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2010: Another Odyssey

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

“Another Odyssey in 2010″ may be a better title than the one I used for this post.

We have all (a lot of us) come into this decade knowing that we will not see a “cost of living” increase in our social security or federal pensions. The reason is that there is no corresponding index (CPI) increase that warrants more income needs in 2010 than in 2009. I also have taken a few economic and statistical courses. Enough training and course work to know that you can make numbers say anything you want (to say) with enough attention to the requirement you want to justify.

Does anyone really believe this with a national unemployment rate of 10%; one out of ten people actually looking for a job can not find one?

I have a little problem myself. The cost of energy, medical requirements, insurance costs, lower health benefits with higher deductibles. That does not include higher cost of many food products, higher automotive gasoline costs, shelter prices and others.

I for one have a lot of health insurance requirements ($800 per month) to go along with high family medical requirements ($500 per month not covered by insurance). I for one can not refinance my home to lower payments and have lost home value to the point that I can not obtain a home loan to fix/maintain my older home. My cars (both over ten years old) have to be kept (no budget available, no income to buy new) and they have had some big repair costs in last couple of years.  I have had water damage that my home owners insurance does not cover for flooring where it can not be proven that it was not from seeping, or structural integrity. I live on a sloping lot (yard descending from home about six inches to about thirty in twenty five foot run). I live on a lot that is not included in a 100 year flood plane. I had purchased water damage insurance in case of damage from inside my home. So I pulled up the padding to avoid mold and other probable issues. 

I am not one to complain, usually. My family is living on a fixed income so increasing medical and health care costs, coupled with being at a point where my home and cars need “added” care, are cause for “alarm”.

I am working on my resolution for 2010, my 2010 financial plan and and my 2010 life plan. I am already tired so I am going to take a break for now and go shower (in less than high enough water temperature to enjoy the relaxational benefit).

Oh! Moreover, I am very thankful for all the blessings I have in my life. I am not overly concerned with the future as I know my God will provide what I need when it becomes a large enough issue (that I need his help or intervention). Some people call it a just-in-time thing like saving costs by obtaining materials just as they are needed (just-in-time inventory).

I for one do believe in obtaining spiritual guidance while also believing in Gestalt and Existentialism. I also believe that you can manifest anything you need (per doctors Chopra and Dyer). The reality of instantiation, soul, universal, and potentiality quietens my mind. I no longer try to over-think or worry (anxiously) what “may” come. I accept that I am and that I will be.

May the new decade provide your every need (in your own odyssey with your own help).

God bless. 

        

     

Law of

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Attraction:

(roots in quantum physics)

Thoughts are energy. If you want to use this energy for your good read on and enjoy the moment.

Develop an appreciation for now, the present, today. Value the now. You are only a thought away from changing your whole life.

I have heard many times that you have to live on purpose. Without that you are like a boat with no motor, no power, no compass. The waves carry you wherever they may go without any regard to you or your dreams.

Stay away from self-defeating ways. Think of the good, the positive, your wants, needs and desires. There is awesome power in maintaining a positive mental attitude. The energy of thought can be used to contact the universal spirit, or conscious, and attract good. You can use the synchronicity of your being (your whole self) to attract the object of your attention.

The law of attraction also requires you to practice some things.

1. Know exactly what you want.

2. Ask the universal for it.

3. Feel, know, and see (visualize) the object of your desire is already yours.

4. And the hardest to understand is to be open to receive it and let go of (your attachment to) the outcome.

The universe will manifest your desires.

Deepak Chopra has a book you should read titled “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire” (Harnessing the Infinite Power of coincidence). The book sets up and describes the self (soul) and the universal soul. The book refers to synchronicity in nature, desires and methods to obtain the level of consciousness making fulfillment more than (mere) coincidence. This coincidence is more like synchrodestiny and likened to the non-visible universe. The idea that we can only believe what is material or physical evaporates with the new concept (new to us) that the universe is pure potential. It can occur without space/time requirements. It is. Just like I am and you are.

Carl Jung is known for his development of synchronicity in analytical psychology. He described synchronicity as an “acasual connecting principle” and as an “acasual parallelism”. He felt the principle gave proof (or conclusive evidence) for his concepts of archetypes and the collective unconscious. He thought it was descriptive of the governing dynamic that underlies the complete human experience (and history) - social, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. He also that individuation was required for a person to become whole. [another law] Individuation was the central concept of analytical psychology.

One of Jung’s favorite quotes on synchronicity was from “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Carroll where the White Queen says to Alice “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwords”. When I read that it led me to start thinking about an Alice and a Sally (mother and daughter, both important people in my life). Jung believed firmly that these “coincidences” happen all the time. I remember really liking the song by Police “Synchronicity” and a “music video” by Tom Petty about “Alice in Wonderland” and another song by Jefferson Airplane that my wife (former) played for me the first time I heard it. She was in Charleston, South Carolina and I called her from King Salmon, Alaska.  It was about 1:00 A.M. her time.

I also remember that cat asking Alice where she wanted to go and getting the response from Alice that she really did not know. This led to the cat saying then it really does not matter which way you go.  Atypical coincidences? Jung also emphasized the importance of harmony and balance, the whole person.   

There is an effort going on to find, witness, observe what is called the “God” boson. Particle colliders are set up to race “particles” faster and faster towards each other until they approach the speed of light. At that time the scientists will make the particles collide with each other to see what happens.   A collider is a type of a particle accelerator involving directed beams of particles. Colliders may either be ring accelerators or linear accelerators. anyway some folks think this is a silly thing to do. maybe that is why the new one is way under ground and has taken so long to build and get ready to use.

In particle physics, bosons are particles which obey Bose–Einstein statistics; they are named after Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein. Another name for the unseen boson is the Higgs boson named after “theory” physics from Higgs and Einstein. The Higgs boson is the basic “force”, or unit, that is touted as the elemental basis of our universe.  

Einstein’s theory is now very well established as the correct description of motion of relativistic objects, that is those traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light.

Because most of us have little experience with objects moving at speeds near the speed of light, Einstein’s predictions may seem strange. However, many years of high energy physics experiments have thoroughly tested Einstein’s theory and shown that it fits all results to date.

From the SLAC website - In fact Einstein’s relationship tells us more, it says Energy and mass are interchangeable. Or, better said, rest mass is just one form of energy. For a compound object, the mass of the composite is not just the sum of the masses of the constituents but the sum of their energies, including kinetic, potential, and mass energy. The equation E=mc2 shows how to convert between energy units and mass units. Even a small mass corresponds to a significant amount of energy.

  • In the case of an atomic explosion, mass energy is released as kinetic energy of the resulting material, which has slightly less mass than the original material.
  • In any particle decay process, some of the initial mass energy becomes kinetic energy of the products. end SLAC para.

There is a simple “awesome” fact that a gram is equal to  24.9 million kilowatt-hours. 

From me, the question would be ”Is either real or it is electrical?” From a non layperson (nuclear, energy physics, particle) the initial “mass” energy becoming the kinetic energy of the products is probably a second-natured law. I do remember something about the human body creating energy converting “stuff” we eat and burning calories. Another law about energy.  

The total amount of mass–energy in a closed system remains constant because energy cannot be created or destroyed and, in all of its forms, trapped energy has mass. According to the theory of relativity, mass and energy as commonly understood are two names for the same thing, and one is not changed to the other. Rather, neither one appears without the other. When energy changes type and leaves a system, it takes its mass with it

I have also read that we basically will cause more chaos as human existence continues because we bring more disorder into our world by using up high-quality energy resources and then replace it with lower, or poor quality, energy. Sort of like I eat for energy and I release lower grade matter into the earth. Eventually the finite resources we use become depleted from the ecosystem.  

When we die our matter becomes CO. But where does our “real” energy go? I digress I guess but I believe that our energy does change as we leave our earthly plane. I think we become an infinite potentiality (again). 

I have been reading a lot about dark energy and it is awe-inspiring to me as a lay person. The concept is that at the instant of “the big bang” the calculated matter (mass) that created the universe only accounts for some 10% of what should be. This gives rise to the idea of some 90% not visible which was named dark energy/dark matter. Conceptually, the invisible has an infinite potential to become instantaneously whatever is needed. Sort of like kinetic, or resting, energy.

The idea of space/time not affecting everything is scary, voiding a lot of scientific laws. It is like watching “Flash Gordon” if anyone remembers that show. A later “space” movie came along that I watched probably 15 times over the years called “2001 A Space Odyssey “. The Space Odyssey series is a science fiction series of four novels and two films created from 1948 to 1997, primarily by the writer Arthur C. Clarke. Without thinking about it I named a major database and software project repository “HAL9000″, a coincidence I guess. Another example was a TV show called “Star Trek”. I believe I watched every segment or series installment. I even met some of the characters later in life while attending a computer show. My mind was captured by the information and specials from or about Carl Segan, especially a series about the brain and how it performed things like a computer system. All coincidental to me even having the idea of getting into computing (computers and systems). I went to take pre-entrance testing with a friend who wanted to get into the computer field. He didn’t pass the exams but I did. If I had not gone basically in support of him, I would not have even taken the computer field testing process. Another coincidence, maybe.    

My most “strange” feeling, other than feeling the presence of Picasso (one of my favorite painters) about a minute before I heard on the radio he had just died or hearing over the loud speaker at school while in chemistry class that Kennedy had been killed when not heard by anyone in the class until about a minute later when the message was repeated, come to think of it I have had a lot of these strange feelings (or coincidences). Oh, back to the strangest feeling I have had (so far). I remember having a shuttering inside when I read Chopra and Jung discussing many concurrent incarnations happening at the same time. Basically concurrent worlds unknown to each other. Though not totally messed up in the head I have had those same thoughts before about slightly out of sync (so we would not know it) worlds going on here at the same time.   

The concept of infinite potentialities is beyond most current thinking, but not for my mother. She went to school until the sixth grade before “staying home” while her sister continued school. She was helping the household by being home cleaning and cooking.

She had a simple thought or principle that she shared with me after we talked about a dream she had which bothered me. I asked her what I could do to prepare for things she “foresaw”. She said her dreams always came true though the meanings sometimes had to be uncovered (the subconscious talking to the conscious). She said that she had dreamed about me and my marriage but did not tell me.

Later she told me she dreamed of having another child but she knew that could not be true because she had an operation (hysterectomy). Then she found that she had contracted cancer (third generation at the same age) instead of being pregnant. She told me she had another dream that the news was the real reason for her dream. She was told she would have hard days ahead but she would not die of this cancer.

 Her doctor told me after some chemo and cobalt treatments the cancer had left a fairly large hole where good tissue was destroyed while trying to stop/kill the cancer. He said it had entered all her lymph-nodes and there was no chance for her to survive. His estimate was she had less than two months left, they had done everything possible to stop or kill the cancer to no avail. He said I should think about what I heard and decide whether to tell my family. I said no I won’t be telling them.

He had the family come to a conference room a couple of weeks later. He gave us all the “bad news”. He asked my sisters whether they had been having regular checkups since this was an obvious genetic concern. My sisters looked at each other and I could tell they had not really thought about that. My sister closest to my age said she had cancelled her checkup, my other sister said she had not scheduled one. The doctor told my sisters and my aunt (mother’s sister) they should now make it a clear priority.

Though I can’t remember the oncologist’s name he became a Christian because of my mother. The next week he said he noticed what appeared to be a glow around her head on his rounds and thought it was because his eyes were tired because he came by after his regular work schedule to see her. He thought he needed to get his eyes checked because that “glow” occured three days in a row.

 He heard the nurses talking about patients from several floors coming by to talk with her and ask for her prayers.

His next series of testing showed the cancer had stopped spreading. It had gone into “remission”. He asked me to come by on my way to see her and told me “this really is a miracle”, the cancer has stopped spreading.

He was the head of the cancer organisation at our medical university and state cancer society president during this period of time.

This is being shared as background for the wisdom my mother gave me. She said that in my life time people would actually be killing others over tennis shoes and the country would have a bad time like the depression was for her. I asked her what I could do to prepare for this. She said I could not prepare. She said all I could do is go forward trusting in God and “simply believe“. That is all you have to do. We never talked about it again.

I hope that you leave this article (blog post) with a reason to believe that anything really is possible.

With love and best wishes for you today.

  

               

Science, Technology, Life, DNA

Friday, September 28th, 2007

This particular post is being placed in all my categories (as of September 27, 2007) as it applies to you just as much as me.

I started working on this post on a sheet of paper (an envelope) from a birthday card I received last week. My birthday is September 23rd and presented a good time for reflection.

I thought about my earlier “experiences” with art (paintings, music, books, TV, radio, cartoons in the newspaper, movies). I especially loved Picasso, future stuff, Flash Gordon, the Disney cartoons and movies, “2001, A Space Odyssey”, the Bible, Carl Sagen, baseball, GI Joe, “The Flying Purple People Eater”, Mickey Mantle, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Jean. And they were all site and sound!

I have been a truly fortunate person. I have experiences that I still hold in memory. They are better than watching the latest high definition digitally encoded movie on CD for the “unpteenth” time. Some memories actually come with smells, touches, tastes, perfect audio and video!

Think for a moment about something that became truly mapped into your brain, psyche, and soul. Something along the lines of the birth of a child or the thrill of “knowing” you created a positive, lasting experience. What about the “experience” of discovery, freedom, faith? Something as simple as swinging on a swing (at home, a park, or on a tree rope over a lake or pond) or hitting a home run bring in all the senses, known and unknown.

Our capacity to learn, know, be unique, yet the same, is truly amazing! I have learned that the strength of positive inner feelings and mental attitude are far more powerful than negative ones. The negative ones are like weeds. They just grow when we do not engage in intentionally planting and growing the good, positive ones.

I created a web page that is a collection of some of the articles and thoughts I have “experienced” in this my birth month. I hope you take the time to visit soon at my web page.

Even this commercial brings thoughts flooding in on a very personal level,
GreatSkin.com

Sleepy Hollow? Soft, smooth, fragerant, tight, tanned skin? Richard Scary, Stephen King? Star Trek, Star Wars? Bats, Batman? Pumpkins, Jack-o-lanterns? It could go on and on the longer you look at the advertisement.      

  

Success after a “you’re fired”!

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Being fired can often provide a jolt to start your own business. Entrepreneurs are becoming much more common as self-employment has climbed 10.6 percent this year alone according to a Chicago-based outplacement firm.

During the first quarter of this year some 139,269 layoffs have been reported by the Labor Department.

Sometimes it turns out to be a blessing in disguise. Some examples of people who were fired, or released, and found success are:

  • J.K. Rowling (billionaire writer) was fired as a secretary for writing short stories at her computer. She used her severence to start the “Harry Potter” series.
  • Walt Disney (DisneyLand) was fired from a newspaper for having a lack of ideas.
  • Michael Bloomberg (20 billion dollar media mogal, New York mayor) was released from his wall street company when restructuring took place.

Being a sole-proprietor, or a one-person consultant business , I am one of the 78% of all US businesses that have no employees. I have also had the fortune of having been “released” from a contract. I used some contents and ideas in books I started to devour such as “Manifest Your Destiny”, “The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire”,  and “The Thinker’s Toolkit” to begin to make my own luck and become my version of success!

The number 7

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Seven is used frequently in the scriptures to signify completeness. It has reference to bringing a project or work to completion. It can refer to a complete cycle of things like in application development when the cycle is called a software development life cycle and it refers to a complete “start to finish” cycle.

Number seven is considered lucky among other reasons for being the number of perfection.

The Bible says that the Universe was created in 7 days.

On dice, where seven is a winning number, to get 7 you need one die on 6 and the other die on 1 of the opposite side. All opposite side numbers adds to 7. Pythagoreans called it the perfect number, 3 and 4, the triangle and the square, the perfect figures.

There were seven ancient planets. Seven visible planets and luminaries (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn).

Throughout the ages the number 7 had defied the law of averages, the science of mathematics. For many of the most powerful and wealthy, the number 7 is a symbol of luck, of good fortune.

Perhaps that is why so many advertisements and “famous” lists contain the number seven (evoking the thought of good fortune by following the information). Such an example is “Some Rules for Success” sounds ok, but “The 7 Rules for Success” not only sounds easier to accomplish it is subconsciously almost a guarantee of completion and perfection.   

Success and Luck

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

I can hardly count the times I have heard or seen lists or advertisements using 7 (seven) in the title or information like the “7 rules for dieting”. I decided to take some of the best ones I know and put them on my blog. Stay tuned as I will be adding a category (Make Your Luck) and posts for it.