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Here’s a book I need to read a few more times…

I’ve been focusing on a health “problem” that’s been seriously stifling me for a few years now and “trying” to fix it. I know see that this so-called problem has been a gift in SO MANY WAYS that has led me to new vistas and understandings. It is important to embrace your pain and avoid victim mentality!

Here’s a passage from R.L Wing’s I-Ching Workbook that helped:

Hexagram 12 (Stagnation)
Relationships will be difficult at this time and you may, in fact, be adrift in a sea of misunderstandings and miscommunications. Hold courageously and unobtrusively to your values and inner confidence, for these times will certainly pass. This is true in matters of health as well. Self-reliance will see you through.

Someone listed as “Unavailable” calls me at 8:30 many mornings and then hangs up.

They’ve certainly helped me develop a new habit of shutting my phone off more often.

I’ve decided to start doing more video with the little camera I have rather than waiting for better AV equipment to manifest.

Here’s a short book review video for one of my favourite titles on love & relationships:

One of the strangest and most compelling books I’ve encountered is The Keys of Enoch. Much of it is more or less incomprehensible (to me as a person at this time) however it is also peppered with yummy insights.

Here’s a passage I like…

In breaking through the mechanistic functions of the visual world, the material form is seen as “the housing” for superior consciousness states. In seeing the difference between “I have a body,” and “I am a body,” you can use your Light for the benefit of all beings.

From my perspective, this CD is one of the most original and beautiful electronic releases available today. I can not recommend it highly enough.

The music is unlike anything else out there yet is completely accessible. A friend says her parents just love it and have it on frequent rotation in their living room.

Anahata: The Unmade Sound
http://www.saikosounds.com/english/display_release.asp?id=6466
“The Unmade Sound” is an impeccably produced album with hyperintelligent melodic architectures. It is an ocean of perfect harmonics, taking listeners deep into melodies of dreamspace long forgotten. This album is a must have for chillout rooms around the world, providing a beautiful soft landing cushion for the morning downtempo environment. It also includes a remix of Shulman’s “The Unexpected Visitor”. This is the label groups’ first release, featuring a taste of the legendary chillout sounds being seeded and grown in the bioregions of British Columbia, Canada. The CD was proudcuced by the Entheogenetic Label Group, deep the heart of the Elphinstone rainforest with design by www.onbeyondmetamedia.com and cover art by www.divinereflections.ca.

This study of sexual selection found that creativity is more of a factor in attraction than material wealth.

This study is fascinating however I think it’s difficult to measure the whys of attraction. I like the French concept of it being about je ne sais quoi.

Sexual Selection for Cultural Displays
http://www.unm.edu/~psych/faculty/cultural_displays.htm
Human culture does not make much sense as a set of survival adaptations shaped by natural selection. Too much of cultural behaviour, such as art, music, ritual, ideology, myth, humour, and story-telling, seems so expensive in terms of time, energy, and practice costs, and so useless for survival. Anthropologists have struggled for a century to find plausible survival functions for such cultural behaviours, and have not succeeded to their general satisfaction. Indeed, the difficulty of finding survival functions for much of human culture has led many cultural anthropologists to abandon evolutionary explanation altogether as irrelevant and distracting.

This pessimism is misplaced, because it ignores the astonishing revival of Darwin’s sexual selection theory in biology over the last two decades. That revival has not been taken seriously by cultural theorists, but it seems to offer their best hope for a fruitful connection with human evolutionary psychology. Human culture makes a great deal of sense as a set of courtship adaptations shaped by sexual selection through mate choice. The costs and aesthetics of cultural behaviour that make it so inexplicable in survival terms make it perfect as a set of reliable fitness indicators that help advertise one’s superiority over sexual competitors. This hypothesis offers a natural way of explaining the distinctive age and sex patterns of human cultural production.

I have been offering copy editing services as part of my professional services and was thrilled to recently find a new unsolicited client who had found my site online.

I have work happening until June or so (it’s a grant funded contract that may or may not be extended) and after that it’s all unknown. It seems as if unexpected change and unsteady pay is the new normal. I am aware that this is what I have chosen. At least it’s not boring :)

Last night I saw Phil Teertha Mistlberger speak on “The Healing and Transformation of Emotions.” He is a spiritual teacher who has done a lot of exploring both spirtually and in psychology. I liked his message of the importance of cultivating both present moment awareness and ruthless self-honesty. His words around seeing the “innocence” in anyone we’ve got a conflict with were powerful too.

Blessings to all on their energetic and emotional journeys this stormy Spring…

This video is an interesting demonstration of how positive thoughts have a positive influence on those nearby. Negative thoughts have a negative influence, however (good news!) positive ones are stronger.

Think about it :)

Here’s a short clip from CNN reporting on The Disclosure Project which claims that the US Government knows that there has been contact with ETs and is keeping it secret. They are calling for a public Congressional inquiry.

In my view it’s obvious that we’re not alone in an infinite universe…

CNN Reports on the Disclosure Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKaMQKaBazU&mode=related&search=

Video: The Disclosure Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLOIcFTSlE

The Disclosure Project
http://www.disclosureproject.org
The Disclosure Project is a nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs, extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs, ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret.

In Canada we are starting to have more security measures, albeit not to the extremes that appear in the United States in a time of media induced homeland paranoia.

Where I live we rely on the ferries to get to the mainland, so the news item below is of local concern.

BC Ferries to Screen Passengers
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/
story/2007/04/04/bc-ferries.html
Tougher security measures will start to take effect at BC Ferries terminals next year — including random screening of passengers and vehicles, says a senior company official.

BC Ferries Clarifies Security Plans
in The Vancouver Sun
April 4, 2004
B.C. Ferries is not planning to put in a complete screening system, including full searches of all vehicles and passengers. But he said that’s always an option in the event that a terrorist action takes place.

I have hung around using Blogger because I hoped the new version would have some new features worth sticking around for. It’s become clear an upgrade is overdue.

Anyone have any advice about what platform they prefer? I am considering Wordpress and Drupal especially…

Anyone out there?