Based on his best selling book ’The Master and his Emissary’ this is the question that leading neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist explores in a challenging and controversial new FILM.
why is our brain DIVIDED?
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Tags: Dr. Leroy Little Bear, Iain McGilchrist, Jill Bolte Taylor, John Cleese, Manfred Becker, Master and His Emissary, Rowan Williams, The Divided Brain, Vanessa Dylyn
Categories : Agape, consciousness, Film, Free Will, Freedom, Governance, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Health, in pursuit of truth, Wholeness
Anatomy of Illness: pessimism is a waste of time & laughter is the best cure for pain
12 11 2016“Optimism doesn’t wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.” – Norman Cousins (the man who relied on the often overlooked medication of laughter to mentally cure his condition and live to the age of 75)
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Categories : consciousness, Free Will, Happiness (Wit = α+βxit+εit), Health
PHILOSOPHY as a servant of LOVE
20 11 2015
All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service. – Gandhi
Faced with the complexity of today’s world, philosophical reflection is above all a call to humility, to take a step back and engage in reasoned dialogue, to build together the solutions to challenges that are beyond our control. This is the best way to educate enlightened citizens, equipped to fight stupidity and prejudice. The greater the difficulties encountered the greater the need for philosophy to make sense of questions of peace and sustainable development.” – Irina Bokova (UNESCO Director-General)
TODAY we celebrate World Philosophy Day and so I’ve spent the whole of the morning devouring the material created as part of the South-South Philosophical Dialogue project designed to provide young people and their teachers with materials for questioning the world, enabling them to grow into responsible, open and participative citizens.
Excerpt from introduction: “True peace is not simply the result of political negotiations or strategic agreements between peoples and States, but the work of human beings with the training and the passion for seeking truth and doing good. True peace therefore has an anthropological basis, which is the humanised human being who is committed to truth and good as the common property of all humankind. This is precisely the fundamental importance that philosophy should have in promoting peace in the world today, as it represents the form of knowledge that quintessentially teaches human beings that the desire for truth and the desire for good come together in the desire to coexist in peace with oneself, with nature and with others.”
The texts selected for this anthology capture the spirits of philosophy in Africa, the Arab region, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean in terms of cosmology, epistemology, politics, gender, ecology and aesthetics.
check out table of contents on page 12 and start exploring: http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002284/228411E.pdf
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Tags: a South-South perspective, Asia-Pacific, Gandhi, http://www.freireproject.org/peace-maker-award-pepi-leistyna/, Irina Bokova, Pepi Leistyna, UNESCO, Whole 9 Peace Project
Categories : Africa, Agape, consciousness, Creativity, Free Will, Governance, in pursuit of truth, Middle-East, Purpose, Uncategorized
Mind vs Body: beauty not perfection
1 07 2015Walk No.30 – Still striving to adopt a growth mindset
All I need is to adopt a growth mindset I tell myself.
I’ve completed 30 walks since I first started preparing for my big hike across Scotland–my hike toward BIG CHANGE. Over the last 6 weeks I’ve walked around 300km of London streets in my boots.
While I’m slightly more confident about hiking the first 70km over 2 days, the thought of having to push my aching body up 1,344 metres on the 3rd day to the top of Ben Nevis makes me physically ill with anxiety.
For comfort I try to remember back to my days as a dancer when my feet looked something like this:
Physical states influence mental states. Mental states influence physical states. Not sure why philosophers continue to argue over which statement is true. They are both so very true.
When i train, my mind and body are continuously in dialogue. The dialogue first begins over the issue of boredom: My mind feels it is wasting time–if only I could be putting my mind towards something more productive than walking.
Then I begin to feel pain in my thighs, in my lower back, in the sore soles of my feet. I try to distract my mind away from thinking about my body by solving equations in my head. This only lasts so long before my focus returns to my body. I become conscious of my wobbly knees and the cramp in my side.
Why was I able to endure the pain of dancing on bruised toes and sprained ankles all those years ago? Why is this walking business so hard?
I continue to walk and wonder a bit more and walk and wonder a bit more. Today there are no podcasts or music playlists to listen to. It’s just me, my body and my mind.
Once more I feel the weight of my body slowing down my stride and my mind begins playing tricks on me. First my mind calmly tells my body that it’s okay to stop for a rest. But when my body doesn’t listen to my mind, my mind gets angry and tells my body that training is futile, that i will never make it across the highlands, that it will all just end in heap of embarrassment–why try if you know you will fail?! my mind shouts at me in desperation.
The fragments of my self argue all the way home.
What am I striving for? What will success mean? What is the goal? Am I striving for myself or for others? Am I striving for some ideal of perfection? What will it mean if I succeed? What will it mean if I fail? With only a week to go, I am committed to the idea that I do not know for certain the answer to these questions–that the journey itself will help answer these questions.
For now all I know for certain is that I am striving for big change in whatever form that takes. That I am striving for a metamorphosis.
When I danced I danced for the love of dance. On the one hand, the gesture of raising my leg high above my head was an intended action, consciously willed and controlled; my mind was aware of the complex kinaesthetic sensations of each of my actions. On the other hand, I was equally unconscious when I danced, almost possessed by the vibrations of sound channeling through my body.
The point is that when I danced, my mind was not separate from my body. When I danced I was not fragmented. My parts were all extensions of each other. The phenomenal experience was an experience of wholeness. My mind and my body were joined through my spirit–through my love of dance.
I have 8 more days to work on integrating my mind with my body. I am searching for that sense of wholeness. Doing my best to remove my bias view of the hike as a purely physical feat–as an ambition of the body.
I need to see this hike as art. As a collective work of art. A collective ambition to manifest beauty–not perfection.
Beauty of shared will and collective consciousness built upon a determination to unearth what Big Change means to us as individuals and for society.
A determination to pool communal resources of mind, body and sprit in order to unlock as much creative thought as possible over three intense and emotional days.
Yes, this is what it’s all about. I’m already starting to feel better about it all.
60 artists will walk together across the highlands in search of wholeness. 60 disruptors. 60 big-changers.
Some will be more fit than others but this is irrelevant. in fact, this is what make’s it an artistic endeavour.
So I will strive for this. For art and for wholeness in the highlands.
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I would of course be extremely grateful for any financial resources to support the work we are doing at Big Change. Funds raised through the STRIVE Challenge 2015 will be used to support amazing organisations and initiatives that have the potential to shape the future of young people across the UK. Big Change has a fundamental belief in the UK’s young people. They’re our priority, our passion, and our inspiration. And everything we do is designed to help them be the very best version of themselves. Helping them rise above and beyond their circumstances, and giving them the opportunity, motivation and courage to see the positive differences they can make for themselves, for others, and for their community. Whether it be helping young people learn about teamwork, communication, relationships, or giving them an opportunity to improve their emotional wellbeing and physical health, the money raised will support projects that focus on helping young people develop a growth mindset and strive in their own lives.
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Categories : Beauty, Big Change, consciousness, Creativity, England, Free Will, Philosophy of Mind
On route to BIG Change
9 06 2015
I’m raising money for Big Change Charitable Trust. Would love any support you can offer. http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/NikiBB
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BIG CHANGE: What will you do to change the world?
7 06 2015Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Striving for change, BIG CHANGE
7 05 2015So there I lie on the plateau, under me the central core of fire from which was thrust this grumbling grinding mass of plutonic rock, over me blue air, and between me the fire of the rock and the fire of the sun, scree, soil and water, moss, grass, flower and tree, insect, bird and beast, wind, rain and snow – the total mountain.
– Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain
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I like to walk.
And I like to talk.
But walking and talking at the same time?
When I talk,
I like to sit.
And I like to drink.
And I like to smoke.
If I do any exercise at all, it involves a short sprint from my car to the school gates. This has been the case for nearly a decade. I love dancing (and used to do lots of it back in the day) but one doesn’t really dance and talk. And the only walking and talking I do currently is at a snails pace with my children, articulating any combination of: hurry-up, we’re late! don’t pick that up, it’s dirty! you’ll be okay, let me kiss your knee and make it all better.
But recently, something shifted inside me. I think I’m under the spell of Big Change.
It’s called Strive! they explained excitedly during my first visit to their offices. We walk the equivalent of two marathons across the Scottish highlands over two days, and on the third day we climb Ben Nevis!
We will be a group of 60 to 100 change-makers. You know, those people who inspire, those who use their creativity to influence change across a variety of sectors for young people here in the UK. We will be a mix of educators, artists, policy-makers, entrepreneurs—and we will all be walking and talking; basically brainstorming new ideas for change as we climb, as we strive, up the highest mountain the British Isles have gifted us.
I listened attentively, trying to control my left eyebrow from twitching.
What an amazing challenge, I thought to myself and then my mind drifted as I began to picture this group of super-charged, super-fit, smiling young explorers, dressed in cool looking mountain gear, all standing proudly at the top of Ben Nevis. A flag waving wildly with bright beautiful words:
Yes, I thought to myself, this is what we need; more people like this striving for change.
And then they smiled back at me and waited politely for me to speak.
Fabulous, what an extraordinary challenge, I said. Let me know what I can do to help—I do know some big changers who might just be physically strong enough, and ambitious enough, to take part.
Well actually, we’d like you to participate in the walk, twinkle-eyed-Essie explained, grinning from cheek to cheek.
Very funny, I responded. Believe me, walking and talking is not my thing.
And that was that. A conversation that was had toward the end of February, at a time when London was still holding tightly onto winter.
But then the cherry blossoms bloomed pink.
And I attended my first Holi festival, in celebration of colour. I danced with my daughters and gave thanks for spring, for the changing of seasons and the reincarnations that are possible even among the living.
And then a little Easter bunny arrived and my daughters named her Ginger—I took that as a sign that my roots needed some stirring.
And if that wasn’t enough, one of my brothers gave me this book. He gently told me that I—that all of us—were born to run…
In 9 weeks time a group of Big Changers will take to the hills.
And the simple truth is, I want to be with them.
It’s all about developing a growth mind-set, they tell me.
A growth mind-set? Okay, well let’s see.
I wonder if they’ll let me bring a flask for my whiskey?
——————————-
Inspiring reads at the start of this journey:
Nan Shepherd’s manuscript of The Living Mountain was written during the Second World War and lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.
http://www.canongate.tv/the-living-mountain-paperback-29.html
Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science and pure inspiration. An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? http://knopfdoubleday.com/2009/05/05/born-to-run-by-chris/
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Categories : Agape, Choice, consciousness, England, Free Will, Philosophy of Mind, Uncategorized
RELATIVITY: The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once (albert einstein)
2 03 2015“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again.”― Tom Stoppard, Arcadia
“Time will warp and confuse and baffle and entertain however much we learn about its capacities. But the more we learn, the more we can shape it to our will and destiny. We can slow it down or speed it up. We can hold on to the past more securely and predict the future more accurately. Mental time-travel is one of the greatest gifts of the mind. It makes us human, and it makes us special.” – Claudia Hammond
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FREEDOM is: carving unknown own paths
20 01 2015Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Categories : Aesthetics, Beauty, Choice, consciousness, Creativity, Free Will, Freedom, Imagination, Language, Love, Math, Nature
FREEDOM is walking with AGAPE: “Yes, it is love that will save our world…” – Dr King
19 01 2015– Who was Dr King, Mummy?
– He was one of the greatest teachers of LOVE in the whole of history.
“So we begin to love our enemies and love those persons that hate us whether in collective life or individual life by looking at ourselves….I’ve said to you on many occasions that each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality. We’re split up and divided against ourselves. And there is something of a civil war going on within all of our lives. There is a recalcitrant South of our soul revolting against the North of our soul. And there is this continual struggle within the very structure of every individual life…
So somehow the “isness” of our present nature is out of harmony with the eternal “oughtness” that forever confronts us. And this simply means this: That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals. The person who hates you most has some good in him… And when you come to the point that you look in the face of every man and see deep down within him what religion calls “the image of God,” you begin to love him in spite of. No matter what he does, you see God’s image there. There is an element of goodness that he can never sluff off. Discover the element of good in your enemy. And as you seek to hate him, find the center of goodness and place your attention there and you will take a new attitude.
Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system.
The Greek language comes out with another word for love. It is the word agape. And agape is more than eros; agape is more than philia; agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it’s what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them. You look at every man, and you love him because you know God loves him. And he might be the worst person you’ve ever seen.”
– Martin Luther King Jr., “Loving Your Enemies” (speech, Montgomery, AL, November 1957)
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FREEDOM through reconciliation
12 01 2015“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
- English translation
- Joy, beautiful sparkle of god,
- Daughter of Elysium,
- We enter, fire-drunk,
- Heavenly one, your shrine.
- Your magics bind again
- What custom has strictly parted.
- All men become brothers
- Where your tender wing lingers.
- Chorus
- Be embraced, millions!
- This kiss to the entire world!
- Brothers, above the starry canopy
- Must a loving Father reside.
- Who has succeeded in the great attempt
- To be a friend’s friend;
- Whoever has won a lovely woman
- Add in his jubilation!
- Yes, who calls even one soul
- His own on the earth’s sphere!
- And whoever never could achieve this,
- Let him steal away crying from this gathering!
- Chorus
- Those who occupy the great circle,
- Pay homage to sympathy!
- It leads to the stars
- Where the unknown one reigns.
- All creatures drink joy
- At the breasts of nature,
- All good, all evil
- Follow her trail of roses.
- Kisses she gave us, and the vine,
- A friend, proven in death.
- Pleasure was given to the worm,
- And the cherub stands before God.
- Chorus
- Do you fall down, you millions?
- Do you sense the creator, world?
- Seek him above the starry canopy,
- Above the stars he must live.
- Joy is the name of the strong spring
- In eternal nature.
- Joy, joy drives the wheels
- In the great clock of worlds.
- She lures flowers from the buds,
- Suns out of the firmament,
- She rolls spheres in the spaces
- That the seer’s telescope does not know.
- Chorus
- Happy, as his suns fly
- Across Heaven’s splendid map,
- Run, brothers, along your path
- Joyfully, as a hero to victory.
- From the fiery mirror of truth
- She smiles upon the researcher,
- Towards virtue’s steep hill
- She guides the endurer’s path.
- Upon faith’s sunlit mountain
- One sees her banners in the wind,
- Through the opening of burst coffins
- One sees them standing in the chorus of angels.
- Chorus
- Endure courageously, millions!
- Endure for the better world!
- There above the starry canopy
- A great God will reward.
- Gods one cannot repay
- Beautiful it is, to be like them.
- Grief and poverty, acquaint yourselves
- With the joyful ones rejoice.
- Anger and revenge be forgotten,
- Our deadly enemy be forgiven,
- No tears shall he shed
- No remorse shall gnaw at him
- Chorus
- Our debt registers be abolished
- Reconcile the entire world!
- Brothers, over the starry canopy
- God judges, as we judged.
- Joy bubbles in the cup,
- In the grape’s golden blood
- Cannibals drink gentleness
- The fearful, courage —
- Brothers, fly from your perches,
- When the full cup is passed,
- Let the foam spray to the heavens
- This glass to the good spirit
- Chorus
- He whom the spirals of stars praise,
- He whom the seraphim’s hymn glorifies,
- This glass to the good spirit
- Above the starry canopy!
- Courage firm in great suffering,
- Help there, where innocence weeps,
- Eternally sworn oaths,
- Truth towards friend and foe,
- Mens’ pride before kings’ thrones —
- Brothers, even if it costs property and blood, —
- The crowns to those who earn them,
- Defeat to the lying brood!
- Chorus
- Close the holy circle tighter,
- Swear by this golden vine:
- Remain true to the vows,
- Swear by the judge above the stars!
- Escape the tyrants’ chains,
- Generosity also to the villain,
- Hope upon the deathbeds,
- Mercy from the high court!
- The dead, too, shall live!
- Brothers, drink and chime in,
- All sinners shall be forgiven,
- And hell shall be no more.
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Agape and the habitation of symbols
20 12 2014One who has control over the mind
is tranquil in heat and cold,
in pleasure and pain,
and in honor and dishonour.
– Bhagavad Gita
The world is a parable — the habitation of symbols — the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape. May the blessed second-sight be mine — to recognize under these beautiful forms of earth the ANGELS who wear them; for I am sure we may walk with them if we will, and hear them speak.
– Maud Ruthyn in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Uncle Silas, Conclusion
Dear Anarchist,
My name is Philomena and I am 8 years old. I am writing to you because I think there has been some misunderstanding. A couple of months ago I was walking past this wall and noticed what you wrote: “Fuck Israel, No Controla.” I didn’t know what it meant so I asked my mother. She explained that Israel ιs a country and that the word fuck was possibly being used because you were angry at Israel.

– – How can a person be angry with a country? I asked.
– Yes, it is a strange thing to be angry with a country. I suspect that this anarchist, like many anarchists, is actually angry with the people governing the country—the people making decisions on behalf of the people living in the country. Because they feel there is nothing they can do about their frustrations, because they feel they don’t have a way to influence what’s going on in the world around them, they make their feelings known any way they can.
– What do we here in Nea Makri have to do with Israel?
– Well nothing directly, but perhaps the artist who wrote on the wall wants to let us know that there are things going on in the world that we should be more conscious about.
– Like what?
– Well leaders often forget that the people of the world all come from one family. When leaders make the mistake of thinking about the world as a game of us vs. them—of winners and losers. When leaders think about the world in terms of absolutes—where there is only one right answer. When leaders stop listening to voices of the people.
– Isn’t it the job of leaders to listen to the people?
– Yes, but they don’t always. Sometimes they become too powerful and lose their capacity for empathy. They’ve stopped feeling what the people feel. They’ve sort of detached from the people. Anarchists, like the one who wrote on this wall, probably don’t trust in their leaders—they don’t trust in their government anymore.
– Can we erase these words? It just doesn’t seem very nice to look at.

So you see, dear Anarchist, it was my idea to cover up what you wrote on the wall.
My mom and I had an idea for something we would put up on the wall as a message to you to make you feel that your neighbours understood how you were feeling. We wanted to make an art work to symbolise peace. But we didn’t get to it in time and so then you came back to the wall thinking that the police erased your message to Israel… and you were even angrier at the police, angrier at leaders in control. But it was me. Me and my mom who erased your words, not the police. My mom explained to me some of what is going on in the world today. How leaders mix religion with politics and in so doing lose the spirit of God within them.
I’m sorry you were so angry and thought it was the police.

In response to this, we began experimenting with a number of ideas for a painting for you:


And then we finally came up with the painting below. It is meant as a symbol of hope that together we can embrace the spirit of God and find universal harmony somehow by listening to the sound of the earth’s vibrations. We are all children of the earth. We are all brothers and sisters. Please accept this as our gift to you and do not be angry. I pray that together as artists we can help the world to place greater faith in our extraordinary creative capacity for imagination and imagine for ourselves a world of peace.
With love,
Philomena (my mom says my name means daughter of light and love)
THE BRAIN is drawn as a maze encasing a number of religious symbols. We humans often make the mistake of interpreting God with our minds, which only leads to a fragmentation of the spirit. Perhaps we can strive to find unity through the vibrations of a shared spirit that rests in our hearts instead of our head.
The PACHAMAMA: who sits at the entrance to the maze is the goddess of the Andes region of South America. She is seen as mother earth and mother time.
THE BOAT or OSRAM NE NSOROMMA: “The Moon and the Star” is a symbol from West Africa that is meant to reflect the love and harmony that exists in the bonding between a man an a woman.
THE ANCHOR: The Anchor is a Symbol of both hope and steadfastness. Each time we raise our anchor we leave the stagnant portion of our life behind to begin a new journey, a new era of our life filled with a cleansed spirit of dreams and new aspirations. We are steadfast in our vision of the pursuit of our new dreams.
The moment we decide to drop our mental Anchor once more is the moment we finally say to ourselves “here is where I now stand” and “these are the rules I will govern myself by. We are them able to ground ourselves and feel stable despite the might the waves, tides, and currents. When we are properly anchored we are able to trust confidently in the skills and knowledge that lie in the subconscious realm of our inner-self; our God-within; our Atman. (you can read more about symbolism of anchor here: http://www.aseekersthoughts.com/2012/02/anchor-as-symbol.html)
——————————thank you sweet Σοφία Μ for translation.
Αγαπητοί Αναρχικοί,
Ονομάζομαι Φιλομένη και είμαι 8 χρονών. Γράφω σε εσας επειδή θεωρώ πως έχει συμβεί κάποια παρεξήγηση. Μερικούς μήνες πριν, περπατούσα μπροστά από έναν τοίχο και παρατήρησα πώς είχατε γράψει “Fuck Israel, No Controla.” Δεν ήξερα τι σημαίνει οπότε ρώτησα την μητέρα μου. Εκείνη μου εξήγησε πως το Ισραήλ είναι μια χώρα και πως χρησιμοποιήσατε την λέξη “fuck” eπειδή πιθανόν είστε νευριασμένοι με το Ισραήλ.
- Πώς μπορεί ένα άτομο να είναι νευριασμένο με μια χώρα? Ρώτησα
- Ναι, είναι περίεργο πράγμα να είσαι νευριασμένος με μια χώρα. Η αλήθεια είναι πως αυτοί οι αναρχικοί, όπως όλοι οι αναρχικοί , είναι στην πραγματικότητα θυμωμένοι με αυτούς οι οποίοι κυβερνούν αυτη την χώρα – με τους ανθρώπους οι οποίοι πέρνουν αποφάσεις εκ μέρους των ανθρώπων που κατοικούν σε αυτή την χώρα – και επειδή νιώθουν πως δεν υπάρχει τίποτα που μπορούν να κάνουν , επειδή νιώθουν πως δεν υπάρχει κατι που μπορουν να κάνουν ώστε να επηρεάσουν τον κόσμο γύρω τους , εκφράζουν τα συναισθήματα τους με όποιο τρόπο μπορούν.
- Τι σχέση έχει το Ισραήλ με την Νέα Μάκρη?
- Λοιπόν όχι άμεσα, ο καλλιτεχνης που το έγραψε ήθελε να μας ενημερώσει για τα γεγονότα που συμβαίνουν στον κόσμο για τα οποία πρέπει να προβληματιστούμε …
- Όπως ?
- Λοιπόν οι αρχηγοί των κρατών συχνά ξεχνάνε πως οι άνθρωποι του κόσμου προέρχονται από την ίδια οικογενεια. Κάνουν το λάθος να πιστεύουν πως ο κόσμος είναι ένα παιχνιδι για χαμένουν και νικητές. Όταν οι ηγέτες βλέπουν τον κόσμο με όρους και προυποθέσεις – τότε υπάρχει μόνο μία σωστή απάντηση. Όταν οι αρχηγοί σταματάνε να ακούνε τις φωνές των ανθρώπων …
- Δεν είναι η δουλειά τους να μας ακούνε?
- Ναι αλλά δεν το κάνουν πάντα. Καμιά φορά γίνονται τόσο ισχυροί και χάνουν την δυνατότητα να αντιλαμβάνονται τις ανάγκες μας. Σταματάνε να νιώθουν ότι νιώθουν οι άλλοι άνθρωποι. Οι αναρχικοί όπως αυτοί που γράψαν αυτό στον τοίχο πιθανότατα δεν εμπιστεύονται τους ηγέτες .
- Μπορούμε να σβήσουμε αυτές τις λέξεις? Δεν φαίνεται πολύ ωραίο να το κοιτάς.
Οπότε όπως βλέπετε, αγαπητοί αναρχικοί, ήταν ιδέα μου να καλύψω αυτό που γράψατε στον τοίχο. Η μητέρα μου και εγώ είχαμε μια ιδέα για το τι θα μπορούσαμε να βάλουμε στον τοίχο για να καλύψουμε αυτό το μύνημα για να κάνουμε τους γείτονες να καταλάβουν πως νιώθετε. Θέλαμε να κάνουμε ένα έργο τέχνης με μυνήματα ειρήνης. Αλλά δεν το ετοιμάσαμε στην ώρα μας και μετά ήρθατε εσείς στον τοίχο και νομίζατε πως το μύνημα το έσβησαν αστυνομικοί, επειδή ήταν θυμωμένοι με τους αναρχικούς. Αλλά ήμουν εγώ. Εγώ και η μαμά μου σβήσαμε αυτές τις λέξεις. Η μαμά μου, μου εξήγησε τι συμβαίνει στον κόσμο αυτές τις μέρες και πως οι ηγέτες συγχέουν την θρησκεία με την πολιτική και πως με αυτό τον τρόπο χάνουμε την πίστη μας.
Συγνώμη που θυμώσατε και νομίζατε πως ήταν η αστυνομία.
Σαν απάντησε σε αυτό , ξεκινήσαμε να πειραματιζόμαστε με διάφορες ιδέες για να ζωγραφίσουμε για εσάς
Και μετά επιτέλους καταλήξαμε σε αυτή την ζωγραφια. Η οποία είναι το σύμβολο της ελπίδας όπου μαζί με το πνεύμα του θεού θα βρούμε κάπως την αρμονία ακούγοντας τα μυνηματα της γης. Όλοι είμαστε παιδιά αυτού του κόσμου. Όλοι είμαστε αδέλφια. Σας παρακαλώ αποδεχτείτε αυτό σαν δώρο για εσάς και μην είστε άλλο θυμωμένοι. Προσεύχομαι πως όλοι μαζι σαν καλλιτέχνες μπορούμε να βοηθήσουμε αυτό τον κόσμο να βάλουμε πίστη στην δημιουργικότητα μας και να φανταστούμε τον κόσμο με ειρήνη.
Με αγάπη,
Φιλομένη( η μητέρα μου λέει πως το όνομα μου σημαίνει κόρη του φωτός και της αγάπης)
Ο ΕΓΚΕΦΑΛΟΣ: είναι μια μάζα η οποία ανακαλεί έναν αριθμό από σύμβολα. Εμείς οι άνθρωποι συχνά κάνουμε το λάθος να ερμηνεύουν το Θεό στο μυαλό μας, το οποίο οδηγεί σε καταστροφή του πνεύματος. Πιθανότατα χρειάζεται να προσπαθήσουμε να βρουμε αρμονία μέσα από τα μυνήματα για ομαδικό πνεύμα τα οποία θα ξεκουράζονται στην καρδιά μας και όχι στο μυαλό μας.
Η ΒΑΡΚΑ : « Το φεγγάρι και τα αστέρια» είναι ένα σύμβολο από την δυτική Αφρική το οποίο αντιπροσωπέυει την αγάπη και την αρμονία τα οποία υπάρχουν ανάμεσα σε μια γυναίκα και έναν άντρα.
Η ΑΓΚΥΡΑ : η Άγκυρα είναι ένα σύμβολο για την ελπίδα και την σταθερότητα. Κάθε φορά που υψώνουμε την άγκυρα αφήνουμε πίσω ένα κομμάτι της ζωής μας για να ξεκινήσουμε ένα καινούργιο ταξίδι, μια καινούργια εποχή της ζωής μας ξεκινάει με καθαρό το πνεύμα των ονείρων και καινούργιων φιλοδοξιών. Είμαστε απτόητοι στον τρόπο που βλέπουμε τα επιτεύγματα των ονείρων μας.
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Tags: Anarchism, Bhagavad Gita, Israel, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, leaders
Categories : Agape, consciousness, Family, Free Will, Freedom, God, Governance, Greece, Love, Music, Nature
Consciousness: world giving (index)
2 12 2014
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Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, Cleveland Amory, World Giving Index
Categories : Agape, Choice, consciousness, Economics, Free Will, Governance, Purpose, Uncategorized
FREEDOM: What Marshmellows Tell Us About Self-Control
28 11 2014Walter Mischel’s thoughts on self control:
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Tags: RSA, Self Control, Walter Mischel
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FREEDOM in the space of hard choices
19 11 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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FREE WILL: The Philosophical Implications of the Urge to Urinate
6 11 2014“For social scientists, the task of the experimental psychologist isn’t to settle once and for all whether we have free will, but rather to see whether people think they do. This is the study of “lay theory”—people’s convictions about the workings of the world.”
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-philosophical-implications-of-the-urge-to-urinate/
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Tags: Daniel Yudkin, New Scientist
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HAPPINESS: No hay que llorar, – pues la vida es un carnaval, -y es mas bello vivir cantando
28 10 2014(start at minute 12:25)
Todo aquel que piense que la vida es desigual,
tiene que saber que no es asi,
que la vida es una hermosura, hay que vivirla.
Todo aquel que piense que esta solo y que esta mal,
tiene que saber que no es asi,
que en la vida no hay nadie solo, siempre hay alguien.
-Ay, no hay que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval,
-Y es mas bello vivir cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval
-y las penas se van cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval,
-Y es mas bello vivir cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval
-y las penas se van cantando.
Todo aquel que piense que la vida siempre es cruel,
tiene que saber que no es as,
que tan solo hay momentos malos, y todo pasa.
Todo aquel que piense que esto nunca va a cambiar,
tiene que saber que no es asi,
que al mal tiempo buena cara, y todo cambia.
-Ay, no hay que llorar, que la vida es un carnaval,
-Y es mas bello vivir cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval
-y las penas se van cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval,
-Y es mas bello vivir cantando.
-Oh, oh, oh, Ay, no hay que llorar,
-que la vida es un carnaval
-y las penas se van cantando.
-Carnaval
Es para reir
-No hay que llorar
Para Gozar
-Carnaval
Para disfrutar
-Hay que vivir cantando
-Carnaval
La vida es un carnaval
-No hay que llorar
Todo podemos cantar
-Carnaval
Ay, Señores
-Hay que vivir cantando
-carnaval
Todo aquel que piense
-No hay que llorar
que la vida es cruel
-Carnaval
Nunca estar solo
-Hay que vivir cantando
Dios esta con el
Para aquellos que se quejan tanto.
Para aquellos que solo critican.
Para aquellos que usan las armas.
Para aquellos que nos contaminan.
Para aquellos que hacen la guerra.
Para aquellos que viven pecando.
Para aquellos nos maltratan.
Para aquellos que nos contagion.
ENGLISH:
Everyone out there that thinks that life is unfair,
Needs to know that’s not the case,
Because life is beautiful, you just have to live it.
Everyone out there that thinks they are alone and they are unhappy
Needs to know that’s not the case,
Because in life no one is alone, there is always someone
-Oh, there’s no need to cry, because life is a carnival,
-It’s more beautiful to live singing.
-Oh, there’s no need to cry,
-For life is a carnival
-And your pains can be alleviated through song. (x2)
Everyone out there that thinks that life is always harsh,
Needs to know that’s not the case,
That there are just bad times, and it will all pass.
Everyone out there, that thinks that this will never change,
Needs to know that’s not the case,
The bad times will turn, it will all pass.
-Oh, there’s no need to cry, because life is a carnival,
-It’s more beautiful to live singing.
-Oh, there’s no need to cry,
-For life is a carnival
-And your pains can be alleviated through song. (x2)
-Carnival
Its for laughing
-Theres no need to cry
For enjoying
-Carnival
For having fun
-One must live singing
-Carnival
Life is a carnival
-Theres no need to cry
Everyone can sing
-Carnival
Oh, men
-One must live singing
-carnival
Everyone out there that thinks
-Theres no need to cry
that life is always harsh
-Carnival
Will never be alone
-One must live singing
God is with him
For those that complain forever.
For those that only critisize.
For those that use weapons.
For those that pollute us.
For those that make war.
For those that live in sin.
For those that mistreat us.
For those that make us sick.
Read more: Celia Cruz – La Vida Es Un Carnaval Lyrics | MetroLyrics
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FREEDOM is the ability to fail, reinvent oneself, and do so playfully over a lifetime
28 10 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Nature: U Thant, Cutie Kuti & Tom
16 10 2014Comments : Leave a Comment »
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GOVERNANCE: what do you mean continents don’t have flags?
16 10 2014– That’s the Greek Flag, says Luna confidently pointing upward to a flag outside our local souvlaki joint. Want to have a competition about who knows more flags? – Luna (age 5)
– Ok.
– The MEXICAN flag is Green, White and Red. The British and American flags are both Blue, Red and White, but in a different way. America has stars. Bolivia has Red, Yellow and Green–does any other country have the same colours?
– Let me think. Well, Jamaica does.
– What about Africa? What’s the African flag like?
– Well Africa is a continent, not a country. There are many countries-many flags in Africa.
– What do you mean? Continents don’t have flags?
– No, I guess they don’t.
– What about the world? What’s the world flag?
– I’ll have to think about that one. Lets chat about it later.
– Okay because we need a flag to put on our moon castle.
[how about this for a flag?]
Click images to see as Earth’s first emissary into space, is carrying a gold plaque that describes what we look like, where we are, and the date when the mission began.
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