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"Summertime" by George Gershwin
"Summertime" by George Gershwin

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Arranged for Steel Band by Josh Quillen

Arranged with a cha-cha feel. “Summertime” is one of the most popular melodies from the Opera, “Porgy and Bess,” by Gershwin. The piece is arranged with an open form to allow the members of your band to take solos. “Summertime” will give you a chance to showcase one of the many different styles of music a steel band can play.

Difficulty: Easy (great for junior high, high school, and college steel band)

Instrumentation: tenor/double tenor/double seconds/cello/bass/drum set/percussion

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Swing Dancing

A band I know was playing for a swing dance group the other night.
I've photographed swing dancers before with mixed results.
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I don't like using the flash in a situation like this (it's disruptive) but a few of the shots weren't bad.

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My knees ache just watching her!!

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Nicely done!!! The flash worked!!!

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The flash paid off in this shot.

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Coronatus Announces Upcoming German Tour Dates With Haggard

Coronatus has checked in with the following announcement about upcoming tour dates with Haggard:

"Coronatus is very excited to be confirmed as direct support of Haggard on their upcoming tour through Germany! With Coronatus' most actual album, 'Fabula Magna,' and a special tour line up, Coronatus is ready to excite old and new fans, which did not have the chance so far to experience Coronatus live.

"Besides new band members Mareike Makosch on vocals, and Dirk Baur on bass guitar, there will be two well known former band members on vocals. Viola Schuch, vocalist on the first coming album 'Lux Noctis,' and Ada Flechtner, rock voice on 'Porta Obscura,'will support Coronatus on their german tour. Additionally, more guest musicians from the Gothic and Pagan scene will be seen in the Coronatus line up throughout the tour. For sure, this will be an amazing live experience! Rehearsals for the tour are running. The band will play the 'best of the best' from the last three albums."

The currently announced dates are as follows:

27.03.2011 (GER) Fulda - Alte Piesel
30.03.2011 (GER) Essen - Zeche Carl
02.04.2011 (GER) Berlin - K17
03.04.2011 (GER) Frankfurt - Batschkapp
04.04.2011 (GER) Ottweiler - Club Schulz
06.04.2011 (GER) Hamburg - Markthalle
09.04.2011 (GER) Glauchau - Alte Spinnerei
14.04.2011 (GER) Augsburg - Kantine
16.04.2011 (GER) Karlsruhe - Substage
20.04.2011 (GER) Muenchen - Backstage

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Chosen Responds to Inquiries on Possibility of Upcoming Tour

After the release of its debut album, "Resolution," back in March, Chosen has received many inquiries on the possibility of an upcoming tour. The Irish extreme metallers weighed in the pros and cons of touring as an independent band. Read on for the band's decision.

"It’s been a couple of months since we released 'Resolution' to the public and one particular subject that has surfaced in comments and interviews is whether we will be playing live. As a quick perusal of our previous gig dates attests, touring is something we have experience of and it’s something we've never ruled out from ever happening again. However, considering all the risks involved and the nature of the underground live music scene being completely flooded with gigging bands, we have seriously questioned the (in)sanity of trying to organise a tour for this album.

"Obviously, there are people out there who would love to see us perform and we are humbled by such requests. But touring, on an independent level such as ours, is likely to invite more complications and stress into our lives than the pleasure of another ‘working holiday’ in a foreign land, playing to audiences, could ever compensate for. We’re not strictly anti-touring, by any means, as it really can be a fun experience when the circumstances are right. But all too often it leads to burn-out, line-up changes and even breakups, as we once discovered.

"While most people now understand that there is relatively little money to be made in selling music, this has shifted the focus onto tours as being the only viable source of income. Yet, contrary to popular belief, touring can be one of the fastest ways for a band to lose money because of the costs involved. That said; some musicians are quite okay with this kind of ‘pay-off’ as it gives them a vacation from their normal life back home. Moreover, given that people typically pay to visit holiday destinations for the experience, if a touring band are also paying so that they can perform music live, what’s wrong with that? At the end of the day, it boils down to what each band is trying to achieve and what they’re prepared to accept.

"The general consensus is that touring has a central role to play in ‘getting the music out there,’ exposing it to new audiences, as well as just putting on a great live show for existing fans. A lot of young bands from the time of their initial formation have aspirations of touring one day. They often start out by saying they want to ‘record and then tour,’ and there are a number of valid reasons for this. Firstly, touring has been the standard model since before the music business even came about and is, therefore, the tried and tested route. Secondly, when everything does fall into place, and there are many variables to consider, it can be the gateway to future financial success and relative stability. But, as with most things, there is another side to the coin.

"Sadly, many underground bands commit to various kinds of tours that do absolutely nothing for them. Of course, the rationale behind such decisions is usually that some good will come of it because ‘every band that ever made it toured at one stage or another.’ While there is a kernel of truth to this statement, it conveniently ignores the probabilities and real life circumstances that are part and parcel of the whole touring dynamic. Some musicians, usually (but not limited to) those who reside within the niche genres, can adopt a heavily romanticised view of the touring lifestyle. The notion of being a ‘road warrior,’ slumming it out as a working musician away from the mundane day-to-day trappings of contemporary life, all in the name of ‘staying true’ to themselves and following their heart, is quite attractive to many impressionable young people. In fact, it is very easy to see how one could become embroiled in such romantic desires fuelled by a sense of symbolic rebellion, as opposed to settling down and working a boring, ‘normal’ job until retirement age, like the majority of people in society end up doing out of basic necessity.

"But while these self-styled musical adherents may proudly dedicate themselves to playing anywhere that supplies electricity and a stage, all in the name of being a ‘true’ artist, the lifestyle can lead many to dire straits, both financially and emotionally. Of course, these particular individuals may downplay the negatives of their chosen regime when the subject comes up in discussion with others, but it just goes to show that playing live music can mean more to some people than having a relatively comfortable life. Perhaps many of these kinds of touring musicians are simply looking for an escape that isn't there. People will go on tour and put themselves through all kinds of situations for certain forms of compensation, not always money. Reputation, attention, social status; these things are all highly valued within society. It’s human nature. People will gladly do tours if it ‘pays’ them in other ways.

"Even bands that decide to ‘buy-on’ to small tour packages will often take the opportunity to publicise how they’re opening for such a band (and doing a number of dates in different cities/countries) as though this is some kind of yardstick for measuring success. But if they had to pay to be there, then just how impressive is it really? While some might look at it as a result of the band’s hard work and talent, those with a different perspective on how the industry operates might see it for what it is: a promoter who needed some financial security by offering a support slot to a much lesser known band that were willing to fork out a significant sum of money for the privilege. Each to their own. Where we (and many others) draw the line with touring is when it starts to interfere with other areas of life.

"While some musicians adopt the aforementioned self-styled image of total commitment to music and remain entrenched in a kind of protective confinement of a limited set of rules (‘I am a touring musician and music is my life’), we have never felt the need to restrict ourselves in such a way. And although certain musicians espouse that touring is a duty no matter what, as though you’re not as serious a musician if you don’t tour, some of these same idealists also tend to omit how they've been supported by their parents their whole lives (which has allowed them to stay in a bubble of their own reality), and no matter how badly they screwed up, someone was always there to bail them out of their self-made troubles.Rock ‘n’ roll, indeed. If there’s any sort of advice or ‘message’ to be gleaned from this entire piece of self-indulgent verbosity, it’s that before diving headfirst into trying to make some money from music, which could involve having to hit the road every few months, one should take stock of the odds. For example, you wouldn’t be able to justify spending half of your income on lottery tickets would you? And why not? ‘It’s a lot of money to sink into something for which the odds are so high; the money could be better spent on other things instead.’ Those are the very same reasons that prevent many people from attempting a ‘career’ in the music industry today. Because, just like the lottery, it is a game of probability. Yes, it requires talent, enthusiasm, perseverance and luck but no self-serving bias can ever shield the true reality of the statistics. There are winners but there are definitely losers (in the sense of not being able to sustain the lifestyle) and droves of them. The other difference is that buying lottery tickets doesn't involve having to ‘hit the road,’ which often means unpaid time off work or having to quit one’s job entirely and looking for a new job when the tour ends. No doubt the perceived status and attractive exterior of the music industry reels many people in but it’s just one aspect to being a musician in the digital age. Maybe in order to understand the persistence of some musicians we need to look at their emotional needs first. How many bands have members who will hack it out and keep going regardless of the repercussions, simply because of pride or an unrelenting desire to be a ‘somebody’? Countless musicians have at one point or another expressed their relentless devotion to making music that they would sacrifice everything else in their lives if it meant they could continue to write and express themselves.

"The search for significance in life is an incredible one. Yet the real significance of our lives is that we are even here. In a world of approximately seven billion people, we are all searching for significance (we evolved to feel that way) but significance is not the same as conspicuous success. Understandably, the actions of many people are motivated by wanting to leave their mark on the world. However, not everyone will have their dreams fulfilled. Indeed, some people can’t handle the possibility that their life may turn out to be nothing more than ‘ordinary’ (a truly subjective term) so they try to make their lives super special and attempt to fill it with things that only a handful of people get to experience in life. It’s a recipe for disillusionment and disappointment in a lot of cases.

"But returning to touring; we are not all that enthusiastic about putting ourselves in a very financially-risky situation just so we can say we’re on tour and feel like we’re achieving something important because there are people out there who will come along to watch us. As it stands, we receive very little money through selling hardcopies of our music and donations and, therefore, are not about to take the plunge into putting a tour together which could seriously jeopardise the budget for our next album. Given how so many new acts are being discovered online and/or through word of mouth these days, we feel it is worth waiting to see how much our music spreads before committing to any tours. In other words: it is early days yet. Though, as time goes on, there is also the possibility that we may never be in a position to tour.Of course, risk cannot be totally eliminated but whether we travel to play in front of 50 people or 500, the expenses are often the exact same. The difference, however, is that the more people who turn up the better the profit margins, thus, making it a worthwhile endeavour. We mean no disrespect to the people who are already willing to come out and pay to see us play, but having spent a significant sum of money on the recording and promotion of 'Resolution,' we are simply not able to perform abroad at such an early stage in our development.

"Much like the internet being oversaturated with music, the live music scene is equally bloated with varying kinds of performing artists. And if many established bands on record labels are having a hard time filling venues for their tours, we can’t exactly expect to be free of the same uncertainties that permeate the music scene. The contrast is that having one’s music online 24/7 doesn’t involve having to take unpaid holiday time off work, arrange transport and accommodation, and haul equipment up and down flights of stairs to play a forty-minute set for a mixed audience (who, in some cases, may not have even come out to see the band but just wanted to get drunk with their friends). The point being made here is this: exposure is not limited to gigs and being ‘on the road’ is not one idealised or homogenous experience either. There are different levels and while every band aspires to play in front of bigger audiences for better money the longer they keep at it, this only materialises for a small minority of people.

"For us, it comes down to weighing up what kind of crowds we think we can pull and offsetting the risks against what we can realistically afford to do. Remember, we’re giving away our music for free but that doesn’t mean we are made of money and can run off to do any tour we fancy. As a niche band, we’ve already experienced the thrill of performing live music in new places for diminishing returns. We don’t expect to make money playing this kind of music. But we’re also at a stage in our lives now where putting ourselves in even more debt for the sake of a small tour is just not something that appeals to us. At this point in time, the internet simply offers us more exposure than any independent tour ever could, as it still allows us to reach new people but without the expense of being ‘out there’ potentially losing money."

"Resolution" is available for download or purchase on the Chosen's website.

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3 things for Thursday, Chicago:

McDONALD'S MENU. Next time you buy a Big Mac or other item at McDonald's, the calorie count will probably be staring you in the face as the company puts that info on its in-store and drive-through menu displays. Can you guess its highest-cal item?

APPLE'S PROBLEM. Is the iPhone losing cred among the kids? "That's my dad's phone," one teenager tells Andy Ihnatko.
* Laptop computer's designer dead.

VOYAGER'S GOING ... The Voyager spacecraft is about to leave the solar system.
* Will it return to menace humanity?

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June 4, 1924 – August 16, 2010

It is with great sadness we announce the passing of our Ade, a loving husband, father, grandfather, great grandfather and brother. He went home peacefully on Monday August 16, 2010 at the Foothills Hospital. Ade received his grade ten education in Morley. After leaving school, he left the reserve and worked for local ranchers. He later served as Chiniki Councillor for six terms and has been a Teepee holder at the Calgary Stampede since 1967. Ade was known to be a very hard worker and took pride in a job well done. Yet he was gentle enough to show his loving kindness to everyone he met. He showed great strength and courage and lived life to the fullest. He had a passion for gardening / planting, also enjoyed reading, sculpting, and was a good craftsman with a good sense of humor.

He was the great grandson of the Late Chief John Chiniki who signed the Treaty 7 at Blackfoot Crossing on September 22, 1877. He was a former council member and actively involved in Chiniki Band Politics to promote justice and fairness to the community members. He was also a patriarch of the Chiniki Family as well as the Mark, Powderface, Crawler families.

He leaves behind to mourn his wife of 62 years, Georgie; daughters Shirley (Clarence), Linda (Randy), Debbie (Terry); grandchildren Clarence Macdonald (Olivia), Joleen (Jason), Michelle, Boyd, Raquel (Ace), Joni (Jordie), Lacey (Alden), Kayla, Brittany and Robe; great grandchildren Kianna, Jiles, Cashlee and Jonah. He was the eldest of four brothers, Walter (Helen), Lawrence, Paul and Frank (Marjorie), two sisters, Winnifred and Helene. He is also survived by numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Ade was predeceased by his twin boys, Larry Marshall and Vern Marshall Chiniquay; paternal parents Johnny and Sarah Chiniquay; brother Wilfred Chiniquay; sisters Josephine Chiniquay, Margaret Chiniquay, Kathleen Kaquitts; brother-in-law Frank Kaquitts as well as nieces and nephews; maternal uncle Paul (Eunice); cousins Wilfred (Lorna) Mark, Johnny Mark and Reba Baptiste.

Our sincere apologies to those we have missed to mention.

Ade will be sadly missed, but we will always cherish the precious memories he left behind.

Wake Services will be held at Mac’s residence, (Morley, AB) on Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 6:00 P.M. Funeral services will be held at the Morley Gymnasium on Monday, August 23, 2010 at 12:00p.m. Graveside Service to follow at Chiniki Cemetery, (Morley, AB). Forward condolences through

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2016 USMS Spring National Championships

Michigan Masters takes 7th Place in the Regional Club Division

SN-2016-logo-2The 2016 USMS Spring National Championships took place from April 28 to May 1, 2016 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. 1790 swimmers entered the meet from 238 Clubs. Michigan Masters placed 7th in the Regional Club division with 431.5 points with 28 swimmers who attended. The Men’s team placed 4th with 281.5 points with 20 swimmers attending and the Women’s team placed 7th with 108 points with 8 swimmers attending.

Larry Day won all 6 of his individual events in the 65-69 age group and became the 5th swimmer in Michigan Masters history to achieve this milestone. He set 3 USMS Records during the course of the meet and for the year has set 9 USMS Records in Individual Events and 1 USMS in a Relay. Kevin Doak won 5 out of 6 events in the 35-39 age group for another outstanding meet to go along with the 2012 Long Course Nationals where he won all 6 of his individual events. These 2 swimmers were the only ones that achieved 1st place in their individual events.

Second place finishes were secured by Sally Guthrie in the 100 and 200 Fly, Randy Parker in the 100 and 200 Breast, Denise Brown in the 400 IM, and Fares Ksebati in the 200 Breast. 24 LMSC State Records were set by 4 swimmers and the 65+ Mixed Relays. Larry Day set 6, Denise Brown, Sally Guthrie, and Kevin Doak each set 4. Randy Parker set 3, and all three 65+ Mixed Relays set LMSC State Records.
Larry Day was the Michigan Masters Men’s High Point winner with 63 points and Sally Guthrie was the Michigan Masters Women’s High Point winner with 34 Points. Results, Records, and Placings are included in the Exhibits.

Michigan Masters Swimmers in the picture from left to right starting with the bottom row. Jeff Bailey, Robert Rossbach, Alex Thane, Meagan Mayer, Sally Guthrie, Laura Nathan, and Fares Ksebati. Middle row: Anna Nathan, John Flynn, Laurie Kaguni, Denise Brown, Tamara Steil hidden kind of, Bill Palmer, Kelly Revenaugh, and Randy Parker. Back row: Herman Conner, Ayinde Mitchell, Trevor Asti, Kurt Christensen, Kevin Doak, Patrick Weiss, Skip Thompson, Larry Day, Dennis Toth, and Eric St. Germain. Missing in the picture who swam in the meet are: David Forgione, Paul Graham, and Erich Mehnert.

Overall – Meet Results

Age Group – Results

MI Masters Swimmers Results with Splits and Scores

MI Masters Swimmers Results – Records


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EC to introduce Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail

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For the first time the Election Commission (EC) is introducing Voter-Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) in 22 assembly constituencies in West Bengal.

VVPAT is a method of providing feedback to the voters using a ballotless voting system. A VVPAT is an independent verification system for voting machines designed to allow voters to verify if their vote was cast correctly. Along with voters this will help election commission to detect the irregularities. Additional Chief Electoral Officer Dibyendu Sarkar on Saturday said that in 22 Assembly constituencies the facility will be available where the voters will be able to see the candidate for whom they had casted their vote.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Election Commissioner Sandeep Saxena will convene a meeting, through video conferencing, with the District Magistrates who are also the District Election Officer (DEO) and also the Superintendent of police in the districts.  He will hold a meeting with senior election officials in the state to take a stock on the poll preparation in the state. It was learnt that ahead of the visit of the full bench of the election commission, Saxena will review the poll preparedness and how the central forces have been used especially in the sensitive pockets. He may hold a meeting with the District Magistrates of the adjoining districts in the commission’s office in the city. Sarkar said that from December 1, 2015 around, 1,40,902 non-bailable warrant have been executed, whereas executions have been pending for 46,000 cases.  Execution rate has been improved. Around 3,84,218 liter of illicit liquor has been seized from various places, Sarkar maintained.

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Transforming Our Emotions

Originally posted June 2, 2015

In the complex accelerated culture in which we live (we call it Acceleritis™), self-mastery of our inner space, or even awareness of what is going on in there, is extremely complicated. Neuroses can arise like biocomputer viruses, and spread through society by intercommunication between people, through our thoughts and ideas and through moods upon which neuroses depend.

Be the masters of our emotions

Two recurring neurotic themes most of us can relate to involve money and frustration. Our culture is set up to cause most of us to worry excessively about money. Money is often the leading indicator of our feelings of self-worth, belonging, achievement, status, freedom, wellness, potency and security. I’m probably leaving some things out.

Frustration can mount, for example, in the workplace when co-workers and bosses don’t go along with the inspiring ideas we have about how to do our job better. Or when society does not encourage (or recognize) an inborn skill or talent and instead of channeling us into a career we love, we find ourselves doing work we can tolerate but that may do little to bring out those inborn talents.

Over time the mix of frustration and money fear can turn to a growing anger, often bottled up inside where when left to simmer and build it can become one of the causes of illnesses of the mind and body. We fall into a counterproductive cycle. We become blocked from getting into the Zone, where ideas, action solutions and clever ways to break through would lead us to create a path to more money, security and happiness.

With the emotions as a wrapper around our whole mental experience, thoughts flit along the surface of the mind. Emotions program thoughts and vice versa. Everything affects everything else in there.

We can ignite the start of a new cycle by seizing the control point where the avalanche starts — our emotional mood. Becoming aware of our emotional state and then working mindfully to take back control of the emotive space around our psyche is key. Detachment from outcome is the core of heroism. A sense of humor gives perspective. Willingness to face the worst with confidence in oneself (and for many, confidence in God/the Universe/a Higher Power) confers a courageous fatalism that has been rediscovered by all of the heroes in history.

In order to (re-)program our emotional wrapper, detachment is not enough. We are emotional beings, hardwired to have some emotional drama going on in the background at all times. Getting into the Zone aka Flow state requires awareness and management of that background emotional mood. If we are not proactively programming it in alignment with our intentions, it will continue to program itself.

Each of us needs then to work to transform negative emotion, the nemesis of the Zone, into positive emotion — which means remembering all we have to be grateful for, and all there is to look forward to and be excited about.

We may experience challenging (even heartbreaking) trials but we need to be able to shift our focus to see them as opportunities that reveal what we are really made of.

Best to all,

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Originally posted 2015-06-02 11:12:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Do what you’re moved to do.

Originally posted April 28, 2015

One of the challenges of our current reality is the pervasive condition we call Acceleritis™ wherein we feel we never have enough time to do all the things we feel we ought to do.

Don't overthink it.

Do you feel like you are always behind and have too much to do? Do you speed up your actions to the point of increasing errors that require fixing (which then slows you down and makes you feel even more behind with no apparent hope of ever catching up)?

You are not alone! We have a natural drive for closure, and the seeming impossibility of ever reaching closure on everything the mind desires closure on makes us uneasy at most times — but we have gotten used to that feeling.

During your work day or at play, are you often not sure what to do next? Try to not overthink it…

Do what most inspires you at that moment. Why? Because the chances are higher that you’ll be doing it in the Flow state, which never occurs when you are doing something because you should do it. I call that “doing it to get it out of the way”. Flow state only occurs when you are enjoying what you are doing, and doing it solely or mainly for its enjoyment.

If you’re in the grip of Acceleritis and therefore not in the Observer state, you may not know what inspires you more, X or Y or Z. The solution here is to just let your body go and watch what it does. The body often makes decisions before the mind is consciously aware of making the decision.

Don’t be driven by email/text/social media.

It has become all too easy to become driven by incoming email, texts, Tweets, Facebook and Instagram posts — meaning you don’t decide what to do next, you react to the ubiquitous digital input stream. This goes on all day and you become a willing slave to others’ priorities rather than your own. Instead, practice setting aside a time each day to deal with and catch up with emails and texts and whatever else is queuing up. This puts you in charge of what you do for the better part of your day.

Create a practice to step away from the to-do list.

What works best for me is meditation — where the mind observes itself, watching thoughts as they come and go. I find this is the most effective way to allow assimilation and closure of the most salient “anti-closures” bugging my mind subconsciously at any given point in time.

Like trying to remember a name, meditation does not work by “trying to do it”, it works by letting go of everything going on inside, and continuing to let go of thoughts/feelings/ images/hunches as they arise, watching them float away (or whatever imagery works best for you). From this effortless place comes clarity that often moves you closer to closure.

Next time you are overwhelmed, step back, and do what you are moved to do!

Best to all,

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Originally posted 2015-04-28 11:53:07. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

How Did We Become So Distracted?

Originally posted March 10, 2015

We live at a discontinuous point in history.

Most of us know that the human race started evolving from primates, coming down out of trees over 1,000,000 years ago, but it’s only been the last 200,000 years that we’ve been homo sapiens.

We’ve written things down for only 6,000 years out of those million years so we have no written record of what went on before those roughly 6,000 years.

Key Survival Characteristic

My hypothesis as a social scientist is that in the last 6,000 years, written language changed the way we use our minds.

It actually started with the cave paintings, some 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, using symbolism — we started to be able to look at abstract symbols to represent things like animals that we were going to be hunting.

When we moved to written language, we could see the language — the granular bits of information. Pictures don’t have chunks to them like words do.

Though nowhere near digital yet, we started to get into granular chunk thinking as soon as we got into written language.

This development marked the beginning of a revolution in the way we use our minds, and this has been accelerating for the last 6,000 years.

We started inventing things — first tools, then weapons and then media — and all of those things have contributed to the fact that we now every day are subjected to a deluge of stimuli that exceeds our ability to answer all the questions arising in our mind second-to-second.

We get into a habit of just sweeping things aside. “I’m never gonna answer all this stuff. I won’t try to answer all this stuff. I won’t even try to answer the basic question of what is life, what is the meaning of all this, what is my purpose? It’s just too many questions. I can’t answer them.” I call this condition Acceleritis™.

We see things like increasing ADD and ADHD and we see people who are supposed to be running big countries acting like high-school kids and not getting anything done.

This deluge of stimuli all the time is not good for any of us. In the face of the hugely distracting environment of Acceleritis, we are being distracted from Flow state, which I believe is our natural state and which occurred a lot more before 6,000 years ago.

This is why I consider psychotechnology, which prepares people with techniques to stay focused through complexity, to be so important. No matter who we are, the quality of our life depends upon our effectiveness in meeting challenges, whether as a parent, an executive, an athlete or a world leader.

Shutting out distractions

Most all of the techniques I use to increase focus and creativity are included in my book, MIND MAGIC, and I also share them here in this blog space — techniques like mindfulness, meditation, self-awareness and letting go of attachment. Learning to become the observer more often and not getting caught up or reeled in by all of these distractions, we can find greater clarity and reach Flow state more often. Learning to stay focused in an ever increasingly distracting world, we can ultimately increase our creativity and improve our decision making.

Best to all,

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Originally posted 2015-03-10 12:24:38. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Multitasking Increases Short-term Brain Fun at Expense of Long-term

Volume 3, Issue 13

Speaking at the recent Wharton Advertising 2020 Conference in New York (where I also had the honor of being one of the speakers), neuroscientist Carl Marci used his closed fist to illustrate the brain. He described the fingers, curved under to touch the palm, as the brain’s newest evolutionary part, the prefrontal cortex. He noted that this latest brain development curls back to reach for and touch the much older limbic system, the seat of motivation and emotion.

His interpretation of what the DNA is looking for in doing this, is that the service of the most intellectual part of the brain seeks contact with the primal driving forces that are the seat of the goals in the goal-seeking organism. As if the power of mind exists — like every other part of the organism — to serve the highest ends of the DNA coding the system.

It is all highly purposive and this interpretation lends greater respectability to the primal drives that for centuries have been characterized as “lower” aspects of our being. This also gets back to Freud’s depiction of the id as being the animalistic and gross, babyish and least acclaimed part of our selves. In an earlier posting I offered an alternative view of the id as being our true selves, our original essence divorced from the later layering of experience-driven neuronal nets of software that expand the true self into new territory, some of it counterproductive.

Carl went on to spellbind us with an outpouring of ideas, one of which is that multitasking is so popular especially among Millennials because it gives them a jolt of pleasurable brain chemicals (presumably oxytocin or adenosine, or serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, etc.) by maintaining novelty-driven attention on something again and again by adding in another element whenever boredom sets in, which it all too easily does.

This jibes with my theory that the Acceleritis-ridden culture shifts us into avoidance of going deeper into percepts. Due to the overwhelming daunting list of questions arising in our brains from all this stimulation, which one subconsciously wants to avoid opening like a Pandora’s Box. This avoidance of the deep makes us lovers of the breadth – seeking more brain-juice cocktails by taking the overdose of stimulation even further.

However, as Carl noted, we are less effective when multitasking. Single-pointed attention is the way to Flow state/the Zone. This means that the seeking of momentary brain pleasure actually works against the organism attaining the goals of its heart. In the long run this reduces brain pleasure more profoundly and in a more lasting way. Borrowing on the credit card of brain-juice by multitasking burns your credit in the end.

Best to all,

NOTE:  Learn more about dopamine in this article.

Heroes Outnumber Emotionally-Damaged Evildoers

Volume 2, Issue 18

What is it about the beautiful state of Colorado that explains first Columbine and now Aurora? The cowboys and today’s anarchistic militias, fiercely independent, have been associated with the Western frontier that started over 400 years ago in New England and then rolled out across the Rockies to the Pacific shore. Maybe that has something to do with it. Deep sigh.

As always, the tragedy contains a deeply buried profound mystery. How is it that ordinary people turn out to be real heroes when the going gets tough? What are we all made of inside that causes so many of us to unhesitatingly step in front of the bullet to save others?

In my intuitive cosmogony (to be released as a book later this year, entitled Imagine) it is the fact that you and I, all of us, are not who we think we are — separate entities cut off from everything else in the universe, out for ourselves. We are like pseudopods of a giant amoeba of consciousness that is the Universe, itself conscious and divine. Living through each of us is the One Divine Original Consciousness, which is the only thing that exists. What we take to be our own island of consciousness is actually the Universe’s local consciousness cache, temporarily cut off from the consciousness of the whole, for the never-ending adventure of existence.

Why then does the Universe turn bad, becoming so negative in one such pseudopod as to want to destroy complete strangers?

It comes with the territory — where there is free will, there will be error. The Jewish esoteric philosophy of Kabbalah explains that sin, aka evil, is missing the mark. The “mark” is right action for the circumstances. The insight is that no one purposely misses the mark — they are self-deluded into missing the mark.

Acceleritis has been around for as long as the human race has recorded history. According to my theory, the written language (seeable symbolic abstraction) that permits recording history is itself the primal cause of Acceleritis. My colleague Dr. Phillip Romero sets the start of human abstraction 35,000 – 40,000 years earlier than written language, in the cave paintings — when art began — although he does not assert that Acceleritis began with art.

It is Acceleritis that causes error (sin, evil) to be so remarkably widespread, and makes so many people capable of killing wantonly. And yet such people are a miniscule fraction of the human race, and most of us are as heroic as the heroes that populate our movies, TV dramas, and novels.

In the decades and centuries to come, it is my dream that we will conquer Acceleritis by training our minds to deal with the attachment, false ego selves, and emotionally-charged information overload that causes even such a small fraction of us to go so bad as to generate widespread suffering.

May it be so.

Best to all,

Being Amused by the Accelereality Comedy of Errors

Volume 2, Issue 12

Have you experienced being in a meeting where someone shoots down your idea dismissively and then presents a longwindedly crude expression of the same idea, without seeing that it is the same idea?

Have you pitched something to a company that is so clearly what they need, and then have them take a pass based on the strength of frozen ritual processes that no one believes can ever be changed?

Impossibility thinking, dream state management, “Earth must be God’s sitcom channel”, and other amusingly cynical thoughts pass through my head as I encounter these events daily. Still, I remain ever hopeful that in time the race will learn to use its prefrontal cortex, and see how the psychotechnology techniques such as those of the Human Effectiveness Institute do push back against the tide of information overload, i.e. Acceleritis, which causes the pandemic EOP (Emergency Oversimplification Procedure) exhibited in these funny behaviors.

It’s healthy and pragmatically useful to take these things as amusing rather than become frustrated by them since that negative emotion brings us down to the EOP level. If Observer state and Flow state are the objective and the answer, then the sense of humor is a major ally in the game. Humor and perspective are closely related, which is why comedians are actually philosopher/poets who express profound truths in an artistic and therefore pleasantly diverting form that cleanses the emotions of negativity or sublimates the negativity to a less harmful species of it.

The prefrontal cortex is a radical evolution. Once it was empowered by seeable (written) language starting about 6000 years ago — a mere eyeblink in human history — this triggered an acceleration process that manifests as a fall from grace, a submersion in self-dwarfing pettyism, a loss of the sense of connectedness to divinity and our numinous birthright. Acceleritis as we call it. Written 2190-2070 BC, much earlier in the accelerating information overload period we are still living in, the Lamentations of Ipou-our recall the spiritual culture that Egypt had already lost by that time.

Prior to the discovery of the first Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the Nag Hammadi library was found in Upper Egypt in 1945. Whereas the Dead Sea Scrolls appear to be early drafts of the Old Testament, the Nag Hammadi scrolls contain what appear to be early drafts of the New Testament. One muses that the wars perennially fought over the Holy Land might have something to do with the findings of these materials — which cast such revealing light on our early Western spiritual beginnings. Not exactly a grail, the scrolls near Nag Hammadi were found in a large jar. The aspect I find particularly interesting about them is the many writers who groped to explain why, if there is God, the world has gone so wrong. These explanations are all variations on a theme of error-ridden/evil early offspring of the original Spirit creator, bad demiurge gods/archons aka the Devil. The early Christian church edited out these heresies (while retaining Satan) probably wisely as they are so negative and paranoia inducing. Also, the far simpler and perhaps more logical explanation is information overload and the time it takes for information-processing beings to learn to manage their own internal resources after such a powerful mutation (evolution of the prefrontal cortex) and its cascading effects.

The most important work each of us does is the work we do on ourselves, which the Human Effectiveness Institute calls psychotechnology — the broader field containing Buddhism, psychoanalysis, Zen, and a host of other specific methodologies springing up in different regions of the world. Psychotechnology is what propels us out of the Acceleritis-driven EOP state. Many of us, with the coming of maturity, reach a permanent equilibrium in the Observer state that allows us to laugh at ourselves and to appreciate the humor in the challenging, maddening conditions of our historical period. Jews call this being a mensch. This is definitely a hopeful sign, of which many abound all around us. Perhaps in a millennium or two, we will emerge from Acceleritis on a global basis — or maybe we are even closer. What can we do to (at least begin to) make it happen in our own time?

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Who Are You Really?

Originally posted August 11, 2011

The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That, released in 2014.

Why does it matter what your true identity is? Because if, for example, you are an accident in an accidental universe, better to act 100% in your own self-interest at all times than if, say, you are actually the universe itself, in which case 100% of your actions should be for the good of the universe, because you and everybody else will wind up winning biggest that way.

As in all these posts, although it may seem as if we are talking about matters of interest only to philosophers, scientists and intellectuals, in fact we are talking about action decisions each of us must make from second to second throughout our lives — and how to make the most effective decisions for your own later satisfaction.

One of the biggest mistakes individuals make in our culture, as a result of Acceleritis™ — the information overload condition created by the written language/media revolution of the past 6000 years (an eyeblink since homo sapiens first appeared) — is the implicit assumption that the larger philosophical questions as to who we are and why we are here, the meaning of life, are irrelevant on a personal level. Instead we grind away as unthinking slaves to the assumed requirements imposed by the culture. This is true even if we style ourselves as being highly individualistic. We remain slaves to conditioning until we realize that it’s always been about the basic questions, and by putting them aside we have dwarfed our very being.

Many of you have sent me comments outside of the public commentary channel below, and/or phoned to talk about these posts, and a few of you have collared me in person to respond to one thought or another. One of my genius friends who happens to be an atheist gave me an idea. It seems that atheists (I used to be one myself) like the rest of us understandably associate certain words with certain images and so on, so that when I use initial caps, or use the word “God”, or in other ways tie the Theory of the Conscious Universe (TTOTCU) to the teachings of religions, I make it impossible for TTOTCU to get a fair hearing from my atheist friends.

Therefore in the interest of allowing all readers to evaluate TTOTCU on its own merits without distracting connotations, we will begin to skip the religious references except where essential to some actionable point. Instead let’s consider TTOTCU as if the idea of there being one universal consciousness has nothing to do with religion or with the concept of God. I consider it fascinating that while TTOTCU is a scientific theory that makes no assumptions about mystical processes but reduces everything to the way information behaves — somehow winds up also squaring with what the founders of the world’s leading religions said, which constitutes self-evident perennial wisdom. However, I will set aside my fascination for this remarkable dual explanatory power, so that TTOTCU can be presented as pure science without raising emotional side issues.

And now, to the question of Who Are You Really?

In the prior post we wound up concluding that the two things we can absolutely say for certain, really do exist, are consciousness — that which experiences, the Self — and information, the stuff of experience — that which is experienced.

These are the only phenomena we observe directly. All else is mediated by our senses which tell us that time and space, hardness and solidity exist, and yet our Quantum Mechanics (QM) instruments tell us these things do not exist apart from the Observer (Self, Consciousness). So we cannot trust that our senses are conveying to us an accurate picture of reality. There could be an unmanifest part of reality, which by leaving out heads us in totally the wrong direction toward understanding our situation.

As I’ve begun to explain in recent posts, the Theory of the Conscious Universe postulates that a single Self is the only thing that truly exists.

Let’s look at this idea objectively. Let’s divorce the idea from the idea of God. We are talking about the same kind of self or selfness that we ourselves experience.

Imagine that you started life as a disembodied self. You would perhaps become aware of yourself gradually. Once you became aware, you could imagine things and visualize things — and this process might start in your dreams at times when you went from a clear consciousness to a foggy one.

Using the dreams and the waking imagination and your powers of visualization you could — if you had endless time — imagine all sorts of things. You could classify your own mental experiences. You could perhaps see that everything you experienced could be considered as information.

Perhaps if your intelligence level was far greater than that of human beings, you could even learn how to program yourself like a computer, since the contents of your experience would all consist of information.

Perhaps then you could program yourself to create cellular selves within yourself that could only for a time experience through the perspective of those subselves, whereas you yourself could experience what they were experiencing while also experiencing your own self.

What do I mean “you could program yourself”? What would this experience be like? Perhaps it would involve concentration. In his book The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience, my friend Daniel Goleman (better known for his best-selling book series on emotional intelligence) describes the “concentration games” played by certain people in India since ancient times. Apparently a number of individuals in human history have been able to concentrate so strongly as to be able to turn off their sensory organs and ultimately even their sense of consciousness (“nirodh”, the next step on the path of insight after “nirvana”). If even a few human beings can train their ability to concentrate to this lofty degree, then surely we can imagine that a being of far greater processing power than a human — something with the processing power to create and sustain the complexity of the universe we behold — could also do similar stunts through concentration on a desired “program” of its own consciousness.

Perhaps you the original consciousness, the original self that has created us all as a part of yourself, could first program yourself to create light/energy, and then from light/energy to create matter and spacetime.

This would make you (a) a life form and (b) the only thing that really exists and (c) the underlying substrate of everything created by you to exist within you.

Certainly it would make you a very special life form compared to the life forms we know. Yet we know many lifeforms on macro and micro scales of size that have bizarre characteristics alongside which you would just be another very interesting specimen.

Given your scale it is no wonder that many individuals find it natural to worship this One Self. However that is not the only way it is possible to relate to you. One can also think of you as our Older Brother Self. It would be unusual not to naturally like you since we are you. So the natural reaction to the One Self would be somewhere between friendly and worshipful, take your pick.

That Self has creatively established a Cosmic Game It (We) play(s). Existence provides a never-ending pastime that is engrossing and rich in feeling. Obviously, on our planet part of the game is the secret of our true identity. We cannot normally during life remember anything that we experienced prior to this life, and so we tacitly always assume our identity is the body that the sense of Self currently inhabits.

In computer terms the information beyond the memories of the one instance of self, the local body that the Earth person takes to be the self, simply has been withheld from that node by not providing authorization.

The Perennial Philosophy (which however is not a scientific theory, and falls back instead on mystical conceptualization) tells us that the one self (called “God” or “the deity” in the Perennial Philosophy) gave the later pseudo-selves free will in order to make the game more interesting. This would not have worked without withholding authorization to the memory of the one self at least for the time period of the game. Remembering that one is the One, there is wisdom precluding all courses of action except the optimal for all concerned, and so effectively there is no free will. This could be an overstatement since aesthetically there are always multiple allowable choices but this would trivialize free will to some extent. Holding back the memory of the true identity unquestionably adds poignancy to the game — including such aspects as fear of death.

Again, what the Theory of the Conscious Universe posits is that this very sense of Self is the only thing that exists. That Self has made dubs of itself that for a subjective time period are, as in our case, not told the secret. We live in a permanent case of mistaken identity. We think it is us that is having these experiences when actually it is the One having these experiences through us. But our sense of Self is not different from the One. Our current sense of self is the experience the One is having in our instance of the Singular Self.

In your mind, project a mental movie: see the world and its history as if from nearby in space.

You did all that.

You are still doing it.

It is scientifically possible that this is not just speculation but rather what is really happening. In fact as science progresses it is converging on this depiction of reality. John Archibald Wheeler is but one of many highly respected scientists who have made statements consistent with the Theory of the Conscious Universe already. Science by definition must not proceed too rapidly, carried away by mere enthusiasm over an interesting new idea. So it could be after our lifetime that science finally comes out with a refined and perfectly acceptable version of TTOTCU.

Just knowing it is a real possibility gives permission to begin to relax into the more enjoyable version of life that settles in once we accept that TTOTCU may well be the true depiction of reality. In the psychotechnology (a set of practices which allow an individual in today’s super busy world to spend less and less time in Emergency Oversimplification Procedure – EOP – and more time in the Observer State and Flow State.) of the Human Effectiveness Institute (THEI), TTOTCU is not assumed. Nothing is assumed. THEI advises that the best approach to reality is to admit that we do not know the true nature of reality, and that therefore our actions must always be decided with full consciousness of that lack of certainty. This has the effect of unlocking what are culturally locked-in biases.

The fact that we then become more successful in some ways seems to provide a built-in validation of TTOTCU. For when one believes one is on the side of the whole universe, one’s behavior changes accordingly. All conscious motivations are positive rather than vengeful or petty, and this is a more successful strategy for accomplishing anything involving the cooperation of other people.

Mistaken identity and one other factor have driven most of us to “lives of quiet desperation”, as Henry David Thoreau put it. The other factor is the explosion in accelerating inventiveness triggered by written language — what I have dubbed “Acceleritis”. If this were not a mystery planet — other planets in other galaxies perhaps being experiments in remembering One’s true Identity at all times — Acceleritis might not have had such damaging effects. But the combination of the two handicaps has produced, at least for what be a brief reaction period as glimpsed from Above, a world of suffering, morbid fascination for violence, war, petty bickering, mental disorder, emotional chaos and the self-dwarfing of the One into decidedly unheroic roles.

Acceleritis we will recall is the inability of the brain to keep up with the incoming traffic as the number of question-producing impressions hitting the brain per second ceaselessly soars upward. The advent of written language some 6000 years ago is posited to be the triggering factor in causing Acceleritis.

Acceleritis manifests through tools, weapons, and media. Manic inventiveness in all three fields is carried out in a culture dominated by a minority that was historically first to use these tools, weapons and media, and through this they acquired power and heavy metals/money/credit, they were sustained first (and always) by (threat of) violence, and all of this thuggery was papered over later by a façade of legitimacy. Still, today’s nations were each founded based on the self-interest of those taking over, with the only possible exception being the United States of America.

Even America today has been pulled back into sameness of mentality with the earlier nations. This would not have happened on a planet without (a) mistaken identity and (b) Acceleritis. Those are the two factors pulling us down as a race. They threaten the very substance of the planet.

What a drama! The One has set up a most amazing adventure epic, larger than life, larger even than Cecil B. DeMille’s Hollywood. Now the torch has been passed to us, and we are privileged to be here at this momentous time. What happens, what we do, the roles we rise to, in the next few years will be a turning point in one direction or the other.

We ended the prior post with a promise to explain in this post why I sometimes capitalize “Self”. Here is the explanation. It comes down to the singularity of the One Self. What if TTOTCU is true, and the ancients intuited TTOTCU themselves but lacked modern scientific language and method and so thought about the One Self through the only lenses they had, including the impulse to attribute nature to a cosmic personality, what religion calls “God”. Why capitalize it, why consider it to be above us? Why not do so, since the whole of oneself is clearly above any part of oneself. Why worship the One Self? This is more a matter of aesthetics. The One Self logically being our own larger self in TTOTCU, one would naturally like and love it and wish to be harmonious with it. If worship also comes naturally then why block the feeling? If worship does not come naturally why not be open to some other form of relationship with the posited One Self? How about gratitude? How about loyal friendship?

Game Theory enters in at this point. Let’s admit that TTOTCU is just an unproven theory. Okay, so what does Game Theory tell us we should do? It says that since TTOTCU is a possibility, action based on admitting the possibility is real is better for the individual than acting as if the possibility is ridiculous. Because if TTOTCU turns out to be true (each of us will either find out after death that it is true, or we will no longer be aware of anything), then it would be better to have that base covered just in case.

Based on the way I am betting, my actions are always (except when I slip into robot behavior) in light of TTOTCU, and hence my use of initial capitals sometimes to relate to the One Self. I will tone down that convention now in order to make it easier for agnostic/atheist readers to consider the possibility of TTOTCU being accurate.

What is the meaning of life? Life is a game and an art form. It is the supreme game and the supreme art form. It is cosmic and celestial. We are in fact the children of the stars. We ourselves are stars, greater than stars, we are each of the star of the show. Only the challenge slope presented by Acceleritis makes it so hard for us to realize our true identity, or even to credit that identity as a possibility. No movie character ever faced a more dramatic challenge slope. There will be no victory as great as our own when we finally overcome.

Where did the Singular Self come from in the first place? Why does a Singular Self — or anything else for that matter — exist? Isn’t it far more logical that nothing exists?

Please see and react to our further exploration in the next post.

Best to all,

Originally posted 2011-08-11 07:04:49. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What is Consciousness made out of?

Originally posted August 4, 2011

This may seem like an academic question yet it leads directly to the meaning of life. Who among us has not pondered the meaning of life at one time or another?

We know consciousness is real, we know it exists. As René Descartes said, “Je pense, donc je suis” — I think, therefore I exist — meaning that you dear reader know something exists because you are experiencing something right now. Rene might have said “something is being experienced, that is what can be stated with certainty”.

In fact nothing can actually be stated with such great certainty except that consciousness — that which experiences — exists.

So what is this stuff that exists? You and I both experience It.

It is the weirdest stuff around. Everything else is easier for our minds (consciousness itself) to grasp. That too is weird — consciousness finds itself weirder than everything else that it experiences, at least among the scientists who have dodged this question while ironically basing everything else in their cosmology upon the observer — which is the same “Self”/”Consciousness” that science has avoided investigating more deeply.

Matter, energy, time and space seem perfectly normal and reasonable to us. Those are names that we put on aspects of what we experience. Names seem normal and reasonable too. Just not consciousness — it is so ineffable, so hard to grasp, to even think about.

Scientists either avoid the subject entirely or else try to reduce consciousness to events in the brain. The late great physicist Evan Harris Walker in his book The Physics of Consciousness brilliantly posited that consciousness emerges from quantum effects at the synapses of the brain. This however has nothing to do with the experience of consciousness. It is the experience itself that we are interested in, not in how we might explain away these experiences by relating them to physical events. The latter explanations beg the question of which came first — i.e. consciousness could have created the brain rather than vice versa — and although we are culturally biased to consider that sequence absurd, there is no scientific evidence either way. It would be the definition of unscientific to take any position under those circumstances.

Those locked into cultural first assumptions are by definition unable to see past those assumptions or to even see that those assumptions exist.

Try this if you will: focus your mind on the experience of consciousness for a moment. What is it?

To ask what consciousness is made of is itself evidence of our predisposition to assume that substance — matter or energy — is the substrate of the universe, so that everything in the universe must be made out of either matter or energy. This is just a bias.

But let’s play along with that bias for awhile. Is consciousness an energy? Okay, if so, then what is energy? Simply saying that energy is a force or a force field is just replacing one name with another — it does not tell us anything, it adds no new information — we are just playing with words.

Today scientists relate to energy in terms of waves radiating from a source. That itself is an ancient metaphor to waves on the ocean. Scientists assumed for a long time (some still do today) that waves must be waves in something. In Newton’s time the term aether (“ether”) was the stuff the waves were waving. By Einstein’s time and our own the concept of an aether has become passé. Today we are more comfortable thinking that things reduce ultimately to wavicles — things that have both a wave and a particle aspect depending on the choice of instruments and experimental conditions the observer chooses to set up.

Do you begin to see The Great Circular Argument going on here? Really the modeling of “what is” falls back on the way we as humans perceive the world and the ultimate categories we place as contexts around everything else — the way we perceive time and space — the apparent hardness of matter — which we now know is actually the mutual repulsion going on in electromagnetic and nuclear energies at subatomic levels. There is no hardness, it is a subjective readout our brains feed to our consciousness. We are trapped in Plato’s cave, making up possible stories about what is really out there. But what is in here?

The Theory of the Conscious Universe* postulates that everything in the universe reduces to neither matter nor energy, but to INFORMATION. But then what is information?

The clue comes from deconstructing the word into its parts: IN…FORMATION — information is a pattern — a formation. Any pattern is information — even randomness. Since information exists in the form rather than requiring a substance — form and substance being an ancient division of aspects of things going back at least as far as the Vedas — information can exist even in something that is substance-less.

In fact we see this every day in our computers — which contain and send and receive and process information — but that information does not have a concrete substance — it exists when stored as energy/nothingness, as both charge and non-charge, representing zeroes and ones. The nothingness (the zeroes) are as much information as the 1’s (electric charges).

What then is consciousness? It is the Self — the capacity to experience — that which experiences — and the experiences are information received by the consciousness or Self. The information appears to us to be coming from something that has independent existence outside the Self. It appears that hard and/or wet and/or gaseous objects out there are encoded as electromagnetic signals that strike our visual sense organs which then encode them as electrical pulses in our brain — or that strike our apparent body where they are converted to electrical pulses we call touch — or as compactions and expansions of air that cause pressure against our auditory sense organs where again they are converted to electrical pulses in our brain — or as interactions with our taste and smell organs, also winding up as electrical pulses in our brain.

But all of this could actually be taking place in our Self. There might be nothing out there because there might not be an “out there”. Our experience would be the same.

One way or the other, we can definitively state now two things: the Self exists — the Experiencer — and information exists, for this is what gives variation to what we experience. Both the Self and information exist in consciousness — this much can be stated as fact. The rest is supposition.

But why am I capitalizing Self? The answer in our next posting — our response to the question, “What is the meaning of life?”

*The Theory of the Conscious Universe was the working title of my book, “You Are the Universe: Imagine That”, released in 2014.

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Originally posted 2011-08-04 06:42:21. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What Is the Meaning of Life? ~ Revisited

Originally posted September 1, 2015

When I was younger, I would ask this question whenever anyone, even a tour guide in a museum, asked me if I had any more questions.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn

Internally, it’s the question I asked myself multiple times a day all my life until I felt sure of the answer, which occurred sometime in my 30s.

The underlying question is “What is the meaning of ‘meaning’ in this context?”

The intent of the question is to understand what life is, what its purpose is (if any), what the universe is, what its purpose is (if any), why we are here, who we are, how we are to behave, what our relation is to one another, is there a God, and why are we compelled to consider any of this as relevant or meaningful to the second-to-second management of our personal business of existence.

In other words, it’s a packed — if not loaded — question. Continue reading

Originally posted 2015-09-01 11:34:48. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

What Is the Meaning of Life?

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When I was younger, I would ask this question whenever anyone, even a tour guide in a museum, asked me if I had any more questions.

Internally, it’s the question I asked myself multiple times a day all my life until I felt sure of the answer, which occurred sometime in my 30s.

The underlying question is “What is the meaning of ‘meaning’ in this context?” The intent of the question is to understand what life is, what its purpose is (if any), what the universe is, what its purpose is (if any), why we are here, who we are, how we are to behave, what our relation is to one another, is there a God, and why are we compelled to consider any of this relevant/meaningful to our second-to-second management of our personal business of existence. In other words, it’s a packed — if not loaded — question.

The alternative to asking and answering this question to one’s own satisfaction is either to go about life happily without caring about the question (which could be a Zen-like answer in itself, essentially filing the question away into the “Overthinking” file), or to consider life meaningless, which many existentialists did in the last century.

Other than an intuition I had at age 12 that I am God and so is everyone else, which I tucked away as an interesting but unexplained aberration, the meaninglessness of life was my own position for the first 30-odd years of life. Around age 20, as I studied philosophy, I put reasoning around this intuition, deciding that one took positions such as this based solely on aesthetic preference, since knowability of the answer to What Is the Meaning of Life? was apparently out of scope.

 In my 30s I had some unusual experiences that also reminded me of similar experiences in my childhood, at which point I felt as I do now — a very strong conviction that I actually know the answer.

As I see it, all that exists is a single consciousness of such great computing power as to know everything that goes on within itself instantaneously at all times (metaphorically speaking since God or the One Self is above time). Depriving its temporary offshoots of this omniscience it plays our roles with more drama and excitement. The meaning of life therefore is to realize and enjoy this game as our true Original Self does, and thereby re-merge into the Original Consciousness.

However, the question is complex and so is the answer. If we obsess about this question as our purpose we automatically miss the point, since obsessing about anything blocks us from higher states of consciousness. This goes back to our earlier point about Overthinking. In the context of this planet at this time, the prefrontal cortex is a new toy that obsesses us, causing overthinking and underuse of the other three Jungian functions of consciousness, namely intuition, feelings, and perception.

In my new book You Are The Universe: Imagine That, I conjecture that the One Self enjoys seven aspects of existence: simply being, pleasure, power, love, creativity, making oneself better, and selfless service. Playing our role down here amidst the vast distraction caused by the Overthinking Culture’s pandemic shock reaction, which I call Acceleritis, each of these over-loved good things becomes an obsessive attachment and blocks the subsequent level of consciousness. Maslow partly perceived this in his Hierarchy of Needs model.

From a practical standpoint, life becomes most meaningful for us to the extent that we realize our own unique gifts, we love doing the things propelled by those talents, we develop a life plan around sharing these things with the rest of us, and then we go forward with that plan without being attached to the outcome.

Thus we have a Purpose, a Mission, which satisfies the thinking mind as to our own meaningfulness. Again this can get in the way of higher states of consciousness (merging back by stages with the Original Self) if it becomes an attachment to certain “success” outcomes. In a recent bookstore talk, I reported that although I go into meetings with awareness of my preferred outcomes, I discard those at the last minute and go with the meeting flow from the standpoint of simply trying to help out everyone else in the meeting as best I can. Pragmatically and empirically, this appears to work best in balancing out the complexities of life.

So “What is the meaning of Life?” Enjoying it, loving it, loving all, and helping others to do the same.

“The greatest thing
You’ll ever learn
Is just to love
And be loved
In return.”

— “Nature Boy”, by Nat King Cole

Best to all,

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Black Is Back

Black is Back: In a BIG way.
Ok, so it never really went anywhere, and it will always be a closet staple, but there is just something about a full-black ensemble that feels totally refreshing, time and time again. Like you've hit the re-set button, and have a clean slate to work with...Literally EVERY. TIME.
And once those temperatures start to drop, I go straight into witchy witch mode, and only want to sport head-to-toe, full black looks.
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ONE - This is at the tippy top of my shopping list. They had me at fur cuffs. Style alone or peep those furry babies out from under a tailored coat sleeve.

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FOUR - Love, Love Love the vibe of these architectural earrings

FIVE - This bag is it for me this season. The shape is perfection.

SIX - Confession: I used to be a big bow girl.  I sort of veered away from it as it was becoming a little too "cutesy" for me, but this clutch is sucking me back in!

SEVEN - The tortoise heel on these otherwise basic black booties is what every designer should be doing. A little surprise on a tailored classic. 100% yes.

EIGHT - I picked these up during the last Shopbop sale and know they will be on repeat all winter.

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Martin Shkreli, former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, is best known for jacking up the price of Daraprim, a decades-old toxoplasmosis drug used by about 3,000 patients a year.

Shkreli is young, brash, and easy to mock. During recent congressional hearings, some lawmakers took aspecial delight in asking him questions about the $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album he purchased, much as I expect they act when demanding answers of their unruly teenagers. He gleefully uses Twitter and livestreams his days. He does not toe the pharmaceutical party line.

See also: Finding a Better Strategy for Pricing Drugs

Drugmakers have long insisted R&D spending pressures them to charge the prices they do even as they push back against calls to change those pricing strategies and resist legislative proposals to make those practices more transparent. Documents turned over to a House committee showed that Turing's primary motive, unsurprisingly, for the price increase was profit.

The CEOs of other drugmakers have questioned Shkreli's ethics and attitude and have described his pricing practices as outliers. Yet price hikes of older drugs have occurred time and again, at many firms, for years, and I don't expect them to stop, just as I don't expect new drugs to be priced lower than expected.

Now, this criticism and contempt for pharmaceutical pricing and marketing practices go beyond damaging the perception of drug companies and their CEOs.

The pricing debate has been intensifying for years. That's nothing new. What has changed, however, is the extent to which criticism of these so-called bad actors has extended to other players in the pharmaceutical sector, including ad agencies.

A House Democrat in February introduced a bill that would ban DTC advertising for three years after a drug receives FDA approval unless it is recognized as benefiting public health. And, in his speech at the Medical Advertising Hall of Fame's annual dinner in February, Scott Cotherman, former CEO of Corbett, singled out Shkreli, accusing him of putting profits before patients.

The industry Cotherman knows is one “where pharmaceutical industry leaders were not afraid to speak up to fight for what was right and in the patient's best interest without the fear of circus-like congressional hearings designed to further erode the public's trust in our profession.”

Exactly how does the erosion of public trust in the goodwill of the pharma industry impact the work being done to raise awareness and also market medicines? It's hard to tell, so far. But skepticism often follows the erosion of trust. Cynicism comes next.

Jaimy Lee is executive editor of MM&M.

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