Merkabah

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Very cool stuff there!!
It will be interesting to see where they take the technology!

Just saw this…kind of along the same line of thinking!

[video=youtube;uPVQMZ4ikvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uPVQMZ4ikvM[/video]​

[video=youtube;G_xQPw4lOOU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_xQPw4lOOU[/video]

[video=youtube;GKd9_kNv5B8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKd9_kNv5B8[/video]

 

[sprinkles]

Very cool stuff there!!
It will be interesting to see where they take the technology!

Just saw this…kind of along the same line of thinking!

[video=youtube;uPVQMZ4ikvM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uPVQMZ4ikvM[/video]​

It'd be funny if a robot fire truck drove up and played this at a burning building and it fell down.

[video=youtube;eP67pqjEBYI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP67pqjEBYI[/video]

 

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[MENTION=6917]sprinkles[/MENTION] ^^^^

Very awesome…hehehe.
It would be cool if they made something like they suggested…that was above the stove in a restaurant…or even in the space station…where you wouldn’t necessarily want everything else including your air contaminated with dry chemicals (though I’m sure the space station uses CO2).
Nice tunes as always!!

 

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Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton
A Quest Beyond the Limits of the Ordinary

[video=youtube;wXpndnjHvqw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wXpndnjHvqw[/video]

Two amazing minds are coming together in Seattle, Washington to push the edge of history well beyond the limits of the ordinary.
Blending science and spirituality into startling insights, acclaimed revolutionary biologists Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton will show us the wonder and daring of their research and how it relates to our lives.​

 

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Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton
A Quest Beyond the Limits of the Ordinary

[video=youtube;wXpndnjHvqw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wXpndnjHvqw[/video]

Two amazing minds are coming together in Seattle, Washington to push the edge of history well beyond the limits of the ordinary.
Blending science and spirituality into startling insights, acclaimed revolutionary biologists Rupert Sheldrake and Bruce Lipton will show us the wonder and daring of their research and how it relates to our lives.​

I'll respond to your earlier comment later when I can think... [rolls eyes]

I would totally go see these two remarkable men if I lived up there. You are going - aren't you?

 

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I'll respond to your earlier comment later when I can think... [rolls eyes]

I would totally go see these two remarkable men if I lived up there. You are going - aren't you?

Take your time!! I sure did…haha!!
If I had known they were there I would have gone for sure!

 

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Breathe with the tide...

[video=youtube;OUDO4m8Z42U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OUDO4m8Z42U[/video]​

 

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Metaphysics and the limits of science

Is physical science — as some people say — omnicompetent?
Can it (that is) answer all possible questions?

If, for instance, we ask why human beings sometimes behave so appallingly — or how we know that they shouldn't behave so appallingly; or what is the best way to deal with inner conflicts; or whether depression is a physical or a mental trouble — can we look to the physical sciences for an answer?

How would we even start to hunt for it there?
This idea that science is an all-purpose oracle dealing with every kind of question is surely very odd.

Yet that promise was confidently launched in the 1930s and has proved a very powerful myth.
Faith in it seems (perhaps understandably) to be getting even stronger now as more traditional faiths are sidelined.

Thus, the psychologist Nicholas Humphrey writes confidently in his book, Soul Searching, that the inventors of modern science meant it to provide "a sufficient explanation for everything that is or might be", and it has indeed now managed to do this:

"Two hundred years later this programme for a self-sufficient science has succeeded beyond the dreams of its inventors … The major puzzles of existencehave been pulled to pieces [by] all-conquering and consuming scientific rationality. Indeed, the basic laws that govern everything have turned out to be fewer in number and, to those who understand them, simpler and more beautiful than anyone originally guessed. So successful has it been that many scientists would now say, and even fear, that there will soon be little left for them to do." (Emphasis mine.)

What can this mean?
Talk of basic laws surely means physics; yet this seems wild.

Lord Kelvin is well known to have been mistaken when he made that claim, and today's physics — besides being incredibly complicated — is notoriously uncertain how to reconcile its views on two crucial topics: general relativity and quantum mechanics.

Physicists, in fact, are not offering any all-purpose key to the universe, nor (of course) ought they to.
Serious scientists know that their enquiries are endless; any answers always raise a swarm of new questions.

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Neither, of course, do physicists claim to deal with the "major puzzles of existence".
In fact, the success of 17th-century physics was due wholly to its founders seeing the need to limit its scope — to separate out physical questions from others that were entangled with them.

When Isaac Newton said that he felt he was only a child picking up shells on the shore of an infinite ocean, he did not mean merely that it might be a couple of hundred years before physicists managed to discover and explain everything.

He meant that life as a whole is radically mysterious.
The sciences deal only with a tiny fragment of it; other kinds of questions need quite different forms of answer.

Humphrey, however, is convinced that something called science has indeed in some way solved the mind-body problem, apparently by proving that "there is no need for a life-force … no need for a human soul to explain the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness".

But of course that was never the point.
Our problem here is to understand the relation between these two things — between our inner and outer life, between consciousness and its objects, between the vulnerable self and the world it has to deal with.

This is not a physical problem.
It is a problem about how to understand and face life as a whole.

And it is not about to go away.

Mary Midgley is a moral philosopher

 

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Noetic Musings on Humanity, Imagination, Technology and Consciousness
(Terence Mckenna)


[video=vimeo;122460331]https://vimeo.com/122460331[/video]


Mckenna talks about some of the conclusions he has come to about humans and biology that are very different from normal establishment thinking, shares where he suspects we are heading, origins of the imagination and a possible omega point type culmination to our long history of exponentially improving our technology.​

 

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This lady kicks ass!
Enjoy!

Manjir Samanta Laughton MD
The Black Hole Principle
Toward a Unity Consciousness

[video=vimeo;120005056]https://vimeo.com/120005056[/video]​

 

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More from Manjir Samanta Laughton.
She has some fascinating theories!
Enjoy!

Manjir Samanta-Laughton, M.D. | Punk Science:
Inside the Mind of God


[video=youtube;QM5q9Dejpbw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QM5q9Dejpbw[/video]

Punk Science demonstrates that ideas from the cutting-edge of science actually explain phenomena that have previously been thought of as paranormal.
Dr. Samanta-Laughton offers a new model of the universe, where consciousness generates life, where black holes exist inside our bodies as well as far out in space, and where the same science explains galaxies and planets as well as human evolution, auras and chakras.
Drawing on the very latest in scientific understanding, the Black Hole principle outlined by in this book, represents the next leap forward in both human understanding and living, and gives a closer approximation to scientific reality than the macho-approach of the old-style physics.
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Craziness!

Man Has Night Vision Injected Into His Eyeballs

A group of biohackers say they’ve figured out a way to inject our eyeballs with night vision, or low-light vision anyway.
The procedure has allowed one superhuman to temporarily see over 50 meters (164 feet) in the dark, Mic reports.

The team from California-based Science for the Masses (SfM) utilized a compound called Chlorin e6 (or Ce6), which is found in some deep-sea fish.
It’s also occasionally used to treat night blindness and even cancer.

Previous studies have injected the chemical as a photosensitizer into animal models.
“After doing the research, you have to take the next step,” says Jeffrey Tibbetts, SfM's medical officer.

So SfM’s biochem researcher Gabriel Licina agreed to become a human lab rat.

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First, Licina’s eyes were flushed clean and his eyelids were stretched out with a speculum (no blinking!).
Then Tibbetts used a pipette to drop 50 microliters of a blackish solution—Ce6 mixed with saline, insulin, and dimethlysulfoxide (DMSO)—into his eyes.

Specifically, he was aiming for the conjunctival sac, which should help carry the compound to the light-sensing retina.
DMSO increased the permeability of the cells for better absorption. "To me, it was a quick, greenish-black blur across my vision, and then it dissolved into my eyes,"Licina tells Mic.

He then put protective lenses in his eyes to block out some light; sunglasses helped too.
After two hours, the team tested Licinia's newfound superpower in a dark field.

At first, Licina was able to see hand-sized shapes about 10 meters (33 feet) away.
In time, he was able to recognize symbols (like numbers and letters) as well as objects moving against different backgrounds at longer distances.

In one test, he had to indicate where people were located in a grove of trees 50 meters away using a laser pointer.
He got it right every time, even when the subjects were standing up against a tree or shrub.

The four people in the control group were successful about a third of the time.
By the next morning, his eyesight seemed to have returned to normal.

So far, there have been no noticeable effects.
The full report about their experiment is available online.

 

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Why Consciousness Expanding Plants are Feared and Deemed Illegal

The Catalysts for Change

I remember a story once shared with me by a person who was a middle aged Russian man who had never had or even heard of psychedelic experiences or higher states of consciousness.

He joined our conversation which I had with a friend about shamanism and spiritual realms.
After being quiet for some time he asked if he could share his story.

He said he felt that we were the guys who would understand him and we were the first people with whom he was sharing this with after many years of silence.
While eagerly listening, we learnt about the time when he and his wife went to gather mushrooms and then cooked them for a dinner.

It wasn’t the first time they were doing it, rather, it was something they did often following Russian tradition.
Apparently, this time they had gone beyond the routine.

His wife had gathered ‘’wrong’’ mushrooms which were similar to those they usually picked in the forest.
Instead of heading to bed after a late dinner, he was set for a journey he wasn’t ready for.

Since having neither preparation nor guidance he simply thought he had got mushroom poisoning and was going mad and dying.
His description of attending his own funeral was rather funny.

Hearing that from an ordinary Russian man who was raised behind the iron curtain and never thought about states of consciousness or heard of spiritual realms, let alone experiencing any, was especially interesting.

This mushroom experience had completely shattered his perception of reality forcing him to think in a new direction, searching for answers to questions he never had before.

I forgot this story until the point when years later I read about Gordon Wasson, an American banker, who had exactly same experience with his Russian wife Valentina Pavlovna who had also picked ‘’wrong’’ mushrooms in the forest and forced her husband on a life changing journey.

The similarities were stunning!
Pondering these incidents I couldn’t help but think about the ancient people who on their search for food could have stumbled upon the same plants in the same surprising way and the impact these encounters could have had on their lives and their culture.

I could relate to this personally since my life has changed completely since I have met shamanic plants, even though in my case I was searching for them consciously.

Psychedelics are illegal not because they are dangerous to you, but because they are dangerous to the system of control that is enslaving you.

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Seeing the transformative power of these wondrous plants on myself, I thought about the potential for a cultural change, if shamanic education would be introduced to the West.

This, I thought, could lead humanity in a different direction, reaching a new level of being.

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One could ask what this level would look like if achieved?
For one, it would mean a shift in collective consciousness, allowing us to evolve as a species to a benevolent and harmonious way of existence, guaranteeing a future for the world.

To any decent human being, regardless of his or her faith or lack thereof, this trend would seem to be quite optimistic.
Would it not be a great achievement to be able to replace fake values of a spiritually void, profit driven, violent culture with another set of cultural values such as respect for each other, respect for the environment and respect for all life forms on Earth?

We are living in a world where nuclear bombs are legal and plants are not.
And this insanity we call civilization.

As I imagine civilized society, it would be a place for cultivation of consciousness, prosperity and peace – exactly opposite to what we see today.
So why are shamanic plants deemed illegal?

Because they are capable of triggering change, competing with the system for your soul, and winning when embraced.

[video=youtube;TogZmImNK3w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TogZmImNK3w[/video]​

 

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Graham Hancock, Exploring Consciousness
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[video=youtube;n7PUssV9oNo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=n7PUssV9oNo[/video]

Graham Hancock discusses human consciousness and explores the world that may exist beyond our earthly one.​

 

[Kgal]

Nurse Reveals the Top Five Regrets People Make on their Deathbed


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For many years I worked in palliative care.
My patients were those who had gone home to die.

Some incredibly special times were shared.
I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives.

People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality.
I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth.

Some changes were phenomenal.
Each experienced a variety of emotions, as expected, denial, fear, anger, remorse, more denial and eventually acceptance.

Every single patient found their peace before they departed though, every one of them.
When questioned about any regrets they had or anything they would do differently, common themes surfaced again and again.

Here are the most common five:

1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.

This was the most common regret of all.
When people realize that their life is almost over and look back clearly on it, it is easy to see how many dreams have gone unfulfilled.

Most people had not honoured even a half of their dreams and had to die knowing that it was due to choices they had made, or not made.

It is very important to try and honour at least some of your dreams along the way.
From the moment that you lose your health, it is too late.

Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it.

2. I wish I didn’t work so hard.

This came from every male patient that I nursed.
They missed their children’s youth and their partner’s companionship.

Women also spoke of this regret.
But as most were from an older generation, many of the female patients had not been breadwinners.

All of the men I nursed deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the treadmill of a work existence.
By simplifying your lifestyle and making conscious choices along the way, it is possible to not need the income that you think you do.

And by creating more space in your life, you become happier and more open to new opportunities, ones more suited to your new lifestyle.

3. I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.

Many people suppressed their feelings in order to keep peace with others.
As a result, they settled for a mediocre existence and never became who they were truly capable of becoming.

Many developed illnesses relating to the bitterness and resentment they carried as a result.
We cannot control the reactions of others.

However, although people may initially react when you change the way you are by speaking honestly, in the end it raises the relationship to a whole new and healthier level.

Either that or it releases the unhealthy relationship from your life.
Either way, you win.

4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

Often they would not truly realise the full benefits of old friends until their dying weeks and it was not always possible to track them down.

Many had become so caught up in their own lives that they had let golden friendships slip by over the years.
There were many deep regrets about not giving friendships the time and effort that they deserved.

Everyone misses their friends when they are dying.It is common for anyone in a busy lifestyle to let friendships slip.
But when you are faced with your approaching death, the physical details of life fall away.

People do want to get their financial affairs in order if possible.
But it is not money or status that holds the true importance for them.

They want to get things in order more for the benefit of those they love.
Usually though, they are too ill and weary to ever manage this task.

It is all comes down to love and relationships in the end.
That is all that remains in the final weeks, love and relationships.

5. I wish that I had let myself be happier.

This is a surprisingly common one.
Many did not realise until the end that happiness is a choice.

They had stayed stuck in old patterns and habits.
The so-called ‘comfort’ of familiarity overflowed into their emotions, as well as their physical lives.

Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content.
When deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again.

When you are on your deathbed, what others think of you is a long way from your mind.
How wonderful to be able to let go and smile again, long before you are dying.

Life is a choice.
It is YOUR life.

Choose consciously, choose wisely, choose honestly.
Choose happiness.

Number 5 is a big one for me. I had to learn to CHOOSE to let myself be happy. I'm glad I wasn't too old to learn that. :lol:

 

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Why Consciousness Expanding Plants are Feared and Deemed Illegal

The Catalysts for Change

I remember a story once shared with me by a person who was a middle aged Russian man who had never had or even heard of psychedelic experiences or higher states of consciousness.

He joined our conversation which I had with a friend about shamanism and spiritual realms.
After being quiet for some time he asked if he could share his story.

He said he felt that we were the guys who would understand him and we were the first people with whom he was sharing this with after many years of silence.
While eagerly listening, we learnt about the time when he and his wife went to gather mushrooms and then cooked them for a dinner.

It wasn’t the first time they were doing it, rather, it was something they did often following Russian tradition.
Apparently, this time they had gone beyond the routine.

His wife had gathered ‘’wrong’’ mushrooms which were similar to those they usually picked in the forest.
Instead of heading to bed after a late dinner, he was set for a journey he wasn’t ready for.

Since having neither preparation nor guidance he simply thought he had got mushroom poisoning and was going mad and dying.
His description of attending his own funeral was rather funny.

Hearing that from an ordinary Russian man who was raised behind the iron curtain and never thought about states of consciousness or heard of spiritual realms, let alone experiencing any, was especially interesting.

This mushroom experience had completely shattered his perception of reality forcing him to think in a new direction, searching for answers to questions he never had before.

I forgot this story until the point when years later I read about Gordon Wasson, an American banker, who had exactly same experience with his Russian wife Valentina Pavlovna who had also picked ‘’wrong’’ mushrooms in the forest and forced her husband on a life changing journey.

The similarities were stunning!
Pondering these incidents I couldn’t help but think about the ancient people who on their search for food could have stumbled upon the same plants in the same surprising way and the impact these encounters could have had on their lives and their culture.

I could relate to this personally since my life has changed completely since I have met shamanic plants, even though in my case I was searching for them consciously.

Psychedelics are illegal not because they are dangerous to you, but because they are dangerous to the system of control that is enslaving you.

​

Seeing the transformative power of these wondrous plants on myself, I thought about the potential for a cultural change, if shamanic education would be introduced to the West.

This, I thought, could lead humanity in a different direction, reaching a new level of being.

​

One could ask what this level would look like if achieved?
For one, it would mean a shift in collective consciousness, allowing us to evolve as a species to a benevolent and harmonious way of existence, guaranteeing a future for the world.

To any decent human being, regardless of his or her faith or lack thereof, this trend would seem to be quite optimistic.
Would it not be a great achievement to be able to replace fake values of a spiritually void, profit driven, violent culture with another set of cultural values such as respect for each other, respect for the environment and respect for all life forms on Earth?

We are living in a world where nuclear bombs are legal and plants are not.
And this insanity we call civilization.

As I imagine civilized society, it would be a place for cultivation of consciousness, prosperity and peace – exactly opposite to what we see today.
So why are shamanic plants deemed illegal?

Because they are capable of triggering change, competing with the system for your soul, and winning when embraced.

[video=youtube;TogZmImNK3w]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=TogZmImNK3w[/video]​

I've said it before, but denying people treatment is just plain wrong.

 

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I've said it before, but denying people treatment is just plain wrong.

I hate how the US has criminalized drug use to the point that our prisons are overflowing…we have THE most incarcerated population in the WORLD!
That is insanity on a national scale.

As many as two-thirds of all people in treatment for drug abuse report that they were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused during childhood, research shows. However, the role of child abuse - physical trauma, rape and sexual abuse, neglect, emotional abuse, and witnessing or being threatened with violence or other abuse - in the pathway to drug abuse needs closer examination. Although studies probing the effects of child abuse have increased in recent years, researchers still are confronted with broad gaps in information.
"The sheer weight of the many reports over the years certainly implicates child abuse as a possible factor in drug abuse for many people," says Dr. Cora Lee Wetherington, NIDA's Women's Health Coordinator.

The rest of the article is here - http://archives.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N2/exploring.html

Two thirds were abused…that should tell us something about why they are an addict.
It’s a chemical hug…it’s an escape from a traumatic reality.
Yes, some do some fucked up shit to get their fix…some may have permanent brain damage from using too long…but that should only tell us how powerful addiction can be.
We are basically punishing people for being traumatized.

If mushrooms can help people break that addiction and live a relatively normal life without substance abuse then why the hell not?!
This country is so backward sometimes.