Cognitive Dissonance

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

Article found on Gizmodo -

A camera on board NASA’s STEREO A satellite seems to have captured video of an unknown thing that looks like an actual spaceship. The blip appeared when a Sun’s coronal mass ejection (CME) reached planet Mercury. Watch the video and judge by yourself.

Update: whatever it is, it appears on the images taken by STEREO twin satellite too. Check out the new video, taken at the same time, taken from the opposite side of the action.

Make sure to run the video at full screen.

What is happening in the video?

The video shows a coronal mass ejection coming from the Sun and reaching the planet Mercury. Coronal mass ejections are massive explosions of solar wind, radiation and magnetic fields that go well beyond the solar corona, deep into space. They are so big that sometimes they reach Earth.

You can see the gigantic solar wave reaching Mercury but, just as it goes through, something else becomes visible: a very angular shape that seems to be formed by two separate objects joined together. It looks as if the CME wave reveals a volume on impact, interacting with it.

You know, like a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey being uncovered by the Sun’s radioactive fury.

What captured the images?

The images—found by YouTube user siniXster in the US Navy’s SECCHI site—were captured by the heliospheric imagers HI-1A on board of one the Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatories: STEREO A.

The twin STEREO spaceships were launched on October 26, 2006. They are rotating around the Sun, studying its surface and activity. They are also part of an early warning system that alerts scientists in case a CME is so strong that it may gravely disrupt satellites orbiting Earth. That’s why the US Navy participates in the mission.

The heliospheric imagers are part of Sun Earth Connection Coronal and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI), a ground of five cameras: a telescope that works on extreme ultraviolet, two white-light coronagraphs and the two heliospheric imagers, HI1 and HI2.

Update: the heliospheric imager from STEREO B also shows the same thing. See below.

When was it captured?

The video shows a period of 24 hours captured on December 1st, 2011. It’s made of 36 frames in total.

I have repeated the 36 frames at different speeds (10 frames per second and 2 frames per second) so you can better appreciate the object and how the CME appears to interact with it.

What is that thing?

This is going to be a question for debate between scientists and ufologists.

It could very well be a glitch on the sensor, a ghost image from the planet Mercury itself. If you pay close attention, you can see that the two lines follow the same direction that the planet does. But if it’s a ghost image, why does it end so abruptly? How is it so well delimited? Why does it look like a spaceship?

The answer, according to Nathan Rich, lead ground system engineer at the United States Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, is in the way the images are post-processed. (Before they are covered up?)

Note – I can not find the original movie on the SECCI site, so I grabbed the youtubers upload (below) He has his own commentary where the original “Gizmodo” upload does not, but there was no embed code from Gizmodo.

Article From Change.org

The Discovery Channel is refusing to show the shocking conclusions of its own documentary. 

“Frozen Planet” is a seven-part series that serves as a gripping portrait of life at the ends of the Earth, featuring stunning shots of wildlife at the North and South Poles. 

But when the series airs in the U.S. early next year, Discovery Channel is only showing six episodes: they’re refusing to air the full seventh episode, which deals exclusively with climate change and exposing its devastating effects on our planet.

Claudia Abbott-Barish, an American now living in the UK, where “Frozen Planet” is currently airing, started a Change.org petition asking the Discovery Channel to air all seven episodes of “Frozen Planet” to make sure Americans can see the truth about climate change.

The striking footage of “Frozen Planet” is not to be missed — it features never-before-seen images of penguins, polar bears, glaciers, and the great grey owl. It’s an intimate look at the ice-covered portions of our planet, made by the same people who produced the incredible “Planet Earth” series from a few years ago. Throughout the series, viewers follow stories of animals trying to survive in extreme conditions. 

But central to the story about life at the ends of the Earth is the reality of climate change. 

Some of the show was shot by a cameraman named named Dave, a friend of Claudia’s. While filming in the Arctic and Antarctica, Dave said he was stunned by the experience. He saw shrinking glaciers and melting ice right before his eyes, all while working with scientists who talked about how the devastating effects of climate change are worse than they ever feared.

Discovery Channel prides itself on revealing the mysteries and unseen worlds of our planet. Claudia thinks that by shortchanging U.S. viewers of the reality of climate change, Discovery Channel is doing a disservice to its viewers and the planet.

Please sign Claudia’s petition asking Discovery Channel to air the seventh episode of “Frozen Planet” to tell the whole story about climate change and life at the ends of the Earth. Add your name here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/president-discovery-channel-air-the-climate-change-episode-from-the-frozen-planet-nature-series

As we enter November and edge ever closer to the end of this year, I wonder. What will it look like? 

2012 is murmuring its grand entry from every corner of the planet, and from every corner comes a prophesy. Literally every single indigenous culture has something to say about this coming year. The internet is actually humming with videos, meditations, sooth-sayers, cosmic alignments, UFO’s, and rumors of global change.

Occupy Wallstreet has now become “Occupy Everything” and we just broke the mother of all laws in physics. [CERN] Even now, there is the 11-11-11 phenomena just around the corner … precisely… 11 days away. Time seems to be something akin to a strange dream as we accelerate faster and faster thru the weeks and months, and random numbers continue to grab my attention. Even this date says something (11-01-11) For the numerological meanings of these numbers you can go here> globalpsychics.com 

I don’t know about you (please feel free to comment) … but I feel strange EVERY day these days. My roommate and I laugh at this now, so we just use numbers to describe the intensity… “it’s an 8 today” and leave it at that. I am feeling the Earth more, as I have started to spend more time outside with the cooler weather, and I can say without ANY hesitation… it FEELS different. I feel different. I don’t seem to really want anything anymore. I recently told a friend, “If I can’t eat it, or make something with it, I don’t want to buy it.”

I can also feel a kind of subtle anticipation… like just before a planned event or something. (To be honest, this has been going on for a few months now.) I’ve stopped telling myself “you watch too much television” when I have BIZARE dreams, because, well.. watching TV is like watching paint dry, so I know I’m not being influenced by those old habits. I just know deep in my bones we’re about to see something wonderful.

What if we actually did experience something totally mind blowing. What if, by some remarkable possibility, we shifted our human consciousness literally overnight. Wouldn’t that be something? All of us… all at once?…. I would like that… yes, I would.

and I wonder……

Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom
Cast: Rosario Dawson, Jane Fonda, Molly Sims, Katie Couric, Daphne Zuniga, Catherine Hardwicke, Paul Haggis
Documentary Feature: 2009 [USA] English 85 minutes
Screening: February 12, 7pm, Miller Theatre, Columbia University

 Synopsis: Guess what, America? Sexism still exists in the U.S., despite the fact that women are a majority of our population. Miss Representation explores women’s underrepresentation in positions of power and influence in America by challenging the limited portrayal of women as encouraged by the mainstream media. On a scale unprecedented in human history, the media communicates cultural values, dictates gender norms, and tells us who we can and cannot be. The collective message that seeps into our subconscious is that women’s value lies primarily in youth, beauty and sexuality.

As a result, both men and women have a limited understanding of who women are and what women can be, leading to the under-representation of women in key leadership roles and skyrocketing levels of eating disorders, sexual assault, cosmetic surgery, and exploitative pornography. In this climate of dangerous stereotypes and rigid gender roles, women are rarely seen as powerful figures, and it is difficult for the average woman to feel powerful herself. “Accompanied by a collaborative social outreach campaign, Miss Representation will celebrate women’s progress across America and empower our audience to take action for transformative social change.”

In the documentary, which includes interviews with Jane Fonda, Condoleezza Rice, Katie Couric, Nancy Pelosi and Rachel Maddow, there’s a wonderful quote by Marian Wright Edelman, the founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, who says: “You can’t be what you can’t see.” 

Missrepresentation.org