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  • Quantum Wave Functions and Consciouness

    This is an interesting picture when you think about how in the main Quantum picture, it is consciousness that somehow “freezes” matter into a definite state, that matter “responds” to consciousness. And everyone has had that experience where something truly amazing, or at least what they want happens, when they “take their mind off it” If every possible vibration and wave function exists, then somehow “taking our ‘mind’” off it for a while allows for more possibilities to “freeze” But I’m still not sure why having our mind on things usually ‘freezes’ negative outcomes, while ‘stilling’ the mind or consciouness, seems to bring forth mostly positive experiences. (I made this blog post because you know those sites that make you put in a password to approve your comment and then your comment ‘vanishes’ to wait for approval, and then you don’t know if you’ll see it again?)

    From Deepak’s blog: http://www.deepakchopra.com/blog/view/353/life_after_death

    Question:

    I’m an academic neuropsychiatrist with deep interest in brain and mind. I only read 2 of your books, Buddha and Muhammad. What impressed me the most is your thorough understanding of the person in these figures. For me you seem to know that what is sacred is every moment we spend existing and not in what is “out there”. I don’t believe in god/gods or in religion and I feel that humans are miserable because they developed “consciousness”, an extension of the frontal lobe function that allowed awareness of time, what has passed and what to come, which created this eternal anxiety about life and death and all the complexity that followed. I think that the Buddha figured it out and gave us the only way to go through it with the least suffering. But when we die, we blend back to the energy in this universe, our soul is the set of experiences that we had and left traces behind, the noise of the working machine of our body and the products of that machine that is left behind. How far am I from the “Truth”!

     

    Deepak Answer:
    I don’t presume to know Truth with a capital “T”, but Buddha’s doctrine of freedom from suffering is premised on the idea of awakening from ignorance. This ignorance is the energetic pattern of our identity that keeps us in the cycle of reincarnation until we are fully enlightened. So while the raw material of our bodies is recycled on death, the energy of our individual consciousness is not united with the consciousness of the universe until the body of the enlightened person dies. As for what exactly that experience will be or won’t be, we’ll have to see.

    Love,
    Deepak

  • How to Return to a Gold Standard Without Disrupting Liquidity Needs

    Follow the Yellow Brick Road…

    All you need to do is change the Fed’s mandate from targeting interest rates to targeting Gold. The Fed can easily keep the price of Gold within a tight trading range by increasing liquidity when the Price of gold dips below the prescribed range (indicating deflationary pressures) and conversely selling bonds to mop up excess liquidity when the price of gold goes above a set trading range. This would create a “De Facto” gold standard and uses gold as a barometer for how much liquidity the economy needs at any given point in time. Because of it’s nature, Gold is the best monetary barometer available, much more accurate than the human guessing game which believes that growth causes inflation and that liquidity stimulus can somehow create growth. Both of which have the unintended consequences of creating inflation during downturns and starving the the economy during growth spurts.

    With the technological advances of the last 50 years, we should be living in a “Golden Age” of living standards, but instead we seem to be living through unending economic disaster.

    The cause of this is not the economy itself, but instead the unit of account.

    Imagine trying to have a sporting match, conducting mathematics or science without a unit of account. It couldn’t be done. And the same goes with economics. Without a standard unit of account, a stable economy is not possible. And that’s what we are living through.

  • Received a New Cloud Site Sub Account Customer

    I received a new Cloud Site Customer yesterday. A fellow named Josh Barker. He did a WordPress install for his wife’s site: http://www.dahliasfloral.com/

    It’s a really great looking site. I’m envious! But I really appreciate the business and the kind words he wrote me at the end of yesterday:

    “You are so quick- I really appreciate the responsiveness.  It was your responsiveness that enabled me to get my wife’s site up in a day!  You’re just as good, if not better than Rackspace’s support!

    http://www.dahliasfloral.com/

    Regards,
    Josh”

    Also, I learned something from Josh that I didn’t know about Cloud Sites. As he is an ASP.NET developer he was able to inform me that Rackspace Cloud Sites could be enabled to run ASP.NET or as the Tech from Rackspace put it, whom I chatted with, I guess it’s also known simply as .NET 4.0.

    I always knew that Cloud Sites could be enabled to run either Linux/PHP or Windows/.NET or actually have both technologies enabled on the same site, but I didn’t know that there was a special ‘flavor’ of .NET called ASP and that it could be enabled, upon special request, as a technology for your Rackspace Cloud Site.
    Cool too know. And great to learn something new. Thanks again, Josh.
    If you are interesting in purchasing a Cloud Site Sub-Account from me, here are my plans and pricing: http://stephenpickering.com/rackspace-cloud-sites/
  • Talking Heads: Quit Calling Ron Paul an Isolationist

    Just because he doesn’t want to bomb other countries. Just because you don’t want a ‘World’ government, a centralized control system that takes away the liberties of the individual, doesn’t make one “Isolationist.” He wants to be friends with other countries, trade with them, visit them, have them visit us, respect their sovereignty. That’s the opposite of “Isolationist”! That’s engaging the rest of the World in friendly, sincere way. And not wanting to be some kind of control freak of a country which in essence is no different from bigotry and Imperialism.

    “Calling Ron Paul an isolationist is like calling your neighbor a hermit because he doesn’t come on your property and break your windows” -Chris Lyspooner
  • Cosmic Consciousness Quotes Vol. 1

    “When Man make plans, God laughs.”

    “When the philosophy comes in, the art goes out.”

    “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso

    “I want every person on the edge of saying no, say yes because you’re worth it.” — Chase Jarvis 

    “Do what you love. Get your mind off what pisses you off!” — Tim Brando

    “Find out what you are good at and do it on purpose.” — Dolly Parton

    “Your superpowers don’t work from the sidelines.” — Michael Neill

    “The insecure way is really the secure way.” — Joseph Campbell

    “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings.” – Erwin Schrödinger

    “We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
    [Link to Deepak Chopra saying these lines on Facebook Video at about the 10:20 mark.]

    “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” – Søren Kierkegaard

    “I understood that our entire universe is contained in the mind and the spirit. We may choose not to find access to it, we may even deny its existence, but it is indeed there inside us, and there are chemicals that can analyze its availability.” – Dr. Alexander Shulgin, creator of MDMA or “Ecstasy.”

    “If you completely accept something, it changes. If you completely accept it, it shifts.” – Eckhart Tolle http://youtu.be/AO3wRY9lWSk

    “Resist nothing, and you will receive unconditional love.”

    “You are the one. You have all the answers.” – Taylor Marie channeling spirits during a Ayahuasca experience.

    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

    “It’s weird, huh? It’s like the minute you kinda give up control you just know what to do without doing anything.” – Aubrey Plaza’s Character from “The To-Do List” movie, exactly at the 45:05 mark.

    “When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.” – Deepak & Oprah

    “You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.” – Deepak Chopra

    “Faith, consciousness, and awareness all exist beyond the thinking mind.” – Ram Dass

    “The Self is not in the realm of thought. The Self is in the gap between our thoughts. The cosmic psyche whispers to us softly in the gap between our thoughts.” – Deepak Chopra

    “Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.” – ~Ramana Maharshi

    “The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.” – Robert Thurman

    “Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.” – Aitken Roshi

    “If the mind would let go of itself, stop grasping to and for itself, then the real you would come out, like a genie out of it’s ‘bottle,’ and a real adventure would begin.” – Stephen K. Pickering

    “Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.” – Albert Eintein [link]

    “God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart,
    where they wait silently for discovery.” ~ Rumi

    “Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.” ~ Joseph Campbell

    “The earth has disappeared beneath my feet,
    It fled from all my ecstasy,
    Now like a singing air creature
    I feel the Rose
    Keep opening.”
    ~ Hafiz

    “When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that’s always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be living, is the one that you will be living.” – Joseph Campbell

    “You must let go of the life you have planned in order to accept the life that is waiting for you.” – Joseph Campbell

    “The fundamental message of Mythology and Fairytales is that the natural energy of the Cosmos, the Universe, the Ground of Being, can’t get through, is being blocked. You’re only job is to remove the obstruction. When that’s done the energies that come pouring up through you, will automatically carry you to a life of adventure, to your destiny. You don’t have to ‘do’ anything. You don’t have to ‘try.’ These energies will automatically carry you to where you need to be.”

    “If you could release the god that is in your soul, the one hiding in embryo, then anything would be possible.”

    “The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.” – Atisha (It just occurred to me that “Letting Go” is the essence of it all)

    “Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.” – Deepak Chopra

    “I always tell my students follow your bliss. When you have that feeling then stay with it and don’t let anyone throw you off.” -Joseph Campbell.

    (Check out this link to Bill Moyer’s website where all 6 episodes of “The Power of Myth” are available in audio by way of SoundCloud for free!)

    “Real happiness lies in that which never comes nor goes, but simply is.” – Ram Dass

    “I want to be alone with those who know secret things, or else, be alone.” – Ranier Marie Rilke

    “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats

    “Uncovering your real desires can be terrifying. It can also set you spectacularly free.” ~Mark Epstein

    “There is no happiness until the mind is still. The cause of all sickness and sadness is the fluctuation of the mind.” – Russell Simmons

    “Existence is awareness without boundaries. Perception is awareness with boundaries #SpiritualSolutions’ – Deepak Chopra

    “The whole universe exists inside you. Ask all from yourself” -Rumi

    “What you seek, you already are.” – Deepak

    “Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.” – Deepak

    “When the mind is still the whole universe surrenders” – Maharishi Yogi

    “Space and time are not objects of perception, but qualities of awareness” – Deepak chopra

    “All descriptions of matter are descriptions of modes of human perception within consciousness.” – Deepak Chopra

    “The Universe is a mirror of consciousness…” – Deepak

    “Be still and know…”

    “You cannot find it anywhere because it is inside you. Happiness is your natural state.”

    The “watcher” or the Atman (the god inside U) is everlasting & blissful when the noise is gone. All that’s left is the “God consciousness”

    The spirit or the consciousness that “watches” never dies. Step back and “be the watcher.”

    “Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.” – Deepak

    “Consciousness experiences, brain records the experience.”

    “Meditate on every sentient beings happiness for the new year. If it doesn’t work for them it will work for u!!”

    “When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.” – Deepak Chopra

    “The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there’s no ground.”

    -Chogyam Trungpa via Ram Dass’ Facebook Page.

    “When you’re inspired by some great purpose some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds, you’re mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new and a great and a wonderful world, and then he said dormant forces, things that you thought were dead, dormant forces, faculties and talents, come alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be: you discover yourself to be God, and these dormant forces just follow after you and take care of it for you.” – Dr. Wayne Dyer quoting Patanjali in conversation with Eckhart Tolle

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