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“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

― Henry David Thoreau

What if money was no object?

British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (1915-1973), author of the cult-classic The Way of Zen, played a key role in popularizing Eastern philosophy in the West, like John Cage had done, in the middle of the 20th century.

In this short video, a fine complement to this omnibus of wisdom on how to find your purpose and do what you love, Watts asks the seemingly simple question of what you would do if money were no object:

“So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it’s so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say ‘Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers’ But as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way! Another person says ‘Well I’d like to live an out-of-door’s life and ride horses.’ I said ‘You wanna teach in a riding school?’

Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him ‘You do that! And forget the money!’ Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living – that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of which you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing – it doesn’t really matter what it is – you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you’ll find others who are.

But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it’s all retch and no vomit – it never gets there! And so therefore it’s so important to consider this question:

What do I desire?” – Alan Watts

The Extended Mind

We have been brought up to believe that the mind is located inside the head. But there are good reasons for thinking that this view is too limited. Recent experimental results show that people can influence others at a distance just by looking at them, even if they look from behind and all sensory clues are eliminated.

And people’s intentions can be detected by animals from miles away. The most common kind of non-local mental interaction occurs in connection with telephone calls, where most people have had the experience of thinking of someone shortly before they ring.

Controlled, randomized tests on telephone telepathy have given highly significant positive results. Research techniques have now been automated and experiments on telepathy are now being conducted through the internet and cell phones, enabling widespread participation.

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Freedom of speech – your reality

Freedom of speech is recognized as a human right by most developed countries, but its application remains completely theoretical. In the world we live in, it is not the best political, scientific or artistic ideas that become popular, but instead those that are most profitable. An enormous propaganda machine controls most of the information that people have access to. Public opinion and taste is being carefully shaped by the ruling elite in the attempt to create a population of obedient slaves that don’t have the mental capacity to challenge their rule.

There is no freedom of speech, and without it, there is no democracy. We are all born with the indisputable power of expressing ourselves. Evolution gave us the enormous potential by allowing us to share ideas and complex or abstract concepts. This natural gift brought us all the cultural and technological development throughout history.

Today we have developed incredible means of communications that allow us to instantly share ideas with people around the globe. Information has no real limits, and if it wasn’t for the serious efforts by corporations and oppressive governments to restrain it, we would live in a world where arts, technologies and science would thrive and push humanity back into balance and abundance.

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We’re facing mass extinction – Last Hours

Last Hours is the first in a series of short films that explore the perils of climate change and the solutions to avert climate disaster.

Each subsequent film will highlight fact-based challenges facing the human race, and offer solutions to ameliorate these crises. The initial short film series will culminate in a feature film to be presented prior to COP21, the 2015 UN Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

An asset for the climate change movement, “Last Hours” will be disseminated globally to awaken modern culture worldwide about the various dangers associated with climate change.

Το βενζινάδικο του μέλλοντος!

Ίσως μάλιστα όχι του πολύ μακρινού μέλλοντος. Τότε που στα αυτοκίνητά μας δεν θα βάζουμε βενζίνη αλλά απλά θα τα φορτίζουμε. Αν και τα ηλεκτρικά αυτοκίνητα είναι πραγματικότητα η έλλειψη υποδομών για τη λειτουργία τους είναι ένα βασικό πρόβλημα στην παγκόσμια υιοθέτηση των ηλεκτροκίνητων αυτοκινήτων.

Στη διαδιακσία για την ανεύρεση πρακτικών λύσεων η Honda has παρουσίασε τα πλάνα της για τη δημιουργία σταθμών φόρτισης σε πραγματικό περιβάλλον αστικών κέντρων, προκειμένου να πραγματοποιήσει ευρείες δοκιμές. Οι σταθμοί θα παράγουν την απαιτούμενη ενέργεια από ηλιακούς συλλέκτες δυμιουργώντας έναν πλήρη κύκλο παραγωγής και κατανάλωσης καθαρής ενέργειας.

Το πρ’ογραμμα θα ξεκινήσει στις ιαπωνικές πόλεις Saitama, Kumagaya και Chichibu, με σκοπό να πετύχει την “Ολική Διαχείριση Ενέργειας.”

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Με αεροπλανάκια-ρομπότ θα παραδίδει πακέτα η Amazon

Η Amazon, η αμερικανική υπερδύναμη στη βιομηχανία των πωλήσεων μέσω Διαδικτύου, εξετάζει σχέδιο για την παράδοση των παραγγελιών στους πελάτες της με αεροπλανάκια-ρομπότ στα πρότυπα των μη επανδρωμένων drones του αμερικανικού στρατού, αποκάλυψε το βράδυ της Κυριακής στην εκπομπή «60 Minutes» του τηλεοπτικού δικτύου CBS, ο ιδρυτής και διευθύνων σύμβουλος της εταιρείας Τζεφ Μπέζος.

Σύμφωνα με το σχέδιο, τα πακέτα θα παραδίδονται το συντομότερο δυνατόν με τις ιπτάμενες συσκευές μέσω της αποκαλούμενης υπηρεσίας Prime Air, είπε ο Μπέζος. Ο ίδιος είπε ότι με αυτό το σύστημα παράδοσης το προϊόν θα φτάνει στον παραλήπτη του ακόμη και μέσα σε μισή ώρα από τη στιγμή που καταχωρεί την αγορά.

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