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Humanity has progressed by quantum leaps - standing upright (family groups) - talking (tribal group cultures) - writing( city states and empires) - and now the digital age ( one world system). We are on the threshold of a new age of space colonization, freedom from drudgery of work, expansion of ...

This conversation brought a lump to my throat. The idea that dealing with ourselves is the ultimate achievement - more than the jaw dropping achievements of rowing across the ocean alone or swimming huge distances in hostile environments. But it makes sense that WE are the most challenging part o...

You are fine in stating your views on religion, but why assume that everyone else has got it wrong - why is it necessary to malign Indian religion or other ideas in order to promote yours. A little modesty would be good. The Buddhists certainly and probably many Christians do not encourage your a...

@allthings509 Yes I see your point but what I was trying to say was that Russia needs to control the Ukraine for strategic reasons as a border state with the west and will do whatever it takes to achieve control.

This kind of politics is not worthy of a comment - so why am I commenting....damn.

Most "old farts" have already forgotten what young airheads still have to learn, that is the problem. This interview is irony meeting flippancy - so true to their respective styles. Chandler is a cross cultural character - american 'can do bluntness' overlaid on British 'self aware mocking'. Not ...

This tells me nothing about what made Cezanne special - even amateur painters know about composition and colour.

My understanding is that he was creating an impression of 'movement within stillness' - he was trying to avoid 'dead art' and saying something about the limits of photography. Am I wr...

This is a bit like selling margarine - I was hoping to find out the WHY and HOW of his painting system or language. I will have to look elsewhere.

I am reading this book and in spite of my previous comment I am enjoying it. Its full of irony - especially if you have had similar experiences. He won the Thomas Cook travel award - a good joke the way he describes Mexico. If you live in the 1st world go down on your knees every day in gratitud...

Its interesting how working class people who make fortunes want to play this role of being "just one of the lads" and the invisibility that goes with it - but could afford to buy up a whole coastline in the Bahamas to have privacy if it suits them.

Get real Lady you are rich and famous, stop play...

I must only take those pills in the morning in future.

If all the wealth in the world was distributed equally - within 3 months things would be "unfair" again - life among all creatures is a struggle for resources or power - top dog is a reality. What we have is a problem of consumerism - production not for our needs but for our uncontrolled appetite...

The reason we don't stay in the transcendent is because of our mental and physical habit of returning to familiar 'relative' experiences. In time we adapt to maintain more of the effect of unbounded space, experienced as expanded awareness. The ultimate should be as if we were a mirror looking at...

David can I make a suggestion. Reading from a paper quickly with no passion is very boring. You are a fine looking man with flowing locks and if you were talking to us with a few charts thrown in it would keep our attention. I can read a book for this. Sorry but this is VIDEO.

If production is more efficient with less labour - who as a result have less power, then we have a permanent 2 class society - but we also have low inflation. This explains why politicians are skirting around this issue - they have no solution for it and it works for the economy. The Egyptians bu...

I was once told I was too educated to take risks and succeed in business - this was so true, meaning I knew too much about downside and not enough about opportunity.

Do I detect a mischievous irony in his saying "stay hungry stay foolish" to this audience who will be seriously educated.

Spinoza clearly wrote objectively about his own subjective experience of "unity consciousness". To try to understand a unified universe when your reference point is your consciousness functioning as the relative mind is an interesting intellectual theory - no more. LSD or deep self examination so...

The problem is we don't have too many choices of systems to run society and they all become corrupt eventually - as humans we get the system we deserve at the time. Most of humanity behave as if they are here on a day pass - someone else will pick up the trash - we haven't yet learnt how to dese...

This comment is for people with one brain cell. Its interesting how humans can make an animal an object , a thing, when they eat it, or murder it, and a subject , a being with a cute name when its a pet. What I don't understand is how Spain is allowed to perpetrate murder for entertainment within...

Its funny how all these musical knowalls miss the essential issue. This singer stirs the emotions, cuts right to the heart and gives credence to the words of the song. There are already enough technically perfect singers out there to help us fall asleep.

This is an impressive video. I have been interested in knowing how both tunnels were constructed since I came to Cork in 2003. It was well presented and I have learnt much from it. Thank you.

Thanks Kyoshi. I have spent most of my life finding out who I am - one cosmic experience settled that one - I know this is not my home - but for some reason I choose to go through a human experience, and you are correct we need to be lighter not take it so seriously - but that often requires cour...

I don't like to be negative but please....if you have no ideas to help us regarding human consciousness and nothing to say about why so many people don't find everything wonderful....then just don't say it. Living is definitely different depending on your perception - when you are drunk and canno...

Why ...how ....does she get to me....such emotion... something like direct soul communication.... its hard to fathom... I am shaken.

Anyone is vulnerable to moral corruption - I know because I lived much of my life in South Africa. In systems justified by war emotion takes over and turns ordinary moderate people into the same monsters they call the enemy. Israel has gone from being brave underdogs in the six day war - to using...

sum..ting...wong... as they say in china

As Thaddeus Golas described, consciousness is at best only about 'probabilities' of communication between people - with different agendas all our relationships are potentially wild. So all cultures try to 'domesticate' their citizens to manage them - cultural norms. Europe and USA being are just ...

An interesting discussion. Whats in a name? Capitalism or whatever.

Technology is creating a new world as barriers to new ideas fall.

New complexities arise as world populations grow. Humanity is an innovative self conscious system evolved over a million years or so. If this change happens in ...

There are lots of ways to approach the "void" or "the everything" etc. I like the writings of Thaddeus Golas "Love & Pain" & "The guide". There are physical ways through extreme activity, dervish turning. There are mechanical ways - meditation.

Chemical - LSD. I use most (except chemical - too b...

Surely the prison system is supposed to rehabilitate people - thats the point of it.

This is also about context, the horrors against innocent civilians in war are overlooked because they happen in enemy territory. We are all capable of horrors if the context changes, she did it in cold blood when...

Very nice work. Your style is loose but your thinking is tight ~ what I mean is that you know what you should and should not worry about , you know how to work. I have struggled with the problems of overworking and overcolouring for years but its getting easier. Thanks for a most instructive few...

I like the explanation of the universe as being a single entity which may behave in different ways, either as an infinite spatial entity = fully consciousness / as a mass entity with no consciousness / or as an energy entity which rapid vibrates between space and mass ( called human existence). S...

Its interesting that cultures that delay gratification developed in the northern hemisphere where long winters forced people to plan ahead for future reward when food ran out. In southern continents the climate allowed for rewards in all seasons more or less - planning was minimal. This seems to ...

I am very grateful for this man - he has provided me with another piece of the puzzle, prizing apart the bars to freedom.