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It turns out plants act very much like we do. They feel pain. They talk with their own kind and with other plants. Tree roots share nutrients with other tree roots via mycelium growing amongst the roots. They have intelligence. Sounds like a brain to me.
"They have analagous structures," Pollan explains. "They have ways of taking all the sensory data they gather in their everyday lives ... integrate it and then behave in an appropriate way in response. And they do this without brains, which, in a way, is what's incredible about it, because we automatically assume you need a brain to process information."
New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants: http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-01-...may-forever-change-how-you-think-about-plants
A scientist has discovered a potentially new form of plant communication, one that allows them to share an extraordinary amount of genetic information with one another. The finding throws open the door to a new arena of science that explores how plants communicate with each other on a molecular level.http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140814191939.htm
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Since we’re on the subject…I don’t think I have ever posted this one.
Enjoy!
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TEDx Mid Atlantic - Roland Griffiths on psilocybin
[video=youtube;jPLimDG_HVY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jPLimDG_HVY[/video]
Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs.
He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization.
[video=youtube;jPLimDG_HVY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jPLimDG_HVY[/video]
Roland Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs.
He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization.
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Creating Your Future — Arise Great Warrior, Arise!
Are you doing what you always wanted to do?
Are you doing what you believe in?
Do you live the life that was meant for you to live?
From where do you seek approval?
Are you looking inward?
There are millions of people around the world who eagerly wait the weekend every week, the summer vacation every year, and later on, long before the age of retirement, they fantasize about that good free time during retirement.
If you ask these people how much they like what they are doing for a living, they will typically answer that their work “pays the bills.”Â
On the other side of the river, there is a different community of people.
When you ask them what they will do on the weekend or after they retire, they will simply state that they are already on an eternal weekend and timeless retirement, that their summer vacation and their vocation are both 365 days long every year.
These people do not have to prove that what they are saying is true about themselves.
Every time you meet them, they radiate joy and truth.
They are content.
They have time for others, not just outside their work time, but any time.
Interestingly enough, all of their bills are paid and in fact, some of these people are financially rich.
The way of the heart is not limited to leading us to enjoyable and fulfilling work, it is also the way for making every major or minor decision in our lives.
Creating Your Future
You can cross the river from the cloudy, muddy and rocky shore to the shore of sunshine and green pastures.
You can make that trip, just as not only famous people have done, but also as simple every-day people have done and are continuing to do every day.
If you sense that there is something missing in your life, and you do not look forward to going to work when you wake up in the morning, your chosen vocation very likely does not fulfill your needs.
And you can change all that.
First, there are several questions which need to be answered, because the answers will encourage and direct us towards the path we would like to be on.
By examining critically the different causes which on a daily basis keep our bodies weak and tired, our minds confused and restless, and our hearts sad and fearful, we will learn how to avoid such a way of living and see the alternative, the green pastures on the opposite shore.
Next, we should examine how and with what materials we will construct our own boat to be able to cross the river.
We can gain wisdom by meditating on the words of the wise people of the past.
We can see how they also crossed the river, and we can be inspired by their examples.
What are the reasons why some people are so content in life while others are not?
Why do some people seem happy when they are very absorbed in their work but lonely and miserable when they are away from their workplace?
As for the people who are radiating timeless joy, not just at the work place but also everywhere else, were they born that way or did they become that way?
How?
What is the way of thinking that causes people to do work which doesn’t use their talents and which does not express their individuality, or their values and ethics?
Where does this way of thinking — which enslaves people — come from?
Is it possible to adopt a new way of thinking which will enable us to break loose from our enslavement?
Coming to know ourselves in order to create an enjoyable future is not a process that takes days, weeks, months, or a few years.
It can take our whole life, but we should always remember that being on the right path and aiming for our distinct identity and distinct role in life is what makes us happy.
Enduring and timeless joy is not found only upon reaching selfhood, it is planted and harvested in the process of trying to achieve it.
You will have to act in order to place yourself on the right path towards self-realization.
From a Small Seed…
Take as an example a farmer who has just one olive seed in his hand.
He looks at it, knowing it is strong and healthy, and he looks around and sees the majesty of nature.
With awareness he accepts the fact that the same power that has brought him into existence has also provided the seed and the soil, the sun and the water.
That is, the farmer knows himself; he knows who he is and what he has for use at his disposal.
How wise that farmer is when he looks at the seed and he sees not only one, but thousands of seeds.
That is imagination.
Now he must take out the weeds and prepare the ground, and trusting the powers of the universe, he then buries the seed in the soil.
Before he sees the grown tree and is rewarded with its precious olive oil, most likely he will often experience some fear and doubt.
How does he know if the weather will help the growth?
How does he know if an animal will not eat the seed while it is in the ground?
He must simply wait and believe for the best.
He has no other choice but to act, and then wait.
This time of waiting and wondering while the seed is buried in the ground could be the most frightening experience during the process.
Nevertheless, a farmer who knows himself and trusts other people for help if something goes wrong will enjoy the whole process, not just the olive oil he will obtain.
He finds reward in every step he takes, from observing to preparing to gathering.
At this point, the farmer has created his future; simply, in this case, he has produced his physical food.
Finally, he will truly enjoy the product of his labor – the olives and the olive oil.
The same cycle of observing, preparing, and gathering will again take place the next year with even more joy and less fear.
Now he has in his hand not just one seed but many.
It is essential to realize that this is our everyday life.
We gather what we plant.
If we plant in joy, we will gather it with more joy, and by knowing and trusting ourselves, the powers of the universe, and other people, we continue the cycle of planting and gathering with increasing joy and satisfaction for every new cycle of life-planning.
The Materialization of Fear
It is characteristic of our industrialized societies that it makes us lose our individuality, and so we become only a tiny part in the social machine. It is therefore of great importance that we keep in mind that such a way of living is foreign to human dignity and to our own happiness.
By working just to pay our bills, we are missing the meaning of life.
Sooner or later, we will have to lose ourselves in order to find ourselves, not for the sake of the machine but for our own sake, and therefore, for the sake of the whole world.
The increase in violence and environmental degradation observed in our days is the materialization of our unfulfilled hearts and unjustified fears.
Only happy people, content with themselves and in harmony with others and nature, can lead the world to peace and environmental sustainability.
The world needs more happy people.
It needs more people who work using their talents, who earn their living by doing what they love, and are passionate about.
I dunno. I know people who truly love their jobs, where what they do is an intrinsic part of who they are. And yet they still look forward to the weekend. Whether it's because it means more time to spend with family or because they just need a break.
The article also doesn't mention all those who hate their jobs, but have no choice in the matter. It's either do that or let their families starve.
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You are correct…for those who truly love their jobs one could call that their “calling”.
If you are already content with your job then the article wouldn’t apply to you so much.
It was banking on the probability that for everyone one person that likes his/her job there are two that dislike theirs.
As for those with no choice…it can be a goal to set for one’s self if one couldn’t instantaneously make it happen.
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`My point was more that the article missed the fact that so many who are stuck in jobs they hate aren't there because they haven't found their purpose, but because they have no other choice. They make it sound like these people just haven't tried enough to find their calling. When it's a matter of "work in a shitty job and feed your family/self or go look for your purpose, but do it at the expense of everyone around you".
It reminds me of those movies where they portray people in dead end jobs as deadbeats. As if all they have to do is get off their asses and they'll find the perfect occupation. Finding a job you love can be a long arduous process. It means getting to the heart of what you love, finding a way of making that profitable. Retraining, studying, getting experience. It could mean going back to college for five or six years.
Is it worth it? Sure, if you can afford to do it or don't have people depending on your job. But it's far from a black and white matter.
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I guess that would be highly subjective when that person weighs working at a job they hate with the possibility of the unknown.
If their hatred and stress of the job they are working now is negatively impacting their home and family life then that is also unacceptable though it happens all the time.
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I should clarify. I'm not talking about people who can afford to just give up what they hate to find what they love. I'm talking more about those who are just about getting by. It's not a fear of the unknown, it's a fear of not being able to eat.
And even if you do pursue what you love everything doesn't just fall into place. I've got a friend who gave up her well paying job to pursue her dream of becoming a professional chocolatier. She put in years of hard work and emptied her bank account to make that dream happen and in the end she went bankrupt. It didn't matter that this was her calling or even that her product was excellent, she just had the poor luck of opening a business on the edge of an economic downturn.
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I should clarify too…I’m not disagreeing with you, just trying to look at it objectively and that includes the points you have made.
I’m sorry about your friend…sometimes it just boils down to luck.
I mean, how many really awesome bands are out there that no one has heard of because they get no radio play for not being mainstream enough?
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It might have been poor luck....but look at what she learned in the process.
I have started up several businesses only to shut them down because it didn't turn out as I expected. I have learned a lot from all of these adventures and I'm still here.
Sometimes I think the whole point was to start them - learn some shit - and then go on to the next one. Getting ready to try it once again too.
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Equilibrium Unattained: Why We Abhor an Anomaly
“Our whole existence is an attempt by the relative to be the absolute, or by the local to be universal”
— Charles Hoy Fort
Who does that anomaly think he is?
“Our whole existence is an attempt by the relative to be the absolute, or by the local to be universal”
— Charles Hoy Fort
Who does that anomaly think he is?
We abhor an anomaly, a monster, or a UFO because they highlight the fact that we are fundamentally creatures whose ascendancy is rooted in disharmony.
Our swift rise to the top of the food pyramid is largely attributable to our penchant for changing horses in midstream and sneering at the supposed rules of the game.
With our big brains, we deliberately and decisively extricated ourselves from nature, donning clothes that expanded our range, sharpening spear points to give us an edge on predators, and building walls to deter the monsters lurking in the woods.
We looked around us at a world of equilibrium and concluded that there was no point being the smartest kid on the block unless it meant we could stack our odds of avoiding imminent death or disfigurement, buy ourselves some leisure time, and turn our attentions to contemplating the elusive meaning of life.
Few of us care to return to a time when our primary concerns were running from saber-tooth tigers and collecting enough nuts and berries to avoid starvation, but we also don’t like to be reminded that our lofty position in the Great Chain of Being is largely attributable to marshalling our opposable thumbs and massive intellects in the interest of disrupting our natural environment and forcibly removing humans from the equation.
We are ourselves a natural anomaly, or as biologist E.O. Wilson observed, “If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
Basically, in detaching ourselves from the whims of the natural world, we to some degree made ourselves ecologically irrelevant (well, relevant only insofar as we’re especially good at destroying things).
Thus, our notions of “harmony” were closely restricted to human harmony alone, and anything that pushed us, our societies, and our kindred away from our own species-specific version of equilibrium (everybody we choose to care about is safe, secure, and following the rules), required a unique label which seemingly has no meaning for all those other living critters and inanimate objects out there.
We had to invent evil.
And then we had to choose sides and start hating on anything with a scent of anomalous experience outside our currently prescribed formulas for social harmony.
While the universe seems to strive for some sort of balance, we ourselves do not.
The resultant confusion of the principles of human equilibrium with natural equilibrium and the relation to our notion of evil was specifically remarked upon by Jean Baudrillard, who said “The world is not dialectical — it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil”.
Consequently, our monsters and madness proliferate, not because we are searching for some sort of universal equilibrium, but precisely because we are not.
That which is disharmonious for human civilization, or uncontrollable, or “beyond the pale” is regarded as monstrous or insidious.
We are enemies of the liminal, the natural boundary which we already crossed, and we jealously guard our border, determined to prevent further immigration.
Having rejected the reality we were born into, our heart’s desire is to remake our local reality into universal truth.
Science, technology, and theology are the undeniably effective tools of our trade.
As long as we can maintain the harmony of human existence, we can deny the fact that we ourselves are an aberration, that it is possible and often productive to step outside an accepted “reality”.
As a result, the eruption of “otherness” into our tenuous and carefully manufactured equilibrium is a source of disdain, fear, denial and hate.
We can’t stand an anomaly because it represents another existential con man getting in on our hustle.
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Does the Soul Move Between Parallel Universes After Death?
Monday, May 11, 2015
In the Science Channel's "Through the Wormhole" documentary, Dr. Stuart Hameroff, director for the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, theorizes that consciousness continues after death in a parallel universe, using quantum theory.
Building upon theories posited by other scientists, Dr. Hameroff explains that consciousness is a non-localized phenomenon that may be as old as the physical universe, and while a person is alive, resides in the brain's microtubular structure, providing a link between the brain and the soul.
Dr. Hameroff explains: “Let's say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, the microtubules lose their quantum state. The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can't be destroyed, it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large”.
Dr. Hameroff goes on to theorize that that quantum information, our consciousness, can exist in this state independent of the body, and may even re-focus into bodies that reside in parallel universes.
"My research involves a theory of consciousness which can bridge these two approaches, a theory developed over the past 20 years with eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose. Called ‘orchestrated objective reduction’ (‘Orch OR’), it suggests consciousness arises from quantum vibrations in protein polymers called microtubules inside the brain’s neurons, vibrations which interfere, ‘collapse’ and resonate across scale, control neuronal firings, generate consciousness, and connect ultimately to ‘deeper order’ ripples in spacetime geometry. Consciousness is more like music than computation."
Dr. Hameroff says that this could be the scientific explanation behind near-death experiences, astral projection, and even reincarnation.
Based on her reading of letters from close encounter witnesses, which were filled with reports that dead friends and relatives had been present during the close encounters, Anne Strieber feels that Drs Hameroff and Penrose may be accurately describing what happens.
The reason is that in most of these reports, the dead person who appeared said that they were alright.
If they were present in a parallel universe where they had not died, of course, this would be true.
Read the original source: http://www.unknowncountry.com/news/...-parallel-universes-after-death#ixzz3a9VewJv4
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Perhaps it is.
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Fair enough. I just dislike it when people take a complex situation and boil it down into a simple philosophy. Like your recent post. "You're not a robot...you have a choice" It comes across like inane bullshit from someone who likes to complain about people's apathy, but not offer any real solution. They might as well call us all sheeple.
I know you see it in a different light, but to me it feels all too similar to someone on Fox news complaining about the poor. They shout at the world that all people need is hard work and elbow grease and they can suddenly become successful.
It might have been poor luck....but look at what she learned in the process.
I have started up several businesses only to shut them down because it didn't turn out as I expected. I have learned a lot from all of these adventures and I'm still here.
Getting ready to try it once again too.
Maybe, but it left her in a pretty deep depression. And now that she's broke, she has little choice but to return to a job she hates. If she can even get that.
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[MENTION=5667]Jacobi[/MENTION]
Yeah we get it. Shit happens, we can't always fix it, and people get legitimately depressed about it. But thinking it ends there with depression is tantamount to bending over and letting the world ream you.
Someone can't fix their situation and they're depressed. What do they do? Quit life? Is that what you think?
We have a choice and that choice is awareness and perspective. I have to thank [MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2578]Kgal[/MENTION] for reminding me that this is a thing, and that it really is that simple. I haven't changed anything but I choose to not be defeated. Some times I need to be reminded that I can always make that choice.
Yeah we get it. Shit happens, we can't always fix it, and people get legitimately depressed about it. But thinking it ends there with depression is tantamount to bending over and letting the world ream you.
Someone can't fix their situation and they're depressed. What do they do? Quit life? Is that what you think?
We have a choice and that choice is awareness and perspective. I have to thank [MENTION=5045]Skarekrow[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2578]Kgal[/MENTION] for reminding me that this is a thing, and that it really is that simple. I haven't changed anything but I choose to not be defeated. Some times I need to be reminded that I can always make that choice.
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Yes. All my failures plunged me into depression too...and then ended up having to get a job...and went through betrayal ....getting fired twice...and denied unemployment too....and all kinds of crap.
But who ever gets it right the first time?
We know the game is rigged against us...yet we must try to follow our own integrity and creative impulses. How else will we ever change "our" world?