Here on FutureWork we debate and share information within certain specific assumptions. As Harry and others trot out their perspective of man the economic unit, we often discount many other factors - some of which we know, like culture and race and the history of other peoples. Ray, valiantly trying to bring into our awareness his people and their perceptions of reality and Ed Weiss with his long experience in the Canadian North tries to correct some of our misperceptions. Still, largely speaking we work with a model of what a human is as defined economically and culturally and politically.
Outside the awareness and knowledge of many on the list are many more bits of information that continually get discounted as myth, improbable, religous, or not within the University model of Anthropology and Archeology. Still, information continues to crop up that does not fit into any models we discuss. This is not just our limitation, it is also the limitation of those who try to make the decisions of the world. And as we all might agree, good decisions often come out of good information. If we, as a society continue to deny and limit the information we find acceptable, we will continue to make decisions that somehow do not seem to work as planned in the real world. Take the world of drug use. The Americans are rabid (check dictionary for meaning) and have caused untold damage to millions of their own citizens, interventions in other countries, major political influence to bring in laws in other countries that support their paranio. Yet people keep using them!! Why? Well, for one reason, they make you feel good and many people enjoy feeling good. It's not rational to use drugs when you can go to jail, lose your job, become ostrasized by your family and yet daily, millions of Americans and Canadians defy their government's laws and toke up, shoot up, or ingest various substances for the experience they provide. Our medical Dr.'s daily proscribe tons of Prozac and other mind altering drugs - which are somehow deemed ok, because they fit within the accepted business model of pharmacutical companies. There is a major logical disconnect going on here that rationally is an impossibility if we were rational actors as some economic theories extol. I won't even go into the duplicity of our thinking when it comes to alchohol!!! Take experiences like those listed in the reposting below which is one of only thousands of pieces of information that indicate that our assumptions of human beings are severely limited. I, myself have been involved with models of human behavior that consistently produce results that science, history, anthropology would discount. How am I expected to discount my personal experiences because some 'expert' who has never had the experience but who has the bully pulpit states that what I have seen and experienced is false. Obviously, I discount the expert. Man is more than a political entity, more than an economic entity, more than a social entity. How much more we haven't a clue, for we allow the powers of economics and politics to limit what is admissable to the discussion. Does acupuncture work? Can people walk on red hot coals? Can some people recieve impressions of the future? Are we affected by a past that lies before our current birth? Are other intelligent entities able to communicate with us through chanelling? Does prayer work? Does faith healing actually heal? Can martial artists use a force called ki to achieve powerful effects? Are crop circles a hoax or a communication from another species. Are there flying saucers, UFO's, aliens? Is the Universe dimensional? Do other consciousnesses live in other dimensions? Are there such things as shape shifters? The puny efforts to define humans through two or three axioms based on the phony science of economics is a ridiculous exercise akin to discussing how many angels can sit on the head of a pin. We would be better off playing chess for all the effect such a discussion really has on the important questions of what a human is. Well, that is my morning rant. Read the article. Respectfully, Thomas Lunde In a message dated 3/13/02 10:14:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << There is much movement incorporated presently, Mikah. Your reality is altering. This shift in consciousness is escalating. Your sciences are changing. Psychology is not immune, and you may be incorporating alterations in its expression also � not in fixing. >> (Thomas: The above two paragragphs are 'channeled information' - obviously inadmissable and to most of you unknown.) Very interesting Lou, and to connect with that, I heard a radio program last night with Brian Weiss, MD. As a traditional psychotherapist, Dr. Brian Weiss was astonished and skeptical when one of his patients began recalling past-life traumas that seemed to hold the key to her recurring nightmares and anxiety attacks. His skepticism was eroded, however, when she began to channel messages from "the space between lives," which contained remarkable revelations about Dr. Weiss's family and his dead son. Using past-life therapy, he was able to cure the patient and embark on a new, more meaningful phase of his own career. A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Medical School, Brian L. Weiss M.D. is Chairman Emeritus of Psychiatry at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami. He has been doing past life regressions for thirty years, and although it is still called regression, he is very familiar with future regressions also, as far as 3000 or 10000 years into the future, and Weiss admits to the possibility of simultaneous time. His books are filled with case stories of patients that have come to him for unexplained phobias or anxieties, that connected with another focus for the root source of the difficulty, and were able to eliminate their "sickness" immediately. And his presentation is not one of "fixing" but rather the offer of additional information to the patient. So, they ARE out there working in the medical field, but changing the traditional face of psychology. He offers his regression process on CD, included with a book called "Mirrors of Time, " promo below, which can be ordered through Amazon for 12.95, which is very reasonable for both book and CD. I ordered the book because I have trouble with learning to focus my attention, and both book and CD explain this process, so I thought it well worth the investment. I'll let you know. Mirrors of Time --- the new book by Dr. Brian Weiss, allows you to take regression therapy to the next level. A CD is included that goes beyond meditation and visualization exercises. It contains the actual regression techniques Dr. Weiss uses with his patients. Now you can go back through time by remembering past events that may have led to symptoms or difficulties in the present time. http://www.brianweiss.com/ Love, Sharon ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> FREE COLLEGE MONEY CLICK HERE to search 600,000 scholarships! http://us.click.yahoo.com/iZp8OC/4m7CAA/ySSFAA/JcWolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
