We needed our reverse osmosis water filter for drinking water from the tap replaced so the company sent a man over to do that. As he did this we talked. I found out that he was Lakota and had been to Sundances and into sweat lodges so we began to share experiences regarding the medicine path of the Native American Tribes. He shared with me that going into a sweat lodge one is reborn as someone new after this visit into the "Womb of Mother Earth" of the Sweat Lodge. Though I had heard many on the Medicine path speak before in this way somehow since this was this man's religion since birth it had more meaning to me than for the many white people I had sweat with in Sweat Lodges led by Native American Medicine Men who believed in Sweating with White People over the years (Not all do). And whether this is a form of reverse discrimination against white people or whatever it is, I believe people have the right to believe whatever they want. After all, freedom of religion (whatever it is is sacrosanct here in the U.S.).
So, as we shared as he changed the water filter we both realized that neither of us was afraid of death because of our nature (mother Earth) experiences which had deeply changed us both to the core of our belief systems regarding the sanctity of all life on earth and beyond.
I told him about my first experiences with the rock people at Garrapata Beach Cliffs near Big Sur over 30 years ago now and asked him if his tribe also believed in the Rock People. He said the experience of the Rock People is pretty universal among most tribes and goes back thousands and thousands of years in their traditions. I suppose if you start with animism which is a belief that literally everything is alive and deserves respect and compassion it is logical that one would wind up with literally everything being alive. I often bemoan all belief systems that have moved away from this way of thinking. Because once you believe (rightly or wrongly) that some things are alive and some things are dead then you also might then believe it is okay to kill things or to abuse things or beings because they are no longer alive to you. And if something is not alive to you it does not deserve your respect. But if you don't respect all life life will punish you. This is my experience throughout my life. For example, the simple choice of deciding to take Ahimsa Vows so I wouldn't needlessly kill anything not even an insect brought incredibly good karma into my life. So, to me, everything is alive even the air I breathe, the water I drink and bathe in, the food I eat and all plants, animals and people and birds and fish and porpoises etc. By respecting everything plant and animal and mineral and air etc. all life respects me and thereby helps keep me and my family alive on into the future in return. What Goes around Comes around.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Opinion Shyness: Evolutionary Tactic?
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.html
I found the above article and I agree with many of the things said in it. Though I am completely against all mood altering substances like Paxil, Zoloft, Prosac and others simply because they permanently rewire natural brains to make them something never before seen in the natural world, I agree with the author that Shyness is an evolutionary tactic of survival for the human race.
My wife, for example, is an extroverts extrovert. And she has 3 degrees including an MBA (master's in Business Administration) specializing in Non-profits. But she will often say to me that people who are more reclusive or shy like myself are necessary for society to function right. For example, though many people would call me very successful in everything I have attempted I was very shy from birth through ages 15. However, because I was also 6 foot 3 inches tall by age 15 all I had to do often was to stand somewhere and be quiet and people would often feel intimidated by my presence because of my height and strength physically. So, often I tried to reassure people of my good intentions by reaching out to them especially if I noticed that they were threatened by my size. And even though I would make myself seem much more harmless than I could potentially be in order to make them feel more comfortable around someone my size, still it brought me out of my basic shyness and I found myself quite able to protect all kinds of people just because of my size because I have always been physically fearless. In otherwords I'm not usually threatened by others words because of my size because most people are all words. However, with someone my size I know they are usually just a lot of words and no actions. So, often I became a protector of people along the way. As I moved into adulthood I also found that since I had listened to adults speak intelligent things all the time growing up that I had taken on a great deal of wisdom unlike many of my peers. So I tried to embody the wisdom I had garnered from listening to intelligent and wise adults all my life. I found myself becoming successful in life in almost all ways because of this tactic of mine. However, if I had not been shy enough to just listen attentively to the many wise adults in my life I could not have taken in fully this wisdom and would not have been able to embody this wisdom starting in my late teens and early twenties and would not have become as successful in all ways in my life as I have been.
So, if your children are shy just remember they are taking everything in. So, please give them good information so that they can benefit both you and themselves and society and become a benefit to everyone.
I found the above article and I agree with many of the things said in it. Though I am completely against all mood altering substances like Paxil, Zoloft, Prosac and others simply because they permanently rewire natural brains to make them something never before seen in the natural world, I agree with the author that Shyness is an evolutionary tactic of survival for the human race.
My wife, for example, is an extroverts extrovert. And she has 3 degrees including an MBA (master's in Business Administration) specializing in Non-profits. But she will often say to me that people who are more reclusive or shy like myself are necessary for society to function right. For example, though many people would call me very successful in everything I have attempted I was very shy from birth through ages 15. However, because I was also 6 foot 3 inches tall by age 15 all I had to do often was to stand somewhere and be quiet and people would often feel intimidated by my presence because of my height and strength physically. So, often I tried to reassure people of my good intentions by reaching out to them especially if I noticed that they were threatened by my size. And even though I would make myself seem much more harmless than I could potentially be in order to make them feel more comfortable around someone my size, still it brought me out of my basic shyness and I found myself quite able to protect all kinds of people just because of my size because I have always been physically fearless. In otherwords I'm not usually threatened by others words because of my size because most people are all words. However, with someone my size I know they are usually just a lot of words and no actions. So, often I became a protector of people along the way. As I moved into adulthood I also found that since I had listened to adults speak intelligent things all the time growing up that I had taken on a great deal of wisdom unlike many of my peers. So I tried to embody the wisdom I had garnered from listening to intelligent and wise adults all my life. I found myself becoming successful in life in almost all ways because of this tactic of mine. However, if I had not been shy enough to just listen attentively to the many wise adults in my life I could not have taken in fully this wisdom and would not have been able to embody this wisdom starting in my late teens and early twenties and would not have become as successful in all ways in my life as I have been.
So, if your children are shy just remember they are taking everything in. So, please give them good information so that they can benefit both you and themselves and society and become a benefit to everyone.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Failure to raise debt ceiling will create double dip recession
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2011/0628/Top-economist-Raise-the-debt-ceiling-or-blow-the-recovery-out-of-the-water Enlarge Washington Mark Zandi, a prominent economic forecaster, says the US economy will gather steam in the second six months of 2011 – unless Congress fails to raise the government debt limit. In that case, “we go into recession, and my forecast would be blown out of the water,” he said Tuesday at a Monitor-hosted breakfast for reporters.
Skip to next paragraph The chief economist of Moody’s Analytics, Dr. Zandi expects economic output to be growing at about a 4 percent rate by the end of 2011, versus 1.9 percent in the first three months of the year. “Weights on the economy are lifting,” he said, referring to diminishing effects of higher oil and food prices, as well as the impact of the Japanese tsunami on auto production.
Zandi remains wary of the return of high gas prices, he says, and thinks unemployment will fall slowly, but he remains cautiously optimistic about the overall economic recovery.
But Zandi's relatively upbeat outlook would change abruptly if Congress and the Obama administration fail to agree on a plan to raise the federal debt ceiling by August 2, requiring the government to dramatically curtail operations.end quote.
It is quite obvious now that the failure to raise the debt ceiling will do two things. The first thing is that it will create the end of the recovery and the second thing it will do is to re-elect Obama and put the Tea Party out of business likely permanently. So, there are only 9 days when both the house and senate are in session together between now and when the debt ceiling must be raised. So what will it be?
Raise the Debt Ceiling or create another recession which will end the tea party and re-elect Obama and elect a democratic congress. Actually I think its quite likely that Obama will be re-elected almost no matter what happens at this point because people are just so very insecure during these times.
Top economist: Raise the debt ceiling or blow the recovery 'out of the water'
The US economy will double its growth rate by the end of the year, if Congress raises the debt ceiling, says economic forecaster Mark Zandi. Otherwise, 'we would be thrown into recession.'
Mark Zandi, chief economist of Moody's Analytics and co-founder of Economy.com, talks with reporters at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast in August 2010. At a Monitor breakfast on Tuesday morning, Dr. Zandi warned that failing to raise the debt ceiling would derail the recovery.
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Zandi remains wary of the return of high gas prices, he says, and thinks unemployment will fall slowly, but he remains cautiously optimistic about the overall economic recovery.
But Zandi's relatively upbeat outlook would change abruptly if Congress and the Obama administration fail to agree on a plan to raise the federal debt ceiling by August 2, requiring the government to dramatically curtail operations.end quote.
It is quite obvious now that the failure to raise the debt ceiling will do two things. The first thing is that it will create the end of the recovery and the second thing it will do is to re-elect Obama and put the Tea Party out of business likely permanently. So, there are only 9 days when both the house and senate are in session together between now and when the debt ceiling must be raised. So what will it be?
Raise the Debt Ceiling or create another recession which will end the tea party and re-elect Obama and elect a democratic congress. Actually I think its quite likely that Obama will be re-elected almost no matter what happens at this point because people are just so very insecure during these times.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Super 8: The movie afterthoughts
My wife and I liked this movie and my son who is 37 had problems with it and my 15 year old daughter hasn't seen it yet. I thought the movie was sort of a "Goonies" or "Stand By Me" with kids around 12 or so trying to figure the world out and getting caught into a pretty scary adventure. But it is a much scarier movie than "Goonies" or "Stand by Me" mostly, so you are sitting on the edge of your seat a lot and people do die in this movie horribly so you have to remember that for the under 8 or under 5 crowd depending upon their sensibilities at this point in their lives. However, for someone 10 or above generally it is a very entertaining movie as long as you know what it is actually about. It is a retro movie in many respects and has the feel of "Goonies" or "The Blob" and retro movies like those. But it is very entertaining for kids and for those of us who grew up during the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
Green Lantern and X-Men
The best blockbuster movie at the movie theaters this summer has to be the new X-Men movie. It takes place mostly during the Cuban Missile Crisis of September 1962. I was 14 then so seeing real footage of President Kennedy before he was assassinated was a real treat and seeing people depicting the types of people and dress of those times also was very fun.
Green Lantern's story is very much in some simple ways the way things actually are in our galaxy and beyond. Though the real truth is of course even more amazing than the legend similar to reality that Green Lantern Depicts.
Though the new X-Men movie also depicts aspects of the way things really are on earth of course both movies "Hollywoodize" the truth for entertainment purposes. However, in both movies the kernel of truth is there regarding how things actually are both on Earth and beyond. So in this sense they are both archetypally important to young people of all ages learning how to function both on earth and beyond.
My own experiences as a Soul Traveler, Adept and natural Shaman have showed me many of the same things these movies are trying to inform people about. I think this is why so many people of all ages are attracted to these kinds of movies, because we all inherently know that the truth is much like what is depicted. So, the Hero epics continue to enlighten on down through the centuries in any way possible. And so, thereby the human race evolves into something more amazing each and every day.
Green Lantern's story is very much in some simple ways the way things actually are in our galaxy and beyond. Though the real truth is of course even more amazing than the legend similar to reality that Green Lantern Depicts.
Though the new X-Men movie also depicts aspects of the way things really are on earth of course both movies "Hollywoodize" the truth for entertainment purposes. However, in both movies the kernel of truth is there regarding how things actually are both on Earth and beyond. So in this sense they are both archetypally important to young people of all ages learning how to function both on earth and beyond.
My own experiences as a Soul Traveler, Adept and natural Shaman have showed me many of the same things these movies are trying to inform people about. I think this is why so many people of all ages are attracted to these kinds of movies, because we all inherently know that the truth is much like what is depicted. So, the Hero epics continue to enlighten on down through the centuries in any way possible. And so, thereby the human race evolves into something more amazing each and every day.
Asteroid today will be closer than some satellites
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/close-shave-asteroid-just-miss-earth-today-140610603.html
An asteroid the size of a tour bus will fly past Earth today (June 27) so closely it will be beneath some of the planet's satellites.
The rock, named asteroid 2011 MD will zoom by just 7,500 miles (12,000 km) above the planet, making a sharp turn forced by Earth's gravity before winging off into space again. The flyby will occur at about 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).
There is no risk of an impact, NASA scientists said. The space rock, estimated to be between 29 to 98 feet (9 to 30 meters) wide, is likely too small to survive a plunge through our atmosphere anyway. An asteroid this size, if it were mostly stony, would break apart and burn up before hitting the surface. Iron-heavy space rocks are better at surviving the fiery entry, however. end quote.
An Asteroid coming closer than some of earth's satellites? This doesn't sound like an asteroid in some ways. What are the probabilities of a trajectory like this?
An asteroid the size of a tour bus will fly past Earth today (June 27) so closely it will be beneath some of the planet's satellites.
The rock, named asteroid 2011 MD will zoom by just 7,500 miles (12,000 km) above the planet, making a sharp turn forced by Earth's gravity before winging off into space again. The flyby will occur at about 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).
There is no risk of an impact, NASA scientists said. The space rock, estimated to be between 29 to 98 feet (9 to 30 meters) wide, is likely too small to survive a plunge through our atmosphere anyway. An asteroid this size, if it were mostly stony, would break apart and burn up before hitting the surface. Iron-heavy space rocks are better at surviving the fiery entry, however. end quote.
An Asteroid coming closer than some of earth's satellites? This doesn't sound like an asteroid in some ways. What are the probabilities of a trajectory like this?
Friday, June 24, 2011
Nuclear agency head to visit two flooded Nebraska reactors
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(Reuters) - The chair of the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will arrive in Nebraska Sunday to monitor preparations against Missouri River flooding at two Nebraska nuclear power plants, officials said Friday.NRC Chair Gregory Jaczko will visit the Cooper Nuclear Station south of Omaha Sunday and the Fort Calhoun plant north of Omaha Monday, said agency spokesman Victor Dricks.
During both visits, Jaczko will also be talking with NRC resident inspectors-- the agency staff who work on-site every day -- and plant officials, Dricks said.
Flood water up to 2-feet deep is standing on the site of the 478-megawatt Fort Calhoun plant, operated by the Omaha Public Power District, the NRC said Wednesday.
The utility has erected a water-filled berm around vital areas of the plant -- which shut in early April to refuel -- to protect the containment building and auxiliary buildings from up to six feet of water.
Heavy rains and snow melt have flooded the Missouri River valley, threatening towns from Montana to Missouri.
An NRC inspection at Fort Calhoun two years ago indicated deficiencies in the flood preparation area, which have now been remedied, the agency said.
The rising river is not expected to reach vital equipment at the 800-megawatt Cooper plant, located near Brownville, Nebraska and operated by the Nebraska Public Power District, the NRC said. Cooper is running at full power.
During the Fort Calhoun stop, the chairman will meet first with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials, then take a helicopter tour along the Missouri River to provide an overview of the flooding and measures being taken. Following the plant visit he will meet with executives of the utility.
"Both plants remain under the 'unusual event' declarations, the lowest of four levels of emergency notification," Dricks said. "We are maintaining close communications with the National Weather Service and the Army Corps of Engineers."end quote.
Somehow all the assurances that everything is okay reminds me a lot of Fukushima in some respects. I think personally that there might be a 50-50 chance that radioactive waters may join the flood at the very least and wash downstream all the way to the Gulf of Mexico. If this happens likely we will never hear about it unless it is months after the fact.
Asteroid comes 7500 miles from earth June 27th
http://www.space.com/12067-asteroid-2011-md-close-earth-flyby-june-27.html
UPDATE for 5:35 p.m. ET: NASA has recalculated the time of closest approach for this event to be about 3 1/2 hours later than initially reported. The change is reflected below.
Here's something to dwell on as you head to work next week: A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday, but it poses no threat to the planet
The asteroid will make its closest approach at 1:14 p.m. EDT (1714 GMT) on June 27 and will pass just over 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, NASA officials say. At that particular moment, the asteroid — which scientists have named 2011 MD — will be sailing high off the coast of Antarctica, almost 2,000 miles (3,218 km) south-southwest of South Africa. end quote.
So, if all goes well this thing will miss us. If not, it might be quite a show! What I thought was interesting is that no one found until until two days ago on June 22nd 2011.
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| Trajectory of asteroid 2011 MD during its June 27, 2011 flyby from the general direction of the sun. CREDIT: NASA |
UPDATE for 5:35 p.m. ET: NASA has recalculated the time of closest approach for this event to be about 3 1/2 hours later than initially reported. The change is reflected below.
Here's something to dwell on as you head to work next week: A small asteroid the size of a tour bus will make an extremely close pass by the Earth on Monday, but it poses no threat to the planet
The asteroid will make its closest approach at 1:14 p.m. EDT (1714 GMT) on June 27 and will pass just over 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers) above the Earth's surface, NASA officials say. At that particular moment, the asteroid — which scientists have named 2011 MD — will be sailing high off the coast of Antarctica, almost 2,000 miles (3,218 km) south-southwest of South Africa. end quote.
So, if all goes well this thing will miss us. If not, it might be quite a show! What I thought was interesting is that no one found until until two days ago on June 22nd 2011.
Very STrong Earthquakes in Alaska, Japan and Solomon Islands
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/168871/20110624/7-4-earthquake-hits-alaskan-island-tsunami-warning-in-effect-for-alaska-coastal-areas-alaska-tsunami.htm
7.2 earthquake Atka, Alaska
6.8 then a 6.7 Earthquake moments later in Japan
6.3 in the Solomon Islands
7.2 earthquake Atka, Alaska
6.8 then a 6.7 Earthquake moments later in Japan
6.3 in the Solomon Islands
Recent earthquakes
| Magnitude | Location | ||||||||
| 6.3 | Santa Cruz Islands | Map | |||||||
| 7.2 | Fox Islands, Aleutian Islands, Alaska | Map | |||||||
| 6.7 | Near the east coast of Honshu, Japan | Map |
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Climate Change
| http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622132049568952.html | Climate Change: It's bad and getting worse | |
Severe weather events are wracking the planet, and experts warn of even greater consequences to come. Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 23 Jun 2011 07:46 | ||
West Texas is currently undergoing its worst drought since the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, leaving wheat and cotton crops in the state in an extremely dire situation due to lack of soil moisture, as wildfires continue to burn. Central China recently experienced its worst drought in more than 50 years. Regional authorities have declared more than 1,300 lakes "dead", meaning they are out of use for both irrigation and drinking water supply. Floods have struck Eastern and Southern China, killing at least 52 and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, followed by severe flooding that again hit Eastern China, displacing or otherwise affecting five million people. Meanwhile in Europe, crops in the northwest are suffering the driest weather in decades. Scientific research confirms that, so far, humankind has raised the Earth's temperature, and the aforementioned events are a sign of what is to come. end quote. These kinds of damage are becoming more common worldwide, from the tornadoes of the Plains states in the U.S. moving into places like New York and even Massachusetts, so that literally tornadoes now happen from the Rockies eastward. To small tornadoes throughout the western states now that are not usually big enough to lift a house or car but often destroy greenhouses or barns, to the fires now in Texas and Arizona and New Mexico and other states. Then there is the snow that is still in most places in the mountains west of Yellowstone National Park, to the incredible waterfalls in Yosemite. And this is just the U.S. where I live. No matter where you are on earth climate change is affecting your country too. next quote from same article: "If you had a satellite view of the planet in the summer, there is about 40 per cent less ice in the Arctic than when Apollo 8 [in 1968] first sent back those photos [of Earth]," Bill McKibben, world renowned environmentalist and fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences told Al Jazeera, "Oceans are 30 per cent more acidic than they were 40 years ago. The atmosphere is four per cent more wet than 40 years ago because warm air holds more water than cold air. That means more deluge and downpour in wet areas and more dryness in dry areas. So we're seeing more destructive mega floods and storms, increasing thunderstorms, and increasing lightning strikes." end quote. |
Regarding Libya
My son's friend since he was about 10 years old has become a video documentarian over the past years. They are both in their mid 30s now and both have bachelors degrees in science. My son's friend spent about 9 or 10 weeks in Libya and I got to speak with him last night about his experiences. He told me since he has been back in California has spoken at a meeting at the West Coast United Nations regarding his experiences there in Benghazi, Libya. I was happy to see a western educated person capable of giving a more detailed summary of what is happening in Libya than you might find in any news outlets. The first thing he told me is that unlike the rest of Africa, Libya doesn't really have tribal problems (at least that is what everyone he talked to in Benghazi, Libya told him during his time there). He also said that none of the U.S. networks is very respected in the middle East now. The least respected because of its polarized rightest position is Fox News which wasn't a surprise to me. However, I was surprised that even CNN except for Fareed Zacharia isn't very well respected in the middle east either. He said that over the last 10 years aljazeera network is now the most respected by all elements (left, center and right) in the middle east and even in Europe than any of the U.S. networks at this time. I was very concerned about U.S. news organizations because of this. Because if all U.S. news networks aren't believed anymore then where are we?
He also mentioned that even U.S. and some European reporters were not allowed to say what was really going on in Libya because of pressure from their networks.
This also concerned me. However, on a purely economic level I'm sure that news is manipulated because of worries around the present economic downturns the last few years in the western world and possibly even worldwide.
He was also talking to me about how when antiaircraft guns were used on Benghazi by shooting them parallel to the ground the people in Benghazi that were hit were basically just arms and heads left with the rest liquified except for their legs. At that point since these were peaceful demonstrators that were shot with antiaircraft fire this way the police sided with the demonstrators and passed out guns and ammunition to fight Qaddhafi's troops and mercenaries who were massacring Benghazi peaceful demonstrators. One man, he said, filled his car with gasoline cans and dynamite and drove into the Qaddhafi Troops and blew a lot of them up. Another man he said, hopped on a Bulldozer and drove through a wall so that some of the people being blown apart by antiaircraft fire parallel to the ground could escape through the breech in the wall there in Benghazi. These two men, one who died and one who lived driving the Bulldozer, along with the police of Benghazi arming the citizenry allowed them to begin to push back Qaddhafi's troops along with French Fighter planes who blew up tanks with missiles that melted through the tanks and blew the turrets off. My sons friend saw many many tanks with the turrets blown off in this way from fighter jet missiles and the remains of the crews both mercenary and regular Libyan troops under Qaddhafi. The efforts of the citizens from Benghazi moving eastward came organically and became successful when NATO decided to become involved to prevent Qaddhafi from massacring anymore civilians. However, as everyone knows worldwide preventing civilian deaths under these circumstances will be very haphazard until a new permanent regime based more on human rights than the last one rules over all of Libya. Hopefully, the people of Syria can form a new government that actually represents their needs and wants and human rights too. It appears now that civilian armies from the east are moving closer and closer to Tripoli every day now.
It appears also according to my son's friend that many good reporters from western networks are moving to aljazeera because the rights of middle eastern people in general seem to be protected by this news source worldwide now. If you are from one of these middle eastern countries now affected and are living here in the United States, Europe or around the world if you want more useful information about your country beyond what you are getting here is the aljazeera site that might be useful for you. It is my hope that Western networks like CNN and all the others will become more respected as they were in past years as an unbiased source of the news worldwide.
But for now, this appears to be the best source of what is happening in the middle east right now.
He also mentioned that even U.S. and some European reporters were not allowed to say what was really going on in Libya because of pressure from their networks.
This also concerned me. However, on a purely economic level I'm sure that news is manipulated because of worries around the present economic downturns the last few years in the western world and possibly even worldwide.
He was also talking to me about how when antiaircraft guns were used on Benghazi by shooting them parallel to the ground the people in Benghazi that were hit were basically just arms and heads left with the rest liquified except for their legs. At that point since these were peaceful demonstrators that were shot with antiaircraft fire this way the police sided with the demonstrators and passed out guns and ammunition to fight Qaddhafi's troops and mercenaries who were massacring Benghazi peaceful demonstrators. One man, he said, filled his car with gasoline cans and dynamite and drove into the Qaddhafi Troops and blew a lot of them up. Another man he said, hopped on a Bulldozer and drove through a wall so that some of the people being blown apart by antiaircraft fire parallel to the ground could escape through the breech in the wall there in Benghazi. These two men, one who died and one who lived driving the Bulldozer, along with the police of Benghazi arming the citizenry allowed them to begin to push back Qaddhafi's troops along with French Fighter planes who blew up tanks with missiles that melted through the tanks and blew the turrets off. My sons friend saw many many tanks with the turrets blown off in this way from fighter jet missiles and the remains of the crews both mercenary and regular Libyan troops under Qaddhafi. The efforts of the citizens from Benghazi moving eastward came organically and became successful when NATO decided to become involved to prevent Qaddhafi from massacring anymore civilians. However, as everyone knows worldwide preventing civilian deaths under these circumstances will be very haphazard until a new permanent regime based more on human rights than the last one rules over all of Libya. Hopefully, the people of Syria can form a new government that actually represents their needs and wants and human rights too. It appears now that civilian armies from the east are moving closer and closer to Tripoli every day now.
It appears also according to my son's friend that many good reporters from western networks are moving to aljazeera because the rights of middle eastern people in general seem to be protected by this news source worldwide now. If you are from one of these middle eastern countries now affected and are living here in the United States, Europe or around the world if you want more useful information about your country beyond what you are getting here is the aljazeera site that might be useful for you. It is my hope that Western networks like CNN and all the others will become more respected as they were in past years as an unbiased source of the news worldwide.
But for now, this appears to be the best source of what is happening in the middle east right now.
AJE - Al Jazeera English
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Mindstream
Mindstream in the way I'm using the word here is to denote everything we can remember from our pasts, presents and futures. Now, most of you might think something like, "Well. If it isn't in the present or in the past since I was born 'How could I remember it?' " The answer to this is that if you have a good memory you can remember things that happened before you were born or even before you were conceived in your mother's womb."But" you might say, "That isn't possible, is it?" I don't know. You Tell me. Is it possible? For me, the answer is "yes". For you, only you can decide what is true or possible. Only you can define reality and no one else really. So, if you are a Free thinker like me who takes responsibility for everything you think on a case by case basis then reality is whatever you experience it to be.Reality is whatever your personal scientific method says it is according to your own experiences. In the end only a fool lets anyone else define reality for them unless they are a little child even when they are over 18 or 21 years of age. In the end for all of us reality is whatever we perceive it to be through our direct experiences because they are the only ones we can actually count on. Other people's perceptions of reality including the printed word are at best then 2nd hand information which must always be suspect on a certain level, unless you are one of those that just loves to suspend disbelief on all occasions. But unfortunately, those people also wind up walking down the street talking to themselves. So, balance in all things I have found tends to be the best path forward. If you are too disciplined in your thinking it will affect your balanced view of life both physiologically and psychologically. If you are too loose in your thinking without the capacity for critical thinking then what then is your criteria for reality and would it actually have any real meaning to yourself or anyone else? So, I postulate a point of view that contains the scientific method, critical thinking as well as creative thinking in the form of being a Free thinker in ways started by Francis Bacon in Elizabethan times when he first postulated the Scientific Method and yet is also balanced in its approach to life in general. For if there is anything that life has taught me it is "moderation in all things creates a long life for everyone."
So, in my experience of life which has allowed me to grow up start businesses, ride bicycles then motorcycles, fly planes, hang gliders, and gliders that you sit inside while you are towed aloft, drive cars both slow and fast and the same with trucks and boats, Yes, I can remember many many things from the past(before I was born), the present( both here and other places in the universe beyond earth), and the future(where I have lived when I was born in other bodies or when I traveled as a spirit while I was living in a physical body or when I had already passed on and was just traveling as a spirit. I would say I can remember fairly clearly memories that span from about 6 million years ago to about 1 to 2 million years into the future. And as I open my mind and feel safe enough the time lines only grow in regard to memories regarding both time and space.
The first thing one needs to delve into all this is an interest or a need to do so. If something like this just scares you then it isn't likely you will pursue these memories unless you find it interesting or necessary in some way shape or form.
So, how does one start down these sorts of paths. For me, it came because my parents taught me as a child and growing up how the universe is filled with all sorts of civilizations of intelligent beings. So, since I believed this from birth I thought it would be great to go out and meet some of them. But that's just me. Others might not feel this way. So, when I could actually do this as a spirit with some safety and control I did. But just like surfing waves 10 to 50 feet high on the ocean it isn't likely something everyone would like to do. But it is something almost everything wishes they could watch. So that is one of the reasons that I like to write so I can share some of my experiences.
So, if I'm talking about my own mindstream it is everything I can remember doing ever throughout all time and space. Do I censor these memories? Wouldn't you? Like for example if I remember (and I do) being kept in a cell with straw on a floor in Europe during the inquisition with my present wife (last time I remember knowing her in another life) I remember being kept there until we were both burned at a stake for being heretics or something like that. Do I want to remember or share things like this much? Nope. Not really. I can only share it now because this memory helped my wife and I now get together and marry in this life and be very happy we can now share a lifetime rather than be snuffed out in our teens or twenties like we were then. So, getting crucified in one lifetime often makes for a chance at redemption in another. But what is right or wrong? In the end in some ways it is subjective rather than objective. You could theoretically have a whole room full of people believing something is right or wrong but that doesn't make it necessarily right or wrong whatever it is. So, in the end we all make up the rules to our lives in the end. In the end it is just us and God and that's all (if you believe in God).
My experience is that the way we treat ourselves and all others is what we are judged by God about in all our lives. So, as we honor the souls of ourselves and all others we also honor God.
So, in this life my goal as a child was to meet God by soul traveling to meet God wherever he was in the Galaxy. I achieved my goal but it happened much differently than I ever expected. So, for me, at least in this lifetime my journey is about how I learned to soul travel to meet God and all the things that led up to this and that came after, but also all my memories that span millions of years and possible even more than that past, present and future.
So, first you have to be aware you have the abilities, second you must be brave enough to use your abilities to help yourself and all beings. And third you need to commit to only using your abilities for good things and for helping others and yourself. Otherwise, things might get really bad for you if you use your abilities only for yourself or only to hurt others. Your own death might be the result. This is my personal experience with all this stuff.
So, abilities, need and commitment to good actions are necessary to get to where I'm talking about. Developing positive motivations is really useful. One of many ways to develop positive motivations towards all life in the universe is the following that I learned from Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. and in India and Nepal. Here it is:
"May all Beings attain Bliss and the cause of Bliss
May all beings be free from suffering and the cause of suffering
May all beings never be without the Supreme Bliss
that is free from all near and far all grasping and aversion"
This is only one of likely hundreds of good positive motivation builders that you can find in people, philosophies and religions all around the world and beyond.
I'm thinking about developing "Mindstream" into something more but I'll have to think about it some and see if I have both the free time and the inspiration to develop it. We'll see.
One of the challenges for me is creating a way of conveying things to you in a useful structure because my experience of God and the universe doesn't really fit completely into any one religious or even philosophical view here on Earth. So maybe the best way to approach all this is as a voyage of discovery, sort of like a child visiting Disneyland, Yosemite or Yellowstone National Park or some foreign country where the child doesn't know the local languages or customs, because this is sort of how I feel after a lifetime of experiences on and beyond Earth soul Traveling. So, Maybe I'll just try to jump into some hopefully useful way of expressing this:
Life, past, present and future is always unexpected wherever you encounter life in any form or forms. You never completely know what interactions will occur. And not only that depending upon the internal world and cultural view and physicality and communication structure(s) regarding any one being human or otherwise, you will always have different experiences that different beings encounter even in the same time and space.
So, the best I can share is my own experiences of life in the universe which could be compared to the Native American likely in the late 1700s or very early 1800s who had never seen a white man or a piano before. The wagon had broken a wheel and so the pianist played the piano in the middle of nowhere to pass the time on the dirt road. So the native American watched and listened and this is what he told his family in a teepee or Hogan when he returned home to his tribe's encampment or village. He said something like: "Then the white man got up into the wooden thing and then he pushed on this animal like I had never seen before on it's teeth. The thing kept screaming horribly like it was being killed but still the brave man counted coup on this strange unmoving screaming wild thing."
In the same way that that Native American recounted his experience of the first white man he had ever seen who was playing the piano in a wagon with a broken spoked wheel on a lonely dirt road in the middle of nowhere, I am recounting my experiences past, present and future traveling the universe.
It's hard to know where to start but maybe just how it feels to be a timeless soul living in a body on earth and born in 1948 will suffice. There was always my experiences of what was and then there were people who wanted to tell me something else while I was growing up. However, what they always told me never agreed with my real life experiences. However, it did allow me to learn to talk to other children that I met in school and to play games with them, ride our bikes together and sometimes watch TV or after age 8, ride our bikes to the movie theaters together to watch movies there. In the 1950s it was still safe enough to do that then before people started taking drugs and getting really crazy like things are now.
So, my experience was at about 12 to 15 months of age was that I was the same person I am now at 63 except I hadn't learned to talk yet. But I was very frustrated that I couldn't talk because I always had a lot to say and wanted to enter into every conversation even at a year old. So, when no one understood me sometimes I would cry. I remember looking at a friend of my father's wingtip brown shoes and thinking at about 2 years of age, "Will I ever grow up and wear shoes as big as these".
So, there was always what I thought about and experienced and then there was what people told me I should be thinking about and experiencing and often I sort of thought what the adults said to me was really crazy. So I would just look at them and pretend I agreed mostly because it was easier than being chastised for not going along with people bigger, more experienced and for that matter downright dangerous to the well being of a child potentially. So, the word "Captive Audience" comes to mind. Look. You are a child and hopefully you won't be a victim to all these really crazy adults. You just hope you can survive long enough to grow up and tell them all to take a hike or something. So, often I would consider both adults and most kids as "different kinds of crazy". And so like a wild animal waiting for freedom I bided my time until I could live my own life. Oh. I knew all these people mostly were well meaning but being well meaning had nothing to do with whether these people were sane or not. That is a completely different question. It is said, "The road to Hell is paved with Good intentions". One third to 1/2 of the people in the world who were molested or physically abused or beat up or starved as children can attest to that.
So, to me as a child the world seemed more like "The law of the jungle" than anything else. And this didn't change for me until High School and college. I saw so many people beat up and harmed in so many ways growing up. It was all I could do to survive myself but whenever possible when I could survive it I protected those I knew who needed my protection in any way that I could.
Many times I would lay on the front lawn of my (age 8 to 12) year old home at 524 South Belmont in Glendale California (I don't even know if the old house is still there anymore) I would look up at the clouds and wonder what my life and future would be. As I watched the clouds turn into dragons and lions and other magical things I dreamed about my future here on earth. I think doing this programmed my brain and soul in some ways for soul traveling where you just let your mind drift away on the clouds on a sunny day when you are safe laying on your front lawn and you dream away into the clouds and dream your life into existence. It's sort of a prayer form if one just lets go and let the spirit move you to where you need to be. Even now one of my favorite ways to create myself into a place conducive to spontaneous accomplishment I just get in my car or truck and just make no plans and just drive to wherever the spirit moves me. Sometimes I wind up hundreds of miles away doing amazing things when I let God flow through me in this way. I can't even describe how powerful in a lasting way this can be for your life. Spontaneous accomplishment is the single most powerful aspect to a life lived as a Co-Creator with God. Doing this some of the time not only changes everything in your world but also tends to change everything in everyone else's world as well. It can be as if you become an instrument of God and a living Prayer form if this is done right.
As a child I would sometimes get scared by big snakes or lions or tigers that wanted to eat me and sometimes they would chase me for miles and then fall through monkey bars (metal ones) and as they went through my body they would hurt as I would fall for miles through metal monkey bars in my dreams. But then there were other nights when I would spout wings and fly. sometimes I would jump and fly like i was on a Bungie elastic Cord and other times I would fly higher than the telephone poles and just stay up there. And still other times when I would be wearing Ancient Greecian robes of white or blue and sort of be like superman and lightning would come out of the tips of my hands and blow up bad things on the ground that I past by. One by one these flying and angelic dreams led to me eventually being able to soul travel consciously. This started to begin to happen in my teens but I didn't go through a complete paradigm shift until sometime during my stay in college. At this point I began to see my body as being like a car or truck that I could get into or out of at will. I found I could even ride in my car or truck while driving it while I watched myself from the street corner or flew next to it in a mind or soul body. But at this point I thought that since there was distance between point A and point B that it must take effort to soul travel different places. It took me about 10 years to realize that ultimately this wasn't true. I began to realize that I already was everywhere in all spaces and times so that all I had to do was to realize I was in a space or time and I could be there instantly and effortlessly. I found that although I could be multiple places and times at once that this was actually less useful and more of a magician's parlor trick than anything very useful at all. So, I comforted myself by experiencing myself all the time in all time and space in the universe at once because this meant I was one with God in being near to God all the time. I have always been very comforted by this experience all the time now. All these stages of awareness took years to move through. So even though conceptually you might understand what I am saying, only a very few will be able to quantum jump to maintain this kind of awareness 24 hours a day. It is sort of like learning to do anything like to drive a car, truck, boat or plane. You eventually develop short cuts and it becomes like second nature to you and in this sense it all becomes extremely powerful what you can do then. Like in flying a plane. If you have a plane and gas and the time and money, you can fly anywhere on earth and stay there as long as you want and do pretty much what you want there as long as it doesn't bother anyone. The same is true of soul traveling but it is better to be a soul pilgrim on a quest if you actually want to live through traveling the galaxy in your soul.
I was just realizing as I was going to sleep tonight I realized that there are some things that you might find useful in regard to the coming "Singularity" where humans on Earth start to become technologically and biologically immortal. Since this type of event happens to humans and humanoids eventually all over the galaxy if they successfully survive past a certain point in group evolution as a species on a planet, Star or dimension or nebula type of environment, there are certain things that are important to know about about singularity events bringing potential immortality to millions or billions of humans or humanoid races in this galaxy.
The best way I can put this is it is a lot like childbirth. And like childbirth sometimes the mother survives and the baby or babies survive and some both do and sometimes both die or one or the other dies. Singularity is a very intense event. It is not logical in the sense that how you might think it should go is what will actually happen. So, a singularity can create either all sorts of problems, or all sorts of problems and solutions, it can extinct all life on Earth, it can change all life on earth to being something like energy or light or plasma forms. And all this can take place within a few years to a few hundred years depending upon where it takes place, why it is taking place and what the people who it is happening to actually think and feel about the whole thing.
Imagine all of a sudden an effect like a Boeing 747 like event happens on earth only it is now say 1865 and no one knows how to fly a Boeing 747 yet on earth. I ask you what will happen? Yes. You are right almost anything. If you had at least one person who could both fly the thing and then convince enough people to get on and fly with him or her through to the evolving singularity then you might have something. Or if this person did not exist then you might have literally nothing, especially if the Boeing 747 exploded and killed all the people milling about wondering what to do next.
So, just like a child being born there are many unknowns to a "Singularity event". So it could be anything from something like:
I suppose this is just like being born a human. Most of us don't remember what we did before being born and some don't believe they existed before birth and believe themselves to be their bodies which then is very confusing to beings when they die and find out that they still exist without their bodies being alive. So, I guess this is the most important thing I have to share: We only live in these bodies a short time before we go do something else. I'm not saying this to upset you but to free you so you suffer less when you die and can have a happier healthier transition whenever it comes.
So, in my experience of life which has allowed me to grow up start businesses, ride bicycles then motorcycles, fly planes, hang gliders, and gliders that you sit inside while you are towed aloft, drive cars both slow and fast and the same with trucks and boats, Yes, I can remember many many things from the past(before I was born), the present( both here and other places in the universe beyond earth), and the future(where I have lived when I was born in other bodies or when I traveled as a spirit while I was living in a physical body or when I had already passed on and was just traveling as a spirit. I would say I can remember fairly clearly memories that span from about 6 million years ago to about 1 to 2 million years into the future. And as I open my mind and feel safe enough the time lines only grow in regard to memories regarding both time and space.
The first thing one needs to delve into all this is an interest or a need to do so. If something like this just scares you then it isn't likely you will pursue these memories unless you find it interesting or necessary in some way shape or form.
So, how does one start down these sorts of paths. For me, it came because my parents taught me as a child and growing up how the universe is filled with all sorts of civilizations of intelligent beings. So, since I believed this from birth I thought it would be great to go out and meet some of them. But that's just me. Others might not feel this way. So, when I could actually do this as a spirit with some safety and control I did. But just like surfing waves 10 to 50 feet high on the ocean it isn't likely something everyone would like to do. But it is something almost everything wishes they could watch. So that is one of the reasons that I like to write so I can share some of my experiences.
So, if I'm talking about my own mindstream it is everything I can remember doing ever throughout all time and space. Do I censor these memories? Wouldn't you? Like for example if I remember (and I do) being kept in a cell with straw on a floor in Europe during the inquisition with my present wife (last time I remember knowing her in another life) I remember being kept there until we were both burned at a stake for being heretics or something like that. Do I want to remember or share things like this much? Nope. Not really. I can only share it now because this memory helped my wife and I now get together and marry in this life and be very happy we can now share a lifetime rather than be snuffed out in our teens or twenties like we were then. So, getting crucified in one lifetime often makes for a chance at redemption in another. But what is right or wrong? In the end in some ways it is subjective rather than objective. You could theoretically have a whole room full of people believing something is right or wrong but that doesn't make it necessarily right or wrong whatever it is. So, in the end we all make up the rules to our lives in the end. In the end it is just us and God and that's all (if you believe in God).
My experience is that the way we treat ourselves and all others is what we are judged by God about in all our lives. So, as we honor the souls of ourselves and all others we also honor God.
So, in this life my goal as a child was to meet God by soul traveling to meet God wherever he was in the Galaxy. I achieved my goal but it happened much differently than I ever expected. So, for me, at least in this lifetime my journey is about how I learned to soul travel to meet God and all the things that led up to this and that came after, but also all my memories that span millions of years and possible even more than that past, present and future.
So, first you have to be aware you have the abilities, second you must be brave enough to use your abilities to help yourself and all beings. And third you need to commit to only using your abilities for good things and for helping others and yourself. Otherwise, things might get really bad for you if you use your abilities only for yourself or only to hurt others. Your own death might be the result. This is my personal experience with all this stuff.
So, abilities, need and commitment to good actions are necessary to get to where I'm talking about. Developing positive motivations is really useful. One of many ways to develop positive motivations towards all life in the universe is the following that I learned from Tibetan Lamas in the U.S. and in India and Nepal. Here it is:
"May all Beings attain Bliss and the cause of Bliss
May all beings be free from suffering and the cause of suffering
May all beings never be without the Supreme Bliss
that is free from all near and far all grasping and aversion"
This is only one of likely hundreds of good positive motivation builders that you can find in people, philosophies and religions all around the world and beyond.
I'm thinking about developing "Mindstream" into something more but I'll have to think about it some and see if I have both the free time and the inspiration to develop it. We'll see.
One of the challenges for me is creating a way of conveying things to you in a useful structure because my experience of God and the universe doesn't really fit completely into any one religious or even philosophical view here on Earth. So maybe the best way to approach all this is as a voyage of discovery, sort of like a child visiting Disneyland, Yosemite or Yellowstone National Park or some foreign country where the child doesn't know the local languages or customs, because this is sort of how I feel after a lifetime of experiences on and beyond Earth soul Traveling. So, Maybe I'll just try to jump into some hopefully useful way of expressing this:
Life, past, present and future is always unexpected wherever you encounter life in any form or forms. You never completely know what interactions will occur. And not only that depending upon the internal world and cultural view and physicality and communication structure(s) regarding any one being human or otherwise, you will always have different experiences that different beings encounter even in the same time and space.
So, the best I can share is my own experiences of life in the universe which could be compared to the Native American likely in the late 1700s or very early 1800s who had never seen a white man or a piano before. The wagon had broken a wheel and so the pianist played the piano in the middle of nowhere to pass the time on the dirt road. So the native American watched and listened and this is what he told his family in a teepee or Hogan when he returned home to his tribe's encampment or village. He said something like: "Then the white man got up into the wooden thing and then he pushed on this animal like I had never seen before on it's teeth. The thing kept screaming horribly like it was being killed but still the brave man counted coup on this strange unmoving screaming wild thing."
In the same way that that Native American recounted his experience of the first white man he had ever seen who was playing the piano in a wagon with a broken spoked wheel on a lonely dirt road in the middle of nowhere, I am recounting my experiences past, present and future traveling the universe.
It's hard to know where to start but maybe just how it feels to be a timeless soul living in a body on earth and born in 1948 will suffice. There was always my experiences of what was and then there were people who wanted to tell me something else while I was growing up. However, what they always told me never agreed with my real life experiences. However, it did allow me to learn to talk to other children that I met in school and to play games with them, ride our bikes together and sometimes watch TV or after age 8, ride our bikes to the movie theaters together to watch movies there. In the 1950s it was still safe enough to do that then before people started taking drugs and getting really crazy like things are now.
So, my experience was at about 12 to 15 months of age was that I was the same person I am now at 63 except I hadn't learned to talk yet. But I was very frustrated that I couldn't talk because I always had a lot to say and wanted to enter into every conversation even at a year old. So, when no one understood me sometimes I would cry. I remember looking at a friend of my father's wingtip brown shoes and thinking at about 2 years of age, "Will I ever grow up and wear shoes as big as these".
So, there was always what I thought about and experienced and then there was what people told me I should be thinking about and experiencing and often I sort of thought what the adults said to me was really crazy. So I would just look at them and pretend I agreed mostly because it was easier than being chastised for not going along with people bigger, more experienced and for that matter downright dangerous to the well being of a child potentially. So, the word "Captive Audience" comes to mind. Look. You are a child and hopefully you won't be a victim to all these really crazy adults. You just hope you can survive long enough to grow up and tell them all to take a hike or something. So, often I would consider both adults and most kids as "different kinds of crazy". And so like a wild animal waiting for freedom I bided my time until I could live my own life. Oh. I knew all these people mostly were well meaning but being well meaning had nothing to do with whether these people were sane or not. That is a completely different question. It is said, "The road to Hell is paved with Good intentions". One third to 1/2 of the people in the world who were molested or physically abused or beat up or starved as children can attest to that.
So, to me as a child the world seemed more like "The law of the jungle" than anything else. And this didn't change for me until High School and college. I saw so many people beat up and harmed in so many ways growing up. It was all I could do to survive myself but whenever possible when I could survive it I protected those I knew who needed my protection in any way that I could.
Many times I would lay on the front lawn of my (age 8 to 12) year old home at 524 South Belmont in Glendale California (I don't even know if the old house is still there anymore) I would look up at the clouds and wonder what my life and future would be. As I watched the clouds turn into dragons and lions and other magical things I dreamed about my future here on earth. I think doing this programmed my brain and soul in some ways for soul traveling where you just let your mind drift away on the clouds on a sunny day when you are safe laying on your front lawn and you dream away into the clouds and dream your life into existence. It's sort of a prayer form if one just lets go and let the spirit move you to where you need to be. Even now one of my favorite ways to create myself into a place conducive to spontaneous accomplishment I just get in my car or truck and just make no plans and just drive to wherever the spirit moves me. Sometimes I wind up hundreds of miles away doing amazing things when I let God flow through me in this way. I can't even describe how powerful in a lasting way this can be for your life. Spontaneous accomplishment is the single most powerful aspect to a life lived as a Co-Creator with God. Doing this some of the time not only changes everything in your world but also tends to change everything in everyone else's world as well. It can be as if you become an instrument of God and a living Prayer form if this is done right.
As a child I would sometimes get scared by big snakes or lions or tigers that wanted to eat me and sometimes they would chase me for miles and then fall through monkey bars (metal ones) and as they went through my body they would hurt as I would fall for miles through metal monkey bars in my dreams. But then there were other nights when I would spout wings and fly. sometimes I would jump and fly like i was on a Bungie elastic Cord and other times I would fly higher than the telephone poles and just stay up there. And still other times when I would be wearing Ancient Greecian robes of white or blue and sort of be like superman and lightning would come out of the tips of my hands and blow up bad things on the ground that I past by. One by one these flying and angelic dreams led to me eventually being able to soul travel consciously. This started to begin to happen in my teens but I didn't go through a complete paradigm shift until sometime during my stay in college. At this point I began to see my body as being like a car or truck that I could get into or out of at will. I found I could even ride in my car or truck while driving it while I watched myself from the street corner or flew next to it in a mind or soul body. But at this point I thought that since there was distance between point A and point B that it must take effort to soul travel different places. It took me about 10 years to realize that ultimately this wasn't true. I began to realize that I already was everywhere in all spaces and times so that all I had to do was to realize I was in a space or time and I could be there instantly and effortlessly. I found that although I could be multiple places and times at once that this was actually less useful and more of a magician's parlor trick than anything very useful at all. So, I comforted myself by experiencing myself all the time in all time and space in the universe at once because this meant I was one with God in being near to God all the time. I have always been very comforted by this experience all the time now. All these stages of awareness took years to move through. So even though conceptually you might understand what I am saying, only a very few will be able to quantum jump to maintain this kind of awareness 24 hours a day. It is sort of like learning to do anything like to drive a car, truck, boat or plane. You eventually develop short cuts and it becomes like second nature to you and in this sense it all becomes extremely powerful what you can do then. Like in flying a plane. If you have a plane and gas and the time and money, you can fly anywhere on earth and stay there as long as you want and do pretty much what you want there as long as it doesn't bother anyone. The same is true of soul traveling but it is better to be a soul pilgrim on a quest if you actually want to live through traveling the galaxy in your soul.
I was just realizing as I was going to sleep tonight I realized that there are some things that you might find useful in regard to the coming "Singularity" where humans on Earth start to become technologically and biologically immortal. Since this type of event happens to humans and humanoids eventually all over the galaxy if they successfully survive past a certain point in group evolution as a species on a planet, Star or dimension or nebula type of environment, there are certain things that are important to know about about singularity events bringing potential immortality to millions or billions of humans or humanoid races in this galaxy.
The best way I can put this is it is a lot like childbirth. And like childbirth sometimes the mother survives and the baby or babies survive and some both do and sometimes both die or one or the other dies. Singularity is a very intense event. It is not logical in the sense that how you might think it should go is what will actually happen. So, a singularity can create either all sorts of problems, or all sorts of problems and solutions, it can extinct all life on Earth, it can change all life on earth to being something like energy or light or plasma forms. And all this can take place within a few years to a few hundred years depending upon where it takes place, why it is taking place and what the people who it is happening to actually think and feel about the whole thing.
Imagine all of a sudden an effect like a Boeing 747 like event happens on earth only it is now say 1865 and no one knows how to fly a Boeing 747 yet on earth. I ask you what will happen? Yes. You are right almost anything. If you had at least one person who could both fly the thing and then convince enough people to get on and fly with him or her through to the evolving singularity then you might have something. Or if this person did not exist then you might have literally nothing, especially if the Boeing 747 exploded and killed all the people milling about wondering what to do next.
So, just like a child being born there are many unknowns to a "Singularity event". So it could be anything from something like:
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