Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab work that uncovers how the brain thinks about other peoples’ thoughts — and judges their actions.

While still a graduate student, Rebecca Saxe made a breakthrough discovery: There’s a specific region in our brain that becomes active when we contemplate the workings of other minds. Now, at MIT’s Saxelab, she and her team have been further exploring her grad-school finding, exploring how it may help us understand conditions such as autism.

As Saxe delves into the complexities of social cognition, this young scientist is working toward revealing the enigma of human minds interacting.

An impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. They were sitting in this sushi bar downtown Tokyo pondering how best to set up a camera to film things as they happen without causing a scene. They decided in order to capture people “in the moment” they would put a camera on the revolving conveyor belt to capture people just being themselves.

I love this video, it really does capture the moment and is accompanied by a wonderful piece of music. The music is “lost in a moment” by: “Shrift” from the album of the same name.

What is the red donut? When I first heard of this concept I asked myself the same question. As it turns out this seemingly comical concept of a red donut is actually very intuitive and enlightening once explained.

In the previous video I posted “Intro to Non-Dualism” Philip illustrated for us our higher self or god-self by using words such as peaceful, loving, joyful, truth and omnipotent. Those words represent who we truly are outside of our ego.

Our ego a.k.a. the red donut is represented by words like desire, anxiety, loneliness and regret. Philip then goes on to explain that the words highlighted in red are illusions and they all have to do with the past or the future. These illusions like shame, addiction and suffering are created by our minds via the supporting structure of the ego.

The truth of the matter is there is no such thing as pity, hurt, control or envy. All of these emotions are of the past or future, they have nothing to do with the present moment. In-all-reality… our true self resides in the present moment. In order for us to feel regret for example we have to reference the past, we have to actually choose to remember what happened in the past in order to feel the emotion of regret or jealousy.

Imagine if we could keep our minds in the moment and not think about or reference the past. If we stayed in the moment none of these illusory emotions or feelings would arise.

Our true self is unmovable, eternal and complete, we are unconditional love. Sometime you touch this god-self when you’re in extreme states of joy, a baby being born or falling in love for example. Think about the last time you felt true joy, there wasn’t any worry about the past or future, when you’re in joy (enjoy) or “with spirit” you are completely in the moment.

The red donut is all of those false illusory emotions that surround us and block us from our true god-self (love, happiness, joy). Again if you were always in the moment you wouldn’t feel regret, panic or the need to control.

The good news however is that the LOVE doesn’t go anywhere, it’s who we are and will always be. We might not always feel like it but that’s only because we’re disconnected (or so it seems). Sometimes it seem terribly real whatever it is we’re going through in life but look at it closely and examine it thoroughly.

Who do you think you are at your core?

You and I can’t possibly be any of those things like anxiety, envy, unease, guilt or apprehension… we are so much more than that. If at some point you’re feeling those emotions just remember it’s because your NOT IN THE MOMENT you’re thinking about the past or about the future.

If we want to realize our true nature (LOVE) then we must remember to not referece our past experiences because the past has NOTHING to do with our true self.

Our true self isn’t of the past or in the future we are eternally right now and always have been! I think Richard Alpert a.k.a. Ram Dass said it best with his book titled… “Be Here Now“.

Watch the video at the beginning of the post, enjoy and I’d love to hear your feedback.

I’d like to share with you a video I ran across by A Course in Miracles. This particular video is “Intro to Non-Dualism”.

I’ve heard about the Course in Miracles for a few years but have never took the time to read the book or seek more info on the course. Most of my family has read the book and they all have nothing but good things to say… so it’s about time I pick it up and see what all the fuss is about.

I watched this video last night for the first time and I have to admit the course has definitely got my attention now. This short video only 10 minutes in length covers a broad scope of topics quickly and everything makes perfect sense! It’s almost as if I’m being reminded of what I already know as opposed to learning something new.

The video admittedly is a little “vanilla” for lack of a better word but if you can get past the person talking and hear the message, I think it will peak your interest as it has mine.

Without giving away too much. One of my favorite parts of the video is when he points out that feeling defensive or shame for instance requires that you access the past… past memories. He then goes on to explain if you can remain present and not think about the past then it would be impossible to feel guilt or become defensive. In order to feel the guilt or get defensive you have to remember what happened in the past… so be in the present moment!

I’ll definitely be posting more from A Course in Miracles, I’m ecstatic to have found something else to broaden my spiritual horizons!

If anyone is currently studying A Course in Miracles please let me know what your experience has been. Also any other recommendations for books or videos are welcome.

For more information on A Course in Miracles please visit their website.

Peace and Love.

Kymatica as a film if I had to describe it in one word I would say “Amen”! I am extremely thrilled to see more films like this being created and shared in an ever growing community of conscious human beings.

The film does share similar themes as the popular award winning docu-film “The Zeitgeist Addendum” but can stand on it’s own with original and thought provoking subject matter.

One of my favorite parts begins at about 19:45 mins into the film the beginning of the “LOGOS” chapter. The narrator begins to explain how everything in existence is a relationship between vibrations and matter. He then goes on to explain further that in nature the phenomenon of “VIBRATIONS” is the masculine creative force and its opposite “MATTER” is the feminine receptive force and from these two forces begins the basic principles of duality.

This is the duality we see in every day life from hot and cold, good and bad… even god and the devil. It’s briefly explained how over time the idea of duality has been perverted and distorted by ancient religions, myths, text and dogma giving the impression that one of the polarities is absolute good and the other evil.

The two forces… vibrations and matter fundamentally are what give rise to all that we know in the known universe. These two phenomenon should not be looked at as opposites, rather two forces that are one in the same and would not exist without the other.

Vibrations and matter are what come together to create everything we know, this is KYMATICA.

This part of the film really hit home with me and I watched this segment over and over again. It’s apparent that we as a species have lost our way and are disconnected. It’s obvious isn’t it? Would there be wars, fighting and children dying from not having enough food to eat if we all were truly connected?

When we live in a world that has an abundance of resources that if utilized properly could feed and supply energy to everyone on the planet… BUT WE DON’T because of greed, money and profit… the answer is clear. We are disconnected! We live our lives each monotonous day in fear and are clamoring to make sense of it all.

We disguise this fear by subscribing to one of the many soothing and promising religions but as we can see by evidence of our history… religions offer no true peace of mind. Millions of people around the globe as individuals ALL subscribing to their individual religious beliefs. We all think WE KNOW THE TRUTH and we tell our neighbors, lovers and family members who are of different faiths we love them but this is the farthest thing from the truth. We don’t love… we tolerate.

A truly religious person doesn’t subscribe or memorize scripture from books, a truly religious person doesn’t need to. Religion is so not what it should be, it’s packaged, polished and presented to the masses with cunning and masterful advocates who are slowly and insidiously programming you to not think for yourself.

Today’s religions and non-religions (Athiest) are broken “ideas” the equivalent of a toy given to a crying child. The horrifying fact is however these “ideas” or toys for the mind are only temporary and eventually we all have to embrace LIFE as it is, not someone else’s ideas about it.

We have thousands upon thousands of people in the world from Africa to China who live on less than a dollar a day, are riddled with disease and no hope in sight. What are we going to do?

For god sake… let us stop pretending that we know all the answers!

All the Athiest and Theist set aside your beliefs, your books, your gospel, your dogmas, your sin, your promises, your devil, your bigotry and WAKE UP!

You’ve been programmed and conditioned and you don’t even know it. I hate come off sounding like I know it all… I’ll be the first to admit I don’t but I can see clearly WHAT IS NOT WORKING.

This beautiful planet that we are so fortunate and blessed to live on is dying and each one of us is responsible.

Are we all that stupid?

Do we all really think as a Muslim we’re going to get 40 virgins and live in everlasting peace in paradise? Do we all really think as a Christian that when we die and go to heaven it will be “heaven”? How could it be knowing that all the other humans you loved and knew, the Muslim, the Jew, the Athiest, your brother or sister who wasn’t Christian is in hell?

If that is what heaven is like… I don’t want to be there!

How about we stop hypothesizing about what is to come and deal with what has been presented to us… LIFE! This life, better… this consciousness that you’ve been blessed with has all the power of the universe. WE ARE TRULY GODS.

Each one of us has the power to create and destroy this world. Each one of us needs to take responsibility, like Ghandi said “be the change we want to see in the world”. The problems aren’t out there somewhere and the answers aren’t in some book or church.

ALL OF US need to do some serious soul searching and find out what it is to be a HUMAN BEING, not a HUMAN FOLLOWER.

It’s time to kick yourself in the butt, it’s time to raise heaven on earth. There cannot be peace on earth with a thousand different religions, countries, states and governments.

There can only be peace once we see all of the above as divisive and separative “ideas” that have been passed down from generation to generation yielding heartache, suffering, war, fear and all the rest of it… it’s time to wake up and it’s time to live up to our true potential as human beings.

Watch this film, let me know what you thought. Also I’m interested in learning more about you and what you’re doing to improve yourself and in turn the world.

I truly believe we can save our planet and species from catastrophe but my beliefs don’t have anything to do with manifesting this reality… my actions do! With love and sincerity in my heart I ask that you like myself seek out the truth. Let the search for truth be fueled by intentions grounded in love and let that search be renewed with new energy each day.