You had me, then lost me, on the "phase state change" thing! But then, that is the fun of reading your posts!
Wait, didn't somebody upthread provide a link to a communicator/translator?

You had me, then lost me, on the "phase state change" thing! But then, that is the fun of reading your posts!
Wait, didn't somebody upthread provide a link to a communicator/translator?

Bhakti (also spelled Bhakthi, Sanskrit: भक्ति[1]) in Hinduism and Buddhism is religious devotion in the form of active involvement of a devotee in worship of the divine. Within monotheistic Hinduism, it is the love felt by the worshipper towards the personal God, a concept expressed in Hindu theology as Iṣṭa-devatā
Interestingly, just who--or even, what--the object of devotion is remains unspecified.
While I'm sure people who are familiar with Bhakti or those who grasp the above wikipedia definition could see how this song seems to express the idea.
Om Namo Bhagvate Vasudevaya means something like "I surrender to transcendent glory of the Lord."
In this particular case the deity is Vishnu, I think. It really does not matter.
The purpose being to enter a kind of mystical union with the object of devotion such that your conscious state seems to encompass less self and more of inter-connectivity and relationship to world around you. Even if you don't believe a thing, it can get you there.
At one point I realized Christians had the same thing going on, especially with group singing. In the right place, at the right time, this kind of stuff will take you to very much the same state of awareness.
I suspect if you really loved your shoes you could sing to bliss with them as well.
You had me, then lost me, on the "phase state change" thing! But then, that is the fun of reading your posts!
Wait, didn't somebody upthread provide a link to a communicator/translator?

Technically speaking this definition of phase transition is with respect to thermodynamic systems like boiling or freezing water
A phase transition is the transformation of a thermodynamic system from one phase or state of matter to another.
A phase of a thermodynamic system and the states of matter have uniform physical properties.
During a phase transition of a given medium certain properties of the medium change, often discontinuously, as a result of some external condition, such as temperature, pressure, and others. For example, a liquid may become gas upon heating to the boiling point, resulting in an abrupt change in volume. The measurement of the external conditions at which the transformation occurs is termed the phase transition point.
but the underlying principle apply to all complex systems where events can trigger a change of state. The human consciousness and personality are most certainly complex systems. They can and do go through phase transitions. A simple example is the first time you hear a joke. A phase transition in your experience occurs where you can never hear it for the first time again. I think all learning is like that, but it goes deeper, to your self-concept and your conception of the world around you.
When a person experiences a deeply life changing experience--particularly something like a conversion or born again experience--or something like becoming a Ron Paul supporter. Same same.
Even if you move on past that point the complex system that manifests as you has been changed.
Or it's all metaphysical claptrap.
I'm sure this will be one of the reasons.

Twila Paris
She can still take me there.

Condensed episode
Portugese subtitles but pretty tolerable.
For me, a story about "Star Spangled Banner" applies, I think.
I've never been much of a flag waver. There have been phases in my life where I wouldn't even stand up for it at a game, let alone sing along.
But several years ago, at a local swim meet for my kids, everything changed. It was one of those situations where somebody was just supposed to start the recording, we'd get it over with, and start the meet.
But there was a technical malfunction, and the person said "well, let's just sing it" and she started it off with the first few words. Everybody, and I mean Everybody, joined in. Even me. It was a profoundly beautiful thing.
It was done just right, exactly the way it's supposed to be sung, without all the "improv" that all the kids like to do these days. And more importantly the communal sense of purpose and participation was amazing. A huge cheer at the end. It brought a tear to the eye. I've felt differently about our national anthem ever since.
Listen to me, getting all mush mush....
THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned central bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers.
The success of the central banking scheme developed into a far-reaching plan described by President Clintons mentor, Georgetown Professor Carroll Quigley, to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the worlds central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank.sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the levels of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.
Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today ($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers.
This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers who are able to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their will.
Segments: The Problem; The Money Changers; Roman Empire; The Goldsmiths of Medieval England; Tally Sticks; The Bank of England; The Rise of the Rothschilds; The American Revolution; The Bank of North America; The Constitutional Convention; First Bank of the U.S.; Napoleons Rise to Power; Death of the First Bank of the U.S. / War of 1812; Waterloo; Second Bank of the U.S.; Andrew Jackson; Abe Lincoln and the Civil War; The Return of the Gold Standard; Free Silver; J.P. Morgan / 1907 Crash; Jekyll Island; Fed Act of 1913; J.P. Morgan / WWI; Roaring 20s / Great Depression; FDR / WWII / Fort Knox; World Central Bank; Conclusions.
THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money.
Beware the greenbackers!
...and the couch. Good evening all and see ya' tomorrow.

Seeing as it's my 67th birthday, I'd like to buy a round of drinks for everyone in the Speak.
(BTW, just put this on my tab and I'll settle with you once Murph' pays the money he owes me from earlier this year).
Ferd
Condensed episode
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