Visions of the Future (In the Now)

An excellent find as I was browsing through thoughtware.tv

Im tagging this under ‘love’ as you will need ‘true’ love to pull off what is in this video - and make it work. Much to be said about this and for sure it could be expanded on to make clearer the point.
But for now, sit back and enjoy the video…the universe is truly full of potential.

Peace

dAlen

How to build a human {Science/Medical BBC Documentary}

Great BBC mini series - thus far - on various aspects of human cloning.

A four part series, with part one divided into six parts.
I havent watched the other four installments yet, but the first part was really thought provoking.

See if you can think out of the box as you watch the videos before quickly categorizing what is presented as good or bad - you may find that you agree with certain aspects and not others…the point is to allow your mind to ponder the different implications so that you can expand beyond the current limitations of thought.

Series 1of4 (part 1of6)

Found the video at thoughtware.tv - its a good site that brings together the best science/medical video stories from across the web.
The focus is on future technology/science/medicine.

Just a random thought that popped into mind, not really associated with this, but here it is: “Time to educate not legislate.”
A lot of potential growth is stunted due to fear, and fear actually causes harm to the very ones whom resisted new thought.

This does not mean that growth for the sake of growth is good - check out cancer cells that continuously divide and multiply.

The fact is that if humanity does not evolve on a conscious/’spiritual’ level (I use ’spiritual’ carefully as the term is so overused and misused), we will only have cleverness as we continue to advance; and we will eventually destroy ourselves, just as cancer destroys both itself and its host.

Cleverness is not intelligent.

Cleverness seeks its own and divides -
It is usually quite ‘insane’ on a social level… while Intelligence unites and includes.

So the point is not to ‘knock’ scientific advances, but to learn as much as you can, and while doing so evolve on a conscious level.

For this I will specifically point out Eckhart Tolles audio book “A New Earth”.
Listen to it again and again…until you get your thought patterns rewired.
(its not a religion or a belief…we dont need more things to add to our belief system…which does not work, we need practicality, and I believe you will find it in this audio book.)

Its basically teaching you about yourself and human nature - and how to deal practically with its disfunction.

Being an ex-O.C.D. (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) and now needing no medication (it didnt work anyway) - I can highly recommend E.T. (Eckhart Tolles) audio books.

Those that seek, with all their heart, as Jesus put it…will find. You dont find when you search in the confines of ones pre-defined belief systems.

Those are all conditioned thought patterns brought on by your social/religious milieu - and the thought patterns you take as an identity of who you are. When you identify with something so tightly you cannot see the larger picture and take your way as the only way…

And we wonder why there are endless wars and division between people/nations - all in the name of love/Jesus. (What an irony indeed.)

Well, I have ranted enough, watch the video and enjoy!

Peace

dAlen

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Monsanto {Documentary}

Intro:
There is much that could be said about this, but I will let you watch the video for yourself.
Its quite long, so pull back a chair, get something to drink and munch on and relax.

If you find it a bit dry at first it will pick up toward the end when they start talking about India & Mexicos corn, etc. The first part gives you more of a background into the company itself.

When you watch the bit about the Mexican corn and how N.A.F.T.A. affects this, (well with Monsanto, of course), you will be surprised.

Mexico & India:
In fact put that info with the fact that in India they (farmers) have to buy cotton seed basically from only Monsanto - as Monsanto has bought up most, if not all, of the major seed suppliers to farmers - not only do they have to buy this seed that grows with pesticide genetically engineered into it…(Im not against science or genetic engineering, but chemicals, pesticides in the plant? Science is a tool only…neither good nor bad. It is only that which the hand that wield it cause it to be. And in my view point, Monsanto is on the ‘bad’ path. My thought would be to understand nature & its benefits fully before trying to play god with plants turning colors…potatoes…and plants having pesticides in them…cotton…etc.)

Control: Ownership of the worlds food supply
So as you see, the problem isnt only with what they are selling, but they are owning nature.
You buy their seeds, you cannot collect it for planting for the next year. (This is tradition.) And they are ruthless if they think that you kept the seed for next years harvest. - Again, not that I would ever want to have their seed in my field…fact is many dont, and organic farmers have either come close to, or have been shut down by Monsanto because of these ‘false flags’ saying the organic farmer had Monsantos patented seed on their farm lots. What? Monsanto is the reason they went organic.

Revelations:
Ah, where was I?
Anyway, as you watch this video think of Revelations where it says no one “will buy or sell without the mark…” - well, make that “no one will buy or sell except Monsantos seeds”.

This whole fear/greed based mentality needs to come to a halt. It is self-destructive and companies like Monsanto is driving society into a mess. Well, they would like to think into their hands so that they control all that happens and thus retain power. But I see differently, people are waking up to a lot of the non-sense in the world and that type of fear/greed based mentalities time is up.

So without further ado, here is the link:

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

Anti-Aging Drugs Could Change the Nature of Death

Wanna live forever? Or at least extend your age a bit? No? Then what about dieing without all the pain associated with old age - yes, even a Classical Christian couldnt argue that point.

clipped from blog.wired.com A new class of drugs aimed at age-related physical and mental deterioration could change not only the nature of life, but of death. The drugs target mitochondria, the cellular power generators that provide our bodies with chemical energy. Over time, mitochondria accumulate damage, causing cells and eventually tissues to malfunction and break down. If the pattern holds in people, death would not be preceded by months or years of suffering. It would also come without warning, forever catching family and loved ones by surprise. I started wondering what form death would take when diseases of aging are eliminated. “Surprisingly, this straight-forward question is not very easy to answer. “They die of natural death ….probably their heart stops to beat!” Hey Denis,You missed a couple. Alpha Lipoic acid which is a better anti-oxidant than E or C. Rhodiola Rosea, a Russian herb that also calms you down. (You can grow that last one.)

Check out the full article and comments at Wired.