Listen up!

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Non resistance is the key to the greatest power in the universe. Through it, consciousness (spirit) is freed from its imprisonment in form. Inner nonresistance to form – whatever is or happens – is a denial of the absolute reality of form. Resistance makes the world and the things of the world appear more real, more solid, and more lasting than they are, including your own form identity, the ego. It endows the world and the ego with a heaviness and an absolute importance that makes you take yourself and the world very seriously. The play of form is then misperceived as a struggle for survival, and when that is your perception, it becomes your reality. Continue reading »

An inspired remix: ‘We Are All Connected’
(ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)

more at symphonyofscience.com
melodysheep apparently uses Reason 4.0 (instrumentals), Adobe Audition (audio editing), and Melodyne (auto-tuning), but the musicality, art and inspiration is all his own. Good stuff.

My new hero (after Hank Moody, Californication) – a strong and clear spokesman of the imminence of climate change as it relates to our collective evolution as an awake global community. Yes, wake up they say, wake up and smell the (fairtrade) coffee and we might truly call ourselves an intelligent species, or toast!?
I encourage you to watch through part 2 to get the noble dude’s message.
This corroborates our evolutionary potential as alluded to here in the inspirational largest movement on earth by Paul Hawken (at the Bioneers conference in 2007)

An elegant and eloquent short. I like it because it offers (to me) a clear and honest juxtaposition of two worlds (without newagism or sensationalism) and where my values and heart truly lie – with the soil under my feet, a feeling community, and a simplification from distractions by knowing where my deepest pleasures in life really lie…

I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist this unexpected TV interviewee on the bad streets of Toronto… !

Yes, yes, it is Robbie Burns night – and here’s one for him
Little Flo

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Mary Oliver, Selected Poems

An informative talk given by John Major Jenkins (sometime around 1999) describing the astronomical and mythological correlations of the Mayan calendar and the winter solstice end date of 21/12/2012.

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What!?

From the Design like you give a damn series at TED