Macrobiotic Life

A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest; A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. To free ourselves from this prison, to embrace all mankind indiscriminately and the whole of nature in its beauty is a task all too necessary yet all too difficult to achieve. The true value of a human being is determined by the measure and the sense in which they have obtained liberation from the self. However, the foundations of our separatist institutions had deliberately displaced even the thought of such achievement from independent consideration long ago; generations of social conditioning have distorted our understandings of humanity and lead us to devalue it, thus we devalue ourselves. Time is accepted as a linear process pressured with social deadlines and an irreversible biological clock that we’re labored to work around; we’re kept so busy that we’ve come to accept that there’s no other time to learn our ways as any other. Prejudice continuously emerges in all its manifestations as history repeats itself in more sophisticated manners because of that defeatist belief. There is something very profitable and empowering about the mindset of ignorance which only those who observe and manage society from outside the box can truly benefit from when they’ve learned how to invest in it; when the value of a human being is measured in financial worth. The inner conflict’s humanity suffers is nothing short of a tragedy but it’s nothing that we can blame ourselves for. Through the eyes of the powerful, there is no order without chaos.

There is discrimination in the world and slavery and slaughter and starvation. Governments repress their people; millions are trapped in poverty while the nation grows rich and wealth is lavished on armaments everywhere. These are differing evils, but they are the common works of man. They reflect the imperfection of human justice, the inadequacy of human compassion, our lack of sensibility towards the suffering of our fellows. But we can perhaps remember –even if only for a time—that those who live with us are our brothers; that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek –as we do—nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men. And surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become, in our own hearts, brothers and countrymen again. Of course, initiation of this course objective riddled with idealism doesn’t come without question or ease.

The answer is to rely on youth –not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the love of ease. The cruelties and obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to the obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. They cannot be moved by those who cling to a present that is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger that come with even the most peaceful progress. It is a revolutionary world we live in, and this generation at home and around the world has had thrust upon it a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived. Some believe that there is nothing one man or one woman can do against the enormous array of the world’s ills. Yet many of the world’s great movements of thought and action have flowed from the work of a single man or woman. They were unique in their individualism as they had found a way to operate their agendas while the powerful pulled their strings from behind the curtains. And as their sense of self had come into focus with the public array, they let it be known that their breakaway was the result of heightened awareness and not luck; a capability not limited to singled-out demographics.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. For it is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Few are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues; the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world and its societies which yield most painfully to change.

Society is a cruel dictating entity which carries a simple-mindedness reflecting the people within it. Among the essential unspoken “ten commandments” embedded in our subconscious are publicized rules and norms; a sort of life orientation. We all have our roles in society and we are expected to follow through with the tagged responsibilities. Early on in life we are taught to love our neighbor yet destroy the competition; a lesson symbolizing the roots of our conflicting “pick a side or shut up” ways of thinking. Success, failure, manhood, womanhood, maturity, immaturity, beauty, ugliness, strength, weakness, rich, poor, smart, unintelligent, young, old, good, bad; these are the major critiques which under judgment measure a man or woman, determining their level of acceptance in a community. Constantly pressured by demand, we are also stressed with social deadlines and biological clocks, leaving our lives narrowed down to a linear timeline that barely gives us time to think or make thoughtful judgment, so our institutions think for us.

The ironic nature of these institutions can’t be recognized by first impression and particularly so, the average person wasn’t meant to understand it beyond what’s masked on the surface. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroys information, and religion destroys spirituality; not to say that those passionate about these fields of study share the intention. I acknowledge the sensitivity that comes with such a claim that may be perceived as radical, but this is what I’ve come to understand. I don’t know the meaning of life, but I do know that it wasn’t meant to be dictated by the investments of special interest groups.

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power I our country. We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested largely by men we have never heard of.. we are dominated by a relatively small number of persons.. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind and who harness social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world. With that said, it’s considerably easier to understand why most people decide to follow the “in-crowd” and why so many when looking at the consequences of transgression and how complex peer-pressure is distributed so sophisticatedly by those above and beyond the “need-to-know” basis.

The norms of our society were not designed for equal opportunity, and nor do many of us start from scratch. It’s easy to find a person who has had their head start in life, but not so easy is it to find one whom would not impose their inheritance or whom understands the struggles of those on the lower end of whatever social hierarchies. For the fortunate among us, there is the temptation to follow the easy and familiar paths of personal ambition and financial success so grandly spread before those who enjoy the privilege of education and wealth. But that is not the road history has marked out for us. Like it or not, we live in times of uncertainty. But they are also more open to the creative energy of man than any other time in history. The infrastructure of social conditioning that had persuaded our society for so long is at its most vulnerable thanks to advancing technology and the suggested opportunity should not be taken for granted. All of us will ultimately be judged, and as the years pass we will surely judge ourselves on the effort we have contributed to building a new world society and the extent to which our ideals and goals have shaped that event. Modern society yearns for change, but time and time again we habitually place our faith and that burden on the wrong people; time and time again blinded by the illusion of change, unaware of history on its course to repeat itself once more. The old ignorant mindset milked of its profit and power to the last drop, a new one is born and the cycle continues with those who had not yet broken free. The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

The strength in our ability to make change comes with the sense of awareness, and the measure which our society is in need of is by no means easy to reach but by no means is it impossible. The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas and bold projects. Rather it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of a free-will society. Our future may seemingly lie beyond this vision, but it is not completely out of our control. It is the shaping impulse of the human spirit that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle that will determine our futures. Mankind can be as big as it wants; no problem of human destiny is beyond the divinity of human beings; Power through knowledge, composure through wisdom, understanding through awareness, focus through spirit, compassion through soul, and aspiration through heart.

Man is the rational animal, so to speak. He alone can say “I”- and can contemplate his own existence and behavior and actively seek to affect the world around him or her. This is called independence; the opposite of which is collectivism. But this unique capacity is threatening to the Establishment who do not wish man to become aware of the various forms of manipulation which contravene his independent thought and action. The most strongly enforced of all taboos is the taboo against knowing who and what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate and isolated ego. Many will be convinced that we will never find the answers to burning questions regarding the meaning of life, nature of the soul, or the arguable existence of a divine higher intelligence- otherwise nicknamed “God”. Many will also enclose themselves within their safety bubbles in spite of fear, denying themselves the profoundness of experiences which simply cannot be offered by an orthodox lifestyle. Society tries to convince us that life as simple as a drawn out plan; that you are to graduate college by this age, that you are to marry and start a family by that age, that you are still young and just starting life because you are however old, that you must make this much money to be considered successful, that you are not beautiful because you are not perfect, so on and so forth.. But if you were to follow the paths constructed and influenced by society’s shallowness, so would you be submitting your will. And because they have self-prophesized their failure, they will never make the attempt to journey outside of the social pattern they were scripted to improvise.

There are testing moments in life that make or break a person which are irrelevant to our biological clocks or sociological deadlines; they are moments usually lived through unexpectedly, unpredictably, and uniquely. They are what I believe trigger our mental growth and build our individuality from the ground up. Whatever trials and tribulations we all may go through in life, the most difficult test which it seems to all dwindle down to is the challenge of overcoming death, for harmony doesn’t come without balance. When life is treated and valued in the deepest sense, not just as a captivation of experience, but as an exploration of truth, a test of awareness, a challenge of logic, an innovation of human potential, the maturity of intuition and most importantly an opportunity of knowledge humbled by wisdom, then consciousness can eventually be understood as an entity grander than the reality we perceive before us. Energy, unlike matter, cannot be destroyed. Awakening to such a realization makes it absolutely capable for us to overlook, if not overcome, our fears of death. If triumphant over the irrational subconscious within, it’s then that we are truly opened to the opportunity to know what it is to be alive in all its potential; to be purely free and independent, to be human.

~ Author Unknown

This is outrageous free online downloadable book about the Great Work of Enlightenment. I have read many and this one speaks to me more intimately – it portraits the consciousness & meditation territory in a language my Soul is vibrating on. It’s really not a usual meditation book, it talks very differently about many well-known esoteric topics and that’s why I like it. The more time I have invested into the practice and reading of Enlightenment Game, the more I am sure, that the general conclusion is widely lost.
I like how Daniel Ingram describes it interestingly in his 400 pages book. And the practice techniques are awesome!

You can download the book for free at his website – Interactive Buddha.

Or you can buy print copy at Amazon:

Here are few reviews from Amazone, that tell you more:

I can say with extreme confidence that if you read this book, put its principles and techniques into practice and have a clear aim at making progress in your meditation practice, you will be amazed at how quickly you can make real and lasting progress. This book excels at the specifics regarding insight meditation practice (with enlightenment as its goal) and the states and stages related to concentration practice (with unusual and profound states of consciousness as its goal). It also excels at deconstructing the various confused models and misperceptions that spiritual practitioners often have regarding enlightenment.

So, if you’re interested in down-to-earth, practical dharma, and want a clear guide on how to master the core teachings of the Buddha this is the book for you. If you’re looking for coffee table dharma or feel good, new-age fluff, then I would suggest something a little less hardcore.

Of the countless reasons that you should read this book, I offer the following three:

1.) Many books about meditation leave out important information about the sequential stages one will likely (dare I say “inevitably”) encounter in their practice. The ups and downs in one’s practice can be severe, which causes many people to get stuck, and maybe leave the practice all together. Daniel breaks down what one may experience on their journey, and gives very practical advice on how to navigate the territory.

2.) This book clears up a lot of confusion around the goals of meditation practice, particularly what it means to be enlightened (or “awakened”, etc.). By supplying an extensive list of the various models of enlightenment that are used by various contemplative traditions, one may comparatively examine them and get a good idea of what is true and what is false in regards to the process and goal of awakening.

3.) Daniel is brutally honest. He is fully aware that calling himself an Arahat is likely ruffle many feathers. But, it is my impression that he wouldn’t make the claim if he didn’t believe with his entire being that it is beneficial to others to do so. By explicitly detailing his particular attainments and how he was able to gain mastery of very specific techniques, he provides hope to those who also believe that it can be done.

I can say with complete honesty that after reading and applying the basic practices in this book, my meditation practice deepend beyond what I knew was even possible (and still is). I can’t even begin to express how grateful I am to have read it, and how hopeful I am that it will continue to benefit others.

If you want to learn meditation with the goal of attaining earth shattering insight in to the nature of your identity and the universal characteristics of the whole of reality, than this book is for you.

These are the thoughts of the Gurdjieff about the self-observation, self-awareness. They are from the book “Boyhood with Gurdjieff”, which is written from the perspective of one little boy, being educated in Gurdjieff’s institute.

Different personalities, working together, produced subjective, human conflicts; human conflicts produced friction; friction revealed characteristics which, if observed, could reveal “self.” One of the many aims of the school was “to see yourself as others saw you;” to see oneself, as it were, from a distance; to be able to criticize that self objectively; but, at first, simply to see it. An exercise that was intended to be performed all the time, during whatever physical activity, was called “self-observation” or “opposing I to it” — “I” being the (potential consciousness, “it” the body, the instrument.

He began by asking me about the exercise that had been given to all of us to do, and which I referred to previously as “self-observation”. He said that it was a very difficult exercise to do and that he wanted me to do it, with my entire concentration, as constantly as possible. He also said that the main difficulty with this exercise, as with most exercises that he did — or would in the future — give to me or to any of his students, was that to do them properly it was necessary not to expect results. In this specific exercise, what was important was to see oneself, to observe one’s mechanical, automatic, reactionary behavior without comment, and without making any attempt to change that behavior. “If change,” he said, “then will never see reality. Will only see change. When begin to know self, then change will come, or can make change if wish — if such change desirable.”

It’s all about consciousness, as always. Don’t underestimate these simple self-observation exercises. Try to practice them whenever you can. Because the paycheck is probably the best you can imagine. Buddha, Osho, Gurdjieff, Eckhart Tolle, Anthony de Mello, Castaneda, Jesus – no matter who you follow, they all tell you – observe yourself, be conscious, be here and now. But they use different words to pass the message to you and suggest you a little different techniques, but see unity in all of them.

Become egoistic in the True sense.
Start following the path of your inner voice, of your big Ego.
Be totally selfish in expression of your True desires.
And everything will be perfect.
Don’t succumb to the opinions of other people telling you, that you must sacrifice yourself for others.

Maybe you don’t understand me now.
Maybe you think egoism is something wrong, selfishness would cause a lot of apathy for other people needs.
Yes you are right, and no you are wrong in the same time.
Because you need to redefine the meaning of Egoism to understand my logic.
I am not talking about the body/mind Ego.
I am talking about your True Self Ego – some people call it Inner Voice, the path of your Heart.
In this sense you start to be Egoistic.

Start following your Heart/InnerVoice and become deeply selfish in this pursuit.
Because, when you sacrifice yourself in a job you don’t enjoy at all, just because other people consider this position solemn, if you sacrifice yourself in a partnership just because you think the divorce/split is immoral, you are killing yourself, you are totally wrong and you are pitiable, you are empty box following your small Ego.
Be selfish and follow the higher Ego, your Consciousness or whatever you want to call it.

PS: There’s a big problem with the words obviously.
All the terms – Consciousness, higher Ego, Inner Voice, following your Heart, your True Self – they can mean a lot of things and many people and religions use them in different means. Then the chaos starts. Be aware of this and don’t get distracted easily. Collect the puzzle pieces and make the big picture. For me, these terms are the same in the case of this article.

For a better entertainment: I suggest you click the play button at the above video and start reading, the music of the video is important

Don’t underestimate the simplicity of life!

People make things unbearably complicated.
In the ‘making things complicated’ they already manifest their mental illness, their deviation from the Natural principle – which is Simplicity.

We are born Strong, we are born Love, we are born Responsible to our real Self! All child are being born with these characteristics.

We just regrettably pay the price of Freedom.
Because freedom does mean, you are free to choose to be slave and to make slaves from others.
Yes, this is the real price of the real freedom. If you would be born in Greece, in Athens or Sparta, long time ago, they would keep you strong, responsible and brave for the whole lifetime. You would have no other choice, hence no freedom.

Realize your freedom, realize you choose to be weak, to be ill, to follow other’s commands instead of your own. To follow the material possessions instead of finding enormous joy in the non-attachment. All was done upon you, but you have all accepted, nobody hold a shotgun on your head, forcing you to accept all the rules of the dementic society.

Now, when you realize this, the next step is to return to the Source. Realize the intrinsic simplicity of the whole Universe.

If you are born strong, you can become strong again. The steps are very simple and this is the problem for many people. They can’t belief something so simple can be true. We have been learned to belief in complicated theories – left brain thinking.
Delete this self-destroying program from your mind, hack inside and erase it completely and start observing the simple laws of Nature everywhere.

Ok, enough of my philosophical (yin) introduction, now you’ll get the practical (yang) part – the Rules of the Battlefield.

Do all these things daily/weekly. Get them in harmony, balance them wisely. Which means – don’t stop doing any of the rules and also don’t start doing any rule too fanatically, too much. The exact balancing is upon you, upon your experiences, observations. We are all different. Find your way by constant practice.

That’s it, that’s all. Very probably I will update and change this list in the future. But the point is, to inspire you to start looking at life from the simple logic. To start being responsible for all that’s happening to you – to the deepest of your emotions and feelings. Your weakness, your fears, your depressions, melancholy, anxiety, aggressiveness – they are all very logical result of the life you live now. You have to experience them, because you live how you live, you do what you do. But by changing your daily habits, you change these core emotions and all your beliefs also!

This is a big Truth, that is available for you to discover daily. Try to be balanced in all the daily activities and you will get happy mind and life. Because the balance is another name for happiness and health.

Last days I am listening to music whenever I go to the city, between people.
I am playing healing frequencies music in my mp3 player. I was doing this many times before, at high school. Many of my years were lived with the walkman always on. But I wasn’t practicing consciousness before. Later, when I started to meditate, I put away the walkman completely, I was thinking that I need to hear the real sounds, not anything artificial.

But now, I enjoy this ‘artificial’ music when I am around the people again. I don’t consider it as ‘run away’ from reality anymore. It’s great fun and it helps me to be much more aware of what is happening around. I am more easily consciouss without the environment sound distractions. I am using the music as crunches, for better consciousness. I am more easily tuned to the people faces, bodily expressions, observing myself, my reactions, looking people in the eyes, seeing how they escape from the straight eye-look, how they are nervous, funny, lost completely in their minds, trapped. This helps me to realize how trapped I am many times. The mp3 player is great fun for me now. Try shopping with headphones in your ears and observe people, you can dance internaly and enjoy them.. they are crazy, we are crazy and nearly no-one is aware of it

My favorites are:

You can convert any YouTube video into MP3 at this ‘Video to mp3′ website. Choose the High quality option.

“Think of good and evil like right hand and left hand. Man always have two hands — two sides of self — good and evil. One can destroy other. Must have aim to make both hands work together, must acquire third thing: thing that make peace between two hands, between impulse for good and impulse for evil. Man who all ‘good’ or man who all ‘bad’ is not whole man, is one-sided. Third thing is conscience; possibility to acquire conscience is already in man when born; this possibility given — free — by nature. But is only possibility. Real conscience can only be acquired by work, by learning to understand self first. Even your religion — western religion — have this phrase ‘Know’ thyself’. This phrase most important in all religions. When begin know self already begin have possibility become genuine man. So first thing must learn is know self by this exercise, self-observation. If not do this, then will be like acorn that not become tree — fertilizer. Fertilizer which go back in ground and become possibility for future man.”

From the book – Boyhood of Gurdjieff

Grudjieff was Russia mystic, very consciouss person. I have found Gurdjieff firstime in the Osho’s books, he mentioned him occasionaly. Actualy, Gurdjieff was doing musical meditation before Osho, music played, stopped and people frozen on place and experienced the consciousness. I think Osho was inspired by him.

Btw. he smashed with his car into a tree, deliberately, to experience the pain. He was consciouss and wanted to observe the pain experience. Very crazy man. Very strong, direct, honest person.

I am going to read this wonderful online book – Souls of Distortion (I have scanned quickly through it so far).
The topics are: connection of spirituality and since, pyramids, fractals, vibrations, basic law of nature expressed by mathematic, spirals, consciousnes, dna, sound and word vibrations, symbols, ancient texts (bible, vedas) – everything is connected in this world and everything has the same simply perfect logic coded inside, we are just one part of the whole, we are expression of the same force that created everything around us. That’s why we need to copy Nature laws in eating and everyday doing if we want superious life, full of love, joy, harmony, consciousness, health and happiness. Simple as that, learn the rules and you’ll be enlightened, transformed!
This should be teached at the schools and we would be all living in the Nirvana here&now. Amen

The transformation on Earth is supposedly to have started somewhere in the eighties of the previous age and should culminate around 2012.

When I first heard of such claims I dismissed them out of first hand, you will probably too if this book is the first one you read about the subject!

After reading and studying a lot of material that supports these claims, I’ve lost a lot of my scepticism and have come to believe that we live in a very special lifetime indeed. The topic itself vibrates with my core being. For as long as I can remember I have felt that things could be so much different in our world and it has finally brought me to write this book. It’s my little contribution to a better world by sharing this information with you in a world that needs it so badly in these troubled times.

This book is not about ‘the end of the world’, the ‘Apocalypse’; on the contrary, it’s about the end of the old world that you and I know today and the birth of a brighter new one.

As the author writes – I wasn’t believing many months/years, but slowly, the more informations I collect about this topic, I can’t believe how stupid and sceptical I was – this is the system’s influence by the way, this is normal that you are sceptical to these things, because the system has domesticated you – you need to see through this manipulation and try to get informations about these topics and connect the dots.

Here’s the book – Souls of Distortion (click the Next buttons at the bottom for reading it whole).

I invite you to use your intuition as well when you absorb the material discussed within this book. Many of the things you’re about to read in this book are not easily accepted by our materialistic brainwashed minds. In the Western civilized world we’ve come to rely only on scientific facts (left brain male logic), whereas in the East it is said to be true if it is personally experienced (right brain female intuition). I invite you to use both and find out what’s true for you!

I can perfectly imagine you’re very sceptical about the subject of this book and the things you’re about to read. Scepticism is a sound mechanism while evaluating new concepts. However I’d like to give you also the suggestion that scepticism may be used as a defence mechanism by the ego to protect us from being wrong. By being a sceptic we accept the world as it is, it is a safe haven, a status quo. If we don’t let in any new beliefs, we cannot be affected in our core existence and can go about our business as usual. Sceptics are often in good company since they join the masses. However scepticism may also be a hindrance that stops us from learning. It takes courage to allow yourself to ponder the new concepts in this book. In this respect this book is not an easy read and it will require an open mind.

And here are other on topic websites:
Spiral
Return to the Whole (seems like another very interesting online book)
Integral Dynamics many interesting videos

“it is hard to avoid the conclusion that we are looking at one of nature’s most basic pattern-forming processes . . . [and seeing] the hidden and harmonious order built into body and mind, as it is built into every flower and leaf, mirrored by the crafts, and echoed by music . . . .”

This picture is beautiful example of how to see the spirals in everything. They are not only connected to the visible things, but they are the core of everything, even of our spiritual development. Seemingly, you feel sometime you are going in the circles – you eat macrobioticly, then you stop and overeat for a while; you meditate intensively, or you do some sport and then you stop and these periods changes like a clockwork – if you think you are going in circles, you are wrong. These changes, these periods, your whole life advancement/declinment is one big spiral. You are still going up or down in this spiral, this is the point. It’s up to you if you are making your spiral rolling up or down. Eat healthy, meditate, be physicaly active, learn new things and you can be sure that your spiral is going up

It has been three days since I started watching these totaly awesome videos!
And it changed my last days completely.
Opened me eyes – really big.
Gave me a LOT of informations to think about.
Kicked me right in the butt and made me deeply think – to rethink many of my old beliefs.
I like when this happens to me.
The more you know, the harder it is to be influenced in this way.
To have this brilliant feeling of “aha” moment.
To find a new belief model, idea that you can implement into your old beliefs.
But the biggest experience is waiting at the doors of “no belief systems at all”.
The doors of “throw all belief systems away”.
The real religion begins right at the next doors, that are very very close and their title is “throw away your religions too”.
Belief nothing, because belief is the mind concept.
You are not your mind.
You are much bigger.
All is just an illusion.
Matrix is everywhere, Neo

Am I on a drug? Am I totaly manipulated by the dark side? Hehe.
What I am talking about?

This is IT – David Icke – Melbourne 2009 – 46 videos – 8 hours of pure enlightening informations!

I have seen Zeitgeist, I have seen Esoteric Agenda, I have seen many movies and videos over the internet.
But this huge video set is much more important for me.

It’s no about believing it all. It’s not about watching without thinking.
Watch it, ponder on it, experiment with it and get inspired with it to some action.
Any action is better than no action! If you are not taoist monk, who leaves all work to Nature

I am joking with this post a little.
I am really into this stuff now.
Because I am after 3 days of watching this whole set.
But it has a huge impact on me, on my thinking.
It helps me to connect a lot of life puzzle again.
And David is a good dualistic thinker, I have found many informations for my yin/yang thinking – they are everywhere and if you think in yin/yang terms, it can simplify and help you understand a lot of theories much deeper.

Ken connects yin/yang perfectly for me. He is great Taoist thinker. It will enhance your knowledge about the (non)dualistic world how the macrobiotic also perceives it.

Ken Wilber is the most widely translated academic writer in America, with 25 books translated into some 30 foreign languages, and is the first philosopher-psychologist to have his Collected Works published while still alive. Wilber is an internationally acknowledged leader and the preeminent scholar of the Integral stage of human development, which continues to gather momentum around the world. His many books, all of which are still in print, can be found at Amazon.com. Some of his more popular books include Integral Spirituality; No Boundary; Grace and Grit; Sex, Ecology, Spirituality; and the “everything” books: A Brief History of Everything (one of his largest selling books) and A Theory of Everything (probably the shortest introduction to his work). Ken Wilber is the founder of Integral Institute, Inc., the co-founder of Integral Life, Inc., and the Senior Fellow of Integral Life Spiritual Center.

Read many of his awesome articles here (if they have FREE icon, you can read them without subscribing).
Check out his personal website too.

And I would suggest, to get better know his style, start reading this article – Always Already: The Brilliant Clarity of Ever-Present Awareness.

On another topic, if you have serious illness (cancer), we you are faced with death (and who isn’t), definitely check out this book of him!! It’s completely life changing book and it will leave you fearless and accepting all the life can offer, even the death.

Many interviews with Ken and his deep knowledge at Shambala.com.

If you are good in english, I strongly suggest to watch this video lecture about “Consciousness”.

Messages are spread across many spiritual (new age) books about what we really are, what consciounsess really is. But I bet you have quite mess how to understand it

This video lecture can give you great explanation, based on our racional/western/material/scientific/objective thinking.
It will change your view over the Consciousness – I promise you

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-primacy-of-consciousness/

After watching, you won’t be so much surprised by wild experiments of some people with the subjective reality. And you will appreciate the ideas of Kant much more, if you are into the philosophy.

And I would also like to suggest you to watch another video.
More scientific. Actually, a little bit opposite, because the speaker is strong atheist (from what I understand), but don’t be turned away from this masterpiece talk.

Who cares about the Bing bang, but where the matter that precedes the bing did arise?
Who created the Creator?
You’ll get very interesting answers, logical, mathematical.
How could the Universe start from nothing? Is it possible? They say, it is.

http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/a-universe-from-nothing-lecture/

Thinking beyond the genes

We all somehow “know” that the mind/body connection is key to real health. Are you tired of trying to find the words that describe how the mind and body are related, and why their relationships are important for proper health?

A renaissance in Cell Biology now provides the cutting edge science – real science – to prove how holistic health therapies work! Research scientist Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., introduces a long-awaited paradigm shift in the biomedical sciences. The new science will inspire your spirit, engage your mind and challenge your creativity as you comprehend the enormous real potential for applying this information in your life and in your profession.

Bruce compares the evolution of the cell to that of humankind; clearly demonstrates that much of our technology is in direct imitation of Nature’s designs for cell structures. The myths of genes vs. the magic of membranes. Case made that it is not our genes, but our environment, and our perception of the environment, that ultimately regulates our health and behavior.

Based upon his research at Stanford University, Dr. Lipton’s most recent research publications on the regulation of cell behavior have yielded insight into the molecular basis of consciousness and the future of human evolution.

http://www.brucelipton.com/

From the growth, from the Truth point of view; it doesn’t matter if you agree or disagree with anything. Because it always helps you to find your inner Truth, to better define your Higher-self. If you agree with something, it means, you have found the Truth in the thing you agree with. If you don’t agree, you have realized that this is not your inner Truth and this helps you to define your Truth again, by negation, by seeing the opposite side, that you don’t agree with. Both are helpful lessons. That’s why awakened persons are always happy for whatever is. Because in each moment you are experiencing something and you grow based on this. In each moment of your life, you shape yourself according to your highest Belief. This is never ending process. It’s only, that most people do it unconsciously. But the choice is yours. Change, awake, be conscious. Let yourself decide about each step in your life – consciously – based on the new beliefs. Unlearn, throw away your old negative thoughts – about fear, despair, scarcity. It’s not that the negative aspects of life don’t exist, but why do you choose to think about them most of the time? Can you give yourself any answer to this question?

Highlights from Düsseldorf 2006 international scientists conference “Wisdom and Science in Dialogue: The new Planetary Consciousness.”

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Prof. Christopher Bache (Professor of philosophy and religious studies (Youngston, Ohio, USA): All of humanity incarnating as a single, fundamental organism, in a way that expressed a singular intentionality-the intentionality of the one being that humanity is in its totality, with generations coming and going, much as the body snuffs off skin cells, and gives new skin cells on a minute to minute, hour to hour basis.

Narrator: There is a substantial body of scientific evidence that clearly demonstrates that we do function as a whole, and yet we still do not experience our existence in that way.

Prof. Alfonso Montouri: Unfortunately, my feeling is that we’re not quite aware of the extent to which the world is already inside us.

Mr. Marco Bischof: In an unconscious way, has always existed. We are connected already, but the question is to be come conscious, to consciously live this interconnectedness.

Dr. Michael Laitman: So the ideal concept of living as one body will be the dominating force in how we relate to society. That’s why we have to unite and increase the awareness in the entire world.