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We Voyage This Magic Sea

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This image of the Full Earth was taken half way to the moon by the Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt, and Ron Evans. Three men were in the spacecraft and only one man used the camera for this image. But the photo was, in a larger sense, taken, printed and distributed by the collective scientific and technical effort of millions of human beings. In one way or another, in the interconnections of nature, wealth, politics, and knowledge, every person and every creature of Earth participated in capturing the image. It is a self-portrait of a living planet. This is an image of a human egg. It is a tiny sphere, only 0.1-mm in diameter. Loosed from its walls in the ovary, the egg floats in a fluid almost identical to sea water. The two spheres have many similarities. 1. Both are small on their own scales, and yet filled with awesome potential. 2. Both spheres are alive. 3. Both are involved with the process of becoming....
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The Unexpected

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  The Unexpected  Our constant change in relative position creates error in expected cycles. Snorkeling over the coral reef, I see a vista of seemingly unmoving, unchanging corals. Starfish and sea cucumbers sit motionless on the bottom. Fish glide or hover or dash here and there. The brightly colored fish attract my attention as they glitter in the sun. Suddenly, my head turns, my eyes focus together on a single dead coral head. Even though I was not looking directly at it before - had not been aware of that particular section of the sea floor - some part of my mind was alerted.  I know, after the event, I saw the dead coral rock move slightly.  Dead coral rocks do not move. I swim closer and dive down. The rock looks like a rock. I reach out to touch it and part of the rock moves again, sliding away from me. My mind refocuses and I see an octopus. It's skin has taken on the color and texture of the dead coral. Even though I am only a meter from it, it is still diff...
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20 Essential Scientific Facts of Life

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1. You are unique, with your own special place in the Universe.  2. All your energy, your life, your vision, originates from solar radiation    absorbed and transformed by our planet's web of life. 3. The atoms forming you right now are ashes from blown up stars.  Over 96% of the atoms are Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Nitrogen. The remaining 4% are mostly Calcium, Phosphorus, Potassium and Sulphur.  4. The atoms in you right now are the exact same atoms that formed our planet 4.5 billion years ago. You take them from the planet and arrange them in new patterns to become you. 5. You flow the planet's atoms through your body, replacing even the calcium in your bones and teeth. In three months you will have replaced more than 50% of your atoms with new ones. In a year, 80 to 98% of the atoms will be new. A year ago you were completely different earth atoms. Next year you will be "materially" new, again.  6. You are the dance of more than 100 trillion litt...
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Nested Communication Webs

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We are concepts forming our own webs of communications, new clusters of I AM.  We exist as information flows through the webs of conception. Communication webs nest one inside the other.  Each level of intercommunication has its own interval of awareness with events requiring longer intervals as the communication webs become more complex. Life spans of communication webs range from minutes at the molecular level to hours at the level of cell metabolism to hundreds of years at the level of coral colonies to multi-million years at the level of an atoll.  The progression of time intervals from one level to the next is a control system that flows two ways. The smaller, quick acting communication webs create the longer-lived communication webs and these endure to guide the future development and movement of the smaller, short-lived ones.   A newly settled polyp of leaf coral coral, measuring only a few millimeters in diameter. A small larva develops from a fertili...
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Facts of Life

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  Fact 1. Earth's atoms are 4.5 billion years old. 4,500,000,000 years ago Earth congealed from atomic elements of a star that exploded. It was highly radioactive and extremely hot. The atmosphere of gasses had no free oxygen and there was no water on its surface. The atoms of the new planet moved randomly and very fast. There was no life on Earth for an estimated 1,000,000,000 years. The same atomic elements that formed the Earth 4 billion years ago are still here. But now they are cooler and have been re-arranged into different patterns. The atmosphere has a different mixture of gasses, the hydrogen and oxygen atoms are joined to form water that in turn is distributed as clouds, oceans, lakes and rivers. The carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen now join in special ways to form life. The atoms creating you, and every other living being, and the oceans and atmosphere are the same atoms that were here all along and they are all 4.5 billion years old. To focus on this fact, look aro...
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Beyond Horizons of Perception

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Beyond the horizons of our perceptions we discover what we can not see or touch but know only by its behavior.   We exist in a web of information flowing through  and around us. Our individual ability to know and understand the many levels of information shaping our existence depends on molecular and structural adaptations for perceiving changes in the flow of information.  Our individual perceptions are unable to detect events and beings existing beyond the horizons of our perceptions; events and beings too distant in space, too distant in time, too large or small, too fast or too slow. The horizons of perception in change. Each individual perceives the world at a specific interval of change. Some events happen so slowly we are unable to perceive them or so quickly our eyes can not detect them. To us the tide is high, the tide is low, but unless conditions are just right we cannot see the tide ebbing and flowing. Nor can we perceive the gravitational interaction of Earth...
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We are life and life is thought made visible

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We voyage This Magic Sea   Bound for destinations of knowledge and understanding Beyond horizons of perceptions We discover what we can not see or touch but know only by its behavior. We alter our field of perception become new patterns of behavior. We lengthen our interval of awareness perceive new levels of change. We appear as we learn To Be, To Change, To Have Direction is one intercommunication Within This Magic Sea We are the thread of awareness in chaos. We are a crystal memory in a Magic Sea. We are the image at the focus of awareness  as sunlight flows through the lens of mind. We are life and life is thought made visible We are a web of communications clustered into focal points of I Am. We appear as information flows through the webs of communications. We are patterns of behavior We are the dance of sunlight with the elements of Sea. ...
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The Error of Expectations

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Our constant change in relative position creates error in expected cycles. When the unexpected happens memory fails Awareness awakens adjusts for survival adjusts again             always tracking                         The error of expectations. Distortion of expected cycles by constant change   is the error of expectations This is awareness   Mind is what awareness does to change with change and thus survive. Mind is perception, memory, response. Perception , Memory , Response Focus sunlight and sea to form our crystal skeleton Within This Magic Sea. Each one of us knows awareness at our own interval of change But we change together on many levels at intervals too fast, too slow, for any one to know. Consciousness is communication between concepts existin...
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