Waves

Sit in reverie, and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
__Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Size of the Univers

Or counting the number of galaxies just within a little pitch black point of night sky.

Volcano

The elder from this lands in Vanuatu says: we live with the volcanoes and we must respect them. If you do so, they´ll bring you good. But if you do evil, then they´ll be coleric... We live with the nature, for sure we can´t be surpised for what we have, because she gives to us... It´s during our youth when we learnt good and evil.

1min.

The essential human comes to know, to feel that is not separate from the whole, and there is no need to seek and search for any destiny on its own. Things are happening, the world is moving --call it God... He is doing things, or they are happening of their own accord. There is no need for me to make any struggle, any effort; there is no need for me to fight for anything. I can relax and be. The essential man is not a doer. The accidental man is a doer. The accidental man is, of course, then in anxiety, tension, stress, anguish, continuously sitting on a volcano. It can erupt any moment, because he lives in a world of uncertainty and believes as if it is certain. This creates tension in his being, because he knows deep down that nothing is certain.
_Osho



Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland.

The Clearings

The clearing of the woods is a centre into which it is not always possible to enter.. It is another kingdom that a soul inhabits and guards.. since it seems that the nothing and the void -or the nothing or the void- have to be present or latent continuously in human life. And as to not be devoured by the nothing or by the void you may have to create them in yourself .. I also center the heart because it is the only thing that from within our self gives away sound.. And only because of it, the privileged organisms that have it hear themselves. Only the faraway stars, pures, while they are inaccessible to their colonization, will provide the real image of an identical being to its life; innocent, as if it had only been created without having to be born.. It becomes deaf and mute in times, circunstancially, the heart.. It leaves then all place to the operations of the mind that move that way, without any assistance, abandoned to themselves.
_María Zambrano

Forgotten Places

When time passes by over the human imprint, often something intriguing inhabits these abandoned places.


By Zac Boyet

Thought it might be the observer, whom while gazing at the emptiness of such an awful shadow, tends to look for some meaning out of its shape. Maybe because the senseless becomes so unbearable, a past reality asks to be created. Like an instinctive reaction, attempting to calm the lament of the soul.

Lapse of Memory

Views from Norther Britain


By Tony Partington

Dancing Shiva

3½min.

In Hinduism is said that when Shiva, the destroyer, assumes the form of Natraj or the cosmic dancer, enclosed in a burning circle, his energy and enthusiasm destroy the old and create new life.

He´s represented standing on top of a demon, because has the power to conquer evil and spiritual ignorance.

Shiva's dance represents the energy that keeps the universe running and all the joys of creation, death, and rebirth; is also said that if he ever stops dancing, universe will cease to exist.

Dizzy Waves

In New Zealand

Video by Andrei Nica, music by Nouvelle Vague.

Horsehead

A nebula at Orion´s constellation.

Unlearning Creativity

An entertaining yet profound case for creating an education system that nurtures, rather than undermines, creativity.

Sir Ken Robinson recalling some of Picasso's words tells here that if we are not prepared to be wrong, we will never come up with anything original. Today, by the time to be adults, most of the kids have lost this capacity... All the kids are born artists, the problem is to make an artist as we grow up.

Design Responsibility

Buckminster Fuller was who said that you never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing one obsolete.

Seventy-five years later, the Buckminster Fuller Institute keeps promoting this idea, organizing a design challenge and awarding comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.

Paradise

What do we really want?

Aurora Borealis

Creativity

Our fundamental challenge is to give birth to a new society, a new way of being a human and a new planet. That's something never done in our entire history. Earth for sure has manifested this level of creativity, but humans have never been called upon to produce such alternative ideas.

The critical first step is to understand our primary community. That's something beyond our nation state, beyond any culture, any corporation. World does not end up in the industrial society or in our actual economic system.

We fail to appreciate that we are one economy more amongst many, birds have an economy, plants, rivers, oceans have an economy. There are a lot of different ways of making a living.

To step into this new era, we have to re-invent economic activity in a way that is an enhancement to all other economies too. This requires considering humankind as a whole, to consider us a self-aware part of the cosmos, together with the entire earth.

Brian Swimme

Dragons

The dragon is a legendary creature of which some interpretation or depiction appears in almost every culture worldwide. However the physical description and supposed abilities of the creature vary immensely.

The two most familiar interpretations of dragons are either derived from various European folk traditions, or from the Chinese dragon (lóng,龍,龙). The word "dragon" derives from Greek δράκων (drakōn), "a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon" and that from δρακεῖν (drakein) infinitive active of the verb δέρκομα (derkomai) "I see clearly".


45min.

We'll find dragons at least in the following cultures: Chinese, Indian, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Philippine, Vietnamese, Aztec, Arabian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Scandinavian, Germanic, English, French, Sardinian, Welsh, Hungarian, Slavic, Siberian, Romanian, Chuvash, Catalan, Asturian, Albanian, Portuguese, Greek, Tatar, Turkish and Lithuanian.

Enjoy here the amazing dragon's world, a fantasy made real (1)(2)

What Else

Royksopp

It was me on that road
But you couldn't see me
Too many lights out, but nowhere near here

It was me on that road
Still you couldn't see me
And then flashlights and explosions

Roads end getting nearer
We cover distance but not together

I am the storm I am the wonder
And the flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosions

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

It's about you and the sun
A morning run
The story of my maker
What I have and what I ache for

I've got a golden ear
I cut and I spear
And what else is there

Roads and getting nearer
We cover distance still not together

If I am the storm if I am the wonder
Will I have a flashlights nightmares
And sudden explosions

There's no room where I can go and
You've got secrets too

I don't know what more to ask for
I was given just one wish

Looking at Cubes

How many dimensions do we live in? 3, 4, 5... 11? It seems such an easy and fundamental question, but even with all our modern science, we still do not know the answer.


Ultimate Rubik's Cube - 2min.


Hypercube - 20sec.


5d Cube - 2min.

Our Dumb World

Never before in the history of humankind we’ve had such amount of information, opportunities and resources to develop our knowledge; and never before we’ve seen such an epidemic of stupidity around.

The following excellent documentary explores this phenomenon, with a comic but scientific approach; digging in the interesting origins of the etymology of several words related to this concept.


1h. (skip first 30sec.)

Also the intro of the funny movie idiocracy, brings a very interesting point of view about human evolution. Referring to a not-so-unlikely future that someday might come to reality, if in our global society we keep spoiling and compensating ourselves and the young generations, for being each time more proud of our ignorance.

The Roots of the Matrix

The matrix is not a bad place to start the journey to consciousness... label.

Imagine infinite parallel universes continuously expanding, dumb individual entities creating complex neverending networks.

A place where the shadows pretend to be the origin of any light, where they use the knowledge that makes all around to seem, in spite of it, meaningful.

An eternal landscape beeing painted, rounded by machines skilfully engaged to react to our environment, running under a bottom line governance. All designed and assembled to make, what is virtual, more real than real.

The man not as architect of his own, but a laboratory pet, trapped in an anti-reality made by neuronal impulses. And, in the roots of the matrix, the slave, unable to recognise himself in any mirror.


Matrix - 8min.

Consider now instead that this slave had always been a creator, able with his mind to act over matter, but sleepily unconscient is painting the same exact landscape.

An apparently equal world, but opposite in essence. This one, ran by the power of thought is where consciousness is the key.

Could we have been dreaming us, during ages, and be now just about to wake up?


Consciousness - 10min.

The Lost Atlantis

Since the beginning of our era, Atlantis perhaps has been one of the most popular and mysterious myths. Plato seems to be the first -and the only one with some kind of indirect related knowledge- who wrote about this land, described the inhabitants, their interests, history and society.

But althought the philosopher brings to our times a vision of this so-called island, himself never has seen it, because if anytime existed, disappeared thousands of years ago. Plato's relate is about a history told by priests from the Egyptian city of Solon, to a Greek legislator and poet, who went to the Pharaons land, one century and a half before (You can read a brief summary here, from Alan G. Herfner, author of Imagining Atlantis).

Regarding the audiovisual/documentary genre related with this topic, we could start taking a look to a couple of Discovery Channel productions. The FIRST one, especially oriented to the myth, and his usage in recent history. And a SECOND one, more focused on the search for the physical place, after the Santorino theory emerged. Also, for having some perspective about Atlantis documentary evolution, we might take a look to an old production, presented by Leonard Nimoy, divided in three parts (THIRD 1,2,3).

After the viewing of this three entertainment products, probably could be said that nothing more than the revival of the legend, the quest for the location, and the bizarre interest by the 3rd Reicht, has been shown up.

Well, would like to say here that the aim of this post (and blog) is not to show mediocre documentaries; but to share ideas, concepts, theories and intuitions, perceptions, thoughts, directly or indirectly related to our modern global society. In few words, one of the proposals is to analyze through videos, what has been told, sold to us in the past. Which may help in seeking an explanation about our current global mess.

George Bernanos, a French novelist and essayist, who lived during the first half of the past century, said: 'the horrors we have seen, and still greater horrors shall presently see, are not signs that rebels, insubordinate, untamable people are increasing in number throughout the world, but rather that there is a constant increase in the number of obedient, docile people.'



Coming back to Atlantis, after the review of these first documentaries, would like to present a couple more. These ones, from a totally different perspective, pretty unconventional.

The next one is the longest, divided in four parts: FOURTH 1,2,3, and 4. It has been a truly classic about Atlantis, but maybe will be not known for many viewers. In this documentary, some topics treated in this blog are amazingly interconnected. A very interesting construction filmed with the collaboration of the polemic authors Eric Von Daniken and Zacarias Sitchin.

And finally the FIFTH one, a lecture from the controversed Michael Tsarion. A really impressive and shocking theory, presented in petit committee.

If you are interested about the myth, and are not blocked to accept alternative explanations: find some time to check these films out, might help to think over it.