mindfulness

Some says that the universe seems to be self-organizing organism. Well, if it is some kind of huge organism, we cannot know.  But it is for sure self-organizing. The galaxies formed itself into different kind of shapes.  Supernovas have exploded and created the stuff our whole planet are made of, our selves included.  So, anyway some part of the universe is conscious. Some part of the universe write songs and are looking at other galaxies.  Brian Swimme is a supporter of this view;  He gives us the bigger picture of our history, and that is for sure needed.  When I do metta meditations I often end with the universe. I try to imagine the expanding universe and wishing it peace, safety, good health and to live in peace. I now it sound naive and a bit crazy, but try it for yourself for a shirt time. But begin with yourself, and maybe the other people around. A actually did that today at a small vegetarian restaurant with just a...

Pollution is here to stay, it seems. Peteris Vasks, the composer, lives by the Baltic sea, as I do. This sea is quite fragile because not so much fresh and salty water reach it from the bigger Atlantic sea. Its a semi-enclosed inland sea. Most fishes and organism as jellyfish are less common and smaller compared to the Atlantic. A lot of fertilizer comes from the countries around the sea and it is, for instance, problems with algal blooms in summer. Vasks knows this and is troubled with it. He anyway wants to give us beautiful music, but its easy to, at least in some of it, see a nature in pain. Some of us who are mindful of this are maybe willing to decrease our living standard for the sake of the environment. But must of us would not do it. vote for a government  which  would like to stop economic growth. According to Yuval Harari, the historian,  no political leader  would stay long on the top if he/she wasn't for economic growth. No matter if it ...

To be by yourself in nature is a gift from the Earth to you. Enjoy it and maybe you can hold the moment in yourself like a hidden flower for a long time. You don't have to speak about the beauty with someone. But you may be grateful for it and in your turn give it to someone else in the form of a hug or a smile. So the great gift will pass on and on from person to person in different forms. And may come back to you, even if you don't recognize it.

Andrej Tarkovskij is a legend in film  history. Though that history is quite short. In a short video by the philosopher Zizek there is an interesting view of Tarkovsky's film Stalker. '   If T has a special view of time it must be something like this. T often let work of famous painters, like da Vinci or the icon painter Rublev, be seen for some seconds, just a glimpse. Or the characters seem to be in an arcaic landscape. According to T it's because his will to connect his media to the rest of the history of art. Film is a young media and needs to connect to older art. But T also had an eye for the complexity time, nearly as Einstein had; the room or space cannot be separated from time.   T didn't do films for the masses and just made a few films and had problems with censors in the Soviet union. He wanted to live there but couldn't make the films he wanted to there, so the last film he made in Sweden. He had a great longing for Russia but also fo...

We believe that there is an up an on down. The floor in my apartment is a ceiling  for the people in the place below. For me up is in the sky, but for the people in Australia the same direction is means down. Einstein discovered that time and space is one thing, space-time. This is not our gut feeling or intuition want to understand. we have no use for it in our daily life. Therefore our thinking is not used to it. Instead our thinking is more or less useful for a life in the savanna, looking for snakes, enemies in the bush or people with another kind of looking; they may be dangerous. So we have a tendency for racism or for film with much violence and with "bad" persons in it. And so we will be even more afraid for the unknown. Scientist invent more and more things and our frightened brains use many of them as weapons. Fabrics produce a lot of things, as cars and cloth as we use to impress each other as we are looking for love. If we have time for it we can...

Prospero's speech at the end of The Tempest could be Shakespeare's own view. It is said that he was a melancholy man. At least he was influenced by of the very violent time he was born into He wrote The Tempest at his hometown He had returned to Stratford-upon-Avon for the last years of his life. And Prospero is said to be his Alter Ego. Carlo  Rovelli ends another speech in England, but nearer in time, with Prosperos's words. Rovelli  reveals, in this iaitv speech, that time is not a straight arrow to the future, instead we are living, not in dream, but it in the web of spacetime. The structure of reality is like a fabric that makes waves and bends. Here's Rovelli at iaitv And when you can hear Shakespeare's words at YouTube  in a new video, it's a kind of bending of time, isn't it? Time goes a little bit slower at the surface of the Earth than one meter above it, because  spacetime is bending toward our planet. As you can see Rovelli wou...

The EPR paradox was a thought experiment by Einstein and two other scientist. They wanted to proof that the Copenhagen interpretation of quanta mechanics was wrong. There can be no chance involved in the normal world and not even in the really small world of atoms and photons. The paradox showed that the outcome of the quanta mechanics was that two atoms or photons that are entangled and then separated could react to each other with no time in between in the quantum world according to the thought experiment - and that would be impossible, said Einstein. Some information must sent between the particles - and that takes time... But experiment done later have shown that it is so. If you measure  one atom/photon the other will react immediately to the measurement. John Wheelers solution to the paradox was that the human thought creates reality. If we decide that a book is something to read it will be like that. If someone decides to build a house of books, they become "brick...