Inspirational Thoughts

Thank you for your review. I'll catch it on DVD..whenever. After reading this review, I'm not going to be anxious about seeing it right away.

we were just talking bout "Just the Facts Ma'am, this week. Thanks for this, we were talking about the same thing..Facts!

I had to google USCGAUX District Convention. Pretty cool, I think. Good for you to be part of this.

I seem to be having a space bar problem :>) Wonder if that means
I'm s-p-a-c-y???

For all their economic clout and cultural sway, the ten great multinationals profiled in our latest chart--AOL Time Warner, Disney, General Electric, News Corporation, Viacom, Vivendi, Sony, Bertelsmann, AT&T and Liberty Media--rule the cosmos only at the moment. The media cartel that keeps us fully entertained and permanently half-informed is always growing here and shriveling there, with certain of its members bulking up while others slowly fall apart or get digested whole. But while the players tend to come and go--always with a few exceptions--the overall Leviathan itself keeps getting bigger, louder, brighter, forever taking up more time and space, in every street, in countless homes, in every other head.
The rise of the cartel has been a long time coming (and it still has some way to go). It represents the grand convergence of the previously disparate US culture industries--many of them vertically monopolized already--into one global superindustry providing most of our imaginary "content." The movie business had been largely dominated by the major studios in Hollywood; TV, like radio before it, by the triune axis of the networks headquartered in New York; magazines, primarily by Henry Luce (with many independent others on the scene); and music, from the 1960s, mostly by the major record labels. Now all those separate fields are one, the whole terrain divided up among the giants--which, in league with Barnes & Noble, Borders and the big distributors, also control the book business. (Even with its leading houses, book publishing was once a cottage industry at both the editorial and retail levels.) For all the democratic promise of the Internet, moreover, much of cyberspace has now been occupied, its erstwhile wildernesses swiftly paved and lighted over by the same colossi. The only industry not yet absorbed into this new world order is the newsprint sector of the Fourth Estate--a business that was heavily shadowed to begin with by the likes of Hearst and other, regional grandees, flush with the ill-gotten gains of oil, mining and utilities--and such absorption is, as we shall see, about to happen.
By Mark Crispin Miller
https://www.thenation.com/doc/20020107/miller

This article appeared in the January 7, 2002 edition of The Nation.
December 20, 2001
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I was born and raised in Chicago, so my attitude toward politicians is from my experience with the "Daley Machine"

Democratic political machine
Richard Joseph Daley (May 15, 1902 – December 20, 1976) served for 21 years as the undisputed Democratic boss of Chicago and is considered by historians to be the "last of the big city bosses." He played a major role in the history of the Democratic Party, especially with his support of John F. Kennedy in 1960 and of Hubert Humphrey in 1968.

Daley was Chicago's third mayor in a row from the working-class, heavily Irish American Bridgeport neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, and he lived there his entire life.

Daley had two bases of power, serving as Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Central Committee from 1953, and as mayor of Chicago from 1955. He used both positions until his death in 1976 to dominate party and civic affairs. Daley's well-organized Democratic political machine was often accused of corruption and though many of Daley's subordinates were jailed, Daley was never personally accused of corruption. He is remembered for doing much to avoid the declines that some other "rust belt" cities like Cleveland and Detroit experienced during the same period. He had a strong base of support in Chicago's Irish Catholic community, and he was treated by national politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson as a preeminent Irish American, with special connections to the Kennedy family.

Richard M. Daley, the current and second longest-serving mayor of Chicago, is his son.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Daley

Another web site that offers a scientific angle to the consideration of collective consciousness is the site for the Global Consciousness Project at https://noosphere.princeton.edu/. It’s worth investigating what the 50 random event generators reflected just before and throughout the next couple of days surrounding September 11, 2001. The director, Roger Nelson, is conservative in his language. Even with such a dramatic example, it’s clear – at least in the public sense – that these are scientists shaking their heads and coming to no hasty conclusions. What is especially attention-getting, for them and for us, is that the signals indicate collective shock and alarm just before the happenings. As Mr. Nelson says, “We confront a still deeper mystery.” Past, present, and future are occurring in the eternal now, according to the ancients. This could explain the signals received before the event registered on the physical plane, and many other occurrences of precognition.

Investigating the nature of consciousness from a different aspect, there is a set of three small books with messages from unidentified sources with the titles Handbook for the New Paradigm, Embracing the Rainbow, and Becoming. It is clearly stated in the beginning of each that these may be freely quoted as long as the text remains unchanged. Here, then, are offered small portions for consideration:

“All that is manifest in all forms is thought into being from pure potentiality and is interactive within itself; this is a natural process. In its simplest explanation, each human is a thought that thinks and therefore is self-aware. As above, so it is below. The entire galaxy, and more, is thought that thinks and is self-aware.” (Embracing the Rainbow, p. 12) “It is appropriate to note here again that there is just ‘one human race’ regardless of its diversity of appearance. All experience the ‘life force’ identically. Only the outside appearances are different. These differences have been exploited along with cultural and religious variations to promote separation. All bodily, cultural and religious differences are responsibilities to learn of human unity within diversity. There is no advancement to higher dimensions until that truth is experienced into wisdom.” (Becoming, p. 174. [These books can be obtained by calling Global Insights at 800-729-4131.])

There is an inspiring approach available to assist us in developing insight about our true nature in the work of Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche who left his body on February 15, 1996. What follows are samples from Volume II of his collected talks during the last two years of his life, As It Is (Rangjung Yeshe Publications, Kathmandu, Nepal. [Note that at their web site, https://www.rangjung.com we are told “The name Rangjung Yeshe means self-existing wakefulness, the natural wisdom that is the spiritual potential innate in everyone”]). This excerpt samples some of the finest of teachings which bring the essence of ancient wisdom into modern focus:
continues...https://www.bloomingrosepress.com/collective-consciousness.html

Another point of view explains collective consciousness.
COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS:
The Journey IS the Destination

Daniel J. Benor, MD

We are all woven together in a single garment of destiny.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Carl Jung originated the term collective unconscious, after observing that there were concurrences in imagery appearing in his dreams and those of patients. The dreams included universal archetypal images of people, places, animals and story lines that very often related to mythic characters and stories in oral and written traditions from around the world. Pointing to a truly collective consciousness was the fact that the myths were not restricted to the country, culture or ethnic origins of the dreamer. In many cases, the meaning of the dream imagery was in no way apparent to the dreamer, but when Jung interpreted the imagery to the dreamer there was immediate recognition of its relevance to the person's inner world and a facilitation of progress in therapy,

I vividly recall the case of a professor who had had a sudden vision and thought he was insane. He came to see me in a state of complete panic. I simply took a 400-year-old book from the shelf and showed him an old woodcut depicting his very vision. "There's no reason for you to believe that you're insane," I said to him. "They knew about your vision 400 years ago." Whereupon he sat down entirely deflated, but once more normal.

-- Carl Jung (1964, p. 69)

Jung suggested that the information and imagery common to diverse individuals, both in the present and across vast periods of time, related to a shared, collective unconscious.

While Jung is probably the most familiar modern explorer of collective consciousness, this is a concept that has been discussed through many hundreds of years, as in Plato's "Forms," St. Augustine's "Ideas of God" and the Vedic tradition's "undifferentiated pure consciousness" that manifests into individual awareness (Orme-Johnson).

Explaining Collective Consciousness is a Challenge

To anyone in Western society who has not experienced or read about this, the concept of collective consciousness must seem odd, at the least. How could someone share imagery in her dreams with another person? How could there be images that were recorded in classical Greek and Roman mythology, as well as in mythologies of other diverse cultures spanning many millennia, which appeared in the dreams of people today who had never previously heard or read of these myths?

Extrasensory Perception and Parapsychology (PSI) Research

It is not uncommon for a person to know what someone else is thinking and feeling. This occurs more often between people who have a meaningful relationship, and can happen when they are miles apart and not connected by ordinary means of communication.

The most common of these are psi perceptions of a family member in distress or danger. Numerous reports detail how a mother, other relative or friend had an inner intuitive awareness when someone close to them was endangered, had an accident or died. The closeness of the people involved suggests that intuitive links may be formed between people who feel strongly about each other.

More difficult to explain are apparently random psi perceptions between strangers who have no apparent relationship.


Figure 2. Wholistic View of Beingness and Relatingness

Full editorial in International Journal of Healing and Caring - On line,
September, 2003, Volume 3, No. 3

You may quote from or reproduce these editorial clips if you include the following credits and email contact:
Copyright Daniel J. Benor, M.D. 2002 Reprinted with permission of the author P.O. Box 76 Bellmawr, NJ 08099 www.WholisticHealingResearch.com DB@WholisticHealingResearch.com

I'm often conflicted with the same issues of wanting to be aware of what's going on in the world and prepared for the future, but not wanting to contribute the manifestation of negative energy, thus negative events. Are people using their psychic dreaming ability to tap into what already is going to happen, or are they collectively creating it?
The chicken or the egg?

I've never believed the future is set in stone and that there is some event in the near future that is inescapable. If people start focusing now on all of the negative intuitions they have, wouldn't that solidify the negative/cataclysmic future event?

"The cat sees through shut lids"~English Saying

I agree and fund these quotes to add.

While our culture highly values youth, according to Proverbs 16:31, the gray hair of an older individual is a crown of glory, if the individual is living a righteous life.

What is honor? Honor means to treat with respect or favor. Why should we honor the elderly? Honoring the elderly is not just a matter of good manners or following the norms of society. Honoring our elders is a statute of God, which is recorded in Leviticus 19:32:

"32Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD." (NIV)

Therefore, one reason that we should honor the elderly is because God commands us to do so.

quotes are from..https://ezinearticles.com/?Honor-the-Elderly&id=186733

Very nice John. Congrats on the whole thing!

I like your style. as to it changing..if that's what you desire it will happen. I know water colors are a challenge.

How fun, hope you do get in and have a great time!

If I remember right from Nature and National Geo, films/articles etc. Moms travel with other moms so I bet the birthing then has a support system of the moms in that group.
I guess she would have been freaked as to what happened to her and what was this thing about?
Hope it all works out