Nancilee Wydra

July 30, 2010

We Were Born Digital!

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Life used to be so simple.  There was a beginning, middle and end to mostly everything. Like reading a book, we were born into an experiential world where things start at a beginning point, proceed through a middle and conclude to an end.  What is so interesting about this method of constructing reality is that it is artificial.

Consider just the physical part of experience.  Your eyes are at work from the moment you wake, taking in tons of information about the world around you — shapes, colors, movements, and more. Very simplistically, the eye then sends a tremendous amount of information to the brain and the brain sorts it, tossing out most of it and making you aware of only a small snippet of the information your eye inputted.   Physical, emotional, and cultural factors shape what you become conscious of.  Now does that sound like a rational, predictable sequence making what is out there simply a matter of looking?  I don’t think so. 

Fred Ritchin professor of photography and imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and director of PixelPress recently lectured at Chautauqua Institute during a week-long conversation about photography.  One of the fascinating things he suggested is that digital experiences actually function more like our brain than the artificial reality we have created for our experiential world.  Replying to the argument that Google is making us stupid, Ritchin argues that Google has the potential to make us more intelligent and thoughtful, in part, because its foray into information can be more aligned with the way we process thoughts. 

Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran suggested in a recent lecture on TED.com that about the 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain reach and grab for information, sort of like you do when you reach for an apple or a pear in a bowl of fruit.  The way our neurons are fired is compatible with the way we can search for information on Google, making the digital age more likely to help humans actualize to their full potential.

In some ways it reminds me of how women’s fashions of the 1950’s, with their constraining undergarments, didn’t allow us to move naturally.   When bras were burned along with girdles, garters and chinch belts, human movement also became liberated and forms of dance were unleashed that heretofore had been constrained by fashion.

So dive into learning with many choices at your side.  Don’t belittle yourself if you find one thought  leads you away from the author’s diatribe and onto an entirely different network of data. Just remember that you are learning in the same way as your brain spits out thoughts.

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July 26, 2010

More News No One Wants You to Know!

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Sorry for the digressions, but Chautauqua Institute is the most informative place I know of. Speakers with pristine credentials come here to inform and enter into a conversation that leads to rational decision making. Dr. Deborah C. Peel, considered one of the most powerful persons in the medical field today, gave a speech on patient privacy rights, which apparently there isn’t much of. The privacy paper you sign in the doctor office gives the right to disperse your medical information away. The HIPAA amended law of 2002 reads, “ to use and disclose protected health information for treatment, payment, healthcare operations.” What does this mean you ask? Well, look at the chart at the beginning of this blog and know that every entity listed, has the right to know what drugs you are taking, what syndrome you might be suffering from, if you HIV, or any sexually transmitted disease or any tests that may have been ordered or pronouncement any of your doctors might make.

My personal favorite institution that has a right to your medical information is banks. Yup, where you safeguard your money can have access to know if you take heart burn medicine, are diabetic or are on an antidepressant? What can you do? Well first of all, go to www.patientprivacyrights.org and print out an alternative paper to the one you are handed when you visit a doctor. Secondly, sign up to receive their up to date legislation and by all means download, buy a CD or DVD or Dr. Peel’s lecture that she gave at Chautauqua Institute, July 24,2010.

July 23, 2010

Master of the Nuclear Universe Reveals True Adgenda

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 Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human I interrupt the topic of this summer’s blog to discuss with you a lecture I heard this weeke Chautauqua Institute.

James Rogers, chairman and CEO of Duke Energy – one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, gave a lecture promoting nuclear energy as the future’s “clean” and cheap power source. While he kept using the word clean in conjunction with nuclear power. What he meant was that nuclear does not spew carbon emissions into the atmosphere, but does leave spent fuel rods of radioactive uranium and plutonium for us to deal with. Yes, the French recycle the rods, but most still goes into deep graves. What is still not completely solved is how to reprocess these highly radioactive spent fuel rods that up to now have been disposed of underground.

 As Healthy Environment of Utah or Heal writes: “The Reprocessing is simply a process to repackage nuclear waste–not eliminate it. The idea is to reuse some of the energy in a fuel rod after it has gone through its first life cycle. Once the uranium-filled fuel rods that create the nuclear power plant’s nuclear reaction are “spent,” they are cooled for a few years at the reactor site and are then transported to a reprocessing plant. At the reprocessing facility the fuel rods are cut up and dissolved in a bath of nitric acid. Uranium and plutonium are then separated out from the other highly radioactive wastes in the nitric acid solution. The remaining solution, which is still high-level waste, is typically blended with glass, a process known as vitrification, and must ultimately be stored in a deep geologic repository, like the one proposed at Yucca Mountain. In theory, the extracted uranium, which comprises 95% of the volume of the spent fuel rods, could be re-fabricated into nuclear fuel rods. However, in practice, no significant amount of this reprocessed uranium is reused in countries that currently reprocess, including France and Britain. This is because the extracted uranium is contaminated with highly radioactive and hazardous fission products. The process of turning this contaminated uranium into nuclear fuel rods is prohibitively dangerous for workers and would be extremely expensive. The result is that most of the radioactive materials from spent fuel rods are not reused, and must still go into a deep geologic repository. The United States’ only foray into reprocessing commercial nuclear waste was an environmental and economic disaster. Between 1966 and 1972, the West Valley reprocessing facility, located in New York State, reprocessed only one-sixth of the spent fuel slated for processing while creating radioactive waste that is threatening eventual leakage into Lake Erie. Thirty-three years after the facility’s closure, taxpayers are still footing the $5.2 billion remediation tab. “ What was so telling in this morning lecture was how Mr. Roger’s answered a question from the audience revealing his true agenda. He was asked why do nuclear power plants have to be so ugly and he answered it by saying, and I paraphrase, well it looks beautiful to me. It’s the look of cash flow and that is my favorite kind of green. Let us not find ourselves in the same position in the future, as we are now, finding that after 100 years of using gas to power cars, we realize that we are choking our planet to death with air born toxins. July 25 2010Master of Nuclear Power’s Universe, Reveals his True Agenda Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human I interrupt the topic of this summer’s blog to discuss with you a lecture I heard this weeke Chautauqua Institute. James Rogers, chairman and CEO of Duke Energy – one of the largest electric power companies in the United States, gave a lecture promoting nuclear energy as the future’s “clean” and cheap power source. While he kept using the word clean in conjunction with nuclear power, what he meant was that nuclear does not spew carbon emissions into the atmosphere, but it does leave spent fuel rods of radioactive uranium and plutonium for us to deal with. Yes, the French recycle the rods, but most still goes into deep graves. What is still not completely solved is how to reprocess these highly radioactive spent fuel rods that up to now have been disposed of underground. As Healthy Environment of Utah or Heal writes: “The Reprocessing is simply a process to repackage nuclear waste–not eliminate it. The idea is to reuse some of the energy in a fuel rod after it has gone through its first life cycle. Once the uranium-filled fuel rods that create the nuclear power plant’s nuclear reaction are “spent,” they are cooled for a few years at the reactor site and are then transported to a reprocessing plant. At the reprocessing facility the fuel rods are cut up and dissolved in a bath of nitric acid. Uranium and plutonium are then separated out from the other highly radioactive wastes in the nitric acid solution. The remaining solution, which is still high-level waste, is typically blended with glass, a process known as vitrification, and must ultimately be stored in a deep geologic repository, like the one proposed at Yucca Mountain. In theory, the extracted uranium, which comprises 95% of the volume of the spent fuel rods, could be re-fabricated into nuclear fuel rods. However, in practice, no significant amount of this reprocessed uranium is reused in countries that currently reprocess, including France and Britain. This is because the extracted uranium is contaminated with highly radioactive and hazardous fission products. The process of turning this contaminated uranium into nuclear fuel rods is prohibitively dangerous for workers and would be extremely expensive. The result is that most of the radioactive materials from spent fuel rods are not reused, and must still go into a deep geologic repository. The United States’ only foray into reprocessing commercial nuclear waste was an environmental and economic disaster. Between 1966 and 1972, the West Valley reprocessing facility, located in New York State, reprocessed only one-sixth of the spent fuel slated for processing while creating radioactive waste that is threatening eventual leakage into Lake Erie. Thirty-three years after the facility’s closure, taxpayers are still footing the $5.2 billion remediation tab. “ What was so telling in this morning lecture was how Mr. Roger’s answered a question from the audience revealing his true agenda. He was asked why do nuclear power plants have to be so ugly and he answered it by saying, and I paraphrase, well it looks beautiful to me. It’s the look of cash flow and that is my favorite kind of green. Let us not find ourselves in the same position in the future, as we are now, finding that after 100 years of using gas to power cars, we realize that we are choking our planet to death with air born toxins and now destroy the soil underneath the earth’s crust.

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July 21, 2010

Scientific Proof of Mind Altering Matter

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“No human qualities of consciousness, intention, emotion, or mind can significantly influence a well-designed target experiment in physical reality.” At least that is what scientists believed until , William Tiller, head of Theoretical Physics at Sanford University conducted experiments that show with statistical efficacy that the mind can alter matter. Here’s how Dr. Tiller, who, by the way, was one of the scientists in the movie “What the Bleep do We Know?” proved that focus, in the form of meditation can altered matter. Until his experiment only gravity, electromagnetism and short-range and long-range nuclear forces were accepted as the exclusive fundamental forces at work in this universe.

Dr. Tiller set up three carefully designed target experiments to challenge these assumptions. The one I will describe concerns the acidic or alkaline (PH ratio) in water. He constructed two low-voltage electrical boxes and placed them in two separate rooms. One box was joined by four experienced meditators who were told to meditate on making water alkaline. The two boxes were sealed and were sent to several laboratories around the world, one as far away as Milan Italy. Each box was placed in a room with a glass of pre-measured local water and left there for a period of time. The results were statistically significant. The box that had been in the room with the meditators increased the local water alkaline level while the other water, not in the room with the low voltage electrical box that had been in the room with the meditators, remained the same. The collective results for this and the other target experiments showed unequivocally that the unstated assumption of establishment science is very, very wrong. The water was affected by the mediators’ intention in statistically significant amounts. Tiller’s concluded that much more goes on in space than we heretofore assumed. And that space/time as we know it might be significantly different and that perhaps the more we see matter as significant /versus space, the more likely we are loosing sensitivity to feedback communications and as demonstrated connectivity. It seems that SPACE is a VORTEX of far more than we imagine and that perhaps its primary role is to link matter to matter. What happened does not quite fit with our explanation of reality. Focus in the form of meditation did alter matter.

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July 19, 2010

What are the Ingredients of Belief?

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What are the ingredients’ that comprise the soup of belief?  Is it what you see, hear, feel or touch?  Can each pixel of life be the sum of your past, your generation, religion, economics and social background?  What makes one focus on the shape of the leaf, another the flower?  Does every past experience alter what is in front of your eyes with its hand?  Does every triumph pave the way for another, as might every defeat?  As Louis Nizer, famed attorney and author writes in his book “The Implosion Conspiracy”, “Every man is a conglomerate enterprise, and his values and judgments derive from a mysterious jumble of life’s acquisitions.”

Does what we long for motivate?  Is it the exquisite, the familiar or the exotic?  Do we live below or above our endowments?  Are our actions the result of inner fire or the burning of approval? The ingredients of each soul informs the present moment with its tugs, prejudices, desires, experiences, and with an amorphous shape, steers your life toward it’s destiny.

Can the person, tear apart the gravel of their life’s road to reshape it?  I believe so, but it is not without great effort, and intention.  Like a furiously fast race downhill, can we slide on a descending surface and refrain from putting another foot forward in the downhill direction, even when  stones are flung from the pavement to sting us?  Effort, determination and a letting go of results is the only way the moment can alter the past.

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They Didn’t Notice the Gorilla!

Filed under: Feng Shui — Intelligent feng shui @ 2:22 pm 
Child psychologists speculate that infants see as they learn what things are or don’t


see things until they learn what they are.   In a now famous experiment, Harvard’s


Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simon, asked subjects watching a basketball video,


to count the passes made by one of the teams.  Around fifty percent of the participants


didn’t remember seeing a person dressed in a gorilla suit walk slowly across the court


for a full nine seconds.  A gorilla is not what one expects to see on a basketball court


and expectation proved, at least in half the viewers, that reality alters based on


expectations.  


What else is going on to make a person screen out what’s in front of them?  Chabris and


Simon suggested:


``It is a well-known phenomenon that we do not notice anything happening in our


surroundings while being absorbed in the inspection of something; focusing our attention on a certain object may happen to such an extent that we cannot perceive other objects placed in the peripheral parts of our visual field, although the light rays they emit arrive completely at the visual sphere of the cerebral cortex.'' 


 


The above experiment illuminates two ideas, one that we see or experience selectively and


two, that focus alters reality.  In healing, we have a reality about our disease based on


what we are told, what we have seen within the framework of our culture and what we focus


on in getting well.  These may or may not be helpful to the reality that we want to achieve. 


Child psychologists speculate that infants see as they learn what things are or don’t


see things until they learn what they are.   In a now famous experiment, Harvard’s Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simon, asked subjects watching a basketball video, to count the passes made by one of the teams.  Around fifty percent of the participants didn’t remember seeing a person dressed in a gorilla suit walk slowly across the court for a full nine seconds.  A gorilla is not what one expects to see on a basketball court and expectation proved, at least in half the viewers, that reality alters based on expectations.  


What else is going on to make a person screen out what’s in front of them?  Chabris and Simon suggested:


``It is a well-known phenomenon that we do not notice anything happening in our surroundings while being absorbed in the inspection of something; focusing our attention on a certain object may happen to such an extent that we cannot perceive other objects placed in the peripheral parts of our visual field, although the light rays they emit arrive completely at the visual sphere of the cerebral cortex.'' 


The above experiment illuminates two ideas, one that we see or experience selectively and two, that focus alters reality.  In healing, we have a reality about our disease based on what we are told, what we have seen within the framework of our culture and what we focus on in getting well.  These may or may not be helpful to the reality that we want to achieve. 

July 18, 2010

Is Your Contribution to Disease Active or Passive?

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There are two kinds of contributions to disease, active and passive. Obesity caused by a high caloric diet, eating too much food, or a combination of these joined by a lack of exercise is what we will call an active contribution.  The outcome can be linked to input.  Sometimes we engage in a behavior that we don’t know is harmful, like sun worshipping generations without the knowledge about the sun’s contribution to skin cancer. This can be placed in the passive category, since you don’t know that one action can have negative consequences you are not actively contributing to being unhealthy. 

 There is one exception to this rule, and that is obsessive behaviors.  Any obsessively engaged in behavior will, in the long run, have deleterious affects.  My Uncle Hy was a friend of Pritikin when he was formulating his heart diet. Since my Uncle Hy has just suffered a heart attach he agreed to be a guinea pig for Pritikin’s ideas and did so with a zeal that allowed for no deviation from the set forth regime. The diet certainly contributed to my uncle’s health for many years, but in his eighties he was diagnosed with a disease that was caused by too little fat in a diet, i.e., anything in excess over the long haul can have negative affects.  Obsessive behavior is almost all cases lead to a breakdown.  But this news is not all bad.  Surely it can contribute to breakdowns, but it can also contribute to healing.  The conundrum is to understand the difference between obsessive activities that lead to disease and iterated activities that can lead to health.

 Moreover, there are two kinds of contribution to healing, active and passive, both are valid, yet the passive kind is often dismissed because our Western minds can’t ingest testimonial results.  Yet, Heisenberg’s experiment demonstrated that one trajectory can have two outcomes and in that way healing is a trajectory that can’t be predicted but has two outcomes.   And we all know people who smoked all their lives and didn’t get lung cancer or the person who has all kinds of junk food and doesn’t gain weight.   What then can we do to promote the result we desire?  In a statistically significant number of cases, it has been shown that we can engage in behaviors and beliefs that will benefit our healing.  In the context of our physical spaces, this will be our topic this summer.  

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July 12, 2010

We Experience What We Know

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Pyramid feng shui is a rational scientifically based way of understanding how place impacts on human 

I heard the famous paleanthrolopist Donald Johansson tell the story of when he discovered the bones
 of “Lucy” the fossilized remains of a female hominid that were 40% in tack. He noticed a small edge
 of a bone fragment sticking out from the ground that he recognized as human.  You and I could have passed
 this fragment and not recognized it significance or realized it was there at all. I am not familiar with
 a skeleton unless it’s all in tack and hanging in a lab.  
The journal of Charles Darwin is another example that illustrates the phenomenon of not seeing what is not


 known.  Darwin writes in his journal that when his ship the Beagle coming close to shore off the coast


of Patagonia in 1831, the natives didn’t see it until his men transferred to small row boats and


 were rowing to shore.  The natives of that region were contextually blind to these gigantic sailing


 vessels and the image of the big sailing ship did not register.  Only when Darwin's cres was rowing ashore


 in small boats did it register that people were arriving by sea.  Perhaps, they would have hidden; 


perhaps they would have gathered welcoming gifts of shells and rocks or perhaps they would have fled?   


But, contemplative response time was eliminated and the Darwin group, which as we know was non violent 


came unhindered to shore. When you have never seen something and have no reference whatsoever for it, 


it is possible not to see it. 


 


In many ways, we are blind to those things we don’t know and that goes for healing. 


If we believe something will heal it has an extra power.  Knowing and belief are powerful ingredients of reality.


 


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July 6, 2010

Constructing Reality

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 This summer of 2010 I would like to take the reader on a road of exploration to realms that while not being quantifiable, are in my opinion, real. Let me know what your think.

What we experience as out there is as much our invention as it is our discovery.

 Why is reality programming such a hot ticket? In the last few years TV reality shows have multiplied like bubble bath in hot water. What makes the viewing public so interested in watching ordinary people react to uncommon events? Is it the fact that our lives are so predictable, so routine, that we long to construct novelty? Or has a gene for novelty become a preference in today’s DNA? Perhaps, the popularity of this type of programming stems from our need to hold onto the notion of reality as a result of cause and effect.

We humans hold a rather narrow belief, that the past pours its content into the present. Thus, we are deluded into assuming that things are predictable insofar as they emerge from what has been. This theory holds some truth because the past in every living thing has an influence in the present, but that role is elastic and cannot be predicted.

Scientists whose time honored goals have been to quantify phenomenon have, in the last century, been challenged by the belief of cause and consequence. Take for example; the results of Werner Heisenberg, a German physicist,which indicated that outcomes cannot be predictable. Wikipedia writes “Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle states …that certain pairs of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot simultaneously be known. That is, the more precisely one property is measured, the less precisely the other can be measured and that the mere fact of observing something can alter its outcome.” Well, that certainly undermines cause and effect!

A contemporary of Heisenberg, Niels Bohr developed theory of complementarity, which states that that there is a dual nature to things. A sphere, for instance, has a convex and concave aspect depending upon your point of view. If we are outside the sphere, it appears convex, but from inside it seems concave. In the last hundred years, decades of belief about reality have been questioned and the answers don’t always point to one absolute or a single truth.

 Reality shows give the appearance that the end is a direct result of efforts, determinations and thus is rather foreseeable. I would like to suggest here that underlying my material of how place can support healing of physical, emotional and spiritual dis-eases, is the iconoclastic view that Western medicine with it’s stated outcomes (like this medicine works 48% of the time) undermines a notion of while results might be unknowable, one cannot discount the quantum leap, which is to say that seeming miracles are merely results that cannot be predicted and that the duality of not being able to see all sides as in the convex and concave example, all sides exist. To a large degree we organize, either actively or passively what we experience. But that organization is not only the result of cause and effect, but of something more fundamental to the universe. Using this concept, we can embrace what we know and what we don’t know for both may have equal potential. This summer of 2010 I would like to take the reader on a road of exploration to realms that while not being quantifiable, are in my opinion, real.

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July 4, 2010

Are You an Idiot?

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I’ve called myself an idiot many times, and now realize that I’ve been misguided, not because I didn’t do something stupid, but because I didn’t understand the true meaning of idiot.

In Greek and Latin, idiot means a “private person” one who considers their personal needs as paramount.  In ancient Athens the word “idiot” was used derisively to someone who declined to participate in public life.   In fact, Greek democracy’s central premise was that everyone participated as well as cared about the whole.  You were an “idiotes” when your own needs superseded the collective best.   

Well, we certainly live in an age filled with idiots.   The my way or the highway nightly news groups with FOX ,the greatest idiot, to in lesser ways , MSNBC  and CNN decry their viewpoint without a great deal of listening to and integrating the believes of the public.  Like it or not, a nation is built upon a multitude of ideas, each one, with the exception of those demonstrating a distain for the whole, must be considered.

On the eve of 4th of July, when we celebrate our collective unity, let’s become savants not idiot savants and rejoice in diversity of ideas.

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