In honor of one of the greatest, most honest, and most fearless revolutionary spirits that the America system has ever aroused, here is one of Malcolm X’s most powerful and relevant speeches, The Oxford Union debate of December 3rd, 1963. The topic of the debate was”Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice; Moderation in the Pursuit of Justice is No Virtue”.
Because you are energy, you are like a magnet. Everything is energy; you, your mind and your body. But as you can control your body, you can also control your mind. Instead of dwelling on lack and poverty, think thoughts of wealth and abundance. Instead of worrying that you will become ill, think thoughts of health and vitality.
“You don’t get to be a hero by being a coward and sitting back and accepting the status quo. Evolution is calling you to task.” – Thomas Sheridan
An excellent and thorough explanation of the psychopath and the reasons the world is in chaos. Why is there a war on human consciousness and how do we live up to our high human potential for living peacefully and fruitfully on this beautiful planet? The solution lies in disassociation with psychopaths and turning our energies to the elevation of our consciousness. A must watch!
The Daily Mail reports on a town of 3,000 called Villamayor de Santiago, where “rebellious” locals have reintroduced the peseta in a project to thwart the failing euro after inflation has driven up the price of essential goods 43 per cent. The cost of bread is up by 49 per cent, milk 48 per cent, and the price of potatoes is up 116 per cent. All while a third of this small town is out of work.
You see, we have been trained to believe that we must go war to create peace. We have been trained to believe that we are separate from each other and the earth we live on, or that the rule must be “every man for himself”. We have been sold on the idea that it is natural for a few people to own land and resources, and to create a money system that requires the rest of us to work for survival.
What kind of world do we want to live in? And who gets the final say? Fear less. Love more. Happy Valentine’s Day everyone!
You don’t have to be a Facebook addict to benefit from taking a media break. The trade-off can be quite rewarding and fun.
In short, holistic health has become inevitable. A piecemeal approach to wellness doesn’t fit how your body works. It is no longer “alternative” medicine that concerns itself with broad issues of holistic wellness. The need is universal, and the sooner we begin to lay down practical guidelines for living holistically, the closer we will come to higher health. In the next post I’ll cover some proposed guidelines.
This was filmed during August 2011. This is my interpretation of the fjord landscape in western Norway. Having spent countless days here, I really enjoy even the smallest parts of this landscape. Like hidden streams or dwarfish waterfalls outside of the beaten track that offer a great deal of solitude.
While decision making is believed to be a purely rational process, it is also a highly emotional one. Antonio Damasio discovered that cognitive decisions could not be made without also incorporating feelings regarding that decision.13 This has huge implications for the workplace. Choices, once thought to be made on a purely economic or rational basis, incorporate emotions that may run counter to logic.
What if each of us focused our energy on figuratively building our own rafts to float against the current? What if each raft represented a productive individual solution? And what would happen if each disenfranchised protester stopped demanding something, and, instead, simply started creating the change?
Consciousness research, which has been studying the science of giving for decades, has taught us that giving and receiving are among the most healing expressions that humans can make. They can help heal the separateness we often feel from ourselves, each other, the environment, and the sacred.
Always without desire we must be found,
If its deep mystery we would sound;
But if desire always within us be,
Its outer fringe is all that we shall see.
When we meditate, we train ourselves to wake up from our dream state again and again. By learning how to meditate, we are practicing how to watch our mind without flinching or running away so as to gain a better understanding of the stories that make us feel and act the way we do. Knowing the stories that power our automatic behaviors and deepest feelings will allow us to release these misconceptions from our inner system. And finally, without the layers of stories filtering us from reality, we uncover our true self and gain true freedom.
There are a lot of different ways to get involved in influencing peace and freedom. You don’t have to be a philosopher if that’s not your thing; you don’t have to make signs and march if you don’t want to; and you don’t have to get involved with podcasting or video editing if you don’t have the ability to. You can make great contributions to freedom movement simply by doing what you love and sharing your unique gift with the world. Maybe you are an artist, musician, comedian, or you have some kind of public platform that will allow you to bring these ideas to a lot of people.
Steve Bhaerman gives an inspiring speech on the value of being human in a time of great change.
Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened — as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding — she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
The fitting reality of this is that the entire spectacle has been put together for you. The entire universe exists because you do. You could be in the middle of trackless sands, or an endless mountain range and the oasis will appear, as will sweet honey from a rock. There is nowhere you can be that the master of all things is not present. It is the seeing and believing that is difficult but… you’re still here, aren’t you?
Filmmaker Daivd Lynch talks to Berkeley University about consciousness, the brain, transcendence and quantum physics. Inspiring, enlightening and creative.
To him, the religions were an unnecessary structure that people have created to try to understand. And understanding is not part of this at all. If you really wanted to set him off, you would just say, Don’t you think people can understand nature? And he would say, People can’t really, truly understand anything.
