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Overheard on local Radio #2

In an ad marketing mutual funds and stock market advice I heard the following phrase:

"Don't let your emotions get in the way of making important decisions."

Uh...wait just a darn second there.

Emotions are to humans like barometers are to weather. How often do you get "gut feelings"? How often are you intensely sorry when you have ignored them? Your emotions are there to serve you in balance with your logical self. To eliminate your emotions in any situation and bow completely to logic is to eliminate important information you may very well need to make the best decision possible.

To be utterly logical without acknowledging the insight provided by your emotions is, in itself, utter foolishness.

Science Fiction; 80% Becomes Reality

"So few things actually violate the laws of physics.  I was shocked and I said to myself, well, people should know this.  Most of what you see in Star Trek and Star Wars is just an engineering problem."

-- Michio Kaku on the actual feasibility of science fiction concepts.

Read more here.

From "Every Eye Beholds You"

An excerpt from Karen Armstrong's 1998 book.

When men and women pray, they are in some profound sense talking to themselves. This does not mean that they are not also addressing the ultimate, since all the world's faiths do not see the sacred as simply Something "out there" but as a reality that is also encountered in the depths of our own beings.

Darwin Laments

"My mind has changed during the last twenty or thirty years. Now for many years I cannot endure to read a line of poetry. I have also almost lost my taste for pictures or music. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

If I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness."

-Charles Darwin

Nice Thought, But Mostly...I see Sheep

"Something that's going to be a major theme in the coming Aquarian Age-- the final frontier is not space. The final frontier is the inner spaces of human consciousness, the brain, the full capacities of what we can do. And so much of that is retarded and suppressed by dogmatic views, both in science and religion, that things are a certain way, and not questioned. And the Aquarian Age is going to be about questioning all of that." 

--John Hogue

From "Living the Field"

Illness appears to be a disturbance in the quantum fluctuations of an individual.  Healing might therefore be a matter of reprogramming individual quantum fluctuations to operate more coherently.  It appears we can order the random fluctuations in the Zero Point Field and use this to establish greater 'order' in another living thing.  Healing may be seen as providing 'information' that can return the system to stability.
-Lynne McTaggart

"The Limitations of Logic..."

Part of a sentence I read yesterday that is staying with me.

On 'No WONDER the Drugs Don't Work...'

It is now a proven scientific fact and beyond question that the human body/mind is electrically driven by converting light energy into chemical.

To treat the body/mind as a chemical factory first belongs in the realm of superstition. The body/mind is not a fixed anatomical structure. It is a ceaselessly moving river of the Light of Intelligence, a wonderful harmony of color, sound, and vibrational frequencies.

Sir Brian Jenner

On Skepticism and An Objective Universe

If we truly live in an objective universe, then skepticism is an intelligent choice.  If external reality is completely independent of our thoughts, then we can safely study it from a position of doubt.  Our bias may be more negative than necessary, but at least we won’t take any flying leaps into falsehood or stupidity.

On the other hand, if the universe is subjective and is influenced even partially by our thoughts, then skepticism poses a serious problem.  We can no longer safely study the external world from a position of doubt.  If we harbor thoughts of doubt, and they manifest in some way through the physical world, then we will end up co-creating a reality that is far more limited and confusing than necessary.  And when we go to study it, we’ll merely be observing the results of our skeptical attitude rather than what’s really out there.

Steve Pavlina

Read his entire thoughtful article Here

I am a radio. So are You.

"The human body is the most sensitive radio receiver ever made. It receives and processes both quantum and analog energies across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, from the lowest possible frequency to the highest, beyond microwave, beyond light into realms of energy as yet undiscovered or unrecognized by human beings."

Stephen Lewis