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Future world order and world parliament discussed at Bahá’í conference

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:10:40 GMT

clipped by: nuttyriv3r

03 November 2009

it was agreed that the Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a good example to draw upon

AFEEB) on 24 and 25 October 2009 in Luxembourg discussed the future world order and global governance.

The programme included a presentation of the concept of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (UNPA)

Outlining the path towards a directly elected world parliament, Mr Bummel stressed the "spiritual dimension" of the efforts. "The establishment of a UN Parliamentary Assembly would represent a changed consciousness. For the first time in human history such a body would establish a direct political connection between every human being and the planet,"

Among other things Mr Billion stressed the success of the international coalition of non-governmental organizations

"new world order"

one hundred years ago, Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, invoked the phrase

a world government, an elected world parliament, a binding world tribunal, and a world police force.

Tags: bahai faith, luxembourg, ngos, un, united nations parliamentary assembly, unpa, world government, world parliament, world police force, world tribunal

Elderly Who Forget Age Remember Better

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:01 GMT

clipped by: chestnut501
clipper's remarks: A study in the journal Experimental Aging Research finds that senior citizens who were reminded about their age and stereotypes about old age performed worse on memory tests than secure seniors.

Clip Source: www.scientificamerican.com

a new study finds that older folks who accept that seniors’ memories get worse do worse on memory tests.

Scientists interested in the effects of stereotype on memory enlisted

seniors

to take a memory test.

some subjects were told that the test checked the effects of age on memory. Researchers call this a threat—it reminds participants of the stereotype. That group was also asked to write down their age after reading the instructions, again homing in on the stereotype.

The other group was told that the test controlled for biases. This could make them feel more secure. Researchers also gave participants a stigma consciousness questionnaire to test how strongly they bought into negative stereotypes.

The results: participants who got reminded of their age and the old age, poor memory stereotype did significantly worse. Those who say they feel stigmatized also performed more poorly. So your memory may function better just by believing that it will.

Tags: aging, research, study, memory, stereotypes

Dreaming and conciousness

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:23:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: very interesting, Find This

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,” said Dr. Llinás, who makes the case in the book “I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self” (M.I.T., 2001). Once people are awake, he argued, their brain essentially revises its dream images to match what it sees, hears and feels — the dreams are “corrected” by the senses.

Presence is your natural state- peace, love, wholeness, oneness

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:03:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: good luck on your journey everyone
glad to have your presence on this network

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Leonard Jacobson teaches only two things. How to become fundamentally present^[4] and how to arise in mastery of your mind and ego, so that you are no longer involuntarily pulled out of Presence. ^[5] To be fully present is to be in a state of consciousness which is free from thought and is characterized by peace, love, wholeness, oneness and deep inner silence. Presence is your natural state. When you are not present, you feel a subtle feeling of separation from life, others and God. ^[6]

World's Largest-Ever Study Of Near-Death Experiences

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:52:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: via http://www.noetic.org/

Clip Source: www.medicalnewstoday.com

The University of Southampton is launching the world's largest-ever study of near-death experiences this week.

The AWARE (AWAreness during REsuscitation) study is to be launched by the Human Consciousness Project of the University of Southampton - an international collaboration of scientists and physicians who have joined forces to study the human brain, consciousness and clinical death.

Tags: health, nde, science

How Dreamy Is That?

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:19:17 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

It’s snowing heavily, and everyone in the backyard is in a swimsuit, at some kind of party: Mom, Dad, the high school principal, there’s even an ex-girlfriend. And is that Elvis, over by the piñata?

Uh-oh.

what if the primary purpose of dreaming isn’t psychological at all?

Dr. Hobson argues that dreaming is a parallel state of consciousness that is continually running but normally suppressed during waking.

“I argue that dreaming is not a parallel state but that it is consciousness itself, in the absence of input from the senses,”

These novel ideas about dreaming are based partly on basic findings about REM sleep.

None of this is to say that dreams are devoid of meaning. Anyone who can remember a vivid dream knows that at times the strange nighttime scenes reflect real hopes and anxieties: the young teacher who finds himself naked at the lectern; the new mother in front of an empty crib, frantic in her imagined loss.

Cosmic Harmony

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:20:44 GMT

clipped by: JULIE PENKOVA

Clip Source: www.cosmicharmony.com

Cosmic Harmony - The State of Enlightenment

"The Universe has been called the Cosmic Form of the Divine.
All the beings you see here are manifestations of the Cosmic Form.
This means that all are inherently Divine."

What is enlightenment? What is that state of Cosmic Consciousness, the ultimate awareness called variously - enlightenment, nirvana, satori, samadhi, self-realization, rapture, salvation, ascension, unity consciousness, voidness, and many other terms by many various religions? It is the goal of life, the ultimate destination of every individualized being. It is brought about when the individual personality ascends beyond the illusionary perception of self separateness to merge in the Universal Self from which it originated so very long ago. Spiritual evolution towards this goal takes place over ages but the final ascent of Spirit can happen in an instant of time.

Barack "Houdini" Obama

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:38:31 GMT

clipped by: mountainpalm
clipper's remarks: Promises were broken with no apology, the same creative legalese that infested the Bush administration, in the form of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzalez, was again used to deny justice to the inmates of Guantanamo, It was used to justify more torture, more destruction of the Constitution and more illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens

Clip Source: globalresearch.ca

America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia

Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry

by Andrew Hughes

After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.

Never before had one witnessed such an accomplished use of manipulation, propaganda, imagery and public relations wizardry to sell the public a man who was to take the baton from Bush and run with it in the race to destroy the economy, the rights of the people and help birth a nation totally controlled by those who have always lurked in the shadows of power.

Meditation music for Kundalini Yoga

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:55:44 GMT

clipped by: giftsindia
clipper's remarks: The article discusses about the different meditation music CDs and DVDs that are offered by Spirit Voyage for practicing Kundalini Yoga. This article also explains about the usefulness and influence of music in meditation and yoga practice.

Clip Source: www.spiritvoyage.com

Meditation is an important part of Yoga practices. Meditation or Dhyana is the seventh limb of the Patanjali Yoga Sutra. Meditation helps an individual reach a state of tranquility and the practitioner is rejuvenated with ultimate serenity. Through meditation, one can experience a calm and relaxed state of mind. Highest joy is realized as the practitioner experience the oneness with their own center of consciousness, the Atma.

Tags: yoga cds, yoga music, kundalini yoga music, music for meditation

Three feminists on dirty words, pop culture, and the language of choice

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:54:18 GMT

clipped by: Lexica

Clip Source: jezebel.com

Yesterday the Planned Parenthood NYC Action Fund brought together Jessica Valenti of Feministing, Lynn Harris of Broadsheet, and longtime reproductive rights activist and writer Gloria Feldt to discuss everything from feminist pop culture to whether "feminism" is a dirty word.

The evening seemed to focus on how we talk about feminism

issues of language and rhetoric are a really important part of being a feminist in the larger world. The conversation touched on blog comments — which all three agreed were like a more public version of 1970s consciousness-raising groups — before zeroing in on the word "feminist" itself. Valenti said she embraced the word, and that there was no point in picking another, less loaded term because "I think any word you use to talk about women's rights is going to become a dirty word." Feldt concurred: "the first thing people do to you when they want to diminish you is they diminish you with language."

Tags: feminism, women, language, culture

Big game fishing,Jiggling,Trolling - Sport Fishing Center

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:56:50 GMT

clipped by: nopbita
clipper's remarks: Fun,friends,adrenaline and environmental consciousness are the four pillars that inspired the creation SPORT FISHING CENTER.If you are interested in big game fishing, sport fishing, jigging, trolling, popping... visit our website!

Clip Source: www.sportfishingcenter.gr

Our products and materials quality, our after sales service and the inside knowledge of athletic fishing techniques will satisfy every need of the sport fisherman.

Tags: sport fishing center, alimos, fishing, bluefin, jigging, trolling, popping, offshore fishing, big game, alutecnos

Obese man dies after refusing zoo X-ray

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:05:08 GMT

clipped by: tabsey

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A German man weighing 230 kilograms has died after refusing to go to the zoo for an X-ray because he was too heavy for machines designed for humans, The Daily Bild has reported.

"It sounded like they were trying to wind us up," Thomas Lessmann's widow Petra told the paper.

Complaining he was feeling ill and frequently losing consciousness, the 51-year-old went to a clinic in Eppendorf, near Hamburg in northern Germany, which referred him to the nearby Hagenbeck Zoo.

His pride wounded, he refused to go and died 13 days afterwards, the paper said.

The cause of death was unclear.

A spokeswoman for the clinic said that Mr Lessmann was entitled to the same treatment as anyone else but added, "The upper weight limit for machines in human medicine is around 200 kilograms."

Tags: reality, check

The Shadow

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:44:19 GMT

clipped by: JULIE PENKOVA

Clip Source: psikoloji.fisek.com.tr

the shadow

Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected.

"Psychology and Religion" (1938). In CW 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East. P.131

Sleep Apnea Symptoms

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:14:00 GMT

clipped by: caksut

Clip Source: www.sleepapneasolutions.info

Sleep apnea can exist for years without being diagnosed. This is because the sleep disorder manifests itself only during sleep, just when the person suffering from it is totally out of the bounds of consciousness to actually notice the irregularities. On the other hand, his bed partner may take the snoring and snorting as normal occurrences.

Tags: sleep apnea, sleep disorder, insomnia, sleep aid, snoring

Hiking Into History: England’s Ancient Ridgeway Trail

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:48:11 GMT

clipped by: Lexica
clipper's remarks: More:

The full 87 miles of the official Ridgeway National Trail can easily be divided into shorter segments, depending on time available. It can be cut more or less in half, by deciding to walk only the older, original western section, which passes all the great prehistoric sites. Day hikes, and half-days centered on the Uffington White Horse, or Wayland’s Smithy, or the Avebury Stone Circles, can easily be devised by studying the map. The trail’s excellent Web site (www.nationaltrail.co.uk/ridgeway) is full of advice, and possibilities for accommodations and meals.

Clip Source: travel.nytimes.com

THE Ridgeway is the oldest continuously used road in Europe, dating back to the Stone Age. Situated in southern England, built by our Neolithic ancestors, it’s at least 5,000 years old, and may even have existed when England was still connected to continental Europe, and the Thames was a tributary of the Rhine.

The Ridgeway of today is 87 miles long. But about half of that is a series of footpaths that connect the original old track following the ridge up on the chalk escarpment to the Thames River in the east

It’s close to silent up here. Soon the sound of traffic fades from consciousness, and we move back into a world of bleats and birdsong, and soughing wind.

“This is what I’m after,” Rory tells me. “To get away from the sounds of petrol.”

My room is in an annex, and the tub has wonderfully, fearsomely hot water.

We meet back in the bar, restored and fully perpendicular, for a further pair of pints, and a brace of excellent local pork chops in cider sauce.

Tags: england, history, stone-age, hiking, travel