Karl

You are welcome to your opinion. I say you are journeying up a culdesac and can take a simple shortcut which doesn't cause the issues meditation can cause for some people. Not that it necessarily will for you, but it can be a lot of effort to discover you didn't exit the bed, just turned top to tail. Still that does somewhat focus the mind by removing one pointless route.

M74 ? I can see a few galaxies with the 8" Dob on a very clear night when my eyes aren't so shot. Winter is coming so I should get out in some dark sky haunts. I thought I was imagining things, but since studying the Trivium I can see golden ratio arrangements in all sorts of things-particular plants and trees. Over time this has become quite strong. It dawned on me that shaman might actually be able to use this to make an inductive leap identifying the underlying chemical structures of the plants and are then to relate them to disease and ritual use.

Then intelligence is a constituent of the universe itself. Yet, as far as we know, it is only humans that are consciously aware of that design which leads to some interesting conclusions. That the entire thing unpacked itself from one single set of ratios. The golden cut.

I wasnt into anything spiritual at the time, but I'm beginning to conclude that absorbing sacred geometry is akin to creating resonance in the brain and consciousness. I found something similar recently with the Trivium and (I read the Quadrivium book at the same time-great book to buy from 'wooden books') . It did something to my brain that seems to be only remotely connected with the actual work itself. I hesitate to say 'expanded conscious awareness' but that certainly what it feels like. As though I've straightened out kinks and resistances between the interconnections. It's this golden ratio. I even used it to set up my speakers before I even knew anything about spirituality and before even listening to Tool. Maybe that's what started things ? Sent from my iPad

I'm not sorry or sad for you though so it's a wasted emotion, you could probably find something much better to hang it on.

I believe that you believe it :-)

You aren't going to like this, but you should read it. http://dbgak.net/Presentation.pdf Sent from my iPad

It's a very interesting subject. I'm listening to a lecture at the moment. Funnily enough it was listening to the band called Tool that set me off on a spiritual path-they use sacred geometry within their musical compositions and lyrics. Danny Carey uses it to arrange his drum kit and the bass drums have geometry on the outer skins.

We pay so much for them that we have to treat them like royalty.:-) got to get our money's worth too. No point in paying for something you don't use. I've suggested we put them on EBay. We sold an old bridge, so maybe we could get a good price for someone who doesn't have a set ?

'Beyond' isn't someplace I'm ever intending to go, I prefer here and now.

Sounds good.

I would say that it was never 'free'. That we treat it that way, is why there are problems. If we are going to correctly allocate resource and price discovery in the free market with private ownership is literally the only way we can do this fairly and sustainably. Every other method runs us into the wall of pollution, over fishing, environmental damage and eventually wiping ourselves out. You see free implies no labour is applied to the sea at all, but we know that isn't right. Every activity has an opportunity cost. Fishing isn't 'free' and we don't get 'free' fish to eat, or free shipping. All these things are connected together. If you think in terms of separate things you will miss the beauty of it. Try thinking of us as connected. Everyone producing and consuming and the whole producing the prices of various things in relation to other things. We choose to trade things which we value less for those we value more and therefore we can only consume, effectively what we produce according to those ratios. All that happens with sea privatisation is that it just becomes another commodity in the market. A fisherman relies on the oil, steel, netting, staple foods, etc shipped from all over the world. If he owns a vast ocean and does not let the ships cross his property then an alternative method of transportation must be found which means the cost of his fishing becomes prohibitively high-people can't afford fish and the high cost of the other goods and so they choose vegetables, or game-the fisherman now has no customers and all the costs.

So your state of 'oneness' ( by which I assume you mean unity) is not permanent. Then you must have made a decision is having to be made which requires reason. This decision was prior to the decision to act according to your nature. See where I'm going with this ? I can go out of the door and decide that I will do a kind thing for the first thing that strikes me. That I will be in unity by doing that action.

No one ever tires of hearing, or seeing British Royalty. The weddings, the births, deaths, clothes, visits, ceremonies. There can never be enough prime time viewing, front pages, or magazine articles dedicated to such things.

The more likely scenario with a great music track:

I had to laugh at 'painting one side'. That's a proper Norman wisdom film right there. "We have an incoming asteroid Mr president" "Quick, launch the decorators" "But they only have white wash for one attempt and we don't know if it will be foam rollers or sheepskin" "Damn it man, get me someone who knows about exterior surface finishes in outer space" "I know only one man for the job" "You don't mean....." And a slow steady engine. I'm thinking Jeremy Clarkson for that one "floor it"

Of course, we are known for our cruel and unusual ways plus our ever ready adaptability to technology. "Germans bombed our chip shop" but we single handedly defeated them in the Battle of Britain, saved the world and then grew poppies and had tea on the lawn. Spiffing old chap.

'With a little help from my friends" at the drugstore ;-)

You sure that wasn't The Normans, or the Vikings, or the Romans, or likely the Celts from somewhere further South. The USA got better when we Brits colonised it. We didn't need to invade as you only had bows and feathers.

At your age I suspect you are mainly prostate with a head attached.

Depends what I wanted. Pretty much anyone telling me to whilst holding a rifle to my head in the hope they wouldn't shoot me. My wife mainly-she is my spiritual authority and wage earner-prostrating myself before her is an infinite pleasure.

USA- Homer Simpson. 'nuff said. ;-)

I'm still great, it's the rest of you that aren't all that. :-)

Change to the Labour Party brand. A fairer Britain for all ( what ever that means) and a democracy where everyone has their voice heard ( which is precisely what already happens and why we have MPs ). His change-or those of labours marketing team-is to dispense with the polish and try a rougher image. Make no mistake, that's all it's about-changing the image. The Labour Party and its supporters didn't change overnight, it's Labour as usual with a scruffy, shabitat, oxfam style sheik.

He will either fit in or, they will get rid of him. Little touches like reading out people's question, not wearing a tie etc are all just part of the new 'Corbyn brand'. They have identified that the electorate feel politicians are out of touch and living in the Westminster bubble. Labour aren't going to out conservative the conservatives, so they have to choose another kind of appeal. It's all about reflecting the mood of their supporters. It's pretty much what UKIP did and to an extent the greens/SNP. I think they are barking up the wrong tree. They are living in a leftist elite bubble which encompasses the kind of scruffy, privileged socialist groups that made up the occupy movement. Yet Corbyn is old enough to look like the wise old owl that will appear to the ageing hippy Marxist types. It's all about demographic marketing. Labour is full of think tank, marketing group think squads intent on engineering a populist movement. The unions have installed the Tom Watson thug to keep him right and take over if the marketeers mess it up.