Here are three paintings from the book Keringke: Contemporary Arrernte Art (Keringke Art, 1999). The Keringke group consists of a number of women artists from the eastern Arrernte peoples; their community is called Santa Theresa and is located about 90 kms southeast of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of central Australia.
I first heard of them when I was in Alice in 2002. I had been going around to some galleries and showing them my hand-painted rocks. The manager of one gallery saw my rock and told me that I really had to go and meet the Keringke women, that we were doing the same kind of thing.
I rang to make sure it was ok to come, and made my way out into the beautiful desert area where their community is. Not many people were around, but I got to meet Sue Graham who was the director at the time, and Kathleen Wallace, the elder/leader of the Keringke artists.
I was blown away by their work. I couldn't believe the colour, the detail, the aliveness, the beauty of the fabrics, ceramics and canvasses they painted on. I could hardly believe that I was in the presence of art that was unlike that of any "modern" or "western civilization" artist, that spoke to me in ways totally beyond any words, as if it was a "language" of encoded information from the spirit of life or dna itself.
I showed Kathleen my rock (it was my one rock I had retained for a couple years, a kind of rainbow-flower mandala on a round white rock from the beach at Findhorn in Scotland. She loved it and told me that she couldn't believe that I used a brush to do this, as they don't use brushes at all, nor the traditional sticks, but little squeeze bottles with various sized tips!
I was just as impressed by Kathleen's presence as I was with their art; she probably spoke no more than a dozen words the whole time I was there, yet I felt a deep connection with her, a deep and real understanding, from one artist to another, that spanned any differences in personal reality.
I gave her a rock that I had brought, and she gave me a copy of their book. I was so inspired by this encounter that a few months later, in my studio in Hobart, I painted a large flat rock and thirteen little ones, in a completely new style that had come to me in Australia, a style which I call "Mullum-Keringke glyphs" ("Mullum" is short for Mullimbimby, a small progressive town in between Byron Bay and Nimbin, in the Wolumbin volcanic caldera, and where this new style of painting first came to me in 2000), and sent it to them as a gift to honour their unique creativity.
But the freakiest thing that came out of all this, and one of several major synchronicities that have happened with me in Australia, was that when I finally had a chance to look through the Keringke art book, I saw a painting that Serena Hayes had done in 1999, with six circles of dots (attachment 3). It was very similar to a painting I had done the same year, "Elohim Photon Dreaming", with seven circles of dots (attachment 4). I had done this painting after going into Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in extreme western North Carolina on the summer solstice of 1999 and meditating on my connection with nature and trees. I had learned that the ancient Druids had a name for a sacred grove of trees, a nemeton, and that the native Americans (the Cherokee reservation is only just over the hill from this old growth reserve) believed that the growing power of plants was at its greatest on the summer solstice.
When I saw Serena's painting I was blown away by the connection, that she and I had done practically identical paintings at about the same time on two different continents, without ever having seen or heard of each other, and then we were drawn to meet!
A couple years ago I asked my friend Robert Bednarik, who's probably the top rock-art researcher in the world, where he thought the most powerful place in the world is, in terms of Earth energy. Without pausing more than a second or two, he answered, "The Pilbarra."
Robert has traveled to and researched in dozens of countries; I trust his judgment.
I haven't been that many places, but western Australia and Australia as a whole in all her vast beauty and diversity is THE most absolutely wonderful and powerful place on this planet that I've yet to visit, with the possible exception of some of the volcanoes of southern Chile.
In places of power where the beauty and spirit of the land have not been stripped away by extractive capitalism to provide "nutrients" for the oncogenesis of industrial civilization you can still feel the true spirit of the Earth, of Mother Nature, of the dream-time ancestors, and of the indigenous people who still 'walk in beauty.' The Earth calls to us now, to awaken and to love her as she loves us!
Jeff Phillips
Leuven Belgium
July 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
"NOTES ON MY CONNECTION WITH ARTHUR C. CLARKE" by JEFF PHILLIPS
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
LETTER FROM ACC (1)
LETTER FROM ACC (2)
LETTER FROM ACC (2)
CLARKE'S ORIGINAL CONCEPTION FOR GEO-STATIONARY SATELLITES
"Clarke himself was a little like the black monolith in 2001: a huge mathematically-proportioned presence from another dimension bringing 'evolution' to the Earth…for better or worse!"
NOTES ON MY CONNECTION WITH ARTHUR C. CLARKE
BY JEFF PHILLIPS
I didn’t know he had died until I picked up an issue of Time magazine in Hobart last month. He was THE sci-fi icon to me, his name being almost synonymous with “good” science-fiction literature in my mind. And the first thing that always came to mind when I thought of him was his work with Stanley Kubrick on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which is not only my favourite Kubrick film, and probably my favourite film of all (after Bambi and The Wizard of Oz, of course!), but also what I consider to be the best work of both of these minds…a uniquely synergic artistic masterpiece that expanded our horizons and still defies “understanding.”
Clarke himself was a little like the black monolith in 2001: a huge mathematically-proportioned presence from another dimension bringing “evolution” to the Earth…for better or worse!
Like the “overlords” in his novel Childhood’s End, he may have been merely a proxy for beings far greater than himself, just “doing his job” in a grand scheme beyond even his own comprehension; regardless, however, of some of the dark under-tones in his work, for example, The Songs of Distant Earth, I always considered his to be one of the best and most imaginative minds among those of homo sapiens.
People sometimes ask me how I “knew” Arthur C. Clarke when they see his name listed on my card as owning one of my hand-painted rocks. Here’s the story…
It all goes back to the dolphins. Around the time I quit college in 1978 and enrolled in a much larger “uni”…the “uni-verse”…I began to receive what has been a life-long “calling” to reach out to, communicate with, protect, and understand our friends the dolphins and whales.
This “calling” originally came to me through the work and writings of Dr. John C. Lilly, a brilliant and controversial “renaissance mind” of science whose background in neurobiology led him to the dolphins. I moved to California in 1980 to get involved with his dolphin communication work; my main angle was in the use of music as a form of communication.
What interested me most in Lilly’s thinking was that the cetaceans are a true “extra-terrestrial” intelligence (literally, “away from land”) who not only live on the same planet we do, but have done so for millions of years longer than us, in the ocean, without hands or external technology, with brains that are more highly evolved than ours. Lilly said basically that there was no way we could possibly hope to communicate with or understand true ‘alien’ beings from another planet or galaxy if we couldn’t even communicate with or understand highly intelligent beings from the same planet as ourselves.
Lilly was the only biologist at the first “Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence” conference in 1960, along with minds like physicist Philip Morrison; Bernard Oliver, vp of Hewlett-Packard; radio astronomer Frank Drake; and planetary scientist Carl Sagan.
This conference and Project Ozma which it spawned, were the origin of what is called “seti”, or the “search for extraterrestrial intelligence.” While most of the attention was on looking for and decoding “needle-in-a-haystack” electromagnetic signals from “out there”, Lilly was basically saying that we don’t need radio-telescopes to study “extraterrestrial intelligence”…they are already here in the ocean!
This revelation was a bit much for the hard-core technophiles who were fixated on the idea that any truly “advanced” intelligence would HAVE to be using powerful electronic technologies like our own; to think not only that true “e.t.’s” are already here, BUT also that we are not rolling our the “red carpet” of diplomacy nor “taking them to our leaders”…we are ruthlessly killing them for commercial purposes…was…UNTHINKABLE! Yet this in fact was the essence of Lilly’s message.
All of this resonated powerfully in the depths of my being. I first met dolphins in North Carolina and was overwhelmed by the “magic” of their energy; I moved to California and was actually “on-lab” on the day Joe and Rosie arrived at Lilly’s facility. They were two Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins who had “volunteered” to be part of the project. Later on I was able not only to swim with them, but also to play some music to them as I swam. Lilly’s team had devised a state-of-the-art computer system which could do real-time frequency transforms of our sound range into theirs, and theirs into ours, with hydrophones in the water. I brought some recorded music by Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner; I got in the water with the dolphins and they started the music. I will never forget what happened next. As soon as the music started…I could hear it as well…the dolphins went into this kind of trance-like state where they stopped swimming and just floated there with this really blissful look in their eyes. I knew then that the stories from the ancient Greek philosophers were true…dolphins really do love music!!! I could see it in their eyes! It was as if they were feeling the music with their whole bodies.
I never really fit in with the Lilly group, for reasons I later came to understand; and Lilly himself, despite his profound contributions and awareness-work, began to violate THE most fundamental aspect of respect for fellow beings…they kept Joe and Rosie captive long after they said they would release them back where they came from. At this point Lilly was losing long-time friends and backers because of this. I could see that having the dolphins there was the group’s “ticket” to celebrity; tv crews and other media personnel were showing up every other day. I could also see that all this had nothing to do with understanding the dolphins, and was making them edgier as time went by.
From this experience I learned two major things: that dolphins love music, and that you can’t keep them captive for any reason.
In 1984 I came up with the “Cetacean/Arecibo Project”, which involved doing live musical “dialogues” with free-swimming cetaceans in the ocean and beaming it into space via radio-telescope using a network of computers and satellites. I created a flow-chart for the project and began to create lists of musicians who I’d like to have, as well as of various technical advisors in different areas.
In the course of exploring the radio-telescope connection and how I might get some time on a major “dish”, as well as technical advice on using one as a transmitter rather than a receiver, I contacted the SETI group of NASA, which was based at the Ames Air Force Base in Mountain View, CA, and became friends with Bob Arnold, their director of public relations.
Bob liked my project and shared a lot of information with me; he introduced me to Seth Shostak, director of the SETI group, and put me onto Frank Drake, creator of the famous “Drake equation.” And he invited me to a 1992 SETI ceremony at the Goldstone installation where I got to meet Carl Sagan. But this was the early 1990’s and the “radio-“ astronomy crowd still wasn’t ready to entertain seriously the idea that the cetaceans ARE a true “extra-terrestrial intelligence.”
Bob could sense my frustration; one day he said, “Jeff, you know who you need to talk to about your project? Arthur C. Clarke.”
I said, “ Hey that would be fantastic. You don’t know him, do you?”
“Not personally. But I can give you his mailing address in Sri Lanka.”
So I wrote a letter to Arthur C. Clarke explaining my background and this and other things I was involved with. I sent him a hand-painted rock and a t-shirt with the “Cetacean/Arecibo Project” flow-chart on it. I also mentioned the work of Roger Payne, who was the first to record humpback whale sounds in the 1960’s, and told him that Carl Sagan had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia and was hospitalised. This was 1995.
A few weeks later I was truly surprised to receive a letter back from him. Attached are the pages of that letter. It was a form letter telling of his recent journeys and on-going projects, but it had some hand-written notes to me. Most importantly, his phone number was on it, so I rang him up.
A very polite Indian-sounding voice answered the phone, saying this was Arthur C. Clarke’s residence, and who was I. I said, “This is Jeff Phillips calling from Boulder, Colorado. Is Arthur available?”
After a minute or so he picked up the phone. His first words were, “Ah…Jeff Phillips. Good to hear from you. I want to thank you for the painted rock and the t-shirt…”
I was blown away! Here I was talking with the leading science-fiction writer of the 20th century and he was thanking me!!!
We talked for about 45 minutes. This was before the day of 8-cent-per-minute international calls…I think it cost me about $50usd! A bargain at any price! We talked about all kinds of stuff. First he told me that he personally responds to EVERY SINGLE PIECE of mail he gets…which was voluminous…and that this alone takes a lot of his time, but he took his supporters seriously. He asked me how Sagan was doing…I told him his condition appeared to be worsening. We talked about my project and a lot of technical stuff. He said that he would be happy to be a technical advisor. I asked him what he thought of my article that had been recently published by Ad-busters magazine called “The Age of Infotoxin”, about the weaponization of communication and the pollution of our mental environment. He loved it and agreed that we had serious problems here. But he also emphasized that, in his thinking, it was better to have created the technologies of communication, with ALL that it has brought, as opposed to having never created them at all. This gave me a lot of food for thought. In fact, I’m still thinking about it about it 13 years later!
I spoke with him again a few months later, but then we dropped out of touch. It was a very cool connection to have made.
And the “Cetacean/Arecibo Project” got shelved, not because of lack of interest on my part, but because I realized that what musician Ralph Towner told me in an interview I did with him in 1990 was true. Ralph had long been my very favourite of human musicians, and I liked to tell people that if planet Earth needed one person to represent “us”, Ralph and his guitar should do it. And it was some of his music that I first played to the dolphins in Redwood City that day. I had been telling Ralph about the project, and he said he would be honoured to participate. Then he added, “But you know, Jeff, we should really leave those people alone.”
His words have echoed in my mind ever since. Without even thinking about it, he referred to them as “people.”
It’s weird…in today’s world, it seems to me that the whales and dolphins are truly acting more like real “people” than we are. And they wouldn't possibly be able to respond to our music while they're being harpooned, drift-netted, and blasted by naval sonar!!!
But this is another story, and one that I will soon be telling.
I would like to thank Arthur C. Clarke for his immense and creative contributions to the human endeavour, for taking the time to talk with me, and for inspiring me. His work is a testament to the most fundamental belief held by Albert Einstein:
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
And I may be the only person ever to get him "stoned"...legally, that is!
JEFF PHILLIPS
LEUVEN, BELGIUM
24 JUNE 2008
* Science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke dies age 90
* This is his “home page”…lots of info…
* Here is a link to the original 1945 article in which he spelled out the details of how to put satellites in orbit around the Earth…
* And this link shows his original drawing…and where we’ve gone with it all…
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT
THE ULTIMATE TECHNOLOGY PROJECT
“Activate full-spectrum awareness and navigate the unknown!”
Austral Autumnal Equinox 2007
EARTH/SOLAR SYSTEM
NOW
Greetings! Today seems like a good day to bring more fully on-line what it is that I am really all about. As an artist and musician I love the beauty of nature and the wonders of the cosmos; but as a planetary citizen and free-lance intelligence agent I am deeply concerned about the current global scenario for life as we know it.
Because of our long-term lack of education, aversion to “heavy” matters, and the pervasiveness of “mental genetics” and the infotoxin (1) syndrome, as well as my desire not only to be informed but to have well-informed friends…who make better crew members for Spaceship Earth than sleep-walkers…I spend a lot of time and energy trying to increase the resolution of my “big picture” and on sharing what I find.
This is the purpose of my “synthaissance” e-group. I am the first to say that, yes, I do send out a lot of “heavy” stuff, i.e., stuff the “normal mind” does not usually want to hear much about. You know, like the dangers of the nuclear scenario, the DU babies, the saturation of industrialized nations with broad-band toxicities and zombie fields, genetically engineered politicians (“Heil Arnie!”) and depleted intelligence munitions [dims] (“And now join us tonight for…National Security Idol!!!”) (2) The horror of what is happening with the cetaceans. As you know…the list goes on.
Mass-media in general does not cover these issues in any kind of meaningful or effective way; if they are mentioned at all, it is with acute spin and “perception management” doctoring. The “news”, moreover, is little more than images of “important people talking to other important people”, presumably about important matters that only they comprehend; the daily ration of the “Muslim terrorist” threat/”war on terrorism” advert; and anything that is either bleeding, dying, both, or dead. Sorry folks but “That’s the way it is…”
I sometimes get blamed for being the “harbinger of heaviness”…not only do I network actively but also, in personal encounters, I will bring up and try to discuss matters that many people simply don’t want to hear about. And I don’t mean that their team lost in the latest match; I’m talking about stuff that affects all life as we know it on this planet!!!
Forgive me everyone!!! I’m just trying to compensate for what mass-media in general is lacking. Maybe I should integrate it all into a “comedy” routine like the brilliant Bill Hicks!!! (3)
But WHAT I’M REALLY ALL ABOUT IS THIS: we ARE the ultimate technology!!!!!
It’s quite empowering actually.
This may be the single most important idea you will consider; it is no less than a true revelation of immense magnitude…yet simple and obvious once you think about it.
What’s more…unlike What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret…the “ultimate technology” is just that: an idea, an outlook, a way of looking at yourself and your fellow life-forms. It’s not a new-age marketing scheme, a pyramidal metaphysical-Amway™ scam, nor is it wealthy-looking gurus, seated in comfortable chairs, with very white teeth assuring you that “reality” is whatever you wish it to be.
The “ultimate technology”, being an idea, cannot be sold or marketed; excusez-moi, mais, au contraire, mes amies…YOU ALREADY HAVE IT! YOU ALREADY ARE IT!!! IT’S FREE…IT’S NOW…IT’S IN YOU!!!
All you have to do is be aware of it and it becomes operational…it’s an “awareness activated” software environment. Your thought, your awareness of any certain level or sub-system automatically activates that level or sub-system and puts it at your conscious command, unless it is a level or sub-system that is already functioning properly.
But think for a moment about everything in you…in your mind, brain and body…that is already automatically functioning…almost everything!!!
To me, THIS IS MIRACULOUS!!!
So this is what I am really all about. Realizing that we ARE the ultimate technology…that ALL life-forms are the ultimate technology…will lead to an exponentially increasing awareness curve growing in proportion to the number of minds who choose to create and implement customized internal software, for example, “creativity enhancement algorithms.”
As the network of bio-noonic (4) interconnection grows in breadth, depth and resolution, each of our own awarenesses will expand to encompass a greater horizon of identity, i.e., what we think of as “ourself.”
Eventually we may realize that we ARE the Earth.
The Ultimate Technology Project (5) is about awakening our latent potentials and bringing on-line literally myriads of amazing abilities that we already have; even more importantly, this project is dedicated to fostering creative thought and imagination, in the individual and in the human mind, in the service of life and love.
Stand by for next transmission…
1 see “The Age of Infotoxin”, Jeff Phillips, found at http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/jeff%20phillips%20articles/phillips%20age%20of%20infotoxin.htm
2 Did you know that the “Idol” tv series was conceived by Rupert Murdoch’s daughter who is married to Sigmund Freud’s nephew? True as…
3 “Having the cross as the symbol for Jesus is like having the rifle as the symbol for JFK.” Bill Hicks
4 “noonic” [pronounced “no-AH-nic”], from “noos”, Greek for mind
5 I was going to call it Project for a New Ultimate Technology, or PNUT, but that sounds too much like the Project for a New American Century, or PNAC!!!
END OF TRANSMISSION 0001
//OUT//
“The Ultimate Technology” Completed in August 2001 on the eve of 9/11.
“Activate full-spectrum awareness and navigate the unknown!”
Austral Autumnal Equinox 2007
EARTH/SOLAR SYSTEM
NOW
Greetings! Today seems like a good day to bring more fully on-line what it is that I am really all about. As an artist and musician I love the beauty of nature and the wonders of the cosmos; but as a planetary citizen and free-lance intelligence agent I am deeply concerned about the current global scenario for life as we know it.
Because of our long-term lack of education, aversion to “heavy” matters, and the pervasiveness of “mental genetics” and the infotoxin (1) syndrome, as well as my desire not only to be informed but to have well-informed friends…who make better crew members for Spaceship Earth than sleep-walkers…I spend a lot of time and energy trying to increase the resolution of my “big picture” and on sharing what I find.
This is the purpose of my “synthaissance” e-group. I am the first to say that, yes, I do send out a lot of “heavy” stuff, i.e., stuff the “normal mind” does not usually want to hear much about. You know, like the dangers of the nuclear scenario, the DU babies, the saturation of industrialized nations with broad-band toxicities and zombie fields, genetically engineered politicians (“Heil Arnie!”) and depleted intelligence munitions [dims] (“And now join us tonight for…National Security Idol!!!”) (2) The horror of what is happening with the cetaceans. As you know…the list goes on.
Mass-media in general does not cover these issues in any kind of meaningful or effective way; if they are mentioned at all, it is with acute spin and “perception management” doctoring. The “news”, moreover, is little more than images of “important people talking to other important people”, presumably about important matters that only they comprehend; the daily ration of the “Muslim terrorist” threat/”war on terrorism” advert; and anything that is either bleeding, dying, both, or dead. Sorry folks but “That’s the way it is…”
I sometimes get blamed for being the “harbinger of heaviness”…not only do I network actively but also, in personal encounters, I will bring up and try to discuss matters that many people simply don’t want to hear about. And I don’t mean that their team lost in the latest match; I’m talking about stuff that affects all life as we know it on this planet!!!
Forgive me everyone!!! I’m just trying to compensate for what mass-media in general is lacking. Maybe I should integrate it all into a “comedy” routine like the brilliant Bill Hicks!!! (3)
But WHAT I’M REALLY ALL ABOUT IS THIS: we ARE the ultimate technology!!!!!
It’s quite empowering actually.
This may be the single most important idea you will consider; it is no less than a true revelation of immense magnitude…yet simple and obvious once you think about it.
What’s more…unlike What the Bleep Do We Know and The Secret…the “ultimate technology” is just that: an idea, an outlook, a way of looking at yourself and your fellow life-forms. It’s not a new-age marketing scheme, a pyramidal metaphysical-Amway™ scam, nor is it wealthy-looking gurus, seated in comfortable chairs, with very white teeth assuring you that “reality” is whatever you wish it to be.
The “ultimate technology”, being an idea, cannot be sold or marketed; excusez-moi, mais, au contraire, mes amies…YOU ALREADY HAVE IT! YOU ALREADY ARE IT!!! IT’S FREE…IT’S NOW…IT’S IN YOU!!!
All you have to do is be aware of it and it becomes operational…it’s an “awareness activated” software environment. Your thought, your awareness of any certain level or sub-system automatically activates that level or sub-system and puts it at your conscious command, unless it is a level or sub-system that is already functioning properly.
But think for a moment about everything in you…in your mind, brain and body…that is already automatically functioning…almost everything!!!
To me, THIS IS MIRACULOUS!!!
So this is what I am really all about. Realizing that we ARE the ultimate technology…that ALL life-forms are the ultimate technology…will lead to an exponentially increasing awareness curve growing in proportion to the number of minds who choose to create and implement customized internal software, for example, “creativity enhancement algorithms.”
As the network of bio-noonic (4) interconnection grows in breadth, depth and resolution, each of our own awarenesses will expand to encompass a greater horizon of identity, i.e., what we think of as “ourself.”
Eventually we may realize that we ARE the Earth.
The Ultimate Technology Project (5) is about awakening our latent potentials and bringing on-line literally myriads of amazing abilities that we already have; even more importantly, this project is dedicated to fostering creative thought and imagination, in the individual and in the human mind, in the service of life and love.
Stand by for next transmission…
1 see “The Age of Infotoxin”, Jeff Phillips, found at http://www.regainyourbrain.org/regain_articles/jeff%20phillips%20articles/phillips%20age%20of%20infotoxin.htm
2 Did you know that the “Idol” tv series was conceived by Rupert Murdoch’s daughter who is married to Sigmund Freud’s nephew? True as…
3 “Having the cross as the symbol for Jesus is like having the rifle as the symbol for JFK.” Bill Hicks
4 “noonic” [pronounced “no-AH-nic”], from “noos”, Greek for mind
5 I was going to call it Project for a New Ultimate Technology, or PNUT, but that sounds too much like the Project for a New American Century, or PNAC!!!
END OF TRANSMISSION 0001
//OUT//
“The Ultimate Technology” Completed in August 2001 on the eve of 9/11.
Friday, March 16, 2007
"WHO ARE THE CETACEANS?" JEFF PHILLIPS
A few years ago I was talking with musician Ralph Towner about doing live musical dialogues with whales from boats and beaming it into space via radio-telescope. He thought the project was interesting, but his immediate comment was that "we should really leave those people alone."
To me, the cetaceans as a whole possess not only the full spectrum of attributes which humans have traditionally reserved exclusively for ourselves, including self-awareness, but beyond these they show through the example of how they live an "intelligence" more highly-evolved than that of "man, the wise."
The cetaceans, for example, are far more perfectly adapted to their environment than we are ours; and they live in the sea, which not only covers 70% of the Earth's surface and enables relative freedom from gravity as well as self-locomotion in three dimensions, but is also a much more stable environment than land and provides protection during periods of cosmic energy bombardment.
We don't really know all that much about their inner experience mainly because we haven't bridged the physical communication barrier, but I think that it is likely that they are capable of all endeavours that indigenous humans participate in, for example, advanced knowledge of astronomy and cycles of time, knowledge of the sun and planets, mapping the ocean and sky, knowledge of plants and foods, oral histories shared from memory, spiritual psychologies, a sense of the sacred in their lives, and music.
They are gifted with "internal technologies" much the same as we have been; yet I believe they have developed theirs much more fully than we have, as we have been distracted by a full spectrum of external hardware and extra-somatic artifacts which seem ultimately to be our down-fall.
Our most highly advanced external technologies are used in the service of killing; not only do cetaceans not kill members of their own species, they show a profound deference for "man, the wise" even in the face of repeated abuse on our part. Dolphins have been known to go to great lengths to assist humans in distress; and Capt. Paul Watson's (a founder of Greenpeace and currently Sea Shepherd) life was changed from momentary eye-contact with a breaching cachelot who was about to crush his dingy and then rolled to spare him.
Greek naturalist Pliny the Elder said he believed that dolphins were capable of something that even humanity had not attained: "friendship for no advantage."
The cetaceans have been on the same planet as us, with neurobiological systems more highly evolved than ours, for tens of millions of years. "Man, the wise" only came to be about a million years ago. That they live in tune with the Earth is an understatement.
I think we are living on their planet. "Man, the wise" is wreaking catastrophe upon catastrophe not only on the cetaceans, but on the Earth as a whole. We are destroying in years what Mother Nature has taken billions of years to create and bring to fruition.
That we do not recognize the cetaceans as fellow beings is a testament to our blindness, our unwillingness to open our hearts and minds to who they really are.
I do not think that humanity is innately dysfunctional; but in our present condition of amplified koyaanisqatsi, we as a whole are no longer "people" but have become the HSMV, or "homo sapiens macro virus."
I think that the word "people" should be reserved for those who act like real people�and in the homo sapiens population, these are few and far between!
The cetaceans are the REAL PEOPLE of planet Earth!!!
John Lilly believed that if we couldn't even learn to communicate with fellow intelligences possessing similar neurobiology and living on the same planet, there was no way we could hope to communicate with beings from other worlds.
If the remnant of "real people" in the human population got together and made a huge effort to reach out to the cetaceans and attempted a quantum leap in our abilities truly to understand and communicate, we might actually become more than we have ever been...not only "real" people but for the first time, the actual "crew" of Spaceship Earth!
JEFF PHILLIPS
HOBART TASMANIA
Sunday, February 04, 2007
STUPA STAR-TRAIL/HUNAB KU HUIFE CHILE
This photo is approximately 20 minutes, using Kodak ASA 400 print film, and a Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 lens at f/4. The white cloudy area is the Milky way, and the brightest region is the center of the galaxy, what the Mayans call the "Hunab Ku", the "one giver of life and movement." This region is where the constellations Scorpio and Sagittarious meet. The dome of the stupa is illuminated by light from our camp-fire. The Tibetan Buddhists built this stupa here because they intuit that in this area is a major planetary energy vortex; with the reversal of the Earth's magnetic fields happening, the power spots of the northern hemisphere are shifting to the south. South-central Chile IS an immensely powerful place; Huife, where this stupa is located, is only 30 kms from the Rucapillan volcano, the third most active in the world.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
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