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The Singularity is Near

http://photizo.gaia.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:14:36 GMT

The Singularity is Near, A True Story about the Future, based on Ray Kurzweil’s New York Times best selling book, will be a full-length motion picture slated for theatrical release in late 2009.

Inventor, entrepreneur, visionary, Ray Kurzweil's accomplishments read as a startling series of firsts -- a litany of technological breakthroughs we've come to take for granted. Kurzweil invented the first optical character recognition (OCR) software for transforming the written word into data, the first print-to-speech software for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, and many electronic instruments.

Ray Kurzweil

Yet his impact as a futurist and philosopher is no less significant. In his best-selling books, which include The Age of Spiritual Machines and The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (set to become a movie in September 2009), Kurzweil depicts in detail a portrait of the human condition over the next few decades, as accelerating technologies forever blur the line between human and machine.

Here in the Transcendent Man trailer the life and ideas of Ray Kurzweil introduces the renowned futurist who journeys the world offering his vision of a future in which we will merge with our machines, can live forever, and are billions of times more intelligent...all within the next thirty years.

His reasoning rests on the combination of four postulates:

   1. That a technological-evolutionary point known as "the singularity" exists as an achievable goal for humanity (the exact nature of the point is an arbitrarily high level of technology).
   2. That through a law of accelerating returns, technology is progressing toward the singularity at an exponential rate.
   3. That the functionality of the human brain is quantifiable in terms of technology that we can build in the near future.
   4. That medical advancements could keep a significant number of his generation (Baby Boomers) alive long enough for the exponential growth of technology to intersect and surpass the processing of the human brain.

All four of Kurzweil's primary postulates must be
correct in order for his conclusion to be true.

Transcendent Man Film Trailer

In 2009, he unveiled Singularity University, an institution that aims to "assemble, educate and inspire leaders who strive to understand and facilitate the development of exponentially advancing technologies." Check out the TED Talk

Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity

At the Onset of the 21st Century, it will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. While the social and philosophical ramifications of these changes will be profound, and the threats they pose considerable, celebrated futurist Ray Kurzweil presents a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our ultimate destiny.

Wired Magazine interviewed Kurzweil where he had this to say about our future and our way of thinking.

WN: You've already written a book explaining your theories about the approach of singularity; why did you want to do a movie? To spread the meme further?

Kurzweil: Yes, but it's not just an idle desire to spread the meme -- like, I had this idea, and now I want everyone to know about it. There's so much discussion that's totally unrealistic, because people are not aware of this topic. Al Gore gets up there to do his PowerPoint presentation on global warming, and he says, "Within 100 years, carbon levels will be here," as if nothing's going to change! As if it's going to be the same old world in 100 years. He never once mentions nanotechnology.

WN: So you're trying to make people understand how the exponential advances in technology will abruptly and unexpectedly solve many of the world's problems?

Kurzweil: Think how different the world was 10 years ago -- 10 years ago, most people didn't use search engines. That sounds like ancient history now. Generally, people think linearly. I think it's critical that people understand that linear thinking no longer applies. If we capture one part out of 10,000 of sunlight that falls on the earth, we can solve our energy problems. And nanotech will give us the capacity to store (that solar energy). Radical life extensions mean that the current discussion of social security is completely unrealistic. People say, "Oh, there's going to be a deficit in 2027." Their model is based on linear predictions on longevity, productivity and economic growth. The situation will be different when you have 65-year-olds who look and act 35 years old.

WN: It's certainly true that linear thinking runs through everything we do.

Kurzweil: For thousands of years, it actually served our needs to think linearly. If you think about our genes and our brains, they obviously evolved into their modern forms before advanced technology. If you saw something in the trees coming towards you, and you made a linear projection about where it would be in 15 seconds, and where you needed to not be, that actually worked very well. But these days we have different kinds of problems, and we need a different kind of thinking.

Tags: Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity, Artificial Intelligence, AI, Machines, Photizo

All The Water and Air on Earth

http://photizo.gaia.com — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:11:09 GMT

Dan Phiffer found this image on a message board (it's by Adam Nieman / Science Photo Library), and by his calculations, he says it's accurate.

Left: All the water in the world (1.4087 billion cubic kilometres of it) including sea water, ice, lakes, rivers, ground water, clouds, etc.
Right: All the air in the atmosphere (5140 trillion tonnes of it) gathered into a ball at sea-level density. Shown on the same scale as the Earth.

From Science Photo Library: Conceptual computer artwork of the total volume of water on Earth (left) and of air in the Earth's atmosphere (right) shown as spheres (blue and pink). The spheres show how finite water and air supplies are. The water sphere measures 1390 kilometres across and has a volume of 1.4 billion cubic kilometres. This includes all the water in the oceans, seas, ice caps, lakes and rivers as well as ground water, and that in the atmosphere. The air sphere measures 1999 kilometres across and weighs 5140 trillion tonnes. As the atmosphere extends from Earth it becomes less dense. Half of the air lies within the first 5 kilometres of the atmosphere.

Tags: Earth, Water, H20, Air, Atmosphere, Gaia, Photizo

The Open Door

http://photizo.gaia.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:38:54 GMT

The Open Door
Amy Lee - Evanescence

Sometime life seems like the movie the Matrix and we're all looking for the Key Master to open the right doors to the architect of our own design to find joy and happiness. Or as Neo is asked, "what is it that you want?" To which he simply says.... "Peace"."

But like in the movie, our time here is about choice, the free will to open or close any door we choose knowing the conseqeunces of those actions. And that's where the challenge comes when our choices are clouded or fueled by emotions that drive us here and there. It's so easy so just say be the witness to your emotions and realize them as objective realities. Yes we all live in the three states of consciousness of waking - Dreaming - Sleeping or what correspond to the three great realms of gross - subtle and causal, so that we all see the world in a different way depending on what state we are in at the time. But there are some emotions that are very difficult to dismiss. The two by which we are cyberneticaly wired.... Love and Hate or the Pleasure -Pain principle that finds itself lived out in our daily life of relationships.

Man is a knot into which relationships are tied.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,

Emotions are the subjective experiences from our own personal point of view that move us. In fact, the English word 'emotion' is derived from the French word émouvoir. This is based on the Latin emovere, where e- (variant of ex-) means 'out' and movere means 'move',' or the related "motivation."

Emotions move us, drive us and we even make lists of good ones and bad ones. Yet when it comes to the heart our emotions define us and since we spend most of our conscious time in the waking state or sensorimotor world of people, places and things, we tend to just say that everything is Fine Again And we aware now of how
everything’s gonna be fine one day.

Seether - "Fine Again" Official Video

Now I chose Seether's Video for a reason as I believe it's in relationships that we find our meaning, our joy and happiness, and also our sorrow , pain and loss. And beacuse I am a fan of Seether and Amy Lee, I thought I would use their videos which are a public display of their own relationship, emotions and the choices they each made through the use of music videos.

Amy Lee and Shaun Morgan were together for about two or so years and you may remember that both of them sang together in Seether's Broken Video which is about a relationship.

Shaun said he wrote this about his emotions towards a girlfriend with the first line
"I wanted you to know that I love the way you laugh..." and It was a way of telling her he wanted her: "Cause I am broken when I am lonesome and I don't feel right when you're gone away"

Amy Lee,Seether-Broken

Shaun is a hugh fan of Kurt Cobain and was heavily influenced by him and Morgan's interpretation of Nirvana's music is just a vehicle for emotional catharsis. So with the loss of his brother In August 2007, It was reported by the Rapid City Journal that Eugene "Genie" Welgemoed jumped to his death shortly after midnight Monday August 13, 2007 from an eighth-floor window of the Radisson Hotel in Rapid City, SD. According to police, no foul play is suspected in the death. It was ruled a suicide after an investigation which isndpired this video, the first release off their new album

FINDING BEAUTY IN NEGATIVE SPACES.

Seether - "Rise Above This" (Official Video)

So having lost his brother, and losing his guitarist in the previous year he also did a stint in rehab. So you might understand the meaning of the new album title, but the story gets better. You see, Amy Lee of Evanescence decides to release the Album the Open Door that lays out the two's relationship and strikes a blow at Shaun subjecting him to the humiliation of Amy Lee, pretty much writing an entire album about him.

The song, Call Me When Your Sober sets the stage with Amy as Little Red riding Hood who pets the wolf, (Remember this metaphor as Shaun uses it in response in a future video)

Call Me When Your Sober
Amy Lee as Little Red Riding Hood

This video switches it so that the wolves allow their ears to be petted and shows how Red Riding Hood turns the tables (or at least walks down table) with a second wolf who is being evicted (arguably).

It focusses upon the (at the time) recent break up of Lee’s relationship with Shaun Morgan and instead of taking the issues from the relationships, she turns it around and deals with the wolves on her own. So we have the tale of Red Riding Hood taking on the wolf and about a young woman taking control of her own situation. So to watch the video knowing all this background just makes it that much more interesting and the looks she gives when she says you only call me when your sober with her head tilt and look at 2:31 into the vid and her last look into the camera when she says I've made up your mind and laughs are priceless. Take a look.

Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober" Official Video

So not to be out done in the public eyes, Shaun's emotions are relased through his own video in response to Amy's. Shaun is quoted as saying, "

"The song is about not allowing yourself to be beaten down by what people say about you and kind of believing in yourself, and ultimately knowing that you'll be better for it"

I think it speaks for itself, and look out for the wolf and the chorus:

So break me down if it makes you feel right
And hate me now if it keeps you alright
You can break me down if it takes all your might
'Cause I'm so much more than meets the eye

Seether - "Breakdown" (Official Video)

But as yet the story does not yet end, for the 13th and last cut on the Open Door Album is Amy Lee's song about her new boyfriend, Josh. In "The Open Door" cd in the "thanks section". There's a part there that says

"Josh, you are my muse. Nothing inspires me the way you do. Thank you for all my missing pieces. Thank you for your strength and love. Thank you for letting me see myself through your eyes, because only then could I know that I am good enough for you".

Basically, Amy is saying that she let him flirt with her for a while and then she started to ("shouldn't have let you torture me so sweetly, now I can't let go of this dream") and now she feels like she's good enough for someone again.

Josh and Amy Collage

Note in the beginning how she metaphorically
burries a picture in the ground like a seed.

Evanescence - "Good Enough" Official Video

So how do you deal with all these emotions we feel daily, some so powerful such as love and loss that it remains a daily burden?

First.......

Take reponsibility for your emotions - If you think someone else is causing your emotional issues, then you may be waiting a lifetime for them to change... see it for what it really is and deal with it.

Witness the Emotions in your body - A good key here is if you feel your spirit being pulled away from from you then you are not in control of it.

Define the emotion. Is it fear, love anger?

Next, express the emotion, write it down, tell it to someone, but find a way to release it. Not all of us have access to high end video production or the talent of the two artists above, but they are definitley releasing their emotions through the medium of music videos. Then once it's released, burn it. Just as in the final video "Good Enough" that then allows for a new beginning as the flowers begin to bloom amid the burning wreckage of her past.

Then celebrate that closure and let it go...let it go.......

DEO

Tags: The Open Door, Amy Lee, Evanescence, Photizo

MLK Revisited

http://photizo.gaia.com — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:47:22 GMT

In waking up to Martin Luther King Day its hard not to envision his historical speech, “I have a Dream” so I went over to You Tube and watched the entire speech a couple of times.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: I Have a Dream

The Complete "I have a Dream Speech." 11 minutes

In listening to his impassioned voice of faith and reason, justice and equality, I couldn’t help but think of the central point of his “vision of a completely integrated society, a community of love and justice wherein brotherhood would be an actuality in all of social life.” Or what he called "The solidarity of the human family"

I like to believe his Legacy lives on in more then a sound bite once a year, or a token acknowledgment of a man most have never heard. That by his life, actions and words we continue to seek after the Dream of a “Beloved Community”.

Martin Luther was an integralist who believed we are all dependent upon one another, that "the concept of brotherhood” was “a vision of total interrelatedness.”

"Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally ‘in the red.’ “Recognition of one’s indebtedness to past generations should inhibit the sense of self-sufficiency and promote awareness that personal growth cannot take place apart from meaningful relationships with other persons, that the "I" cannot attain fulfillment without the "Thou."

He had no illusions of the mountains that would need to be climbed, nor of the struggle in raising people’s consciousness to the economic injustice that a consumerist capitalist society breeds. A structure that by its very nature feeds off the inequality and injustice of the poor while given privilege to the few.

"It is . . . essential to notice that the two elements, the holy outcast
and the blessed community, must go together. Without the vision
of restored community, the holiness ascribed to the poor would fall far
short of politics and result in a mere perpetuation of charity and
service activities’’ [On Not Leaving It to the Snake (Macmillan, 1967). P. 133].

I am thankful for the inspiration that he gave others and continues to give today as his spirit lives on. I am thankful of others out there who have a dream and a vision. Like many here at Zaads who are committed visionaries spreading seeds of hope and love for a “Beloved Community”. Each of us, by defining the integrated self, seeks to expand the awareness and consciousness of others in a meaningful way. To help others realize the unlimited potential that resides within all of us to make a better world. To Make Poverty History by actualizing the belief that it all starts with ONE.

“Our lives begin to end the day we

become silent about things that matter.”

“Let Freedom Ring”

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It's Been Awhile

http://photizo.gaia.com — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:37:42 GMT

"Soft Watch at the Moment of First Explosion"
The soft watch itself is a surreal symbol which adresses the
unimportance or the irrelevance of time during the process of a dream.

It's been awhile since I've posted here on the blog and those who know me know why. Like the Dali painting above, time has been seen as a dream and like Dali's first presentation of the soft watch, life can be seen as "The Persistance of Memory," which for me is all time really is, a measurement of experience and memories from the begining to the end.

Recent day's have seemed like Dali's watch exploding into an ever faster and disintgrating pace of surrrealism. Yet at the same time experiencing the Einsteining physics of the slowing of the days events while trying to gain clarity. Though it has been awhile, alot has happened that maybe those who see daily what Dali painted above will understand. So today I felt compelled to just write and post a few things that allow for a little contemplation of time, experience and memory and try to find that peaceful place or unspace of no time. And what better song then "It's Been Awhile" by Staind to throw a little light with an introspective song about realizing that it's been awhile since a lot of things.

While it's so easy to lose sight of the NOW, it's never to late to be present, as NOW is is the only time we will ever have. Yet we all get busy planning our future for tomorrow or reliving the past as if today were yesterday. We fall into a reality trap, seeing our own perspective from past colored glasses of experience. As Einstein states,

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

and as Salvador Dali paints in the Persistence Of Memory with time melting away

"The Persistence of Memory"
Salvador Dali

So I thought I would remind my SELF that it might be wise to hear the words of Marcus Aurelius

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can
one take from him that which is not his? So remember these
two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting
and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not
whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred
years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the
longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die,
lose one and the same thing - Marcus Aurelius

The pressures of the daily grind can literally bring our lives to halt, supressing the will to actively choose and wake up from the dream. Like Plato's cave shackled to watching the shadows in our socially constructed society that shapes our perspective to try and fit into it's social "Forms" and "Norms." When, if you really think about it, all there can be is formlessness and the flux between the forms. Instead we percieve our reality on what we have constructed which in turn shapes our shadowy Mayan perspective or "our" opinion.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Marcus Aurelius

"Galatea of the Spheres"
Salvdor Dali

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it
considers to be shackles limiting our vision. - Salvador Dali

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective
forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely
social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward
social emancipation. Salvador Dali

Yet as social creatures it's easy to be shaped by these constructs of the Matrix of our own design and unnconsciously sleep through the days events. We drift so far away from our True Self that we began to experience time as some surrealistic dream of being on the Outside looking in. Time to suspend what we think we know as reality and find the ideal image of the true self through balance and walk the path of the Middle Way. And there is the daily challenge, to suspend the norms and just be part of the flux, and flow with the ever changing fluidity of life and not try to control it as we are so like to do. Bruce Lee often spoke of this as Wu Wie which involves knowing when to act and when not to act, or the natural action to do without doing.

"Wu-Wei"

"The basic idea of the Tao Te Ching is NATURALISM in the
sense of wu-wei (inaction), which really means taking no unnatural action.
It means spontaneity; that is. "to support all things in their natural stage" and
thus allow them to "transform spontaneously." In this manner Tao "Undertakes
no activity and yet there is nothing left undone."

But if we allow ourselves, and we do, we get out of balance and can easily feel on the outside of everything and everyone, disconnected and alone. Aaron Lewis of Staind writes about this in another brilliant song he first recorded live on the 1999 Family Values Tour in Biloxi Mississippi. In fact he never really wrote the lyrics as much as they just came to him live on stage as improv except the chorus and the first verse. So we get a peak inside the psyche of Aaron while he reflects from a place of memories thathas him on the Outside Looking in.

And so with all that pain stuffed inside, alone he can't mend he allows for hope that tomorrow will be ok. We all may have these feelings that tomorrow may seem So Far Away, from "All the mistakes, one life contained, but they all finally start to go away and youI feel like you can face the day and can forgive and not be ashamed to be the person that you are today... You can wake up from the dream and walk into a new day.

Staind - "So Far Away" (Acoustic in Yahoo Studios)

"A Woman At The Window"
Salvador Dali

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current;
no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another
takes its place, and this too will be swept away. - Marcus Aurelius

DEO

Tags: Salvador Dali, Staind, So Far Away, It's Been Awhile, Outside Looing In, Photizo

The Great Gig In The Sky

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:26:52 GMT

Pink Floyds
The Dark Side of The Moon
The cover is a reference to the
group's reputation for amazing light shows.

Today on the 4th of July I couldn't help but be reminded of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, the meaning behind it and of course the Great Gig in the sky and those amazing light shows. Tonight most will head out and stare up into the night sky in the midst of this maddening world and watch the fireworks on the 4th's Gig.

Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is said to be the 4th best selling album of all time and I remember as a teenager falling asleep to this classic night after night entranced by it's sounds. The concept album explores the nature of the human experience from birth to death and the madness in between. All of the tracks and meanings are amazing but one that gave me chills was always the 5th track or the Great gig in the Sky.

It features the soaring voice instrumental music by Clare Torry and was originally called either "The Religion Song" or "The Mortality Sequence" during recording. It's been said that when she nailed it on the first take she apologised thinking it wasn't very good. For the blog I have loaded a cover with fireworks, but for the real deal which can never be replicated, click here

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky (1988)

The album begins with "Speak to Me / Breathe" and is about birth and being a child with new earthly experiences. "Time" deals with growing older and the overwhelmingly fast approach of death - youth being gone before one even realizes it. "The Great Gig in the Sky" deals with thoughts of death and religion, "Money" deals with consumerism with tongue-in-cheek lyrics and wealth-related sound effects. "Us and Them" deals with conflict, ethnocentrism, and the belief that a person's self is "always in the right". The final track is "Eclipse" that deals with growing too old to be who one once was, and finally, death.

Having enjoyed Pink Floyd I decided to make my own version of Eclipse below. Enjoy the Fourth of July, some great tunage and drive safe!

Pink Floyd - Eclipse - Dark Side of the Moon

DEO

Tags: Fourth of July, Pink Floyd, Great Gig in the Sky, Eclipse, Clare Torry, Photizo, Gaia

Water is Life

http://photizo.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:42:56 GMT

Water is the life force of the body and is an essential component of blood, lymph, bodily excretions as well as every part of every cell in the body. In any diet or health program, water is key to balancing the body and flushing out toxins. Though you may live for weeks without food, without water, the body will die within days.

With water comprising on average 55 to 80 percent of your body's weight, making sure you drink high quality is essential to maintain proper health. Water is used by the body to:

Regulates body temperature
Carries nutrients and oxygen to all cells in the body
Moistens oxygen for breathing
Protects and cushions vital organs
Helps to convert food into energy
Helps body absorb nutrients
Removes waste
Cushion joints
Protect organs and tissues

Dehydration

Every day, up to two-and-a-half quarts of water are spent through perspiration, urination, and exhalation. Because the body has no reserve, we must replace what is lost daily to ensure optimum health and well being. Dehydration is a major cause of ill health and and leads to decreased energy and vitality as the body loses it's ability to carry out cellular functions and rid the body of wastes and toxins.

Our bodies require a certain amount of fluid intake on a daily basis to function; the minimum is equal to four 8 ounce glasses (one liter or one quart). But if you lead an active lifestyle you will need two to three times this basic amount. Drinking plenty of water enables the body to replace the fluids which are required to perform our normal bodily functions. If we take in less or lose more fluid than is needed, the end result is dehydration.

Water is Life

DEO

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Proud Papa!

http://photizo.gaia.com — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:08:09 GMT

Dakota

Sunday was Fathers day which brings the realization that for every year that passes, your son becomes more of a man. Dakota is now 11 and quickly coming into his own. I blogged about my son Oct. 26, 2007 after a trip to Colorado and a request to watch a video.

Since then he has grown and I have tried not to spend as much time at the computer....but as you may have seen, I have not been here for some time because I have taken up a new Hobby in Day Trading. I began a New Blog and have been making some extra money on the side as a swing trader in the stock market. When I made $14,000 in 3 days and came in 2nd place in a portfolio contest on a popular stock site my first try, I was hooked. But time is more precious then money and time spent with my son is the best time of all.

This week I'll be going on a cruise and wanted Dakota to take up Scuba Diving. Though he has yet to finish the class, by end of summer we should be able to go anywhere in the world and scuba together and create some amazing memories.

So on Fathers day when driving back from dinner Dakota was sitting in the back seat listening to his I-Touch and kept singing one song over and over as best he could, not knowing I was listening with his headphones on....and smiling at his tunage. the song?...Lynryd Skynyrd's SiSimple Man by Shinedown.

My son learns everday from my examples but the message of this song is clear, Be A Simple Kind Of Man, Be Something You Love and Understand I like those words and just as he wanted to show me his video back in October of Don't Blink, I offer this video to my Son for Fathers Day.

Shinedown - Simple Man

Happy Fathers day to all Dad's blessed to have Children,

DEO

Tags: Father Day, Lynryd Skynyrd, Photizo, Gaia

Breath Awareness

http://photizo.gaia.com — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:37:10 GMT

By - Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D. *

The most basic breathing practice is simple breath awareness. Come into a comfortable seated position - cross-legged, kneeling, or in a chair. It's important to have the spine straight, so that the lungs and torso have room to expand in all directions as you breathe. To lengthen the spine, consider sitting with a folded blanket just under the hips (cross-legged) or between the hips and heels (kneeling).

Close your eyes and bring your awareness to your breath. Begin by simply noticing each breath as it happens. As you inhale, notice that you are inhaling. As you exhale, notice that your are exhaling. Continue this noticing until you feel your awareness settling comfortably and reliably on the breath. You can then refine your awareness, by noticing more subtle aspects of the breath. Consider shifting your awareness to the following aspects of the breath:

Notice the breath entering and exiting the body at the tip of your nose.

Notice the breath move through the airway, from the nose to the mouth to the throat as you inhale, and from the throat to the mouth to the nose as you exhale.

Notice the quality of your breath: Does it feel jagged or smooth? Does it feel rushed or slow? Does it feel shallow or deep?

Notice the sound of your breath: Can you hear it? What does it sound like?

Notice the length of each inhalation and exhalation. Are they even? Is the breath slowing down or speeding up?

Notice the belly moving with the breath. Place your hands on your belly and feel the belly expand and contract.

Notice the rib cage moving with the breath. Place your hands on your rib cage and feel the ribs expand and contract.

Notice the chest and upper back moving with the breath. Wrap your arms around your upper chest and shoulders, and feel the chest and upper back move with the breath. (see the hug breath for a more detailed version of this observation).

Notice the full dimensionality of your breath: radiate out, in all directions, with each breath.

Continue to notice whatever you notice - go deeper with this awareness practice and notice the subtleties of your own breath. With this practice, you are not trying to consciously control the breath. However, as you become more aware of the breath, you may find that the quality of your breath changes. Allow this to happen naturally, without strain or effort.

Suggested Practice Time: 5 minutes or longer. Practice several times a day, if possible. This is a practice that can stand on its own, whenever you have the chance to practice it.

Kelly McGonigal, PhD is a leading expert on the mind-body relationship and the psychology of yoga. She teaches yoga, meditation, and psychology at Stanford University, and is a passionate editor and freelance writer in the areas of mind-body psychology and integrative healthcare. Her writing and work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Yogi Times, L.A. Yoga, Yoga Chicago, Yoga for Everybody, and IDEA Fitness Journal, and she has been featured as a mind-body expert for many publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Body + Soul, Fitness, Women’s Health, Martha Stewart Weddings, Readers Digest, Runner’s World, and MSNBC.com.

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The Onion News - Videos

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:41:29 GMT

From time to time I like to pass along a little snapshot of a particulate art form, artist or creative spirit that I find unique, funny, engaging or moving in some way as we live in an age where the Medium in the Message. These artists sometimes ask us to think and stretch the limits of our imagination with their creativity which have come in many different forms.

Sometimes it's just simple act of a hug, the fun and authentic music of The Kooks, or amazing computer software that changes how we interact as in the Perceptive Pixel to the incredible CG short movie from Industrial Light and Magic that begs you to look into the body, mind and spirit entitled A Work in Progress or the fantastic and relevant art parody of Havidol to the creative and professional photography of David Nightengale and of course the Worlds Fastest Car and Sexy Models.

Art comes in so many forms but lately online videos have really been heating up the internet so I thought I would throw one more offering out there for you to take a look at from Onion News.

Having already blossomed as a newspaper, Web site and book publisher, The Onion’s brand of humor is now available in the hottest medium of the moment: Online video. If you have never heard of The Onion News they are perhaps the most dominant provider of fake news anywhere. And they do it so well that even some of the comments from the videos posted on YouTube are fooled, which of course says so much for the Idiocracy of America.

Their videos are hilarious in their approach and witty in their content. These new videos will make you laugh and beg you to ask, why can’t the majority of Americans see through the bullshit which is a perfect segway to showcase a typical satire of the political scene. Take a look.

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters

Perhaps my favorite political spoof was the following who
for all of those who understand the truth behind Diebold will appreciate.

The Onion: Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 08 Election

But of all the spoofs they do so well I’m glad to see such great material regarding the Iraq War. As readers of this blog know I have been a strong advocate against this ridiculous war with all it lies and useless destruction it has caused, The untold numbers of human tragedy and suffering our Neocon Nuts have created as I wrote on in the Maters of War and Memorial Day pieces.

Here are a few …

The Onion: How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly

The Onion: Army Holds Annual Bring Your Daughter To War Day

Here is there most watched video and a great look at the Queen Waiving duties.

The Onion: Queen Will Leave Behind Long Legacy Of Waving

And finally a fun look at the mechanization of our society.

The Onion: Are We Giving Robots Too Much Power?

I hope you enjoyed some of these as much as I did and noticed the ticker running on the bottom. There are of course many more that can be viewed here.

DEO

Tags: The Onion News, Satire, Parody, Gaia, Photizo

Steps to Wellness

http://photizo.gaia.com — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:54:34 GMT

"Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is
free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open.
B.K.S. Iyengar

Over the last several weeks I've been fighting flu and a lingering bronchitis that left me with a general malaise in my everyday activities. With the immune system weakened, my energy low I decided to revisit 5 steps for integral wellness that can re-balance the mind, body and spirit. So this last week I have gone vegan, begun a cleansing program, turned off the TV, tuned out the stress and tuned into the observer.

So I thought I would offer up these steps that I find helpful when dealing with sickness, stress, DIS -ease or just a feeling of overwhelm. Forgive the writing as it is more in article format in style rather then blog free flowing thoughts, but the points are valid and information helpful.

The first and most important step to wellness is understanding who you are as spirit, mind and body. It is these three elements that makeup our reality as the spirit moves the mind, which in turn sets the body in motion. Spirit over mind over matter, or the observer, the process of observing and the observed.

In today's modern world our minds have been polluted by a virtual tsunami wave of information. This media wave acts as a toxin as our minds try and cope with the stressors of information overload. To stay sane , the mind filterers and prioritizes through what is needful and ignores the rest until we deal with them in our sleep as the unconscious replays the days events in dreamtime.

When the mind is preoccupied and or confused as to its purpose by the cluttering of thoughts and the infotainment buzz, it is unable to direct the body in a meaningful way. This leads to both mental and physical fatigue as our energy is drawn down by thoughts and behaviors that are self sabotaging or without real meaning. A life without direction and purpose soon leads to depression, sickness and DISease. The key to integral wellness is to find the meaning and purpose of your life which brings peace and tranquility and a greater sense of well being. Your inner strength soon shines through as it radiates outwards towards others. This is real beauty and wellness.

Steps to integral wellness.

Step 1: Cleanse your mind and Body.

As we begin each day in our fast past lives our mind and body are constantly processing thoughts, emotions, and experiences at an incessant rate. As the body reacts to changes in it's physical, mental or emotional experience it can make you feel overwhelmed, causing stress. If stress continues this leads to distress which throws the body out of balance leading to physical symptoms. If the stress is prolonged the symptoms can lead to disease and death. Stress has been linked to six of the leading causes of death: heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicide

Cleansing the body

With our bodies out of balance the mind fatigues and begins to worry and try to cope with the imbalance, so a good place to start is by cleansing the body to free the mind. Here area few simple steps you can take.

Detox - is the process of cleansing and restoring the body to a state of natural balance and harmony by ridding the body of toxins. This is done by increasing the efficiency of the digestive system and stimulating other parts of the body that are responsible for cleansing and elimination of wastes.

Your body is designed to deal with toxins by neutralizing, transforming or eliminating them. The liver, kidneys, intestines, lungs, lymph nodes and skin all work at ridding the body of toxins and waste. It is when the body reaches an overload of these toxins that our immune system is compromised and we suffer. Here are a few ways of detoxing.

Drink more water - Just drinking at least three pints of water each day will help you flush out toxins.

Eat more fruits and vegetables - Fruits and vegetables are higher in water content, contain powerful antioxidants and provide fiber for easy digestion. Eat less meat and dairy products.

Avoid chemicals and refined foods - Stay away from preservatives and chemical additives in foods such as Aspartame found in diet sodas and packaged as Nutrsweet Equal and others. Over 100 million American now consume aspartame products which literally stimulate the neurons of the brain to death causing brain damage of varying degrees. Aspartame contains 10% methanol, and without ethanol and pectin, it's antidotes, it quickly turns toxic. Ethanol & pectin prevent methanol from being metabolized into formaldehyde (embalming fluid) & formic acid (same chemical as fire ant venom), both deadly toxins. Bottom line, stay away from anything that contains aspartame.

As detoxification takes effect the healing process will be set in motion and your health will steadily improve.

Free the body and free the mind.

Human beings were never designed to live and cope with the high stress demands of the 21st century lifestyle. With the mind having to make decisions every moment of the day we tend to get caught up in the thinking game and can easily become overwhelmed by the frantic pace of it all. Our minds turn round and round incessantly thinking of this or that, worried about the past or anticipating the future, when NOW is the only time you will ever have. The past is gone, the future is yet to be, which is why we call the present a 'gift'.

Relaxing the mind is the natural balance to relaxing the body and to be able to deal with the stressors in your life, you need to be able to do both. By learning to turn of the mind like a switch, you will find it easier to separate your mind from its immediate surroundings. To find stillness in your life means finding peace, and finding peace brings mind and body to a natural state of harmony.

Here are a few ways to relax the mind.

Meditation - Meditation is by far the most effective way of focusing your mind to bring about relaxation, peace and tranquility. With the ability to control your mind instead of allowing your mind controlling you, the peace and harmony you lack in anxious thoughts will disappear. You will find yourself with more energy and better able to cope by managing your time more effectively.

How it works

Your brain is the body's computer center of all your thoughts, feelings and sensory experiences. The brain communicates by electrical impulses or what we call brain waves. This language of the brain manifests itself as four states of electrical activity or consciousness. They are:

Beta - From concentration to anxiety or fight or flight.

Alpha - Relaxation, super learning to pre sleep and access to unconscious mind

Theta - Increased creativity, the ah-ha moment, to Dreamin state (REM), trance and access to unconscious mind.

Delta - Dreamless sleep, deep trance like state, total loss of body awareness, access to the unconscious and the collective unconscious mind.

Meditation affects this electrical impulses or language and produces high-intensity alpha waves which are associated with super learning, deep relaxation and mental alertness. This state helps break through the learned patterned responses of stress from the sense of urgency and anxiety that you may habitually encounter.

Taking time out each day has proved to lead to a more positive attitude, a greater sense of well being and a feeling of being very much in control.

For more information on meditation Click here.

To find out more on the most amazing transformation tool on the planet. click here

Visualization and positive affirmations

Visualization is a technique that concentrates the powers of our imagination and enables people to overcome obstacles in their lives, improve memory, enhance learning, and to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. Imagery is helpful in developing focus and concentration; calming; coping with stress/anxiety. Visualization combined with positive affirmations can be extremely powerful.

The idea behind positive affirmations is a simple one.

Thoughts create emotions - emotions create responses,
and responses reinforce thoughts.

The mental map of our belief system is maintained by this very simple premise. To help undue conflicting or self sabotaging thinking, simply find a quiet moment and

Here are some examples of Positive Mind/Body Affirmations

I handle stress and tension appropriately and effectively.
My mood is calm and relaxed.
I can cope well and get on with my life during times of stress.
I think thoughts that uplift and nurture me.
I enjoy thinking positive thoughts that make me feel good about myself and my life.
I deserve to feel good right now.
I feel peaceful and calm.
My breathing is slow and calm.
My muscles are relaxed and comfortable.
I feel grounded and fully present.
I can effectively handle any situation that comes my way.
I think through the solutions to my emotional issues slowly and peacefully.
I am thankful for all the positive things in my life.
I practice the relaxation methods that I enjoy.
My body is healthy and strong.

DEO

Tags: Health, Wellness, Meditation, Photizo, Gaia

Across The Universe All You Need Is Love (Videos)

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:02:52 GMT

All You Need is Love

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Entering an Uber blog

The other day I had a few extra hours to spare so I decided to rent a movie I had wanted to see in the theaters called “Across The Universe.” The movie is a kind of hybrid of music video and movie musical describing the counterculture of the 60’s in the midst of the Vietnam War while our young leads find themselves and each other on their own personal journeys across the universe set in New York’s Greenwich Village.

The characters in the film consist of a Liverpool wanderer named Jude, the American girl-next-door named Lucy, her irreverent and rebellious older brother Max, a lesbian named Prudence, a singer named Sadie alla Janis Joplin and a guitarist named JoJo alla a soft Jimi Hendrix who all make up the bohemian household in Greenwhich.

Here is the theatrical trailer.

Across The Universe - Trailer

What I enjoyed about this film is the artistic scope with respect to its use of colors, imagery, choreography, music, lyrics and message. Something I try to do in the majority of my blogs minus the dancing of course. But I do enjoy incorporating music that draws meaning to the message surrounded but what I hope others find less then mundane art that reinforces that message.

The rock musical borrows from just about every rock musical you can think of. There are symbolic references to such musicals as the Beatles “A Hard Day’s Night, “Help”, “A Yellow Submarine,” the two main male characters alla the two male leads in leads “Hairspray,” the New York bohemian setting of “Rent,” the Who’s “Tommy,” Pink Floyds “The Wall,” and even “Grease.”
There are also the cameo appearances by Bono, Eddie Izzard (one of favorite comedians), Joe Cocker and Salma Hayek.

In Across The Universe we see a brilliant use of a lyrical stream of consciousness through the use of over 30 Beatles songs that seamlessly weave the personal tragedies and triumphs of the stories of each of these characters as they set out Across The Universe to explore their own personal journeys. As a tag line for the movies states,

"In the lyrics of the world's best known songs
lies a story that has never been told... until now."

The names of the principal characters - and several of the secondary roles - are derived from names in the titles or lyrics of Beatles compositions.

    * Jude - "Hey Jude"
    * Lucy - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "I Am The Walrus"
    * Max - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
    * Sadie - "Sexy Sadie"
    * Jojo - "Get Back"
    * Prudence - "Dear Prudence"
    * Dr. Robert - "Doctor Robert"
    * Mr. Kite - "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
    * Daniel (Lucy's American boyfriend) - "Rocky Raccoon"
    * Bill (Sadie's Manager) - "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
    * Molly (Jude's English girlfriend) - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
    * Desmond (Jude's boss in America) - "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"
    * Pam (Desmond's coworker) - "Polythene Pam"
    * Martha (Jude's mother) - "Martha My Dear"
    * Julia (Lucy's sister) - "Julia"
    * Rita (The Contortionist) - "Lovely Rita"
    * Teddy (Max's Uncle) - "Teddy Boy"

The Nine

In Across the Universe, the characters were actually chosen for their talent in singing as they are actually singing these songs not in a studio, but live while filming on the spot. Our main character is played by Jim Sturgess who was in a rock band in England when discovered. In Across The Universe he plays a English bloke from Liverpool named Jude who works as a shipbuilder.

Jim Sturgess

A son of an American father from WW2 who he has never seen, Jude sets off on his personal journey Across The Universe into to America to find his Father and reach out into the unknown to find his true love. Sounding like a cross between Lennon and McCartney he sings “All My Loving” to the girl he is leaving in Liverpool as we are introduced to his future love Lucy.

Across The Universe - All My Loving

Lucy is the all American girl played by Evan Rachel Wood who is in love with her high school sweetheart who is sent off to war. She adds that high school innocence of the all American next door look and feel and can be heard in her softer musical style. As juxtaposed against Jude and his edgy Liverpool vibe.

Evan Rachel Wood

As seen in this Beatles tune that weaves the lyrics of “It Won’t Be Long” into high school perspective we feel her yearning, longing and innocence as she awaits the return of her sweetheart only to slam her locker shut as a preview to a coffing shutting on her boyfriend overseas.

Across the universe - It Won't Be Long (Movie Ver)

There are some quirky parts to the movie that don’t move the story along but seem to be added just for additional Beatles songs to be incorporated which is easily forgivable given the musical value of the songs themselves. Take the random addition of Prudence, a lesbian played by Teresa Victoria Carpio who just appears throughout the movie for added color and depth . Or maybe they just needed an excuse to pull off a brilliant rendition of “I wanna Hold Your Hand.

Teresa Victoria Carpio

In this scene she sings I Wanna hold your Hand at half speed with the base line plays at twice the speed. At first you get the impression that she is singing to the football player, but then as she sings the famous line, “Oh please…say to me…you’ll let me be your man” under a Wildcats sign we see the blonde cheerleader separate from the football player letting us know that she is really in love with the girl. Then in a very cool slow-mo sequence we see her sing without fear as she walks the gauntlet of the male football players as she approaches the open gate of entry for her journey Across The Universe.

Across the Universe - I want to hold your hand

The real story begins when Jude meets up with Max, played by Joe Anderson, an English actor. Playing the older brother of Lucy while attending Princeton, he befriends Jude and introduces Jude to Lucy as he tells his parents that he will be dropping out and setting out on his own version of a Jack Kerouac adventure across the universe.

Joe Anderson

As he and Jude move to New York to live with the other cast of characters who stepped out across the universe they live the bohemian lifestyle delving into , life, art, music and relationships when Max finds out he is drafted into the Army in the midst of the Vietnam War. The story arc turns and they experiment with LSD meeting the shaman like bono who sings I Am the Walrus at an acid party and Eddie Izzard performs a circus rendition of the obscure Beatles song “Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite.”

Across The Universe - Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite

Desperate not to leave the psychedelic atmosphere of love and exploration of their magical mystery tour, Max shows up for his induction into the army intent to be rejected for anything as he tells them "I’m a cross-dressing homosexual pacifist with a spot on my lung" in what I felt was the best montage alla Pink Floyd’s the Wall.

A robotic choreographed montage of soldiers, animation and imagery with a genius march of the statue of Liberty of American Imperialism across the universe of the wasteland of Vietnam . well…. see for yourself.

Across The Universe - I Want You / She's So Heavy

Of course after having already lost her high school sweetheart to the War, Lucy after moving to New York with her brother and falling in love with Jude radicalizes her efforts to stop the war befriending the leader of anti=war protests causing friction between Jude and Lucy that leads to a great rendition of the Beatles “Revolution,” by Jude as he confront what he feels is a would be Don Juan suiter for his love Lucy. The movie then explodes into the violence of the protests, the madness of the Vietnam war and the fear and confusion that Max feels while killing Vietnamese in an effort to” Liberate” them. As the bombs are dropped the guns are shot both there and at home, Jude is forced to return to Liverpool and leave his love Lucy. Distraught over reading a newspaper claiming that Americans were killed in a protest, Max calls to Jude in the famous song to come and get her as he has returned from across the universe in Vietnam empty and broken.

Across The Universe - Hey Jude

Throughout the movie there are endless meaning and references to history of the times, both musically, socially and historically. For a list see below. But it’s the message of the movie and fun in which it proclaims it that allows for any forgiveness of the little quirks. A message that simply states , “All You Need Is Love.”

All You Need Is Love

As a reference to the impromptu Beatles rooftop concert, here at the end Sadie (Dana Fuchs, who played Janis Joplin in the Off Broadway show “Love, Janis”) is forced off by the police with her band of the Po Boys leaving Jude all alone on the rooftop trying to find lucy who then calls out to her with the message and the song.

Across The Universe - All You Need Is Love

This is a listing of the thirty-four compositions written by members of The Beatles that are heard on the soundtrack, in the order featured in the film. This listing includes notation of three compositions that are heard twice in the course of the film, so there are a total of thirty-seven individual music cues.

   1. "Girl" Performed by Jim Sturgess
   2. "Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (brief extract over film montage - presaging later sequences in the film) Longer version performed later in film.
   3. "Hold Me Tight" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and Lisa Hogg
   4. "All My Loving" Performed by Jim Sturgess
   5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Performed by T.V. Carpio
   6. "With a Little Help from My Friends" Performed by Joe Anderson, Jim Sturgess and "Dorm Buddies"
   7. "It Won't Be Long" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood and "Students"
   8. "I've Just Seen a Face" Performed by Jim Sturgess
   9. "Let It Be" Performed by Carol Woods, Timothy T. Mitchum and church choir
10. "Come Together" Performed by Joe Cocker with Martin Luther McCoy performing the final verse
11. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" Performed by Dana Fuchs
12. "If I Fell" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
13. "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Soldiers", Dana Fuchs and T.V. Carpio
14. "Dear Prudence" Performed by Dana Fuchs, Jim Sturgess, Evan Rachel Wood and Joe Anderson
15. "Flying" Instrumental - brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
16. "Blue Jay Way" brief extract performed by The Secret Machines (performers not seen on-screen)
17. "I Am the Walrus" Performed by Bono (accompanied by the Secret Machines - not seen on-screen)
18. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Performed by Eddie Izzard
19. "Because" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess, Joe Anderson, Dana Fuchs, T. V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
20. "Something" Performed by Jim Sturgess
21. "Oh! Darling" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
22. "Strawberry Fields Forever" Performed by Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson
23. "Revolution" Performed by Jim Sturgess
24. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" Performed by Martin Luther McCoy (joined by Jim Sturgess for one verse)
25. "Across the Universe" Performed by Jim Sturgess (the performance of this song is interwoven with the next song Helter Skelter)
26. "Helter Skelter" Performed by Dana Fuchs (the performance of this song is interwoven with the preceding song Across the Universe)
27. "And I Love Her" (brief extract incorporated into the orchestral score during the 'Across the Universe/Helter Skelter sequence)
28. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Performed by Joe Anderson, "Patients" and Salma Hayek
29. "Revolution" Brief extract performed by Evan Rachel Wood
30. "A Day in the Life" Performed by Jeff Beck (instrumental version of the song recorded in 1998 for George Martin's In My Life album)
31. "Blackbird" Performed by Evan Rachel Wood
32. "Hey Jude" Performed by Joe Anderson (joined by Angela Mounsey for one verse)
33. "Don't Let Me Down" Performed by Dana Fuchs and Martin Luther McCoy
34. "All You Need is Love" Performed by Jim Sturgess, Dana Fuchs, T.V. Carpio and Martin Luther McCoy
35. "She Loves You" Performed by Joe Anderson (chorus sung during the last part of the "All You Need Is Love" sequence) (see note below)
36. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Performed by Bono (with backing vocals by The Edge), played over the beginning of the end credit sequence (performance not seen on-screen)
37. "Flying" Instrumental - extended version performed by The Secret Machines played over the latter portion of the end credit sequence (performers not seen on-screen)

Other interesting notes

The title is taken from the Beatles song "Across the Universe", the "O" in "Across" is shown as a strawberry on the key-art advertising the film - a reference to the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever"

The Liverpool club seen during the UK part of the Hold Me Tight sequence was filmed in the reconstituted Cavern Club in Liverpool. The band in the film are in similar stage set-up to the footage of the Beatles seen in the 1962 archive footage of the group performing the song "Some Other Guy" at the Cavern Club.

An elderly shipyard employee who gives Jude his paycheck says, "I told myself, 'When I'm sixty-four'..." an allusion to the song "When I'm Sixty-Four".

In the scene showing the alley in which Jude and Molly are seen kissing as well as in the scene in front of the shipyard, it appears to be a similar setting and camera angle to that used in the music video for the Beatles' "Free as a Bird".

At college Max generally goofs off and causes trouble. This is a reference to the song lyric, "Back in school again/Maxwell plays the fool again", from the song which gives Max his name "Maxwell's Silver Hammer".

The arrangement of the second half of the performance of With A Little Help From My Friends is based on Joe Cocker's famous cover version on With A Little Help From My Friends[1].

Max is seen getting Jude high for his first time when they sing "With a Little Help from my Friends". This could be a reference to the first time the Beatles got high with Bob Dylan on their first visit to America.

The poster of French actress/model Brigitte Bardot in Max's dorm room is identical to one owned by and displayed in one of the homes of John Lennon.

Seen in Lucy's room, next to the mirror, there is an early photo of George Harrison and John Lennon.

An older woman at the dinner table scene (possibly Lucy's grandmother) comments on the "cranberry sauce" a phrase that is quietly said by John Lennon during the end of "Strawberry Fields Forever". (This was originally believed by Beatle fanatics to have been John saying 'I buried Paul'.

There are several uses of the number "nine" - which is a popular number in Beatles culture because of the avant-garde Beatles recording Revolution 9. The apartment that Paco is using as his headquarters is apartment number 9. When Jude and Lucy go outside for fresh air during Sadie's show at Cafe Huh? (an obvious reference to Cafe Wha?), there is a number 9 behind them in the background. When Prudence locks herself in the closet, the number 9 is fixed to the closet door. At the end of the movie, when Lucy tries to get to Jude on the rooftop, the door that she's standing in front of when she rings the buzzer has a number 9 on it.

When Max and Jude first see their new apartment, Sadie comments that Max seems harmless, but could have murdered his grandmother with a hammer, and in another scene Max is shown holding a hammer, both none-too-subtle references to the song that inspired Max's name, "Maxwell's Silver Hammer."

The acoustic guitar that appears onstage when Sadie is performing resembles the Epiphone EJ-160E John Lennon Acoustic-Electric which he used during the early Beatle days.

During Sadie's performance of Why Don't We Do It in the Road?, Jude shouts out the words "Sexy, Sadie" - the title of the song from which her name is taken.

A voice is heard yelling "Get Back!" when Sadie leaves the stage during "Oh! Darling".

When Prudence climbs in through the window into the apartment, Jude says to her, "Hello, hello", a reference to the song “Hello Goodbye". A short time later, Sadie asks where she came from. Jude replies, "She came in through the bathroom window." This is a reference to another Beatles song, "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window".

Later in the film, Prudence locks herself in the closet and has to be serenaded out by the other cast members. This is a reference to a real occurrence in 1968 at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India where the Beatles, Mia Farrow, Donovan, and others were studying. Mia Farrow's sister Prudence was reclusive and did not leave her living quarters to join the other students, inspiring John Lennon to write the song "Dear Prudence". The film also uses the song as a subtle reference to the fictional Prudence character's reluctance to 'come out of the closet' in relation to her sexual orientation.

When Jude, Lucy, and Max are at the party for Doctor Robert (played by Bono) they are seen drinking from a bowl of unknown liquid. This is a reference to the lyric, "Take a drink from his special cup, Doctor Robert" from the Beatles song "Doctor Robert."

The bus trip with Dr. Robert appears to reference the 1967 Beatles production Magical Mystery Tour - a project that had itself been inspired by the 1964-1965 bus trips of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters - also referenced in Across The Universe. There is even a brief appearance by the bus driver who resembles the real Pranksters driver, beat icon Neal Cassady. Further evidence that Dr. Robert references Kesey is the style of the party with Kool-Aid spiked with L.S.D. and Dr. Robert holding forth with an Ampex tape delay echo machine is on the signatures of the Merry Pranksters's "Acid Tests".

During the psychedelic bus trip with Doctor Roberts, there is a man seen typing franticly on a type writer. This is a reference to the Beatles song “Paperback Writer”

There is a band dressed in Sgt. Pepper-style costumes before and during the "Mr. Kite" scene.

The "Blue People" in the sequence based on Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite are based on The Blue Meanies (Yellow Submarine) from the animated film Yellow Submarine (film)

When the cast is lying in the field singing “Because”, there are nine people singing. In the Beatles recording of “Because” John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison overlapped their trio three times, making a nine part vocal on the track. When they appear in the water, singing "Because", Jude is seen wrapped around Lucy kissing her. This is reminiscent of a pose that John and Yoko did for Rolling Stone.

Sadie's record company is called "Strawberry Jamz". This is a play on the Beatles company "Apple Corps". Apple Records, the company founded by the Beatles in 1968, is obliquely referenced when Jude is trying to draw a green apple, then slices it in half and tries to draw it again, thus producing the two images used for that company's record labels.

The instrumental for "A Day in the Life" is playing as Jude, in Liverpool, reads the newspaper article about the bomb blast, thus referencing the line, "I read the news today, oh, boy".

The rooftop concert toward the end of the film, during which they sing Don't Let Me Down, references the Beatles' famous impromptu rooftop concert atop their Apple offices in January 1969 - their final live performance in which they also performed that song. The police appearing on the scene to close down the concert is a reference to 1969 event which had a similar police visit. The psychedelic painted Porsche 356 shown on the street is the formerly owned by singer Janis Joplin.

As the movie ends, Lucy's face dissolves into the sky, as the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is heard performed by Bono over the end credit sequence.

DEO

Tags: Across The Universe, All You Need Is Love, Jim Sturgess, Jom Anderson, Evan Rachel Wood, Saide, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Liverpool, War, Vietnam

Worlds Fastest Car ... Again!

http://photizo.gaia.com — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:46:24 GMT

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4

Well Top Gear has done it again by taking the Bugatti Veyron on another test drive and doing what they do best in a video below. Awhile back I blogged on this ridiculous car which you can read and watch here. And then again when they raced it against the Euro Jet fighter called the Typhoon. You can read and watch that video here. For those who have yet to see or read about this car here is a quick summation of the car followed by another video by Top Gear.

The Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is currently the fastest, most powerful, and most expensive street-legal full production car in the world, with a proven top speed of over 400 km/h (407.5 km/h or 253.2 mph).

It reached full production in September 2005. The car is built by Volkswagen AG subsidiary Bugatti Automobiles SAS in its Molsheim (Alsace, France) factory and is sold under the legendary Italian/French Bugatti marque.

It is named after French racing driver Pierre Veyron, who won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1939 while racing for the original Bugatti firm.

Specifications

The Bugatti Veyron features a W16 engine - 16 cylinders in 4 banks of 4 cylinders. Each cylinder has 4 valves, with a total of 64, but the narrow V8 configuration allows two camshafts to drive two banks of cylinders so only 4 camshafts are needed. The engine is fed by four turbochargers.

Putting this power to the ground is a dual - clutch DSG computer - controlled manual transmission with 7 gear ratios via shifter paddles behind the steering wheel boasting an 8 ms shift time. The Veyron can be driven by full automatic transmission. The Veyron also features full-time all-wheel drive based engine on the Haldex system. It uses special Michelin run-flat tires designed specifically for the Veyron to accommodate the vehicle's top speed.

The Curb weight is estimated about 4,160 lb (1890 kg). This gives the car a power to weight ratio of 529 bhp/tonne.

The Bugatti Veyron has 10 radiators in total.

* 3 radiators for the engine cooling system.
* 1 heat exchanger for the air to liquid intercoolers.
* 2 for the air conditioning system.
* 1 transmission oil radiator.
* 1 differential oil radiator.
* 1 engine oil radiator.
* 1 hydraulic oil radiator for the spoiler.

Top Gear - Bugatti Veyron

And then if you would like a more personal viewpoint Chris Harris takes the
Bugatti Veyron onto the autobahn at midnight to see just how fast this car really is and
comments that no other car on the planet can even compare to what this insane car can do.

Midnight Run - Bugatti Veyron

DEO

Tags: The Bugatti Veyron 16.4, Worlds fastest Car again, Worlds fastest Car, Gaia, Photizo

Artist of the Month - Photographer David J. Nightengale

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 05:15:46 GMT

"Somber"
David J. Nightengale

For those who have kept up with my blogs there has been an effort form the beginning to express as close as possible a feeling or a meaning with visuals through the art of photography or art of some kind. From time to time I come across an artist that stops me in my net surfing tracks and I will generally display some of those works in a blog. While surfing the other day I came across a photographer that stopped me with not only one photo, but an entire collection.

In My Eyes
David J Nightengale

The other day I received from a fellow Zaadzster and a dear friend a list of what has been called perceptics that included what I was told are values that are a part of any true art. Some that stood out include

TIME

SIGHT

COLOR PERCEPTION

DEPTH PERCEPTION

RELATIVE SIZES EXTERNAL

SOUND

PITCH

TIME

VOLUME

RHYTHM

SMELL

TOUCH

PERSONAL EMOTION

AWARENESS OF AWARENESS

PERSONAL SIZE

ORGANIC SENSATION

HUNGER

HEARTBEAT

GRAVITIC (self & other weights)

MOTION OF SELF

MOTION EXTERIOR

BODY POSITION

JOINT POSITION

INTERNAL TEMPERATURE

EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE

BALANCE

MUSCULAR TENSION

FIELDS/MAGNETIC

TIME TRACK MOTION

PHYSICAL ENERGY

SELF-DETERMINISM

SOUND DIRECTION

PERSONAL POSITION ON TONE SCALE

AFFINITY (self and others)

COMMUNICATION (self and others)

REALITY (self and others)

EMOTIONAL STATE OF GROUPS

COMPASS DIRECTION

LEVEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS

PAIN

PERCEPTION OF CONCLUSIONS (past)

PERCEPTION OF COMPUTING (past)

PERCEPTION OF IMAGINATION (past, present & future)

PERCEPTION OF HAVING PERCEIVED

AWARENESS OF NOT-KNOWING

AWARENESS OF IMPORTANCE, UNIMPORTANCE

AWARENESS OF OTHERS

AWARENESS OF LOCATION & PLACEMENT (masses, spaces, location itself)

PERCEPTION OF APPETITE

KINESTHESIA

So when I came across the artist and photographer David J. Nightengale I intuitively felt drawn to his work and immediately wanted to display his work for all to see. His work is to me amazing and I think you will feel the same.

He and his wife run the website Chromasia limited, established in the summer of 2005, it is a fine arts and commercial photographic company run by David and Libby Nightingale. Located in Blackpool, a seaside town in the north-west of England, their company has recieved numerous awards such as

Winner of the Best European Photoblog category and finalist in the Photoblog of the Year and Most Popular Photoblog categories in the 2007 Photoblog Awards.

We were selected as the Weekly Pic-k at VFXY Photos in August 2007.
Nominated in the ‘Best Western European Photoblog’, ‘Photo of the Year’ and ‘Photoblog of the Year’ categories of the Photobloggies 2007 Awards.
Winner of the Most Popular Photoblog category of the 2006 Photoblog Awards.
Nominated in the Photoblog of the Year, Best European Photoblog and Most Popular Photoblog categories of the 2006 Photoblog Awards.
Nominated in the ‘Best Western European Photoblog’ and ‘Photoblog of the Year’ categories of the Photobloggies 2006 Awards.
Best European/British/Irish photoblog in the Photobloggies 2005 Awards.
Third place in the Best Photo/Art/Poetry Blog category of the Best of Blog Awards,

Their equipment is exclusively digital and use the Canon DSLR’s and lenses (currently a 5D, 1Ds Mark II and a variety of “L” series lenses) and Apple computers.

What I found so unusual about their work is that it is almost exclusively based around their beach town of Blackpool and forms their own little artistic planet.

Little Planet
David J Nightengale

A planet of beaches, piers, ship wrecks, clouds, sand and people that truly amaze.

Under The North Pier
David J. Nightengale

Whether it is a ship wreck

Wyre Wreck
David J Nightengale

Wyre Wreck 2
David J Nightengale

And old Tractor

Age Before Beauty
David J. nighengale

or a couple on enjoying a vacation.

The work is extraordinary. But of all the pictures, I found their work of children's portraits to be the most amazing in their ability to capture the moment . I'll let you judge for yourself, but I have a good idea that if I ever visit Blackpool with my son, I can tell you I know who I want to visit for a photo-shoot.

Doll Face
David J Nightengale

At Play On The Beach
David J Nightengale

Don't Ask Me
David J Nightengale

As The Wind Blows
David J Nightengale

Don't Look Up
David J Nightengale

Those Eyes Again
David J Nightengale

When You Were Young
David J Nightengale

The Passage of Time

David J Nightengale

Summer Holiday

David J Nightengale

Winters Arival

David J Nightengale

The Snow Queen
David J Nightengale

On Waking From A Dream
David J Nightengale

Time Will Tell
David J Nightengale

Think Again
David J Nightengale

DEO

Tags: David Nightengale, Chromasia, Photography, Art, Portraits, Commercial, Beachm Blackpool, Piers, Gaia, Zaadz, Photizo

Perspective Can Shift Thinking - A Second Look

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:29:00 GMT

^
As
you
can see
Words are;
thoughts in motion,
symbols that help clarify
our ideas, feelings and visions.

In short

language seeks to

Act as a translator or mechanism for the
standardization of our thoughts and beliefs.

Act as an agent to transfer these ideas and experiences.

in order to influence in some way others to understand, comprehend,
perceive what it is we believe we know and what it is we know we believe.

In effect,

Clothe the invisible and unseen
In order that they may become manifest in some way as
To better understand or comprehend its meaning or value.

And that's where the big rub comes. Sometimes words get in the way of describing the paradigm shift the Noosphere is experiencing moment to moment by the uploading of consciousness. Words sometime simply fail for a description of what is happening. However, attempts will always be made to use allegories and metaphors to paint the mental pictures if you will to gain a clearer view. This is why we have seen a multimedia explosion on the Internet as we use pictures and movies with light and sound to give a deeper richer contextual experience of what we are trying to convey. Just look at Apples latest offering,

Or watch Sony's Playstation 3 Kubrick like commercial ala 2001 in 2007 and the Rubiks cube piece for an explosion of consciousness through the awakening of "The Next Generation."

New PlayStation 3 TV ad - hi-res version

PlayStation 3 Rubiks Commercial - hi-res version

Maybe these Google guys new what they were doing after all when
they decided to pay over a billion dollars to ride the 21st century Gutenberg.

Yet it is with our words that we describe and communicate through symbols the ideas and thoughts that run through our mind. For the settled mind, or one who is in a Theta or Delta wave stage of consciousness, words through metaphors describe revelations, visions and epiphanies of the mundane or the sublime. This codification as Maslow puts it, can easily get lost in translation. As the perception of the symbols is filtered and distorted though the perspective of our colored glasses of experience. We have our own psychic filter which reduces our ability to see truth by creating an atmospheric fog of concepts and constructs altering our perception of the very words and symbols used to help us see what is invisible.

“The very beginning, the intrinsic core, the universal nucleus
of every high religion…has been the private, lonely, personal
illumination, revelation, or ecstasy of some acutely sensitive
prophet or seer. The high religions call themselves revealed
religions and each of them tends to rest its validity, its function
and its right to exist on the codification and the communication
of this original mystic experience or revelation from the lonely
prophet to the masses of human beings in general.

Abraham H. Maslow
Religion, Values, and Peak Experiences,
Penguin Books, New Yourk, 1964, p. 19

Many men in history have dealt with this problem of language, describing the unseen. I personally like the following excerpt from H.G. Wells in his book, “An Open Conspiracy”, a member of the Fabian society he writes,

Human thought is still very much confused by the imperfection of the words and other symbols it employs and the consequences of this confused thinking are much more serious and extensive than is commonly realized. We still see the world through a mist of words; it is only the things immediately about us that are plain fact. Through symbols, and especially through words, man has raised himself above the level of the ape and come to a considerable mastery over his universe. But every step in his mental ascent has involved entanglement with these symbols and words he was using; they were at once helpful and very dangerous and misleading. A great part of our affairs, social, political, intellectual, is in a perplexing and dangerous state today because of our loose, uncritical, slovenly use of words.

All through the later Middle Ages there were great disputes among the schoolmen about the use of words and symbols. There is a queer disposition in the human mind to think that symbols and words and logical deductions are truer than actual experiences, and these great controversies were due to the struggle of the human intelligence against that disposition. On the one side were the Realists, who were so called because they believed, in effect, that names were more real than facts, and on the other side were the Nominalists, who from the first were pervaded by a suspicion about names and words generally; who thought there might be some sort of catch in verbal processes, and who gradually worked their way towards verification by experiment which is the fundamental thing about experimental science - experimental science which has given our human world all these immense powers and possibilities that tempt and threaten it today. These controversies of the schoolmen were of the utmost importance to mankind. The modern world could not begin to come into existence until the human mind had broken away from the narrow-minded verbalist way of thinking which the Realists followed.

The Open Conspiracy HG Wells

Words then can be seen as the interface between the spirit of man which animates the mind or the observer of the real and the mind of man which is seen as the process of that observation. An observation of that which is observed in the manifest world, or through the senses of the body.

This follows the universal law of “As above so below”. Just as we have three realms of the Terrestrial, Celestial, and what we can call the unmanifested or transcendent, there are three realms ‘Within” us. These three realms can be talked of in many different terms.

Body, Mind and Spirit.

The gross (flesh) , the Subtle (mental) and the Causal (transcendent)

Subconscious, Self-conscious and Super conscious

The Prepersonal, Personal and Transpersonal

The Self (Unconscious), the Ego and the Self (Conscious)

There are many more but these will suffice to say that within us all as the great Christian mystic St. Bonaventure has said, there are three ways of attaining knowledge which he calls the three eyes. There is the eye of the flesh which observes the manifested world of matter in the realm of time and space. The eye of reason, whereby we know of mind, logic and philosophy. And finally the eye of contemplation whereby we attain unto the knowledge of the transcendent and unmanifested reality of the Divine.

This knowledge St. Bonaventure said was a further process of illumination of the exterior, Lumen exterius which is the light of the eyes in the sensory realm of space and time. The Lumen interius which gives rise to the knowledge of philosophy and reason and finally the Lumen superius which speaks of the illumination of the realm of the transcendent in the spirit of man through contemplation. The realm beyond space and time (body) or reason and logic (mind), but of the divine unmanifested (spirit) realm of pure potentiality.

It is with these eyes that we peer into those things which we now see darkly and hope to shed light on. To awake to the realization that by looking inside one-self we acknowledge that life is not a destination but a journey of significance that must be traveled by the inward man. The question is, how far down the rabbit whole are you willing to go? Could the reality we now experience be just a thin veil of a dream, an illusion that must be cast off and looked at from a new perspective? Have we really contemplated the allegory of the cave? I leave you with these quotes that I hope will stir your interest to keep you reading and searching for the truth of the three realms.

“Of these and other things of the same kind, relating to
the true and waking reality of nature, we have only this, and
we are unable to cast off sleep and determine the truth about them."

Plato Timaeus

"The five colors blind the eye.
The five tones deafen the ear.
The five flavors dull the taste.
Racing and hunting madden the mind.
Precious things lead one astray.

Therefore, the sage is guided by what he feels
and not by what he sees.
He lets go of that and chooses this."

Tao Te Ching, Lao Tsu.

”“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one."

Albert Einstein

Define Reality

Morpheus:

What is real? How do you define real?

If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then
'real'is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.

You've been living in a dreamworld, Neo.
It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.

Here is an interesting documentary on perception with a
qoute of Ken Wilber discussing the ghost in the machine.

Perception - The reality beyond matter

DEO

Tags: Reality, Perception, Perspective, Matrix, Matter, Words, Thoughts, Symbols, Visual Theory, Psychic Filter, Maslow

To BEE or Not To BEE?

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:33:46 GMT

The Vanishing of The Bees

Honeybees are the only insects that produce food for humans

Something strange and mysterious has been killing the Western honey Bee since October of 2005. Billions of bees are simply flying from their hives and dropping dead across the U.S. Researchers are working round the clock to find answers and help save the greatest crop pollinators on earth.

Bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. One single
bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand.

Even with all the advances that modern technology offers to the American farmer, natures honey bee is still the only efficient way to pollinate crops with the bees moving the pollen from flower to flower. To help put this into perspective bees from the same hive visit about 225,000 flowers per day. And one single bee usually visits between 50-1000 flowers a day, but can visit up to several thousand. In other words, there is just no way to replace the indispensible honey bee. But we are reaching a crisis with this next crop season. Last year, many bee keepers who make their living traveling cross country to pollinate farmers fields have lost up to 70% of their hives. If this season is anything like last season, the bee farmer and the Honey Industry will simply no longer exist but go the way of bankruptcy. A scenario that has not gone unnoticed to Burt’s Bees.

Burt's Bees Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), Honey Bees Dying

All that scientists have come up with so far is a new name for the phenomenon - Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) - and a list of symptoms of Collapsed colonies

1.    complete absence of adult bees in colonies, with few or no dead bees in or around colonies,
2.    the presence of capped brood, and
3.    the presence of food stores (both honey and bee bread) that are not robbed by other bees or typical colony pests (small hive beetle, wax moths, etc.). If robbed, the robbing is delayed by a number of days.

Collapsing colonies

1.    an insufficient number of bees to maintain the amount of brood in the colony,
2.    the workforce is composed largely of younger adult bees,
3.    the queen is present, and
4.    the cluster is reluctant to consume food provided to them by the beekeeper.

And has been reported in 27 states in the USA

and in such countries as Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Poland, India, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, Brazil, Guatemala, The Netherlands, Germany.

Here’s a short little trailer Pollen Nation which follows one migratory beekeeper and a semi-load full of honeybees from Minnesota to California, investigating why bees are dying in record numbers.

Pollen Nation Trailer

In the hives that have been affected by CCD the adult workers simply fly away and disappear, leaving a small cluster of workers and the hive's young to fend for themselves. In CCD-affected hives the honey remains untouched.

Honey bee declines are nothing new as far back as 1896, CCD had been reported only under different names such as ‘Fall dwindle' disease, 'May dwindle', 'Spring dwindle', 'Disappearing disease', and 'Autumn collapse'. But what is baffling the modern day scientists and the bee keeper is the unprecedented scale of the bee hives decimation that looks to threaten our pollination industry. An outlook that you would be well to take notice of for if the pollination industry through the loss of this wonderful creature goes away, so do all the crops needing pollination to sustain it.

Scientists are working feverishly to find the cause of CCD and have put forth such theories as genetically modified Food production, parasites or viruses and Herbicides and Pesticides. A worker bee on a typical pollination run will need to drink lots of water when working on the fields and the bees drink surface water which is loaded with herbicides.

A bee travels an average of 1600 round trips in order to produce
one ounce of honey; up to 6 miles per trip. To produce 2 pounds
of honey, bees travel a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.

Another possibility and one that I find very interesting is electromagnetic disruption caused the indiscriminate use of microwave technologies of the globalized electromagnetic network of telecommunications industry.

Gerald Goldberg, MD puts forth this as a possible common link as he says that “bees orient themselves to light and upon returning to the hive go through a complex dance to relay this information to other bees. However bees also use the electromagnetic fields of the earth as a force for orientation. The bees have a gland that is called the mushroom gland, located in the abdomen, which functions much like a compass. The difference is that is relays constant data back to the brain as to where the bee is, much like the function of a flight recorder. This ability to navigate tells the bee where they are in time and space.

This forms the basis for laying down memory tracts and organizing information, the very basis for learning. The bee's orientation to the earth's electromagnetic signature is a reliable, simple and dependable means of orientation and navigation that is not dependent on the variables of light or weather. However one problem remains. Evolution did not count on the signal being jammed by outside sources. Research has shown that the mushroom gland is sensitive to the same frequencies that are emitted by cell phones, mast towers or satellites. In essence artificial microwave frequencies jam this mechanism and the bees become disoriented. They cannot figure out where they are, lay down memory tracts and become lost. “

This is very similar to what has been happening to the whale population as our military uses advanced sonar technology that regularly disorient our whale and dolphin friends causing them to beach themselves. So this idea is not so far out and given the Lilly wave phenomenon might be something to look into more diligently as thispossible cause has even appeared in this Network news look at CCD.

Bees Disappearing - World May Suffer

In the meantime, watch this trailer of the
“The Vanishing of the Bees” a film produced by
Hive Mentality Films and is an official project of Empowerment Works.

The Vanishing of the Bees

DEO

Tags: Bees, Honey Bee, CCD, Pollination, Colony Collapse Disorder, Zaadz, Gaia, Photizo

Right Brain Vs. Left Brain Tests -Balancing Unbalanced Minds

http://photizo.gaia.com — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:44:01 GMT

A Meeting of The Minds

Balancing Unbalanced Brains

So today while surfing the world wide brain I came across a unique test from AI - The Art Institute of Vancover. Having been a long time user and advocate of Holosync I thought I would take the test. Holosync Technology allows for a free meditative experience that among many things, allows through the use of Binaural Beat technology to build a bridge between the two hemispheres of the Brain thus allowing for a more holistic, balanced way of thinking. There are other Binaural beat technology programs out there such as Hemisync and even some NLP programs, but I have found the Holosync philosophy more in line with the my own.

The Holosync Solution

Binaural beat technology is simply sending two different sound frequencies to each hemisphere of the brain to alter your brainwaves. Your brain responds by producing a third sound (called a binaural beat) that encourages the desired brainwave activity by having the two olivary nuclei "Talk" to one another to "Balance" out the two frequncies by making a third. So when I saw the test I thought, Cool, lets see if this has been working. Below are my test results and a link for you to try it yourself.

My Results
Thank you for taking the Creativity Test.
The results show your brain dominance as being:

Left Brain	Right Brain
49%	51%

You are more right-brained than left-brained. The right side of your brain controls the left side of your body. In addition to being known as right-brained, you are also known as a creative thinker who uses feeling and intuition to gather information. You retain this information through the use of images and patterns. You are able to visualize the "whole" picture first, and then work backwards to put the pieces together to create the "whole" picture. Your thought process can appear quite illogical and meandering. The problem-solving techniques that you use involve free association, which is often very innovative and creative. The routes taken to arrive at your conclusions are completely opposite to what a left-brained person would be accustomed. You probably find it easy to express yourself using art, dance, or music. Some occupations usually held by a right-brained person are forest ranger, athlete, beautician, actor/actress, craftsman, and artist.

Mind Mirror Graphs of
Balanced and Unbalanced Brains

Holosync Founder Ed Harris states, If you'd like to meditate as deeply (actually more deeply) than a Zen monk, literally at the touch of a button...virtually eliminate stress from your life...naturally and safely stimulate the production of brain chemicals that dramatically slow aging and increase longevity...boost your mental powers to unheard of levels...eliminate most so-called "dysfunctional" feelings and behaviors...and attain a level of happiness and inner peace few people experience...please read on.

Ed has taken the following images of brain wave patterns of subjects connected by electrodes placed on their scalp to a Mind Mirror, a type of EEG machine.

The bars on the left represent activity in the left brain, and those on the right represent activity in the right brain.

The length of the bar as it expands out from the center respreseents the amplitude, or relative strength, of each brain wave pattern.

Moving from top to bottom in each diagram, each bar represents a different frequency, with the top five bars on either side representing beta waves at 38, 30, 24, 19, and 15 Hz, respectively; the next three bars representing alpha waves at 12.5, 10.5, and 9 Hz; the next three bars representing theta waves at 7.5, 6, and 4.5 Hz; and the bottom three bars representing delta waves at 2.75, 1.5, and 0.75 Hz.

Unbalanced Mind - Non-Meditator

Brain waves of a non-meditator with eyes open. Notice the lack of balance between the left and right hemispheres, with higher amplitude in the left hemisphere showing concentration or controlled attention. Also notice the very low amplitude of alpha waves. The higher amplitude in the delta area is the result of unconscious, autonomic nervous system functions.

Alpha Waves - Balanced Mind

Holosync meditator listening to Holosync designed to induce alpha waves. Notice the low amplitude of beta waves and high amplitude of alpha waves, indicating deep relaxation. The relatively high amplitude of delta waves is associated with unconscious autonomic processes.

Delta Brain Waves - Balanced Mind

Holosync meditator (eyes closed) listening to a soundtrack designed to enhance delta brain waves in the 2.5 Hz range. Notice the high amplitude of the bars representing the delta range, the smaller amplitude in the other brain wave patterns, and a slightly greater amount of alpha (the result of the other sounds on the CD). Note also the relative balance between the two sides of the brain.

Awakened Mind

Long time Holosync meditator with eyes closed (not listening to Holosync). Note the relative balance between the brain waves in each hemisphere, the peaks in amplitude in each of the alpha, theta, and delta areas, and the relatively small amplitude in the beta area. This pattern is very similar to that of the "Awakened Mind" identified by researcher Maxwell Cade.

Mind Mirror - Balanced Mind

Experienced Holosync meditator in resting state eyes open (not listening to Holosync). Notice the relative balance of all four brain wave types, and the relative balance between left and right hemispheres, which corresponds to whole brain functioning. The relatively high amplitude of all brain wave patterns, without any areas of extremely low amplitude in any frequency, indicates that tor this person the conscious and unconscious areas of the mind can share information.

Seeing the figure spin clockwise denotes a right-brain person, whereas an anti-clockwise spin is perceived by those more left-brained. With a little practice you can alter the direction many times in one showing. I tried this myself and with practice could make the girl spin in either direction. Upon first try I saw it spin almost exclusively Clockwise till near the end it spun the other way. When I replayed it again for the second time I saw that this was a pretty cool animation as it spun in different directions. Give it a try.

Here is a two girl version so you can play back and see that it is YOU that makes the girls spin different direction. I found it easier to see the difference with the two girls, but either way, it's a trip.

Dancers Twirling Left or Right-Leave UR answer in Comment

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
"big picture" oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can "get it" (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe

For a wild look into this split of the bridge between the left and
right cerebral hemisphers (the corpus callosum) take a look at
this video. A mans left and right brain no longer communicate
through that pathway after having been severed, here's what happens

Split brain behavioral experiments

DEO

Tags: Right Brain Vs. Left Brain, Balanced minds, Two Hemispheres, Hemisync, Holosync, Gaia, Zaadz, Photizo

Cool Libraries of The World

http://photizo.gaia.com — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 06:14:36 GMT

It is impossible to enter a large library... without feeling an inward sensation
of reverence, and without catching some sparks of noble emulation, from
the mass of mind which is scattered around you. - James Crossley

Abbey Library St. Gallen, Switzerland

Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome, Italy

Melk Monastery Library, Melk, Austria

Sansovino Library, Rome, Italy

Wiblingen Monestary Library, Ulm, Germany

Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford, England

El Escorial Library, San Lorenzo, Spain

George Peabody Library, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal
Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

New York Public Library, New York, USA

Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro,
Brazil (Possibly the most beautiful library of them all.)

Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

Stiftsbibliothek Klosterneuburg, Klosterneuburg, Austria

Strahov Theological Hall - Original Baroque Cabinet

Suzzallo Library, Seattle, Washington, USA

The New Library of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Trinity College LIbrary, AKA, The Long Room, Dublin, Ireland

Waldsassen Abbey Library, Bavaria, Germany

Wren Library, Trinity Small

"Libraries are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Tags: Cool Libraries of the world. Zaadz, Photizo

The Viewmaster - Videos

http://photizo.gaia.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:28:43 GMT

The Viewmaster – Part Two
Part One

Some of you may recall that little toy from your past called the Viewmaster. A small binocular like toy that opened up new worlds with images on a slide placed on a round, flat reel that is inserted into the viewer. To get there, you had to use an object that required you to point it to a bright light source as you peered through the eyepieces and observed a miracle: gorgeous color images of national parks, cartoon characters, or perhaps animals in incredible three-dimensional realism!

So to when you allow yourself to view the inner perspective through the Viewmaster of your consciousnesses, the witness of one’s authentic self, you can see through to the shadows of our interiority. An inner light devoid of fear that brings with it the objectification of our subjective experiences that has led us to interpret our everyday experience through past experience. Yet we begin to believe that we are the result of those experiences as opposed to experiencing what is right now as it really is, uncolored from our past.

Wheel of Experience

Just as these thoughts appear in the theater of your mind as images of experience, so too do the images of the slide of the Viewmaster. The key to our own personal understanding is the relationship we have with those images that make up what we call our SELF, or SELVES.

Instead of thinking of our SELF as the many images, we need to appreciate and understand that the images are just the colored emotional make up of our Psyche, our true self is the LIGHT itself, the witness of those experiences. Try to imagine that deep within your being resides at birth a pure crystal polished glass that sees all things as they truly are. Think of it as a universal lens or eye of God, nature, self etc.

“The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye
and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love."
Meister Eckhart

But as we experience this life one of two things happens. We grow up feeding our ego through attachment to desire, vice, wants and needs which clouds that polished glass and increasingly adds layers of dirt, mud and so on covering the access to the light. This leads to shame, guilt or remorse for things done or done unto us. As Eric Fromm says in Man for himself, an inquiry into the psychology of ethics (1947), Psychology is nothing more then man dealing with his own morality. Or what one can call the disloaction of the self from the incompatibility of a persons life pattern and belief system that leads to collapse and the need for rebuilding or transformation.

Broken Dreams

The second is that there may have been a traumatic experience that actually cracks or shatters this EYE leading to a shattering of self splintering into many selves and can actually lead to what we know as multiple personality disorder. This feeling of broken dreams of what could, or should have been that literally causes a break within the self where one walks alone in the shadow world of a dark and broken spirit cut off from reality of the here and now always stuck in the past.

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams

For most what is required is an inner cleansing and objectification that things we have done do not define who we are. For those whose glass is broken or maybe even shattered, thereapy will likely be required to help put the pieces back together again.

Those who have experienced the interiority of their inner self through meditation and contemplation have found a medium in which to polish that lens help to resolve the inner demons by confronting them in the light of your awareness. To look into the mirror of your soul and begin the much needed housecleaning that polishes that glass of your inner being and uncovering the layers of a lifetime of an ego filled life. To learn as did the Zen monk, “No Self, No problem,”

Meditation

Do not try to become anything.
Do not make yourself into anything.

                                                       Do not be a meditator.
                                                       Do not become enlightened.
                                                       When you sit, let it be.
                                                       What you walk, let it be.
                                                       Grasp at nothing.
                                                       Resist nothing.

To this end, Binaural beat technology is a fantastic aide in interior exploration as it literally settles the mind in the Theta and Delta state to perceive through the “I” of the witness of your true self, the Viewmaster.

However, if you have experienced trauma, the confrontation with your shadow self can be deceiving as you will ultimately seek to distance yourself from those repressed memories. Memories that are too painful to revisit so the need for therapy is needed to help put the pieces back together again with the help of a trained guide of the psyche. Like Humpty Dumpty, the inner lens has been cracked, and such a person feels broken as so many pieces of broken glass distorting reality through the many shards or painful experiences that have yet to be dealt with.

It’s easy to see thru your viewmaster if you look at this witness as the consciousness of your inner light that peers through your experiences. But our ego filters these through the past to establish the meaning for the present. More often than not we identify with all the wrong things as we peel the layers of our Selves only to ask upon our awakening, Who am I?

Or as Joseph Campbell asks…
“What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? This can be metaphorically understood as identifying with the Christ in you.”

Behind all the forms of personality of the plastic personification we manifest to best suit the present circumstance there is behind this mask, the true “I”. Like Eckhart Tolle who realized when he said to himself, “I can’t stand my SELF!” This simple statement makes it easy to appreciate the separateness of our self from our authentic Self. And it is in moments of meditation that you can experience the true self literally watching the mind of what you think is you, working, thinking, driving, talking and carrying on the everyday experience of life. We watch our thoughts as they continue to arise in the mind, happy, sad, convinced, confused, and angry. Which of those thoughts are you? Which one do we identify with? Who is it that experiences all of these thoughts? Who am “I?” These are the universal pursuits of those awakening from the nothingness they feel inside and who want to heal and let go of all the pain they’ve held so long till they break away from the idea of me and find the SELF. As Linking Park sings in

Somewhere I Belong
Linkin Park

Linkin Park - Somewhere I Belong

All of us have a running movie in our mind that when making us feel good, is engaging and we find our SELF engrossed in the images as we release the emotion we desire. But the movie that we see we feel is US. Instead of looking at the screen, what if we looked behind the image. What would we see? We would see little transparent frames like the slides on the Viewmaster . What is happening is the little frames are moving as the light shines through the frames and projects onto what you perceive to be the theater of your mind.

The Moviemaker

But because the frames are moving from moment to moment to moment you see this as motion and think these experiences define who you are.By looking outward through these moving images we see this projection as experience censored or colored by previous experience. But what if you were to turn inward as in meditation?

When you look in you see the stream of thoughts that is constantly in motion like clouds of thoughts moving through the sky of your awareness. At night when you can’t sleep, these clouds are in such abundance that it seems as if a storm of thoughts is racing through your mind, rushing from one worry or anxiety to another. In meditation when we turn inward the idea is to SLOW down the thinking process and see each of these thoughts for what they are until we begin to see the clear blue sky of our own awareness.

The Theater in Your Mind
“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When you focus your attention on these thoughts to watch the mind, the images slow down and in the state of relaxation we begin to have clarity, as the fast moving slides slow down to a point where we can see the transparency of them. And this is where it can start to get interesting. It’s unfortunate that many can never get here long enough to appreciate it. There life is moving at fast forward, mind racing, emotions unresolved, suppressed to the point of creating an internal sate of depression. It is these excessive and compulsive thoughts that Eckhart Tolle calls mental noise or the pollution of your soul.

Ever talk to yourself? Ever been in a big city where there were people talking to themselves out loud and you thought they were crazy? Have you ever driven your SELF crazy with self talk?

The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'NOW' which is discernable between the space of the emptiness of two thoughts.
The readiness to initiate the journey cannot be forced nor can people be faulted if it has not occurred in them as yet. The level of consciousness has to have advanced to the stage where such an intention would be meaningful and attractive. Meditation and Contemplation are keys to unlock the soul and the pathway to free the mind of itseself by peering through the viewmaster of the authenic SELF.

The Viewmaster

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body
also is full of light; but when [thine eye] is evil, thy body also [is] full of darkness.

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

If thy whole body therefore [be] full of light, having no part dark, the whole
shall be full of light, as when the bright shining of a candle doth give thee light.

DEO

Tags: Perspective, Viewmaster, Self, Authentic Self

The Law of Three

http://photizo.gaia.com — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:30:38 GMT

The dao gives birth to One,
One gives birth to two, two to three,
and three to the ten thousand things.
Tao Te Ching

A few blogs ago in the Unifying Perspective of the Middle Way I wrote on what I felt was a universal principle of what has been called the Law of Three. With some of the comments I received I thought it might be fun to add just a few more things concerning three.

We see three everywhere but we probably don't take the time to notice it, yet we use threes to conceptualize everything. The alphabet is referred to as the ABC's and there is of course Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. Our basic sentence structure to communicate is subject, verb, object. While grammarians distinguish simple, compound, and complex sentences with punctuation rules of three major medial marks: comma, semicolon, and colon, whose orthographic symbolism itself reflects trichotomic structuring a, ab, and b. There are also three principal terminal marks: period, question mark, and exclamation point. The latter marks are allegedly indicators of the three major sentence types: declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory.”

We can say that the sum of all human ability is threefold - thought, word and deed, and of course the three persons in grammar - me, myself and I with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd perspectives of I, We and It.

There are also three basic types of reasoning.

Induction (Declare answer first, then proceed to prove; eg. math theories)
Deduction (Proceed to prove then find answer; eg. Sherlock Holmes, Clue)
Analogy (By comparision)

But as Bronislaw, Malinowski wrote in A Scientific Theory of Culture.

"Nothing is as difficult to see as the obvious."

Take for instance the mundane of everyday life, though obviously not scientific by any means, certainly fun to look at through our cultural perspective of trebling. Every day we customarily eat three meals a day divided into morning, noon, and night, with three basic implements: knife, fork, and spoon. We buy drinks in small, medium and large, just as we do clothing.

We use Colloquialisms such as three cheers for someone, such as "Hip, Hip, Hooray" or the starter of a race will say "One, two, three, go." There are the three commands "On your mark, get set, go. There is beg, borrow or steal and in movies there is "Lights, Camera, Action.” On a sinking ship the order is Women and children first, men last. And of course in real estate there is the mantra of Location location, location which could be here, there and everywhere because we have things to do, places to go and people to see in any way, shape or form. I mean there are no ifs, ands, or buts yet if we stay calm, cool, and collected and Stop, look and listen we won’t fall Hook line and sinker because we’ve been there, done that, got the T-shirt so lets just eat, drink and be merry...Jesus Marry and Joseph!

Hear no Evil, Speak no Evil, See no Evil

Closer to home on earth, the third rock from the sun we have states of matter divided into solid, liquid, and gas with the tripartition of the earth distinguished as land (solid), sea (liquid), and air (gas). These in turn are subdivided into air or atmosphere which may be broken down into troposphere, stratosphere, and ionosphere, while the earth may be divided into three types of climate zones: frigid, temperate, and torrid. There are three basic planes: Above- Surfaced- Beneath with three basic Earth divisions: Core- Mantle- Crust. We further divide the three kingdoms of matter - animal, vegetable or mineral and white light composed of the mixture of the three primary hues: red, green, and blue. On this earth food providing energy is in 3 forms (protein, carbohydrates, fat), with the water made up of 3 parts (two parts hydrogen, one part oxygen) and the air primarily consisting of 3 parts (78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, .93% argon.)

Third Rock from the Sun

There are the spacial geographical divisions such as North, Central (or Middle), and South America or the East, the Central, and the West. And just as the world is divided, so is man. The human ear is divided into the outer, middle, and inner ear, the brain into cerebrum, cerebellum, and medulla, the small intestine into the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum. The human voice range continuum of the soprano, mezzo-soprano, and alto (female), and tenor, baritone, and bass (male). For more anatomical tripartite relations see List of Three's in Anatom y.

We see the tripartition in time periods or Ages divided into three such as the Stone Age which is commonly divided into Old, Middle, and New, i.e., Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic.

Pythagoras said that when the triangle is once established any problem is already two thirds solved as the foundation of all existence is triangular, of which there are 3 types- acute, obtuse and right.

Pythagoras Diagram

It's interesting to note that in the number three we have the first geometric figure as two straight lines cannot enclose any space. Thus three lines are necessary to form three dimensions that are required to form a solid. A triangle is the simplest planar figure and a cube is the simplest three-dimensional solid. So as two could represent a square, three could represent a cube or solid contents. So it would seem that there is a universal law at work where three represents that which is solid, real, substantial, complete and entire. As such we see this law stamped on all things that are considered complete and manifest as real because as some might say, God’s attributes are three - omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence. In the bible there are 66 (3 x 22) Books[39 (3 x 13) in the Old Testament- 27 (3 x 9) in the New Testament] 31,173 (3 x 10,391) Verses in the Bible [23,214 (3 x 7738) in the O.T.- 7959 (3 x 2653) in the N.T. There were 333 prophecies concerning the coming of Jesus Christ into the world. Jesus Christ was crucified at the age of 33, after a ministry that lasted 3 years. He spent nine (3 x 3) hours on the cross, with 3 of those hours in darkness. He was buried for 3 days and 3 nights, and resurrected on the 3rd day.

Ephesians 3

Newton Laws of Motion were first published in his work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687) concerning the motion of physical objects wrote in the third volume (of the text), the Three Laws of Motion as:

Sir Isaac Newton

1. First Law: Law of Inertia - Lex I: Corpus omne perseverare in statu suo quiescendi vel movendi uniformiter in directum, nisi quatenus a viribus impressis cogitur statum illum mutare.

"An object at rest or traveling in uniform motion will remain at rest or traveling in uniform motion unless acted upon by a net force."

2. Second Law: Law of Motion - Lex II: Mutationem motus proportionalem esse vi motrici impressae, et fieri secundum lineam rectam qua vis illa imprimtur.

"The rate of change of momentum of a body is equal to the resultant force acting on the body and is in the same direction."

3. Third Law: law of reciprocal actions - Lex III: Actioni contrariam semper et aequalem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones is se mutuo semper esse aequales et in partes contrarias dirigi.

"All forces occur in pairs, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction."

Sir Isaac Newton

According to Ayurvedic ("the knowledge of life", or "the science of life") philosophy, health is dependent upon one's ability to live in harmony with one's self and with the external universe and recognize three major body (or physiology) types which they refer to as the three DOSHAS: VATA, PITTA, and KAPHA.

Ayurvedic

Existentialism in terms of the existence and relevance of God has three schools of thought: atheistic existentialism (Sartre, Camus), Christian existentialism (Kierkegaard) and a third school, agnostic existentialism (Heidegger).

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich (1770-1831) Idealist philosopher, born in Stuttgart, Germany published his Enzyklopadie der philosophischen Wissenschaften (1817, Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences), in which he set out his tripartite system of logic, philosophy of nature, and mind and his famous dialectic, positing something (thesis), denying it (antithesis), and combining the two half-truths in a synthesis which contains a greater portion of truth in its complexity.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 CE) - The Three topoi

Central to Epictetus' philosophy is his account of three topoi, or areas of study. He suggests that the apprentice philosopher should be trained in three distinct areas or topoi (see Epictetus Discourses 3.2.1-2):

1. Desires (orexeis) and aversions (ekkliseis);
2. Impulse to act (hormas) and not to act (aphormas);
3. Freedom from deception, hasty judgement, and anything else related to assents (sunkatatheseis).

These three areas of training correspond to the three types of philosophical discourse referred to by earlier Stoics; the physical, the ethical, and the logical (see Diogenes Laertius 7.39).

Marcus Aurelius

And of course there is Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914),
U.S. philosopher, logician who said,

“Three elements go to make up an idea.”

The first is its intrinsic quality as a feeling. The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative in the recency of the past. The third element is the tendency of an idea to bring along other ideas with it. Charles Collected Papers, vol. 6, para. 135, Harvard University Press (1934).

Charles. S Pierce

Gurdjieff claimed that there were only three ordinary ways for real spiritual development from the three eastern teachings that emphasize the development of the body, mind, or the emotions.

The first three ways are:

The way of the fakir- The fakir struggles with the physical body and self-mastery through difficult physical exercises and postures.

The way of the monk - The way of the monk (or nun) represents the way of faith, the cultivation of emotional feelings.

The way of the yogi - The yogi's approach is through knowledge and the mind.

G.I. Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff purposed a fourth way which I might write on in a later blog. But all this was in fun so you could see that you could literally spend hours upon hours with what I see as a law of Three. But as in everything there are 3 versions to every story- my version, your version and the truth and then you can answer for yourself,

yes,
no
maybe

Because all we want is

The Truth
The whole Truth
and
Nothing but the Truth.

:-)

Three is a magic number

By Blind Melon

DEO
For fun if you want more...See Below...

St. Augustine's Philosophy:                           Memory~ Understanding~ Will
Aquinas's 3 transcendentals of being: Unity~ Truth~ Goodness
Aquinas's 3 requisites for the beautiful: Wholeness or perfection~ Harmony or due proportion~ Radiance
Aquinas's 3 logical faculties (based in Aristotle)     Conception~ Judgment~ Reasoning
Aquinas's 3 causal principles (based in Aristotle) Agent~ Patient~ Act
Comte's Philosophy:    Great Being~ Great Medium~ Great Fetish
Hegel's 3 Spirits:                                              Subjective Spirit~ Objective Spirit~ Absolute Spirit
Plotinu's Philosophy:                                       One~ One Many~ One and Many
Aristotle's 3 Unities:                                         Unity of Action~ Unity of Time~ Unity of Place
Sir F. Bacon's 3 Tables:    Presence~ Absence~ Degree
Thomas Hobbes's 3 Fields:    Physics~ Moral Philosophy~ Civil Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's 3 Critiques:                       Pure Reason~ Practical Reason~ Judgment
Averroes's 3 Commentaries:    Little~ Middle~ Great
Karl Marx's 3 isms: Communism~ Socialism~ Capitalism
Woodrow Wilson's 3 isms:                           Colonialism~ Racism~ Anti-Communism
Hippocrates's Mind Disorders:    Mania~ Melancholia~ Phrenitis
Emile Durkeim's 3 Suicides:                       Egoistic~ Altruistic~ Anomic
D. Liesman's 3 Social Characters:    Tradition-directed~ Inner-directed~ Other-directed
Erich Fromm's 3 Symbols:    The Conventional~ The Accidental~ The Universal
Pythagoras's "fusion" idea:               Monarchy~ Oligarchy~ Democracy (into harmonic whole)
M.L. King Jr.'s "Middle Road":                    Acquiescence~ Nonviolence~ Violence
Kierkegaard's 3 Stages:                            Aesthetic~ Ethical~ Religious
Husserl's 3 Reductions:       Phenomenological~ Eidetic~ Religious
St. Augustine's 3 Laws:    Divine Law~ Natural Law~ Temporal, or positive Law
Witness Stand truths:    The Truth~ The whole Truth~ Nothing but the Truth
Titus Carus's 3 Ages:                                Stone Age~ Bronze Age~ Iron Age
Feuerbach's 3 Thoughts:    God, 1st Thought~ Reason, 2nd~ Man, 3rd
Magnus's 3 Universals:          Ante Rem~ In Rem~ Post Rem
Max Weber's 3 Authorities:          Traditional~ Charismatic~ Legal-rational
F. de Sausure's 3 "Signs":       Sign~ Signified~ Signifier
Charles Peirce's 3 semiotic elements     Sign~ Object~ Interpretant
Charles Pierce's 3 categories: Quality of feeling~ Reaction/resistance~ Representation
Charles Peirce's 3 universes of experience:     Ideas~ Brute fact~ Habit (habit-taking)
Charles Peirce's 3 normatives:      The good (esthetic)~ The right (ethical)~ The true (logical)
Charles Peirce's 3 grades of conceptual clearness     By familiarity~ Of definition's parts~ Of conceivable practical consequences
Charles Peirce's 3 modes of evolution:     Fortuitous variation~ Mechanical necessity~ Creative love
John Keynes's 3 Eras: Scarcity~ Abundance~ Stabilization
George Mead's 3 Distinctions: Self~ I~ Me
Thrasher's 3-group Gangs:       Inner Circle~ Rank & File~ Fringers
Abe Lincoln's 3-For-All:                                   Of the People~ By the People~ For the People
Jesus Christ's 3 Praises: In the name of the Father~ Son~ Holy Spirit
Samuel Clemmons' (Mark Twain) 3 lies:     Lies~ Damned Lies~ Statistics
J.W.S. Pringle's 3 intellectual problems:      Religious & Ethical~ Practical~ Scientific
J. Bruner's 3 cognitive processing modes:   Enactive~ Iconic~ Symbolic
Wilhelm Wundt's 3 mind elements:    Sensations~ Images~ Feelings
Robert Sternberg's 3 love components:     Passion~ Intimacy~ Commitment
Sternberg's Triarchic Intelligence: Analytic~ Creative~ Practica
Paul D. Maclean's Triune Brain:       R-System (Reptilian)~ Limbic System~ Neocortex
3-monkey Philosophy: Hear no Evil~ See no Evil~ Speak no Evil
J.A. Fodor's mind Taxonomy:    Central Processes~ Input Processes~ Transducers
Plato's Tripartite soul:    Rational~ Libidinous~ Spirited (various animal qualities)
Hjalmar Wennerberg's philosophy orders:     Phenomenology~ Normative Science~ Metaphysics
W.H. Sheldon's body types:       Endomorph~ Mesomorph~ Ectomorph
Ernst Kretschmer's body types:    Pyknic~ Asthenic~ Athletic
Aristotle's 3 in 1 idea:    Mind~ Self-knowledge~ Self-love
K.J.W. Craik's 3 reasoning processes:     Translation~ Reasoning~ Retranslation
Galton's 3 genius traits:                                Intellect~ Zeal~ Power of working
Gregor Mendel "laws":                       Independent Unit Characters~ Segregation~ Dominance
Darwinian essentials of Evolution:         Variation~ Heredity~ Struggle for existence

In Education

    * 3 R's: Reading~ 'Riting~ 'Rithmetic
    * 3 divisions: Elementary (Grade) School~ Middle (Jr. High or Intermediate) School~ High (Sr. High) School
    * 3 levels: Primary (~Elementary) Education~ Secondary (~Jr. + Sr. High) Education~ Tertiary (College, University, Polytechnical Institute, TAFE) Education
    * 3 University degrees: Bachelor's~ Master's- Ph.D
    * 3 University distinctions: Cum Laude~ Magna Cum Laude~ Suma Cum Laude
    * 3 testing formats: True/False~ Multiple Choice~ Essay
    * 3 levels to grade formulas: A+ (A plus)~ A (A neutral)~ A- (A minus)
    * 3 good grade divisions: A~ B~ C

Tags: Three, The Law of Three, G.I. Gurdjieff, Charles. S Pierce, Marcus Aurelius, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Sir Isaac Newton, Zaadz, Photizo