Saturday, May 26, 2012

The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence

By Rupert Sheldrake.

Sheldrake cuts Richard Dawkins down to size 1:27:00 onwards. Worth checking out.

Monday, April 23, 2012

Doom Boom Gloom

Many stories of human endeavour upon deeper investigation reveal the following qualities:

1. Entrapment and suffering.
2. Catch-22.
3. Impending deluge, death.

The mind's conclusions are often much more severe than what actually unfolds.

"Learn to look without analysis, conclusions". Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Even the 3 points mentioned above are nothing more than a perspective. Situations are as they are. It's our mental projections into the future that judge these situations.

Anything, if looked at through the 'Mental Lens' of the future, or past, is at the risk of appearing morbid or negative.

Monday, March 26, 2012

Dealing With Stress

The only cause of stress is too much thought activity...

These stress relieving videos are based on the 'Golden Ratio', a number (1.61803399) that has fascinated philosophers/mathematicians for almost 2500 years.



The 'Golden Ratio' has fascinated mathematicians/philosophers/architects for almost 2500 years. Pythagoras and Euclid, astronomer Johannes Kepler, Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, to name a few.





And some more.....










And this Eckhart Tolle video explains how to pull attention from the mind, into the body.

As attention is pulled into the body, thoughts slow down.

It rejuvinates.



"Not Reacting To Content", when combined with the above exercise, would be very powerful.

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

There's No Tomorrow

“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.