Applications

What applications can be devised to capitalize on what we learn by looking for global consciousness? We see the world as deeply divided into haves and nots, powerful and weak, rich and poor, loved and lost, blessed and bereft. What would better balance do for the world? The answers have become terribly important, and it is time to look for the questions that will elicit applications to redress pain and cure the diseases of power and corruption, overpowering lust and unconscionable greed. No one can promise a rose garden, but the will of a global consciousness can surely move masses to insist on change, just as the compassion of millions brings patterns into being from the material of chaos.


In the inaugural issue of Journal of Consciousness Studies, Harman (1994) wrote: "The question of what worldview is fit to guide personal and societal decisions may well be the most critical question of our generation."   Which is more likely to ensure our survival as a species? The belief that what is ultimately real is worthless "dust" -- a multitude of fundamental particles or a multitude of property-instantiating space-time points? Or the belief that what is ultimately real is -- at once -- a unitary, all-constituting substance (sat), an all-containing consciousness (chit), and (objectively speaking) the quintessence of quality and value, ananda? I am convinced that the latter inspires the saner attitudes.

-- Ulrich Mohrhoff


Advice to Scientists and Governors of all Sorts

Always be suspicious of the news you want to hear.

-- Francis Everitt, principal investigator, Gravity Probe B project


Healing the Disease of Torture with a Funnel of Love

Dear Mrs Clinton, Dear Mr Obama, Dear Mr Hagel, Dear Mr Mcain
You can win that war if you create a cure for revenge.
Why are people tortured, then killed in Iraq?
Revenge is a communicable disease.
Cure revenge and win the war.
Spend money on healing.
No one wins in a war.
Unless by healing.
Love can do it.
Nothing else.


Can we live together? White Hawk Ecovillage: Doing it well, in community.


This morning's dream twice dreamed, once remembered

Bits come out of nowhere
Cloud of no shape, no form
Yet a cloud of destiny
When life demands order
When mind makes muscle

Random origin and nowhere to go?
Not really so, because life did happen
Mind is reality
Creation makes a plan
The future draws near

When does the future start?
Easy, just now
How is the decision made?
That is for you and me to know
And also for the ants, and the whales

Purpose and goals make us free
The future tumbles and rushes in
No doubt, not even when we doubt
Happening is the only life
Now world moves on — it must

Think of nothing
That is where those bits arise
They were not, and they were
With no difference except that difference
Energy need not apply

Information, this or that
No, yes, up, down, one, zero
Before and after — what a difference
Life or none (not even death)
Nothing is impossible to imagine

And no thing became us
So we could rhyme without reason
Sing in the midst of song
Live a life,
Belong


What has life taught me over these years? Establish principles and stick to them. Honesty is essential, particularly honesty with oneself. Express your uniqueness in what you do. Let your creativity be expressed. Be active.
Be adaptable to what life brings. In all things be directed towards helping others. Acts of kindness bring the ultimate joy and satisfaction that the human soul craves, and they are the glue that holds society together.

-- Dana Nixon Weeder, Princeton '55


Creation Song

My soul and yours, soul of the earth, home to all love

We are born together
Full of light
Love is our natural right
We will learn creative memory

Old soul, new soul, brother, sister, all deep love

Woven all together
Common passion
All loving compassion
We will create a world that lives

Creative mind, all aligned, mother and father divine

Building beauty together
No need to harm
Peace is a charm
Peace is the condition of creativty

We do love our home, our beautiful only home

Mindful of each other
Oneness in mind
Surprise is ours to find
Oh yes, all together we can love peace

Peace is the condition of creativity, one soul, one love


And we can use Mind Power to heal the earth


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