“We cannot imagine Life without Death, because the entire Life rests on Death" - Sorin Cerin.
This video explains the collective death that stares humans in the face.
Humans walked off the cliff a very long time back. When humans assumed that infinite growth, without decline, is possible.
Everything humans have built is based on the assumption that oil and other natural minerals will always be available in plenty and will fuel growth indefinitely - a wrong assumption.
Our money is 'debt money' - money that can exist only if growth does not stop. If growth stops its upward journey - the financial system will collapse.
Even today, the corporate employee is under pressure to produce short term profits. If he doesn't, he'll be replaced by someone who does.
And short term profits cannot be generated if one works keeping in mind the big picture explained in the video.
Keywords: Peak Oil, Rare Minerals, Debt Money, Severe Resource Crunch.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
There's No Tomorrow
Friday, March 02, 2012
Our Place In The Cosmos/I Am The Light Of The World
Quantum physicists *accept the role of the living being in the scheme of things, the deep interaction/connection between the living being and the universe.
The living being is not just important, the living being is central to the existence and functioning of the cosmos.
The universe is not a machine that's running with utter disregard of its living inhabitants, but interacts with its living inhabitants. Continuously.
And it's not just the local environment that interacts with us. Even remote locations in the cosmos would be interacting with us.
Distance, it seems, does not matter, in these mysterious interactions that science does not really understand, but has observed.
10 Kilometres or 10,000 billion Kilometres. It does not matter.
We are interacting continuously with everything. Influencing/shaping it and getting influenced/shaped by it.
And possibly creating it.
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*Not all but at least some of the top physicists like Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli and David Bohm accept this.
Further Reading: Wiki: Quantum Mind Body Problem
Thursday, February 09, 2012
The Transcendental Boat
"This material world is sometimes regarded as an ocean of nescience and sometimes as a blazing forest. In the ocean, however expert a swimmer one may be, the struggle for existence is very severe.- The BhagvadGita.
When you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries."
nes·cience: (noun.) Absence of knowledge or awareness; ignorance.
If you are not in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you'll be thrown around by the ocean of miseries continuously. It will threaten to drown you at every step.
Even in those moments when you are not in the boat, or do not want to be in it, it will be somewhere near you.
If this writing has caught your attention means the transcendental boat is either very close to you right now, or you are in it, right now.
Question: What is it, that binds me down, threatens to drown me in the ocean of miseries? What is it that keeps me in spiritual delusion? Am I really drowning?
Answer: Make a list of all your fears.
...the ocean of miseries uses your fears to trap your attention.
...it can trap your attention, but it cannot trap you.
...your entrapment is an illusion.
...all that you fear, they are all illusions.
...the drowning is an illusion.
These lessons from ACIM are wonderful exercises. They are 'Transcendental Boats'.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Moment of Freedom
Some wonderful poems by Jim Morrison on 'seeing'.
as the prisoner
blinks in the sun
like a mole
from his hole
a child's 1st trip
away from home
That moment of Freedom
Moment of inner freedom
when the mind is open & the
infinite universe revealed
& the soul is left to wander
dazed & confused searching
here & there for teachers & friends.
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In the second poem, Morrison suggests that even after 'real seeing' begins, it may not be a rosy journey to heaven or to whatever awaits us out there.
If these poems made you wonder...
Then do check out this video from the movie "The Doors"
