just something random about self perception.

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How attitudes affect perspective, as experienced by the only person over 40 at the San Francisco Love Fest

A few believe the Earth is flat, most believe the Earth is round. I have my own opinion.

At first I was insulted that he doesn't like the music. But hey. Nobody's perfect. Now YOU have a friend in the covert operations business!
Thanks for the voice-over, Joe!

Stop the Clash of civilizations - demand real Middle East peace talks now! Talk is rising of a 'clash of civilizations'. But the problem isn't culture, it's politics -- from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to   more...Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don't want it.

So where to start? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the key symbol of the rift between Islam & the West. It's time to step up and take the initiative.

Petition to Israeli, Palestinian & international leaders: The Palestinian-Israeli conflict lies at the heart of a global clash threatening to divide us all. People from every corner of the world want a just and lasting peace in the Middle East - and the international community can and must help bring all sides to the table. Start Real Middle East Talks Now, and stay at the negotiating table until we have peace...

Produced by Avaaz.org
Music by DJ Spooky  less

My stance on two-sided debates and discussions.

Karen Lum's look at perceptions of beauty, ethnicity, and body image

That is not me. Escape from programming. Mysterious shadow. Freedom from media. Molded by fear. Social conditioning. Desire for change. Not that dream. Pretending to be someone. Created by thought. Only   more...a light. Only a strange feeling. Only my body.  less

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Another encounter with the screen. A disruptive clanking mixed with birdsong. What does it mean? Exploration. Energized by peace of mind. Shrinking the mind. Feeling more. Eating blackberries. One side   more...better than the other side. Perception altered by sound.  less

(A long time coming)
Perception – A Dream Awakened
It’s a misconception… A false perception
There is no one true reflection…
One representation
If you defy the stagnation that would swallow you whole,
the   more...sole remaining answer may surprise you
when you realize we did climb out of that hole
that existed in our collective mind
Chains that bind, thrown aside to lie beside
shackles rusting in our past would haunt us,
but did not deter the dauntless.
A century after the Proclamation
that would... rend a nation?... Join a nation…
they made that first great walk
to hear a leader talk of a dream
that seemed elusive:
Equality for all… brotherhood for the good of all
The spirit of those who rode for freedom had a voice
And now, two score years and five later
our nation makes a choice,
raises its voice for all to hear.
We’re crossing those lines
that divide our nation…
lines in the minds of those
who would deny the brotherhood and equality
that lived in that dream on the Mall
We’ve answered Martin’s call,
looking to a leader from beyond those lines,
to a new voice that hails this land of Democracy…
this land of opportunity,
for at last we see
And across the seas and around the globe,
a disenchanted world turns its eyes our way,
hailing the day we answered that dream
That is perception.  less

Little or no commentry on this one, just random happenings on the road and other things i've witnessed.

Don't trust anything you haven't seen with your own eyes.
But how much can you even trust them?

Music:
God Lives Underwater - From your Mouth
http://www.enjoyglu.com/

What we pay attention to. Subtle changes.

American Women and Western Perception of Islam - By Aminah Assilmi

joke, yeah??

How to Operate Your Brain - An Owner's Manual - By Dr. Timothy Leary Ph.D.
http://deoxy.org/leary.htm
http://soundgasms.blogspot.com/2007/07/how-to-operate-your-brain.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQq_XmhBTgg
  more...You might catch yourself sliding in and out . . . relax and enjoy it.

This is an experiment in mind formation, in-formation, forming, controlling, operating your mind and your brain, using digital techniques to overload, scramble, confuse, unfocus your mind.

The natural state of the brain is chaos. We’re dealing with a complexity of in-formation. The first thing to do is to overwhelm your focused mind, your linear mind, by overloading signals, digital patterns, clusters of photons and electrons which produce a pleasant state of confused chaos. This is the state of the brain when it is ready to be informed, that is, to be reprogrammed.

The human brain contains one hundred billion neurons, each neuron is as powerful as a large computer, and each neuron has around ten thousand connections with other neurons. Within our foreheads there is a chaos, inside our brains there is a galaxy of information, which is incomprehensible to our linear minds.

This contrasts and compares perfectly with the chaos without. We’re living in a universe, which has one hundred billion galaxies, each galaxy with star systems, planets, a complexity, again, which to our minds right now is chaotic, incomprehensible.

Chaos is beautiful. Now many times we are afraid because we want order. We can’t deal with the confusion and disorder. We want form. We want rules. Yes, throughout human history there have been people—religious leaders, political leaders—who will give you order. They will give you rules and commandments.

But chaos is basically good. Relax. Surf the waves of chaos and learn how to redesign your own realities. Sit back. Flow. Open your eyes. Turn off your minds. Unfocus, and let the waves of chaos roll over your brain. Float. Drift, Zoom. Design. Create new order, your order, your style from chaos.

Yes. Yes. Chaos. Yes, yes, chaos . . .

The aim of human life is to know thyself. Think for yourself. Question authority. Think with your friends. Create, create new realities. Philosophy is a team sport. Philosophy is the ultimate, the ultimate aphrodisiac pleasure. Learning how to operate your brain, learning how to operate your mind, learning how to redesign chaos.

The religious leaders, the political leaders want to give you orders to run your life, to determine how you think. The basic goal is to operate your own mind. Think for yourself.

Around three thousand years ago, a group of human beings in Athens, Greece, developed a new philosophy, a basic religion of humanity that is called humanism. Socrates said that the aim of human life is to know thyself. Create and design your own order from chaos. Socrates did not give commandments. Socrates did not impose order. Socrates asked questions. He encouraged his friends to speculate, design, to create, to interact their own versions of reality. Socrates said the way to perform philosophy is in small groups, raising questions, learning from each other, changing, changing your mind, growing together, thinking together.

The religious leaders said “You can’t say that, Socrates. The gods are in control. Who are you to say you have a self? How dare you think you can know? The Gods determine. Sacrifice to the gods; obey the gods.” Socrates said, “No. Look within.” For that, they gave Socrates the hemlock, because he dared to tell people, “Think for yourself. Question authority.”

To think for yourself, you must learn how to reprogram, reform, inform your own brain. To do this, to take responsibility for your brain, it is necessary to question everything that you have been taught, to question authority, to learn to take the brave step of taking responsibility for operating your brain. (cont'd in comments)  less

This is from a series titled "Mysterious World" first aired during the 80's. It was hosted by Arthur C. Clarke who resided in Sri Lanka. He was probably one of the greatest science fiction authors   more...and futurists in history.

He passed away today: March 19, 2008 (Sri Lanka time). At the age of 90.  less

Messengers of light, through MagentaPixie talk of Outer Space and Inner Space being one and the same.


Edited by MagentaPixie
Music "Ritual" by Kevin Macleod.

If you've been exposed to Television lately the mirror neurons in your head have been manipulated to cause you grievous bodily harm. You're the walking wounded of perception warfare. It's a serious   more...problem, and it's getting worse during the transition from Psyops to mind war. The CNN effect doesn't only impact national security, it physically changes the way your mind works and how you live your life. You've been lulled into a trance-like state. Wake up!  less

You, as one of the group of beings that designed this experiment, had decided to see how far you could separate your perceptions from your nature-pure Spirit. You reasoned that the greatest joy would   more...come when a part of yourself that perceived itself as separate would come to love the whole by its own volition. So you decided to continue with the emergence of separate vantage points even though you saw a potential risk for the species.  less

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