The great thing about the internet in general, and social networking in particular, is that
once you're on the digital superhighway,
there is no human body involved.

Only at the exits - keyboard/fingers , screen/eyes , speakers/ears - there is some body.
On the internet there is no body.

Is there a "some body" writing this blog? And how would you know?
What if the online body is built up of attention?

We had a discussion this morning at IIW2005 about attention data and identity. It's clear that attention data is founded on identity, it's less clear that attention data is identity in the sense of "digital identity" as it's commonly defined as a collection of attributes, preferences, and traits.

What if the same is true offline ?
What if you are where your attention is?
Then who are you?
Could it be that you ARE your attention ?

It appears to me that once again, technology provides us with a mirror - the online identity - to trigger the fundamental questions of mankind to yet another dimension.

Best regards, Ron
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Why change ?

Proposition: What you want to give most is what you want to receive most.

Demonstration:
- To give something is to express love from the inside to the outside.
- The reason for doing so is, that something new may enter at this inner location that was previously occupied with what has now been expressed.
- The resulting emptiness inside is what is called attention, and attention paid to love outside, invites this outside love to flow into this inner location.
- Therefore, what you want to give most is what you want to receive most.

Q.E.D.

The primary characteristic of any living system is openness - what is inside flows to the outside, to make room for what is outside to flow inside.

Thoughts?

Normal is that which requires the least amount of energy.

Thoughts?

Frustration is the desire to solve someone else's problem.
When you feel frustrated, you know one thing for sure: it is NOT your problem.

Thoughts?

Ego is attention energy for which there is no current use.

Thoughts?

Lately i notice an increasing number of people who are waiting.

They have come from a business perspective.
Then they enter the spiritual path.

Next, when they want to create, and perhaps make some money,
their reality, or the universe, throws them back.

As one person said : "it seems as if the message is that i should wait".

Waiting, in this sense of the word, is different from ignoring, is different from "meanwhile doing something else."

This is a busy wait, a waiting that takes up all of one's attention.
Waiting, in this sense of the word, is inserting a maximum amount of energy / attention into that which one is waiting for.

This waiting is the same as "doing nothing".

My questions to you, Zaadz community members :

1. have you encountered such message? The message that says "hold your fire" ? Perhaps you will share some of your own experiences ?
2. what is the new, the unknown, that these people are inserting energy into / paying attention to / waiting for ?
   
3. What is your source for knowing this unknown? How certain are you about this answer ?  Perhaps we can find out when to expect , by following the materialization process ? Even if you are not sure at all, do post - you may help others find their answers by using yours in a  "wisdom of crowds" fashion
   

Please share this blog with many others, have them post here too.

Let's find out !

Best regards, Ron

Demonstration:
- Children are the attention of their parents (axioma#1).
- The attention that parents express can not be expressed by anyone else, and therefore can not be expressed by their children (axioma#2)
- Therefore, children express what their parents repress.

Q.E.D.

Thoughts?

Hi Jim,

Recently a friend told me a personal story, how he and his wife went upstream to find the source of the Elbe river. He said he'd started out in Hamburg, Germany, where the Elbe is a large river floating through town. Then they went further upstream, into another country, until they were at a small stream. And even there they could go further up the stream to the source of this large river Elbe.

My friend said they ended up at a place where the stream was so small, only one foot wide.

I asked him if he tried stepping into this one-foot wide Elbe. He said no. I then asked if he thought that his step into the source of the Elbe would somehow run this large Elbe river dry, further downstream in this city called Hamburg. Again he said no he thought this would not happen.

I consider this a miracle. When we think of a source, we think of something larger than the outcome / the produce. But reality is different.

I wonder if your question makes sense when we assume that the flow of our thought is naturally towards downstream, with our body sensing towards source which is upstream.

Perhaps miracles are miracles only when we look downstream?

Our body contains the brains, and yet these same brains tell us that we can imagine our body. Which one is larger?

The acheology of the word miracle shows the latin word for "to wonder at".

My suggestion would be to wonder at the direction of thought, and whether this direction is upstream or downstream direction.

Hope this helps.
Best regards, and thanks much for your endorsement,
Your buddy Ron

(response to a heartfelt message from Martin Dewhurst, founder of Team Penny On http://www.penny-on.com )


Yes, going home is going where the food is.
Food we need as a part of the creation cycle.

Food is physical food, food is love, food is order.
That's what we need.
It is the first part of the tide of love and attention.
From our viewpoint, the search for food is the search to alter matter into energy.

Then there is creation.

Creation is altering energy into matter.
It is the apparently opposite part of the tide of love and attention.

From the viewpoint of those who gave us the food, it is quantum leap, the dark side of the moon.
They don't know what the food they gave will do , what effect it will have an onto whom.
It is the daybreak situation ; the wave no longer coming ashore, and not yet returning to source.

Nigel Risner often says : when you are in the room , BE in the room.

I hope this compass helps you Martin to be in the room all the time.
To really see that you are in the room all the time, is to see that there is no room.