We created this video and added it to our CD Creative Ventures channel on YouTube. We have and continue to open up to the immense amount of knowledge from different sources. It assists us in being mindful of the more we know...how little we actually "know." Life is an ever changing fabric with changing patterns and shifting times.
Many who embark on spiritual paths are motivated in different ways. Some of us want to know the unknowable, others want to know themselves; still others want to know everything. Some people want transformations, others want miracles, or to relieve suffering and leave the world a better place.
There are a variety of spiritual teachings that reveal commonalities in everything from Wicca, Buddhism, Christianity, Paganism when people look for the common threads. Einstein pointed out that the spiritual paths of the future will transcend a personal God and avoid dogma and theology. He also believed they would cover the natural and spiritual and arise from the experience of all things within a meaningful unity rather than polarizing differences.
This video has images and teachings from diverse spiritual teachings that reveal some common truths and guidelines from a variety of sources. Those who pursue informtion from divergent points of view, cultures, religions and ideas are less inclined to become intrangient and intolerent. As has been said...not all those who wander are lost. They/we are among the adventurers and seekers and this video presents different perspectives on a variety of spiritual pathways that lead to transformation and enlightenment.
This video is definitely full of innovative perspectives and that is why we added it this blog. Each time we view and listen we pick up new insighs that give us reason to pause. Ractions to this movie are similar to ours in different discussion groups. It presents concepts, ideas and thought provoking possibilites from a number of sources including spirituality, physics, metaphysics, philosophy and more.
This is an amazing, healing, enlightening, life changing movie. I'm so glad to find it freely available on the internet. I'm re-posting it here and hoping anyone who has not yet seen it will discover it now. This movie is really worth your taking the time to watch it. Thanks YouTube !
morgan nugent | Piers Morgan Shoots Assault Rifle.Ted Nugent. Shocked By 'Unbelievable Power'.. Piers Morgan can say he's shot an AR-15. Morgan traveled to Texas today to find out what it's like to shoot the gun "used in the last five mass shootings in America," including Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Morgan interviewed the owner of a Houston gun range, as he took his turns firing various version of the AR-15 semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round magazine. His aim wasn't perfect, but as Morgan said, "once I got the hang of it and began pressing the trigger faster and faster, it was just firing very, very fast."
He proceeded to shoot an AR-15 that had been modified from semi-automatic to fully automatic, a procedure that is illegal, but as the range owner explained, fairly easy for individuals to do with parts that can be purchased legally. Morgan said it felt "unbelievably powerful."
Finally, Morgan fired a military-style Browning M2 machine gun that is legal to buy since it was made before 1986 and the original assault weapons ban, even though it's capable of shooting 900 rounds per minute. After shooting the gun, Morgan asked, "why would a civilian want--need one these?" At $25,000-$45,000, the range owner told Morgan it was more of an "investment" than a practical purchase, though it is still perfectly legal to buy.
How can you create a universe from nothing? Well if you calculate the total matter of the universe it is positive. If you calculate the total energy of the universe it is negative because of gravity. Gravity has negative energy. When you add the two together what do you get? Zero, so it takes no energy to create a universe. Universes are for free. A universe is a free lunch.
Michio Kaku -- We have found the Higgs boson. So then the next question is what's next? Well the Large Hadron Collider, this machine that is 27 miles in circumference, costing 10 billion dollars is big enough to create the next generation of particles. So the Higgs boson in some sense is the last hurrah for the old physics, the old physics of what is called the standard model, which gives us quarks and electrons. The new theory is going to take us into dark matter. Now we know dark matter exists. Dark matter is invisible, so if I held it in my hand you wouldn't see it. In fact, it would go right through my fingers, go right through the rock underneath my feet and go all the way to China.
It would reverse direction and come back from China all the way here to New York City and go back and forth. So dark matter has gravitational attraction, but it is invisible and we are clueless as to what dark matter really is. The leading candidate for dark matter today is called the sparticle. The sparticle is the next octave of the string. Now look around you. Everything around you, we think, is nothing but the lowest vibration of a vibrating string, the lowest octave in some sense, but a string of course has higher octaves, higher notes. We think that dark matter could in fact be nothing but a higher vibration of the string. So we think that 23% of the universe, which is the dark matter's contribution to the universe, comes from a higher octave of the string.
Now the standard model which we have ample verification of only represents four percent of the universe. So the universe of atoms, protons, neutrons, neutrinos - that universe only represents four percent of what there is. 23% is dark matter, which we think is the next vibration up of the string and then 73% of the universe is dark energy.
Dark energy is the energy of nothing. It's the energy of the vacuum. Between two objects in outer space there is nothing, nothing except dark energy, dark energy, which is pushing the galaxies apart. So when people say if the universe is expanding they say two things, what's pushing the galaxies apart and what is the universe expanding into. Well what's pushing the galaxies apart is dark energy, the energy of nothing. Even vacuum has energy pushing the galaxies apart. And then what is the universe expanding into? Well if the universe is a sphere of some sort and we live on the skin of the sphere and the sphere is expanding what is the sphere expanding into? Well obviously a bubble, a balloon expands into the third dimension even though the people living on the balloon are two dimensional.
So when our universe expands what does it expand into?
Hyperspace, a dimension beyond what you can see and touch. In fact, string theory predicts that there are 11 dimensions of hyperspace, so we're nothing but a soap bubble floating in a bubble bath of soap bubbles and so in some sense the multiverse can be likened to a bubble bath. Our universe is nothing but one bubble, but there are other bubbles. When two bubbles collide that could merge into a bigger bubble, which could be the big bang. In fact, that is what probably the big bang is or perhaps a bubble fissioned in half and split off into two bubbles. That could be the big bang. Or perhaps the universe popped into existence out of nothing. That is also a possibility.
And so the universe could essentially be nothingness, which was unstable and created a soap bubble Now you may say to yourself well that can't be right because that violates the conservation of matter and energy. How can you create a universe from nothing? Remainder of transcript - http://bigthink.com/ideas/49273
Directed / Produced by Jonathan Fowler & Elizabeth Rodd
With increased societal polarization, especially political, where people are bombarded with "facts" and opinions by pundits and experts, too many people choose to blindly follow their pundit of choice like rats following the Pied Pipers, without really thinking and questioning. I've felt that if more people were exposed to critical thinking principles, they might at least be able to identify when statements, opinions and actions aren't completely rational. This video is about teaching some very basic critical thinking standards with the intent to intrigue the viewer enough about critical thinking to learn more about the subject.
