According to Darwin's theory of the evolution of variations or traits, the uniqueness of each species increases according to the pressures encountered in each geographical region.
Thus the most persistent, or dominate traits or qualities are factors that aid each organism in a unique way.
Clearly, nature focuses o the creation of specifically unique traits by diversifying, which ironically, is the chief factor that leads into conflictual, territorial imperatives in separate species. But the question remains, what is it in this drive toward individuality that drives us to unite into networking,wholistically complex systems?
Unfortunately, much of our knowledge about our origin comes second fiddle, or from the position we occupy at this evolutionary point in time and space. It is difficult to resolve it because we are like someone caught in the impossible perspectives of an Escher print, not knowing where we are going due to our perceptual limitations.
Hence, the answers as to why the our evolutionary pieces fit into a wholistic picture remains obscure. Strangely, the solution to the question appears to emerge in spite of the differences created by individuality.
In this puzzling enigma of how nature resolves the problem of how to unite these warring parts into a whole, while reducing the natural tendency to conflict, comes with thermodynamic practicality--employ the uniqueness of each trait in a complementary union!
WE SUCCEED IN OUR QUEST FOR SURVIVAL ONLY WHEN ALL THE PARTS WORK COOPERATIVELY IN A SHARED UNION.
Blessings, Nahu
01 September 2007
31 August 2007
RIGHT THINKING PRECEDES RIGHT ACTION!
Society is a macrocosm of the individual spirit. If there is no changes within oneself, then all the cleaning up "outside," like the newly pressed out wrinkles of wrong doing in our behavior on the surface, means nothing.
A good analogy can be found in the pseudo "rehabilitative efforts," of clever prisoners made to get out. For example, a lot of inmates discovered that all they had to do was tell the "man" they have changed, had a spiritual revelation, were now ready to alter their life. After that, they took a training course and went up in front of the Parole Board and automatically were freed.
But strangely, after getting out they suddenly were back in trouble and had returned. The prison boards wondered why their carefully developed programs weren't working and discovered after careful scrutiny that the inmates had learned how to con the system--that is, to give society what they wanted to see, rather than really change.
The moral of the story:
Change, or rehabilitation from wrong action, must take place within oneself. Unless that change is real, deep and sincere, all the retraining and programming in the world won't be effective.
The truth is we must "will" the change in ourselves. Not just open to receive a new way of thinking, but actively involved in willing that change in ourselves--followed next by right action.
To change the world we must must first "CHANGE OURSELVES" and really mean it!
Nahu Lanham.
A good analogy can be found in the pseudo "rehabilitative efforts," of clever prisoners made to get out. For example, a lot of inmates discovered that all they had to do was tell the "man" they have changed, had a spiritual revelation, were now ready to alter their life. After that, they took a training course and went up in front of the Parole Board and automatically were freed.
But strangely, after getting out they suddenly were back in trouble and had returned. The prison boards wondered why their carefully developed programs weren't working and discovered after careful scrutiny that the inmates had learned how to con the system--that is, to give society what they wanted to see, rather than really change.
The moral of the story:
Change, or rehabilitation from wrong action, must take place within oneself. Unless that change is real, deep and sincere, all the retraining and programming in the world won't be effective.
The truth is we must "will" the change in ourselves. Not just open to receive a new way of thinking, but actively involved in willing that change in ourselves--followed next by right action.
To change the world we must must first "CHANGE OURSELVES" and really mean it!
Nahu Lanham.
Matthew 7:16, “You will know them by their fruits.”
My good friend Dr. Ron Purser, a practicing Buddhist and insightful philosopher/writer from the University of California at San Francisco, sent me a letter he recieved in his email from the great environmental warrior "Al Gore" today, and I wanted to share this correspondence along with my following comments:
Here is Al Gores' letter:
"As you know, the Earth is moving closer to several negative "tipping points" that could -- within as little as 10 years -- make it virtually impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization. That is one of the reasons why it is urgent we take action as soon as possible. My friend Leonardo DiCaprio has just produced an amazing documentary on this subject. The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with some of the brightest minds on the planet, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Moreover, Leo himself is very eloquent and persuasive in this movie. I recommend it highly. Through interviews and beautiful footage of the environment, The 11th Hour demonstrates how human beings have created the climate crisis and related environmental crises, and shows that we have the means to solve them. The 11th Hour is both a portrait of a planet and a source of hope and solutions. I hope that you will go to see this important film. You can find out if The 11th Hour is playing near you by visiting: http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm <http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm>
Thank you, Al Gore
My letter and remarks to Dr. Purser:
It doesn't take an Al Gore or Decaprio to sell me on man's tendency to deface the planet. All I have to do is look around me and I can clearly see that it is a total mess. Descelles, a brilliant writer at the Noetic Institute once described humans, "As those big-brained primates on a roll." My question is who are they "rolling" over--but themselves in the long tumble? However, on the up side, there are growing numbers of good people out there, like Al and yourself, that are conscious and energetic enough to try to clean up after them. I used to go down to the parks, streams and lakes and do just that, tossing out all the debris that was cluttering up the place. Why in Oklahoma I couldn't even go to one lake without first picking up all the crap that others left. And the lake was totally littered everywhere with every imaginable piece of rubbish. It's pathetic, but intellect doesn't really have much to do with intelligence.
One of my pet sayings is, "You can tell a lot about a person by their garbage." Another adage is, "Garbage in, garbage out!"
Let's face it, the first and primary cleaning must start with wholistic consciousness; it's the only do-able template. Once we implement that--everything that is worthwhile will follow its imprint.
Many blessings will surely follow good intent!
Nahu Lanham
Here is Al Gores' letter:
"As you know, the Earth is moving closer to several negative "tipping points" that could -- within as little as 10 years -- make it virtually impossible for us to avoid irretrievable damage to the planet's habitability for human civilization. That is one of the reasons why it is urgent we take action as soon as possible. My friend Leonardo DiCaprio has just produced an amazing documentary on this subject. The film was created using over 150 hours of interviews with some of the brightest minds on the planet, including physicist Stephen Hawking and Nobel Prize winner Wangari Maathai. Moreover, Leo himself is very eloquent and persuasive in this movie. I recommend it highly. Through interviews and beautiful footage of the environment, The 11th Hour demonstrates how human beings have created the climate crisis and related environmental crises, and shows that we have the means to solve them. The 11th Hour is both a portrait of a planet and a source of hope and solutions. I hope that you will go to see this important film. You can find out if The 11th Hour is playing near you by visiting: http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm <http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm>
Thank you, Al Gore
My letter and remarks to Dr. Purser:
It doesn't take an Al Gore or Decaprio to sell me on man's tendency to deface the planet. All I have to do is look around me and I can clearly see that it is a total mess. Descelles, a brilliant writer at the Noetic Institute once described humans, "As those big-brained primates on a roll." My question is who are they "rolling" over--but themselves in the long tumble? However, on the up side, there are growing numbers of good people out there, like Al and yourself, that are conscious and energetic enough to try to clean up after them. I used to go down to the parks, streams and lakes and do just that, tossing out all the debris that was cluttering up the place. Why in Oklahoma I couldn't even go to one lake without first picking up all the crap that others left. And the lake was totally littered everywhere with every imaginable piece of rubbish. It's pathetic, but intellect doesn't really have much to do with intelligence.
One of my pet sayings is, "You can tell a lot about a person by their garbage." Another adage is, "Garbage in, garbage out!"
Let's face it, the first and primary cleaning must start with wholistic consciousness; it's the only do-able template. Once we implement that--everything that is worthwhile will follow its imprint.
Many blessings will surely follow good intent!
Nahu Lanham
29 August 2007
ODE TO EPIGENETICS
There once was a grieving cell
Who felt isolated from the Whole
Because some pesky biologist
Had enucleated his individual soul—
To find out how why we congregate, he said,
Into complex groups of three or four,
They had cut out his beating heart
And left him empty at the core!
But some kindly soul came along
To tap him on the back,
He said, don’t worry my little friend
It isn’t unity you lack;
No need now for silly reproducing
Or division--here’s the latest score--
The DNA God is dead
And you are free to soar!
Now all you need is to embrace
The HOLOVERSE as a single entity—
Reach out beyond the limited Self
To visions of what true UNITY CAN BE!
Who felt isolated from the Whole
Because some pesky biologist
Had enucleated his individual soul—
To find out how why we congregate, he said,
Into complex groups of three or four,
They had cut out his beating heart
And left him empty at the core!
But some kindly soul came along
To tap him on the back,
He said, don’t worry my little friend
It isn’t unity you lack;
No need now for silly reproducing
Or division--here’s the latest score--
The DNA God is dead
And you are free to soar!
Now all you need is to embrace
The HOLOVERSE as a single entity—
Reach out beyond the limited Self
To visions of what true UNITY CAN BE!
Note: This poem is dedicated to Dr. Bruce Lipton and all those who were a part of his great new discoveries in genetical research and the new science of Epigenetics.
Blessings! Nahu Lanham
28 August 2007
BREAK THE STRAIGHT JACKET OF STEREOTYPES!
Just a brief shout out to the individuals in the crowd who have felt the pressures peering in on you, trying to get you to fall into the gravitational black holes that draw us into the stereotypes.
Listen, there is nothing that sets us apart but our beliefs, no matter what you might believe. Never let anyone lay a load of that on you, move out of the way and let it fall where it may, right there in the lap of the perpetuator.
Never buy into another person's interpretation of you. If you have a dream, be like Martin Luther King, and live it out to the maximum. You have a right to be you, because there is no other person like yourself. You are unique just like you are.
Find out what you want to do and follow through all the way with it. Keep focused on that dream and never give it up, because who knows, you might surprise someone out there, namely the person in the mirror.
Who know's, you could be next year's grand champion in your own category, whatever it might be.
I intend to change the face of sprinting in the near future and win the Olympic's at an age when they say it can't be done. I know I can do it, because I believe in myself. I started out early struggling to be me, because I was plagued with lot's of detractors in the form of negating foster parents-brothers and others, who were constantly trying to discourage everything I tried to say and to be.
There is an old saying that "What doesn't kill you, makes your stronger!" We can only hope that by the time you get to that point in life you haven't succumbed to the pressure's that can and will try to pull you down.
YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE HOLOVERSE,WITH AN INFINITE ABILITY TO TAP THE UNLIMITED ENERGY AND RESOURCES OF ITS ENERGY. BEAR IN MIND, THAT ENERGY IS NEVER LOST--ONLY CONVERTED INTO SOMETHING ELSE, REGARDLESS OF HOW IT APPEARS OR CHANGES.
YOU CAN CHANGE AND GROW AND REACH THAT GOAL NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS SAY IS DESTINED IN THE STARS, IN DNA, IN RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL DIFFERENCES, ECONOMIC OR WHATEVER OTHER REALITY LIFE SEEMS TO LAY ON YOU--YOU CAN REACH THAT DISTANT STAR--BECAUSE YOU ARE THAT STAR IF YOU KEEP ON SHINING BRIGHTLY BEING WHO YOU ARE!
REMEMBER; What you see is what you get, 'cause what you see is where you're at, 'cause where you're at--IS WHERE IT IS!
I'M BEHIND YOU--AND MYSELF--ALL THE WAY TO THE GLORIOUS END!!!
NAHU LANHAM
Listen, there is nothing that sets us apart but our beliefs, no matter what you might believe. Never let anyone lay a load of that on you, move out of the way and let it fall where it may, right there in the lap of the perpetuator.
Never buy into another person's interpretation of you. If you have a dream, be like Martin Luther King, and live it out to the maximum. You have a right to be you, because there is no other person like yourself. You are unique just like you are.
Find out what you want to do and follow through all the way with it. Keep focused on that dream and never give it up, because who knows, you might surprise someone out there, namely the person in the mirror.
Who know's, you could be next year's grand champion in your own category, whatever it might be.
I intend to change the face of sprinting in the near future and win the Olympic's at an age when they say it can't be done. I know I can do it, because I believe in myself. I started out early struggling to be me, because I was plagued with lot's of detractors in the form of negating foster parents-brothers and others, who were constantly trying to discourage everything I tried to say and to be.
There is an old saying that "What doesn't kill you, makes your stronger!" We can only hope that by the time you get to that point in life you haven't succumbed to the pressure's that can and will try to pull you down.
DON"T LET THEM! KEEP ON KEEPING ON!
YOU ARE A CHILD OF THE HOLOVERSE,WITH AN INFINITE ABILITY TO TAP THE UNLIMITED ENERGY AND RESOURCES OF ITS ENERGY. BEAR IN MIND, THAT ENERGY IS NEVER LOST--ONLY CONVERTED INTO SOMETHING ELSE, REGARDLESS OF HOW IT APPEARS OR CHANGES.
YOU CAN CHANGE AND GROW AND REACH THAT GOAL NO MATTER WHAT OTHERS SAY IS DESTINED IN THE STARS, IN DNA, IN RACE, RELIGION, SEXUAL DIFFERENCES, ECONOMIC OR WHATEVER OTHER REALITY LIFE SEEMS TO LAY ON YOU--YOU CAN REACH THAT DISTANT STAR--BECAUSE YOU ARE THAT STAR IF YOU KEEP ON SHINING BRIGHTLY BEING WHO YOU ARE!
REMEMBER; What you see is what you get, 'cause what you see is where you're at, 'cause where you're at--IS WHERE IT IS!
I'M BEHIND YOU--AND MYSELF--ALL THE WAY TO THE GLORIOUS END!!!
NAHU LANHAM
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