Why coaching on the edge of time?


by Paula Froes

As we reach this world we are whole, one with everything, no thing, indescribable yet almost immediately the game of separation is played on us through our parents and our environments.
Step by step we learn to be individuals by absorbing behaviour patterns of our surroundings and defining ourselves through contrasts. Our life data base is thus formed and the field of infinite possibilities becomes a limited scope, which automatizes as we grow up and collect memories.
These memories, which we so proudly call experience, are the platform from where we perceive ourselves and life. The mind has a lead role in the way we sense things by making us live time and again the same stories; labelling the world, the others, the scenarios and the circumstances; choosing one thing in detriment of another. In a world of contrasts we delegate by default vital functions to the non conscious, while believing we control, decide and are masters of our lives. Truth being said we are but pawns of the unconscious which cannot discern between real and unreal! In addition we design patterns defining us, that thrive on thoughts believed in. How often have we heard “This is the way I am and there’s nothing that can be done?”

Lack of awareness that our so called experience is only a perspective we enter a second illusion. We truly presume we know who the other is, thinks and feels. It does not stop here! We are seldom present, dwell in the past and project the future. Resisting what is, makes us proud of being fighters or gives us hope for a better day, these also are no more than deceptions. Pondering why we never get there, we by- pass the joy of the Self feeling victims of destiny. No wonder the world is screaming for a change!

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The limits of English language and going beyond.

Cosmic offer

by Autumn Antal

Soft driven, slow and mad like some new language. Reaching your head with the cold, sudden fury of a divine messenger.

— Jim Morrison

Knowing what we call reality is a holographic expression of infinite consciousness playing — and knowing you are That consciousness — here are some words about words,
just for fun:

English language demands duality to exist.
English is a language built on a foundation of opposition. This can result in unique mental dysfunction for native English speakers. [I know whereof I speak.] First among them is our profound fixation on judgement. Everything is black and white in a mind that thinks constantly in polarized English words. As a culture, we are close to losing the capacity for subtlety.

In reality, opposites are complementary. This nondual vision is known to the East and to some extent in Western culture. Yet, its simplicity is often its cause for dismissal by minds desiring complication. Not to fault the mind; the mind’s job is to measure and to divide input into little bits it “thinks” it understands. However, it does further to put the tool down when not in use. Human thought is not the speed limit of consciousness we think.

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Light from a water bottle brighten millions of poor homes

Light out of water

As simple as it sounds, a one-liter plastic bottle filled with purified water and some bleach could serve as a light bulb for some of the millions of people who live without electricity. Originally developed by MIT students, the “solar bottle bulb” is now being distributed by the MyShelter Foundation to homes throughout the Philippines. The foundation’s goal is to use this alternative source of daylight to brighten one million homes in the country by 2012.

Reuters Website…
See also here…

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Emptiness and the Quantum Vacuum


Brian Swimme on Emptiness and the Quantum Vacuum
by Joel Pitney (German translation below)

In the production of every issue of EnlightenNext, there are difficult moments when the editor’s job calls for some hard decisions. Whether due to space constraints, subject matter, or other factors, inevitably there are some fascinating dialogues that we are unfortunately unable to present in the pages of the magazine. The following excerpt was taken from an interview conducted for Issue 19 of EnlightenNext. This dialogue with Brian Swimme, visionary cosmologist and Core Faculty member for the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at theCalifornia Institute of Integral Studies, is a mind-expanding exploration of the mysteries at the interface of quantum physicsand spirituality.

EnlightenNext: Many of the greatest spiritual realizers have made a distinction between two dimensions of existence. One is the dimension of becoming. It is the dimension of the manifest world, of time, space, movement, and change. The whole movement of evolution could be said to occur within the dimension of becoming. The other dimension is usually called Being, with a capital “B.” It is often described as emptiness, the unmanifest, the transcendent nature and Absolute ground of all that is. It is beyond time, change, and form. You often speak movingly about evolution and the creative effulgence of becoming, but I’d like to ask you about the significance of Being—which seems to be much less apparent in your work—and its relationship, if any, to evolution.

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