Possible Psychological Evolution of the Human Species

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While not commonplace in the West places in the East like India have a long established tradition
of evolved beings who are able to move in and out of this dimension of reality.
Harvard Professor Richard Alpert (aka Ram Dass) details these events in his book
Miracle of Love . The book explores his Indian teacher Neem Karoli's ability to be in more
than one location at the same time separated by hundreds of miles.
The word rishi is the name given to these people see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ4h1XMiuts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Professor Kyriacos Markides at the University of Maine has documented these phenomenon in his book Mountain of Silence about Mount Athos and the monasteries located off the coast of Greece . see http://www.ancientfaith.com/podcasts/il ... e_part_one" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

In World War 2 American pilots saw Father Pio appear in front of their planes telling them not to bomb
his monastery see http://www.padrepio.catholicwebservices ... H/Bilo.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

American author Carlos Castenada details his experiences in over 8 books, with a native American shaman
Don Carlo, over a 20 year period ,where he was taught to leave his physical body at will and travel anywhere in the universe.
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'Mystery Priest' Vanishes After Anointing Crash Victim


August 9 2013

A small Missouri town is looking for a man not suspected of a crime but, rather, a miracle.

"I think that this time I've actually witnessed a guardian angel at work," Jeremiah See of the New London Fire Department told ABC News.

An unidentified allegedly drunken driver hit Katie Lentz, of Quincy, Mo., head on Aug. 4 while traveling on Route 19 near Center, Mo., pinning the 19-year-old in the front seat of her convertible. With her vital signs failing fast, she asked rescue crews to pray with her.

That's when first responders say a man who looked like a Catholic priest seemed to appear out of nowhere, despite a 2-mile perimeter blocking the scene.

"He began to pray and use the anointing oil," New London Fire Chief Raymond Reed said. "There was a calmness that, to me, seemed to come over the entire scene."

But that's not the only seemingly divine detail. Firefighters say their equipment kept failing until the mystery man showed up.

"The words were to remain calm, that our tools would now work," Reed said. "Instantaneously, at that moment, our neighboring department arrived with fresh extrication tools."

Lentz survived, but the man vanished before crews could thank him.

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Mental control of a single electron?
Ronald A. Bryan, Department of Physics, Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-4242, U. S. A.
[email protected]
24 January 2006
ABSTRACT
Over the years there have been numerous accounts of certain
individuals' purportedly being able to affect material bodies by
mental intent alone. I propose to look for such an effect, but with
an experiment requiring far less energy than needed in previous
accounts, some 23 orders of magnitude less. The experiment is to
mentally flip the spin of the valence electron of a single Mg
+
ion
undergoing laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) at
280nm
in a 50-gauss
magnetic field. Flipping the spin would turn off the LIF. If the
person could flip the electron's spin again, restoring LIF, then spin
flips creating long and short intervals of LIF could send a message
in International Morse Code. If the person could also control the
ion's LIF at a distance, as suggested by frequent reports of distant
healing, etc., then it would appear that his or her intent is not
mediated by the electromagnetic, weak, strong, or gravitational
field. Instead a new kind of field might be responsible. It might
propagate as a soliton, since solitons do not weaken with distance.

3
There are quiet but persistent accounts of some people's being able to do
things which seem to have no explanation in contemporary science -- special
capabilities that are independent of the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste,
touch. These purported abilities include remote viewing or clairvoyance,
clairaudience, mental telepathy, and psychokinesis (PK) or mental effect on
matter. Evidence for these effects has been largly anecdotal over the centuries.
However recently there have been a few tests of such phenomena carried out in
a scientifically controlled fashion, for example, the distant-healing PK
experiments summarized by Dossey

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The Mysteries Project #1: Remote Viewing Mars Life
(Updated 25 June 2010)

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Elwood Babbitt - SpiritsThroughTrance, PartOne

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Charles Tart Library


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What can elementary particles tell us about reality

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Be Cool and Don't Be an @#$#%@!
Posted: 10/08/2013

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Transcending Tribal Mentality

By Caroline Myss


All of us are born into a "tribal mentality" of various forms. These include our family unit, religious background, country of origin, ethnicity, etc. The tribal mentality effectively indoctrinates an individual into the tribe's beliefs, ensuring that all believe the same. The structure of reality – what is and is not possible for the members of the group – is thus agreed upon and maintained by the tribe.

While the tribal mentality has definite benefits in terms of establishing common ground and ensuring group survival, it is not a conscious agreement. We are born into it. Yet at a certain stage, both personally and collectively, the tribal mentality must be challenged. People can then begin to recognize the need for a personal honor code independent of the tribe. If humanity is to progress, we need to learn how to treat everyone – regardless of tribal affiliation – with honor and respect.

Every one of us is plugged into the tribal mind. We support tribal belief patterns by directing a percentage of our life force into maintaining our affiliation with the tribe. This involves an implicit agreement to think like the tribe thinks, to evaluate situations and people the way the tribe does, and to believe in right and wrong according to tribal values and ambitions. As long as the tribal mentality within us remains unexamined, we unwittingly subject others to our tribal laws.

When we are plugged into tribal thought forms, we can easily believe in nonsensical prejudices held by the tribe. Tribal mentality allows us to hold harsh, judgmental positions or attitudes about an entire group of people: "All fat people are lazy," or "all Irish are drunks," or "all Muslims are terrorists" for example.

A rigid tribal thought form may have little truth to it, but individuals hold to such beliefs because that perspective is what the tribe has agreed to believe. Innocent children, born into the hatred and prejudice of their parents and ancestors, grow up inside a tribal mentality that sponsors an endless march toward war against the tribe's perceived enemies. People grow up hating other people – people they have never seen – based on group affiliation. This is the shadow side of the tribe.

Inevitably, some among us come to a point where we want to break out of the inflexible tribal mentality. At some point, these individuals want to explore, develop, and manage their own consciousness without the judgments and limitations of the tribal mind.

It is easy to spot these mavericks when they start to question and unplug from tribal mentality – they hang out on the periphery looking bored and restless, or whimsical and dreamy. Others may act out the agitated hot-head as they challenge tribal ways.

The unspoken assumption of the tribal mind is that everybody loves being part of the tribe. And in many ways, we do. Knowing where and to whom we "belong" is crucial to our self-concept and sense of safety in the world. Yet when we begin the real deep journey of questioning, "What do I believe?" and start to individuate from the tribe, we often enter a dark night of the soul. It is, by necessity, a passage we take alone.

It's one thing to reject what we don't want to believe anymore. It's quite another to begin to explore what we do believe. All we know as we enter the dark night is that we can't go back – even when the tribe is the only world we've ever known.

At this critical point in our development, the tribe doesn't feel right anymore. It no longer offers us comfort. Previous feelings of security and familiarity begin to feel like a trap constraining our individuality and hampering our efforts to discover deeper levels of who we really are.

This dark night passage pushes us to look at our false gods – the tribal belief patterns in which we've become invested and to which we've given our allegiance.

The Language of Wounds

For a large segment of the population, the language of wounds has become the new tribal language of intimacy. Prior to the current age of personal therapy – which only really took off in the 1960s and 70s – the tribal language of intimacy largely involved the sharing of only superficial personal and family data. Deeper matters such as family secrets like sexual abuse or a mad aunt or uncle were shared with exceedingly few, if any.

Divorce and financial information were also considered very intimate. People would almost never talk about such matters, or about their inner life and emotions. They talked only about the details of what was going on in their external lives. The tribal mentality at the time kept people from revealing intimate matters or deep wounds or traumas even with their family and close friends.

The current age of personal therapy has brought about a very different situation. Now, the tribal mentality has shifted such that we not only share our intimate feelings more openly and willingly, many have even begun to define themselves by their wounds. Let me give an example of how this phenomenon plays itself out.

I was in an Indian restaurant in Scotland talking with two men friends when the woman friend I was to meet for dinner walked up and greeted the three of us. After I had introduced her, another man walked over and asked if she was free on June 8th, as he thought she might like to attend a lecture on that date. The question required little more than a ‘yes' or a ‘no' answer.

Instead of a simple answer, she began an elaborate discussion about June 8th. "Did you say June 8th? No, no. Any other day would be fine, but not June 8th. That's the day my incest survivor group meets and I have to be there because we never let each other down." She went on and on for at least a full minute with this.

Later, I asked her, "Do you realize that in that brief introduction, you told two men whom you have never met before that 1) you had experienced incest, 2) you were still in therapy about it, 3) you were angry about it, 4) you were angry at men, and 5) you needed to determine the course of the conversation – all in one minute?"

She replied, "Well, I am a victim of incest."

To which I replied, "I know that. Why did you have to let them know that?"

She was operating from a tribal mentality. The group mind within the incest survivor community has a belief about how this particular wound should be healed. The tribe says, "You need a group." The tribe says, "You have a right to be angry."

People now get together in support group tribes that function within many of the same rigid frameworks of ethnic, national, or family tribes. Some feel that the comfort and security of belonging to a group or tribe is more important than venturing alone in the direction of real healing.

Tribalism in Relationships

The tendency toward tribalism can keep us stuck in repeating negative cycles in our intimate relationships, and can wreak havoc when a relationship is ripe for transition. Tribal mentality often teaches a righteous stance in relationships: an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. When we feel violated, the first thought is vengeance, rather than forgiveness.

Tribal mentality even has gender-specific undercurrents – women do vengeance differently than men. Yet for both genders, what rules the day is the tribal mentality that holds "breaking up is painful" or "betrayal warrants retaliation."

Healing revolves around this crucial question: "Do you want to make different choices?" Are we willing to let go of old, constricting tribal patterns? Sadly, the answer quite often is "No." Being healthy isn't always the most appealing option. Quite frankly, in many cases, it's not appealing at all. What is most appealing is being out of pain. Old patterns are difficult to relinquish because they do serve to relieve pain, even if it is only in the short run.

Change is terrifying for many precisely because short-term pain relief must be given up. Deep healing requires learning to tolerate the pain that comes with change. Fortunately, the growing pains that come with new behavior – with making the choices that will change your life – are often short-lived.

Thought alone doesn't heal. Nor does action without thought. For deep healing to occur, we need the chemistry of conscious thought and direct action combined. Every thought or attitude we have – whether consciously chosen or unconsciously adopted through the tribal mind – invests a part of our life-force into that thought or attitude. This is true whether the thought is one of betrayal and vengeance, or of understanding and forgiveness.

What matters is that a whole system of consciousness – the old tribal mentality – no longer holds us enthralled. We no longer have faith in those limiting patterns of thought. Through this transformation we learn a whole new level of trust. We break the habit of telling tribal lies which bring short-term comfort but long-term pain. We develop a new sense of self-worth and of trust and honor.

In spite of all the heavy tribal conditioning, we now have hope because tribal mentality the world over is going through a vast transformation. And each one of us can play a vital role in this transformation.

With increasing numbers of individuals changing and transcending limiting tribal beliefs, the codes of the tribe are being affected. As we collectively change and evolve, the tribes around us gradually change and evolve with us. Yet ultimately, the journey upon which we are embarking is an incredible solo flight of transcending the tribe to find our own trust, honor, and new sense of self-worth and meaning in life.

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I consider Jane Roberts as one of the greatest mapmakers of human consciousness
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Women Behaving Religiously
06/15/2013 at 11:28 am
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Catholic woman ‘illegally’ becomes a priest

By Gregory Flannery



One person’s heretic is another person’s saint. Witness Jesus of Nazareth or Joan of Arc or Debra Meyers of Batavia. No one is yet calling Meyers a saint, but there most decidedly are those – men, mostly; celibate men, especially – who call her a heretic because of what she calls herself: a Catholic priest.

Meyers was ordained May 25 in a rite presided over by a woman who calls herself a Catholic bishop. No officially sanctioned Roman Catholic parish would abide such an ordination. Indeed, Meyers’s ordination occurred next door to Annunciation Church, affiliated with the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. The parish didn’t send flowers. Never mind the Vatican’s ecumenical efforts at improved relations with Judaism, Islam, the Anglican Church and other faiths – it will hold no truck with these women.

But St. John Unitarian/Universalist Church welcomed Meyers’s ordination as a priest in the Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests (ARCWP).

“The woman priest movement is welcome here at St. John’s,” said the Rev. Amy Shaw, pastor.

The Cincinnati Enquirer sent regrets. It fell to Robin Buchanan, administrative assistant to Editor Carolyn Washburn, to RSVP that the paper wouldn’t be covering the “illegal” ordination. Responding to a reminder inviting a reporter, the Enquirer declined to cover the religious crime in progress.

“Thank you for the reminder,” Buchanan wrote. “I asked if we would be providing coverage. I was told no, as you admit in your email that your ordinations are considered illegal. You may want to write a letter to the editor noting the event but we will not be providing coverage at this time.”

Never mind that “illegality” – literally, an exception to the rule – would seem to enhance newsworthiness and that Meyers’s ordination was the first of its kind in Cincinnati. The Enquirer, the only daily newspaper in Cincinnati, covers a region that is home to many Catholics. Did the paper take a pass so as not to offend orthodox Catholic sensibilities?

Equipment check

At the same time that it sought to publicize Meyers’s ordination, the ARWCP fretted about perceived risks. The ordination included a “media-free” zone, hoping it would protect nuns, lay employees of Catholic institutions and anyone else who didn’t want to be photographed attending the ordination. Excommunication is the maximum hazard a woman would face in this country for proclaiming herself a Catholic priest.

In Italy, a woman priest can face at least inconvenience. In March, police there briefly detained the Rev. Janice Sevre-Duszynska, who participated in Meyers’s ordination, for appearing in public in priestly vestments. She was released without charge. (Disclosure: Sevre-Duszynska is a contributing writer for Article 25.)

But for Catholic nuns and lay employees who support women’s ordination, excommunication could be a very serious matter, leading to expulsion from their convents and/or loss of their livelihoods.

That kind of treatment is the stuff of ancient Christian heritage, according to Bishop Mary Bridget Mary Meehan, who presided over Meyers’s ordination.

“Rejection, hostility and jail are nothing new for followers of Christ, either in the gospels or in our contemporary world,” Meehan said.

She mocked the Vatican’s ban on women priests, summarizing it thus: “Only men have the right equipment.”

The Vatican, of course, holds that God provided the job description for priests. Dan Andriacco, spokesman for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, cited the late Pope John Paul II.

“Several years ago Pope John Paul II restated definitively what has consistently been the position of the church, that it doesn’t have the authority to allow the ordination of women priests.”

The Rev. Donna Rougeux, a woman priest participating in the ordination, challenged that assertion.

“History and archeology indicate that women served as deacons, priests and bishops for the first 1,200 years of the church. … In the ordination of a woman priest, we assist in the restoration of our tradition,” she said. “We are being faithful to the original intent of our brother, Jesus.”

The claim that women were ever ordained by the Catholic Church is inaccurate, Andriacco said.

In her homily, Meehan argued that the gospel reading at the ordination, the story of the “Woman at the Well,” points to Jesus’ rejection of traditional sexual roles in religion.

“Jesus engaged a woman in a theological conversation – the longest conversation in the gospels,” she said.

Meehan also criticized the Vatican’s “hostile takeover” of a U.S. nuns’ organization, accused of being influenced by “radical feminism.”

“Jesus was a radical feminist,” Meehan said.

‘How unjust’

In an interview prior to her ordination, Meyers spoke to a reporter at St. John’s Church near a print depicting the Edict of Torda, the 1568 declaration of religious tolerance, making the new Protestant denominations welcome in Transylvania. A statement about the painting includes these words: “At most places, the Catholic Church attacked the new beliefs and persecuted the people who held them.”

“They are still sort of doing it,” Meyers said.

A professor of history, women’s studies and gender studies at Northern Kentucky University, Meyers said she was raised Catholic.

“We were an interesting mix of a family, staunch Irish Catholics on my mother’s side, lackadaisical Catholics on my father’s side,” she said. “My mother ended up divorcing my father after an abusive marriage. Priests had long told her to stay with him and make the most of it. It had an impact in my life, just seeing how unjust some of the advice was.”

Religious diversity is something Meyers is familiar with. She has two adult children, a son who practices Judaism and a daughter who is a Unitarian/Universalist. What matters is taking care of the poor, the oppressed and the marginalized, she said.

“As long as my kids are doing those things, I don’t care what they call themselves,” Meyers said. “They’re living God’s word, and that what’s important. Everyone need their own spiritual path. That’s why God provided us with so many religious options.”

Meyers said her ministry will focus on the needs of single mothers and their children.

“I am committed in my ministry to helping women,” she said. “That really has been short-changed by the traditional church. You may feel very uncomfortable going to a (male) priest, and a priest may not be the best person to aid in your spiritual journey.”

Meyers said she has known since childhood that God called her to the priesthood.

“I had been called as a very young child to be a priest,” she said. “I knew that as much as I knew my own name. Everything I’ve done up to this point – as a mother, as a teacher and as a community member – is really pastoral and is a ministry. So even though I was denied being a Catholic priest, everything I was doing was what a priest would do. This is what I have been preparing for all my life.”

Meyers said her ordination as a Catholic priest is a way to help reform the church in which she was raised.

“I can help move the church into the 21st century, to become more loving and inclusive,” she said. “That’s one of the reasons I chose not to go toward an Episcopalian priesthood.”

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You are only as high as the people you hang out with
they can only take you to where their consciousness exists


2 reads about hanging out with people



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My Three Gurus - Ram Dass, Zen Master Bernie Glassman and Deepak Chopra, M.D.
10/21/2013

I am incredibly lucky. I have had a close personal relationship with three of the highest octane, world class gurus -- spiritual teachers who still walk the planet: Ram Dass, Zen Master Bernie Glassman and Deepak Chopra.

It's not like I sought them out. I was quite comfortable in my atheist science bubble. It's just that, well, awareness happens.

I met Ram Dass at a conference in Boston in 1994. I was seated next to him for dinner. As Director of Standards for Green Seal, the environmental labeling organization, I was very full of myself. After spending the evening talking his ear off about all the wonderful and amazing things I'd done, Ram Dass said, "Oh, you're a salesman." I told him no, as I chuckled to myself that here's this big spiritual guru and he thinks I'm a salesman and not an important environmentalist. How unperceptive he is. And then as the days passed, I realized how right he was. How embarrassing.

Years later I ended up spending a lot of time with him drafting the Social Venture Network's first standards for Corporate Social Responsibility. We became friends, but almost every time I did something uncouth publicly, there was Ram Dass witnessing me. I don't know if you've been around a fully realized human being before, but it is quite an extraordinary experience. There is an aura around them, an aura of love that is palpable. Ram Dass is loved by so many people that he reflects a lot of it back. He's like a love fountain.

The last time I saw Ram Dass I was at a conference in Tucson. My wife, daughter and I were checked into an otherwise luxury room that had been painted just a few hours before. The volatile organic compounds released from the paint were noxious. I complained at the front desk demanding another room. They were not immediately compliant, so I amped up my complaints just a tad too high. And, standing right next to me, witnessing me devolving into my reptilian brain was Ram Dass. He was the keynote speaker at this conference. In his speech, he relayed the entire dynamic of my exchange at the front desk, omitting my name and identifying details, as an example of the opposite of how to be a loving, compassionate human being. How embarrassing and how that transformed me in a positive way in my future interrelationships with people.

And then I met Zen Master Bernie Glassman, a world-renowned pioneer in the American Zen movement and socially engaged Buddhism. He created the amazingly successful Greyston Foundation and Bakery project. There homeless people, people with AIDs, ex-cons and other disenfranchised people bake the brownies that go into Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream. Taking up where Ram Dass left off, Bernie taught me core lessons in spirituality. One was, if you have a wound on your finger, you clean it and put a bandage on it. If the wound was on your wife or child's finger, you would clean it and put a bandage on it too. Spirituality is coming to accept that if someone you don't know has a wound on their finger or some other challenge, you would treat them the same way you would treat yourself or your family...because they are you (and you are them). Bernie leads retreats to Auschwitz and street retreats to inner cities to bear witness to homelessness, poverty, illness, violence and death. After bearing witness one can then take loving action.

My wife and I have lived and slept on the streets as homeless people with Bernie. This extraordinary and transformative process has empowered me to try to emulate Jesus and love everybody I meet and see. The operative word here for me is "try". Every time I do, though, I surprise myself with the fact that this homeless person I am speaking to is just like me. And every time I remove some space in the me-them gap, I get closer to God.

I met Deepak Chopra while driving my car down 64th St in NYC. I saw what looked like a terror-stricken woman crying as she stared at a spot on the sidewalk. I jumped out of my car to see if I could help. It turned out to be my friend Paulette Cole, owner of ABC Home. A newly hatched bird must have fallen from its nest onto the sidewalk. It was alive, manically chirping but otherwise appeared unharmed. She had called the police, fire department and the ASPCA but no one came. I scaled the wall of the adjacent Ethical Culture Center, found a nest about ten feet off the ground with other chirping nestlings in it and placed the bird back in the nest. As I was hovering overhead, Deepak Chopra walked out of the building.

Deepak works endlessly and tirelessly so that "Together we can help create a peaceful, just, sustainable and healthy world." Besides his many, many existing projects Deepak just launched the Chopra Center's 21-Day Meditation Challenge™ with Oprah Winfrey, the Consciousness Initiative to systematically uncover the science behind consciousness, and a socially responsible investment vehicle called Just Capital. Deepak is also involved with Bill Clinton in creating healthy and ecologically-sound housing.

I am involved in a few of Deepak's other initiatives. The more time I spend with him, the more I realize that he is a bonafide angel on earth. I hear from people every day whose lives he has touched in positive, powerful, transformative ways. Whether I'm spending time with him in producing media at events or evolving technologies to advance mind/body/spirit balance, I have never seen him lose his cool. He always has love, a smile, time and sage advice for everybody. He is generous of heart and gives everyone he meets opportunities to voice and pursue their passion and helps them by leveraging his brilliance, wisdom and social activism. While a select few others in the world may be on their last incarnation before they pop into Buddhahood and become fully-realized beings, Deepak's already been there and has graciously, generously taken the space-time machine back to earth to share his discoveries of the eternal, universal cosmic mind, which we are all a part of.

Am I a lucky guy, or what?


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German Catholic Church Has A Lot Of Money - As In The Diocese of Cologne Might Be Richer Than The Vatican
10/24/2013
BERLIN (RNS) The $20,000 bathtub and $482,000 walk-in closets ordered by “Bishop Bling-Bling” — the moniker of Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, the now-suspended bishop of Limburg — have scandalized the German public.

But Tebartz-van Elst, 52, is only the latest German clergyman to run into trouble since Pope Francis took the helm of the Roman Catholic Church. Francis temporarily suspended the bishop on Wednesday while a church commission investigates the expenditures on the $42 million residence complex.

As the new pontiff tries to reform the way the church does business, German dioceses, which reportedly include the world’s wealthiest in Cologne, are chafing under the new direction as membership numbers continue to dwindle.

“Tebartz-van Elst is just the tip of the iceberg,” said Christian Weisner, spokesman for the German branch of We Are Church, an organization advocating Catholic Church reform. “There is a real clash of cultures between Germany’s current cardinals and bishops — nominated under John Paul II or Benedict XVI — and Pope Francis.”

Since becoming pope, Francis has repeatedly urged the church to strip itself of all “vanity, arrogance and pride” and humbly serve the poorest in society. Under Francis, priests living in luxury are no longer merely unseemly, but a scandal.

Still, even as Francis drives around Vatican City in a 20-year-old white Renault clunker gifted by an Italian priest, the head of the German Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, balked at the idea of giving up his company car, a BMW 740d.

“To me that car is not a status symbol, it is the office I use when I am traveling,” Zollitsch said at a press event in early October, when asked whether he would trade it down.

In Germany, most of the church’s top officials drive high-powered Mercedes, BMWs or Audis.

Other German clergymen have been chastised for lavish expenditures. Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich’s archdiocese spent around $11 million renovating the archbishop’s residence and another $13 million for a guesthouse in Rome.

Still, for German Catholics, those luxuries pale in comparison to the current case surrounding Tebartz-van Elst and the renovation of his residence in Limburg, which is close to Frankfurt. Originally, the refurbishment of the estate’s 10 buildings had been slated to cost $7.5 million but it ballooned to almost six times that amount because of extravagances such as expensive fixtures.

Carsten Frerk, who specializes on church finances in Germany, said German bishops’ reluctance to follow Francis’ new course is no surprise.

“The German Catholic Church is one of the country’s wealthiest and largest organizations and its top officials expect a certain lifestyle,” said Frerk, who has published two books on the German churches’ wealth and what he describes as their opaque financing. “But they are wary of the extent of their wealth becoming broadly known because it might lead to fewer donations.”

There are 23 million German Catholics who have declared their faith and by law must pay 8 to 10 percent of their incomes to their respective churches. That brought the Catholic Church $7.1 billion in tax revenue in 2012.

Since the secularization process instigated by Napoleon in the early 19th century, the state also pays the Protestant and Catholic churches an annual allowance as compensation, which yielded a combined total of about $12 million for the Christian groups in 2012.

But the 27 Catholic dioceses in Germany have a large number of assets, such as real estate or bonds. According to John Berwick, religious affairs analyst for German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, the diocese of Cologne is richer than the Vatican.

Meanwhile, the case of Tebartz-van Elst has focused the spotlight on the church’s opaque financing.

In 2010, 25 of Germany’s 27 dioceses refused to supply the newsweekly Der Spiegel with information on their budgets and assets. Following the Tebartz-van Elst scandal, several bishoprics — including Cologne, Hamburg, Essen and Munster — have made their financial figures public.

There are advantages to the German church’s wealth. Mathew Schmalz, theologian and professor at the Massachusetts-based College of the Holy Cross, who now lives in Sri Lanka, said that without its resources, the church could not support projects in developing countries.

And in Germany, that is the crux of the problem, say analysts. It is important to show congregations that clergy are not the arrogant, aloof spiritual advisers that many German Catholics believe they have become.

For example, after the spending on the renovations came to light, petitions for Tebartz-van Elst to step down circulated. But the bishop remained silent.

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Key to All Optical Illusions Discovered

Postby unaltered » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:21 pm
Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist. It's nothing like the alleged predictive powers of Nostradamus, but we do get a glimpse of events one-tenth of a second before they occur.


And the mechanism behind that can also explain why we are tricked by optical illusions.


Researcher Mark Changizi of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York says it starts with a neural lag that most everyone experiences while awake. When light hits your retina, about one-tenth of a second goes by before the brain translates the signal into a visual perception of the world.


Scientists already knew about the lag, yet they have debated over exactly how we compensate, with one school of thought proposing our motor system somehow modifies our movements to offset the delay.


Changizi now says it's our visual system that has evolved to compensate for neural delays, generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. That foresight keeps our view of the world in the present. It gives you enough heads up to catch a fly ball (instead of getting socked in the face) and maneuver smoothly through a crowd. His research on this topic is detailed in the May/June issue of the journal Cognitive Science,


Explaining illusions


That same seer ability can explain a range of optical illusions, Changizi found.


"Illusions occur when our brains attempt to perceive the future, and those perceptions don't match reality," Changizi said.


Here's how the foresight theory could explain the most common visual illusions - geometric illusions that involve shapes: Something called the Hering illusion, for instance, looks like bike spokes around a central point, with vertical lines on either side of this central, so-called vanishing point. The illusion tricks us into thinking we are moving forward, and thus, switches on our future-seeing abilities. Since we aren't actually moving and the figure is static, we misperceive the straight lines as curved ones.


"Evolution has seen to it that geometric drawings like this elicit in us premonitions of the near future," Changizi said. "The converging lines toward a vanishing point (the spokes) are cues that trick our brains into thinking we are moving forward - as we would in the real world, where the door frame (a pair of vertical lines) seems to bow out as we move through it - and we try to perceive what that world will look like in the next instant."


Grand unified theory


In real life, when you are moving forward, it's not just the shape of objects that changes, he explained. Other variables, such as the angular size (how much of your visual field the object takes up), speed and contrast between the object and background, will also change.


For instance, if two objects are about the same distance in front of you, and you move toward one of the objects, that object will speed up more in the next moment, appear larger, have lower contrast (because something that is moving faster gets more blurred), and literally get nearer to you compared with the other object.


Changizi realized the same future-seeing process could explain several other types of illusions. In what he refers to as a "grand unified theory," Changizi organized 50 kinds of illusions into a matrix of 28 categories. The results can successfully predict how certain variables, such as proximity to the central point or size, will be perceived.


Changizi says that finding a theory that works for so many different classes of illusions is "a theorist's dream."


Most other ideas put forth to explain illusions have explained one or just a few types, he said.
The theory is "a big new player in the debate about the origins of illusions," Changizi told LiveScience. "All I'm hoping for is that it becomes a giant gorilla on the block that can take some punches."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Lloyd" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://www.rle.mit.edu/xqit/contact.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Scientists such as Seth Lloyd have connected the Akashic Records directly to Quantum Physics.

Seth Lloyd's writings reflect the belief that like a computer based in Quantum Physics, the universe records and stores all information, leaving nothing out. He bases his beliefs partly on Moore's Law, which states: "the number of transistors per integrated circuit would increase exponentially with time." Thus, in relation to the Akashic Records, the records of all souls continues to fill with new information and will continue to do so, although not infinitely in that upon the end of time, the records will be complete.

[msfreeh]

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“GRANDMOTHER IS ON THE ROOF”
December 10, 2013
‘An important part of intelligence work is sensing, before you have hard proof, that a critical development will occur. Call it professional intuition, the conviction that a number of pieces, when eventually assembled into enough of the entire puzzle, will constitute a revelation that is vital. … That one new piece of information, perhaps a single line in a report, some awareness which gives you a funny feeling at the back of the neck…’

‘… Using the STASM formula for spot analysis, propaganda can be distinguished by the consideration of five elements : 1 – Source (including the media), 2 – Time, 3 – Audience, 4- Subject, 5 – Mission…..”
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Read the entire piece by Kelly above about Grandma on the roof; if you’ve been labelled a “conspiracy theorist” (as I have) or you spend a significant amount of time tracking down the details of the latest national or international event, then you need to read this.



You should also note, if you are not already familiar with it, the movie “The Assignment”.

Here’s the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bh_0NgWivI" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; (2:29) [The full movie is available online.]

My favorite part is the awareness training that takes place inside an old building, perhaps a former hospital, in which the interior was gutted and re-built to create an apartment setting. Anibal is taught something like that alluded to in the article by William Kelly, Jr. above, in the film’s case, it’s about sizing up and zeroing in vital clues with a glance.

The Wikipedia entry for the film is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Assignment_(1997_film" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;)

The IMDB listing for the film is here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118647/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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The Public Interest Declassification Board should Establish Credibility by Re-Reviewing the Kennedy Assassination Records, then Prioritize Declassification by “Following the Footnotes.”

DECEMBER 9, 2013

tags: FOIA, Kennedy Assassination, MDR, National Declassification Center, NDC, pidb, public interest declassification board

by Nate Jones

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Who has read this?

Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy

Vince Palmara, author of Survivor’s Guilt declares: “During all presidential motorcades during the period from 1961 to 1963, multi-story buildings were manned and guarded by either the Secret Service, the local police, the military, or some combination of the three except in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. This was standard operating procedure before the assassination, not merely as an after-the-fact result or reaction of the tragedy itself.”

Kris Millegan, publisher of TrineDay states: “The author discovered this fact not only through intensive research of long-forgotten newspaper articles and the like but through interviews with Key Secret Service officials. And contrary to popular opinion and mythology, President Kennedy was very cooperative with the Secret Service and did not order either the Secret Service or his presidential staff to relax any security measures. In particular, via many interviews with former agents and White House aides, the author discovered that President Kennedy did not order the agents off his limousine for the Dallas trip. As with the lack of protective coverage of buildings, the buck stops with the Secret Service, not JFK, for why this security measure was not invoked.”



The author’s blog: http://vincepalamara.blogspot.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;



“Survivor’s Guilt” is now free online; please see:

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A Grim Sundae
December 9, 2013UncategorizedHunger Games, killing, NWO, Vietnam. social engineering

On another forum somewhere out there on the Internet, I received a comment from someone who called him- or herself “not wasting anymore time here” (location unknown), suggested to be and seemingly acting like an Internet troll [have you read Victor Pelevin’s book The Helmet of Horror?].

He disagreed with me about the Hunger Games being “bad books” and wondered why I — confusing my gender from lack of knowledge of who I am — would waste my time reading three books in a series I didn’t like.

I had suggested in my own comments that the Hunger Games was a “social engineering” effort, a media psy-op.

So I went back and resurrected what I had written just around Labor Day of 2012.

I’d been exposed to the trilogy after a short vacation stint in mid-coastal Maine where I’d stopped at the bar in a resort hotel at the tip of one of Maine’s infinitely-numbered rocky peninsulae and struck up a conversation with the bartender, a college girl working for the summer. She wanted to be a novelist and was well down the path, and she said she’s been reading some of Stephen King’s material on how to write, with which I am intimately familiar. She said she was deeply engaged in the first book in the trilogy and told me about it, and said it’d been written for adolescent girls. There was already some street buzz about the series, and I was intrigued as to why someone would write a book about survival and murder for an audience of 15-year-old girls. Not wasting her time here anymore suggested that perhaps it was to alert the audience to the New World Order. I hope she is right, and I hope that the 15-year-old girls and boys pay close attention and practice their archery skills. They will come in quite handy in a battle with those who have virtually total awareness through surveillance, whose troops are mobile in armored vehicles, and who have — to borrow on Brzezinski — psychotronics.

I watched the first movie on TV after I’d read both the first and second books in the trilogy.

“What struck me almost immediately about the movie was the casting of Woodie Harrelson as Haymitch which I found oddly curious given his father’s history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;.”

After watching the movie and doing some preliminary Googling to read more about the series and the author, I wrote about killing.

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http://www.killology.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
KILLOLOGY, (n): The scholarly study of the destructive act, just as sexology is the scholarly study of the procreative act. In particular, killology focuses on the reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances (such as police and military in combat) and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations. This field of study was pioneered by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, in his Pulitzer-nominated book, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society.

The research group’s consulting practice and speakers bureau is dedicated to protecting our families and our children and to the strong defense of our country.

Warrior Science Group consultants are human behavior studies specialists with credentials in psychology, educational psychology, training, military history, and modern warfare. Each project is unique, and each project is customized to meet the needs of the client. Col. David Grossman, Director, personally contributes to and supervises all projects.

Warrior Science Group examines how culture and society change when one human being kills another. The lives of individuals and families in our society can be literally transformed and the world can become a safer place through education about the causes and impacts of violent behavior.



Asken, M., & Grossman, G., with Christensen, L., Warrior Mindset: Mental Toughness Skills for a Nation’s Peacekeepers, Warrior Science Publications, 2010.

Grossman, D., with Christensen, L., On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace, WSG Research Publications, 2004. (On the USMC Commandant’s required reading list.)

Grossman, D., & DeGaetano, G., Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence, Crown Books (Random House), 1999. (Published in German and Norwegian.)

Grossman, D., On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society, Little, Brown and Co, 1995 (hardback), 1996 (paperback, in 18th printing as of 2008). Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, 1995. (Published in German, Japanese, and Korean;On the USMC Commandant’s required reading list.)

Grossman, D., The 7th Infantry Division (Light) Capabilities Book, U.S. Army, 1986.



Grossman, D., “The Ability to Kill,” in Police Sniper Training and Operations, D.Bartlett (ed.), American Sniper Association, 2008.
Grossman, D., “Stress Inoculation and Fear: Practicing to be Miserable,”in W.I.N. Critical Issues in Training and Leading Warriors, B. Willis (ed.), Warrior Spirit Books, 2008.
Molloy, B., & Grossman, D., “Why Can’t Johnny Kill? The Psychology and Physiology of Interpersonal Combat,”in The Cutting Edge: Studies in Ancient and Medieval Combat, B. Molloy (ed.), Tempus Press, 2007.

Grossman, D., “Defeating the Enemy’s Will: The Psychological Foundations of Maneuver Warfare,” in Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology, R.D. Hooker (Ed), Presidio Press, 1994.

Grossman, D., “Maneuver Warfare in the Light Infantry: The Rommel Model,” in Maneuver Warfare: An Anthology, R.D. Hooker (Ed), Presidio Press, 1994.



Grossman, D., “Aggression and Violence,” in Oxford Companion to American Military History, Oxford Press, 2000.
Grossman, D., “Evolution of Weaponry,” in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Academic Press, 2000.
Grossman, D., & Siddle, B.K., “Psychological Effects of Combat,” in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Academic Press, 2000.
Murray, K.A., Grossman, D., & Kentridge, R.W., “Behavioral Psychology,” in Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict, Academic Press, 2000.
Grossman, Dave, Two Lessons from Jonesboro: Conducting Critical Incident Debriefings and the Role of Television in Feeding the Need for Enemies.

Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part VII: Auditory Exclusion, ‘Our guns just went “Pop!”’” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 3 No. 2, Summer 2011.

Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part V.” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 2 No. 4, Winter 2010.
Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part IV.” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 2 No. 3, Fall 2010.
Grossman, D., “America’s Sheepdogs: Standing Guard Inside Homelend Security.” Inside Homeland Security: Journal of the American Board for Certification in Homeland Security, Vol. 8, Issue 3, Fall 2010.
Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part III.” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 2 No. 2, Summer 2010.
Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part II.” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 2 No. 1, Spring 2010.
Grossman, D., “On Combat, Part I.” ALERT3: Journal of the Los Angeles Airport Peace Officers Association, Vol. 1 No. 4, Winter 2009.

Rahman, M., Grossman, D., & Asken, M., “High Velocity Human Factors: Factoring the human being into future police technology” (PDF). PoliceOne.com, http://www.policeone.com/training/articles/1646301" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;, February 5, 2008.

Grossman, D., “What Does it Mean to be a Police Officer?” Police Recruit, Vol. 1, 2007.
Fairburn, R., & Grossman, D., “Preparing for School Attacks.” The Police Marksman, Nov/Dec 2006.
Grossman, D., “Preface: Hunting Wolves.” Global Crime, Vol. 7, Number 3-4, Aug-Nov 2006.
Grossman, D., & Christensen, L., “Of Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs.” Published in:
-South Carolina Trooper, Winter 2006.
-Arkansas Lawman, June 2005.
-Oklahoma Chief to Chief: The Official Publication of the Oklahoma Chiefs of Police, -Spring/Summer 2005.
-The Coalition: The Official Publication of the National Narcotics Officers Association Coalition, Spring 2005.
-The Police Marksman, Nov/Dec 2005.

Grossman, D., “Life Not Death: ‘Earn It’.” Integrity Talk: The Official Publication of the International Association of Ethics Trainers, Summer 2005.
Grossman, D., “Justice, Not Vengeance.” Integrity Talk: The Official Publication of the International Association of Ethics Trainers, Spring 2005.

Grossman, D., & Christensen, L., “The Murder Statistic is Not aTrue Indication of the Problem.” The Firearms Instructor: The OfficialJournal of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Issue 36/Spring 2004.
Grossman, D., & Christensen, L., “Terrorism and Active Shooters:The Threat of Mass Murder on American Soil.” The Firearms Instructor: The Official Journal of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Issue 35/Winter 2003.

Grossman, D., “Islamic Zealots, Corporate Predators, and the Attack on Democracy: A Moral Perspective On Our Current State of Affairs.” Tuebor: A Publication of the Michigan State Police Training Division, Winter, 2003.

Grossman, D., & Christensen. L., “In Order to Survive.” Signalman: Journal of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, Autumn/Winter, 2003.
Grossman, D., & Christensen. L., “Practising to Be Miserable.” Signalman: Journal of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, Spring/Summer, 2003.
Grossman, D., & Christensen. L., “Looking Forward to It, and Getting It Over With.” Signalman: Journal of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, Spring/Summer, 2003.
Grossman, D., “Killology.” Signalman: Journal of the Royal Australian Corps of Signals, Spring/Summer, 2002.
Klinger, D., & Grossman, D., “Answering Foreign Terrorists on U.S. Soil.” Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Spring 2002.

Grossman, D., “Terrorism and Local Police.” Law and Order: The Magazine for Police Management, Dec 2001. (Reprinted in Ohio Police Chief magazine, Summer 2002.)

Grossman, D., “Cops, Kids, Killing and Video Games: The Psychology of Conflict, the Media’s Role in Creating an Explosion of Violent Crime, and the Implications to Law Enforcement,” Illinois Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board, August 2001.
Grossman, D., & Siddle, B.K., “Critical Incident Amnesia: The Physiological Basis and Implications of memory Loss During Extreme Survival Situations.” The Firearms Instructor: The Official Journal of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, Issue 31/Aug 2001.
Grossman, D., “Pulling the Plug on Kids and Violence. Study Confirms Obvious: Less TV = Less Violence.” American Family Association Journal, Oct 2001.
Grossman, D., “On Killing II: The psychological cost of learning to kill.” International Journal of Emergency Mental Health, Summer 2001.
Strasburger, V., & Grossman, D, “How Many More Columbines? What Can Pediatricians Do About School and Media Violence.” Pediatric Annals, 30:2/Feb 2001.
Grossman, D., “Teaching Kids to Kill.” National Forum: Journal of the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society, Fall, 2000.
Grossman, D., “Human Factors in War: The Psychology and Physiology of Close Combat.” Australian Army Journal, Issue 1/99.
Grossman, D., “Trained to Kill: Are We Conditioning Our Children to Commit Murder?” Christianity Today, cover story, August 10, 1998. (Received national writing award, translated and reprinted in periodicals in eight languages; and reprinted in over a dozen U.S. and Canadian periodicals, to include: Hinduism Today, US Catholic, and Saturday Evening Post.)
Grossman, D., “Cops, Kids, Killing and Video Games: The Psychology of Conflict, the Media’s Role in Creating an Explosion of Violent Crime, and the Implications to Law Enforcement,” The Law Enforcement Trainer: The Official Journal of the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, vol. 13, Number 3, May/June 1998.

The above are merely samples extracted from a larger source….

See also http://www.killology.com/audio.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[msfreeh]

I just finished reading Dr Ian Stevenson's book WHERE BIOLOGY AND REINCARNATION INTERSECT

Is on my top 5 books list

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http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-new ... 35334.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Indian girl claims to be Columbia shuttle astronaut
Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:15 pm


4-year-old girl claims to be Kalpana Chawla!
Khurja (Uttar Pradesh), July 07: A four-year-old girl who claims her name is Kalpana Chawla and that she died up in the skies four years ago is drawing huge crowds in a village here in Uttar Pradesh.

Residents of Nar Mohammadpur village, about 35 km from here, where little Upasana is visiting her relatives, think she might be the reincarnation of the India born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died when US space shuttle Columbia crashed four years ago.

The news of the girl`s claim spread quickly in the area after she spoke to some villagers here.

`I am Kalpana Chawla,` says Upasana, who reportedly fears the sight an aircraft. She has been telling her illiterate parents that she died in a `crash` up in the skies.

`Upasana has been telling us ever since she started speaking that her name was Kalpana Chawla and that her father`s name was Banarsi Das Chawla but we could not figure out anything as we had never heard of Kalpana,` Upasana`s father Raj Kumar told reporters Friday.

Raj Kumar is a resident of Pata village of Etawah district where he works as a labourer.

`Yet Upasana`s proclamation led us all to believe that she was actually talking about her previous birth,` he said. `She claims that the spacecraft was hit by a huge ball of ice that sent it crashing and ended her life.`

Upasana was born barely two months after the astronaut`s death in 2003.

[msfreeh]

I have been working on a documentary for a number of years about the work of Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert and their work at Harvard and Concord Prison with inmates. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord_Prison_Experiment" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
I interviewed Ram Dass/Richard Alpert for the project.


see link for full story
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The Urgency Network Chats with Spiritual Teacher Ram Dass
December 19, 2013

The first result when you Google ‘Richard Alpert’ is from Lostpedia. Believe it or not, the real Richard Alpert is not a former slave, turned ageless member of an island faction group known as the Others, floating somewhere throughout a purgatorial universe. No, the real Richard Alpert is a former Harvard psychology professor turned acidhead, who found a spiritual Guru in India and was later renamed to Ram Dass.

This guy changed the game. He brought Eastern culture and ideals to the West and wrote a bestseller in 1971 called “Be Here Now.” People inspired by the book have ranged from Steve Jobs to Judd Apatow.

Now over 50 years later, Love Serve Remember Foundation has launched Be Here Now, an Urgency Network campaign to fundraise for the creation of a digital archive of Ram Dass content from the past 40-50 years. A lot of which has never before been made available to the public.

As a bonus, LSRF is offering anyone who contributes $10 or more the chance to win a private three-day retreat in Maui where they’ll get to spend time with Ram Dass. This man has probably had more of an impact on my world view than anyone that’s walked the earth, and it’s been my honor to help preserve and spread his teachings for others to receive through my work with the Urgency Network.

If Ram Dass has ever helped you gain perspective in your life, consider this an opportunity to pay it forward. And if you’re unfamiliar, I encourage you dive deeper into the life of the man formerly known as Richard Alpert, like I recently did in a conversation with him:

Brandon Deroche: ”Be Here Now” was released in 1971. How are the teachings still relevant today?

Ram Dass: Most of the teachings are timeless. Now that I’m 82, the things I said 50 years ago are pretty relevant. Be Here Now and all the instructions Maharaji gave me… I still use them. (smiles)

Deroche: What’s your take on technology today and it’s impact on culture?

Ram Dass: It certainly gives us a feeling of community and oneness, and that’s good. When I see people who have no money and no social standing, and I see them on their cell phones, I realize that it could overturn the society’s structures.

I have calls with people on Skype, we call it Heart to Heart’s. And these Skype calls are heartfelt. What we can feel amongst each other is truly from the heart. It’s pretty wild.

Deroche: Today, people seem to be thinking more and more about giving back. What’s your take on social action and the motivation for it?

Ram Dass: When people participate in social action they want to get something for their money. Either publicity… or at least a good feeling in here. (points at heart) I think that when people are in the news for their social action, it’s very good for the culture. It brings compassion to center stage.

Compassion is in each one of us. So when they go inside to where they find that compassion, it changes their life. It changes their life that they see in their heart — love, compassion, wisdom, joy and peace. Most people’s attention is outside of them, and social action directs them inside.

Social action goes from heart to heart to heart. If you have love in your heart, and you love everybody on the street — that’s social action. My guru had love that he showered on me, I have love that I shower on anybody that wants it, and it goes on and on and on. To put it in terms of numbers, I really think that it’s one to one to one.

Deroche: Do you follow politics and if so, what are your thoughts on today’s leaders?

Ram Dass: Individuals have an ego which is who they think they are… and a soul where they really are. The ego is nationalism, it’s religion, it’s small groups. Politics is ego, ego, ego.

I used to have George Bush on my puja table and I’d say ‘hello’ to him. Then I realized that I had compassion for that soul, as he just had a lousy incarnation. So now I have Boehner… that’s tough on me. (laughs)

Before Obama got into office, he spoke from the heart, but then came the pressures. Obama gets through it, but his soul is suffering. I pray for him. He has in his pocket a little murti of Hanuman, the monkey God. He picked it up where he lived in the islands. That means a lot to me, because Hanuman is my ish da div, my way in.

Deroche: Your teachings talk a lot about our interconnectedness, achieving through collaboration, and loving everybody. How does this work within a capitalist society?

Ram Dass: Through compassionate capitalism. Capitalism where people are supporting eachother. If the culture was in a plane of consciousness where we are all one, then capitalism would be beautiful. But when we’re only separate, it’s very punishing. There’s fear and anxiety and stuff like that.

That consciousness is way down the pike in the future, but it’s in our evolution.

When you perceive other people as souls, like I perceived George Bush, you don’t get embroiled in their human life, in this incarnation, where the dominant theme is separateness. Separate individuals, nation states, separateness of religion. You know, the UN is just a group of separate people.

It would be nice if wise people ran the world. (smiles)

Deroche: Do you have any closing thoughts?

Ram Dass: Closing thoughts… Death is not the end. That’s a closing thought. (laughs) Each person has in them a perspective of things which gives them in their work an understanding that they are contributing to the culture’s evolution. You… Your work… My work… and it’s our roles. We get caught up in our roles, so I say get rid of the role and buy the sole.

[msfreeh]

Famous Gay Men: List of Gay Men Throughout History

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[msfreeh]

Famous Gay Men: List of Gay Men Throughout History

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"Gay musicians"

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Queer Scientists of Historical Note

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Caroline Myss Talks Living Life To The Fullest In ORIGIN Magazine

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Two Witnesses Saw Barack Obama on CIA Mars Visitation Program in 1983

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[msfreeh]

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the fourth way

[msfreeh]

The Secret Life of Plants


see link to watch video
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The Secret Life of Plants. It means even on the lower levels of life, there is a profound consciousness or awareness that bonds all things together. Published in 1973, The Secret Life of Plants was written by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. It is described as "A fascinating account of the physical, emotional, and spiritual relations between plants and man." Essentially, the subject of the book is the idea that plants may be sentient, despite their lack of a nervous system and a brain. This sentience is observed primarily through changes in the plant's conductivity, as through a polygraph, as pioneered by Cleve Backster. The book also contains a summary of Goethe's theory of plant metamorphosis.

That said, this book is about much more than just plants; it delves quite deeply into such topics as the aura, psychophysics, orgone, radionics, kirlian photography, magnetism/magnetotropism, bioelectrics, dowsing, and the history of science. It was the basis for the 1979 documentary of the same name, with a soundtrack especially recorded by Stevie Wonder.