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		<title>US Supreme Court judges leave warrantless monitoring of mobile phone position in the &#8216;legal&#8217; status</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired seems to be the major story-breaker on the Supreme Court&#8217;s decision on warrant-less GPS tracking. The Decision Many people mis-read what the decision was.  The many misconstrued angles included idea that the major dimension of this case was the ruling itself: without a warrant, you cannot track a person by attaching a GPS to their [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wired seems to be <a title="Supreme Court GPS ruling" href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-gps-ruling/">the major story-breaker</a> on the <a title="Full published decision" href="http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1259.pdf">Supreme Court&#8217;s decision</a> on warrant-less GPS tracking.</p>
<h2>The Decision</h2>
<p>Many people mis-read what the decision was.  The many misconstrued angles included idea that the major dimension of this case was the ruling itself: without a warrant, you cannot track a person by attaching a GPS to their car.  Far mor important dimensions exist to this case, as &#8216;the rest of it&#8217; is the real danger to civil liberties.</p>
<p>&#8220;The minority,&#8221; Alito, Ginsburg, Breyer, and Kagan, think that the government <em>should</em> be able to monitor GPS system data&#8230;. <em>regardless of where it comes from.</em>  That&#8217;s where they think differently than &#8220;the majority,&#8221; Scalia, Kennedy, Sotomayor, Thomas and Roberts.</p>
<h2>&#8220;Warrantless&#8221; is still legal</h2>
<p>The majority thinks a problem exists warrantless GPS installations.  ProTip: an &#8220;installation&#8221; means a situation wherein a GPS device is attached to a car&#8230;.. it doesn&#8217;t address when a car.. or any piece of person property&#8230; already has a GPS system integrated.</p>
<p>&#8220;The majority&#8221; think that the following two <strong>warrantless</strong> GPS monitoring situations are legal:</p>
<ol>
<li>Where a car has a pre-installed GPS</li>
<li>by logical extension, any device that has built-in GPS</li>
</ol>
<p>quote:</p>
<blockquote><p>The majority said “the present case does not require us to answer” whether police may employ GPS monitoring of a vehicle via an already onboard navigation system “without an accompanying trespass&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Remember, again, that whether you have rights over your vehicle&#8217;s position data is based upon  a couple things, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>that it is your private property, and</li>
<li>whether you naturally transmit your data to other parties.</li>
</ul>
<p>If the latter case applies, the Judges assert that you no longer have a reasonable expectation of privacy.</p>
<h2>Sotomayor goes on record about cell phones</h2>
<p>Here&#8217;s what Sotomayor had to say about cell phones:</p>
<blockquote><p>More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties. E.g., Smith, 442 U. S., at 742; United States v. Miller, 425 U. S. 435, 443 (1976). This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks. People disclose the phone numbers that they dial or text to their cellular providers; the URLs that they visit and the e-mail addresses with which they correspond to their Internet service providers; and the books, groceries, and medications they purchase to online retailers. Perhaps, as JUSTICE ALITO notes, some people may find the “tradeoff” of privacy for convenience “worthwhile,” or come to accept this “diminution of privacy” as “inevitable,” post, at 10, and perhaps not. I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the Government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.</p></blockquote>
<h2>The Real Problem Here is Mobile Phones</h2>
<p>Phones are personal property and, for purposes of this case, are identical to a car (just a smaller size).</p>
<p>Doubtlessly this is why the judges are mum. They had the balls to go up against the FBI on this one, but mobile-phone tracking is a beast that is yet beyond them.  We can give them the credit that whether personal data is a matter of personal privacy still eludes the public consciousness and US law.  Other countries are quite concerned with personal privacy, so the precedent of outrage is ont based in the US.</p>
<p>GPS data, from devices that are naturally installed or integrated with and individual&#8217;s property, transmit data that is <em>not</em> wholly-owned by them. Rights barely exist to protect this data from being sold to corporate 3rd parties, let alone preventing it from reaching government demands.</p>
<h2>Considerations</h2>
<p>Proper law would define any data that is generated because of a person to be their private property unless otherwise assigned. Such law would need to go hand-in-hand with corporations supporting individual privacy rights by not force-snatching private data in a mafioso monopoly.  Then, the search of a person&#8217;s GPS data would constitute a breach of their private property, and therefore their rights.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>How is the US President&#8217;s mobile data protected?</p>
<p>Is it different cryptographically, or by the network that it runs on?</p>
<p>Why cannot each person have the same rights of data privacy?</p>
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		<title>Relational Chemistry: the Narcolepton</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Narcolepton, n. That elementary particle of consciousness, binding suddenly, to tie together the sleepy material world when we decohere from the rhythm of higher consciousness. Narcolepton decay occurs when a higher vibrational state converts to a lower vibrational state in a process that stabilizes the rhythm in a relationship commonly defined by chemistry.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Narcolepton</strong>, <em>n.</em><br />
That elementary particle of consciousness, binding suddenly, to tie together the sleepy material world when we decohere from the rhythm of higher consciousness. </p>
<p>Narcolepton decay occurs when a higher vibrational state converts to a lower vibrational state in a process that stabilizes the rhythm in a relationship commonly defined by chemistry.</p>
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		<title>The Structure of Cognition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disassociation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitmer looks to define disassociation as a single-person endeavor, within the context of a relationship / interaction. The single-person model constructs disassociation as a defensive activity that limits exposure to developing Mind / mental strategies in the context of an other (e.g. Parent) who presents conflicting, confused, or (otherwise) subtly traumatizing presence of being. Whitmer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whitmer looks to define disassociation as a single-person endeavor, within the context of a relationship / interaction. The single-person model constructs disassociation as a defensive activity that limits exposure to developing Mind / mental strategies in the context of an other (e.g. Parent) who presents conflicting, confused, or (otherwise) subtly traumatizing presence of being. Whitmer expresses this as an &#8220;active decoupling of a biologically prepared process,&#8221; where &#8220;prepared&#8221; gives an operational understanding to the disorganized mental engagement that one person brings to a relationship, and from which the other seeks to protectively disassociate. </p>
<p>The notion was, for me, quite striking. It resonates with an assortment of ideas regarding the process of rearing. An experience of alienness can be felt toward the continuity of a mental process (including speech, thought, actions) that structure another person&#8217;s / thing&#8217;s world definition.  E.g. &#8220;parenting&#8221; but also moreover the consideration of needs for a partner and household&#8230;.. that is to say &#8216;non-selfish needs,&#8217; such as toiletry inventories, food stores, curatives, etc.  One&#8217;s interaction withe these resources could be described as &#8216;intermittent&#8217; but the prevailing idea here is that they represent elements of another person&#8217;s (spouse, child, dependent) state / flow of living. </p>
<p>The alienness to continuity more complexly appears in recognitions of others&#8217; tastes and and activity preferences, which could be the result of a nonintegrated (coherent) self conception regarding goals, desires, or other interests. That would be a matter of &#8216;having too much on my mind&#8217; or &#8216;needing a plan&#8217;. </p>
<p>As Lyon-Ruth puts it, &#8220;the parent&#8217;s incapacitate to acknowledge various aspects of the child&#8217;s existence and experience, in dialogue with the child, is a primary contributor to a child&#8217;s ability to recognize and integrate those aspects of experience.&#8221;  She elucidated disassociation more interpersonally as a limitation effected by the absence of another recognizing our place within our self and our development. She posits that without a facet of ourselves being given recognition by another, we ourselves cannot objectify it as a part of &#8216;me.&#8217;   </p>
<p>Lyon-Ruth&#8217;s ideas point to the importance of interpersonal recognition, &#8216;witnessing,&#8217; and other consensual development of self (resonance precursors?). Thus the dissociative is/as a defense against psychic malnutrition through the establishment of a &#8216;cognitive golem&#8217;, demiurge, or simulacra.  The simulacra is intended to take the place of an interactive partner with fully functioning mental structure vis a vie a holographic transference from a metaphysical source, such as an archetype, divine character, idealized interaction, or other narrative.</p>
<p>An &#8216;automaton of divine character&#8217; thus formulates, evocative of mystical concepts like an egregore, and other semi-willed psychic conjurations that perform a higher function hidden by their summoner.  Complementarily within the standpoint of science and ethics, if you were mentally &#8216;underdeveloped,&#8217; would you have an AI raise your children so they received the right developmental cues?</p>
<p>The structure of these notions is reinforced by Lyon-Ruth&#8217;s expression of &#8220;intersubjective tools for mentalizing&#8221; and an &#8220;integrated enough&#8230;. dialogue.&#8221; She later goes on to suggest structure for these intersubjective processes, and through the use of terms like &#8216;thinkable,&#8217; belies her sense that the limits of cognition &#8211; and maximized potentials &#8211; are inbuilt with the intersubjective development process.</p>
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		<title>The arrival of memory</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:48:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There was a sight ( of some small bread made in a style)<br />
and a smell ( light but warm and bodied);<br />
and there&#8217;s a texture, and taste like flour.<br />
The kinds of fragments of a memory of a food that you never forget.  In my vision: a man. A baker from an old kingdom; to give me tasty morsels, as were served to kings and emperors.</p>
<p>And now I have a memory of this kind of food &#8211; a memory that is connected to sight and scent, taste and texture. It is a complete memory, and yet I have never experienced all of these things in one place and one time.</p>
<p>Who is to say they are not a complete memory nonetheless? To have arrived here together to meet and join in one place as old friends who have been long astray.</p>
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		<title>Search Interface Improvements</title>
		<link>http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/2011/09/search-interface-improvements/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 18:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each search keyword sets the path toward a target, more or less usefully. The context for sorting Nth-order keywords (popularity, semantic clusters, time period) has everything to do with potential &#8211; not just &#8216;in the search,&#8217; but in the scope of learning. Visual representation of next-in-series (Nth) keywords can radically improve and guide development of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Each search keyword sets the path toward a target, more or less usefully.  The context for sorting Nth-order keywords (popularity, semantic clusters, time period) has everything to do with potential &#8211; not just &#8216;in the search,&#8217; but in the scope of learning.  Visual representation of next-in-series (Nth) keywords can radically improve and guide development of search paths.</p>
<p>Advertisements and corporate affiliation, the economic stratum that funds Search, can continue to take a useful position within a visually-improved search structure.  Adwords frame search context underneath, reinforcing the bedrock of economy in the presence of service, and/or in a right-margin column.  Each of these bottom and side spaces has semantic weight in this new visual scheme, based upon the orientation of visual syntax (described below).   Product promotion gains increased value to the search user because of the improved specificity of the information presently searched.</p>
<p>Take for instance a search on the &#8220;French revolution&#8221; &#8211; a wide range of search space exists. A popularity rank of 2nd-order keywords may deal with revolutionary idea un related to France, and queries related to shortcutting grade-school homework. A timeline ordering of keywords would show 2nd-order words along a timeline mostly consisting of dates surrounding the period, its culmination and subsequent fallout. Semantic clustering of 2nd-order keywords may show popular historical events, like the fraternal societies, the bastille, and popular contemporary writings &#038; tourism.</p>
<p>Clustering these search terms in 2D space allows for muted subclustering of 3rd-order keywords off each the major clusters, relative to the 1st-order keyword in the query. Timelines, by their linear nature, could have 3rd-order keywords above and below the line. The visual syntax will doubtlessly evolve with cultural synergies.</p>
<p>Similar Nth-order keyword selection could be based on popular search-relates categories, such as twitter posts, product indices, news, scholarly publications &#8211; potentially even images.</p>
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		<title>From Balkunin to Bloodline</title>
		<link>http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/2011/08/from-balkunin-to-bloodline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Balkunin is very concerned with ethical epistemology. Wherefrom Right was derived and its ownership (by the people) stand as core to his questions. The only kind of right is a natural break, which is itself a delicate shroud of one&#8217;s residence and accordance with natural law. The actions one takes in consonance with natural law [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Balkunin is very concerned with ethical epistemology. Wherefrom Right was derived and its ownership (by the people) stand as core to his questions.</p>
<p>The only kind of right is a natural break, which is itself a delicate shroud of one&#8217;s residence and accordance with natural law. The actions one takes in consonance with natural law verify, and are the only true identification with authority. False laws and false activities have the resolution in human times, whereas the structures of natural law live perpetually like maxims, colloquialisms in the line of common sense that weaves legislation.</p>
<p>Such identification of natural law characterizes an individual&#8217;s ability to recognize any ideas present with, and natural to, social systems. The practice of legislation then becomes a process of refining and filtering our sensation and awareness of natural law through the documentation of any ideas. Societies can rise and fall, but the words refined through their governance can live millennia after the people have transformed into new cultures, with new technologies.</p>
<p>Though, the inheritance of refined realization of natural law does not preclude nor rely upon the inheritance of &#8216;Just&#8217; thinking (by standards of natural law) within specific individuals and their descendants. The capacity for recognition of natural law being itself genetic each individual takes control of their ability to render their own character and it&#8217;s ultimate relationship to natural and social order.</p>
<p>No guarantee of an inheritance or right in any social line, or &#8216;order&#8217;, comes from natural &#8211; but neither nature preclude it. Moreover, consideration may uplift the notion that Leadership itself can have hereditary qualities regardless of societal position.</p>
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		<title>Information Architectonics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 21:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very interested with infinity.  Lemniscence and recursion &#8211; the way that things reconnect to themselves.  So I&#8217;m interested in the notion of visual syntax because I see a need to understand the language of structure as it extends into the semasiographic and the allegorical. I think this was the original intent of architectonics.  I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m very interested with infinity.  Lemniscence and recursion &#8211; the way that things reconnect to themselves.  So I&#8217;m interested in the notion of visual syntax because I see a need to understand the language of structure as it extends into the semasiographic and the allegorical.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px"><a title="2x20 Villarceau Circles with inside lights and metallic finish. This is one of my longer picture title... by fdecomite, on Flickr" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fdecomite/2436380628/"><img title="A Wreath of Light" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3196/2436380628_4ba1bcd62d_m.jpg" alt="2x20 Villarceau Circles with inside lights and metallic finish. This is one of my longer picture title..." width="240" height="180" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A Wreath of Light</p></div>
<p>I think this was the original intent of architectonics.  I spend time looking at the surface of things because I think that infinity lays in dormition everywhere.  I look for subdivision, forensically, because I think that there is no limit to how far technology will let us unpack the world that it all around us.  The language of space, and how a thing refolds and nests upon itself, will be the primary language for designers of all fashions… the fashioners of our design.</p>
<p>We can codify this syntax as it is revealed.  We&#8217;ve always done this to some degree &#8211; that&#8217;s history.  Now we can codify this language within contemporary media.</p>
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		<title>The Development of Outer Space Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.newalexandria.org/thinking/2010/09/outer-space-diplomacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 05:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few interesting pieces of context exist, for the context of human's current and active relationship to space-faring races.  The fist, because it's my favorite story, comes from EarthFiles.com founder Linda Moulton Howe - who told of meeting a retiree of the US DIA, whose official capacity was to "monitor the changes in geo-political divisions between non-humans living on the Earth." ~Spectacular~]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The UN made a recent advance in its position on humanity&#8217;s relationship to Outer Space Affairs, and the subtext is finely coincidental at best.</p>
<p>Both the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8025832/UN-to-appoint-space-ambassador-to-greet-alien-visitors.html#dsq-content">Telegraph</a> and <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/27/alien-ambassador">Wired</a>, as well as other, reported on the appointment of Malaysian astrophysicist, Mazlan Othman, to the Director position of the UN Office of Outer Space Affairs.  &#8221;M. Othman&#8221; jokes and &#8216;<em>They</em> don&#8217;t exist&#8217; were the low-hanging fruit of the forums this day.  Naturally, the <a href="http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h2X5sgH2dbj7pr8dGdlrOQ_IsF7A?docId=CNG.ae1f52f284fe7bdc61d108d598765e69.151">UN made speedy statement</a> against the matter.  It wasn&#8217;t a redaction by any means, though, and only made an ambiguous attack-of-quality that the report was &#8220;nonsense.&#8221;   Good to know, mates.  Where would anyone get an idea like that?  See if you can spot anything in a recent statement regarding her appointment:</p>
<blockquote><p>She is scheduled to tell delegates, of the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire, that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made the detection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before – and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Telegraph, if not the Nerd-Couture Guarde at Wired, deserve some journalistic credit for not running pulp.  They did, after all, have the chutzpah to publish an article on John <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/diana/7446929/Princess-Diana-book-claims-her-driver-was-framed.html">Morgan&#8217;s book re-opening consideration on the murder of Princess Diana.</a> We have to assume that someone(s), somewhere, made proud on the matter that the UN&#8217;s OSA was creating a formal position for space ambassadorship&#8230; you know, just in case.  One cannot make a shirt but of whole cloth.  The knee-jerk reply is really just standard procedure to matters of cultural controversy.</p>
<p>This is a great way to gauge public response to interaction with real aliens.  Even if none exist or have ever contacted our government(s).  The UN&#8217;s statement on the matter is sound Game Theory with through the voice of PR.  Something special can be calculated here.</p>
<p>The people that are OK with alien existence seem to be rather OK with it.  Stephen Hawking, one of the worlds most public &amp; figurehead scientists, and highly regarded by the bofins and other skeptical authorities of the scientific method, makes an appellation to change the minds of the aliens-don&#8217;t-exist thinkers.  Yet, stalwarts doth remain.</p>
<p>People that think aliens don&#8217;t exist would have one or another form of break-down upon demonstration otherwise.  Besides fear / aggressions, catatonia, some will experience a form of pleasure, another reaction of break-down could be Allegiance.  Terrorist cels at a whole new level; humans acting against humans on the notion of currying favor with aliens.  The pinnacle of self-loathing and escapism.  I wonder if there exists psychological profiles to estimate how an resistant individual will likely react post-revelation.</p>
<p>A few interesting pieces of context exist, for the context of human&#8217;s current and active relationship to space-faring races.  The fist, because it&#8217;s my favorite story, comes from EarthFiles.com founder Linda Moulton Howe &#8211; who told of meeting a retiree of the US DIA, whose official capacity was to <a href="http://www.earthfiles.com/">&#8220;monitor the changes in geo-political divisions between non-humans living on the Earth.&#8221;</a> ~Spectacular~</p>
<p>My finely-coincidental matter is the location of the UNO OSA&#8217;s 27 staff in the city of Vienna.  During 3rd Reich-controlled times surrounding WWII (1940), Vienna was the place of Viktor Schauberger&#8217;s anti-gravity research.  I&#8217;m sure any public reports on the matter are apocryphal, if not non-existent at this point (beyond books).  Those that witnessed <a href="http://peswiki.com/index.php/PowerPedia:Viktor_Schauberger">Schauberger&#8217;s repulsine</a> pull from its moorings and engine crash through the ceiling of a factory did ultimately put him &#8216;well beyond the map&#8217; with Hitler, and ensured his detention in New Mexico US following the arrival of Allied forces.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as though this is the first serious public discussion of <a href="http://news.discovery.com/space/ufos-spying-on-our-nukes-airmen-claim.html">alien relations with humanity</a>.  The Disclosure Project, who coordinated the first US National Press Club gathering on the topic of exo-political, yet still(?) offers seminars on <a href="http://www.disclosureproject.org/email-update-october-19-2009.shtml">extraterrestrial contact protocols</a>.  Comparatively, <a href="http://www.openminds.tv/french-ufo-report-081610/">reports by the French 3AF</a> are just teasers.</p>
<p>As long as the movies keep showing us that humanity will react awkwardly, or downright poorly, to contact with non-human sentience, exo-political offices will remain the stuff of official PR control.</p>
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		<title>Evolutionary Action of Strife and Individual Crisis</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Desire creates the fundaments of understanding between worlds that are fundamentally different. Here I will propose is the notion of divine purposefulness acting in a scale of knowledge that is beyond individual lives.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes we can be punished because we are able to understand a higher order of [systems-operation] than our actions <em>allow for</em>. The higher understanding is present, but is made available by an allowance from our parents when they remorse at their punitive action.  At that time the nurturing mind, which had given birth to us, wants for it&#8217;s severity to have existed only to create the impetus for a higher learning to exist – for it to have been only the notion of impatience that the divine could improve upon in itself.</p>
<p>Our life can experience an energy that is wrong for it in some way &#8211; albeit right for the energy&#8217;s place of origin.  Within it&#8217;s own people.  Why the energy comes to our space, and the effect it can have upon us, may be related.  For within our world the wrongness can serve to create a channel of understanding that in itself contains information that benefits us.  The way of this benefit &#8211; that times where it has a fitness for use &#8211; need careful consideration.  So if one comes across information of this kind, only patient deliberation will reveal the essence of rightness for our lives.</p>
<p>I read a dream someone transcribed wherein they had a close relationship with a dolphin.  The relationship was as roommates &#8211; sharing a space of living for a time in the life where the spirit finds its roots.  In the dream, they described the dolphin as having a romantic interest with the person, despite the difference in species making even its expression impossible – and in fact the person wrote that they also had some form of desire in this regard.  Again, it was unactionable, which is fortunate also because of the damage that the behavior would have upon the soul (non-fulfillment within the life that one has).</p>
<p>The desire, however, did create the fundaments of understanding between worlds that are fundamentally different (thus the improperness for them to have union).  So here is the reason that the story of this dream is appropriate here.  In the dream, they wrote that the understanding they had made for a channel of knowledge, wherein they knew about the ways and life of the sea.  &#8220;The secrets and rumors known within the waves and ports.&#8221; Special knowledge that was available to a community because of it&#8217;s unique position in the world – the knowledge of fish and ocean life! – would have a quite an impact on the thinking and feeling of non-oceanic consciousness.</p>
<p>Here I will propose is the notion of divine purposefulness acting in a scale of knowledge that is beyond individual lives.  Yet, because of that purposefulness, the life of one person may be a conduit to insight that can changes the lives of people.  How – where it is right for the individual and those people – as has been said, remains a matter for patient consideration.</p>
<p>One may suppose to figure out how a thing is done, the other is how to ask permission for it to be done.  The first is limited to an individual, the other is limited only by the divine.</p>
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		<title>Etymological Absinthe</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zak</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Absinthe, a spirit of legend, has in recent years been revived under the banner of being neither a psychedelic nor a deliriant.  True as those statements may be on the surface, I was pleased to discover an errata that may tie the fabled drink with more righteous roots.  With all due respect to the reasons for concealment and the initiatory threshold, I offer in context this paragraph]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Absinthe, a spirit of legend, has in recent years been revived under the banner of being neither a psychedelic nor a deliriant.  True as those statements may be on the surface, I was pleased to discover an errata that may tie the fabled drink with more righteous roots.  With all due respect to the reasons for concealment and the initiatory threshold, I offer in context this paragraph from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe">Wikipedia</a></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Absinthe</em> is derived from the Latin <em>absinthium</em>, which in turn is a stylization of the Greek <strong>αψίνθιον</strong> (apsínthion), for wormwood. &#8230;.. Some claim that the word means &#8220;undrinkable&#8221; in Greek, but it may instead be linked to the Persian root <em>spand</em> or<em> aspand</em>, or the variant <em>esfand</em>, which meant <em>Peganum harmala</em>, also called Syrian Rue-although it is not actually a variety of rue, another famously bitter herb. That<em> Artemisia absinthium</em> was commonly burned as a protective offering may suggest that its origins lie in the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root <em>*spend</em>, meaning &#8220;to perform a ritual&#8221; or &#8220;make an offering.&#8221; Whether the word was a borrowing from Persian into Greek, or from a common ancestor of both, is unclear. Variant spellings of absinthe are<em> absinth</em>, <em>absynthe</em>, and <em>absenta</em>. In English it is pronounced /<em>ˈæbsɪnθ</em>/ ; in French, [<em>absɛ̃t</em>]. <em>Absinth</em> (without the final <em>e</em>) is a spelling variant used by central European distillers. It is the usual name for absinthe produced in the Czech Republic and in Germany, and has become associated with Bohemian style absinthes.</p>
<p>Contemporary <a href="http://www.erowid.org/entheogens/">entheogenic</a> studies have created a great fondness for Asphand &#8211; if not a secluded one.  The <a href="http://www.healthyplace.com/depression/antidepressants/monoamine-oxidase-inhibitors/menu-id-68/">MAOI</a> has become the foundation for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayahuasca#Usage">&#8216;shroom-huasca&#8217;</a>, another melange that has produced so notable effects as to be compared with the jungle-beverage, Ayahuasca.</p>
<p>The Greek affection of the name, even erroneously should we assume a Persian root, is interesting because of the mysterious <a id="static_txt_preview" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0893148032?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=newalex-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0893148032">&#8216;XueXion&#8217;</a> beverage also present at the in Eleusinian Mysteries.  It is no scholarly assertion that the Mystery beverage was MAOI-based, even by prevalent sources.  The etymological root between Absinthe and Asphand, however, does bear some consideration in this matter, with classical reinforcement by the Mediterranean prevalence of Rue.</p>
<p>Plainly, and personally, I am not convinced that Greek and Egyptian mysteries, even to the degree in which they may have had a psycho-chemical component, were composed upon DMT.</p>
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