Big Baby
Young Universe Home to 'Big Baby' Galaxy
Image: NASA/ESA/B. MOBASHER (STSI/ESA)
Astronomers have found a surprisingly heavy early galaxy, according to a new report. Data from two NASA telescopes have revealed the presence of a galaxy that had eight times the mass of our own Milky Way when it was less than a billion years old. "This galaxy appears to have 'bulked up' amazingly quickly, within the first few hundred million years after the big bang," remarks team member Bahram Mobasher of the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency.
Astronomers used the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes to take an inventory of very distant galaxies. Within the region of sky known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, which contains nearly 10,000 galaxies, one known as HUDF-JD2 stood out. The light coming from it originated when the universe was about 800 million years old and indicates that the stars within it are heftier than expected. "This would be quite a big galaxy, even today," says Mark Dickinson of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. "At a time when the universe was only 800 million years old, it's positively gigantic." The researchers describe the find in papers slated for publication in the November and December issues of the Astrophysical Journal.
Spacecraft Pick up Earthly Aurora
A coronal mass ejection (CME) hit Earth's magnetic field on Sept. 15, but it did not spark the strong display of auroras many people were hoping to see. In the CME's wake, however, a fast solar wind stream is blowing past Earth and buffeting our planet's magnetic field. This could cause mild geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers in Canada and Alaska should remain alert for auroras tonight. Since Sept. 7, this one sunspot, AR 798, produced nine X-class flares, the most powerful classification. In fact, it has made September 2005 the most active month on the sun since March 1991 and the Sept. 7 record-setting X-17 flare was the fifth largest ever observed.
With the exception of brief radio blackouts, the flares have had little effect on Earth, although the NOAA Space Environment Center warns that as the spot continues to rotate toward Earth, agencies impacted by space weather storms may experience disruptions over the next two weeks. These include spacecraft operators, electric power systems, high frequency communications, and low-frequency navigation systems.
This sunspot is the same one that erupted in mid-August, sparking strong auroras as far south as Utah and Colorado. Over the past two weeks, the active region produced a series of significant solar eruptions as it made its way around the back-side of the Sun (facing away from Earth). Auroras were spotted over the weekend in unusual places like New York, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire.
http://www.physlink.com/News/050920Aurora.cfm
Quantum Issues in Architecture
Architecture Is In and Of Its Time
Architecture is in and of its era. It is built:
into the space and time of its era
of the materials and methods of construction of its era
out of the structures of consciousness of the people of its era
in the socio-culture context of its era
Each period in architectural history is characterized by these four imperatives, but in this essay we will focus on space and time.
“Every architect is — necessarily — a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, London Lectures, 1938
“Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner spirit, the slow unfolding of its form.”
Mies van der Rohe, Speech at IIT, 1950
“…quantum theory is our basic theory of the physical world. All construction is quantum construction.”
David Deutsch, Edge interview, 2000
http://comparch.org/articles/quantum_issues/
The Triangle
Arild Andersen with Vassilis Tsabropoulos and John Marshall -from ECM May 7, 2004
The piano is done up with that huge, rich, chocolaty texture that makes you lust forever after the Eicher/Oslo connection. The drums are laid back in the mix and provide just enough firmament to support the interplay of piano and bass. The music is simple and the solos are aggressive and deep, a real mind melt between bassist and pianist. The record is a dream for music lovers and audiophiles alike. feel the abtract space betoween notes cross beautiful tone of spiritual fingers.
"Earth Spiral Water Sound" 2005
Earth Spiral Water Sound is Rich's most visionary, inspired and far reaching production to date. With many special guest artists including Gong and Soft Machine co-founder Daevid Allen, Grammy nominated Native American musician Joanne Shenandoah and Bansuri Flute master Steve Gorn.
The instrumentation is heavily multi-ethnic acoustic with plenty of African and middle-Eastern hand drumming, dousongoni, sanza, dulcitar, wordless vocal chants, and cosmic trance-portal glissando guitar work and vocal improvisations from master musician Daevid Allen. Also with eco-spiritual lyric vocals on several tunes, including Joanne Shenandoah's exquisite rendering of "It's Always There".
"Well, it came, I listened, it conquered, captured, enveloped,
convinced. Truly, your best work.
Visionary...Transporting...Beautiful Musicianship from everyone!
Thank You, Rich, for Listening with a capital L and holding to the
Great Song, the Great Gift. Blessings."
- Saruah Benson - Musician, Sound Healer, Spirit Guide
Anima Full Moon Festivel 2005
This animation (computer rendered images) shows the moon's appearance from Sept 1 to Sept 27, over the rotational 27.21222 day period, a bit shorter than the 29.5 day phase period.
Walking On Moon Google
One small step for Google...
On July 20, 1969, man first landed on the Moon. A few decades later, we're pleased to cut you in on the action. Google Moon is an extension of Google Maps and Google Earth that, courtesy of NASA imagery (thanks, guys!), enables you to surf the Moon's surface and check out the exact spots that the Apollo astronauts made their landings.
http://moon.google.com/
Anjey Satori / Healing Meditative Ambient New Age
Anjey Satori was born on April 6, 1969, in the Ukraine. Anjey was interested in mysticism and esoteric teachings of the East from his early years.
He worked as an organizer of special courses and seminars at the Institute of Nontraditional Medicine and has had enough experience to teach the basics of bioenergy and healing.
The pseudonym "satori" (insight) Anjey thought of while practicing meditation and yoga. Once the "expansion of conscious" happened and there was an experience of "satori" described in classical Zen-Buddhist texts. The feeling of inner light and bliss lasted for several days. It was the meeting with his innermost Self.
Anjey Satori's music is intended for meditation, healing and anyone travelling an inner journey. Each composition creates a harmonious balance of music and spirit.
With the series of meditation, natural voices, sounds of Tibetan singing bowls you get maximum benefit out of the music. With this CD-series you can relax thoroughly and achieves that vital state of physical and phychological stability.
http://magnatune.com/artists/satori
Moon Phase Wiget / OS X Tiger
About Moon Phase
The Moon Phase widget displays the current lunar phase as visible from the Earth. North is at the top.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/information/moonphase.html
Why Meditaion Is A Door to Awareness ?
Full Moon Meditation -Great Oppertunity to Enhancing Chios Power from WithIn
This is like a funnel, as if the meditation were a double funnel. The awareness draws inward, funnels inward to a point (inward awareness), and then instantly reverses outward again by passing through a "hole," a pinpoint or very small hole in the universe, and then funnels instantly outward again (outward awareness) into the universe. There is the experience, at this point, of a difference—it is a non-experience of either inward or outward awareness alone. It is an experience of the essence of reality—it is an experience of both inner and outer awareness and also of not either of these by themselves. It is an experience of an existence between two existences.
Begin to gain an awareness of this point by incorporating the following exercise into your daily meditation:
During your daily practice of Chios Meditation, begin to become aware of the point of pure being. Begin to notice the focus of your meditation at various times. Is it inward or outward? If it has been inward, and then you notice an outward focus later, search your being, for just a brief moment, for the awareness you may have had, at some level, of this point. Note this easily, and then go on with the meditation.
Perform this exercise during your daily practice of the meditation, seeking to gain awareness of the point. It is likely you already have some awareness of this point at a deeper level of awareness. After having reached some conscious awareness of the point, it is desirable to gain the ability to slow the transition of awareness through this point, to maintain the awareness at the point of singularity, in the state of pure being itself.
Allow, during your meditation, your perception of this point to become more complete: allow yourself to become the point and possess a knowledge of it. Know yourself as the point and possess the point in your awareness allowing a persistence of it to prevail, during your meditation. Allow your deeper awareness of the point to imbue and carry over into daily life. See the point in everything that exists and become the awareness that you experienced within it.
FOUR STEPS TO MEDITATION-SILENCE
Step 1: Entering
Step 2: Deepening
Step 3: Purpose
Step 4: Exit
STEP 1: Every meditation begins with some kind of entry. Most meditations begin with the eyes closed so as to eliminate most of the external stimulus, and to "kick in" a sleep-like pattern that will help encourage deep, healthy relaxation. With eyes closed your focus can easily shift from being external towards being internal, initiating the process. Any natural method of entry that shifts your focus from the external to the internal may be used effectively. The Three Deep Breath Method that you will learn is a method that is ideal for entering a meditation.
STEP 2: Once you have entered your meditation it is time to deepen. Deepening is done by relaxing the body and mind through counts done on a descending scale.
STEP 3: By the time you get to this step, your body is extremely relaxed, your brain frequency is slow, and your mental state is at its deepest and most receptive. This makes Step 3 ideal for any kind of mental programming. Programming can be done in the form of self-talk, such as in the case of affirmations, goal setting and problem solving, formula-type techniques, and guided imagery mostly used for self-healing.
STEP 4: Exiting a meditation can be done by simply opening your eyes. You can exit the meditation more gradually by counting slowly from 1-3, snapping your fingers lightly, and mentally saying, "Eyes open, feeling wide awake and in perfect health." Another way of exiting a meditation is by entering sleep.
Wandering Mind and Physical Sensations and Consciousness
During your meditations it is very common for your mind to wander. This is normal. When you find your mind wandering simply bring your attention back to whatever you are doing and continue where you left off. Occasionally, you will even loose awareness, and even enter sleep. This too is normal. With practice, this will happen less and less. Although concentration and focus will be enhanced through time, your mind's wandering nature will never go away completely.
Because everybody is unique, the physical sensation experienced during meditation may vary from person to person. It can be anywhere from a feeling of heaviness to a feeling of weightlessness. You may even have the sensation of floating. Often, during deep physical relaxation, you may experience a sense of desensitization, and feel as if your body is no longer there. All these and other experiences and sensations are indicators that you are doing just fine.
Remember that the element you are adding to something your body, brain, and mind has done all its life unconsciously is consciousness. By meditating you are able to convert the subconscious into the inner conscious. This may be very new to you and something well worth exploring.
BRAIN WAVES STATE
Helping in meditation
Meditation is essentially about willingly being able to alter one's brain frequency to a desired state. While meditators have traditionally used several years to learn the techniques of meditation, you can now attain the same effect with brainwave entrainment. No special training or great discipline is required. Good meditation frequencies are in the alpha range, from 8Hz to 13Hz.
When a certain brainwave state is experienced and practiced over a period of time, the brain will "learn" the state change and it will become easier to self-produce the desired brainwave state at will. Thus, using brainwave entrainment, you can expect to get some of its effects later even without any entrainment.
State Frequency range State of mind
Delta 0.5Hz - 4Hz Deep sleep
Theta 4Hz - 8Hz Drowsiness (also first stage of sleep)
Alpha 8Hz - 14Hz Relaxed but alert
Beta 14Hz - 30Hz Highly alert and focused
http://www.learningmeditation.com/room.htm
NEW MOON MEDITATION
STRENGTHENING THE HANDS
OF THE NEW GROUP OF WORLD SERVERS
This meditation is used at the time of the new moon
GROUP FUSION:
I am one with my group brothers and all that I have is theirs.
May the love which is in my soul pour forth to them.
May the strength which is in me lift and aid them.
May the thoughts which my soul creates reach and encourage them.
ALIGNMENT: We recognise our place, as a group, within the heart centre of the new group of world servers. Mentally extend a line of lighted energy towards the spiritual Hierarchy, the planetary heart centre; to the Christ, the "heart of love" within the Hierarchy; towards Shamballa, "where the Will of God is known".
HIGHER INTERLUDE: Hold the mind focussed for a few moments on the planetary role of the new group of world servers mediating between Hierarchy and humanity, responding to hierarchical impression and meditating the Plan into existence.
MEDITATION: Reflect on the seed thought:
Through the impression and expression of certain great ideas, humanity must be brought to the understanding of the fundamental ideals which will govern the new age. This is the major task of the new group of world servers.
PRECIPITATION: Visualise the precipitation of the will-to-good, essential love, throughout the planet, from Shamballa, through the planetary heart, the Hierarchy, through the Christ, the new group of world servers, through all men and women of goodwill everywhere in the world, and finally through the hearts and minds of the whole human family.
LOWER INTERLUDE: Consider the many ways in which the "power of the one Life" and the "love of the one Soul" are working out in the world through members of the new group of world servers, so building the "thoughtform of solution" to world problems.
DISTRIBUTION: As the Great Invocation is sounded, visualise the irradiation of human consciousness with light and love and power:
From the point of Light within the mind of God
Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men-
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
OM OM OM
In recent years, special work has been undertaken each month during the new moon period, as has been done for so long at the time of the full moon. During both the full and new moon periods there is a similar emphasis on the work of energy distribution in meditation. Just as there is a higher and a lower interlude in the annual cycle, so in the monthly cycle, the full moon occurs at the higher interlude and the new moon at the lower interlude.
At the new moon, we concentrate on how the Plan can be manifested; we focus on the many ways in which the "power of the one Life" and the "love of the one soul" are working out through the servers of the world. The emphasis at the new moon is to express and extend the energy and inspiration received at the time of the full moon through recognition of the service work of individuals and groups engaged in meeting world need, serving actively in one or other of the many fields of human life, and devoted to lifting and enriching the quality of human life on earth.
