Happy New Year

… may our humanity beautify and experience ecstasy in knowledge and light in 2008 .. I wish everyone pure love ..
An insightful book I just finished, “it’s not how good your are, it’s how good you want to be” by Paul Arden, has beautiful advice from his own experience on how to be better .. I want to share some of these passages with everyone:
The past is … out of date .. Opposite of originality … always keep moving forward .. Let go of your ego - It’s right to be wrong. Being right may be like walking backwards proving where you’ve been. Being wrong isn’t in the future or in the past. Being wrong isn’t anywhere but being here. The best place to be.
Get unblocked .. Lose your inhibitions and stop worrying about being right ..
If we don’t get lost, we’ll never find a new route … Make your vision of where you want to be a reality.
Ideas are open knowledge. Don’t claim ownership. They’re not your ideas anyway, they’re someone else’s. they are out there floating by on ether ..
.. High creativity is responding to situations without critical thought (playfulness)
… and on that note, on being playful … always stay playful … as our children .. And from another book I received from my beautiful friends, “The Daring Book for Girls” .. something fun I can’t wait to play is ‘Amoeba Tag’ - one person is It. But instead of being able to tag someone and no longer be It, the person who is tagged then has to link arm with the tagged, the link of taggers grow, looking like an amoeba .. doesn’t that sound fun? .. looking forward to trying this game out with friends and strangers at Vondel park soon …
Happy New Year lovely beings!!

Tue, Jan 1, 2008  Permanent link

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Do you see human features in these photos? Do you see faces and recognizable shapes in clouds? Or religious figures in nature? Then you are experiencing a psychological phenomenon called Pareidolia; it was first termed in 1994 by Steven Goldstein.
These images are not the best of examples of pareidolia, but I connected with them. Their forms made me sympathize with them … they seem to be hugging, loving each other … The photographs are the collaboration between nature, and photographer Carl Warner.
Why do humans have these tendencies to sympathize with objects and connect with them by discerning human features? Carl Sagan (great scientist / astronomer) believed this is caused from our instincts to recognize human features, to be able to discern and connect with other humans even under harsh weather conditions and in the dark. The Rorschach inkblot tests used Pareidolia to have insight into a person’s mental state by dissecting the perceptions of the one being tested. But is it only our own psychological making or does nature manifest in a sort of “re-incarnation” of humans .. maybe both?







+ Links that have imagery of Pareidolia:
 http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/index.php?x=browse&category=20&pagenum=1 
 http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=k&om=1&z=16&ll=50.010525,-110.113242&spn=0.010673,0.019956 
 http://maps.google.com/?ll=17.986897,-99.807014&spn=0.156741,0.21286&t=k 
http://www.forteantimes.com/community/photos/685/bottom_mushroom.html
 http://www.yoism.org/?q=node/129 

Sat, Dec 29, 2007  Permanent link

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eat your heart out

.. I've always dreamed of walking in a landscape where the mushrooms stood hundreds of feet above ... when just a mouthful from it's "bark or roots" would send you to heaven ... as T. McKenna said the spores to mushrooms may have come from "alien" planets to teach us ... maybe these planets have other "varieties"of shrooms .. shrooms that grow as high as red wood trees ... I want to go there ...


foodscapes created by Carl Warner
+http://www.carlwarner.com

Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link

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. let there be light .

the play on light .. this new find has really inspired me : a beautiful environment of soft light designed by architect Jean Nouvel and Corian Nouvel Lumieres. The project explores qualities of sensory light on solid surfaces.. from the wall which lights a city 'skyline', the bedroom in a forever soft-changing dreamy ambiance, to the table in the dinning room, it is all lit ... diffusing soft images of clouds and other light formations ... a feeling of lightness ... he describes it as a "sweet diffuser which enlightens the hosts like spotlights on the stage." ... beautiful mind, beautiful world, once again

more + www.jeannouvel.fr

Thu, Dec 27, 2007  Permanent link
Categories: light, Jean Nouvel, Corian Nouvel Lumieres, architecture, future homes, dreamy

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being water

What if we drank ourselves into water? Anything is possible ..
There is more than plenty of water embodying 71 % of our planet. If we all drink more water maybe over time … we will begin to form into the liquid form. our body will pour water from all our pores … Our movement will become fluid, softer, flexible, easy going .. And then all together, just completely become water … a new state of form …imagine being a body of water … all together, flowing into each other, on top of each other, forever kissing, forever making love …

Wed, Dec 26, 2007  Permanent link

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