What if we didn't buy what they sold us?

What if we didn't conform to their ideas?

What if we lived our own way, lived our own lives, on our own terms?

What if instead of living apart, we all lived together?  It seems weird maybe, but all change is difficult at first.  Just think about it for a minute.

We are divided in so many ways.

We are segregated by age in schools, which as we all know starts at a very young age.  This multiplies through out each successive year, so by the time kids are in high school someone who is 30 seems incredibly old.  But the truth is, 30 is not old at all.  If children were to actually put in some time and hang out with 30 year olds on a regular basis then suddenly we would not seem so old.  This effect gets even worse when considering people who are fifty plus.

Think of the loss of social experience by not being socially involved with older and younger people on a regular basis.  Think about it added up over an entire lifetime. 

It is not that there is something wrong with hanging out with people much older or much younger, it is that it's foreign to us culturally because of the way we were raised.

Even before we started school we are divided socially by living individually with our own families, even within our own families.  Is it not obvious that it is much more difficult to raise children with two adults than with four or six?  All expenses would be cheaper, all time requirements at home would be lessened, all aspects of life would be better actually.  From birth we have been taught that we should grow up and go live on our own, support our own, provide for our own.  We never questioned this as children so the belief takes root and then dominates the rest of our lives. 

I think now is the time to question this.

How much better off would we be if we were helping one other, living with one another, living a more communal life.  I am not talking about some hippie resort, or commune, but just a more supportive way of life.

Sharing the burdens of life greatly increases the joy of life.

Always knowing your children are in good hands while you live your life.

It would create a completely different way of life.

What if we lived together instead of segregated?

What if children prefer to have more than just one or two adults around.  What if children prefer to have their grandparents around while their parents are at work.

What if all the reasons we have for not wanting a community life are only there because we grew up segregated.  We didn't even realize it, nor did our parents, nor our grandparents either, none of them gave it any thought.  Like us they just did what was done before them.  It has carried over from the days when the Church determined how people should live.  It has spilled right over into modern American culture.  It determined this aspect of our culture.

We are divided.

There are more divisions, but these are the two that keep us from living together socially as families.  We evolved to be social more than anything else, so it makes sense that we would be happier in a situation which provides much more social interaction.  Living in a place with more people of varying ages.

Yes, thinking differently about something that has only ever been one way your whole life is going to seem weird, it is going to seem impossible.  Nothing is impossible though.  There is a way we could come together.  Live the good life. 

What if instead of living in four separate houses we lived in one big one?  What if this didn't really change our lives much in terms of losing freedoms, what if it gave us more freedom?

Electromagnetic Waves I

Did you know that your brain emits electromagnetic waves? 

You may not know what electromagnetic waves are.

Light, microwaves, x-rays, and TV and radio transmissions are all kinds of electromagnetic waves.

Science has proven that electromagnetic waves have an affect on both our physical bodies, which includes our brains of course.  If it affects our brain it affects our mind.  The two are inseparable. Which means these things affect our consciousness. It's important to realize how important this is. Think of things that alter your consciousness. Something like being tired, hungry, emotional, PMS, the things that you can't just instantly change with your thoughts. These things can all be felt to greater and lesser degrees, so think of the times when they are lesser, yet still have an affect on every decision made. Like die in water, a small change in consciousness affects the entire container.

That's a fractal metaphor. The outer is the inner. You know the spiritual mumbo jumbo about how any change in the Universe, changes the entire universe. Ripple effect. The same is true of our own minds.

This is interesting.  Our brains emit light. Our brain also receives electromagnetic waves, or else they would not have an effect on our brain. The rest of the body can detect various electromagnetic waves as well. All of this information is contained in the unconscious. So it's obvious how important it is to be in touch with ones own body.

Interesting. We emit and receive electromagnet information. Why didn't they teach us about this in public school? Because scientist have not yet discovered a way to measure this energy. There is so much going on right in front of our faces it's unfathomable. 

There is only one way to prove this to yourself, and that is to learn to clear your mind, and go into your own unconscious. Get to know your Self.

Think of the implications. This means if we are in the same room together, our brains, our bodies are essentially communicating with one another.  We are emitting and receiving electromagnetic waves from each other by simple fact of proximity.  The closer, the more strongly felt. I like to use two magnets as an example of a human body. We can see the magnet, but we cannot see the field. And just like scientist come up with other ways of seeing what the field of a magnet looks like, there are ways to see what the field of the mind look like.

One has to go within.

Realizing that thoughts create energy, and since they are not contained to the body, wouldn't this mean that it really does matter what other people think, especially if they are in proximity.

Did you know changing what you think about changes the electromagnetic waves your brain emits?

Did you know that planets and stars, basically all matter, emits electromagnetic waves?

Interesting. Pretty sure scientist have proven that we are inside the field of so many things. If I remember right they can still detect light coming in from outer space that was from the big bang. Light waves billions of years old, still there.

Essentially if a person is alive their brain is communicating with everything, literally everything, that is in close proximity and a great deal that is not.  We have more than five senses, we are only conscious of five. This means even stars on the other side of the galaxy.  Physics tells us that light will carry on forever until it meets something else.  Think of how much light our sun puts off.  The light from our sun goes on endlessly.  Our brains absorb it same as the leaves on the tree.  Just because you can't see it does not mean it is not there.  You cannot see radio waves, x-rays.  You can only see a smidgeon of the light spectrum.  But that is not the case with your mind.

Please watch the following interview.  To improve your life you must improve your consciousness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYYXq1Ox4sk&feature=share

There is so much to reality.  So much more. 

It's just a soda

Some people think that I can be a real smart ass, I always say you should have known me when I was younger. Growing up in angst can give a person a bitter tongue sometimes. There was a time in my life, not too long ago, when I would talk to people about drinking soda, and one of my favorite openings was, "I see you drinking that Pepsi; how does it feel to pay Pepsi to kill you?"  I love to challenge the idea that someone has the right to do whatever they wish.  But after asking them this question I would usually get this perplexed or incredulous look, as if they were saying, "Did this guy really just say that to me?" I would just be standing there grinning at them, and then I would explain to them how drinking soda was directly harming their body. That crap is not meant to be inside of a human being. It is no different than smoking cigarettes really. I have of course, used many other methods in an effort to get those around me to quit drinking soda, but I have always preferred to be direct.

It is difficult for most, or maybe it is better to say that most just don't want to think about it on a personal level. Most don't want to realize that they really don't like themselves much if they were to stop and really think about it, because if they did truly care, they would bend all of their energies to not harming themselves at all. It is a nice and easy linear line after all, if drinking soda is bad for you, and you drink soda, then you are harming yourself.  From this it follows that you cannot truly care about yourself and harm yourself at the same time, it doesn't work that way. One or the other has to be untrue, and no matter how much energy you spend trying to justify it, soda really is horrible for your mind and body.  I am not talking about an occasional soda; I am talking about the habitual soda consumption of America.

I have found this to be an excellent way to judge how much a person truly cares about their self. By how many harmful things they do that directly affects their personal well being. The fewer harmful things a person has going on in their life, the more that individual cares about themselves. I know this to be true because I can clearly see it in myself. This is not a judgment; it is simply a matter of awareness of one’s self. Of course, one must be able to admit supposedly negative things about themselves, such as, "maybe I do not care about myself as much as I would like to think I do or I really wouldn't put this crap in my body."

Most of the people I have encountered, would say something like "Oh, it's not really hurting me that badly," or "It's just one can of soda, I only drink one a day." This is always funny to me, because it's out right denial; I would see most of these people drinking soda every day, and usually it was two or three. My personal favorites are the ones who complain about their body weight while actually drinking a soda. And don't even kid yourself; diet soda is just as horrible for you. There is not a single thing in a diet soda that your body wants or needs; it's just a form of self-destruction.

There was a time in my life when I drank a lot of soda. My favorite was Mountain Dew, the 'breakfast of champions' as I used to call it. First thing in the morning I would drink a can of Mountain Dew. I would always buy cans because for whatever reason the stuff tasted better to me out of a can. So I speak from personal experience when I say that life is so much better without soda. I woke up one day and realized I could do so much better than I had been doing. I came to realize that I was harming myself.

There is a problem here, because no one knows how to measure the negative impact of drinking soda on our lives? How do we gauge the change in our mental and physical health due to the fact of quitting drinking soda? I like to think that on a scale of 1 to 10, after giving up soda, it was a two point jump in my overall health. It might be a little different for you, but I would say that it was at least a two point jump. It really does make a big difference, to quit drinking soda, because two points is a lot, and I really do feel that much better after giving it up. If I were to drink a soda right now it wouldn’t take fifteen minutes and I would be feeling sick and miserable. I did not need a scientist to tell me this, or to tell me how much weight I would gain or lose, or how my blood sugar would go up or down, or any other tidbit from a ‘scientific study’ that they might have figured out so they can pass it along in a magazine or some book. If a person has any awareness of their own body whatsoever they will know what I am talking about. It does help to read about the negative effects of drinking soda though, if one needs help convincing themselves to give it up.

http://www.cspinet.org/new/pdf/liquid_candy_final_w_new_supplement.pdf

http://www.cspinet.org/liquidcandy/

Now let's adjust the scale a bit. Change the measuring stick so to speak. Remember I am only one individual, so let's add it up, let's take any given year that I was drinking soda, and then compare that year to a year that I was not drinking soda. Collectively how much better will I have felt in a year that I didn't drink soda, compared to a year that I did drink soda? In that one year, the fact that it is a whole two points better feeling on any given day without soda versus with soda; how much of my 'feeling better' was lost to cans of Mountain Dew? How much money was I giving to that soda company every year to make me feel bad?

How do I add this up in order to truly get a sense of it?

I am only one individual. So let's take it one step further. Can we add this up, this loss of 'feeling better,' in the millions who drink soda? How do you add up all of that lost energy, and the total effect of that negative impact on our society?

In 2011 PepsiCo had a gross profit margin of 58.3%, with a gross profit of 35.2 @%#$@*! BILLION!

In 2011 Coca Cola had a gross profit margin of 67.3%, with a gross profit of 25.64 @%#$@*! BILLION!

All hail the GDP. Bow down and worship. From this perspective it seems greed and selfishness rules the world.  Between Pepsi and Coca Cola a combined 60.84 billion dollars in profit, not sales, pure profit.  And yet not a single true benefit to our culture or lives really.  Just feeding peoples sugar additions. 

But can you see it? This IS the measure. This is a direct measure of how much 'not caring about oneself' is actually going on in the world. And these are just two companies in a single industry! You see it is not Pepsi that is the problem, it is the fact that so many people are unaware of what they are doing, or they simply do not care about themselves enough to not drink soda, or a combination of both, but really either way it is in ignorance, the problem is; we buy their products.

What about children? I do not even want to get started on this really. It is pretty simple to just tell them "No, you cannot have a soda, that stuff is bad for you." As if, at the end of your life, you would say, "You know, I am really glad I drank all that soda, and I am even happier that I let children drink it." Could it be, that you would be much more likely to say, "Wow, I am glad I quit drinking soda, I felt so much better after having done that, so much so, that it improved the quality of my life forever after?"

Add it up.

What about the affect of this 'soda industry' on our environment? All the cans and bottles, trucks, semi's, fuel, plastic bottles, cans, soda machines, refrigerators, the electric usage, all the destruction of land for farming sugar, all the fresh water ruined and polluted, I can go on and on. I would not even know where to begin because I would be able to write a book about how this one industry has ruined nature. For what purpose?  So that we can kill ourselves too?  It does not matter how we justify it, in reality we are harming ourselves and others. It is like a double whammy! Not only are the people worse off for drinking soda, but it is also ruining the environment. I cannot think about this too deeply because I start to feel sick; the hippie in me starts freaking out. All hail the mighty GDP. The land of where they do anything for a buck, even kill the people they sell their products to.

Should I even touch the impact on our health care system? Obesity, diabetes, sugar addiction, etc.

Please do not drink soda; it is a fact that it harms you mentally and physically, and by not drinking soda, every day you will be making the world better. You will be better for it, and the earth will be better for it, literally.

The only way to put them out of business is to stop purchasing their products.

We are NOT helpless to change the world, because it begins with us.  Surely you have a mirror in your house.

The only way to improve the world is to improve oneself, and then after having done so, to pass that along to those around you. What more can be asked of one?

It's not just soda.  It is damn near every product in the store.  It is fast food.  It is all the restaurants that get their products from virtually the same corporations.  It is our entire food chain. 

For this to change we are going to have to be proactive.