Frequency of Change - Or Change of Frequency?
By: Zack Steel
Do we feel our soul and do we understand how it encompasses and permeates us? Is speech more of a physical or spiritual activity? When we speak we are utilizing various components of our physicality, from our lungs, our mouth numerous other physical components. But the words we say are not just vibrations effecting the displacement of air. Our words are expressions of our ideas.
Without ideas there would perhaps be no state of existence. We are
primarily our mind. The mind supervenes the brain. The brain process ideas and
in turn we communicate these ideas to other people through speech and by
writing, among other modalities.
When we speak we bring out our soul into the world. This in
turn shapes the world and develops it. Our ideas and our speech surely have the
greatest ability to effect change in the world. Is this process influential
because we live in more of a spiritual reality than a physical one?
Before we
dismiss this postulation, let us consider that we know that all matter is
composed of molecules or on more focused level of quarks – particles carrying
an electrical charge. Electricity is a channeled form of energy. We are
likewise channels or vessels for the channeled energy of our soul.
How To Think
By: Zack Steel
Recently I was speaking with my friend about thinking. It might seem like a
strange topic and slightly
odd. But, even while not being an official Philosopher, I felt I could contribute to this discussion in a
thoughtful way.
I had just completed reading a book specifically about thinking. Having read this book numerous times, I am slowly beginning to understand how to think. Is it an obvious process that everyone knows how to postulate an idea and then they consider that they have thought? Not exactly correct. On the average, it might seem that thought processes begin through the pursuit of knowledge. Then, once one has attained that knowledge, one will make an effort to understand the knowledge and thereby possibly come to understand the knowledge. Then one will gain wisdom from having the understanding of the knowledge and use this wisdom to learn and grow through acquiring additional knowledge. This is one possible method for thinking.
But there is another perspective on the thinking process and its development. What if we first suppose that one should first focus on refining our faculty of thought and our thinking processes? Then having achieved this goal, we will we strive to develop wisdom and refine our faculty of thought. Through having developed our ability to develop wisdom and having refined our faculty of thought, we will come to understand our own process of thinking and realize how we acquire knowledge within our brain and within our being. Thereafter we can now strive to acquire knowledge and be able to utilize the knowledge practically.
There is clearly an Internet and it seems to be a vast database of inter-connected systems (servers & ports), housing and referring massive amount of information (data) and routing it to various search engines. Is it a bizarre postulation that perhaps the real Internet is really the world as a whole in which we exist? That perhaps we are the portals, servers connected to various ports, comprising a network and receiving and distributing data to the world through our very existence.
Just through our perceiving, processing, thinking, refining, developing & redistributing data we are being shaped and shaping the construct – the world.
It is not so important what we search for on the internet or what great information it contains. It is of greatest importance how we interact with the data; and simultaneously are the data, which powers the construct of which we are simultaneously composed.
Based in part of the works of Schneur Zalman, of Liadi - The TANYA - Through My Continuous Reading of this Great Work I Have Come to Think Differently.
odd. But, even while not being an official Philosopher, I felt I could contribute to this discussion in a
thoughtful way.
I had just completed reading a book specifically about thinking. Having read this book numerous times, I am slowly beginning to understand how to think. Is it an obvious process that everyone knows how to postulate an idea and then they consider that they have thought? Not exactly correct. On the average, it might seem that thought processes begin through the pursuit of knowledge. Then, once one has attained that knowledge, one will make an effort to understand the knowledge and thereby possibly come to understand the knowledge. Then one will gain wisdom from having the understanding of the knowledge and use this wisdom to learn and grow through acquiring additional knowledge. This is one possible method for thinking.
But there is another perspective on the thinking process and its development. What if we first suppose that one should first focus on refining our faculty of thought and our thinking processes? Then having achieved this goal, we will we strive to develop wisdom and refine our faculty of thought. Through having developed our ability to develop wisdom and having refined our faculty of thought, we will come to understand our own process of thinking and realize how we acquire knowledge within our brain and within our being. Thereafter we can now strive to acquire knowledge and be able to utilize the knowledge practically.
There is clearly an Internet and it seems to be a vast database of inter-connected systems (servers & ports), housing and referring massive amount of information (data) and routing it to various search engines. Is it a bizarre postulation that perhaps the real Internet is really the world as a whole in which we exist? That perhaps we are the portals, servers connected to various ports, comprising a network and receiving and distributing data to the world through our very existence.
Just through our perceiving, processing, thinking, refining, developing & redistributing data we are being shaped and shaping the construct – the world.
It is not so important what we search for on the internet or what great information it contains. It is of greatest importance how we interact with the data; and simultaneously are the data, which powers the construct of which we are simultaneously composed.
Based in part of the works of Schneur Zalman, of Liadi - The TANYA - Through My Continuous Reading of this Great Work I Have Come to Think Differently.
Humor- Is It Funny?
By: Zack Steel
Jokes are funny. Cynicism can be moderately
humorous too! But what makes us laugh at humor? Perhaps we have a desire to
laugh - we only need a reason. With less face-to-face communication, we
appreciate any sense of humor, in which we can delight. Smiling faces and
smiley faces of all varieties, with winks and kisses are all the buzz online
and on your communication device. But perhaps, all of this texting / messaging,
binging, pinging and other ”–inging” is preventing clear communication. So any
opportunity to smile face-to-face, with others, is surely a welcomed
opportunity. A good joke is the best way to start the day, or at anytime.
But what is it about good joke that causes us to
chuckle or laugh? Is it the timing of the joke? Is it the delivery,
or the concluding phrase, which makes us smirk, smile or feel an internal
tickle that will likely result in laughter?
Maybe our response to the humor-gaining methods is
related our mood. Or maybe, our response to the stimulus - the comedian telling
anecdotes or jokes - depends on the wit and sass of the comic. Why is it that
some comedians start of their bit by insulting the audience? Is this so that
whatever they say next, will be perceived as better than initial insult and
thereby be considered funny?
Do the comedian’s jokes even need too be funny?
Some comics use swearing, cursing, mocking and negative statements and phrases
to get a laugh from the audience. Do these comics deliver their bit in this
way, because they believe that the audience is desperate to release stress and
tension? Needing a good laugh so dearly, that just about anything the comedian
says will generate at least a smirk? Can a smile bring about laughter?
What about Laughter Yoga? This is a fun method – if
I am correct in my understanding – where a group of people sit in a circle, and
smile at one another, until they all begin to laugh. No jokes, puns, innuendos,
insults, negativity or any other “silly stuff”. But all of the group members
eventually begin to laugh, and share in the collective fun, without a word
being uttered.
Speaking of group laughter, what about
improvisational comedy skits, with role-playing. This is great spontaneous fun?
What about Theatre Sports for engaging humor? In this system of interactive
comedy, the audience members are invited to participate in the skit. But each
chosen participant will need to improvise their role and their lines? Surely,
this is great fun. In this method, the audience members are creating the
laughing process for themselves while having great fun. Funny stuff : )
