Assessing Neighbourhood Health with Quantum Biofeedback

We are very pleased to have Lina Razgaitis, a pain and stress specialist, as our speaker at the next gathering.

Quantum Biofeedback: Advanced Scientific Methods to Manage Pain and Stress

Scans on the Indigo quantum biofeedback units look at reactions to over 11,000 stress related factors.  whatreallyworksforstress.com.

Lina will share with us how she produces 32-page reports on the current health of Earth's biology or a neighbourhood.  

For us to look at any claims about quantum physics (that may otherwise boggle the mind or make eyes roll), biophysicist, Dr John Stewart has agreed to be present in a support role for the group.  He is an expert on the physics of biological organisms.

Date and time:  Wednesday January 27, 2016 from 7 to 9pm. 

Location: Columbus Centre, Toronto's Italian community's cultural centre, 901 Lawrence Ave West, two buildings west of Dufferin.  

Columbus Centre is conveniently located near Highway 401, and the Spadina subway (a 10 minute walk or short bus ride from Lawrence West subway station).

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We like to break-out into small groups of 3 or 4 people to discuss and help digest what we heard, and what this means to us individually.  We will also use groups to assess whether use of Quantum Biofeedback is advantageous for the health of neighbourhoods and how we go about setting up programs. 
 
This free event is held in conjunction with Universe City of Toronto.  We will look at expanding Universe City as a place you go to get the skills and experience you need for today's economy of creativity, sustainable development and learning.  Check out the section called 'Courses'.

Universe City is organized in seven movements.  One movement is about Health Promotion in neighbourhoods.

We are looking forward to getting together with like-hearted individuals.
Let Nick D'Aleandro or I know if you plan to attend.  Bring a friend.

Send us your email if you want to know about our events.

Organizing for Understanding Freedom and Sustainability

We had a spirited session at the Intro Evening on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. 
 
Thanks to those of you who came to one or both meetings in October, and for your interest.

We have since launched a website for an agency where members of our association will represent us and our projects.  Our sponsored ad for the Intro Evenings ran in the first issue of Rapture - a newspaper dedicated to bridging spirituality, science and art.

Starting on November 11 at noon we will have the first Interim Meeting at the same location, (25 Sandale Gardens in Toronto near Sheppard and Bathurst - see Googlemaps for detailed directions ) and will begin identifying the best means to become an association that takes advantage of opportunities for –

1. moving the world agenda forward based on members’ existing projects and spheres of influence,
2. determining a self-sustaining and integrative direction for humanity where all can contribute and no-one is left behind,
3. promoting innovation in terms of how society adopts new learning and insights,
4. revealing convincing means for society to understand the consequences of actions taken,

At this Interim Meeting November 11, I am looking forward to showing you and discussing the actual business model - as developed to date - on how we organize as a self-organizing system.

Some of us have contacts in other parts of the world that are working on great projects and who could benefit from collaboration.  Consider bringing an outline of these projects on November 11.

At the moment we are -

a mutual support network that looks at areas of overlap amongst what we are already doing to advance scientific, spiritual, business, and psychological understanding.

I hope you can make it out for part of the day on November 11.  Let me know if this works for you by emailing ucitytoronto @ gmail.com.

There will be two further Intro Nights on Wednesday November 13, and Thursday Nov 28 to which you are free to invite friends with projects for a society that works  for everyone.

Why the News no longer Makes Sense

It seems that the story behind most news items these days has been politicians, military and corporations working towards shared ends.  It`s involved sending people off to war.  War is the impersonal use of physical power.  Its about using biology and putting it behind guns.

During the early 1990’s and the first Gulf War we saw protestors' signs that read ‘War is not an Energy Policy’.  Many people realized that the story behind the story behind news items was ensuring continued access to energy produced by oil, using chemistry. Now we see production of energy from uranium as the big story behind news about Iran.  Iran could  be using uranium for social use or for destruction  Again its about using chemistry.  

It’s widely known that Western energy policies have included suppressing the democratization of clean forms of energy both at home and abroad.  Governments worry about people having easy access large amounts of energy at home using physics.  

Perhaps governments currently see this suppression as necessary because large amounts of energy could ‘fall into the wrong hands’ and be turned into weapons.  The National Defence Authorization Act, passed into law in the US on New Year's Eve, 2011, specifically mentions pulsed photonic weaponry – or what we must assume is the weaponization of light.  Sounds like battling light sabres to me.  Perhaps watching too much Luke Skywalker.

The actual technology being referred to here is energy from the vacuum, or EFTV.  Its a topic well worth Googling if only to see how something the military has used since the 1930`s is being portrayed.

   

The story behind the story behind the story behind the news items these days is currency.  The America dollar has not involved gold since the time of Richard Nixon.  In fact we are now into currency wars.  Imagine that.  And there is nothing within the use of numbers in a computer that the currency represents,  People are going hungry in Greece for example because the debt numbers in a computer have been adopted by consensus.  See currencywarsbook.com for more on this kind of development.  

So let`s take a look at what currency wars look like...  Note how Saddam Hussein in Iraq was accepting currencies other than the dollar, for oil.  This enraged the financial sector in the US. 

Qaddafi started to require gold for oil rather than US dollars.  He was also setting up a banking system for Africa, independent of Europe.  And then America and mostly Italy and France attacked Libya. 

Iran has accepted gold for oil.  Iran is being deliberately financially destabilized through sanctions.

Let`s start to understand what`s behind the news.  Let`s start to pull this together:

Story Level I
Use of biology - armed wars

Story Level II
Use of materials in chemistry - wars about oil.

Story Level III
Use of energy in physics - recent wars over energy from the vacuum

Story Level IV
Use of numbers in mathematics - recent currency wars

If the world situation is difficult to follow, it’s because currency is hard to understand.  Currency is about numbers and using math.  And math is actually not a science but a form of philosophy.  Let`s say we now used metaphysics, a branch of philosophy for wars. Newscasters are not up for reporting on that.

It could be argued that studies of currency belong in algebra.  Remember algebra... that way of getting both sides of the equals sign to remain equal to one another, or balanced?   

Think of the philosophy of algebra in terms of, say Taoism, which seeks to align with the balance of two principles of Life - sometimes called yin and yang, shiva and shakti, self and flow, etc.  

Take another look at the financial destabilization of Iran.  Its about denying Life, or using sanctions to deny balance within a country.  Recently we saw the expulsion of Iran from SWIFT, which facilitates exchanges of currency amongst countries.  If you can`t turn currency or numbers into a weapon, then suppress or block the flow of currency.  This is death culture.  This begins to impose or inflict economic depression.

Think of algebra in terms of karmic repercussions, of equal and opposite actions, of atonement.  And think of algebra the same way you think about beats that create waves,  cycles, or vibration.  This is not the usual stuff to get your head around while nibbling and watching the news on telly.  

So we don't understand the news and therefore our world.

You can bet that in currency wars only bankers act as the commanders and generals.  To make the decisions on all the big moves in the world, bank owners need battalions of number crunching officers.  The bankers wage war on countries without the public, governments, military or corporations fully understanding the 'why' or the 'how'. 

Balance in the world is now either maintained or messed around with by several bank owners.  This is not conspiracy theory.  This is algebra.  Highly complex levels of algebra, but algebra all the same.

And clearly algebra and conspiracy theory are not the same.

We all want things to add up in our minds.  It is more than wanting, its a shared need amongst humans.  Yet we have not understood the news for a long time. 

What is a conspiracy theory?  It's how we take extremely complex world situations and get them to add up.  Clarity emerges gradually.  We arrive at highly complex levels of algebra through intuition about pattern and balance rather than through mathematics.

Hello, Occupy! What you doin'?

To better understand how the Occupy Movement is so different, here is an email a devout Christian land developer friend of mine sent.  It's about a seminar that was being offered to North Americans about opportunities to legally evade paying national taxes by using tax havens in the Caribbean.  


My friend wrote:

These tax schemes are only one way that the 1% have legal ways to get further ahead of the rest of us. This is an actual example. If you were an accountant, you would know lots of other examples. The point is that the high net worth of the 1% does not come from just being industrious. If they paid their fair share of taxes, this would be a start in moving all of us towards equity.

This was great fuel for the Occupy conversation that the mainstream media has now engaged the broader population in.  


In response to my friend's request to pass forward something ‘that might be of interest to Occupy’ I sent the following email: 

Thanks for pointing out a real way in which the 1% gets ahead of the 99% with little effort.  This is a great idea that could turn into an action that Occupy takes, or at least enter the general discussion within the movement.  However, I've since discovered that there are no means for me to forward this suggestion on your behalf to, say the Action Committee for consideration.  


You are part of Occupy.  Sorry to have to say this... it’s either of interest to the individual or not.  It can't be 'of interest to Occupy'. 

Expressive movements fly in the face of everything we're taught about organizing.  They start with trust.  Trust is earned through experiences of working together.  'Organizing ourselves' as a corporation doesn't give us options, like choosing to only work with, or under people we trust.  Instead we pay ourselves to show up, and when we show up, we work.  That's part of what's usually called the 'command and control' model.


However an expressive movement bases collaboration on trust, sharing, caring, kindness, respect... and even more advanced values.  Together we become an embodiment of ideals, and compassion.  Delegation is out the window, and it’s more about freedom or expression, not imposing our individual ideas or ideology on someone else, or suggesting our ideas are things that others could be attending to.  It's about freeing ourselves from chains of command.  

The combination of community, creativity, and compassion results in something that no--one can command and control.  All this is relatively new and something I am still struggling to get my head around.  So far, I know this way of doing things is life affirming.  Both life and light are allowed in.  It's an enlightened development that goes beyond 'organizing ourselves' as a corporation.  Perhaps we're allowing God to step into the middle.  

An 'expressive movement' is special and very different from a single-issue movement or a corporation. The culture in Occupy is that something happens when someone decides to move it forward and it gains wider support.  Otherwise it languishes by the wayside.

To move forward with this valuable idea of doing something about tax haven seminars, you'd either take it as a proposal to a General Assembly, or, more effectively, join the Action Committee by signing on to their Googlegroup.  The info is given under the 'Committees' tab on  the main OccupyTO.org web site.

All the best to you, and heaven help us all.

Understanding How Occupy Works

To even better understand how the Occupy Movement is organized, here is an email another friend sent me.  He is retired from the US army and is quite philosophical.  He attached a link to an article from a magazine and said, “Please pass this along to the organizer of Occupy Toronto.”

I replied, “As you know, there are no Occupy organizers.  Whoever shows up can voice their opinion.” 

He replied:  'As to no "organizers," someone or a few must hold the centre and focus.  Therefore the concept of "No Organizers" is flawed logic'.

Wow.  For the logical part of the brain, all this seems flawed.   But I suggest that, for people who think cosmo-logically, or in terms of the wholeness of a system, this idea of ‘no organizers’ is not flawed at all. 

A cosmos is a whole system.  It is naturally occurring and therefore self-organizing.  The basic challenge that society faces is that we are moving from looking for logical solutions to becoming cosmo-logical adaptations.  And I like the idea that we need to 'become the change we are looking for'.  

My friend liked my email response so I want to share it with you.

At Occupy I believe we are talking about self-directed action in an expressive movement, rather than managed action in a one issue movement.  

That requires self-organization, and coordination of emergent solutions that arise from the grassroots and gradually catch on.  

True, not everyone is sufficiently self-aware all of the time, to know what we want to express or do next.  So at times we may decide to follow someone else's lead rather than taking initiative, being enthused, following ideas and impulses that derive from our own centre.  (En = inside, centre.  Theo = god.  These are the roots of 'enthused').

Nature is all about self-organization.  Unless we think that only fairies and devas make flowers and pumpkins grow we have to open up to the idea that everything that surrounds us that is not hand made or technological has self-organized.  

If you wanna peek at who or what's organizing Nature or the Occupy movement I believe that to some degree it’s the Self, an archetypal pattern that the psychologist, Carl Jung writes about.  Some call it the Great Spirit, the Shakina or the feminine aspect of God.  Or it could be the goddesses Shakti, or Quan Yin.  These may be very real individuals or merely terms that were intuitively arrived at to account for the fluidity and beauty that happening all around us as a result of self-organization.

The Self is the pattern about which things organize. You self-organized in your mother's womb for sure.  You didn't come from on high by Federal Express.

As a chemist I've studied those simplest of self-organizing systems called atoms for years.  Each atom has a centre (nucleus) that arises naturally.  Social movements are similar, just way more complex.  

What makes human life weird is that when we choose to collaborate we soon begin to 'organize ourselves' rather than self-organize.  Organizations are not really organized at all.  They are orderly structures that we build from the top, down.  We impose order from the top, down.  This orderly approach defies life.  

When we get busy and 'organize ourselves' we instill our ideas and values on the outcomes which is terribly limiting.  Whatever regime we choose contains tyranny and oppression within the structure.  This limited approach is how we've managed to produce so much misery and tedium.  Darkness and distrust are dispelled from how we collaborate because fluidity and beauty come included with self-organization.

At Occupy we are not in corporate America or in the army.  In fact we're not trying to be life destroying and self-oppressive at all.  Delegation is 'out' and values-based action is definitely on the increase.  Think 'creative, responsive and lively'.

It’s a funny way to run a universe, I know.  But I actually prefer to align with life and the self-organizing principles that run the show. The pattern we call the 'self' is what's at centre.  

Hoping this makes the idea of "No organizers" clearer and easier to live with.

Andrew.

Natural Ways to Organize Society

To learn from "how nature organizes" doesn't mean looking at wolf packs in the wild, or how geese get together before migrating, etc. It means observing things while we think of them as "systems", or self-sustainable, constantly changing, yet complete wholes.

The simplest of all systems we can study are atoms and molecules. They are self-sustainable, functioning, moving, yet balanced organizations of electrons, protons and neutrons.

We can learn a lot from the seven stages of the Periodic Table of Elementary Properties.  A huge amount waits to be discovered in terms of similarities with other systems of higher degrees of complexity. Plants and animals are, of course, much more complex systems. But perhaps they differ from atoms and molecules mostly in terms of their degree of their complexity. 

However, if the patterns found in how atoms organize are relatively simple, these same fundamental patterns could occur again and again continually throughout the world of plants and animals. 

Perhaps we can become aware of overall patterns that lend themselves to how we can organize in more natural ways as an international society.

This way of thinking is the basis of the Healing Economy of Conscious Evolution.

A system always finds balance, or it falls apart.  Its close enough to perfect balance, or it does not exist.  Perhaps, at this and every other point in our evolution as a society, there is something perfect in terms of the inherent balance of what goes on inside each individual, and as a planet-wide society.  Our natural capacity to approach perfection of balance could continue to move society to higher levels of complexity.  

Nature will not change over to being less reliant on balance, no matter how much we may want it to be otherwise.  It is up to us to become more conscious of this evolutionary development from perfect balance towards more complex stages of perfect balance.