March 5, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management - Commentaries - click a topic Indispensable Technologies Peace by Empathy

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I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879)

Our Earth and a most engaging sun, both capable of sensitive cognition, will from their bond reflect to us any imaginable human intention. ~ DM

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(*) The philosophy of cosmology can include but not limited to studies in art history, literary & performing arts; theories from biology, anthropology, & physical sciences. I study lectures of Brian Swimme, mathematical cosmologist at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, CA, USA. ~ DM When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (b 1803), a famous American essayist, one of America's most influential thinkers and writers Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing. ~ Gore Vidal (b 1925), an American writer of novels, plays and essays, and has been a public figure for over fifty years It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. ~ Agnes Repplier (b 1858), American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we will harness for God the energies of Love; and then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (b 1881), a Jesuit priest trained as a paleontologist and a philosopher, was present at the discovery of Peking Man If you're having difficulty coming up with new ideas, then slow down. For me, slowing down has been a tremendous source of creativity. It has allowed me to open up - to know that there's life under the earth and that I have to let it come through me in a new way. Creativity exists in the present moment. You can't find it anywhere else. ~ Natalie Goldberg (b 1948), an American author and teacher of creative writing, best known for a series of books which explore writing as a Zen practice You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ~ Buddha We know ourselves to be made from this earth. We know this earth is made from our bodies. For we see ourselves. And we are nature. We are nature seeing nature. We are nature with a concept of nature. Nature speaking of nature to nature. ~ Susan Griffin, an eco-feminist author who received a MacArthur grant for Peace and International Cooperation, an NEA Fellowship, and an Emmy Award for the play Voices (**) A May, 2005, lecture by Joseph Chilton Pearce inspired this article. I chose to interpret as closely as possible the compilation of relevant ideas I heard; to refer the many scientists’ names and findings would have likely doubled the size of this ezine. Pearce’s passionate, 25-year exploration has been in human consciousness, child development, and, more recently, in the amazing connections between the human brain and the physical heart. ~ DM My mission is remembering the human heart is very probably more important than the brain for prompting nudges. According to early studies, the human heart senses seconds in advance of a happening, and signals the brain. Like the scorned lover, the brain is the last to know. ~ DM The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government. ~ Thomas Jefferson (b 1743), third President of the United States (1801–1809), author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) If there are phenomena, the reality of which we cannot deny but which cannot be fitted into our accepted conceptual framework, then something is wrong with that framework and we must look for another. ~ Georgij Ivanovich Gjurdzhiev (b 1872), a Greek-Armenian mystic, championed awareness of ourselves in our daily lives At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance. ~ Dr. Paul Tournier (b 1898), a physician from Geneva, Switzerland, applies "Tournier's universalism" and Christian understanding to the field of medicine and the treatment of human problems The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us, thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. ~ John Muir (b 1838), a Scottish- American polymath: inventor, naturalist, environmentalist, writer, engineer, explorer, geologist Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your common sense. ~ Buddha You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine is distributed by our friends at EZezine.com

Something fascinating has been talked about in scientific communities for at least 20 years. It’s only now that I’m understanding and sharing the idea. Perhaps, you’ve been thinking the same as me. Consider this.

We Earthlings are awakening and rubbing our eyes as if from a long sleep only to find we are participating in a grand global partnership for helping the reconstruction of future civilizations. It is the awe of being human that is being revived! Moreover, we barely can see it.

We are living in the most challenging and exciting times we could have possibly imagined – we are creating and recording a magnum opus of change. Let’s be grateful for every single day we breathe and move!

I’ll even go out on a limb to say the Earthlings who usher in the next phase of humankind will engage inconceivable heightened intuitive awareness. By way of the sun’s evolution, Earth’s magnetic fields and landscapes will likely have been dramatically altered. Instead of empirical decisions (from information received only by the five senses), humans will likely first structure their lives in tandem with nature's extremely sensitive energetic rhythms out of which they were born.

Borrowing the wit of the playwright who scripted Steel Magnolias, I've paraphrased a favored line [with my words in bars] to show another probable scenario for extinction: [Religion as a necessary illusion to sanction war…] is the boil on the butt of humanity!

People like me and others who have the senses for appreciating artistic natures can become boils on the butt of humanity, too. We can't help but stay awake to the obsessive beauty that swirls in our nature. We don’t have to work hard at keeping a mission alive, to keep ourselves awake, and generate care and passion for awakening other Earthlings to their magnificent role in the nearly foreseeable extinction of species including our own.

For this artistic performer turned writer to decline penning a revelation after observing global activities would leak blasphemy into pools of sensibilities with which I was birthed. It is part of my cosmology to reveal.

If you’ve been wondering about cosmology, or have confused it with cosmetology, then here’s a distinction.

Cosmetology is the study and art of applying cosmetics.

Cosmology is one of the three philosophies in metaphysics (the other two are epistemology and ontology); simply put, the science of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with its characteristics of space, time, causality, and choice. Staying Awake’s messages can be put into cosmological premises. I am as obsessed with latest mathematical cosmologies as I am with artistic natures who impose beautiful art forms. (*)

Indispensable Technologies

The thousands of plant and animal extinctions, poisoned aquifers, and displacements of indigenous peoples perpetrated by global property developments every year unconceal nature’s ultimate mission, too, that is, survival. Indispensable technologies commonly acknowledged as scientific are not the only ways to observe happenings to the whole Earth. Let’s look deeper.

Samplings of other relevant technologies are thinking, intuiting, language, human behavior, and storytelling. I ask you, what is not storytelling? Yes, I can see some of you cocking your heads at that one. The technologies listed above are ways Universe expresses itself in creations of human beings.

Having said that, Earthlings are well documented for unfortunately couching themselves with assumptive storytelling by scribes, historians, journalists, and scientists threatened within an inch of their lives; or who were generously reimbursed with gold and properties to write certain insinuations (presumed facts) and omit actual intentions. Further, it is not the time to find faithful the mainstream media double-speak versions of truth presumed unchangeable. Hold onto your hats – gusts of change are only starting to unravel the technology of artful storytelling and the unethicals the stories have concealed.

I recently watched a movie for television that might be worth your time. It’s not a religious play as its title infers, but, when the words of the title are spoken in the play, the moment is very touching for the two characters. Together, they had accomplished their goal through indispensable technologies of intuition and medical science.

Something the Lord Made tells the emotional story of two men who defied industry’s rules by launching a revolution set against a backdrop of the Jim Crow South. Researching in the 1940s at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, the play presents the men’s collaborated research and application of a procedure known as cardiac surgery – something the Lord made – for repair of the human heart.

Dr. Alfred Blalock (portrayed by Alan Rickman), and his assistant, Mr. Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), used their intuitive genius, creative energies, messages from dreams, education, delicate physical skills, and a surgical tool invented by Vivien to finally bring forth an art called bypass heart surgery on blue babies. (As a result, presently, some 1,750,000 bypasses are performed, annually.)

Is it not amazing that I would “Surprise!” myself for having picked up the CD at Blockbuster last weekend? I brought the movie home only knowing Alan Rickman, one consummate, favorite actor played a principle role. I had no idea the play was about the heart, and you know how I crave information about humans’ physical hearts.

If your psychic abilities are as underdeveloped as mine, then you’ll understand the astonishment of that “Surprise!” moment once I realized again our intuitive senses and our intentional promise to gratify and inform (all of us) show up when least expected.

Blalock chose to move against the ancient doctrinal myth within the medical industry; a myth out of which centuries of surgeons had been trained not to touch the heart. Yes, you read that correctly: Surgeons could not touch the heart. (If I understood the script, the Latin term for ‘do not touch’ is nolitangere.) Can you imagine the heart not touchable?

I declare! Is there yet another metaphor needed to comprehend Earthlings’ pathology, an illusory separation from our hearts, physical bodies’ feelings, and intuitive senses?

Today, we are remembering we were created one with everything extant by awakening to and expressing reproach for embedded masculine schizoid repressions. On behalf of all melon-headed masculine dominated industries of the world, excuse me while I run outside and set my hair on fire, again!

Empathy felt for Earthlings’ magnificence and for our seeming dilemmas frequently reminds us of how we’ve been trained to separate the partnership of our heart and brain. Now, those are two magnificent tools, one of which is still deliberately promoted but gasps for air in our waning, reptilian-brained religious and economic systems on Planet Earth.

With the advances being made these days, I would if I could place a handsome chunk of dollars on the spinning wheel of fortune in favor of the indispensable technologies and psychic abilities of the exquisite unpraised pumper.

Peace by Empathy

Several months ago, I wrote an article about stunning emotional and physical shifts experienced simultaneously during a coaching luncheon. The unusual empathic experience opened me to the union of the human heart and brain: Peace by empathy could literally birth peace on Earth. I’m republishing part of that article, here. (**)

My personal shift was a dramatic “Surprise!” that created an empathy specific to males’ states of depression that result after feeling repressed by each other. Let’s not speak at the moment of horrendous religious male suppressions between and within both genders that have been maintained for millennia.

Later, one “Surprise!” after another tossed information about mothers and children my direction like wind rushing through a tunnel. I have been facing into the wind, grabbing onto floating thoughts and ideas, then weeping at the findings I felt nudged to read.

Trust your passions and nudges, every one. From my experiences in the last several weeks, staying awake to shifts and “Surprise!” manifestations proves we are able to observe the directions into which our passions move us.

At first, you might wonder how motherhood would impact the futures of small businesses like coaching and other entrepreneurial enterprises, as well as illusory theaters of religions and their obsequious educational, economical, banking, and corporate business systems. Let’s keep eyes open, and stay awake. While governances continue unpunished, unchallenged, unopposed, and for all intents and purposes, immune to their citizens’ reproaches, protection of motherhood might reach critical mass anyway as we move further into this decade of obscured scientific hypotheses revealed.

During pregnancy, if the female feels secure, wanted, loved, cared for, the fetus develops a large forebrain and a sharply decreased hindbrain. If the female feels insecure, unwanted, unloved, uncared for, the fetus develops a large hindbrain and a sharply decreased forebrain.

The emotional state of the mother determines form, function, shape, and structure of the infant’s brain in utero, as well as through the ‘in the arms’ period, those first nine months after birth, and beyond.

Imagine the ‘Angelic Forces That Be’ could speak English, asking this question upon conception of every child: ‘With this new life coming in, will we go for our highest intelligence, or will we have to defend ourselves, again?’

The prefrontal cortex (forebrain) just allowed you to understand the above paragraph, which distinguishes the forebrain from the hindbrain.

An enlightened, educated, schooled, or otherwise reasonable culture, which listens to their scientists, will rally to assure that every pregnant female is protected, not ignored, not neglected, and given as much consideration, care, and love as that culture can possibly provide.

Whether Earthlings remain within the confines of our ancient reptilian, survival-defense brain generating conflict in families, businesses, and regenerating wars, or whether we move into the next phase of empathic intelligence, depends on the pregnant mother's emotional state.

To exalt and protect motherhood would cause humanity’s escorting onto Earth radically different people, and rapidly, too. We would release illusions’ pressures for high standards of living, and create and sustain higher qualities of life. Corporations’ business as usual, and our enterprises, would never be the same.

What I hope for... Many males would get coached into empathic programs: Feel their feelings, love themselves, and protect their wives and their children from fear.

We can now imagine how elegantly females could bring into existence peace and nurture on Earth. Things are going to work out for us Earthlings but not by business alone; certainly not by linear brained ethics nor morals espoused by religionists’ unmerciful platitudes.