Martin Buber (February 8, 1878 – June 13, 1965) was an Austrian-born Israeli Jewish philosopher best known for his philosophy of dialogue, a form of existentialism centered on the distinction between the I–Thou relationship and the I–It relationship.Wikipedia
Link to essay: http://teacherrenewal.wiki.westga.edu/file/view/I+and+Thou+1958.pdf
Translators: Zoe Robinson, Sara Walker, Bo Lebo, Heather Williams
SENSE TESTIMONY: Persons are asleep, in denial, blind to their ability to make choice.
5th Step Conclusions:
Translators: Mike Zonta, Melissa Goodnight, Richard Branam, Hanz Bolen
SENSE TESTIMONY: People continue to try obstructing one another.
5th Step Conclusions:
1) Truth is solid state; a public, continuous being, dwelling, building, standing on its own, by its own.
2) Infinite Consciousness Beingness, That I Am, is evermore limitlessly outpicturing ONE singular and universal transcendent purpose, in every individuation of Self-expression.
3) All One Mind Truth is the master, the universal integrity, touching and sustaining all with clarity, sustaining each and every individuation in agreeable abundance. Universal Integrity of Truth always works well together.
4) Truths’ Intimate, innate, Inherent Equipment is Consciousness Aware I am I, Individuated Continuum, Being this Flourishingly Autismical Super Constructive Infra Structure.
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BY CATE MONTANA, M.A. (consciouslifestylemag.com)
The further quantum physicists peer into the nature of reality, the more evidence they are finding that everything is energy at the most fundamental levels. photo: ahmad dirini
Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one.
— Albert Einstein
What else can we do in the face of what scientists have discovered about reality? It’s unbelievable! Fantastic! And it is quite clearly showing that everything is energy at the most fundamental levels.
Here’s a really brief peek at the shocking things quantum physicists now know about our reality—facts that change everything we believe about life and self, standing it all on its head just like Copernicus did our view of the solar system all those many centuries ago.
If everybody in the world understood what the next few paragraphs outline about the energetic nature of reality our planet would change overnight!
Early in the 20th century the unquestioned assumption that the physical universe is actually physical lead to a scientific search for the elementary “point particle” upon which all life is built, which would prove that reality was not an illusion. But as soon as scientists began smashing electrons and other particles in enormous accelerators, they quickly realized the foundations of the physical world weren’t physical at all—that everything is energy.
The solar-system picture of electrons and protons as tiny, solid, planet-like structures whizzing around a larger interior neutron in an atom was dead wrong. Electrons, muons, tauons, quarks, and gluons have no internal structure and no physical size, meaning that they are entirely illusory or put another way, made up of energy. They are zero-dimensional and more like events than things.
As if that weren’t bad enough, electrons (those negatively charged particles that aren’t really particles) were discovered to be both a wave and a particle at the same time (wave-particle duality.) Electrons showed up in one form or the other depending on the experiment involved. They were also hard to pin down—after all, when everything is energy, it’s hard to keep it one place.
Scientists can know a particle’s velocity or its position, but not both at the same time. Which is like a cop clocking a car doing 150 mph on the Interstate, but not being able to locate it to give chase. Another strange habit energetic particles have is they can be in more than one place at the same time. Called “superposition,” electrons and other non-particle particles are capable of being in hundreds of places simultaneously, which is only possible if everything is energy at the most fundamental levels.
It seems like the more physicists discover, the worse things get for those of us hoping to hold onto any sort of sense of normal “reality.”
In fact, toward the end of his life, when Einstein was asked what was the biggest physics question he wished could be answered before he died, he replied, “I’d be happy if I just knew what an electron really was.” Now we know and we know it is energy at the most fundamental levels.
Reality is stranger than we think. It’s stranger than most people can think. And the reality is that everything is energy and energy is everything.
Scientists have been dealing with the shocking implications of quantum theory for 100 years now. But as far as mainstream society is concerned, scientists’ stupefying conclusions about life may as well not exist.
Huh? Excuse me? Isn’t objectivity the Holy Grail of science?
Yes. It is. But at the sub-atomic levels, interaction and observation have been shown to affect and even determine experimental outcomes. Which ultimately points to the possibility that there are no such things as: separation and objectivity. Which blows everything out of the water.
I’m not going to get into the Copenhagen Interpretation and the wave function of particles. But taken to its logical conclusion, the Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum mechanics seems to imply that “reality”—the world as we know it—can only take place if some sort of measurement or observation takes place on the macro level of existence, the level where scientists and all of us more ordinary human beings operate, which means that not only is everything energy, it responds to consciousness itself.
In other words, it’s possible that unless some agency (such as human consciousness) interferes, particles remain in a probabilistic energy-wave state and never actualize into one location in particle form at all. Ultimately, reality as we experience it seems to be the result of human consciousness interfacing with the quantum levels of existence that are pure waves of energy.
“You think that’s air you’re breathing?” Morpheus asks Neo in their martial arts sparring scene in The Matrix. “Huh.”
Think again.
Morpheus is trying to get across to Neo that everything he thinks is real is actually only information that the brain receives and translates into a picture called reality. Amazingly, scientists are beginning to think the same way—understanding that energy is everything and energy is information in its purest sense.
The Copenhagen Interpretation isn’t the only indicator that an information-based matrix of energetic reality is what we’re dealing with. Entanglement is another freaky physics conundrum pointing that way. Once particles have interacted they become “entangled,” which means forever after they affect each other’s “spin” (which really isn’t a spinning motion at all but something called angular momentum). They are connected by an unseen energy of force that permeates everything.
It’s as if once two particles have kissed they become lifelong pen pals. No matter how far apart they get, if scientists change the spin state of one entangled electron it’s guaranteed its partner’s spin state will change in the opposite direction in response. Every time. Instantaneously. Even if they’re a million light-years apart. This can only happen if everything is energetically connected on some level.
Which means either we ignore Einstein’s theory of special relativity and its prohibition against faster-than-light travel for an information-bearing signal and accept that particles are somehow breaking the speed limit and communicating instantaneously across vast distances, or everything is energy and somehow connected at the subatomic level.
And I mean everything. And entanglement is revealing why.
Replicated studies show that living cells can instantly communicate over distances. One of the simplest experiments involves a batch of algae cells grown in a petri dish. After a few days the cells are divided into two batches. One batch remains in the original dish and the rest of the cells are whisked away to a different laboratory.
When the original group of cells is stimulated by a low-voltage current, the separated group of cells in the lab miles away reacts in precisely the same way, to the same degree, at the exact same instant that the stimulated cells react to the charge. And when the separated batch is stimulated the home team cells react instantaneously as well.
If everything from entangled electrons to atoms to living cells is actually hooked up and intercommunicating somehow, then connectivity just might be the key to a whole new way of understanding the universe. When we shift to the paradigm that everything is energy, suddenly many seeming conundrums begin to make a lot of sense.
So far, the hunt for a medium of information exchange has lead scientists on a merry chase cooking up vortices and waves theories, space-time twists, superstrings, and quantum foam. Even the ancient concept of the ether has been resurrected as a possible answer to entanglement. But the simplest, most elegant theories take us straight back to the matrix and the idea that everything is energy and information when all is said and done.
Noted English mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose theorizes that at the level of the Planck scale (an unfathomably small and unimaginably energetic scale at which even quantum field theory breaks down) the entire universe is actually pure, abstract information.
Not information in the usual sense of the term. Penrose isn’t talking about words or binary code. It’s not electromagnetic waves carrying pictures or other electronic signals. Things like microwaves are positively gigantic compared to the Planck scale. Rather Penrose believes the Planck scale is the abstract realm of ideals that Plato talked about: an intangible substrate of absolute coherence and mathematical geometry from which the physical world is derived and formed.
Which means that everything that exists contains the information of everything else that exists. The information of the entire universe is contained holographically and energetically in every single cell.
It’s hard to grasp when we’re sitting in traffic or waiting in the doctor’s office to get a flu shot, but science is revealing that our world is more of an energetic idea than anything else.
As the famous Austrian theoretical physicist Erwin Schrödinger put it, “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances).” That essentially everything is energy.
I used to lie in bed at night for hours wondering how my hand and my pillow, the parquet tiles on the floor in my bedroom, and the sultry night air wafting over my body could all be nothing but intangible, energetic information.
How was it possible? It was crazy! I mean, come on. This stuff is real!
But what is real? How do we define it? As physical beings—oops—as apparentlyphysical beings of course we would define reality in physical terms. But given the inescapable scientific proof we have now gathered that everything is energy at the most fundamental levels, it seems this world (and everybody in it) isn’t physical at all.
Whether we call it the unfolding implicate/explicate order, “irregularities in the fabric of space,” Planck scale information, or Platonic ideals doesn’t matter. Invisible, intangible and unfathomably powerful energies lie at the foundation of the universe, interconnecting and interpenetrating all life—unfolding as life.
And these energies are best understood as information/intelligence/consciousness itself.
As Swami Muktananda puts it, “The Self, Shiva, is supremely pure and independent, and you can experience it constantly sparkling within your mind. It cannot be perceived by the senses, because it makes the senses function. It cannot be perceived by the mind, because it makes the mind think. Still, the Self can be known, and to know it we do not need the help of the mind or the senses.”
Bottom line, matter and energy, information and consciousness are just different ways of looking at the same thing. And if we include the experience of mystics who have directly grasped and taught that everything is energy and about the unified consciousness of creation for millennia, we can add the word “self” to this interchangeable mix as well.
SELF = Intelligence = Information = Energy = Mass = Life = God = Spirit = Consciousness
It’s all the same thing. It’s all ONE thing. And everything is energy.
When I’m driving or lying awake in bed at night, instead of trotting out the same old tired ego worries I consciously shift gears and contemplate Bigger Things. Which is a great way to start moving into an expanded consciousness and alignment with reality as it really is, which is energetic-holographic, of course.
There’s a lot to contemplate in this. Take notes. When you’ve got some down time (which you’re creating) think about this stuff. Here are a few topics to prime the pump:
+ You’ve never actually touched anything in your entire life. Electron repulsion between your fingertips and another person’s hand or a piece of clothing or a hairbrush makes touching any other thing impossible. Plus, at the subatomic level, everything is energy and nothing is really tangible anyway.
+ What gives you the impression of touch?
+ Why do we experience the world as tangible if it’s not tangible? How is this possible?
+ What makes something “real?” What is meant by the word?
+ Is the world “real” if it isn’t “physical?”
+ What force or medium could possibly create and support the appearance of tangible things that are but mere schaumkommen (appearances)?
This article showing that everything is energy is excerpted with permission from TheE-Word: Ego, Enlightenment and Other Essentials by Cate Montana. Simon & Schuster, January 2017.
About The Author
Cate Montana has a master’s degree in psychology and teaches about the ego, transpersonal and transcendent consciousness, quantum physics, and evolution. She is a dauntless explorer of inner and outer worlds who has spent much of her life in meditation. She has journeyed with shamans in Peru, Ecuador, and New Mexico, studied yoga in India, explored ancient South African ruins on horseback, hiked solo through England’s sacred sites, lived in isolated cabins in the wilderness, and written two books, The E Word and Unearthing Venus: My Search for the Woman Within. She also co-authored The Heart of the Matter and worked with the filmmakers of What the Bleep Do We Know!? Visit her website: catemontana.com
Peak 23-24-25 October; great tensions, with a temptation to relieve them through bellicosity; disciplined, concrete efforts and an attitude of service help
New Moon for October 8, Washington DC (Click to enlarge)
As this is written this cycle is already about a week old. The entire period will be characterized by controversy and strife.
It is interesting, in a purely academic way, that Moonwobble cycles tend to coincide with significant developments within the President’s administration. In this instance, so far, we have the confirmation of a controversial judge to the Supreme Court and the departure of the U.N. ambassador, who was widely seen as one of the reliable and stabilizing influences within the administration.
As the cycle progresses the Sun, Mercury, and Venus all line up in opposition to Uranus. This configuration is squared by Mars, and in the Washington DC version of the New Moon chart for the cycle Mars is in the seventh house, while the opposition connects the fourth house and the tenth house.
The rising sign for this chart is Cancer, and the North node is in the first house. Issues of personal security will color everyone’s perspective. We should expect to see a great deal of turmoil in the employment markets and, of course, domestic issues will be a prominent concern, which makes sense as we approach the midterm elections.
Saturn in the sixth seems to be one of the few bright spots in this chart. It suggests that tensions can be ameliorated through discipline applied in the area of service.
By the by the time the cycle culminates, on October 24, the Moon will be full in the early degrees of Taurus, conjunct Uranus. Uranus’ early entry into Taurus last Spring corresponded with significant destructive fire events, including one of the longest running eruptions of Kilaue’a volcano (Hawaii) in its history. The planet will return to Aries in November and move into Taurus for good next year. Those prospects need a full report of their own.
Chiron just above the midheaven, trine to Jupiter, should be watched. This mysterious object is considered to combine masterful knowledge and powers of healing with a condition of perpetual “woundedness”. Whether or not this definition holds up, Chiron is prominent during this cycle. In a way, it is an excellent symbol for the state of American democracy: enormous powers combined with wounding which it seems impossible to heal. It would be interesting to examine the astrological dynamics of the 1850s during the run-up to the American Civil War to look for similarities, if there are any.
During this cycle the signs of Scorpio, Leo, and Aquarius will be more then usually affected. However, because of the presence of Uranus in the sign of Taurus, Taureans too should be especially watchful as well. There are enormous tensions indicated. The tendency will be to try to relieve these tensions through bellicosity. A wiser course will be to take a firm grasp of your own responses, to work diligently, and to focus your energies on being of service in some material, tangible way.
Please remember that Moonwobble projections represent what we in The Prosperos call “sense testimony”. Apply the practice of Translation® to the circumstances most meaningful to you, and use the Joseph technique to sort through any emotional reactions that you may be having. For those who do not know these methods the emphasis should be on thoughtful reflection, meditation, and service. Your contributions along these lines will help to guide you through very tumultuous waters, and they also will contribute to easing the frustrations and uncertainties of others in your community.
By Eric Cantona
OCT 12 2018 (theplayerstribune.com)
But your life, your history, your essence, also gives meaning to your football.
I am going to talk about some things that I almost never discuss. I need to tell you a story that shaped everything that I am. It happened before I was even born.
We have to go back to 1939, during the Spanish Civil War. My maternal grandfather was from Barcelona, and he fought against the dictator Franco until the bitter end. At the very end of the war, he was a wanted man, and he only had a few minutes to make an escape before the Nationalist soldiers captured the city. He had to cross the Pyrenees mountains on foot to get to France, and he did not have time to say proper goodbyes. This was the end. Life or death.
So before he left, he went to find his girlfriend, and he asked her, “Are you ready to follow me?”
He was 28 years old. She was 18. She had to leave behind her family, friends, everything.
But she said, “Yes, of course.”
This was my grandmother.
They fled to the refugee camps in Argelès-sur-Mer, on the coast of France. There were more than 100,000 Spanish refugees accepted there. Can you imagine if the French had turned them all away? But no, they showed compassion, as humanity must always show compassion to those who suffer. My grandparents had arrived with nothing. They had to start their lives over. But after some time the refugees were given an opportunity to go to work building a dam in Saint-Étienne Cantalès. This is the life of immigrants. You go where you must. You do what you must. So they went. They made a life for themselves.
My mother was born there a few years later, and then the family eventually moved to Marseille.
This story is in my blood. It shaped me as a human being. But it only existed in my mind like a dream. There were no photos of their struggle, only stories. There was nothing from that time to touch, to see. But then in 2007, the photographer Robert Capa’s famous “Mexican Suitcase” was found in a house in Mexico City. Inside these old boxes, there were 4,500 negatives from the Spanish Civil War that had been missing for more than 60 years. How they had gotten to Mexico, nobody knew.
I was very curious, so when they had an exhibition of the photos in New York City, I went with my wife.
Most of the photos were just tiny negatives. Thousands of them. You had to look at them under a magnifying glass. But a few of the photos at the center of the exhibit were huge. Almost three meters tall. The people in the photos were life-sized. It felt as though you could reach out and touch them.
And that’s when I saw my grandfather.
It was impossible, no?
But there he was, as a young man. I was convinced that it was him, but I couldn’t be completely sure because I had never seen him when he was so young. So when the exhibit moved to France a few months later, I took my mother to see it.
And there he was again, as a young man.
I said, “Is it really him?”
And my mother said, “Yes, it’s him. It’s from the moment they were fleeing to the mountains.”
It was incredible.
This is the life of immigrants. You go where you must. You do what you must. So they went. They made a life for themselves.Imagine if my grandfather had not made it. Imagine if my grandmother had not followed him. Maybe then my mother would not exist. Maybe then I would not exist. However, this is only one half of our story. There is another photograph that shapes my life.
My paternal great-grandparents were also immigrants. They came to France from Sardinia to escape from poverty in 1911. Three years after they arrived, my great-grandfather was called to serve in World War I, and he was gassed so severely that he spent the final years of his life smoking eucalyptus to be able to breathe better.
His son, my grandfather, fought for the French in World War II, and when he returned from the war, he became a builder. He eventually saved enough money to buy his own piece of land in the hilltop district of Marseille when my father was a teenager. The land had a little cave on it. They needed somewhere to live while my grandfather built the house, so what did they do? It’s simple. They lived inside the cave for two years. The only thing they had to heat the cave was a cooking stove. This sounds like a myth that your family tells about the “old times,” but there is actually a photograph from the winter of 1956 of my grandparents and my father in the cave, covered in blankets for warmth.
My grandfather built out from the cave over years and years. First, he made an alcove, then a little terrace, and then above that he built a home for my parents. This is the house I grew up in. This is what I inherited. This is my blood. One of my first memories is carrying 10 sandbags up the hill to the house that they were still constructing. Only after that was I allowed to go play football. During the day my father worked on the house, and at night he worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. But even this part of my history has a special meaning.
There was a reason that my father became a nurse and worked at that specific hospital. It was because his own godfather was a patient there. His name was Sauveur, and he was my grandfather’s brother. He had been taken prisoner for five years during World War II, and after the trauma of that experience, he was eventually committed to the Edouard Toulouse Hospital. My father was extremely close with Sauveur, so that inspired him to become a psychiatric nurse. He ended up in the same unit as his godfather, and took care of him every night.
This is my family. This is my history. This is my soul. I have lived all over the world. In fact, just last year I purchased an agricultural property in Sardinia to reconnect with my family’s history. However, I will always love Marseille with all my heart because of these memories that have shaped me. It will always be my city.
When people ask me why I played football the way I did, this is the answer. Football gives meaning to life, yes. But life also gives meaning to football. I almost never discuss these personal stories, especially about my father’s godfather. It’s very difficult. When I talk about it, it’s as if the angels are speaking for me. However, I am sharing some of my history for an important reason.
We are living through times of widespread poverty, war, and immigration. There are many more people in the world who can’t even afford to buy a football than there are people who can afford to pay 200 Euros to attend a Premier League match, or 400 Euros a year to watch it on TV. Football is one of life’s great teachers. It is one of life’s great inspirations. But the current business model of football ignores so much of the world.
Poor neighborhoods need football as much as football needs poor neighborhoods. We need to support a more sustainable, positive and inclusive football, and I will do anything that I can to help. That is why I am joining the Common Goal movement as their first mentor. Common Goal’s mission is to unlock 1% of the entire football industry’s revenues for grassroots football charities, and more than 60 footballers have already pledged 1% of their salaries. The beautiful thing is that they are players from big clubs, players from small clubs, men and women, from leagues all over the world.
Football should be for the people. This does not have to be a utopian idea. There is no reason why the major actors in the game today cannot come together and support the social aspect of football. All of us, whether we are rich or poor, whether we are immigrants or 10th-generation citizens, find the same simple joy in the game of football. We speak the same language. We feel the same emotion.
All the time, I get asked the same questions about my career.
“What was it like playing for those United teams? Why did you do so well?”
People want some kind of complex answer. They want some kind of secret, I think. But the answer is very simple. Sir Alex Ferguson was the master of one thing: Whenever we took the pitch for a match, after hours and hours of work, we were allowed to be free. We felt total freedom to move where we wanted, to play how we wanted.
I could tolerate football no other way.
What is football if it is not about freedom?
So, please, allow me to ask this same simple question to those who run the global game ― the footballers, the agents, the sponsors and the committees.…
What is football if it is not about freedom?
What is life if it is not about freedom?
What is the meaning of life?
I think we can all agree that we can do more for humanity.
Now you know my history. I come from a family of immigrants and rebels and soldiers and workers. We did not have very much when I was a child, but for me, the truth of life is that we find ecstasy in the small moments.
Perhaps a simple picnic with our family. Three pairs of socks rolled up into a ball and tied with a shoe string. We play football in the sun. Then we lay in the grass. We marvel at everything and nothing.
When I walked away from football when I was 30 years old, do you know what I did? It was something very special to me. I went to live in the city that my grandparents had to flee in 1939.
I went to live in Barcelona.
Mies van der Rohe by Irving Penn
Somehow over the years, Van der Rhoe’s great quote has been changed to the devil is in the details and is used to describe the difficulty of work. It has attained such a pejorative meaning now, especially when applied to the realm of negotiations or politics.
The original quote, God is in the details, is such a positive anthem that speaks to the poetry of the minutiae and the artistic focus and follow through required to achieve anything of worth.
I do not know the etymology of the misquote but the fact that it changed from a message dealing with spirituality and aesthetics to a verbal shortcut describing the burden of work is fascinating and bizarre to me.
Every physical element has been distilled to its irreducible essence. The interior is unprecedentedly transparent to the surrounding site, and also unprecedentedly uncluttered in itself. All of the paraphernalia of traditional living –rooms, walls, doors, interior trim, loose furniture, pictures on walls, even personal possessions – have been virtually abolished in a puritanical vision of simplified, transcendental existence. Mies had finally achieved a goal towards which he had been feeling his way for three decades.
Maritz Vandenburg, Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Farnsworth House
―François Auguste René Rodin, known as Auguste Rodin (November 12, 1840 – November 17, 1917), was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. Wikipedia
