| Mindmap for Ifa for the 21st Century | 9 comments |
 10 Feb 2010 @ 18:50For some time now I wanted to map out the contect of modern day Ifa. At the same time I want to revive the concept of 'Ifa for the 21st Century', a project from the early 2000's and very useful for 2,3 years but shredded when I was traveling/working so intensely that I hardly answered my e-mails. Recently I found MindOMO [link] , a mind-mapping software that is easy to use and share/collaborate. As a first map, I posted above mentioned map. Whoever finds some errors, has suggestions, or wants to on or off this map, please mail me or leave a comment to this post. Ifa for the 21st Century Mindmap: [link] Standard Disclaimer: I don't necessarily endorse every of the links, especially those that are NOT explicitly using Ifa but provide a branch of a holistic approach (which for necessarily includes the energy and archetypes of Ifa). I do not receive any compensation or favor in listing or not listing a certain provider, organization or author. More > |
| Contra-Memes & Things to Learn from Haiti's Turmoils | 5 comments |
 24 Jan 2010 @ 15:22Rest-in-Peace, Fabienne Cherisma, whether you 'stole' the printed painting from a rightful owner, or whether you saved a piece of beauty from its destruction in the rubble. Whether deliberate shooting (something usually called murder but the mass media prefers some other wordings) or whether it was a tragic accident. Maybe nobody will ever know the exact truth of it. But we should not only support the people of Haiti materially but also look at the damage inflicted by those who brag now of coming to 'rescue'. The 'rescue' of the World Bank is clear: make a loan with concise political conditons attached to it and get paid back handsomly later with fat interest and interest on interest. Behind the scenes, more from a global viewpoint, literally, another question looms: Why are the United States trying to destroy the well-being and happiness of other countries? And, more general, whence came, the contra-meme of 'not permitting others to be happy'? 'Technically' we could 'explain' this contra-meme as a result of what we call the 'decay scale' but this seems to put the cart before the horse. It assigns words to circumstances and pretends thus to 'explain' them, very much like Dawkins' Extended Phenotypes, in the end running around in circles and arriving at the 'conclusion' that humans would be animals. In this line of reasoning, was it the color within the painting that caused the girl to run off with the printing and should be blame the phenotype of the color pink for the tragic event? In any case, may the events in Haiti prompt many to reflect another time about what really provides the true worth of a human existence. More > |
| More free gifts for 2010 and the problem of having to choose.. | 6 comments |
 6 Jan 2010 @ 14:04The German language has a unique wording for the inner conflict when having to choose from a selection of offers: 'die Qual der Wahl', the 'suffering of choice'. We can choose from 5 baby doggies with a Rottie daddy and a German Shepherd mummie and 3 puppies with a German Shepherd daddy and a Rottie mummy.. And, HOW MANY of them? If it were for Anthony, we'd take them all, of course, plus their five elders sisters, and all of the pure bred Rotties next door, plus all their friends and relatives, OF COURSE... Dear Reader: May your choices be as vast and ample as ours in 2010 !!! More > |
| X-Mas gifts | 3 comments |
 25 Dec 2009 @ 15:00while grandson Anthony starts taking his newly won bicycle apart and I torture everyone with a new flute that I was 'gifted', along with demo and instructions, many went without a gift and some won a lot: Brazilian's president Lula granted 50k square km to the indigenous population which will expand the native's territory to 12,5 percent of Brazilian's territory, over 1 Million km^2. Sounds good, if the mining and deforestation in those areas would stop, of course, too. Much better certainly than the US of A which 'boasts' 2.3% of its territory to be 'Indian reservations'. Finally, Santa Claus gave a lot of free snow and ice to the Europeans and the Northamericans and something to think about, or should I say 'feel about'? Happy Christmas to everybody from the whole gang here in the jungle :) ------------------ Addendum Xmas Gifts, Dec 25th: - Lula, in a Christmas nite blitz, also established healthcare and retirement for the 'people of the streets', the homeless. [link] - free book (in portuguese) along with free music from various sources, 2nd installation of a virtual book project of Investigative reporter Claudio Tognolli [link] More > |
| I will not SHOULD on myself today! | 3 comments |
 17 Dec 2009 @ 19:16Everytime I visited my friend Bruce in Pasadena, I giggled&admired the giant poster he had in his office. It came from the Albert Ellis Institute once [link] and I recreated it here for the BLOG... Truly a golden rule :) Looking the Albert Ellis site, they have an interesting-sounding game there, the “Let’s Get Rational” Game [link] Would get it myself to check it out if I wouldn't hang out in Brazil.. anything going to there from the US is at least for times its price, with freight and import taxes. Which reminds me to remind you that it's still time to get some interesting things as Xmas presents for your loved ones such as: - the revolutionary book 'Polar Dynamics 1' [link] - the Logs from a time 5 years before the BLOG arrived, a PhiloFi series: the Logs of JD Flora - Ed's fantastic PhiloFi [link] - a book better than the Dan Brown stuff from someone who doesn't want that I say who he is: [link] - something to think about: Dare to Inquire: Sanity and Survival for the 21st Century and Beyond [link] - some modern Orisha music if it's getting too boring [link] (lastly, if you have something yourself to add, drop me a line!) Happy (intelligent!) xmas shopping!!! More > |
| Biotech company blames God for contamination of rice crops | 4 comments |
 15 Dec 2009 @ 14:01MJ sang: "Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie!" He got it wrong, sorry. It was and is, like always. God's fault! The Boogie man must be him, after all he made it all possible! Exactly like the contamination of today's world's rice crops with an experimental variety called LL601. It was tested and found not worthy around 2001 and today it's all over the place. Bayer CropScience of Research Triangle Park, N.C, knows exactly why: it's them stupid farmers and an "act of God", [link] So, don't blame it on the Boogie, pleeeze.. Did I mention that the "variety" was never approved by the "authorities"? (Bayer is working hard on that to fix that retroactively, it's been only 8 yrs after all since they did it, after all). Should I mention that it was following Monsanto's weird-killer ’roundup ready’ strategy of usurping the world markets? [link] Smart move, if your patented genes show up around the world, you own the world! Sure, you got the "copyright"! If them stupid farmers don't want'em it's their problem. Maybe I should mention the industry labs are 'certain' that a connection Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and Bayer's pesticide of the bee colonies cannot be proven Not in 2000 when it was banned in France [link] much less in 2009 [link] Meanwhile, in Copenhagen, the wealth of nations gets redistributed over an issue that REALLY could be seen as an "act of God", at least if you're Sun worshipper: the notorious ClimateChange [link] (note to the link: the guys say something plausible while still not realizing that temperatures are DROPPING since years. [link] Let's keep our heads cool, too! It's of no use to jump from one hype into the next. Let's not forget to push for Open Science and to get politicians and industry to stop telling scientists what to publish or not to publish. And, last not least, let's get the judges out of the labs, telling us what 'science' is good for us and what is 'bad'! If in doubt, remember, don'sing along with Michael RIP, but chant: "Let's blame it on the sunshine!" Can't go wrong with that one :) More > |
| Anthony's Crystal: Closing the Gap between Archetypes and Energies | 25 comments |
 11 Dec 2009 @ 16:38While we arrived at a fairly comprehensive update of the ancient system of Ifá for modern times in regards to the primal energies (Olodus), there still was a considerable lack of linking energies and the archetypes. Note, that the primal energies (Olodus) can be seen as an axiomatic system of the 16 basic principles of anything that exists (see Polar Dynamics 1 by Sandor/Dawson [link] )and it's binary geometry is reflected in the Toth Diagram [link] . The Archetypes (or Archons, Devas, Orishas, Spiritual Guides, or Archangels, Sephiroth, whatever you like to call them) never fit exactly in the binary structure of the energy polarities (Olodus). It was significant to realize that contemplating the binary sequence alone was not sufficient. One crucial question was the overlap of the Eshu (counter) forces from below with the Orisha forces from 'above'. Note, that this way of seeing 'creation' is NOT 'creationalistic' but supports the concept of 'evolution', and very much so, except for the 'design' aspect and the 'first unfolding', two topics for which the 'evolutionist' do NOT have a response themselves. When I branched out to the decimal system of 'counting' the archetypal forces, I looked again at the odd relationship between the number of 201 Archetypes (in this aspect also called Irunmole) and the number of 256 energies (Olodus) out of which they spring, and then, after realizing that there are 55 prime numbers between 1 and 256, saw that the Archetypes arise out of the 201 non-prime numbers and that the 55 prime numbers are allocated exclusively to Eshus (and another force which I will not name here). Edward J. Dawson spearheaded a new division of the Archetypes in the past years. A part of this work is reflected in our book 'Your Personal Archetype' [link] but much progress was made since then. Most importantly, he realized the concordance of the 6 archetypes, 3 males and 3 females, with the concept of the 'triune brain' (link?) and charted the four-directional subdivision of the 6 'archetype complexes', matching them with 'traditional' observation. Already some time ago, I found that the numbering within one of the traditional Ifa divination systems, the 'Merindinlogun', is the 'real' numbering system within the Archetypes and that it is a decimal and not a binary system. It took longer to also find out that it is multiplication that creates 'offspring' of the main archetypes and not addition (as it is predominant in 'sacred number' theories). Looking at the number space in relation to the archetypal forces, I arrived at a crystal, and with the help of the 2.5yr old crystal child Anthony, as you can see in the photo attached, we made a little 'clay-match-demo' of Anthony's Crystal! How would a 'new/old Genesis' then read when built onto the decimal numberspace? More > |
| Barack Hussein Allwellbama: War is Peace and Peace is War | 5 comments |
 11 Dec 2009 @ 13:26After ClimateGate comes another major blow for the (religious) institution called 'Science': the Nobel Prize Award for a war apologist. [link] How low can it get before the 'scientific community' wakes up and defends its own integrity? As far as Afghanistan goes: see [link] and [link] "In 2007, Afghanistan supplied 93% of the world's opium, according to the U.S. State Department. Illicit poppy production, meanwhile, brings $4 billion into Afghanistan, or more than half the country’s total economy of $7.5 billion, according to the United Nations Office of Drug Control (UNODC)." Congrats to all the nations who help Obama to continue this scheme, including the Germans [link] who really should know better. Oh well... On the bright side, there's sun out there, the first time in some weeks, maybe we'll have a bit of summer coming down to Brazil after all :) More > |
| Snowing Flowers! Another Hoax? | 11 comments |
 10 Dec 2009 @ 14:51Looking at the pool this morning, I got a surprise: it looked like frozen and snowed over. We're in Brazil, mind you, and it's only a few days to the SUMMER solstice on December 21st. So, how's that possible? Mainstream media over here is bigtime twisting words around and pushes all the buttons they can think of. Yesterday it was 'weather isn't climate, stupid!', today is 'the heavy rains in South America are a consequence of Climate Change'. Good thing they changed their language in time: in the 70's it was 'Global Freezing', in the 90's theay started 'Global Warming' and now it's 'Climate Change'. Every 20 years a different thing. And Climate Change is the perfect synthesis of Global Freezing and Warming, isn't it? How ingenious!! Al Gore and the IPCC should hand over their fraudulous Nobel Prizes to whoever came up with this cool SPIN. Wow... these are adult people who come up with this, but then, they must be getting very well paid for it... or lose their job if they express their own opinions as demonstrated by the ClimateGate e-mails. Emails in which the death of sceptic Daly was celebrated like a victory. Just for this infamous act, they should lose their jobs, or even face a court judgement. People like this are destroying the people's confidence (belief?) today's into Science at large. On the other hand, this may not be so bad after all. In any case, 40 years ago in my first classes in Statistics at the University, the 'science' of Statistics was not quite a 'science' yet, it was a hybrid, rejected by the Faculty of Mathematics as well as Physics, a fatherless and motherless enterprise which was heavily joked and sneered upon. One of the first things we learned was how to create any wanted trend out of a sufficiently random sample of data just by selecting the right time frame, even without data suppression. Many years later, at the University of Los Angeles (UCLA), the rumor of a mathematical treatise was going around: a work that supposedly provided the mathematical proof that any statistics can be twisted to yield any wanted result. Later, this urban legend (?) claimed the treatise had been rejected as a dissertation thesis and the book banned. That was in the 80's and the tide was changing from Global Freezing to Global Warming. These stories and more came in from the department of Mathematics via my friend Tony Matweecha until his premature death. He was a great person, a former student of the main Assistant of Einstein who translated his lectures at Princeton, a circumstance that provided us with a plethora of Einstein stories, some fascinating and some sad ones. If I should ever waste my time by writing a book on the truth about Statistics, I would dedicate the book to him. But, then, maybe that would be quite an empty book, some may say: where is the truth in Statistics? Be it as it may, today's early pool surprise turned out to be quite simple: a large tree at the pool side shed a lot of his billions of small flowers: it was literally snowing flowers until this afternoon. Well, I will clean the pool now, hoping it won't start snowing flowers again soon. More > |
| The Super-Spin: Are Dihydrogen Monoxide and Carbon Dioxide Poisons? | 7 comments |
 8 Dec 2009 @ 14:25Obama. he can do it! Yes, he just declared Carbon Dioxide a deadly poison! At first I thought we see another Dihydrogen Monoxide Meme-Play(see [link] ) but NOOOO !!! He's serious, I can't believe it. Even worse, how many people accept this incredible SUPER-SPIN of the worst kind. So, let's d(r?)eforest our planet, throw away all soda drinks, no more beer! However, Carbon Dioxide [link] is, besides air, seriously, the most vital gas that sustains life as we know it. One could make the argument that TOO MUCH of it becomes a problem, just like water became deadly if you drowned. But that's entirely another argument and given that more than 30% of Earth's surface is desert, one could argue even that we NEED MORE CO2, see: "plantsneedco2" [link] : (quote) Earth and it's inhabitants need more, not less, CO2. More CO2 means: * More Plant Growth * Plants need less water * More food per acre * More robust habitats and ecosystems CO2 is Earth's greatest airborne fertilizer. Without it - No Life On Earth! (end of quote) So, the Good News is that not everybody falls for this silly Meme of "CO2==poison" ! Nothing more to add... Except, yes, we should clean up Earth!!! But we should look in the right corners and not blame water and co2. The focus on the false culprits and bogus solutions prevents the TRUE DANGERS to be seen, such as the dangers of transgenic food and virus experiments, and chemical pollution of soil and oceans by multinational irresponsible corporations. These are the real dangers to the future of humanity and too few people are aware of it. After ClimateGate we know for sure, that the guys behind the 'science' are very well aware of that temperatures DECLINE since 10 years now and are very much below the Medieval Time 'Global Warming', facts they conspired to hide with statistical 'tricks', as they themselves admitted. We should recognize the climate hype as what it really is: a giant redistribution of global wealth in the order many, many TRILLIONS of dollars. We should look WHO HAS TO GAIN and WHO WILL LOSE in this game. More > |
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