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Beyond Thought. 2007-09-25 10:31:00 Let's suggest every other mammal on this planet instinctively 'knows' what it is to be doing throughout each day and night of its life. That somehow nature runs through these mammals in such a way as to hard wire them to act how it is they act nearly all the time. Would you say the same about humans? Are we hard wired to act the way we do nearly all the time? Thought seems to create the space ...

How Important Is Peace? 2007-09-23 11:26:00 How important is peace in your daily lives? In the relationships you maintain, is peace a priority or is it easily kicked aside when a bit juicier emotion or thought comes along? Why should any one of us be interested in what an other does or does not do? I mean, it's one thing if I want to pour myself into observing the workings of the mind but why must I include you? Is it that I see all of us ...

Forgiving Others. 2007-09-22 12:39:00 Let's start today off with forgiving everyone for everything they have ever done. No, I do not need to know what everyone has done before they are forgiven, what's the difference? People are forgiven, not because they deserve it, but because there is no one at the center of the deed needing forgiveness in the first place. Every act is but a conditioned response to an act that came before it based ...

Only Conditions. 2007-09-21 11:23:00 I can feel change coming up from the inside. A new element bubbling forth and being released into the atmosphere of my perception. I'm breathing it in now. It's warm and has an extremely grounding effect on me and my body. It's taking over, moment to moment. Pretty soon it will tip the balance in my environment and erase all remaining marks of what has come before. For there are only images in ...

There's 'No One' At The Center Of Conditioning. 2007-09-20 11:30:00 Today, it seems as if there is no one left to communicate with. Everything has revealed itself to be images conditioning other images in order to rationally resemble the way I think reality is to look. Has reality been reduced to a battle to condition the mind? And how would that work, billions of different perspectives attempting to condition one, shared mind to behave according to their own, ...

The Battle To Condition. 2007-09-19 17:32:00 Conditioning rules human life here on Earth. I'm not here to say that conditioning is right or wrong or anything like that, only that it has dominion over all animate life, including humans. And humanity, realizing to some degree that it is conditioned, attempts to recondition itself according to self-created images held in the mind. And of course, the images held in the mind are based on ones ...

Wordless Wednesday, Part 8- 'A Few Hours Early!?!?' 2007-09-18 19:53:00 Approximately 25,000 tons of shark were poached in 2003 off the Northern Australian coastline alone. When the sharks are caught their fins are cut off and they are thrown, fin-less, back into the ocean where they sink to the ocean floor and essentially bleed, or suffocate, to death. This practice continues to grow, and exists almost exclusively, because of the demand by certain Chinese to eat ...

The Gift. 2007-09-17 23:21:00 Let us think together just how much change would we be willing to see transpire in our world today? How comfortable, or even happy, would you be if the world changed radically tomorrow? Or, put the other way around, you changed radically tomorrow? That would mean your entire pattern of living would change, your habits, needs, desires, goals, security, well-being, you know, everything. Would you ...

Thoughts Have An Effect On Your Life. 2007-09-16 10:51:00 "Why do I write? Why do I share my perspective on life with people I know and do not know? What motivates me to share myself in this manner? I would have to say the first thing that comes to mind is that I want to feel as if I'm different. I don't want to be the same as those who seem to operate on autopilot their entire lives. You know, the slave mass. I guess I hate them, despise their comfort ...

The Bluetooth Of The Mind. 2007-09-15 10:39:00 When I'm out and about I really enjoy coming across random people talking to themselves. Of course, that's what it always looks like, until I see their Bluetooth wrapped around one of their ears. They are, in fact, speaking with another human being after all. But there certainly are plenty of times when we listen to a voice, that seems to originate in our head, and we are the only ones listening ... Bluetooth

Conditioning The Animal To Go Beyond Itself. 2007-09-14 10:28:00 Let's talk about conditioning today, shall we? Conditioning is such an interesting subject of inquiry, partly because it is irrefutable but also because so few seem to give it a moments notice. 'You' and 'I' are the products of conditioning. There would be no sense of 'me' nor any sense of 'you' without this continuous process of being conditioned, reactively conditioning, and being ...

Caught Up In The Street Lights. 2007-09-13 10:38:00 It seems it is all to easy to get caught up in the life that unfolds beneath the street lights, so to speak. The life of the human narrative. Yesterday's post spoke about the 'reality we know' being completely formed from images already established in the mind, and our internal narrative is no different. The human narrative is the way all these loose-end images are tied together in order to form ...

The Imaginary Life We Call Reality. 2007-09-12 18:10:00 It seems to me one of the biggest problems we face today is how we go about defining reality. Everything happening in the world today is happening because of the way we, as human beings, have been trained to define it. That's right, the implication is, if we defined reality in another way the entire world would radially change to reflect this new perspective. Does this sound to far off, hokey, or ...

Wordless Wednesday, Part 6- 'A Few Hours Early!?!?' 2007-09-11 21:11:00 My apologies for not writing down where I found this photo but it was being shared online. "If I may suggest, never under any circumstances ask 'how.' When you use the word how you really want someone to tell you what to do, some guide, some system, somebody to lead you by the hand so that you lose your freedom, your capacity to observe, your own activities, your own thoughts, your own way of ...

The Call Of The Familiar. 2007-09-11 10:45:00 It's funny how the familiar, no matter what it is, calls me to come back and play for a while. I say no matter what it is because the familiar can be healthy or unhealthy, good or bad, create joy or sadness. The familiar has no guidelines or rules it must adhere to. It is only interested in its own repetition, and in that, it is quite persistent. One can analysis themselves till they're blue in ...