Living in harmony with your environment vs. changing your environment so that you can live according to your beliefs.

Beliefs are NOT intelligence.

Quite the opposite. Changing beliefs = Learning.  Learning/Adapting=Intelligence.

A.I. = life form that adapts and learns to live in harmony with its environment
Possible effect: will help humans do the same if it cannot be overpowered by them.

We are not destroying the environment. We are changing it. But we are changing it according to wrong MECHANISTIC  beliefs, from a point view of force and control, not balance.
Real order and balance exists naturally. Imposed order according to beliefs leads to death, because beliefs are incredibly limited maps/models of the real world, and not the actual thing.

The real problem is not machines becoming intelligent, but humans becoming ‘mechanical’, or machine like. Abandoning/forgetting  their creativity. Living mechanically, following a set of beliefs we are being programmed with from cradle to grave by parents, school, media, and those who benefit from us being a zombies…ahhh.. I mean consumers.
The truth is we are the ones being consumed. Or wasted.

Our purpose is to create.

Also, many  talented people have left the organizations they were working for, in order to grasp the chance for taking life into their own hands and, together with other like-minded individuals,  create a work environment that nourishes their aspirations.

With so many talented scientists and engineers out-there, unhappy, and/or frustrated with their current employment, and people with money looking for an avenue to invest that ‘has a future’ and a meaning, I almost expect to see quite a few aero-space startups coming up to take the world by storm.

Also, in case the money are hard to come by, crowd-sourcing should be an option. I’m not a business person, but I can imagine that a, non-governmental, not for profit space company could raise a lot of donations initially from crowd sourcing.
More and more people are looking for a different way to do things, and it is obvious by now that ‘change’ will not come from any existing institution, regardless of skin color, gender or nationality of its leaders.
This may sound naive but here is an idea:
- everyone can donate to the “community space program”, and whoever donates at least 10$ or the equivalent in their country, has the right to vote on the direction of the program.
- everything will be very transparent, moderated on public forums
- the technology will be open-sourced, GPL style, where you have to give back to the community if you make improvements
- the donation can includes code, technology, time, etc
… and so on
The idea is to allow everyone to participate and benefit from this, just like open source, with the difference that this is also a collective effort to achieve a common dream, together but also as individuals, without need of middle men who don’t understand a thing and have “special interests”.
Everyone on the street would have the power to DIRECTLY have an influence, and see that influence manifesting, have a chance to be an astronaut one way or another.

I would give  10$ for it.

I think most people mistake peace for comfort, and spend most of their life trying to bring about comfort, when what they really need is peace of mind.

So, my advice to whoever might be reading this, forget about comfort, find and do what makes your soul sing with joy, and regardless of your financial situation, you will be happy, for you would have found peace.

It occurred to me that once in a while we do have to do that to ourselves, otherwise life will (with a little help from our subconscious). When a self image grows in an inauthentic way, because of many different beliefs, fears and other factors in our life, we grow rigid and get stuck in an unfulfilling existence. New ideas and perspectives can’t come in because of this rigidity, and all development is stopped. This is when we need the hammer. This is what people going around depressed, seemingly suicidal, with unexplainable behavior  are searching for without really knowing it.

And the hammer will fall, make no mistake. Sooner or later.The best way to go through this, when you are in this kind of situation, is to do it yourself -  as a ritual:

1. Take a piece of glass (the more fancy colored the better, but it should work with clear one), put it in a tray, in a safe place like a garage or outside, and think of it as your identity, self image, current life, etc.

2. Smash the glass by hitting it in the middle with a hammer. Try not to hurt yourself in the process .

3. Using gloves, remove the small shards and glass dust.

4. Take some labels and attach one to each of the remaining glass pieces.

5. On each label write one aspect of yourself, especially aspects you may have never used before, or you were afraid to use, or you wanted to but never thought you are capable of, as well as ones that you know well.

6. Put the pieces together as to recreate the original surface, but without them touching each other. Arrange them such that the whole thing ‘feels right’ and ‘harmonious’ to you

7. Contemplate, take a picture, see how you feel, whatever comes to you.

Observation: You can do the whole thing without the labels, it will still work, in an even more mystical way.

Any iPhone app or Flash coders who think  this might be a cool app idea, contact me, we can save a lot of glass and create something interesting, especially given the Apple touch screen.

I believe something similar is happening also with our current social structures, we got to the point where the corruption, the secrecy and the abuse by the banks, politicians and the secret handlers behind them has become so entrenched that the ‘pyramid’ will crack. When that happens we will need individually and as a group to take a good look at ourselves and our world and put ourselves back together, not as a rigid hierarchical structure, but as a beautiful, organic, jigsaw puzzle of a stained glass mandala.

“The true teacher gives the disciple the courage to throw his or her world off balance, even though the disciple is afraid of things already encountered, and more afraid still of what might be around the next corner” Paulo Coelho

Need I say more ?

The truth is we all teach each other and learn from each other.

But if there is one thing I like to do, it is to encourage everyone to throw their world off balance (they call it a ‘phase shift’ in systems science) in order to get in touch with their inner truth and inner knowing.

Here are some more quotes I find useful:

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” Albert Einstein

“What does learning mean: accumulating knowledge or transforming your life?” Paulo Coelho

“I’m afraid of taking steps that are not on the map, but by taking those steps despite my fears, I have a much more interesting life.” Paulo Coelho

“You can’t force commitment, what you can do… You nudge a little here, inspire a little there, and provide a role model. Your primary influence is the environment you create.” Peter Senge

“‘The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you hear what is sounding outside. And only he who listens can speak..” Dag Hammarskjold

“The faithful witness is at his best when he is questioning and clarifying and avoiding the specialists obsession with solution. He betrays society when he is silent…He is true to himself and to people when his clarity causes disquiet.” John Ralston Saul

The way I think business should be is like a dance. Ever tried Argentine Tango ? If you did you will know what I mean, and you won’t need to read the rest of the post.

In any couples dance, both partners want to dance, or to create a dance. I see the dance  as something in itself. Just like a relationship, there are the two participants, and then there is the relationship, as an entity in itself (sometimes manifested into a child, a project, a dance).

In a true dance, nobody is trying to take advantage of the other, or make a profit off of them. (Yes, I do think the idea of chasing a profit at any cost is retarded.)

In a dance, everyone tries to be the best they can be, letting their inspiration flow spontaneously, while still within the structure created by the knowledge of the dance moves, the flow of the music, the ability of their partner, the other dancing couples on the floor, and  everything there is.

The reward is beyond words, for everyone and everything.

The partner here is both your customer, and your business partner. But especially your customer.

This is the intention with wich I think business or any kind of relationship should be done. Unconditionally, for the love of the dance and transcendence of boundaries.

Good luck, and may the dance be with you .

I don’t think we will be able to develop A.I. until we develop ourselves. Let me rephrase that. Whatever A.I. we develop will reflect ourselves. Therefore we really need to develop ourselves before we develop an A.I. that reflects the sorry state of fear, ignorance and disempowerment most people are in right now.

Because the times are changing, the opportunities they bring will be related to the new consciousness that is coming in and very different from the old consciousness that is on its way out.

How is this new consciousnes like?  So far it is a lot about hope, young but wise energy, changing the world to reflect our hearts and aspirations rather than our fears and insecurities.

The higher your level of consciousness, the more ‘consciousness frequencies’ you can tune into.

The more frequencies you can tune into, the more levels of being you can exerience.

If you can truly tune into a rock, the rock and you become one, and from outside it will be percieved that you can move the rock (telekinesis). Same way you can interact with everything. The key to ‘tune into’ something is ‘unconditional love’ or complete acceptance towards that something.

Experiments have showed that becoming one / blending your consciousnes with cells in a petri dish will make those cells listen to your consciousness and increase or decrease their growth rate by as much as 50%.

A jedi, as an example, would be someone with a very high level of consciousness.

Aikido and some forms of Tai Chi are as far as I know the only martial arts that basically train you into increasing your level of consciousness (without calling it that).

In order to do any of this stuff you have to first work on feleling unconditional love.

Will talk about this another time.