Nocturnal Celestial Emissions from The SeaGoose Nebula

I finally overcame being sick and it has been a slow process back to the grind, as to say I got used to not doing a thing while sick and so it has been hard getting back to the routine. But it does feel good to be able to do as I please, it is a conflicting feeling for me while being sick, I enjoy being able to excuse my lack of action on the sickness but, soon enough I get restless due to the limitations of my actions. I wonder as to my nature on that matter, when I am limited for an extended period of time I get frustrated, I wonder if it is because of the sickness of due to being limited, I think that it has to be a combination of both.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

‘All that is gold does not glitter’

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien

Abraham de Moivre correctly predicted the date of his own death.
He noted that he was sleeping 15 minutes longer each day and surmised that he would die on the day he slept for 24 hours. That date, he calculated, would be Nov. 27, 1754. He was right.

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.”
-Timothy Leary
“You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”
-Timothy Leary
“Science is all metaphor.”
-Timothy Leary
“Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.”
-Timothy Leary

Oscar Wilde was an interesting person and I like the way he think, here are some the better quotes of his I like.

-”A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
-”A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
-”An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
-”Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
-”Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
-”If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.”
-”Illusion is the first of all pleasures.”
-”Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.”
-”Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
-”Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
-”The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”

Know All Things To Be Like This

Know all things to be like this:
A mirage, a cloud castle,
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Know all things to be like this:
As the moon in a bright sky
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

Know all things to be like this:
As an echo that derives
From music, sounds and weeping,
Yet in that echo is no melody.

Know all things to be like this:
As a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, cats and other things,
Nothing is as it appears.
-Buddha

“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” – Albert Einstein

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

Good Monday and start of the week to everyone. Today is a day I woke up with a what I think are the symptoms of the flu, closed throat, ear ache, and lightheadedness. I am disappointed because if it is true I am not going to be able to train for my races or keep doing P90X and this is weak cause I dislike just sitting waiting for my body to beat something, but I must do as I must do as a person who does not believe in medicine, I know the best thing I can do is just wait it out and have confidence that my body will heal itself.

Last night I took a bit of mushrooms and then headed home, when i got home I went straight to sleep and when I woke up I felt bad cause I don’t dream and last night was no different, I felt as if I wasted the plant, and I feel mad at myself at wasting the opportunity I was given to see what the plant wanted to show me, but my body was to tired and fighting the tiredness sometimes just ain’t worth it. But I mention this because I truly hope that the mushrooms did something in my head while I was asleep and I like to think whatever or whoever controls my mind at mind at night had some fun.

I want to talk about magic. Let me get this out of the way, I do believe in magic. But saying those statements comes with a lot of other assertions behind it. Let me try to explain what I mean by my belief in magic and exactly what I think magic is. During the times where there was no ability to gain mass information, when the average farmer or town folk had no ability to gain knowledge and it was controlled by a few, magic to me was just having more information then others, and being able to do small things that to the average mass looked like a miracle, and even if someone tried to explain it average people where not smart enough to understand it. Since magic in times of old was possible it existed, and that was the default of belief by most people. When something becomes impossible, it falls out of belief whether it is true or not. With the birth of science and explanation of the mechanics of the earth magic slowly became impossible, so it became no longer real. But the state of magic today is much different I think there are still things that we cannot explain, so I do think that we have to say that it is magic, that is until everyone can understand it and it will no longer be magic. I suppose this whole thing is just a way of saying your reality is what you make it. We each choose to see the world as we want. If you believe in magic and think it is real then it is just as much real, as it is to me.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

After I finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman, some ideas that I had popped into my head again cause Neil Gaiman has some interesting insights to the thoughts. One is feeling alive, well not breathing. What I mean is that most people can agree that certain times in our life’s, while we are doing certain things we feel more alive then other times. SO the thought came to and I started to run over the many things people have done to regain that fleeting feeling of life. After thinking about it a bit I think that the idea of feeling alive is constant change, always keep learning and always keep growing from the learning’s, also keep trying. The more different things that happens to me the better I feel cause it causes me to use my mind. I find that when I have to problem solve and really work my brain I feel that best. The problem with me train on thought on this is, that I am only one person and I often wonder if the ideas I have hold true for everyone. There is no way for me to know and honestly it does not matter. I think that this constant desire in me for novelty and abstract thinking is the reason I was lead to psychedelics. I know we that like to explore the unimagined and ride the vibrations of reality all have gotten to it for different reasons, I think that I have come understand mine. But the feeling of doing something that you have never done is amazing and trying is amazing. But when you explore the world with psychedelics you do something that someone may have never done not the substance but the place you can go and see, so that’s pretty cool haha. But back to the matter hand the exploration of feeling alive as apposed to getting stuck in the pattern of the days. It is so easy to fall into the flow and become part of the muddled mass, and I have to say I have at time fallen into the pattern and feeling comfort given by knowing what is next. The goal of society is to handy cap. It tries to take the oddities the good ones or the bad ones and it just smashes then into a middle. The way it starts this is with school if you are special or learn in a different way it does not matter, you are made to learn with all the others. I like the theory of economics and the reason I bring it up is cause there is this saying which I am sure most have heard “carrots and sticks”. Society as a whole makes us people value these carrots and worry about these sticks that don’t matter. Big houses then you need shit to fill it, are the carrots. The sticks would have to be, you get feeling less of a person if you cant afford the things, it is very smart and a great way to control people to get them to do, and to give themselves for a very few amount of people who control the things.

I have no solution for a constant feeling of alive or the problem of joining the bland rat race. But I believe that the more we think about the more likely a solution will spring cause, one is may be strong, but many are all powerful.

Another idea I have been pondering on the concept is, is it possible to break your world clock? Let me explain, we have a good sense of time, the reason i think is cause we have been apart of it from birth and so most people can guess the time to close amount. But the truth is the only thing a clock is measure too is another clock. Their is no time it is just a mark for us to relate to another with. But the concept of time is not the central idea of the question that is something else, that is a vast exploration of time space. But my idea is it possible to break you concept of time within this reality? Could you one day decide to be no longer part of it? I don’t know why you would want too, well besides freedom. But it would be hard cause of jobs, and activities and a lot of other things that are tied into time. I am not done thinking about this and am gonna give more time on it. I really wanna learn more on the history of time, and how we came to use this system.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

Tonight Feb. 9th 2009 their will be a Luna Eclipse tonight. It is one of four penumbral lunar eclipses in 2009. So I recommend you look up and check it out if you have the time and are interested in such things. The thing is that it will not be visible in the East Coast of the United States but in the West Coast will be able to be seen, so for our friends out on the west coast look up.

Have you ever witnessed a person shape-shift. I have been thinking about how to write about this cause its hard to explain to someone who has never seen it happen, but if a person has seen it they know right away by what I mean by shape-shift. The story that inspires the thought is, I was at the grocery store waiting in line and this young child kept asking his mother for some kind of candy bar and he would not drop it. After some time of explaining that they where going to dinner and he could not have it and being perfectly calm, but then the women had enough and in front of my eyes shifted into a evil looking person and started to scream at her child. After some time she returned to normal and came back. I was not shocked at the yelling, sometimes you have to lay it down, cause this child was being a brat, but what intrigued me was the transformation of the woman. Her voice changed and her appearance changed and she became a different person it was a strange experience to witness. I asked some friends about shape-shifting and have come to find out that its common and many have witnessed. How come this happens, what triggers it, is just anger, or do we have equal shape-shifts for love, apathy, madness, frustration and stress?  Also does everyone do it? It is just another observation about reality and the state of our ever shifting appearance.

We are all born into magic its just taken away as we grow up.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

It has been a pretty impressive Winter this year, in the sense of snow and cold. It has been quite a while since I felt it such cold. But I can happily say that it is ending soon, the sun is starting to set later. This has made things better cause the later the sun is out the better I feel.

I wanted to write about what I have been doing, I just finished reading American Gods by Neil Gaiman. It is the second time I have read this novel and I have to say the ideas it creates in my head is worth reading alone, but it truly is an amazing story, one that I can never put down I read it in about six days, I would read for hours a day. I have started on a Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Series which is ten books and I have not read any them I started from the start on book one called  Wizard’s First Rule. I have high hopes for this series not because I have heard much about but because I tend to be very opened minded to fantasy novels, I really like letting others create worlds in my head. I have liked the first book so far, but to be real even if the first book does not hit me right I will move onto book two cause I have trouble letting series go, only because I know what an author has to do for setting up plot in a first book of a series. I am willing to give it time, but with this I have liked it, so hopefully I wont have this problem. I am not very far but what I have read is a young man’s father is killed by what people believe to be magic and he goes on a hunt for a vine that he thinks has to do with his fathers death. This is like three chapters deep so sorry for the weak summery.

I wrote about P90X program and am a week deep into it. I will start by saying I thought I was in shape, but I have come to learn I am not. I am very sore and this exercise program has pushed my body, I really like it. I have to admit I can tell what the idea about the body transformation is going to be and I think it will be nice. I just have to stick to it. I recommend anyone finding and trying it. Another note is my routine for the races I singed up for I have stepped up my running program and do three miles in the morning and plan on adding a six mile run at nights which I am going to start today. I have to admit the hardest part in doing this is the approaching day, I have never run a race and I still have huge butterflies in my stomach about it. I don’t wanna win that is not my goal, i just don’t want to embarrass myself (whatever that means haha).

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.

I will start admitting that I am a selfish person I have come to understand this aspect in my life. I am don’t mean in the sense of the physically manifested world, cause when it comes to that aspect I don’t think myself as a selfish being. What I do mean is that when it comes to emotional and inner conflict I tend to be very selfish, I tend to not like dealing with hard personal problems and often when I reach a point where it is no longer bearable to me I tend to take the steps to solving my problems. I usually move quick and reckless. The reason I tend to act in such manner is cause I tend to be very guarded with my feelings and when something does break that guard it is special, but it is something that cause pain I try to cease the pain as fast as possible. I write this as example and a bit of self analysis, I am also quite aware that the way I behave is not the only way in dealing with that sort of thing, but I also believe in honesty not only is necessary to be honest with other , but it is much more important to be honest with yourself, and to delve into why you are feeling a certain way.

I have to say that I trust myself to much and so tend to listen to my inner voice without question, so acting with such thought behind it has turned into a good and bad situations. But I have to be me and trust that what ever the “I” is, it is acting in a way to make me ok.

Thank you very much for you time… This has been BrotherShine coming to you from the limitless void in the back of your mind. Peace.