Music
ThruYou - Kutiman Mixes YouTube
Submitted by Jray Nels on December 3, 2009 - 12:47amWhat you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos/clips edited together to create ThruYou. In other words - what you see is what you hear.
Manly P. Hall - When The Invisible Sun Moves Northward
Submitted by Jray Nels on September 14, 2009 - 12:42amAnother great Lecture by Manly Palmer Hall, explaining many esoteric concepts in connection to the seasons, the cross, the mustard seed, the tree of life, mathematics and astrology.
I Met The Walrus
Submitted by Jray Nels on September 8, 2009 - 11:16pmIn 1969, the 14-year-old Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape recorder, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room for a chat.
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Playing For Change ~ Peace Through Music
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 29, 2009 - 12:51pmFour years ago while walking down the street in Santa Monica, CA the voice of Roger Ridley singing “Stand By me” was heard from a block away. His voice, soul and passion set us on a course around the world to add other musicians to his performance. This song transformed Playing For Change from a small group of individuals to a global movement for peace and understanding. This track features over 35 musicians collaborating from all over the world. They may have never met in person, but in this case, the music does the talking.
Mad but Glad
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 26, 2009 - 1:41amIs there really such a thing as the mad genius? Can an illness be both a blessing and a curse? At seven years old, Nick van Bloss started shaking his head, grinding his teeth and making wild whooping noises. Nick had Tourette’s syndrome. No medical intervention helped him. But one activity stopped it all…
The moment Nick placed his hands on the piano keys his symptoms vanished. By the age of 20, he was an award winning international pianist. He felt sure that his illness had made him the success he was.
But there is a catch. The brain state necessary for his genius can also be dangerously close to mental chaos. Nick’s personal journey reveals how close he came to the edge and how determined he is to triumph.
Sir Ken Robinson: Do Schools Kill Creativity?
Submitted by Preston Ames on June 20, 2009 - 1:17pmHuman resource expert, Sir Ken Robinson, discusses the educational systems and gives opinion that, "Our education system is predicated on the idea of academic ability, and there is a reason, the whole system was invented round the world, there really were no public systems before the 19th century, they all came into being to meet the needs of the industrialism. So the hierarchies are reasoned on two ideas: Number one, that the most useful subjects for work are at the top, so you were probably steered benignly away from things at school, when you were a kid, things you liked, on the grounds that you would never get a job doing that. Is that right? Don't do music, you are not going to be a musician. Don't do art you won't be an artist. Benign advice, now profoundly mistaken. The whole world is engulfed in a revolution, and the second is, academic ability, which has really come to dominate our view of intelligence because, the universities design the system in their image. If you think of it the whole system of public education around the world is a protracted process of university entrance, and the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, couragic people, think their not."
Tree of Life
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 11, 2009 - 9:17amA music video educating about the industrial uses and health benefits of Hemp.
View More »Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness
Submitted by Jray Nels on June 8, 2009 - 10:02pmThe following excerpts are part of a Nour Foundation panel discussion at the September 11, 2008 United Nations symposium, inspired by the philosophy of Ostad Elahi.
1. Hanifa Mezoui, PhD, Chief of the NGO Section of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (ECOSOC).
2. Esther M. Sternberg, MD speaking about immunology and the mind-body connection.
3. Bruce Greyson, MD, PhD speaking about near death experiences and the mind-body connection.
4. Mario Beauregard, PhD talking about how mainstream science regards the study of consciousness and spiritual phenomenon.
5. Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD speaking about his work with obsessive compulsive disorder and how he coached Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator.
6. Henry Stapp, PhD talking about how the collapse of the wave function in quantum mechanics can explain mind-brain interaction.
7. Elie During, PhD introducing the topic for a panel discussion entitled Beyond the Brain: The Experiential Implications of Neurotheology.
8. Christina M. Puchalski, MD speaking about the irrelevance of reductionist views of reality to clinical practice.
9. Dr. Sam Parnia's keynote lecture Unraveling the Mystery of the Self: From Descartes to The Human Consciousness Project.
10. Dr. Andrew Newberg's keynote lecture Why God Doesn't Use Biostatistics: Science and the Study of the Mind, the Body, and Spirituality.
11. A performance by Claire Antonini (lute) and Renaud Garcia-Fons (double bass).
Marijuana: For Medical Purposes Only
A documentary that details the uses of marijuana, and shows the changing perspective upon marijuana through the development of the United States of America. "The first marijuana law in the country, in 1619 in Virginia, actually required every house hold to grow it. A few colonies used it as money, and for hundreds of years American doctors prescribed it as medicine." - Steve White (former DEA Agent)
"Once you criminalize drugs, then you create an underground economy where drugs command a much greater price than they would otherwise, because of the danger, the illegality, and handling them and selling them, and as a result you have certain communities that are vulnerable to ending up on depending on that particular economy."
"Today so many scientists are developing so many different kinds of medicines based on marijuana research , that some experts suggested marijuana might become the "aspirin" of the 21st century."
