Hammer Time

the GRID

"At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."

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"It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.

“Projects like the grid will bring huge changes in business and society as well as science,” Doyle said.

“Holographic video conferencing is not that far away. Online gaming could evolve to include many thousands of people, and social networking could become the main way we communicate.

“The history of the internet shows you cannot predict its real impacts but we know they will be huge.”

Better than Lotus

Appa The Dancing Elephant

Appa the Dancing Elephant is an Artistic expression for friendly, open communication. If You are here, someone most likely came up to you and shared a sticker with you. I enjoy passing them out on the playa, in the parks and at festivals. We invite you to give them to others to share. I first encountered this Outgoing character in India and have been spreading Appa the Dancing Elephant's uplifting vision ever since. To me, Appa seems Joyous and Open, Limitless and Ever-expanding (like Ourselves on our best days). What do YOU feel when you see him dance?

Creatively, I want to express myself by seeing how far We can spread Appa, and how much fun we can have doing it. Walk up to a stranger, smile and give them a happy sticker. Appa is meant to be a co-operative, interactive art piece/adventure. If you got a sticker-someone gave it to you-now give some more away. Send us pix of AppatheDancingElephant, show us where you stuck him...The further we can spread the love of Appa....the better. If you send us your address we will send you more. You can also download Appa here.

Peace,

Perry Weisberg

San Francisco 2006

Tractorbeam 08.30.2007

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The Invitation -- By Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes."

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Quantum

ride the wave of the future...

boat that is propelled by the waves it is in. wow.

solar panels to power interior.

so many solutions to our power problems. so much creativity. here comes the wave!!

Courage

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/health/08well.html?ei=5087&em=&en=227dcc7269e91cb6&ex=1207886400&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1207749769-ncQjYOgR7GTCZuGy1bMkDA

An Interesting Idea for a website

Real Life Indiana Jones Tripster

Wade Davis Interview

Entheogenic Archealogy?

I found this article today, "Anasazi - Ancient Migration - The Pueblo Mystery" in the New York Times in a section I hardly ever read: the Science Section. But it probed some interesting, wild eyed ideas which I will split into two parts. I recommend reading the article if you have some freetime, but I'll try to summarize the main points.

Part I
Many peoples in the CO/AZ/NM area migrated in the 11-13th centuries for semi-unknown reasons. For instance people from northern Arizona, almost Hopi territory, moved to more remote and dry areas in the south, or similarly, people in the lush areas of southern CO (oh my god) moved down near Hopi territory.

Interestingly this was during a period after which they had been domesticated for some time. The population of wild deer was almost obsolete and they were relying on corn harvests and the domestication of turkeys. This stagnate lifestyle, according to certain archeologists, spurred a certain "ideological" movement within the peoples, which may perhaps contain some answers as to why they moved.

Some sites had evidence of pillaging and wars, suggesting that in times of drought other peoples came and fought, not settling in the new territory, but moving on. Interestingly this was only possible during times of domestication. But some sites, which displayed different modes of architecture, looked as if they had been closed up, indicative of a potential return.

This notion of ideology forming is really interesting to me. The artifacts and architecture they found were bowls, and gathering spaces that resembled amphitheatres. This was in sharp contrast to sort of small dwellings or holes, probably used in shamanic type rituals. The amphitheatres and bowls suggest gatherings of some kind, perhaps of a religious nature.

This brings a very worthwhile element to the study of indigenous/shamanic cultures to me. Around this time too, on the east coast of the continental United States, aboriginal peoples began to experience a revolution of consciousness. This was epitomized in Dekanawidah's emergence in the Haudenosaunee (Iroqois) as a prophet promoting peace among the five great nations. Dekanawidah brought to them the Great Law of Peace, which served as the Haudenosaunee's (Haude-no-shawnee) constitution as well as inspiration for Ben Franklin and I believe also James Madison in the drafting of our constitution. The article goes on to say that the sites which did not look ravaged is perhaps indicative of the desire to spread their newly found consciousness with potential plans of returning.

Their understandings of life and themselves, I would argue were not that different from ours or other humans (Europeans) at that time and perhaps served as a prelude to this existence we live in now.

The most interesting, and perhaps daunting aspect of the article was the conclusion that, when the societies became more complex they simultaneously became more fragile.

Part II
The picture above is from southern CO and looks strangely like a place a few of us have been. There was a time down in the southwest when I had opened myself up very slowly and gently to the inner rubbing's of the cosmos. It was like eating an entire plate of fresh vegetables with a tall glass of cold fresh spring water....on a spiritual scale.

As I was walking around there was an unmistakable notion that I had returned to a place I had been before and a sense of nostalgia. I remember looking around across this mesa at majestic mountains in the distance, looking up at the stars and feeling a flux of information, not in the form of natural language, surrounding me. I carried with me a guitar over my shoulder, and with little knowledge of keys or chords or scales, didn't stop making sound for however long that duration of time lasted.

The idea of nostalgia, and that I had been there before really stuck, and the image finds its place in my head regularly throughout my weeks. I began to wonder, if events transpired in certain places, what traces of information still linger aside from physical artifacts? What memories linger if there is one universal consciousness? And is this something archeology/psychopharmacologist/ethnobotanists have really looked into?

On a similar night in New York a couple years ago, I entered some woods around my school and felt what seemed to be a whirlwind of emotions, screaming in torture. The trees were spinning in a vortex and were not angry at me, but were just angry. It was scary and I had to leave.

But a few weeks ago a friend and I were talking about ancient forests while we were driving around upstate New York, and how so many of the trees out here had been planted in the past few hundred years, while most of the others who had been there for centuries, had been cut down for lumber during the early years of our civilization. Then I again entered the woods and thought, I wonder if what I had experienced before, was again some type of indication of a historical event, that trauma lingered in the youthful forest of what was.

I suppose that my only conclusion for now relates to what the article noted as its conclusion, that as societies became more complex, they became more fragile. Complexity was a result of domestication, which in a way wasn't more complex. Rather it denied the subtle complexity that accompanied living nomadically. I guess it sought control, order, schedule in order to cultivate some of the powers of the mind, 46 chromosomes instead of 44.

As I type music is playing in my mind. It's the part of Somesing where STS9 tones it down and gives it to the piano player, after which the song rises up and the woman's beautiful voice carries us back into our original melody, but with a different force, and a different vigor.

I don't know where that music just came from.

I'm NOT Your Friend, Buddy...

Nassim does know...

I finally watched the four disc series "Crossing the Event Horizon." Wow. It was an amazing ride. There are so many things to say after watching this truly all-encompassing video. Everything from advanced physics, biblical code breaking, geometry and ancient civilizations, all get their turn. The world view presented has links to seemingly all facets of modern spirituality and academia. I wont spoil any of the fun or try to press my impressions upon anyone, but i would like to throw out one of the main themes that Nassim brings to the table.
In his discussion of the Old and New Testament, Nassim relates the former to new and powerful technology (you have to hear him describe it) and the New Testament to the mindset necessary to use the tech wisely. This point rung so true from my own bible study and for our times as well. Christ, in my mind, is no doubt the model of transcendent consciousness to me, as he (or the tale of him) was able to manipulate the physical, push forward thinking, protest the status quo and be considered the embodiment of GOD on earth. If you throw out all preconceived notions of what Jesus and GOD traditionally mean in modern Christian Sectarian Theology, there are real nuggets of wisdom in these texts.
The point is that we need the transcendent, positive, open, free, healing, loving, peace-seeking, all-inclusive mindset of Christ to cope and deal with the emerging technology and culture of our world. We need first the correct alignment of our psyche and energy body to properly handle the responsibilities that come with nano-tech, globalization, fusion, HAARP and the rest. Giving such a clear-cut and direct understanding of this need, with the help of embedded archetypes that have been a part of the western world for 2000 years is a powerful model of change and thought. We can not always change the way things are, were or are going to be, but we can forever change the way we align to our universe.



If you want to watch, talk to doze or me about getting a hold of a copy, data or disc....

hope is the means... thanks JBO

Post Modern Times

For those that are not yet aware, Post Modern Times is a new series of shorts produced by none other than Mr. Daniel Pinchbeck. Holding strong to his ideal of willing a transformation, these videos are designed to be accessible by a large demography. Here is the first episode, the others can be found at the linked site.

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Tantric Temples

Dozeme... something sweet to keep in mind on your travels.

Euler

Coming Clean

A Helpful Study:

Results Of Testing For 1,4-Dioxane

A newly released study commissioned by the Organic Consumers Association (OCA), and overseen by environmental health consumer advocate David Steinman, analyzes leading "natural" and "organic" brand shampoos, body washes, lotions and other personal care products for the presence of the undisclosed carcinogenic contaminant 1,4-Dioxane. A reputable third-party laboratory known for rigorous testing and chain-of-custody protocols, performed all testing.

torch goes out

when will china learn?

statement from chinesse government:
"But it's a pity that a few Tibetan separatists want to disrupt and sabotage the torch relay,"

ummm, i think the whole world is upset with your human rights record... fuck the torch

Scratch your face

Sustainable New Orleans Designs

13 design models for replacing 150 houses in the Lower Ninth Ward destroyed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Awesome

Hello lovers!! This picture is the view from my balcony!! ahhh! its gorgeous here.

I just figured out my address:

Torrey Trover
Room #2303
Playa Revolcadero s/n
Col. Granjas del Marques
Acapulco, Gro. 39907
Mexico

send me a silly note in the mail if you feel like it!!

love you guys