.:. gotblogua .:.

Hmmmmm,
Scientists are one step closer, and once again i ask myself, are we doing things, just because we can? Is quantity / length of life in any way connected to quality of life? And what cost do our technological advances carry?

Your results:
You are Superman

Superman 85% Spider-Man 80% Green Lantern 80% Supergirl 72% Robin 69% Wonder Woman 67% The Flash 55% Hulk 55% Catwoman 50% Batman 35% Iron Man 35%

You are mild-mannered, good, strong and you love to help others.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

robert and duff (among many others) have some pretty provocative opinions about the movie “The Secret” over at julian’s zaadz blog.

and they led me to have a look at seth godin’s blog

Flow also has some nice words about wizards ;-)

i have a growing interest in the state of the union…
and this neat tool tagcrowd created this image categorizing the U.S. president’s recent speech:

Recently I added a post to a debate about the movie the secret:
http://julianwalkeryoga.zaadz.com/blog/2007/1/the_secret_part_three_-_an_antidote#comment_73388
there is a LOT of context and alot of interesting words coming from julian’s premises and the surrounding action…

Fantastic to see such passion about such a silly movie.

Perhaps it has its utility after all….

(indeed, it has prompted some deep reflection in the individuals who engage in these exchanges)

Julian, your fundamentalist skepticism is quite fan(t)a(s)tic…
I hope that you will consider to agree that the premises put forth by the Secret are provacative… which is far more relevant than your OPINION about what is TRUE or UNtrue, right, wrong, or whateva.

I have not read the whole stream of comments, yet i cherish the comment by C4chaos: “and therein lies the rub”… i assume it is an allusion to Beckwith’s statement in the secret :: in my opinion a nearly universal disclaimer to all of the busy finger work on these pages… It is both the conscious and sub conscious thoughts that affect our “reality”… “thats the rub” (please forgive me if i am bringing back something that has been elsewhere hashed rehashed fultilized or otherwise addressed - i hope this formulation adds something tasty to the soup)

i imagine that this can be taken in many ways, and lead to many lines of thinking and behaving… including and most certainly not limited to:
– i judge myself because i don’t have control over my sub conscious thoughts and doubts and they are sabotaging my attempts at attracting what i WANT
– i feel there may be something causally significant embedded in that “rub” and i am motivated to more closely observe and steer both my conscious and subconscious thoughts (a significant goal of a vast majority of serious, relevant and valuable “spiritual” disciplines)

Perhaps a golden rule in spirituality: if someone puts something in your mouth and expects you to swallow without chewing a bit… spit and run….

and likewise: if one is foolish enough to swallow a consumer oriented inspirational doctrine, without chewing, perhaps one deserves the fate that follows…

selv tak,
~another j

Go forth and make your raw material SING!

http://www.stoptherod.net/
http://www.stoptherod.net/biblical-child-training-excerpt.html
this book is for sale… right now in 2006…
http://homeschool-books.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16688&cat=439&page=1
also at amazon:

What do customers ultimately buy after viewing this item?
86% buy the item featured on this page:
What the Bible Says About Child Training (2nd Edition) by J. Richard Fugate $10.39
6% buy
Child Training Tips: What I Wish I Knew When My Children Were Young by Reb Bradley $8.00
5% buy
Shepherding a Child’s Heart by Tedd Tripp $11.16
3% buy
Standing On The Promises : A Handbook Of Biblical Childrearing by Douglas Wilson $8.50

i am a bit out of breath at the moment…

very disturbed.

so i reviewed an item at amazon:

Tragic Blasphemy
Dear Dear Citizens of earth,

I write this review with a heart heavier than stone. A deep sorrow runs through my being as i become aware of this book and the horrible practices it seems to suggest. This review is based on the reading of chapter 17 on a website called stop the rod dot net. you can search for the title of this book on google and see the whole chapter there. I keep wanting to THINK it is a hoax or something… but the title of chapter 17 is clearly visible in the table of contents here at amazon: “The correct use of chastisement”

I suppose everyone is entitled to their own opinions and views and decisions about child raising and punishment. I don’t intend to judge anyone for their opinions. I am intending to point out some observations.

Over the years of humanity’s recorded history, we have seen MANY repetitions of a cycle or behavior that is very crass and in my opinion extremely blasphemous. People rationalize power hungry suppressive and VIOLENT behavior by using the name of God (eg. The Crusades). I cannot condone this behavior, i have trouble to accept that there are still humans on this planet who are employing this painfully destructive cycle.

If I were in front of you right now, i would beg you not to beat your child, not with your hand, not with a “rod” as this book blatently suggests, not with your words not even with your thoughts. The children of earth deserve better than this, my dear brothers and sisters.

I would like to make this perfectly clear with a small painfully true adaptation of the back cover: (integrating some material from chapter 17)
“J Richard Fugate accepted Christ as his savior in 1968 at the age of 28. Three years later he totally committed himself to serve God wherever he was called.”(back cover). These days he is selling books that encourage parents to beat their children with a rod in order to “bring a rebellious child’s will under control” (pg.173). In cases where the child is excessively willful, Fugate suggests that it may “require enough strokes to receive stripes or even welts” (pg. 173).

I can not manage to reconcile this incredible injustice, and i truly hope that you will never have to read this review, because amazon will soon remove this book from its system of moral, ethical, if not legal grounds.

I am happy to suggest that you have a search for a book about indigo children (if you do a google search for: indigo children gotjosh … you can find a site that includes some audio readings of a fantastic book that is not widely distributed.)

blessings on your path, and virtue in your child raising decisions,
joshua

Recently i came accross this little article:
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774
and its facinating stream of comments including this one bringing the source of this information to issue:
“If a gnat farted in India [Alex Jones] would assume that the New World Order had orchestrated it to cause global climate changes and re-shape the power structures of the entire universe.”

My take:

Privacy is an illusion.
period.

Internet Privacy is not only an illusion, it is a profound and hysterical joke.

If you want information privately, perhaps you should adorn your fancy fake beard and rasta wig, and hobble over to your local library resorting to good old fashion photocopies.

Back to the illusion issue.
One may say:: “BUT, if me and my boyfriend are alone in the room making love that is a very ‘private’ moment…”
think again:
The Akasha is said to be the library of all events and responses concerning Consciousness in all realities. That means: Every experience, by every conscious being, in every corner of existence, is permanently and irreversibly burnt into a record. Not a book nor a movie per se, but close enough in analogy.
http://www.answers.com/topic/akashic-records
http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Akashic_Records/id/1905878
In there an entrance fee to this place? I think there are some things I’d like to check up on…

Anyway, since we are all aligning our thoughts, intentions, words, efforts and actions, with the highest good, we have no concerns who is watching and keeping track… The See EYE Ay is welcome to collect what they like… I intend that i am completely benign.

A nice bucking fush quote from the gov ::

President George W. Bush discusses the Global War on Terror during an address to the Reserve Officers Association Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. “This is the call of a generation, to stand against the extremists and support moderate leaders across the broader Middle East, to help us all secure a future of peace,” said the President. White House photo by Eric Draper

ummmm, waging war in the name of peace?? haven’t we been through that before? did it ever actually work?

by the way typing “failure” into the search box and clicking I’m feeling lucky, produces a humorous result and a convienent shortcut to the above quoted information.

ps:
Apparently there is the curse that says that no President elected in a zero year (e.g. 1960, 1980, 2000) will survive office. It has been true for 200 years, with the exception of Reagan, who survived an assassination attempt.

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask “How are you”?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
!Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Ever told your child,
“We’ll do it tomorrow”?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,”Hi”

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.

When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

~author name unknown

i tried a google search today …

humility, gentleness, humbleness… strength within softness… a soft expression of strength.
Is there room for these qualities in arrogance? in confidence?
(more…)

I just emerged last week from a short venture into silence and pseudo-solitude. It only lasted about 4 days, and already it was facinating and nearly more profound than my typical everyday realization that i have feet and hands that can walk and touch and a nose that can enjoy roses and jasmin and curry and rice and sweat and woman… etc etc…

It really is most every day that i am struck by some aspect of utter amazement at this temple of a body in which i dwell and I dwells…

I am on a bit of a decision and control trip these days… (more…)

“I am that I am,” said nothingness to his sister. And when she agreed, it seemed that suddenly they were. And things have been seeming to come into being ever since then. Isn’t it fantastic? Aren’t you amazingly happy and thankful to hold this glimmer of a chance to create.
I AM.
Thank you for being, and thank you for sharing!

Ok so who exactly is nothingness’ sister???
and what is this little story?

its a peace message that i added to a pile of cards from ThePeaceWave.org

OK, fair enough, there seem to be alot of “coma-zombies” walking the planet. In all fairness, it may well be a sliding scale… or a series of sliding, sliding scales…

The thing is, its pretty easy to get all bummed and weirded out and alienated and driven into some tiny little box… safe as all hell(ish illusion)…

i HOPE that we can all manage to avoid THAT easy way out! Here we are. Existing right now. Capable to see the status. Motivated to do our part.

Ummm, our part in what?

Well I don’t know about you, but i feel a great responsibility when i hear the (by now nearly banal) phrase:
“Our children do not inherit the earth from us, we are so blessed to be permitted to borrow it from them”
i guess the underlying implication that we seem to find it so easy to ignore is rather banal as well by now:
“Please note: they may like it a little better if there was a little food left over to eat and some clean resources around to work with…”

Responsibility? for what?

Each of us must find our deepest source of inspiration and therein find our deepest responsibility and from there, let our strongest motivation flow.

Some inspirational videos:
http://www.icreatereality.com/
http://universalflag.org/

please send me more links to these sort of beautiful uplifting movies/animations if you know of some…

hugs,
.:.joshua

i’ll admit, somethymes i tire of deeze silly words… yet i also admit that http://sallykempton.com/ is on to great truth when she writes:

the magic of words is that they can, in and of themselves, transform our consciousness

— from snapshops of a recent issue of yoga magazine or maybe it was yoga journal

Practicing enlightenment, thinking “as if” you were an enlightened sage, is one of the world’s most sophisticated exercises in “fake it till you make it.” Of course, it only works when we do it for its own sake, not because we’re trying to impress people, not because we’re pretending to be something we’re not, and definitely not in order to claim mastery we don’t possess. We do it the way kids pretend to do grown-up things–because it habituates us to the mature self we will one day become. The truth is, we all hold inside us a template for enlightenment.

— Sally’s brilliant words about the E-word

another great section of her site: http://sallykempton.com/lifequestions.php

I am putting together a page about indigos…

Everynow again i like to pick a zen card or three…

UPDATE:
the new 2007 version is up:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/39894058/
64% ~= $632 Billion $ is military (please keep in mind 7 Billion by Russia is the next biggest military expenditure in the world note: they are allies)

What is your career contributing to?
What true needs and frivolous wants are you striving to fulfill?
What is the true source of those wants, and do they deserve the attention that you give them?

If you feel attacked or annoyed or judged by those simple questions, please “don’t shoot the messenger”… This is real data and it demands attention… i hope that as americans we can realize that we can give alot more away before contributing to this system that is so clearly OUT OF ORDER…

We do have strength, in numbers and in information, and in ideals! Hopefully, also, in sufficient sustainable action!

So you still believe in “coincidence” huh???

How’s about a story for you. Many of you are already intimately familiar with the concept of synchronicity. If not i hope that this story can serve as a trust building introduction for you.

Please don’t let fear influence your perception of this phenomenon. Please open your heart to the nature of reality – and start expecting/embracing/accepting/creating miracles with faith and graceful joyous light.

So I am on my way to Karamea (or so i think), and in rotorua at the exact moment that i arrive at a little backpackers (youth hostel hotel kinda place) a young german woman named johanna is asking about a cheep room. The same question that i would have asked moments later, had i not heard the answer given to her. So logically we share a double room and end up driving around together in her little car… catching magical sunsets and talking about how happy she it with her new boyfriend and then we part company in Bulls (a funny little town on the north island). I spend the night until 4 AM at the Mobil Mart and meet with a sociologist who is wandering the world for 2 years now after giving up EVERYTHING in GB… Then on the ferry crossing, this amazing guy walks up during the last 20 minutes of the ride – we are both dead tired, but knew that we should be talking (even before when we saw eachother in the boarding area). Within minutes we decided i was joining him to a special little family farm that he was on the way to.

So i am guided to a nice garden with special beautiful people that i didn’t know existed mere hours before. The unplanned wandering “pays off” already and it feels magically synchronistic… You may say “so what” or yeah thats cool but no big deal… please do… the zinger is on the way.

Arriving at this special space i met another passer by named Nathan. Nathan is a acupuncturist from California. WOW another american in NZ! No, not only. This guy has a son who grew up in Lakewood, NJ. And now lives in Jersey City. And is buying a house pretty soon.

Sometime on the second day this information clicks a little bit and this guys jewish nose starts to itch at me and i thought to myself “this guys a schulmann” -
“whats your last name nathan.” i ask.
“schulmann,” he replies.
“so you know a seth. Maybe?”
“yeah – he’s my son.”

Get it? This world is a whole hell of a lot more connected than we can possibly imagine and i sure love learnin’ how to listen!

It has been said that if your life isn’t chock full of such events, then you may want to get out a bit more, but also, you may want to get in a bit more ass well – meaning we can all take some time to go deeper within ourselves – searching for our connection to the collective unity that binds us together… that brings our yearning for motion and fluidity and surprises and creativity…

Embracing the mystery, leaving the detail of the other dimentions for the other dimentionals, learning to listen with each whispering wandering step…
“with love and soft wondering”
.:.joshua “wanderino” denkeNicht
Here is a little movie of the walk into an amazing garden of light

UPDATE:
During the same internet session that i wrote and posted this little story, i phoned to Paul over at Rongo and he tells me that curiously enough Dave is also in Nelson. Hehe. But of course he is… so even though i was on my way to Karamea to meet up with the bloke - he’s already a little closer… Now Nelson isn’t a big town and maybe there aren’t so many restaurants open on a sunday evening… but timing is everything right?
So i walk out of the internet cafe on my way to the person’s house where Dave is staying - thinking OK thats pretty funny to be there waiting when he returns from dinner… but a small itch told me maybe he’s close by or on the way. As get to the first corner (admittadely a very central well lit corner in Nelson) I saw a sweet girl who smiled very nicely at me on my way into the internet cafe… so we passed at the same spot on the same corner twice with a hour and a half internet session in between. She really loved the wicker (flax) bag that i had been given as a pass me along gift earlier in the afternoon before i left paradise garden. So after giving Mayumi the bag we sat down to chat a bit and just as we were winding up a short conversation none other than Master Besseling wanders giddily towards us and we trip out a bit about yet another cosmic timing game…

will it ever stop? i donKnow… pick up the mic and…

i flow

Some reading in a magazine tonight revealed some writings by Robert Anton Wilson and Graham Hancock…
Shedding some light on an older posts (twisting and evolution) about intelligent design (and offline discussion with Joen), and some ongoing debates with Daniel about thie issue outlined in these phrases:

“substituting a true transpersonal life with a grammar
structure, thinking that renouncing nouns or similar old abstinence (in
spiritual work) actually works as means of becoming enlightened, while
in fact it only reinforces the very thing they want to avoid. It is
basically non-acceptance…….
I just tend to disagree and think that relinquishing the usuage or
whatever is just another superego-represion..
“

“A change in language can transform our perception of the cosmos” -Robert Anton Wilson

This is based on the premis that altering our software and behavior is a way to alter our hardware and our tendancies for future behavior…”fake it until you make it”…

Please consider the difference between me saying:
“They must stop using oil. ”
and
“I think we should reconsider our oil usage strategies and patterns”

the difference between:
“do it!”
and
“lets do it”

between:
“light is a wave”
and
“when perceived with certain equipment, light exhibits the properties of a wave”

“i am a male nurse”
and
“i engage in work in a hospital as a male nurse”

“the facts in absolute irrefutable reality are…”
and
“the evidence from a specific perspective indicate that…”

the world is quantum. and there i go again… the world appears to be “quantum” (dependent on relativity) and “IS” statements get weaker and weaker as we gain the capacity to embrace a “post-Quantum E-Prime” framework for existence and language / behavior software… is your language flexible enough to be considered quantum soft?

And about the random emergence of DNA molecules “religion” - it has been compared with the idea that a junkyard will transform itself into a stealth bomber if left to enough billion years of hurricanes and tornados…. Any takers on that bet?

Evolution is perfectly plausible and likely and beautiful and eloquent IF we have DNA - without/before the existence of a functional language for life(DNA), evolution is statistically astronomically universally bloody unlikely. Crick had the same debate inside - and it was VERY challenging to him as a scientist who wanted to be a realist… [small aside note: Crick is said to have been on LSD when he visualized the DNA molecule]

hmmm what is DNA and where did it come from???

Are we really soooooo different?
I recorded a voice stream the other morning:
here is an excerpt: “when we shake hands it is really the same hand shaking itself, when we meet eyes, it is truly the same eyes meeting themselves” (more…)