Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Syrian Prince Al-Assad meets the Wikileaks party (PIC)


Syria's president Bashar al-Assad meets with a delegation of the Australian Wikileaks party in Damascus, December 23, 2013.

Monday, December 30, 2013

Is evolution intelligent or blind?

 
I have heard of "intelligent design" but is there any evidence for "intelligent evolution"?

That is, is there any evidence that mental factors in the parent can affect genetic structures and expressions which are then passed on to the newborn?  Or more generally, that mental factors (passed on through experience to the young) can then impact on the physical form of the young through impacting the DNA and its expression?

I understand certain cell biologists are examining these very issues.

Such interaction between the mind and DNA would likely lead to a more effective and efficient type of physical evolution than that based on random mutation and natural selection alone.


SHARKA TODD

Sunday, December 29, 2013

What following Jesus' teachings REALLY means!


Jesus didn't give teachings to follow so that by following them we would be a good person and earn our passage to heaven.

Instead, he gave them so we could experience the peace following them creates, which results in us creating our own heaven- while still on EARTH!

SHARKA TODD

We need to look at the log IN OUR OWN EYE!


How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye!


JESUS via MATTHEW 7:5

Is true creativity possible in a mechanical universe?


Can a machine ever be truly creative, even if it is made of many (even billions) of individually uncreative parts?

The very definition of a machine is a system which performs in an orderly way without deviating from its designed purpose. It is hard to see how any functioning of a machine could be described as truly “creative”. For creativity requires the output of a system to be unable to predict given the inputs into the system. This is clearly not true for a machine.

So what is required for an entity to be truly creative?

Does it mean that one or more components of the system that make up the entity must be creative in its own right? For example, in the case of a living, biological entity must the individual components of the entity- living cells- be creative in their own right for the entity itself to be described as truly creative? Or is creativity just a largely meaningless term that really means a system is so complicated, with such a wide variety of inputs, that the outputs of the system become near-impossible to predict?

I would argue that a truly creative system would require a truly creative component in that system to make decisions that are impossible to accurately predict, even if we could have access to complete information about inputs into the system. This component may be the mind that many conjecture exists within living entities. I would also argue that such a non-physical entity as mind would also be present in other living biological structures such as living cells.

SHARKA TODD

Thursday, December 26, 2013

"God is light, and in him there is no darkness at all" - POPE FRANCIS


Pope Francis quotes 1 John 1:5 during his 2013 Christmas address.

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The happy Cullen family (PIC)


Edward, Renesmee and Bella Cullen in the Twilight Saga movie, Breaking Dawn: Episode 2.

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

A modern view of the devil and demonic beings


The modern spiritual concept is that all beings are born in purity and light but can descend to any depths or rise to any heights through their free will choices.

In this view no "devil" was created by God, instead they created their own characteristics through their own free will choices.

And no being is "cast out of heaven", they just become incompatible with the energy of a heavenly realm and so create their own world, compatible with their current level of consciousness.

Sharka Todd

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Vishnu riding high (PIC)


River City apartment block, Chicago (PIC)

Photo and edit by Sharka Todd (2009)

The "living spirit" cannot be contained by any one organization...


 no matter how special it attempts to make itself!

There is no such thing as a "harmless drug"

If a drug were truly harmless
it would be called "food"!

DON'T ARGUE OR DEBATE

It only feeds the ego
  and the sense of being separate.
It also hinders the smooth flow
 of energy through the body,
 creating discomfort and dis-ease!

Friday, December 20, 2013

The 3 basic beliefs about the cause of disease.


There are 3 basic beliefs about the cause of disease:

1. Biomechanical/"random" where the conscious self has little, if any, control and disease is caused by purely physical factors (genetic and environmental), sometimes understood, sometimes not,
2. Created primarily through thought patterns which affect emotions and impact on the physical body, and,
3. A mixture of the 2 above, where some diseases are caused purely by biomechanical factors independent of the mind and other diseases are caused by thought patterns, specifically patterns which create blockages in the energy body (aka "etheric body") leading to the malfunction of the physical body.

Conventional western medicine generally subscribes to view 1, whereas many in the "new thought" or "consciousness" movement subscribe to either view 2 or 3. Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) would be seen as belonging to group 3.  TV soap doctor Gregory House would belong to category 1.

Thursday, December 19, 2013

Obama, drones and how anti-Obama sentiment is harming progress


Source: Messages from Matthew, March 11, 2013

You know that everything is energy vibrating at one frequency or another, and because energy is neutral and has no reasoning capacity, it can’t differentiate between what is wanted and what is not. Consequently, as people’s thoughts and feelings shoot out into space, the universe provides individuals with circumstances whose energy matches the energy of whatever they have been focusing on— the law of attraction that’s in constant motion.

But most souls in your world do not know that’s how energy and their innate powers of co-creation work. They’re concentrating on situations that they don’t want to continue, thereby making more of them. Because so many people are sending out the energy of sad, angry and despairing thoughts and feelings about world situations, your society as a whole is affected by the result: the slow pace of change.

Another reason that things may seem to be moving at a snail pace also is due to lack of knowledge. Because most people in your world still are confined within third density’s limited consciousness, they don’t know to ask within, where all truths are known. Without that soul level knowingness, the consciousness processes information from the ego’s perspective; and since the ego supports personal ideas and perceptions, which often are rigidly set, rarely can the ego see a situation from other perspectives or discern between truth and falsehood.

We shall give you an example. We and many other messengers in the light have told you the truth about Barack Obama, a highly evolved soul from a civilization far advanced in spirituality, intelligence and ancient wisdom. The highest universal council asked him to leave his homeland and accept the mission of leading the United States and your world into an era of peace, prosperity and unity.

We have explained that his mission, which transcends politics worldwide, is a provision of the Golden Age master plan that is aligned with Gaia’s vision of Earth’s residents living in harmony with each other and with Nature. Then Gaia’s planetary body and all of its life forms will be in balance, wherein all is light. We have asked you to send light to President Obama because it will hasten the day when that balance is attained.

Also we have mentioned in previous messages that the tenacity of the dark ones caused about a ten-year delay in your progress as a society. The delay didn’t deter Earth’s ascension one whit—her timing was predestined—but it severely curtailed Obama’s ability to carry out his mission because powerful individuals within the Illuminati still had the power to derail, distort or detour his efforts.

A large part of their effectiveness has come from people whose third density perceptions have been sending forth the energy of “anti-Obama” thoughts and feelings. That energy has been refueling the dark ones and enabling them to keep a strong choke hold on the president’s endeavors to move your world toward Gaia’s vision.

It is natural to question why that would include killing, and many feel that Obama’s approval of using drones shows that he is not of the light. That perspective omits this essential element: The drones’ purpose is to kill as few persons as possible while ending warfare as quickly as possible.

Always military forces in Earth’s civilizations have operated within the third density mentality that says eliminating the enemy is a patriotic responsibility and you keep at it until you’ve won. So for millennia both sides in wars annihilated each other, using the most current weaponry. Now that includes drones, which target individuals who are considered the masterminds of terrorism and cause fewer casualties than drawn-out ground battles would.

Indeed it is lamentable that those weapons claim the lives of women, men and children who are not harming anyone. A brutal fact of war is, many civilians are injured and killed along with combat troops— we won’t go into the immeasurable psychic damage experienced by all souls in war zones. Be uplifted by knowing that as hearts and minds continue to open, no soul will want to kill another by any means for any purpose.

MATTHEW WARD

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Saturday, December 14, 2013

The topless girl at the party. (pic)


Image: Dexter (TV series)- Season 3

Important advice for children.


Image: Equilibrium (film) edit by Sharka

The Pentagon.


Believing in a meaningful universe doesn't mean you have to...

Photo by Sharka Todd

believe in one of the man-made religions!

Dexter, the dark protector.

Are some atheists angry with God?


It has been said that many self-described atheists are angry with God and as a result deny His presence. This is seen as stemming either from a belief that life is unfair in a general sense or that their life, in particular, has been unjust.  This leads to an anger being directed at that being seen to be behind this life, namely, God.

Others atheists are seen to be angry at orthodox religion and because they associate a belief in God with these religions they  think they have to deny God to vote "no" to these religions.

A third category are those who believe scientific discoveries have done away with the need to believe that a being or beings created the world we perceive. Instead they believe that an unguided (by intelligence) process created the universe from nothing and eventually led to the complex, highly organized world we see around us.  Although this group does not believe in a creator God they do believe in the numerous miracles that were needed to create intelligent life forms out of inert matter and inert matter out of "nothing"!

Sharka Todd

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

The highly conscious puffer fish.


Photo by Sharka Todd

Schools not school


I personally believe in schools△, but not in school².

△Schools of Art, Drama, Commerce, etc.
²Primary School, High School etc.

I think it's good to offer people choice and not force things on them, no matter what age they may be!

The one size fits all approach we currently take to schooling where kids are grouped according to age rather than interest and ability is against the flow of nature and counterproductive. And most importantly, compulsory schooling, where children are offered no choice as to what classroom they must attend and what lessons must be learned, fails to respect the God-given free-will of all creatures.

School tends to turn people into passive receivers of information and experiences and this does not help them become a self-motivated and active contributor to a dynamic and changing society!

To enhance the multiple free-choice schools approach, each school that offers specialized education could have an open day or offer introductory courses.  This would give potential students a taste of what the school provides and would enable them to make a more informed choice as to whether to commit to a more detailed learning program.

In this way the individual would be driving their own education program.


Sharka Todd

See also: A New School System, and Enhancing the education system for all.

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

The most recent spiritual teachings of Jesus.


Here Kim Michaels delivers the latest powerful teachings of Jesus on achieving spiritual freedom through connecting with the Christ state of consciousness. This state is available to everyone and is unfolded in each person over time, if they make efforts to do so.

Below is a brief passage from the book concerning acting in peace.


Sunday, October 27, 2013

Lou Reed's home studio.

Lou Reed in his home studio, New York, 2008, Spin Magazine

(Pic: Spin Magazine, 2008).