near mall, skating rink, just off 495, close to high school
Our plans are always new, fresh, and exiting. Come see the new Galleria, with first floor laundry coming soon to Milford. Coming soon to Hopkinton also, or a coach with first floor laundry! Call our office
today, 508-881-6662
The cost of building roads, is going up big time....try 30% or more...
The cost of all goods and supplies will sky rocket if oil continues to be on an upward climb.
Work in Framingham, Natick , Metrowest area.....do yourself a favor....
LEARN ABOUT THE SUBURB LOCATIONS, SAVE MONEY AND MAYBE LIVE FOR LESS THAN RENT!
The best buys on the market, are inexpensive new construction, which we are building in three towns.
$200,000 and up Uxbridge, Mass, 30 minutes to Framingham
Hi $200's up Bellingham, (love the Garden Party!, 2 bedrooms , 1 bath ,2 car garage) 5 + min to 495/and T, 25min Fram
Mid $300's up Marlboro, near mall, skating rink, just off 495, close to high school
Our plans are always new, fresh, and exiting. Come see the new Galleria, with first floor laundry coming soon to Milford. Coming soon to Hopkinton also, or a coach with first floor laundry! Call our office
today, 508-881-6662
The Winner Stands Alone
Finally finished! Paulo Coelho characters are hard to leave. In this book the character that moves the book is evil, and not likeable for any reason. I was tempted to abandon the book, because I do not like to read about evil. However, I stayed with it, because Coelho has much to say about the social condition, and I like his comments peppered through the narrative about our universal concerns. If you like Paulo Coehlo, it is worth reading. The underside of life at the Cannes film festival, is probably worth knowing, because we all see if for glitz and glamour, when it is really a place where everyone goes to be seen, be used, and to be promoted, or to promote products, films, directors and actors. It is a world that is far too unattainable for the ordinary, and a lesson for young girls dreaming of stardom. The span of opportunity according to Coehlo, is very short, so girls especially have to sacrifice and take chances, while disappointment , is around every corner. It is but a segment of life in the real world, that is based on beauty, unreality, and rariefied air.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Sam Cooke You Send Me
How can any of us who lived this song, forget it...what a major hit! For my high school friends, Lorraine Levandosky and Barbara Volpicelli
Saturday, May 15, 2010
facebook alliance with Huffington Post..neutral to politics out the window?
Facebook alliance with Huffington Post.
My opinion is that this is something that came about because of the left seeing it for a potential win win situation. (Huffington Post is left).
Remember this past week...
Betty White got on Saturday Night Live, because of her facebook fans. This is an illustration of the tremendous power of facebook to date. ( Before it gets taxed, or shut down for sedition)
Now George Orwell style, big brother is stepping in...
Obama announced last week controls and taxes needed for internet, and other technology, including wii and the new i-pad! ( and did he say something like this.... 'cause they are dangerous to our kids and society, spreading lies'?) (???emphasis???)
Yet, his campaign used techonology the best so far, of any campaign. Is this a plot to deter future campaigns from the advantage of free and untaxed speech or is free speech, now going to be taxed? What will be next, books?
It looks like facebook wants to become political.! ( that may not be the case, it might just be a good business deal, but, since it is political, it should be balanced)
Maybe this will ,in fact, create a new boredom in politics.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Facebook, a collective consciousness
Facebook got Betty White a spot on Saturday Night Live, maybe Facebook will bring our society to the strength it needs to fight the new threats we face as a nation. Facebook is a collective consciousness. We need to hear more voices about how to face the future. Party lines are old hat, lobbying efforts by the oil companies, show you now, that even though we had laws to prevent damage in spills, the laws were not enforced. How ridiculous, the EPA, worries about hay bales, to prevent 1 inch of run off in a 50 year storm, into a wetland (which occurs in nature, anyway) while the protective measures for oil rigs are ignored! A perfect example of how government fails us.
Recently, someone died in a road accident, right at a spot, where run off from a property has made a hugh gouge in the earth leading into the street. All during freezing weather, there is an ice pocket on the road at this spot, and no one does anything about it. The police obviously did not even bother to notice that the property owner is creating a hazardous situation on the street, even with the death of a driver, on this night with freezing temperatures. Where is the conscience of the homeowner, who continues to do nothing about it? Where is the family of this young man? Did they come and see the spot where he died, and ask questions about the run off. The evidence is damning.
During the last administration a law requiring unions to disclose their finances, etc., was put on the books. Why not? All tax free organizations have to report their finances. Well, within 8-12 weeks of the new administration taking office, the law was conveniently removed. Interesting, isn't it? How long will we continue to be sheep?
Recently, someone died in a road accident, right at a spot, where run off from a property has made a hugh gouge in the earth leading into the street. All during freezing weather, there is an ice pocket on the road at this spot, and no one does anything about it. The police obviously did not even bother to notice that the property owner is creating a hazardous situation on the street, even with the death of a driver, on this night with freezing temperatures. Where is the conscience of the homeowner, who continues to do nothing about it? Where is the family of this young man? Did they come and see the spot where he died, and ask questions about the run off. The evidence is damning.
During the last administration a law requiring unions to disclose their finances, etc., was put on the books. Why not? All tax free organizations have to report their finances. Well, within 8-12 weeks of the new administration taking office, the law was conveniently removed. Interesting, isn't it? How long will we continue to be sheep?
Israeli Agent Advice, Plan for your family safety
Read what to do in an emergency to find your children and family...that is most important.
After my blog was written this morning, I got this as an e-mail that is going around on the internet. It is appropriate to consider this, in light of the fact that we continue unaware of the pending danger. We need to take protective measures and they may not be politically correct. Our people and our country have to be first. Did you ever realize that just the words we use help to convey, the attitude we put forth to the world, and, create the direction we head in. Traitor, is what you call an American Citizen, who trys to bomb a building or a city, even if his citizenship was just a scam.
Start of internet article, being sent by e-mail ....I have not corroborated it, the advice is important, anyway.
This Israeli agent has since been hired by Congress- he was right too many times. England , Ireland have adopted Israeli suggestions. However, American public is “unable to handle the information”. See the “trials” and resulting no action by the public.
Advice from an Israeli Agent
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The interlands ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.
Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
\Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and even moreso, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.
End of circulating e-mail
After my blog was written this morning, I got this as an e-mail that is going around on the internet. It is appropriate to consider this, in light of the fact that we continue unaware of the pending danger. We need to take protective measures and they may not be politically correct. Our people and our country have to be first. Did you ever realize that just the words we use help to convey, the attitude we put forth to the world, and, create the direction we head in. Traitor, is what you call an American Citizen, who trys to bomb a building or a city, even if his citizenship was just a scam.
Start of internet article, being sent by e-mail ....I have not corroborated it, the advice is important, anyway.
This Israeli agent has since been hired by Congress- he was right too many times. England , Ireland have adopted Israeli suggestions. However, American public is “unable to handle the information”. See the “trials” and resulting no action by the public.
Advice from an Israeli Agent
Juval Aviv was the Israeli Agent upon whom the movie ' Munich ' was based. He was Golda Meir's bodyguard, and she appointed him to track down and bring to justice the Palestinian terrorists who took the Israeli athletes hostage and killed them during the Munich Olympic Games.
In a lecture in New York City he shared information that EVERY American needs to know -- but that our government has not yet shared with us.
He predicted the London subway bombing on the Bill O'Reilly show on Fox News stating publicly that it would happen within a week. At the time, O'Reilly laughed, and mocked him saying that in a week he wanted him back on the show. Unfortunately, within a week the terrorist attack had occurred.
Juval Aviv gave intelligence (via what he had gathered in Israel and the Middle East ) to the Bush Administration about 9/11, a month before it occurred. His report specifically said they would use planes as bombs and target high profile buildings and monuments. Congress has since hired him as a security consultant.
Now for his future predictions. He predicts the next terrorist attack on the U.S. will occur within the next few months.
Forget hijacking airplanes, because he says terrorists will NEVER try and hijack a plane again as they know the people onboard will never go down quietly again. Aviv believes our airport security is a joke -- that we have been reactionary rather than proactive in developing strategies that are truly effective.
For example:
1) Our airport technology is outdated. We look for metal, and the new explosives are made of plastic.
2) He talked about how some idiot tried to light his shoe on fire. Because of that, now everyone has to take off their shoes. A group of idiots tried to bring aboard liquid explosives. Now we can't bring liquids on board. He says he's waiting for some suicidal maniac to pour liquid explosive on his underwear; at which point, security will have us all traveling naked!
Every strategy we have is reactionary.
3) We only focus on security when people are heading to the gates.
Aviv says that if a terrorist attack targets airports in the future, they will target busy times on the front end of the airport when/where people are checking in. It would be easy for someone to take two suitcases of explosives, walk up to a busy check-in line, ask a person next to them to watch their bags for a minute while they run to the restroom or get a drink, and then detonate the bags BEFORE security even gets involved. In Israel , security checks bags BEFORE people can even ENTER the airport.
Aviv says the next terrorist attack here in America is imminent and will involve suicide bombers and non-suicide bombers in places where large groups of people congregate. (i.e., Disneyland, Las Vegas casinos, big cities (New York, San Francisco, Chicago, etc.) and that it will also include shopping malls, subways in rush hour, train stations, etc., as well as, rural America this time. The interlands ( Wyoming , Montana , etc.).
The attack will be characterized by simultaneous detonations around the country (terrorists like big impact), involving at least 5-8 cities, including rural areas.
Aviv says terrorists won't need to use suicide bombers in many of the larger cities, because at places like the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, they can simply valet park a car loaded with explosives and walk away.
Aviv says all of the above is well known in intelligence circles, but that our U. S. Government does not want to 'alarm American citizens' with the facts. The world is quickly going to become 'a different place', and issues like 'global warming' and political correctness will become totally irrelevant.
On an encouraging note, he says that Americans don't have to be concerned about being nuked. Aviv says the terrorists who want to destroy America will not use sophisticated weapons. They like to use suicide as a front-line approach. It's cheap, it's easy, it's effective; and they have an infinite abundance of young militants more than willing to 'meet their destiny'.
He also says the next level of terrorists, over which America should be most concerned, will not be coming from abroad. But will be, instead, 'homegrown', having attended and been educated in our own schools and universities right here in the U.S. He says to look for 'students' who frequently travel back and forth to the Middle East . These young terrorists will be most dangerous because they will know our language and will fully understand the habits of Americans; but that we Americans won't know/understand a thing about them.
Aviv says that, as a people, Americans are unaware and uneducated about the terrorist threats we will inevitably face. America still has only a handful of Arabic and Farsi speaking people in our intelligence networks, and Aviv says it is critical that we change that fact SOON.
So, what can America do to protect itself? From an intelligence perspective, Aviv says the U.S. needs to stop relying on satellites and technology for intelligence. We need to, instead, follow Israel 's, Ireland 's and England 's hands-on examples of human intelligence, both from an infiltration perspective as well as to pay attention to, and trust 'aware' citizens to help. We need to engage and educate ourselves as citizens; however, our U. S. government continues to treat us, its citizens, 'like babies'. Our government thinks we 'can't handle the truth' and are concerned that we'll panic if we understand the realities of terrorism. Aviv says this is a deadly mistake.
Aviv recently created/executed a security test for our Congress, by placing an empty briefcase in five well-traveled spots in five major cities. The results? Not one person called 911 or sought a policeman to check it out. In fact, in Chicago , someone tried to steal the briefcase!
In comparison, Aviv says that citizens of Israel are so well 'trained' that an unattended bag or package would be reported in seconds by citizen(s) who know to publicly shout, 'Unattended Bag!' The area would be quickly & calmly cleared by the citizens themselves.
Unfortunately, America hasn't been yet 'hurt enough' by terrorism for their government to fully understand the need to educate its citizens or for the government to understand that it's their citizens who are, inevitably, the best first-line of defense against terrorism.
\Aviv also was concerned about the high number of children here in America who were in preschool and kindergarten after 9/11, who were 'lost' without parents being able to pick them up, and about our schools that had no plan in place to best care for the students until parents could get there. (In New York City , this was days, in some cases!)
He stresses the importance of having a plan, that's agreed upon within your family, of how to respond in the event of a terrorist emergency. He urges parents to contact their children's schools and demand that the schools too, develop plans of actions, just as they do in Israel .
Does your family know what to do if you can't contact one another by phone? Where would you gather in an emergency? He says we should all have a plan that is easy enough for even our youngest children to remember and follow.
Aviv says that the U. S. government has in force a plan, that in the event of another terrorist attack, EVERYONE's ability to use cell phones, blackberries, etc., will immediately be cut-off, as this is the preferred communication source used by terrorists and is often the way that their bombs are detonated.
How will you communicate with your loved ones in the event you cannot speak to each other? You need to have a plan.
If you understand, and believe what you have just read, then you must feel compelled to send this to every concerned parent, guardian, grandparents, uncles, aunts, whomever. Don't stop there. In addition to sharing this via e-mail, contact and discuss this information with whomever it makes sense to. Make contingency plans with those you care about. Better that you have plans in place, and never have to use them, then to have no plans in place, and find you needed them.
If you choose not to share this, or not to have a plan in place, and nothing ever occurs -- good for you! However, in the event something does happen, and even moreso, if it directly affects your loved ones, then this e-mail will haunt you forever.
Telling yourself after the fact, "I should have sent this to so and so, but deleted it as so much trash from old Bill Jones, plus, I just didn't believe it", will not change anything. You were alerted, had the chance to do something, and instead of erring on the side of caution, you chose to disregard, if nothing else, a sensible, valuable warning.
End of circulating e-mail
The First War of Physics by Jim Baggott
If you only read the review of this book, by Michael Dobbs, in the Sunday, May 8, 2010, New York Times Book Review, Page 18, you will gather information from the past, that will help you make decisions for the future. This book was first published November 5,2009, as a paperback. The hardcover is missing the word Atomic on the cover. The hard cover was published, April 13,2010, with the new title , The First War of Physics.
Basically, what Dobbs, the reviewer says is, it boils down to is a war within a war, just as we are now fighting a war within a war.
In reading the review, I could only think about us now, in view of the past.
Our voices are disident...one side is fighting a war for God, our side is trying to bring Democracy, but there has to be more to it than that. Why are we building roads, school, bridges, etc., in the middle east, when in our own country, the bridges are crumbling, the schools are not keeping up with the changes in society, our construction industry is flat on it's back, and the world is tumbling down around us, as jobs disappear, and economies drift toward the bottom. Union workers are demonizing Greece, objecting to the cut backs that have to come as Greece struggles to get back on its feet. We are just overwhelmed with our entitlement programs around the world, our generosity exceeds our pocketbooks....all this, as we send our resources overseas, never to recoup them. We need to modernize our own world. Have you seen the pictures of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, today?
These two cities were totally destroyed by the two Atomic Bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945, today, these cities put our cities to shame with their beauty! Oh, if only we could put our efforts, our precious resources toward this wondrous beauty, instead of war. You can find pictures of these cities on the internet, by the way.
The most important paragraph in this review by Michael Dobbs, is the last paragraph. He states, that this book reminds us, that wars are more than a fight on battlefields. They are also a struggle between competing ideologies, competing economic stystems, competing ways of life, and the military potential each country has.
When I was in college, Dr. Bowler my economics professor proclaimed one day, (in the 1960's) that wars of the future would be gorilla wars, because that was the only way to come after a super power. It was as though a light went on in my head, because in that moment in time, I knew he was correct, and we have seen it come to pass! Yet, we have done nothing to successfully wage war against our enemies. We have not come together as a people, all we do is bicker while one side trys to find every redemable reason for the enemy to act the way he acts, instead of us joining and acting together against the enemy. Why is it so difficult to come together, and face the threat as gorilla warfare. Just look at what gorilla warfare is doing to Mexico, and some of the other countries, who have let this type of war wage on and on. Yes, the drug wars, are also gorilla warfare, it is the most fearsome way of war, because it becomes personal, so leaders become afraid to act. Maybe gorilla warfare began in our country back in the 60's with the Weathermen, it's success was noted, and used from then on by dissident groups, drug dealers, the underworld, etc. We never waged a successful war on drugs, so we showed the world we can not handle a counter attack on gorilla warfare, because we will not fight that way.
Now, back to that last paragraph, he says that in the second world war the underlying war within the war, was the race to build the 'bomb'. He goes on to say, and I quote, " The nuclear arms race underscores an important historical truth: It was America's strengths as a society, and not simply as a miliary power, that led to victory in both World War 2 and the cold war."
Comon, you guys, you are the generation who will end up with this mess! We need to say "No" to drugs, if you don't know now, that they fuel gorilla warfare, then we are in real trouble. Illegal drug sales fuel most if not all of gorilla warfare, trillions of dollars of our money, comes back to us in bombs ( also fueled by the illegal sale of weapons) !
We need new strategies, and we need to try things, we can not sit back and take the psycological pathway, some people feel we need before we take actions. We need to try things, maybe we need to mind our own business, as we did at the beginning of the second world war, be isolationist, and wait, til our society catches up and can control its own behavior. Maybe we need to stand back from other people's problems,. Perhaps we need to charge for our expenses, our troops and equipment that we abandon in far way countries, charge others for re-building their world. That brings us to the most important question, should we stop policing the world, after all we were never voted in for that by the world's population.
Incongruous, that we police the world but, can not police our own borders! We rebuild war torn countries, but not our own! Shame on us! Someone has to be brave enough to come up with ideas, and get the population behind him or her...!! Who amongst this new generation will step up to the plate?
Basically, what Dobbs, the reviewer says is, it boils down to is a war within a war, just as we are now fighting a war within a war.
In reading the review, I could only think about us now, in view of the past.
Our voices are disident...one side is fighting a war for God, our side is trying to bring Democracy, but there has to be more to it than that. Why are we building roads, school, bridges, etc., in the middle east, when in our own country, the bridges are crumbling, the schools are not keeping up with the changes in society, our construction industry is flat on it's back, and the world is tumbling down around us, as jobs disappear, and economies drift toward the bottom. Union workers are demonizing Greece, objecting to the cut backs that have to come as Greece struggles to get back on its feet. We are just overwhelmed with our entitlement programs around the world, our generosity exceeds our pocketbooks....all this, as we send our resources overseas, never to recoup them. We need to modernize our own world. Have you seen the pictures of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, today?
These two cities were totally destroyed by the two Atomic Bombs , Fat Man and Little Boy in 1945, today, these cities put our cities to shame with their beauty! Oh, if only we could put our efforts, our precious resources toward this wondrous beauty, instead of war. You can find pictures of these cities on the internet, by the way.
The most important paragraph in this review by Michael Dobbs, is the last paragraph. He states, that this book reminds us, that wars are more than a fight on battlefields. They are also a struggle between competing ideologies, competing economic stystems, competing ways of life, and the military potential each country has.
When I was in college, Dr. Bowler my economics professor proclaimed one day, (in the 1960's) that wars of the future would be gorilla wars, because that was the only way to come after a super power. It was as though a light went on in my head, because in that moment in time, I knew he was correct, and we have seen it come to pass! Yet, we have done nothing to successfully wage war against our enemies. We have not come together as a people, all we do is bicker while one side trys to find every redemable reason for the enemy to act the way he acts, instead of us joining and acting together against the enemy. Why is it so difficult to come together, and face the threat as gorilla warfare. Just look at what gorilla warfare is doing to Mexico, and some of the other countries, who have let this type of war wage on and on. Yes, the drug wars, are also gorilla warfare, it is the most fearsome way of war, because it becomes personal, so leaders become afraid to act. Maybe gorilla warfare began in our country back in the 60's with the Weathermen, it's success was noted, and used from then on by dissident groups, drug dealers, the underworld, etc. We never waged a successful war on drugs, so we showed the world we can not handle a counter attack on gorilla warfare, because we will not fight that way.
Now, back to that last paragraph, he says that in the second world war the underlying war within the war, was the race to build the 'bomb'. He goes on to say, and I quote, " The nuclear arms race underscores an important historical truth: It was America's strengths as a society, and not simply as a miliary power, that led to victory in both World War 2 and the cold war."
Comon, you guys, you are the generation who will end up with this mess! We need to say "No" to drugs, if you don't know now, that they fuel gorilla warfare, then we are in real trouble. Illegal drug sales fuel most if not all of gorilla warfare, trillions of dollars of our money, comes back to us in bombs ( also fueled by the illegal sale of weapons) !
We need new strategies, and we need to try things, we can not sit back and take the psycological pathway, some people feel we need before we take actions. We need to try things, maybe we need to mind our own business, as we did at the beginning of the second world war, be isolationist, and wait, til our society catches up and can control its own behavior. Maybe we need to stand back from other people's problems,. Perhaps we need to charge for our expenses, our troops and equipment that we abandon in far way countries, charge others for re-building their world. That brings us to the most important question, should we stop policing the world, after all we were never voted in for that by the world's population.
Incongruous, that we police the world but, can not police our own borders! We rebuild war torn countries, but not our own! Shame on us! Someone has to be brave enough to come up with ideas, and get the population behind him or her...!! Who amongst this new generation will step up to the plate?
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Traitor! a movie of terrorism
Traitor - moviefone.com
1h 53min - PG-13 - Drama
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, more
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's... more
Now, as we discuss, if we should consider modifying our laws to handle traitors in this new world, maybe it is time to do some thinking about what the word traitor, once meant, and how seriously we took the word, traitor!
After the 2nd world war, forgiveness was still important, even to those who had suffered, and psychiatrists blamed mother fixation, underlying homosexual tendencies, the need to belong, etc., and thought that if we stayed true to our beliefs in the world, that we would be able to re-eduate the aberrant souls.
Jonestown suicides, show that re-education is not enough, it is not fast enough, sufficient enough, etc. The ability of cults to destroy families, and individuals, is proof that we can not deal with aberrant behavior in manners that take a long period of time, alone.
Yes, our freedoms are most important, but, our society has a duty to it's people to protect them , with the risk on the individual who chooses to be a traitor, not on society. So if we look at the status quo, from the point of view of the majority, can we come up with something that protects society , yet does not hinder our individual right to dissent? I guess it boils down to, "peaceful dissent", and when it goes beyond peaceful dissent, you are looking at the danger zone of individual freedom.
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Obviously, we are not dealing with people who are willing or want to change their thinking because they have been indoctrinated into a belief. We know from our experience with the Jonestown suicides, how deeply people can be indoctrinated.
1h 53min - PG-13 - Drama
Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Saïd Taghmaoui, more
An undercover CIA agent within a terrorist cell is marked as a terrorist suspect by the FBI in Overture Films' upcoming thriller Traitor. Don Cheadle produces and stars in the film as the operative under Guy Pearce's... more
Now, as we discuss, if we should consider modifying our laws to handle traitors in this new world, maybe it is time to do some thinking about what the word traitor, once meant, and how seriously we took the word, traitor!
After the 2nd world war, forgiveness was still important, even to those who had suffered, and psychiatrists blamed mother fixation, underlying homosexual tendencies, the need to belong, etc., and thought that if we stayed true to our beliefs in the world, that we would be able to re-eduate the aberrant souls.
Jonestown suicides, show that re-education is not enough, it is not fast enough, sufficient enough, etc. The ability of cults to destroy families, and individuals, is proof that we can not deal with aberrant behavior in manners that take a long period of time, alone.
Yes, our freedoms are most important, but, our society has a duty to it's people to protect them , with the risk on the individual who chooses to be a traitor, not on society. So if we look at the status quo, from the point of view of the majority, can we come up with something that protects society , yet does not hinder our individual right to dissent? I guess it boils down to, "peaceful dissent", and when it goes beyond peaceful dissent, you are looking at the danger zone of individual freedom.
.
Obviously, we are not dealing with people who are willing or want to change their thinking because they have been indoctrinated into a belief. We know from our experience with the Jonestown suicides, how deeply people can be indoctrinated.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Horse drawn carraiges, at Point to Point last weekend
http://www.4inhand.org/apps/photos/album?albumid=8928957
We have the white horses, where the lady is riding in red, behind the driver. A light coach for a hot day.
We have the white horses, where the lady is riding in red, behind the driver. A light coach for a hot day.
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Secrets of the Heart
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
Horses and Carriages
If you are interested in carriage driving, this is a sport in the Olympics. On Columbus Day weekend there is a big event on carriage driving , I think it is in Kentucky. The 4 in Hand Club strives to keep the sport of carriage driving alive, so that future generations can see what the coachs could do, what they were like, and how they evolved into the automobile.
Hyundai vs. BMW? Cars and Horses
Hyundai vs. BMW?
Our horses had a good weekend and arrived home safe and sound, in spite of the heat and a blow out on the trailer. The horses stayed calm and our men had the tire changed in 15 minutes. The temperature in the Delaware area was brutal...88degrees and 88 humidity!
A spectacular Vis a Vis, came in next to us, with ladies carrying parasols, the whip and the two grooms riding postillion style. But, it proved too much for the heavy ponderous horses.
Our horses had a good weekend and arrived home safe and sound, in spite of the heat and a blow out on the trailer. The horses stayed calm and our men had the tire changed in 15 minutes. The temperature in the Delaware area was brutal...88degrees and 88 humidity!
A spectacular Vis a Vis, came in next to us, with ladies carrying parasols, the whip and the two grooms riding postillion style. But, it proved too much for the heavy ponderous horses.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Aspects of the Novel
Aspects of the novel
by E. M. Forrester Many years ago, this was a bible for writers. A good novel, is what this book tries to help deliver. Time and space are the active ingredients, while he points out the difference between a good novel and a great novel. It is humbling to read, but essential to the writer, to learn , how characters can be developed subtly, how a story can have ragged ends, and more. The greatness of War and Peace, Forrester points out is not only its sense of time but its sense of space, ( a great swath of space is covered in the novel). I am reading it probably for the third time, maybe it will eventually rub off on me. My first book is Secrets of the Heart.
My book plays with time, as the main character, who lies dying in her hospital bed, alternates between time on earth and time visiting with departed friends, who are awaiting her coming arrival, in the next dimension. The characters share the pain, joy and trial of their lives, while learning their pupose of life on earth, and ever lasting love. Time the unseen and unknown dimension for such a long , long time, is becoming more important to us, as we realize we can pause it, expand it , recall it, and dream it for the future, making it malleable.
by E. M. Forrester Many years ago, this was a bible for writers. A good novel, is what this book tries to help deliver. Time and space are the active ingredients, while he points out the difference between a good novel and a great novel. It is humbling to read, but essential to the writer, to learn , how characters can be developed subtly, how a story can have ragged ends, and more. The greatness of War and Peace, Forrester points out is not only its sense of time but its sense of space, ( a great swath of space is covered in the novel). I am reading it probably for the third time, maybe it will eventually rub off on me. My first book is Secrets of the Heart.My book plays with time, as the main character, who lies dying in her hospital bed, alternates between time on earth and time visiting with departed friends, who are awaiting her coming arrival, in the next dimension. The characters share the pain, joy and trial of their lives, while learning their pupose of life on earth, and ever lasting love. Time the unseen and unknown dimension for such a long , long time, is becoming more important to us, as we realize we can pause it, expand it , recall it, and dream it for the future, making it malleable.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Paul McCartney - Here,There And Everywhere (live!)
Make sure you build your song book, before the music disappears
George Harrison My Sweet Lord
George Harrison did such a good job with this song, it lingers somewhere in the universe waiting to be called up, from the other harmonies that exist in space, in the hum and strum of the moon and stars, it lingers waiting for us to enjoy.
The Warsaw Concerto
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The history of the piece is interesting, and since it conveyed to me as a very young child, the pain of war, it is something that I carry in my heart all the time.
The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell. The orchestration was by another Briton, Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the piece, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. The actor, Anton Walbrook, was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, but in fact the music on the soundtrack is played by an uncredited pianist, Louis Kentner.
The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces.
The music was later used in another film, The Sea Wolves (1980), with Addinsell's themes arranged by Roy Budd.
[edit] Appearances in popular culture
The theme of the concerto is borrowed in a popular-music love song whose lyrics include "The world outside will never know..." recorded by The Four Coins.[1]
The theme charted at #18 on UK Singles chart in January 1959, as The World Outside by Ronnie Hilton, a very popular singer in the UK.
Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and the subsequent books in the series as 'the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto'.
José Carreras recorded the Concerto as the opening track on his 1999 Album Pure Passion
In 1999 US Rapper DMX sampled the Concerto on the Single What's my name which was the first release from his US no 1 album ...And Then There Was X
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer, recorded a Latin arrangement of the Warsaw Concerto in 2005.
The Concerto is constantly used in championship figure skating (especially in Japan)
[edit] Notes
^ "The World Outside" lyrics
[edit] External links
Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto Analysis and description of Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
Composers of the Week - Addinsell and Noel Coward
Dangerous Moonlight at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a concerto is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Concerto"
Categories: Piano concertos
Film music
Film soundtracks
1941 works
The Warsaw Concerto is a single-movement piano concerto written for the 1941 film, Dangerous Moonlight (also known under the later title Suicide Squadron). It was written by British composer Richard Addinsell. The orchestration was by another Briton, Roy Douglas, whose contribution is rarely acknowledged.
The film's love-story plot revolves around the fictional composer of the piece, a piano virtuoso and "shell-shocked" combat pilot, who is a refugee in England from the World War II occupation of Poland and considers returning to Poland to rejoin the war. The actor, Anton Walbrook, was an accomplished amateur pianist, so his hands are seen playing in the film, but in fact the music on the soundtrack is played by an uncredited pianist, Louis Kentner.
The film-makers wanted something in the style of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini or the Second and Third Piano Concertos, but were unable to persuade Rachmaninoff himself to write a new piece or to afford to obtain the rights for any of these existing pieces.
The music was later used in another film, The Sea Wolves (1980), with Addinsell's themes arranged by Roy Budd.
[edit] Appearances in popular culture
The theme of the concerto is borrowed in a popular-music love song whose lyrics include "The world outside will never know..." recorded by The Four Coins.[1]
The theme charted at #18 on UK Singles chart in January 1959, as The World Outside by Ronnie Hilton, a very popular singer in the UK.
Spike Milligan repeatedly refers to the piece in his autobiography Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall and the subsequent books in the series as 'the bloody awful Warsaw Concerto'.
José Carreras recorded the Concerto as the opening track on his 1999 Album Pure Passion
In 1999 US Rapper DMX sampled the Concerto on the Single What's my name which was the first release from his US no 1 album ...And Then There Was X
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, the Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer, recorded a Latin arrangement of the Warsaw Concerto in 2005.
The Concerto is constantly used in championship figure skating (especially in Japan)
[edit] Notes
^ "The World Outside" lyrics
[edit] External links
Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto Analysis and description of Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
Composers of the Week - Addinsell and Noel Coward
Dangerous Moonlight at the Internet Movie Database
This article about a concerto is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Concerto"
Categories: Piano concertos
Film music
Film soundtracks
1941 works
Friday, April 30, 2010
Music through the years
I am fascinated with the growth of music, especially from the pre- Great War Years, thru the war, and into the 50's to Les Paul and onward, to the Beatles, and then to the few real musical artists beyond. It was music, and the sounds of music, whether it was voices used as instruments, or the instruments themselves.
Melody, point, and counterpoint, stretch and shrink, echo and control, beauty reigned in the sounds. Please take a look at my Facebook profile page and see the songs of the Greatest Generation and how exuberant, how loving they were....how we progressed to the joy of the end of the war, and the music broke all bounds and went wild! But, it remained, MUSIC!
In my mind, music can cry, "The Warsaw Concerto", it can tell a story like this piece does, without words, a story of such sadness, that the tears came to my eyes, as a young person, maybe 10 years old, imagining the plight of human beings, who lived in this great music. Music, should lift our spirits, make us want to accomplish something in the light and joy of life, even when telling a sad story, the goal of music has never changed. It is in the song of the universe, the planets, and the stars, and we should respect this ability we have to use music to lift our lives, to bring joy, happiness, help us evaluate with love and respect what we are doing and where we are going. Hopefully listening to the music we had, will bring us back to real music., there is so much more to discover.
Melody, point, and counterpoint, stretch and shrink, echo and control, beauty reigned in the sounds. Please take a look at my Facebook profile page and see the songs of the Greatest Generation and how exuberant, how loving they were....how we progressed to the joy of the end of the war, and the music broke all bounds and went wild! But, it remained, MUSIC!
In my mind, music can cry, "The Warsaw Concerto", it can tell a story like this piece does, without words, a story of such sadness, that the tears came to my eyes, as a young person, maybe 10 years old, imagining the plight of human beings, who lived in this great music. Music, should lift our spirits, make us want to accomplish something in the light and joy of life, even when telling a sad story, the goal of music has never changed. It is in the song of the universe, the planets, and the stars, and we should respect this ability we have to use music to lift our lives, to bring joy, happiness, help us evaluate with love and respect what we are doing and where we are going. Hopefully listening to the music we had, will bring us back to real music., there is so much more to discover.
Les Paul - Chasing Sound!
Les Paul - Chasing Sound
This is a fabulous ! Les Paul's story can't be beat, I posted it on my Facebook account, where you can watch it, but you can buy it here, if you want to. When, "How High the Moon hit the jukes, and the radio, Wow! We went wild and it blasted out of every juke box at our hangout.....in those days in Framingham, Mass., it was on our main street, and it was called, The Wellworth."
This is a fabulous ! Les Paul's story can't be beat, I posted it on my Facebook account, where you can watch it, but you can buy it here, if you want to. When, "How High the Moon hit the jukes, and the radio, Wow! We went wild and it blasted out of every juke box at our hangout.....in those days in Framingham, Mass., it was on our main street, and it was called, The Wellworth."
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Cars, new HD program on Discovery Channel
Click here: Discovery HD Theater :: TV Listings :: What's My Car Worth?
This is tuesday at 9, see the schedule.
This is tuesday at 9, see the schedule.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A 1914 car with history
This car has an interesting history. It ran very well., when my husband had it. The leather fenders are remarkable, as is the car,an early Mercedes you can read the history at the link.
Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track
Turning Learning Right Side Up Puting Education Back on Track
by DanielGreenberg
See this book on Amazon »Madlyn wants to read this book
Comment: "My neighbor, founding member of the Sudbury Valley School has just published this book. I am especially interested in it, because I agree that we have not made sufficient changes in education, to handle the changes in our society. The proof is in the number of children being prescribed drugs like Ritalin to get through school and college.
We learned years ago that all children do not learn in the same way, yet we torture them , forcing them to learn the way we want them to learn, or fail them. Example: A bright child with ADHD, orADD, who can not concentrate, read, etc., can be taught by lectures, play acting, movies, and other visual means. Why would this child get homework based on reading and preparing pages to turn in, when the child has difficulty organizing, doing homework and turning in pages on time. That is what I mean about setting them up to fail! Genius existed before homework, and books!
We can not dumb down those that can not learn in our one way of teaching, then fail them in school and college....change has to come! There are many new ideas out there, we need to try. I look forward to reading Dan's book!
Turning Learning Right Side Up Puting Education Back on Trackby DanielGreenberg
See this book on Amazon »Madlyn wants to read this book
Comment: "My neighbor, founding member of the Sudbury Valley School has just published this book. I am especially interested in it, because I agree that we have not made sufficient changes in education, to handle the changes in our society. The proof is in the number of children being prescribed drugs like Ritalin to get through school and college.
We learned years ago that all children do not learn in the same way, yet we torture them , forcing them to learn the way we want them to learn, or fail them. Example: A bright child with ADHD, orADD, who can not concentrate, read, etc., can be taught by lectures, play acting, movies, and other visual means. Why would this child get homework based on reading and preparing pages to turn in, when the child has difficulty organizing, doing homework and turning in pages on time. That is what I mean about setting them up to fail! Genius existed before homework, and books!
We can not dumb down those that can not learn in our one way of teaching, then fail them in school and college....change has to come! There are many new ideas out there, we need to try. I look forward to reading Dan's book!
World's rarest car?
http://www.audiusa.com/us/brand/en/about/main/history/brand_family_tree/Horch.html#source=h
There is one unusual car that might be the world's rarest sport model. It is called the Horch, built as early as the 1900's by the founder of Audi cars, visit the website for information. Last year at Pebble Beach it took the prize. This car is probably one of 4 in the world. I will find the link for Pebble Beach and put it here for you, if you care to read more.
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/1937-horch-wins-best-of-show-at-the-2009-pebble-beach-concours-d-elegance-ar78074.html
This fabulous car competed with the Mercedes 540 K as one of the most desired cars in the world, in it's day.
There is one unusual car that might be the world's rarest sport model. It is called the Horch, built as early as the 1900's by the founder of Audi cars, visit the website for information. Last year at Pebble Beach it took the prize. This car is probably one of 4 in the world. I will find the link for Pebble Beach and put it here for you, if you care to read more.
http://www.topspeed.com/cars/car-news/1937-horch-wins-best-of-show-at-the-2009-pebble-beach-concours-d-elegance-ar78074.html
This fabulous car competed with the Mercedes 540 K as one of the most desired cars in the world, in it's day.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
New Metrowest Estate Homes
Our fabulous Natick designed homes are coming to Holliston. Now, you can choose some of the fabulous plans we have in Sanctuary , Natick. The popular King Charles and Alexander for example are available in Holliston, and also at Black Horse Farms in Marlboro on the Sudbury line. Holliston has fabulous lots with views almost to the Boston skyline, just off Route 126, close to Rt 16, Rt 135, and 10 minutes to Rt 495, Rt 9, Mass Pike... If you prefer living in South Natick, which is only about 10 minutes away, , we have a few lots remaining
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Madlyn Fafard , Secrets of the Heart
Secrets of the Heart
listening to this while reading my e-book will bring you right to the era. Best of the Four Aces
Link to my book is here:
Product Reviews and Ratings by StargazerMA - Barnes & Noble
Secrets of the Heart,Amazon.com: xlibris - secrets of the heart / madlyn fafard: Books
My first novel begins with the 2nd world war, and describes the conflict that children had living in the town of Framingham, Mass., during the war.
Plunge into the world of the late 40's and 50's with Meggie Pitter, who takes you through a generation of love, pain, joy, death, and suffering in what was then a small town. Follow the songs of the generation, and look them up on Amazon as you read.
Meggie the lead character leads the way, as she lies on her death bed, encountering her friends and lovers in memory and in the next dimension as they share their stories, in many voices.
listening to this while reading my e-book will bring you right to the era. Best of the Four AcesLink to my book is here:
Product Reviews and Ratings by StargazerMA - Barnes & Noble
Secrets of the Heart,Amazon.com: xlibris - secrets of the heart / madlyn fafard: Books
My first novel begins with the 2nd world war, and describes the conflict that children had living in the town of Framingham, Mass., during the war.
Plunge into the world of the late 40's and 50's with Meggie Pitter, who takes you through a generation of love, pain, joy, death, and suffering in what was then a small town. Follow the songs of the generation, and look them up on Amazon as you read.
Meggie the lead character leads the way, as she lies on her death bed, encountering her friends and lovers in memory and in the next dimension as they share their stories, in many voices.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Education Today
We need to rethink our education, the system, the school days, the purpose, and redefine free speech.
When children are led to commit suicide because of bullying, by internet, by encounters, should we allow free speech to continue without some boundaries?
When a soldier comes home in a casket to a grieving family, is it necessary for free speech lovers to dishonor him and his family? Free speech, should not damage someone's soul! Should we allow free speech to take away the dignity of a dead person? What can we do to protect free speech, but remove the horrible manner in which it is displayed?
Is our school system producing problems , by integration of all students, rather than the tracking system we had years ago? Personally, I think we should be giving more guidance to fit the student, rather than the opposite.. If we do our job, they will fit in society. It is when we do not do our job, that they fall out of society and get in trouble. Students that drop out, that do not get good marks, etc., are not happy! So that means we need to change to make them want to go to school. That is the job we have before us, make everyone want to learn to become a productive member of society and as long as we ignore the unhappy students, we will have serious problems in society.
Our society is in need of talented trades, and we could be giving a more practical education from day one to the students who we know, will not have the ability to keep up for higher education, or who do not have the inclination. Banking should come back in the schools, with the students running the banks. Home economics should come back to the elementary school, baking, sewing, organizing, learning about health and health check ups, all the basics of everyday living in our present society we need to have to prepare the student for life, so if they drop out, or can not compete they can take care of their family with home, and car skills, health skills, banking skills, budgets, etc.
Students with ADD and ADHD need a different classroom situation, maybe they need to have assisted homework with teachers who train them to focus on their studies, Homework must be part of the classroom teaching, learning, etc... maybe they need less homework and more class participation marks. Drugs are not always the answer,maybe more observation by teachers and what we can do in the school to teach focusing and teach how to overcome disabilities.
Tracking would be a valuable tool, to assist the student to reach his potential in a group that has similar abilities and skills. Everyone is not equal, we all have different abilities. You can probably answer I knew I would never be a whiz at math, in the lower grades, or I knew I would never be a reader, in the lower grades. Essential abilities in the brain, need to be addressed, not neglected, if a person is weak in math, then that person needs to learn basic math, banking, budgeting, organizing skills, and skills that increase the ability of that side of the brain that has a problem with math by training with musical instruments. Learning spacing of notes, groupings, etc., through music, There are so many things to consider, I could go on forever
When children are led to commit suicide because of bullying, by internet, by encounters, should we allow free speech to continue without some boundaries?
When a soldier comes home in a casket to a grieving family, is it necessary for free speech lovers to dishonor him and his family? Free speech, should not damage someone's soul! Should we allow free speech to take away the dignity of a dead person? What can we do to protect free speech, but remove the horrible manner in which it is displayed?
Is our school system producing problems , by integration of all students, rather than the tracking system we had years ago? Personally, I think we should be giving more guidance to fit the student, rather than the opposite.. If we do our job, they will fit in society. It is when we do not do our job, that they fall out of society and get in trouble. Students that drop out, that do not get good marks, etc., are not happy! So that means we need to change to make them want to go to school. That is the job we have before us, make everyone want to learn to become a productive member of society and as long as we ignore the unhappy students, we will have serious problems in society.
Our society is in need of talented trades, and we could be giving a more practical education from day one to the students who we know, will not have the ability to keep up for higher education, or who do not have the inclination. Banking should come back in the schools, with the students running the banks. Home economics should come back to the elementary school, baking, sewing, organizing, learning about health and health check ups, all the basics of everyday living in our present society we need to have to prepare the student for life, so if they drop out, or can not compete they can take care of their family with home, and car skills, health skills, banking skills, budgets, etc.
Students with ADD and ADHD need a different classroom situation, maybe they need to have assisted homework with teachers who train them to focus on their studies, Homework must be part of the classroom teaching, learning, etc... maybe they need less homework and more class participation marks. Drugs are not always the answer,maybe more observation by teachers and what we can do in the school to teach focusing and teach how to overcome disabilities.
Tracking would be a valuable tool, to assist the student to reach his potential in a group that has similar abilities and skills. Everyone is not equal, we all have different abilities. You can probably answer I knew I would never be a whiz at math, in the lower grades, or I knew I would never be a reader, in the lower grades. Essential abilities in the brain, need to be addressed, not neglected, if a person is weak in math, then that person needs to learn basic math, banking, budgeting, organizing skills, and skills that increase the ability of that side of the brain that has a problem with math by training with musical instruments. Learning spacing of notes, groupings, etc., through music, There are so many things to consider, I could go on forever
FABULOUS OPPORTUNITY IN REAL ESTATE
Time to invest in a home
Uxbridge, Mass. about 20 minutes to Rt 495 , Franklin and the T, prices are incredible, starting at $199,990 for a single family home on condominium land., or consider Bellingham, just minutes off 495 and the T, starting in the high $200,000's depending on the lot you choose, most are an acre or more. both of these locations are close to the Wrentham Outlet Mall, and other shopping areas, hospitals, and colleges.
Marlboro, just off Rt 495, near the high school and the Mall, prices start in the $300,000's
These prices will be hard to find when the economy returns to normal, so if you can borrow some of the deposit from your parents, and get an affordable monthly payment, including taxes, utilities etc.. now is the time to think about taking the plunge into real estate.
If you are looking for a special home, that you want to design build or use our plans and customize, we have estate lots in Natick, Mass., Holliston, Mass., Marlboro on the Sudbury line. Choose from these easy commute locations that are close to all amenities, shopping, hospitals, colleges, and major roads.
Give our office a call for all your real estate needs., in the metrowest area around Boston 508-881-6662
Uxbridge, Mass. about 20 minutes to Rt 495 , Franklin and the T, prices are incredible, starting at $199,990 for a single family home on condominium land., or consider Bellingham, just minutes off 495 and the T, starting in the high $200,000's depending on the lot you choose, most are an acre or more. both of these locations are close to the Wrentham Outlet Mall, and other shopping areas, hospitals, and colleges.
Marlboro, just off Rt 495, near the high school and the Mall, prices start in the $300,000's
These prices will be hard to find when the economy returns to normal, so if you can borrow some of the deposit from your parents, and get an affordable monthly payment, including taxes, utilities etc.. now is the time to think about taking the plunge into real estate.
If you are looking for a special home, that you want to design build or use our plans and customize, we have estate lots in Natick, Mass., Holliston, Mass., Marlboro on the Sudbury line. Choose from these easy commute locations that are close to all amenities, shopping, hospitals, colleges, and major roads.
Give our office a call for all your real estate needs., in the metrowest area around Boston 508-881-6662
Discussions on God, Sheldrake and Dawkins and Vermeer's Hat a great book
Friday, February 22, 2008
Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook
Ah! Remember when you first learned about stream of conciousness? I remember well, because it was like a light went on in my head! I loved it, from the day I set eyes on The Sound and The Fury and read Faulkner with gusto, my next favorites being , A Rose For Emily, and As I Lay Dying
Now, with Vermeer's Hat, we have a new form of stream of consciousness. Yes, this time the author goes into a Vermeer painting and discovers thru a doorway from the painting, (and from his learned history of the world), a glimpse through the eyes ( stream of consciousness almost) of the author of what was happening at the time of Vermeer in his world.
Tobacco, silver, beaver hats, chinese trade, the perils of the shipping industry and much more as the world started on its course to become smaller. It is amazing from the ship register's of the time where people came from, and how traveled they were.
It is a memorable book, slow reading because it is not full of suspense, but full of facts, that draw you back to learn more. Also, the idea of visiting the world of the time through the paintings of Vermeer, is clever, and insightful. It is worth reading, the sub title is ,The Seventeeth Century and the Dawn of the Global World.
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Labels: Books, mostly books, newest read
Friday, January 11, 2008
Richard Dawkins vs Rupert Sheldrake
In the interest of God, and the interest of mankind, this is worth reading....a point of view that promotes a book at the expense of the truth, is not what a scientist should be searching for. I wonder what you think?
This release came to me from the Rupert Sheldrake site, I subscribe to.
News Release from Rupert Sheldrake Online
11th January 2008
From Rupert Sheldrake
"Richard Dawkins Comes to Call" has just been published in Network Review: The Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network and is now on the web site - It is also pasted below.
Richard Dawkins comes to call
Rupert Sheldrake
Richard Dawkins is a man with a mission – the eradication of religion and superstition, and their total replacement with science and reason. Channel 4 TV has repeatedly provided him with a pulpit. His two-part polemic in August 2007, called Enemies of Reason, was a sequel to his 2006 diatribe against religion, The Root of All Evil?
Soon before Enemies of Reason was filmed, the production company, IWC Media, told me that Richard Dawkins wanted to visit me to discuss my research on unexplained abilities of people and animals. I was reluctant to take part, but the company’s representative assured me that “this documentary, at Channel 4’s insistence, will be an entirely more balanced affair than The Root of All Evil was.” She added, “We are very keen for it to be a discussion between two scientists, about scientific modes of enquiry”. So I agreed and we fixed a date.
I was still not sure what to expect. Was Richard Dawkins going to be dogmatic, with a mental firewall that blocked out any evidence that went against his beliefs? Or would he be open-minded, and fun to talk to?
The Director asked us to stand facing each other; we were filmed with a hand-held camera. Richard began by saying that he thought we probably agreed about many things, “But what worries me about you is that you are prepared to believe almost anything. Science should be based on the minimum number of beliefs.”
I agreed that we had a lot in common, “But what worries me about you is that you come across as dogmatic, giving people a bad impression of science.”
He then said that in a romantic spirit he himself would like to believe in telepathy, but there just wasn’t any evidence for it. He dismissed all research on the subject out of hand. He compared the lack of acceptance of telepathy by scientists such as himself with the way in which the echo-location system had been discovered in bats, followed by its rapid acceptance within the scientific community in the 1940s. In fact, as I later discovered, Lazzaro Spallanzani had shown in 1793 that bats rely on hearing to find their way around, but sceptical opponents dismissed his experiments as flawed, and helped set back research for well over a century. However, Richard recognized that telepathy posed a more radical challenge than echo-location. He said that if it really occurred, it would “turn the laws of physics upside down,” and added, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“This depends on what you regard as extraordinary”, I replied. “Most people say they have experienced telepathy, especially in connection with telephone calls. In that sense, telepathy is ordinary. The claim that most people are deluded about their own experience is extraordinary. Where is the extraordinary evidence for that?”
He produced any evidence at all, apart from generic arguments about the fallibility of human judgment. He assumed that people want to believe in “the paranormal” because of wishful thinking.
We then agreed that controlled experiments were necessary. I said that this was why I had actually been doing such experiments, including tests to find out if people really could tell who was calling them on the telephone when the caller was selected at random. The results were far above the chance level.
The previous week I had sent Richard copies of some of my papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, so that he could look at the data.
Richard seemed uneasy and said, “I’m don’t want to discuss evidence”. “Why not?” I asked. “There isn’t time. It’s too complicated. And that’s not what this programme is about.” The camera stopped.
The Director, Russell Barnes, confirmed that he too was not interested in evidence. The film he was making was another Dawkins polemic.
I said to Russell, “If you’re treating telepathy as an irrational belief, surely evidence about whether it exists or not is essential for the discussion. If telepathy occurs, it’s not irrational to believe in it. I thought that’s what we were going to talk about. I made it clear from the outset that I wasn’t interested in taking part in another low grade debunking exercise.”
Richard said, “It’s not a low grade debunking exercise; it’s a high grade debunking exercise.”
In that case, I replied, there had been a serious misunderstanding, because I had been led to believe that this was to be a balanced scientific discussion about evidence. Russell Barnes asked to see the emails I had received from his assistant. He read them with obvious dismay, and said the assurances she had given me were wrong. The team packed up and left.
Richard Dawkins has long proclaimed his conviction that “The paranormal is bunk. Those who try to sell it to us are fakes and charlatans”. Enemies of Reason was intended to popularize this belief. But does his crusade really promote “the public understanding of science,” of which he is the professor at Oxford? Should science be a vehicle of prejudice, a kind of fundamentalist belief-system? Or should it be a method of enquiry into the unknown?
Rupert Sheldrake
Note
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Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook
Ah! Remember when you first learned about stream of conciousness? I remember well, because it was like a light went on in my head! I loved it, from the day I set eyes on The Sound and The Fury and read Faulkner with gusto, my next favorites being , A Rose For Emily, and As I Lay Dying
Now, with Vermeer's Hat, we have a new form of stream of consciousness. Yes, this time the author goes into a Vermeer painting and discovers thru a doorway from the painting, (and from his learned history of the world), a glimpse through the eyes ( stream of consciousness almost) of the author of what was happening at the time of Vermeer in his world.
Tobacco, silver, beaver hats, chinese trade, the perils of the shipping industry and much more as the world started on its course to become smaller. It is amazing from the ship register's of the time where people came from, and how traveled they were.
It is a memorable book, slow reading because it is not full of suspense, but full of facts, that draw you back to learn more. Also, the idea of visiting the world of the time through the paintings of Vermeer, is clever, and insightful. It is worth reading, the sub title is ,The Seventeeth Century and the Dawn of the Global World.
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Richard Dawkins vs Rupert Sheldrake
In the interest of God, and the interest of mankind, this is worth reading....a point of view that promotes a book at the expense of the truth, is not what a scientist should be searching for. I wonder what you think?
This release came to me from the Rupert Sheldrake site, I subscribe to.
News Release from Rupert Sheldrake Online
11th January 2008
From Rupert Sheldrake
"Richard Dawkins Comes to Call" has just been published in Network Review: The Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network and is now on the web site - It is also pasted below.
Richard Dawkins comes to call
Rupert Sheldrake
Richard Dawkins is a man with a mission – the eradication of religion and superstition, and their total replacement with science and reason. Channel 4 TV has repeatedly provided him with a pulpit. His two-part polemic in August 2007, called Enemies of Reason, was a sequel to his 2006 diatribe against religion, The Root of All Evil?
Soon before Enemies of Reason was filmed, the production company, IWC Media, told me that Richard Dawkins wanted to visit me to discuss my research on unexplained abilities of people and animals. I was reluctant to take part, but the company’s representative assured me that “this documentary, at Channel 4’s insistence, will be an entirely more balanced affair than The Root of All Evil was.” She added, “We are very keen for it to be a discussion between two scientists, about scientific modes of enquiry”. So I agreed and we fixed a date.
I was still not sure what to expect. Was Richard Dawkins going to be dogmatic, with a mental firewall that blocked out any evidence that went against his beliefs? Or would he be open-minded, and fun to talk to?
The Director asked us to stand facing each other; we were filmed with a hand-held camera. Richard began by saying that he thought we probably agreed about many things, “But what worries me about you is that you are prepared to believe almost anything. Science should be based on the minimum number of beliefs.”
I agreed that we had a lot in common, “But what worries me about you is that you come across as dogmatic, giving people a bad impression of science.”
He then said that in a romantic spirit he himself would like to believe in telepathy, but there just wasn’t any evidence for it. He dismissed all research on the subject out of hand. He compared the lack of acceptance of telepathy by scientists such as himself with the way in which the echo-location system had been discovered in bats, followed by its rapid acceptance within the scientific community in the 1940s. In fact, as I later discovered, Lazzaro Spallanzani had shown in 1793 that bats rely on hearing to find their way around, but sceptical opponents dismissed his experiments as flawed, and helped set back research for well over a century. However, Richard recognized that telepathy posed a more radical challenge than echo-location. He said that if it really occurred, it would “turn the laws of physics upside down,” and added, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
“This depends on what you regard as extraordinary”, I replied. “Most people say they have experienced telepathy, especially in connection with telephone calls. In that sense, telepathy is ordinary. The claim that most people are deluded about their own experience is extraordinary. Where is the extraordinary evidence for that?”
He produced any evidence at all, apart from generic arguments about the fallibility of human judgment. He assumed that people want to believe in “the paranormal” because of wishful thinking.
We then agreed that controlled experiments were necessary. I said that this was why I had actually been doing such experiments, including tests to find out if people really could tell who was calling them on the telephone when the caller was selected at random. The results were far above the chance level.
The previous week I had sent Richard copies of some of my papers, published in peer-reviewed journals, so that he could look at the data.
Richard seemed uneasy and said, “I’m don’t want to discuss evidence”. “Why not?” I asked. “There isn’t time. It’s too complicated. And that’s not what this programme is about.” The camera stopped.
The Director, Russell Barnes, confirmed that he too was not interested in evidence. The film he was making was another Dawkins polemic.
I said to Russell, “If you’re treating telepathy as an irrational belief, surely evidence about whether it exists or not is essential for the discussion. If telepathy occurs, it’s not irrational to believe in it. I thought that’s what we were going to talk about. I made it clear from the outset that I wasn’t interested in taking part in another low grade debunking exercise.”
Richard said, “It’s not a low grade debunking exercise; it’s a high grade debunking exercise.”
In that case, I replied, there had been a serious misunderstanding, because I had been led to believe that this was to be a balanced scientific discussion about evidence. Russell Barnes asked to see the emails I had received from his assistant. He read them with obvious dismay, and said the assurances she had given me were wrong. The team packed up and left.
Richard Dawkins has long proclaimed his conviction that “The paranormal is bunk. Those who try to sell it to us are fakes and charlatans”. Enemies of Reason was intended to popularize this belief. But does his crusade really promote “the public understanding of science,” of which he is the professor at Oxford? Should science be a vehicle of prejudice, a kind of fundamentalist belief-system? Or should it be a method of enquiry into the unknown?
Rupert Sheldrake
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Sunday, April 4, 2010
Going to Wintertur for Point to Point races
A team of grey Kladruby horses, pulls an antique coach in the parade at Wintertur. Cheyenne Fafard is on the box seat with Sir Paul. Howard is behind him and all you can see is Howard's grey hat. First weekend in May, this is a fabulous event in Delaware.
Saturday, April 3, 2010
My book, Secrets of the Heart is a dramatic telling of stories that hide within them the secrets of our universal consciousness. As a first novel, it was a difficult job, but, hopefully it will reach people who never give a thought to consciousness, or how it causes us to participate in life. Maybe this will help us to slow down to evaluate our choices before we make them.
The developing consciousness from childhood to death, is written in short spurts, just as our own thoughts come to us. We meditate daily unknowingly on why, and how. We participate, sometimes without thinking, and we suffer the consequences of our actions. In the end the total goal of life is learning to love, learning to respond without damage to others, as best we can, and learning that there is more to life than what we experience in matter. Each action we take has long reaching repurcussions, not only on us, but on those around us. We are creating an aura around ourselves and around our closest networks, this aura continues to grow into the aura of our very culture. This is all hidden behind the rise of the media, and how our culture is changing based on what is happening with the media, the entertainment world and whomever can grab the spotlight. There is so much more to our developing cultural aura, such as people convinced that the end of the world is coming in 2012, when it might just be a change in consciousness as we know it. Is there a right and wrong decision in any universal cause? Should we be so passionate about our causes that we hurt others? There are dozens of questions, that bring on even more for the thoughtful.
At the end of World War 2, we children thought, that war was forever over. We thought we had learned from this terrible destruction. The aura was of peace time. What happened to that aura, why did it destruct and get replaced with more wars? Have we gone too far in our free society? Is our largess eating away at the very country we prize because of our generosity? All these questions come to the reader who reads between the lines, in the more than one voice recounting emotional journeys in life.
The developing consciousness from childhood to death, is written in short spurts, just as our own thoughts come to us. We meditate daily unknowingly on why, and how. We participate, sometimes without thinking, and we suffer the consequences of our actions. In the end the total goal of life is learning to love, learning to respond without damage to others, as best we can, and learning that there is more to life than what we experience in matter. Each action we take has long reaching repurcussions, not only on us, but on those around us. We are creating an aura around ourselves and around our closest networks, this aura continues to grow into the aura of our very culture. This is all hidden behind the rise of the media, and how our culture is changing based on what is happening with the media, the entertainment world and whomever can grab the spotlight. There is so much more to our developing cultural aura, such as people convinced that the end of the world is coming in 2012, when it might just be a change in consciousness as we know it. Is there a right and wrong decision in any universal cause? Should we be so passionate about our causes that we hurt others? There are dozens of questions, that bring on even more for the thoughtful.
At the end of World War 2, we children thought, that war was forever over. We thought we had learned from this terrible destruction. The aura was of peace time. What happened to that aura, why did it destruct and get replaced with more wars? Have we gone too far in our free society? Is our largess eating away at the very country we prize because of our generosity? All these questions come to the reader who reads between the lines, in the more than one voice recounting emotional journeys in life.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Secrets of the Heart
After years of love for books, I have finally tried my hand at a book. Secrets of the Heart, is a story told by an old woman reviewing her life. She is joined by her friends voices , as they recount their stories to her and with her. A book full of emotion; the pain of war from the eyes of a child, the pain of a loved one dying, life long love and the magic of emotions coming to life on a computer. It recounts the universal theme of love from different perspectives along the time line of the 1940s and 1950's.
It is interesting to note as established by this book, that the period gave birth to the cult of the teenager, while nurturing the most influential generation in the history of the world. Just glimpsing the events of the 20 year period, brings to life the times, helped by names of songs of the period, books and poems. I hope you like it! I have enclosed a link to the site
.www.xlibris.com/SecretsoftheHeart.html
It is interesting to note as established by this book, that the period gave birth to the cult of the teenager, while nurturing the most influential generation in the history of the world. Just glimpsing the events of the 20 year period, brings to life the times, helped by names of songs of the period, books and poems. I hope you like it! I have enclosed a link to the site
.www.xlibris.com/SecretsoftheHeart.html
Thursday, August 7, 2008
New discoveries in physics, cosmology
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief, by Gregg Braden
Truly eye opening, easy to understand
What we have known for ages, to keep something hidden place it in clear view...Braden illustrates that and then points out how it happens. Take the vibrations that happen when you pluck a string on one guitar, and the other guitar nearby vibrates the same string. It is obvious, that vibrations are everywhere. There we are with magnetic and electrical currents all around us, emanating from us and toward us. Interesting that our hearts out shine the brain in electrical energy and magnetic energy output. Have you ever noticed that it is the heart area that is ripped asunder by a death of a loved one, the injury of a loved one, or a disappointment in love. The heart is where the action is. The emotions gathered with thought become powerful. If there is no emotion with the thought, it lies ineffective, in the brain and dissipates, maybe that explains people that can not seem to achieve, or complete things. They are emotionless in certain areas. All the more reason to make a career of something you love. More reason, also, for us to think about what emotions we allow to carry our thoughts into the atmosphere. The one question I still have is about Peace. We all want peace, but if negative and positive is what the universe thrives on and needs, then how can we maintain peace? We have shown we can put it in place by a certain number of people thinking it into existence, but to maintain it, we need balance between negative and positive. Is it attainable forever? Would there be a way to determine how we can maintain it, if we can think it into existence? Right now we would need a certain number of the population maintaining the thought all the time. Obviously this book has me thinking, and you will be thinking too. Wonderful, enjoyable.
Truly eye opening, easy to understand
What we have known for ages, to keep something hidden place it in clear view...Braden illustrates that and then points out how it happens. Take the vibrations that happen when you pluck a string on one guitar, and the other guitar nearby vibrates the same string. It is obvious, that vibrations are everywhere. There we are with magnetic and electrical currents all around us, emanating from us and toward us. Interesting that our hearts out shine the brain in electrical energy and magnetic energy output. Have you ever noticed that it is the heart area that is ripped asunder by a death of a loved one, the injury of a loved one, or a disappointment in love. The heart is where the action is. The emotions gathered with thought become powerful. If there is no emotion with the thought, it lies ineffective, in the brain and dissipates, maybe that explains people that can not seem to achieve, or complete things. They are emotionless in certain areas. All the more reason to make a career of something you love. More reason, also, for us to think about what emotions we allow to carry our thoughts into the atmosphere. The one question I still have is about Peace. We all want peace, but if negative and positive is what the universe thrives on and needs, then how can we maintain peace? We have shown we can put it in place by a certain number of people thinking it into existence, but to maintain it, we need balance between negative and positive. Is it attainable forever? Would there be a way to determine how we can maintain it, if we can think it into existence? Right now we would need a certain number of the population maintaining the thought all the time. Obviously this book has me thinking, and you will be thinking too. Wonderful, enjoyable.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Sir John Templeton
Sir John Templeton passed away about two weeks ago, a man truly for All Seasons, someone who went quietly, but who left a legacy, unmatched by many who have received more adulation than he. This is a little of what you can read in the book Sir John Templeton, By Robert L. Herrmann
Born in Tennessee, an outstanding student, who loved Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poems, particulary "A Psalm of Life" One of the stanza's, which he loved;
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."
Sir John left his footprints on the sands of time, he became a world class investor, founding the Templeton Fund, which is world renown. When he achieved monetary success, he planned to give back in a most challenging way, and that was to unite science and religion, by establishing the John Templeton Foundation,in 1987.
In those days scientists, would turn away, when you established something by intuition, and not by the scientific method, forgetting that much of the Western World knowledge came from Intuitives, like Plato, and Socrates, for example.
Today, I like to think that the advances we are making into consciousness, are partially spurred by the dream of this outstanding human being, who wanted to find God in all religions, and in so doing bestow the prestigious Templeton Prize on outstanding people, for their efforts, toward these advances.
For example, the 1995 winner was mathematical physicist Prof Paul Davies who has written more than a dozen books , revealing how physics, mathematics and cosmology point to purpose and meaning in the Universe.
The prize has now been renamed, The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.
For those of us who are very spiritual, those of us who are "knowing" about the underlying reality of life, the words of Davies when he accepted that award are important,
"The emergence of life and consciousness, I maintain are written into the laws of the universe in a very basic way." (page 151) Sir John Templeton
Many other outstanding people have won the prizes which span over 25 years now, leading us to the conclusion that the universe is particularly suited for fostering the attitude of self sacrificing love, and requires it for its harmonious functioning at every level.
In my opinion, after absorbing the wonder of this man, who reached for the stars to help humankind, I think,these thoughts:
In these days of Terrorists fighting in the name of God, one can only wonder, how the great Religions of the World have lost their way? Why aren't radicals ousted from their religions, instead of being able to claim it as theirs? The true leaders of the true lessons of the Masters/God, have to go back to the tenents of the reality of the great religions, LOVE.
That is the challenge of this Century, it is obvious that the world is waiting for the second coming, which is not one man, but a group of men, who are known as leaders of the world's religions, who can stand up and say, enough! Religion is LOVE, in all its many ways, anyone claiming to be in our religion/s must follow the Master's teaching, or be ousted, forbidden to claim fellowship with the rest of us., forever shunned, until repentence and forgiveness is asked, and given.
Born in Tennessee, an outstanding student, who loved Henry Wadsworth Longellow's poems, particulary "A Psalm of Life" One of the stanza's, which he loved;
"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."
Sir John left his footprints on the sands of time, he became a world class investor, founding the Templeton Fund, which is world renown. When he achieved monetary success, he planned to give back in a most challenging way, and that was to unite science and religion, by establishing the John Templeton Foundation,in 1987.
In those days scientists, would turn away, when you established something by intuition, and not by the scientific method, forgetting that much of the Western World knowledge came from Intuitives, like Plato, and Socrates, for example.
Today, I like to think that the advances we are making into consciousness, are partially spurred by the dream of this outstanding human being, who wanted to find God in all religions, and in so doing bestow the prestigious Templeton Prize on outstanding people, for their efforts, toward these advances.
For example, the 1995 winner was mathematical physicist Prof Paul Davies who has written more than a dozen books , revealing how physics, mathematics and cosmology point to purpose and meaning in the Universe.
The prize has now been renamed, The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries about Spiritual Realities.
For those of us who are very spiritual, those of us who are "knowing" about the underlying reality of life, the words of Davies when he accepted that award are important,
"The emergence of life and consciousness, I maintain are written into the laws of the universe in a very basic way." (page 151) Sir John Templeton
Many other outstanding people have won the prizes which span over 25 years now, leading us to the conclusion that the universe is particularly suited for fostering the attitude of self sacrificing love, and requires it for its harmonious functioning at every level.
In my opinion, after absorbing the wonder of this man, who reached for the stars to help humankind, I think,these thoughts:
In these days of Terrorists fighting in the name of God, one can only wonder, how the great Religions of the World have lost their way? Why aren't radicals ousted from their religions, instead of being able to claim it as theirs? The true leaders of the true lessons of the Masters/God, have to go back to the tenents of the reality of the great religions, LOVE.
That is the challenge of this Century, it is obvious that the world is waiting for the second coming, which is not one man, but a group of men, who are known as leaders of the world's religions, who can stand up and say, enough! Religion is LOVE, in all its many ways, anyone claiming to be in our religion/s must follow the Master's teaching, or be ousted, forbidden to claim fellowship with the rest of us., forever shunned, until repentence and forgiveness is asked, and given.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Science and Spirit
Reading , Our Solarian Legacy , there are so many times, you will want to tag a page, and go back to it, that it is a project for the rest of the summer. The book is amazing. It is full of information from many sources , so much so, that I was astonished at the level of study that went into creating this book. Many of us have read the 100 books or so that Paul VAN WARD references in, Our Solarian Legacy, but for those that have not had the opportunity to delve into so many other books, this is really exceptional in what it accomplishes; by bringing us up to date with the thoughts that are uniting spirit and science.
Also, if you have been a follower and reader of many of the books he cites, it is still amazing to read this book, and follow the author's thought and references. An avid reader of the subject, and familiar with the many references, I am IMPRESSED.
Also, if you have been a follower and reader of many of the books he cites, it is still amazing to read this book, and follow the author's thought and references. An avid reader of the subject, and familiar with the many references, I am IMPRESSED.
LabPixies - Coolest Gadgets On The Web
LabPixies - Coolest Gadgets On The Web THIS IS ONE GREAT SPOT,it even has movies you can watch, reminder page, etc....the new aol page is great for gadgets, just as google is..
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Sir John Templeton
Sir John Templeton, truly a hero! A man who discovered the purpose of life and lived it.
Contrarian Investor? Contrary to what? I do not understand the title, as this man deserves more than to be called a contraian Investor. Templeton, made a great advance in the world, by trying to reconcile science and spirituality. People have been making greater and greater strides to the reality of our lives, because of Templeton. We are becoming more aware of Intention and Love as the driving forces of the universe. I would have loved to see a better recognition of his greatness. He gave the greatest gift the world has seen, the Templeton Prize and he should be revered in return for his giving. He did not give all his wealth and become poor because that would not have answered the needs of the world, he BECAME, he joined in the continuing process of creativity, which we are all here for., at the level of status he had achieved in the world. Rich or poor we all have reasons to create, life is a continuous creation from chaos to order, special people have the ability to bring order into the world. I salute one of the hero's of my time, the world is sad at his loss.
Contrarian Investor? Contrary to what? I do not understand the title, as this man deserves more than to be called a contraian Investor. Templeton, made a great advance in the world, by trying to reconcile science and spirituality. People have been making greater and greater strides to the reality of our lives, because of Templeton. We are becoming more aware of Intention and Love as the driving forces of the universe. I would have loved to see a better recognition of his greatness. He gave the greatest gift the world has seen, the Templeton Prize and he should be revered in return for his giving. He did not give all his wealth and become poor because that would not have answered the needs of the world, he BECAME, he joined in the continuing process of creativity, which we are all here for., at the level of status he had achieved in the world. Rich or poor we all have reasons to create, life is a continuous creation from chaos to order, special people have the ability to bring order into the world. I salute one of the hero's of my time, the world is sad at his loss.
Monday, July 7, 2008
The Concubine's Tattoo
Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Concubine's Tattoo, by Laura Joh Rowland, Paperback
Wow! this is a page turner. I have been bored with reading too much factual...so I picked up this and I can not put it down, it is full of suspense and exotic scenes from another world. You will love it...
Wow! this is a page turner. I have been bored with reading too much factual...so I picked up this and I can not put it down, it is full of suspense and exotic scenes from another world. You will love it...
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