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First and foremost if I had to describe myself I would say that I am a writer. I have recently written my latest gem, and it’s one of a few that I have to my credit.

I am also an activist. That happened out of necessity. For my survival, for me to grow, I had to become one. It was an unexpected part of my path, but it’s helped me to grow, to change to become.

In my spirit I am a parent. Oh I don’t have my own biological children in real life, but I have dozens of children that I have parented, nurtured looked after for others, and on some level I am a parent, even if it’s only in spirit.

I am an entrepreneur. On one level or another I have managed my own companies. They have not always made me rich, ok, they have never made me rich. Many of just helped to pay the bills, or been supplementary incomes, but I have always had some form of income coming in due to my own efforts. I like independence, it’s the path that suits me best, and it’s the path that I hope to remain on permanently.

I am a designer. I build, create, constuct little master pieces here and there. I beautify your web 2.0 world.

I am a leader. In my own rights I am a leader, even if it’s of just my own self on my path. I don’t walk to the beat of anyone else’s drums and I do not choose to.

I am here. I have been harmed, had my reputation severely trod upon by elements that I do not care for. That I have wanted nothing to do with. I have lived, I have breathed, I have survived, and I am here once again on my path. On this great journey.

I am happy. I like where I am in spirit. I will not let negative elements ruin that for me. I Am Here.

I am a Writer.
I am an activist.
I am an entrepreneur.
I am a designer
I am a leader.
I am here.
I am on this journey on the path.

June/2010

Worth and a state of well being, how should these be measured? Should they be measured on a purely material basis? These can not and should not be measured on a material level alone. When we do this as a society, we miss out on those who’s true worth can only be measured in other ways.

Some of the most creative people on the internet and offline did not start out by being rich. Many of them had to take a chance. Many of them had to mortgage homes, or go into thousands upon thousands of dollars in debt to have their dreams realized. Many left day jobs, to master their online projects that they knew would be big in time, or quit school. Many of them were just hanging on by a thread, living from month to month, while they kept their dreams alive. The ones that we hear about are the lucky ones. Someone hears about them, the service is coveted by a large company that offers them millions and millions of dollars to buy out their service.

There are many others who are in similar situations. They have the next big creative idea, they are doing everything that they can to keep that dream alive. Maybe the services popularity has not caught on, or the word has not gone out and so the service has not gone viral, but they are on the path, they are journeying to where they need to be.

Material wealth is not always in line with creative genius. Some of the most creative individuals starve because their passion is so intense, it’s all that they choose to do, and they find situations that allow them to live life doing their passion for better or for worst.

In recent times Youtube has become one of the most vital services on the internet. It’s now estimated to be worth millions and millions of dollars, but did you know that the creators of Youtube were in debt to their eyeballs and were about to be sued by almost every major picture company before they were bought out by google? They had maxed out credit cards, borrowed, and were in debt, but they stuck in there, because they knew they were on their path. They knew, they understood the vital nature of what they were doing, and decided to take the chance, in that case it paid off, and the rest is history. Today Youtube is visited by people from around the globe. It’s estimated that Youtube has more than 100 million visits. It’s estimated that they have watched an average of 14.8 billion online videos in one month. The USA today article describe the founders as a pair of 20 somethings that were in between jobs, when they tried to find an easy way for people to share and upload videos.

http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2009/03/05/youtube-surpasses-100-million-visitors-january

http://mediaoutrage.com/2010/05/07/what-youtube-founders-walked-away-with-after-the-sale-to-google/

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2006-04-09-youtube-popularity_x.htm

Potential can not always be measured in what is seen, or readily available estimates. Today the Youtube founders who were in between paths when they started the company are worth millions. They took the right steps to make sure that their paths paid off. How many people around them saw only the externals? Two unemployed geeks? How many people wondered if they had any life potential, cause they were not at a standard 9-5 job, and they were in debt? If we as a society had taken their stock back then, and judge them, many would have deemed them problematic, needing help, without any real ambition, potential or goals in mind, but that clearly was not the case.

Many others are not that lucky on their paths. They are just as creative, they have a killer start up, but they fail to attract the right buzz, or land that million dollar deal, and the company goes under, and they are never heard from again. That does not make them any less worthwhile. That is why it’s very important to be careful by the measure which we meet. Potential and true worth, true value can not always be measured in the way that we think it can. Creativity does not always pay the way it should, and just because you have a great idea it does not mean that it will always catch on the way you hoped, but it’s still important to try to keep doing what you are doing. Stay on that path.

If you have a dream, never lose sight of it. You might not be able to get there by standard means. You might even feel discouraged because you are between jobs, but sometimes being in between jobs is where you need to be on your path. If these two founders had not been between jobs, they would likely not have had the time to mess around and figure out a better way to share home videos online, and today YOUTUBE is one of the most fundamental services. Used for education, entertainment, connecting, sharing. It’s one of the biggest features online today, and it was started by two 20 somethings who were in between jobs, and who went into major credit card debt to achieve their goals.

Prince Of Persia

This is an excellent movie. Lot’s of action, adventure, humour. The movie is visually stunning. The acting is well carried out and much like other movies of it’s irk, it’s a movie that should be seen from start to finish. I was extremely impressed by how well this transferred to a movie from the very popular game with the same name.

This is the type of movie that you finish watching and immediately want to watch again. It falls in line with other exotic movies. For those who liked the mummy movies, and pirates of the Caribbean you are sure to enjoy this movie.

LuLu. Self publishing for everyone.

The latest to join the field in self publishing is something called LULU.com. This service let’s you self publish, books, music, calendars and a variety of other digital or hard print media formats.

It’s the latest thing in do-it-yourself digital. You can publish or produce one book or a thousand, same with CD’s and other digital or print media.

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Rory Carroll
Tuesday 5 January 2010
Amazon City Discovered.

It is the legend that drew legions of explorers and adventurers to their deaths: an ancient empire of citadels and treasure hidden deep in the Amazon jungle.

Spanish conquistadores ventured into the rainforest seeking fortune, followed over the centuries by others convinced they would find a lost civilisation to rival the Aztecs and Incas.

Some seekers called it El Dorado, others the City of Z. But the jungle swallowed them and nothing was found, prompting the rest of the world to call it a myth. The Amazon was too inhospitable, said 20th century scholars, to permit large human settlements.

Now, however, the doomed dreamers have been proved right: there was a great civilisation. New satellite imagery and fly-overs have revealed more than 200 huge geometric earthworks carved in the upper Amazon basin near Brazil‘s border with Bolivia.

Spanning 155 miles, the circles, squares and other geometric shapes form a network of avenues, ditches and enclosures built long before Christopher Columbus set foot in the new world. Some date to as early as 200 AD, others to 1283.

Scientists who have mapped the earthworks believe there may be another 2,000 structures beneath the jungle canopy, vestiges of vanished societies.

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By Duncan Kennedy
Jan 08, 2010

New bone derived from rattan wood

This was once a piece of rattan wood
A novel – and natural – way of creating new bones for humans could be just a few years away.

Scientists in Italy have developed a way of turning rattan wood into bone that is almost identical to the human tissue.

At the Istec laboratory of bioceramics in Faenza near Bologna, a herd of sheep have already been implanted with the bones.

The process starts by cutting the long tubular rattan wood up into manageable pieces.

It is then snipped into even smaller chunks, ready for the complex chemical process to begin.

The pieces are put in a furnace and heated.

In simple terms, carbon and calcium are added.

The wood is then further heated under intense pressure in another oven-like machine and a phosphate solution is introduced.

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Moving with the mind
By Anne Hammock, CNN
January 4, 2010

In the shimmering fantasy realm of the hit movie “Avatar,” a paraplegic Marine leaves his wheelchair behind and finds his feet in a new virtual world thanks to “the link,” a sophisticated chamber that connects his brain to a surrogate alien, via computer.

This type of interface is a classic tool in gee-whiz science fiction. But the hard science behind it is even more wow-inducing.

Researchers are already using brain-computer interfaces to aid the disabled, treat diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and provide therapy for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Work is under way on devices that may eventually let you communicate with friends telepathically, give you superhuman hearing and vision or even let you download data directly into your brain, a la “The Matrix.”

Researchers are practically giddy over the prospects. “We don’t know what the limits are yet,” says Melody Moore Jackson, director of Georgia Tech University’s BrainLab.

Adds Emory University neuroscience professor Michael Crutcher, “Anything can happen.”

At the root of all this technology is the 3-pound generator we all carry in our head. It produces electricity at the microvolt level. But the signals are strong enough to move robots, wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs — with the help of an external processor.

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02/01/2010
Unleashed68

Life is a journey, and this post is a journey back into a reality you have only forgot.

Imagine sticking your hand into a puppet and controlling the eyes and mouth. Now imagine a technology where by attaching electrodes to a mannequin that will respond any way you want. Now imagine a more sophisticated technology where a computer wirelessly controls the actions of a robot mannequin. Now, being aware that this has already been achieved today in science, know that there is an advanced technology that controls your robot, the human body, and this technology is an invisible cell commonly referred to as a spirit. An invisible being that created the body from nothing.

Imagine human beings rising from the dirt and beginning to form arms from the dirt, and legs from the dirt, and then facial features. Sound crazy? Well, you originally were a microscopic cell, invisible to the eye. You took the proteins from the womb to build a body, and the proteins in the womb came from the nutrients ingested by the mother. The nutrients the mother ingested were consumed from the waters and the lands, the fruits, vegetables and meats of the Earth. So what is your body? It is an extension of planet Earth, and what controls the body is the spirit that formed it together from nothingness.

Too hard to imagine? Seem to magical and unrealistic? Well, reality is an illusion and you are part of the illusion. However, you are just beginning to realize the truth, the reality beyond physical reality, that what you can not see controls what you do see.

Now, imagine a marble filled with cells that are designed to form trees, seas, plants, clouds, mountains, and other environmental elements. Imagine this marble spinning around a sun and sweeping the cells of the universe inside the marble to grow with each revolution. Imagine the marble growing into a planet, from nothing more than invisible cells of the universe.

Imagine the sun being the ultimate magnet to the marble turned planet, swinging the planet around it into constant animation, and with each revolution, the planet sweeps more cells from the universe into the planet and grows larger. Imagine the planet consuming the invisible cells of the universe to grow similar to how the human consumes the invisible cells that form proteins within a womb.

Too hard to imagine? Seem to magical and unrealistic? Well, once again, what we do not see is what forms what we do see. And if that seems unrealistic, remember this. The television broadcasts images and sounds through a satellite that distributes the sounds and images to millions instantly by waves of air you can not see. Cell phones and internet distribute information by means of cell distribution that you can not see. Still don’t believe it? Well, may as well, because the text you read right now is only possible by transferring information by means of invisible cells. Still don’t believe it? Call a friend and discuss it, but remember to ask your friend if he or she can see the waves that distribute your voices over the phone. If you are starting to understand, you are potentially able to realize what is next, and what is next, is a reality you have only forgot, the reality that created this reality.

Amazing, the ground on Earth bares magic. From the ground, vegetables and fruits and trees and plants can grow from nothing. From the ground, minerals, metals and other elements can form together to create windows, components and casing to fly into space and launch a satellite that is formed from the ground.

These ground elements can even form video cameras
that can record people and be broadcasted to millions of homes instantly. Every television, video recorder, cell phone comes from the ground. Every car comes from the ground. Every human body comes from the ground. Amazing, right? …

Why is it, that if the body is so real, that it inevitably ceases to exist and is buried or burned? Is this not what we do to broken furniture and garbage? Is your body so mighty, important and independent? No! Your body is an illusion of the nutrients you swept together from nothing, and the body will return to the ground, and to the Earth, one way or another.

Are you ready yet for where I am going with this? Are you ready to understand the universe, your true being, and your purpose? Are you ready to understand the true power of life, the power that creates from nothing and forms the organs and elements of both the planet Earth and the human body? Are you ready to understand the secrets of the universe? Are you ready to return to a place where magic instantly becomes created by mere thought? There are those of you who will know exactly what I am talking about, over one hundred million people will know in 2010, this year alone. There are 7 billion on Earth, and an average of 100 million will die per year for the next 70 years, all 7 billion lives will know this reality soon.

What do movies have in common with conscious fantasizing and dreams? They are all able to be experienced without your physical body becoming a part of the imaginary world. Movies are like conscious fantasizing, both are a controlled illusion, while dreams are an uncontrolled illusion of reality, much like the life you live. Dreams, like your present physical illusion are realities that are beyond your control, so what does this tell you about dreams? Dreams are as much a connection to reality as the life you currently believe is reality. The truth is, your spirit ventured here, and ventures into the universe nightly, without having to bring a body with it. The spirit carries no body, and yet it can create one, it can travel throughout the universe instantly.

Sometimes, in dreams people will talk about flying and levitating, or venturing to another world, or being chased by invisible ghosts, sounds kind of Hollywood, but, the creativity in Hollywood is a creation of human fantasy, and human fantasy is an extension of creation within the universe. So for those who wish they were Superman, could fly and repel bullets lol, the following paragraph explains it all.

The spirit came here to experience the illusion of physical existence. The spirit becomes attached to the body it controls, within the environment it used to create the body. The power of super humans is an illusion of Hollywood, it is a creative fantasy. The ability to do supernatural things exceeds the design of both the human body and the environment that created it, planet Earth. Therein lies the secret, for those who want to know how to become superhuman, how to become more than a human, there was the secret; and for the most creative and intelligent, the answer is obvious. Planet Earth does not create physical bodies that are capable of these achievements, all beings here are limited by the sensations created within the environment of Earth.

You have to believe, not the body you, but the real you, the spirit, you have to detach from the world of illusion you perceive as reality and become part of the reality you can’t see with the human eye, the reality that controls this one. Then, when you are separated from the realities of this illusion, you will come back into contact with the realities you forgot when you formed a body here. Then, the powers of the universe will be understood, and you will realize you can’t move mountains, because you are no more than the dirt you came from, but your spirit, that is attached to the body, it can achieve whatever is imagined, within the realm of the natural order in the universe, not Earth.

Happy New Year

Attributed to: Unleashed68
Member of AboveTopSecret.com

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread531106/pg1#pid7814944.

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Thu, Dec 31 10:40
Mind over matter
GmB Bailey

Can you really use the mind to control matter? To change matter? To physically heal yourself and others? That is what all the new sciences and the old philosophies point to. The mind can have a profound effect on the body, and those around you.

If healing is in the mind then so is disease, and other maladies or dysfunctions. If you can heal your body with your mind, then you can also destroy your body with your mind.

For some this is wonderful news, finding out that you have the potential to take some control of your life, and your destiny, but for others they prefer to believe that healing and ill health is something that is outside of them. It means not needing to take control or ownership for their own wellness and healing.

If healing really is in the mind then the obvious question becomes, how can you start to take advantage of this? How can you start to heal? Like everything else it begins at a sub atomic level. However instead of worrying about the sub atomic level start with your mind. It starts with a shift in consciousness, from one state to the next. Thoughts have power to harm, to heal, to help, or to hurt. Start by changing your mind, your expections, but most of all your beliefs.

The wonderful thing about the new sciences are that they are now starting to confirm what other philosophies including the bible have been pointing out for centuries. It’s depending upon your faith, your belief system. Eg. If you have no belief then you will not heal. At a sub atomic level in experiments scientists are starting to report that many times the results are dependent on the observer. If the observer is of one mind, one set of results will be achieved, if the observer is of another mindset then another set of results will be achieved. That is important to be aware of. Your healing will be primarily depending on the faith that you display. This will be wonderful news for some, but very limiting news for others.

In today’s society we like to place ownership with others, for our healing, happiness and well being, but the wonderful thing is that we are being shown more and more that we are creators, we help create the world that we live in and our individuals destinies and that is amazing and breathtaking news. It news that gives us back the power to achieve things that we might have thought were impossible just yesterday.

If the power to heal and control your circumstances are in your mind, then isn’t it time that you had a closer look at what’s going on inside your mind? What are your thoughts, expectations? What are you tuning into on a daily basis, and who or what are you tuning out? If change is going to happen it really could begin with us, so what do you believe when it comes to mind over matter? Can you really change your life with your mind, and your very thoughts?

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Fri, Dec 30 11:10 AM
Reincarnation
GmB Bailey

Do you believe in reincarnation? Have you ever met someone who has been here before? Have we existed before?

Many people have heard of the concept or think that they have a basic idea, but how many people actually know someone or have experienced a memory that let’s them know conclusively that we have been here before?

This question is a deep and profound one because if we do reincarnate then life really does continue after what we consider to be a physical death, it also for some might mean that life begins even before we are born.

Reincarnation opens up the idea and the possibility that we have been many different people, races, genders. In one lifetime you might have had ideas and beliefs that are completely contrary to what you believe now.

Depending on what you believe to be true about reincarnation you might even be living all those different existences simultaneously. This means that time as we know if might not be static, and might well be circular not linear.

It means that we have the chance to continue perfecting who we are as individuals or as a society. It means that there might be a greater whole, with a more intricate purpose than many of us have ever dreamed possible.

Some believe that the ultimate goal of these experiences are to help us to grow, achieve understanding, and then are collected back into a greater whole, a universal oneness.

Whatever your current beliefs are it’s never too late or too early to have a closer look at this fascination topic and to try to examine and maybe answer the question of have we existed before, and will we exist again?0