Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Big Picture
I want it because I think Ill Feel Better in having it, but I made myself feel better even though I dont have it and now I dont need it and now it will come
kiss a puppy!
On this day of your life, lenora, I believe God wants you to know...
...that the time has come for you to nourish your soul.
When was the last time that you swam naked?
Or sang in the shower? Or blew bubbles?
Or held a puppy? Or kissed a baby?
Or made love all Sunday afternoon?
Or prayed really softly, not from need, but from love?
Has it been a while?
Then hurry. Do it.
Hurry.
This is life that is going by...
Love, Your Friend....
neale
...that the time has come for you to nourish your soul.
When was the last time that you swam naked?
Or sang in the shower? Or blew bubbles?
Or held a puppy? Or kissed a baby?
Or made love all Sunday afternoon?
Or prayed really softly, not from need, but from love?
Has it been a while?
Then hurry. Do it.
Hurry.
This is life that is going by...
Love, Your Friend....
neale
I see myself...
I see myself in perfect health. I see myself in absolute prosperity. I see myself invigorated with life, appreciating, again, this physical life experience which I wanted so very much as I decided to be a physical Being. It is glorious to be here, a physical Being, making decisions with my physical brain but accessing the power of the Universe through the power of the Law of Attraction.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from "The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham" #548
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
--- Abraham
Excerpted from "The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham" #548
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
The ride is gonna be worth it! :)
http://www.lawofattractioninteraction.com/video/The_Most_Profound_Q.html
I know how to get in the VORTEX!!
http://www.lawofattractioninteraction.com/video/Abe-Vortex-10min.html
Monday, August 30, 2010
When I am in the Vortex!
http://www.lawofattractioninteraction.com/video/Im_In_The_Vortex.html
I WILL FEEL MY WAY INTO THE VORTEX!!
I WILL FEEL MY WAY INTO THE VORTEX!!
Love Everyone and focus on your dream
Just love everybody that interacts with you no matter how personally, or how peripherally, involved with you they are. The efficiency of the people who deal with you... everything is orchestrated by the manager called Law of Attraction. And your vibration is setting all of it into motion. Everything affecting you is a reflection of the vibration that you are emitting. Spend more time focused upon your dream than upon the reality. The reality gives birth to the dream -- but the dream is where you are wanting to put your attention. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Houston, TX on Saturday, January 13th, 2001
Excerpted from the workshop in Houston, TX on Saturday, January 13th, 2001
Prayer
Your prayer causes you to focus, and the Law of Attraction causes everything in the Universe that's in vibrational harmony with your focus to come to you. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996
Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996
no injustice
There has never been an injustice anywhere in this physical time/space reality or anywhere else. Law of Attraction does not promote injustice. Law of Attraction amplifies the vibration that is within you. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Tarrytown, NY on Saturday, May 8th, 2004
Excerpted from the workshop in Tarrytown, NY on Saturday, May 8th, 2004
open your eyes DUH
The thought that you think, you think, which attracts to it; so you think it some more, which attracts to it; so you think it some more. In other words, when you have an expectation, you've got a dominant thought going on, and Law of Attraction is going to deliver that to you again, and again and again. And you say "The reason that I believe this, is because it is true." And we say, the reason that you believe it, is because you've practiced the thought. All that a belief is, is a thought that you keep practicing. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Indianapolis., IN on Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
Excerpted from the workshop in Indianapolis., IN on Tuesday, May 28th, 2002
you summon life force energy with desire
As you identify the thing that you want and you achieve vibrational harmony with it, by Law of Attraction you summon the Energy through you, and that is what life is. When someone stops desiring, Life Force no longer flows through them, and then they re-emerge into the Nonphysical where you have all kinds of goals and intentions. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996
Excerpted from the workshop in Lincroft, NJ on Tuesday, October 15th, 1996
Its all on YOU
If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention to them. Without knowing about Law of Attraction, you have -- through your old habit of observation -- achieved vibrational harmony with the parts of them that you do not like, and you keep summoning those parts from them by your constant vibrational offering of them. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, January 1st, 2000
Excerpted from the workshop in San Francisco, CA on Saturday, January 1st, 2000
Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony of your desires
Use whatever excuse you can to vibrate in harmony with those things you've been saying you want. And when you do, those things that are a vibrational equivalent flow into your experience in abundance. Not because you deserve it, not because you've earned it, but because it's the natural consequence of the Law of Attraction. That which is like unto itself is drawn. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, April 19th, 1997
Excerpted from the workshop in Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, April 19th, 1997
If they are not asking your answers are ANNOYING!! damn it!
Law of Attraction is Universal, and every person is affected by it. And it is always true that what I think and what I feel and what I get are always a match, and there is not a person on the planet that did not know that when they were born, and there is not a person on the planet that would not benefit by knowing it. But many, many, many are not yet asking and therefore are not yet ready for the answer. And so, we would say that -- although everyone wants this information -- everyone is not necessarily ready for it. We would not spend any time trying to convince anybody of anything because if they're not asking, your answers are just irritating. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 7th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 7th, 1998
OH YEAH UH HUH this is what happened to me Carl Jung look out!
Genius. It is just attention to something specific. That's all it is. Law of Attraction makes it happen, and so anyone who gives attention to any subject for a period of time will evolve in the direction of that understanding. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 7th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 7th, 1998
Stop trying to MAKE things happen
It's not your work to make anything happen. It's your work to dream it and let it happen. Law of Attraction will make it happen. In your joy, you create something, and then you maintain your vibrational harmony with it, and the Universe must find a way to bring it about. That's the promise of Law of Attraction. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Larkspur, CA on Sunday, August 16th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Larkspur, CA on Sunday, August 16th, 1998
Thought Expansion
As you perceive something, you give birth to a thought, and this thought now thinks. Now that it exists, now that it has been conjured, now that it has been focused,now it vibrates. Now, by Law of Attraction, other thoughts that are vibrationally same will come to it. So it begins its expansion immediately. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Thursday, October 15th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Philadelphia, PA on Thursday, October 15th, 1998
This IS the best time for a creator to create
Is it possible to be the visionary and the actionary of your own life? Not only possible, it's the way most of you intended it to be. It's the best of all worlds. What can be more exhilarating than to find a dream from the contrast, to fixate on the dream and let it give you pleasure as it grows, and then to watch Law of Attraction bring it into manifestation while you help with your action? Does it get any better than that? You didn't think so as you made the decision to come forth into these physical bodies. You said, "This is the best time in all eternity for a Creator to Create." --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Kansas City, KS on Sunday, September 27th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Kansas City, KS on Sunday, September 27th, 1998
Fantasizing good about someone changes them to fit it
You have more harmony points with every person on the planet than you have disharmony points, because there is much more of you that is in harmony with your Core than you realize or that most of you allow. The closer you come to being in harmony with your Source Energy, the more in harmony you are with each other. When you think about other people and what they think of you, do you understand that what they think of you has very little to do with what you are? It has mostly to do with the habits of thought that they have developed. It has more to do with them as thinkers than it does with you as the subject of their thought. If nothing is more important to you than that you feel good, you can form a fantasy about someone who is in your life and they will begin to modify to meet your fantasy, because Law of Attraction is a very powerful thing. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Asheville, NC, on Saturday, September 5th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Asheville, NC, on Saturday, September 5th, 1998
when in the vortex for sure it feels that all is well! for sure
What we would do for yourself -- for your next physical experience (and you can do this). . . We would begin, right now, by infusing this physical time/space reality with as much understanding of the Law of Attraction as you can, so that you add to this vortex of knowing. That makes it more likely that -- as you and others participate within it -- you will have easy access to this understanding that all is well. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, January 31st, 1999
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, January 31st, 1999
Dont even look at the past! Forgive and FORGET NOW!!
If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so: "Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration." --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Boston, MA on Sunday, October 10th, 1999
Excerpted from the workshop in Boston, MA on Sunday, October 10th, 1999
You CREATE from NOW and you CREATE everything that comes your way!
When you begin to understand Law of Attraction, and you understand that which is like unto itself is drawn, then it is easier and easier to understand that you are offering a signal, and the entire Universe responds. And when you finally get that, and you begin to exercise some deliberate control about the signal that you offer, then it really begins to be fun, because then you recognize that nothing happens outside of your creative control. There are no things that happen by chance or by circumstance. There is nothing that is happening because of something you vibrated a long time ago or in a past life. It is not about what you were born into. It is only about what you are, right now, in this red hot fresh moment emitting. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Saturday, June 20th, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Saturday, June 20th, 1998
Desire Summons LIFE FORCE
Law of Attraction abounds, and when it is said to you, "Ask, and it is given," there is no more powerful statement that is at the basis of what makes things happen than that. Now, how is it that you think you ask? With your words? The Universe doesn't hear your words. You ask with your desire. The desire that is born out of the contrast. That desire. That wanting. That's what summons the Life Force. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Sunday, June 21st, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Seattle, WA on Sunday, June 21st, 1998
Does it feel GOOD to you ?
Everything is valid and everything is truthful, because Law of Attraction lets everything be. The question is not whether it's right or wrong, whether their approach is right or wrong, or whether my approach is right or wrong. The question is: Does their approach feel good to me? And if it doesn't, then I choose a different approach. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 2nd, 1998
Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 2nd, 1998
So SIMPLE!!
Within the seed of your desire is everything necessary for it to blossom to fulfillment. And Law of Attraction is the engine that does the work. Your work is just to give it a fertile growing place in order to expand --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Albuquerque, NM on Sunday, May 9th, 1999
Excerpted from the workshop in Albuquerque, NM on Sunday, May 9th, 1999
The World Responds To Your VIBRATIONAL calling!!
Law of Attraction says, "That which is like unto itself is drawn." Vibrations are always matched. So, as you experience the contrast which inspires the new desire, this new desire, whether it is a strong one or a soft one, is summoning unto itself proportionately. And as it summons, it is always answered. It is the basis of our Universe: When it is asked, it is always given. Humans think they are asking with their words, or even with their action, and sometimes you are, but the Universe is not responding to your words or your action. The Universe is responding to your vibrational calling. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Cincinnati, OH on Saturday, July 15th, 2000
Excerpted from the workshop in Cincinnati, OH on Saturday, July 15th, 2000
anything is possible!! for REAL
Think of this random Universe where everything is possible. The organizational skills belong to Law of Attraction. If you will relax and allow Law of Attraction to do the organization, the managing, then you can spend your time doing the things that please you. --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Cincinnati, OH on Saturday, September 21st, 2002
Excerpted from the workshop in Cincinnati, OH on Saturday, September 21st, 2002
Focus on it for as little as 17 seconds.. it activates the vibration!
We are all Vibrational Beings. You're like a receiving mechanism that when you set your tuner to the station, you're going to hear what's playing. Whatever you are focused upon is the way you set your tuner, and when you focus there for as little as 17 seconds, you activate that vibration within you. Once you activate a vibration within you, Law of Attraction begins responding to that vibration, and you're off and running--whether it's something wanted or unwanted --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 18th, 2002
Excerpted from the workshop in North Los Angeles, CA on Sunday, August 18th, 2002
You are here to HAVE A GOOD TIME!!
I Am the Attractor of My Every Experience…
You are meant to live an expansive, exhilarating, good-feeling experience. It was your plan when you made the decision to become focused in your physical body in this time-space reality. You were born knowing that you are a powerful Being; that you are good; that you are the creator of your experience, and that the Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn) is the basis of the Universe, and you knew it would serve you well. And so it has.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You are meant to live an expansive, exhilarating, good-feeling experience. It was your plan when you made the decision to become focused in your physical body in this time-space reality. You were born knowing that you are a powerful Being; that you are good; that you are the creator of your experience, and that the Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn) is the basis of the Universe, and you knew it would serve you well. And so it has.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Be careful what you THINK!
My Every Story Is Attracting its Vibrational Match…
Every thought that you think is vibrating at a very personal frequency . . . and by the powerful Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn), that thought is now attracting another thought that is its Vibrational Match. And now, those combined thoughts are vibrating at a frequency that is higher than the thought that came before; and they will now, by the Law of Attraction, attract another and another and another, until eventually the thoughts will be powerful enough to attract a “real life” situation or manifestation.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Every thought that you think is vibrating at a very personal frequency . . . and by the powerful Law of Attraction (the essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn), that thought is now attracting another thought that is its Vibrational Match. And now, those combined thoughts are vibrating at a frequency that is higher than the thought that came before; and they will now, by the Law of Attraction, attract another and another and another, until eventually the thoughts will be powerful enough to attract a “real life” situation or manifestation.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You were meant to succeed and it isnt hard at all!
Achieving Success Is My Natural Birthright…
You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you. Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not, there is something wrong. But what is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control. What is wrong is within you—and you do have control. And taking control is not difficult to do once you understand the basis of who-you-are and the basics of the Law of Attraction and the value of your personal Emotional Guidance System.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You are meant to succeed, and failure should feel bad to you. Life is supposed to go well for you—and when it does not, there is something wrong. But what is wrong is not something that is outside of you over which you have no control. What is wrong is within you—and you do have control. And taking control is not difficult to do once you understand the basis of who-you-are and the basics of the Law of Attraction and the value of your personal Emotional Guidance System.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You GET exactly what YOU want.. but you need to know you already have it NOT just want IT!
I’ll Tell My Story As I Want it to Be…
If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. For by the powerful Law of Attraction—the essence of that which is like unto itself is drawn—it must be!
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
If you will let your dominant intention be to revise and improve the content of the story you tell every day of your life, it is our absolute promise to you that your life will become that ever-improving story. For by the powerful Law of Attraction—the essence of that which is like unto itself is drawn—it must be!
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Lifes BIG secret ;)
My Life Story and the Law of Attraction…
Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction’s response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body’s state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards—indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general—is all happening because of the story that you tell.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Each and every component that makes up your life experience is drawn to you by the powerful Law of Attraction’s response to the thoughts you think and the story you tell about your life. Your money and financial assets; your body’s state of wellness, clarity, flexibility, size, and shape; your work environment, how you are treated, work satisfaction, and rewards—indeed, the very happiness of your life experience in general—is all happening because of the story that you tell.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Enlightenment DEFINED!!
Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my Connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time-space-reality. That's as good as it gets! --- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
Excerpted from the workshop in Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003
STOP complaining IMMEDIATELY!!
Rather Than Complaining, I’ll Focus On Positive Aspects…
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone and the Law of Attraction will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone and the Law of Attraction will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Tell A NEW STORY! Change it up! TRY IT!!!
Law of Attraction Responds to My Vibration…
A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability—if you try even a little bit—to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. The Law of Attraction is responding to your vibration, and you can easily change your vibrational point of attraction by visualizing the lifestyle you desire and holding your attention upon those images until you begin to feel relief, which will indicate that a true vibrational shift has occurred.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
A belief is nothing more than a chronic pattern of thought, and you have the ability—if you try even a little bit—to begin a new pattern, to tell a new story, to achieve a different vibration, to change your point of attraction. The Law of Attraction is responding to your vibration, and you can easily change your vibrational point of attraction by visualizing the lifestyle you desire and holding your attention upon those images until you begin to feel relief, which will indicate that a true vibrational shift has occurred.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
I Have Control Over the Thoughts I Think
I Have Control Over the Thoughts I Think…
Since you have control over what thoughts you offer, what could be more just than the powerful Law of Attraction responding equally to everyone who offers a vibration? Once you gain control over the thoughts you think, your sense of injustice will subside and will be replaced with the exuberance for life and the zest to create that you were born with. Let everything in the Universe be an example to you of the way the Laws of the Universe work.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Since you have control over what thoughts you offer, what could be more just than the powerful Law of Attraction responding equally to everyone who offers a vibration? Once you gain control over the thoughts you think, your sense of injustice will subside and will be replaced with the exuberance for life and the zest to create that you were born with. Let everything in the Universe be an example to you of the way the Laws of the Universe work.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You ALWAYS get back what YOU GIVE!! GIVE Thanks and appreciation
I’m Always Receiving the Essence of What I’m Giving…
Appreciation and love, and alignment to that which is Source, is the ultimate “giving back,” so to speak, for in your pain or struggle, you have nothing to give back. What you are living is always an exact replication of your vibrational patterns of thought. Nothing could be more fair than life as you are living it, for as you are thinking, you are vibrating, and as you are vibrating, you are attracting—for by the Law of Attraction, you are always getting back the essence of what you are giving.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Appreciation and love, and alignment to that which is Source, is the ultimate “giving back,” so to speak, for in your pain or struggle, you have nothing to give back. What you are living is always an exact replication of your vibrational patterns of thought. Nothing could be more fair than life as you are living it, for as you are thinking, you are vibrating, and as you are vibrating, you are attracting—for by the Law of Attraction, you are always getting back the essence of what you are giving.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
ITS not MAGIC (although it feels that way) Its the LAW of attraction
It Comes, Not by Magic But by Universal Law of Attraction…
Start telling a better-feeling story about the things that are important to you. Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before yours eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Start telling a better-feeling story about the things that are important to you. Do not write your story like a factual documentary, weighing all the pros and cons of your experience, but instead tell the uplifting, fanciful, magical story of the wonder of your own life and watch what happens. It will feel like magic as your life begins to transform right before yours eyes, but it is not by magic. It is by the power of the Laws of the Universe and your deliberate alignment with those Laws.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
FOCUS on the solution NOT the PROBLEM
The Law of Attraction Adds Power to Both Problems and Solutions…
The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step, but once you have identified that, the faster you are able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better, because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution—and all thoughts (or vibrations) are affected by (or managed by) the Law of Attraction.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step, but once you have identified that, the faster you are able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better, because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution—and all thoughts (or vibrations) are affected by (or managed by) the Law of Attraction.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
I am a vibrational being in a vibrational universe!! THAT would BE ME!!
I’m a Vibrational Being in a Vibrational Universe…
You live in a pulsating, vibrating Universe of advanced harmonics. Everything that exists, in your air, in your dirt, in your water, and in your bodies, is vibration in motion—and all of it is managed by the powerful Law of Attraction. There is nothing that exists outside of this vibrational nature, and as you learn to accept your vibrational nature, and begin to consciously utilize your emotional vibrational indicators, you will gain conscious control of your personal creations and of the outcomes of your life experience.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
You live in a pulsating, vibrating Universe of advanced harmonics. Everything that exists, in your air, in your dirt, in your water, and in your bodies, is vibration in motion—and all of it is managed by the powerful Law of Attraction. There is nothing that exists outside of this vibrational nature, and as you learn to accept your vibrational nature, and begin to consciously utilize your emotional vibrational indicators, you will gain conscious control of your personal creations and of the outcomes of your life experience.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
What Do You Want?
What Do I Want, and Why Do I Want It…?
When you acknowledge what you do not want, and then ask yourself, “What is it that I do want?” you begin a gradual shift into the telling of your new story and into a much-improved point of attraction.
You get the essence of what you think about—whether you want it or not—because Law of Attraction is unerringly consistent—therefore, you are never only telling the story of “how it is now.” You are also telling the future experience that you are creating right now.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
When you acknowledge what you do not want, and then ask yourself, “What is it that I do want?” you begin a gradual shift into the telling of your new story and into a much-improved point of attraction.
You get the essence of what you think about—whether you want it or not—because Law of Attraction is unerringly consistent—therefore, you are never only telling the story of “how it is now.” You are also telling the future experience that you are creating right now.
Excerpted from Money and the Law of Attraction — 3/31/09
Every Clam in the Universe is Naturally Selfish
Every Clam in the Universe is Naturally Selfish
There is so much we would like to tell you about the selfish nature of every cell in this Universe... Jerry brought a very big question to the forum. He said, "Abraham, I've heard something all my life, and I'm wondering if it is true. Are clams really all that happy?" And we said, it may seem like an unimportant or even silly question on the face of it. But happiness is always about the alignment between the desire and allowing. So in the clam's or the amoebae's, or the cell's perceiving, as it perceives, even though its perception is different from yours, it is still selfishly making a judgment about which feels better. And as it selfishly concludes that this would feel better than that, and it holds itself in vibrational harmony with this, the Universe yields it to it. Thus, the evolution of all species. Thus, the motion forward of All-That-Is.
The Universe always yields. That which many of you are calling God always answers every request -- no matter how big or small it may seem to any of the rest of you. Every request is inherently known to be of utmost importance. As these complicated species, like humans, begin to evaluate the rightness or the wrongness of their own species or any other species in their quest for what they are desiring -- that's when things get all screwy.
As you stand in your exaggerated, powerful, creative, human existence, and you let the contrast inspire you to your important desire which is shining through you in this moment, and you are wise enough to reach for the feeling that matches this desire that you have given birth to -- so that the heavens open and God force flows through you for the creation of this thing -- now you are living as you've intended to live.
Everything in the Universe exists to enhance and help your creative endeavor. And you will never be satisfied, until you are fully utilizing contrast and fully allowing yourself to be a vibrational match to the desire that is born.
Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 18th, 1999
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There is so much we would like to tell you about the selfish nature of every cell in this Universe... Jerry brought a very big question to the forum. He said, "Abraham, I've heard something all my life, and I'm wondering if it is true. Are clams really all that happy?" And we said, it may seem like an unimportant or even silly question on the face of it. But happiness is always about the alignment between the desire and allowing. So in the clam's or the amoebae's, or the cell's perceiving, as it perceives, even though its perception is different from yours, it is still selfishly making a judgment about which feels better. And as it selfishly concludes that this would feel better than that, and it holds itself in vibrational harmony with this, the Universe yields it to it. Thus, the evolution of all species. Thus, the motion forward of All-That-Is.
The Universe always yields. That which many of you are calling God always answers every request -- no matter how big or small it may seem to any of the rest of you. Every request is inherently known to be of utmost importance. As these complicated species, like humans, begin to evaluate the rightness or the wrongness of their own species or any other species in their quest for what they are desiring -- that's when things get all screwy.
As you stand in your exaggerated, powerful, creative, human existence, and you let the contrast inspire you to your important desire which is shining through you in this moment, and you are wise enough to reach for the feeling that matches this desire that you have given birth to -- so that the heavens open and God force flows through you for the creation of this thing -- now you are living as you've intended to live.
Everything in the Universe exists to enhance and help your creative endeavor. And you will never be satisfied, until you are fully utilizing contrast and fully allowing yourself to be a vibrational match to the desire that is born.
Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 18th, 1999
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hmm survival of the fittest concept from Abraham
Discussing the "Survival of the Fittest" Concept
Jerry: What is it about a rooster that he's not willing to share his hens with another rooster? When we have two roosters, we have to separate them, or the one that has all the hens just runs the other rooster off. And they'll just fight 'til one of 'em's almost dead over those hens.
Abraham: Do they fight 'til one is dead? Or do they fight until one is acknowledged to be the fittest?
Jerry: I've never seen them fight 'til one's dead, one usually ends up the fittest.
Abraham: And so, then the rooster that is the strongest is the one that perpetuates the herd of birds?
Jerry: That's the survival of the fittest theory, isn't it? But it's not a selfish thing on the part of the rooster?
Abraham: It is a selfish thing on his part, and a selfish thing on the part of the other. So here you are, physically focused, and you have this a combining of the physical environment and the Nonphysical environment that make up your physical experience. And so, as the Nonphysical Energy is pouring forth, it is pouring forth into that which is physical. And the structure that is physical is the structure that is actually evolving. In other words, it is a structure that is in a state of becoming. Even that creature that is standing there, let us say it is the rooster that you are talking about that ultimately is determined to be the one that is the fittest of all of them. As that rooster is standing there evaluating the contrast, and summoning, the Nonphysical Energy is pouring through.
And as for the rooster who ultimately becomes the looser in this situation, he is doing the same thing. The contrast is causing him to summon the Nonphysical Energy.
Jerry: 'Cause I've always felt really sorry for all the bulls and the roosters that aren't allowed in on the herd. And this I've been wanting to understand for a long time. Another thing: Are we going against nature when we try to protect that which isn't surviving? When the fittest try to help the less fittest survive, are they going against the nature of the whole thing?
Abraham: Yes. What does your chicken do?
Jerry: It pecks on the weak chicken. It takes the weak chicken's parking place, that's what it does.
Abraham: The reason we ask is because you're really onto something that is important. You see, the thing, that humans often forget, that the beasts of your planet are fully aware of, is that there is no competition. The beasts of your planet understand that all is well.
Very often, physical beings think of themselves as this clump of physical flesh, and there is, by their logic then, a clump of Nonphysical Energy that is pouring through them. That's why you think in terms of being dead or alive. You think in terms of a soul that pours itself into physical body.
It is not a clump that is assigned to a clump, it is a Stream of Consciousness. The Stream of Consciousness, while it is certainly expressing itself individually, it is a Stream of Consciousness that is expressing itself multidimensionally. And so, the Consciousness that is projecting through the beast or through the chicken, is same Consciousness. In other words, there is this Consciousness that is rooting for the survival of all of that.
With something like the chicken, it is coming forth, certainly, intending to have a lovely life, and wanting the best experience. But it is coming forth with a different set of intentions than you, the physical human, come forth with. And so, as it comes forth, it is not pushing against the idea of being someone's lunch... It is not feeling any competition. It is focused powerfully in the now. It is letting the contrast produce desire. It is allowing the Nonphysical Energy to pour through in a very powerful way. And even though -- by your standards, you might disagree -- it truly is living happily ever after.
And so, getting back to your roosters fighting: the chicken that is battling and winning its feeling of dominance, is not leaving the other chicken feeling broken and defeated. That's a human characteristic that you are laying over the top of it. In other words, the chicken is as a species rooting for its survival first and foremost.
Jerry: It's the survival of the species, is that it? As opposed to the individual?
Abraham: Yes. And so, the way that you might look at it, is that it is Nonphysical Energy that is projecting itself into both chickens. Or into all chickens. And the competition is about a bigger game than this individual moment in time that you are thinking about. In other words, the Energy that is pouring through you is talking about the bigger game. The Nonphysical Energy that is flooding through you is not worrying about the parking places that you are scrapping over. The Nonphysical Energy that is pouring through you, is about Life Force itself.
If we were standing in your physical shoes, whether they were physical chicken shoes or physical human shoes, there would be nothing that would be important enough for us to lose our connection to Source Energy. And, eventually, even the chicken figures that out and goes off and lives happily ever after. Even though he did not turn out to be the dominant chicken, he does not worry his life away over it.
Excerpted from the workshop in Milwaukee, WI on Wednesday, July 5th, 2000
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Jerry: What is it about a rooster that he's not willing to share his hens with another rooster? When we have two roosters, we have to separate them, or the one that has all the hens just runs the other rooster off. And they'll just fight 'til one of 'em's almost dead over those hens.
Abraham: Do they fight 'til one is dead? Or do they fight until one is acknowledged to be the fittest?
Jerry: I've never seen them fight 'til one's dead, one usually ends up the fittest.
Abraham: And so, then the rooster that is the strongest is the one that perpetuates the herd of birds?
Jerry: That's the survival of the fittest theory, isn't it? But it's not a selfish thing on the part of the rooster?
Abraham: It is a selfish thing on his part, and a selfish thing on the part of the other. So here you are, physically focused, and you have this a combining of the physical environment and the Nonphysical environment that make up your physical experience. And so, as the Nonphysical Energy is pouring forth, it is pouring forth into that which is physical. And the structure that is physical is the structure that is actually evolving. In other words, it is a structure that is in a state of becoming. Even that creature that is standing there, let us say it is the rooster that you are talking about that ultimately is determined to be the one that is the fittest of all of them. As that rooster is standing there evaluating the contrast, and summoning, the Nonphysical Energy is pouring through.
And as for the rooster who ultimately becomes the looser in this situation, he is doing the same thing. The contrast is causing him to summon the Nonphysical Energy.
Jerry: 'Cause I've always felt really sorry for all the bulls and the roosters that aren't allowed in on the herd. And this I've been wanting to understand for a long time. Another thing: Are we going against nature when we try to protect that which isn't surviving? When the fittest try to help the less fittest survive, are they going against the nature of the whole thing?
Abraham: Yes. What does your chicken do?
Jerry: It pecks on the weak chicken. It takes the weak chicken's parking place, that's what it does.
Abraham: The reason we ask is because you're really onto something that is important. You see, the thing, that humans often forget, that the beasts of your planet are fully aware of, is that there is no competition. The beasts of your planet understand that all is well.
Very often, physical beings think of themselves as this clump of physical flesh, and there is, by their logic then, a clump of Nonphysical Energy that is pouring through them. That's why you think in terms of being dead or alive. You think in terms of a soul that pours itself into physical body.
It is not a clump that is assigned to a clump, it is a Stream of Consciousness. The Stream of Consciousness, while it is certainly expressing itself individually, it is a Stream of Consciousness that is expressing itself multidimensionally. And so, the Consciousness that is projecting through the beast or through the chicken, is same Consciousness. In other words, there is this Consciousness that is rooting for the survival of all of that.
With something like the chicken, it is coming forth, certainly, intending to have a lovely life, and wanting the best experience. But it is coming forth with a different set of intentions than you, the physical human, come forth with. And so, as it comes forth, it is not pushing against the idea of being someone's lunch... It is not feeling any competition. It is focused powerfully in the now. It is letting the contrast produce desire. It is allowing the Nonphysical Energy to pour through in a very powerful way. And even though -- by your standards, you might disagree -- it truly is living happily ever after.
And so, getting back to your roosters fighting: the chicken that is battling and winning its feeling of dominance, is not leaving the other chicken feeling broken and defeated. That's a human characteristic that you are laying over the top of it. In other words, the chicken is as a species rooting for its survival first and foremost.
Jerry: It's the survival of the species, is that it? As opposed to the individual?
Abraham: Yes. And so, the way that you might look at it, is that it is Nonphysical Energy that is projecting itself into both chickens. Or into all chickens. And the competition is about a bigger game than this individual moment in time that you are thinking about. In other words, the Energy that is pouring through you is talking about the bigger game. The Nonphysical Energy that is flooding through you is not worrying about the parking places that you are scrapping over. The Nonphysical Energy that is pouring through you, is about Life Force itself.
If we were standing in your physical shoes, whether they were physical chicken shoes or physical human shoes, there would be nothing that would be important enough for us to lose our connection to Source Energy. And, eventually, even the chicken figures that out and goes off and lives happily ever after. Even though he did not turn out to be the dominant chicken, he does not worry his life away over it.
Excerpted from the workshop in Milwaukee, WI on Wednesday, July 5th, 2000
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Follow your bliss!! Be Selfish!! Go WITH THE FLOW!!
Have you noticed that as you are coming forth as a human species, you are coming with a greater and greater sensitivity and intent to be selfishly driven? And this is a magnificent thing. People keep telling you it is not good to be selfish. And those people who are telling you it is not good to be selfish, are those people that want you not to satisfy your selfish desires -- but instead, to answer their selfish desires.
They say, "Don't be selfish and do what you want. Be unselfish and do what I want." And so, the selfishness that is coming forth, it is about individual beings coming to recognize the guidance that is coming forth from within. Because we do not know any of you who want anything, whether it is a material object, a relationship, a state of being, whether it is a physical condition... There is nothing that you want that is for any reason other than that you believe that you would feel better in the having of it.
And so, as these little beings are coming forth, they are driven with this desire to feel good. And they are, more and more, finding themselves unwilling to participate in those things that you've decided are perfect for them that don't feel good to them. And so, what is at the heart of your coming into fuller, faster connection to Source Energy, is this selfish drive to feel good.
When you are willing to follow your bliss, you are in the place of allowing who you really are to flow through. You see, the little chick follows his bliss. He goes where the next bug leads him. He does not feel guilty about not making sales calls. He does not feel angry about somebody taking his parking place. He does not feel unhappy that a future employer does not understand his true talents. He just be's who he is, and follows his bliss. And in his less complicated vibration -- he allows Well-being to flow.
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They say, "Don't be selfish and do what you want. Be unselfish and do what I want." And so, the selfishness that is coming forth, it is about individual beings coming to recognize the guidance that is coming forth from within. Because we do not know any of you who want anything, whether it is a material object, a relationship, a state of being, whether it is a physical condition... There is nothing that you want that is for any reason other than that you believe that you would feel better in the having of it.
And so, as these little beings are coming forth, they are driven with this desire to feel good. And they are, more and more, finding themselves unwilling to participate in those things that you've decided are perfect for them that don't feel good to them. And so, what is at the heart of your coming into fuller, faster connection to Source Energy, is this selfish drive to feel good.
When you are willing to follow your bliss, you are in the place of allowing who you really are to flow through. You see, the little chick follows his bliss. He goes where the next bug leads him. He does not feel guilty about not making sales calls. He does not feel angry about somebody taking his parking place. He does not feel unhappy that a future employer does not understand his true talents. He just be's who he is, and follows his bliss. And in his less complicated vibration -- he allows Well-being to flow.
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DO WE LOSE WHAT WE LEARN IN THIS LIFE?
Abraham: That is not the way it was at all. The chick is not recalling from past life. The chick is connected to Source Energy in the now, and being guided, as to his experience, now. Jerry: What do we learn in this life that we don't have to learn all over again the next time we live in physical? Abraham: Nothing. This is the reason that you don't all come and go at the same time. The environment that is around you is knowing, and then, when you come forth into the environment -- you are guided to information.
Every now and again we get this question. Someone will say, "Abraham, I've banged around in this physical experience for a very long time, and now I understand about Nonphysical, and I understand about Inner Being, and I understand about emotions, and I know how to hold myself in a place of allowing. And now, my life is so wonderful... When I croak and I'm reborn, do you mean I have to go through all of that again?" And we say, to differing degrees you are resistant to allowing this knowing that comes forth, but you are, every time, every one, born with a Guidance System. And if you are selfish enough to listen to the way you feel, you always can feel when you are on your path. The better you feel, the more you are in concert with the Source Energy. The worse you feel, the more you've pinched it off. It has always been true.
Have you noticed that as you are coming forth as a human species, you are coming with a greater and greater sensitivity and intent to be selfishly driven? And this is a magnificent thing. People keep telling you it is not good to be selfish. And those people who are telling you it is not good to be selfish, are those people that want you not to satisfy your selfish desires -- but instead, to answer their selfish desires.
They say, "Don't be selfish and do what you want. Be unselfish and do what I want." And so, the selfishness that is coming forth, it is about individual beings coming to recognize the guidance that is coming forth from within. Because we do not know any of you who want anything, whether it is a material object, a relationship, a state of being, whether it is a physical condition... There is nothing that you want that is for any reason other than that you believe that you would feel better in the having of it.
And so, as these little beings are coming forth, they are driven with this desire to feel good. And they are, more and more, finding themselves unwilling to participate in those things that you've decided are perfect for them that don't feel good to them. And so, what is at the heart of your coming into fuller, faster connection to Source Energy, is this selfish drive to feel good.
When you are willing to follow your bliss, you are in the place of allowing who you really are to flow through. You see, the little chick follows his bliss. He goes where the next bug leads him. He does not feel guilty about not making sales calls. He does not feel angry about somebody taking his parking place. He does not feel unhappy that a future employer does not understand his true talents. He just be's who he is, and follows his bliss. And in his less complicated vibration -- he allows Well-being to flow.
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Every now and again we get this question. Someone will say, "Abraham, I've banged around in this physical experience for a very long time, and now I understand about Nonphysical, and I understand about Inner Being, and I understand about emotions, and I know how to hold myself in a place of allowing. And now, my life is so wonderful... When I croak and I'm reborn, do you mean I have to go through all of that again?" And we say, to differing degrees you are resistant to allowing this knowing that comes forth, but you are, every time, every one, born with a Guidance System. And if you are selfish enough to listen to the way you feel, you always can feel when you are on your path. The better you feel, the more you are in concert with the Source Energy. The worse you feel, the more you've pinched it off. It has always been true.
Have you noticed that as you are coming forth as a human species, you are coming with a greater and greater sensitivity and intent to be selfishly driven? And this is a magnificent thing. People keep telling you it is not good to be selfish. And those people who are telling you it is not good to be selfish, are those people that want you not to satisfy your selfish desires -- but instead, to answer their selfish desires.
They say, "Don't be selfish and do what you want. Be unselfish and do what I want." And so, the selfishness that is coming forth, it is about individual beings coming to recognize the guidance that is coming forth from within. Because we do not know any of you who want anything, whether it is a material object, a relationship, a state of being, whether it is a physical condition... There is nothing that you want that is for any reason other than that you believe that you would feel better in the having of it.
And so, as these little beings are coming forth, they are driven with this desire to feel good. And they are, more and more, finding themselves unwilling to participate in those things that you've decided are perfect for them that don't feel good to them. And so, what is at the heart of your coming into fuller, faster connection to Source Energy, is this selfish drive to feel good.
When you are willing to follow your bliss, you are in the place of allowing who you really are to flow through. You see, the little chick follows his bliss. He goes where the next bug leads him. He does not feel guilty about not making sales calls. He does not feel angry about somebody taking his parking place. He does not feel unhappy that a future employer does not understand his true talents. He just be's who he is, and follows his bliss. And in his less complicated vibration -- he allows Well-being to flow.
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This makes sense ..A ligitamate worry ..
The physical human, who is more specifically focused, runs a greater risk of choosing a vibration that separates him a bit from the Nonphysical Energy. The greater specifics puts you in a place where you may be less allowing of the Pure Positive Energy. You are less willing to just get run over by a truck and then come back in another body, because it takes you more time, in your earth framework, to reach the majority where you really begin to enjoy the deliberateness of your creation.
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COME ON PEOPLE are we dumber then DOGS!! YES we ARE :)
The Beasts Know It
The Beasts Know It If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know
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The Beasts Know It If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know
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MY FUCKING PROBLEM!! WOW!!
The difference in the kernel of corn, or the clam (which we've discussed is always happy, really is happy) is that that being is not finding things to focus upon that are causing it to disallow the Energy that is flowing.
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Is there a limitation to the bodys ability to heal?
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Someone asked us recently...
Someone asked us recently, "Is there any limitation to the body's ability to heal?" And we said, "None, other than the belief that you hold." And he said, "Then why aren't people growing new limbs?" And we said, "Because no one believes that they can."
Excerpted from the workshop in San Rafael, CA on Saturday, February 27th, 1999
The Beasts Know It
The Beasts Know It If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know. The beasts all know it. Your animals know that all is well. Your animals live in the moment. They understand the power of their now. They expect the Universe to yield to them. They don't worry or fret or conjure or make laws or rules or try to regulate. They are Pure Positive Energy. Your beasts vibrate more on the Energy scale of contentment than of passion. Their desire was set forth from Nonphysical, and continues to be set forth by those, like you, who want Energy balance, who want sustenance. The difference between the beast and the human is that the beast is more general in its intent. The human is usually less blended, usually less allowing of the Energy to flow, but is more specific. And that is why the human is seen to be the Creator while the beast is more the balancer of Energy.
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Someone asked us recently...
Someone asked us recently, "Is there any limitation to the body's ability to heal?" And we said, "None, other than the belief that you hold." And he said, "Then why aren't people growing new limbs?" And we said, "Because no one believes that they can."
Excerpted from the workshop in San Rafael, CA on Saturday, February 27th, 1999
The Beasts Know It
The Beasts Know It If you know that all is well, you know all you need to know. And if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows. And if you know that the way you feel is your indicator of how connected you are to Source, then you know that which only a handful of Deliberate Creators, respective to the total population, really know. The beasts all know it. Your animals know that all is well. Your animals live in the moment. They understand the power of their now. They expect the Universe to yield to them. They don't worry or fret or conjure or make laws or rules or try to regulate. They are Pure Positive Energy. Your beasts vibrate more on the Energy scale of contentment than of passion. Their desire was set forth from Nonphysical, and continues to be set forth by those, like you, who want Energy balance, who want sustenance. The difference between the beast and the human is that the beast is more general in its intent. The human is usually less blended, usually less allowing of the Energy to flow, but is more specific. And that is why the human is seen to be the Creator while the beast is more the balancer of Energy.
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How science will make you live forever
Interview: Jason Silva on How Science Will Make You Live Forever
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Will science finally be able to fix the “problem” of death? In a provocative interview, Jason Silva explains how very soon you may live forever.
Filmmaker Jason Silva
Jason Silva is not your average 26 year old.
The Venezuelan-American filmmaker is a prolific “gonzo journalist” and founding producer for Current TV, the groundbreaking network started by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Jason also co-hosted the first ever Pangea Day in 2008.
But lately, Jason’s found a flaw in the human condition that has been troubling him. That flaw is death. He confesses he tried to find answers in a variety of religions and philosophies, until settling on science.
First, watch Jason’s short film “The Immortals”
I caught up with Jason to interview him on his short film, and to uncover the deeper issues on the end of death.
The Interview
BNT: What philosophies did you explore prior to science? What answers didn’t they provide?
JASON: I’ve always been an analytical thinker- trying to understand the human condition. Perhaps it comes from being a bit of a control freak- to understand something gives me the feeling of control.
One of my majors in university was philosophy- I loved existentialism and I loved a course titled “philosophy of space and time.” I was also an avid individualist and read a lot of Ayn Rand’s work.
I loved the idea of man as a heroic being- one that should never bow down before stifling religion or collectivist political tyranny. I was looking for an answer to the problem of existence- I suspected it had something to do with meaning but at the same settled I for mindless hedonism (fun, but ultimately unsatisfying).
Today, however, I know that’s not enough because it doesn’t solve the problem of finitude.
You mention that seeing old photographs and footage fills you with melancholy. How do you feel when looking at photos/videos from previous travels?
Watching old footage from previous travels usually enlivens me and reminds me of the sublime. I become filled with the “happy-sad” sensation- the bitter-sweet euphoria of seeing something inspiring while being aware that the moment is gone.
Old footage gives me a taste of immortality because I get to “return” to a moment, (usually one of revelatory ecstasy)… where I passionately bombarded the camera with exactly why this moment meant something to me- That’s the highest of highs.
What I really like to do is add a piece of music to the footage that elicits precisely the type of visceral feeling that I felt at the moment I recorded the footage.
That’s the point: It provides a forced reflection/examination of a moment that mattered! This prevents me from ever taking perfect moments for granted. The exquisite and the sublime are sacred.
You quote The Immortalist in your film – how did you come across it and why does it resonate with you?
After watching the brilliant film Vanilla Sky, I spent hours on the internet researching Cryonic Suspension.
If we removed finitude from the human condition, life could be transformed into an eternal now- no more existential anxiety.
This idea that we could preserve ourselves until the technology was there to repair the wear and tear of aging and eventual pathology.
Like the lucid dream that was presented in the film, if we removed finitude from the human condition, life could be transformed into an eternal now- no more existential anxiety.
I started reading about Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey, brilliant thinkers who professed that through scientific engineering we would someday conquer death.
The philosophical implications and motivations behind this, however, were best described by Alan Harrington’s masterpiece, “The Immortalist”- a manifesto of sorts that dared to challenge our cosmic inferiority complex and complacent attitude about our “inevitable” demise, and instead challenged us to engineer (with SCIENCE) an ageless and divine state of being.
This is where science would satisfy the yearnings of existential man, who for too long was suffering as a consequence of being aware of his mortality.
Photo by kangster.
“Eliminating death is playing God, but doing triple bypass surgery is just fine.” This is an excellent argument against the people who believe humans should not tinker with death. In what other ways do we already intervene against the natural biological processes?
I believe humans have always overcome their biological limitations. It is what has brought us out of the caves and onto the moon.
We have cured ourselves of diseases, we fly remarkable machines through the air at 500 miles per hour. We communicate instantly and wirelessly across the world.
Why is it such a stretch to imagine us re-programming our biochemistry (much like computer software) so that we may alleviate suffering, decay, and death?
You explore science’s answer to the “problem” of death. Why is death seen as a problem that needs to be fixed?
It is our memories, our loves, the images and dreams that define us. Death takes this all away.
Death is a profound tragedy. Human consciousness is basically a profound (and valuable) pattern of information residing in a complex biological machine.
This machine can repair itself for a certain period, but over time it wears out and decays at a faster rate than it can fix itself. This is why we die.
Today, however, we are at the verge of correcting this. Death is the loss of everything that matters- It is our memories, our loves, the images and dreams that define us- the songs that moved us and the films that shaped us. Death takes this all away.
I argue that in the same way we feel compelled to preserve the works of Shakespeare and other great works of art, why shouldn’t we extend this into our physicality?
Besides, by labeling death a problem, it shifts our complacent attitude about death and turns it into an engineering problem, one that we can solve, much as we have solved impossible problems in the past.
You say “evolution can be cruel” since it does not allow for the variable of human consciousness. But many other spiritual teachers believe that human consciousness is the direct result of evolution. How do you reconcile these two views?
Evolution is a blind process which has peaked at human consciousness.
Suddenly we have a species that can reflect on the evolutionary process which has allowed it to emerge, and can make calculated and measured decisions about how to redirect this process to include and take into account “the meaning of individual life” as a variable in the design.
Blind evolution doesn’t care about how much I love my mother- It doesn’t care about my love of theater and learning and reading- evolution cares only about my progeny.
But I, as an arbiter of value and meaning, have decided that I do care about these things and I don’t want to surrender them just because “that’s the way things are.” I say change the way things are.
If the end goal is to “live forever,” what do you think life would be like if immorality is achieved?
Life would be an unending adventure, sculpted moment to moment, building on itself into an ever more sophisticated and complex symphony.
I think Nietzsche said something like this: “Man is walking on a tightrope between ape and Overman.”
Overman is the emergence from within us of something infinitely more sublime than us. It is our potential. It is a divine state of being, what we long for hopelessly in all our churches.
Photo by Guillaume Goyette.
U.S. General Omar N. Bradley once said, “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” To me this can also apply to the search for immortality.
While I agree humans should continue pushing the boundaries of science and technology, I wonder if we’re asking the right questions. Would immortality solve the world’s ills? Would it make us happier? Would it answer the fundamental search for meaning?
Ernest Becker’s masterpiece The Denial of Death presented death anxiety as the primary problem of man and also the root of all evil and anxiety.
He says man creates illusions under which to live in order to distract himself from the awareness of his mortality, which is unbearable.
I believe, along with many others, that eliminating death as a certain consequence of being born would eliminate all of our anxiety and aggressive impulses.
I imagine it would make us all into philosophers and scholars. Joseph Campbell-style heroes returning from the edge of death having become something far greater- an immortal hero.
It would satisfy the primal issue of importance– what Miguel de Unamuno wrote about in “Tragic Sense of Life”– mankind’s necessity for personal immortality.
“Do not go quietly into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light” – Dylan Thomas
What do you think about the end of death? Share your thoughts in the comments!
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Will science finally be able to fix the “problem” of death? In a provocative interview, Jason Silva explains how very soon you may live forever.
Filmmaker Jason Silva
Jason Silva is not your average 26 year old.
The Venezuelan-American filmmaker is a prolific “gonzo journalist” and founding producer for Current TV, the groundbreaking network started by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Jason also co-hosted the first ever Pangea Day in 2008.
But lately, Jason’s found a flaw in the human condition that has been troubling him. That flaw is death. He confesses he tried to find answers in a variety of religions and philosophies, until settling on science.
First, watch Jason’s short film “The Immortals”
I caught up with Jason to interview him on his short film, and to uncover the deeper issues on the end of death.
The Interview
BNT: What philosophies did you explore prior to science? What answers didn’t they provide?
JASON: I’ve always been an analytical thinker- trying to understand the human condition. Perhaps it comes from being a bit of a control freak- to understand something gives me the feeling of control.
One of my majors in university was philosophy- I loved existentialism and I loved a course titled “philosophy of space and time.” I was also an avid individualist and read a lot of Ayn Rand’s work.
I loved the idea of man as a heroic being- one that should never bow down before stifling religion or collectivist political tyranny. I was looking for an answer to the problem of existence- I suspected it had something to do with meaning but at the same settled I for mindless hedonism (fun, but ultimately unsatisfying).
Today, however, I know that’s not enough because it doesn’t solve the problem of finitude.
You mention that seeing old photographs and footage fills you with melancholy. How do you feel when looking at photos/videos from previous travels?
Watching old footage from previous travels usually enlivens me and reminds me of the sublime. I become filled with the “happy-sad” sensation- the bitter-sweet euphoria of seeing something inspiring while being aware that the moment is gone.
Old footage gives me a taste of immortality because I get to “return” to a moment, (usually one of revelatory ecstasy)… where I passionately bombarded the camera with exactly why this moment meant something to me- That’s the highest of highs.
What I really like to do is add a piece of music to the footage that elicits precisely the type of visceral feeling that I felt at the moment I recorded the footage.
That’s the point: It provides a forced reflection/examination of a moment that mattered! This prevents me from ever taking perfect moments for granted. The exquisite and the sublime are sacred.
You quote The Immortalist in your film – how did you come across it and why does it resonate with you?
After watching the brilliant film Vanilla Sky, I spent hours on the internet researching Cryonic Suspension.
If we removed finitude from the human condition, life could be transformed into an eternal now- no more existential anxiety.
This idea that we could preserve ourselves until the technology was there to repair the wear and tear of aging and eventual pathology.
Like the lucid dream that was presented in the film, if we removed finitude from the human condition, life could be transformed into an eternal now- no more existential anxiety.
I started reading about Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey de Grey, brilliant thinkers who professed that through scientific engineering we would someday conquer death.
The philosophical implications and motivations behind this, however, were best described by Alan Harrington’s masterpiece, “The Immortalist”- a manifesto of sorts that dared to challenge our cosmic inferiority complex and complacent attitude about our “inevitable” demise, and instead challenged us to engineer (with SCIENCE) an ageless and divine state of being.
This is where science would satisfy the yearnings of existential man, who for too long was suffering as a consequence of being aware of his mortality.
Photo by kangster.
“Eliminating death is playing God, but doing triple bypass surgery is just fine.” This is an excellent argument against the people who believe humans should not tinker with death. In what other ways do we already intervene against the natural biological processes?
I believe humans have always overcome their biological limitations. It is what has brought us out of the caves and onto the moon.
We have cured ourselves of diseases, we fly remarkable machines through the air at 500 miles per hour. We communicate instantly and wirelessly across the world.
Why is it such a stretch to imagine us re-programming our biochemistry (much like computer software) so that we may alleviate suffering, decay, and death?
You explore science’s answer to the “problem” of death. Why is death seen as a problem that needs to be fixed?
It is our memories, our loves, the images and dreams that define us. Death takes this all away.
Death is a profound tragedy. Human consciousness is basically a profound (and valuable) pattern of information residing in a complex biological machine.
This machine can repair itself for a certain period, but over time it wears out and decays at a faster rate than it can fix itself. This is why we die.
Today, however, we are at the verge of correcting this. Death is the loss of everything that matters- It is our memories, our loves, the images and dreams that define us- the songs that moved us and the films that shaped us. Death takes this all away.
I argue that in the same way we feel compelled to preserve the works of Shakespeare and other great works of art, why shouldn’t we extend this into our physicality?
Besides, by labeling death a problem, it shifts our complacent attitude about death and turns it into an engineering problem, one that we can solve, much as we have solved impossible problems in the past.
You say “evolution can be cruel” since it does not allow for the variable of human consciousness. But many other spiritual teachers believe that human consciousness is the direct result of evolution. How do you reconcile these two views?
Evolution is a blind process which has peaked at human consciousness.
Suddenly we have a species that can reflect on the evolutionary process which has allowed it to emerge, and can make calculated and measured decisions about how to redirect this process to include and take into account “the meaning of individual life” as a variable in the design.
Blind evolution doesn’t care about how much I love my mother- It doesn’t care about my love of theater and learning and reading- evolution cares only about my progeny.
But I, as an arbiter of value and meaning, have decided that I do care about these things and I don’t want to surrender them just because “that’s the way things are.” I say change the way things are.
If the end goal is to “live forever,” what do you think life would be like if immorality is achieved?
Life would be an unending adventure, sculpted moment to moment, building on itself into an ever more sophisticated and complex symphony.
I think Nietzsche said something like this: “Man is walking on a tightrope between ape and Overman.”
Overman is the emergence from within us of something infinitely more sublime than us. It is our potential. It is a divine state of being, what we long for hopelessly in all our churches.
Photo by Guillaume Goyette.
U.S. General Omar N. Bradley once said, “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.” To me this can also apply to the search for immortality.
While I agree humans should continue pushing the boundaries of science and technology, I wonder if we’re asking the right questions. Would immortality solve the world’s ills? Would it make us happier? Would it answer the fundamental search for meaning?
Ernest Becker’s masterpiece The Denial of Death presented death anxiety as the primary problem of man and also the root of all evil and anxiety.
He says man creates illusions under which to live in order to distract himself from the awareness of his mortality, which is unbearable.
I believe, along with many others, that eliminating death as a certain consequence of being born would eliminate all of our anxiety and aggressive impulses.
I imagine it would make us all into philosophers and scholars. Joseph Campbell-style heroes returning from the edge of death having become something far greater- an immortal hero.
It would satisfy the primal issue of importance– what Miguel de Unamuno wrote about in “Tragic Sense of Life”– mankind’s necessity for personal immortality.
“Do not go quietly into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light” – Dylan Thomas
What do you think about the end of death? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Tagged under: death, immortal, interview, Life, movie, philosophy
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Ian MacKenzie is the founder and editor of Brave New Traveler. He is currently editing the One Week Job documentary. Aside from writing, he spends his time exploring the fundamental nature of existence and wishing he did more backpacking.
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Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Blessing is the gift
we have been given this gift
IF
Compassion is your "program" of reconciliation
THEN
Blessing is your "code" of opportunity
that makes the reconciliation possible
Blessing Defined
Your gift of blessing is a modern expression of the promise
that was given to you so long ago
the ancient promise given by those who have come before us
that each soul survives EVERYTHING even the darkest moments of life
to return home once again
intact and with grace
Blessing Defined
Blessing may be defined as a quality of thought, feeling, and emotion
that allows you to acknowledge the holy sacred and divine nature of that which has occurred
The blessing does not signal agreement consent or condonement of an action
it simply acknowledges the divine nature of the action
allowing you to move forward with life
When we bless that which hurts us the most
we acknowledge its holiness (divine nature) (see it as a gift)
something magical happens when we do that
(YES IT DOES)
Summary of blessings
Acknowledge any thought feeling or emotion to be present
allow for the possibility that there may be a "greater path"
Resolve the 5 "equations" of code (emotions and logic)
invite the gift of Blessing into your life allowing the divine nature of lifes offerings without judgment
5 tenants of compassion
IF
Compassion is your "program" of reconciliation
THEN
Blessing is your "code" of opportunity
that makes the reconciliation possible
Blessing Defined
Your gift of blessing is a modern expression of the promise
that was given to you so long ago
the ancient promise given by those who have come before us
that each soul survives EVERYTHING even the darkest moments of life
to return home once again
intact and with grace
Blessing Defined
Blessing may be defined as a quality of thought, feeling, and emotion
that allows you to acknowledge the holy sacred and divine nature of that which has occurred
The blessing does not signal agreement consent or condonement of an action
it simply acknowledges the divine nature of the action
allowing you to move forward with life
When we bless that which hurts us the most
we acknowledge its holiness (divine nature) (see it as a gift)
something magical happens when we do that
(YES IT DOES)
Summary of blessings
Acknowledge any thought feeling or emotion to be present
allow for the possibility that there may be a "greater path"
Resolve the 5 "equations" of code (emotions and logic)
invite the gift of Blessing into your life allowing the divine nature of lifes offerings without judgment
5 tenants of compassion
How to become Compassion
If You Believe In a Single Source Of All There Is Or may Ever Be
That Every Life Event Without Exception
Is Part Of "The One" (source)
If You Trust In The Process Of Life As It Is Shown To You
Divine Timing With No Accidents
IF YOU
Believe That Each And Every Experience
Drawn To You Without Exception
Is Your Opportunity To Demonstrate
Your Mastery Of Life
(instead of feeling as if you are being tested)
If You Believe That Your Life Mirrors Your Quest
To Know Yourself In All Ways
"Knowing Your Extremes To Find You Balance"
(not all of us have to live the same extremes day in and day out.. others who experience extremes benefit the ones who do not. The ones who do not absorb the experience from those that do!)
If You Truly Believe That Your Life Essence Is Eternal
And That Your Body May Enjoy
The Same Experience Of "Eternalness"
(your BODY.. not just your soul or essence.. YOUR BODY)
Then How Can You At The Same Time
Judge An Event Choice Or Action
Of Yourself Or Another
As Right Bad Good Wrong
Or As Anything Other Then An
Expression Of "The One"
If you believe your life is eternal
Believe that your life mirrors your quest to know yourself
Believe in divine order and divine timing
Believe that each experience masterfully drawn to you
is an opportunity to demonstrate mastery
Trust in the process of life
as it unfolds unto you
Acknowledge that there is a single source of all that is "the one"
THEN
how can you at the same time
JUDGE an event or SEE it as something other than
"the One"
When you do all this you change your molecular make up
your DNA
to BECOME COMPASSION
IF
you question or do not believe in the essence of even
ONE of these statements
THEN
you have just defined your next step in your path
toward balance and mastery
if you seek those steps
they will be there for you
how do I move the charge of worry?
Blessing
That Every Life Event Without Exception
Is Part Of "The One" (source)
If You Trust In The Process Of Life As It Is Shown To You
Divine Timing With No Accidents
IF YOU
Believe That Each And Every Experience
Drawn To You Without Exception
Is Your Opportunity To Demonstrate
Your Mastery Of Life
(instead of feeling as if you are being tested)
If You Believe That Your Life Mirrors Your Quest
To Know Yourself In All Ways
"Knowing Your Extremes To Find You Balance"
(not all of us have to live the same extremes day in and day out.. others who experience extremes benefit the ones who do not. The ones who do not absorb the experience from those that do!)
If You Truly Believe That Your Life Essence Is Eternal
And That Your Body May Enjoy
The Same Experience Of "Eternalness"
(your BODY.. not just your soul or essence.. YOUR BODY)
Then How Can You At The Same Time
Judge An Event Choice Or Action
Of Yourself Or Another
As Right Bad Good Wrong
Or As Anything Other Then An
Expression Of "The One"
If you believe your life is eternal
Believe that your life mirrors your quest to know yourself
Believe in divine order and divine timing
Believe that each experience masterfully drawn to you
is an opportunity to demonstrate mastery
Trust in the process of life
as it unfolds unto you
Acknowledge that there is a single source of all that is "the one"
THEN
how can you at the same time
JUDGE an event or SEE it as something other than
"the One"
When you do all this you change your molecular make up
your DNA
to BECOME COMPASSION
IF
you question or do not believe in the essence of even
ONE of these statements
THEN
you have just defined your next step in your path
toward balance and mastery
if you seek those steps
they will be there for you
how do I move the charge of worry?
Blessing
Compassion defined
Compassion may be defined as
Thought Without Attachment To The Outcome
Feeling Without Distortion
Emotion Without Charge
Thought Without Attachment To The Outcome
Feeling Without Distortion
Emotion Without Charge
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Greg Braden Zero point
learn about the Global Coherence Project: www.globalcoherenceproject.org
Could the marriage of science and spirituality answer the deepest mysteries of our past, while solving the problems that threaten our future? A growing body of evidence suggests that the answer to this question is an empowering "YES!"
For over 20 years, Gregg Braden has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. Combining his discoveries with the best science of today, his original research crosses the traditional boundaries of science, history, and religion offering fresh insights into ancient mysteries. In doing so he has redefined our relationship to our inner and outer worlds, while sharing his life-affirming message of hope and possibility.
www.greggbraden.com
Could the marriage of science and spirituality answer the deepest mysteries of our past, while solving the problems that threaten our future? A growing body of evidence suggests that the answer to this question is an empowering "YES!"
For over 20 years, Gregg Braden has searched high mountain villages, remote monasteries and forgotten texts to uncover their timeless secrets. Combining his discoveries with the best science of today, his original research crosses the traditional boundaries of science, history, and religion offering fresh insights into ancient mysteries. In doing so he has redefined our relationship to our inner and outer worlds, while sharing his life-affirming message of hope and possibility.
www.greggbraden.com
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Never expect something you do not desire
Never expect something you do not desire
and
never desire something you do not expect
however when you constantly expect something you desire
.....
and
never desire something you do not expect
however when you constantly expect something you desire
.....
The THIRD eye
An experiment that started with two friends Matt and John on a quest for answers.... what is consciousness ? ...... They hoped that the small budget system they had built would get them there answers 10 years ahead of the conventional methods. Their ambitious and radical theory was criticized by other scientist as assuming too much and in their plan's to develop virtual reality generator technology as far too advanced and unrealistic. Their gamble was to assume that the human brain is natures own quantum computer. To test this theory they would use a quantum computer that communicates with other quantum computers in parallel universes and a universal virtual reality generator to simulated a universe that quantum mechanics predicts and the virtual world would be governed by a quantum computer. The virtual world is not measured and rendered step by step , but generated spontaneously and randomly with the help of the quantum computer. now the images of the virtual world are gathered by a pair of virtual eyes that are a exact real world physical simulation of biological eyes .... brains connection to the technology running the virtual reality is a direct connection .. and a biological extension of the user with no classical computer measurements that are made in between the generated virtual world and the observer. the experiment is to see if the human brain operates at a quantum level to create awareness and to see if that is what causes quantum decoheriance. .... if decoherence affects quantum computation which needs its electrons to be in an ambiguous state... and observation causes decoherence.. and observation is quantum computation.. then if you were to observe the human brain and it disrupted the brains computation then you destroy observation and you destroy decoheriance...
In John's virtual experiment, reality reveals itself to the observer in its normal states at one place at one time. When you put on the virtual reality goggles you see the simulated world though a virtual camera. They discover that two universe can only come in contact with each other only when they become quantumly entangled making them exactly the same, a exact copy. The moment communication is established the worlds diverge into two different futures and are no longer mirror copies. They then knew that the only way to prove multiple universes exist is if there was another copy of them selfs in a parallel universe altering their virtual universe creating a alteration on their computer. The copies of them selfs that share the exact same virtual world that is generated by the universal virtual reality generator and governed by the quantum computer that is in direct communication with a identical virtual world in a identical universe would in time diverge as the two human actors immersed in the virtual environment end up doing different things in their now diverging into different futures, witnessing a slight cosmic variation of each others world. In this unreal overlapping view of nearly infinite world slices the universe as we are use to seeing now looks very different. Its as if the universe just became schizophrenic. Everyday objects become multidimensional objects and your surroundings split into in a million states of possible existences, past and present are blurred, nothing is static.
Using a HMD (head mounted display) that has sensors placed in a grid behind the image to sense observation of the human eyes fovea focal..important for the simulation of the virtual observer... to stream the video feed of that display to a second display in another room.
The alteration created from universes that become parallel and then diverge is recorded as the two computers in parallel universes remain in communication. so the program that runs John's and matt's virtual world has that data to generate a quantum potential alternate state. which John in the experiment would not see.. BUT someone else watching on a separate monitor in another room would be able to see....To their shock and surprise it revealed the virtual universe in it ambiguous state. their experiment then only proved in a dramatic fashion that the multiverse exists.. The quantum world just got weirder. They find that the answers are far larger then the questions.... driven by a feverish desire to know the two pressed on with their studies and will unknowingly trigger cosmic doom.
See the way better NTSC 720 X 480 resolution trailer at www.quantumcathedral.com
Monday, August 23, 2010
GO ALISON! :)
WOW strange call last night from my old friend since I was 5.. LOL she felt what I felt.. she has created tons and been touched by god thru the dvd THE SECRET!!
Check this out
SOOOO I decide today its time for ACTION
and not much was needed
all I did was look at the local paper online for a new job
and
I FOUND not one
but 4
and as I was planning and thinking and starting to write a resume
I GOT A CALL
from my current job
LOL
with a new case
its a little girl who needs a cath treatment
3x a week
a hour visit
for 64$ pay and travel
this makes up all the child support I just lost
I couldnt have asked for better
THANK YOU!!
and not much was needed
all I did was look at the local paper online for a new job
and
I FOUND not one
but 4
and as I was planning and thinking and starting to write a resume
I GOT A CALL
from my current job
LOL
with a new case
its a little girl who needs a cath treatment
3x a week
a hour visit
for 64$ pay and travel
this makes up all the child support I just lost
I couldnt have asked for better
THANK YOU!!
what man needs to understand
If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in El Paso, TX on Saturday, November 14th, 1998 #537
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the workshop in El Paso, TX on Saturday, November 14th, 1998 #537
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
Write some letters
August 20, 2010
NOTE: The Weekly Bulletin is sent free of charge to anyone who asks for it. It is a publication of the ReCreation Foundation, a non-profit organization undertaking the work of sharing the message of Conversations with God with the world. That message is that the purpose of life is to recreate ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are.
In This Issue...
Notes from Neale
The CwG Reader
The Calendar
Notes from Neale...
My dear friends...
If you were to die tomorrow, would you be happy about how you spent today?
Get on the phone today and say something special to everyone who is special to you.
Go around today to everyone you love who is close to you and give them a hug and a smooch and a real sign of your love.
Write a note today to all of your distant but still good friends and tell them what having them in your life has meant to you.
Then sit down and draft a letter to your children or your grandchildren and share with them everything that you have learned about life, everything that you want them to know about how to get through, how to make things work, how to find joy and have fun and bring themselves and other people some happiness amidst all the challenges they are going to face.
Tell them what those challenges are about and why they have arisen and how to best meet them and the way to celebrate them.
And when you're through with all of that write yourself a letter, telling yourself how good you have been and how well you have done, given all that you have had to deal with and everything you have encountered. And then write a letter to God, saying thanks for all the blessings, and that you can't wait `til you get back Home to tell all of your loved ones there all about what your adventure here is has been like, what you have learned, and what you're going to do Next Time Around to apply all that you have learned.
If you do not die tomorrow, if you are still alive by the end of the week, decide how you want to spend whatever time you have left with your present body. Make a New Decision about the meaning and the purpose of your life. Elevate it beyond the survival level. Look to see what you would choose as the reason you are living if you thought that the choice is being made by your Soul and not by your Mind.
Live whatever days you have left from that space, in the best way that you can. Serve the agenda of your Soul. Your life, however much longer it goes on, will never be the same. It will have some meaning, at last. It will have some meaningful purpose. And that will make every moment special. ...love and hugs,
Love and Hugs,
Neale.
The CwG Reader
Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author
Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.
This week's offering: An exchange between Neale and a reader about the `radical' ideas in Conversations with God. This exchange first appeared in the Q&A Section of the ReCreation Foundation's monthly newsletter in February, 2003.
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Some pretty radical ideas
Dear Mr. Walsch...I am very concerned about a friend of mine who is going through a stressful, questioning time in her life. She has doubts about God and salvation. I have not read your book yet, but I plan to after the conversation I had with her last night. I have already checked it out of the library.
My friend has come up with some pretty radical ideas about God from reading your book and I don't know if I can really adequately address them. The most important concern I have is of course the fact that she told me she does not trust the Bible, but she equates your book to scripture. She believes that this book Conversations with God was inspired by God in the same way that Paul describes all scripture as being "God-breathed (inspired)."
Frankly this idea scares me a little. Since I have not read your book I will not make any assumptions, but is there anything in your book that would turn her away from scripture as authoritative? I have thumbed through your book and have not found any scripture references in there (that doesn't mean they aren't there, it just means I may not have seen them).
Another thing we discussed is Hell. She says that she does not believe there is a hell. While this may not be a huge issue, I think that there certainly is a consequence for our actions. Hell is a place, just as Heaven is a place! (They just aren't places we can get to in our physical bodies.)
She claims (because of what she has read in your book) that because God has given us free will, we can do what we want. These are dangerous assumptions, I'm sure you would agree. I just don't know what I can say to debunk some of these false assumptions which she has come to by reading this. I know you are a busy person, but I was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to handle this situation. Thank you for your time. God Bless! In Christ Always, Rob G., by e-mail.
Dear Rob...Thank you, my friend, for your very wonderful letter. You are raising the very kinds of questions that I believe humanity must raise right now, and you are doing so with sincerity and what I believe to be an honest willingness to explore.
Before I respond to your questions, Rob, I am going to say that I hope that the previous statement is true. For if you have an honest willingness to explore the issues you have raised, our discussion here could be very fruitful. If, on the other hand, you believe that you already know all there is to know on these subjects and that no new thought or idea could possibly be valid, then our discussion will lead to the same kind of dead-end (and deadly end!) that humanity as a whole faces today.
The Five Steps to Peace
In my book The New Revelations God says:
"There are five things you can choose now if changing your world, and the self-destructive direction in which it is moving, is what you wish to achieve.
1. You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
2. You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3. &n You can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planet.
4. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
5. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
These are the Five Steps to Peace, and if you take them, you can shift everything on your planet."
Are you ready to take these steps, Rob? Are you able to admit that maybe, just maybe, some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working? This is clearly what your friend has done-and I understand why it has upset you, because stepping away from some of the beliefs that we have held most dear can be very scary and very disorienting.
Yet I am reminded of the medical doctors who, not that many years ago, refused to accept that washing their hands before surgery could make any difference, much less save lives. They would not accept this radical new idea because it was just that: a radical new idea that challenged conventional understandings.
Now Rob, you have said that the idea that Conversations with God was inspired by God scares you, and the first thing that I want to say is, why? Why does that scare you? Was not the Declaration of Independence inspired by God? Was not the breathtaking painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel inspired by God? Was not Mozart's music inspired by God? Cannot a book be inspired by God?
If so, must it be an old book? Could it not be a new book, written this very day? And if so, must it be only a book with which you agree? Can it not be a book that says things with which you do not agree?
These are questions I urge you to consider, Rob.
Is everything in the Bible literally true?
Now, continuing with your letter, Rob, you have asked if there is anything in my book that would turn your friend away from "scripture as authoritative." I will answer you honestly that yes, there is, if what you mean by "scripture as authoritative" is that every word and every syllable in the entire Bible is true, right, and correct and must not be questioned. If this is what you mean and this is what you believe, I invite you-indeed, I dare you-to read The New Revelations.
In that book you will see passage after passage of material from the Bible that I doubt that even the staunchest true believer in Christ would say is true and correct and should be accepted without question.
The problem in the world today, Rob, is not being created by people who are questioning the world's holy scriptures, but by those who are not.
Also, Rob, you expressed concern because your friend has now concluded that there is no such place as Hell. In your note to me you have said, "Hell is a place, just as Heaven is a place!"
Well, Rob, I do not agree with you-and neither does the Pope. A few years ago the then Pope held an audience in Rome in which he declared that there was no such place as Hell. He said that there was such a thing as an experience of hell, and that this experience could best be described as separation from God. The Pope also said that it was not God's job to punish, and that punishment (separation from God) is self-inflicted and self-imposed. I agree with the Pope.
Now you may not see the Pope as an authority in this matter, but I just wanted you to know that religious figures in some pretty high places seem to agree with Conversations with God in this regard. The point is that the statement that there is no such place as Hell is not such a radical idea, and you may wish to more openly explore it.
Finally, Rob, you say that your friend claims (because of what she has read in my book) that because God has given us free will, we can do what we want.
"These are dangerous assumptions, I'm sure you would agree," you said.
I am sorry, Rob, but once again I do not agree. Even traditional religions teach the doctrine of Free Will, and say that this doctrine means exactly what it implies-that we can do exactly as we want. I believe that what you see as dangerous, Rob, is the idea that we can do exactly as we want without fear of punishment.
That, of course, is a radical idea, I will acknowledge. Yet that is what Conversations with God says. Communion with God makes it even plainer, listing the idea of "condemnation" and "punishment" as one of the Ten Illusions of Humans, and The New Revelations completes the message, announcing clearly that God has no reason to punish anyone, and does not do so.
I know that these ideas challenge the current notion of things held by a large number of people, and I have no need to try to convince anyone that this view of things is correct. All I wish to do is help humanity stop making everyone else wrong and stop killing each other when people do not accept the currently prevailing belief about things.
Rob, you say that you don't know how to "debunk" some of these false assumptions, and you've asked my advice. My answer is that I don't believe these assumptions to be false. Rather, I believe them to be ideas that could change the world, bringing an end to our insanity at last.
NOTE: The Weekly Bulletin is sent free of charge to anyone who asks for it. It is a publication of the ReCreation Foundation, a non-profit organization undertaking the work of sharing the message of Conversations with God with the world. That message is that the purpose of life is to recreate ourselves anew in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever we held about Who We Are.
In This Issue...
Notes from Neale
The CwG Reader
The Calendar
Notes from Neale...
My dear friends...
If you were to die tomorrow, would you be happy about how you spent today?
Get on the phone today and say something special to everyone who is special to you.
Go around today to everyone you love who is close to you and give them a hug and a smooch and a real sign of your love.
Write a note today to all of your distant but still good friends and tell them what having them in your life has meant to you.
Then sit down and draft a letter to your children or your grandchildren and share with them everything that you have learned about life, everything that you want them to know about how to get through, how to make things work, how to find joy and have fun and bring themselves and other people some happiness amidst all the challenges they are going to face.
Tell them what those challenges are about and why they have arisen and how to best meet them and the way to celebrate them.
And when you're through with all of that write yourself a letter, telling yourself how good you have been and how well you have done, given all that you have had to deal with and everything you have encountered. And then write a letter to God, saying thanks for all the blessings, and that you can't wait `til you get back Home to tell all of your loved ones there all about what your adventure here is has been like, what you have learned, and what you're going to do Next Time Around to apply all that you have learned.
If you do not die tomorrow, if you are still alive by the end of the week, decide how you want to spend whatever time you have left with your present body. Make a New Decision about the meaning and the purpose of your life. Elevate it beyond the survival level. Look to see what you would choose as the reason you are living if you thought that the choice is being made by your Soul and not by your Mind.
Live whatever days you have left from that space, in the best way that you can. Serve the agenda of your Soul. Your life, however much longer it goes on, will never be the same. It will have some meaning, at last. It will have some meaningful purpose. And that will make every moment special. ...love and hugs,
Love and Hugs,
Neale.
The CwG Reader
Further explorations of the Conversations with God material from the author
Neale Donald Walsch through the years has given hundreds of talks and written scores of articles revolving around the messages he received in his Conversations with God. Now, every seven days, we will present in this space a transcript or reprint of those presentations. We invite you to Copy and Save each one of them, creating a personal a collection of contemporary and uplifting spiritual thought which you may reference at any time. We hope you will find this a constant source of insight and inspiration.
This week's offering: An exchange between Neale and a reader about the `radical' ideas in Conversations with God. This exchange first appeared in the Q&A Section of the ReCreation Foundation's monthly newsletter in February, 2003.
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Some pretty radical ideas
Dear Mr. Walsch...I am very concerned about a friend of mine who is going through a stressful, questioning time in her life. She has doubts about God and salvation. I have not read your book yet, but I plan to after the conversation I had with her last night. I have already checked it out of the library.
My friend has come up with some pretty radical ideas about God from reading your book and I don't know if I can really adequately address them. The most important concern I have is of course the fact that she told me she does not trust the Bible, but she equates your book to scripture. She believes that this book Conversations with God was inspired by God in the same way that Paul describes all scripture as being "God-breathed (inspired)."
Frankly this idea scares me a little. Since I have not read your book I will not make any assumptions, but is there anything in your book that would turn her away from scripture as authoritative? I have thumbed through your book and have not found any scripture references in there (that doesn't mean they aren't there, it just means I may not have seen them).
Another thing we discussed is Hell. She says that she does not believe there is a hell. While this may not be a huge issue, I think that there certainly is a consequence for our actions. Hell is a place, just as Heaven is a place! (They just aren't places we can get to in our physical bodies.)
She claims (because of what she has read in your book) that because God has given us free will, we can do what we want. These are dangerous assumptions, I'm sure you would agree. I just don't know what I can say to debunk some of these false assumptions which she has come to by reading this. I know you are a busy person, but I was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to handle this situation. Thank you for your time. God Bless! In Christ Always, Rob G., by e-mail.
Dear Rob...Thank you, my friend, for your very wonderful letter. You are raising the very kinds of questions that I believe humanity must raise right now, and you are doing so with sincerity and what I believe to be an honest willingness to explore.
Before I respond to your questions, Rob, I am going to say that I hope that the previous statement is true. For if you have an honest willingness to explore the issues you have raised, our discussion here could be very fruitful. If, on the other hand, you believe that you already know all there is to know on these subjects and that no new thought or idea could possibly be valid, then our discussion will lead to the same kind of dead-end (and deadly end!) that humanity as a whole faces today.
The Five Steps to Peace
In my book The New Revelations God says:
"There are five things you can choose now if changing your world, and the self-destructive direction in which it is moving, is what you wish to achieve.
1. You can choose to acknowledge that some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working.
2. You can choose to acknowledge that there is something you do not understand about God and about Life, the understanding of which will change everything.
3. &n You can choose to be willing for a new understanding of God and Life to now be brought forth, an understanding that could produce a new way of life on your planet.
4. You can choose to be courageous enough to explore and examine this new understanding, and, if it aligns with your inner truth and knowing, to enlarge your belief system to include it.
5. You can choose to live your lives as demonstrations of your highest and grandest beliefs, rather than as denials of them.
These are the Five Steps to Peace, and if you take them, you can shift everything on your planet."
Are you ready to take these steps, Rob? Are you able to admit that maybe, just maybe, some of your old beliefs about God and about Life are no longer working? This is clearly what your friend has done-and I understand why it has upset you, because stepping away from some of the beliefs that we have held most dear can be very scary and very disorienting.
Yet I am reminded of the medical doctors who, not that many years ago, refused to accept that washing their hands before surgery could make any difference, much less save lives. They would not accept this radical new idea because it was just that: a radical new idea that challenged conventional understandings.
Now Rob, you have said that the idea that Conversations with God was inspired by God scares you, and the first thing that I want to say is, why? Why does that scare you? Was not the Declaration of Independence inspired by God? Was not the breathtaking painting by Michelangelo on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel inspired by God? Was not Mozart's music inspired by God? Cannot a book be inspired by God?
If so, must it be an old book? Could it not be a new book, written this very day? And if so, must it be only a book with which you agree? Can it not be a book that says things with which you do not agree?
These are questions I urge you to consider, Rob.
Is everything in the Bible literally true?
Now, continuing with your letter, Rob, you have asked if there is anything in my book that would turn your friend away from "scripture as authoritative." I will answer you honestly that yes, there is, if what you mean by "scripture as authoritative" is that every word and every syllable in the entire Bible is true, right, and correct and must not be questioned. If this is what you mean and this is what you believe, I invite you-indeed, I dare you-to read The New Revelations.
In that book you will see passage after passage of material from the Bible that I doubt that even the staunchest true believer in Christ would say is true and correct and should be accepted without question.
The problem in the world today, Rob, is not being created by people who are questioning the world's holy scriptures, but by those who are not.
Also, Rob, you expressed concern because your friend has now concluded that there is no such place as Hell. In your note to me you have said, "Hell is a place, just as Heaven is a place!"
Well, Rob, I do not agree with you-and neither does the Pope. A few years ago the then Pope held an audience in Rome in which he declared that there was no such place as Hell. He said that there was such a thing as an experience of hell, and that this experience could best be described as separation from God. The Pope also said that it was not God's job to punish, and that punishment (separation from God) is self-inflicted and self-imposed. I agree with the Pope.
Now you may not see the Pope as an authority in this matter, but I just wanted you to know that religious figures in some pretty high places seem to agree with Conversations with God in this regard. The point is that the statement that there is no such place as Hell is not such a radical idea, and you may wish to more openly explore it.
Finally, Rob, you say that your friend claims (because of what she has read in my book) that because God has given us free will, we can do what we want.
"These are dangerous assumptions, I'm sure you would agree," you said.
I am sorry, Rob, but once again I do not agree. Even traditional religions teach the doctrine of Free Will, and say that this doctrine means exactly what it implies-that we can do exactly as we want. I believe that what you see as dangerous, Rob, is the idea that we can do exactly as we want without fear of punishment.
That, of course, is a radical idea, I will acknowledge. Yet that is what Conversations with God says. Communion with God makes it even plainer, listing the idea of "condemnation" and "punishment" as one of the Ten Illusions of Humans, and The New Revelations completes the message, announcing clearly that God has no reason to punish anyone, and does not do so.
I know that these ideas challenge the current notion of things held by a large number of people, and I have no need to try to convince anyone that this view of things is correct. All I wish to do is help humanity stop making everyone else wrong and stop killing each other when people do not accept the currently prevailing belief about things.
Rob, you say that you don't know how to "debunk" some of these false assumptions, and you've asked my advice. My answer is that I don't believe these assumptions to be false. Rather, I believe them to be ideas that could change the world, bringing an end to our insanity at last.
Its on its WAY :)
On this day of your life, lenora, I believe God wants you to know...
...that great and unexpected good is coming to you now.
You've been waiting for a shift in energy, and that shift
has occurred. All you have to do now is get ready to receive
your new-found good. Be on the lookout. It may come
at a time and in a way that you could not have
anticipated or imagined.
Love, Your Friend....
neale
...that great and unexpected good is coming to you now.
You've been waiting for a shift in energy, and that shift
has occurred. All you have to do now is get ready to receive
your new-found good. Be on the lookout. It may come
at a time and in a way that you could not have
anticipated or imagined.
Love, Your Friend....
neale
Get positive focus BACK
When you focus upon lack in an attitude of complaining, you establish a vibrational point of attraction that then gives you access only to more thoughts of complaint. Your deliberate effort to tell a new story will establish a new pattern of thought, providing you with a new point of attraction from your present, about your past, and into your future. The simple effort of looking for positive aspects will set a new vibrational tone that will begin the immediate attraction of thoughts, people, circumstances, and things that are pleasing to you.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" #538
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" #538
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
LENORA read this everyday!!
It is not your job to transform the world for others—but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.
Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love—and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others—but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" #539
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
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Make lists of positive aspects. Make lists of things you love—and never complain about anything. And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention and be who-you-are, you will tune to who-you-are, and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes. It is not your job to transform the world for others—but it is your job to transform it for you. A state of appreciation is pure Connection to Source where there is no perception of lack.
--- Abraham
Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" #539
Our Love,
Jerry and Esther
Visit Us Online | Modify Details ©1997-2010 Abraham-H
How did u know Neale
On this day of your life, lenora, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you do not have to wait for wisdom to befall you
in order to know what move to make now.
The wisdom, the insight, the answer you have been
waiting for is waiting for you. It is already inside of you.
In fact, you may have already "heard" it and not believed it.
It you want to be clear about this answer, simply write your
question, condition, or problem down on a piece of paper tonight,
then pick up the paper tomorrow morning and compose a calm,
wisdom-filled response.
Don't be surprised if you surprise yourself with the
answer you receive.
Love, Your Friend....
neale
...that you do not have to wait for wisdom to befall you
in order to know what move to make now.
The wisdom, the insight, the answer you have been
waiting for is waiting for you. It is already inside of you.
In fact, you may have already "heard" it and not believed it.
It you want to be clear about this answer, simply write your
question, condition, or problem down on a piece of paper tonight,
then pick up the paper tomorrow morning and compose a calm,
wisdom-filled response.
Don't be surprised if you surprise yourself with the
answer you receive.
Love, Your Friend....
neale
Binaural beats
Binaural beats
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Binaural beats
Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, creativity and other desirable mental states.[citation needed]
The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.
Binaural beats are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. Second, binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves[1][2] and can be used to reduce anxiety[3] and provide other health benefits such as control over pain.[4]
Contents
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* 1 Acoustical background
* 2 History
* 3 Physiology
* 4 Hypothetical effects on brain function
o 4.1 Overview
o 4.2 Brain waves
o 4.3 Other uses
* 5 Example
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Acoustical background
Interaural time differences (ITD) of binaural beats
For sound localization the human auditory system analyses interaural time differences between both ears inside small frequency ranges, called critical bands. For frequencies below 1000 to 1500 Hz interaural time differences are evaluated from interaural phase differences between both ear signals.[5] The perceived sound is also evaluated from the analysis of both ear signals.
If different pure tones (sinusoidal signals with different frequencies) are presented to each ear, there will be time dependent phase and time differences between both ears (see figure). The perceived sound depends on the frequency difference between both ear signals:
* If the frequency difference between the ear signals is lower than some hertz, the auditory system can follow the changes in the interaural time differences. As a result an auditory event is perceived, which is moving through the head. The perceived direction corresponds to the instantaneous interaural time difference.
* For slightly bigger frequency differences between the ear signals (more than 10 Hz) the auditory system can no longer follow the changes in the interaural parameters. A diffuse auditory event appears. The sound corresponds to an overlay of both ear signals, which means amplitude and loudness are changing rapidly (see figure in the chapter above).
* For frequency differences between the ear signals of above 30 Hz the cocktail party effect begins to work, and the auditory system is able to analyze the presented ear signals in terms of two different sound sources at two different locations, and two distinct signals are perceived.
Binaural beats can also be experienced without headphones, they appear when playing two different pure tones through loudspeakers. The sound perceived is quite similar: with auditory events which move through the room, at low frequency differences, and diffuse sound at slightly bigger frequency differences. At bigger frequency differences apparent localized sound sources appear.[6]
[edit] History
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered binaural beats in 1839. While research about them continued after that, the subject remained something of a scientific curiosity until 134 years later, with the publishing of Gerald Oster's article "Auditory Beats in the Brain" (Scientific American, 1973). Oster's article identified and assembled the scattered islands of relevant research since Dove, offering fresh insight (and new laboratory findings) to research on binaural beats.
In particular, Oster saw binaural beats as a powerful tool for cognitive and neurological research, addressing questions such as how animals locate sounds in their three-dimensional environment, and also the remarkable ability of animals to pick out and focus on specific sounds in a sea of noise (what is known as the "cocktail party effect").
Oster also considered binaural beats to be a potentially useful medical diagnostic tool, not merely for finding and assessing auditory impairments, but also for more general neurological conditions. (Binaural beats involve different neurological pathways than ordinary auditory processing.) For example, Oster found that a number of his subjects that could not perceive binaural beats suffered from Parkinson's disease. In one particular case, Oster was able to follow the subject through a week-long treatment of Parkinson's disease; at the outset the patient could not perceive binaural beats; but by the end of the week of treatment, the patient was able to hear them.
In corroborating an earlier study, Oster also reported gender differences in the perception of beats. Specifically, women seemed to experience two separate peaks in their ability to perceive binaural beats—peaks possibly correlating with specific points in the menstrual cycle (onset of menstruation and approx. 15 after). This data led Oster to wonder if binaural beats could be used as a tool for measuring relative levels of estrogen.[1]
The effects of binaural beats on consciousness were first examined by physicist Thomas Campbell and electrical engineer Dennis Mennerich, who under the direction of Robert Monroe sought to reproduce a subjective impression of 4Hz oscillation that they associated with out-of-body experience.[7] On the strength of their findings, Monroe created the binaural-beat technology self-development industry by forming The Monroe Institute, now a charitable binaural research and education organization.
[edit] Physiology
The sensation of binaural beats is believed to originate in the superior olivary nucleus, a part of the brain stem. They appear to be related to the brain's ability to locate the sources of sounds in three dimensions and to track moving sounds, which also involves inferior colliculus (IC) neurons.[8] Regarding entrainment, the study of rhythmicity provides insights into the understanding of temporal information processing in the human brain. Auditory rhythms rapidly entrain motor responses into stable steady synchronization states below and above conscious perception thresholds. Activated regions include primary sensorimotor and cingulate areas, bilateral opercular premotor areas, bilateral SII, ventral prefrontal cortex, and, subcortically, anterior insula, putamen, and thalamus. Within the cerebellum, vermal regions and anterior hemispheres ipsilateral to the movement became significantly activated. Tracking temporal modulations additionally activated predominantly right prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and intraparietal regions as well as posterior cerebellar hemispheres.[9] A study of aphasic subjects who had a severe stroke versus normal subjects showed that the aphasic subject could not hear the binaural beats whereas the normal subjects could.[10]
[edit] Hypothetical effects on brain function
For more details on this topic, see brainwave synchronization.
[edit] Overview
Binaural beats may influence functions of the brain in ways besides those related to hearing. This phenomenon is called frequency following response. The concept is that if one receives a stimulus with a frequency in the range of brain waves, the predominant brain wave frequency is said to be likely to move towards the frequency of the stimulus (a process called entrainment).[11] In addition, binaural beats have been credibly documented to relate to both spatial perception & stereo auditory recognition, and, according to the frequency following response, activation of various sites in the brain.[12][13][14][15][16]
The stimulus does not have to be aural; it can also be visual[17] or a combination of aural and visual[18] (one such example would be Dreamachine). However, using alpha frequencies with such stimuli can trigger photosensitive epilepsy.
Perceived human hearing is limited to the range of frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but the frequencies of human brain waves are below about 40 Hz. To account for this lack of perception, binaural beat frequencies are used. Beat frequencies of 40 Hz have been produced in the brain with binaural sound and measured experimentally.[19]
When the perceived beat frequency corresponds to the delta, theta, alpha, beta, or gamma range of brainwave frequencies, the brainwaves entrain to or move towards the beat frequency.[20] For example, if a 315 Hz sine wave is played into the right ear and a 325 Hz one into the left ear, the brain is entrained towards the beat frequency 10 Hz, in the alpha range. Since alpha range is associated with relaxation, this has a relaxing effect or if in the beta range, more alertness. An experiment with binaural sound stimulation using beat frequencies in the Beta range on some participants and Delta/Theta range in other participants, found better vigilance performance and mood in those on the awake alert state of Beta range stimulation.[21][22]
Binaural beat stimulation has been used fairly extensively to induce a variety of states of consciousness, and there has been some work done in regards to the effects of these stimuli on relaxation, focus, attention, and states of consciousness.[2] Studies have shown that with repeated training to distinguish close frequency sounds that a plastic reorganization of the brain occurs for the trained frequencies[23] and is capable of asymmetric hemispheric balancing.[24]
[edit] Brain waves
Main article: Electroencephalography
Frequency range Name Usually associated with:
> 40 Hz Gamma waves Higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness
13–39 Hz Beta waves Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition
7–13 Hz Alpha waves Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness
4–7 Hz Theta waves Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep
< 4 Hz Delta waves Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness
(The precise boundaries between ranges vary among definitions, and there is no universally accepted standard.)
The dominant frequency determines your current state. For example, if in someone's brain alpha waves are dominating, they are in the alpha state (this happens when one is relaxed but awake). However, also other frequencies will be present, albeit with smaller amplitudes.
The brain entraining is more effective if the entraining frequency is close to the user's starting dominant frequency. Therefore, it is suggested to start with a frequency near to one's current dominant frequency (likely to be about 20 Hz or less for a waking person), and then slowly decreasing it towards the desired frequency.
Some people find pure sine waves unpleasant, so a pink noise or another background (e.g. natural sounds such as river noises) can also be mixed with them. In addition to that, as long as the beat is audible, increasing the volume should not necessarily improve the effectiveness, therefore using a low volume is usually suggested. One theory is to reduce the volume so low that the beating should not even be clearly audible, but this does not seem to be the case (see the next paragraph).
[edit] Other uses
In addition to lowering the brain frequency to relax the listener (or to raise it to help focusing), there are other controversial, alleged uses for binaural beats. For example, that by using specific frequencies an individual can stimulate certain glands to produce desired hormones. Beta-endorphin has been modulated in studies using alpha-theta brain wave training,[25] and dopamine with binaural beats.[26] Among other alleged uses, there are reducing learning time and sleeping needs (theta waves are thought to improve learning, since children, who have stronger theta waves, and remain in this state for a longer period of time than adults, usually learn faster than adults;[citation needed] and some people find that half an hour in the theta state can reduce sleeping needs up to four hours;[citation needed] however, this is supposed to happen with any way to get into theta state, e.g. meditation;[citation needed]) some use them for lucid dreaming and even for attempting out-of-body experiences, astral projection, telepathy and psychokinesis. However, the role of alpha-wave activity in lucid dreaming is subject to ongoing research).[27][28][29]
Alpha-theta brainwave training has also been used successfully for the treatment of addictions,[25][30][31] for the recovery of repressed memories, but as with other techniques this can lead to false memories.[32]
An uncontrolled pilot study of Delta binaural beat technology over 60 days has shown positive effect on self-reported psychologic measures, especially anxiety. There was significant decrease in trait anxiety, an increase in quality of life, and a decrease in insulin-like growth factor-1 and dopamine[26] and has been successfully shown to decrease mild anxiety.[33] A randomised, controlled study concluded that binaural beat audio could lessen hospital acute pre-operative anxiety.[34]
Another claimed effect for sound induced brain synchronization is enhanced learning ability. It was proposed in the 1970s that induced alpha brain waves enabled students to assimilate more information with greater long term retention.[35] In more recent times has come more understanding of the role of theta brain waves in behavioural learning.[36] The presence of theta patterns in the brain has been associated with increased receptivity for learning and decreased filtering by the left hemisphere.[35][37][38] Based on the association between theta activity (4–7 Hz) and working memory performance, biofeedback training suggests that normal healthy individuals can learn to increase a specific component of their EEG activity, and that such enhanced activity may facilitate a working memory task and to a lesser extent focused attention.[39]
A controversy in media was spawned labeling Binaural beats as illegal narcotics.[40]
[edit] Example
For these examples to be effective, it is required that the listener use headphones. WARNING: play the files before putting on the headphones in order to set a safe volume, as the onset of the sound is quite abrupt and, especially in the case of the second file, quite loud at first.
Binbeat Sample
Play sound
30 seconds of steady 10 Hz binaural beats with background white noise.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.
Binbeat Sample 2
Play sound
Frequency starts at 20 Hz, falls to 7.83 Hz in 10 minutes, stays constant for 15 minutes and rises back to 16 Hz in 5 minutes.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.
Direct downloads of the above files: Binbeat sample Binbeat Sample 2
[edit] See also
* Brainwave synchronization
* Electroencephalography
* Event-related potential
* Evoked potential
* Gnaural
* Hemi-Sync
* Human enhancement
* Induced activity
* Intelligence amplification
* Lucid dream
* Mind machine
* Neural oscillation
* Neurofeedback
* Ongoing brain activity
* Power-Nap Recording
* Schumann resonances
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Binaural beats
Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain for specific physical stimuli. This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, creativity and other desirable mental states.[citation needed]
The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness and sound localization of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The frequency of the tones must be below about 1,000 to 1,500 hertz for the beating to be heard. The difference between the two frequencies must be small (below about 30 Hz) for the effect to occur; otherwise, the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.
Binaural beats are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. Second, binaural beats reportedly influence the brain in more subtle ways through the entrainment of brainwaves[1][2] and can be used to reduce anxiety[3] and provide other health benefits such as control over pain.[4]
Contents
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* 1 Acoustical background
* 2 History
* 3 Physiology
* 4 Hypothetical effects on brain function
o 4.1 Overview
o 4.2 Brain waves
o 4.3 Other uses
* 5 Example
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
[edit] Acoustical background
Interaural time differences (ITD) of binaural beats
For sound localization the human auditory system analyses interaural time differences between both ears inside small frequency ranges, called critical bands. For frequencies below 1000 to 1500 Hz interaural time differences are evaluated from interaural phase differences between both ear signals.[5] The perceived sound is also evaluated from the analysis of both ear signals.
If different pure tones (sinusoidal signals with different frequencies) are presented to each ear, there will be time dependent phase and time differences between both ears (see figure). The perceived sound depends on the frequency difference between both ear signals:
* If the frequency difference between the ear signals is lower than some hertz, the auditory system can follow the changes in the interaural time differences. As a result an auditory event is perceived, which is moving through the head. The perceived direction corresponds to the instantaneous interaural time difference.
* For slightly bigger frequency differences between the ear signals (more than 10 Hz) the auditory system can no longer follow the changes in the interaural parameters. A diffuse auditory event appears. The sound corresponds to an overlay of both ear signals, which means amplitude and loudness are changing rapidly (see figure in the chapter above).
* For frequency differences between the ear signals of above 30 Hz the cocktail party effect begins to work, and the auditory system is able to analyze the presented ear signals in terms of two different sound sources at two different locations, and two distinct signals are perceived.
Binaural beats can also be experienced without headphones, they appear when playing two different pure tones through loudspeakers. The sound perceived is quite similar: with auditory events which move through the room, at low frequency differences, and diffuse sound at slightly bigger frequency differences. At bigger frequency differences apparent localized sound sources appear.[6]
[edit] History
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove discovered binaural beats in 1839. While research about them continued after that, the subject remained something of a scientific curiosity until 134 years later, with the publishing of Gerald Oster's article "Auditory Beats in the Brain" (Scientific American, 1973). Oster's article identified and assembled the scattered islands of relevant research since Dove, offering fresh insight (and new laboratory findings) to research on binaural beats.
In particular, Oster saw binaural beats as a powerful tool for cognitive and neurological research, addressing questions such as how animals locate sounds in their three-dimensional environment, and also the remarkable ability of animals to pick out and focus on specific sounds in a sea of noise (what is known as the "cocktail party effect").
Oster also considered binaural beats to be a potentially useful medical diagnostic tool, not merely for finding and assessing auditory impairments, but also for more general neurological conditions. (Binaural beats involve different neurological pathways than ordinary auditory processing.) For example, Oster found that a number of his subjects that could not perceive binaural beats suffered from Parkinson's disease. In one particular case, Oster was able to follow the subject through a week-long treatment of Parkinson's disease; at the outset the patient could not perceive binaural beats; but by the end of the week of treatment, the patient was able to hear them.
In corroborating an earlier study, Oster also reported gender differences in the perception of beats. Specifically, women seemed to experience two separate peaks in their ability to perceive binaural beats—peaks possibly correlating with specific points in the menstrual cycle (onset of menstruation and approx. 15 after). This data led Oster to wonder if binaural beats could be used as a tool for measuring relative levels of estrogen.[1]
The effects of binaural beats on consciousness were first examined by physicist Thomas Campbell and electrical engineer Dennis Mennerich, who under the direction of Robert Monroe sought to reproduce a subjective impression of 4Hz oscillation that they associated with out-of-body experience.[7] On the strength of their findings, Monroe created the binaural-beat technology self-development industry by forming The Monroe Institute, now a charitable binaural research and education organization.
[edit] Physiology
The sensation of binaural beats is believed to originate in the superior olivary nucleus, a part of the brain stem. They appear to be related to the brain's ability to locate the sources of sounds in three dimensions and to track moving sounds, which also involves inferior colliculus (IC) neurons.[8] Regarding entrainment, the study of rhythmicity provides insights into the understanding of temporal information processing in the human brain. Auditory rhythms rapidly entrain motor responses into stable steady synchronization states below and above conscious perception thresholds. Activated regions include primary sensorimotor and cingulate areas, bilateral opercular premotor areas, bilateral SII, ventral prefrontal cortex, and, subcortically, anterior insula, putamen, and thalamus. Within the cerebellum, vermal regions and anterior hemispheres ipsilateral to the movement became significantly activated. Tracking temporal modulations additionally activated predominantly right prefrontal, anterior cingulate, and intraparietal regions as well as posterior cerebellar hemispheres.[9] A study of aphasic subjects who had a severe stroke versus normal subjects showed that the aphasic subject could not hear the binaural beats whereas the normal subjects could.[10]
[edit] Hypothetical effects on brain function
For more details on this topic, see brainwave synchronization.
[edit] Overview
Binaural beats may influence functions of the brain in ways besides those related to hearing. This phenomenon is called frequency following response. The concept is that if one receives a stimulus with a frequency in the range of brain waves, the predominant brain wave frequency is said to be likely to move towards the frequency of the stimulus (a process called entrainment).[11] In addition, binaural beats have been credibly documented to relate to both spatial perception & stereo auditory recognition, and, according to the frequency following response, activation of various sites in the brain.[12][13][14][15][16]
The stimulus does not have to be aural; it can also be visual[17] or a combination of aural and visual[18] (one such example would be Dreamachine). However, using alpha frequencies with such stimuli can trigger photosensitive epilepsy.
Perceived human hearing is limited to the range of frequencies from 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz, but the frequencies of human brain waves are below about 40 Hz. To account for this lack of perception, binaural beat frequencies are used. Beat frequencies of 40 Hz have been produced in the brain with binaural sound and measured experimentally.[19]
When the perceived beat frequency corresponds to the delta, theta, alpha, beta, or gamma range of brainwave frequencies, the brainwaves entrain to or move towards the beat frequency.[20] For example, if a 315 Hz sine wave is played into the right ear and a 325 Hz one into the left ear, the brain is entrained towards the beat frequency 10 Hz, in the alpha range. Since alpha range is associated with relaxation, this has a relaxing effect or if in the beta range, more alertness. An experiment with binaural sound stimulation using beat frequencies in the Beta range on some participants and Delta/Theta range in other participants, found better vigilance performance and mood in those on the awake alert state of Beta range stimulation.[21][22]
Binaural beat stimulation has been used fairly extensively to induce a variety of states of consciousness, and there has been some work done in regards to the effects of these stimuli on relaxation, focus, attention, and states of consciousness.[2] Studies have shown that with repeated training to distinguish close frequency sounds that a plastic reorganization of the brain occurs for the trained frequencies[23] and is capable of asymmetric hemispheric balancing.[24]
[edit] Brain waves
Main article: Electroencephalography
Frequency range Name Usually associated with:
> 40 Hz Gamma waves Higher mental activity, including perception, problem solving, fear, and consciousness
13–39 Hz Beta waves Active, busy or anxious thinking and active concentration, arousal, cognition
7–13 Hz Alpha waves Relaxation (while awake), pre-sleep and pre-wake drowsiness
4–7 Hz Theta waves Dreams, deep meditation, REM sleep
< 4 Hz Delta waves Deep dreamless sleep, loss of body awareness
(The precise boundaries between ranges vary among definitions, and there is no universally accepted standard.)
The dominant frequency determines your current state. For example, if in someone's brain alpha waves are dominating, they are in the alpha state (this happens when one is relaxed but awake). However, also other frequencies will be present, albeit with smaller amplitudes.
The brain entraining is more effective if the entraining frequency is close to the user's starting dominant frequency. Therefore, it is suggested to start with a frequency near to one's current dominant frequency (likely to be about 20 Hz or less for a waking person), and then slowly decreasing it towards the desired frequency.
Some people find pure sine waves unpleasant, so a pink noise or another background (e.g. natural sounds such as river noises) can also be mixed with them. In addition to that, as long as the beat is audible, increasing the volume should not necessarily improve the effectiveness, therefore using a low volume is usually suggested. One theory is to reduce the volume so low that the beating should not even be clearly audible, but this does not seem to be the case (see the next paragraph).
[edit] Other uses
In addition to lowering the brain frequency to relax the listener (or to raise it to help focusing), there are other controversial, alleged uses for binaural beats. For example, that by using specific frequencies an individual can stimulate certain glands to produce desired hormones. Beta-endorphin has been modulated in studies using alpha-theta brain wave training,[25] and dopamine with binaural beats.[26] Among other alleged uses, there are reducing learning time and sleeping needs (theta waves are thought to improve learning, since children, who have stronger theta waves, and remain in this state for a longer period of time than adults, usually learn faster than adults;[citation needed] and some people find that half an hour in the theta state can reduce sleeping needs up to four hours;[citation needed] however, this is supposed to happen with any way to get into theta state, e.g. meditation;[citation needed]) some use them for lucid dreaming and even for attempting out-of-body experiences, astral projection, telepathy and psychokinesis. However, the role of alpha-wave activity in lucid dreaming is subject to ongoing research).[27][28][29]
Alpha-theta brainwave training has also been used successfully for the treatment of addictions,[25][30][31] for the recovery of repressed memories, but as with other techniques this can lead to false memories.[32]
An uncontrolled pilot study of Delta binaural beat technology over 60 days has shown positive effect on self-reported psychologic measures, especially anxiety. There was significant decrease in trait anxiety, an increase in quality of life, and a decrease in insulin-like growth factor-1 and dopamine[26] and has been successfully shown to decrease mild anxiety.[33] A randomised, controlled study concluded that binaural beat audio could lessen hospital acute pre-operative anxiety.[34]
Another claimed effect for sound induced brain synchronization is enhanced learning ability. It was proposed in the 1970s that induced alpha brain waves enabled students to assimilate more information with greater long term retention.[35] In more recent times has come more understanding of the role of theta brain waves in behavioural learning.[36] The presence of theta patterns in the brain has been associated with increased receptivity for learning and decreased filtering by the left hemisphere.[35][37][38] Based on the association between theta activity (4–7 Hz) and working memory performance, biofeedback training suggests that normal healthy individuals can learn to increase a specific component of their EEG activity, and that such enhanced activity may facilitate a working memory task and to a lesser extent focused attention.[39]
A controversy in media was spawned labeling Binaural beats as illegal narcotics.[40]
[edit] Example
For these examples to be effective, it is required that the listener use headphones. WARNING: play the files before putting on the headphones in order to set a safe volume, as the onset of the sound is quite abrupt and, especially in the case of the second file, quite loud at first.
Binbeat Sample
Play sound
30 seconds of steady 10 Hz binaural beats with background white noise.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.
Binbeat Sample 2
Play sound
Frequency starts at 20 Hz, falls to 7.83 Hz in 10 minutes, stays constant for 15 minutes and rises back to 16 Hz in 5 minutes.
Problems listening to this file? See media help.
Direct downloads of the above files: Binbeat sample Binbeat Sample 2
[edit] See also
* Brainwave synchronization
* Electroencephalography
* Event-related potential
* Evoked potential
* Gnaural
* Hemi-Sync
* Human enhancement
* Induced activity
* Intelligence amplification
* Lucid dream
* Mind machine
* Neural oscillation
* Neurofeedback
* Ongoing brain activity
* Power-Nap Recording
* Schumann resonances
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