The Do-Lectures and "Bio-mimicry"

I recently was reading the blog of Tim Ferris, author of "The Four Hour Work Week," and watched a video he posted by another author named Rolph Potts. Rolph Potts wrote the book called "Vagabonding," which is all about his extensive worldly travels, experiences, and advice on how others can do it too (though I haven't got around to reading it yet myself). In this process of clicking and watching these embedded video blog posts, I discovered a wonderful website with heaps of free video-blog lectures (and the same site with the Rolph Potts video) called "The Do-Lectures." This site is a great resource for great free lectures on heaps of topics and it is bold in its approach to progressive change in a world that is currently going through the birth-pangs of a new global economic structure as the old capitalist ones collapse before our very eyes. Thus, this post is my plug for the Do-Lectures site, among others.
I would most recommend watching the video I have posted just below by Michael Pawlyn, on Bio-mimicry. Bio-mimicry is an amazing and not-so-new idea (excellently framed and summarised in his lecture) that nature already has all the answers to almost anything one could possibly want to do or develop in terms of products or industry. What the hell am I talking about?? Well, let me give an example; biologists found that oysters have evolved in such a way that they have developed a natural (and organic) adhesive that allows them to stick to rocks and other surfaces efficiently and effectively even when immersed in sea-water. A biologist studying the oysters discovered this adhesive and mentioned it to an industrial engineer and a few other professionals, who then researched and copied the adhesive used by the oysters to develop industrial adhesives that not only are proven by nature to work extremely well, but also are organic in nature, sustainable, and are not made of dangerous unnatural chemicals that are hazardous to life-forms and the environment. What a novel idea that all of the research and development for everything from aerospace engineering to natural sweetners has already been performed by mother nature. Biologists feel that these ideas are out there for us to utilize and produce not only sustainable and balanced products, but even restorative ones that would actually leave the environment in better condition than before humans. I still feel I have not explained it very well here so please do yourself a favor and check out the video below. Cheers to all.

Avatar Review

For those of you who still haven't seen James Cameron's new blockbuster smash (and 3D) hit, "Avatar," you are in for a ride. The plot involves a mercenary/marine being sent to a nearby star-system which includes a moon called Pandora, where he becomes entangled with the local Indigenous humanoid tribe as he learns there way in an artificial body termed an avatar.
Pandora (a moon of a Jupiter like planet) is similar to Earth and teeming with life (often glowing like neon-lights). This depiction reminded me much of the "Earth," DVD series and some of our not so well known resident life-forms here on Earth (Gaia). Of course what do the modern Earthlings do first thing, they start to strip-mine the surface, and to rape and pillage it of all its resources for some precarious form of profit. Which, at humanity's current level of consciousness, is most likely what would happen if such a planet were in arms reach of humanity's current influence. But the movie itself is a beacon of something new arising. This movie is essentially a consciousness-raising program, with intense 3D visuals, surround-sound, and all the other goodies that come from your IMAX cinema experience, it is a sensory overload experience. In my opinion this is a good thing, and in this case, this movie clearly reveals the folly of militaristic culture and their disconnected ego-centric perspectives of Life. It also is a program that teaches the viewer about the "one-ness of life," and the simple, yet complex interconnected network of energy which flows through and unites all forms, which quantum theory has been discovering to be true in recent years. What does this mean? Consciousness (aka Life, Awareness aware of itself, God, whatever you want to call the formless dimension) is breaking into the traditionally egoic realm of blockbuster films, among other places. And, of course, we are all united at some very basic level, which means there is nothing any one individuation of energy (ie a person) can feel, think, say, or do that doesn't effect the whole in some way. The realization of this of course is the end of the concept of separation, which also indicates the end of the collective human ego.
Another aspect of this film to be addressed is the recognition of the plight of Indigenous peoples. This film speaks to the enormous amount of suffering and pain inflicted upon indigenous people throughout human history by the West and its Ego-dominated cultures throughout the past. In the the movie they are another species of humanoid, calling themselves the Na'vi. The only difference between the plight of the Na'vi and those Earthly indigenous cultures is that the Earthly ones did not have happy endings. Whether the indigenous cultures of Earth recognize it officially or not, Avatar carries important messages to many unconscious people that has potential to cause important shifts in them. It also addresses the importance of living in balance with your environment, which can only truly be reached when there is a balance inside between form and formless.
All in all, this film will raise the consciousness of all the humans who watch it, and it will thus raise the Collective Human Consciousness of all humanity to some degree. I would thus like to thank Director James Cameron for this amazing contribution that addresses humanity's collective madness and exposes it for what it is. One of the only other films I have seen in the recent past to have achieved this so well (and there are many others too) that I will mention here is "There Will Be Blood." And as has been said, "the seeing is freeing." In my opinion Avatar will win the best picture award at the academy awards this year, unless it does not.
Alas, for those of you who have not yet seen this 3D masterpiece, be prepared to have your consciousness raised, and who knows, the energy of Eywa just might help you tune-in to the energy of Gaia a bit. Cheers everyone.