AUSTRALIA DAY | REFLECT. RESPECT. CELEBRATE. It seems bizarre that Australia celebrates the coming together of a nation, on the day our most sadistic event occurred. The creed reflect, respect and celebrate, seems at odds with what and how we are supposed to be celebrating, in an Australia that is still divisive and racist. A nation in which refuge children are imprisoned and Aboriginal people and other cultures are treated disrespectfully. The idea we are coming together as one nation, does not seem the least bit authentic to me. FROM Simon Young A tentative Happy Australia Day to friends and family in Australia. Tentative because: - It's a public holiday, it's a celebration of Australia's nationhood but/and - it's a commemoration of an invasion of a people by a hostile foreign power. In case anyone misses "the good old days" when things were simple, those days were simple because thousands of indigenous voices were silenced. We're in a new time now where, as people, we have to grapple with multiple points of view. It's complicated and it doesn't feel nice. But it is right to give people a voice, particularly those who have been oppressed and denied their rights. So... if you're in Australia, no matter what you do with the holiday, I wish you a very happy day! From me: LET'S REFLECT 26 January 1838 | The Waterloo Creek massacre, also known as the Australia Day massacre. A New South Wales Mounted Police detachment, despatched by acting Lieutenant Governor of New South Wales Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass, attacked an encampment of Kamilaroi people at a place called Waterloo Creek in remote bushland. Official reports spoke of between 8 and 50 killed. The missionary Lancelot Threlkeld set the number at 120 as part of his campaign to garner support for his Mission. Threlkeld later claimed Major Nunn boasted they had killed 200 to 300 black Australians, a statement endorsed by historian Roger Milliss. Other estimates range from 40 to 70. LET'S RESPECT Oh dear, observed very little reflect or respect today, and so I came to think, in terms of respect: this is AUSFAILURE DAY. As I drove to supermarket, I observed the throngs of crowds and celebrations. I saw the trappings of white Australia everywhere. Very few people of colour, anywhere near these celebrations. Not a single RESPECTFUL tribute or observance of Aboriginal culture on display anywhere near where I live, at least as I drove to observe the public recreation areas. Flottillas of boats in the estuary, picnics near the beach and beer. It seemed bizarre to me as a New Zealander, born into a true multicultural society, to observe a day that has expunged it's founding by excluding it's own indigenous people. Oh I saw them alright, the original people, poor people on the streets, watching the whities, lost and forlorn in their lost sense of identity and belonging. No one cares for them. They are invisible. Crowds oblivious to how the public park fences and poverty have separated them. It is clear that no one bats an eyelid. The revelry goes on, with the displacement and exclusion of the first people, relegated to history, it is as if Australia days sings to them, "You belong to history." Somewhere, someone is feeling subconsciously, due to their programming and conditioning through education and upbringing, but are not unconsciously aware, that their narrative is, "Happy aboriginal cultural decimation day. long live colonialist white supremacy." They are also unaware that their sense of entitlement, a result of their programming is that, Somewhere, someone is feeling consciously, "Unhappy aboriginal cultural decimation day, I hope that whities trip over themselves and drown in their beer." Both groups of people are being asked to ignore their education and their experiences, to come together and celebrate a unified, loving, and democratic Australia. Let's CELEBRATE? How about treating the immigrants with RESPECT first. This folks is the very definition of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE. And we wonder why, as the wealthy bask in sun and celebrate with picnics, and darkies languish poor on the streets, we have so much crime. I use the terminology whites and darkies to imbue you with a sense of how Australians speak about each other online. Many are openly racist on Facebook. Those we make invisible to us, will break in.

The purpose of a mirror is to reflect that which we are, and yet the best mirrors are not made of glass, but people. G.J.MacLean One of the more poignant statements about perception is very often credited to essayist Anais Nin or to the motivator Steven Covey. However this is the ancient Talmudic teaching, “We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are." By Rabbi Shemuel ben Nachmani, as quoted in the Talmudic tractate Berakhot (55b.) Relating to dream analysis and interpretation. Although remembrance of the oldest source is lost to the course of time, the concept has repeated, often verbatim, throughout the worlds history. Modern iterations have spanned the centuries, each an earnest attempt to say the same thing. In 1890 “The Popular Science Monthly” printed an article titled “The Psychology of Prejudice” by G. T. W. Patrick. Which included a version of the adage about perception. A few months later the periodical “Current Literature” reprinted an excerpt with the saying: "The results may be summed up in the form of two laws: We see only so much of the world as we have apperceptive organs for seeing. We see things not as they are but as we are – that is, we see the world not as it is, but as molded by the individual peculiarities of our minds." In 1891 an instructor of elocution at Harvard College published a textbook about oratory which included the following: It has been well said that we do not see things as they are, but as we are ourselves. Every man looks through the eyes of his prejudices, of his preconceived notions. Hence, it is the most difficult thing in the world to broaden a man so that he will realize truth as other men see it. In 1914 a newspaper column presenting homilies contained an instance of the expression: As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. As a man sees in his heart, so he sees. Through unclean windows, lenses, senses, we see things not as they are but as we are. In 1991 an edition of “Think and Grow Rich” written for black Americans included use of the idea: To put it plainly, seeing is not believing—believing is seeing. We see things not as they are, but as we are. Our perception is shaped by our previous experiences. The best-selling book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen R. Covey also included a version: Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are—or, as we are conditioned to see it. When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.

Imagine, if you will, that the people around you are just like documentary film makers, eyes and ears filming tiny moments of interaction with you and storing them in a memory cell. To access that film, you simply have a conversation. Watching the facial expressions and body language of each human recorder, as they recall and talk about the impression that your life-scenes left on them. How are you directing and producing your life? This bio feedback you will get from your interaction with others is a great way to produce and direct your best life story. It's called, 'BEING IN THE CONVERSATION." How do you want people to remember you? Your time is the book of life. Your actions the story within. Now is the write time to produce your own life.

The most common difference between success and failure? Having a System. Those who fail to plan, plan to fail and a bad (or no) system will defeat a good person 100% of the time. Plan the work, work the plan. Requires the simple methodology of being self-disciplined. Which is one reason why emotionally intelligent people will vastly outperform people who make decisions on emotion. For every one of us, success involves making the shift from doing things to feel good, to doing thing that are good. Success more likely won't feel good while you are doing it. In fact, you will probably not like following a logic path at all. Those who can manage their emotional responses (child states) to act like a logical adult, will achieve success. Those who give in to their child-like impulses, won't. Success therefore, comes down to our emotional self-regulation and our behavioral self-management. Learn more about this from Harvard Business School. Click here.

When it comes to ascension beyond who we were, through who we are, to who we will be; the angel is in the detail. We are taught to seek faults, corrections and to adhere to status quo within systems, that in and of themselves dehumanize and lower the quality of human experience. The ascendant mind seeks the angelic or positively instructive properties, looking to that which is the higher standard of right, rather than seeking that which is wrong, in every interaction with people. When we adjust our mind-set to look for the positive in anything, we find positive and uplifting ideas for improving any situation between people, or within an organisation or system. When we look for the devil in the detail, we find it. A negative outlook quickly degrades to become doubtful, pessimistic and selfish, seeking conflicts of interest with our own goals in mind only. The higher mind seeks confluence of interest. What is the angel in the detail? What do we have in common? How can we work together? How can we prosper each other? Asks, "Have I understood and honored you in and through the nature of this agreement?" And so elevating consciousness to see the angel in the detail is a matter of having and applying the empathy of personal ethics; the matter of the virtue we apply towards honouring others as ourselves towards the angelic nature. G.J.MacLean

If you have ever used noise cancellation headphones, you would become aware that it's possible for one type of sound, to completely cancel out another type of sound. The ambient background noise of an urban environment accumulates to such an extent, that sound congregates and forms a blanket of white noise. This ambient noise behaves like an unseen barrier in the air. And of course, sound from the ocean carriers across the 'air waves'. Therefore an urban environment will cancel out many localised sounds. All sound is wave form or a vibrational frequency (sound wave) that travels via the air. When you pluck a guitar string, the string vibrates as a frequency or pitch and is amplified by the sound hole and body of the guitar. Remove the sound hole and the frequency is muted. Beyond sound waves, there are 21 dimensional frequencies that can not be perceived by human senses. An environment within which, science appears as magic. There have been experiments in the flat Australian desert where sound combined with super heated air and hills, can cause the aural illusion of coming from a completely different direction than the direction it is being heard. Light also plays tricks against the laws of physics. The Min Min lights and Australien Skies 2 documentary reveals some of the science around how physics of our planet can conspire to conjure light apparitions and sounds that would make you think the night is alive with all kinds of creatures.

Honour your family. Every human being has a subconscious genetic trait to honour their parents. No one is immune to this. No conscious choice can overpower this. When a person devotes their life to honour the memory and dignity of a parent gone too soon, across that span of time; a champion is formed. Ronda Rousey will challenge you to do the work to honour your family, yourself and your community. Anyone who does more work to improve themselves than anyone else, will inevitably become a champion. Love your work. https://itunes.apple.com/au/artist/ronda-rousey/902752825

Emotional states are unseen, unheard and unknown, even to ourselves. A person may carry an unresolved emotional pain, without ever knowing that something as small as a childhood memory, trapped in a tiny neurone, can stop a full grown adult from moving on.

Time travel, but not as we know it. Imagine. The human body is a time machine. Acts as a corporeal conveyance for a spectral soul, which exists (largely) as energy in a spectrum beyond the time continuum. A collective energy, dividing, then existing as a singular cell, within a cellular, nodal framework, an interconnected, distributed networked configuration, within which each cell divides and then seeks to become collective. Experiencing what we understand as linear time from the moment of conception, through to the moment of death, then returning to the collective. In this model, time travel is simply the act of having a corporeal form that inhabits a physical, dimensional reality. Think of this as like a dolphin that largely exists within the three dimensional body of water, then for a short time, leaps into the air as a celebration of life, then returns to ocean. Corporeality is bound by a set of rules that applies only to the physical dimensionality and causality that we understand as human experience. Yet, there are other experiences. Next... ...consider the cellular aspect of neural networks of the human brain. Memories are charged to long to memory, through emotional influence of a day, in the moments prior to sleep. During the sleep process, the human brain will access emotional memory of that day, in order to defragment and optimize storage through biochemical imprinting. Mapping neural pathways to that memory. If you have constantly thought about this thought, the brain will prioritise that thought into memory. If the incident caused a limbic response in the amygdala (flight or fight), this memory will be imprinted into long term memory as an act of self preservation, for the purpose of avoiding similar future instances. However, when this memory is triggered, the neural pathways will re-ignite the limbic system, triggering the amygdala response. In this biochemical way, the human body and the brain, can not easily differentiate between past, present and future. Instead, neurology ignores time and space, preferring to treat past incidents as if they are happening in real time now. Despite the fact that a memory relates to the past, the limbic response to a memory is that this thought is happening right now. So in a round about way, we live beyond space and time, through the fundamentals of our neurology. This goes deeper. Because genetic memory also carries coded genetic memory that has causative affects on present time behaviour.

If you hear someone saying about Coronavirus prevention, “...but they were going to die anyway.” That person is quite probably an arsehole (don’t be an arsehole), definitely lacks empathy and quite probably on the path to become a sociopath. Think it through. Anyone who thinks this way is suggesting that we should neglect the affirmed and weak and they don’t deserve a chance at life. That kind of thinking is the same kind of thinking that Hitler applied to his final solution. Except that while Hitler was proactive, all we need to do to become like him is to step back and neglect. The concept “survival of the fittest” has a haunting and terrible aspect to it. The most dangerous predators are totally emotionally ambivalent. Therefore the “fittest” to survive among any species are usually psychopaths. If we want a future full of sociopaths and psychopaths, all we have to do is neglect each other. Those who live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who perpetrate neglect, will ultimately feel the impacts of the neglect that they have fostered. To fight such an evil, simply Love your neighbour as yourself.

We must always eliminate prejudice by helping the ignorant understand the benefits of respect and seek cooperation.

A victim often hurts people to make them pay attention to their pain. Every adult has an inner child who needs attention. However, only adults can understand that they have an inner child, and that they must integrate this aspect of identity in order to become happy. Happiness is metrically defined in psychology through an attribution of 40% of our activity becoming intentional: that which we freely choose to do. A person who seeks to become self-aware, tunes into their subconsciousness, and therefore; inner-child. Usually we will find that where someone is causing others to hurt, they are projecting their own pain on to others to gain attention to hurt that has been ignored, much of this from childhood. Hurt people, hurt people. Loved people, love people. Every human being seeks to be the object of affection and the centre of attention of those we want to love us. This attention, or the deficit of attention, frequently affects our self-regulated behaviour. The petulant child will lash out at a parent who is not giving attention. Lifelong hurt accumulates from neglect. This becomes simple when we understand that the opposite of love is not hate. The opposite of love is neglect. In fact, anything we hate, we are giving attention to because we love this thing, this person, but we aren't getting the responses that we want. Hate therefore, is a childish form of love. Neglect is: Dissociation. Disconnection. Isolation. Dissolution. Love is: Association. Connection. Community. Resolution.

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