We look out of the window and we can see the splendour of Mother Nature. The grass is green, the sky is blue, up is up and down is down. Everything is as it should be. But is it that all of this happens because we expect it to? What if all we see only appears that way because we have been told? That this is the only way it can be?
Warning: This post is highly controversial. It may at times seem inflammatory to business, government and religion. DO NOT READ if you are easily offended by negative religious comments. But in the end you may understand how important gaining your own personal perspective really is.
Dec 15th marked a tragic day in American History. The bill of rights in the United States has been through the shredder. Most American's have never read the constitution or bill of rights and therefor do not even know what has been lost. History classes in public schools teach very little about these documents or the reasons for their existence.
One of the longest debated puzzles of life has always been that of destiny and free will; is our future predefined, or can we effect its outcome. Through a paradigm of only cause and effect, these are the two logical possibilities.
The subjective world we perceive is a function of our senses. These senses each represent a sampling of the analog world we live in. For example, human hearing extends from about 20 Hz to 20kHz, vision is limited to a frequency range of 400–790 THz and 30 “frames” per second, and likewise touch, smell, and taste are all a function of the number of sense receptors in the body.
As we go about our day, the world seemingly teems with activity and actions that are outside ourselves. Our perceptions, though, are colored by our previous experiences and deeper spiritual knowledge. So, in essence, the moment we interact with the world, we translate, seeing it from our own perspective.
Terence McKenna's school of thought plays a huge role in laying the foundation of the next Renaissance and provides fuel to the engine of evolutionary thought.
On Saturday, May 21, I had the most powerful and meaningful experience of my life. I witnessed The Rapture, and it was not at all what anyone fully imagined it would be.
Over the last several years, I have spiritually grown immensely. I learned to love and humbly respect all others more and more. My perception of others and Nature as separate from myself increasingly diminished.
Most of us have realized that the world is very wrong. For us it feels wrong most everyday, things occur in the wrong way, hardly anything is as it should be. Overlooked among all the possible reasons and causes of the distortions in our interactions with our world and everyone and everything in it, are the distancing effects of digital technology.
The face we are given to perceive
An external perception given to believe
Though the unconscious intent may be to deceive
The truth of feeling lay waiting there to retrieve
By they aware to this understanding, to conceive
So next you to a face passing, you do observe
Heed these cautionary words
That though the expression may appear disturbed
"Banish the word 'struggle' from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.
We are the ones we have been waiting for." — Hopi elders
