November 26, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic What to Say Science into Your Pocket Beneath Between Beyond » Focused Excellence author, publisher, originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. » Newsletter Production » Graphic and Web Design » Life Coaching » Staying Awake Blog » DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM 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) A life of engagement is not comfortable; but the opportunities to make a positive difference in the world, and the tremendous feeling of having a clear purpose and occasionally acting at full capacity are worth considerable sacrifice along the way. ~ Swanee Hunt, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, Director of Women and Public Policy Program Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. I read the other day where some scientist thinks it’s possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas. ~ Anon, like in the 1950s? Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. […] A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales. ~ Marie Curie (b 1867), Polish born, Physics Nobel Prize 1903, Chemistry Nobel Prize 1911 The world of education is like an island where people, cut off from the world, are prepared for life by exclusion from it. ~ Maria Montessori (b 1870), Italian educator, scientist, physician, philosopher, feminist, humanitarian, the first early childhood educator nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. ~ Charles A. Beard (b 1874), and Frederick Jackson Turner, 20th century American historians There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. … It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879), German-born theoretical physicist If you see your path laid out in front of you—Step one, Step two, Step three—you only know one thing... it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else’s path. That is why you see it so clearly. ~ Joseph Campbell (b 1904), American professor, writer, orator, comparative mythology, comparative religion But life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. ~ Bettye Naomi Goldstein (Betty Friedan) (b 1921), American feminist, social activist, writer I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women’s movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men—insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea—have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included. […] Life on the planet is born of woman. ~ Adrienne Rich (b 1929), American feminist, poet, teacher, writer To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. […] We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, author, speaker, researcher of heart-brain connections Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis. ~ Martha Nibley Beck (b 1962), sociologist, therapist, author (1) Every public educational system on Earth has identical hierarchies of subjects. Picture an upside down pyramid with no shortage of mathematics, languages, and humanities cascading from the top to the bottom point where performing and silent arts struggle for air. Presumed for our species’ survival, Ken Robinson infers including the arts at the top of the list. (2) What is unclear to you about possibilities of millions of exalted females upgrading education and the arts? What would you choose not to recognize about feminine energies monitoring oppressive masculine hierarchies? What exactly do male exclusivities protect, and to what end? © 2004-2006 All rights in all media reserved. 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 freely distributed by EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Greetings All,

There’s so much to relate to you this time around, my fingers aren’t typing fast enough! About two weeks ago, I was so delighted to find a treasury of videos, I nearly knocked over my Kool-Aid! I was instantly grateful, and here’s why.

While watching numerous Internet videos, I saw men and women of extraordinary intention pull passive observers like you and me into fulfillments of our global sisters’ and brothers’ humanitarian projects not presented in conventional media reports.

If you’re reading U.S. newspapers, listening to U.S. radio, or watching U.S. television news reports, hopefully, those uncensored miasmic messages have become secondary to your online researches. There’s a sweeping sense of relief once delusions in commercial media vaporize by staying awake to the benevolence gifted from human to human.

About three years ago, Tom Peters, a business guru, said that if you’re not involved in politics, you will be. Let’s ask, is science the weakest link in our open stream of knowledge? If we’re not involved in science, will we be?

Yes, we are already involved in science. We’ve got computers, right? Your computer is one of probably six thousand things in your home, things that were birthed out of ideas in science and technology. Think for a moment that a computer gathers then displays billions of humans’ activities and empathies with each other, as if gifting our species with an astoundingly elegant watchfulness of our own fascinating conscious evolution.

What to Say

I wrote the following prose in 2005, and its title is What to Say. This piece isn’t about suffering nor death, but a contemplation of Earth’s poetic dwellers doing the best we are able, every moment, everywhere.

Science into Your Pocket

Altogether, sciences are a fascinating poetry! In the most recent Staying Awake, I mentioned the web site, Meaning of Life dot tv, which slips science into your pocket by featuring 20 videoed interviews of various types of scientists. The interviewer is Robert Wright, author and journalist.

Then, there’s Heart Math dot com, an organization which gives away a stack of research papers (in pdf format) on subjects of the physical heart and intuition. Wonderful! I told them so, too.

In November 2002, grassroots entrepreneur Mitch Battros of Earth Changes Media shifted from syndicated television programs to live one-hour radio interviews. Broadcasts of credentialed physicists, astronomers, geologists, volcanologists, and credible researchers of wisdom texts and esoterics (a word no longer maligned by a growing number of scientists) can be heard on Internet via membership.

After finding TED dot com several months ago, the curator Chris Anderson has significantly updated their site by giving away forty-five 15-minute lectures called TEDTalks. TED is an acronym for Technology, Entertainment, and Design. More talks familiarizing us with the latest humanitarian projects, global business and economics, science, and the arts are added weekly. Stunning!

MeaningOfLife, HeartMath, EarthChangesMedia, and TEDTalks slip the poetic weaves of science into your pocket. I thank them again—right now!

Beneath Between Beyond

The rest of this ezine was inspired by several recently viewed TEDTalks, especially Sir Ken Robinson’s (recorded February, 2006). His flair for the humorous convincingly commends advantages for the arts in public educational systems. Being a pianist, I applaud Robinson’s sagacious foresight.

Reality is not what it used to be, and the word reality might be spoken with more than simple confidence. Earthlings have been trained by an empirical reality, a brainy insinuation measured with only our five senses. Quantum scientists can intuit realities nearly imaginable—beneath between beyond any idée fixe you and I might regard.

Here’s an idea that may be smart to ponder: Atoms creating your existence in this nanosecond are not the same atoms that created your existence in the most recent nanosecond. Imagine bodies and memories not entirely made of stuffs we’ve assumed.

Suppose for a moment that Earth’s life forms consist of layers upon layers of waves of cosmic energies containing more empty space than matter. Did our brains evolve to perceive only what we can see, touch, hear, smell, and taste? Or, are we capable of retraining our brains for intuiting a reality beneath between beyond that which our bodies can effortlessly handle?

The kinds of creative education for interpreting the above two paragraphs are pretty important. However, public educational systems have finagled most creative imaginations into a box, especially children’s. Children are mostly treated as being wrong for speaking and doing creatively; little ones’ spontaneity is censured without being trained that something appearing ‘wrong’ might become another’s treasures!

If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original.
~ Sir Ken Robinson (b 1950), British born, speaker, author, consultant for creativity and innovation in business and education

It appears that 19th century education was steered toward industrialization, and, since then, the spontaneity and talents with which children are born have been squandered, ruthlessly. (Weren’t 19th century Romantic art and music revolts to industrialization?) Further, which universities today do not stigmatize students’ mistakes? How do masculine corporate hierarchies create landscapes that reproduce contempt for employees who nurture and act on their innate sensibilities?

Humans are educated whether or not we’ve entered the halls of a building, and received a paper stating our educated status. According to a UNESCO report, in 30 years, there will be more people than ever with diplomas, but those diplomas along with hierarchical economic values of schooling will have been inflated into the inane. Is it not apparent that we need to rethink intelligent educations of human capacities?

Civilization is swimming to survive into the forthcoming ocean of educated humans. Our species’ alluded extinction is apparent when considering dismissed creative imaginations could assume themselves dynamic life guards from the performing and silent arts.

I remember my dad saying I’d not find a job if I got my degree in piano. Of course, by no means could he have known my future—he was an accountant! Our rigid, traditional educational systems have put job oriented priorities like math and science at the top of the list while putting arts at the bottom. ⁽¹⁾

Are you able to think without dancing or playing the piano? Do you find yourself consulting a client while wanting to draw concentric circles on paper? Those are possibilities of interactive creativity, the likes of which children intuitively possess until it’s educated out of them.

All children are born artists. The problem is to remain artists as we grow up.
~ Pablo Ruiz Picasso (b 1881), Spanish painter, sculptor, co-creator of cubism with Georges Braque

Children entering school this year will be retiring in the year 2065, yet no one knows what the world will be like in five years much less know how we’re meant to educate our children for a future.

Is creativity in education as important as literacy? Should we align the arts with the status of literacy? Should we rethink our definition of human ecology by adopting new economical contexts for the artistic riches within human capacity? ⁽²⁾

Over thousands of years of existence, into sixty-three years after WORLD WAR TWO, and here we are watching planetwide educational systems mine our minds as do corporations strip-mine Planet Earth for certain commodities—beneath between beyond anything you and I can endure imagining.

Planet Earth has been pillaged by malignant corporate and educational negligence. Crafted patriarchal delusions of peace were meant to have been interrupted by monotheistic dogmatisms, fomenting loathsome cyclic revolutions. But, with artistic visionaries, what remains of eviscerated left-minded brains could be averted by right-brained artists and creatives serving vivacious futures fashioned by children.

If all insects were to disappear from Earth, within 50 years all life on Earth would end. If all human beings were to disappear from Earth, within 50 years all life forms would flourish. ~ Jonas Edward Salk (b 1914), American physician, researcher, helped to develop the eponymous Salk vaccine

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