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Comment by mary rose on June 26, 2010 at 3:10am

Carlo, i feel there is always "choice," and with regard to aiding people in changing their belief system -- it is possible for us to loving and caringly today send messages of healing to someone else and change their body/mind field. This is being done by many groups who are gathering together and and participating in meditations directed to bring coherence patterns in certain regions of the world. For instance
there are many people sending their calming energy to both people and the situation in the Gulf of Mexico. Studies from Princeton University have recorded lowered crimes rates in regions where healing energy is being directed. It is also possible to direct healing energy to a person but i would never do so without getting their permission first.

And, when i am referring to science" i am referring to the whole body system and its study from a biological/physiological point of view. And when studied in this way, in measuring the "subtle energies of the body" what is being measured is one's emotions. The whole body is "singing a song" and revealing itself in all its glory through the colors expressed in the auric field and its sound. So, perhaps this is what many call "soul." There are, i have found many different interpretations with regard to what soul is and is not.

Also, i was not aware that i indicated the seat of the soul was not in the heart. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

with love and in gratitude for all that you do.

Comment by Carlo Ami on June 25, 2010 at 11:21pm

Mary Rose, had missed your latest notes here until just now. One of my central quests as a spiritual writer is to create easily understood concepts to which people can relate. Scientists may speculate that the soul is "located" in the pituitary or someplace else, but I find it most intuitively accurate to conceptualize the finite heart as the repository of he soul. The heart itself dies with the body but I sense that the soul, the essence of who I am, lives on forever and is the connecting glue that bonds us to all creation. Since the heart has been proven to contain neurons just like the brain does, and the heart's mechanism and intelligence far exceeds that of the brain, it feels like the place the soul would be most comfortable hanging out as the heart eventually trains the brain as to "who oughta be boss".
The folks at HeartMath can measure the activity and mechanisms of the heart, but they will never be able to do the same with the soul. Conceptualizing our essence as some combination of the will of the heart and the beauty of the sould is, I think, a useful tool in understanding our inner nature and our path.
Also, you write: "So what we need to do with regard to designing "transformative media" IMHO is to aid people in changing their belief systems with regards as to how our social systems are configured."
This "aid", as I see it, is most effective when it comes in the form of encouragement to uncover their own wisdom rather than spelling out some dogmatic way of living that one should consider to be superior. When people are "preached at"--whether by religious clergy/fanatics, politicians or a spouse or other partner, resistance is raised. The most effective kind of transformational media is that which encourages the experiencer to uncover their own wisdom via getting in touch with the will of the heart and then powerfully choosing to make that will central to the expression of their life.

Comment by Carlo Ami on June 25, 2010 at 10:25pm

Similar to the concept of immersion is repetition, the mechanism of propaganda. Through tones, timed beats, and the covert subliminally-flashed message, ideas can be imprinted and further integrated. Combining sound (including sub-bass sounds that impact the feeling body) along with the Solfeggio frequencies and repeated ideas (for more on the concept of repetition, see http://www.scribd.com/doc/33388299/Heart-Propaganda ) in the course of a multimedia presentation, impacts can be created. I have not seen anyone do this in a particularly powerful way yet in a full-length video presentation. Hooking up a tuned-in video person with a sound healer like Harold Moses or Jonathan Goldman could produce something miraculous. Packaging the DVD with small essential oil bottles to be used at designated times during the presentation would amp it up even more. Some theaters have transducers built into the theater seats, and this could boost the impact as well. (You can still find Aura cushions very inexpensively for this same purpose--home use.)
The more senses that can be involved, the more potential impact.

Comment by John Gil on June 25, 2010 at 9:36pm

Carlo hi...and to further summarize your points, I feel that immersive media ultimately reveals what Marshall McCluhan taught us that although media appears to convey something beyond itself, ultimately media/technology (literally all man made stuff) refers back to some aspect of the human condition albeit abstractly. Immersivity promotes self awareness and responsibility in the sense that we are the authors of our own story. Immersion unifies the fragmentary nature of media to help us see/feel this relationship more clearly, for what else is Oneness if not Oneness referring to itself in a myriad of shapes and manner. I admire the phrase, "We make up our minds and God agrees."

Mary Rose, the current monetary system is as well a technology that separates us from our innate sense of self worth and collective unity. There are several millennia of evidence that this is the intention, successfully deployed. Dr. Joseph Farrell has just finished a book called Babylon Banksters for historical adventurers who agree that there's more to human history than we've been told. Good natured people believe what they are told. The troublemakers that remain are but a handful.

Comment by mary rose on June 25, 2010 at 9:21pm

Carlo, thanks for following up on Ed's questions.

However, where you write with regard to what we should be doing, there seems to be some misunderstanding with regard to this statement #4 or else i am reading it wrong:

You write:

4. Overlapping all of that: Inspire them to revision their identification. As identification is revisioned to be associated with soul or heart and not with body and mind, then the baseless foundation of fear is removed. As one can see oneself as the invincible soul, there is no inclination to fear anything.

From all the sources i have, but in particular, that of the Institute of Heart Math, which conducts research dealing with the heart and the body/mind field, it is the heart that controls the body/mind field and this is the energy field that produces our emotions. Another good reference on this is Dr. Candace Pert's "Molecules of Emotion" among others. In it she explains how both the head brain and the heart brain release these molecules of emotions in the form of neurotransmitters. For example the emotion/feeling of love is produced by the release of a neurotransmitter called "oxytocin" (the love transmitter) when the two brains (heart brain and head brain) are "entrained." And these neurotransmitters then produce a coherence pattern in the body/mind field. But it is dependent upon heart rate as to how coherent a body/mind field is and an individual has the ability to control heart rate using the power of their mind (thought) to do so.

In her book, "Infinite Mind, The Science of The Human Vibrations of Consciousness," Valerie V. Hunt, with advanced degrees in both psychology and physiological science, reveals from her studies in over 35 years of research at major universities, that the patterns reflecting body coherence range from 200 hz which reflects as the color green up to 1100 hz which expresses as the pure white light, and provides for a very steady coherence pattern in the body mind field.

And, the heart rate associated with this "state of mind" is a very steady beat. This pure white light that expresses as one facet of the auric field at 1100 hz may be viewed outside of the body by some, and it indicates what we refer to as a very highly evolved spiritual person. Other colors may be viewed as well, for instance, the 200 hz state expresses itself as green.

When we get into the 400 hz range, which expresses as yellow, then we are getting into the ranges associated with the Solfeggio Scale with 528 hz being the "sound of life."

Any other input on this most welcome.

One of the things i have discovered in researching these areas is that the information is scattered and no one source has it all. I have had to read several hundred books, compare notes and go back and reread again and again to ensure i have the correct information. However, with information now coming so rapidly, if i have missed a new and important book, i am like to not have covered the subject adequately.

In the Heart/Math Solutions book, one is directed to do the exercises with one's hand placed over their heart so as to direct the energy/thought from the brain through the heart field.

In working with this new book by Dr. Alex Loyd and Dr. Ben Johnson, entitled "The Healing Code" one is directed to use several different hand positions in order to direct the energy of thought (in spoken words) in into particular regions of the immune system.

For someone new to this field, and i don't mean you, Carlos, it is important to know that the human body is configured like a quantum computer and is both a receiving and a transmitting station. According to Bruce Lipton there are antennae attached to each cell membrane which act as a receiver and it appears that these antennae can be fine tuned so as to pull in certain stations in much the same way a TV or radio can be fine tuned.

Let's also back up here and again consider Dr. Lipton's findings in the field of "epigentics" which tell us that it is not our genes which determine who we are (and how we act) it is our perception of the environment that is the controlling factor. And, since our social system makes up a large part of our environment. then it stands to reason that if we change our perception of our environment -- the way we think -- then we will change the way we act.

In the words of Gandhi,

Your beliefs become your thoughts
Your thoughts become your words
Your words become your actions
Your actions become your habits
Your habits become your values
Your values become your destiny

So what we need to do with regard to designing "transformative media" IMHO is to aid people in changing their belief systems with regards as to how our social systems are configured. We need to ensure that they are ones that are working for us and not against us as those we have in place today are doing.

And since we do not all move at the same rate of speed, then those of who are more highly evolved than others at this point need to begin to create conceptual designs that are "life enhancing." One of the people doing this is Jacques Fresco the Founder of The Venus Project. Mr. Fresco is suggesting that we move from capitalism to a resource-based economy. A world wide speaking tour has been arranged so that the subject is widely promoted.

Now Peter Josephs of the Zeitgeist Movement has taken up the cause of Jacques Fresco and is doing a lot of promotional work on how a resource-based economy works. And, we will be hearing more and more on concepts that can move us into the future and create social justice for all. But it is increasingly becoming obvious that major changes are in store for us and we can longer think in terms of work and money as we have in the past.

One of the things i feel we must take into consideration here is that we can no longer look at work and money in the same way we have in the past. If we are to survive as the human family, everything must change dramatically.

What i want us to look at here is that "food sovereignty" is the cornerstone of freedom. As we become disenfranchised from jobs as the corporations begin to collapse along with everything else, if we do not have the ability to raise our own food, then the only other option we have is to move into migration in search of work and a better way of life as many are now doing. In 1997, statistics showed that there were 100 million people in migration around the world -- many of them women and children.

So, what must happen is that the large agri-businesses must now give over their land in order for people to being raising their own food. And, we must, by necessity move into bio-regionalism so that we are divided by natural boundaries that erase the competition set up between nation-states and instead are moving into cooperation as we set about restoring the fragile eco-systems that make up our life support system in order for us to gain maximum carrying capacity from them if all are to be fed.

Civilization was built on topsoil and when the topsoil is gone, then so is civilization. And topsoil is now disappearing at a rate of 17% faster than it can be restored. And, when topsoil disappears so does the water supply. And, if we are to save ourselves, we must move quickly. There is not a moment to waste.

And the media will play a big role in whether or not we will survive this time of crisis.

And i also feel we need to move out of the spiritual realm on this and address the social issues that are holding us back and fall into the critical category.

We need to pay attention to Maslow's theory of needs here and recognize that until our basic needs for food, water, shelter, medical care, etc. are met that we will not be able to meet our emotional needs.


For instance, food shortages in the very near future are being predicted, so doesn't it stand to reason that we address this issue ASAP. And, what we already know is that growing our own food and getting our hands in the dirt -- becoming grounded, is a very powerful transformational tool.
And Dr. Eva Shaw's book: "Shovel It - Nature's Health Plan" is an excellent tool on how to do this.

The definition of most psychologists today for our predicament is that we suffer from the "pathology of disassociaton" with the root cause being that as we have developed the built environment we have become disconnected from our natural environment. And what we need to do then is to reconnect with our Mother Earth and what better way to do this than through gardening/subsistence farming.

And, as an aside here, this is how we are going to approach prison reform -- Since there is a time when trucks will not be able to roll from point-of-production to point of consumer purchase when the price of gas goes up to the price where there is no profit in it for the truckers, then the delivery trucks are not going to be able to roll into the retail outlets, and certainly not into the prisons.

The average distance for delivery of food for the U.S. today is 1500 miles since much of it comes from China, Israel, Peru and Mexico.

So, the solution here then is to set up a prison program where the inmates in the prison are raising their own food, and not only their own food, but raising enough to supply hospitals, retirement homes, other elderly, the disabled, the homeless, and children who cannot raise their own.

And, we will not only have a program set up inside the prison to serve inmates, but will set up a program outside of the prison walls to serve those who will be unlikely to become employed in this climate where here in the State of California 5 counties now have unemployment rates exceeding 20%.

What we are looking at here in the State of California friends is a very crowded and dangerous system. For instance, Donovan State prison just outside the city limits of San Diego on the Otay Border region was built to house 2200 inmates. Its current inmate population is now over 4700. Due to the Three Strikes Law, California has the most overcrowded prison population of all, but prisons nationwide are also becoming overcrowded as the U.S. now has the largest prison population in the world.

And, what has happened due to both the aging of inmates and thus cost increases in care, and to the number of inmates in the prison, the State facing a budget crisis can no longer pay to house these people. So, Gov. Schwartzenneger has been ordered to early release 40,000 inmates in the coming year. And, as far as i can tell, there is no rehab program available to aid these inmates in assimilating back into a civilian population.

Now let me provide some further statistics here that impact this situation. In his book: "End of Work, published in 1992 and updated in 2003, Jeremy Rifkin reveals the statistic that it now takes less than 30% of the total worldwide labor force to produce ALL of the goods and services needed by the 6.7 billion of us on the planet today. The reason: we have moved into advances in technology that are now replacing the need for human labor. And, as we move further into nanotechnolgy, as we must do in order to conserve on ever scarce -growing resources, the need for human labor will be increasingly reduced. One of the factors here being that the small parts necessary for nanotechnology are simply too small to be handled by human hands. When we reach the ultimate point of lessening need for human labor, it is estimated that the figure will be about 3 - 4%.

So, while we hear about green projects and the number of jobs they will produce, we begin to realize that this is just more propaganda and that the reality is that jobs are disappearing forever.

So, what to do? And the solution many of us feel is the only one is for people to return to raising their own food. And in order for all of us to raise our own food is to change the way we eat. We need to begin to "eat to live" instead of "living to eat." We can no longer afford the large fields of grain and beef cattle that the large agribusinesses now raise. What we must do is to raise most of our food in "kitchen gardens" which eliminate the need for transportation from point of production to point-of-purchase. And in these kitchen gardens we need to raise the most nutritious foods we can find.

It is imperative that we also conserve on water. So, we now have people who for several years have been doing research and have come up with a way of raising food in tiered beds in gardens outside the kitchen door. And, with the methods used they have been able to reduce water use while at the same time increasing production 8x normal.

And just in the last few weeks, the UN came out with a report saying that we must move away from meat-eating and into veganism. In addition we must move into a raw food diet in order to conserve on energy with any cooking being done on a solar cooker or in an adobe oven.

If all are to be fed, it is imperative that we immediately move into a subsistence lifestyle. We must establish sustainable living communities and this means moving into "voluntary simplicity" and re-localizing.

Comment by mary rose on June 25, 2010 at 6:45pm

John, i agree with you that the Cultural or Integral Culturists movement has become much larger than when it began here in the U.S. -- and feel that were it acknowledged and reported on by the conventional media it would be all over in terms of numbers. The real hold they have over this movement is exerted through control of the monetary system, which, in turn, has created a monetized political system that provides us with "the best government money can buy."

Comment by Carlo Ami on June 25, 2010 at 4:17pm

Important points, John. So to synthesize some of what has been expressed here in response to Ed's question of a couple of days back: The kinds of media that will truly assist in the transformation process are those that do one or more of the following:
1. Inspire the viewers/listeners to move beyond feelings of isolation or aloneness
2. Overlapping that: Inspire them to appreciate our connected nature, our Oneness
3. Inspire recognition of individual and collective loving power as opposed to egoic power.
4. Overlapping all of that: Inspire them to revision their identification. As identification is revisioned to be associated with soul or heart and not with body and mind, then the baseless foundation of fear is removed. As one can see oneself as the invincible soul, there is no inclination to fear anything.
5. Media that inspire calm, happiness and trust as central themes.

Comment by John Gil on June 25, 2010 at 3:44pm

This is from the American Vaslues Survey which identified the CUltural Creatives back in 1995 or so. It 'we' were 20% in 1995 and in 2010 it's about 36% of the US population.

The common characteristics are a feeling of aloneness in ones world view, label reading, holistic perspective regarding spirituality and health and less inclined to be inspired by materialism as well either neutral or liberal (used loosely) in their political views. The success of Whole Earth Catalog is evidence of the size of this former subculture which is now the largest group in the US.

Comment by mary rose on June 25, 2010 at 3:27pm

I feel it important to give everyone on this list a little more background on this huge movement and how it started.

In 2000, values researcher and sociologist Paul Ray, Ph.D. along with his wife, psychologist, Sherry Ruth Anderson, Ph.D., wrote a book entitled "The Culture Creatives - How Fifty Million People Are Changing the World."

In this book, the authors tell of a new emerging sub-culture based on serious ecological and planetary perspectives that differ greatly from those who are in power on such things as: women's issues, committment to spirituality and psychological development, dissatisfaction with the large institutions of modern life, including both right and left in politics, and rejection of materialism and status display.

The authors estimate that this movement, which really began in the 1960's and represented in the year 2000 twenty-six percent of the population of the U.S. A movement this large, represents a deep and distinctive culture change, affecting not only their own lives but that of our larger society as well, and this "points to a major development in our civilization."

In the same year that Ray and Anderson wrote "The Cultural Creatives," David Korten, picking up where they left off wrote: "The Post-Corporate World - Life After Capitalism" which followed another best-selling book he wrote: "When Corporations Rule the World." In the latter book, Korten revealed that just thirteen families controlled the major U.S. corporations. And they did so by serving in "overlocking directorates" and "inter -married in order to maintain their control over the majority of the world's wealth.

In the Post - Corporate World, Korten also reviewed the Culture Creatives movement which revealed this movement existed not only in the U.S. but in other parts of the world, and, that it was 150 million strong.

Korten also renamed those in the movement calling them: "Integral Culturists, while at the same time calling the movement they were creating an *organic* movement based on the similarity to the human organism as outlined by biologist, Dr. Mae Wan Ho.

The appearance of these books and the emergence of this movement were the first indications that "modernity" was in trouble. But since that time there has been much written about the failure of our current system to live up to expectations and become, as David Ray Griffen expressed in the foreword to "The Suny Series in Postmodern Constructive Postmodern Thought', an aberration which was doubtful would last through the next 100 years if that long.

And, while these books sparked an interest in the minds of many, the excitement with which they were met initially died down; however, the movement would continue to grow as an "underground" movement until 2007, when Paul Hawken began to document it. It is a sixty-percent woman led movement and exists unacknowledged by the mainstream media where few of those involved realize they exist in such large numbers.

Hawken awoke to the immensity of this movement when he went through the large number of business cards he had accumulated from speaking engagements worldwide. And, he wrote: "Blessed Unrest - How the Largest Movement in the World Came Into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming, " and called it a "civil society movement." And to support his findings, he founded the organization "Wiser Earth."

WiserEarth helps the global movement of people and organizations working toward social justice, indigenous rights, and environmental stewardship to connect, ...
www.wiserearth.org/

Now while this movement is enormous in its scope on ecological issues, what it lacks is documentation of the human consciousness movement that is now underway as we move into another level of awareness as to who we are in the universe.

And what the human consciousness movement is rapidly doing is replacing faith-based organized religion with "spirituality" -- a movement that is based in science and understanding of human biology, particularly at the cellular level, and how consciousness manifests from this perspective.

This is being called: "the new biology" as we examine the world from the viewpoint of "quantum physics."

So, as the Founder of Future Dawning Enterprises, i am doing whatever i can to document this movement and connect it with the sustainable living movement and the women's and indigenous people's movements.

These are all "heart-centered" movements and are based in love and the knowing that we are all one -- there is no separation.

In many instances, the underlying science associated with this movement is allowing us to separate that which is real from that which we have been asked for so long to accept on faith, as we move into the new fields of scientific research, e.g., "epigentics," "neuro-cardiology," "energy-healing," etc.

With the aid of instrumentation largely gained from NASA as they put man into space and needed to record changes in the body, we are now able to see and measure the "subtle energy vibrations" of the human body/mind field, and to understand what gives us form.

We now know that the human body mind/field is configured much like a quantum computer and that we have both the equivalent of hardware and software programs, and that we are "programmable" just as is a computer. And, it is here in learning about these new fields that we are beginning to acquire a new knowledge and understanding of who we ae and why we act as we do.

And, one of the main things we here in Transformative Media have a responsibility to do is to learn together about these new findings which are catapulting us into a new level of consciousness and understanding of who we are, but of the world around us. And to report them accurately to those in the world around us.

To put this more into perspective, let's look at "us" from a cellular level and learn that we are made up of approximately 50 to 70 trillion cells living in the same body we call an "organism." And, as such, we constitute a body/mind field that is made up of energy. And, that underlying this body/mind field is a magnetic energy field that underlies all of life. At the moment of conception, whether in the form of an egg or a seed, an electromagnetic field surrounds the new born life. And this electromagnetic energy fields continues to surround us until death.

In their book: "The Body Electric - Electromagnetism and The Foundation of Life," Robert O. Becker, M.D. and Gary Selden explore the story of our "bioelectric" selves. In his book: "The Biology of Belief - The Science of How Thoughts Control Life," Dr. Bruce Lipton, recipient of the GOI Peace Award, for his work in the field of "epi-genetics" reveals that each cell in our body is configured exactly like a computer chip. And, there is so much more.

The question is: does all of this refute our religious beliefs? Not in my opinion. What it does is aid us in separating myth from reality and gives us greater understanding of the universe and our role in it.

And, i cannot help but think "What a wonderful time to be alive and to be part of this great unfolding as we move into a higher realm of consciousness." It is a a time for self-realization and a knowingness of how we are each a cell in the unfolding universe.

Let us travel together into this new and exciting world in which we discover how to erase disease and suffering by learning how to create a wave of energy healing having the ability to counteract the chaos wave that is causing the disease. Let us learn to fully live in love and happiness and rid ourselves of the suffering of the past.

May all be well.

Comment by mary rose on June 25, 2010 at 1:06pm

Deborah, there are, I believe billions of people worldwide who want to see a transformation to a sustainable economy. And this is really brought to our attention by Paul Hawken, author of "Blessed Unrest." In this book Hawken bring to light the large number of people who want change.

Here is a video of Hawken and the speech he made at the Bioneers Conference in 2007 as he talks about the numbers of people and organizations involved in this movement.

It is amazing. But, i am wondering how many people on this list have seen this video?

And with a movement of this size, i cannot but help to wonder why we are not hearing about this in the mainstream media?

I'm also wondering how many people on this list have heard of Paul Hawken previously.

And, if you have never heard of Paul Hawken and this huge movement previously, why not?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1fiubmOqH4

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