Rowling on the defense again. {lessons of ego}

Intro:
BBC Article

I dont get it, well I do, but lets have a look at it.

When you come up with an idea, its in free space.
She owns Harry Potter no more than I do. If we are truly all connected, then all this “you are viloating my rights” is really kind of schizophrenic - as there is not you.

For most this concept is out there…so I will say yes I think there is a place for someone, like Rowling, to make money off of her work - but to what degree is it hers. This can be looked at, perhaps with more ease, by taking a look at the music industry.

Wired:
I read an article, forgot source, I think it was wired, that basically said that the music companies claim an eternal ownership of promo cds, If I understood the article correctly, and that you dont have the right to throw them away, etc.

Yep, it was an article from Wired.

This stuff is really summed up with one word, “Insane”.

With Rowling it appears that she had approved of an online encyclopedia of the Harry Potter World - well approved in that it did not seem to bother her. But when the person wanted to take the info and make a book out of it…oh my, it “infringes on my rights…” - well she did want to right a book and this may affect sales, although she claims money is not the issue.

I believe her.
I think she is so attached to Harry Potter…that she is not quite seeing clearly.

Im not trying to be rude, so let me put it another way.
Parents when they give birth can be not only over protective, but they can tend to act as if they ‘own the child’. They were the vessel in which the child came into the world, and they are the means in how that child will be raised and the environment in which they will learn and grow up…but they dont own the kid.

But actions, way into the adult life of the kid, shows that they indeed take that stance, even if unconsciously, that they somehow ‘own’ (for lack of better terms) the child.

The child is its own:
Once something is birthed its now its own.
In the case of Harry Potter, how I approach Harry is not necessarily how she approaches it.
She was amazed how so many people liked snape, back when she tried her best to paint him black…well first they liked the actor and that played a role in how they perceived snape.

Just like a child, she had not control how the audience perceived her work, her creation.

The story is what the individual makes of it:
Truth is, she is not that great of a writer. (Well, dont get me wrong, Im not even claiming to be a writer). I find that the beauty of her work is what I take into it when reading it, and what I get from the movies created by the producers/directors and again my perception of it.

I will say it again, because the point is simple, though I dont feel I can properly get it out the way I would like. And that is, once the idea is birthed, its owned by the collective.

Funny, there is a movie called “Troll”, I believe made in 1986, which had the main character, if Im not mistaken, whose name was also Harry Potter (Jr.)
This is pre-Rowling, and now the guy wants to remake the movie.

Sure you could argue to ride off of the J.K. Rowling Harry Potter success, but I dont think that alone would do enough to drive it.

Another Harry…pre-Rowling Potter.
Warner has either threatened to or is suing him if he goes forward with making the remake, saying they will stick to their claims to Harry Potter.

Well, hate to say it, but no one owns the name Harry Potter.
Its a name for crying out loud!

Now J.K. Rowling claimed she never read “Troll” (but did she know of it?)…
You know, when there is an idea, it usually pops up somewhere across the world.
I remember as a kid coming up with the wackiest name, “whatcha-ma-call-it” and then not long after they made a candy bar with that name. Now my mom was convinced I had just saw the commercial and forgotten.

100 Monkeys:
But lets look at the 100 monkeys.
What is it…I believe the concept is that after a certain point, say 100 monkeys learn something new, all of a sudden all the other monkeys already know it.

Forget about the 100 monkeys, I have seen quite a few times where one idea would pop up in a country in science, and supposedly it was secret, and then they find out that another country found the same thing…and then they are amazed.

Im telling you, and you dont have to believe me, but there is something to this quantum entanglement.

Conclusion:
But what does this have to do…or rather, how does this solve Ms. Rowling woes?
Well it doesnt, until she realizes that she needs to let the bird fly…its a gift to the world and she is not going to ‘miss’ anything.

The fear is there and it ends up running a persons life.
As she claims she has lost inspiration to write a Harry Potter Encyclopedia now, and has stopped writing some other book she had started due to this issue bothering her.

See, her life, is now being wasted, so to speak, because she is living with some tight identity around something that does not really belong to her. Again, if I have not made my point clear above in what I mean, then this will be taken the normal way that the mind sees things, such as, “well it is hers because…” but anyway…

Attachment to form, this includes thought form, is ego - and it doesnt really help anyone get anywhere. If she would let it go then the universe would take care of the situation, and perhaps she would see/realize that there is no situation to be taken care of.

Peace

dAlen

Tribute to Larry Norman (founder of modern christian music)

Intro: Christian music of the devil?
Most of you have not a clue who he is…but back in the days the church would have died to hear most of the music being played today which is labeled as Christian.

Hymns were truly as far as they could go and no further, everything else had a demon coming out of the beat. (And we are not talking heavy metal here)

Bible college vs. Keith Green and Newsboys
Again, not many of you grew up in the ending of this age where such strict rules applied to music, dress, etc. My Bible college that I quickly left dwelt more on how Christian contemporary music was satanic and trying to get rid of my Keith Green and News boys CDS…then they did on theology. (always had a great time in theology class…drew ‘bill the cat’ on the boards with a ‘theology arrow going through his head’.)

Opening of doors & the potential close of a religion
But if it werent for those pioneers, like Larry Norman, there may have been quite a restriction still on Christian music. Or Christianity would have devolved into a small dieing group that would only keep a small following like the Amish. You have to evolve and move on.

“But faith doesnt change”. But we arent talking about faith - we are talking about going past man made dogma and in to true ’spirit’. I have to admit the church is still tangled and I see it constantly in various places as I come across Christians stuck in narrow ways of thought - primarily out of fear. (Which leads also to the need to want to be ‘right’)

Communicating backwards
Larry got it and came across and was able to talk to the young crowd of his days.

What we loose is the communication back to the church. They need to be saved.
But in truth, not sure if its worth going backwards as you risk getting stuck in their revolving egoic stories…and they wont/cant break out until they are consciously ready to. There has to be the seed of desire.

So communication backwards doesnt really work… (this last bit may not make a lick of sense to many of you, Im just jotting down some thoughts/observations of recent days as it concerns communicating with people that have dogmatic beliefs.)

Its much easier to talk to the sinner. Jesus knew this and its who he focused on…notice he didnt try to get the pharisees to turn around. He talked their lingo, but they didnt bite…their egos were to deep. Some came out…to an extent…well in hiding, but they were still to attached to their identities.

Anyway, here is a bit from the late Larry Norman who passed away in late Feb 2008:

Larry Norman talk:
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Its confusing to people if you don’t explain what’s really happened, if you just (repeat) all the cliches - Like if someone’s coming down the street and you walk up to them and say:

(Christian) “brother have you been washed in the blood”?

(non Christian) “I hope not”

(Christian) “Well have you been born again”?

(non Christian)“Not lately”

(Christian)“Well have you ever been saved”?

(non Christian)“ah, yeah…last summer…up at camp…it was a really nice night, moon was full, out in the lake in a boat, and I stood up - and I cant swim, the guys had to drag me…”

(Christian)“thats not what Im talking about. Im trying to find out if you deeply experienced a personal revelation, you know like a sanctifi…you know like being born…you know washed in the…consecrate…

(After much exasperation)
(Christian cont.)…Im trying to tell you the Good News!”

(non Christian)“The good news, whats that”?

(Christian)“Your going to hell!”

(nonChristian)“Whats the bad news”

(trails off with additional comments)

flows better when heard then in written format, but fun none the less.

To hear the tribute to Larry: Pastor Bob/Sanctuary International

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Bringing it home:
The above scenario brings about two points.
Really they are one in the same, but we often look at things/words, as a one way street.
We see things from one perspective and think we have the whole picture.

What Larry is saying seems down right obvious.
Many of us can relate to what is being said and infact this thought is somewhat the pillar in how to overcome the blockages in evangelism to be able to communicate with the non-Christian to “bring them into the fold” so that they to can get lost in its religious trappings.

But this brings about what I was talking to previously about communicating backwards.

Lost your first love/death of a seed:
“The first awakening is by grace” - Eckhart Tolle.
What we have is the first true concept that comes that we are indeed loved and free, we have found “our first love” but almost immediately (like the parable of the seeds) things go wrong. Very few grow up to maturity.
Various things happen on the way to either kill the plant or stunt its growth.

A plant with stunted growth may be worse than if it never had grown to begin with, and surely can do more damage as it ‘plants’, with more seeds, other plants that will be like itself…stunted in growth.

Its just like the pharisees, the white washed tombs.
The blind leading the blind.

Hearing the message, but totally missing the point:
Oh, sure. We have gotten past one phase - which is we now know how to talk to the ’sinner’ (dont recall Jesus calling people or rather identifying them with their actions…this seems to be what keeps people in their actions.
I have written about this before, but Jesus did not see an alcoholic, prostitute, etc. He saw a person. He did not label them by their deeds so they were free to not identify with them and thus make future choices that reflected a new line of thought. - being truly ‘born again.’ And this was not by ‘effort’, which fails time and again. If you want more info on this, dig on my site and it may help shine more light on this matter, as it is important and not really talked about.)

Its about the first love, where did it go?…
So we have learned how to go past the problem Larry talked about, but also in his dialogue we see a hint of another problem very well present. The attitude of the pharisee. Those people are lost in the lingo. They have mistaken the word for the message. Words are pointers and take on different meanings depending on who hears/reads it based on their upbringing and social & religious milieus. (better known as the mental grid system of interpreting info through ones experiences and perspective.)

The pharisees get lost in the words and cant see the forest for all the trees.

Rediscovery
People, its time to rediscover your first love.
Its time to really get to know what love is - even if you have to record yourself reading from Paul and his definition of it over and over again. Until it sinks through that love is unconditional acceptance.

This word is not acceptable to some, because people get so lost and trapped in only using one word and not feeling what another word actually means and is pointing to. The words acceptance is very dangerous to any pharisee or evangelical christian as it implies that a person can ’sin and get away with something’.

Their focus is skewed and in the wrong area altogether. Much can be said on this and would need more space and time to fully get the meat of what is being communicated here. Why? Because the roots of fear run deep in most Christians hearts and this dictates the type of communication they will have.

Talk the talk but dont know how to walk the walk
Sure they may have learned to talk a new talk to relate to the people…but if the change isnt understood at heart level, then they are merely white washed tombs leading others to the same fate that they are currently experiencing.

Love is alive. Love the lord with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself.

Love yourself! Accept yourself!

When you do, you can then proceed to give a message to a non believer with true conviction without expecting to see change. The message is the good news of Jesus, not the good news and now here is what you change to show that Christ is in your life.

Wrapping up:
I will say it again. When Jesus hung around the prostitute he had not preconditioned idea that they must now change. There change, if any, was in the realization that they were not a prostitute.
That is a label (egoic identity) that kept them stuck. - These words, until you feel the heart of it, will allude you.
Its a powerful and life transforming concept, demonstrated by Jesus himself.

Dont get lost in the words…watch the life and actions of Jesus.

Peace

dAlen

p.s. - as usual, this post was written quickly and again may hit the spot for some people and give them something to ponder about…and may land on deaf ears with others. (But not to label, as we never know if those deaf ears have a tinge of hearing to accept a seed that will later grow into a mature plant.)

Quotable Quotes

“…still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.” - Simon & Garfunkel

Dutch Plan to Build Tulip Shaped Island

clipped from blog.wired.com Executing on a Parliamentary commission, a Dutch agency has put together a plan to build a 247,000 acre island off the coast of their country in the shape of a tulip. The project would follow in the dubious tradition of Dubai’s The Palm and The World island building schemes.

By the way, the poster of the article seems to be concerned that this will damage the environment. As many of the comments below the authors article pointed out: No it wont damage the environment - or lets just say nature destroys itself or is constantly changing and reforming. How is this any worse? Perhaps we should go green first with our cars and all start walking before we complain about an island being built.

Peace

dAlen

Trickle up Technology: {If your crazy}

Intro:
Bit** & complain is all most people do when confronted with an obstacle.
Whether personal or business.
{i.e., Your food is over/under cooked, someone arrived late to an important meeting, your spouse refuses to act in accordance to your pre-conceived notion of ‘life’, or someone just cannot seem to grasp where you are coming from.}

Sure, it may be extremely hard to notice - even to oneself - if such negativity is disguised in the form of a pleasantries. This indeed is the case with the majority of people, the majority of the time.

Im using words, which have already a lot of preconceived notions attached to them, to point beyond what they are saying. - The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon. The dog watching his owners hand wave back and forth doesn’t know to look at the object to which the owner points. No, Im not calling you dogs by any means, this is a pointer.
None-the-less, it still shares the same root attributes that raw Bit**ing and complaining have.

In saying this, let me go a bit further and see if I can bring up some points that lay hidden deep in a lot of us, but we never visit them as we don’t know they exist. And if they are brought up, then we are on the defense, as the words used typically are associated with the accusative and not from genuine sharing of experience.

I want (the world/business) to change:
“Its unfair”, “It isn’t right”, etc.

Sound familiar? By itself the words are easily identified as whiners which we would say that is not part of our vocabulary. It may not be, but lets take a look at the fruit, or our life and actions to see what they say.

Example:
“Large Corporations tend to scre* over the consumer and have no regards in creating true service with the intent of expanding for the betterment of the end user as well as mankind together.”

What this means will vary to whoever reads it, again its a rough formula of words used to provoke a certain thought pattern to help it align and understand what is being said. (Tricky as each persons grid pattern interprets what they read according to their established milieu.)

Part of getting past this is to interrupt the brains normal pattern (lazy) of processing the information so that it is forced to rethink and contemplate what it read. This to is hard, as most peoples brains fizzle out and the brain deems it ‘boring’.

But here we go.

How to handle the ‘big business’:
Us vs. them never gets anywhere.
The ego is exclusive and not inclusive. I will tell you that is basically the core of how I was/am.
Awareness helps bring you out. For me I would like to do everything myself, wanting ‘control’. (Again a sure sign of ‘ego’. Ego is not bad, but its as if the tool possesses us. I bet the fall in the gArden was Adam & Eve getting the ego tool (knowledge of duality) before they could handle it. The proof is in the mess the world is in. We sinned…that is in greek “missed the mark” or got off course a bit.

Its one thing to watch and observe what is happening and then to take action.
But I would think that for the most part we are not about taking action, we are about complaining hoping that some glorious angel will come down and fix it for us. We expect God to pop from a cloud like a genie and perform our very whim.

We were created in the image of God…time for us to be the co-creators we were made to be.

Outlook:
So you see that a trend is that big business is not focusing on customer satisfactions or user experience. You may feel (and rightfully so) that they want you to adapt the idea you need the product and it is a privilege that you can use the product. - ah, no. Its a privilege that they continue to take advantage of peoples naivety and those people pay them for it.
pssst…Hey I got some swamp land to sell you that you can be grateful for.

Point proven:
The above point proves what Im saying.
With what I said one can say “you have negative words”. Yes, but you have to know the heart, intent and what is driving what is said. Words are limited and mostly associated with the negative or the glorious…nothing to explain the shades of grey that transition from white to black - or for that matter step out of the picture altogether to show another dimension.

As with my comment: “I have swamp land in Florida”. It was meant to make a point.
But it can make a very different point (and be as valid) by saying, “When we find gratefulness in all things, this then is peace. Very true, but again, how are you reading the pointers.
- And people think translation is easy.

Proactivity:
Be grateful for what is.
The fact is that the companies do offer a service.
When they get all the way greedy the ego will self explode and a new ego will take form.
But see what it is they are doing, and how can it be improved upon?

Can you share with them, not in a manner of superiority, what may help the flow of customer service. It could be that they just haven’t thought of it. Put the seed in and see where it goes.
It may drop on the ears where it landed…who knows. It may go to the top and then it will trickle down to the rest. By doing this you are proactive to making the solution, instead of wallowing in not enjoying the only moment you have. Now.

The end of Life:
One day you will lay down and realize the futility in that which you struggled.
But then its to late. You have “lived but not lived” This is hell unto itself. To squander the very life you were given. What are you doing? Do it with all you have or stop doing it.

Rest of the story:
It could be, in the scenario presented here, that it just is not going or fitting into the path that is set out for you. (that is following someone else’s path, or waiting for a business to turn.)

Then turn around and change the ‘injustice’ in the system and make your contribution by going open source. (If that is indeed something you are into.) For another it may be saving the planet.
You may find that places like Green Peace don’t even offer a refuge for you.

When you fight something, you use the same energy, or level of intelligence of that with which you fight. You turn into that which you oppose. So again, no need to mud sling…unless you like getting dirty and realize that no true benefit will come of it.

So can you then go ‘green’ another way?
You don’t like what BMW is doing with the hydrogen car? Think this is not true free energy?
Support that which is closest to you…you can do nothing by yourself. If you can then start your own thing, but you must have people if you want to make a ‘mass consciousness’ change.

Change:
Anyone can have a true and lasting change in their life, where the world does not affect them.
Like one saint who was being burnt cried out “you ready to eat me…I think Im done!”
Oh what gnashing of teeth by those who are runned by the ego constantly and have not harnessed the tool.

If you want to make a bigger change, you have to affect a larger group. Two or more.
“Where two or more are together” - Jesus. He is talking quantum mechanics here…not some flowery poetry. When you have 2-3 together you get a mini mass consciousness.

You control the media, you get what you want. (hehe. well there are those few that are the ’seizures’ in the mind of God. IN that they are showing the potential for a mass change, but the body as a whole only follows its set path leading a ’spiritual fit’.)

Trickle up Technology: {If your crazy}
Crazy like a fox…but it doesn’t mean it will work.

It appears that it truly is trickle down technology.
When the rich adapt something (i.e., BMW hydrogen car, and the ‘knights’/hollywood stars/singers, etc. drive around in it) then the mass want it. Until then, “we don’t need it…gas is good forever, etc.” - oh, about knights, surely most of you know the queen knights those in entertainment (Sean Connery, Bono U2, Rolling Stone dude, etc.) Why? One brit I talked to said Knight means nothing anymore. I beg to differ.

The true knight:
Queen aint crazy. She no longer needs men on shining horsed…she has men/women on the silver screen. They influence and move society…the sheep.

Don’t like being called a sheep? The Bible calls you one left and right and you are one.
You may ask who your shepherd is, all I can say is it aint who you think it is. But thats another post in and of itself.

So it comes from top:
Convince people at top of the agenda, and they will move the boat.
But I tell you, it doesn’t happen over night.

I worked at a company before that took years to get what they wanted, and you would think it was insane what they were doing. But I suppose they knew how to move the type of energy there.
For me it was obvious and a waste of time…but for most, I suppose it takes a series of steps.

(not implying Im special…anyone can think out of the box…but not many are motivated too. This is the difference.)

As people adapt and expand their view, a lot more can happen faster - and interestingly you may see that violence drops. Again, a topic for another post.

But as we note, God uses the good and bad.
There is so much to say in connection with this statement, but to go into the human psychology of it now is beyond the scope of this post.

Conclusion:
With that I wrap it up.

#1 - If you see a problem, does it affect you? How does it affect you? Does it bring you down?
Then you are caught on the same level of intelligence as the problem you want to ‘fight’.
“That which you resist, persist.” - Eckhart Tolle.

#2 - What can you do to proactively make a change in what it is you want to see change in?
Is it a true desire? If it is then you will do something about it. If not, its just ego feeding off the complaint.

Peace

dAlen

DRM (Digital Rights Management) Targets You - not the pirate

Intro:
DRM is an interesting topic and quite polarizing to say the least.
Lets take a look at a few of the players in this game and find out who the real victim is: YOU

The Pirate:
So who is this pirate that they are going after?
Most of us think of Jimmy & Jane who are sharing a music file, or Johnny who borrows a piece of software to learn at home.

No, those are not the pirates, they are the scapegoats to get your eyes off of whats happening…or what may seem like an oxymoron to that statement, trying to get their eyes fixed on the goals of the true pirates…the Industry.

But I wont go there…yet.

The real pirates that actually cost the industry money, are the guys who take software for free and resale it on the street.

In essence, this is the only true pirate that the industry faces.
Everyone else is someone who would not have bought it to begin with.

i.e. Jimmy & Jane sharing what they already paid for, kind of like the days when people openly shared recorded tapes and even downloaded files before the masses became brainwashed to believing that sharing is illegal. (after all, one day we will pay per minute of the song we listen to…and it wont stop there until your bled dry of every bit of cash you have. And by the way, the true pirates are the artist getting ripped off by the archaic music industry. Maybe they should lead the revolt…but they are not, they are but sheep too.)

Or Johnny who wants to improve his skills but cant afford a software package, so he borrows a copy to learn on at home so that he is more marketable in the job place. Instead of the industry thinking, “Hey, this kid will one day be someone who will buy our products, etc.”, the ‘kid’ is looked at as a hardened criminal.

I will tell you what ‘Johnny’ will do…write open source apps to blow these ancient dinos out of the water. Industry is biting the hand that feeds it. People stop buying the ‘bloat-ware’ and going open-source, something will change.

So whats going on?
Words are limited and are merely pointers.
Depending on where you on this subject, your mind is already made and you will filter what Im saying through the grid system already set up. “The system is right…”

This mentality truly interest me. See, in Sweden its not illegal to have file sharing.
In fact many forget it used to not be illegal in the U.S.

Now of course the Industry would want you to believe that they have owned your soul from before you were conceived, but if you just think back a few years, you should be able to remember how this all came about. Somehow people suck up what is told to them from people from ‘above’.
“Surely they must know…they have the money and the ’smarts’.” Yeah the smarts to put you into more of a clamp.

Ah, so thats it!
You might be getting closer to what is going on.
If the Industry is at all intelligent, they will realize that you can never stop a true pirate.
They forgot about the guys truly making them loose money…all the rest is just statistics and greed and pure wish that they could make people pay for a product they don’t want or value at where they have it at.

So as they tighten their grips, the peoples mindset gets tightened with it.
The majority no longer say, “How can we both benefit from this relationship”.
i.e., can I learn program ‘x’ for free and then when I make my first dime, pay for the program?
This sounds nice and has been the case in the past. (There is one company that does give you an educational version to use for free…Maya. Way to go guys. That water mark is a bit hard, but you are closer to an idea of a two way relationship between software company and individual, that I have seen.)

See, they know if more people learn their software, that their software will become de-facto in studios. In essence it will force businesses to use what people know. And those who make enough money to get a job off of the 3D software, will buy a copy of Maya…built in loyal customer.

Truth about people:
People are built to want to do things straight forward.
That is, a majority of people that pay for software do so, not because of strict DRM, but because they are inherently ‘programmed’ to do so anyway.

But instead of working with such people, they target them to be the ones to suffer under such silly DRM, which will always be broken, and I will tell you why.

The reason:
It is by far easier to break than to build. Chaos is easier than Creation.
Build your DRM and see how fast its broken. Oh, you can put up a fix quicker now days…well you will forever be on your toes, as the ability to break is unlimited.

And this is the human flaw of the Ego. The very root of those people in the Industry (entertainment and business).

The issue:
Ego does one thing, and does it well. FEAR.
“I want control”, and the more the Ego seeks control, the more the sheep suffer, and the people they try to make submissive, slip through their fingers…as the ego begins to crack and completely shatters.

True, it reshapes into another form - but perhaps its part of evolution.
Ego is seeking resolution and to evolve past its story of FEAR, displayed through the need to control. Something that is evasive to all.

Conclusion:
You cant change the ego, and you cant argue a point.
You fight the law, as Paul said, you wont live at peace in the land.

Does this make you a sheep as well. Of course not. If you consciously know what is happening, you can see clearer how to react in the situation.

For Jimmy & Jane with the music…go indie with those who want to share, and dump the need to listen to what people say you should like.
For Johnny, go open-source. There are capable programs.

Now if you need the power of the software coming from the big corporations, then pay them their dime. But they need to remember, that as they tighten their grip - on the horizon something else is being developed to dethrone them. And it will come in the form, of not more features, but that of listening to and being part of the people.

“He knows Rome…the mob is Rome” - to paraphrase from the movie “Gladiator”.

Yes, the Industry knows this well, and they have played the tune of the piper well - though I have been surprised at how more natural rights have been increasingly taken away without anyone noticing, and even calling it normal.

Now this is the true Sorcerer indeed. (master of manipulation.)

In the End:
Its not an us vs. them.
The ego seeks conflict, and the conflict that comes back is just ego looking at itself in the mirror.

True resolution comes not through fighting, but understanding. With understanding comes wisdom and the ability to choose. Once you do this, you will be no ones slave. - and this whole issue of ‘piracy’ will show itself for the child’s play that it is.

- have fun in your sandbox!

peace

dAlen