Sunday, July 14, 2013
Yoga in Bangkok, Thailand
Yoga is an ancient vedic science of consciousness aimed at training the human body, mind and spirit for a state of perfect spiritual insight and emotional tranquility. The yogic discipline is composed of various exercises practiced and refined for millennia by Indian maharishis and yogis including breath control, meditation, stretching, seated postures, standing postures, and isometric locks. The benefits of regular yoga practice are wide and varied: it relieves stress, general body aches, pains, anxiety and depression, increases stamina, lung capacity, core strength, mindfulness, mental clarity and focus, improves posture, poise and patience, promotes longevity and cellular regeneration, boosts energy levels, elevates moods, releases happiness endorphins, improves digestion, assimilation, and elimination, aids in deeper sleep and elicits the relaxation response.
My mother has been a student of Yoga for as long as I can remember and following her example 12 years ago I began studying and practicing several disciplines including Ashtanga, Hatha, Kundalini and Pranayama. Since then daily Yogic training has become a way of life for me. Every morning I practice pranic breathing meditation then loosen my body with a series of stretches. Most people build up years of "body karma" from constant physical stress, bad posture, and sedentariness. Introducing regular Yoga practice helps improve posture, builds muscle, reduces fat, stretches your ligaments/tendons and relieves years of built up physical stress and body karma. If you're interested in learning Yoga please visit BangkokWingChun.com and contact me at ericdubay@hotmail.com
Friday, May 24, 2013
The Placebo Effect Disproves Scientific Materialism!
There is an entire legitimate and well-researched branch of
medicine called psycho-neuro-immunology which studies the effect of thoughts and
emotions on human biochemistry. Biologist
Dr. Bruce Lipton actually left his tenured University position to pursue his
research in this fascinating field.
“Until
recently, conventional medicine dismissed the role of the mind in the
functioning of the body, except for one pesky exception - the placebo effect,
which demonstrates that the mind has the power to heal the body when people
hold a belief that a particular drug or procedure will effect a cure, even if
the remedy is actually a sugar pill with no known pharmaceutical value. Medical
students learn that one third of all illnesses heal via the magic of the
placebo effect. With further education,
these same students will come to dismiss the value of the mind in healing
because it doesn’t fit into the flow charts of the Newtonian paradigm.
Unfortunately, as doctors, they will unwittingly disempower their patients by
not encouraging the healing power inherent in the mind.” -Dr. Bruce Lipton, “Spontaneous Evolution”
The placebo effect cures one-third of all illnesses. This is a staggering statistic - It means
that a wide range of health problems can be cured by our minds! In fact many ailments are literally created,
sustained, and eventually healed via completely non-physical processes
involving the mind and emotions. Acne,
allergies, angina pectoris, rheumatoid and degenerative arthritis, asthma,
cancer, the common cold, diabetes, fever, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s
disease, radiation sickness, seasickness, ulcers, and many more diseases have
all been cured using a mere placebo. This
of course strikes another blow at the root of the western medical paradigm which
traditionally teaches health as a purely physical bio-chemical phenomenon. The non-physical psycho-emotional aspects of
health are dismissively disregarded.
“In
numerous cases patients are cured simply by taking the placebo alone and with
no genuine supporting medication whatsoever.
This works because the patient sincerely believes, beyond any doubt in
the mind of the patient that the placebo is in fact real medicine that will
cure them. In this case the patient has
subconsciously used their own imagination upon themselves, but the result is
exactly the same, often to the considerable surprise of doctors and all others
concerned; a complete cure. The patient
visualized themselves as being cured as a direct result of taking what they
believe to be an effective medicine, in turn influencing the energy of the
inner bodies, thereby manifesting as an observable cure within the physical body. This process works both ways of course and
there are people who unwittingly become ill due to the subconscious use of
creative visualization and of the imagination generally and thought processes
generally. This occurs when a normally
healthy person strongly believes they are, or should become ill for some
reason, perhaps out of guilt, or for example as happens in the case of someone
considered to be a hypochondriac. This
belief coupled with the person subconsciously and very often intensively
imagining and believing themselves to be ill, will in turn attract that illness.”
-Adrian
Cooper, “Our Ultimate Reality” (563-4)
Experiments have shown that even an injection of caffeine
will put caffeine-sensitive patients to sleep if they believe that they are
receiving a sedative. People with
multiple personalities can change eye color, turn off/on allergies, and even
have multiple menstruation cycles for each personality. Under hypnosis people can control heart rate,
body temperature, visual acuity, and will away scars and birthmarks. If humans are simply biochemical machines as
the western medical paradigm professes, and our beliefs/subconscious plays no
role in bodily health, how can such physical effects possibly come about from
non-physical causes?
“We may not think that a thought could be enough to undermine an
entire system, but, in fact, misperceptions can be lethal. Consider the
situation of a person with anorexia. While relatives and friends clearly
perceive that this skin-and-bones individual is near death, the anorexic looks
in a mirror and sees a fat person. Using this distorted view, that resembles an
image in a funhouse mirror, the anorexic’s brain attempts to control a
misperceived runaway weight gain, by-oops!-inhibiting the system’s metabolic
functions.” -Dr. Bruce Lipton,
“Spontaneous Evolution”
“Even
surgery has been used as a placebo. In
the 1950s, angina pectoris, recurrent pain in the chest and left arm due to
decreased blood flow to the heart, was commonly treated with surgery. Then some resourceful doctors decided to
conduct an experiment. Rather than
perform the customary surgery, which involved tying off the mammary artery,
they cut patients open and then simply sewed them back up again. The patients who received the sham surgery
reported just as much relief as the patients who had the full surgery.” -Michael Talbot, “The Holographic Universe” (90)
Psychologist Shlomo Breznitz at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem performed a telling experiment with several troops of Israeli
soldiers. Each troop had to march 40
kilometers but different groups were given different information. Some groups were told they would march 30
kilometers, and later informed they had another 10 to go, other groups were
told they would march 60 kilometers, but were then stopped after 40. Some groups were allowed to see distance
markers along the way to keep track of how far they had marched; other groups
were not shown distance markers. Once
the 40 kilometers were complete Breznitz performed blood tests and found that
the stress hormone levels in the soldiers’ blood always reflected their
projections and not the actual distance they marched. This experiment shows another example of our
bodies physically responding not to “reality” but to our perception of reality.
“Just as
surely as positive thoughts can heal, negative ones - including the belief we
are susceptible to an illness or have been exposed to a toxic condition - can
actually manifest the undesired realities of those thoughts. Japanese children allergic to a poison
ivy-like plant took part in an experiment where a leaf of the poisonous plant
was rubbed onto one forearm. As a control, a nonpoisonous leaf resembling the
toxic plant was rubbed on the other forearm. As expected almost all of the
children broke out in a rash on the arm rubbed with the toxic leaf and had no
response to the imposter leaf. What the
children did not know was that the leaves were purposefully mislabeled. The
negative thought of being touched by the poisonous plant led to the rash
produced by the nontoxic leaf! In the majority of cases, no rash resulted from
contact with the toxic leaf that was thought to be the harmless control. The
conclusion is simple: positive perceptions enhance health, and negative
perceptions precipitate disease. This mind-bending example of the power of
belief was one of the founding experiments that led to the science of
psychoneuroimmunology.” -Dr. Bruce
Lipton, “Spontaneous Evolution”
“Our ability to control the body
holographic is molded by our beliefs.
Our minds have the power to get rid of warts, to clear our bronchial
tubes, and to mimic the painkilling ability of morphine, but because we are unaware
that we possess the power, we must be fooled into using it … No incident better
illustrates this than a now famous case reported by psychologist Bruno Klopfer.” -Michael Talbot, “The Holographic Universe” (93)
Dr. Bruno
Klopfer had exhausted all standard treatments trying to cure a man named Wright
of his advanced cancer of the lymph nodes.
Wright’s entire torso from groin to neck was covered in tomato-sized
tumors. His spleen and liver were so
enlarged and toxic that he had two quarts of milky fluid drained out of him
everyday. At his wits end, Wright heard
about an exciting new experimental drug called Krebiozen and begged Dr. Klopfer
to let him try it. At first Klopfer
refused because Krebiozen was in the testing phase and only being tried on
people with very short life expectancies.
Regardless Wright was persistent and insisted that they try this
remedy. Eventually Klopfer agreed and
within a week Wright’s tumors “melted like snowballs on a hot stove” to half
their original size, a result far surpassing even the strongest radiation
therapy. Within another week, the tumors
had vanished completely and Wright walked out of the hospital seemingly cancer-free. Later on, after two months of good health,
Wright began reading articles on the internet claiming that Krebiozen actually
had no effect on cancer of the lymph nodes.
He started becoming nervous and depressed reading more and more studies
until he suffered a relapse, all the tumors came back and he had to be readmitted
to the hospital. Seeing that Wright’s
hypochondria brought back the tumors, this time Dr. Klopfer decided to try an
experiment. He informed Wright that
Krebiozen in fact was effective on lymph node cancer as they had seen
themselves, but some of the initial supplies had deteriorated during shipping
and that was to blame for the relapse.
Furthermore, Klopfer said he just received a new highly concentrated
version of Krebiozen and this time it would work for sure. Wright enthusiastically agreed, rolled up his
sleeve, and his fibbing doctor injected him with a plain water placebo. Miraculously within days Wright’s tumors once
again melted away, his chest fluid emptied, and he was released from the
hospital feeling healthy and symptom-free from the mere water injection. About two months after this the American
Medical Association published their nationwide study of Krebiozen which flatly
stated that the drug had no effect whatsoever on treating cancer. Wright read the study and was
devastated. He immediately lost all faith
in the treatment causing the tumors and chest fluid to come back full force,
and he died two days later.
“One
reason why people who are not aware of true healing cannot be cured is because
they believe in their own mind that only doctors, surgeons and other members of
the medical profession can ‘cure’ an illness.
Unfortunately, that very belief will ensure that true healing will not
be effective, due to the fact the true channels of healing will be blocked by
the conscious and subconscious mind, and energy influenced in the same
direction. It is sensible to visit a
doctor with any ailment, and to respect their words and actions, but it is
extremely important to know beyond any doubt the true origin of healing, and to
focus accordingly. Even if you are given
a course of medicine, exercises or even a surgical procedure, view these as
secondary influences while always knowing that the primary and true healing
influence is by virtue of the energy from which we are all made.” -Adrian
Cooper, “Our Ultimate Reality” (571)
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Follow Your Passion, Success Will Follow You
If every day you go to someone else’s establishment, work on their schedule, do everything they say, and make money for them, then I’m sorry to bear bad news, but you might be a slave. If you often awake to an alarm clock smothering your dreams to death with a pillow then you very well might be a slave. If you went into debt so you could spend the best years of your life qualifying for a piece of paper to qualify for a salary-wage job, then you’re likely a slave. Even if you work in a fancy high-rise building, a compartmentalized neck-tie drone in some sociopathic hierarchy, you might still just be an office slave, an expendable rung on the corporate ladder.
No matter how attractive the position, whenever you work for
someone else, your financial means of subsistence, your ability to provide
food, water, and shelter for your family, is completely in the hands of another
person. Regardless of pension promises
or signed contracts, the real fact of the matter is there is no “job security” in
working for someone else. If at any time
for any reason the boss has a problem with you, the market goes south, your
contract’s over, the clientele fades, the account goes red, or the business
goes belly-up, then you’re high and dry on your way to becoming an unemployment
statistic. Tenures get overturned,
pensions get sucked away, and promises of rich retirements are rarely worth the
wait. Real job security and financial
freedom means owning your own business (and refusing to pay any taxes,
fees or fines from the mafia government that wants to keep you their slave).
The only true success that exists is when we find a way to
make a living doing exactly what we want.
When you wake up every morning and create your day exactly how you dream
it to be, that is success. When your
passion and your work are aligned, when you would do your job for free because
you like it so much, that is success.
The root of “work” and “worship” are the same, and if you’re living your
dreams aligned with your passions, doing what you were placed here on Earth to
do, then your work really is like your worship, your service to the world.
Slave jobs are great for when you need quick reliable
short-term income to get back on your feet or gather start-up capital for your
next venture, but remaining someone’s slave for too long, even high-paid
lap-dogs will eventually wish to leave their master. No matter how attractive
the position, whenever you work for someone else, you will always be selling
your time wholesale to someone who is profiting from you retail. No boss can afford to pay any employee the
amount of money which that employee brings to the company, as that would cause
the business to bankrupt. The only way to run a profitable business is to
pay employees less than they're worth, usually far less. So if you are working for someone else, your
financial stability is completely in their hands, and it is guaranteed
that they are paying you less than you are worth.
You can’t just up and quit your slave job without some
serious planning and hard work though. There
are several steps that all wage slaves must take before riding the
entrepreneurial underground railroad to financial freedom.
The first step to quitting your slave job and manifesting
your dream lifestyle is getting a clear picture of your life’s purpose. What were you born to do? What makes you happy? What is your true passion? What would you like to spend your days
doing? If money wasn’t an issue, what
would you do with your life? Once the
answers to those questions form a clear image in your head, step two is
imagining and creating a product or service aligned with your purpose. For instance, if your absolute favorite thing
in life is skateboarding, always has been and always will be, it makes you
happy and it’s your favorite way to spend your time, then your step one is simple
and complete. Your step two would be
deciding what marketable aspect of your passion appeals most to you. Would you like to open a skate shop? Would you like to manufacture
skateboards? Would you like to design
them? Would you like to teach
skating? Would you like to make skating
videos or start a skating magazine? How would
you most like to express your passion and how can you use it to enrich,
inspire, empower and add value to others?
Once your vision is clear, step three is to get free of all
debt. If you quit your slave job but
still owe debts to the bank or anyone else, then you are no less of a
slave. So it is crucial that you pay off
all your debts (and don’t take on any more!)
To pay off your debts, you must make sure your monthly expenditures
always remain lower than your monthly slave income. If your expenditures are too high you must
find ways to thriftily cut corners so that you can always stay in the
black. Calculate your slave salary minus
your monthly expenses equals the amount you can put away each month towards
your debt. Also note that if you are able
to pay ahead on the principle (and not just the monthly minimum) you can
exponentially cut down the total interest due.
Once you are debt free, step four is to take the difference
between your slave salary and your monthly expenditures and start saving
it! You will need to save up enough
money to cover two important costs: the
start-up expenses for your entrepreneurial venture, and a savings safety net to
fall back on. To calculate your start-up
costs add up all the expenses you will need to create and get your product or
service on the market. This includes
things like materials, advertizing, transportation, consultations, shipping,
rentals, any and all potential expenses necessary to start your venture. Beyond this you will also need a savings safety
net, enough money to cover your living expenses for several months kept away as
an emergency fund in case any unexpected problems arise (which they will). Calculate your average monthly living
expenses and save at least 3-12 times that for use if you’re ever having
trouble living off your business’ income alone.
While in the saving phase, now is the time to start your
business. If you quit your job first
then try to start your venture, it will likely fail to bring in enough reliable
income to sustain you, since building a reliable, sustainable income usually
takes time. So you will essentially have
to work two jobs for a while; your slave job from 9-5, and your dream job from
5-9 (and make sure to get enough sleep in there somewhere). If your business sells a product then you
will need to start manufacturing, advertizing, and making sales whenever
possible in your down-time. If your
business sells a service you will need to refine, advertize and start providing
your service on nights and weekends (or whenever you are free). This process of promotion and building a
loyal customer base could feasibly take anywhere from a couple months to a
couple years.
Advertizing and self-promotion is usually the most difficult,
most time and money-consuming part of growing a successful business, but it is
also the most important, because without finding some reliable and effective
advertizing methods, you will never secure a stable customer base. Once word spreads and repeat sales start
coming in, the final step to financial freedom is growing the monthly income
from your business until it exceeds your monthly living expenses. When you’re making all the money you need to
sustain yourself from your own business then you’re ready! It’s time to quit your slave job and live
your dream life!
Life is too beautiful to waste living for someone else. Work and play are too important to be
separated. If you love your job so much
that you would do it for free then you are certainly on the right path, but anything
less than that is selling yourself short.
When people say “there just aren’t enough good jobs,” or when
governments and corporations act like they’re economic saviors by “creating
jobs” for us, I can’t help but laugh at the fact that there are, have always been,
and always will be just as many “jobs” as there are people on the planet! If you have two functioning arms and half a
brain then there will always be work that you can do. What the governments and corporations won’t
tell you is that it’s up to you to create your own job, find your own niche
passion, add value to the market, and that’s the reality of “job creation.” Being “employed” means being a slave, so
don’t worry about the ever-rising “unemployment rate.” In a perfect world every single person would
be unemployed (and unemployable!) because they are already making an income
doing exactly the work that they worship.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Spiritual Science - The Best Metaphysical Book on the Market
Upon finishing my latest book Spiritual Science, my good friend and loyal reader Matt gave me one of my favorite reviews. He said, "In my opinion it's the best metaphysical book on the market, better than the Bible." Now depending on who you ask, that statement is either a blasphemous impossibility or not even a compliment, but coming from a fellow gnostic yogi I knew he meant it as high praise. Having put nearly three years of my life into compiling and writing this esoteric encyclopedia of modern spirituality, it is my greatest wish for it to be read by as many people as possible. I truly believe the knowledge and wisdom condensed and consolidated between it's bindings can awaken anyone to their inner latent spirituality:
My first and second books Asbestos Head and Atlantean Conspiracy which I've always given away free have now been downloaded by over 500,000 people. Spiritual Science, however, which I charge $20 for has only been downloaded by 50 people. After factoring out many other alternatives and giving my tens of thousands of loyal weekly readers the benefit of the doubt, my team of expert analysts has concluded that the reason Spiritual Science has received so few downloads is that most people don't value my hard work and dedication :( I've hired a separate team of specialists to help console me but unfortunately their consolations don't help pay the rent. If you appreciate and benefit from what you've learned on AtlanteanConspiracy.com please help me out and download a copy today! Thanks so much to everyone who follows my websites and those of you who have helped make my dreams of being a professional writer come true.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
The Human Energy Body
During
the 1990s three independent scientific studies brought to light the importance
of DNA and emotions in creating quantum reality. The first major study
performed by Vladimir Poponin and Peter Gariaev at the Russian Academy
of Science was deemed the “Phantom DNA Experiment” and yielded some fascinating
results. First they created a vacuum in a specially designed test tube, and then
measured the location of light photons inside to see if they were clumped at
the bottom, clung to the sides, or dispersed all throughout. As expected, the photons were scattered
randomly throughout the tube. When a
strand of DNA was placed in the tube, however, the particles acted as if drawn
by an invisible force and spontaneously arranged themselves around the DNA
strand! Even stranger, when the DNA was
removed from the tube, the particles stayed in exactly the same shape. This is notable because nothing in
conventional physics allows for such an effect, yet now we have observable
documented proof that DNA, the substance that composes us, can have a direct
and powerful effect on the quantum world around us.
“This
experiment is important for a number of reasons. Perhaps the most obvious is that it clearly
shows us a direct relationship between DNA and the energy that our world is
made of. Of the many conclusions that we
may draw from this powerful demonstration, two are certain: 1. A type of energy exists that has
previously gone unrecognized. 2.
Cells/DNA influence matter through this form of energy. Produced under the rigid control of
laboratory conditions, evidence arose of the powerful relationship that ancient
traditions have held sacred for centuries.
The DNA changed the behavior of the light particles – the essence of our
world. Just as our most cherished
traditions and spiritual texts have informed us for so long, the experiment
validated that we have a direct effect on the world around us. Beyond wishful thinking and New Age isms,
this impact is real. The DNA phantom
effect shows us that under the right conditions and with proper equipment, this
relationship can be documented.”
-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (45-6)
Around
the same time Poponin and Gariaev recorded their Phantom DNA findings, similar
experiments were being conducted by the U.S. Army testing the power of emotion
on DNA and living cells. They hooked
volunteers up to specially designed electrometers then played series’ of graphic
video images (from comedy to torture to erotica) designed to create genuine states of feeling in order to collect a broad spectrum of emotional
fluctuation. Just as expected, peaks and
dips in volunteers’ electrical responses coincided perfectly with changes in
emotional stimuli. The
big surprise came during the next phase in which they took tissue/DNA swabs
from the volunteers, placed them in a vault several hundred feet away, and
repeated the experiment. Strangely
enough, the tissue/DNA samples locked hundreds of feet away still registered
the same electrical peaks and dips coincident with the donor’s response to
emotional video clips.
“For
the DNA and the donor to have any connection whatsoever, there must be
something that links them together. The
experiment suggests four things: A previously unrecognized form of energy
exists between living tissues; Cells and DNA communicate through this field of
energy; Human emotion has a direct influence on living DNA; Distance appears to
be of no consequence with regard to the effect.” -Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (49-50)
Dr.
Cleve Backster more recently performed this experiment with a distance of 350
miles between the donor and his cells.
Even at this extreme distance, in experiments gauged by an atomic clock,
the donor and his cells still responded absolutely identically,
simultaneously! The fact that a donor
and his DNA 350 miles away have such coincident responses suggests that the
energy of the donor’s emotions doesn’t “travel” anywhere but is already
everywhere, as demonstrated by Bohm’s holographic universe metaphor. This experiment also grants credence to such
practices as prayer and energy healing, showing that emotion and intention can
produce measurable physiological results at any distance.
“We’ve
been conditioned to believe that the state of the DNA in our body is a
given. Contemporary thinking suggests
that it’s a fixed quantity – we ‘get what we get’ when we’re born – and with
the exception of drugs, chemicals, and electrical fields, our DNA doesn’t change
in response to anything that we can do in our lives. But this experiment shows us that nothing
could be further from the truth … There’s absolutely nothing in conventional
wisdom that allows for the material of life in our bodies to have any effect whatsoever
on our outer world. And there’s also
nothing to suggest that human emotion can in any way affect DNA when it’s
inside the body of its owner, let alone when it’s hundreds of miles away. Yet this is precisely what the results are
showing us.” -Gregg Braden, “The
Divine Matrix” (52)
The
third relevant study conducted around this time was performed at the Institute of HeartMath
in Northern California. Scientists began by isolating human DNA in
glass beakers then exposed them to “coherent emotion” which is an intentionally
created physiological state achieved by practicing specially designed
mental/emotional self-management techniques such as meditation and deep breathing. Volunteers trained in
applying coherent emotion directed it towards the glass beakers and actually
succeeded in changing both the physical and chemical structures of the
DNA! Different directed intentions
produced varying effects on the DNA molecules causing them to wind or unwind,
change shape or even separate atomic/chemical components.
“In
the first experiment, Poponin showed us that human DNA has a direct effect on
the vibration of light. In the second –
the military experiment – we learned that whether we’re in the same room with
our DNA or separated by distances of hundreds of miles, we’re still connected to
its molecules, and the effect is the same.
In the third experiment, the HeartMath researchers showed us that human
emotion has a direct effect on DNA, which in turn directly impacts the stuff
our world is made of. This is the
beginning of a technology – an inner technology – that does more than simply
tell us we can have an effect on our bodies and our world … it shows us that
this effect exists and how it works!”
-Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (53)
In further studies The HeartMath Institute found that our hearts
actually have the strongest magnetic field in the body and that field has an
effect well beyond our own bodies. When
we feel love or joy the heart’s magnetic field relaxes and unwinds DNA, but
when we feel anger or frustration it tightens and winds up. Furthermore, when tested for immune response,
researchers found the relaxed DNA performed far more proficiently than the
control group while the tightened DNA performed far worse. This proves scientifically that
positive/negative emotions alter both our DNA and our immune systems, which
means our emotional states are significant contributing factors in our physical
health and wellness.
“If you are
someone who thinks sad, angry or negative thoughts most of the day, you are
weakening your immune system. The chemicals in your body which fight off
infection can be clinically shown to decrease.” -Cathy Chapman, Ph.D. “Strengthening the
Immune System”
“All
these experiments suggest two similar conclusions, which are the crux of this
book: 1) There is something ‘out there’: the matrix of an energy that connects
any one thing with everything else in the universe. This connective field accounts for the
unexpected results of the experiments.
2) The DNA in our bodies gives us access to the energy that connects our
universe, and emotion is the key to tapping in to the field.” -Gregg Braden, “The Divine Matrix” (53)
“When
quantum physics was first becoming accepted as the mechanisms by which the
universe operates, the physicists had trouble with this themselves. They could
say, ‘Well, I can see these ideas working at the level of atoms and molecules
but I can’t bring that kind of weirdness into my life.’ So there was an
arbitrary decision back in the 1920s to say, ‘Let’s restrict quantum mechanics
to the world of atoms and molecules and use Newtonian physics to describe the
rest of the world.’ That is why biology went on its merry way using Newtonian
physics. Yet we are today beginning to see work by very reputable scientists
that says the universe is created by our observations; we create the field and
the field shapes the particle. The big lesson is that what you think or ask for
is what you are going to get. It is not a coincidence; we are actively involved
in physically shaping the world that we experience.”
-Dr. Bruce Lipton, “How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology”
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Four Pillars of Dharma
Four Dharmic ideals which I constantly strive to embody, embrace and express are Truth, Freedom, Peace, and Love. I think of these four ideals as the immutable pillar stones necessary for an impeccable moral foundation. Morality and Dharma are on the decline in our current age (Kali Yuga) and the only way to change and improve things externally is to change and improve ourselves internally. To manifest the ideals of Truth, Freedom, Peace and Love, first we must stop manifesting Lies, Enslavement, Violence, and Fear.
Lies are broadcast daily from our governments, mainstream media, big pharma, the public education system, pundits, politicians, lawyers, actors, and advertisers all making a living from lying. To take our power back from the liars we must be devoted 100% to honesty and integrity in our own lives. We must make a 24/7 habit of absolute sincerity, standing strong in our truth, striving to express as eloquently and articulately the truth as we know it. We must refuse to believe the lies and help to expose the liars. Refuse the temptation to lie to make our lives easier and never cheat on our spouses / partners because that is a form of lying too. We must refuse the notion that some lies are acceptable because "the truth would hurt" too much. If there is ever to be an actual "Truth Movement" it can only happen through radical, unconditional honesty and integrity.
Slavery is practiced by governments, corporations, banks, private prisons, insurance companies, factory farms, bankers, politicians and lawyers who all make a living from enslavement. To take our power back from the slave drivers we must be 100% free and sovereign in our own lives. We must quit our wage slave jobs, stop paying taxes, stop obeying unlawful legislations, get free of debt, learn self-defense, acquire tangible assets, get off the grid, grow our own food, create our own jobs, become entrepreneurs and freemen on the land, start our own interest-free banks and local currencies. We must completely refuse to be enslaved, refuse to enslave others, and help one another achieve true freedom.
Violence is practiced by governments, corporations, militaries, police forces, private security, prisons, gangsters, mafias, mercenaries, factory farmers and butchers all making a living from violence. To take our power back from the bullies we must be 100% peaceful in our interactions. We must refuse to be employed as a soldiers, police or mercenaries. We must end the animal holocaust. We must stop domestic abuse and practice peaceful parenting. We should never hit, harm or even raise our voices to others, especially our friends and family. All interactions between parents, children, siblings, friends, and strangers alike should be free of all force; even passive-aggression is still aggression which we must personally refuse to manifest.
Fear is employed by governments, corporations, militaries, police, banks, insurance companies, factory farms, mafias, private prisons, politicians, and lawyers who all make a living off victims of fear. To take our power back from the fear-mongers we must practice unconditional love. As Jesus, John Lennon and many-a-martyr will agree, no one word, no one concept is so powerful and unifying as Love. Love is the main immutable pillar for a truly moral foundation. If you have developed true unconditional love, then you already have the other three pillars of Truth, Freedom and Peace as well, because love is certainly honest, free and peaceful. Cheating or lying is not true love. "Loving" a bird enslaved in a tiny cage is not truly loving the bird. And forceful or "violent love" cannot be called true love at all, in fact it's called rape or domestic abuse.
So before saying or doing anything, remember the four pillars: Is it true? Does it promote freedom? Is it peaceful? And is it loving? Or if you're short on time just check the fourth: Is this a loving thing to say? Is this a loving thing to do? Adhere to these and we will be on the Dharma fast-track through morality to another golden age. All we need is Love.
Lies are broadcast daily from our governments, mainstream media, big pharma, the public education system, pundits, politicians, lawyers, actors, and advertisers all making a living from lying. To take our power back from the liars we must be devoted 100% to honesty and integrity in our own lives. We must make a 24/7 habit of absolute sincerity, standing strong in our truth, striving to express as eloquently and articulately the truth as we know it. We must refuse to believe the lies and help to expose the liars. Refuse the temptation to lie to make our lives easier and never cheat on our spouses / partners because that is a form of lying too. We must refuse the notion that some lies are acceptable because "the truth would hurt" too much. If there is ever to be an actual "Truth Movement" it can only happen through radical, unconditional honesty and integrity.
Slavery is practiced by governments, corporations, banks, private prisons, insurance companies, factory farms, bankers, politicians and lawyers who all make a living from enslavement. To take our power back from the slave drivers we must be 100% free and sovereign in our own lives. We must quit our wage slave jobs, stop paying taxes, stop obeying unlawful legislations, get free of debt, learn self-defense, acquire tangible assets, get off the grid, grow our own food, create our own jobs, become entrepreneurs and freemen on the land, start our own interest-free banks and local currencies. We must completely refuse to be enslaved, refuse to enslave others, and help one another achieve true freedom.
Violence is practiced by governments, corporations, militaries, police forces, private security, prisons, gangsters, mafias, mercenaries, factory farmers and butchers all making a living from violence. To take our power back from the bullies we must be 100% peaceful in our interactions. We must refuse to be employed as a soldiers, police or mercenaries. We must end the animal holocaust. We must stop domestic abuse and practice peaceful parenting. We should never hit, harm or even raise our voices to others, especially our friends and family. All interactions between parents, children, siblings, friends, and strangers alike should be free of all force; even passive-aggression is still aggression which we must personally refuse to manifest.
Fear is employed by governments, corporations, militaries, police, banks, insurance companies, factory farms, mafias, private prisons, politicians, and lawyers who all make a living off victims of fear. To take our power back from the fear-mongers we must practice unconditional love. As Jesus, John Lennon and many-a-martyr will agree, no one word, no one concept is so powerful and unifying as Love. Love is the main immutable pillar for a truly moral foundation. If you have developed true unconditional love, then you already have the other three pillars of Truth, Freedom and Peace as well, because love is certainly honest, free and peaceful. Cheating or lying is not true love. "Loving" a bird enslaved in a tiny cage is not truly loving the bird. And forceful or "violent love" cannot be called true love at all, in fact it's called rape or domestic abuse.
So before saying or doing anything, remember the four pillars: Is it true? Does it promote freedom? Is it peaceful? And is it loving? Or if you're short on time just check the fourth: Is this a loving thing to say? Is this a loving thing to do? Adhere to these and we will be on the Dharma fast-track through morality to another golden age. All we need is Love.
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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Rupert Sheldrake and the Hundredth Monkey
Another short-coming of traditional Western science is its inability to
explain the existence of forms in nature.
No matter how we magnify or manipulate the material world, no mechanical
model explains the emergence of the variety of unique and semi-unique forms in
nature. Every type of rock, plant,
animal, organism, bacteria, all aggregate themselves into distinct and definite
types with traits/characteristics semi-unique to their form and completely
unique to them individually. For example
each oak tree has many semi-unique features that characterize it clearly as an
oak and not a pine, like the shape of its leaves, being non-coniferous,
etc. These features are semi-unique as
all oak trees share them, however on another level, no two oak trees are
exactly alike either. Exact size, shape,
dimensions, growth patterns, ring patterns etc. are completely unique to each
tree. So what is the mechanism in nature
which constantly creates these unique and semi-unique forms? Newton’s model, nor the 300+ subsequent years
of material science since have been able to explain this. British biologist Rupert Sheldrake’s concept
of morphogenic resonance, however, seems to be our best current theory.
“British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has offered an incisive critique
of traditional science … He pointed out that in its single-minded pursuit of
‘energetic causation,’ Western science neglected the problem of form in
nature. He pointed out that our study of
substance alone cannot explain why there is order, pattern, and meaning in
nature any more than the examination of the building materials in a cathedral,
castle, or tenement house can explain the particular forms those architectural
structures have taken. No matter how
sophisticated our study of the materials, we will not be able to explain the
creative forces that guided the designs of these structures. Sheldrake suggests that forms in nature are
governed by what he calls ‘morphogenic fields,’ which cannot be detected or
measured by contemporary science. This
would mean that all scientific efforts of the past have totally neglected a
dimension that is absolutely critical for understanding the nature of reality.” -Stanislav Grof, “The Holotropic Mind” (11)
As an example Sheldrake asks us to consider the complexity of the human
body. For instance, take notice of your
arms, how they twist, bend, and rotate, notice how your fingers separate and
clasp with opposable thumbs, giving your upper-limbs unique function and
purpose. Now take notice of your legs,
how they are designed, how they bend and move, notice your feet/toes, and how
your lower-limbs perfectly serve their unique function and purpose. Arms and legs look different; have different
functions and locations, but the DNA, chemicals, nerves, cells and molecules
composing them are exactly the same. So
how did they become different and why?
What property within leg cells determined them to become a leg, and what
property within arm cells determined them to become an arm?
“Sheldrake proposes a theory he calls Morphic Resonance. This theory basically states that there is a
field of energy surrounding and permeating an organism which contains, among
other things, the form of the organism.
He writes that each species has its own field, that there are fields
within fields, and that these fields have built-in memory, based upon what has
happened in the past derived from previous organisms or forms of a similar
kind. In other words, each organism on
the planet shares fields of similar energy or we could say a specific frequency.” -Eric Pepin, “Handbook of the Navigator” (78)
What biological mechanism recognizes, stores, and develops the
evolution and various adaptations of a species?
If a species of insect develops camouflage coloration like nearby
foliage to hide from predators, where is that information stored? If a species of bird develops curvature in
its beak to assist in gathering low-laying food/materials, what mechanism
informs new beak cells to curve? The
typical answer is that this information is stored and transmitted by genes/DNA,
however, no biologist can explain how this occurs. Sheldrake compares it to studying building
materials at a construction site and attempting to determine the structure of
the house to be built.
“British biologist Rupert Sheldrake has mounted one of the most
constant and vociferous challenges to this approach …Current genetic theory
also doesn’t explain, he says, how a developing system can self-regulate, or
grow normally in the course of development if a part of the system is added or
removed, and doesn’t explain how an organism regenerates – replacing missing or
damaged structures. In a rush of fevered
inspiration while at an ashram in India, Sheldrake worked out his hypothesis of
formative causation, which states that the forms of self-organizing living
things – everything from molecules and organisms to societies and even entire
galaxies – are shaped by morphic fields.
These fields have a morphic resonance – a cumulative memory – of similar
systems through cultures and time, so that species of animals and plants
‘remember’ not only how to look but also how to act … ‘Morphic resonance,’ is,
in his view, ‘the influence of like upon like through space and time.’ He believes these fields are different from
electro-magnetic fields because they reverberate across generations with an inherent
memory of the correct shape and form.”
-Lynne McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the
Universe,” (46-7)
The question of form and process in nature is still a complete mystery,
no matter how many fancy explanations or Latin terms scientists create. How do embryos develop from fertilized
eggs? How does a tiny seed grow into a
huge tree? Inside every apple seed there
is the potential to grow an entire apple tree with deep roots, winding
branches, colorful leaves, and hundreds of apples with thousands more seeds inside! Where is this amazing blueprint in those tiny
seeds? How does part of the seed become
a root, another part become a branch, another part become a leaf, and another
part become an apple?
“Imagine a little acorn planted in the ground. The form and shape of that little acorn,
hidden in the earth, is vastly different from the giant tree it will become,
with branches sticking out in every direction, leaves and bark, roots reaching
far into the earth. We could say that
the acorn contains some kind of genetic program that tells it how to grow and
how to form. But, where is this
program? If we said this genetic program
was within the DNA, science and biologists such as Rupert Sheldrake, tell us we
would be wrong. DNA codes for proteins
and the micro components which make up proteins. Coding the structure of single, solitary
parts that make up organisms, such as proteins, is very different than coding
the shape and structure of an entire organism.” -Eric Pepin, “Handbook of
the Navigator” (77)
In 1921 an interesting phenomenon relevant to morphic fields was first observed
in Southampton, England. In the morning when people came out to get
the milk from their doorsteps, they found the cardboard lids torn to shreds and
the cream disappeared from their bottles.
It turns out blue tit birds in the area had learned to perch atop the
bottles, pull off the cardboard lids with their beaks and drink the cream. Several months later this phenomenon began
occurring elsewhere in Britain about 50 miles away, then later about 100 miles
away, then again and again in many diverse locations throughout Europe:
“Whenever the bluetit phenomenon turned up, it started spreading
locally, presumably by imitation.
However, bluetits are very home-loving creatures, and they don’t
normally travel more than four or five miles.
Therefore, the dissemination of the behavior over large distances could
only be accounted for in terms of an independent discovery of the habit … The
people who did the study came to the conclusion that it must have been
‘invented’ independently at least 50 times.
Moreover, the rate of spread of the habit accelerated as time went on …
Here is an example of a pattern of behavior which was spread in a way which
seemed to speed up with time, and which might provide an example of morphic
resonance.” -Eric Pepin, “Handbook
of the Navigator” (79-80)
Decades later, further evidence for morphic resonance was provided by
Dutch blue tits. Due to the German
occupation of Holland during World War II, their milk delivery ceased in 1939,
not to resume again until 1948 (9 years later).
Since the average lifespan of a blue tit is only 2-3 years, it is safe
to assume that none of them alive in 1939 were still around in 1948, yet
mysteriously when milk delivery resumed, the phenomenon quickly sprang up again
in diverse locations spreading rapidly throughout the country. This time, however, the behavior began right
away and independently popped up in various places at a higher rate of
frequency. This lends credence to the
idea that the evolutionary spread of new behaviors are likely not genetic but
rather due to a kind of “collective memory” phenomenon like Sheldrake’s
morphogenic fields or Carl Jung’s collective unconscious.
“Jung thought
of the collective unconscious as a collective memory, the collective memory of
humanity. He thought that people would be more tuned into members of their own
family and race and social and cultural group, but that nevertheless there
would be a background resonance from all humanity: a pooled or averaged
experience of basic things that all people experience (e.g., maternal behavior
and various social patterns and structures of experience and thought). It would
not be a memory from particular persons in the past so much as an average of
the basic forms of memory structures; these are the archetypes. Jung's notion
of the collective unconscious makes extremely good sense in the context of the
general approach that I am putting forward. Morphic resonance theory would lead
to a radical reaffirmation of Jung's concept of the collective unconscious.” –Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance”
(11-12)
Biologist Lyall Watson in his book “Lifetide”
also offers evidence in support of Sheldrake’s theory with his discovery of
“the hundredth monkey effect.” This
phenomenon was first observed during an experiment on a remote Japanese island
where scientists were leaving sweet potatoes on the beach to feed Macaque
monkeys. These particular monkeys had
never eaten sweet potatoes before; they enjoyed them very much but didn’t like
eating the beach sand covering them.
Soon one intelligent monkey started taking his potatoes to the shoreline
and scrubbing them underwater which both removed the sand and gave them a desirable
salty taste. Shortly after this more and
more monkeys began to copy the potato washing habit until the entire island’s
monkey population was doing it. Next,
strangely, whole communities of Macaques on many other unconnected islands not
part of the experiment, Macaques who already ate sweet potatoes as a staple
food, spontaneously began washing their potatoes in the sea as well! There was no possible connection or
communication between the islands or various communities of Macaques, so how
and why did this behavior spread?
“Consider the
hypothesis that if you train rats to learn a new trick in Santa
Barbara, then rats all over the world should be able to learn to do
the same trick more quickly, just because the rats in Santa Barbara have learned it. This new
pattern of learning will be, as it were, in the rat collective memory -in the
morphic fields of rats, to which other rats can tune in, just because they are
rats and just because they are in similar circumstances, by morphic resonance.
This may seem a bit improbable, but either this sort of thing happens or it
doesn't. Among the vast number of papers in the archives of experiments on rat
psychology, there are a number of examples of experiments in which people have
actually monitored rates of learning over time and discovered mysterious
increases. In my book, A New Science of Life, I describe one such series of
experiments which extended over a 50-year period. Begun at Harvard and then
carried on in Scotland and Australia, the
experiment demonstrated that rats increased their rate of learning more than
tenfold. This was a huge effect - not some marginal statistically significant
result. This improved rate of learning in identical learning situations
occurred in these three separate locations and in all rats of the breed, not
just in rats descended from trained parents.” –Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (6-7)
Monica
England of Nottingham
University’s Psychology
Department knew about Sheldrake’s theory of morphic resonance and devised an
interesting experiment to test for collective consciousness in humans. She reasoned that if morphic resonance is
occurring, it should be easier to do today’s newspaper crossword puzzle
tomorrow than it would have been yesterday.
London’s
Evening Standard newspaper provided their crossword in advance for her
experiment. First students all completed a control crossword to measure their
ability, then half were tested in Nottingham the day before and half the day
after the crossword was published in London. Amazingly, the students who did the already
published crossword (the puzzle that had already been completed by thousands of
Evening Standard readers) improved their scores by an average of 25% What can account for this huge jump in
scores?
In another similar study, two teams from Australia and Britain did an experiment with face recognition. They created a photo image with over a hundred faces in it, big ones, small ones, faces within faces etc. then asked people to point out as many faces as they could find within an allotted time. Because they were so well hidden a control group of several hundred Australians could only see about six to ten faces total. Then back in England, the other team of researchers showed a group of volunteers the picture on a closed-cable BBC TV station with a narrator pointing out one-by-one every single face. A few minutes later the Australian team repeated the experiment with several hundred more volunteers ready and waiting. Amazingly, this time most people were able to find not just a few, but the majority of faces within the allotted time limit! What could account for this other than some mechanism like Jung’s collective memory or Sheldrake’s morphic resonance? The typical “DNA” explanation is insufficient.
“As we will
see, this model does not work very well. The genetic program is assumed to be
identical with DNA, the genetic chemical. The genetic information is coded in DNA and this
code forms the genetic program. But such a leap requires projecting onto DNA
properties that it does not actually possess. We know what DNA does: it codes
for proteins; it codes for the sequence of amino acids which form proteins. However, there
is a big difference between coding for the structure of a protein - a chemical
constituent of the organism - and programming the development of an entire organism.
It is the difference between making bricks and building a house out of the bricks.
You need the bricks to build the house. If you have defective bricks, the house
will be defective. But the plan of the house is not contained in the bricks, or
the wires, or the beams, or cement. Analogously, DNA only codes for the
materials from which the body is constructed: the enzymes, the structural
proteins, and so forth. There is no evidence that it also codes for the plan,
the form, the morphology of the body.” -Rupert
Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (3-4)
More scientific
verification for Sheldrake’s theory came from Yale University
with Dr. Harold S. Burr’s studies of electromagnetic radiation fields. He discovered that there are electrical
fields surrounding all organisms from molds, bacteria and plants to
salamanders, frogs and humans, and that within these fields there exists an
observable energetic blueprint of each organism’s future. For instance plant seedlings have electrical
fields which resemble the eventual adult plant.
Baby salamanders possess energy fields shaped like adult salamanders and
the energetic blueprint can even be seen in an unfertilized egg.
“Each species
has its own fields, and within each organism there are fields within fields.
Within each of us is the field of the whole body; fields for arms and legs and
fields for kidneys and livers; within are fields for the different tissues
inside these organs, and then fields for the cells, and fields for the
sub-cellular structures, and fields for the molecules, and so on. There is a
whole series of fields within fields. The essence of the hypothesis I am
proposing is that these fields, which are already accepted quite widely within
biology, have a kind of in-built memory derived from previous forms of a
similar kind. The liver field is shaped by the forms of previous livers and the
oak tree field by the forms and organization of previous oak trees. Through the
fields, by a process called morphic resonance, the influence of like upon like,
there is a connection among similar fields. That means that the field's
structure has a cumulative memory, based on what has happened to the species in
the past.” –Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic
Resonance” (5)
Elmer Lund at
the University of
Texas discovered that he
could control the regeneration of limbs in hydras using electrical fields. By applying an electrical current strong
enough to override the hydras’ natural morphogenic field, he was able to cause
heads to form where tails should be and vice versa. Similar experiments have been performed on
flatworms, salamanders and other organisms all of which have had their natural
“genetic” or “morphogenic” data re-programmed by electrical frequencies. This provides yet more evidence that all
organisms must be involved in some type of energetic data transference that
determines things like form and process in nature. It seems DNA holds the blueprint, but rather
than being set in stone, it is constantly being edited and re-worked by various
fields of influence both from within and outside our bodies.
“Rather than a system of fortunate but ultimately random error, if
DNA uses frequencies of all variety as an information tool, this would suggest
instead a feedback system of perfect communication through waves which encode
and transfer information.” -Lynne
McTaggart, “The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe,” (51)
“One fact
which led to the development of this theory is the remarkable ability organisms
have to repair damage. If you cut an oak tree into little pieces, each little
piece, properly treated, can grow into a new tree. So from a tiny fragment, you
can get a whole. Machines do not do that; they do not have this power of
remaining whole if you remove parts of them. Chop a computer up into small
pieces and all you get is a broken computer. It does not regenerate into lots
of little computers. But if you chop a flatworm into small pieces, each piece
can grow into a new flatworm. Another analogy is a magnet. If you chop a magnet
into small pieces, you do have lots of small magnets, each with a complete
magnetic field. This is a holistic property that fields have that mechanical
systems do not have unless they are associated with fields. Still another
example is the hologram, any part of which contains the whole. A hologram is
based on interference patterns within the electromagnetic field. Fields thus
have a holistic property which was very attractive to the biologists who
developed this concept of morphogenetic fields.” –Rupert Sheldrake, “Morphic Resonance” (5)
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