Pointer

Pointing upstream

 

The power is in you. The answer is in you. And you are the answer to all your searches: you are the goal. You are the answer. It’s never outside. Eckhart Tolle

Posted in Eckhart speaks | Leave a comment

Abandon realism

By David Deutsch

It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed “dark energy”) more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales.

Unexpected by researchers, such a force had nevertheless been predicted in 1915 by a modification that Albert Einstein proposed to his own theory of gravity, the general theory of relativity. But he later dropped the modification, known as the “cosmological term”, calling it the “biggest blunder” of his life.

So the headlines proclaim: “Einstein was right after all”, as though scientists should be compared as one would clairvoyants: Who is distinguished from the common herd by knowing the unknowable – such as the outcome of experiments that have yet to be conceived, let alone conducted? Who, with hindsight, has prophesied correctly?

Continue reading

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A new heaven, a new earth

Should one be worried if prophecies start to make complete sense ?

I don’t know how this is going to happen, I just know this IS happening right now and we all are a part of it. In fact, we all are going along with it, if we realise it or not. I have never been someone to believe in apocalyptic scenarios or doomsday – but I have come to experience the power of the collective transformation, inside out.  The old things are passing away with breathtaking speed, as the instinct for congruent, conscious living prevails over the fearful attempts to keep order in division and separation. This is no longer in the realm of the esoteric or spiritual, no longer reserved to the mystics – no, this is what is happening right here and right now to everyOne in this universe.

To the mind, still anchored in linear time this cannot happen without a prolonged period of pain and agony. But what if we all have suffered enough ? What if there is no time to begin with and everything is happening simultaneously. What if the old things just disappear, as they are already gone anyway. The emblems of samsara or human strife  – money, power, inequality, slavery, death – the ubiquitous manifestation of misery and suffering caused by the illusion of separation.  A sea of unconscious concepts and sentiments gone and  no more, so we all can see.

This is from Revelation 21:

Then I saw “a new heaven and a new earth,”for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea.  I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.  ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

 He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

 He said to me: “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7 Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children. 8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

NB: Sulfur is known as the king of homeopathic remedies because it has such a wide range of use. It has a deep, long-lasting effect on the body and is often used to bring out symptoms for further treatment. For this reason, sulfur is generally used to treat chronic ailments, although it is also used for acute conditions such as fevers and colds. Sulfur stimulates the body’s natural healing powers, causing a general improvement of symptoms and sometimes causing new symptoms.
Just a more optimistic take on the vivid imaging of fire and brimstone –  Its a cleanse…;-)
Posted in Make new from old | Tagged , , , , | 3 Comments

Unglued

By 

By Stephen Lee Myers

While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case scenarios — that would have once been almost unimaginable.

What if the Palestinians’ quest for recognition of a state at the United Nations, despite American pleas otherwise, lands Israel in the International Criminal Court, fuels deeper resentment of the United States, or touches off a new convulsion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza?

Or if Egypt, emerging from decades of autocratic rule under President Hosni Mubarak, responds to anti-Israeli sentiments on the street and abrogates the Camp David peace treaty, a bulwark of Arab-Israeli stability for three decades?

Continue reading

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Crumbling

By Tomas L Friedman

I’ve never been more worried about Israel’s future. The crumbling of key pillars of Israel’s security — the peace with Egypt, the stability of Syria and the friendship of Turkey and Jordan — coupled with the most diplomatically inept and strategically incompetent government in Israel’s history have put Israel in a very dangerous situation.

This has also left the U.S. government fed up with Israel’s leadership but a hostage to its ineptitude, because the powerful pro-Israel lobby in an election season can force the administration to defend Israel at the U.N., even when it knows Israel is pursuing policies not in its own interest or America’s.

Israel is not responsible for the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt or for the uprising in Syria or for Turkey’s decision to seek regional leadership by cynically trashing Israel or for the fracturing of the Palestinian national movement between the West Bank and Gaza. What Israel’s prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, is responsible for is failing to put forth a strategy to respond to all of these in a way that protects Israel’s long-term interests.

Continue reading

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

The empathic civilisation

Jeremy Rifkin on TED

Posted in Breaking the mould, The world we live in Now | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Yoga at the MoMA

Elena Brower does yoga at the Pipilotti Rist Pour Your Body Out Installation at the MoMA

Music: To Build A Home (Feat Patrick Watson) The Cinematic Orchestra
Posted in Dance, Wisdom & Method | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A good job

From the Economist

WITH unemployment stubbornly high and an August jobs report showing no net job creation, some people might argue that American workers should be happy with whatever employment they can get. But others are making a very different argument, prompted in part by the presidential campaign of Texas Governor Rick Perry, who is touting the state’s record of job creation during his time in office. In their view, job creation during Mr Perry’s tenure has been heavy on minimum-wage “jobettes”, and growth in the number of those jobs—jobs where a full-time worker won’t necessarily make a living wage—is nothing to brag about.

With regard to Texas, I’m not sure the premise is correct. About 9.5% of Texas’s hourly workers are paid at or below the federal minimum wage, compared to 6% of hourly workers in the nation as a whole, meaning that Texas and Mississippi are tied for the highest shareof such workers. That’s not great, but it’s also not entirely surprising, given the demographic and historical characteristics of the Texas workforce; also, more than a dozen states set the minimum wage higher than the federal standard, so you would expect very few of their workers to earn the same as or less than the federal standard, and for the national share to shrink accordingly. In any case, Texas’s job creation has not been mostly about bottom-barrel jobs; at Democracy in America, I break it downby industry.

Continue reading

Posted in The world we live in Now | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

That’s what freedom all about

Pay as you go ?

Back in 1980, just as America was making its political turn to the right, Milton Friedman lent his voice to the change with the famous TV series “Free to Choose.” In episode after episode, the genial economist identified laissez-faire economics with personal choice and empowerment, an upbeat vision that would be echoed and amplified by Ronald Reagan.

But that was then. Today, “free to choose” has become “free to die.”

I’m referring, as you might guess, to what happened during Monday’s G.O.P. presidential debate. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer asked Representative Ron Paul what we should do if a 30-year-old man who chose not to purchase health insurance suddenly found himself in need of six months of intensive care. Mr. Paul replied, “That’s what freedom is all about — taking your own risks.” Mr. Blitzer pressed him again, asking whether “society should just let him die.”

And the crowd erupted with cheers and shouts of “Yeah!”

Continue reading

Posted in The world we live in Now | Leave a comment

Fear

Recently I read a study estimating the prevalence of mental disorders in the European population about 38%. Anxiety and panic disorders took the larges share with about 14% , followed by depression. This is about 60 Mio people in fear and if you put them all in one country, it would compare to the size of Britain.

60 Mio people living in fear is a hell of a lot of people.

What is going on ? Obviously awareness of the disorder and access to the medical system is one factor. The availability of effective drugs may be another. But doesn’t it strike anyone as odd, that so called mental disorders are not only on the rise – they are virtually exploding with double digit growth over only a few years. And people do suffer from the respective symptoms, as well as trouble sleeping, eating and going about their day.

Anxiety is palpable in todays society. You feel it walking on the street and dealing with people. You see it in the eyes of people you meet over the course of the day and you observe it already in children and even in their pets. There is a slight nervousness, an edginess in almost everybody.

Continue reading

Posted in Breaking the mould, Toaster & Fridge | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments