The problem is not outside us, it's inside us, in the form of beliefs. If we choose to believe we're separate and there's not enough to go around, we'll see the need to fight for survival, and enough will never be enough. When we see ourselves as one, interdependent and separate, we'll work together for survival. It's a matter of perspective. When we treat ideas about who we are and what reality is like sacred recipes in a cookbook, never questioning or challenging them, they control our behavior, not us. When we mindlessly stick to old beliefs, like old recipes, we create our reality by default, not conscious design or intention. We need to actively challenge both our personal and cultural beliefs if we're not happy with the reality we're creating.

Seat of Power

 We are not bad, it is our ideas about who we are and what reality is that are bad.

"Trust us!" say some business and political leaders. "Greed is good, and markets free of regulation will correct themselves." We all want freedom but freedom to do what - rape, pillage and steal? In a speech given March 23, 1775, Patrick Henry convinced the Virginia House of Burgesses to commit troops to the Revolutionary War in America's fight for independence from England and the colonies it controlled in America. The final and most memorable phrase of Henry's speech was, "Give me liberty, or give me death!" New Hampshire's state motto, currently, is "Live Free or Die". Just before my discharge from the Air Force in 1964, I had an epiphany. I realized all I wanted to do was be me! Isn't that what we all want? Don't we all just want to be ourselves? But, how can we be free to be ourselves and do what we want if we don't include that same freedom for everyone?

"Okay", you say, "but how can I give freedom to you if all you want is to steal or destroy everything I value to enrich yourself? That won't work!"

No, it won't, if my world view is limited and all I ask myself is, What's going to work best for me? 

Before we ask that question, we need to ask, What's going to work best for ALL of us? By including everyone and all of nature in our calculation, not only do we acknowledge our oneness with and separation from everything, we cover all the bases. When we ask ourselves questions like What's going to work best for ALL of us, in personal terms, and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace?, we are giving ourselves credit for being able to find good answers to these questions, whether they originate with us or not. When we ask questions like Who do I love to be? and What do I love to do?, we become conscious shapers of both ourselves and our reality, not mindless followers of established cultural and family patterns. Nor are we simply "reacting" to life.

WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY

During the course of everyday events we often forget the role of thoughts in the forging of our material reality. We get lost in the visible symbols, the material by-products of our imaginations, forgetting the invisible blueprints from which they, and we, emerge.

Pure energy, like money, its material equivalent, is shaped into matter and experience by thought. It can be used to lift up or smash down, to build character or destroy character, to express love or express hate, to beautify or make ugly.

The purpose, or challenge, of life is to learn how to use thought in its various forms to shape energy into a pleasing reality. The prize is a sense of satisfaction, a feeling of a job well done. And, like learning to walk or talk, it is a personal, subjective endeavor that requires creative aggression. It is a great balancing act, where one must accept falling down in the course of learning how to stand up.

Remember:

Thoughts are "things" with a reality of their own and you, an artist. With thoughts in the forms of belief, attitude, value and expectation you paint the landscape of your life. CREATE A GREAT DAY!

"Reality" starts with the interaction of consciousness and energy, thoughts and emotions. What we see with our eyes, hear with our ears, touch with our skin, taste with our tongue and smell with our nose is the energy of our thoughts and emotions after they have condensed into matter or experience. What our bodies call the "present" is the past for consciousness and energy because new thoughts and emotions are already hard at work forming the next moment of our material experience. Just as a glass mirror reflects the image of our physical body, reality reflects the nature of our beliefs. If we see something in our lives we don't like, we're meant to change it. Obviously, some things we can't change. For example, once we lose a limb, unlike some species, we can't grow it back. When we see that our policies (beliefs and behavior) cause us and others, more pain than pleasure, more harm than good, we can and should change them.

Changing ourselves and the world for the better

"God", or the consciousness and energy of All That Is, lives within us. Therefore, the best, least traumatic and most efficient way for us to change the world for the better is for each of us to change ourselves for the better. Otherwise, as our rich history informs us, others will take it upon themselves to do it for us and who knows what or how they'll choose to do? Here are several ways we can change ourselves for the better:

1.  We create our reality from what we choose to believe. For example, if we believe that all men are separate and life is a matter of survival of the fittest, we'll create a world of fear, competition, violence and pain. If we believe that all things are both one and separate and that all life is interdependent, we'll create a world of love, partnership, peace and pleasure. If we hate ourselves, we'll treat ourselves and others badly. If we love ourselves, we'll treat ourselves and others well. What we've done in the past is not important. What we do now and in the future is what's important.
2. We need to take full responsibility for creating our reality. In other words, don't waste time blaming ourselves, our parents or society for the things we don't like about ourselves or the world. The only reason we blame ourselves and others is because we're not yet taking full responsibility for what we believe, for the ideas in our belief system that create our reality.
3. We need to get clear on what works for us and what works against us. Each one of us is a unique, individualized expression of All That Is. There is no right or wrong, good or bad, there just Is. There is what works for us and what works against us, what brings us pleasure and what brings us pain.
4. We need to take action every day! We need to ask questions, look for answers and keep a journal.  The more time we spend bemoaning the present, the less time we have to change our future. We need to take a survey of how we spend our time and energy. For example, how much time do we spend debating issues with other people to see who's right or wrong, good or bad, smart or stupid, instead of looking for solutions that work best for all of us? How much time do we spend listening to news about the state of the world instead of doing something to change it? How much time do we spend complaining about life and making excuses for ourselves, instead of doing something constructive about the circumstances we find ourselves in? (We shouldn't feel embarrassed about this either because cultural beliefs like "you're basically bad, you can't trust yourself, you're the result of a cosmic accident", and "genes control your looks, sex, sexual orientation, intelligence and behavior" program us to accept out fate and not question it. Ideas like these tell us we can't change so why bother?)
5. To start, ask questions like: Who are we? What's reality? What's the purpose of life? Who do I love  to be? What do I love to do? What's going to work best for ALL of us, in personal terms, and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? To get answers, use these questions as the title of a paper for school or for yourself. Hold these questions in your mind before falling asleep and write down any information you wake up with in the morning. Meditate on these and other questions you want answers to. Use the creative nature of All That Is to find answers and then challenge them until you feel certain the answer works for you and everyone. (See: Ask Value Questions and Listen for Intuitive Answers)
6. Make the jump from a Value Judgment World (external value system) to a Value Fulfillment World (internal value system). The ideas we hold as beliefs serve as the building blocks for the creation of our reality. To the extent we fail to question or take responsibility for our own beliefs, we create the need for an external value system (which, in and of itself, can lead to abuse) to control our behavior, for our own safety and the safety of others. In effect, we define ourselves as children who need "Big Brother" controls. To the extent we take responsibility for creating our own belief (value) system, and to the extent it takes into account the well being of others, follows the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you., we eliminate the need for external control.
7. Say, "I love myself" to yourself until you actually feel it. By doing this, if we don't already, we'll begin to see how good we are, how much we do, and how well we do it. The more we can love ourselves, the more we can love others, the more we can appreciate ourselves, the more we can appreciate others. Let's stop being Master Fault Finders and start becoming Masters of Appreciation!

Without taking full responsibility for creating our own reality, how can we grow and how can we expect to be free?

Evolution, not Revolution

The 21st Century serves as a natural timeframe for building a dream, a vehicle for life in the New Millennium that will help transport mankind through the next 1,000 years in peace and safety.

Roger Peterson - http://diaryofamystic.com

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Considering the success Google has enjoyed with AdWords, you’d think it would have figured out how to make YouTube advertising a smash hit by now. Unfortunately, despite testingeveryconceivabletype of ad, YouTube is still struggling to find success.

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As we understand it (and this has been confirmed with the company), if you don?t click on an overlay ad when it shows up in a clip you?re watching, the video ad it would have played rolls automatically at the end of your video. Previously a post-roll video wouldn?t play without being initiated by the user. This type of ad started rolling out over the last few weeks.

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Ésto tiene una sola explicación: que el barco en el que el Caudillo Maleducante llegó al país, venía cargado de merca, y desizo todos los sitemas nerviosos de los tripulantes, de los cuales quedó el susodicho. De ésta forma, heredó la enfermedad contagiosa de la Maleducación (Fusarium oxysporu).

"De la conciencia del pecado emergía antes la potencia oscura de la obscenidad, pero hoy el sexo es salud. Obligación, también. Necesariamente los medios masivos asumen el rol de sexólogos simpáticos, y quizás por eso la televisión "abierta", que ha hecho del libre albedrío su único fuero, reduce el vigor y las ilusiones del deseo al rango de mascarada. Pero esas acrobacias de cabaré son, a fin de cuentas, inocuas: apenas un grano de pimienta arrojado sobre el vestido de bodas o sobre el final de un día de trabajo y hastío. Parece vicio, pero es solamente la representación idílica de una felicidad anhelada y siempre conculcada". Christian Ferrer (sociólogo).

The crowd @ the MGMT show.

Hot Chip

Mt. Bonnell Bridge

Eli Platt doing his thing

Daniel Johnston wall

Cu ruj, cu sange, cu cocaina sau fara...mie imi place.

Those of us who believe more in separation and competition (every man is an island, life is a contest to determine who wins and who loses) will support John McCain.

Those of us who believe more in oneness, separation and cooperation will support Barack Obama.

I added the word "more" in each statement because it brings each statement closer to reality. Our belief systems are dynamic and changing all the time. There are reasons for everything we do and when those reasons change, so do our belief systems.

Last night, September 26, 2008 on CNN, Barack Obama was considered the clear winner by every measure during and immediately after the debate. In the Political Analyst poll, he won by a score of 2 to 1 (44 to 22, after subtracting the negatives from the positives). In phone polls immediately after the debate, Obama came out on top. Today, the main stream media is beginning to spin the truth and say that McCain won because he sounded "stronger". (Slate said, "Tie goes to Obama" and Newsweek said, "Win to McCain".)

Closed is more like it. As McCain criticized Obama for his willingness to talk with opposition leaders, I couldn't help but tie it to family life and relations. Giving people the silent treatment works, alright but it works against you, not for you! I know, I used it early in my marriage, and even with my young children. As far as I was concerned, it was my way or the highway. I was unwilling to consider anyone else's needs or compromise. I wouldn't say I was simply a spoiled child; just that I didn't know any better. Does this sound familiar?

Another thing that bugged me last night was the way Republican and Democratic advisors tried to spin the results immediately after the debate, in an attempt to shift public opinion. An advisor to John McCain, Nicole Wallace, (still on CNN) tried to make it seem like McCain ran away with the debate. As I watched her spin a tale far from the reality of public opinion, I was dumbfounded. She reminded me of a talking doll with a string in back. Pull the string and you get a predetermined message that never changes, no matter what the circumstances. Like some hollow man, her response seemed devoid of all reason. To a lesser extent, you could say the same of Democratic advisor, Paul Begala, and Republican advisor, Bill Bennett, although they were more obvious about it, like they knew it was a joke and you were in on it.

I don't know how people can do this! Many years ago I was chairman of the Parent- Teacher Committee at my children's elementary school in San Francisco. One of our responsibilities was to select an architectural firm to build a replacement school. In the process of interviewing various firms, the liaison from the Redevelopment Agency and I became friends. We'd go out to lunch together and once he even asked me to attend a community meeting with him in another part of the city. The next time we had lunch, he asked me if I wanted a job with the Redevelopment Agency. He knew I had a college degree but was currently staying home to take care of the kids while my wife worked.

As we sat in his car after lunch, he told me I had paid my dues and it was time to get my reward. He then offered me an Executive Assistant job at the Redevelopment Agency that sounded interesting, although I did wonder if I was qualified and could be effective at it. In exchange, he went on, "All you have to do is support my agenda." As this statement sank in, I felt a gigantic invisible snail crawl over me, depositing slime in every crack and crevice of my body. What?, I quickly responded, You've got to be kidding; I can't ignore my own conscience! If I can't be my own person, I don't want the job! I then shared my snail story with him. I don't know if he was embarrassed or angry but he started the car and took me home in silence, and that was the last time I ever saw him.

The point is, can we trust ourselves and one another if we divorce ourselves from our feelings? I look at feelings as part of a democratic process. For me, they represent the collective reaction of my entire body and everything beyond it. If we don't listen to them, we do so at our own peril. Some people think a disconnection between thought and feeling as sociopathic. Can we afford to let sociopaths make decisions that affect all of us?

Likewise, can we trust people who believe in separation and competition to make sound judgments regarding issues that affect all of us? If you strongly believed that we're all separate and life is a matter of survival of the fittest, would you go into public service or become a corporate executive to do what's best for mankind or just yourself? I think the answer is clear. You'd go into public service and climb the corporate ladder to secure your own future, not that of the public. When we believe in separation and competition as a function of survival, we're going to look out for our own best interest, not that of other people beyond what it takes to keep our job.

The danger of this negative or limited world view lies, not only in the divorce of thought from feeling, but in the addictive power of money, power and privilege. When all we ask ourselves is, "What's going to work best for me?", we set ourselves off on a path of conflict and, ultimately, self-destruction. Like electrons in a poor conductor, when we all move in different directions, we inevitably crash into each, canceling out each other's momentum. Consequently, there is no net gain or work. Fortunately, many of us believe in oneness, separation and cooperation; otherwise, chaos would rule and coherent, or intelligent, life could not exist. Unfortunately, many of us do strongly believe in separation and competition and, as a result, we have a large number of money, power and privilege junkies running business and government who make decisions that affect everyone's lives.

Driven by fear and greed, we become overachievers who stop at nothing to accomplish our goals and prove to the world, we're somebody. We don't recognize we're someone already and that there's nothing we have to do to prove it. If we could regularly quiet in our minds and let our feelings flow naturally, we'd see how amazing we are and how our thoughts, feelings and expectations form our reality.

(Competition works best when it's kept internal. In other words, when we ask ourselves, how can I do better today than I did yesterday or, how can we do better today than we did yesterday? When we place our value system outside and start comparing ourselves to one another, cooperation breaks down, which leads to hurt feelings, exploitation and outbreaks of violent behavior.)

After the debate, we watched the Bill Maher show. Besides Ralph Nader and actor, Tim Daly, he had Political  Commentator and Republican, Lisa Schiffren, on his panel of guests. She  talked about how smart the Secretary of the Treasury, and former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Henry Paulson, is and how we should trust him to know what's best for us in solving the current financial bailout of Wall Street. Hogwash, there's a huge difference between cleverness and wisdom! It's one thing to excel in math or English, limited fields of experience, and it's another thing to see how ALL things are connected and interdependent. Make a change here and a change happens over there. We need to be good at seeing the big picture as well as the small ones to maximize our survivability as individuals and a country. Most of us don't know what Henry Paulson's personal philosophy is, therefore, it behooves us to pay attention and exercise control over this bailout process, up to and including, nationalization of the Federal Reserve. We can't let people with self-centered and self-serving intentions shape the future for all of us. Wake up, America! Wake up, World!

Final Note

What would the world be like if, instead or competing for money, power and privilege, we cared more about becoming better people and creating a better world? What would the world be like if, instead of asking, "What's going to work best for me?", we asked, What's going to work best for ALL of us, in personal terms, and in terms of business, education, the environment and peace? We need to value both our oneness and individuality, both our inner selves and outer selves to have the balance and wisdom we need to survive. By working together in cooperation, instead of competition, there are no limits to what we can create.

What do you think?

Pete  http://diaryofamystic.com

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Creo que las imagenes puestas arriba hablan por si solas, sino les dejo las que siguen:

Como veran, no solo con el nombre traducido ya era interesante Pete y Pete.. nos provoca algo interesante.. algo que nos llama a ver a la serie (no animada, a pesar de que los actores eran de carton) y sin duda el factor que marcaba la diferencia era el tatuaje. Ya con eso teniamos para las largas horas solitarias frente a nickelodeon.

Sin palabras, show en vivo de una de mis bandas favoritas...

01//Intro
02//Horrorshow
03//Arbeit Macht Frei
04//Vertigo
05//What a Waster
06//Mayday
07//The Delaney
08//Death On The Stairs
09//Time for Heroes
10//Boys In The Band
11//Up the Bracket
12//Tell the King
13//The Good Old Days
14//I Get Along
15//The Boy Looked at Johnny
16//Skag & Boneman
17//Begging
18//Bangkok

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