.:. gotblogua .:. joshua gottdenker’s personal blog .:.

where is the truth in the midst of the wanting?
where is the wanting in the midst of the stillness?
where is the stillness in the midst of the chaos?
from where does the chaos,
…
fall?

Over at gf’s lanterna magica is an interesting exploration of a conversation based on an idea that came to me… “the flesh factory”

in this world of perpetual compromise, where we seem quite compelled to eat meat even if less than 2% of us have ever had experiences killing the animals we eat, perhaps a solution that entails less animal suffering and equal carnal (or at least close to equal) could be at least interesting if not advantageous.

Of course it is quite possible that our collective consciousness will transcend our spiritually infantile, obviously animalistic, desires to indulge in consuming meat. It is possible that this will occur before the technology to support the flesh factory is operational. It is possible that we will slow down our reproduction and increase of food production and decrease our polution rates enough to sustain life on this planet for another 100 years.

As always…
Other things are also possible…

PS - over at the Living Universe Foundation email list is a parallel topic:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/luf-team/message/8949
including a link to REAL research about growing meat:
/http://www.musc.edu/catalyst/archive/2006/co1-20invitro.html

i really love it when things work out _just_ right in the universal timing spheres… Of course in one sense i don’t believe in time at all (in part due my preference for abandoning belief in general)… and in another time is a magical paradox of unlimited potential.

I like to share with you yet another cute little synchronicity:
I sit in a meeting with Daniel and Andreas and Nina about the trail blazing ground breaking mind bending movie project (redundantly described here and redundantly temporarily entitled:), “Leading AND cutting edge.” After some _very_ enjoyable and inspired discussion, I am ready to leave as the crew is ready to delve into more logistical discussion that they are partially informationally undernourished to adequately discuss, a discussion which i didn’t have much place in anyway. So as i depart on the way to visit the lovely Anna M. i am for some unknown reason not motivated to jump on my bike and ride immediately. Rather, i choose to walk along the sidewalk with my bike, and i notice a rather tall man with shaved head and razor sharp blue eyes… and i exclaim “hey!” Thomas L. turns around and recognizes me from within a post-computer haze… This is a man whom i have never crossed paths with in copenhagen in the many months i have lived here. A man whom i met “randomly” in January in India at the ashram known as Anandaloka I, part of the Oneness University in Varadaiahpalem.
I had recently been interally advised that contacting him will be a good idea as he has a passionate interest in technology development and concept representation including graphic design and advertising/marketing. Our brief discussion on the street there led me to think that there is quite a strong capacity for us to bring some very facinating products to market in idealistically, ethically, and environmentally sound (and lucrative) ways.

So there are two rather distinct varieties of “good news” embedded in this story… i don’t like to take the excessively preacherly stance to tell you what it means, rather i like to share with you the meaning i have enjoyed creating and encourage you to reflect about the nature of coincidence and miracle and timing and syncronicity on your own time in your own way…

I feel that it was a beautiful thing to meet Thomas, both in india and again on theTime in Copenhagen. It feels like good news that i have decided to return to copenhagen on the day that i choose and it feels like good news that thomas is quite interested to explore some possible collaborations.

In another sphere, i feel it is an amazing miracle (most thankfully, a rather common one for me recently) that for some reason (even though i was excited and motivated to get to see Anna) i choose to walk slowly with my bike dragging by my side, rather than jump onto it and ride along… in which case i most certainly would have passed that intersection before Thomas wandered accross my path. For this i say !thanks be! to the cosmic coordinator who might as well remain nameless…

expecting enough
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I cry into the sea
expecting her to change
I laugh into the wind
expecting him to care
I smile at the trees
expecting them to join
I expect my own expectation
demanding that he return
I want my own wanting
begging it to stay
I long for more desire
never to be fulfilled
I create my own emptiness
letting us be enough
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Calleman has much to say about the breakthrough ending the age of dominance!

I think it is clear that the world could use more heart, could use more femininity, could use more soul… and i think its on the way and in some ways its all already here!

about placing a pitifil monetary value on…

Dismemberment - Subject to the Terms of this insurance, in the event of an Unexpected dismemberment/loss suffered by an
Insured Person, as detailed below, during the Period of Coverage as a result of an Injury or Illness that was suffered due to an
Accident that occurred during the Period of Coverage, the Company will pay to the Insured Person the applicable
loss/dismemberment benefit as specified below.
Loss Benefit
Sight of one Eye $12,500
One hand or one foot $12,500
One hand and the loss
of sight of one eye $25,000
One foot and the loss
of sight of one eye $25,000
One hand and
one foot $25,000
Both hands
or both feet $25,000
Sight of both eyes $25,000
The maximum benefit payable for all dismemberment or losses resulting from any one Accident or Injury shall not exceed
$25,000. The loss of a hand or foot means the complete severance at or above the wrist or ankle joint. The loss of sight means
the entire and irrecoverable loss of sight.

an excerpt from my international travel insurance that i am currently reviewing…
bizzare…

Just got a lead on a new book:

“reading a fabulous book at the mo. in search of the miraculous,
by p.d. ouspensky, about the teachings if g.i. gurdjieff. excellent
stuff. truly.” -db

Agent Smith: I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, you are a cancer of this planet, and we are the cure.
Agent_Smith_human_disease

In the matrix these words are from an agent of an inhumane population of machines who could care less about the physical appearance of the planet earth… a population of bloodless, compassionless, cluelessly clever machines that had managed to create a virtual world that “tricked” us all into feeding their electrical supply with our neuronal impulses. A curiously sustainable system i may add.

Perhaps you care to take a look over here:

The addition of 3.2 million Americans has a greater resource impact upon the Earth than all of the millions of people added last year in India and Africa combined.

WOW! what to do?????

Other relevant links:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/
Especially these 2 from the “Watch a Preview” link:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/media/3108_1_ref.mov
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/preview/media/3108_2_ref.mov
http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/worldbalance/media/alteredearth.swf?mii=1
(please download/link/share and show your friends!)

I don’t think i would ever have guessed i would be giving my mom high tech mothers day presents… but i just handed over a fancy san disk Ultra II Plus - combo SD-chip / USB-action…

loaded with all sorts of pictures from the journey…

can’t wait to see what she photoshops with all that raw material!

(3 years ago she swore she would never turn on a computer!)

coupled with What the Bleep!

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

The PenAgain company from Pacifica, California has created a wonderful product.
You can place this pen in your hand and write without really gripping the pen… you don’t need to use force to hold the pen… it just stays in your hand and you can use the weight of your hand and slight effort to guide the motion to write or draw… It is amazing. I like it alot.

1. A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than from fears based on
past experiences.

2. An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.

3. A loss of interest in judging oneself.

4. A loss of interest in judging other people.

5. A loss of interest in conflict.

6. A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.

7. The loss of ability to worry (this is a very serious symptom).

8. Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation.

9. Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.

10. Frequent attacks of smiling through the eyes of the heart.

11. Increasing susceptibility to love extended by others as well as the
uncontrollable urge to extend it.

12. Increasing tendency to let things happen rather than to make them
happen.

written in 1983 by Saskia Davis
forwarded to me from a sweet sister: Eva Rothenbücher
thanks…

UPDATE:
The author recently found this! and i am honored to give credit (where much is due for these wise words) to Saskia Davis

Truemajority and niel young

San Fran and the surrounding vistalicious locales are treating me fantabulously!!!

Check it out::

You can click to see a slide show!

I just found this inactive vacation responder in my gMail settings… and i get a kick out of it! so I’m posting it back dated here on the blog:

Hello there!
El Wanderino aka El W aka El Dub aka Joshua is wandering around in California these days… YES back in the good old jerUSAlem !!

End of April i intend to stop by the east coast !!! :-D

if you like to see some pictures and read some hooplah you can check out:
http://gotblogua.gotjosh.net/

This is an automated (everyone gets it) Vacation Responder, perhaps i will find an internet cafe or friendly connection and time and will enough to respond personally to your message, but if not, at least you know why…the world has many more interesting things to see than computer screens! but i love you and miss you and i want to respond and connect and smile and catch up…

cheers and hugs and light and love in the new year…
.:.joshua
ps - New Zealand is so super great i ended up staying an extra month! And then an extra two weeks past that… and then eventually i shall return to Copenhagen in early May…

is sitting atop point bonita in the Marin Headlands at the Northwest corner of the golden gate:

http://www.trinityroots.com
track #4 in their little media player is called “All We Be”

And the lyrics are extremely tight… (more…)

(and semi-fixated wanderers at heart)
You can click to see a slide show!