tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246362582024-03-13T21:20:08.022-07:00Argon's AwarenessArgonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-13536520432443885742017-12-22T17:59:00.000-08:002019-07-22T21:51:05.188-07:00Progress on the Hero's Journey<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Now that the semester is over, I wanted to detail the differences between what actually happened and what I devised to happen when I came up with the plot for my auto-biography that I had wrote about the <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2017/05/plots-coalescing.html" target="_blank">plan for the first step</a> in starting the Kickstarter project last May, there is a difference between how you might envision events going for a story, but that isn't usually how they work out in practice. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Plus the DVD that I worked on most of last July and August got a different reception than I had hoped for, even with all the examples that I put in it.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>And even when I put it on YouTube to made it easier to see, it was difficult to get people to pay attention to it. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Drama 8 class at Butte has been an adventure with steps along the path of the Hero's Journey as part of the auto-biography that I'm going to write called Achieving Communion. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I've been documenting a lot of it with video that I've recorded in class and journals that I can use as video logs that describe thoughts along the way for notes to show the progress along the path and the steps I've taken follow the stages of the Hero's Journey.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>There were things that I didn't expect before I took the class, the most surprising was how little time I had to talk to the other students about the project, ten minutes or less before class and people quickly left after for places they had to go. It was barely enough to get their attention and not enough to keep it to explain the idea for the video. I had trouble with the DVD player taking so long to load and even when I had a group of people watching it, I ran out of time when Jesse came in to start the class that they didn't get a chance to absorb the ideas in the DVD.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But when Jesse mentioned the Kickstarter project twice in class it helped a lot to give it some legitimacy among the students and made it a lot easier for me the approach them with the offer to join in. Even if he did make a couple of mistakes like on my midterm exam, he had to correct one answer that marked as wrong which was found to be an error that gave me a perfect score on the test because I had watched all the recordings that I had made of the class. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The other mistake was that he promised to give a discount for the students in the class on tickets to the Drama Departments play and that he would train the ticket takers to accept half off the price of one ticket if we brought someone to see it. But when I got there and asked for the discount on Mom's ticket they were confused and had to go ask Jesse about it, so he didn't train them well enough as he had promised.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Jesse did give some helpful instructions and great advice which allowed me to overcome my fears to get me through performing the monologue. By continuing to focus on deep breathing to relax and meditation to bring yourself back to the present moment, it certainly was a huge asset since in the pressure of doing it live in front of an audience, it was easy to forget to breathe and the deep breathing did calm the nerves.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>But the biggest problem I had was trying to project my voice loud enough for all the audience to hear, because that took a lot of breath to do, and I had to keep pausing in order to catch my breath. Then about halfway through, I forgot some of my lines from lack of oxygen and had to take some very long pauses to remember them again. Hopefully I was able to be funny and get the joke about a time machine and a Civil War hooker across.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The advice that Jesse gave also helped with my fear of rejection and asking the people in the class for their attention. I did keep asking myself during the semester "What would a Hero do in this situation?" especially when I got discouraged by the students turning me down and it help give me more determination to keep trying because I knew a Hero would never just give up. That transformation is the essence of moving through the stages of the Hero's Journey and the overcoming of fears to expand the Heroes abilities from facing challenges.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>That determination also helped me to take the steps of putting up flyers around the Art building where the students could see them and get their attention so they might get interested in the project</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />Even so I never did get the hang of doing improv exercises because practicing before hand I could barely handle, but coming up with an idea on the fly was beyond me. When in the Add and Subtract exercise, the only thing I could come up with was chanting at a protest rally for the first time and a preacher doing a sermon to his flock for the second time.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The other thing that I didn't expect when I took the class was a massive drop in my testosterone levels that was a major obstacle to overcome, but being aware of what the symptoms of depression, lack of energy and pain in my extremities was caused by helped some with my attitude for dealing with it, even if it didn't lessen any of the symptoms. Finally taking large doses of Ginko Biloba did a lot balance out the hormone levels and help my brain function better.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br />But the hardest part of the whole class was having to memorize lines and the Ginko only helped slightly with that. But I kept at it with the determination of a Hero to face the challenge of remembering the lines and that did encourage me to succeed. When we were rehearsing for the final scene, the releasing of tension by our mistakes was the funniest and most enjoyable part.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>I liked the final scene more compared to my monologue because it had more action than just telling a joke, since I had to put more passion and desperation in it from being hunted and begging to die a less painful death, which was a more satisfying performance.</b></span></span><br />
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seekers."</i> that makes it the perfect location for shooting episodes of My Fair Guru with ten actors attending all the <a href="http://www.esalen.org/learn/workshops/all" target="_blank">workshops </a> to show the progress they make in growth and development in Stages, States, Levels and Lines of the AQAL Map.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So the area around Big Sur is the best way to show how all the actors can practice the elements that make up <a href="http://www.integral-life-practice.com/look-inside/ilp-preview/" target="_blank">Integral Life Practice</a> because it allows for all the modules to be pursued. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That shows the need for context because a map of California would be too general and won't give the details of how to find your way around Yosemite and a map of only Curry Village is too specific to show what is outside of it's range to find anything else. In every facet of perception like <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z44D4i4rCzdkxaNXVzTHlMYzQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">getting information from shadows,</a> the amount of context is crucial because that knowledge and how to apply it will be the difference between wisdom and mistakes </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">People could tell you all they want about the double rainbows at Vernal Falls and even show video but that's not nearly the same as experiencing it yourself. I remember when I first saw them and my reaction was profound even if it wasn't as extreme as some others.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In addition to the examples of things not being only one thing, I can use the fish ladder as an example of the Hero's Journey that the fish take from the hatchery to the ocean and back through all the stages and challenges they face that can be described by the formulas in the the Hero's Journey that I can illustrate in the video. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has a lot better chance to have a positive impact on people with better actor than I was even with that good of a background. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So the thing is that if I can convince at least one actor to help me with the video then they can do a much better job to convince everyone else. Especially because it's a lot more difficult to convince strangers on the internet to put their money into something than it is to convince someone that you've gotten to know in person to put some time and effort into help with a project.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That's where the branches in the plot come in when the project is funded, would the actor be willing to go on to perform in the next phase of shooting on locations at Yosemite, Big Sur and Vasquez Rocks? Also when there is more money to hire more qualified actors should that be considered instead? What would be the amount of dedication of those who were in it from the start? Would that be of more benefit to the project than the qualifications and experience of professional actors?</span></b></span>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-28022550774667333032017-05-10T12:32:00.002-07:002017-08-23T21:54:53.643-07:00Plots Coalescing<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> After writing that <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2007/12/tremendous-odds-of-fulfilling-epic-of.html" target="_blank">journal on 12/21/2007</a> almost a decade ago, I think I finally worked out how the plot fits together for the end of the auto biographical trilogy called Achieving Communion. At the end of the second part, called Attempting Symmetry, I'll have the Naked Angel finished and ready to be put into practice.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then I'll enroll in an acting class at Butte College to find a student that is willing to help me film the video for the Kickstarter and Indegogo campaigns to raise the money to produce the movies, reality TV shows and video games. Krys took the Principles of Acting class when we were both going to Butte and she told me all about the assignments and she met someone there that became her friend outside of the class. Because of the nature of the class in cooperating on acting in scenes together it should be easy to get a chance to explain the opportunity to make a video with others in the class.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I could get to know the students for a while before finding out if any of them would be willing to help me with the video. I could show my business card and use the DVD I made for The Writer's Nightmare and Affirmations with Animation as examples to show any of the students of the kind of work I do and a DVD of video clips to illustrate the idea for the Naked Angel. Using <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z44D4i4rCzX2xidFQ0SXM0NUU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">text animation</a> to introduce the problems I had with the other DVD and the need to raise money to get better production quality so he first clip would be to show how <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z44D4i4rCzeWZQM0NrSUNCZlU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">kickstarter </a>works to raise money from crowdfunding and why a video is necessary </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Using video clips from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z44D4i4rCzTHJwODlMNTNFOVk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Legally Blonde</a> would illustrate an example of Elle Woods showing how wrong that idea is and prove that concept of people being more than one thing at a time, so there are many more options than only binary. Legally Blonde also shows the transformation of Elle Woods from experiencing her growth from a sorority sister that put marriage to the wrong guy as a priority for herself to a lawyer that put serving justice as a priority for others that will help introduce the concept of the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Z44D4i4rCzN2E4dTUyTGJNd0E/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Heroes journey</a> to transcend to a larger identity and include more depth from growth.</span></b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Putting efforts into developing my own style that I'm happy with, doesn't always coincide with what others might find valuable. I know some of my work appeals to at least some people that I've heard from, so <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2007/12/at-least-i-do-have-some-fans-out-there.html" target="_blank">I have some fans out there</a> but my a lot of my attempts to spread my art to an audience online don't seem to be reaching enough of those that could be fans.</span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">So now that Mom has moved to Paradise, I figured that could be an opportunity to share our interest in art together and also to try and expand the audience for both of us. I looked up the <a href="http://www.paradise-art-center.com/" target="_blank">Paradise Art Center </a>and we joined. They have a <a href="http://www.paradise-art-center.com/prospectus-membersshow2014.pdf" target="_blank">members show</a> in September so I had a couple of <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/underhood.844121777" target="_blank">posters</a> <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/owbday.1340807959" target="_blank">printed</a> at Cafe Press to display there. </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>Unfortunately the costs of getting them printed is not worth selling them directly through the Paradise Art Center so, t</b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">he idea is to show examples of my work to more people so that once they are exposed to the kind of art that I do they will be interested in seeing more. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">I left a bunch of my business cards there with my contact info and address to this blog so people can order prints from Cafe Press and that way the manufacturing and shipping costs are part of the price instead of having to cover it by retail which is a lot more inefficient. It also gives people a much wider range of options than buying them directly from the gallery since Cafe Press offers many more products to print the designs on. Plus that way I can do custom designs to order, if they tell me what kinds of ideas they have in mind.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>After all that worked out well for the lady who wanted <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/powerpeons.708017026" target="_blank">bumper stickers</a>, <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/powerpeons.708564029" target="_blank">yard signs</a> and <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/powerpeons.799074951" target="_blank">t-shirts</a> custom designed because I was able to design just what she wanted then it was easily produced and delivered to her</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b>I'm not sure what kind of audience that the Paradise Art Center has, but hopefully it can get more people talking about my art and maybe more chances for networking with artists. At the very least Mom and I can share getting more exposed to the art scene there and having fun interacting with the artists there.</b></span></span>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-21329737530074934842012-01-02T14:49:00.004-08:002012-03-31T11:44:11.946-07:00A new direction in Reality TV shows<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Maybe a better way to get people interested and spread the idea of ILP to the masses would be to get a show TV about it. That way I could get them to start off studying the background of Integral Life Practice and make the ideas popular for more people to follow while highlighting the need to practice and apply the ideas to fully grasp them.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YV4KJ47G00s" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">In order to show the benefits of Sangha and the effects that community has with the lower quadrants, I could have a "Reality TV Show" with a group of actors called "Can you become Wiser than a Guru?" They could go and take classes in Integral Transformative Practice at Esalen Institute in Big Sur and I could record their progress to show how much the lessons they practice affect their stages of development and give prizes for the amounts they all grow in levels, lines and states of consciousness. That follows the My Fair Lady" theme of the film as well to show the progress in growth.<br /></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/zqi0DwNLJdM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Instead of having them compete against each other, I could have incentives to cooperate with group benefiting as each member makes progress like prizes for the all of them as the individual grows and prizes for the most growth for the group overall. That gives more of a drama on the positive side of accomplishing goal with teamwork and sharing with a community that uses the different talents of it's people to achieve their tasks to find their path.<br /></span></strong><br /><iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/43ov0Qr9kiA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">As part of the practices, the contestants could have yoga and <a href="http://rossanthony.com/essays/zensurf.shtml">surfing classes</a> to teach the lessons of balance, harmony with nature and connecting with the rhythms of life. That could teach them the lessons of being able to maintain that unstable state as more than just a "peak experience" and expand it into a "plateau experience" that can be extended longer than the ride of a wave.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><em>"Or, perhaps the answer is only with them when they're riding -- balanced upon the waves. Like electricity through copper wire. Disconnected from the source of power, the copper has no memory of the current. But, atop the perfect wave, the surfer connects the circuit, perfectly balanced with nature, with God, with creation, the wind, the sea, even the fish. Solid state technology. Feet to board, board to waves, a flawless connection. A strong current, uncountable volts, ungaugeable amperage. Bliss, peace, nirvana, rushes through the surfer like a melody through the holes of a flute, along the frets of a guitar, upon the vocal chords in the larynx. But is gone when the vibrations stop. On the shore, the surfer is left with no verbal or written way to explain the happening, the event. He or she struggles hopelessly inventing words like, gnarly, tubular</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">They've obtained nirvana, but it isn't a stable state. In fact it is the exact nature of nirvana to be unstable. Nirvana is the nonexistent border between two other stable modes. It doesn't exist while you're standing in either of the modes, you have to have one foot in each. Nirvana isn't flying, it isn't the clouds, it isn't the plane, it's the turbulence. It's the yellow circle of the traffic light. Only, you have to remove it from the signal. Then let speeding traffic decide when the green will turn to red -- that's nirvana. It's not stable by nature. Achieving nirvana MEANS a skilled flirt with disaster. Surfers know that. Surfers know true enlightenment."</em></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-54700289435141293912009-06-09T15:28:00.000-07:002009-06-27T19:59:28.728-07:00Applying the Hero's Journey to the Treasure Hunt<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I was reading about the mythic structure of "Hero's Journey" so that I could apply it to the "Hunt for the Chakra Jewels" DVD to try and make the story behind the treasure hunt more compelling. I got a good guide about how to apply the archtypes and motivations from a book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Writers-Journey-Mythic-Structure-3rd/dp/193290736X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244585626&sr=1-1">"The Writer's Journey"</a> with tips about putting the stages of the journey into 3 Acts and how to put the high points of the stages into dramatic plot points to sustain interest throughout the 3 Acts. That is a better framework to making the story more cohesive throughout all the stages of the Hunt. Also making the puzzles and clues relate better to the story if they are put into parts of the journey.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLLQwg1YZNKDodDI42zbuUtKnyNKp-1lqglSWx8YDMQbNnUJBGcqoUVkl8cB70E7zz2OcD-QxXhkkTG7lO58AzgWpSYuOSwm18ku7jkLcB_e49WojzaKEbr0aE_amCysXAT36/s1600-h/3ActJourney.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijLLQwg1YZNKDodDI42zbuUtKnyNKp-1lqglSWx8YDMQbNnUJBGcqoUVkl8cB70E7zz2OcD-QxXhkkTG7lO58AzgWpSYuOSwm18ku7jkLcB_e49WojzaKEbr0aE_amCysXAT36/s400/3ActJourney.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349700289106143042" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I figured I could use the archtype of the Herald as the representative of the Gamemaster and that would be a better name for character. So that the 1st Act would be the stage of "The Call to Adventure" and the hook to get the people that bought the DVD to identify with the cause of embarking on the quest and interested enough with the story to put some effort into solving the puzzles.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8H2VBEjIeZek21KoMF1Nq5n9cJIlzZ8dq8kHfyg5Qn4UCx9y664CC2UUMnVdpiS5SnQR0kCBx-8XDT7d1XyuImI3_36HrECMPLkGnvmi46ETe0srRBR1nipput69r3Fgdr_x/s1600-h/HeroArchetypes.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz8H2VBEjIeZek21KoMF1Nq5n9cJIlzZ8dq8kHfyg5Qn4UCx9y664CC2UUMnVdpiS5SnQR0kCBx-8XDT7d1XyuImI3_36HrECMPLkGnvmi46ETe0srRBR1nipput69r3Fgdr_x/s400/HeroArchetypes.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349847790940367922" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I can use the Angel of Death in the Tarot Card as a archtype of The Shadow to show the fears and hestitations to the Hero would have to take up the challenges to clarify the stakes of trying to transcend Death. The hazards of leaving the Ordinary World and entering the Special World with all the rewards to be earned making the effort worthwhile.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT5FCXYPXS5bGTHToI0IrZiETrg8aNiIUY_LFadGxdEVmSeocfYE7uYwanS1AKuE5C_FS0ZJdbKIeniMRzZFWW-ul83qOQag8ZqystEY9J10_jW7y2zKBqXHVgAHN-slwcMfC/s1600-h/JourneyCircle.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT5FCXYPXS5bGTHToI0IrZiETrg8aNiIUY_LFadGxdEVmSeocfYE7uYwanS1AKuE5C_FS0ZJdbKIeniMRzZFWW-ul83qOQag8ZqystEY9J10_jW7y2zKBqXHVgAHN-slwcMfC/s400/JourneyCircle.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349849650330682322" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I could also use The Empress Tarot card as an archtype of the Ally to aid the Heroes that buy the DVD to impart gifts that help them on their quest and the Justice Tarot card as a Mentor to give them training in the rules of the Special World of the treasure hunt. That will help sustain the interest over the length of the hunt since it will maintain the dramatic tension over the 3 Acts because the hunt will include all the stages of the journey when I give all the characters and archtypes an arc of progress to follow</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Nd9X3dapKtDdsSf6OO0lwkrByoW7UzkN-A6gk0hbfXlxlfmUE5HepJFVa_wB4HibpffoRsVoZZNWC2VYlFOthvB_yhQem3MLX2-rcHe1EaBFXykEyWs8qH47pvzlkOOh2t68/s1600-h/CharacterArc.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 333px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9Nd9X3dapKtDdsSf6OO0lwkrByoW7UzkN-A6gk0hbfXlxlfmUE5HepJFVa_wB4HibpffoRsVoZZNWC2VYlFOthvB_yhQem3MLX2-rcHe1EaBFXykEyWs8qH47pvzlkOOh2t68/s400/CharacterArc.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349850072228323730" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I can put the stages of Act I on the DVD, Act II in the search for the Keys and Act III opening the locks and finding the prizes. The DVD will include the stage "The Call to Adventure" then the webpage with the chakras clues will include "The Refusal of the Call" stage and buying the stuff at CafePress will be the "Crossing of the First Threshold" stage with the Temperance as the Shapeshifter and the Star Tarot card as the Trickster archtypes providing the roles of the Threshold Guardian as tests to show commitment to the quest</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/3004491/hunt_journey_blog.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> </embed><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">The book goes into some detail about the origin, purpose and value of cathersis that is what I think is important to give the treasure hunt a more compelling purpose than just winning the prizes</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-79775207414604383392009-05-22T21:35:00.000-07:002009-06-18T15:34:54.007-07:00The Benefits of shifting to Integral Ethics<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">With the current economic crisis finally showing the failure of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7upG01-XWbY">"greed is good"</a> strategy of only focusing on the bottom line for short term profit while ignoring the responsibilities of more than selfish interests. Perhaps it is time for more people to embrace a more efficient ehtical system that includes more options in order to get the economy working again with a lot more long term stability.<br /><br />Hopefully this will point out how inept and mistaken the strategies of being selfish are and the consequences of the disease of <a href="http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j22/debold.asp?pf=1">Boomeritis</a> when people only focuse on one side of the situation and forget the balance of the other.<br /><br />For example in the field of Health Care, when HMOs focus only on the profits of the business then services they are supposed to provide suffer from neglect in quality for their customers because they are only concerned with the least cost, not the value the the customers are getting.<br /><br />The people on the business side get rich, but the customers undergo substandard service which impacts their health and so the HMO become parasites that feed off the host of their customers but ultimately kills them to move on to others.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qFh-_18PQPQ&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qFh-_18PQPQ&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">In the practice of considering only one side of just Depth, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borg_(Star_Trek)">The Borg</a> are the ultimate facists since they oppress all holons below them and adapt them to serve their purposes. The Borg take pathological hierachies to an extreme because they are too arrogant to allow themselves to be part of another whole, they only want to be just a whole period. They don't consider anything to be larger than themselves or share in the communion with fellow holons in the hierachy, they just want to dominate them with their own agency. The Borg focus on only power replaces communion, domination replaces communication and oppression replaces reciprocity. Any attempt at balance that doesn't fit their narrow idea of perfection is considered irrelevant.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/I7hWqWUq53I&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I7hWqWUq53I&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I think a good way to get people interested in the video game would be to highlight the benefits of applying the Integral Life Practices to everyday situations. By having exercises, puzzles and quests to motivate the players to explore the Basic Moral Intuition by figuring out how to implement different degrees of the Depth and Span of Holons, it will give the practice in going beyond the usual reality tunnels of black and white choices to give them experience in choosing between more options.<br /><br />In the MMORPG they could start out as holons at low level of matter like atoms and develope their characters through each successive level of complexity making choices of the 4 drives of holons along the way then as instincts of life and different degrees of Depth and Span are developed they could make choices based on the Basic Moral Intuition to practice what they are like at each level of perspective. So that when the more inclusive levels of consiousness and greater depth are achived they have more and more options of Depth and Span to choose from.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFdp3gPq9pg&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zFdp3gPq9pg&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />Ken Wilber’s Twenty Tenets are: <br /><br />1. Reality is not composed of things or processes, but of holons, which are wholes that are simultaneously parts.<br />2. Holons display four fundamental capacities:<br />a. self-preservation (agency)<br />b. self-adaptation (communion)<br />c. self-transcendence<br />d. self-dissolution<br />3. Holons emerge.<br />4. Holons emerge holarchically.<br />5. Each holon transcends and includes its predecessors.<br />6. The lower sets the possibilities of the higher; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower.<br />7. The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises determines whether it is ‘shallow’ or ‘deep;’ and the number of holons on any given level we shall call its ‘span.’<br />8. Each successive level of evolution produces greater depth and less span.<br />9. Destroy any type of holon, and you will destroy all of the holons above it and none of the holons below it.<br />10. Holarchies co-evolve. The micro is always within the macro (all agency is agency in communion).<br />11. The micro is in relational exchange with macro at all levels of its depth.<br />12. Evolution has directionality:<br />a. increasing complexity.<br />b. increasing differentiation/integration.<br />c. increasing organization/structuration.<br />d. increasing relative autonomy.<br />e. increasing telos.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VREx16JjpTTiyfg3udM3_FmYXRy8OLo2R-iYeTeEgcpIcfvFZwisrQomGidsV6O0P6A5cglIeySHaMjzUNPystF-UsB-Tn0KbWIGpPGPHZQeTKIw_HgUtsjfTgCi6tggIbqY/s1600-h/greatnestofbeing.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7VREx16JjpTTiyfg3udM3_FmYXRy8OLo2R-iYeTeEgcpIcfvFZwisrQomGidsV6O0P6A5cglIeySHaMjzUNPystF-UsB-Tn0KbWIGpPGPHZQeTKIw_HgUtsjfTgCi6tggIbqY/s400/greatnestofbeing.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324615320755724322" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />According to Wilber, the Twenty Tenets are an attempt to summarize and draw some basic conclusions from dynamic systems theory and the contemporary evolutionary sciences. Calling them "tendencies of evolution" or "propensities of manifestation," the Twenty Tenets operate throughout the three great domains of evolution: the physiosphere, the biosphere, and the noosphere (or matter, life, and mind). <br /><br />In his presentation, Leonard pointed out that what is both significant and striking about Wilber’s Twenty Tenets is that they describe regularities stretching from the big bang all the way up to exalted spiritual states of consciousness in humans. Here are some are some of the highlights: <br /><br />Basic Terms <br /><br />Wilber uses the terms "holons" and "holarchy" throughout the Twenty Tenets. The author of The Ghost in the Machine (1976) Arthur Koestler originally coined the term "holon" to refer to that which is a whole in one context but simultaneously a part in another. For example, the word "bark" is a whole because by itself it has a recognizable and independent meaning. However, in the sentence "the bark of a dog" the word "bark" has a context-specific meaning, which would be different in a separate context, such as "the bark on a tree." The word "bark" thus can be both a whole by itself and a part within the larger context of a sentence. "Holarchy" refers to the embedded nature of holons. For example, the whole sentence "the bark of a dog scared me" can simultaneously be part of a yet larger whole, such as a paragraph. And, in turn, the paragraph can be part of an essay, and so forth. <br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEf8nYabQFrUz5pK_oduWu9qL3ht_GCx8uV_TaDXRl7l5aRljs4KNpcAcTR-smip7ro1Ht32PgpdMiVDC-KHoKmvswWI4UC_qc6Bcf5EZ5AFFiykO2jD1TWMWrJY4qrshZBSeS/s1600-h/Holons.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 397px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEf8nYabQFrUz5pK_oduWu9qL3ht_GCx8uV_TaDXRl7l5aRljs4KNpcAcTR-smip7ro1Ht32PgpdMiVDC-KHoKmvswWI4UC_qc6Bcf5EZ5AFFiykO2jD1TWMWrJY4qrshZBSeS/s400/Holons.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324615267117712802" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />Tenet 1 <br /><br />Reality is not composed of things or processes, but of holons, which are wholes that are simultaneously parts of other wholes with no upward or downward limit. Since reality is not composed of wholes nor of parts, but of whole/parts, then this approach undercuts the old argument between atomism (all things are fundamentally isolated individual wholes that interact by chance) and wholism (all things are merely strands in a larger web). For Wilber, both of these views by themselves are incorrect. This approach also undercuts the argument the materialists and idealists. Reality is not composed of sub-atomic particles (materialism) nor is it composed of ideas, symbols, or thoughts (idealism). It is composed of holons. According to Wilber, holons can be expressed in material, spiritual, or purely abstract terms. Take mathematics, for example. The various paradoxes that have arisen in Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem take us into an irreversible, ever-expanding, no upper limit mathematical universe. The totality of mathematical sets can’t be completely determined. If they could be, we could take that a set and continue to generate still larger sets from it. Sets are arranged in a transfinite hierarchy. In mathematics, what we see as today’s wholes may very well become tomorrow’s parts. <br /><br />Tenets 2 a,b,c,d <br /><br />2 a: Self-preservation (or agency). A hydrogen atom in a suitable context can keep on being a hydrogen atom. It displays self-preservation in the simple sense of maintaining identity or agency across time. And maybe that is quite remarkable when you think about it. A holon in a living context is an even more remarkable, sophisticated agency. The term autopoiesis refers to how a holon maintains its pattern or structure even as its material components are exchanged. It assimilates the environment to itself. In short, holons are defined not by the stuff of which they are made but by the pattern they display. <br /><br />2 b: Self-adaptation (or communion). A holon functions not only as a self-preserving whole but also as a part of a larger whole. The partness aspect of a holon is displayed by its capacity to accommodate, to register other holons, to fit into its existing environment. Even electrons accommodate themselves, for example, to the number of other electrons in an orbital shell. This is not to imply that taboo word "intentionality." It is just the capacity to react to the surrounding environment. So, think of these two opposing tendencies—agency and communion: agency as the self-preserving, self-asserting tendency which expresses wholeness and relative autonomy; and communion as the participatory boding, joining tendency which expresses partness in relationship to something larger. An excess of either tendency can deform or kill a holon, whether the growth of a plant or of the patriarchy. <br /><br />2 c: Self-transcendence. When an oxygen atom and two hydrogen atoms are brought together under suitable conditions, a new and in some way unprecedented holon emerges. This is not just a communion, adaptation, or association. It is a transformation resulting in something novel and emergent. This is what Whitehead calls creativity, the category necessary to describe any other category. This transcendence can result in small or quite large steps in organic evolution in what is called grade. Here, Darwinian gradualism is replaced by Simpson’s quantum evolution, Eldridge and Gould’s punctuated equilibrium, and Michael Murphy’s evolutionary transcendence. In any case, self-transcendence means nothing more or nothing less than that the universe has an intrinsic capacity to go beyond what came before. <br /><br />2d: Self-dissolution. Holons that are built up through vertical self-transcendence can also break down. When holons dissolve or become unglued, they tend to so along the same vertical sequence along which they were built up. <br /><br />Leonard pointed out that there is a constant tension among the above four tendencies. For example, helium may be called inert, but a different description is that helium does not want to join into communion (tenet 2b) with other elements. <br /><br />Tenet 3 <br /><br />Holons emerge. Owing to the self-transcendent capacity of holons, new holons emerge. Sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, polymers, cells, and so on, the emergent holon is in some sense novel. They possess properties and qualities that can’t be strictly and totally deduced from their components, and therefore they and their descriptions can’t be reduced without remainder to their component parts. Emergence always means indeterminacy is sewn into the very fabric of the universe. Quoting from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (p. 47) Leonard read, <br /><br />Emergence is neither a rare nor an isolated phenomenon. As Varela, Thompson, and Rosch summarize the available evidence: "It is clear that emergent properties have been found across all domains—vortices and lasers, chemical oscillations, genetic networks, developmental patterns, population genetics, immune networks, ecology, and geophysics. What all these diverse phenomena have in common is that in each case a network gives rise to new properties. . . . The emergence of global patterns or configurations in systems of interacting elements is neither an oddity of isolated cases nor unique to [special] systems. In fact, it seems difficult for any densely connected aggregate to escape emergent properties." (Francisco Varela, et. al., The Embodied Mind, pp. 88-90.) <br /><br />Tenet 4 <br /><br />Holons emerge holarchically. That is, hierarchically. That is, as a series of increasing whole/parts. Organisms contain cells but not vice versa. Cells contain molecules but not vice versa. Molecules contain atoms but not vice versa. That "not vice versa" at each stage is what constitutes unavoidable asymmetry and hierarchy/holarchy. Each deeper or higher holon embraces its junior predecessors and then adds its own new and more encompassing pattern or holon. This is Whitehead’s famous dictum, "the many become one and are increased by one." Quoting from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality (p. 49) Leonard read, <br /><br />Bertalanffy put it very bluntly: "Reality, in the modern conception, appears as a tremendous hierarchical order of organized entities, leading, in a superposition of many levels, from physical and chemical to biological and sociological systems. Such hierarchical structure and combination into systems of ever higher order, is characteristic of reality as a whole and is of fundamental importance especially in biology, psychology and sociology." (Ludwig Bertalanffy, General Systems Theory, pp. 74, 87.) <br /><br />It is this idea of hierarchy and holarchy that has put Wilber at odds with the deep ecologists and ecofeminists. <br /><br />Tenet 5 <br /><br />Each emergent holon transcends but includes its predecessors. Each newly emergent holon preserves the previous holons themselves but negates their separateness or isolatedness. As Hegel said, "to supercede is at once to preserve and negate." In other words, all the lower is in the higher but not all the higher is in the lower. Hydrogen atoms are in the water molecule but the water molecule is not in the atom. We might say the water molecule pervades or permeates the atom but it isn’t actually in it. Just as all of the word is in the sentence but not all the sentence is in the word. The higher holon preserves the lower, but it does somehow limit freedom. Once in a sentence a word can’t take on alternative meaning. Once in a molecule the hydrogen atom can’t go flying around in space and become part of a proto-galaxy. <br /><br />Tenet 6 <br /><br />The lower sets the possibilities of the higher; the higher sets the probabilities of the lower. Even though the higher goes beyond the lower level, it does not violate the law or pattern of the lower level. It can’t be reduced to the lower level or determined by the lower level, but neither can it ignore the lower level. Your body follows the laws of gravity. Your mind follows other laws, such as those of symbolic communication and linguistic syntax. But if your body falls off a cliff, your mind goes with it. Clearly, the lower sets the possibility of a large framework within which the higher has to operate, but to which it is not confined. As for the higher restricting the possibility of the lower, here is how Sheldrake puts it (Quoted from Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, p.55), <br /><br />At every level, the fields of the holons are probabilistic, and the material processes within the holon are somewhat random or indeterminate. Higher-level fields may act upon the fields of lower level holons in such a way that their probability structures are modified. This can be thought of in terms of a restriction of their indeterminism: out of the many possible patterns of events that could have happened, some now become much more likely to happen as a result of the order imposed by the higher-level field. This field organizes and patterns the indeterminism that would be shown by the lower-level holons in isolation. (Rupert Sheldrake, The Presence of the Past, pp. 120-121.) <br /><br />Tenet 7 <br /><br />The number of levels which a hierarchy comprises determines whether it is ‘shallow’ or ‘deep;’ and the number of holons on any given level we shall call its ‘span.’ Let us arbitrarily assign atoms a depth of 3 (since they contain components of at least 2 previous levels). Let us imagine a time in the early universe when there were only atoms and no molecules. In that case, we can say that atoms have a small depth but an enormous span stretching through the existent universe. Thus depth equals 3 and span equals zillions. When molecules first emerged, they had a depth of 4, but initially a very small span. When there is greater vertical dimension to the holon, then there is greater depth to that holon. <br /><br />Tenet 8 <br /><br />Each successive level of evolution produces greater depth and less span. The greater the depth of a holon, the more precarious its situation. Since its existence depends on the existence of a series of other holons internal to it, and since the lower holons are components of the higher, there can’t be more number of the higher than there are number of components. The number of water molecules will always be less than the hydrogen and oxygen atoms in the universe. The number of cells in the universe will always be less than the number of molecules in the universe. Also, the span of mental holons is much less than the span of living holons. This is called the pyramid of development. Addition 1 to Tenet 8: The greater the depth of a holon, the greater its degree of consciousness. In the case of the simplest holons, Wilber is not referring to consciousness as humans experience it, but is following the lead of major theorists, such as Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Whitehead, Aurobindo, and Schelling, who explicitly recognize the "within" of the universe. Whithead’s prehension, for example, is a sort of rudimentary consciousness. This extends all the way up to high spiritual states, and this makes it an extremely ambitious scheme. One that can’t be proven by our present methods of science. <br /><br />Tenet 9 <br /><br />Destroy any type of holon, and you will destroy all of the holons above it and none of the holons below it. This is an important tenet because it provides a simple test as to where in the holarchy any holon stands. Let’s again take our familiar holistic sequence, sub-atomic particles, atoms, molecules, cells, and so on. Here each member includes its predecessor(s) but not vice versa. And thus each successive number is indeed more encompassing or thus more holistic. If we destroyed, for example, all the molecules in the universe, we would also destroy all the cells in the universe—all the holons above molecules. But atoms and subatomic particles would or could still exist. None of the lower holons would have to cease existing. For this tenet, Wilber introduces two words representing two qualities that operate in an inverse relationship: fundamental and significant. The more fundamental a holon is, the less significant it is and vice versa. That is, the less depth a holon has, the more fundamental it is to the cosmos, because it serves as a component to so many other holons. Atoms, for example, are very fundamental because molecules, cells, organisms, life, and mind, and higher states, all depend on them. At the same time, the less depth a holon has the less significant it is to the cosmos because it embraces as its own component so little of the cosmos. Primates, as a counter example, are not very fundamental holons because neither atoms nor molecules depend upon them, but they are very significant because they represent and contain atoms, molecules, and cells. They signify more of the cosmos. <br /><br />Tenet 10 <br /><br />Holarchies co-evolve. Holons don’t evolve alone, because there are no alone holons (there are only fields within fields within fields). This principle is often referred to as "co-evolution," which simply means that the "unit" of evolution is not an isolated holon but a holon plus its inseparable environment. Even though an individual holon exists inseparably within its social environment, its defining factor is its own particular form or pattern. To the degree that we can reasonably recognize that pattern, we will refer to an individual holon. Its environment we will call the social holon. <br /><br />Tenet 11 <br /><br />The micro is in relational exchange with macro at all levels of its depth. Take a human being as an example using the three levels of matter, life, and mind. All these levels maintain their own existence through a network of relational exchanges with holons at the same depth in the environment. The physical body exists in a system of relational exchanges with other physical bodies in terms of gravitation, material forces, energies, light, water, and so on. The human race reproduces itself physically through food production and consumption. Humanity reproduces itself biologically through emotional-sexual relations organized by family and appropriate social environment and depends on a whole network of other biological systems. Finally, human beings reproduce themselves mentally through exchanges with cultural and symbolic environments, the very essence of which is the relational exchange of symbols with other symbol exchangers. In short, as holons evolve, each layer of depth continues to exist and depend upon a network of relationships with other holons at the same level of structure and organization. <br /><br />Tenets 12 a,b,c,d,e <br /><br />At this point in his presentation Leonard opened up the floor to the other participants for questions and conversation, and thus he did not cover the last five of the Twenty Tenets in detail. Briefly, those last five are: <br /><br />Evolution has directionality:<br />a. increasing complexity.<br />b. increasing differentiation/integration.<br />c. increasing organization/structuration.<br />d. increasing relative autonomy.<br />e. increasing telos.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-2220069529831593512009-05-14T09:52:00.000-07:002009-06-11T13:14:28.773-07:00Character, Destiny and Adaptation<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I was reading a book on writing and the patterns of the basic plots they have endured throughout the recorded history of stortelling and I was thinking that a lot of them depend on the level of development of the characters. Especially in the plots of revenge like Medea and Fortunado went to extremes because they were consumed by an obsession for revenge, it was those flaws of extremes in their personalties that influenced their destinies.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">But what if they had been able to adapt to the flaws in their characters? Wouldn't that have changed their destiny? By evolving to a more inclusive center of gravity that would change their reactions to circumstances they experienced and altered the course they chose to avoid those extremes of obsession that lead to the extravagant methods of revenge.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">If they had done some breathing excercizes as part of a full time yoga practice then they might have found other ways to deal with the situations they were in that were better than killing her children or emtombing someone inside a brick wall.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yu5Adaqm3NI&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yu5Adaqm3NI&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Including state training in the plots of stories can also show how the characters adapt to the expanding of identity and tell the story from perspective of the ladder which desribes the different levels of development of consciousness, the climber which describes the stages of the personality and the worldview.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">For example the plot of the story could include a character arc that show someone starting at the sensoriphysical stage of the 1st Fulcrum with mostly survival and pleasure needs of naive hedonism and go through situations that make them adapt and evolve their destiny to go the vision logic stage of the 6th Fulcrum with self-actualization needs of individual principles.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XQC2QnO1P4&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1XQC2QnO1P4&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">If the Emotive interactive interface was added to the telling of the story then it could adapt to the mood of the audience and through state training what they identified with could evolve as the characters met the challenges in a more inclusive way from higher developmental levels.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Also in stage training the Emotive interface could assist in the evolution of the growth through each fulcrum since it can interact with the stories and show different outcomes of the phases of each fulcrum to reflect those outcomes as different effects on the stories. A fulcrum is simply a crucial fork in the development road and the self has to deal with the choices at that fork. How it does so in each case decides its subsequent destiny. The self must step up to each rung in the basic ladder and that step is the fulcrum at that stage.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">At each rung in the ladder of the self's growth and development, it has four basic choices about which way to go in its development. Too much or too little of any of these four drives and the self gets into pathological trouble and the types of pathology depend on which of the nine basic rungs the trouble occurs at.<br /><br />1. self-preservation (agency)<br />2. self-adaptation (communion)<br />3. self-transcendence<br />4. self-dissolution</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">So that gives different reactions depending on the mixture of the four drives at any fulcrum to show the changes in the characters and the effects of those different mixtures have on the plot of the stories. Every fulcrum has a 1-2-3 structure. 1 is that the self evolves, developes or steps up to the new level of awareness and it <em>identifies</em> with that level becoming <em>"one"</em> with that level. 2 is that it then begins to move beyond that level, differentiate from it, dis-indentify with it or <em>"transcend"</em> it. And 3 is that it indentifies with the next higher level then centers itself there. The new rung is acutally resting on the previous rungs so they must be included and integrated into the overall expansion. That <em>integration</em> or inclusion is the third and final subphase of that particular fulcrum.<br /><br />Fulcrum 1: Introduction of the physiosphere<br /> Phase 1=self identified with the physical world or fixation causing adualism through lack of body boundary<br /> Phase 2=Differentiates body with other objects or fails to establish a clean and clear boundary.<br /> Phase 3=Integrates the physical self or alienates, dissociates and represses parts of the self.<br /><br />Fulcrum 2: Introduction of the biosphere<br /> Phase 1=emotions identified with those around them or is fixated in narcissism.<br /> Phase 2=differentiates emotions from others or lacks a sense of cohesive self.<br /> Phase 3=integrates the emotional self or alienates and represses parts of them. <br /><br />Fulcrum 3: Introduction of the noosphere and linguistics<br /> Phase 1=the self identifies with images, symbols and concepts or fusion with the labile emotional self<br /> Phase 2= differentiates the mind and the ego from bodily feelings or dissociates impulses into nuerosis <br /> Phase 3= integrates the body or represses strong emotions into mental structures such as the superego <br /> <br /><br /></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-80535056897041854012009-04-06T11:31:00.000-07:002009-04-06T21:30:52.492-07:00Filling out the theme of the treasure hunt DVD<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">The best way to get people interested in the Hunt DVD is to use the theme of a quest like in Dungeon and Dragons and get them involved in the story to follow along while solving puzzles and gathering items they need. I can have a silver robot as a representative of the Game Master call for help to find the chakra jewels, but I need some motivations to get people invested in participating. I can tie in some of the background of <em>The Writer’s Nightmare</em> but it has to be adapted to fit in with the quest in the DVD so it needs some fresh goals.<br /><br />The motivation should probably come from a developmental sequence like a rescue of someone like the damsel in distress or restoring artifacts to rightful places like <em>Indiana Jones,</em> saving the cosmos from danger like in <em/>Tomb Raider</em>. The Illuminati always make great villains so thwarting their evil schemes would be a good incentive to take on the challenge. If it was something like preventing them from gathering objects to dominate the world like the boxes of Orden in the <em>Legend of the Seeker</em> that would be exciting to follow. I liked the way the plot for the <em>National Treasure</em> movies went with all the clues to advance the search so I should include a lot of that in there.<br /><br />Then I need reasons that the chakras and the tarot fit together with the plot of the Illuminati plan of domination and why the jewels were hidden the way they were. I could have the jewels form a dimensional gateway and time portal when put together since they have the piezoelectric effect of photonic crystals that emit Čerenkov radiation. That would be why the Illuminati are after them since they would want access to the means of traveling with them. There is a rich history behind the tarot that I can use as a framework since it has a lot of symbolism and hidden meanings and I can use those symbols as the holders of the jewels they need to gather. <br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1zgp_iDY77w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1zgp_iDY77w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />Crown Chakra Wheel of Fortune<br />Third Eye The Star, The Moon<br />Throat Chakra The Magician <br />Heart Chakra Justice, Temperance <br />Solar Plexus Chakra The Sun <br />Sacral Plexus Chakra The Empress <br />Root Chakra Death<br /><br />The flag of Death, the scepter of the Empress, the sunflowers of the Sun, the sword of Justice, the wand of the Magician, the jugs of the Star are all put together in the Wheel of Fortune to open the portal.<br /><br />Because the charkas represent energy the Illuminati would covet that energy to fuel their takeover bid and the clues to harnessing that energy could be hidden in the Tarot cards. Those clues could lead to the locations of the keys that unlock the secrets of where the jewels are to give them the power they crave.<br /><br />It makes a good sequel to <em>The Writer’s Nightmare</em> since the Illuminati failed to get the gyrotwister so they found another way to get access to the Omniverse and all the other dimensions in order to carry out their plans to immanentize the eschaton and achieve total domination from it.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong>]<br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/oOOhSwVtudM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/oOOhSwVtudM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />In the DVD I could have clues related to the Tarot cards and the chakras with links to merchandise on Café Press that had images of those tarot cards with only one of them being the correct item that had both meaningful code words that followed the plot in the description so unless they bought that item among all the others on that page they wouldn’t get the coordinates for the place on the Universe Cube for the next clues to advance for the key. <br /><br />On the other items I would only have one or the other code to make it harder to find the correct item. That makes it more challenging since the puzzles on the DVD will give codes that relate both to the symbolism of the Tarot cards and finding the right merchandise. Then the coordinates on the merchandise will fit in with the plot of thwarting the goals of the Illuminati and giving the clues to the locations of the keys by showing different stories in the plot summary and places on the Universe Cube. Plus giving the background embedding some of those clues in the comic book and DVD of the Nightmare.<br /><br />I can also use the symbolism of relating the charkas to astrology, yoga and the glands in the body to give meaning to the clues. For example I can have the coordinates on one of the items of merchandise point to the story about Argon and Cyan meeting personifications of the signs of the Zodiac.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxws0gn3a4N988ia7V1BGLnyK1kA9ZMzItnuhGmzg87JBgDuwMVJlJPk_WON31zMCWfXutmsjaE62lYfV8Pbx_tpNIITslNRH-XZT73l6gJHH9_c_Qw_pGm-6cg4RmRGgbCtD6/s1600-h/nodes3.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 216px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxws0gn3a4N988ia7V1BGLnyK1kA9ZMzItnuhGmzg87JBgDuwMVJlJPk_WON31zMCWfXutmsjaE62lYfV8Pbx_tpNIITslNRH-XZT73l6gJHH9_c_Qw_pGm-6cg4RmRGgbCtD6/s400/nodes3.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321799336736783042" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br /> Aries is associated with the Manipura, or solar chakra. Located right under the ribs and traditionally visualized as being yellow, the solar chakra is the center of self-confidence, power and charisma. If those qualities sound familiar to the charming Ram, it's no surprise!<br /><br />Sexy Taurus is all about the Swadisthana, or sexual chakra, which has to do with sociability and, of course, sexuality. Colored orange and located just behind the pelvic bone, this chakra helps make the Bull particularly good at the fine art of seduction.<br /><br />Muladhara, or the root chakra, is Gemini's special spot. Located at the perineum, near the tailbone, the root chakra is red, and is a center for physical energy, control and stability. The Twins, of course, are always seeking stability.<br /><br />Cancer's chakra is the Muladhara, the root chakra. This red-colored energy center, located at the perineum, near the tailbone, is all about physical energy, control and stability -- all issues sensitive Cancer is deeply concerned with.<br /><br />Leo is always one sexy sign, with their fiery spirit and go-get-it attitude. So it's no surprise to anyone who's ever loved a Leo that the Swadisthana, or sexual chakra, is the chakra the Lion is associated with. Colored orange and located just behind the pelvic bone, the Swadisthana is the center for sociability and sexuality<br /><br />Virgo's chakra is the Manipura, or solar chakra. Located right under the ribs and traditionally visualized as being yellow, the solar chakra is the center of self-confidence, power and charisma -- not too surprising for a grounded, powerful sign like Virgo.<br /><br />Libra is associated with Anahata, the heart chakra. The center both for the receptivity to and the giving of love, the heart chakra is located at the center of the chest and is thought of as colored green. Balanced Libra is, naturally, deeply concerned with the processes of giving and receiving love.<br /><br />Visshuda, the throat chakra, is the energy center most strongly associated with Scorpio. Responsible for intuition and contact with other worlds, this deeply mystical spot is colored blue and located at the throat. No wonder passionate Scorpio knows so much, thanks to these intuitive powers.<br /><br />Sagittarius is all about Ajna, the forehead chakra, which is located, as its name suggests, at the forehead and is deep blue. Ajna, responsible for mental ability, logic, intellectual creativity and memory, helps the Archer with their amazing abilities to synthesize information and ideas<br /><br />Capricorn's association is with Ajna, the forehead chakra, located at the forehead. A deep blue, color Ajna is the spot where logic, intellectual creativity and memory are centered, and influence Capricorn's strong mental abilities.<br /><br />Intuitive, other worldly Aquarius is most closely associated with Visshuda, the throat chakra. Responsible for intuition and contact with other worlds, Visshuda is colored blue and located at the throat.<br /><br />Loving Pisces is most closely bound to Anahata, the heart chakra, responsible both for receptivity to love and to the giving of love. The Fish's energy center is located at the center of the chest and is colored green.<br /></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-31025556211301723392009-04-02T10:58:00.000-07:002009-04-03T18:23:33.781-07:00Avoiding the recursive loop in patterns of behavior<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I’m wondering if there is a recursive loop in a pattern of behavior starting in a different form. I burnt my arm from boiling water with spaghetti with some second degree burns and I got some déjà vu all over again since it reminded me of the burn I got from scalding hot spaghetti about this same time last year. <br /><br />The more I thought about it, the signs seem to be pointing to a repeated pattern since I was feeling pretty good from January to April last year with the potential of the job at <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2008/03/things-seem-tobe-looking-up.html">MP3D</a> making my prospects look up then around the time I got that burn it seemed to send me into a downward spiral of suicidal depression in May that I didn’t pull out of until last November.<br /><br />This year I had the lot less of the potential of the <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2009/03/affirmations-beginning-to-pay-off.html">Affirmations DVD</a> but it still was a sign that things were looking up and I got the burn again so I’m thinking that I better take some steps to avoid that downward spiral from happening again since I certainly do not want to go through that hellish nightmare this year.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxUqaZTLYfo&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fxUqaZTLYfo&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />I also had that idea for the <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-saw-story-with-inspiring-new-twist.html">treasure hunt DVD</a> last year at this time but since I had too much pain from the headaches and no energy to put into trying to work out the creative details I put it off until I could troubleshoot the problems and find some solutions.<br /><br />The <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2008/07/integral-troubleshooting.html">Integral Troubleshooting</a> I did last July did seem to work out since I am in much better shape this year and have better methods to make more progress and focus on achieving my goals that have been clarified from the confusion of alternatives I had last year.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d9io3DnT02Q&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d9io3DnT02Q&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />I am making a lot more progress on the creative details of the treasure hunt DVD that I think I'll call <em>"The Hunt for the Chakra Jewels"</em> and I have a lot of the story to go with the challenge of gathering the items for the prizes.<br /><br />I can tie in some of the background of <em>"The Writer’s Nightmare"</em> but it has to be adapted to fit in with the quest in the DVD so it needs some fresh goals. If it was something like preventing them from gathering objects to dominate the world. Then I need reasons that the chakras and the tarot fit together with the plot of the Illuminati plan of domination and why the jewels were hidden the way they were. I could have the jewels form a dimensional gateway and time portal when put together since they have the piezoelectric effect of photonic crystals that emit Čerenkov radiation. That would be why the Illuminati are after them since they would want access to the means of traveling with them. <br /><br />Because the charkas represent energy the Illuminati would covet that energy to fuel their takeover bid and the clues to harnessing that energy could be hidden in the Tarot cards. Those clues could lead to the locations of the keys that unlock the secrets of where the jewels are to give them the power they crave.<br /><br />It makes a good sequel to <em>"The Writer’s Nightmare</em> since the Illuminati failed to get the gyrotwister so they found another way to get access to the Omniverse and all the other dimensions in order to carry out their plans to immanentize the eschaton and achieve total domination from it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Le23uLUX0J8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Le23uLUX0J8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">So maybe I'm getting better at recognizing the signs of the recursive loop since last time it took me 3 times to see the pattern of worldlines repeating when I had that dream before I went to Toronto and then I only remembered scattered fragments that took a long time to put together to figure out what they meant. But still having to go to the extreme of the pain of getting my armed burned to grab my attention enough to show a pattern is still too much to get me to see the significance so I better keep practicing so I can figure out the patterns more quickly with less damage.</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-26087693950020685412009-03-17T15:48:00.000-07:002009-03-21T13:18:52.716-07:00Gathering practices for the video game<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">To start on gathering the practices I need for the video game I should go into the need for state training and stage training. The practices that help becoming fully aware during waking, dreaming, deep sleep and witnessing like meditation, yoga, lucid dreaming, and astral travel aided by methods like self-hypnosis tapes, subliminal persuasion, float tanks and psychedelic drugs to access the wide range of alternative states of consciousness.<br /><br />Also practices for stage training like taking on more perspectives like role playing from different characters in each situation and practicing different relative measurements of supposed constants. Like seeing the how the sun sets on different sides from the West Coast over the ocean and from the East Coast over the land. How different cultures experience sexual morality differently, how even gravity is different with different masses, like 1/6 of the moon compared to the earth and 2 times more on Jupiter than the earth. Or even time is relative depending on the speed of the reference frame of the person observing it, like it takes a second and a half to send signals to the moon and it takes years, decades or millennia for the light of the stars to reach earth so the things we see happening took place far in the past.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/KPZs6OcitOg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/KPZs6OcitOg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />Part of the role playing could be like taking the perspective you have now and comparing that to what you had at a different point in your life. What you would say to yourself at another time in the past to help with their situation or what you ask of yourself in the future to help with your situation now. It definitely depends a lot on the amount of knowledge, awareness and wisdom available to the person and the perspective they have at the point in time that they are, since it is gained over the course of a life then presumably the farther in the future the more you gain. So if you could go back and impart more to yourself you would have an advantage of having more knowledge and more time to use it. <br /><br />Some more good practices to help with broadening the range of perspectives you can take is the ones in Robert Anton Wilson’s books “The New Inquisition, Quantum Psychology” and the DVD “Maybe Logic” about different reality tunnels and getting over the either/or duality and insisting on one static view of reality.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HbTJyp8xUw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5HbTJyp8xUw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />I just have to take those kind of practices and turn them into graphic illustrations and game type scenarios to make them come more alive and have greater impact on the people that play the game so they can absorb them more easily to live them as part of their experience.<br /><br />I like the idea of recurring quests that different characters can try to fulfill and depending on the personality type, stage they are at and what part of the 4 quadrants they are try to do the quest from they could be tailored for that and be different for each part of the quest and they would have experience the quest from more than one stage, quadrant and type to be able to complete it and that would help broaden their perspective. I could also include situations that cover different aspects of the amounts of depth and span to help determine ethical decisions to find the correct path through the quests.<br /></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-24342621276270501492009-03-05T17:09:00.000-08:002009-03-20T17:22:09.456-07:00Affirmations beginning to pay off<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I uploaded some of the affirmations I was using to YouTube as an example of what animation I put behind them and the text flashing to mimic the subliminal persuasion tapes I used to have.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yiWTukW6wco&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yiWTukW6wco&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Then someone named <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SimoneGervais">SimoneGervais</a> commented on the video saying <em>"I love love this vidieo it is so creative"</em> and also <em>"I Love your vidieo I will listen to it every day thank you for posting it thanks"</em> which I thought was nice of them and it was gratifying to know that some of my work was appreciated.</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvQeffSv62Y&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VvQeffSv62Y&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Since there seemed to be a demand for that kind of thing, I made anonther one and uploaded it to YouTube. Then I figured since I used a DVD to watch them that it would be a good idea to be able to sell them to others so I sent a message to SimoneGervais telling her <em>"I have found it very helpful to put them on a full length DVD to play so that way the vocal sound of repeating the phrases add with the text of them flashing once a second goes to both the conscious and the subconscious mind at the same time. Then being able to have the animation play behind that keeps other parts of the mind interested visually so that the affirmations can be absorbed more easily. <br /><br />If you wanted I could make the full length DVD available to you so that you could see all the other animation that I've done to go with the affirmations since it is much to long to just upload."</em> She seemed agree with that idea since she replied, <em>" I would like somthing to help me I am willing to buy the dvd from you just tell me a link I can go by and I would love to purches one"</em> and was pretty enthusiastic about it also saying, <em>"thank you for responding to my message I would I did love the newest vidieo I am saying these things every day trying to get them inside my spirit and I would love a vidieo"</em></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Since I had already done most of the animation for the DVD I was using myself it was easier to finish it up with a more professional DVD menu, cover and disc design.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aLTVWToxfxWKPWZ7devTOzVovYvvsaOF5Kdm7rk3sLR96HTJh0F77oRKkHjAdcDkSnq82vEIvEfJxXTrYXysqfbp0LV6C7tvLpc27WbVeUK1pzG1WqbRtyqANiQfxyYtXg6t/s1600-h/AffirmFront.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4aLTVWToxfxWKPWZ7devTOzVovYvvsaOF5Kdm7rk3sLR96HTJh0F77oRKkHjAdcDkSnq82vEIvEfJxXTrYXysqfbp0LV6C7tvLpc27WbVeUK1pzG1WqbRtyqANiQfxyYtXg6t/s400/AffirmFront.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309890993686171890" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I told her <em>"I will mail them the DVD master copy on Monday but still takes them at least a week to process it before it is ready so I will send you to link when it is available to buy. It is my pleasure to be able to help and I appreciate it very much that you enjoy what I've put into expressing my art."</em></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">It is a good thing that they worked out the bugs in the system and I had gotten used to what the precautions were in making a DVD for them since it took almost 3 months for me to get all the problems with customer service for the <em>Writer's Nightmare</em> to become available for sale on DVD but this one went like clockwork through the mail and production in just a few days. I was impressed that I got the proof copy exactly a week after I mailed it to them and I fulfilled the promise I made to SimoneGervais about when I could provide the <a href="https://www.createspace.com/263190">DVD</a> to her. It does follow the affirmation I put on the DVD of <em>"I keep my commitments to myself and others"</em> so that seems to be helping with the follow through.I had some more trouble than that to get it to show up on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Affirmations-Animations-Produce-Positive-Perspective/dp/B001VH7ATU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1237246410&sr=1-1<br />">Amazon</a> but it finally straightened itself out, so now it has a wide range of distribution.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JI3jkqkjeGI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JI3jkqkjeGI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I made a commercial to promote the DVD and Uploaded it to YouTube to try and generate more interest in it. Hopefully there will be more of a demand for it than just SimoneGervais and also the DVD can get better word of mouth advertising since she can tell her friends about it and write a good review about it on Amazon. It might get better marketing for my other DVD as well. Every bit helps get the ball rolling.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_t5Y9zFjUeM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_t5Y9zFjUeM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Like I put in the description of the DVD <em>As with the concept of the self-fulfilling prophecy, if you think something is going to happen then you go about finding ways to make it happen, although this is usually applied to self-destructive behavior it also is true for changing to a positive attitude and having that affect your behavior to make more choices and look for opportunities that lead to positive outcomes.</em> It is helping with my focus and confidence to get things done. The thing that a lot of people misunderstand about affirmations is like what I put in the article on <a href="http://current.com/items/89883751/make_your_self_fulfilling_prophecies_work_for_you_instead_of_against_you.htm">Current TV</a> <em>When someone says something is impossible for them to accomplish then they are correct since they will never even TRY to do it because that negative attitude stops them before they can even imagine a solution or put any effort into trying to find a method to make it work.<br /><br />That is what affirmations are for to get past that first stumbling block by cancelling out the what holds you back in trying and enforces your limitations.<br /><br />But it is only the start since all the positive attitudes in the world won't be effective if you don't also put the imagination into action.</em><br /><br />I have found that to be true in my own experience and have tried to correct it by letting go of the limits that hold me back from attempting to find solutions.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJR0W6Xx7xkb6cXTpbTzBRy_wx7odvm8BZFtnmrcmX3w_AruEeMWdbtNUcrdAxrqRld4yVSMgKObOOUHxQG0_KSjPpkt3y0H9YsNixN9iR33xAOkRQQjkQLthvndQG-fLojt5/s1600-h/DVDSales.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 51px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAJR0W6Xx7xkb6cXTpbTzBRy_wx7odvm8BZFtnmrcmX3w_AruEeMWdbtNUcrdAxrqRld4yVSMgKObOOUHxQG0_KSjPpkt3y0H9YsNixN9iR33xAOkRQQjkQLthvndQG-fLojt5/s400/DVDSales.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315390131152252434" /></a><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Selling 3 copies in a week of the DVD being available for sale is twice as good as I expected either SimoneGervais bought all 3 to give some as gifts, she got some friends to buy the other or the advertising I've been doing for it has been working and other people have seen it. Any of those reasons are good news to generate more demand to be able to sell more of them. It does follow the affirmation I put on the DVD <em> "My life becomes a series of successes"</em> so it helps a lot to get feedback and evidence that shows they are working because it re-enforces the belief and gives confidence that you're on the right track to continue. It gives more weigh to the affirmation I put on the DVD <em> "I have the self-discipline to continue the effort."</em> to have some evidence that the affirmations are paying off in a tangible way. <br /><br />Especially since SimoneGervais did what she said she was going to do and bought the DVD when I waited a year for <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2007/12/at-least-i-do-have-some-fans-out-there.html">MarsDarinder</a> to buy <a href="http://www.createspace.com/246526">The Writer's Nightmare DVD</a> and he never did. His excuse of not having any money to get it wasn't very good since you would think that you could find $25 to spare during a whole year. <br /><br />So this does give me some substantial proof that the affirmations help to get my life back on a path that will accomplish my goals.</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-57332676383462016302009-02-14T00:54:00.000-08:002009-02-14T01:27:02.755-08:00Progress choosing between alternatives<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">It is another Valentine’s Day that I’ve spent by myself but I’m more used to it than last year when I was in a downward spiral, it is also what would’ve been our sixth wedding anniversary but we didn’t make it that far. The nasal sprays the doctor gave me have helped with my mold allergies also the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36Ppo0d-XbU">yoga techiques</a> for headaches. While the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiWTukW6wco">affirmations</a> have helped to counter the negative attitudes that I was sabotaging myself with.<br /><br />Now that I have recovered enough to be able to make some of the choices of where my life is going I’ve made some progress on determining which of the 3 alternatives is worth the most to try for.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QwYbwDtmc88&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QwYbwDtmc88&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">That brings me to the point of it does make a lot more sense to move onto the next phase since the alternative of just doing nothing is way too boring because there aren’t enough things to distract myself with to take up all of the time.<br /><br />Having something to strive for like the treasure hunt DVD, the video game and movie illustrating the Integral Life Practice and going through those practices myself makes a lot more sense at this point.<br /><br />I wasn’t able to get much help in getting an objective perspective from a therapist since the Butte County office had their funding cut and only had group therapy 1 day a week. Trying to get a different interpretation of the symbolism that I wanted with all the distractions and dilutions of other people in the group’s problems wasn’t worth the effort or all the time it would take.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EtUC9vtH5iE&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EtUC9vtH5iE&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">What did help me make a decision was that I sent Krys a birthday card with a YouTube video attached to it of the Michael Jackson song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_n7cftdkl0">Remember the Time.</a> Krys sent me a reply with a Xena video that had the Dido song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8kI0Eg8vdE">Hunter</a> in it. Those 2 videos were a pretty clear example of symbolism that typified the different perspectives and stages of development that we were at and there hadn’t been any change in the past year.<br /><br />Remember the Time is a song from the second person perspective that uses “we” 20 times and “us” 2 times in the lyrics. While Hunter is from the first person perspective and uses “I” 9 times and “me” 6 times in the lyrics so one is about sharing a possible relationship and the other is about seeking to untangle for a life of solitude.<br /><br />With those fundamental differences it seems most likely that even if I did follow the symbolism in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-v8r9Os9S8">Soulmates in Peril</a> video that we would still have the same problems no matter where we lived so it wouldn’t be worth the effort since the Essential Ingredient wasn’t there.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1R0c8LebwnY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1R0c8LebwnY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">So that pretty much answers the question I was trying to figure out about whether the odds of trying to recapture the <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2008/12/essential-ingredient.html">Essential Ingredient</a> that had once been established were better than the odds of starting fresh and getting the Essential Ingredient with someone that had never had it before. It seems that it would be easier to form a stronger new bond than repair one that had been broken.<br /><br />That brings up the part about the law of attraction since like attracts like there has been a similarity in the kinds of gals that have been expressed an interest in me that is the myth of the hero in shining armor that needed to rescue them.<br /><br />Even though that is an aspect of my character, maybe by connecting with gals at that level it sets up problems with trying to move beyond it to other stages that includes more aspects of my whole personality. <br /><br />So then the question becomes is that the only type of gal that would be attracted to me are the ones with problems they need to be rescued from and all the baggage that goes with it? Or can I learn to grow out of that pattern of behavior to be able to attract gals at other stages that have more stable personalities?<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/46PeiD-puwY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/46PeiD-puwY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Would those type of gals be interested in me and would they think it was worth the Essential Ingredient? If I was able to illustrate the concepts of the Integral Life Practice to be easily grasped and go the practices with them to have a solid foundation so that they would understand what was involved then they would be more likely to be attracted enough to build a strong bond that included the Essential Ingredient.<br /><br />At least that is more progress in figuring out ways to bring the <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2007/12/tremendous-odds-of-fulfilling-epic-of.html">Impossible Dream</a> that I was contemplating last year into the realm of the possible if the correct methods were used. That only makes it a matter of the odds of if I had enough skill and resources to be able to make those methods work. Which makes a substantial improvement since even though the odds at still high against it they are greatly reduced since there are feasible plans that make them at least workable.<br /></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-87169538794552344112009-02-05T14:39:00.000-08:002009-02-06T12:32:42.545-08:00Assisting Events to allow Life to imitate Art<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I did have some more thoughts about how to get across the 4 quadrant presentation of the Naked Angel. I could do a movie about it and call it something along the lines of <em>“Achieving Communion”</em> and have it be sort of like a <em>“My Fair Lady”</em> story of an actress that gets hired to be the spoke person and narrator of the Naked Angel presentation and for demonstrating the practices in the video game. There are better odds for Life imitating Art in it because of the feedback of the movie being a docudrama with a lot of the script focusing on the journey of transformation the actress undergoes from the experience of demonstrating the practices for the video game.<br /><br />There are a lot deeper issues since the theme of transformation in the story of <em>“My Fair Lady”</em> is an archetypal myth going back to the Greeks with Pygmalion and Galatea so it is firmly embedded in the collective unconscious that makes the odds very good that the the movie would appeal to a wide audience.<br /><br />The movie could be shot on location at <a href="http://esalen.org/">Esalen</a> in <a href="http://esalen.org/place/groundsmap.html">Big Sur</a> to lend more credibility and show some of the <a href="http://www.esalen.org/workshops/">workshops</a> used to learn the practices that <a href="http://www.esalen.org/place/tour/tourwide/vrframes.html">illustrate</a> how to follow the path.<br /><br />I could have some scenes of going before the investors and venture capitalists and to get the money to produce the video game and the movie also. Then it would be a journey of the actress to learn the script and film the practices while following the path of development and growing in her awareness. That way she can use the motivation of money, fame and doing a job to get her into the practice and develop some other motivations for continuing when she grows through the stages.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pEgBHT1yXtI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pEgBHT1yXtI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><br /><a href="http://www.reversespins.com/guruyoga.html">Guru Yoga</a> could be used to provide better motivations for evolving through the stages after the money and the fame then it could be by identifying with the role she is playing since it mirrors the experiences she experiences going through the practices she is demonstrating for the video game, then recognizing spirit in each other and coming to terms with what that entails.<br /><br />One of the practices to show how to expand into more perspectives and how the true self is connected and anchored in I Amness is to show the Gamemaster’s Complex playing the <a href="http://www.akashictransformations.com/akashic_records.htm">Akashic Records</a> as videos on the monitor screens. I could have the actress pick different points in her life to go back to and give the support and advice that she thought was most needed at that time to her younger self and have a future self come back to her to give the answers they thought she most needed.<br /><br />I could do a composite of the actress playing the younger part then the older on the same shot so she could experience it from each side first as the younger getting what she needed then as the older giving the support needed and also watching the scene of both of them afterwards.<br /><br />That way she could experience the process from the first, second and third person perspectives and see how they are all connected and how the self evolves through stages as everyone grows through experience.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/m1BTppMzpz0&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/m1BTppMzpz0&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><br />Another of the examples to illustrate Integral Life Practice I could use is a representation of the story of how to gain wisdom. “After a long hard climb up the mountain, the spiritual seekers finally found themselves in front of the great teacher. Bowing deeply, they asked the question that had been burning inside them for so long <em>‘How do we become wise?’</em><br /><br />There was a long pause until the teacher emerged from his meditation. Finally the reply came <em>‘Good choices’</em><br /><em>‘But teacher how do we make good choices?’</em><br /><em>‘From experience’</em> responded the wise one.<br /><em>‘An how do we get experience?’</em><br /><em>‘Bad choices’</em><br /><br />I could have some scenes with the actress and some of the other seekers showing the different choices they made to overcome the obstacles in getting up the mountain and the different motivations they had for getting to the top.<br /></strong></span>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-47541586685900212092009-01-29T21:53:00.001-08:002009-01-31T16:05:57.960-08:00Accelerating Developmental Growth through Video Games<div><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>One of the problems with Integral Theory is that it is hard to grasp without a lengthy explanation and the stuff that has been written about it is not easily absorbed. Ken Wilber has done somewhat better in talking about it and in video interviews at getting the essential points across but it still has a need for more concentrated attention than is widely attempted.</strong></font><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3Skw4la93t-zZ0cAJ9nQQSvBgvHaM1j9ydspHxGhabiRaz-MrAk3ibz7SJcEnClRQ51V4Z6n-QAPkhbPRzj_qMEO_Gc-1Mg5Agk0dilpxgqbw_f9oP7F4n0aNZjcUalywCza/s1600-h/4MajorScales.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5093879760037310898" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEic3Skw4la93t-zZ0cAJ9nQQSvBgvHaM1j9ydspHxGhabiRaz-MrAk3ibz7SJcEnClRQ51V4Z6n-QAPkhbPRzj_qMEO_Gc-1Mg5Agk0dilpxgqbw_f9oP7F4n0aNZjcUalywCza/s400/4MajorScales.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><br />That’s why I figured that it could benefit a lot from a more graphical representation since animated examples and motion graphic diagrams would be more easily grasped and more quickly understood than the ways it has been presented so far.</strong></font><br /><br /><div><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong></div><br /><br /><div><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></div></strong></font><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296961642875962466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 281px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfu4LyH-0wJNSamwNwsQpcKWEzV1oBZQeUsIZl3RmDeFYoWhh31kSxZXHxkuekL6me7zk7dBPVqEVacRFS5Q1DAZJVFxGyyA8FR5fg-Vpii2BZDCQksACl2R1tSUC2iQYUe9p6/s400/1PlayToGrow6.png" border="0" /> <font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>There has been <a href="http://in.integralinstitute.org/holons/MeaningfulPlay.pdf">research</a> done on how to design video games to help <a href="http://www.kenwilber.com/blog/show/473?page=1&return=archive">accelerate growth</a> through developmental stages and I could make a video game that helps present the AQAL Map in a more entertaining way that people would be more inclined to pay attention to since it would also be fun.<br /><br />Since parts of the theory require practice to understand from direct experience of the principles and concepts involved then a video game would be the most efficient way to motivate people to attempt those practices.<br /><br />In addition to a video game that shows the Integral Life Practices in a way similar to The Wild Divine with biofeedback. I could also have a integral role playing video game that shows the journey of holons from the first basic manifestation through every stage to the highest and have players take on the a role to guide them through the stages that evolve in different ways depending on how they play the game.</strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></strong></font><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lgs28ccOxVI&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><br /><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lgs28ccOxVI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong><br />I should have the goals of the RPG show how each state awakens to make the subject of one stage becomes the object of the next stage so that what starts out as identity of the body goes to identifying with the mind and then to the spirit until it reaches ever present witness and also goals the go through the stages of perspective from egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric and cosmocentric.<br /><br />In one part of the game I could have some practices of meditation and how to illustrate the breathing techniques that focus on extending concentration by being mindful of your inhalations and exhalations then every time you get distracted by other thoughts, feelings or fantasies bring your attention back to your breathing. It could accelerate the learning curve on how to help stay focused by pointing out the benefits and the main concept to keep bringing your attention back to your breathing.<br /></strong></font><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></strong></font><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>The video game should include puzzles to pass each fulcrum and sub-phases that require successful tests of how to identify, differentiate and integrate each fulcrum.</strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></strong></font><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/USumIHzye1I&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/USumIHzye1I&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong></strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>If the video game catches on among the gaming community with anything near the level of Warcraft then that could make a substantial difference in the amount of the population that are going through further develpmental stages and change the <a href="http://www.kenwilber.com/Writings/PDF/PrefacetoASG_GENERAL_2005_NN.pdf">dominant mode of discourse</a> of the society to the more inclusive stages.</strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>Just having a change of administrations in the goverment from the traditional values of Bush to the more pluralistic values of Obama raises the dominant mode and the people that play the video game could use the momentum that the change in the <a href="http://multiplex.integralinstitute.org/Public/cs/forums/permalink/19610/19359/ShowThread.aspx">Dominant Mode</a><br /> which is already occuring to help accelerated the progress in their own transformation to make more headway in solving problems than in a generation.</strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>That way when the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity">technological singularity</a> is achieved then the horse race of whether or not an ethnocentric or a more worldcentric society will use it will be won by the more worldcentric because more of the population will be at higher stages of development from playing the game so that the <a href="http://www.cic.sfu.ca/nacrp/articles/discourse.html">dominant mode of discourse</a> of the society will be able to handle the technological advances for the benefit of all instead of just the profit of the few.</strong></font><br /><br /><font face="times new roman" size="4"><strong>In order to reduce the average time of five years for transformation from one developmental stage to the next, it could help to combine the video game with other techniques like float tanks. It could help foster more intense form of deeper concentration and remove the distraction of the internal dialogue to make it easier to transcend the subject of one stage to make it the object of the next.</strong></font><br /><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/yJNnIKUVMMY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/yJNnIKUVMMY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">If I make some money on that treasure hunt DVD then I could invest it into hiring an actress to do some work in narrating and demonstrating the practices for the video game. Also to help in illustrating some examples of the concepts and principles in applying the AQAL Map</font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It would be very useful in having an actress in showing the methods necessary for an Integral Life Practice in order to have a demonstration as part of a business plan to show to investors since having a pretty face is always an advantage when attempting to sell something and that would go a long way to get the funds required to produce the video game.</font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It could also have a transformative effect on the actress that I hired to help produce the video game by her going through the practices in order to demonstrate them and illustrating the examples of the principles behind them it could train her into raising her center of gravity to more inclusive developmental stages. Since we both would be sharing the experiences by working on the demonstrations and illustrations that were contained in the video game then we both would have a foundation of understanding the concepts produced in the transformation to the higher stages of development and could produce a bond through the shared experiences for us to grow closer from it.</font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></strong><br /><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Since that bond was built at a higher stage of development if it included the Essential Ingredient then it would be stronger since it had a more solid foundation because it included more perspectives and more options in dealing with more states. That would give it a lot better odds of lasting longer.</font></strong><br /><br /></div>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-83432345291380108392009-01-22T18:08:00.000-08:002009-01-22T18:35:42.015-08:00Hopefully a marketing idea for a more popular DVD<div><br /> </div><p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>When I went down to the beach my mom was watching episodes of the <em>“Lost”</em> TV series on DVD and the designs they had on the menus of the DVD were very inspiring. They had landscapes of the island and jungle with 3D text in different 2 point perspectives opposite to each other so that it looked like the text was nestled in to fit the image.</strong></span></p><br /><br /><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294306546963579234" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL3OBehuoeH0KkBDltNpJkbCJWuPpLCOOrbNVvoHXmd9bAMJx2ivVrs7T8cbqjTgPLP49hHo7WpGTZXpa3EkqmqSWbzreXASfs_vaiUwdPEy9zi1ppa0cbj__1WSjG6sH24EFO/s400/LostMenuDisc6.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>It looked very cool and I was thinking that I could use that as a concept to make a DVD menu for my portfolio.<br /><br />Maybe a better DVD menu for my portfolio would be to do one of that idea I had about the contest for <em>“The Writer’s Nightmare”</em> that had a <a href="http://nobleargon.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-saw-story-with-inspiring-new-twist.html">treasure hunt</a> in it. It probably would be a lot better seller than the DVD I have there so it might be more popular on Create Space. It would be a way to get a practice with original marketable material in a different kind of DVD setup.<br /><br />That way I could have a more professional DVD menu design to show in my portfolio but also a marketing idea that has more of a motivation for people to be interested in buying the DVD since they are more likely to go for the challenge and profit of a treasure hunt.<br /><br />In keeping with one of the themes to story in <em>“Nightmare”</em> I could have the treasure hunt revolve around gathering parts to build the GyroTwister and have clues relating to where to find the parts that could be hidden on web pages, maps to locations even products on Café Press and Zazzle. </strong></span></p><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><p><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/c6Q0dfrbr10&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/c6Q0dfrbr10&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><br />I could have the clues on the DVD be easier to lead to some of the parts and then have them get harder to lead to clues more complex in more places to be able to put the parts together and solve the riddle. Some of the clues on the DVD could be in that extreme typography with animated text made from Adobe After Affects like in those videos on You Tube and some could be screen caps of the word clouds from the <a href="http://wordle.net/create">Wordle</a> web page.</p></strong></span><p></p><p><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294307412262457538" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 292px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVIpzJtKgA9BYWGaRic2yOXswW1-YTyAzijGh0uBMQdzAHp5LNYOvEXt7GI9HRoWA_qN25aMYJxVRxK9m9-wDxvci4HlYAKrTXMa2YsLNQgHN_KHMemI4Dmlck0GojUxTAZX2g/s400/Wordle.jpg" border="0" /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Since it is a journey to find the parts and solve the puzzles maybe I should put it in a framework of growth through the stages also or at least a heroes struggle against impossible obstacles to make it challenging. Tying in the theme of the Gamemaster from the story would be a good way to give clues that relate to archetypes and the Akashic records so that the puzzles relate to overcoming selfish pleasure motivation and alpha pack dominance games.<br /><br />I could have some clues relate to gyroscopes and roller coasters maybe even have one hidden at Great America and the Santa Cruz beach. Hiding keys to locks at different locations would help to making it more challenging and that way I could have clues in merchandise that can be unlocked to match the merchandise that was designed to be bought.<br /><br />Since the theme is a hunt to gather items and a journey to reach a goal, I could also make it like the Fool’s journey through the Tarot with each item being a stage of consciousness along the way. I could use designs I did for The Naked Angel Tarot cards as symbols and clues for the different stages and put them on merchandise to find as part of the contest.<br /><br />I could use the chakra system as a model for gathering items related to each chakra like jewels and lotus flowers and have practices that use motivations that go from egocentric, ethnocentric, worldcentric to cosmocentric in order to solve the puzzles.<br /><br />For the clues on the DVD I could have them lead to web pages on my blog, Café Press, Zazzle, CreateSpace, Amazon, Lulu and Spreadshirt to merchandise that have clues to significant locations with items can be hidden.<br /><br />The clues on the merchandise could be pictures of gyroscopes with coordinates from the Universe Cube on them hidden in the designs so that they point to stories in the plot summary that way I can have them relate to other clues in different places and follow the theme of building the gyrotwister and gathering parts of the Universe Cube.<br /><br />I could do some storyboards to get the ideas for the clues and designs for the DVD together so it would be easier to collect so all it one place to keep track of it. I could use a flowchart with Smart Draw to keep track of all the clues and tie that to storyboards in Illustrator to give more details.<br /></strong></span></p>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-79049791092984433112008-12-04T16:44:00.000-08:002008-12-04T23:07:40.588-08:00The Essential Ingredient<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">When I met Krys it was like hitting the jackpot, grabbing the brass ring and winning the lottery that the odds of finding love ever happening to me finally came true. What I felt was like what was described in the song Angel Eyes.<br /><br />She told me she felt the same way as that song, but the essential ingredient to any relationship is the willingness of two people to share their lives together. Susan Sarandon had a great way of putting it as a witness.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BdUf3cx2U08&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BdUf3cx2U08&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">That might establish a baseline definition but it doesn’t say anything about the degree of commitment to the relationship. Krys and I used to use an example from the Mummy to show how much Evie loved Rick.<br /><br />Admittedly it’s an extreme situation that required a greater showing commitment than most do, but Krys and I did discuss it and we both agreed that Evie did act more honorably to show the depth of her bond to Rick that she put his life above hers. While Anck Su Namun only showed that she put her selfish interests first by abandoning Imotep.<br /><br />From the reaction that Krys had to that scene I had written to try and show a little bit of what being soul mates would be like, I thought that I had beaten the odds of finding someone that shared my ideas and goals in life. When we got married I thought I had found someone that I could let my guards down and trust to share my most intimate thoughts and ideas with. That was the plan that we were partners to achieve things together that we couldn’t separately.<br /><br />When I tried to explain the practices of Tantric Yoga, she said she agreed with the ideas and wanted to achieve the benefits from it. But I’m not sure she understood what was involved in it from the practice we had it seemed like she was too afraid of letting go some of the baggage that was holding her back and lost the willingness to try and develop the discipline needed to make progress. <br /><br />The trouble was that it seemed like she was unable to let go of her previous conditioning. She had led a sheltered life and was afraid of a lot of things. Her family history had left her with a distrust of men and it made her always expect the worst from them. From her father abandoning her and all the divorces in her family, her experiences had left a very negative impression on her.<br /><br />It’s easy to say she followed the example of Anck Su Namun instead of Evie that she didn’t follow through on her vows and couldn’t contribute equally to the relationship, that she lied about being married and she was the one that betrayed the trust we had and committed infidelity by leaving for another. All that’s true but only part of the story. It’s just the surface facts and leaves out the depth of meaning and motives.<br /><br />Now I’m wondering how much of what we had was her ideas of what a relationship was supposed to be projected onto me and mine projected onto her. I know we both chose symbolic ways of expressing things like mythic fairytale roles, like Piper and Leo from the TV show Charmed. They had a very committed marriage that they proved they would sacrifice their lives for each other. But they had their problems in their relationship also and sought help to work them out because they were still committed to the relationship. Is all Krys and I had were symbols with nothing behind them, wasn’t there more to it than that?<br /><br />The point being is that even with all the problems I held onto the Essential Ingredient of wanting to share our lives together and I figured that whatever problems we had could be worked out if we wanted to go on with our lives. But apparently that’s not what she wanted since she bailed as soon as she could without putting much effort into trying to work things out.<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/g-v8r9Os9S8&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/g-v8r9Os9S8&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I showed my mom the “Soulmates in Peril” video that I had made for the last wedding anniversary that we were together. I got stuck telling her more of the technical parts of the video because I had trouble describing all the symbols in the story that I developed for Krys. <br /><br />Those symbols did have a lot of meaning to both of us they certainly communicated some things. But what if they were not exactly the same things because of the different levels of development? I definitely meant the vow of always coming for her and (death) or even the distractions from the illusions of samsara working out karma would not delay me forever. What if Krys started to identify more with Belle in that video then my Imzadi because she didn’t think she could live up to the harder role symbolized by being my Imzadi and gave into her inner demons to fall back on the role of Belle? In that way then she would be serving the Red Demon of her Past Conditioning. <br /><br />That would make more sense if she confused the roles and identified with the self-destructive urges to base her decisions on. I can understand being afraid to put the effort into trying for success because of the risk of failure, that just invities temptations from selfish impulses. After all I wrote in the video that <em>“There was no mountain too high and no river too wide because I would go to any lengths to rescue my soulmate.”</em> Then I said it and recorded it to put with the voice over on the video. I definitely meant that I would fulfill that promise so shouldn’t I live up to it? I did have a lot of trouble with accepting the responsibility of what that involves so the fear of failing at it was strong.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/5dTr1nDLd7o&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/5dTr1nDLd7o&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">If it was part of the myth like in “Roswell” where Liz leaves and goes to a boarding school then Max has to track her down for Liz to save him. I still would like to show that kind of devotion since like the song says I said <em>“Honestly, I won’t give up you”</em> but it does depend on the Essential Ingredient for her to also say <em>“I shall believe”</em><br /><br />A wider perspective than the egocentric might help to transcend that identification. If that were true then according to those symbols we would still be at the part where my Imzadi was kidnapped by her darker self and I have to go an rescue her from the demons of her past. <br /><br />I put a lot of symbolism about jumping in and out of different realities in that video, from the comic book to virtual reality to photo-realism and I was thinking that might represent waking up from the illusions of the veil of maya like Richard Bach used in his book “One” and that Krys moving back to GA. might be like the test of Richard thinking that Leslie had drowned. To show the same principle that Richard learned<br /><br /><em>“Your own world is just as much of a mirage as any other. Your oneness in love is reality and mirages cannot change reality. Do not forget, no matter what seems to be”</em> so by those symbols I would have to go to GA and show Krys that I could rise above the illusions that separate us from that <em>“oneness in love”</em> just like Richard was able to finally move the throttle of the seaplane and rise above the waters of the pattern. It does makes sense that Krys had some things to learn about independence that she had to learn by herself since we had talked about that before, it is just hard to know when she has learned enough yet. I would rather not have to wait until another life to reunite.<br /><br />It all depends on how the fight between Belle and my Imzadi turns out in Krys. Has she grown beyond the level of development that Belle represents? Does she even want the Essential Ingredient that level of development my Imzadi represents?<br /></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jkan4p-KjA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jkan4p-KjA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Since I am going to start on the <a href="http://integral-life-practice.com/look-inside/">Integral Life Practice</a> and part of that practice is to try and shine the light on the shadow aspects of yourself that have been repressed by your subconscious. So maybe I should ask a therapist about the psychological side of those symbols and find out what they think a useful interpretation of them is. That is what psychotherapy is supposed to address symbols in dreams and free associations to bring out hidden meanings. It certainly would help to have an objective opinion about what they mean and hopefully they can help expose some of the dormant aspects of myself that are draining my energy.<br /><br />A competent therapist could probably get a more objective insight on who was projecting parts of themselves onto to who and maybe bring some clarity to the subjective interpretations of events. At least help me understand the parts that I had avoided and face up to the parts I wanted to ignore. It will be interesting to find out what their opinion is when I show it to them.<br /></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-30666468402714244032008-10-07T11:22:00.000-07:002008-10-07T14:41:00.951-07:00Cat Scratch Fever<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ovUhgVAnjA0"><br /> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ovUhgVAnjA0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed> </object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I suppose it's no use put this off any longer since it's not getting much less painful, so I might as well get it out there. I've had 4 cats in my lifetime and my family has had even more. They've each had different personalities and quirks to them so I thought I had gotten used to the way that cats behaved and able to have a relationship with them. </strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">As they say <em>"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. ...Jeff Valdez"</em> and <em>"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. ...Alfred North Whitehead" </em>pretty much sums it up.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyFBIoFogq0"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/AyFBIoFogq0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I went about 15 years from the time that Christopher died in Cupertino to being able to have a cat again since most of the places I had lived were with roommates and in apartments that didn't allow pets. So after I got the trailer to live in it was possible to have a cat again, when Carol Hemmingway offered to give us one of her kittens, Krys wanted a cat to keep her company and I thought it was a good idea.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">In my experience with cats I had thought that it would be best to wait for a while until the kitten had matured enough to handle going outside and learned where his home was since I didn't think there was enough room in a 29 ft. trailer for a cat. But Krys was afraid that something might happen to him if he went outside. Since she was making the rules for him, I let her take most of the responsiblity of feeding and cleaning out his cat box.He was a good cat mostly and faily affectionate. He did most of the cat stuff like getting into things he wasn't supposed to and puking up hairballs, which Krys didn't take in stride as well as I did. He did have a thing about the rain that seemed to freak him out which might've been the noise of it hitting the trailer that scared him </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hbRJWQ_Ode4"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hbRJWQ_Ode4" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">When Krys left the responsibility of taking care of Angel was left to me so I figured it was time to let him go outside. He disappeared for a month and I figured that he would come back when he got tired of being on his own and hungry enough, I did worry about the amount of heavy storms we were having at that time and if he could survive them. When he did come back it did occur to me that he had learned something about how hard it was on his own and at least someone had the sense enough to get some help with it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">After that he got used to going in and out but he didn't like the outside much anymore since the other cats in the trailer park were pretty mean and he lost a couple fights with them. Although it did seem to help during the summer when the trailer got too hot and he could lie in the shade underneath it to catch the cooler breeze. I figured it was the best of both worlds since he had the food, water, catbox and comfort of places to sit inside and the freedom to go outside to see what there also. Unfortunately it didn't turn out that way. Even though his demands for attention with the meowing, the head butting me in the face when he was hungry and puking up stuff he didn't like were annoying. I did have a strong sentimental attachement to him and I loved petting him and when he fell asleep next to me at night.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvQWBo9npD8"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QvQWBo9npD8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Angel woke me up as usual and it was around 9:30 in the morning when I fed him so he was fine then, but around 11:30 he was puking which wasn't unusual and I cleaned it up. Then I noticed he was meowing with a lot more painful note than his usual attention getting meow. I started to worry it was something serious when he started dragging his hind legs like he couldn't move them. I called my Dad to have him give me a ride to the vet and he suggested I call the vet to get an appointment. I wasn't sure if the vet would do anything without an appointment so I called them and the closest time they would see me was 2:30.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I tried to comfort Angel as much as I could but he dragged himself behind the bed and had a major bout of diarrhea. So I scooped him up from there and wrapped him in a towel to wait outside for my Dad to pick us up. We got to vet and we still had to wait a while. The doctor told me it was serious and he had a 50/50 chance of recovering. He gave me an estimate of how much he expected the treatment to cost and it was $661 which is a lot especially since Medicare doesn't cover wives much less pets. Since the odds were half that Angel could make it, I thought he deserved that chance so I left him there to be treated and the doctor said he would call in the morning to let me know how Angel was doing.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I had to go to Mural class so I wasn't there when the Vet office opened. So after class while I was waiting for the bus I called the doctor to see what was going on. The vet said that Angel had died during the night from some type of rat poison that he had probably gotten from eating something dead. I didn't see how he could've gotten that kind of thing from inside the trailer since I don't have stuff like that there, so he must've gotten it from outside. I felt pretty bad and started crying on the grass next to the hot dog stand. I miss having Angel around and it was hard to avoid the fact that it was probably my fault that he died.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I guess that I can add that to the list of failures to keep promises and fulfill the responsibilities I had taken on. Krys had the responsibility of taking care of Angel for around 4 years and then I had it for around 10 months and I blew it so it added to my guilt. I suppose I put off writing this blog about it in part because of the guilt of letting Krys know that I had failed to take care of Angel properly. I probably should've taken him immediately to the vet and not waited hours for an appointment, if I had recognized his paralysis of his legs as a symptom of poison, I might've been able to him the vet save him in time by getting there earlier. Maybe we waited to long and should've let Angel outside when he was young enough to learn better. None of the other outside cats had that trouble, maybe Angel was just to set in his ways to be able to take the risks and dangers of being outside. How much quality of life does a cat have when all he seemed to like doing was eating? I suppose the arguement that the trailer was too small for him doesn't hold much weight when he didn't spend more than hour outside on the average at a time. At least if I had kept him inside all the time he would still be alive and able to do what he acted like he preferred instead of what I thought he should have.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">It probably was more a case of the grass being greener on the other side that he wanted to go out in the first place. Especially since after he had been outside for a month he certainly seemed to get over wanting it anymore. Was I right to give him that choice for the contrast? Was he any happier after he learned that being outside wasn't all it was cracked up to be? That's probably some attempts at rationalizing the decision since the fact is that he'd still be alive if I hadn't. I have had cats die on me before and some tragically way before their time by getting run over or getting their heads caught in a door. So Angel's death isn't all that uncommon in the fate of cats it's part of the risks of living. Maybe it is a lesson in impermance but that also seems like a cop-out to avoid being directly responsible. It's hard to take the wider view in the face of the details of what happened.</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-9846933721727478322008-08-12T16:05:00.000-07:002008-08-12T16:24:48.466-07:00Integral Video Games<strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I got the <a href="http://www.wilddivine.com/journey-to-the-wild-divine/">Wild Divine</a> biofeedback games and they were certainly worth all the money since the graphics are very impressive, the puzzles that make the goal of the games are challenging and the biofeedback exercises were very helpful to be able to see the effects of bodily processes reflected visually. I thought it was a great way to practice a lot of the yoga breathing methods and get instant feedback on how well it was working. Being able to see the results on the screen was a way to recognize what the experience was correlated to on the screen.<br /><br />Taking the bodily responses like skin conductivity levels and heart rate variability and learning to manipulate them is transcending those bodily functions as a subject so that you don’t identify with them and making them an object to be able to differentiate and integrate them. I did a Vlog about them to show how they worked</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YdcSXYSnUCg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YdcSXYSnUCg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I had some trouble doing a video capture and since the game puts several elements from .mov, .swf and .mp3 files together it was easier to just point the video camera at the screen since I was using it for shots of myself also even if it didn't get very good resolution from it.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-1MKu3YRfpg&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-1MKu3YRfpg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I liked what Deepak Chopra had to say and hopefully with the quality of these games he'll be able to reach that "critical mass" whith the wider appeal that video games have than just yoga or meditation does.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LFFMtq5g8N4&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LFFMtq5g8N4&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Ken Wilber shows how you can find evidence of different types of brain wave patterns that correlate to different types of meditation but they aren't the same as and can't be reduced to brain states</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-71602366906120206012008-07-04T10:02:00.000-07:002008-07-17T08:33:39.445-07:00Integral Troubleshooting<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I think I’ll do a blog about Integral Troubleshooting before the one about the Essential Ingredient. It’ll help lay the foundation for it better and give me more practice in communicating with the camera.</strong></span></p><p><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object width="425" height="350"> <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1RC3H7Lj19E"> </param> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1RC3H7Lj19E" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"> </embed> </object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><br />Maybe it would help to write out some of the ideas I want to talk about first so I can focus better in front of the camera. If even talented people like Marina or Christine have to have multiple takes for their videos then I shouldn’t beat myself up if I can’t get it all out without any preparation.<br /><br />The first thing is trying to improve my communication skills because they are so poor at actually telling someone the ideas and points that I’m trying to get across. I figure if I practice getting over being subconscious in front of a camera that it might help with my self-image problem. If I get comfortable expressing myself to the camera then it’ll be easier to do in front of other people.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X19QijWgB_w&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X19QijWgB_w&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>The next thing is that part about uneven development and that having a shadow that is a repressed part of your ego holding you back is going to hamper your chances of growth because you’re leaving parts of yourself behind since they are hidden from you.<br /><br />From what I’ve been hearing from Ken Wilber most psychotherapy techniques involve talking to uncover the subjective stuff like in dreams and focus on them to make them objects in your awareness so you no longer identify solely with them. Talking about it to the camera should be at least a start and that way I would have them ready to be seen by a therapist to give me their interpretation of them if I decide that’s necessary. It might not be if I can troubleshoot the problems on my own once they are out in the open and that way I wouldn’t have to take the chance of messing up my disability while I’m still dependent on it.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tQXX27bIz4U&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tQXX27bIz4U&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><br />Another thing I can talk about is what I was telling mom about the amount of stress I used to be able to handle is a whole lot more than I can now. I was thinking after I wrote about that in an email to her, the last time I was able to cope with a large amount of stress was when I was making that 12 hour round trip from Fremont to Berkeley and still able to keep that job at BRC while suffering from a diseased gall bladder before I had to have it taken out. Then after Creator died I seemed to have lost the ability to deal with stress and never got it back. I guess that means that I never fully recovered the blow to my ego and I’m probably still repressing parts that I need to uncover.</strong></span></p>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-15429754712874805932008-06-19T10:31:00.000-07:002008-06-19T18:58:47.927-07:00Excellent Adventures in Floating<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>From reading a lot of Ken Wilber's books I've been getting the idea that it's not enough just to read about these concepts, that you have to practice them. Because just reading about them only gives legitimacy to your beliefs and only is translative to supporting whatever stage your ego is in. But in order to gain authenticity and transform your ego to a more inclusive stage of development, you have to put them into practice.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><em>"... in today's America, this is much more disturbing because this vast majority of horizontal spiritual adherents often claim to be representing the leading edge of spiritual transformation, the 'new paradigm' that will change the world, the 'great transformation' of which they are the vanguard. But more often than not, they are not deeply transformative at all; they are merely agressively translative. They don not offer effective means to utterly dismantle the self, but merely new ways for the self to think think differently. Not ways to transform but merely new ways to translate. In fact, what most of them offer is not a practice or series of practices like yoga. What most of them offer is a simple the suggestion to 'read my book on the new paradigm.' This is deeply disturbed and deeply disturbing...</em></strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><em></em></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><em>...Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: Thiose who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would commincate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the Bodhisattva Vow)..."</em></span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>When I first read about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolation_tank">Isolation Tanks</a> that were developed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Lilly">John C. Lily</a> about 15 years ago, I thought it was a good idea. Since I haven't been feeling up to doing any projects and just watching a lot of TV and DVD's I figured it would be a good idea to try it.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><em>In newer tanks, epsom salt is added to the water in the tank to raise the density of the water above the density of the human body, so that the subject floats with his or her face above the water. However, since the ears are submerged when the subject is in a relaxed position, hearing is greatly reduced, particularly when ear-plugs are also used. When the arms float to the side, skin sensation is greatly reduced because the air and water are the same temperature as the skin, and the feeling of a body boundary fades. The sense of smell is also greatly reduced, especially if the water has not been treated with chlorine.</em></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I had heard of the theraputic benefits of them and I hoped it might help with breaking out the the blocks of creativity and lack of being able to focus on doing anything lately</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong><em>A therapeutic session in a flotation tank typically lasts an hour. For the first forty minutes, it is reportedly possible to experience itching in various parts of the body (a phenomenon also reported to be common during the early stages of meditation). The last twenty minutes often end with a transition from beta or alpha brainwaves to theta, which typically occurs briefly before sleep and again at waking. In a float tank, the theta state can last for several minutes without the subject losing consciousness. Many use the extended theta state as a tool for enhanced creativity and problem-solving or for superlearning</em>.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>They have been gaining in popularity in recent yearsand I found this news story about them on YouTube.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/EzqR0V3Gvys&hl=en"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/EzqR0V3Gvys&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>So I looked them up on the search engine to find if any were close by. There was a web page called <a href="http://www.floatfinder.com/">FloatFinder.com</a> that showed a few in the Bay Area with the closet one called <a href="http://www.thefloatcenter.com/">The Float Center</a> in Oakland. They were kind of expensive $70 an hour and they had a package deal of an hour of floating and a massage for $140. Then it was $62 for a round trip Greyhound bus ticket with the 7 day advance purchase.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I saved up some money from my birthday and got the ticket. It said on the web page that if you want to get a massage that you have to get an appointment ahead of time so I got one of those debit cards that you can preload with cash and use like a credit card to be able to pay for it online. The trouble was that I only put the exact amount on that card and apparently there were some transaction fees so it was declined and I only had enough to get the hour of floating not the massage.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>Since I had been looking for a chance to make another vlog, I decided to take some footage with my camcorder to document the trip.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><object height="350" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/metM7uw-sRE"><br /> <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/metM7uw-sRE" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed> </object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>The best thing I can say about it is that at least it was something different to try and it's another video to add to the amount that I have to use as response on YouTube. It definitely shows how much more practice I need at it and that I'm a long way from being competent at it. It does point out the importance of storyboards and a plan to make something worthwhile.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>It started out pretty good, the first leg of the trip to Sacramento went by fairly fast while I watched "Back to the Future" on my portable DVD player. When I got to the Sacramento bus station it was almost a 3 hour wait until the bus to Oakland so I tried to charge the DVD player so it would last the trip. I did some more footage for the video while I was waiting.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>While it was charging, I went to get a coke from the vending machine and when I came back it was gone. It was a shame to lose it but it was my fault for letting it out of my sight. I knew better than to trust anyone that was around in such a public place. But it was no use beating myself up about it and crying over spilt milk. So I let it go and fell back on reading my books, listening to my MP3 player and playing the games on my cell phone.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>When I got to Oakland, I tried to get a taxi to take me to the Float Center, I asked one of the clerks that sold the bus tickets to call me one, but apparently she only called one of her friends that wanted make some money since the guy who showed up drove a car that didn't look much like a taxi. I had printed out the directions from Google Maps so he didn't have much trouble finding the place. He wanted to charge me $20 for only a 3.5 mile trip though. I had figured it would be a lot less for that short a ride. I spend most of my money on the debit card so I only had $12 left and I talked him into just taking that.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>The lady the ran the Float Center was very nice, she explained all the rules and procedures like showering before and after to keep the tank from getting fungus growing in it and getting the salt off your skin. I'm not sure if I had too hot of a shower since when I got in the tank it was a tiny bit cold and it was supposed to be the exact temperature as your body. </strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I liked the feeling of floating with no gravity pressing on your muscles and it relieved the strain I'd been having from the mattress I've had to sleep on. I did my deep breathing to shut my internal dialogue and it gave me a big pain in my neck. So I did the OM mantra to let the vibrations dissolve the pain in my neck. It did help since the pain eased but apparently the stress was still there and I couldn't let go even with nothing to distract me.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">After I got out of the shower and dressed the gal that ran the place made me some green tea and we talked for a while about floating and the art gallery she had at the place. I showed her the designs I did for <em>The Writer's Nightmare</em> DVD ans she seemed to like them.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I told her about the problem I had about not being able to afford the taxi back since I spent the rest of my cash. While I was in the tank I had the idea of using the money left of the debit card and transfering it to her through my PayPal account and then she could let me have the cash. But it wasn't necessary since when I brought the subject up she just said she would give me a ride back to the Greyhound Bus station. It was a bit harder to get back to the bus than it was to get there since she went a different way and we got lost a couple times but we found it after a while. I thought it was nice of her to go out of her way to help me.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I had over 3 hours to wait for the bus to Sacramento and it was a lot harder to pass the time without the DVD player but more because the seats in the bus station were very uncomforable, I kept having to sit on the floor and then stand up to stand the strain. I guess they had some trouble with the schedule between Reno, Salt Lake City, Seattle and Portland because all the northbound buses with delayed and full even at 3am. I had to wait 4 hours for the bus to Oroville to leave and even then it was an hour late.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I finally got back home around 10am so it was it was around a 22 hour trip. I'm leaning toward it not being worth all the money, the float itself was pretty good, but it certainly didn't have as many benefits as I had hope and any it did have were erased by having to take the bus there and back. I'm glad I had the experience so I know what it was like after all this time but it wasn't worth losing my DVD player and all the hassles of the bus travel. Maybe it would've been better if I had the massage also, if I ever go again I might try it that way.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I took a nap for a couple hours after I got back and woke up at 2pm because I had to go to Chico for a MRI that the neurologist had set up. When he set up the test, they arranged for a taxi to take me to Chico which I thought would help because the B-Line buses take at least 4 hours to get there and back. </span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">The taxi was supposed to be there at 2:30, when it was late I called the office where I was supposed to have the test and they said the taxi was on the way. Since they were the ones arranging it, they were the ones responsible if I was late or not. When they were an hour late I got a call from the taxi company saying they were on the wrong side of the trailer park looking for me. I finally got to the office and it's good thing I never tried to take a taxi from Chico in an emergency because the meter read $55.</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I didn't have to wait that long before they took me to where they had the MRI machine. I thought it was a bit odd that it was in a trailer on the other side of the parking lot from the office, but maybe they have to keep it that far away because of the intense magnetic fields it generates and it could mess up other stuff around it.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I put in some earplugs that the guy running the tests gave me a lay on the table. The things he put on each side of my head were uncomfortable, but the pad he put under my knees helped. They slid me into the machine and the enclosed space didn't bother me at all, it was just the very loud noices of all kinds that were fairly annoying. Even the earplugs only helped somewhat. I did a lot of deep breathing and it went on for almost 30 mins for the whole thing until they slid me out.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">The receptionist called for the taxi to take me back, but apparently they had brand new dispatchers at the company they used and they didn't know what they were doing so they had more problems bring me back as they did getting me there. One taxi showed up but the driver said he was the wrong guy so I had to wait for another one. The next one showed up about 10 mins later and the receptionist siad the driver had to go inside to get some paperwork and I told the driver that but she didn't listen, it wasn't my problem since I wasn't handling that part, I figured the place that did the tests was going to bill Medicare for it. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">I told her how to get to my place so we didn't have any more trouble on the way.</span></strong><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24636258.post-20520984030554572572008-05-04T18:14:00.000-07:002008-08-23T03:53:40.407-07:00Let's hope networking will help with Current TV<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;"><strong>I've been commenting a lot more on the news stories since they revamped the system on Current TV. I've been able to get one of them used on TV <a href="http://current.com/items/88907716_?xid=52">PC vs.Mac</a> which was a start of getting noticed</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object height="400" width="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="_cx" value="10583"><param name="_cy" value="10583"><param name="FlashVars" value=""><param name="Movie" value="http://current.com/e/88908860"><param name="Src" value="http://current.com/e/88908860"><param name="WMode" value="Transparent"><param name="Play" value="-1"><param name="Loop" value="-1"><param name="Quality" value="High"><param name="SAlign" value=""><param name="Menu" value="-1"><param name="Base" value=""><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"><param name="BGColor" value=""><param name="SWRemote" value=""><param name="MovieData" value=""><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"><param name="Profile" value="0"><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"><br /><embed src="http://current.com/e/88908860" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="400" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Then I was able to get a story I posted about <a href="http://current.com/items/88932197_microsoft_abandons_yahoo_bid_rebuffing_higher_sale_price">Yahoo rejecting Microsoft's offer</a> which was pretty cool</span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object height="400" width="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="_cx" value="10583"><param name="_cy" value="10583"><param name="FlashVars" value=""><param name="Movie" value="http://current.com/e/88933099"><param name="Src" value="http://current.com/e/88933099"><param name="WMode" value="Transparent"><param name="Play" value="-1"><param name="Loop" value="-1"><param name="Quality" value="High"><param name="SAlign" value=""><param name="Menu" value="-1"><param name="Base" value=""><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"><param name="BGColor" value=""><param name="SWRemote" value=""><param name="MovieData" value=""><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"><param name="Profile" value="0"><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"><br /><embed src="http://current.com/e/88933099" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="400" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Even though I don't get paid for those stories since they are just expressing opinions and copying articles from other news web sites, it does get me more known and people that might agree with my opinions. I've gotten several new connections there and my statistics are improving.<br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSga_yo6Kl0NBFfdPdR0rTUZvnSD-oUsoOu-1Nu2bssycsl-mpYq7uWe-MPZVRtair8I7mvyq3gHi06OwBv2mgGYobi1MctuhZUGKGp0OJ9NnU3P04YAOjSyi-ZjyZe0tBnBI/s1600-h/CurrentStats.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5196705836171903410" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSga_yo6Kl0NBFfdPdR0rTUZvnSD-oUsoOu-1Nu2bssycsl-mpYq7uWe-MPZVRtair8I7mvyq3gHi06OwBv2mgGYobi1MctuhZUGKGp0OJ9NnU3P04YAOjSyi-ZjyZe0tBnBI/s400/CurrentStats.jpg" border="0" /><br /></a></span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPSga_yo6Kl0NBFfdPdR0rTUZvnSD-oUsoOu-1Nu2bssycsl-mpYq7uWe-MPZVRtair8I7mvyq3gHi06OwBv2mgGYobi1MctuhZUGKGp0OJ9NnU3P04YAOjSyi-ZjyZe0tBnBI/s1600-h/CurrentStats.jpg"></a></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">Now that Current TV has raised the amount that they are paying for commercials from $1000 to $2500 I might have a better chance of getting one on TV without more support through networking the people that post on the web page</span></strong> <p><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">They have a new assignment to make a VCAM for <a href="http://current.com/topics/88806175_wachovia_vcam">Wachovia Bank</a> that I can try to do. Since the Poser animations haven't been very good response I think I'll put more live footage in this one since I got that video camera now.</span></strong></p><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><object height="400" width="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param name="_cx" value="10583"><param name="_cy" value="10583"><param name="FlashVars" value=""><param name="Movie" value="http://current.com/e/88904402"><param name="Src" value="http://current.com/e/88904402"><param name="WMode" value="Transparent"><param name="Play" value="-1"><param name="Loop" value="-1"><param name="Quality" value="High"><param name="SAlign" value=""><param name="Menu" value="-1"><param name="Base" value=""><param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"><param name="DeviceFont" value="0"><param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"><param name="BGColor" value=""><param name="SWRemote" value=""><param name="MovieData" value=""><param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"><param name="Profile" value="0"><param name="ProfileAddress" value=""><param name="ProfilePort" value="0"><param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"><param name="AllowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://current.com/e/88904402" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="400" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always"></embed></object><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:130%;">The commercial they showed as an example isn't very good and I think I can do a lot better with the theme they want of using Wachovia to save for your dreams. I was thinking of doing several ads this time to increase my chances of getting one on TV. One about the dream of owning a houseboat or a yacht to live on and I can take some footage at Lake Oroville to show the boats there. Also the dream of living on a golf course and I can shoot some footage of Dad's house at Kelly Ridge.</span></strong>Argonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462203245667423883noreply@blogger.com0