Friday, July 31, 2009
Drawing From Within...Why?
Thursday, July 16, 2009
WHEN WE SPEAK OF THE WITHIN--WHAT ARE WE MEANING?
Richard Grossinger, contemplates this phenomenon we call light in his book The Night Sky. In his chapter on occult astronomy he discusses with a characteristic look at the writings of others [especially Pierre Teilhard de Chardin--who wrote so much about the "within"] and then makes his own intuitive mystical synthesis.
So we can look at the sky as a screen of hydrogen fires, or we can look at the same light as the divine component of creation transmitted eternally. The sun is the local embodiment of this material, and the Earth is constructed of solar material. When we imagine the primordial seas with their millennial rains and steam, the upheaval of the molten core, the emergence of bare rock, and the clinging life mantle, we can intuit an inside to this process so that the astral is transmitted through the elemental …. We are encouraged to look anew into the night sky, and it is a hive of cells and souls traversed by divine light and the archetypal data of creation. In Gurdjieff’s system, light carries information from higher worlds into lower ones, information which can be transformed by physical nourishment and breath back into astral thought. (Richard Grossinger in The Night Sky, pp.49-50)
“When we imagine the primordial seas…” Can we then be like the ancient small creatures learning to survive in the residual tide pools as the oceans receded and withdrew from the land. These small creatures internalized the seawater—that which had been their supporting environment—and developed the circulatory system. Through individuation, having internalized the supporting environment, the codes and mores of our evolving social institutions, we can draw together by using the force of radial energy from the heart. We might think of this radial energy as ‘entropised’ energy which has built up our ‘within’—rather than having been dissipated throughout the aeons—radial energy now makes a rich conserve within the heart of humanity. Radial energy allows for the drawing together from within rather than being pushed together from without—thus allowing the optimum development of the individual as well as, and simultaneously with the whole, the collective, the society.
It is basic to an evolving consciousness to understand that, to a more or less degree depending on circumstances, all persons are bound together in ties of consciousness. We are unified from our initial creation as a spiritual being. Our energy source is shared, thus enabling us to communicate without verbal speech. Reality extends beyond time and space.
(c) Sheldon Stoff and Barbara Smith Stoff
(excerpted from the forthcoming Partnership Society: The Marriage of Intuition and Intellect)
WHAT IF SONY WERE A BOYSCOUT?
What if we, as Robert Coles counsels us, listen to the young ones???
This story just gets amazinger and amazinger!!!
As grandmother to one of these young ones, you can imagine how I have watched with great interest as this story developed from simply playing with lego toys...and sim games...on the computer...young ones learning to use their minds creatively.
"Six US kids are driving global wildfire detection thinking, overcoming technical as well as legislative barriers which have flummoxed adults, in order to push a detection system prototype through to trial this summer. Watch how this simple idea came about and snowballed to pro bono support from global tech giant Sony electronics." (from Sony's youtube promo)
Then, if you have time, you might scroll down for the three minute 'youtube' at bottom of page...or click on this 'livejournal' link....http://forestguardsony.livejournal.com/522.html ...and then--below that is a link to an article about these kids on softpedia.com...http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/When-Sony-Meets-Smokey-The-Bear-2780-01.html ...
....a world transforming...
with love and hope,
--Barbara Smith Stoff
Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:11 PM
Subject: more press on the Lego Guards
More press for the Lego Guards and their Forest Guard, from the tech industry media... curious!
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"Ever wondered at night "what if Sony were a boyscout?" Nope, I have not. But for those of you that have, I have news that will fry your display: Sony, probably seeking to gain some good publicity, melt the hearts of those of us that are still waiting for the PS3 to get cheaper or just because it cares about mother nature, having decided to support the Forest Guard team's idea regarding the prevention of forest fires."
http://gadgets.softpedia.com/news/When-Sony-Meets-Smokey-The-Bear-2780-01.html
(from Tracy--July 2, 2009)--Alejandro's LegoGuard team's experience just keeps getting more amazing all the time. Coach Heidi has just sent this link to a short YouTube video of the team's experience in Copenhagen and their project Forest Guard. REALLY well done, and quite fun to see my boy in pictures!!
Enjoy!
love, Tracy
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Heidi Buck >
Date: Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:31 AM
Subject: Independent UK blog site
To: theteam@legoguards.net
Hello Team,
Here is the UK Independent Forest Guard blog site (it has a link to the You tube video of the 3 minute video promo!!)
http://forestguardsony.livejournal.com/522.html
- Heidi
"Six US kids are driving global wildfire detection thinking, overcoming technical as well as legislative barriers which have flummoxed adults, in order to push a detection system prototype through to trial this summer. Watch how this simple idea came about and snowballed to pro bono support from global tech giant Sony electronics." http://forestguardsony.livejournal.com/522.html
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
GOOGLE AND THE AKASHIC
GOOGLE AND THE AKASHIC
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUS422108559020090706
"Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture, and knowledge that's often difficult to discover." I think we should be thankful to Google and Eric Schmidt, and not pile up the whole legal system on his Monday morning breakfast plate.
Upon reading the above article "Google's Dark Day"...I just want to say that I appreciate what Google is doing with rare books. I actually see this effort as a way of making accessible the "akashic" if you will. Here is a story which illustrates what I mean, and how Google can work for us.
This story is from our recent work with "The Western Book of Crossing Over...." ...I will quote from pages 82-83 …Lorraine has transmitted from the other side the following fragment of a poem. Sheldon has written it down exactly as it was given to him and included it in his writing of the book. The fragment:
For see, there nothing is in all the world
But only love worth any strife or song or tear.
Ask me not then to sing or fashion songs
Other than this, my song of love to thee.
--From the Arabic, "The Camel Rider"
"As a brief aside, we share the following: When the copy editor set us searching for a source for this poem fragment, we were at first dismayed and then amazed at what we [Sheldon and Barbara] uncovered. Sheldon said, "Where to look? I have never heard of this poem, nor of any reference to it. This just came from Lorraine, and I wrote it down."
After I [Barbara] spent a couple of hours looking for the proverbial needle in that haystack we call the World Wide Web of information now stored in cyberspace, I did find the poem from which the lines are taken. I found By Thy Light I Live: The Poetry of Wilfrid Blunt, selected and arranged by W.E. Henley and George Wyndham. It was published in London by William Heinemann in 1898, and printed by Ballantyne, Hanson& Co. of London and Edinburgh. The lines are found on page 273, taken from the last stanza of "The Camel Rider." Looking further, I discovered that Wilfrid S. Blunt was born in 1840 and died in 1922. All this certainly leaves me with some deep thoughts about the memory bank in the Akashic Field.
It is not only remarkable that Sheldon was able to record this from Lorraine's transmission, but also that I was able to locate the source. This book is digitized by Google from its resting place in the Library of the University of Michigan. I found the Google commentary rather lovely and poetic in itself, and worthy of reproduction here:
This is a digital copy of a book that was preserved for generations on library shelves before it was carefully scanned by Google as part of a project to make the world's books discoverable online.
It has survived long enough for the copyright to expire and the book to enter the public domain. A public domain book is one that was never subject to copyright or whose legal copyright term has expired. Whether a book is in the public domain may vary from country to country. Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture, and knowledge that's often difficult to discover.
Marks, notations, and other marginal"ia present in the original volume will appear in this file—a reminder of this book's long journey from the publisher to a library and finally to you. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful. –Google
"Public domain books are our gateways to the past, representing a wealth of history, culture, and knowledge that's often difficult to discover." I think we should be thankful to Google, and not pile up the whole legal system on his Monday morning breakfast plate.
