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All species of animals dream in one form or another. These dreams have more than one purpose, as do many things in the natural world. One reason is partially understood by today’s researchers and psychologists. The second bigger reason is unknown in the modern world. Read on to learn this secret information.

Dreams Provide Therapy

The first purpose dreams in to resolve internal issues. Dreams provide us with our own internal therapist. A simple example is how dreams help us overcome fear so we can survive:
 
Imagine primitive man starting to spread out around the world. He had a limited understanding of how the world worked and limited language skills to transmit the things he did understand to others. A mechanism was required so that this man could overcome his fear and spread life across the planet. 
 
Primitive man might have been afraid of thunder storms or large mammals or complete immersion in water. But he needed to overcome his fears so he could feed his family and the species could continue to survive. He could not be paralyzed by fear.
 
During sleep, dreams show us these fearful experiences over and over again. Through this repeated exposure, our brain becomes acclimatized to the object of fear, and so the fear is lessened. The next time we are faced with the same situation, we are better able to deal with it.
 
These therapy dreams are predominately during the rapid eye movement (REM) portion of sleep and are the dreams we most often remember after waking.
To understand the larger purpose of dreams we are going to have to take a small detour:

Delta Brain Wave Activity during Sleep

For more than 30 years, researchers have used a device measure people’s brain activity during different actions such as solving puzzles, meditating and sleeping. This device is called an EEG and it measures the electrical activity of the brain through electrodes placed on the scalp. There is normally a single overriding brain wave frequency.
 
Researchers have divided this frequency measured by the machine into several categories and given each category a name. When people are awake and active the main measured frequency is in the 12 to 30 Hz range, called the Beta region. With eyes closed and very relaxed, the measured brainwave frequency slows down to 8 to 12 Hz, called the Alpha region.
 
The Delta region has a main brain wave of less than 3 Hz. This occurs during slow-wave sleep (SWS). In SWS, we have some dreams but much less than during REM seep. People will reach the Delta region on average after four to five hours of sleep.  Most people do not remember their dreams that occur during SWS.

Delta Brain Wave Activity during Meditation

When the same EEGs are on Yogi Masters during meditation, their brain waves will slow down further. Sometimes they will slow down all the way to the Delta region. But these Yogi Masters are not asleep; they are having profound meditations.
 
Some modern meditation music uses a technique called binaural audio combined with headphones to help people reach the same state.

The Secret Purpose of Dreams

The Planet Earth is a living thinking organism. The name Gaia is often used to describe the Earth it in this context. The Gaia consciousness is very different than human consciousness because is composed entirely of energy. Humans are the central nervous system of this organism. We collect the data and transmit it to the collective.
 
As people, our experiences reach our brains from our five senses. When we touch something with our hands, the nerves carry the sensation from the skin to the brain. The brain gathers the data. The data is in an electro-chemical format as it transmits to the brain.
 
As people crawl and walk and drive around the planet, we collect experiences. There is a mechanism to transmit those experiences to the Gaia consciousness every day. The conduit between our consciousness and the collective consciousness open during sleep when Delta brain waves are present. The same brain wave state of mind that mystics reach during meditation. The daily experiences transmitted to the collective as pure energy, similar to the way a Wi-Fi system works for a computer.
 
From Wikipedia, “After sleep deprivation there is usually a sharp rebound of SWS, suggesting there is a “need” for this stage. The major factor determining how much slow-wave sleep is observed in a given sleep period is the duration of preceding wakefulness.” The purpose for this is not yet known by science. I suggest the purpose is that we must fulfill our role for the planet, transmitting our experiences to the collective.
 
For more information, see the Higher Balance website.

Sometimes new ideas are old ideas.

From Janine Benyus and Ideas from nature:

Opening her talk, Janine introduced Biomimicry, a term she coined. It begins with learning about Nature, but then takes the second step of learning FROM nature. This knowledge of natural processes then inspires a completely different approach to technology, materials and production processes.

A set of principles underpin Biomimicry that explain how life, which has been evolving for 3.8 billion years, creates conditions that are conducive to life. Natural processes use as little energy as possible; they produce no waste – all by-products are consumed by a nearby natural process and are never hazardous to the source organism; Nature conducts its chemistry in water; and Nature uses a small subset of the elements that can be obtained nearby. This contrasts to the human developed industrial manufacturing processes which typical use “heat, beat, and treat” methods of high temperature, high pressure and a cocktail of additive chemicals of varying toxicity, extracted from all corners of the earth.

Janine gave a wealth of examples of modern technology inspired by natural designs that evolved to perfection over hundreds of thousand of years. She showed revolutionary technologies already in practice including gecko-inspired adhesives and leaf-inspired solar cells, and showcased research and development in progress in many, many other fields.

Her talk covered the importance for both students of design, engineering and business, as well as those in industry, to learn about nature’s solutions to functions such as pumping, filtering, collecting and purifying water, generating energy, minimising waste, preventing decay and disease, etc. She is working on a database of these functions for designers, and this will be prepared together with Google. A large collection of Janine’s work is available on the web at her two sites –

• http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org/
• http://www.biomimicry.net/

The Spiritual Importance

I post things like this that I find on the web because I want to share with you the things that catch my eye.  I think that may help you understand the way I think.  I have learned from have observing my teacher and trying to emulate the way he thinks.

Humanity is not “a disease” on the planet, the way some think.  But the large and growing population we have is straining the resources of the planet.  This is a good think because it will force humanity to adopt better, cleaner technologies.  And it will evenutally force humanity to fufill our manifest destiny and leave this planet and populate the solar system.

From Clock Running Out II.

The reality is that the financial markets never fix recurrent failures. The market did not fix apartheid, fascism or World War II. Politics did. Governance did. The yield of good politics is another kind of ROI, the Return on Insight. We own the necessary insight into the acute and massive ecosystems crises but not yet the responsible politics needed. Let’s invent them.

The Spiritual Importance

The world we live in is not static.  The only constant is change.  Either humanity will evolve forward or fall backward.  But adopting conservative political views can not work.  We can’t change the  world back to an earlier paradigm.  The world that conservatives long for no longer exists.  Conservatives are death.  We must find models that work in the world that exist as it is today.  We can’t undo the internet.  We can’t undo globalization.  We can’t undo demand for natural resources. 

Ideas are the seeds of change.  One of the problems is that there are only a few of us that recognize the problems and are actively seeking to find and implement solutions.  First we have to work on ourselves so we can be the most potent agents for change possible.  Secondly we must be very strategic and find the solutions that require the least amount of energy to implement.

We all can appreciate the beautiful healing energy of spending time in nature, away from civilization. But eventually we have to come home. When we compare the sense of peace and connectedness we feel in nature and to the stress and noise and bustle of city, we know internally that there is a difference. Part of the difference is the energy programmed into the physical objects of these places. Nature in general has more positive energy than our homes or cities.

Reasons Nature’s Energy is Positive

• There are less people around in nature, so it is more isolated from people’s thoughts. Thoughts are energy. Thought energy attaches to the physical objects near the origin of those thoughts. Negative thought energy creates stronger energy patterns and remains longer than positive thought energy. Worry, fear, and stress last longer than love, peace and happiness.

• Sunlight is a stream of positive energy that washes away any negative energy. It’s like pouring cold pure mountain stream water onto a sponge. The sponge is rinsed of anything it has collected. When was the last time you were depressed after a day at the beach.

• Nature is usually filled with plants. Plants give off positive energy. They are alive so they put out a positive vibration, but they don’t really think so they don’t put out any negative thoughts the way people do. Plants don’t’ worry about jobs, or bills or relationships.

Before we can start filling our homes with positive energy, we need to remove any accumulation of negative energy. So here is a list of seven simple proven techniques that you can use to remove negative energy from any space:

7 Ways to Remove Negative Energy

1. Salt carpets. This is the simple easiest best way. Simply sprinkle dry table salt on the carpet, wait an hour and then vacuum the up the salt. Use approximately 3 to 6 spoonfuls of salt for a medium size room. Salt crystals have an amazing natural built in-ability to erase the programming of energy. Using salt is like using an eraser on a chalk board. The information on the board is wiped away.

2. Remove clutter. Things like old magazines and dirty clothes can trap a lot of negative energy in your house. Remove old items you no longer need. Keep coffee tables picked up and clean. Put your laundry in a laundry hamper. Wash your dirty dishes and put them away. Negative energy needs objects to hang on to so it can remain around. By keeping your living space picked up, neat and clean,

3. Loud noises. This is the reason the Chinese love fireworks. Loud noises break up energy patterns and allow them to disperse. Mother Nature does the same thing with the noise of thunder storms.

4. Play spiritual music. My favorite is the album Eric Pepin album “Deep Resonating Aums” from the Higher Balance Institute. A close second is the song “God is Real” from Krishna Das on his “Door of Faith” album. Buddhist monks use tingshaws to dissipate unfavorable energy. You can use your stereo with the same effect. Combine this technique with no. 4 and a great pair of speakers for a really deep cleaning.

5. Meditate there. A proper meditation once or twice a day in your living space will broadcast out a powerful positive vibration. A broadcast from a meditative state of mind becomes much more powerful than it would otherwise be, making positive energy more powerful than negative energy. A proper meditation will saturate a space with uplifting energy for several hours.

6. Rearrange the furniture. The Chinese practice the art of Feng shui. Again negative energy needs something to “cling to.” Arrange your space with as much wide open space as possible, allowing any negative energy to disperse. But also the act of rearranging will cause this harmful energy to dissipate.

7. Add living plants. Plants add color, life, oxygen and positive energy to your home. All good things to have. But only if you water and maintain them.

For more information about energy and programming, listen to the FREE class on energy “The Ties That Bind” at Higher Balance free audio.

Al Gore from the movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” quoting Winston Churchill from 1926,

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place, we are entering a period of consequences.”

An John F. Kennedy,

“Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream of things that never were and say why not.”

The Spiritual Importance

Quotes from people we admire can provide motivation to carry out the work we know we need to do.  To steal a title from book, I believe in living a “purpoose driven life.”  I do and I can attest to the fact that it provides me much satisfaction, especially when the low points in life happen.

New Models for the Future

There seems to be a theme developing in my posts in the Misc category:

Non-profits and pro-bono work… see Nicholas Negroponte

Open source models of development… wikipedia, skype, apache, the open directory project… or open source Architecture…

Continuing on that theme is Robin Chase on Zipcar and ad hoc peer-to-peer self-configuring wireless networks. For profit companies do not want this type of network to appear. Note that it is the same type of network that Nicholas Negroponte’s laptops use in his $200 laptop for every child non-profit.

In the book “Tales From Q School” author John Feinstein tells the story of disabled pro golfer Casey Martin. Casey filed a lawsuit against the PGA Tour in order to allow him to use a golf cart during golf tournaments under the Americans With Disabilities Act. Casey has a degenerative disease in his leg called Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome that makes it impossible for him to walk a golf course. The case PGA Tour v. Martin ended up in front of the US Supreme Court.

Here are some Casey Martin quotes from the book:

“I grew up a dyed-in-the wool conservative Republican.”

“To tell the truth, the Republicans really disappointed me. I’ll be completely honest and tell you I was appalled by the positions taken by Justice [Antonin] Scalia and Justice [Clarence] Thomas. I just think they’re completely heartless. Bob Dole was the exception, but his experience was like mine-he’d been through it, knew what it felt like to be handicapped. I remember going on Bill O’Reillys show and walking away thinking, ‘This guy is a complete schmuck.’ It pains me to say it, but most of the people who showed compassion for me, who seemed to want to help out the downtrodden, were Democrats. I came away from the experience with a lot of different feelings on a lot of different subjects.”

“Heck, if it had been someone else in my shoes and I was just an observer, I’d probably have been one of the those guys saying, ‘He can’t have a cart. If he can’t walk, get him out of there.’ But I wasn’t. I was the guy living it. That made me rethink a lot of things, like just as an example, how I thought about welfare. I couldn’t help but wonder if I was the one living that life, I might feel differently on that subject, too. I found myself looking at things through a different lens.”

The Spiritual Importance

Compassion for others is a prime element in developing our own consciousness.  Without increased cooperation and compassion for others, the human race is going to have a very difficult time in the very near future.

The Open Source Architecture Innovation

Cameron Sinclair talks about his innovation design solutions to housing problems at Cameron Sinclair on Open Source Architecture He is a co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and editor of the book “Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises.”

Here are some of the quotes from his lecture that struck me:

• “All problems are local. All solutions are local.”
• “This isn’t just about non-profit. What it showed me is there is a grass roots movement of socially responsible designers going on.”
• “We have the opportunity to get involved in making change.”
• “We have a staff of 3.”
• “…advocacy, instigation, implementation.”
• “Why don’t aid agencies do this?”
• “… a conduit between the design world and the humanitarian world.”

Cameron helped to bring the world it’s first building where the design plans have a Creative Commons license.

Oh, yeah… and he lives in Bozeman, Montana…

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world. Among the free peoples who govern themselves there is but a small field of usefulness open for the men of cloistered life who shrink from contact with their fellows. Still less room is there for those who deride or slight what is done by those who actually bear the brunt of the day; nor yet for those others who always profess that they would like to take action, if only the conditions of life were not what they actually are. The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he by cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder. Well for these men if they succeed; well also, though not so well, if they fail, given only that they have nobly ventured, and have put forth all their heart and strength. It is war-worn Hotspur, spent with hard fighting, he of the many errors and the valiant end, over whose memory we love to linger, not over the memory of the young lord who “but for the vile guns would have been a soldier…”

To say that the thriftless, the lazy, the vicious, the incapable, ought to have the reward given to those who are far-sighted, capable, and upright, is to say what is not true and can not be true. Let us try to level up, but let us beware of the evil of leveling down. If a man stumbles, it is a good thing to help him to his feet. Every one of us needs a helping hand now and then. But if a man lies down, it is a waste of time to try to carry him; and it is a very bad thing for every one if we make men feel that the same reward will come to those who shirk their work and to those who do it.

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FIGHTER

By: Christina Aguilera

After all you put me through
You’d think I’d despise you
But in the end
I wanna thank you
Cause you made me that much stronger

Well I
Thought I knew you
Thinkin
That you were true
Guess I
I couldn’t trust called your bluff time is up
Cause I’ve had enough
You were there by my side,
Always down for the ride
But your joy ride just came down in flames cause your greed sold me out in shame

After all of the stealing and cheating you probably think that I hold resentment for you
But uh uh, oh no, you’re wrong
Cause if it wasn’t for all that you tried to do
I wouldn’t know just how capable
I am to pull through
So I wanna say thank you
Cause it

Chorus:
Makes me that much stronger
Makes me work a little bit harder
It makes me that much wiser
So thanks for making me a fighter
Made me learn a little bit faster
Made my skin a little bit thicker
Makes me that much smarter
So thanks for makin me a fighter

Never saw it coming
All of your backstabbing
Just so you could cash in on a good thing before I’d realize your game
I heard you’re goin around playin
The victim now
But don’t even begin feeling I’m the one to blame
Cause you dug your own grave
After all of the fights and the lies cause you’re wanting to haunt me
But that won’t work anymore, no more
It’s over
Cause if it wasn’t for all of your torture
I wouldn’t know how to be this way now and never back down
So I wanna say thank you
Cause it

Chorus

How could this man I thought I knew
Turn out to be unjust so cruel
Could only see the good in you
Pretended not to know the truth
You tried to hide your lies, disguise yourself
Through living in denial
But in the end you’ll see
YOU-WON’T-STOP-ME

I am a fighter and I
I ain’t gonna stop
There is no turning back
I’ve had enough

Chorus x2

Affecting One Billion People

Here is an idea that could potentially affect 1 billon people; a sustainable fridge. Just heat it up on a cooking fire for 30 minutes, let it cool for 1 hour, finally place it inside the container to cool. No electricity required. It will cool a 15 litter vessel down to near freezing for 24 hours. Great for storing vacines, food, etc. Cost $25 in high volumes and $40 in low volumes.

Adam Grosser and his Sustainable Fridge