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 2 Mar 2002 @ 09:30
Namasté
I have much to learn and thank those who cared to comment on my last post.
It is my humble opinion that the use and purpose of NCN are not described with adequate respect for every member or potential member, for young and old, for peaceful understanding of its potential. It is mostly for this lack of visible courtesy that we have argumentative conflict in these halls, which is wasteful, pointless and needless to any outcome of health. In addition, there are administrative writings in direct conflict with the description on the home page that further incites the riot. I am not pleased with the resulting negative experiences that have wounded so many members, or all the energy I spent soothing their souls on and off line.
"- linking the people who change the world –"
This is the message I hear, loud and clear here. It is wonderfully and completely benign.
There are an infinite number of ways to fix the many problems on this site and many good suggestions have been made, yet there is no possibility for reform of the Community Space in selfish interest. Private, exclusive and inclusive groups of any kind are fine, but they are not substitutes for protecting our mutual freedom, or leading with a loving heart. To deny this, hide it, maintain prejudice, or pretend that one does not need to have it, is precisely why we are gathered.
In this profound lesson I finally know how to conduct myself here. I apologize if any of my writing has been offensive as it was never my intent to do so and please disregard my philosophical words. It was inappropriate for me to post them in ignorance of the need to preserve community nebulosity. More >
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28 Feb 2002 @ 01:38
Dear Ming, Flemming and Affectionately, Mister Ranger:
It is inevitable that I must thank for all this amusement here at the New Civilization Network park, and I am sure that many members stand beside me when I say, a deep, warm, fuzzy – "Thank You" – from the bottom of our hearts!
As one of your recruits, I entered here gratefully, to expand my knowledge and intimacy with the science of Conscious Evolution, so that I may be an asset to those I meet, that I will be wise enough to be worthy of trust and be embraced when I am hurting. And so I have been – magnificently! Not just a few times, not just by you. It feels so slowly and excruciatingly good against the otherwise unconscious fray, that blinding place, created when we cannot recognize Our God in any other thing. The lack of confidence in our ability, the strutting of our egos; Negativity wearing away our hopes in the irrelevance of worthy paradox and the fears of what might be, usher in the darkness where we now collide.
In reaction to these tussles, I went hunting my archive of healthy conscious principles and discovered these right where I thought I filed them. I posted them to quell din of pain and to draw us back to center. I re-read them when viewing a members comment and considered them quite good as ethical goals for unified investment and reward. I am proud of them. As one of my dear friends remarked, we cannot share something if we don’t say what it is.
In everything I now know and my respect for achieving our dreams before I leave the body, I present these sentient convictions to you and this community you built, to be placed in clear view, where we will see them every time we log and click. The point size should be healthy I think, and warm to the newcomers and veterans alike.
OUR GOALS ARE SET TO ATTAIN ONLY THOSE THINGS
WHICH ARE HEALTHY, LOVING & GOOD –
THAT WE STRIVE IN UNISON TO PURSUE ONLY THOSE THINGS
WHICH WILL TRULY MAKE US HAPPY TOGETHER –
WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT
WE ARE ALWAYS IN THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF SELF-IMPROVEMENT
If there is one (1) member who feels they are incompatible with this creed, then let them make a protest here below for the last time. No one must agree with these goals and they will not take away any freedom, but they will remind us that its spiritual fulfillment we seek.
I invite any web designers who feel passionately about the power of these three objectives, to create a new Flash presentation for the portal, the index.html, the ‘home’ page, the front door of our civilization and light it with this warm greeting. I begin as a team of one – who else will make this possible?
At Your Service > > > Mark More >
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27 Feb 2002 @ 21:42
One of our beloved members made the statement, "I think that conflict is inevitable..." She was referring to what is likely to happen among people and I do agree that it is more than likely during these times. If I examine this truthful wisdom against our desire for a peaceful society, I stop to consider if conflict is indeed "inevitable." Will it always be inevitable?
Is there anyone here on NCN that deliberately looks for conflict? Is there a hunger for it? Is conflict generated between people for some type of just reward? Does argument bring us any closer to social harmony, sisterhood, brotherhood, or peace? I don’t think so. There may be many definitions or descriptions of the reasons we make conflicts, yet our most important task is to find a way to end them, as many of them as possible, as often as possible.
Martin Luther King talked often about this barrier to peaceful coexistence, his words have been posted recently in the log of the Silvergryffin’s as "MLK." Did we understand what we read, "…violence multiplies violence…?" It is the same as saying criticism multiples criticism and judgment multiples judgment. Simpleman says clearly and repeatedly that this will not do. Andy Lehman posted, "And now, ladies and gentlemen, a bit of brutal honesty," a wonderful log about responsible thinking and behavior. I too have posted many items on NCN for the express purpose of holding up models of excellence for us to follow, but they seem not to affect our ability to change old abusive patterns. Our writing goes far beyond forcing everyone to agree, as though many act like we would suffer for it, as an offering of love to this community and the global one, to head in the right direction: To confine our use of freedom to the loving sort alone.
It has been discouraging and demoralizing to be having these argumentative and hurtful experiences. I’m embarrassed in front of the new member I invited here. We are lacking tact, finesse, sincerity and honesty when it counts the most – when we are squeezed. Are we being actually pressured, or do we perceive it that way? I could use many expletives now to bolster my emotional distress, but I will refrain from perpetuating that type of thing as my tolerance will endure. I know this is not a personal contest and therefore I would ask please: that YOU do NOT write things on this site that are not intended to have a specific constructive purpose. Anything else will not serve any of our needs at any time. If you don’t have something nice to say – don’t! Show some humility as though we might learn, as though we think seriously about what others tell us. Be helpful, don’t be a critic. Think "community" at all times. Throw your chest out with pride and say we stand for something good – then be that goodness.
If you are confused or feel you are offended, stop pushing your agenda and ask the other person for clarification. Ask for a "time-out." Explain that something occurred which made you feel awkward and why with kindness. Ask them kindly not to do that anymore because it upsets you. It can be that simple.
Now, if we enter these hallowed virtual spaces with the expectation that conflict is inevitable, I would guarantee that we will be correct, confirmed in our mindset, we will be "right!" Okay then, aren’t we smart? Aren’t we all losers? My explanation of this inevitability is due to our believing, with immovable conviction, that people will fight. People always have the potential to fight, but it is not a given fact of life that we must. The first step out of this darkness is to believe with absolute clarity that conflict is NOT inevitable! By doing so we will stop the cycles of human-to-human abuse where it starts in the mind, and we will become walking examples of faith in our genetic capacity for goodness. Pretty soon we might even be able to make the claim that Loving is Inevitable.
The world will be saved by individuals of integrity freely joining. --Buckminster Fuller
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27 Feb 2002 @ 00:26
I would like to explore the following question: How does a person mentally accommodate the ability to change and evolve the self?
The challenges I find in having peaceful relationships with others and most specifically with a spouse, I have come upon the notion that most of my time is spent arguing over things of little substance, because we are more focused on differences and than we are on the topic. Many, including myself, have been predisposed to play devil’s advocate, to be contrary in some way, or to prove how smart we are. This barrier can be identified as thought, but it is more accurately attributed to the engrams of mind, those automatic, unconscious type of responses that we rarely notice. Anger is one of them, quite silly really, immature and a total self indulgent fabrication. These engrams trigger so quickly we don’t sense them, but we sure focus on the sense of the result. These illnesses are obstacles for your relationships to negotiate when they try to help you, and make a shell that is very difficult to see beyond. More >
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26 Feb 2002 @ 13:47
Namasté.
Ming thank you for maintaining this thread of topic because it needs to be ironed out. At the same time I would mention the benefit of using some other part of NCN to discuss "heavy" subjects like this to keep the logs less encumbered, but that is another topic for another time.
When has anyone argued that there are not different viewpoints? But different viewpoints do not change Cosmic reality in any fundamental way. What Ming described is how freedom of will functions in a constant reality that supports life well enough for sentient beings to exercise diversity of consciousness. That does not change truth, consciousness is a truth in itself. Thoughts are real, "imagination is real." Our thoughts affect our actions and so we evolve ourselves slowly, modifying the species and our environment according to personal philosophy. More >
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25 Feb 2002 @ 05:54
Ok members, I’m going to resonate on a slightly different frequency in this post to see if it makes a connection with others here. I have been engaging this wonderful den of Zen mostly on a philosophical level because to me that is our first mission: To find a mutual basis for living successfully that serves everyone equally well, and something I believe that represents a huge gap in our ability to bridge the next stage, being a community of action! Yes, that is what I want! In all ways that can happen, in groups of any scale.
It is the thing I hear most going on all over the world and very much right here @ NCN. We are a frustrated set of people who care, but can’t figure out how to make a bigger commitment to action as mentioned in the log of the Silver Gryffin’s. Not personal action of personal motive, but group action of community motive. So here is my short biographic script.
Since graduating Art Center College of design in 1985, I have worked without a proper break on running my own graphic design and illustration business and juggling expenses, only to be in a regular state of some financial debt. It cost me two meaningful relationships and I now pay child support, I lost a self proclaimed friend and lots of my money helping him as a fellow artist to launch his career for 10 years. My entire family of 6 was completely dysfunctional among itself to face any relationship problem, or health issue. I was reunited with my high school girl friend after 28 years of separation without a word exchanged and we wrote a book about it, which we failed to publish so far. My father conveniently happened by with a contract proposal to illustrate 48 books, perfect timing, we had some fun, but the job ended six months after my sister died, only completing 32. We made some good money but the job was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life. The clients put us through hell creatively speaking because didn’t know what they were doing, and I learned that my father never pays his bills on time anymore, mine included. August 2000 ended a 15 year crunch and I was fried pretty good – trust me - it damaged of my health in every way, but not critically so.
It was time to place my interests first for a change, so I leisurely started writing a book I outlined in 1998 titled: The Root Of All Goodness: Lovesense for Human Reform. I started filling pages in earnest one year ago because some consciousness was emerging as to why I was having all these tests of character. I was ripping right along when I discovered this book included references to everything & ‘the kitchen sink,’ and was beginning to feel overwhelming with it’s scope after working on it for 6 months. At the same time I was looking for all the examples of new civilization and joined FCE in Santa Barbara. It has the potential to be at least three good size books, but I felt indecisive about how to limit it and stopped to think it over.
The stock market was falling, I was losing money, so I had to begin my new income earning business as a children’s book author. My partner and I worked on this for 3 months, writing and illustrating to finally send the proposal out to 6 publishers on October 18, 2001. No word yet except for three rejections. Flemming invites me to NCN and I get hooked on the potential that NCN has to offer, since in was the only interactive CE community I could find online. The site is covered with lots of great ideas, so I thought I finally get to build relationships with people who won’t argue and fight over trivial matters because they are joined in central purpose. Besides doing all the other usual life sustaining things, I have been writing for NCN and for my book, by testing concepts with y’all, trying to get some things happening with the idea that my input would help enhance our progress.
I consider myself a diligent worker, but I have yet to find partners who share my passions enough to make a long-term commitment do something new. You all know the rest of the story because you’ve been here with me. What ever is stopping us from leaving our self-centered minds, it needs to change fast.
I want to make a direct and personal appeal for help with several of my projects.
I am currently helping one member publish her first book about victory over cancer, so that one is covered for the moment and we do have others supporting the effort with encouraging words.
Calling all advertisers and small business owners! I will offer my creative services at a discounted rate for the development of business advertising, posters, book covers, corporate identity and web graphics.
Calling all Publishers of Juvenile material! I need to secure a publishing contract for an ongoing series of Conscious Evolution Books for Children, you can see everything accomplished so far on [link] Most importantly, I would like to start a relationship with a company that appreciates our movement for a healthy society of people.
Calling all Editors and Publishers of the new consciousness movement. I really need some professional advice on how to turn "The Root Of All Goodness" into a hot commercial success about better living practices. Perhaps there are literary agents here on NCN who could advise?
Calling retailers! My partner and I starting a line of fabric collages and other types of CE artwork of various scales to decorate and which resonate with the meanings of our movement.
Calling all Software Programmers, Web Designers, Sound Designers, Flash Designers, Graphic Designers, Attorneys with experience in community law, constitutional law, corporate law and Philanthropists with money to offer. I wish to develop NCN, or a new sister site, to provide the development of various democratic web softwares, which can be used immediately to profile all our desires in consensus, to offer petitions for worthy social causes, to vote for supporting ideas - not ruling – and most importantly to publicize our success as a voice standing to balance to the prevailing destructive wind. There’s plenty more to add.
So this is what I have been trying to do - and this is the help I think I need now. Down & Dirty, hope there aren’t too many typos. I’m putting all my bacon on the line here. I would be extremely grateful to hear some serious responses and specifically those which have positive energy to support accomplishing these goals. Do I have any takers? Please help me. Please help a starving artist today. More >
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24 Feb 2002 @ 23:17
"The universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture of reality." -- attribution unknown
I sponsored a contest to either prove this quote worthy of our new civilization, or to offer better consciousness in the form of a replacement. 9 people entered comments in the log, but only 5 people wanted to respond directly to my request. Of the five contestants, 2 people left 2 quotes. I disqualified myself from being eligible to enter. Here are the entries:
1] "Reality rearranges your picture of yourself to the Universe"-- Shakti-ma
2] "You rearrange the universe according to the power of your will." -- Inviticus
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3] "By accommodating the universe, your picture of reality might just end up
rearranging it." -- Inviticus
4] "i practice 'i love you' as if it is the only thing i ever will say in this chance of a lovetime that makes sense." -- mmmurphy
5] "The universe arranges itself no matter what you think. Get busy!" – jazzolog
6] "The universe is a daily snapshot of your reality." -- Simpleman
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7] "The universe is a snapshot of your reality today." – Simpleman
The original quote is not true if the first meaning of the words is used in the literal interpretation, and at its best, only suggests the value of painting a positive mental picture of reality. When it is placed before of our eyes repeatedly by a website, the site acts as a validator and advocate of this consciousness. In my mind, this is a responsibility to be taken seriously when the intention is to serve a community for healthy purposes. There is no sense taking a risk with questionable sayings that mislead us or our children.
I am impressed with these different submissions because I was looking for truth, as though we could divorce the spirit from the body and gaze upon Our Cosmos as outside observers. The benefit of this is to understand the Cosmic Laws of Truth that we must live within. One submission is not true, but 6 of them offer very similar truth, in unique ways.
And now I announce the winners of the contest to be all of those who came to play in search of our future, and those who will read it after the fact. I thank you all for these moments to be preserved in the evolution of the Universe. I will add your submissions to my quote library with other gems I have collected.
My favorite quote is from jazzolog = Richard Carlson because it inspires me to get with the program:
"The universe arranges itself no matter what you think. Get busy!" More >
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24 Feb 2002 @ 03:36
"To be or not to be: that is the question:…"
This not just a question, but a re-action of the mind to discover what our choices in life are, as inspired by the realization that one is born into a sickly society of creatures. And so Bill takes stock of our condition in the words he writes in Act 3 for Hamlet’s mouth:
"…Whether 'tis nobler in the mind
to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?…"
He goes on to discuss more that my ears are not trained to clearly see,
but this piece endures 400 years to strike our hearts with brutal honesty.
I will not mention the fourth choice because it serves not the living cause.
And yet the question still remains in place to contemplate with pause.
So I will stick myself upon the critics anvil, to edit our fine friend Bill,
A variation of this theme and clarify three freedoms of our living will.
Tis it nobler in the mind to wield a selfish power,
To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or stand firmly against a sea of troubles, And through loving end them?
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -- Albert Einstein
In other words, We can decide to be one of three potential types of people:
One who brings negative and destructive acts – subtracting from the quality of life.
One who brings malignant apathetic acts – supporting the existing quality of life.
One who brings positive and constructive acts – adding to the quality of life.
This is a specific example of the Cosmic Spectrum of Freedom, which offers all the opportunities, but which choice offers the promise of success? So Goddess Bob Barker asks us to pick door number 1, 2, or 3! I will faint if it takes you more than a split second to select a life path that brings forth quality.
"Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do." -- Jesus, in Luke, 23:34.
Contrary to the general use of this quote, I believe we have always known in our hearts "what we do." We may be ignorant to all the consequences of our actions, yet the center of human trouble is made from willful choices in defiance of what we know and feel to be "right" and kind. This tells us that we must first become responsible to ourselves, and in that we are not properly introduced to life, or have forgotten how to do this, we must learn with discipline to hold a standard of successful principle. I would call this absolute truth, dependable in every way, part of a foundation that allows us to interact without constant conflict over intention. It should also provide a point of reference upon which we can quickly evaluate our language in communication to be wholesome.
Do not participate in judgement when one of us might slip
and do not defend a plain mistake when it comes across your lip,
but stay to see the common path and say kind a loving tip. More >
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23 Feb 2002 @ 23:19
I place this item in my log for the awareness it brings to the idea of feeling inadequate, needy, or incomplete in some way. There is a difference when seeking the stimulation of new experience and seeking something one believes they do not have. Please observe the copyright © 2002 Osho International Foundation.
card 6/60. Greed
A parable of ambition and hurry
Whenever people become very greedy they become very hurried, and go on finding more ways to gain more speed. They are continuously on the run because they think that life is running out. These are the people who say, "Time is money."
Time is money? Money is very limited; time is unlimited. Time is not money, time is eternity--it has always been there and will always be there. And you have always been here and you will always be here. More >
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22 Feb 2002 @ 12:46
SOCIAL UNCONSCIOUSNESS –or- EVOLVING CONSCIOUSNESS
Humans as Bastards of the Universe OR Beings As Cocreators of Universes
Philosophy Contemplated OR Philosophy Lived
Power is the Name of the Game OR Consciousness is the Game
Reality Follows Thought OR Reality is Constant
Past, Present and Future OR Absolute Eternal Now
Universe as Complex External OR Universe as Single Organism
Independence OR Interdependence
Dependence OR Connection
Polarity and Duality OR Unity
Positive/Negative as Opposites OR Positive/Negative as Complementary
Polarized Separateness OR Balance & Harmony
I am a Separate Being OR I am Part of the Whole Cosmos
God as Separate OR God as Part of Identity
Spiritual Fulfillment in Religion OR Spiritual Fulfillment In Being Healthy
Human Having Spiritual Experience OR Spiritual Being Having Human Experience
God Is A Human Like Entity OR Mother God Is An Energy Force
Soul as Abstract Concept OR Soul as Recorder of Experience
Identification With Body OR Identification With Whole Being
Lower Self & Higher Self OR One Self as Part of the Cosmos
Love Others First OR Love Self As Part of God First
Win-Lose Reality OR Win-Win Reality
Externally Controlled Destiny OR Internally Manifested Destiny
Failure as a Defeat OR Learning Through Experience
A Thing Of Worth OR A Thing Of Value
Positive and Negative Experience OR Experience Yielding Knowledge
The Brain Receives Thought OR The Brain Creates Thought
Image Is Important OR Integrity Is important
Unlimited Freedom OR Freedom Within Loving Boundary
One Life to Live OR Life in Infinity and Continuity
Fear Ruling Destiny OR Love Guiding Destiny
Respect For Special Things OR Respect For All things
Life Is a Difficult Burden OR Life Is Adventure in Evolution
Separation from Self OR Self and Cosmos Are One
Simplicity as a Puzzle OR Simplicity as a Reality
Survival Is a Programmed Priority OR Global Success Is Survival
Social Consciousness OR Holistic Consciousness
Conforming to Social Convention OR Leading For Social Success
Defending irresponsibility OR Being Responsible
Projection of Responsibility OR Adoption of Responsibility
Focus on Laws OR Focus on Internal Responsibility
Lying to Justify OR Speaking Truthfully
Freedom as a Social Right OR Freedom as Opportunity For Life
Humans Need to Be Governed OR Humans Are Self-governing Entities
Love of Judgement OR Acceptance & Tolerance Are Love
Loving Another as Separate OR Loving Another as Yourself
Hating Another as Separate OR Compassion For Illness
Manipulate & Control OR Nurture With Love
Talk A Good Game OR Walking Your Talk
Preoccupation With Differences OR Focus on Functional Similarities
Ordaining Truth OR Becoming Truth
Personal Goals OR Benevolent Goals
Competition For Survival OR Survival of Whole Species
Focus on Social Symptoms OR Focus on Social Solutions
Intellect & Emotions OR Intuitive Feeling
Having the Emotion OR Living the Emotion
Looking to Others for Answers OR Looking Within For Answers
Looking for the External Path OR Alignment Of Internal Path
Following Ideals of Others OR Following Your Inner truth
Fighting a War OR Loving for Peace
Aliens OR Relatives
Unlimited Expression OR Expression With Purpose
Preoccupation With Doing OR Being In The Moment
Difference Between The Sexes OR Sex Is The Only Difference
Pursuit of Wealth OR Pursuit of Value
Looking For Happiness OR Being Happy
Ego and Cultural Image OR Strength In Diversity
Reacting to Events OR Maintaining Center Focus
Right and Wrong Belief Systems OR All Beliefs Are Real
Going Through the Motions OR Living Creativity & Joyfully
Worship OR Live
Blame OR Reconcile More >
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