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Saturday, June 7, 2008

hello lovers


japan rocks

i hope you are all well

i created a new blog to share stuff from my trip in asia. give it look if you wish.

i love you

http://wanderworldwonder.blogspot.com/

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Cellular Flash Memory Data Travellers

"By appropriating and re-visioning communication technologies, the spiritual imagination often fashions symbols and rituals from the technical mode of communication it employs: hieroglyphs, printing press, the online database. By reimagining technologies in this way, new meanings are invested into the universe of machines, and new virtual possibilities emerge. The very ambiguity of the term information, which has made it such an infectious and irritating buzzword, has also allowed old intuitions to pop up in secular guise. Today there is so much pressure on information - the word, the concept, the stuff itself - that it crackles with energy, drawing to itself mythologies, metaphysics, hints of arcane magic. As information expands beyond its reductive sense as a quantitative measure of meaning, groups and individuals also find room to resist and recast the dominant technological narratives of way and commerce and to inject their fractured postmodern lives with digitally remastered forms of community, imagination, and cosmic connection...One thing seems clear: We cannot afford to think in the Manichean terms that often characterize the debate on new technologies. Technology is neither a devil or an angel. But neither is it simply a "tool," a neutral extension of some rock-solid human nature. Technology is a trickster, and it has been so since the first culture hero taught the human tribe how to spin wool before he pulled it over our eyes. The trickster shows how intelligence fares in an unpredictable and chaotic world; he beckons us through the open doors of innovation and traps us in the prison of unintended consequences. '

ERIK DAVIS - TECHGNOSIS



Balance is the key player in this binary universe. As cellular flash memory data travelers, we must find balance between the needs of the spirit and that of the soul. The spirit wishes to climb to the top of the mountain, while the soul rushes like a river through the valleys below.

All throughout our days we move through space, subject to entirely different sets of information. Our planet is moving through space, and on a small scale, we get to move through space as well. In our dreams, I suppose we get to travel the unbridled spiritual universe.

While it does not seem like it in our day to day lives, we are intergalactic space travelers and we are reaching the point in which we need to start understanding reality in three dimensions. A crystal expert, Brett Bravo, said that the Age of Pisces was defined by the symbol of the cross, but the Age of Aquarius will be symbolized by the crystal.

If we break down crystals, they are three dimensional geometric figures, while the cross is very much in 2d. If we throw a rock in a pond, and watch the waves cast by the impact, it is not unusual to think of it as two dimensional. This is our we think of our solar system, with each planet spinning around the sun. However, the wave has an element of curl to it, and so in fact it is actually creating a vortex. Waves are not just like sin,cosine, etc, etc...That is thinking in 2d. They are vortex's, and so again to go back to the solar system, we are traveling around the sun like a three dimensional wave, and thus we are never in the same place in space time again.

I think this is the true nature of three-dimensional reality, which I know at least for myself, is not solidified in my consciousness. Living on our current schedule of time while being often bombarded with the mundane side-products of a materialistic, patriarchal, backwards society, I think has influenced our operating systems, and not for the better. Spinning around as a planet, and spinning around the sun, week after week and year after year, hour after hour is two dimensional; and essentially keeping the operating system at a level of operation only concerned with the human experience.

Understanding three dimensions, I believe, is a courageous act of the spirit, and to counterbalance this, the soul wants to reconnect with the vastness, stillness, and infinite beauty that was prexistent before we got here. A book is two dimensional since it is published and supposedly does not change, whereas since the internet is dynamic, it is three. An unsustainable society is two dimensional since it does not give back as much as it takes, whereas since a sustainable one is dynamic, it is three.

I offer this potential explanation for our existence.

If you watch Paul Stamet's Ted Talk on how 6 ways mushrooms can save the world, he will fill you in that we are more closely related to the fungi kingdom than any other kingdom. In the aftermath of an asteroid 60-70 million years ago in which debris filled the atmosphere to the point where we could not see the sun, fungi were the kings of the earth. In this event they created a mycelium network through out earth's soil which transported and allocated resources to the various life forms on earth. If again for a moment think that as we travel through space we are being subject to different sets of information, that if the universe is expanding there is something contracting, everything is information. Mycellium, then, transports information through out the earth, and thus, the internet was perhaps a natural consequence of an already pre-existing model of technology to transport and allocate resources.

A possible theory of evolution according to Terence Mckenna is that in the plains of northern Africa, human beings's modes of consciousness and self-reflection (or perhaps an easy word: software) was catalyzed by the effects of psilocybin mushrooms. These humans who were fond of the hooved cattle of the region were more than likely exposed to the edible fungus which has for as long as we know, grown of out cow shit (See: Bill Hicks Drugs and Evolution).

As Stamset points out, as well as the television series Planet Earth, fungus can restructure the lives of ants. But it is important to note, that in order to do this they simply blast out of the ants head. I pose the question then, what do psilocybin mushrooms do to humans, other than break open their heads?

Here comes the heavy....I contend that we are the products of a higher intelligence which has existed within the fungi kingdom for as long as there has been life on earth. Spores can travel through space.

We are now at the point to potentially realize this...realize this reality of three dimensional space time travel. The fungus has for as long as its been here been a mechanism for symbiosis, and it has taught us what this means. In order for a mammal species to get to here, it took a long, long time, but we're here, so now what?

I believe we all have three eyes, and exist somewhere else in a spiritual universe. The underlying vibration, for lack of a better term, is love. Potentially we perceive reality with our eyes at 30 frames per second, in modes of adrenaline we can see it at higher levels, and thus time can slow down. What happens upon introspection however? Does time really exist?

We currently explode everything, but I think as a whole we are in a time of implosion. I think as a whole we may be crossing the event horizon, our vortex spinning faster and faster, and hopefully will be realized when our star passes our galactic equator, but if not...that's ok.

If you've been given love, you have to trust it...bjork

You can't trust your eyes if your imagination is out of focus...Mark Twain

If you can't see the fractal nature of everything all you have to realize is that PEOPLE COME OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE. It's freaky....Nassim Haramein

ultrasound......not just for babies


Holosonic Research Labs..... Their incredibly cool Audio Spotlight technology fires a narrow beam of ultrasound that distorts in a predictable pattern through as it travels through air. The result is the sonic equivalent of a laser - an invisible ray of sound that can only be heard by someone standing directly in its path. sooooo.
Basically, Audio Spotlight turns the AIR into a loudspeaker that can only be heard by standing INSIDE of it. Sound can be projected like a beam of light, bounced off of surfaces, and manipulated in all kinds of other novel ways. The New York Times called Audio Spotlight "the most radical technological development in acoustics since the coil loudspeaker was invented in 1925," and with good reason...

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

GM Considers Selling Hummer Line


Reacting to growing consumer sentiment, General Motors chief executive G. Richard Wagoner Jr. said yesterday that the world's biggest automaker will consider revamping or selling off some of the world's biggest passenger vehicles -- the Hummer line.

Is there any vehicle that so incites the ire, the anger, the reptile-brain rage of a group of people? Is there any other vehicle that has suffered as much defacement by eco-vandals?

Read the whole story here.


This photo released yesterday depicts members of a tribe in the Amazon rain forest firing arrows at an airplane. Apparently, the tribe has never had any contact with humans outside of their own group. And there are likely many other "uncontacted" tribes in the region too. From National Geographic:
"We are very confident the photos are genuine," said Miriam Ross, a spokesperson for Survival International, which estimates that half of the hundred or so uncontacted tribes in the world live in the rain forests of Brazil and Peru.

Some experts say few, if any, tribes have had no outside contact. It's more likely is that previous generations had negative encounters, prompting social taboos that continue to drive clans deeper into isolation.

Due to their vulnerable immune systems, these groups are highly susceptible to diseases borne by outsiders such as missionaries, loggers, or oil workers.