eel like giving up.
So, the question is, where are you in your spiritual growth process? Are you willing to put forth the effort to tighten up your life? Are you still attached to controlling the outcome? Do you meditate a little every day on your heart chakra in order to cultivate balance? Do you hassle the details?
If you want to become impeccable, you must clean and polish your being. Clean and polish. Clean and polish. Until it shines like a diamond.
And once it is perfect, you throw it away." - Luce Rene
PERCEPTION IS indeed THE MEDIUM
Bridget Riley is about the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes apparently disastrous - that can take place in a given situation.
The situation is presented in the simplest possible terms
John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963
One of the most distinctive characteristics of Bridget Riley's art is that it "insists" with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else. The experience which Riley offers is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of mind. The very intensity of the assault which her painting makes on the eye drives it, as it were, past the point at which it is merely a matter of optical effect. It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, heightened self-awareness or heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being. Bridget Riley Catalogue introduction - David Thompson Venice Biennale, June 1968…
entury and one of the greatest thinkers of all time. The dramatic rethinking that Relativity Theory impelled in our understanding of the physical world - and its continuing influence on intellectual theorizing in many aspects of science - was no less INTEGRAL ART than the sheer breadth of talent that Leonardo da Vinci displayed.What may need to be emphasised here is the vital part played by visual-spatial thinking in his formulation of theories and his radical solutions to problems.As a child, however, Einstein was far from being regarded as specially gifted and reports of his early life and education give several strong indications of dyslexia. Einstein's memory for words was poor and throughout his life he frequently misspelled names of places and people. He also continued to make errors of simple calculation, while being able “to handle deftly the most difficult tensor calculus” as Hoffmann stated. Obviously this did not endear him to his teachers in youth - yet as Thomas West has said - in time Einstein became teacher to all his professors, making the lectures he did not attend outdated and the books he did not study obsolete.
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ut reform of the country’s banks.
The article's 471 comments speak volumes of course - best encompassed by the following ...
"I think that Angela Knight has shown herself and her organisation, the British Bankers Association, to be stunningly disinterested in the very customers she claims the banks are so concerned about. She stated that certain past 'mistakes' (rip offs by the major banks) were no longer businesses the banks were in and they were now looking to the future (I paraphrase) - that 'this was the right thing to do'. No Angela Knight, it is not the 'right thing to do', not until all ripped off customers have been recompensed and that is quite simply not happening. Most customers of banks are treated with total and utter contempt - the banks seem to spend their days dreaming up ways to rip us off - getting caught out - refusing to deal with the customers complaints, indifferent to their customers and finding 'moving on' a more profitable solution.I think the BBA should consider the havoc its members have wreaked, the thousands of hard working bank employees sacked while the 'money-go-round' people, responsible for bankrupting banks, take ridiculous bonuses. It is also not just the bank workers, it is all the other hard working people made redundant, through no fault of their own, as the result of the financial meltdown caused by the banks - whose money-go-round management have felt absolutely ZERO pain - at all.How about starting with a small 5 letter word that starts with 'S' and ends in 'Y' - and then putting things right, not by casting responsibility aside and 'moving on' but by putting things right for customers and staff - instead of pocketing the ridiculous bonuses?"
As Charles Moore recently concluded ... "In some ways, our banking problem is even worse than our trade union one 30 years ago, because of the lure of money. Most powerful people in the country – especially in London – have a strong motive to suck up to the big banks. If you work in the arts, if you are a politician, or a retiring permanent secretary, or a senior army officer, if you run a university, a charity or a political party, you will want bankers as your friends, and so you will blanch at Mr King's frankness. Well, a lot of my best friends are bankers (though possibly rather fewer if they have got to the end of this article), but I'm glad someone is speaking up against a world where morality has simply turned upside down."
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tionally dated to 753 BC, up to the final conquest of Italy in 270 BC, ROME transformed from a small city-state in Italy to the master of the entire peninsula - through a long period of conquest, accomplished just as much with political and diplomatic efforts as with military might, the Romans established themselves as a major power and sowed the seeds of what would later become one of history’s great empires - as a new Roman Republic was declared in the late 19th century and crushed by French troops that same year of its creation, revolution remained in the air and the movement for the reunification of Italy succeeded; a new Kingdom of Italy took control of much of the Papal States and was soon pressurising the Pope for control of ROME - by the time that French troops had left the city in 1871 and Italian forces had taken control, ROME was declared capital of the new Italy - and gave its name to the European Treaty that established an international agreement that led to the founding of the European Economic Community (EEC) on 1st January 1958. An event that I had studied at Grammar School, which had convinced me of the veracity of the project, and the potential of the UK becoming a supporter thereof with the desire of becoming a member. When that time arrived however, for the peoples of the UK to vote on membership of the EEC, Linnie and I were not allowed a vote because of having been seconded from the Ministry of Aviation, to Eurocontrol Brussels initially and then to the Maastricht Upper Air Traffic Control Centre in the Netherlands. Had we had the opportunity to do so at that time, however, our experience of the Top Down anti-democratic "DO WHAT I SAY NOT WHAT I DO" mindset of control, had become enough to convince us then NOT to take part in THE PROJECT, whatever that was destined to [BE]come.
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t from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls—we withdraw from life instead of
enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life.”
Sonia Choquette from Trust Your Vibes
*tickle tickle*What have you laughed at lately?!? If you’re looking for a GREAT chuckle, I think you’ll dig this
YouTube clip called “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy” by comedian Louis CK on Conan
O’Brien’s show talking about, among other things, how it should be illegal to complain about
anything when sitting in a chair in the air (aka flying)! It’s HILARIOUS and an incredible reminder
on how easily we can take life’s gifts for granted. :)
And, here’s one of the 33 “six sensory practice” exercises that concludes the chapter called
“Laughing Matters”: “This week, laugh a lot. Look for the humor in things: Sing in the shower,
create shampoo sculptures with your hair in the bathtub, make funny faces while brushing
your teeth, read humorous books, rent comedies, go to a karaoke club with a friend and join
in, call your best pal from grade school and reminisce, goof around with your kids, and play
with your dog. In other words, get over your seriousness and let your hair down! Fake it if
you have to, but do a good job of it. Don’t worry if you look foolish—the more foolish you
are, the more enlightened you’ll feel.”
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ral hierarchies [holarchies], systems, and forms. Flexibility, spontaneity, and functionality have the highest priority. Differences and pluralities can be integrated into interdependent, natural flows. Egalitarianism is complemented with natural degrees of ranking and excellence. Knowledge and competency should supersede power, status, or group sensitivity. The prevailing world order is the result of the existence of different levels of reality (memes) and the inevitable patterns of movement up and down the dynamic spiral. Good governance facilitates the emergence of entities through the levels of increasing complexity (nested hierarchy). 1% of the population, 5% of the power. 8. Turquoise: Holistic . Universal holistic system, holons/waves of integrative energies; unites feeling with knowledge; multiple levels interwoven into one conscious system. Universal order, but in a living, conscious fashion, not based on external rules (blue) or group bonds (green). A "grand unification" [a "theory of everything" or T.O.E.] is possible, in theory and in actuality. Sometimes involves the emergence of a new spirituality as a meshwork of all existence. Turquoise thinking uses the entire Spiral; sees multiple levels of interaction; detects harmonics, the mystical forces, and the pervasive flow-states that permeate any organization. 0.1% of the population, 1% of the power. With less than 2 percent of the population at second-tier thinking (and only 0.1 percent at turquoise), second-tier consciousness is relatively rare because it is now the "leading-edge" of collective human evolution. As examples, Beck and Cowan mention items that include Teilhard de Chardin's noosphere, chaos and complexity theories, universal systems thinking, integral-holistic theories, Gandhi's and Mandela's pluralistic integration, with increases in frequency definitely on the way, and even higher memes still in the offing.... Mark Michael Lewis - Ken Wilber Summary of Spiral Dynamics model
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into the other-which is not at all surprising, given the brain's
need to accommodate the requirements of such different modes
of operation. It is apparent that both strategies are needed in the
long run. For some time now, human culture has been almost
entirely dominated by tools and technologies that support the
sequential brain strategy-linked with words. However, quite
suddenly, in historical terms, a new set of tools has been dumped
into our laps. We should expect that moving from one strategy to
the other will have powerful consequences.
"Thinking like Einstein" - Thomas G. West
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Added by Michael Grove at 21:46 on December 28, 2018
he living part of this planet. "We decide" to have too many children, we expect somehow to continue to have enough clean water & food. Overpopulation however has made this impossible, too much human waste fouls our water, air & food & we continue to have too many children. This can only lead to disaster, a collapse of our excessive numbers. All [y]our hopes & worthless prayers can not change anything until WE CHANGE, we MUST stop having so many dam CHILDREN ! Because of our horrible overpopulation, we have set our course to collapse, billions of us will die of starvation, disease & wars. This is the future we are leaving our children, but not me, I had no children out of choice, I won't have to watch my children suffering because of the poor choice I made by having them.
Sheila Chambers
IT IS truly shocking that Sheila has had to arrive at this conclusion, but not one of [y]our leaders of the globe have DONE anything about Colin Mason's 2 Axioms, let alone understand them - SO THIS IS the biggest thing David Suzuki has ever done, and ALL Power to his elbow, as they say. Around the world, more than 110 nations recognise the right to live in a healthy environment ... but not Canada. Together, we can change that: http://www.bluedot.ca/join-us
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Added by Michael Grove at 10:28 on December 10, 2015
ent Tufte Trilogy of Envisioning Information has become my guiding LIGHT, so to speak. I have yet to purchase Tufte's latest book BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE. I never had my own bedroom at home, until my soul-mate and I moved into our first house in High Wycombe, and even then I was sharing my bed of course, as well as our bedroom. It was as a teenager, however, living with my parents in Borehamwood, that my bed at night was a Scandinavian designed, convertible sofa-bed in the living area downstairs, over which my mother graciously allowed me to hang a few of my most treasured aircraft models, one of which had taken the shape of a Vickers Wellington WWII bomber. It was during the building of that model that I was first introduced to the geodesic method of geodetic aircraft construction and I suppose that's where the seed was sown for the creation of my very own design for a 3 DIMENSIONAL MODEL.…
Added by Michael Grove at 11:51 on December 21, 2021
e old order, and only luke-warm defenders in all those who would profit by the new order. This quality of lukewarmness arises partly from a fear of adversaries, who have the law on their side, and partly from the incredulity of mankind, who do not truly believe in anything new until they have had actual experience of it.”
Machiavelli - The Prince - 1513
ONLY when the last tree has died
and the last river been poisoned
and the last fish been caught will
WE REALISE that ...
WE CANNOT EAT MONEY
BuckminsterFuller's concern with fine-tuning
communication, developing and using words that
are consistent with scientific reality, is one facet of
the role of language with respect to synergetics.
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