I ran across this web site thru my usual ways. Kind of like rummaging thru an old box of papers and notes.
One thing leads to another, and before you know it, the day is consumed with clicks and links.
This is one of those “gold mines”, and I felt it needed to be passed along. A full study site. I love it. Something to bookmark to come back and pick up where you left off.
So here it is… a gift for you.
TROM – The reality of ME ~ Click HERE for Trom Web Site
“The TROM documentary is trying to present, in a simplistic way, the world in which we, human beings, live. The world discovered so far, not some idea or personal choice. Moreover we tried to present alternative solutions to current problems and took into account the future, which promises to be more than interesting. An informative documentary, perhaps shocking and disturbing to many, depending on how you digest the information.
The documentary is divided into chapters and sub-chapters due to documentary’s excessive length (13 hours). Also all the parts are connected.
The documentary and website are concentrated, so it is essential to read additional information which can be found in descriptions beside each section and the video player.”
As I have said many times, our sun is the “game changer” for all life and DNA in our solar system. We are getting ready to go thru some pretty wild rides this year with the sun being in its “active cycle” for 2012. Already, we are having back to back M-class flares for the past three days. Below you will find an amazing piece of video work from a group called “Semiconductor”, the frequency of the sun’s plasma and solar discharge seems etherial and other-worldly… but it is not. This is the sound of OUR sun, in all of its glory!.. get to know her.
“Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun’s finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise.
This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies.”
I don’t think there is anything wrong with a good healthy dose of skepticism, especially in today’s world of information-overkill and fear laden main stream media propaganda. Having “higher-discernment” is a must during these times, however, balancing that with healthy skepticism is pretty tricky.
Healthy skeptical inquiry is good curiosity. I think it is very similar to “higher discernment” in that the latter has an established set of criteria thru which information is sifted. Albeit personal, one still has the ability to discern what they will believe and how they will study it.
When the student (and EVERYONE is a student) seeks an answer for his or her self knowledge and chooses which direction they will lean, that decision is usually made on the basis of repeated inquiry and duplicated evidence. We learn from repetition.
Relying on outside authoritative confirmation has not only become glaringly biased from those from which you seek it, but teaches you to follow the herd, be compliant, and never look like a trouble maker. We are all human beings questing for something – answers, truth, knowledge…etc and if we continue to rely upon those with (seemingly) higher knowledge, we will never learn to take responsibility or risk, let alone learn from our mistakes.
If those in power are failing to depart wisdom to the “lesser individuals” because they don’t think we could “handle the truth”, then it is up to us to show THEM what it looks like to have an open mind and heart to new and challenging ideas. And if we can not do this ourselves, (due to our docile herd mentality) then we shouldn’t be pretending to play with the big dogs by challenging them at every turn and looking like the fools with infantile minds they love to think we have.
“Higher discernment” is something very unique and is relative to your personal (inner feelings) and knowledge. Skepticism is a little sharper edged, often more publicly pronounced (announced), and may become pathological if left unsupervised (by you) due to its emotional content and how it is encouraged by the aggressor. This type of pathology is commonly found in the comments section of most alternative news sources, YouTube, and others.
[path·o·log·i·cal] – “of, or relating to, or manifesting behavior that is habitual, maladaptive, and compulsive. Being such to a degree that it is extreme, excessive, or markedly abnormal.” Merriam-Webster
“Many members of the mainstream scientific community react with extreme hostility when presented with certain claims. This can be seen in their emotional responses to current controversies such as UFO abductions, cold fusion, crypto-zoology, psi, and numerous others. These scientists react not with pragmatism and a wish to get to the bottom of things, but instead with the same tactics religious groups use to suppress heretics:
hostile emotional attacks,
circular reasoning,
dehumanizing of the “enemy”
extreme closed-mindedness,
intellectually dishonest reasoning,
underhanded debating tactics,
negative gossip, and all manner of name-calling and character assassination.
Erecting barriers against new ideas by constantly altering the requirements for acceptance is often found in main stream science communities. (A practice called “moving the goalposts”)
Example: “I won’t believe it until major laboratories publish papers in this field. They have? Well, that means nothing! Major labs have been wrong before. I’ll believe it when stores sell products which use the effect. They do? Well, that means nothing, after all, stores sell magic healing pendants and Ouija boards. I’ll believe it when a Nobel Prize winning researcher gets behind that work. One has? Well that means nothing! That person is probably old and dotty like Dr. Pauling and his vitamin-C cures…” etc.
Belief that science is guided by consensus beliefs and majority rule, rather than by evidence has also become a favorable habit. Indulging in behavior which reinforces the negative effects of consensus beliefs while minimizing the impact of any evidence which contradicts those beliefs.
Example: “I don’t care how good your evidence is, I won’t believe it until the majority of scientists also find it acceptable, and it is announced on the news or in the NY Times. Your evidence cannot be right, because it would mean that hundreds of textbooks and thousands of learned experts are wrong.”
True skepticism is vitally important to real inquiry. Skepticism involves meticulously questioning beliefs or facts. Ideally, every scientist then is a true skeptic.
Skeptopathy, (another word for pathological skepticism) on the other hand, is not a logical rational pursuit. Pathological skepticism is the irrational belief that a theory or a piece of evidence is false merely because it is unusual, or goes against conventional wisdom, or is simply too difficult to imagine.
Pathological skepticism then involves an irrational unsupported belief that something is untrue. Skeptopathy involves not fact and scientific rigor – but blind faith that an unpleasant notion is false, usually followed by ridicule of some kind.
“Scientists are people, after all, and subject to basic human irrationality and selfishness. Like many people, some scientists routinely engage in denial…. If reality is too difficult to face they will simply ignore it. Like many people, some scientists are largely self-serving, and despite privately acknowledging the scientific truth, they will pretend that a disturbing hypothesis is false in order to protect or further their funding, careers, or reputation. This has done much damage to our society and has caused many people great emotional suffering at the hands of a few “trusted authorities”. (William J. Beaty)
Learning to use your OWN discernment and keeping quiet with your opinions for just a little longer before you “pounce-to-announce” will take you far in this new era of disclosure. Be a healthy skeptic, but keep a sharp eye on your compulsions. We are all entering into the realms of new and bizarre scientific discoveries, some exciting, some frightening, and some extraordinary in every respect.
Lets give you a little test…. shall we? Watch the entire video (or rather listen to it) and observe your thoughts. I wonder if you will have a good sense of curiosity on board, or skeptopathic disregard.
Ringing Earth – Tibetan Monks in “spirit cave” hear new sounds
“There is a secret cave of spirits in Tibet. This cave is not known to the public. The Tibetan saints are sleeping in this cave. The old men and monks are saying that it is starting to sing its mantra calling for gods to return to the Earth. This mantra has three levels. The last level means the coming of the new era. Listen to this sound recorded by Russian enthusiasts who were allowed to visit the place near the cave where it was possible to record the sound. This sound has no artificial changes and is presented in raw format (only noises were reduced).
So wow.. I have always wanted to understand the deeper meaning and philosophy behind the narrative of the Matrix (Film). As with many, I shared the overwhelming and complex thought provoking quandary the film and its writers Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski set to task. What an outrageous composition, what a seriously deep and trippy dive into the true philosophers writings of old, made for this (our) generation. This one hour documentary covers all the bases. with commentary from the likes of;
Iokovos Vasilou, Ken Wilbur, Mark Rowland, John Searle, Christopher Grau, T.J. Mawson, David Chalmers, Colin McGinn, Cornel West, Donn Bowman, Michael McKenna, William Irwin, Richard Henley, Julia Driver, Rudy Rucker, John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, Peter Chung, Daniel Dennett, and Hubert Dryfus –
Each a professor of Philosophy, or a “high thinker” in the realms of consciousness, the documentary puts together the deeper meaning of Hyper-Reality and the Desert of the Mind. Sighting the philosophers of antiquity, and bringing us right up to date with where we are today. Seems we’ve been here – at this “moment” – over and over again (apparently 6 times) according to the Upanishads.
A truly comprehensive study of the movie, our current cycle of reality and our search for deeper meaning in a meaningless world.
Drawing from the minds and works of some of the most extraordinary philosophers in the world, the Wachowski brothers pretty much shoved it ALL in that film, creating a whirl of interpretation to this very day. Reviewed, compared, and accliamed, by more than a handful of great minds, The Matrix (trilogy) was truly a film for our generation and something to be viewed (in its entirety – all three) as a study, rather than used for entertainment.
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For those of you who really love the sublime writers – here’s a list for some “light” reading HA!!
Socrates and Plato – The Allegory of the Cave
Rene Descartes – Meditations on First Philosophy
George Berkely – To See is to Be Perceived
Immanuel Kant – Transcendental Philosophy
Friedrich Nietzsche – Will to Power, The Collective Hallucination
Jean Baudrillard – Hyper Reality, The Desert of the Mind
Robert Nozick – The Experience Machine
Pierre-Simon Laplace – Causal Determinism
David Hume – A Treatise of Human Nature
Arthur Schopenhauer – The World as Will and Representation
