Dr. Mandelbrot in 1980 discovered the infinitely complex geometrical shape called the Mandelbrot Set using a very simple equation with computers and graphics.
The mathematical discovery of the Mandelbrot Set (M-Set) in the visually spectacular world of fractal geometry is presented by Arthur C. Clarke in this unusual documentary.
The M-Set seems to identify the hand of God in the design of the universe itself.
Read the text for this video here.
This text has enormous wisdom for me, and I highly recommend to read the whole book, which I take it from - Thought Power / How to Control Thoughts. It’s an older yogi text. You can read there a very detailed description of the power of the mind and how the thoughts, imaginations, habits, actions, destiny, man’s character do work. We live in a big illusion. All the material things are just manifestations of our thoughts - even our body, our life, heaven & hell, we project everything and we are unconsciously believing in all these projections. But the Way to Change is known to us. Read this short excerpt for yourself:
The nature of things around you is as you think it to be. Your life is what you make it by your thoughts. Thoughts are the bricks by which you have built the building of your personality. Thought determines destiny. The world around you is the reflex of your thoughts.
You experience as you think. Your own imagination plays havoc with you. You have made yourself timid by entertaining the thoughts of fear. Do not become liberal in imagination.
You are affected by things only in accordance with your idea about them. The mind sees value only in that in which it has intense faith. Though all of you see the same object, everyone of you attach to it different values. According to your mental propensities you think.
Thought is a creative instrument, and man becomes what he thinks upon. Character is thought-formed. You are born with what you have thought upon, and your present character is an index of your previous thoughts. You create your future by your thoughts now; if you think nobly, you will be noble in conduct. If you think basely no environment will make you different. Thus, thoughts and actions are interdependent. Be vigilant and allow only good thoughts in your mental field.
Every one of you have a different conception of duty, value, enjoyment and liberation in accordance with your different convictions. You strive after your own ideal.
You work in accordance with your long-standing and intensified thought and belief. You accomplish and achieve the object of your own desire. Do not let your mind become denser and denser by allowing it to be engrossed in gross forms. Follow the abstractive process by cherishing the thoughts of virtue.
Your present life has three aspects, physical, mental and spiritual. You are tenaciously attached to the physical aspect. Be above physical sensations and other appetites by cherishing the thoughts that you are not body alone, that you are residing in the temple of a body for a short period only. Be above mental titillations. Subjective action functions in the world of thought.
Send out a steady stream of thought and good-will to all creation. The energising motive behind every thought should be service and friendliness.
Your mind is omnipotent. It is capable of accomplishing everything. As you imagine within your mind, so things happen forthwith. Whatever is intensely thought by your mind, that comes to be materialized and effected.
Your thought is endowed with creative power. It can evolve objects from within itself. It is the only creator. Nothing ever will be created or recreated except through mind. Thought is the material out of which things are made. All matter is but materialization of consciousness.
No other being is responsible for what you acquire, as everything is the consequence of your thought. The cause of whatever comes to you in life, is within you. No other agency can bestow favours on you, unless you deserve them. Whatever you get through others, is the outcome of your own thoughts and efforts. There is nothing in the world which you cannot achieve, when your thoughts are flowing in the right direction. You should neither become a pessimist nor a misanthrope.
Creative power is the privilege of every mind. Your own efforts guided by your aspiration are the warp and woof of your destiny. Do not possess a dissipated mind by cherishing weak thoughts. Superficial mind cannot acquire depth of insight.
Control the roving mind by entertaining one flow of thought. All that is intensely thought by you, will come to you early or late, in accordance with the effort you have put in to acquire it.
The extent of space as well as the duration of time are relative to your thoughts and emotions. You experience as you think. If a moment is imagined to be a long period, it is experienced as such and vice versa. The same period of time is experienced as a long age when you are in trouble, and as a moment when you are happy.
You are surrounded by the forces of antagonism. But if there are no thoughts of antagonism in you, you can easily return a blessing for a curse. Thus you can control all the forces of antagonism. Struggle hard and check the unwanted mental rush.
The world around you is only what you believe it to be. Your perceptions are coloured by your thoughts. Your mind perceives and continues to perceive the things in that very form in which it imagines it to be with full faith. Pierce through the steel-armour of biased thoughts, and try to see the divinity in every object.
It is by thought alone that you get into delusion, undergo the experience of birth and death, are bound in the world and become released from it.
All your states of happiness or misery in heaven or hell, are effects of your own thoughts. Early or late, in this life or lives to come, all your passing thoughts will be realized. So, discriminate nicely.
Your present state has been willed by your thoughts. You can change the present state into another by your own thoughts. If you believe that you are separate from the Absolute, you are so. If you think yourself to be Brahman you are so. You limit yourself by your thoughts.
With each divine thought, the mind rends the thin rinds of the visible and finite and comes out into eternity, but you are so negligent about your mental factory.
I asked Klara for permission to post her beautiful words:
A couple weeks ago in our shul (synagogue) the rabbi was speaking about what exactly was this Tree that Adam and Eve sinned by eating from. He said there have been many conjectures, but his take was this - it was the Tree of More Than Enough - G-d have given Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden everything they needed for sustenance - but they didn’t need to eat from the Tree of Knowledge - but they did eat and now we “know” but we don’t - we’ve lost the innocence to know what is good for us - and our job now on this earth is to correct that - we’ve gone way overboard and disease and waste and destruction is rampant.
Now some of us are trying to figure out what it is that we really need - and there are wonderful organizations trying to help in all kinds of ways for the big picture. And more and more individuals are trying to change in their own individual lives. I’m glad mb is part of that in some ways - tho it hasn’t declared it quite officially - if there is any official mb stand - I do believe eating every edible part of the plant is part of it, not overeating is part of it, not wasting is part of it, chewing food well to get the most out of it is part of it - that’s in the big picture.
But in the small picture, I, at least, am still challenged - I still don’t know what eating til 70% full means, I still don’t always eat because of hunger, but rather because the food is so delicious, and I still eat much wider than I need to - ah, need? I still need to figure that one out, too!!!
Klara
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Stay loose. Learn to watch snails. Plant impossible gardens. Invite someone dangerous to tea. Make little signs that say “Yes!” and post them all over your house. Make friends with freedom and uncertainty. Look forward to dreams. Cry during movies. Swing as high as you can on a swing set, by moonlight. Cultivate moods.
Refuse to be responsible. Do it for love. Take lots of naps. Give money away. Do it now. The money will follow. Believe in magic. Laugh a lot. Celebrate every gorgeous moment. Take moonbaths. Have wild imaginings, transformative dreams, and perfect calm. Draw on the walls. Read everyday. Imagine yourself magic. Giggle with children. Listen to old people. Open up. Dive in. Be free. Bless yourself. Drive away fear. Play with everything. Entertain your inner child. You are innocent. Build a fort with blankets. Get wet. Hug trees. Write love letters.
There are two steps to manifest anything:
1. Visualization process, feeling you are already there
2. When things start to manifest, to come into your life - have courage to say Yes
Be courageous
- step out from your comfort zone
- become vibrational match for something new
- don’t block yourself from new things coming to you = courage -> say YES to new vibrations bravely
It’s not about right thoughts. Thinking about things you want, again and again. It’s about vibrations from whole your body, heart. Vibrate the energy, feeling you want to experience. Vibrate without thinking - more like feeling.
Don’t feed your fear. Abundance vibration is fearless. When you fear something, just change your vibrations about it. You are the Creator of your Reality. Live consciously.
When you visualize your new reality, you must imagine yourself BEING the kind of person who can attract and hold on to all the good stuff you wish to manifest. That means you’re going to have to work on yourself and grow into that kind of person.
Steve Pavlina - Abundance - videos
How to visualize your new reality - article
Prayer inspiration from the Michio Kushi’s book - Cancer Prevention Diet.
I am grateful to the meal now being offered to me.
I am grateful to people, nature, and the universe for having made this meal available to me.
I now reflect whether I truly deserve to have this meal.
I now pray that, through this meal, I may achieve a healthy body and peaceful mind.
I now resolve that, through this meal, I will continue to realize my dream of love and peace in our eternal journey of endless life.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, inaugural speech 1994
Original text by: Marianne Williamson