Archive for February 2012

The People You Meet Along The Way…

February 15, 2012 Musings 2 comments

Its amazing how life paths intersect.

As I am coming back to the Path, I so happen to met another fellow traveller.

Amazaing to be able to talk about satori and have people who actually understand what you mean. It feels great that there are people who can relate to your other world-ly elements.

I feel less like a stranger in my own land – blazing the path less travelled.

The overall energy was great – so great that I didn’t even feel like sleep. Great vibes discussing about living and transformation. I think the energy exchange is mutual. For me, being able to meet a person who has met many guru’s during his lifetime and for me, a natural to refine by getting more “downloads”. I believe this is how sometimes the Universe speaks to me.

This was how I was taught – from life – and natural events – the people I meet – the experiances. Enriching and leaves a lasting effect in my psyche.

We talked about life, meditation and spiritual masters / mastery. Amusing stuff.

Few nuggets of wisdom was to re-remind me that I was on the right path – no matter how much my mind tells me I am insane, to live by instinct and listen to your feelings and operate less on thinking and on focusing on clearing old beliefs (which incidently is what I am currently doing – undoing, uncreating and destroying old thought patterns and constructs).

These constructs bring me to different points of my life where I have perceived something which hardwired my belief. Sometimes I feel I am transported to those brief periods of my life and I can see the untruth in it all.

Its a great highlight to meet other people on the same journey. The burdens don’t seem too heavy and the journey doesn’t seem so far.

After all – we are only here for the ride – the destination is pre-destined in the sands of time.

Sometimes We Just Need To Let Live A Little…

February 12, 2012 Musings 2 comments

A funny thing happened the other day.

I always wanted to have myself sketched in my 20′s, 30′s and 40′s. To be used:

(A) In my orbituary – face it, its much cooler than a black and white photo, people will ACTUALLY pay attention.
(B) As a picture for a book cover photo – instead of a photo shoot, kinda shows I have character (literally) to have a character instead of an actual photo.
(C) To just satisfy my fascination of just have sketchings of myself adorn my mansion (ala the old rich) – think museums and how having a potrait sets historical figures apart.

So after work, I made my way to the streets of Bukit Bintang and looked for a sketch artist. We got to a short chat.

Interesting guy goes by the name of Dino. He used to work in a port before being a full time artist.

He was sharing with me how a job as a street artist enabled him to:

travel the world – people actually sponsored him to go to Macau and Las Vegas to do caricatures of people who win the casino and even the UK!

meet people of different backgrounds -he even went to the UK and did paintings of some army generals and some oddball characters

earn a decent amount of money – he charges RM50 per piece (that’s somewhere around USD16) for 45 minutes of work. A conservative 4 pieces a day would snag him about RM6000 -1.9K USD if he worked everyday (way more than what I am paid in my day job – LOL). He earns even more for overseas and museum pieces.

get some very interesting projects – he painted some of Malaysia’s mythical figures for the Melaka museum and National Museum. He apparently called the spirits to emerge for him to draw their features and got sick after that! Always wondered how did those artists know how historical figures look like.

Goes to show – money would come – you just got to live a little. Try out different things, do things you actually enjoy, and have fun doing it.

Which reminds me – its a good advice for me as well personally to live by.

 

 

Odd Dream

February 12, 2012 Spiritual Ramblings One comment

I had an odd dream today.

As with most dreams – the details are sketchy. One thing for sure, I knew I was dreaming (wonder if its still considered a lucid dream if I just let events play out the way it plays out rather than actively change the flow of events).

I dreamt I needed to get from one point to another.

There were several ways for me to go about it. I was standing in waiting line with faceless people contemplating on which route to take to reach my final destination.

Is it my turn yet???

Option 1 – take a cab there. I was sitting in the cab and had an odd conversation with the driver. Before I knew it – I was stuck in a crazy jam and the sky was turning dark.

I knew I made a wrong mistake.

Suddenly, my consciousness threw me back to the time as I was in the waiting line deciding on what to do next.

It just felt as if I have lived all the decisions I needed to make and somehow, I knew the answers to whatever decisions I have before me. The only issue is just being clear enough to know which decision was the right one.

Because clearly – some of life’s pathways defies the very laws of logic.

What the Bleep Do We Know? Down The Rabbit Hole Review

February 4, 2012 Movies, Review One comment

“How far down the Rabbit Hole do you want to go?”

What are you staring at? Infinite possibilities?

I watched the original “What the Bleep Do We Know?” back in college when it was first released. I understood perhaps half of it and was more interested in the idea of programming of water crystals and with 80% of the body being fluid – how does thought transform to self programming. Not sure if I have written a What The Bleep Do We Know review back in college – but I felt it would be good to just revisit this.

Along the way, the docudrama did get some flack for being lopsided in presenting their findings and being quantum physics porn – i.e. lots to think about and fantasize but no practical application. So how far deep down the rabbit hole do you think YOU want to go?

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The Rabbit Hole Revisited

I decided to revisit the movie and see if I can catch extra stuff to see if I can catch anything I that I may have missed the first few viewings.

It was a different experiance really – this version has more animation to illustrate quantum mechanics in an easier to understand detail. Even made me miss Physics!

The items covered is about the same: the foundations of the universe and their links to human consciousness.

I particularly liked how they parry Biology and Physics togather with New Age. They even got scholars to explain the various theories that they covered throughout. The various animations really helped piece togather my understanding on particle behaviour. Best explaination of the double slit experiment!
But as I mentioned earlier – the docudrama seems to have narrow view of what they wish to depict – New Age theories. There are some reviewers who felt that it was very lopsided. Rather than getting two sided view – it seemed more like a documentary with the sole purpose of informing viewers of the various theories instead of forming a good debate on the topics discussed. But I feel, overall its still a good docudrama – just take it as additional pieces of information with a pinch of salt. Some claims may seem exaggerated but it sure was an interesting ride.

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What Do You Get In The Boxset?

So what makes this boxset worth getting compared to the original What the Bleep do we Know?

  • You get 3 CONTENT RICH DISCS!
  • The movie itself comes with English and Spannish subtitles.
  • There’s an optional “Quantum Viewing Mode” with additional random clips added for every viewing – this adds to replayability of the movie and ensures that you catch different nuggets of wisdom at different viewing.
  • You get almost 6 hours of additional interviews from the panelists – giving additional insights to the subject matter discussed.
  • Filmmaker Q&A.

You can buy it here:
What the Bleep!? – Down the Rabbit Hole (QUANTUM Three-Disc Special Edition)

If you like What the Bleep Do We Know? Down the Rabbit Hole, you may also like – The Secret, Extended Edition


“What the Bleep Do We Know” Full Length Movie

Predestined Lessons…

February 4, 2012 Spiritual Ramblings 3 comments

“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.” – Genesis 1:27

I have always been swinging on two ends of the personal development tightrope – the more material side (eg. Zig Ziglar / Anthony Robbins) and the more esoteric / spiritual side (chakra balancing, Universal Energy, other New Age fluff).

It doesn’t help that I have both a very practical / pragmatic self and dreamer / spiritual side.

During different points of the year, I swing to either side – hit a plateau – go to an equilibrium balance and the cycle goes on.

Deep inside, I do realize its like a dog chasing its own tail.

The Eternal Search for Truth

The search of Truth its most pure nature often eludes us.

Sometimes Truth finds us not worthy of gleaming into Its secrets – like Shiva’s dance – it plays about – only to be shared to the most pure and sincere devotees.

I was brought up in a very conservative Baha’i family. I am grateful to have been brought up by very upright teachings of values. Being introduced to comparative religion at a very young age (it helps that you belong to a religious minority often misunderstood). I have always been fascinated with religions, God, prayer, and the idea of spirituality at a very young age.

By the age of 7, I was already reading Holy Texts from various religions and questioning faith.

At the age of 6, I had several Out of Body Experience (OOBE) and I could remember having Spiritual Guides advising me about life. I didn’t think too much about it then – thinking it was normal. Of all the advice, I remembered one advice that still stuck, “You are destined for greater things in life”.

By the age of 12, by some weird way – I got into contact with New Age literature – T. Lobsang Rampa being the first. I started learning about meditation, chakras, crystals, Arkashic records and out of body experiences.

But somewhere along the way towards adolescence, I lost the voice of my Guides. I was introduced to modern self help at 16 – Zig Ziglar being a primary influence. Leaving life less to intuition and more into self motivation. I was a go-getter. I hustled my way into being in leadership positions in High School. But between those lines – I felt as if I have lost the childhood dreams that I used to have.

Spiritual Whispers

For the rest of my years ahead until today – I had occasional “on and off” encounters with the spiritual. Either in the form of books, people I have met, experiences, or just a Calling to revert back to spirituality. Sure enough, I get sucked back into materialism.

Caught between two worlds – I felt trapped.

I decided to blog again – to document my path to liberation (or madness) – in balancing the two worlds and hopefully getting the clarity I had when I was younger. I feel that the older I get – the more I forget of how true limitless wisdom and clarity was like.

I believe that each conversation or events that happen in our life – happens for a reason. This ties in very closely to my StregthFinder assessment of my 2nd strength “Connectedness”.

I believe we are meant to learn something from each of these seemingly random encounters to somehow remember our True Selves. To find who we really are once again. If we pay close attention to these little lessons along the way to improve ourselves – then perhaps – just perhaps, Truth is within our reach.