Very difficult to answer.
Life!
Relationships.
My wife, daughter, son, sisters and family, friends, acquaitances, strangers.
Being.
Being in Kaikoura - the wind is gust 50-60 knots - a wild night, but hot NW winds - almost 11pm and still almost 30C.  Southerly change and rain due soon.
Communication, words, the internet, thoughts, intuition, logic, reason, sight, hearing, TV.

Integrity, Love, freedom, peace, joy, fulfilment - for all.
Choose to love this moment, and everyone and everything in it.
Act with love and compassion.
Be a great life !

Time, as in my attention.
It is difficult for me to focus on people or meetings if things are moving slow - my mind will wanter, looking for something interesting to engage and employ it.

If there is not enough in real space, it will dive off into possibility space - time slicing back  to reality as required.

Sometimes this causes me to miss things that I really can't afford to miss.

There is a very real sense in which I do not hold anything sacred in the original sense of the term, as in honoring divinity, as it seems highly improbable that there is any divinity in the sense that most people seem to think of it.

In another sense, I honour life, particularly human life.  I love and respect and care for my family, my community, and in a wider sense work for systems that will grant individuals the greatest degree of prosperity and freedom possible that is compatible with the survival of us all.

Within that system I believe there is need for infinite diversity.  I do not believe that there is any one right way for any of us.  I believe that there are an infinite number of possible ways to achieve anything (and an infinite number of ways not to achieve).

It seems obvious to me that some classes of systems support and empower individuals and some do not.   A corporate economic system like we have currently does not do a very good job of supportig and empowering every individual to pursue their own bliss, to make their own mistakes, to find their own truth.

Other systems are possible, and could provide greater benefit to everyone - particulalry in the areas of security and long term survival - www.solnx.org describes one such class of systems, the most powerful I have yet found, and it is not a solution to all human problems, just a solution to some of the oldest, and a tool to empower individuals in exploring and solving their own unique problems and opportunities.

In this sense, the non-divine sense, I find the sacred all around me at many levels.

The amazing complexity of the evolved ecologies that our bodies and brains are part of.

The amazing complexity of the evolved memetic cultures that we are each part of in some fashion.

The amazing individuality and awareness that is each of us as a third level, self declared, self aware "software" entities in the operating system of our culture in the computer that is our amazing multiprocessing neural network with it's holographic storage and retrieval system with its associate intuition/reason/revelation mechanism.    Understanding the levels of complexity and recursion that go into each of these systems has a very "sacred" feel to it for me, but not in the sense of any external divinity, just in the sense that such complexity and infinite potential can evolve from very simple starting conditions and following remarkably simple rules - like a Mandlebrot set in mathematics, yet so much more, and so much more profound.

Right now my wife is sitting near me in a very skimpy bikini, playing her guitar, and I have a grin on my face from ear to ear, appreciating the gift and joy that she is in my life.  It really is an amazing life we live!

Depends how one defines suffering.
For it's own sake - no, and what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Individuals experience and evaluate experiences differently - it really does seem to come down to the meaning and significance we attach when one relates to emotional suffering, physical pain can be annoying, as in the pain in my left thumb right now.

I don't have a religion, and I am unlikely to ever choose one, and if I did, it would probably be Buddhism, because the Buddha asked people to be critical of everything, and to choose only that which was of service to themselves and others and life itself - and really one cannot ask much more than that.

One problem I have with all religions is that they become dogma, rather than enlighenment.  There becomes "one true" path, rather than an infinite spectrum of possible paths to anywhere.

Will there be systems that allow me and everyone else to live indefinitely in young bodies, to clean up all the environmental polution and other messes we have created, and to have access to space, before I die; and will I get to live for the next 5,000 years to enjoy them?

That that the evolved structure of the human brain, and our social institutions and "culture" make it almost impossible to know ourselves to the degree required to create and maintain integrity.

We have so many hidden variables and hidden motives, that most often we fool ourselves if we think that we actually know why we are doing what we are doing.

This can make it very difficult to create and keep commitments.
It can give us a great deal of compassion for ourselves and others.
It can, at times, make it very difficult to have high confidence in much at all.

Looking at the sky on a cloudless night - imagining the utter insignificance of me on this small planet in the vastness of this galaxy of 10 billion stars, in a universe with more than 10 billion galaxies.

Sometimes sitting at sea, alone in my small boat, miles from shore.

Sometimes playing with the dogs.

Sometimes a good book.

Sometimes just sitting in my seat, and looking out across the bay to the mountains beyond.

Sometimes a song, or a piece of music.

Sometimes a word of love or encouragement.

Sometimes almost anything, sometimes almost nothing.

Oh what a question!

I am free to choose my actions, and the universe delivers consequence.

What a dance!

Choice, action, consequence, choice, action, consequence....

So many levels!

Sometimes I wonder if I have any choice at all, at other times I feel unlimited creativity and freedom.   I think reality is that I have occasional moments of freedom at the deepest of levels.   And the consequences they bring .....

Not dull.
Not "comfortable".
Interesting certainly.

What Love!

How to offer people extreme long life, with wealth prosperity and happiness in a way that they get it is possible.   www.solnx.org does not seem to be doing the job.  Most people seem more interested in following ancient culture based upon very old intuitions, rather than on fully using the power available from the intuitions that modern science make available, and the reinterpretation of the older intuitions that that allows.

I would like to know how to communicate what I see to others in a way that they get it, and are enrolled in the possibility, and we all make it happen.

It is possible for every person on the planet to have food freedom and education; and for us to work with the natural ecolsystems that preceeded our technological flowering.   It will not happen if left purely to free market capitalism, for a whole bunch of reasons.  It is going to take action by people, with a long term outlook and long term commitment.

Any ideas on how to do it welcomed.

Love to all

Ted

Yes.
The next 5,000 or so years here on earth, then off to travel the stars and explore this and other galaxies.
Forever is a long time, and a few billion years would be nice.  Drop back to earth now and then to see for myself the effects of plate techtonics and evolution.

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This bit added much later - after reading about 50 other responses.

Thank's Siona for asking that question, it makes very clear to me why the project www.solnx.org is getting so little traction.

Most people seem to actually believe in the idea of some sort of immortal soul.  That idea just doesn't make any sense to me.  To me all that I am seems to be clearly explained by a bunch of ideas that have been bought together by a lot of hard work by a lot of people over the last few hundred years - that broadly go under the heading science. 

Certainly not the scientific dogma taught in most of our teaching institutions, but the real process of intuition, experimental design, rigorous logical and physical testing and analysis, that leads to ideas being tested in reality, and false ideas being weeded out.

That process does not leave us with THE TRUTH, but rather with sets of workable hypotheses, which we can demonstrate work in the domains that we have tested them, but may fail in other domains in which we have not yet tested them, or may in fact work in all possible real domains, but we can never be certain of that.

Science does not deal in absolute truths.

Much more than that, science, through the works of people like Werner Heisenberg and Kurt Goedel has shown us logically and mathematically that absolute truths are not attainable with any degree of certainty.  We may have them, but we can never be certain that we have them.

Religion and theology are not like science.  In practice they are more about a Darwinian survival of ideas; with certain combinations of ideas that hold together powerfully (for whatever actual reasons) continuing and being passed on from generation to generation.

While it may theoretically be possible to transfer the consciousness and awareness of a human being to another matrix other than their physical body, I do not believe that has yet been achieved, and therefore it is highly unlikely that there is any such thing as an immortal soul in practice, yet.

All that I am, every aspect of the intuitions and feelings and knowledge and love and despair and compassion and creativity can be adequately explained by the mind boggling complexity of the systems that make me up, at all the various levels, molecular, cellular, multicellular, electrical, recursive software entities, etc.  

There are many amazing processes in that.  The way certain long chain molecules called ribonucleic acids (RNA) can duplicate themselves.   The way that some sorts of RNA molecules, in the presence of two specific other RNA molecules, can cause long chains of amino acids to form in regular patterns (proteins).

The way some proteins form large globular molecules when these chains of amino acids fold and twist back on themselves, and some of the cavities and spaces around the edges of the these molecules are perfect places for other reactions to take place, for other molecules to be formed, like sugars and phosphates etc.

The way the molecules made by these reaction bind to other areas on the protien at different concentrations and change the rate of the reaction (feedback - leading to the possibility of stable states).

The way light and heat and touch and electricity and any number of other things effect the way these molecules behave, and how those small signals are amplified and passed along nerves to various centres where various actions happen at various levels in response.

The most amazing thing is the way that our brains store and retrieve memories.  It is a multi stage process, and at each stage involves a "holographic" process of interference, where all stored bits contain some information about the whole.  A side effect of this is that when we recall things we automatically recall those things that are most closely related - at all levels.

This power of intuition relates us to to every pattern that has every existed or could ever exist, across time and space.  At a level of software and pattern it is a nexus of connection that can operate at an infinite number of levels, if only we let it.

So given all this, I don't see the world as almost everyone else on this website seems to.

I see that it is possible to modify our biological systems so that our bodies stay young, fit and healthy indefinitely.   I find this highly desirable.

I see that it is a relatively simple technological process to solve all the so called difficult problems of polution, global warming, ecological degradation, war, famine, volcanism, earthquakes, pestilence, meteor and comet strike,....

What is far more difficult than any of those is getting people to stop being so righteous about thier favourite "TRUTH', that they are prepared to injure or abstruct the freedom of another human being in the name of that "TRUTH".

Their "TRUTH" (whatever it may be) has them like a virus in their mind, and they think that they have the "TRUTH".    The reality is that their "TRUTH" is highly unlikely to be "THE TRUTH", it is almost certain to be false in the larger sense.

Another truth is that far from them having "the truth", that particular "truth" has them - to such an extent that they are no longer free to consider or try out any alternative view, to see if it works better for them and those around them.

Most people would rather die, rather kill, than really face the challenge that their particular favourite truth may not be "THE TRUTH".

Therein lies the greatest problem for humanity.

Technical solutions are relatively simple to find for all of the other problems,  The common human way of being, to prefer being right above all else, is not so easy.

The degree to which we will sacrifice anything and everything in the name of being "right" about whatever it is that we are right about is amply demonstrated by the responses to the question.

I wonder if these words, and the thoughts behind them will be understood by any other human being, or if they will make a difference to any other human being.

Time to walk the dogs.

Love Peace Power Passion & Prosperity

Ted

Thank's Siona for asking that question, it makes very clear to me why the project www.solnx.org is getting so little traction.

Most people seem to actually believe in the idea of some sort of immortal soul.  That idea just doesn't make any sense to me.  To me all that I am seems to be clearly explained by a bunch of ideas that have been bought together by a lot of hard work by a lot of people over the last few hundred years - that broadly go under the heading science. 

Certainly not the scientific dogma taught in most of our teaching institutions, but the real process of intuition, experimental design, rigorous logical and physical testing and analysis, that leads to ideas being tested in reality, and false ideas being weeded out.

That process does not leave us with THE TRUTH, but rather with sets of workable hypotheses, which we can demonstrate work in the domains that we have tested them, but may fail in other domains in which we have not yet tested them, or may in fact work in all possible real domains, but we can never be certain of that.

Science does not deal in absolute truths.
Much more than that, science, through the works of people like Werner Heisenberg and Kurt Goedel has shown us logically and mathematically that absolute truths are not attainable with any degree of certainty.  We may have them, but we can never be certain that we have them.

Religion and theology are not like science.  In practice they are more about a Darwinian survival of ideas; with certain combinations of ideas that hold together powerfully (for whatever actual reasons) continuing and being passed on from generation to generation.

While it may theoretically be possible to transfer the consciousness and awareness of a human being to another matrix other than their physical body, I do not believe that has yet been achieved, and therefore it is highly unlikely that there is any such thing as an immortal soul in practice, yet.

All that I am, every aspect of the intuitions and feelings and knowledge and love and despair and compassion and creativity can be adequately explained by the mind boggling complexity of the systems that make me up, at all the various levels, molecular, cellular, multicellular, electrical, recursive software entities, etc.  

There are many amazing processes in that.  The way certain long chain molecules called ribonucleic acids (RNA) can duplicate themselves.   The way that some sorts of RNA molecules, in the presence of two specific other RNA molecules, can cause long chains of amino acids to form in regular patterns (proteins).

The way some proteins form large globular molecules when these chains of amino acids fold and twist back on themselves, and some of the cavities and spaces around the edges of the these molecules are perfect places for other reactions to take place, for other molecules to be formed, like sugars and phosphates etc.

The way the molecules made by these reaction bind to other areas on the protien at different concentrations and change the rate of the reaction (feedback - leading to the possibility of stable states).

The way light and heat and touch and electricity and any number of other things effect the way these molecules behave, and how those small signals are amplified and passed along nerves to various centres where various actions happen at various levels in response.

The most amazing thing is the way that our brains store and retrieve memories.  It is a multi stage process, and at each stage involves a "holographic" process of interference, where all stored bits contain some information about the whole.  A side effect of this is that when we recall things we automatically recall those things that are most closely related - at all levels.

This power of intuition relates us to to every pattern that has every existed or could ever exist, across time and space.  At a level of software and pattern it is a nexus of connection that can operate at an infinite number of levels, if only we let it.

So given all this, I don't see the world as almost everyone else on this website seems to.

I see that it is possible to modify our biological systems so that our bodies stay young, fit and healthy indefinitely.   I find this highly desirable.

I see that it is a relatively simple technological process to solve all the so called difficult problems of polution, global warming, ecological degradation, war, famine, volcanism, earthquakes, pestilence, meteor and comet strike,....

What is far more difficult than any of those is getting people to stop being so righteous about thier favourite "TRUTH', that they are prepared to injure or abstruct the freedom of another human being in the name of that "TRUTH".

Their "TRUTH" (whatever it may be) has them like a virus in their mind, and they think that they have the "TRUTH".    The reality is that their "TRUTH" is highly unlikely to be "THE TRUTH", it is almost certain to be false in the larger sense.

Another truth is that far from them having "the truth", that particular "truth" has them - to such an extent that they are no longer free to consider or try out any alternative view, to see if it works better for them and those around them.

Most people would rather die, rather kill, than really face the challenge that their particular favourite truth may not be "THE TRUTH".

Therein lies the greatest problem for humanity.

Technical solutions are relatively simple to find for all of the other problems,  The common human way of being, to prefer being right above all else, is not so easy.

The degree to which we will sacrifice anything and everything in the name of being "right" about whatever it is that we are right about is amply demonstrated by the responses to the question.

I wonder if these words, and the thoughts behind them will be understood by any other human being, or if they will make a difference to any other human being.

Time to walk the dogs.

Love Peace Power Passion & Prosperity

Ted

My wife telling me she wanted to separate from me.

In the time since then she has not left, we are together, and the experience has been amazing in several aspects.

Twice in the last week I have had the experience of looking at her and appreciating her as something far more delightful and magnificient than the finest of artworks (and I have seen some of the greatest masterpieces ever produced).

The new depth of relationship we have achieved from the integrity each of us has bought to the relationship is amazing.   Not everything has been pretty in the process, yet the result is amazing.

Some things have been lost and others gained.

One can never be sure what is going to happen next.  The probable, almost certain future, isn't so certain at all !

One thing I am clear on is how much I love this woman who has shared the last 16 years of my life, and how much I want her in my future.

I need to translate that slightly, as my definition of spiritual doesn't meet the common - and actually seeing myself as I am, rather than as I imagine or want myself to be, has not been easy.

I get a lot of people telling me I'm a nice guy, and it feels good, yet it is not always the case, and getting real about when it is not the case, particularly in relation to my interactions with those closest to me, my wife daughter and son, has had it's far from pleasant moments.

And, as the say at Landmark, what ends up as good news, almost invariably starts out as bad news.  Or from another perspective, it is only when we get to see those things that we really need to change about ourselves (those aspects we really don't want to see) that we have any real power in creating something else.

Not dull this self development stuff!

All sorts of different things.
Sometimes it feels like my hackles going up onthe back of my neck, as I drive toward a radar trap.
Sometimes it is a small voice in my head.
Sometimes it is a picture in my head.
Sometimes a dream.
Sometimes a feeling.
Sometimes just a subtle "knowing", without knowing how I know.

I don't believe I have ever had psychic experiences, and I have had many unusual and several near death experiences; most of which I believe most people would have interpreted as psychic.

While diving one day I got trapped under a big rock for two surges (28 seconds) longer than I had planned, so that by the time I got out from under it, about 40 ft down, my vision had already narrowed down to about the width of a pencil; and I knew I was in trouble.  I powered for the surface, and lost vision completely about 20 ft from the surface.  The only way I knew I was at the surface was I felt the temperature change on my cheeks, and thought it was probably breath now or never again - fortunately now worked, and vision returned in a few seconds, and I'm still breathing 30 years on (and the two crayfish which caused the problem tasted delicious that evening).
Even though I couldn't see, there was a sensation of white light, which as a biochemist and computer geek I recognised as "white noise" in the visual system.

Twice I have been contemplating something, and listening to the radio in the car, decided to change the channel, spun the dial, and heard a series of words from different people on different channels that has made sense in relation to the question I was contemplating at the time.

Twice I have been in deep contemplation in a city away from home, when a street vagrant has spoken seeming random sentence fragments, each of which formed intelligible answers to questions I was asking myself.

While each of these four incidents had a really odd quality to them at the time, on further contemplation each of them could make sense simply because of the almost infinite flexibility of the english language, and our ability to extract meaning even from words that are generated by random number generators within computers.

Many times I have felt the hackles on my neck go up while driving, and slowed down, only to come around the corner into a police radar trap.  I put this down to my intuition, or what a friend used to call observational minutae - the ability of the brain to spot pattern with very little information, far less than is required by consciousness.  I believe I understand how this ability works - as detailed in other posts here and on my website.

One day I was driving hard down a coast road in my 4WD Subaru, drifting around the corners in controlled high speed slides, yet when I came to one blind corner I stopped, and wasn't sure why; a few seconds later a Holden utility came around that corner the other way.   Had I continued we would both have been on that corner at the same time, it was a one lane road, and we would both have been over the 50 ft drop into the ocean below.

Rationally I can put it down to that my periferal vision must have picked up traces of his dust cloud further back and set up the uneasy feeling that something was not safe about the situation.  I have learned to trust those feelings.  They are often wrong, but they are sometimes right, and when they are right, it is often if a very big way - worth being somewhat overcautious on some occasions.

At another level is us uncanny how often my wife and I call each other to see when we are going to be home just as the other one is about tho drive into the garage.  It is also uncanny how often we call each other and the other is engaged, because we are calling each other.  Each of those things has happened hundreds of times.  And even that can be explained because we know each other so well, and know how each other thinks.   Those are the sorts of patterns that our minds have evolved to recognise, it is just that the context is rather different now.

One of my near death experience was rather odd - that was at 12 years old, when 3 weeks after having my skull split open when a relief worker threw a 4 gallon steel bucket out of a vat he was cleaning in the milking shed, as I was walking past, and it landed on my head, I developed blood poisoning and got very ill.   After 3 days of getting progressively sicker in the afternoons, but feeling OK again in the mornings, I got very ill on the 4th day, and found myself unable to speak or move.  My hands and face felt like big oversized balloons.   Everything hurt.  Eventually a doctor arrived, and stuck 30cc of penicillen in my backside - which really hurt !   I couldn't rub it for several hours.  I think that pain probably kept me alive in one sense, as it gave me something to focus on when I wasn't capable of focusing on much at all.
One of the sensations I recall at he time was like I was floating on the ceiling, connected to my body by a sort of silvery cord.  Given the state of the infection in my skull, almost anything is possible - and it was a rather vivid recollection for many years - though now much dimmed by the passage of time, recall and retelling.

I could go on for several hours, but you get a flavour for some of the things.

To me, they all seem to have explanations that are consistent with a rational scientific view, though I can easilly see how most people would come to very different conclusions, if they hadn't had the rigour of training in observation, logic and natural explanation that I have had from many different source.

Am I 100% sure of my explanations ?  No.  I'm not 100% certain of much at all, perhaps nothing; and I am very confident.

To be fully awake, conscious, at all levels simultaneously.  Thus far I might have managed it for about 10 seconds over several dozen instances over 25 years.  Would be nice if I could manage a few minuets a day - maybe even and hour or two some days.