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I don't recall the term "international bank" ever used in the film,...nor did Lucy seem interested in money. Perhaps there should be a PJ Merola film. "The biggest crux to the evolution of humanity is breaking through your own indoctrination. It is very, very difficult to overcome emotional elements that have become so engrained in you, that you have an immediate reaction, an immediate suffering and pain, if something interfers with [your idea of the status quo]. It's a very, very complex problem. We have to learn how to identify and break our own indoctrination if we expect to move forward at all as a civilization" PJ Merola

"Neil explains how the belief that we are all one and the same, is death. He’ll talk about what empire gains from sameness." Spoken like a true cancer cell,...break away from the potential of harmony with the Whole, and pursue radical individualism within a small tribe. For every million who agree that "imperial culture ultimately keeps people ignorant," perhap a handful will will realize that the tribal mystique is equally as ignorant. Tribal heritages are often Earth based from a human-centric point of view,...for example, visualizing Earth as Mother,...when in truth, Mother is Sky,...the Earth is the male, or contracted aspect of duality. Already did a post about it,...so no need to repeat. http://thetaobums.com/topic/20285-sky-dancers/?hl=%22sky+dancers%22

Although a romantic idea,...where has quiet and unheralded action precipitated real change? Yes,...I certainly agree that "quiet and unheralded action" is heart warming,...even can bring one to tears,...but real change,...in these days of mob rule,...as when "under god" was declared to be, as it is, an illegal endorsement of a monotheistic religion,...the mob ruled. IMO, to demonstrate real change, fear must be removed,...for fear is the fuel of the mob. However, to remove fear, its opposite, hope, must be let go,...and the mobs will not like that,..."quiet and unheralded actions" feed the delusion of hope, and thus sustains fear. Conditions can NEVER enter the Unconditional.

Any discussion of airy-faery folks is likely deemed as negative by airy-faery folks,...even in an Off Topic discussion. Airy-faery folks like looking a the perceived good in things,....perception being the keyword. The airy-faery folk idea of good is what the groupthink thinks is good. Mother Teresa was good,...she was a saint,...airy-faery folk adore her. Honest folk are much rarer,...it's not easy on the ego to be honest. Honest folk want the truth, and have come to understand that truth is seldom understood before identifying the false as the false. Airy-faery folk don't want to deal with the false. They do not want anyone commenting on their heroes. Thus any mention of Mother Teresa as a lying, thieving Albanian dwarf, really ruffles airy-faeries,...and the fact driven book on the "friend of poverty," Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, which describes the soon to be saint as not even relatively compassionate, is met with anger. Eckhart Tolle correctly stated, "we need to draw our attention to what is false in us, for unless we learn to recognize the false as the false, there can be no lasting transformation, and you will always be drawn back into illusion, for that is how the false perpetuates itself." Realizing truth through understanding the false is the highlight of Prajnaparamita Buddhism,...and a lessor extent, the Hua Hu Jing. The Prajnaparamita sutra are loving called the No Sutras,...because they speak of "no" over, and over, and over. No, no, no, no.... Airy-faey folk cannot read material that points to honesty. Airy-faery folks cannot see things as they are,...nor want to. Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ―Albert Einstein Whether that misguided respect for a phony nun, or psychopathic politician. Some 10 years ago, Dr. Justin Frank, a prominent Washington psychiatrist and author of the book, Bush on the Couch, Inside the Mind of the President, said the President suffers from character pathology, including grandiosity, megalomania, and a sociopathic personality. These comments were in no way limited to Dr Frank,...as many psychiatric professionals argue the same thing. However,...conservative airy-faeries loved him,...he's the kind of fellow you can sit down and have a beer with. Most Americans don't want to know the truth of the Bush years,...they want to move-on,...as if the atrocities no longer matter. http://warisacrime.org/busharticles A discussion of airy-faeries v honest can tangent off in many directions. As the majority of folks are actually dishonest,...the focus on what is honest will likely no dominate the thread,...and if it did,...the thread will likely be thrown into the Pit.

I disagree! An absolute, unconditional truth is the hardest thing to justify,...to relative minded people. "If truth was understood, ego would no longer be "needed" in the capacity it now enjoys." Sri Ram Kaa

There is a meme among most of society that it is better to be happy than right,...but I ask, how can one be happy and wrong? As a drummer (djembe) for many years, I understand that VMarco does not drum,...but is merely a conduit. Thus I do not see drumming as out of the flow. Korean Hapkido Grand Master Jeong told me, “Ki is in the stop [or zero point] before the kihap.” The power is not in the yell; the yell is simply an incidental byproduct of the Ki process. The kihap is just the exhale. A kihap uttered without connecting with the stop is mere posing or pretending. Instead of martial artists’ practicing a yell, they should be practicing the stop. When power comes from the stop, the kihap simply happens. I began to grasp the significance of Ki following a question that I addressed to the instructor on the subject. Grand Master Jeong told me to grab him. I expected to be tossed to the mat, but instead, he touched me with a single finger on a point near the crease of my elbow, and I instantly dropped as if I had somehow been turned off, like an electrical device after someone flips a switch. I was so amazed that I quickly asked to see this move again, as if one could see Ki revealed in the physical aspect of the technique. Sure enough, I again collapsed like an unplugged character from the Wachowski brothers’ Matrix films. The technique that dropped me to the mat is called Ki disruption. Without Ki extended through what is called “enlivened hands,” however, what dropped me was just a point on the arm, which at most may have bent my elbow. Without being centered in the one point from which energy extends and circulates, the very best that anyone can be as a martial artist is a tropical storm, an unanchored disturbance that is nowhere near the level of a calm-centered hurricane. Later, I found out that if my energy flow had moved unimpeded from the Ki, the disruption that dropped me would not have occurred. Authentic Hapkido is an activity through which one channels life force out through the hands or feet. The physical techniques are circumstantial. The Hapkido martial artist is a conduit who employs these techniques to exceed ordinary physical ability. Various phenomena using Ki through that enhanced ability are quite testable and have been documented. The Ki Master Koichi Tohei said, “We are able to move most rapidly and violently when we remain perfectly calm. Likewise, the truest calm is reached when we move at the greatest speed.” Obviously, I had to know more about Ki to understand what he meant. Grand Master Jeong showed me techniques for connecting with this tremendous vitality. A few minutes of daily Ki practice can greatly improve one’s physiology, from flexibility to longevity, enhancing the body’s natural healing powers, to promoting healthy teeth. However, I wasn’t yet able to tap into this mind–body unifying life force. I did the practice, but the movement did not originate from my point of balance. I continued to hold onto a false center of gravity. My desire to experience Ki paved the way to hand drumming. The practice of drumming encourages relaxation, rhythmic breathing, a conscious connection with duality, and moving from stillness. Through Ki consciousness, the masculine and feminine inhale and exhale of sound and motion become very distinguishable. Centered upon the fulcrum of Ki, the yin and yang are as clear as two children on the opposite ends of a seesaw. Drumming, if done spiritually, from a true center of gravity, effortlessly introduces one’s attention to a one-point awareness below the navel, and subsequently to the still source of our life force. I was most fortunate to have a spiritually minded djembe teacher who placed much emphasis on relaxation, the masculine–feminine flow, and drumming from one’s core. For me, drumming presents one’s presence to the presence of Ki and allows a connection with the timeless essence to extend the universal life force out through one’s hands. Ki is in the present, thus beyond time, yet the energy extended through Ki moves in time, as the lever of a seesaw harmoniously moves upon a timeless, balanced middle. I didn’t immediately make the connection between drumming and the “one thing” through which I could understand everything. Drumming meditations, that is, the act of moving from a center of stillness, certainly manifested out-of-body experiences, through which I could observe myself from outside my body. However, the deeper connection between drumming and my “one thing” happened at a place called Bantu Camp, a weeklong African drumming–dancing cultural workshop. On the second and subsequent evenings, I heard it while several of the master drummers played. There were voices rising from the drums. At first, I perceived the voices as a spiraling sound that seemed like a thirty-three-RPM record being played at seventy-eight RPM. The voice I heard as a child with pneumonia was the voice that rises from the drums of those who play from their Ki/chi. Drums sing through drummers who drum as conduits of the life force. To get more regularly connected with Ki, I began practicing T’ai Chi Chih, a peaceful, moving meditation developed by Justin Stone. Stone is an extraordinary self-testimonial for the movements in the system he realized through many years of T’ai Chi Chuan. Despite being in his nineties, he doesn’t look a day older than a healthy seventy-two, and I’ve heard that he has the teeth of a twenty-year-old. (Thirteen Ki meridians or pathways, that is, ducts that act as conductors of energy, flow through the teeth.) The somewhat abbreviated form of T’ai Chi that Stone practices is not only a great way to begin the day, but also a superb warmup for drumming or simply keeping one’s “can of paint” unsettled and enlivened by circulating and balancing the conflux of energy that moves through us. I enjoy the softness and universality of the movements and also that they are done in repetitions of nine. As will be explained below, nine is the first and only reflection of zero, an important insight in uncovering the light that we are. Nothing in nature is, or can be, more or less than nine. When beginning a Ki practice, such as T’ai Chi, there is an effort to relax, move softly, and shift one’s weight smoothly. Our body (nine) strives to uncover Ki (zero) at the danjun point. When we reveal the Ki (zero) point to the body (nine), effort lessens, and the Ki (zero) then does the Ki practice without effort. Awareness of Ki connects us with the spiritual value of zero. For many people, however, Ki remains inaccessible. One reason for this is an inability to breathe properly. The first breath of a typical American usually occurs by being pulled from the birth canal and spanked. That’s not a breath, that’s a gasp, a desperate intake of air. From birth, we are continually indoctrinated to hold our breath, which leads us unconsciously to manifest erratic breathing that lacks a balanced, harmonious flow. People who hold their breath have an inclination towards stress, fear, hope, and superstition. That may have been perceived as advantageous for our hunter-gatherer ancestors, but such crimping of proper breathing is a barrier to spirituality. Ki exercises encourage a connection with our authentic spiritual self through relaxed breathing and thus letting go of attachments to fear, hope, and superstition. While many may think that they are spiritual and can go out and do random acts of kindness and love, unless they have transcended fear, hope, and superstition, such actions are not true acts of kindness and love. The expression of anything filtered through fear, hope, and superstition is neither an act of pure kindness and love, nor spiritual. We all think that our road is the one paved with good intentions. However, any intention that arises from or filtered through, fear, hope, or superstition is tainted, and so that road is feculent. Stevie Wonder sung, “When you believe in things that you don’t understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain’t the way.”

Prove it! Unlike many,...I'm not into generalizations.

First,....I responded to your 95% rhetoric in Pit,...so won't remash it here. As for "honest types." The misunderstanding of the term "honest" is as an on-going joke. hon·est adjective \ˈä-nəst\ : good and truthful : not lying, stealing, or cheating; showing or suggesting a good and truthful character. Honesty is intimately connected with truth or truthfulness. From a Buddhist/Taoist perspective: "Relative and absolute, These the two truths are declared to be. The absolute is not within the reach of intellect, For the intellect is grounded in the relative." Shantideva What the above is actually saying,...that relative truth is not really truth,...except in relative or illusory matters. This should lead to,...what is an "honest type?" We already know (as I explained in the Pit) that thelerner believes that those who reject the Constitutional Rights of non-Abrahamic Religionists are "honest (and decent) types." However,...there is another honest type,...a type that is authentically honest. If the Buddhas said, "A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, how do they see "both sides of an issue?" Let's take an absolute truth an break it down. Truth: There is no Present in time. What is the "other side of that issue?" An how would an honest person articulate it.

A wish is different than a hope. hope n. from ME. hopa, an expectation. 1. expectation of something desired; anticipation of some future event. 2. a guess or belief. 3. that which gives hope; a substance or object hoped for; an expected payoff. A wish is a grand unexperienced reality, a tremendum uncovered by surrendering hope and expectation. Individuality is always convinced of its separateness,... it hopes and thus positively and negatively desires, but can not truely wish. To ask for anything is to deny what has already been given. The motive of one conscious of wishing, is always that the subject arrive at its own harmonium. A bodhisattva has a wish for the liberation of all sentient beings. If such a wish were a hope, they would not be bodhisattvas.

That sounds like an honest assessment. Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. ~Leo Tolstoy However,...if you pretend that there is no mud,...you'll never see the gold. "What people believe prevails over the truth" Sophocles

There is a huge difference between dialoguing about dualities, and imaginary positives and negatives,...of which I would estimate that most seek positive experiences for their conditioned beliefs,...and what actually is, as I see it. I actually pivot from Buddha's realization that suffering is a consequence of the desire for things to be other than they are,...and the way things are, cannot be accurately perceived through duality's point of view. Both positive and negative are distractions. Neither a positive nor a negative can be exposed separately. Thus,...focus on hope (an expectation of something desired) will never expose its negative, fear. Buddhism implicitly and explicitly says "only when all hopes and fears have died, the Goal is reached." Although most people would imagine that they can deal with their fears,...the best way to void fear, is to confront one's hopes. Airy-faery folks do not want that,...they cling to hope for their identity. For Airy-faery folks,...any discussion of letting go hope is ultra-negative. But seriously,...look at what hope is,...the truth of hope. No matter what level we wish to view it from, hope is false. Hope is an anticipation of the future; thus it must arise from a predisposition, a belief, and attachment to the past. Hope implies lack,...how else could we possibly define it? Hope is for something we think we don't possess. How could hope ever be expressed through an Open-Mind or Open-Heart? The belief of hope is a barrier that obscures the present. The Heart of our Essence would not express lack or need, nor see positive or negative as good or evil, beauty or blight. If our attention is on seeking hope, how are we to ever experience the immediacy required to be in the Present? If we seek hope, our overall frequency pattern projects a self-manifested incompleteness, and thus can only attract to itself, that incompleteness. It is no different than a mirror in ones bathroom; if you look into the mirror with a frown, it will not reflect back a smile. In other words, our hope will never be realized as long as we hope; just like joy is never actualized if we are looking for it. Hope is a condition,…whereas, if Love is Unconditional, how can hope ever enter Love,…a condition cannot enter the Unconditional. Thus, if there is one action in the world which could precipitate a tremendum of Collective metanoic proportions, it would be the deletion of the word hope from our vocabulary. Ponder on this,...the Airy-faery act of sending love,...is hope. Many people think they can "send love"...or prayers of love,...even with the best intentions, that is, from the viewpoint of who they "think" they are. However, from love's point of view, such an undertaking is not only fully irresponsible, but impossible,...the presumed "sending of love" is a violation of another with one's own personal desires,...a forced intrusion of one's conditioned idea of love upon another. One cannot send an Uncondition, one can onlt "send" conditions. Just consider it,...who but a neurotic person would attempt to send love? The bottom line is this,...there is only one thing, and one thing only, that precipitates the so-called act of "Sending Love" or Light, and that is to "get."

There are no positives, without negatives, anywhere within duality. There is however, truth without false,...because there is no truth in duality. The thread about what's wrong with the USA,...now located in the Pit, because it upset a Moderators sensitivities,...was not about " running away from my country or my home," but looking at current treads, through a reliance on facts and observations,...and dialoguing as to whether those facts and observations can move towards honesty, and by consequence, truth. A motto of today's US America is....“It is not truth that matters, but victory.” Adolf Hitler As for those who enable the above,...Winston Churchill comes to mind, “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” Thus,...“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” George Orwell Airy-faeries prefer their beautiful illusions of positivity of falsity over truth. “Truth, like light, blinds. Falsity, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.” Albert Camus Personally, I prefer Buddhism. Buddhas have said, "A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real." Before realizing that,...one should consider to “Never forget that a half truth is a whole lie.” ―Anonymous PJ Merola had some very good advice,...he said, "The biggest crux to the evolution of humanity is breaking through your own indoctrination. It is very, very difficult to overcome emotional elements that have become so engrained in you, that you have an immediate reaction, an immediate suffering and pain, if something interferes with [your idea of the status quo]. It's a very, very complex problem. We have to learn how to identify and break our own indoctrination if we expect to move forward at all as a civilization" Unfortunately,..."Human kind cannot bear very much reality" T. S. Eliot

Ah! But when have you ever viewed a movie that wasn't written yet? Time is one,...one movie,...its already done,...the Tao is the Still Light of the projector,...which does not project,...projections occur in time,...the Tao is beyond time.

Not rhetorical at all. Frequent ranting is ultimately as illusory as all of the past and future,...and equally part of the past/future.

The past and future are the samething. As for the Present,...it is NOT here and now,...there is NO Present in time,...a Present in time is impossible. You perceived now, is in the past. You cannot think, smell, see, taste, hear, touch the Present. The 6 senses can only interact with the past. And yes,...the past is gone,...or better stated, it never existed. Time does not have 3 senses,… what is called past present and future … time only has past and future. Past and future are one thing,...without beginning or end. Marblehead is in the middle of movie,...and thinks there was a beginning and end,...and that his interaction with a single frame or pixal of the movie, is his Now.

There you go! One imaginary Black Hole does not make a field. I say imaginary,...science says probable,...probable in the sense that their object-ive view, although they have seen a black hole, predicts that a black hole follows what they believe they are seeing. Let me repeat,...NOBODY has ever seen a black hole. Yet, despite this lack of direct evidence, most scientists believe that Black Holes exist. Physicist Laura Mersini,...like Buddhism and Taoism,...says Black Holes do not exist. Quantum cosmologists Steven Hawking and Jim Hartle have articulated some profound insights through their observations. They have suggested that concepts such as the classic Big Bang model, a belief in a beginning and an end, or the Christian model of a beginning without an end are meaningless because time does not exist.

Actually,...the perceived universe is much older,...but because sentient beings do see things as they are,...the future is unknown for the universe to be accurately understood. That is to say,...time is One,...evolution occurs as it does because the future already is. It is like a movie or dream, where a story leads to a conclusion. Without the conclusion, the so-called beginning would not know where to begin. One movie or one universal reality,...nearly the same thing. I am here now, because I must be, for Oneness to be One. Time is One. Not a past leading to a future,...that's not One. Sure,...without evolution, there would be no Marblehead,...and yet, without the reverse flow of forward moving things, there would be no Marblehead. Because of that,...ultimately,...Marblehead really has no free choice,...because the future of Marblehead already is. Time is one thing.

G.O.P. (The American Republican Party) Unveils Immigration Plan: “We Must Make America Somewhere No One Wants to Live” http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/republicans-unveil-immigration-plan This is nothing new,...I ceased wanting to live in America since the Christocrat Ronald Reagan was the top Rat. The GOP plan is the same as in the 80's,...No social safety net, No public education, NO clean air, and NO drinkable water,...as the linked report says. Or as the fascist James Watt reportedly said in the 80's, "We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand....after the last tree is felled, Christ will come back." For me, Christianity is the number 1 reason I don't like America,...as I can usually reduce every foul, hateful, despicable thing in America to Christianity and the Abrahamic religions. If I had my way however,...I'd send all obstructionist, anti-Constitution politicians, and their voting base, to Afganistan, where they could happily live with the Taliban, who hold similar beliefs to their own. What a great place an America that respected their Constitution. A place where its Founding Fathers of America were respected for beginning the First Amendment to the Constitution with "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion." That is FREEDOM FROM RELIGION. Only second, to appease the religionists of their day, does it say "or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." That is FREEDOM OF RELIGION.

A new poll (NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll) published on November 20, highlight the stupidity of the average American. The poll found 82 percent support action to lower the cost of student loans, 75 percent want more spending on infrastructure, and 65 percent would like an increase in the minimum wage. These are issues that Republicans and Tea Patriots are vehemently opposed to. 59 percent back limits on carbon emissions. Only 41 percent back cuts in funding for the Affordable Care Act. If Americans voted as they responded to polls, there should have been a landslide Dem election 2 weeks ago. Responding to Spotless above: Republicans continually rant about welfare,...but Corporate Welfare is as obscene as the Military Complex. Nearly twice as much ($92 Billion - a 2002 Cato Institute figure ) is spent of Corporate freebees, than welfare life-lines for citizens,....and almost no Corporate Welfare for Green Companies. A 2013 figure puts Corporate Welfare at $110 Billion. And that doesn't include the Welfare for the Rich,...that is, taxpayer subsidies for millionaires and billionaires. Did you know that there are Special Federal tax breaks for wealthy hedge fund managers? The people whose Risk Taking Behaviors caused the average American to lose much of their wealth following the 2009 recession.

Actually,...from what I've read,...the Federal Reserve was illegal until Reagan made it legal during his Administration. To me,...Ronald Reagan was the worse President for America,...even worse than the psychopath George W. Reagan was the Father of the Christian conservative revolution, the American deficit and Trickle-Down Economics; advocate of corporate welfare, union buster (11,400 striking air-traffic controllers), the President who brought about the deaths of 241 Marines in Beirut, the vocal opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment, the proponent of Nicaraguan deathsquads, or the man who removed Abraham Lincoln's motto ("to care for them whom borne the battle") from the Veterans Administration, and drastically cut the benefits and services of those injured in service to their Country, so that the rich could get tax cuts (which were suppose to "trickle down" to those who needed it). In addition to the deficit, child poverty, crime and drug abuse also climbed beyond the then known charts. Some remember Reagan as the President who brought AIDS to America. Many think that the Reagan Administration purposely introduced the aids virus. For others, the first thing to come to mind about Reagan are: disinformation campaigns, trees that cause pollution, "Facts are stupid things", sunglasses will protect you from the depleted ozone, the S&L scandal, influence peddling, that ketchup is a vegetable, initiation of drug tests, education cuts, medicare cuts, veterans cuts, voodoo economics, unemployment, shredding machines, the invasion of Grenada, etc. While others remember Reagan through his fascist cronies, like Michael Deaver, Elliott Abrams, Manuel Noriega, Robert Bork, Ferdinand Marcos, Ed Meese, Oliver North, Lyn Nofziger, Caspar Weinberger, Donald Regan, James Watt, etc. I feel however, that history should remember Reagan as the first President to put his religion above his Country and Constitution.

Of all the Countries I've been,...USA is at the bottom on the friendliness scale,...which indicates a general malfunction in their Christocratic society. I'd put the Brits second in snottiness and arrogance. The Thai people are some of the most friendliness,...but some Muslim Countries, like Turkey and Malaysia are pretty friendly too. Istanbul is a wonderful place,...the people, the architecture, the landscape, is fantastic. The USA is a beautiful country,...but they believe in the 8th Day of Creation,..."We Bulldoze It." As a Christianized Country since the 1950's,...the USA has little respect for the environment or humanity. "There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to Christianity as a human being." James Joyce

Excellent graph! IMO,....the Average Salaries are much lower,...even $55K in America is higher than the average Household Salary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage

Obama says, "Americans are tired of gridlock," ....I say Obama is a liar! "Americans are NOT tired of gridlock," and that's why the majority keep voting for gridlock. Sure,...nearly every politician should have their citizenship revoked under the 14th Amendment, Sec 3, for putting their faith-based agendas before their Oath to the Constitution,...but what about the media-ted Americans that are voting them into office. "it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" J Krishnamurti

I received a copy of: Waking Up A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, by Sam Harris,.heres some quotes: Joseph Smith, a libidinous con man and crackpot, was able to found a new religion on the claim he had unearthed the final revelations of God in the hallowed precincts of Manchester, New York, written in reformed Egyptian on golden plates. He decoded this text with the aid of magical seer stones, which, by magic or not, allowed Smith to produce an English version of Gods Word, that was an embarrassing pastiche of plagiarisms from the Bible and silly lies about Jesus life in America. And yet the resulting edifice of nonsense and taboo survives to this day. Harris also mentions how such fact checking is very unfashionable. He writes: "Making distinctions [about religion] is deeply unfashionable in intellectual circles. In my experience, people do not want to hear that Islam supports violence in a way that Jainism doesn't, or that Buddhism offers a truly sophisticated, empirical approach to understanding the human mind, whereas Christianity presents an almost perfect impediment to such understanding. In many circles, to make invidious comparisons of this kind is to stand convicted of bigotry." Sam Harris. Looks like an interesting read. http://www.amazon.com/Waking-Up-Spirituality-Without-Religion/dp/1451636016

That's a good piece of advice,...but one that is likely misunderstood. People generally like their head,...it's what they like best about themselves. For most (99.9%),...happy is as the DiCaprio character in the film Inception,...where, at the end, he disregards the spinning top, and just wants to go to his kids, whether it's a dream or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdV9E9Xcb10