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| Bottom 10% | Bottom 20% | Bottom 25% | Middle 33% | Middle 20% | Top 25% | Top 20% | Top 5% | Top 1.5% | Top 1% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| $0 to $10,500 | $0 to $18,500 | $0 to $22,500 | $30,000 to $62,500 | $35,000 to $55,000 | $77,500 and up | $92,000 and up | $167,000 and up | $250,000 and up | $350,000 and up | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source: US Census Bureau, 2006; income statistics for the year 2005 end quote from wikipedia under heading "social class in the united States" and subheading "Income" | I'm having some trouble getting my blog to load right. But if you look at these statistics you can make more sense of what is actually going on in Wisconsin with the killing of the nations unions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Wealth in America: Income per year
Friday, March 4, 2011
Padma Part 2
500BC
I realized that I had titled part 1 actually "500BC" instead of just "Padma" like I thought today. I wrote "500 BC" over a month ago. So, it wasn't until I wrote a Padma part 2 that I realized that "500 BC" is actually "Padma part 1". I haven't figured out how I will reconcile this but I will by the time I take it to my archive site eventually which is dragonofcompassion.com
So if you want to read Padma part 1 please click on the likely purple or red or blue colored "500 BC" above.
After Yesu or Yeshua (depending upon which dialect of Aramaic you spoke then) passed away in India in his 80s and asked Padma to watch over the human race in the physical world for him. Padma had been a Dharma Immortal ever since Buddha had spontaneously brought the Lotus Sutra onto Earth. While listening to the Lotus Sutra Spontaneously flow from Buddha's mouth while Padma transcribed it into Sanskrit he had become enlightened without fully understanding it. But, then again he was only 15 years old at this point. However, by the time Buddha had passed away Padma had realized the fullness of his enlightenment and was around 60 years old. And by that time had become a relatively immortal Mahasiddha. As a dharma immortal Buddha then asked Padma to watch over the human race in the future. 500 years later Yeshua asked the same thing as he too, passed away in India after resurrecting his body earlier in his life in the middle East.
Padma thought back to when he had been one of the three Wise men visiting the baby under the Star. He thought of watching the baby grow up safely and protecting that child supernaturally from harm as Buddha had directed him 500 years before. He remembered the day that Yeshua had told him at 15 when he became an adult, "Padma, let me invoke the angels now to protect me now that I am a man."
Padma smiled at this thought as it reminded him of the day Buddha had spoken the Lotus Sutra for the very first time and how much his own life had changed at that point. Now his two primary Teachers and Gurus had passed over into the dharma realms that some call heaven.
As a Mahasiddha he lived in both heaven and earth simultaneously. It was the way of true Mahasiddhas.
It was like walking on the edge of a razor, you had to have very calloused feet to do this or be light as a feather, or both. Padma laughed at this thought as it sort of made everything silly in a Zen sort of way. Even though life was a joke, it was after all a serious joke. One time deep in a cave meditating for several years his skin had turned green from drinking only nettles and water, because that was all he had to eat or drink. But he was deeply moving towards the final realization of becoming a mahasiddha.
He found himself out near the Orion Nebula soul traveling one day and he met a being that told him that it had created his soul. He said, "Are you the God or Buddha that created everything?" The being said, "I created your soul and I am one of many of the gods of the universe that work for the one true God of the universe." Padma thought about this with tears in his eyes. So he said, "So, there actually is a hierarchy to it all?" The God said, "There is a spontaneous hierarchy to it all." Padma thought about this and said, "What does that mean?" The God said, "Time and space isn't real. This is what Buddha was trying to tell you when the Lotus Sutra began to free your soul from rebirth." Padma's being started to shiver with the reality of this realization. And so he said, "Then I really am a Dharma Immortal?"
The God reached out and put his hand on Padma's heart and said, "Your heart is the Buddha mind of the Lotus Sutra's simplicity. I empower you now to help the whole human race into enlightenment over thousands of years. Your only reason to be immortal is the eventual enlightenment of all mankind. Use the supernatural gifts I give you to help all mankind always. If you misuse any of these gifts it will be instant death. However, since I see deeply into you that you experience all beings on earth already as your children and as your family I have no fear of the dharma immortals misuse at all. Go, and enlighten mankind. Protect the Buddha, then protect Yeshua until they come back here to me. But no matter what, protect mankind and all beings on earth for the rest of your life as long as that may be."
The Green Padma said, "I will, My Lord, My Creator!"
Since Padma was Bi-locating from his meditation Cave in the Himalayas he felt his body shivering with excitement as the full power from the Creator manifested in all the cells in his body. Though his body was still green from the nettles it had just moved with the Creator's touch upon his heart "The Buddha Mind" into another version of physical reality. Mortality (at least the kind most humans are exposed to) no longer existed for the cells of this now fully empowered Mahasiddha's body.
Suddenly, Padma was back fully into his body in the cave. The whole cave now glowed from the change in the awareness of each cell of his body. They each no longer lived in reaction to all other cells on earth like most cells both plant and animal and human did. No. They were each soul cause to their own experience since they had been rendered "Mahasiddha Cells by God Directly". Though they were exceptional, they were now exceptional for a specific purpose. The purpose was to bring all the souls and cells of mankind into enlightenment. That brought forth another question for Padma, "Was he supposed to make all living cells on earth immortal like his now were?" He jumped outside his body and back to the Orion Nebula but the God was gone somewhere else now so he realized this wasn't something he absolutely needed to know just yet. He had been given his orders to assist in the enlightenment of all mankind no matter how long that took. He wondered just how long he must live.
Today, was 1987 and Padma lived in San Francisco. As he thought back about the last 2000 years since Yeshua joined God he still wondered about the answer to this question. However, he realized now it really wasn't as important to know about this as it had been then. He was timeless and so were all the cells of his body. God had rendered him timeless for a purpose. By now, he had had many names like Merlin, Padmasambhava, Saint Germain, and many of the Christian Saints had also been him. However, now in San Francisco in 1987 he was just happy to have avoided World War III and the extinction of mankind by facilitating the social revolution of the late 1960s worldwide. Without this social revolution that went worldwide Earth would have been blown to bits. He felt a little sad at the cost in minds and lives but earth had been saved and so had the platform of evolution for mankind and many other species that God had put here.
Starting when he became Padmasambhava and took Buddhism to Tibet, Padma had learned to create multiple bodies. Sometimes he even created his new births so everything looked like this person or that person was a normal human being and not just a Dharma Immortal. He had learned thousands of new ways to put humans at ease with his supernatural abilities. He found that they must not suspect the fullness of who he was or often they would just faint or have a heart attack. And if this happened he just had to bring them back to life and erase their memories which caused the fainting or heart attack. So, he had "out of compassion" for all beings on Earth and beyond, learned how to be like a doctor all the time to "All the children of Earth" who had become his family in earnest for almost 2500 years at this point.
Though at times this incredible responsibility weighed heavily upon him, one must remember that Padma always had been living in both Heaven and Earth now for 2500 years. This sort of took the edge off watching everyone die that he knew over and over again because he would move with those who passed away that he loved into the next realm because he wasn't limited to physical existence. So, the pain of them dying and being afraid was counterbalanced by traveling with them into their next destinies and accompanying them often to heaven realms as far as he was permitted by his Lord God.
Often Padma would travel to the Pure Lands (Heavens) of Buddha and Jesus. Each of them had thousands of heavens that they had built for all their followers, each heaven unique to the needs of a particular time and country or locality on earth. There were thousands of such places and even of individual heavens for some very unique souls that needed specialized heavens to exist in.
So, Padma had learned that not only is life on earth "Custom Made" so are all the heaven realms as well.
Here today in 1987 Padma had realized that there were (At least) 5 total Mahasiddhas that helped with all the major religions and secular souls on Earth for thousands of years. Sometimes he would "accidentally?" meet them along the way. He had recently developed a relationship with Celeste Weaver who came from another planet, and just today met another alien from another planet with a soul connection to Celeste Weaver. This alien's name though unpronounceable with an Earth tongue mostly resembled the name "Arcane" here on Earth or someone "who like Padma possessed the Arcane skills of ancient times before modern day technology."
For example, in some of Padma's bodies he did not need to learn to levitate as that usually took about 2 to 5 years meditating in a cave to achieve levitation and only then one had to be especially gifted to achieve this state. But since airplanes now circled the globe since at least the 1930s he hadn't asked any of his incarnations to learn to levitate since about 1930. As more technological innovations occurred his incarnations could pragmatically function in more specific ways to the real needs of that era.
Though Padma would not call Celeste Weaver exactly a Mahasiddha, he would call her a Saint incarnation because having studied her soul he realized she had died as a Saint on her planet and then reincarnated on a completely secular planet where no religion at all was allowed. He found her to be one of the most amazing and interesting souls because of this conscious choice to become completely humanistic. The amazing thing about her was that she wasn't against religion per say. She was against the excesses of religion and of the violence that often causes. No. Her point was saving lives, enlightening people with kindness and wisdom and medicine and useful planetary culture in order to prevent religious nuclear armageddons like occured already on Maldek which is now the asteroid belt of the Solar system. In fact, all humans living on Earth now are biologically related to all those who died on Maldek, the asteroid belt planet and those who died on Mars when most of its atmosphere was blown off by the nuclear explosion of the planet Maldek, which is now the present Asteroid belt of the solar system. In fact, the asteroid that hit earth and killed the dinosaurs by landing in the Gulf of Mexico was a piece of the planet Maldek that came from the nuclear explosion of the planet.
So, he found Celeste Weaver to be an amazing composite of 100 million years of the history of the solar system past, present and future. The evolving nature of humanoids in the solar system never ceased to amaze Padma. Imagine if you were a Sanskrit Scholar at age 15 2500 years ago translating for Buddha as he spoke, and now you were living in 1987 in San Francisco, California. What would you think about everything that you had seen after living 2500 years non-stop?
Celeste Weaver
One day Celeste visited Padma's apartment in San Francisco. It had a beautiful view of the Golden Gate Bridge. By this point Padma had told Celeste who he actually was (something that was highly unusual even for Padma) (only a few very developed students and incarnations of Padma were usually told who he actually was for obvious reasons). Celeste rang the doorbell and Padma answered. Padma appeared as a 6 foot tall very anglo looking american with no foreign accent whatever. Celeste walked in and immediately remarked at the wonderful view from his penthouse apartment of Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay.
Padma said, "It's wonderful to have you visit my home, Celeste." Celeste agreed. She said, "You do know about the Galactic Government and the Galactic Time Guard?" "Of course, " said Padma, "But render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto God that which is God's." Celeste looked at Padma a very long time and said, "How does it all actually work, Padma? What does spirituality and religion actually mean in the overall scheme of things in the universe?"
Padma then went deep into Celeste Weaver's motivational level to see what answer she needed at that moment in her life. He said, "Does it bother you that I rummage through your mind?" She said, "No. I trust you implicitly." Padma said, "I am honored that you have such faith in me."
He sat back a moment and closed his eyes and said, "The following is what you need me to say. It is entirely true but of perfect use to you specifically in this moment in your lifetime." Celeste said, "I'm very grateful that finally someone has the capacity to help me in this specific way."
Padma said, "I was a student of both Freud and Carl Jung and many of Jung's followers ever since."
Celeste said, "I'm not familiar with their works as much as I would like to be because I was educated entirely on other planets than earth."
Padma thought about this: to Celeste this was an alien world and even the concepts he was sharing were sort of alien to her. She was asking as a being raised on another planet with entirely different values than anything here on earth. He would have to consider this as well.
"Though this is entirely factual, it is designed for your particular psychology and the way you perceive reality." Padma went on from there, "First of all, the Galactic Sentience who is literally millions of years old and possibly even billions of years old, is both a physical and spiritual being."
Celeste said, "I assumed that."
Padma went on, "So, that is why many beings consider he and his Grandfather of whom I am one of millions of his grandfather's incarnations throughout the known universe, function as we do."
"And what exactly does that function consist of?" said Celeste.
Padma said, "To have this actually make sense I have to say that there are both physical and non-physical universes that go on literally without limit."
Celeste said, "Without limit? That just isn't logical."
Padma said, "It isn't logical to a mind tethered in the physical universe. However, to a mind tethered in multiple universes such as mine, infinity is a concept that I can actually contain experiencially even though it isn't something that can be contained within a logical human brain as such. In other words the truth of the universe both physical and non- physical can only be experienced and not really properly thought about just with a logical mind."
Celeste said, "So that understanding the limitations of a human brain is necessary before one can experiencially contain the whole universe?"
Padma said, "Not necessarily. There are varieties of experience that even I can't fully fathom that I have observed within both humans and aliens and even non-physical beings throughout the known universes."
Celeste said, "Oh. Do you understand how I perceive reality?"
Padma said, "Yes and no. I didn't evolve as a being with your specific experiences on multiple planets and dimensions including heavens so though I can vicariously experience them through looking into you, a lot of the decisions you have made as a soul make no sense to me at all because of my entirely different experiences. But, what we both share is that through a whole lot of suffering we both have found ways to help the beings we find us around in this particular lifetime. It is through this shared understanding of the suffering of all beings in the universe that we gather even now in my San Francisco apartment to figure out how better we can eliminate more fully the sufferings of all beings."
Celeste said, "Wow! But more specifically is the Galactic Sentience a God or is he just like a King in the succession of the Creator of the Galaxy that you say is your seed soul of millions of incarnations throughout the known universes?"
Padma thought carefully how to answer this question without disturbing the motivational mind of Celeste. Then he said, "Belief creates reality. Do you believe in that?"
Celeste said, "Well. In the sense that I cannot even raise my arm off my lap unless I believe I can, yes, I believe that Belief creates reality"
Padma was a little worried because this was really important to the stability of Celeste's future life. He said "No. At a very deep level we all exist because we believe we do. Do you believe that?"
Celeste said, "I don't know if I believe that or not."
Padma looked very deeply into Celeste and said, "There are many different levels of awareness. For example, I wouldn't ask most babies or children this question and even among adult humans there are only a few that I would ask this kind of question because it could unravel them if they weren't ready for it. So, if you can't handle the actual answer you need to tell me now. Because once we embark across this bridge there is no going back. And I have to be sure you are strong enough to bare the burden of the truth of life. Are you ready for this?"
Celeste found that her hands were shaking now. She had reached her personal moment of truth and said, "I cannot be married to Arcane unless I know the answer and can live with the answer."
Since Arcane was another of the incarnations of the father of the Galaxy like Padma was he went forward with his plan. He said, "Imagine this. Imagine you are a God of the universe and you live in your own private dream world. You are bored one day and you come up with the idea of creating time and space and then take pieces of yourself, let's call them all your many fingers, if you will and allow these fingers to believe in the time and space that you have created as rules of your game to entertain yourself. So, if you are with me you are a God in a formless realm and you just came upon the amazing idea to create realms of form. So now, here we are on earth in these realms of form in human bodies. However, there are some beings that you have created as guardians of the portals between the formless realms and the physical or form realms. Are you with me still?"
Celeste found her body sort of shaking more through all this. She asked, "Why am I shaking?"
Padma said, "Because I need you to experience this not just take it in intellectually. I need to to experience directly what I'm saying."
Celeste said, "So you are instantly enlightening me?"
Padma said, "Yes. You are being instantly realized because you will need these enlightenments that you won in your previous incarnation as Ah Ray In on New Deva."
Celeste said, "So, Arcane was telling me the truth. That wasn't just a line to make me become his wife?"
Padma said, "Arcame is an adept and a Mahasiddha of New Deva just like I am a Mahasiddha of Earth. We both share the same seed soul, the Creator of the Milky Way Galaxy. Both of us don't lie except as a way to protect other beings from untimely deaths in very serious situations."
Celeste said, "I would call that a truly honest man."
Padma said, "We are both truly honest man. One does not become a real Mahasiddha any other way."
Celeste said, "Then Jesus was a Mahasiddha too."
Padma said, "Yes. I would call him that. However, I am a specialized kind of Mahasiddha and Jesus is another type of very specialized Mahasiddha a little like Buddha."
Celeste said, "Oh. I've stopped shaking. Does that mean I have made it to a kind of enlighenment."
Padma said, "Yes. Enlightenment always comes from a cellular level of awareness. You will now live at least 1000 years because of it."
Celeste said,"That long?"
Padma said, "Arcane will need you as well as your children yet to be born."
Celeste turned red. "You mean Arcane and I will have children as well?"
Padma said, "Yes."
Celeste started to cry so Padma put his arm around her until she calmed down again like a brother or uncle would.
As Celeste went out to meet Arcane she thanked Padma for the amazing blessings and awarenesses he had brought into her life. Padma said to her as she left, " Remember when I said that there are some beings that God has created as guardians of the portals between the formless realms and the physical or form realms?
Celeste looked a little scared and said, "Yes."
Padma said, "The race of Creators who sometimes are the ones who create Galaxies and who live in Galaxies are a race of Portal Guardians between not only Matter and anti-matter Galaxies but also as guardians between the formless realms and the physical realms of the universe."
Celeste looked kind of horrified by the whole thing. "But what does that really mean to me?"
Padma said, "Well. You asked the question and what it means is literally whatever you need it to mean, Celeste."
Celeste said, "I just don't want to think about this anymore. I'm afraid I'll just have a heart attack if I do."
Padma said, "Do you want me to make you forget this conversation?"
Celeste said, "No. I'm a grown up. I just need some time to adjust to all this. It's a bit much for anyone to deal with."
Padma said, "Yes. It took me about 45 years to be able to deal with it all experiencially without throwing up a lot."
Celeste said, "Yes. I can understand that. One can mentally grasp the concept but to physically experience it and become enlightened by it is another thing entirely."
Jonathan Meets Padma
That was 1987. Now 24 years later, Padma still had his apartment in San Francisco (even though these days he wasn't there much. Arcane had a dream and realized it was time for Jonathan to meet Padma. After all, on a soul level they were all related. It was only fair.
So, March 4th 2011 Jonathan sauntered up to Padma's apartment actually quite scared. The way he had met Arcane was easier somehow. It had been much easier, to meet a man from another planet than it was to meet someone who actually knew Buddha and Jesus personally when their bodies lived here on Earth 2000 years ago and 2500 years ago approximately.
So, Jonathan sort of found himself sort of shaking at the idea of the whole thing. He thought, "My God! I'm going to meet someone who actually knew Jesus and Buddha! That's kind of scary on a whole bunch of different levels. I'm not sure I can deal with any of my preconceptions being blown right out of the water. But then, he started to be afraid of someone as powerful a mahasiddha as Padmasambhava likely was and is. He remembered some of the older Tibetan Lamas straight out of Tibet. They were tough as nails and supernatural to boot. The were compassionate and scary as only people who had survived the times of the Great Depression and World War II could be. He felt ill prepared for this level of supernatural ability to have survived everything this being had survived.
Then as he knocked on the door he found he felt like he was going to throw up and then the door opened and then a very calm man who looked very East Indian answered the door. He was about 5 foot 8 inches tall and had a very thick East Indian accent that reminded him of the guy on the Big Bang theory. In fact, he looked a lot like this same guy. So, he couldn't help but to laugh a little as he met Padma.
Padma, you see had appeared like this on purpose. He had felt Jonathan's fear of meeting the great Padmasambhava who had brought Buddhism to Tibet and also Merlin the Magician as he was known in England when he had put prince Arthur on the throne. But what Jonathan hadn't also been told was that Padma was also Saint Germain. This might be very difficult for Jonathan to take in reality.
So, Padma brought Jonathan in and asked him if he would like some Tibetan Butter Tea. Jonathan immediately said "Yes" because Tibetan Lamas traditionally gave tea to other Buddhists to recognize them as their students. So, Jonathan had already experienced this many times in India, Nepal and in the western United States when he met new Tibetan Lamas. He definitely wanted lineage with someone who had met Buddha and Jesus and who had brought Buddhism to Tibet. Jonathan was like a little child in a candy store. He started to cry and was very embarrassed. Jonathan said, "Why am I crying, Padma? I'm so embarrassed this isn't like me."
Padma saw something and was completely amazed by it. He said, "I remember you. You were the Roman Centurian Guard guarding Jesus after he was crucified!" Padma's excitement was just too much for Jonathan and Jonathan just passed out cold right there. Luckily, Padma hadn't given him the Tibetan Butter tea yet.
When Jonathan came to he was shaking. It reminded him of when he was a boy and had childhood epilepsy. He wondered why this was all happening like this. This wasn't how he wanted it to go at all.
Padma said, "I'm sorry, Jonathan. You passed out because I haven't been entirely honest with you. Remember this?" And Padma turned into the form of Saint Germain that had appeared to Jonathan when he was 25 in 1973, only this time he didn't pass out and have his brain reprogrammed by Saint Germain this time. Instead, he just felt kind of shocked and nauseous like he wanted to throw up.
I wasn't prepared for this, Padma, uh, Saint Germain, uh whoever you are.
Padma said, "Watch this!" Immediately, Jonathan was shown a whole bunch of angels coming to his bedroom the day that Saint Germain had appeared to him. Then Padma (also Saint Germain) looked deeply into Jonathan to see if he could proceed with this initiation and wanted to make sure this wouldn't just kill Jonathan at his present age of 62.
Padma nodded and let the holographic presentation of that day, Easter 1973 continue. Jonathan was transfixed by all the angels and violet colored sacred fire as it burned out blackness out of his chest. Tears came to his eyes remembering this event once more. Jonathan's oldest son had been conceived just a few months after this experience with Saint Germain. He watched as he had passed out then after experiencing the violet colored sacred flames burn from him and cleanse his body and soul of anything not useful to Saint Germain and the angels. He found himself now years later feeling like this person he saw was someone else. He had been but 25 then and now he was 62. It was like they were two very different person with the same memories somehow. It was like Jonathan had reincarnated into another body of someone who was 62 instead of 25. He looked at Saint Germain and said, "I did everything you asked me, Saint Germain. What do I do now?"
Since Padma now had become Saint Germain for effect, Jonathan was in a really altered state of consciousness from it all. He wondered if he was going to die? But no, if this man really was his Guru Saint Germain, he wasn't here to kill him, he was here to continue his instruction. He might even be here to make him more of a siddha and even move Jonathan to becoming a Mahasiddha too. Jonathan wasn't sure what would be asked of him now after all these years of moving towards enlightenment with Saint Germain.
At this point, Saint Germain went back to being Padma and around 5 foot 8 inches tall and said to Jonathan. This is what I looked like a lot when I was 35 years old and studying with the Buddha when his body was still alive. I think this will stablize your many selves from past lives. You have known me looking like this and many others for the last 2500 years, Jonathan. Do you remember me?
Jonathan said in an otherworldly voice, "I remember you from many of my lifetimes. Will I survive this present encounter with you, Padma?"
Padma smiled, "Oh, Yes! I'm not here to initiate you into death Jonathan. I'm here to initiate you into life!"
Jonathan smiled, He had passed the test. He was going to be okay now.
He sat on the couch and looked out at the amazing view of the Golden Gate Bridge and accepted the Tibetan Butter tea. He had never really gotten used to this stuff in India and Nepal either. It sort of tasted a lot like hot Buttermilk. He had never been fond of buttermilk. But his Dad had been. He remembered more than once as a kid grabbing a paper dispenser of buttermilk thinking it was milk and gagging when he drank it. But he was an adult now. He didn't have to spray hot buttermilk all over the kitchen with his mouth like he was a child again.
This time he could savor ever sip of his empowered connection to Padmasambhava who had assured him now he was also Saint Germain. Amazing! Jonathan's mind was properly blown into a new dimension. He was free. Everything in his life would change. Again!
Padma looked out at the Golden Gate Bridge and spoke in his natural East Indian accent. He said (calming Jonathan and bringing him back to a new reality here on earth) "Jonathan. I've had this apartment now since World War II ended. After I helped create the United Nations I found it useful to be here.
Jonathan knew by personal experience now that Padma could be anything he wanted to be even this Tibetan Butter Tea if he so wished. Though Jonathan was scared he had grown used to his old Guru, no matter what form he manifested in. They watched the sun set behind the Golden Gate Bridge and talked of past lifetimes together and what Padma had in mind for Jonathan, (as his student) to do next with his life.
Jonathan Moves On
As he drove home that night after sunset in his car he felt kind of miffed at both Arcane and Padma. He felt like he had been treated like a child and not an adult. He was sort of angry at them both for putting him through all this. After all, he was a 62 year old man and didn't deserve this kind of treatment. He deserved some respect for living this long. And then, he realized just how much crap both Arcane and Padma had been through to live thousands of years each. He had reached a Zen. Then he thought about how he had always been told how he and Arcane and now Padma and King Interlaken and His Oneness of Lemuria all were from the same root soul and was getting pissed off about that and wondering about that. Then he started to question his own sanity about the whole thing. And then he started to laugh and realized that life was a joke. Yes. It was a serious joke but still a joke. All the Tibetan Lamas had said this sometimes when he felt like laughing or crying in various difficult situations in the U.S. , India and Nepal. He had noticed they always laughed about things that were just too amazing or just too difficult. This was the real secret of life, to be able to laugh at one's own existence. Not laughing yourself off a cliff to death. But instead laughing yourself sane. Because a Mahasiddha like Jesus or Buddha or now Padma and Arcane were the sanest beings in the universe. He thought the human race is mad in comparison to them. The last of his neuroses had been shattered with laughter. Padma had just turned Jonathan into a beginning Mahasiddha. He saw the signs. He was living all the signs. He finally understood Arcane when he had said, "If you live to be 100, you will be 500. If you live to be 500 you will be 1000. If you live to be 1000 you will be 5000. If you live to be 5000 you will be 10,000. And, Jonathan thought, "If we live any longer than that, I just don't want to know about it yet. It's just too much to deal with now." Jonathan just became a Mahasiddha too just meeting Padma. Amazing!
Note: ON names. Arcane: is meant simply as knowing things no longer known by most people here on Earth.
Padma literally means Lotus. So Padmasambhava means "Lotus Born". Padmasambhava was a mahasiddha from Afghanistan who became enlightened in India in the Himalayas and who taught near Nalanda Buddhist University. He is thought to have brought Buddhism to Tibet and allowed it to co-mingle with the local Bon religions. It is why Tibetan Buddhism is such an incredibly powerful yet compassionate religion. Jonathan Flow is a combination name. it originally came 10 to 20 years ago from "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" a work by Richard Bach and combined with "Flow" which is short for "Science of the Lemurian Flow" which is a way of being like Buddha and Jesus in that they ALWAYS were in the completely right space and time to make infinite miracles happen in thousands and millions of lives for thousands and thousands of years to come. So, FLOW in this sense means Being so in tune with the God Force of the universe that everything you do has infinite positive effects towards the enlightenment of all beings inside and outside of all time and space always, past, present and future.
note: If you click the following button this next "Jonathan after Meeting Padma" follows 500BC and Padma Part 2 if you are interested.
Jonathan after Meeting Padma
I realized that I had titled part 1 actually "500BC" instead of just "Padma" like I thought today. I wrote "500 BC" over a month ago. So, it wasn't until I wrote a Padma part 2 that I realized that "500 BC" is actually "Padma part 1". I haven't figured out how I will reconcile this but I will by the time I take it to my archive site eventually which is dragonofcompassion.com
So if you want to read Padma part 1 please click on the likely purple or red or blue colored "500 BC" above.
After Yesu or Yeshua (depending upon which dialect of Aramaic you spoke then) passed away in India in his 80s and asked Padma to watch over the human race in the physical world for him. Padma had been a Dharma Immortal ever since Buddha had spontaneously brought the Lotus Sutra onto Earth. While listening to the Lotus Sutra Spontaneously flow from Buddha's mouth while Padma transcribed it into Sanskrit he had become enlightened without fully understanding it. But, then again he was only 15 years old at this point. However, by the time Buddha had passed away Padma had realized the fullness of his enlightenment and was around 60 years old. And by that time had become a relatively immortal Mahasiddha. As a dharma immortal Buddha then asked Padma to watch over the human race in the future. 500 years later Yeshua asked the same thing as he too, passed away in India after resurrecting his body earlier in his life in the middle East.
Padma thought back to when he had been one of the three Wise men visiting the baby under the Star. He thought of watching the baby grow up safely and protecting that child supernaturally from harm as Buddha had directed him 500 years before. He remembered the day that Yeshua had told him at 15 when he became an adult, "Padma, let me invoke the angels now to protect me now that I am a man."
Padma smiled at this thought as it reminded him of the day Buddha had spoken the Lotus Sutra for the very first time and how much his own life had changed at that point. Now his two primary Teachers and Gurus had passed over into the dharma realms that some call heaven.
As a Mahasiddha he lived in both heaven and earth simultaneously. It was the way of true Mahasiddhas.
It was like walking on the edge of a razor, you had to have very calloused feet to do this or be light as a feather, or both. Padma laughed at this thought as it sort of made everything silly in a Zen sort of way. Even though life was a joke, it was after all a serious joke. One time deep in a cave meditating for several years his skin had turned green from drinking only nettles and water, because that was all he had to eat or drink. But he was deeply moving towards the final realization of becoming a mahasiddha.
He found himself out near the Orion Nebula soul traveling one day and he met a being that told him that it had created his soul. He said, "Are you the God or Buddha that created everything?" The being said, "I created your soul and I am one of many of the gods of the universe that work for the one true God of the universe." Padma thought about this with tears in his eyes. So he said, "So, there actually is a hierarchy to it all?" The God said, "There is a spontaneous hierarchy to it all." Padma thought about this and said, "What does that mean?" The God said, "Time and space isn't real. This is what Buddha was trying to tell you when the Lotus Sutra began to free your soul from rebirth." Padma's being started to shiver with the reality of this realization. And so he said, "Then I really am a Dharma Immortal?"
The God reached out and put his hand on Padma's heart and said, "Your heart is the Buddha mind of the Lotus Sutra's simplicity. I empower you now to help the whole human race into enlightenment over thousands of years. Your only reason to be immortal is the eventual enlightenment of all mankind. Use the supernatural gifts I give you to help all mankind always. If you misuse any of these gifts it will be instant death. However, since I see deeply into you that you experience all beings on earth already as your children and as your family I have no fear of the dharma immortals misuse at all. Go, and enlighten mankind. Protect the Buddha, then protect Yeshua until they come back here to me. But no matter what, protect mankind and all beings on earth for the rest of your life as long as that may be."
The Green Padma said, "I will, My Lord, My Creator!"
Since Padma was Bi-locating from his meditation Cave in the Himalayas he felt his body shivering with excitement as the full power from the Creator manifested in all the cells in his body. Though his body was still green from the nettles it had just moved with the Creator's touch upon his heart "The Buddha Mind" into another version of physical reality. Mortality (at least the kind most humans are exposed to) no longer existed for the cells of this now fully empowered Mahasiddha's body.
Suddenly, Padma was back fully into his body in the cave. The whole cave now glowed from the change in the awareness of each cell of his body. They each no longer lived in reaction to all other cells on earth like most cells both plant and animal and human did. No. They were each soul cause to their own experience since they had been rendered "Mahasiddha Cells by God Directly". Though they were exceptional, they were now exceptional for a specific purpose. The purpose was to bring all the souls and cells of mankind into enlightenment. That brought forth another question for Padma, "Was he supposed to make all living cells on earth immortal like his now were?" He jumped outside his body and back to the Orion Nebula but the God was gone somewhere else now so he realized this wasn't something he absolutely needed to know just yet. He had been given his orders to assist in the enlightenment of all mankind no matter how long that took. He wondered just how long he must live.
Today, was 1987 and Padma lived in San Francisco. As he thought back about the last 2000 years since Yeshua joined God he still wondered about the answer to this question. However, he realized now it really wasn't as important to know about this as it had been then. He was timeless and so were all the cells of his body. God had rendered him timeless for a purpose. By now, he had had many names like Merlin, Padmasambhava, Saint Germain, and many of the Christian Saints had also been him. However, now in San Francisco in 1987 he was just happy to have avoided World War III and the extinction of mankind by facilitating the social revolution of the late 1960s worldwide. Without this social revolution that went worldwide Earth would have been blown to bits. He felt a little sad at the cost in minds and lives but earth had been saved and so had the platform of evolution for mankind and many other species that God had put here.
Starting when he became Padmasambhava and took Buddhism to Tibet, Padma had learned to create multiple bodies. Sometimes he even created his new births so everything looked like this person or that person was a normal human being and not just a Dharma Immortal. He had learned thousands of new ways to put humans at ease with his supernatural abilities. He found that they must not suspect the fullness of who he was or often they would just faint or have a heart attack. And if this happened he just had to bring them back to life and erase their memories which caused the fainting or heart attack. So, he had "out of compassion" for all beings on Earth and beyond, learned how to be like a doctor all the time to "All the children of Earth" who had become his family in earnest for almost 2500 years at this point.
Though at times this incredible responsibility weighed heavily upon him, one must remember that Padma always had been living in both Heaven and Earth now for 2500 years. This sort of took the edge off watching everyone die that he knew over and over again because he would move with those who passed away that he loved into the next realm because he wasn't limited to physical existence. So, the pain of them dying and being afraid was counterbalanced by traveling with them into their next destinies and accompanying them often to heaven realms as far as he was permitted by his Lord God.
Often Padma would travel to the Pure Lands (Heavens) of Buddha and Jesus. Each of them had thousands of heavens that they had built for all their followers, each heaven unique to the needs of a particular time and country or locality on earth. There were thousands of such places and even of individual heavens for some very unique souls that needed specialized heavens to exist in.
So, Padma had learned that not only is life on earth "Custom Made" so are all the heaven realms as well.
Here today in 1987 Padma had realized that there were (At least) 5 total Mahasiddhas that helped with all the major religions and secular souls on Earth for thousands of years. Sometimes he would "accidentally?" meet them along the way. He had recently developed a relationship with Celeste Weaver who came from another planet, and just today met another alien from another planet with a soul connection to Celeste Weaver. This alien's name though unpronounceable with an Earth tongue mostly resembled the name "Arcane" here on Earth or someone "who like Padma possessed the Arcane skills of ancient times before modern day technology."
For example, in some of Padma's bodies he did not need to learn to levitate as that usually took about 2 to 5 years meditating in a cave to achieve levitation and only then one had to be especially gifted to achieve this state. But since airplanes now circled the globe since at least the 1930s he hadn't asked any of his incarnations to learn to levitate since about 1930. As more technological innovations occurred his incarnations could pragmatically function in more specific ways to the real needs of that era.
Though Padma would not call Celeste Weaver exactly a Mahasiddha, he would call her a Saint incarnation because having studied her soul he realized she had died as a Saint on her planet and then reincarnated on a completely secular planet where no religion at all was allowed. He found her to be one of the most amazing and interesting souls because of this conscious choice to become completely humanistic. The amazing thing about her was that she wasn't against religion per say. She was against the excesses of religion and of the violence that often causes. No. Her point was saving lives, enlightening people with kindness and wisdom and medicine and useful planetary culture in order to prevent religious nuclear armageddons like occured already on Maldek which is now the asteroid belt of the Solar system. In fact, all humans living on Earth now are biologically related to all those who died on Maldek, the asteroid belt planet and those who died on Mars when most of its atmosphere was blown off by the nuclear explosion of the planet Maldek, which is now the present Asteroid belt of the solar system. In fact, the asteroid that hit earth and killed the dinosaurs by landing in the Gulf of Mexico was a piece of the planet Maldek that came from the nuclear explosion of the planet.
So, he found Celeste Weaver to be an amazing composite of 100 million years of the history of the solar system past, present and future. The evolving nature of humanoids in the solar system never ceased to amaze Padma. Imagine if you were a Sanskrit Scholar at age 15 2500 years ago translating for Buddha as he spoke, and now you were living in 1987 in San Francisco, California. What would you think about everything that you had seen after living 2500 years non-stop?
Celeste Weaver
One day Celeste visited Padma's apartment in San Francisco. It had a beautiful view of the Golden Gate Bridge. By this point Padma had told Celeste who he actually was (something that was highly unusual even for Padma) (only a few very developed students and incarnations of Padma were usually told who he actually was for obvious reasons). Celeste rang the doorbell and Padma answered. Padma appeared as a 6 foot tall very anglo looking american with no foreign accent whatever. Celeste walked in and immediately remarked at the wonderful view from his penthouse apartment of Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco Bay.
Padma said, "It's wonderful to have you visit my home, Celeste." Celeste agreed. She said, "You do know about the Galactic Government and the Galactic Time Guard?" "Of course, " said Padma, "But render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and render unto God that which is God's." Celeste looked at Padma a very long time and said, "How does it all actually work, Padma? What does spirituality and religion actually mean in the overall scheme of things in the universe?"
Padma then went deep into Celeste Weaver's motivational level to see what answer she needed at that moment in her life. He said, "Does it bother you that I rummage through your mind?" She said, "No. I trust you implicitly." Padma said, "I am honored that you have such faith in me."
He sat back a moment and closed his eyes and said, "The following is what you need me to say. It is entirely true but of perfect use to you specifically in this moment in your lifetime." Celeste said, "I'm very grateful that finally someone has the capacity to help me in this specific way."
Padma said, "I was a student of both Freud and Carl Jung and many of Jung's followers ever since."
Celeste said, "I'm not familiar with their works as much as I would like to be because I was educated entirely on other planets than earth."
Padma thought about this: to Celeste this was an alien world and even the concepts he was sharing were sort of alien to her. She was asking as a being raised on another planet with entirely different values than anything here on earth. He would have to consider this as well.
"Though this is entirely factual, it is designed for your particular psychology and the way you perceive reality." Padma went on from there, "First of all, the Galactic Sentience who is literally millions of years old and possibly even billions of years old, is both a physical and spiritual being."
Celeste said, "I assumed that."
Padma went on, "So, that is why many beings consider he and his Grandfather of whom I am one of millions of his grandfather's incarnations throughout the known universe, function as we do."
"And what exactly does that function consist of?" said Celeste.
Padma said, "To have this actually make sense I have to say that there are both physical and non-physical universes that go on literally without limit."
Celeste said, "Without limit? That just isn't logical."
Padma said, "It isn't logical to a mind tethered in the physical universe. However, to a mind tethered in multiple universes such as mine, infinity is a concept that I can actually contain experiencially even though it isn't something that can be contained within a logical human brain as such. In other words the truth of the universe both physical and non- physical can only be experienced and not really properly thought about just with a logical mind."
Celeste said, "So that understanding the limitations of a human brain is necessary before one can experiencially contain the whole universe?"
Padma said, "Not necessarily. There are varieties of experience that even I can't fully fathom that I have observed within both humans and aliens and even non-physical beings throughout the known universes."
Celeste said, "Oh. Do you understand how I perceive reality?"
Padma said, "Yes and no. I didn't evolve as a being with your specific experiences on multiple planets and dimensions including heavens so though I can vicariously experience them through looking into you, a lot of the decisions you have made as a soul make no sense to me at all because of my entirely different experiences. But, what we both share is that through a whole lot of suffering we both have found ways to help the beings we find us around in this particular lifetime. It is through this shared understanding of the suffering of all beings in the universe that we gather even now in my San Francisco apartment to figure out how better we can eliminate more fully the sufferings of all beings."
Celeste said, "Wow! But more specifically is the Galactic Sentience a God or is he just like a King in the succession of the Creator of the Galaxy that you say is your seed soul of millions of incarnations throughout the known universes?"
Padma thought carefully how to answer this question without disturbing the motivational mind of Celeste. Then he said, "Belief creates reality. Do you believe in that?"
Celeste said, "Well. In the sense that I cannot even raise my arm off my lap unless I believe I can, yes, I believe that Belief creates reality"
Padma was a little worried because this was really important to the stability of Celeste's future life. He said "No. At a very deep level we all exist because we believe we do. Do you believe that?"
Celeste said, "I don't know if I believe that or not."
Padma looked very deeply into Celeste and said, "There are many different levels of awareness. For example, I wouldn't ask most babies or children this question and even among adult humans there are only a few that I would ask this kind of question because it could unravel them if they weren't ready for it. So, if you can't handle the actual answer you need to tell me now. Because once we embark across this bridge there is no going back. And I have to be sure you are strong enough to bare the burden of the truth of life. Are you ready for this?"
Celeste found that her hands were shaking now. She had reached her personal moment of truth and said, "I cannot be married to Arcane unless I know the answer and can live with the answer."
Since Arcane was another of the incarnations of the father of the Galaxy like Padma was he went forward with his plan. He said, "Imagine this. Imagine you are a God of the universe and you live in your own private dream world. You are bored one day and you come up with the idea of creating time and space and then take pieces of yourself, let's call them all your many fingers, if you will and allow these fingers to believe in the time and space that you have created as rules of your game to entertain yourself. So, if you are with me you are a God in a formless realm and you just came upon the amazing idea to create realms of form. So now, here we are on earth in these realms of form in human bodies. However, there are some beings that you have created as guardians of the portals between the formless realms and the physical or form realms. Are you with me still?"
Celeste found her body sort of shaking more through all this. She asked, "Why am I shaking?"
Padma said, "Because I need you to experience this not just take it in intellectually. I need to to experience directly what I'm saying."
Celeste said, "So you are instantly enlightening me?"
Padma said, "Yes. You are being instantly realized because you will need these enlightenments that you won in your previous incarnation as Ah Ray In on New Deva."
Celeste said, "So, Arcane was telling me the truth. That wasn't just a line to make me become his wife?"
Padma said, "Arcame is an adept and a Mahasiddha of New Deva just like I am a Mahasiddha of Earth. We both share the same seed soul, the Creator of the Milky Way Galaxy. Both of us don't lie except as a way to protect other beings from untimely deaths in very serious situations."
Celeste said, "I would call that a truly honest man."
Padma said, "We are both truly honest man. One does not become a real Mahasiddha any other way."
Celeste said, "Then Jesus was a Mahasiddha too."
Padma said, "Yes. I would call him that. However, I am a specialized kind of Mahasiddha and Jesus is another type of very specialized Mahasiddha a little like Buddha."
Celeste said, "Oh. I've stopped shaking. Does that mean I have made it to a kind of enlighenment."
Padma said, "Yes. Enlightenment always comes from a cellular level of awareness. You will now live at least 1000 years because of it."
Celeste said,"That long?"
Padma said, "Arcane will need you as well as your children yet to be born."
Celeste turned red. "You mean Arcane and I will have children as well?"
Padma said, "Yes."
Celeste started to cry so Padma put his arm around her until she calmed down again like a brother or uncle would.
As Celeste went out to meet Arcane she thanked Padma for the amazing blessings and awarenesses he had brought into her life. Padma said to her as she left, " Remember when I said that there are some beings that God has created as guardians of the portals between the formless realms and the physical or form realms?
Celeste looked a little scared and said, "Yes."
Padma said, "The race of Creators who sometimes are the ones who create Galaxies and who live in Galaxies are a race of Portal Guardians between not only Matter and anti-matter Galaxies but also as guardians between the formless realms and the physical realms of the universe."
Celeste looked kind of horrified by the whole thing. "But what does that really mean to me?"
Padma said, "Well. You asked the question and what it means is literally whatever you need it to mean, Celeste."
Celeste said, "I just don't want to think about this anymore. I'm afraid I'll just have a heart attack if I do."
Padma said, "Do you want me to make you forget this conversation?"
Celeste said, "No. I'm a grown up. I just need some time to adjust to all this. It's a bit much for anyone to deal with."
Padma said, "Yes. It took me about 45 years to be able to deal with it all experiencially without throwing up a lot."
Celeste said, "Yes. I can understand that. One can mentally grasp the concept but to physically experience it and become enlightened by it is another thing entirely."
Jonathan Meets Padma
That was 1987. Now 24 years later, Padma still had his apartment in San Francisco (even though these days he wasn't there much. Arcane had a dream and realized it was time for Jonathan to meet Padma. After all, on a soul level they were all related. It was only fair.
So, March 4th 2011 Jonathan sauntered up to Padma's apartment actually quite scared. The way he had met Arcane was easier somehow. It had been much easier, to meet a man from another planet than it was to meet someone who actually knew Buddha and Jesus personally when their bodies lived here on Earth 2000 years ago and 2500 years ago approximately.
So, Jonathan sort of found himself sort of shaking at the idea of the whole thing. He thought, "My God! I'm going to meet someone who actually knew Jesus and Buddha! That's kind of scary on a whole bunch of different levels. I'm not sure I can deal with any of my preconceptions being blown right out of the water. But then, he started to be afraid of someone as powerful a mahasiddha as Padmasambhava likely was and is. He remembered some of the older Tibetan Lamas straight out of Tibet. They were tough as nails and supernatural to boot. The were compassionate and scary as only people who had survived the times of the Great Depression and World War II could be. He felt ill prepared for this level of supernatural ability to have survived everything this being had survived.
Then as he knocked on the door he found he felt like he was going to throw up and then the door opened and then a very calm man who looked very East Indian answered the door. He was about 5 foot 8 inches tall and had a very thick East Indian accent that reminded him of the guy on the Big Bang theory. In fact, he looked a lot like this same guy. So, he couldn't help but to laugh a little as he met Padma.
Padma, you see had appeared like this on purpose. He had felt Jonathan's fear of meeting the great Padmasambhava who had brought Buddhism to Tibet and also Merlin the Magician as he was known in England when he had put prince Arthur on the throne. But what Jonathan hadn't also been told was that Padma was also Saint Germain. This might be very difficult for Jonathan to take in reality.
So, Padma brought Jonathan in and asked him if he would like some Tibetan Butter Tea. Jonathan immediately said "Yes" because Tibetan Lamas traditionally gave tea to other Buddhists to recognize them as their students. So, Jonathan had already experienced this many times in India, Nepal and in the western United States when he met new Tibetan Lamas. He definitely wanted lineage with someone who had met Buddha and Jesus and who had brought Buddhism to Tibet. Jonathan was like a little child in a candy store. He started to cry and was very embarrassed. Jonathan said, "Why am I crying, Padma? I'm so embarrassed this isn't like me."
Padma saw something and was completely amazed by it. He said, "I remember you. You were the Roman Centurian Guard guarding Jesus after he was crucified!" Padma's excitement was just too much for Jonathan and Jonathan just passed out cold right there. Luckily, Padma hadn't given him the Tibetan Butter tea yet.
When Jonathan came to he was shaking. It reminded him of when he was a boy and had childhood epilepsy. He wondered why this was all happening like this. This wasn't how he wanted it to go at all.
Padma said, "I'm sorry, Jonathan. You passed out because I haven't been entirely honest with you. Remember this?" And Padma turned into the form of Saint Germain that had appeared to Jonathan when he was 25 in 1973, only this time he didn't pass out and have his brain reprogrammed by Saint Germain this time. Instead, he just felt kind of shocked and nauseous like he wanted to throw up.
I wasn't prepared for this, Padma, uh, Saint Germain, uh whoever you are.
Padma said, "Watch this!" Immediately, Jonathan was shown a whole bunch of angels coming to his bedroom the day that Saint Germain had appeared to him. Then Padma (also Saint Germain) looked deeply into Jonathan to see if he could proceed with this initiation and wanted to make sure this wouldn't just kill Jonathan at his present age of 62.
Padma nodded and let the holographic presentation of that day, Easter 1973 continue. Jonathan was transfixed by all the angels and violet colored sacred fire as it burned out blackness out of his chest. Tears came to his eyes remembering this event once more. Jonathan's oldest son had been conceived just a few months after this experience with Saint Germain. He watched as he had passed out then after experiencing the violet colored sacred flames burn from him and cleanse his body and soul of anything not useful to Saint Germain and the angels. He found himself now years later feeling like this person he saw was someone else. He had been but 25 then and now he was 62. It was like they were two very different person with the same memories somehow. It was like Jonathan had reincarnated into another body of someone who was 62 instead of 25. He looked at Saint Germain and said, "I did everything you asked me, Saint Germain. What do I do now?"
Since Padma now had become Saint Germain for effect, Jonathan was in a really altered state of consciousness from it all. He wondered if he was going to die? But no, if this man really was his Guru Saint Germain, he wasn't here to kill him, he was here to continue his instruction. He might even be here to make him more of a siddha and even move Jonathan to becoming a Mahasiddha too. Jonathan wasn't sure what would be asked of him now after all these years of moving towards enlightenment with Saint Germain.
At this point, Saint Germain went back to being Padma and around 5 foot 8 inches tall and said to Jonathan. This is what I looked like a lot when I was 35 years old and studying with the Buddha when his body was still alive. I think this will stablize your many selves from past lives. You have known me looking like this and many others for the last 2500 years, Jonathan. Do you remember me?
Jonathan said in an otherworldly voice, "I remember you from many of my lifetimes. Will I survive this present encounter with you, Padma?"
Padma smiled, "Oh, Yes! I'm not here to initiate you into death Jonathan. I'm here to initiate you into life!"
Jonathan smiled, He had passed the test. He was going to be okay now.
He sat on the couch and looked out at the amazing view of the Golden Gate Bridge and accepted the Tibetan Butter tea. He had never really gotten used to this stuff in India and Nepal either. It sort of tasted a lot like hot Buttermilk. He had never been fond of buttermilk. But his Dad had been. He remembered more than once as a kid grabbing a paper dispenser of buttermilk thinking it was milk and gagging when he drank it. But he was an adult now. He didn't have to spray hot buttermilk all over the kitchen with his mouth like he was a child again.
This time he could savor ever sip of his empowered connection to Padmasambhava who had assured him now he was also Saint Germain. Amazing! Jonathan's mind was properly blown into a new dimension. He was free. Everything in his life would change. Again!
Padma looked out at the Golden Gate Bridge and spoke in his natural East Indian accent. He said (calming Jonathan and bringing him back to a new reality here on earth) "Jonathan. I've had this apartment now since World War II ended. After I helped create the United Nations I found it useful to be here.
Jonathan knew by personal experience now that Padma could be anything he wanted to be even this Tibetan Butter Tea if he so wished. Though Jonathan was scared he had grown used to his old Guru, no matter what form he manifested in. They watched the sun set behind the Golden Gate Bridge and talked of past lifetimes together and what Padma had in mind for Jonathan, (as his student) to do next with his life.
Jonathan Moves On
As he drove home that night after sunset in his car he felt kind of miffed at both Arcane and Padma. He felt like he had been treated like a child and not an adult. He was sort of angry at them both for putting him through all this. After all, he was a 62 year old man and didn't deserve this kind of treatment. He deserved some respect for living this long. And then, he realized just how much crap both Arcane and Padma had been through to live thousands of years each. He had reached a Zen. Then he thought about how he had always been told how he and Arcane and now Padma and King Interlaken and His Oneness of Lemuria all were from the same root soul and was getting pissed off about that and wondering about that. Then he started to question his own sanity about the whole thing. And then he started to laugh and realized that life was a joke. Yes. It was a serious joke but still a joke. All the Tibetan Lamas had said this sometimes when he felt like laughing or crying in various difficult situations in the U.S. , India and Nepal. He had noticed they always laughed about things that were just too amazing or just too difficult. This was the real secret of life, to be able to laugh at one's own existence. Not laughing yourself off a cliff to death. But instead laughing yourself sane. Because a Mahasiddha like Jesus or Buddha or now Padma and Arcane were the sanest beings in the universe. He thought the human race is mad in comparison to them. The last of his neuroses had been shattered with laughter. Padma had just turned Jonathan into a beginning Mahasiddha. He saw the signs. He was living all the signs. He finally understood Arcane when he had said, "If you live to be 100, you will be 500. If you live to be 500 you will be 1000. If you live to be 1000 you will be 5000. If you live to be 5000 you will be 10,000. And, Jonathan thought, "If we live any longer than that, I just don't want to know about it yet. It's just too much to deal with now." Jonathan just became a Mahasiddha too just meeting Padma. Amazing!
Note: ON names. Arcane: is meant simply as knowing things no longer known by most people here on Earth.
Padma literally means Lotus. So Padmasambhava means "Lotus Born". Padmasambhava was a mahasiddha from Afghanistan who became enlightened in India in the Himalayas and who taught near Nalanda Buddhist University. He is thought to have brought Buddhism to Tibet and allowed it to co-mingle with the local Bon religions. It is why Tibetan Buddhism is such an incredibly powerful yet compassionate religion. Jonathan Flow is a combination name. it originally came 10 to 20 years ago from "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" a work by Richard Bach and combined with "Flow" which is short for "Science of the Lemurian Flow" which is a way of being like Buddha and Jesus in that they ALWAYS were in the completely right space and time to make infinite miracles happen in thousands and millions of lives for thousands and thousands of years to come. So, FLOW in this sense means Being so in tune with the God Force of the universe that everything you do has infinite positive effects towards the enlightenment of all beings inside and outside of all time and space always, past, present and future.
note: If you click the following button this next "Jonathan after Meeting Padma" follows 500BC and Padma Part 2 if you are interested.
Jonathan after Meeting Padma
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Oil Spike Lifts World Food Prices
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Food prices worldwide continued to rise in February, and the recent spike in oil prices could push food costs even higher in the months ahead, according to a report from the United Nations.
The food price index, which measures prices for a basket of food commodities, rose 2.2% last month, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization. The index has increased for the last eight months in a row, and is at the highest level since it was created in 1990. end quote from below URL
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/03/news/economy/food_prices/
Since Coffee is up 100% Wheat is up 60% and corn is up 80% just in the last year this is not good news for the worlds poor or for anyone for that matter.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
I didn't set out in life to be an Intuitive
"In the process of trying to survive my life it is what happened along the way".
My being an intuitive is obviously what God always wanted. I think millions of people on earth God creates into intutives. The trick is, however, if you misuse the gifts he gives you you die pretty suddenly. So, having the gifts is just the first part. Then you have to prove to God he can trust you with them. If he can, you live. If he can't you die or just have a really miserable life.
I would call my life as a result, "The Agony and the Ecstasy", especially my 20s. By the time I was in my 30s I began to get what God actually wanted from me. Then when he almost killed me for the third time in my life I started to see each day I have left is Grace. So, now I live as if each day is my last. It's a habit I've gotten into over the last 12 years since I almost died last. There is incredible Grace to one's life when one lives each day as if it is one's last. Because you always know God's watching what you are doing all the time. So, the Grace is you always do your best because anything less isn't worthy of God or you.
My being an intuitive is obviously what God always wanted. I think millions of people on earth God creates into intutives. The trick is, however, if you misuse the gifts he gives you you die pretty suddenly. So, having the gifts is just the first part. Then you have to prove to God he can trust you with them. If he can, you live. If he can't you die or just have a really miserable life.
I would call my life as a result, "The Agony and the Ecstasy", especially my 20s. By the time I was in my 30s I began to get what God actually wanted from me. Then when he almost killed me for the third time in my life I started to see each day I have left is Grace. So, now I live as if each day is my last. It's a habit I've gotten into over the last 12 years since I almost died last. There is incredible Grace to one's life when one lives each day as if it is one's last. Because you always know God's watching what you are doing all the time. So, the Grace is you always do your best because anything less isn't worthy of God or you.
Learning to Be Humble and to still survive
The title "At least in relation to God" is my life's story.
If I look back now the one trait that God has given me is to survive God. Many people don't. You watch them every day die unexpectedly and then they are gone very suddenly. For me, it has always been a surprise to me that I survived so many different things in my life. I look around me and notice many people appear to be much more fragile, physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually than I. And I often wonder why that is. The only thing I can come up with that I find useful personally is that God designed me this way for some purpose.
Of course, I can use science to describe reasons also but I just don't find that very satisfying ultimately.
You might think calling myself "intuitivefred 888" isn't the most humble handle that I could have. However, if you don't now my history it might not make sense to you.
My whole life I have been humbled by God over and over again. It started with almost dying of whooping cough at age 2. I still remember this and I still remember Archangel Michael coming physically into the room with his band of Archangels and healing me while my Scottish Grandmother sang "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" in her Scottish Brogue while I was lying in her lap. I was healed of whooping cough that night. I never forgot seeing their jeweled armor from neck to wrists and covering their armored boots. ONly their hands and head and neck were uncovered. They all wore shoulder length hair with no beards.
Then, at age 10 I got childhood epilepsy and once again I thought I might die. It was like living in a horror movie and not knowing when I would be killed. Finally, my father said as I shook in shock after having had a seizure where I had tried to run for their room and was knocked unconscious on the end of their open door and broke my nose and woke up in a pool of blood surrounding my head on the floor. My Dad said, "You've got to get some religion under your belt, son." The year was 1962 and I was 14. So, I started going to church 3 to 4 times a week so I might stay alive. So, when the last night time seizure started to happen I screamed out to God as a co-creator with God "I AM in Command here!" Immediately, all the things attacking me in my dream became my own army and even though I felt I had a tiger by the tail for many years I didn't let go of the tail of the tiger lest he eat me.
By age 32 I had met my first Tibetan Lama. They seemed to understand more than all the other spiritual teachers did who I was and what I was. I felt peace for the first time being as supernaturally gifted as I have always been. I finally realized that God had a purpose for me and that I needed to stay alive for this purpose. Peace in my life began around 1980 and I never really lost that core peace ever again even though many difficult things happened in my life.
In 1998 I got a heart virus because I was angry at not being able to get full custody of my daughter as I didn't feel she was safe where she was. However, almost dying for 7 months was one of the best things that ever happened in my life ever.
The morning it all began was in September 1998, I believe. My wife had gone to work and I got up late that morning and realized I couldn't feel my hands or fingers much. So when I looked into the bathroom mirror I was concerned when my lips looked kind of blue. I went out into the living room and called my 20 something son and told him to come get me and take me to the hospital. He agreed. But then something really amazing happened, "Many angels surrounded me and I immediately thought I was dying. But they were here for another purpose, They began to say loudly in unison, "You aren't going to die. Your life will get better now!" The said this over and over again until every cell in my body experienced what they were saying. So, when I finally got to the hospital I told all the people working on me about the angels. They said that people who are having near death experiences often talk about seeing or hearing angels so they weren't surprised at what I was saying.
7 months later my heart specialist said, "We didn't know what was wrong with you until now. But through the process of elimination we know now you had a heart virus. But because your heart is better now, you can go back and live a more normal life. Oh, and by the way you might live longer if you stay retired (which I had had to do to stay alive during those 7 months). I searched online and talked to people about heart viruses and I was the only person that I could find then in Northern California at that time that had survived a heart virus that year. Because if you panic even once you die. Because of my time with Tibetan lamas and having had whooping cough I had learned how to not panic no matter what. So I lived when the others didn't. It is because with a heart virus you have to pass out from lack of oxygen because your heart cannot oxygenate enough because it is slowed down. So no matter how much you breathe you still cannot oxygenate your blood enough not to pass out. This is when people tend to panic and die. I had a 2 1/2 year old daughter and I just refused to allow her Dad to die. I didn't want her to grow up without a Dad.
After I realized I wasn't going to die my wife had a miscarriage because of what had happened to me and in February her step mother died and in April her mother died and then in May I was pronounced "not dying". And in May my wife had a miscarriage from everything.
Then the fall in October I went to Europe and took my then 10 year old daughter and my wife and 2 1/2 year old decided to stay home. I met my 25 year old son and his friend in Munich, Germany after taking my Mom to where her Dad and Mom grew up near Glascow, Scotland in the late 1800s.
I vowed to God while sitting in Stanford Medical with about 60 other heart patients waiting to be operated on in Fall 1998 and decided that if God let me live that I would write about all the amazing experiences of my life that I had been afraid to share before then. I realized that no sharing all my amazing near death experiences and adventures with God and family and friends all over Earth would be a crime against God. My ego didn't have any reason to deny God the sharing of his experiences with others. So, I believe I am still alive because I write to help mankind and thereby bless God and his creation. So, there you have it. Learning to be humble and still to survive!
If I look back now the one trait that God has given me is to survive God. Many people don't. You watch them every day die unexpectedly and then they are gone very suddenly. For me, it has always been a surprise to me that I survived so many different things in my life. I look around me and notice many people appear to be much more fragile, physically, mentally, emotionally, and even spiritually than I. And I often wonder why that is. The only thing I can come up with that I find useful personally is that God designed me this way for some purpose.
Of course, I can use science to describe reasons also but I just don't find that very satisfying ultimately.
You might think calling myself "intuitivefred 888" isn't the most humble handle that I could have. However, if you don't now my history it might not make sense to you.
My whole life I have been humbled by God over and over again. It started with almost dying of whooping cough at age 2. I still remember this and I still remember Archangel Michael coming physically into the room with his band of Archangels and healing me while my Scottish Grandmother sang "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" in her Scottish Brogue while I was lying in her lap. I was healed of whooping cough that night. I never forgot seeing their jeweled armor from neck to wrists and covering their armored boots. ONly their hands and head and neck were uncovered. They all wore shoulder length hair with no beards.
Then, at age 10 I got childhood epilepsy and once again I thought I might die. It was like living in a horror movie and not knowing when I would be killed. Finally, my father said as I shook in shock after having had a seizure where I had tried to run for their room and was knocked unconscious on the end of their open door and broke my nose and woke up in a pool of blood surrounding my head on the floor. My Dad said, "You've got to get some religion under your belt, son." The year was 1962 and I was 14. So, I started going to church 3 to 4 times a week so I might stay alive. So, when the last night time seizure started to happen I screamed out to God as a co-creator with God "I AM in Command here!" Immediately, all the things attacking me in my dream became my own army and even though I felt I had a tiger by the tail for many years I didn't let go of the tail of the tiger lest he eat me.
By age 32 I had met my first Tibetan Lama. They seemed to understand more than all the other spiritual teachers did who I was and what I was. I felt peace for the first time being as supernaturally gifted as I have always been. I finally realized that God had a purpose for me and that I needed to stay alive for this purpose. Peace in my life began around 1980 and I never really lost that core peace ever again even though many difficult things happened in my life.
In 1998 I got a heart virus because I was angry at not being able to get full custody of my daughter as I didn't feel she was safe where she was. However, almost dying for 7 months was one of the best things that ever happened in my life ever.
The morning it all began was in September 1998, I believe. My wife had gone to work and I got up late that morning and realized I couldn't feel my hands or fingers much. So when I looked into the bathroom mirror I was concerned when my lips looked kind of blue. I went out into the living room and called my 20 something son and told him to come get me and take me to the hospital. He agreed. But then something really amazing happened, "Many angels surrounded me and I immediately thought I was dying. But they were here for another purpose, They began to say loudly in unison, "You aren't going to die. Your life will get better now!" The said this over and over again until every cell in my body experienced what they were saying. So, when I finally got to the hospital I told all the people working on me about the angels. They said that people who are having near death experiences often talk about seeing or hearing angels so they weren't surprised at what I was saying.
7 months later my heart specialist said, "We didn't know what was wrong with you until now. But through the process of elimination we know now you had a heart virus. But because your heart is better now, you can go back and live a more normal life. Oh, and by the way you might live longer if you stay retired (which I had had to do to stay alive during those 7 months). I searched online and talked to people about heart viruses and I was the only person that I could find then in Northern California at that time that had survived a heart virus that year. Because if you panic even once you die. Because of my time with Tibetan lamas and having had whooping cough I had learned how to not panic no matter what. So I lived when the others didn't. It is because with a heart virus you have to pass out from lack of oxygen because your heart cannot oxygenate enough because it is slowed down. So no matter how much you breathe you still cannot oxygenate your blood enough not to pass out. This is when people tend to panic and die. I had a 2 1/2 year old daughter and I just refused to allow her Dad to die. I didn't want her to grow up without a Dad.
After I realized I wasn't going to die my wife had a miscarriage because of what had happened to me and in February her step mother died and in April her mother died and then in May I was pronounced "not dying". And in May my wife had a miscarriage from everything.
Then the fall in October I went to Europe and took my then 10 year old daughter and my wife and 2 1/2 year old decided to stay home. I met my 25 year old son and his friend in Munich, Germany after taking my Mom to where her Dad and Mom grew up near Glascow, Scotland in the late 1800s.
I vowed to God while sitting in Stanford Medical with about 60 other heart patients waiting to be operated on in Fall 1998 and decided that if God let me live that I would write about all the amazing experiences of my life that I had been afraid to share before then. I realized that no sharing all my amazing near death experiences and adventures with God and family and friends all over Earth would be a crime against God. My ego didn't have any reason to deny God the sharing of his experiences with others. So, I believe I am still alive because I write to help mankind and thereby bless God and his creation. So, there you have it. Learning to be humble and still to survive!
You May Live Forever
The caveat to this is: (If you wish to)
I am presently starting to fully realize what many told me before that I didn't fully believe yet. And the "You may live forever" is potentially true especially for those born after World War II. It is even more true for those born right now as we speak.
And, if we consider time travel to be a scientifically possible real technology that either has been invented or will be invented, it is also theoretically possible that anyone that anyone wants to could be reached with technology and also be made to live forever as well (if they wish to).
The (If they wish to) is a really big one, because, after all, if we don't respect the rights of anyone to say "No" to immortality then the whole thing of technological immortality falls apart now doesn't it.
My point of view is that it might take a lot of maturity to make this kind of choice. So, taking seriously any decision one way or another might need to be left to adult (18 or over) kinds of people. However, I think all children should be kept alive until they are adults by society if they are functional. And who in the end can make all these decisions but the children and the parents and the nations and their laws?
However, I'm becoming more and more aware that the capacity for physical immortality is quickly becoming available because of the exponential rate of technological innovation. Yes. That technology needs to be guided to benefit mankind and not to just extinct mankind. But if it can be accomplished then physical immortality might be possible, as well as a host of other possibilities for the human race. The potential is unlimited. The potential is literally infinite in what could actually be accomplished over time for all life on earth and beyond.
I am presently starting to fully realize what many told me before that I didn't fully believe yet. And the "You may live forever" is potentially true especially for those born after World War II. It is even more true for those born right now as we speak.
And, if we consider time travel to be a scientifically possible real technology that either has been invented or will be invented, it is also theoretically possible that anyone that anyone wants to could be reached with technology and also be made to live forever as well (if they wish to).
The (If they wish to) is a really big one, because, after all, if we don't respect the rights of anyone to say "No" to immortality then the whole thing of technological immortality falls apart now doesn't it.
My point of view is that it might take a lot of maturity to make this kind of choice. So, taking seriously any decision one way or another might need to be left to adult (18 or over) kinds of people. However, I think all children should be kept alive until they are adults by society if they are functional. And who in the end can make all these decisions but the children and the parents and the nations and their laws?
However, I'm becoming more and more aware that the capacity for physical immortality is quickly becoming available because of the exponential rate of technological innovation. Yes. That technology needs to be guided to benefit mankind and not to just extinct mankind. But if it can be accomplished then physical immortality might be possible, as well as a host of other possibilities for the human race. The potential is unlimited. The potential is literally infinite in what could actually be accomplished over time for all life on earth and beyond.
After the Singularity
So we all know what I'm talking about here is Wikipedia's definition of "Technological Singularity"
A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict. Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and allege that a post-singularity world would be unpredictable to humans due to an inability of human beings to imagine the intentions or capabilities of superintelligent entities.[1][2][3] Some writers use "the singularity" in a broader way to refer to any radical changes in our society brought about by new technologies such as molecular nanotechnology,[4][5][6] although Vinge and other prominent writers specifically state that without superintelligence, such changes would not qualify as a true singularity.[1] Many writers also tie the singularity to observations of exponential growth in various technologies (with Moore's Law being the most prominent example), using such observations as a basis for predicting that the singularity is likely to happen sometime within the 21st century.[5][7]
End quote from wikipedia.
So, the following is my vision as an intuitive of this occurance. I think that one could basically boil the changes down in this way. There likely would be three basic groups of people at this point (which is theoretically 2045).
The first group would be those in denial (like most of humanity today). It would take approximately 100 years for these people to either die off or catch up. Even after 100 years they would be seen as the Post Singularity adherents as sort of like anachronisms of the past but they would be tolerated by most of the Post singularity adherents. At present this group numbers between 3 to 5 billion people but within 30 years this group will reduce down to 1 or 2 billion mostly just from people passing on of the older generations who have no interest in technology.
The second group would be those who completely gave up human points of view entirely and decided that completely merging with computers and robotics was either desireable or necessary. This group is beginning now and will be about 500,000 to 1 billion here on earth by 2045. Expect crazy changes away from being humanlike in this group by 2035.
The third Group which I would be interested in being a part of would both embrace all that is best of being a human for thousands of years, at the same time finding ways to enhance ones life in useful ways so one basically stayed immortal. The purpose for this would be to help guide family members, as well as the human race in ways that included both being human in the traditions of thousands of years, traveling to other planets and stars and developing spiritually in both natural and enhanced ways. In other words their bywords would be: "The purpose of life is to love and to Bless Life!" I think this group likely would be the most balanced and be seen as the common sense approach to life with the other two groups seen as more extreme.
Since no human is perfect and likely never will be, expect these changes to come in unexpected ways and in fits and spurts. Just remember you always have a choice about how you wish to live your life. Don't get roped into a way of living that you don't want. Remember to create a life that you can stand to live! If you don't then you just won't be alive. This is the way life really is.
A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict. Many of the most recognized writers on the singularity, such as Vernor Vinge and Ray Kurzweil, define the concept in terms of the technological creation of superintelligence, and allege that a post-singularity world would be unpredictable to humans due to an inability of human beings to imagine the intentions or capabilities of superintelligent entities.[1][2][3] Some writers use "the singularity" in a broader way to refer to any radical changes in our society brought about by new technologies such as molecular nanotechnology,[4][5][6] although Vinge and other prominent writers specifically state that without superintelligence, such changes would not qualify as a true singularity.[1] Many writers also tie the singularity to observations of exponential growth in various technologies (with Moore's Law being the most prominent example), using such observations as a basis for predicting that the singularity is likely to happen sometime within the 21st century.[5][7]
End quote from wikipedia.
So, the following is my vision as an intuitive of this occurance. I think that one could basically boil the changes down in this way. There likely would be three basic groups of people at this point (which is theoretically 2045).
The first group would be those in denial (like most of humanity today). It would take approximately 100 years for these people to either die off or catch up. Even after 100 years they would be seen as the Post Singularity adherents as sort of like anachronisms of the past but they would be tolerated by most of the Post singularity adherents. At present this group numbers between 3 to 5 billion people but within 30 years this group will reduce down to 1 or 2 billion mostly just from people passing on of the older generations who have no interest in technology.
The second group would be those who completely gave up human points of view entirely and decided that completely merging with computers and robotics was either desireable or necessary. This group is beginning now and will be about 500,000 to 1 billion here on earth by 2045. Expect crazy changes away from being humanlike in this group by 2035.
The third Group which I would be interested in being a part of would both embrace all that is best of being a human for thousands of years, at the same time finding ways to enhance ones life in useful ways so one basically stayed immortal. The purpose for this would be to help guide family members, as well as the human race in ways that included both being human in the traditions of thousands of years, traveling to other planets and stars and developing spiritually in both natural and enhanced ways. In other words their bywords would be: "The purpose of life is to love and to Bless Life!" I think this group likely would be the most balanced and be seen as the common sense approach to life with the other two groups seen as more extreme.
Since no human is perfect and likely never will be, expect these changes to come in unexpected ways and in fits and spurts. Just remember you always have a choice about how you wish to live your life. Don't get roped into a way of living that you don't want. Remember to create a life that you can stand to live! If you don't then you just won't be alive. This is the way life really is.
Libertarian transhumanism
Libertarian transhumanism is a political ideology synthesizing libertarianism and transhumanism.[1]
Self-identified libertarian transhumanists, such as Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, are advocates of the asserted "right to human enhancement" who argue that the free market is the best guarantor of this right since it produces greater prosperity and personal freedom than other economic systems.[2][3]
Libertarian transhumanists believe that the principle of self-ownership is the most fundamental idea from which both libertarianism and transhumanism stem. They are rational egoists and ethical egoists who embrace the prospect of using emerging technologies to enhance human capacities, which they believe stems from the self-interested application of reason and will in the context of the individual freedom to achieve a posthuman state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. They extend this rational and ethical egoism to advocate a form of "biolibertarianism".[2]
end quote from Wikiedia under the heading "Libertarian transhumanism"
I am more of a free thinker than anything else. I don't necessarily advocate the ideas of transhumanism. However, I do find them interesting in that people are trying to find a way to make sure they own their own bodies so that they can then modify their bodies beyond just plastic surgery but also into forms of physical immortality.
If this were possible (and it very likely will be) people could theoretically live forever if they didn't have an accident along the way sometime. So, there would never be a guaranteed immortality but only based upon not having accidents of one kind or another. So, watching people try to create systems of government (Much like in the U.S. now) where this kind of thing more likely than anywhere else might occur first (because of it's laws) makes all this worth discussing with relatives and friends worldwide.
Self-identified libertarian transhumanists, such as Ronald Bailey of Reason magazine and Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, are advocates of the asserted "right to human enhancement" who argue that the free market is the best guarantor of this right since it produces greater prosperity and personal freedom than other economic systems.[2][3]
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end quote from Wikiedia under the heading "Libertarian transhumanism"
I am more of a free thinker than anything else. I don't necessarily advocate the ideas of transhumanism. However, I do find them interesting in that people are trying to find a way to make sure they own their own bodies so that they can then modify their bodies beyond just plastic surgery but also into forms of physical immortality.
If this were possible (and it very likely will be) people could theoretically live forever if they didn't have an accident along the way sometime. So, there would never be a guaranteed immortality but only based upon not having accidents of one kind or another. So, watching people try to create systems of government (Much like in the U.S. now) where this kind of thing more likely than anywhere else might occur first (because of it's laws) makes all this worth discussing with relatives and friends worldwide.
What would actual sentience in a computer or robot look like?
Have you ever seen a big dog sitting in the driver's seat of a big truck or car and could swear that you thought the dog thought it was his car and that he or she could actually drive it? So, in the end it is about belief and perception in a way whether it is the dog in the driver's seat, the chimpanzee raised like a human child, the computer or robot taught to mimic a human brain of a child up to an adult. It is about belief. If a computer or robot believes that it is a human or a human like intelligence then who are you or I to tell it something else. Just like now, if someone told me that I was dead I would say in my mind, "What a fool!" Why couldn't a computer think just like that?
There is a saying, "As a man thinketh so is he."
Maybe there should also be a saying, "As any being thinketh so is the being!"
If a being thinks it is a being it doesn't really matter whether you or I think it is a being as long as it thinks it is alive and a being. In the end I think this is how we might define sentience in computers and robots.
There is a saying, "As a man thinketh so is he."
Maybe there should also be a saying, "As any being thinketh so is the being!"
If a being thinks it is a being it doesn't really matter whether you or I think it is a being as long as it thinks it is alive and a being. In the end I think this is how we might define sentience in computers and robots.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Functional Immortality
Begin quote from page 48 of the 2045 Article in Time Magazine Feb. 21st 2011
But his goal differs slightly from de Grey's. For Kurzweil, it's not so much about staying healthy as long as possible; it's about staying alive until the Singularity. It's an attempted handoff. Once hyper-intelligent artificial intelligences arise, armed with advanced nanotechnology, they'll really be able to wrestle with the vastly complex, systemic problems associated with aging in humans. Alternatively, by then we'll be able to transfer our minds to sturdier vessels such as computers and robots. He and many other Singularitarians take seriously the proposition that many people who are alive today will wind up being functionally immortal.
But his goal differs slightly from de Grey's. For Kurzweil, it's not so much about staying healthy as long as possible; it's about staying alive until the Singularity. It's an attempted handoff. Once hyper-intelligent artificial intelligences arise, armed with advanced nanotechnology, they'll really be able to wrestle with the vastly complex, systemic problems associated with aging in humans. Alternatively, by then we'll be able to transfer our minds to sturdier vessels such as computers and robots. He and many other Singularitarians take seriously the proposition that many people who are alive today will wind up being functionally immortal.
Potential problem with Digital Singularity
If you know about the Golden Mean(see note after article) used by the master artists of the past and present and have ever noticed that the distances between the planets follows the
The golden section is a line segment divided according to the golden ratio: The total length a + b is to the length of the longer segment a as the length of a is to the length of the shorter segment b.In mathematics and the arts, two quantities are in the golden ratio if the ratio of the sum of the quantities to the larger quantity is equal to the ratio of the larger quantity to the smaller one. The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.6180339887.[1] Other names frequently used for the golden ratio are the golden section (Latin: sectio aurea) and golden mean.[2][3][4] Other terms encountered include extreme and mean ratio,[5] medial section, divine proportion, divine section (Latin: sectio divina), golden proportion, golden cut,[6] golden number, and mean of Phidias.[7][8][9] In this article the golden ratio is denoted by the Greek lowercase letter phi ( 
) , while its reciprocal, 
or 
, is denoted by the uppercase variant Phi (
).
The figure on the right illustrates the geometric relationship that defines this constant. Expressed algebraically: end quote. The figure that was on the right is now below seen as the illustrated rectangle. begin quote again.
Construction of a golden rectangle:
1. Construct a unit square (red).
2. Draw a line from the midpoint of one side to an opposite corner.
3. Use that line as the radius to draw an arc that defines the long dimension of the rectangle.
Fibonacci number
At one point I noticed that the ratio of even the distances between the planets approximated the Fibonacci series of numbers in other words the distance (ratio wise) between the sun and Mercury represents 1, the distance between Mercury and Venus is 2, the distance between Venus and Earth is 3, the distance between Earth and Mars is 5 etc. etc. etc.
Also the ratios of people's fingers to elbows to arms to legs as well as the ratios of the limbs of trees and the ratios of everything living on earth tends to follow the fibanacci ratios.
However, then we come to digital computers which are not necessarily designed using these mathematics. And because of this it is possible that they will create a singularity incompatible with the rest of life in the Solar System which is all based upon the ratios of the fibonacci series of numbers.
My premise is this: If the digital microprocessor was reverse engineered from something like the Roswell Ship as U.S Army Colonel Corso in his book "The Day After Roswell" said then possibly this ship (that crash landed in Roswell) came from either another solar system or even another dimension. It is possible that the sentient life that will eventually result from Artificial intelligence with the non-living mathematics using binary and digital forms might be in conflict at some point with the rest of life in the solar system since its origination was not from within the solar system or possibly not even from within a dimension we are familiar with at all.
Note: The following describes more about the Golden Mean or Golden Ratio:
Golden ratio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Ace of Base album, see The Golden Ratio (album).
) , while its reciprocal, or , is denoted by the uppercase variant Phi ().The figure on the right illustrates the geometric relationship that defines this constant. Expressed algebraically: end quote. The figure that was on the right is now below seen as the illustrated rectangle. begin quote again.
1. Construct a unit square (red).
2. Draw a line from the midpoint of one side to an opposite corner.
3. Use that line as the radius to draw an arc that defines the long dimension of the rectangle.
At least since the Renaissance, many artists and architects have proportioned their works to approximate the golden ratio—especially in the form of the golden rectangle, in which the ratio of the longer side to the shorter is the golden ratio—believing this proportion to be aesthetically pleasing. Mathematicians have studied the golden ratio because of its unique and interesting properties. end quote from wikipedia heading "Golden Ratio"
Note: Years ago the table of distances came out perfectly. But it doesn't work out as well with this particular table of distances for some reason.
Note: Years ago the table of distances came out perfectly. But it doesn't work out as well with this particular table of distances for some reason.
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Singularitarianism
Singularitarianism is a technocentric ideology and social movement that is defined by the belief that a technological singularity — the creation of a superintelligence — is a likely possibility within the medium-term future, and that deliberate action ought to be taken to ensure that “the Singularity” occurs in a way beneficial to humans. While some futurists speculate on the possibility and nature of a technological singularity, Singularitarians believe it is not only possible, but desirable if guided safely. Accordingly, they might sometimes dedicate their lives to acting in ways they believe will contribute to its rapid yet safe implementation.[1]
The term "Singularitarian" was originally defined by Extropian thinker Mark Plus (Mark Potts) in 1991 to mean "one who believes the concept of a Singularity". This term has since been redefined to mean "Singularity activist" or "friend of the Singularity"; that is, one who acts so as to bring about the Singularity.[2] Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone "who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life", and predicts the Singularity will occur in 2045.[1]
end quote from wikipedia under the heading "Singularitarianism"
If you have looked at the February 21st Time Magazine or looked at it at time.com you likely have already read of singularitarianism.
One of the other interesting tenets of Singularitarianism is that death itself is considered not necessarily permanent. Or let me say that better, "Aging is damage that can potentially be repaired using scientific principles. And the year human immortality will be possible is theoretically 2045. or "The Singularity".
There is an English biologist with a very long beard named Aubrey deGrey who is researching this premise right now. He has a PHD from Cambridge.
Another quote by him from page 48 of the Time magazine article is "People have begun to realize that the view of aging as something immutable---like the heat death of the universe---
is simply ridiculous." end quote.
Once again this takes me back to what one of my teachers once said to me, "If you live to be 100 you will see 500. If you live to be 500 you will see 1000. If you live to be 1000 you will see 5000. If you live to see 5000 you will see 10,000. I think I finally understand what he was talking about now. Because this is potentially true of anyone of us here on earth or beyond.
The term "Singularitarian" was originally defined by Extropian thinker Mark Plus (Mark Potts) in 1991 to mean "one who believes the concept of a Singularity". This term has since been redefined to mean "Singularity activist" or "friend of the Singularity"; that is, one who acts so as to bring about the Singularity.[2] Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, author of the 2005 book The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, defines a Singularitarian as someone "who understands the Singularity and who has reflected on its implications for his or her own life", and predicts the Singularity will occur in 2045.[1]
end quote from wikipedia under the heading "Singularitarianism"
If you have looked at the February 21st Time Magazine or looked at it at time.com you likely have already read of singularitarianism.
One of the other interesting tenets of Singularitarianism is that death itself is considered not necessarily permanent. Or let me say that better, "Aging is damage that can potentially be repaired using scientific principles. And the year human immortality will be possible is theoretically 2045. or "The Singularity".
There is an English biologist with a very long beard named Aubrey deGrey who is researching this premise right now. He has a PHD from Cambridge.
Another quote by him from page 48 of the Time magazine article is "People have begun to realize that the view of aging as something immutable---like the heat death of the universe---
is simply ridiculous." end quote.
Once again this takes me back to what one of my teachers once said to me, "If you live to be 100 you will see 500. If you live to be 500 you will see 1000. If you live to be 1000 you will see 5000. If you live to see 5000 you will see 10,000. I think I finally understand what he was talking about now. Because this is potentially true of anyone of us here on earth or beyond.
The Hummingbird sized U.S. Drone
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110301/ap_on_re_us/us_hummingbird_drone
SAN DIEGO – You'll never look at hummingbirds the same again.
The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and audio equipment that can record sights and sounds.
They could be used to spy, but also to locate people inside earthquake-crumpled buildings and detect hazardous chemical leaks.
The smaller, the better.
Besides the hummingbird, engineers in the growing unmanned aircraft industry are working on drones that look like insects and the helicopter-like maple leaf seed.
Researchers are even exploring ways to implant surveillance and other equipment into an insect as it is undergoing metamorphosis. They want to be able to control the creature.
The devices could end up being used by police officers and firefighters. end quote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_BzTu92Nc
The youtube above is the hummingbird drone in action.
What is interesting to me is what kind of battery powers this thing when it is this small? I wonder how long it can fly without running down the batteries?
SAN DIEGO – You'll never look at hummingbirds the same again.
The Pentagon has poured millions of dollars into the development of tiny drones inspired by biology, each equipped with video and audio equipment that can record sights and sounds.
They could be used to spy, but also to locate people inside earthquake-crumpled buildings and detect hazardous chemical leaks.
The smaller, the better.
Besides the hummingbird, engineers in the growing unmanned aircraft industry are working on drones that look like insects and the helicopter-like maple leaf seed.
Researchers are even exploring ways to implant surveillance and other equipment into an insect as it is undergoing metamorphosis. They want to be able to control the creature.
The devices could end up being used by police officers and firefighters. end quote.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k_BzTu92Nc
The youtube above is the hummingbird drone in action.
What is interesting to me is what kind of battery powers this thing when it is this small? I wonder how long it can fly without running down the batteries?
Where did the two opposition leaders in Iran Go?
It seems to be possible that the two opposition leaders in Iran might have been put in a shallow grave somewhere because they are nowhere to be found. If the present Iranian government did this it likely will be the beginning of the end for the present Iranian government when the Iranian people all over the world find out.
Later: I found some evidence that they and their wives have been transfered to the Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran.
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/iran-s-opposition-leaders-transferred-to-heshmatiyeh-jail
begin quote from above article:
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied in Tehran today to demand the release of opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi who have disappeared from public view since February 14th. Iran security forces and plain clothes police attacked demonstrators with tear gas.
Iranian news agency Fars has denied that the men have been secretly transferred to Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran. However, the two men's websites stated that they had in fact been taken to prison. Kaleme.com, Mr. Mousavi's site said that both men were arrested and imprisoned with their wives.
Later: I found some evidence that they and their wives have been transfered to the Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran.
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-national/iran-s-opposition-leaders-transferred-to-heshmatiyeh-jail
begin quote from above article:
Thousands of anti-government demonstrators rallied in Tehran today to demand the release of opposition leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi who have disappeared from public view since February 14th. Iran security forces and plain clothes police attacked demonstrators with tear gas.
Iranian news agency Fars has denied that the men have been secretly transferred to Heshmatiyeh jail in Tehran. However, the two men's websites stated that they had in fact been taken to prison. Kaleme.com, Mr. Mousavi's site said that both men were arrested and imprisoned with their wives.
I Am Number Four: The movie
I was pleasantly surprised by this movie. Both my wife and I like Sci-Fi movies so this one we found quite pleasing in this genre. I would say even though it was a B movie it had all the elements that young people like, young protaganists, high school kids and high school angst, as well as a lot of aliens running around on Earth. I liked it enough surprisingly because it might be something like I would tend to write except I don't usually like to write about violence. In life, if you are past high school and into college, violence is almost always counterproductive. So, I like to write about who succeeded and why even in regard to spirituality and time travel. It is much more realistic about how adulthood actually is. Most of the time no one gets physically killed or injured in adulthood, though everyone's heart gets broken at least once or more. So, in the end, being a kind person at heart who has wisdom and acts kindly towards as many beings a possible is going to be the hero for everyone. Being kind, wise and self disciplined is the cornerstone of life along with being a consummate opportunist.
Once again, I found this movie very satisfying in many ways and you might too even though it is quite violent at times.
Once again, I found this movie very satisfying in many ways and you might too even though it is quite violent at times.
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