How Many Bird's Can you Find in My Image? Say No to Killing Birds!

BIRDS ON THE LINE

NO WE ARE NOT LIKE THOSE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

AND AMERICA WHO SHOOT THEM OFF!

I once knew an American whose wife decided to divorce him because he would sit at the window with a pellet gun and shoot at birds on the electricity line. Enough already!

SEED Magazine and Architectural Design - Paola Antonelli

COUNT THE COWS - THERE WERE 17 AT THE TIME

THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN

Farmers have made a living raising cattle for more that 5 millenia. That's long time. My very own ancestors raised cattle for over one thousand years in the hills of Devonshire, England. Many of my cousins are raising cattle now. So raising cattle is not essentially wrong, but raising a vastly scaled up number of cattle in an unsuitable environment just may be.

The same is true of architecture and designs of human habitats. I enjoy visits to Prince Charle's project in Poundbury in Dorset, near where Thomas Hardy wrote situated his Mayor of Casterbridge, the world's most depressing book. Don't read it. You will be depressed for years, if you don't commit suicide earlier! Nevertheless, there is something very positive about Poundbury and the wonderful variety of homes to be found there.

However, when I looked more closely at the building of the homes, I was somewhat disappointed. You have to go and look for yourself. Architects can get away with inferior work if they are not kept on their toes, even at the Royal Dutchy.

Paola Antonelli, featured in SEED magazine's April 2008, edition, is a reader of fractal architecture. Wow! An observation of Mandelbrot, also featured in the magazine, is that most of modern architecture is cheap with buildings that are absolutely abominable. Hear! Hear!

In fact, my observation, be it very humble, is that the addiction of much architecture to Roman design is at the source of Western Civilizations direction towards total annihilation of the human race. Yes, the Romans planted seed in the Western mind that are leading it to self destruct and carry the world down with it. OK! Enough! My mind is built to see long term trends and tendencies in history, and my emotions sense something is very wrong with linear architecture. That is why I think fresh minds such as those of Paola Antonelli are a wonderful gift to global creation of a better environment. Is she the Buckminster Fuller of the modern age? I don't know. But, she is very refreshing. Now if she and Charles Windsor could get together and help old Poundbury out, what a wonderful range of possibilities could follow!

If you want to see a real village as it could be then visit Maiden Castle nearby and study the local hill forts and round home non-linear communities that existed in 50 AD, the period of my Wuh Lax book series. We still have a lot to learn from my early British ancestors who lived before the arrival of those damn Roman conquerors.

Its a Mandelbrot Universe - Or is it?

IS OUR UNIVERSE DESIGNED LIKE NATURE?

Those that have heard of Benoit Mandelbrot know that he is a creative mathematician that has contributed great things to the science of non-linear mathematics and in particular the world of fractals.

When I look at a flower like the one in the image above, it occurs to me that our universe may be constructed in a dynamic way similar to the way that nature grows a flower. Add scale and the ability to read other waves in the universe to our demensional capacity, and a fifth demensional human might look down upon the universe as a vast garden of flowers.

That we now don't see it, doesn't mean it ain't so, and, maybe, the sentient creatures of this enlarged world wonder where God is?

Reviews Of Blogs on Science - SEED scienceblogs.com

NONE OF THESE GUYS ARE PRESENTLY ALIVE

RIBS! OR IS IT 'RIP'S

I am in love, and not only with the creatures of nature. I am in love with good science and good commentary on science. That being, I will occasionally review good science blogs, or places to find good science blogs.

I must say that I am very impressed with the publication SEED as it emerges in issue 15 for April 2008. This is a magazine worth buying and putting on your bookshelf.

It has wonderful imagery, which appeals to me as an artist.

Its ink does not come off onto fingers, which is good for me as I am allergic to inks. In the past, I could not read the Economist magazine because of the lethal inks, for me at least, in the front cover. I have some problem reading the glossy pages because of the reflected light. In this respect The New Sceintist magazine, which also has great imagery, is less aggravating on the eyes. Gloss means reflecting light and is great for a front page, but harder to read over long periods, and I am a voracious reader of science and design.

The articles are decidedly uplifting and enlightening with good coverage.

Lots of liquour ads for those that have this addiction, and cars.

Middle advertising bits that fall out have to be tossed.

To get the best of it on a level table, you need to fold the pages down, which is work, but then you might want to tear the pages out because they are gorgeously coloured and strikingly presented.

If you like a good read of recent developments in science, this magazine should be on your coffee table, for sure. Good work guys. I'm impressed, and the price is very reasonable!

Wooooooh's Stream Comments on Issues in Three Countries

TRACTOR HAS SEEN BETTER DAYS

Some of you have noticed that the scope of my frequent blogs has been fairly international. I am familiar with Canada, United States, and the United Kingdom, and I am a citizen of the whole European Union, as well. Wow what a wonderful combination. My attitude towards different cultures, nationalities, languages, and religions is pluralistic. I prefer curves over straight lines and believe that the early British cultures were enslaved and subdued, which is why they are not so today.

I believe in variety, combination, and hybrids, as well as creativity, and innovation. Learning and continuing education are important to me, as well as learning from trying and doing and thinking. Without thought there is little learning. The faith world should not be a closed book, and there is considerable scope for improvement in all things, scientific, religious, spiritual, evolutionary, physical and secular.

If you have a concern or issue that you would like to see considered, just say so in a comment below!

Time to Cut the Life Boats Adrift or Insanity! Taxes or Savings?

If a government seems to be doing something insane, such as cutting the funding to high technology projects that are critical long term investments in knowledge creation, you may think that they are entirely insane. But, obviously, they are doing something that is entirely sane, or at least in their logic. So what is this logic?

Is it a long term view of what can be financed over the long term. And, if it is, what does that mean? Sure, its one thing to cut taxes as George Bush has had the US government doing, but this is because he is thinking of getting more taxes not less! His logic is that the economy is running slower because the tax rate is too high. Its not because he thinks that the government has too much money to spend. No! George Bush and other leaders by cutting taxes want really to increase tax revenues when people feel things are better because their tax rate is lower. Psychological tinkering with the economy!

They don't want to come out and say honestly that the government needs more money to fight in Iraq or build new weapons of mass destruction, but they do want more money from the economy and they believe that lowering tax rates on the very wealthy is one way to achieve this. It may be, but it is very short term thinking. Its dishonest because they population is not told that the real purpose of tax cuts is more government revenue, coming incidentally from the middle income brackets or lower income people.

What the Stock Market Doesn't Tell You About the Sad State of the US Economy

THE WORLD OF WAVES

Deception by the stock market! Who would have thought that the barometer that most American's look toward for clues and information about how well the US economy is doing, doesn't reflect that at all, or at least not very reliably. The stock market is a fools game whereby those who know how to play, strip fools of their awareness of economic problems behind the scenes. What you see on the stock exchange is the result of what others want you to see and not the true situation. Believing in the stock market is akin to an addiction to a quick fix of adrenalin, whenever the numbers goes this way or that. Your senses are aroused when, and for whatever reason, someone with financial clout wants you to believe in a direction that things are moving.

For one thing, do you imagine that the US companies listed are operating solely in the United States. Think again! If this were so then do you think that revenues, or profits would be as high as they are. Think again. If the US dollar is weak and you make profits in Europe and convert the value of those profits back to US dollars, does this mean that you are doing well because the US dollar amount is much higher than when the US dollar was stronger. Think again. The US dollar value is only a numeraire. It is the Euro that is stronger.

The problem with using the stock market as your economic guide is that it is influenced by changes in valuation going on day to day stimulated by reevaluation of the US economy by domestic and foreign investors. Americans have the wrong idea that their economy is strong. It is the world economy that is relatively strong, and some of the world economy just happens to be investing in the United States and lending the US and its government money. The war in Iraq is being financed by China, Japan, Europe and the Arab oil producers reinvesting back in the US. Yes, international companies are not always very loyal to US interests.

Why is the automobile industry so bad in the United States? Think about who owns the international companies that go by American names Ford, General Motors, American Motors! No! The US is undergoing the British disease whereby its losing its industries and economy strength, and ownership. Before long the US automobile industry will belong to Indian or Chinese owners. So don't be deceived by the New York ticker tapes. The US economy is in very sad shape!

Creating a Nurturing and Natural Environment for Health and Self Esteem

YOU KNOW THAT IS GOT TO BE BETTER FOR YOU

A RURAL DEVON VIEW NEAR HONITON

My hat is raised this morning to Jules Petty, the environmental scientist, for the article, "The greening of healthcare" to be found in the December 22nd, 2007 issue of The New Scientist ... I am just catching up with my science reading!

Essentially, by exercising, we improve our self esteem and mood, and by relating to nature we improve our self esteem and mood. If we place ourselves near urban environments or remind ourselves of city things, we lose out on our self esteem and mood. Since self esteem and mood are essential for our health, we kill slowly ourselves if we live in urban environments. That's it in a nutshell. So what do we do about it? Perhaps, something like honeycomb housing design would be better than the straight boring roman road designs we now have.

We can design our human habitats much better. Tessellar design is one option. But, the main thing is that we recreate our urban environments in a way that brings nature to us rather than living a slow death of despair and low self esteem.

Starvation in North America Because of Rising Food Prices!

WE HAVE SEEN BETTER TIMES OURSELVES

Haiti is on no body's favourite list. When asked to help Haiti, almost all governments look to others to help out. France says Haiti is closer to United States so why does the United States not do more? Canada says France could do more. Canadians find Haiti a little too political, too hot a potato. So is the UK going to help Haiti or the European Union, Spain, Portugal?

Without help to feed themselves the Haitians are forced onto the streets. Would you not go out into the street and storm the palace if your children were hungry and you knew not where their next meal was coming from. Shades of the French revolution!

Remember that its not just wheat prices that are high. Its also corn and rice. So what are we going to do. Are we just going to watch like we watched the utter violence on our sensibilities of the recent Canadian seal hunt?

Starvation in Haiti may be just the next step in a much bigger trend. Think of what is happening around the world as food prices soar beyond the reach of many poor.

China has revealed that the human to human transmission of bird flu, the pandemic variety occurred at the end of 2007. Do you think this is the last you will hear of this flu. Think again, and think of what I wrote earlier about the perfect storm. The rice people think the perfect storm has already occurred in the rice industry, but it is only a beginning. We need to act before the other storms collide together. Whew! Or, should I say Wooh!

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WE ARE CREATIVE EVEN IN OUR ERRORS

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I was a student of computer programming at one stage of my life and was taught to give each module a single purpose, not to overload it. This I try to do, but sometimes don't. I am far from perfect.

I make many mistakes and I sometimes make them intentionally just to make myself think. That's the sufi in me, the Gurdieffian trace that emerges to enlighten. The world is not trying to be perfect.

Have you ever noticed how messed up our world really is? Do you take in the confusion or does your mind shut it out and target those regions that look orderly? I hate confusion, but my mind is capable of tracking many things reasonably intelligently. This is why, I focus on being creative.

Artistic creativity involves messing things up a bit in order to extract something relevant to the focus of the artist. Creativity requires capability, which requires learning new things that you can mix up. Mixing things up means that you make errors, and making errors is part of learning and creativity. Why do you think the world is so mixed up? Whatever intelligence is operating in our universe does not avoid mixing things up, experimenting and getting creative with all sorts of things.

This is why, I sense that we are part of an ongoing creation process. We see the errors, and some of us are living the errors. Errors may be an integral part of our being, or they may overcome us and be our being. In the end, we are a messy bunch of errors. All of us are just a messy messy collection of errors. But, that's ok. We are not forgotten. The universe cannot forget us because the energy required to create even one of the most humble of entities is absolutely enormous, more enormous than we can ever realize and that is because we are Mandelbrot kids.

We are destined for reproduction, errors and all. And, that's the beauty of it. We are loved for our errors and perpetuated despite them.

We are loved. We are loved. Yes! Yes!

We will come back! We will come back!

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Frozen Time But Not Frozen in Time

We have a world in which matter can assume the different states of gas, liquid, or solid depending on temperature. We could possibly 'exist' in a universe that evolves through the three states of matter in a macro sense, see Zeeya Merali's article, Faster, faster, time is running out! in the December 22nd, 2007 issue of New Scientist. What we don't know is our key relationships.

We cannot be sure that we are fixed already for all time. As slowly moving or rapidly exploding sentient beings, we cannot know the relative speeds of light and matter in the sense of some containing framework. A notion that may be difficult to comprehend.

We have operational concepts that suggest that we have freedom to choose, which is what we seem to be doing all the time. We don't see ourselves as single dimensional entities, but at least three dimensional even though we know of more dimensions that we cannot observe from where we are and because of who and what we are.

We are aware that to be what we are has taken a very long time, and that we were not just a creation of seven days, no matter how that may be measured, but we were programmed by our gaia over many many millions of years. Each word of the language that makes us up went through the filter of many millions of years of whittling our being out of the fabric of our universe.

We do know that time is something that reaches infinitely in all directions and spaces, and that we are presently helpless in attempting to reach into those directions and spaces, but that we hope that we shall oversome our inability.

We sense that we have self awareness, that we have some mastery over a simple range of senses that arise from waves of different forms passing over instruments within our bodies. We are aware that we are made up of solids, liquids, and gases. We are aware that should we be all solid, we would not have life, or if we were all liquid we would not have life, or if we were all gas, we would not have life. We are aware, thus that our existence is within a framework of solid, liquid, and gas. We are also aware that the solids in our being provide structure, but seem to be created out of inspirations that arise from our tapping into an energy seemingly driven by light.

We don't really understand our relationship to light. We know that light seems to be released from matter, but we do not know whether this is because matter engulfs light as it travels through spacetime, or whether light joins to itself in a way that matter does not. We assume light has a single source, omitting the possibility that light is unseen matter.

We forget that light itself is dark matter and dark energy. We turn the world inside out and expect to understand it. What we fail to realize is that we are the past, the present, and the future. All time is frozen, period. We are light within time. We experience gas, liquid, solid, but we are none of these. We are light that shines on these states of form. We are constant light.

A Pending Disaster That Our Addiction to Petroleum Has Caused!

WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT TWO FRIENDS

WORM FISHING IN KINCARDINE, ONTARIO!

"The solution to a problem often has to be simple, but not stupid."

Do you want your taxes to go through the roof? Do you want a world war from a big fight over oil? You and I, we, need to think about reducing your/my, our, current addiction to petroleum. We need to make it history!

The new addiction that kills people is addiction to the use of motor vehicles and petroleum fuels. It is even more deadly than cigarettes. How can we stop using petroleum as a fuel and thereby save lives maybe our own, or those of our children? The New Scientist has articles that you should read.

We need to move away from what is killing us. The sooner the better! Our politicians are indirectly or even perhaps directly being paid to slow down the process of saving lives by speeding up the process of moving away from fossil fuels. We need to be creative and find solutions that the oil and the majority of automobile companies are not focusing on.

Make no mistake, car emissions are far more dangerous than cigarettes. Cars are much much more addictive than nicotine. We are addicted to motor vehicles and this addiction is a killer just as certainly as cigarette are a killer. Its time we started to wake up to our addiction and weaned ourselves away from petroleum. This will most certainly save many millions of lives and perhaps our planet. Petroleum companies want us to continue our addiction to fossil fuels, but we know better. Don't we!!!!

What comes out of our motor vehicle's tailpipe when we drive? Some vehicles emit more bad stuff than others.

1. Carbon dioxide CO2 ... whew this is really bad because it destroys everything we treasure on earth, our species, our comforts, and our lives.
2. Carbon monoxide CO ... is a silent deadly killer.
3. Nitrogen oxides
4. Bad particles that worsen our breathing and can kill, especially our children as in the case of lead poisoning.
5. Hydrocarbons of various forms of which some can cause cancer.

What we need to deal with CO2 emissions is a device that sits within a motor vehicle and uses the CO2 or converts it in some way as you are driving, or as your vehicle is sitting in the sun.

The first possibility is by conversion of CO2 to something else while the vehicle is moving.

1. Perhaps it could be one that converts CO2 to CO and O, (by means of passing it over heated carbon) and recycles that CO back into the methane fuel and uses or releases the oxygen. The methane fuel is recycled through again and burned to produce CO2, which is converted to CO, which is recycled back again and so on.

Problem:

CO is odorless and extremely toxic. It will kill if inhaled by humans.

2. Perhaps, the CO and O created from CO2 could be used in an industrial process being compressed and stored in your vehicle as you are driving, then sold back at a
retrieval unit.

3. Perhaps, the meat industry wants the CO to make your meat look more palatable. Joking! This is not what most people want to happen. People want fresh meat.

4. Perhaps the CO could be burned with either hydrogen or nitrogen as a fuel. This would require addition technologies and devices on your vehicle.

5. Perhaps some small business could use the CO.

Maybe, we could create a device that sits within a motor vehicle and collects the CO2. Can the CO2 then be used industrially in some way.

The New Scientist of March 11, 2008 has an article on better use of CO2.

Saving Energy and Using LED Light Bulbs

My thanks to Joseph, who points out that a very reasonable possible source of LED light bulbs is Don's Green Store, who ship. Don's place tells us that one should be also aware that fluorescent bulbs may contain mercury, and as a consequence they may need greater care when disposing.

LED bulbs on the market are not yet displacing fluorescent, but the writing on the wall is for that to happen eventually for directional lighting as the gradually improving technology makes them preferable on many counts.

Similarly, when disposing of ordinary batteries, don't put them in the regular waste as they may also contain toxic substances. Its best to ask your local experts where to dispose of batteries even the ordinary ones. I now have a separate trash container for batteries of all kinds, fluorescent bulbs and printer inks. Think about it?

Wheat Rust and World Famine! Are We Heading for A 1930's Style Depression

CANADIAN SUNSET

Every so often the world is dealt a hugely negative blow right out of the blue. On some occasions, several negative blows are struck, and on rare occasions as many as three or four hit coincidentally.

It's very possible that we will see three tragic systems colliding in a very negative way over the next few years which could bring about a thirties style depression or a 'perfect storm scenario' that we should prepare for, even if we doubt that it will happen. What are the risk areas?

I have five major concerns......

Problem One: Wheat Rust and Major Wheat Shortages for an Extended Period as Long as the Great Depression ... Many Years

The first blow could hit the wheat bread-flour food supply chain and result in unexpected starvation around the globe. The risks are that an Irish potato style famine could travel the globe because of over specialization and vulnerability of wheat to a new wheat rust that recently originated in Uganda and could hit Asian wheat producing areas this summer. China is frantically researching new rust resistant strains, but seems to be fighting a losing battle as the rust may mutate to overtake new strains, which in any event could take five or more years to develop.

Problem Two: World Financial Insolvency and Deflationary Pressures Arising from Major Weakness of the US economy and the US Dollar

Few economists these days think that the world financial crisis will be short lived. We are in for a major shock that could see policy makers struggling to avoid inflationary and deflationary nightmares.

Problem Three: A Flu Pandemic Arising as Starving People seek to Survive Inflation and Wheat Shortages.

A flu pandemic will happen, but we don't know when, perhaps sooner rather than later. The wheat shortage and a major slump in world economy could make the risk situation much worse and increase the likelihood of a pandemic. The problem is one of farmers feeding chickens when their communities don't have wheat and grain because of a major world wheat shortage after the rust has reduced harvests. People could be forced to eat sick birds, or hide the fact they are eating chicken that has the virus, which could cause a pandemic. The rust could increase the likelihood of specific longer term disease threats.

Problem Four: More News of Major Climate Change and New Disasters Arising from Global Warming

The world does not have the will to change its patterns of consumption of oil and the major oil producers will have a glut unless they can keep the price of oil artificially high. A high price of oil gets us to adopt new methods of producing energy. There is so much speculation in oil that the true energy situation is distorted out of recognition. We do not know whether the price incentives to alternative energy sources will work, but the effects of climate change will worsen as the world economy is hit by greater ferocity and changeability of weather patterns.

Problem Five: Increased Risk that the International Wars on Terrorism Have to Be Shelved On Account of Insolvency

The world economy may not be able to afford a continuing war on terror even though it will continue. Expect more successful terrorist attacks, and one on the United States that could be destabilizing with a new American president unprepared for the worst decade of terror yet to come. If you are starving, you may be tempted to join the terrorist camp, if someone tells you that the problem is the United States. Even worse, the US may be tempted to take action on Iran, which would have disastrous consequences.

The Myth of a Democratic Victory in November's Presidential Election

LAKE HURON ICE

Put very simply, history tends to repeat itself, and the Democrats will very likely lose the upcoming Presidential election in November. I speak as a Canadian or Brit, but not as an American, who I am sure will have a non-historical perspective.

In any event, it seems to me that I have watched the Democrats do the say thing before, as they are doing now, namely, tearing each other apart. It makes me think that it is increasingly likely that McCain will be the next President of the United States. Why?

Irony, pathos, deep regret, I don't know. My logic is very simple and has to do with an assessment of subconscious thought processes that will govern the actions of millions of undecided voters in November as compared with their conscious thoughts to the contrary. The undecided voters are the voters that act with emotions that they do not consciously assess.

First, candidate Obama is likely to be the serious target of assassination, if he is elected. Most people would rather see Obama living and vote to save his life by not voting for him. Americans are really good people at heart, but they suffer from a gun-toting small minority that is extremely reluctant to see a black president. These are the guys with white hoods that tote guns, don't really think very deeply about love. They have business based on guns and keep Americans shooting at each other. The more people see Obama as a future president, the more inclined they will be not to vote for him, even the black voter.

Second, lving with candidate Clinton is like living with a divorcee that never went for the divorce. She won't be elected because most Americans are divorced, or, on the way to divorce. Americans believe in divorce at a very subconscious level, and think people who don't are somewhat strange. They will, in effect divorce themselves away from Hilary, because they feel subconsciously that she should be divorced, and they can't understand why she is still married to Bill. The more she reminds them of a bitch, the more they will dis-associate away from her.

Third, candidate McCain reminds Americans of the very popular former president Ronald Reagan. McCain is a winner and Americans right now want a winner more than anything else!

Real Serious Thinking is Productive and Time saving

Teaching People How to Think
The tragedy of many educational systems is that they don't teach children how to think for themselves.The sign of a good teacher is that the students walk away with what education is all about. I would go even further to say that life is all about thinking for oneself. If you don't learn how to think and as a consequence don't understand why and who you are what you are, then you really miss the boat.
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Golf, Art and the Role of Exploration
You might not think first hand that artists and explorers have much in common. That would be grossly wrong. The creative side of art is all about exploration. When an artist loses an interest in exploring, the creative side of his or her art suffers. I have found that many artists explore several realms at once, not only the product of their immediate medium, but other worlds.
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Competitive Dissonance
Having spent four hours sorting out a software incompatibility between Norton and Microsoft firewall systems, I should be forgiven for being a little dissonant. The solution was to forget trying to figure what was wrong between these great systems. I uninstalled Norton and then reinstalled it. Now I have my internet back.
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Speed, Trust, Traps, Maps, Pubs and Churches
It is my own challenge that I am interested in maps. I have a particular interest at present in maps that can show me the roads that existed in 50AD and the time of Wim and Wuh, the time of the early Roman occupation of Britain. What I am finding is that maps don't normally tell you when or if things existed, but rather that they currently exist or that there is some evidence now that they exist.
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Wuh Lax and Non-Linear Thought
The polarity of one's thought is not often regarded as something one takes into account on a moment by moment basis let alone day to day. We have terms such as positive and negative thinking. We know that positive thinking tends to be healthier than negative thinking, but what do we mean when we use these terms?Here are some ideas taken from the time and world of Wuh Lax. Our cosmos is a mixture of dark and light energy. It is the dark energy that gives our ever increasing rate of explosion its umph. If you are joining my blog for the first time you will need to refer to my earlier descriptions of the non-linear inside-out cosmos that we occupy.
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Obama and Snow
I am not American and don't get to vote. My political suppositions and views come from north of the border (Canada) and across the Atlantic (UK), even though I lived in America for over 25 years.
Snowflakes
If you are American and live in an area of the country that has recently had a significant snowfall, you may notice, after I have twigged your interest in the phenomenon, that snow can pile only so high on a branch. How high it builds up depends on the width of the branch. Take any point and land snowflakes on that point and what determines the height that the snowflakes build up is the size of the area under the snowflakes. If you want height and mass in terms of snow you have to have significant area on which to drop your snowflakes. What does this have to do with Obama, apart from the fact that he is black and snow usually is white?
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Believing Science or Religion is not so Easy!
The Gillian Gibbons teddy bear story is a lesson for us all. Her experience is much like those of Larry David in his comedy presentations where he forces us to think and see the absurd in much of what we experience. In particular he shows in a humorous way what it is to think about religion . Often, religious leaders and layity go to extreme measures and derive absurd results. Its often painful to see what extreme belief based on fear can do to those around us.
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Eligibility for Discovery
I have often wondered what the ordinary person thought during the strange epoch when people thought the sun was revolving around the earth. Indeed, in my mind, I associate the idea of an earth centered universe as being particularly Roman in character.This is because in Roman times there were human beings who seriously thought that they were a god and at the center of the universe. My hero is Emperor Vespasian because I understand that he was not carried away with such vanity. He probably held a very dim view of people who thought that he was like a Caesar, and as a Caesar, was a god. In his history of Appolonius, Philostratus gives us some insight into the nature of Vespasian as seen by someone close to his time. In many respects, the history of Appolonius and Jesus of Nazareth are connected. We see that there may have been wisdom of such Masters/Prophets/God passed on to Vespasian.
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Does Your View Point Matter if it is Not Humourous?
My blog earlier this week discussed the Wuh Lax discovery that the universe was an inside out universe and that light was not moving and there was something to the idea of a cosmic lantern. The main point behind the blog was to get the reader to think, but at the same time there is an element of humour involved. The notion that all the many millions of scientific hours spent researching the movement of light when it is in fact standing still has to be funny.
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World Environmental Issues

Evolution? A Cause or an Effect of Environmental Change
In my opinion, anyone who does not think evolution is relevant both religious and non-religious contexts needs to have their head examined. There, I said it without using the forbidden word!Associated with the concept of evolution is the relevant notion of survival of the fittest. That's all very well as a model, but does the model itself fit. In many ways, it almost seems to beg the question. If a species survives, then it is the fittest. But, is this the case? How does one relate evolution to social change and the human species?
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The Al Gore Phenomenon
What a turn of events! Al Gore would have made a better president than George Bush. I think many of us can agree on that. American history is littered with lost opportunities, events that defy logic and end up in tragedy. While my mind is on the process of how wars come to dominate political thinking, I can't help but think of the idiocy of the American involvement in the civil war of Viet Nam, which President John F. Kennedy, had he lived, would probably have understood much better than Lyndon B. Johnson.
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The Great Sleep
The political leaders of North America from rich oil producing regions sleep away on design and implementation of environment, health, and science and technology programs. Look at the cut backs and lack of interest in adequately funding and developing the new fusion technologies. Oil interests rule so completely that speculators, including the oil people themselves, know which commodities to speculate with using US dollars that don't know where else to go. We are witnessing another round of speculation as Bush seeks to grab as much as he can before leaving office. This means that the rest of the world will have to assume a bigger role. Watch British Petroleum try to grab Iraq's oil as the country is trying to stand on its feet. Watch Exxon grab its share and enhance its billions of profits that could be used for non-polluting energy sources and healthier environments for all creatures. Why should beef and petroleum oil win every time when they are so uncool.
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Removing Fences to Give Wild Animals A Chance
We don't usually think about fences as being a sea change in the fight for survival of wild animals. Often it is the barriers that humans use to protect themselves and their domesticated livestock whether animal or foul, which makes older ways of life impossible, especially living with animals that need to roam. I am not a vegetarian, but I do think that if we were too become plant eaters of quality plants rather than genetic rubbish, we could add to the richness and variety of our natural environments, those that are close to home.
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LED Lightbulbs with an Almost Infinite Life
They are here in Canada in Walmart stores and you can buy them for about $13 a bulb that runs cold and lasts almost for ever (100,000 hours is an understatement). It is an amazing technological story that has the promise that it can save the earth if we all act now and replace our existing light bulbs with LEDs as they come on stream. The fluorescent replacements to incadescent are a big improvement, but the LEDs are the 'major' leap forward.
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What Can I do to Release Less CO2?
What Can I do?
To release less CO2!
What can I say?
To make global warming go away!

Stop farting.
Eat less.
Don't circle around, but go straight to the point.
Keep calmer.
Sleep longer.
Die or slow down my breathing.
Plant seeds of plants and trees.
Recycle paper or store it away permanently.
Do less.
Travel less.
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Plant a Tree
I am cultivating a strong distaste for unnecessary straight lines. This may be the artist in me, but whenever I see a straight line, the word ignorance comes to mind. Why should ignorance be associated with linearity?Have you ever thought that when you draw a curve on paper it is made up of many small straight lines? When we first start out to build something or create something knew, we often begin by thinking linearly. When we do, we are taking the first steps in a much grander design.
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Dealing With Pollution in Your Own Neighbourhood
It would seem to me that in a global environment in which the issues of pollution and recycling come ever more into the open, we will see the emergence of environment watch groups. Instead of the usual types of criminals, we will increasing focus on crimes that affect our environmental balance.It seems logical that we will establish neighbourhood watch groups to catch out people who do not observe the emerging rules of being environmentally conscious.
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The Economics of Spherical or Round Homes
What on crazy earth is AW Lake thinking about now? Spherical homes! What on earth is a spherical home? Is it a yurt? Well no! It isn't.
1. May be more suitable for overcrowded areas. Well, I am not quite sure, but to give you an idea you can visit 'This is London' where the designer Martin Manpuch is well on the way to popularizing such homes as a solution to overcrowding in the London, England region.
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Design Science, Round Houses, and Innovation
When we look at the beauty that nature has designed into its creatures over many hundred millions of years, we have to wonder at the relative ugliness that man has designed into the majority of modern habitats for the ordinary person.
People deserve an attractive habitat that gives a positive force to their living. What tends to happen is a separation of quality of habitat such that your higher income people live in areas separated away from those of more modest means. This results in a general habitat for the community that is spotty. It's really nice in some areas and really ugly in others.
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Cosmic Conciousness - Two

Pathways to Revelation or Invention
Revelation or invention are processes whereby a sentient being acquires useful information that is extremely difficult to obtain in normal circumstances. The process is so rare that a community regards such events with extreme respect whether it occurs within religious or scientific community. We often speak of revelation in the context of prophets and prophesy when they state that they have received a message or understood a message from an esoteric or exoteric source. Invention we think of as a secular event, but the process of revelation and invention are almost one in the same.
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Speculative Understandings About Joy and Mythology
Our paradox is that joy, human joy, is based on a myth. A myth is a vision and feeling that we hold of a reality that is not yet real. Our joy, and almost all joy, is an expectation of something that is not now, but that we experience in the now which says something about the future, which has all the makings of a myth.
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What Direction Are You Heading?
Its something that we often forget. Where am I heading? Do I even know where I am going? Why am I going anywhere? Heh! Stop! I want to get off. I don't want to move, do, think, experience, be, act, play, feel, sort, help, hinder, break, build, touch, see. I want to rest.
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Modern Myths
In the modern world, we have an attitude. We don't see that we have an attitude, and that is the problem. The attitude comes in three flavours: the realist, the spiritual, and the perplexed.The realist everyone will recognize because it is the attitude of those that have attended the great universities, taken social science classes, and survived. The survival, however, means that the graduate has an attitude. The attitude is that man will continue to make progress technologically and this will lead to improvements in society and economies. If the world is to be successful, then people need an education that will enable them to see it as it is. Successful people are people who see the world in all its cause and effect glory.
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The True Myth
Such a phrase seems entirely contradictory, but it has meaning nevertheless. In our Western culture, we are wrapped up in a thought world that tells us to disregard certain aspects of our reality. These aspects have been pushed into a mental box that we label 'unreal.' Because the things and concepts in the thought box are unreal, we think that we can ignore them.
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I Don't Think You Realize How Big the Universe Is
Two friends are walking through a meadow looking up at the sky and across at the hills beyond. They glance at the blossom of meadow flowers scattered joyfully around them. They watch a brown cow chewing its selection of grass. They hear the sheep in the distance on the slopes nearby. A crow caws in the distance, and a butterfly darts ahead of them through the tall grass.
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Gratitude and the Open Book Laws of Association and Relativity
In an earlier blog, I presented the notion that 'the secret' was crass commercialization and little else. It behooves me to present the open and free alternative to 'the' secret. My alternative to 'the secret' and the alleged 'laws of attraction', which incidentally do not work other than by random processes disguising advantageous associations, are the immutable laws of association and relativity. You have probably already learned of the laws of relativity from scientists of physics and cosmology and possibly from my earlier blogs.
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A Cosmos in Which Light Stands Still
You have to admit light and gyroscopes both exhibit some very strange properties. Gyroscopes seem to spin and move in ways that don't seem connected to normal laws of physics. Light seems to move in ways that don't seem initially, at least, to conform to normal laws of physics. Both light and gyroscopes are subject to processes in ways that do not easily conform to what we regard as normal reality. In fact, gyroscopes do conform to the laws of physics, but we see that we need to have a clearer idea of the nature of gravity. Light obeys physical laws, but we may be misinterpreting how. I just throw out my reservation, not because I know how, but because it is an interesting proposition, i.e. that science may have its explanation all wrong. What we experience in our reality is torque, which conveys directed energy. When we do not experience torque of any shape or form, we may not detect it. If our senses and reality are geared only to torque, we may miss the entire show around us.
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Faster than the Speed of Light
If Jay Leno is right, scientists have discovered that light is so fast that it can travel backwards in time. Oh my! Oh my! Can that be true? Is light deciding where to go before it decides where to go. That's like saying human beings make decisions before they make decisions. Can that be true? Do we decide something before we decide something? If we do, then we need to think hard and deep about the process of deciding.
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A Most Deadly Secret
The no-brainer in the notion of "The Secret" is the corollary observation that if you know a secret, or even 'the' secret, then you will most certainly attract something, or someone, to you, and it won't be pleasant. This is because there are real secrets out there and there are people who will do anything to ensure that these secrets are kept. The promise of death is what ensures the 'law of attraction'. Learn the real secrets and you will almost certainly come under the influence of the various laws of attraction. The real issue is whether you can reveal real secrets without attracting those who would destroy you.
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Researching the Ancient Past
One of my favourite activities is researching the past. It is through an attempt to reach back in time that one gains a footing that allows one to move forward in time. What one realizes is how much the realm of time is akin to an enormous tree whose roots stretch down into the rotted past and whose branches reach upward into the light of the sun and speculations as to where one's future lies. In both cases the process is an active process in which time does not have an existence other than as a marker of the present moment in a very tiny space that one thinks of as one's present awareness.
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Living to be One Thousand a Myth, Dream or Possibility?
When I first read Genesis in the Bible, I was curious about the giants and the people who lived to be a long age. Someone explained to me that the people who lived beyond five hundred years were not individual people but families. Still, the notion of living to a very old age was inspiring. We see around us trees that survive human beings and live to be well over two thousand years old. How?
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Why Didn't Someone Tell Me?
When might you ask or exclaim, "Why didn't someone tell me?" Perhaps, just perhaps, someone did tell you, but you were not listening, or you could not interpret what they were saying.In our world of advertising, we are constantly bombarded with information, or messages, in forms that are intended to distract us from thinking broadly about things. We are being loudly guided in our thoughts towards relatively narrow solutions. That is the role of advertising and most forms of paid communication. If the messages are too loud or the solutions favouring some particular group, we think of them as propaganda.
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Religion as Models of What Should Be and of Fairness
The purpose of a religion would seem to be that of giving people an ideal towards which they can direct their energies. We can search for the source of the inspiration of the 'messages' that enable a religion to form, or an individual to become receptive to an ideal or pattern within oneself or between oneself and the cosmos. It is this search process that forms the basis of the notion of pilgrimage. What happens is that some one tells some one else that they should go somewhere and if they do, they will be inspired by either the journey to that place or by the place itself. Often, it is the very act of trying that makes the search meaningful.
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What is Freedom and Time?
An aspect of our present world is that we seem to be able to extend the present instance both forward and backward in time. The obvious derivative question is whether or not this trend can continue so that in the future we will have a significantly larger present.
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The Richard Dawkins' Viewpoint of God as Delusion
Some people like to be at the center of controversy. Posit one absurdity and someone will refute it with another absurdity. Take the extreme of an argument and the response against that argument will probably be extreme. Develop an extreme science that posits an extreme view of reality and others will posit alternative extremes.
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Remembering Christ at Christmas
Jesus said that whenever two people met in his name, there he would be also.
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Lost Knowledge and the Very Real Significance of Wuh
Stonehenge and my stories of Wuh Lax are very closely intertwined hystorically. I use the term hystory to distinguish it from history, which I am claiming is further from the truth when it comes to the early period of Britain. History needs to be rewritten after it is thoroughly researched.
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We are Flying Apart in a Wuh Lax World
In my Wuh Lax vision of the universe, we are flying past each other all the time. Our world is like a giant space ship that is carrying us along. My mind then leaps to the notion that the spaceship is getting larger and larger and we inside the spaceship are getting larger and larger. This view, the Wuh Lax view of the world, is but one of many.
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The Problem Within a Speed-of-Light World
My mind just wonders why we have to see the speed of light as something. I am reading Lee Smolin's book "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity" and not really focusing on a view of the world as he sees it. Instead in my mind, I am blowing apart and light is standing still.
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The Wuh Lax Paradigm of Lost Light and Why it is Useful
In the world of Wuh Lax, or as I think of it, in the days of Wim and Wuh, some 50 years AD, the physics of the universal world was seen in a very different way. The paradigm of Wuh Lax's astra cosmic physics posits that the universe is to be interpreted differently.
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An Inside Out Universe
It may seem a simple question, but it matters a great deal whether the world is inside out. "Oh Dear," you say! "You can't be serious?" "Well yes, or is it no! I am not not serious," I reply, but "The question is definitely worth asking."
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The Nature of Art and Light
The name of the artist Lucy Willis is associated with her books on how to capture the effects of light in one's water colour painting. She won the BP Portrait award in 1992 and her work has appeared on show in the National Portrait Gallery and on the web of the NPG. In her own right, Lucy is almost a famous artist. Her siblings, her father, mother, some of her grand parents are also well known artists deriving from a common Bateman ancestry. Bateman, himself, the grandfather of Lucy is a well known cartoonist in the UK, at least, for those of us who were around when he was active more than half a century ago.
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What Really is the Speed of Light?
When we think about the speed of light, we make some very serious assumptions. What if some of these assumptions have to be revised? At one time, people thought that the earth was the center of the universe and the planets and sun revolved around the earth. We have since found that this paradigm of the earth being at the center of the universe was quite wrong.
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The Void, Spacetime, and the Curvilinear Cross
I often think that one needs a really healthy dose of imagination or image realizing abilities to understand complex relationships. Perhaps, this is only in the case of those with eyesight that is colonically rich!?My main point to make this morning is that 'modern man' is not modern at all. Ancient man had a non-linear cross that our linear cross derives from. We today have mostly branched off into what falls into my small bucket of 'linear musings'. It's a curious oddity that we have so much progressed in understanding romantic or Romanized linear relationships with so little understanding of non-linear relationships. We use symbolism as contained in our letters and words, which make up sounds and sentences, which then get added together to form paragraphs and paragraphs of hopefully reasonably well-expressed logic.
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Revision is the Nature of Life
The Immediate Problem .... Yesterday's blog was very long. Parts of the writing were more exploratory than I expected when starting different trains of thought. It was obvious when I looked at the blog later that I should do some revision and editing. Revision of one's writing is normal. Some writers will revise and revise until they have almost nothing of value. The problem is continually that when you are getting your thoughts out, you tend to have a window of opportunity in which you can follow a train of thought. If you lose the train of thought, which is a stream of ideas that translate themselves into words, you don't accomplish the goal of expressing that inner impulse.
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A Guide to Thinking - Consciousness, Omega 3 and Multiple Dimensional Exploration
When one has the quiet of the morning, it is a time when thoughts can appear within the mind unstimulated by the stimuli of action and reaction associated with the many aspects of daily life. One of the possibilities of the early morning mind is an exercise to awaken one's spirit. Exercise of the spirit is only part of the process of travelling across universes. One needs to feed the brain the best food and stay well away from chemicals or drugs that the brain does not consider as normal brain food.
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The Shedding of Form
One of the amazing creations of the life process is the ability of some forms of life to shed one form and adopt another. We commonly notice that some creatures such as butterflies that can fly great distances, and as in the case of the monarch butterfly several thousand miles, emerge from creatures that would otherwise experience a few hundred feet at the most.
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Art and Colour and the Da Vinci Code that Dan Brown Missed
It may come as no surprise that two people looking at the same painting will have very different reactions. An artist knows this before beginning a new work, and must decide on an approach in the selection of a dominant colour or in a combination of colours. The interesting thing is that an artist will in the process of selecting colours for a new painting reveal something personal that can provide the basis of a psychological profile.
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Why Religion and Science are Different Disciplines
Ever wonder what the fundamental difference between science and religion is? It is that to make a religion requires only one, while to make science requires two. When religion tries to become science, it fails miserably, and when science tries to be religion, it fails miserably. The reason is simple and is because they are mutually exclusive disciplines depending on whether one or two people are involved at the same time.
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Light, the Mind, Eternity and Higher Levels of Existence
The world is so constructed that your past, present, and future all co-exist. Time is perceived as a flow of consciousness or partial consciousness. Your conscious mind is an imperfect instrument that can only read, i.e. perceive through your senses, a portion of the universe nearest you at any one sampling. Your mind interacts with its environment by extracting information in the form of heat, light, sound. Some of these are fermions and others leptons. These are both waves and particles, and within any light particle is an infinity of information being an aspect of its nature.
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Psychology and Evolution

Possibly, Plausibly, Probably, Predictably and Practically
You know what it is like to be challenged by an idea. Well, this morning, I had to deal with the uncertainty of many ideas. It is more than obvious that facts come in different shadings. I had a list of observations in front of me. The question was what I could make of them. Fortunately, my mind is one that can enjoy many colours. Things are not black and white, nor are they various shades of grey. Happily they are usually in a wonderful array of colour. Nor am I colour blind, which means that I enjoy the fullest range of colours.
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The Psychology of Handwriting
Your handwriting can reveal many things about you that you are probably unaware. The science of handwriting analysis has progressed significantly. Practitioners of analytical techniques offer their services at a price, so the science has grown up from a past time to a full fledged approach to seeing within human personality. The fact is that everything that we do can be analysed forensically. The results may not be accurate or they may hit spot on in ways that get to the deeper sources of illness and physical conditions as well as personality traits. One has to be careful with claims that handwriting analysis is all powerful. It is still a very young science.
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Cornerstones of a Healthy Attitude
Its easy to slide into a modern attitude. One of the difficulties is that we are often lazy when it comes to searching for the meaning of life. If we try to put ourselves into the world of our ancestors, we may find that we can escape the three modern attitudes of realism, spiritualism, and perplexism.
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Horses for Courses, Courses for Horses
A former boss often used the phrase 'horses for courses.' The idea is that not everyone will find that a particular environment or a particular situation suits them. If you find yourself in such a negative or slow paced world, perhaps what is wrong is that you are misplaced in some way.
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Timelines in Volcanic Ash and Confabulation
Dorothy and Colin, you would have been proud of me. I am not sitting idle while I am on vacation. You are such wonderful role s for healthier living, being as you are so very fit at the age of 70 plus. Its because you are doing all the exercise and eating things that retired people should do, play tennis, golf, walk up and down hills, exercise and eat quality food.
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Slosh, Slosh, Slosh!
"John! What's happening to the US economy?" asked Matthew."Why do you ask?" replied John, his head still fixed towards the TV in the corner. He was more interested in the basketball game. The world of economics is far too much of a headache to discuss when there are much more exciting things to occupy our minds.
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Is Stupid a Word that Should Not be Used?
Logically, for me at least, the words smart and stupid are closely connected. What I have come to realize is how inexact the use of such words can be. I have a friend who advises me never to use the word stupid with reference to a person. The same friend constantly reminds me that whatever I say in any event is only my opinion.
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Being Mindful About What and When You Are Thinking
I have stressed the importance of thinking. What I have left out is the need to be mindful of our thinking. Being mindful of our thinking helps us to achieve a balance between thought, our physiology, and emotion.
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The Now as a Work Concept
World famous guru speaks and writes about being in 'the now'. Philosopher listens intently being an expert in 'the now'. Guru says that people need to disassociate themselves from matters that coddle ego and distance them from being in 'the now'. Philosopher ponders idea of 'the now'. In 'the now', what is, is.
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Cosmic Consciousness - One

The Cosmic Lantern
The cosmic lantern is a very strange device that has existed through several millenia. It was recently discovered by the author Arthur Lake in London, England in an antique shop. The lantern has inspired a series of books based on Lake's experiences and those of a host of people that have interacted with the people who have possessed lantern through the ages, and around the globe. Lake has researched the story of the Lantern and its association with Tintagel, Wookey, Glastonbury, King Arthur, Lancelot of the Lake and the Knights of the Round Table.
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In Search of the Miraculous - Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke
The path I took to PD Ouspenski many years ago is somewhat circuitous. I begins with my reading a book by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke on Cosmic Consciousness. It is strange to read now in the Google write up on the book that that the book was also one of the favourites of PD Ouspenski and William James. Dr. Bucke's medical research at the London Ontario insane asylum is to find an explanation of insanity occurring in his patients during the 1800's. He suspects that many of his patients are not really insane but that what appears to be insanity is the result of an evolution of the human mind. And, so Dr. Bucke's research begins.
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Strings In Cosmic Space - Are They For Real?
Scientists are pondering the irregularities of what they see as space and time. The notion of a big bang still has many followers, but there are new ideas. One of these ideas has to do with cosmic strings that are enormous entities created in the earliest period of the formation of the universe. The concept of cosmic strings derives in part from the theory that matter is ultimately made up of extremely tiny strings, string theory. Much of cosmic science is based on educated guesses and hypotheses that have yet to be proven.
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Explaining the Wu of Wooh
As readers are undoubtedly aware, the author of this blog, AW Lake, is also the author of the very successful book "Wuh Lax and the Cosmic Lantern." The leading character of the book, which is the first of a series of books featuring a large cast of characters, is Wuh Lax, who is a mythological character. I say mythological, but the irony of it is that Wuh is an archetypal hero with a very great presence. As my stories unfold, the devoted readers of the series will become aware that Wuh, the mythological individual, really does exist on an ethereal plane. This is why the books are aimed at the ethereally challenged. But, I should explained a bit about what is meant by the ethereally challenged?
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Who or What is God? Life and Laws!
You may be asked, "Do you believe in God?"If someone asks you the question its because they are not sure themselves because if they were sure then the question would be irrelevant, like asking someone if they believed in wind. The existence of wind would be obvious as would the existence of God.The fact that many people ask the question whether God exists may mean that they are unsure whether they themselves exist.
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Relax with Wuh Lax
Give yourself and your children a chance to escape with a good book. As the author of the Wuh Lax series, I can think of no better way to relax than to read the Wuh Lax story and learn what the Cosmic Lantern is all about. You will be able to sit quiety in your arm chair in the evening with a soft light over your left shoulder sipping a mug of coffee or cup of tea transported back to another period of history.
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A Snake and Ladder World, Apples and Gardens of Eden
We live in a snake and ladder world. By analogy, we experience life as a series of experiences in which we ascend and descend along the pathways that we have chosen as our preferential pathways.We prefer certain things,certain experiences, certain combinations, certain activities. The more we make these preferences specific the greater the combination of aspects that we rely on to make them possible. To become ever more specific we built supports that give us the specificity we desire.
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Entropy in an Inside Out Wuh Lax World
A number of things trouble me about the standard or received model of cosmology. I do not claim to be a physicist, but merely an artist trying to figure out my universe. My problem is with the notion of entropy which according to the second law of thermodynamics says that chaos is always on the increase. The law of energy associated with entropy also says that energy is unidirectional with respect to time in that the arrow of time always goes in one direction. It means that information is lost as we experience entropy
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What is Seven Thousand Years Historically?
What sorts of threads can link peoples over a period of seven thousand years. People raising children leave genetic markings for future generations. People raise other animals besides children and the genes of these other animals can be studied. The means by which people communicate may also survive over long periods, so that language and the origins of words can be studied. If the communities remained fairly close to where they started out and if they settled then one can study the effects of settlement, which can include all aspects of the life cycle from birth to death.
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The Mysterious Lines Running Across South West Britain
One of the great things about Google maps is that it is possible for one to verify hunches that one has had for a long time, but thought were too crazy to be true. Well, for me it appears that at least one hunch is true, and, indeed, it is very strange. This is one everyone can test out for themselves since it requires only Google and a few tools of the digital age.
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Unruh's Law in a Wuh Lax Universe or Something Deeper
Unruh's Law states that if you are an observer and you are accelerating, then you will see yourself embedded in a gas of hot photons for which the temperature is proportional to the rate at which you are accelerating.I might be forgiven, since I am not a cosmologist or physicist in wondering whether or not I am in such a universe. When I look around, I see myself surrounded by a 'gas' or relatively 'hot photons'. In fact, I do think that it is the photons from the region of the sun that are keeping me warm.
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The Science in Religion
All religion contains science, and surprisingly enough even those religions that deny the role of science probably contain a hefty amount of science hidden within them. To determine what the science is within a given religion one has to ask very specific questions. The first is to ask what the purpose of the religion really is. If the religion has no real purpose then it is not a religion. All religions have a purpose. You just have to identify what that purpose is.
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The Law of Three Forces
Gurdjieff, the thinker and teacher of philosophy, refers to the Law of Three Forces. His work is discussed in the various issues of the Gurdjieff Review. Other books can be bought at Fields Bookstore, or if you wish, a visit to Foyles in London, England. Foyles, was once the world's largest bookstore, but is now the world most famous bookstore.The Law of Three Forces is a very ancient belief tradition. The Holy Trinity is the Christian expression of the law of three.
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Kings, Poets, Sages, Gods, Prophets and Stars - What gives?
In our earthly existence, we deal with what we know as best we can with the tools that we are offered to us or that we acquire by whatever means are open to us. We can deal with our world because of our senses and the tools these senses enable us to use. Our challenge comes when we are asked to go beyond our senses and beyond anything that we know how to manipulate with our senses. The temptation is to forgo our individual task of using our own senses and assume that we can gain by assumptions about sensations rather than the actual sensations themselves.
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Worlds Without Mass or Size
In an earlier blog, I wrote about a universe in which light did not move and everything else was moving. In our measured universe, light has zero mass and scale invariance. Light, as it happens, has many of the interesting properties of unparticles in what has been called the unparticle world by Professor Howard Georgi of Harvard University. Georgi's ideas may help cosmic model builders propose an explanation for some of the real mysteries afflicting the explanatory power of modern physics.
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The Mythological Bases of Our Respective Realities
Our respective realities are based on internalized mythologies. We are living worlds of dimensions that we hold personally and independently. You don't understand what I am saying do you! Let me explain.We see evidence of an additional dimension as a barrier that we cannot ultimately cross for whatever reason. Over time, man has broken away at the dimensions impacting on his awareness and has reduced them into known dimensions. Unlike a worm, man has eyes that can see in three dimensions, but unlike a bat cannot see in the dimension of sound. One might ask whether man can see because like a bat man emits light that returns with an image of what forms a dimension out there, outside the brain.
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