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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • Hippie Masala - Watch the Documentary Film for Free -...

    Rated Dec 27 2008 • 1 review • subculture, video, worldviews • snagfilms.com

    refugees from the West who stayed East
    via nickyskye/Metafilter, Hippie Masala, on Snagfilm a production by Ulrich Grossenbacher and Damaris Luthi.

    Hippie Masala [masala is the Hindi word for spice mix] is a documentary which poignantly depicts the lives of a handful of old hippies from different countries, who not only remained in India but also remained in the caricature roles of a small few in those days. These are, in some ways, lost souls stuck in the amber of the 1960's and 70's and this movie offers glimpses into their lives now. SnagFilms also has 510 other excellent documentaries to watch for free online.
    "In the 1960s and 1970s thousands of hippies journeyed East in the search for enlightenment, free drugs or a "pure" life. Indian peasants assumed that a severe drought in the West was the reason for their migration. India's holy men saw it, more accurately, as a search for spirituality. Most moved back to their home countries after a few months or years. Some stayed for good. HIPPIE MASALA shows aging flower children who, after fleeing Western civilization, found a new home in India."

    refugees from the West who stayed East
    Hippie Masala
    Snagfilms

    video.aol.com/video-detail/hippie-masala/482828242 [video.aol.com/video-detail/hippie-masala/482828242]

    Excellent documentary about the lives of those rats who jumped the ship and who did never re-enter the game.
    Their life is no better but also no worse off than the lives of those who re-integrated the big game. But their experience was assuredly more intense...




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  • http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LKFKxfL7tV4

    Rated Dec 24 2008 • 1 review • philosophy, video, reality, worldviews • youtube.com

    The Way
    on You Tube by aladdin518

    Computer animation in Chinese ink-painting style. Created 2003 using Maya. The animation reflects an ancient Taoist view of the world as a constant changing ...

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    Chinese CG (English Title: The Way )

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    Guzheng: Breathing

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    Last painting

    It's my hope that amidst those rapid societal changes the present feasting days bring you inspiration and contentment. The videos here above could help us all reattach our feet to the ground. Best this and that to all stumblers.
    Yin-Yang founds and unifies Chinese thinking. See this good introduction about the dominant concept shared by different schools throughout the history of Chinese philosophy.






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  • http://www.livingthefield.com/

    Rated Feb 01 2008 • 3 reviews • science, video, reality, worldviews, animism • livingthefield.com

    Lynn McTaggart
    via BurkinaLoveFaso , on an interview of Lynn McTaggart on Google Video

    Video interview with journalist and author Lynn McTaggart. She and her publisher/husband Bryan Hubbard are directors of a public company called What Doctors Don't Tell You Ltd, which publishes newsletters which scientifically critique mainstream medicine. As well as continuing to write about alternative medicine and editing the What Doctors Don't Tell You publications, McTaggart has also developed a program called Living The Field, based on an understanding of the zero point field that is not accepted by the scientific community. She is heading The Intention Experiment, a large scale web-based investigation to discover if intentions can affect the physical world.

    Living The Field the scientific exploration of spirituality, offering a bridge between science and spirit.
    The Intention experiment
    wddty.com [wddty.com]

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    an interview of Lynn McTaggart on Google Video

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    Lynne McTaggart, author of the Field, talks about her vocation, the basis of happiness and the power of intention.


    Specialization leads to separation, dependency and sickness. Freedom and health come with autonomy.

    What we know for a fact:
    1. We are particles of the whole we live in (humans, all other animals and all matter).
    2. All particles are interconnected within the whole.
    3. Healthy particles are open to the others and also to the resonance of our global interconnectedness.

    Willpower separates us. Willpower results out of greed, the search for prestige and more generally the effects of individualism that tend to collapse the societal polarity of humanity. Holistic health systems are thus concentrating on relaxation, meditation and "letting go" as techniques to "stop the mind" in order to allow the self to open to the other particles.

    Two schools of thoughts are thinking along the lines of what I describe here above.
    - the top to bottom school of specialists who try to impose their truths on the individuals. Lynn McTaggart falls in this category and makes a living from her status of specialist.
    - the bottom to top school that rejects the truths of any top to bottom specialist. Buddha, Lao Tze and others fall in this category. This was also the case of the "men of knowledge" or shaman under animism.




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  • Post Modern Times | 2012

    Rated Jan 31 2008 • 12 reviews • postmodern, video, postmodernity, worldviews • postmoderntimes.com

    Postmodern Times
    via Dreams in digital / Sya; in Postmodern Times/2012

    Postmodern Times is a series of short animated films presenting new ideas about global consciousness and techniques for social and ecological transformation. Our first episode, "Toward 2012", introduces the project, explaining concepts from the best-selling book, "2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl" (Tarcher/Penguin, 2006) by Daniel Pinchbeck, in the author's own voice. Future segments will focus on shamanism, sustainability, alternative energy systems, the Mayan Calendar, quantum physics and synchronicity, human sexuality, and a host of other subjects.

    Postmodern Times
    Postmoderntimes in Google search 86 interesting videos


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    Postmodern Times. 6 min - Jul 30, 2007

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    A recording of Daniel Pinchbeck talking about Postmodern Times "Toward 2012". 1 hr 27 min - Sep 17, 2007


    From what we know societal evolution goes in stages:
    1. Animism, tribes, plucking and hunting.
    2. Religions and philosophies , kingdoms and empires, agriculture.
    3. modernity , kingdoms and republics, industry and long distance trade.
    4. postmodernity , highly creative and conscientious individual cells are interconnected within "small groups" that are interconnected with other small groups. Some see this whole societal architecture as a rhizome (Jeff Vail)

    Here are some videos that prefigure such a possible societal rhizome:

    youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]
    Think About It | Daniel Pinchbeck

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    Entheogen: Awakening the Divine Within. I posted about this video in an earlier post

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    Think About It | Hugo De Garis

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    ELECTRIC SHEEP THROAT SING. MUSICK BY GODS OTHER DEVIL. VIDEO BY SCOTT DRAVES. December 27, 2006. 5 min. 12 sec.




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  • WIDE EYE CINEMA - Free Truth Videos

    Rated Jan 28 2008 • 11 reviews • video • truestoriesvideoblog.info

    True Stories Video Blog
    via my friend BurkinaFasoLove on truestoriesvideoblog.info/

    The main objective of this site is to help promote the work of brave individuals who have found the courage to speak the truth regardless of what other people think. As we are living in a time of global dysfunction on the earth, our natural human birth-rights are being stolen from us by an elite criminal network (*of all races and creed) in order to create a Totalitarian globalized society (via the use of Hegelian dialectic - problem reaction solution). Controversial as it may be, a push for World Zionism, Neofeudalism and mind control via the mass communications media seem to be the common purpose in the active groups and powerful oligarchical families participating in this criminal plot.

    True Stories Video Blog "telling the truth in a time of universal deceit "

    I'm not much inclined towards conspiracy theories but fact is that some of the videos on this site are most interesting.

    Here are a few other video sites of interest.

    Miro Turn your computer into an internet TV. (video aggregator)
    Fora THE BRILLIANT IDEAS NETWORK FOR VIDEO DISCOURSE AND DEBATE
    SciVee SciVee is about the free and widespread dissemination and comprehension of science.
    VideoLectures Videolectures.Net provides free and open access high quality video lectures by scholars and scientists
    YouBama YouTube + Digg + Obama = YouBama




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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9A9akfrEjg

    Rated Jan 10 2008 • 1 review • spirituality, video, worldviews, collapse • youtube.com

    Awakening the Divine Within
    via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing; on You Tube, by smileycoyote


    Terence McKenna, Alex Grey, and Stanislov Grof are among the people that speak here in this inspiring piece put together by Entheogen.TV. The question remains, will we climb out of barbarism and into some form of legitimate civilization or will we die and take Earth with us?

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    "Awakening the Divine Within" on You Tube
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    No we will not take the earth with us.
    Fortunately we do not have such a power. But we could very well take 95% of all species on earth with us.
    We are no match for the earth it will continue its own existence without humans eventually.

    If our earth were cleared of humans then the principle of life on earth would definitely have the chance to enter into a new cycle of expansion (evolution-development).

    And then what? Would that new cycle conclude again with the suicide of its most developed specie? There is just no practical reason that I can think about for us to even think about that question.

    Let us just observe that modernity has pushed humanity on the brink of falling in the precipice of extinction.

    - A minority of sensitive people are saying that it is too late to counteract modernity that we are already in free fall and that it is only a question of time before the earth is cleared of humanity or at least of human civilization.

    - On the other extreme is the majority of the people who are blinded by the ideological powder of greed, the lust for material possessions, and individualism that modernity continually throws in their eyes. They are consuming themselves into obesity, the flesh expanded, the consciousness molten away.

    - I'm conscient that we are on the road to the brink. But the understanding that the principle of life on earth would definitely enter into a new cycle of expansion, after humanity's extinction or the collapse of its civilizations, procures me with a pause. This is what gives me the energy to observe what is unfolding without any interference of my personal wishes on my observation. I ultimately find unmeasurable pleasure observing nature, the working of societies the working of modernity, and also thinking about what life could be like if more of us had the courage to live our dreams. I never lost the hope that we eventually all could live our dreams and dream our lives... that's what powers my thinking, my painting, and my life.








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  • http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9050474362583451279

    Rated Nov 24 2007 • 68 reviews • video, finance • google.com

    Money As Debt
    via Metafilter / psmealey, on Google video by Paul Grignon

    Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it all is being created.

    Money As Debt
    The fog of finance in Project Syndicate by Jean-Paul Fitoussi and Eloi Laurent

    video embedded with greasemonkey's videoembed
    video.google.com/videoplay [video.google.com/videoplay]


    Excellent presentation accessible to all.




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  • Real Estate Prices

    Rated Nov 23 2007 • 6 reviews • economics, real estate, video • youtube.com

    Video visualization of Real Estate Prices
    via Calculated risk / Tanta, on You Tube by speculativebubble

    This is a visualization of real house prices since 1890 using a rollercoaster. Wait until the end!

    Videos embedded with Greasemonkey's videoembed
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    Amazing visualization technique. Comment by Spineboy: "The graph data was from APRILs housing data, and we've already had about a 10-15% drop from the 2005 prices.
    For those who don't know, this is a plot of the Case-Schiller housing index price, which has been accurate since data was kept - from 1890. Median home price data, etc are all skewed/don't reflect the market, since cheaper houses aren't selling.
    Goldman-Sachs, and other firms/investors, are expecting a 35-40% drop in California housing prices!!!"

    As an aside and illustrating the total folly of some market analysts, check this video added May 17, 2007
    youtube.com/watch [youtube.com/watch]






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  • Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre...

    Rated Nov 17 2007 • 30 reviews • science, video, worldviews • google.com

    Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe

    on Google video,a TED talk

    Richard Dawkins is Oxford University's "Professor for the Public Understanding of Science." Author of the landmark 1976 book, The Selfish ... all - Gene, he's a brilliant (and trenchant) evangelist for Darwin's ideas. In this talk, titled, "Queerer Than We Suppose: The strangeness of science," he suggests that the true nature of the universe eludes us, because the human mind evolved only to understand the "middle-sized" world we can observe. (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 22:42)

    Richard Dawkins' jaw-dropping talk on our bizarre universe
    More TEDTalks

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    Many of my past posts are illustrations of my absence of patience for the mechanistic logic of science. This presentation by Dawkins shows that this mechanistic logic of science is not really a failure of science per se but of scientists.

    Dawkins (biology) rejoins Villenkin (astronomy) in the conclusion that humans are "stuck" in their dimension of reality without any chance to ever have a peak into the other dimensions.

    - Villenkin defines our dimension as an island bordering other islands that are irremediably inaccessible within the whole of our universe (in the physical sense).
    - As a biologist Dawkins speaks about the nature of humanity being limited to the function of the individual's survival. Our brains receive the images that our eyes see and analyze them in order to command the response that best will protect our existence as individuals. We are thus not equipped to see further than what habitually impacts our existence what Dawkins calls the middle world. Around the middle world are thus other worlds that we are not equipped to detect nor to dwell into.

    By recognizing the limits of the human world within the whole of our universe Dawkins and Villenkin are, de facto, recognizing the limits of science and the ensuing necessity for science to find a place within the context of a view of the universe, a view of reality, or a worldview that integrates science in a simple, beautiful, and globally encompassing story of reality or of our universe.

    Humans are in a dire need to share such a worldview on a worldwide scale. I believe that only the sharing of such a worldview can unite us all behind a sustainable way of life. My painting and writings are about such a post-modern worldview.




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  • Hans Rosling: No more boring data: TEDTalks

    Rated Oct 26 2007 • 4 reviews • science, video • youtube.com

    Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen.
    on YouTube a talk by Hans Rosling

    You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called "developing world" using extraordinary animation software developed by his Gapminder Foundation. The Trendalyzer software (recently acquired by Google) turns complex global trends into lively animations, making decades of data pop. Asian countries, as colorful bubbles, float across the grid -- toward better national health and wealth. Animated bell curves representing national income distribution squish and flatten. In Rosling's hands, global trends -- life expectancy, child mortality, poverty rates -- become clear, intuitive and even playful.

    Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

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    An excellent presentation of world health statistics and their movement in time.

    There should be no doubt left that the increase in life expectancy experienced by all nations entering modernity is not primarily provoked by the spread of modern medicine but well by the application of simple hygiene principles. Among those the distribution of drinkable water to people's houses has assuredly acted as the most determinant parameter...






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