(trigger warning: rape & violence mentioning.)"Poet, writer, activist Eve Ensler lived in her head. In this powerful talk from TEDWomen, she talks about her lifelong disconnection from her body -- and how two shocking events helped her to connect with the reality, the physicality of being human."...
"In nature, we find patterns, designs and structures from the most minuscule particles, to expressions of life discernible by human eyes, to the greater cosmos. These inevitably follow geometrical archetypes, which reveal to us the nature of each form and its vibrational resonances. They are also symbolic of the underlying metaphysical principle of the inseparable relationship of the part to the whole....
"the Stars died so that you could be here." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I am not a Zen Buddhist, I am not advocating Zen Buddhism, I am not trying to convert anyone to it. I have nothing to sell. I'm an entertainer. That is to say, in the same sense, that when you...
Starts at 4:00 {watch more...} “'Acid Test'” makes a convincing case that such therapies ought to be prescribable by all practicing psychiatrists. With an average of 22 veterans a day committing suicide and the Department of Veterans Affairs on the hook for more than $1 trillion in PTSD-related expenses due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
"The way that we create money today promises, even demands scarcity. Money is created when the Federal Reserve Bank purchases interest bearing securities (essentially investment contracts). Private banks use these bank reserves to loan businesses and indivuals money. Money comes into circulation when a bank declares to a customer “Here is $1million, please pay me back more than $1million” (i.e., the...
For time is infinite, but the things in time, the concrete bodies are finite.... Now, however long a time may pass, according to the eternal laws governing the combinations of this eternal play of repetition, all configurations that have previously existed on this earth must yet meet, attract, repulse, kiss, and corrupt each other again.... And thus it will happen one day that a man will be born again,...
"The strands of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snow flakes, pine cones, flower petals, diamond crystals, the branching of trees, a nautilus shell, the star we spin around, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms as we know them emerge out of timeless geometric codes."{read more....
Universe or Consciousness?Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg, the Universe or Consciousness?Is it that there are various ways of seeing one object, or is it that we have mistaken various images for one object?--DogenThere is no contradiction between body and spirit, between mind and matter. These are just words we use to understand one thing.--Zoketsu Norman FischerThe ordinary and the extraordinary...
A friend told me this was the meaning of life.What is the meaning of your life?"But if you study the logisticsAnd heuristics of the mysticsYou will find their minds rarely move a in a lineSo it's much more realisticTo abandon such ballisticsAnd resign to be trapped on a leaf in a vine" {sour...
"It is claimed that the resulting formula (L = 8 + .5Y - .2P + .9Hm + .3Mf + J - .3G - .5(Sm - Sf)2 + I + 1.5C - see key below) can determine how long a potential or current relationship can be expected to last."{Read More....
"To put the Simple Explanation in fractal terms, our universe is populated by simple, recursive, self-similar structures of consciousness at arbitrarily small scales."{read more . . ....
Jakob Boehme, a simple shoemaker born in the 15th century, suddenly realized one day that God,was a binary, fractal, self-replicating algorithm and that the universe was a genetic matrix resulting from the existential tension created by His desire for self-knowledge.This is a peculiar, mathematical way of describing the idea of God. {Read More....
