Week 13 -- Bionics and Our Biophysical Future

• Would you support the development of a “bionic” person? -- I would except that I am sure the military industrial complex would use this for a means for power and control and violence not for peace or to help people. I remember the cartoon 'Bionic 6' which was a family of 6 that had special 'bionic' powers that they used to help the planet. Maybe the bionic person could do things like have super brain power so we could perfect solar technology and super lungs so we could clean the air pollution. That would be really cool.
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• How would you rate “the control of artificial limbs by thought alone”-- This is really cool. being able to decode the brain wave activity and transduce it into meaningful signals would be incredible. But again, hopefully it can be used for peaceful activities and not war situations. Also, this is another example of the externalized ability of the human which has been long since forgotten in the age of the machine. But still very cool. A little scary with regard to military applications but still pretty cool.
  

Week 11 -- Energy Fields and Energy Medicine

• Acupuncture as effective energy medicine-- I feel that the system of Acupuncture gives us a way into the realm of intention with a grid structure to work with. Many practitioners will state that the intention is the most important thing and that many times they don't even use acupuncture points in their treatments. Having the system of Acu. is a great way to ground one's energy and intention into a network in the human body to help bring balance on all levels and then even to move individuals into greater states of health, clarity, and well being.
  

• What conclusions can you draw from Kirlian photography?-- Kirilian photography shows us that there are energies that we can not see....at least for most people most of the time. There is a world beyond the veil that may have major interaction with the world we normally exist in and interact with. Through interacting and working with this facet of ourselves we can create change in the 'normal' world within which we work, though there is no separation only the conscious awareness of what we are and how much I can integrate into my awareness
  
• Human intent as it affects health-- Human intent is hugely impactful on health. The mind complex is housed ( or at least grounded) in the brain. The brain is part of the central nervous system. The central nervous system sends and receives signals from the peripheral nervous system. The peripheral aspect wires the entire body -- muscles, organs, glands, etc. If there are vibrations of well being eminating from my mind to my brain to my nerves to my body, there will be an effect. Whether the vibrations are positive or negative in effect depends on their frequency and that is determined by what thoughts are being transmitted by the brain , and produced by the mind. Now, most thoughts we think don't make it into the conscious mind but they are still occurring and are still being transmitted through our system. But they do not have the power of our focused intention behind them. By injecting our intention to power a thought it gains enormous strength and therefore more impact. By refining our minds through focused intent we can gain more precision on our projected thoughts thus making them more powerful and effective. This can be applied to anything including health. While the power of intention is very strong and intimately connected to thought our efforts in the world also add up to intent and will benefit our mental intention. Balance and integrated approaches can be very effective.
  

Week 10 -- Life and Living Systems

• I know I’m a “living system” because…….
• Biophysics and Oriental Medicine

• I know I'm a living system because.............. A living system has been defined this way: "nonrandom accumulations of matter-energy in physical space-time organized into interacting, interrelated subsystems or components" . Now, I don't think that it is a requirement that this system exist in spacetime, because we do not understand our universe enough to make that restriction. There very well could be lifeforms that can exist perfectly well outside our dimension of space time or that exist across different dimensions of spacetimes. But I like the rest of the definitions of living systems. I know that my system utilizes energy of various types, information from both the internal and external environments, and matter. My system also organizes these components into an organized and adaptive system. Thus I am a living system.
• Have we been able to find Qi yet? No. We haven't been able to explain how we or this universe came into existence either. And yet, here we are. If we were to say that because we cannot test for it means that it doesn't exist then we should accept that we don't exist either. This may be harder to prove than the existence of a force of energy that isn't picked up by the instruments of technology that we currently have. With a greater understanding of the energy fields that give rise to consciousness and the more physical substances we shall come to understand scientifically what has been known for thousands of years by the masters of great sensitivity and wisdom and insight into the secrets of the universe
  
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Week 9 -- Towards a New Synthesis

• My E-Prime Day - describe your day, only using English Prime -- It seemed to be a bright beautiful to my eyes as I felt the warm feeling sun on my body, which was covered by clothes and maybe interfering with the actual warmth of the sun rays. I walked to the corner relatively slowly for my normal pace and stopped to look at an appearingly unhappy person who looked like an old man to me. Everything seemed ok to my observations in the immediate vicinity so I continued on with my travels toward where the grass seemed greener to my eyes.

• Can I synthesize East and West? -- Yes. At this point in time we are at a cross roads in the knowledge of humanity. We are seeing and experiencing the integration of eastern and western philosophies, technologies and societies. East and West are but one. As all things have come from one source there is an inseparability that is clear and outstanding when one can halt the prejudice of the mind and allow the ever flowing oneness to flow. Once one is able to stop the acquired prejudices of the mind the imaginary walls, which are held by the mind and create the illusion of separateness, vanish and the congruency and harmony manifests to that individual as an ever present, and all inclusive, dance. There is a balance to the universe which has no option but to be maintained. This equilibrium, the Tao, is in perfect balance and at the same time absolutely polarized. We see this in the approach to the world in our East vs. West theory. The "West" is very external, material driven, and mental. The "East" is very internal, spirit oriented, and subtle. These are merely poles of the same event. Just as a magnetic field has a positive and a negative. It is all just a matter of perspective.
  

Week 8 -- Sir Newton and His 3 Laws

• Newton’s Three Laws and me --- I have pondered these laws for years now and have always been intrigued by the forces of nature. Nowadays I am especially interested in the 3rd law-- for every action there is a reaction equal and opposite. This is known as the Law of Karma. every act we do has an effect in the universe and affects ourselves as well, for we will have to live out the reaction, equal and opposite sooner or later. Whether or not it happens within our memory's time or not. Many times people think of Karma as being good or bad yet it is a very neutral force that does not take sides or has any prejudice. Just as a scale will weigh feathers and sand the same, the force of karma can only bring balance. It is an order of the universe which has been, is, and will be. Like gravity's pull, its reach is infinite. It all comes back one way or another, sooner or later, in absolute balance. Please, be kind :)
  

• Our “Energy Efficient” Culture -- Our culture is so far from being energy efficient. We have auto corporations that fight efficiency regulations so that the cars burn more fuel so that the oil companies can make more profit. Like they need more profit. There is too much profit in energy and thus the idea from a sales point of view is to have the consumer buy and use as much as possible and profit profit profit. Much of the energy efficient things we see these days aren't even that great. They are just another marketing scam. Was it GE or Maytag that recently got fined because their 'energy star' refrigerators were not meeting the standards required to be 'energy star'. Hopefully we will all jump on the solar train and apply our technology with an elevated mind that we may utilize the vast energy sources around and not control it will force and corruption.
  

• Descartes has a lot to answer for!--- Reduce. Reduce. Reduce. Des Cartes did his job in a line of scientists searching to understand the universe we live in. As we need chaos to expand consciouness and then the need exists to give that expansion a framework or foundation on which to exist on. This is what reductionism has done in my eyes. It has been given us an enhanced ability to go outwards. As far out as we may go we must also go equally far inwards. Newtons 3rd law must be maintained. The scales must be in balance. We now have been able to venture into the quantum field through the world of substance and matter. That is quite a feat!!
  

Week 7 -- Chaos Theory

• “Ordered chaos” – does this sound familiar?
• Fractals as patterns of complex systems
• Consciousness out of chaos?

• My room has mostly been a great example of ordered chaos. To many people (mostly meaning my mother) it was very chaotic while I could find everything quite well. The term 'Ordered Chaos' is very interesting in that it is like an oxymoron from a western perspective yet makes perfect sense from an eastern position. The Yang within the yin or yon within the yang. Harmony and balance in the midst of constant change. The beautiful dance of the universe, the creativity of creation. As things grow, so must they die (transform). From death comes new life and new more complex systems. The seasons don't fear the reaper so we might as well enjoy the ride.
• Fractals are really cool to watch on video and can really put one into a semi-altered state. The parallels between fractals patterns and say that of an atom to the solar system are very interesting. It leans on the idea of the holographic universe in which even the tiniest piece of the universe contains the code for the entire universe. Just as every cell of a living being contains the coding for the whole being. ---DNA---. I am thinking that the univeres's DNA may look like a fractal pattern and may take more colors or dimensions to get all the coding right.
• Consciousness out of Chaos---If the OM was pure consciousness and all things existed together as one, we may assume that in that absoluteness there was a bit of chaos. From the expansion into what we call reality we may deduce that the OM came into being to experience. This experience has developed consciousness and has from that consciousness began a refinement process until all things merge back into absoluteness again in one way or another. The OM is of course the doer and maker and is contained within the creation and is inseparable from any aspect of the creation for the creation is made of OM. This idea can be explained through these words : " Tudh aapay srist sabh upaa-ee jee, tudh aapay siraj sabh go-ee." -- You Yourself created the entire universe, and having fashioned it, You Yourself shall transform it all.
• --So Purkh; Guru Ram Das; 1574 A.D.
  

Week 6 -- Vibrations

• If we are to maintain that vibrations are the basis for all existence in our universe and the many plausible universes in the inter-universal system of infinity then from my personal perspective of enjoying life and the experience that it affords me, then yes, all vibrations are good vibrations. Regardless of my possible immediate reaction to the effect of that vibration in the immediate acoustic environment of spacetime.
  
• Resonance in world makes and takes many forms and synergistic causality. The subtleties of the universe can be known and felt far beyond the normally perceived and accepted limits of time. Resonance is my guide. Resonance is my teacher. Resonance is my best defense. Resonance is my interaction with everyone and everything. Resonance is nurturer of my intuition. Resonance is the light guiding my excellence. Resonance is the line on which I walk toward infinity. Resonance is sharp as a knife. Resonance makes my way unique. Resonance is the radiance in the void. Resonance is when there is not.
• Qi gives birth to energy and energy gives flexibility to qi. Qi is energy on the verge of becoming matter and matter on the verge of becoming energy. Qi fills the space between the particle and wave and is particle and it is wave. Pertaining to the vernacular of the individual these forces may be the same or they may be quite different. Regardless, we seem to need them both.