The Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock, podast #142

This is a great conversation from the Joe Rogan Experience with Graham Hancock as a guest. Over 2 hours of thought provoking discussion.

Why do you believe what you believe?

Here is thought provoking and reaction inducing video from Christopher Hyatt. If you wonder not just who you are, what you are but also who made you think, react and live as you do then check out this series of videos, this is part 1 or get the book
It is like a washing machine for your mind, check it see if you aggree with him and then do the practices in the book to find out why you agree or disagree with him!

Robert Anton Wilson Free your mind

Enjoy.

New material from RAW Silat

Its been a while since I posted anything Martial on the blog so here is a preview video of Luke Holloway introducing a new line of RAW Silat DVDs.

Enjoy.

Logic, learning and the Trivium

Since being introduced by a teacher to new ways of learning and logic inclusive of the massively useful information on Logical Fallacies I have looked more and more into the these subjects and thought I would share some of the amazing info that is out there.

Please let me know what your thoughts are on these subjects and whether you have found them of use.

From http://www.triviumeducation.com/

The Trivium method: (pertains to mind) – the elementary three.

General Grammar, Aristotelian Logic, and Classical Rhetoric comprise the first three rules-based subjects of the 7 Liberal Arts and Sciences. As these disciplines are learned and practiced together, they form the overarching, symbiotic system for establishing clarity and consistency of personal thought called the Trivium.

[1] General Grammar

(Answers the question of the Who, What, Where, and the When of a subject.) Discovering and ordering facts of reality comprises basic, systematic Knowledge

[2] Formal Logic

(Answers the Why of a subject.) Developing the faculty of reason in establishing valid [i.e., non-contradictory] relationships among facts, systematic Understanding

[3] Classical Rhetoric

(Provides the How of a subject.) Applying knowledge and understanding expressively comprises Wisdom or, in other words, it is systematically useable knowledge and understanding



For if you [the rulers] suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves [and outlaws] and then punish them.
-Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Utopia, Book 1

Here is a great start in how to use the Trivium approach to education in reading a book, sounds simple right but check out this link and listen to the Podcasts.

War

With all the Wars currently happening and the new one that are being enthusiastically planned I think its good to look back at see the cycle of War and the way it is always sold to the people.

Live Blade - Pekiti Tirsia

Some footage here of live blade sparring in Pekiti Tirsia. Some interesting ideas shown.

Outside the box

For those that agree with the previous post

Some nice tunes....

Do you agree?

Watch this video by Alan Watt, do you agree?

Gratitude

Such an important quality that can easily be forgotten as the modern world attempts to thrust more and more upon us keeping us busy and never letting the water of our mind a chance to settle and be still. Once we sit in the stillness I don't think we need to be reminded of gratitude as it naturally springs from the stillness as does compassion. Of course this may differ from others experiences so here is a video to help us all remember this quality, hope you enjoy:

Freedom

Don't take the following as fact research it, check it out. Another part of the web revealed:

Amazing Speech

This really should be seen by every Government employee, lobbyist, interfering government bureaucrats the world over.

We are free, though the current world system is doing its best to convince us otherwise.

Watch this great speech by Charlie Chaplin:

A Wish Seen Through- documentary from VAST-Bhutan

An inspireing story about the elderly from a village in Bhutan. It reminds me how lucky I am when I watch videos like this:

'When asked what their wish was, senior citizens in a village in Bhutan replied that they wished they could go on a pilgrimage to central Bhutan. Voluntary Artists Studio Thimphu (VAST) decided to fulfill this wish. 8 young volunteer artists took 27 elderly men on a road trip to Bumthang. Camping, interacting, and visiting holy sites along the way, for these senior citizens it was the trip of their dreams.
For more information: www.vast-bhutan.org'

This is how Physics should be!

It starts a few minutes in so be patient while he gets introduced. It is well worth it, here is some information from his site

Nassim Haramein

Nassim Haramein was born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1962.

As early as 9 years old, Nassim was already developing the basis for a unified hyperdimensional theory of matter and energy, which he eventually called the “Holofractographic Universe.”

Haramein has spent most of his life researching the fundamental geometry of hyperspace, studying a variety of fields from theoretical physics, cosmology, quantum mechanics, biology and chemistry to anthropology and ancient civilizations. Combining this knowledge with a keen observation of the behavior of nature, he discovered a specific geometric array that he found to be fundamental to creation and from which the foundation for his Unified Field Theory emerged.

This unification theory, known as the Haramein-Rauscher metric (a new solution to Einstein’s Field Equations that incorporates torque and Coriolis effects) and his last published paper The Schwarzschild Proton, lays down the foundation of what could be a fundamental change in our current understandings of physics and consciousness. This groundbreaking theory has now been delivered to the scientific community through peer-reviewed papers and presentations at international physics conferences. Further, The Schwarzschild Proton paper recently received the prestigious “Best Paper Award” in the field of physics, quantum mechanics, relativity, field theory, and gravitation at the University of Liège, Belgium during the 9th International Conference CASYS’09.

Fluent in both French and English, Haramein has been giving lectures and seminars on his unification theory for over 20 years. His lectures are engaging multimedia presentations that lead his audiences through the validity of his theories with extensive observational and theoretical data.

In addition to his scientific papers, Mr. Haramein imparts this theory in a layman’s paper, a 4 DVD set entitled “Crossing the Event Horizon: Rise to the Equation,” a 90-minute DVD entitled “Black Whole,” and his international speaking tours.

In the past 10 years, Haramein has directed research teams of physicists, electrical engineers, mathematicians and other scientists in exploring the various aspects of unification principles and their implications in our world today . He has founded a non-profit organization, the Resonance Project Foundation, where, as the Director of Research, he continues in developing a research park in Hawai’i where science, sustainability, and advanced technology come together to generate viable solutions for our planet’s current energy crisis.

Anyone interested in Whole Body power should check this video

Human Potential reaching a new audience

I just saw a site that is talking about human potential, mentioning imortality, Philosophers stone, Jalu, Kundalini and is doing through modern mediums of Music, Movie and Graphic Novel.

These subjects are very personal and only approached with proper teaching and once we have delved deeply into ourselces enough and culitvated our character suffuciently to be ready for such subjects. But none the less the more people that can be reached with possibilities of what it may be to be human the better in my opinion.

Here is the the website and below is the music video.

Leo T Gaje of Pekiti Tirsia

I post this as the first half of the interview has what I think is a great example of what is missing in the world today - Respect, and shows one approach to keeping respect alive in the community and the benefits gleaned from this.

Respect to Thangtong Gyalpo

Tibet's history is full of amazing Yogi's manifesting miracles, transforming their bodies into light and showing visible signs of accomplishment in Vajrayana tradition. There are many well known stories but I wanted to highlight one of the slightly lesser known Masters.

Here is his story with source links at the end:

Thangtong Gyalpo was a true Tibetan "renaissance man:" he was an accomplished artist, intrepid explorer and statesman, an engineer, doctor, mystic, miracle worker and even a blacksmith. Above and beyond these diverse proclivities, as a composer and playwright he is celebrated as the founder of the Tibetan Opera tradition. His miraculous activities as an alchemist were a result of his accomplishment on the visionary path of the terma tradition: he had the ability to work ably with whatever circumstances presented themselves to him. After being poisoned by a jealous lama, he remained in meditation for a week and discovered the cure through the process of revelation. The formula he discovered is called "Drubthob Rika" in Tibetan, the "White Yogi pill," and is still used successfully to counteract poison.

He had a vision of local elemental spirits who gave him a gift of blueprints for suspension bridges that had never been seen before in Tibet at that point in the Thirteenth Century. As he began to construct the chain links for these massive bridges, his alchemical wisdom was put to practice, resulting in an iron alloy that has not rusted to this day. His smelting methods still remain a mystery.

As a visionary alchemist, he tangibly manifested the wisdom of the "elixir of immortality" by living to the ripe old age of 125. He was famous for his accomplishment and transmission of the long-life ceremony, which is displayed in the iconography of this statue. This statue was possibly made by his own hand, and shows him holding the vase full of the elixir of immortality and a pill of longevity in his other hand. Courtesy of http://www.tealchemy.org/what/alchemists/index.html

Here is the wikpedia entry for him: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thang_Tong_Gyalpo

Financial Craziness

With all the problems in the world economy this is a great time to educate ourselves on just what is taking place and why.

This is a long video but worth watching: