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I can’t believe it’s already been a week since WK Interact’s latest solo exhibit, How To Blow Yourself Up, opened here in LA. For anyone Cali-based who missed the reception, you can still check out the work and installation at Subliminal Projects until December 5th. And for everybody else, here are a few pics from the night! It was definitely one of the most fun events over this way in a while.

Aside from the excited buzz in the air and line out the door of people waiting to get photographed and fingerprinted for WK’s awesome mug shot wall, the work itself did not disappoint. The gallery was decked out with a fantastic range of three-dimensional mixed media pieces (from wood panels, skate decks and boxes to a custom-built bike and a series of doors you have to see to believe) and there was even one of his mind-blowing Motion Portraits (my personal favorite).

Hype aside (and he’s underrated, in my opinion), WK is simply one of the most important street artists in the world and those who have the opportunity to see or own his work are just plain lucky.

Pictures generously supplied by the lovely Lord Jim.

For those who need to create conditional formula, i have place a document in the tutorials section.

http://soliddna.wordpress.com/tutorials/

And sleeping on a hard bed, in a very bare room, surrounded by all kinds of strange people with shaven heads. You could be in an alien landscape.

So anyway, Buddhism was a very important influence in my life and for a long time I did consider myself as such.

But over the years, my larger mindset of not accepting things just because my mother handed them to me took over. And I began a philosophical quest that continues to this day.

It began consciously after graduation with Krishnamurti’s talks. I call him the greatest “deconditioner”. Nobody is better when it comes to forcing you to clear the cobwebs of our minds and question many assumptions we have made, believing what others say, or taking accepted wisdom for granted. He really started my journey of true spiritual introspection.

Eventually I moved beyond Krishnamurti because I felt he is a great mental purgative, he clears our minds of a lot of rubbish. But he won’t give us the answers and we have to find them ourselves.

I was fascinating by what Osho was saying. He was absolutely brilliant. I never went to see him because I could not accept his imposed dress code. But he was stunning — starting as a professor of philosophy, he understood the context of belief systems to which he added his own brilliance, contradictions and insights. It was very stimulating. He did a lot of the thinking for us by cross-relating so many strands of thought.

Then, when I went to California, I got exposed to many new age teachers like Ramtha, to Native American sweat lodges, Zen teachers, Tibetan Buddhist influences.

I integrated things from each of them. It’s been a continuous quest. And I have reached my own provisional answers, my state of beliefs valid for the present moment.

I realize the world is an extraordinary mysterious place and I don’t understand half its dimensions. 

Yet, do I believe in a personal God who would take care of me were I to pray Him? I don’t. Do I believe in God as a cosmic intelligence that underlies creation? Yes. Do I think people are wrong to pray to their particular gods for salvation? I don’t, if it helps their spiritual journey. If it takes them closer to happiness, then it’s all good. It just doesn’t resonate with me.

PLM world viens de publier sa newsletter

http://newsletter.plmworld.org/2009-volume-iv/

Les utilisateurs Solid Edge seront intéressés par cet article “Conditions that Make Your Design Work the Way You Want” cet article traite de la création de formule conditionelle.

Les lecteurs francophones peuvent utiliser ce lien ”Conditions that Make Your Design Work the Way You Want“. 

Bonne lecture à tous.

PLM World has publish the quaterly e-newsletter.

http://newsletter.plmworld.org/2009-volume-iv/

Solid Edge users will found interest in this article “Conditions that Make Your Design Work the Way You Want” This article is about creating conditional formula.

Les lecteurs francophones peuvent utiliser ce lien ”Conditions that Make Your Design Work the Way You Want“. Il s’agit d’un article sur la création de formule conditionelle.

Good read to all/Bonne lecture à tous.

Although apparently in Beta for several weeks, today was the first time I noticed the Intelligence Beta in my Google Analytics accounts.

Intelligence Beta

The Google Analytics Intelligence Beta can be set up to deliver Daily, Weekly, Monthly automatic and custom website performance Alerts to webmasters.

Intelligence Beta Daily Alerts

Although I haven’t yet set up any custom alerts, the Automatic Alerts self report signicant changes in visitor activity for the time period through either metrics or dimension.

At a minimum, the Google Analytics Intelligence Beta can servce as a rudimentary back up Alarm for web site up time and performance by enabling email alerts when visitor traffic drops 25% below a normal daily level.

Another LAN this weekend.

The Basement

Games which simulate the real world, especially first person shooters, are getting more and more realistic. People seem to like watching something which they feel is as close to reality as is possible without actually being reality. I think we’re approaching the limit though, so my question is; what will happen when every new game looks and feels just as good as the last?

At the moment the way I see it, there are two ways to get a game into the top ten. Option one, you make the latest fps hit, possibly part of an existing series, it must be full of cutting edge graphics, have some role-playing game elements and introduce a few innovations but nothing too hard to get the hang of. If you can pull this off and get it released without a hitch you’ll be fine, the producers know this that’s why there are so many games which follow this formula. However there is a second option, the road of the indie developer, creating new and innovative games which often defy scientific classification. Games like these carry a higher risk of failing or simply having mediocre sales however occasionally they really take off. For example, Audiosurf which sold more copies on steam in its first month than it’s million dollar budget counterpart Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. A simple rhythm game was capable of outselling the next installment in a huge fps franchise. If we were to reach the aforementioned point where the look and feel of all these shooters is pretty much the same, I think this gap will widen.

What it comes down to is this, beautiful little games which fall outside the staple genres show us another dimension, a place where the normal rules don’t apply; whereas the latest fps is praised for reminding us of what reality feels like, and I think that’s going to get old real fast.

Mira o si quieres
regresas de donde viniste
el hecho es que algún día
en la calle o un baño público
podemos llegar a hablar
me lleno de ese verbo
que ni dios sabe pronunciar
y por causa de que
a alguien se le ocurrió
tildar las vidas
me toca vivir con las cosas
todas las cosas
que entraron en nuestra
vida como inmigrantes sin visa
ahora tengo que llevar
las horas con la indecisión
adivinando si esto es poesía
o la más pura locura
mira, que las experiencias se mutaron
   ni te conocí
y si tal vez se materializa esa dimensión
donde un yo y un tu
logran intercambiar un par de gestos
justo ahí o en décadas siguientes
   sustraer o dividir
quiero saber que otras palabras
le hubieras dado
a la vida que nació
   sin palabras.

Poemas Nihilistas

I’m writing this post because so many well-meaning, conscious, spiritual people are missing some significant information and tools when it comes to Law of Attraction and being a conscious cocreator of your life with Spirit.

One of my wonderful Facebook friends recently wrote a post:

“If you examine your history, you cannot help but repeat it! Law of Attraction says it is so:

‘Whatever I am looking at, I am including in my vibration.’ — Abraham”

This sparked a controversy with 19 people weighing in, many fully agreeing and many others, myself included, objecting to this as an oversimplification and stating that, even though it is true that our focus does permeate our vibration and thus create, it is actually NECESSARY to understand and heal our past in order to learn what we need to from it and be able to truly free ourselves from its hold on us and move on into something even better.

We have to put our attention on our intention BUT if we are not aligned strongly and consistently enough with our intention, if we are trying really hard to make it happen but it’s just not working, that’s a sure sign we need to do some inner healing work before we do any more manifesting and attracting and creating. It’s inner, not, outer time, first.

I feel so strongly that so many New Age, metaphysical folks are so hyped up about positive thinking and “just focus on what you want,” they are missing something vital:

For most people, with most long-term issues, simply striving to be positive and focus on their intentions is NOT enough to bring about the desired results. We need to learn from our past, and use that wisdom to create our best future, while living in and enjoying the present.

So here I go on my soap box again.

The Abraham work and all the other good Law of Attraction stuff out there is not intended to be interpreted as “Ladeeda, we can just be positive 100% of the time and only good things will come to us. All that yucky stuff from the past – I’m done with that now and all I have to do is think good thoughts and I will attract all my desires. Abracadabra!”

So allow me to bust that myth and empower you with a much more in-depth and practical approach:

1- Our past is important. Just as our current emotions are indicators of the distance between where we are at and where we want to be, our past is one of our teachers as well. We can – and indeed need to – turn our wounds into wisdom. Some of our life experiences we may label “good” or “positive,” we feel we were successful and these we can apply to continue to utilize and build upon what worked for us, while the so-called “negative” experiences or failures are also useful in several ways.

For one thing, we can clarify more clearly what, exactly we DO want by contrasting it with what we do NOT want anymore. This applies equally well to health and lifestyle choices, work, home, community, as well as relationships.

Secondly, we can learn psychologically and spiritually: What was my lesson in this?

Thirdly,we can discover, with proper reflection, which may include prayer, meditation, journaling, counseling, or even insightful conversations, that there was truly a silver lining, a gift in every experience we have had. Sometimes we don’t see it at the time, it feels horrible, we may even be devastated that that relationship or career didn’t work out, that we had that disability or lost our house, but ultimately, when we see through the eyes of Spirit and Love, we will always find that everything happened for a reason and we can find something to be grateful for, even if it’s just the ability to make a different choice next time.

2- Until we learn our lessons from the past, we are going to UNCONSCIOUSLY repeat them. This is true of humanity when we look at larger societal choices as well as on the personal level. Ignoring our past and zapping it like it didn’t even happen is not the solution. In fact, ignoring our past and stuffing it over there, oh, that’s too messy, I don’t want to deal with that right now, does not free us from it, it actually dooms us to repeat it.

3- The Abraham work says that our DOMINANT thought is the one that runs the show, and I agree with this. The catch is: Our dominant thought is seldom a conscious thought, so we cannot expect to simply push a button and “There, I’m only going to think good thoughts, feel good feelings and make good choices from now on.”

We have to heal all those billions of subconscious beliefs that we are carrying around which arose out – what? Our past experiences and programming, of course.

I do agree that many people spend far too much time simply repeating their “story,” which actually keeps them stuck in it and keeps giving it energy. There is a big difference between looping an old version of a reality we no longer want, whining about it, being a drama king/queen, vs. actually being willing to visit the past (with support if necessary) with the intention of looking in the mirror, releasing what no longer serves, with forgiveness, finding the lesson and gift in it, and moving confidently forward into a better life we are creating for ourselves, from the inside out.

Do we need to look at our past? Absolutely.Do we need to keep telling it over and over? Absolutely not.

4- We need to process stuck emotions. Sometimes we need to move some rage. Shake off some old energy. Sometimes we need to express ourselves to someone, forgive, be forgiven, and it doesn’t matter if they’re alive or dead or whether their human self is willing to hear a word we are saying. We just talk to their Higher Self, soul to soul. We look in the mirror and show them a mirror as well. I have an extensive guided meditation and energy healing journey that I guide people through called the Healing Past Relationships Journey (soon to be available as a CD/MP3 audio) which facilitates this soul-to-soul communication, energy exchange, forgiveness and healing. Or you may be able to do it for yourself, perhaps by writing a letter or through ceremony. We need to visit our past just enough to learn from it and to heal it, not rehash it or keep talking about it for decades.

We also need to forgive ourselves. And forgive God!

The work I do as an energy healer, intuitive, hypnotherapist and life coach focuses on identifying the current condition of your Body, Mind, Heart and Soul and creating a complete, intuitively guided healing program that empowers you to remember who you really are, to love and heal yourself completely, and to clarify your vision and reawaken your passion, power and life purpose — to create the life and love of your dreams. I am a Law of Attraction coach, and people often begin working with me when they realize (see with Real Eyes) that they are working so dang hard on themselves, have been for years, yet something is still stuck. They are willing, finally, to do what it takes to really succeed, so we go places, often in the first session, that completely amazes them.

5- We need to heal core issues and heal on all levels.

For example, some of my recent clients have improved their relationships, found lasting love, launched their heart-centered business, created more harmony in their parenting or other family relationships…..In every case, we needed to do some deep CORE ISSUE healing at the level of the SOUL and the ENERGY FIELD, the kind of healing that is more difficult to do by one’s self when we are emotionally caught up in our “stuff,” scared, frustrated and depleted.

I do sometimes have clients who try to turn the sessions into talk therapy and keep going on and on about their problems. They are stuck in their story. So I ask them, “Do you want to talk about it or do you want to heal it?” If they keep wanting to talk about it, they are not ready for the kind of healing I do. If they want to heal it, I can help them heal themselves but we have to go much deeper than just talking. Deep omnidimensional energy healing at the soul level i.e. soul retrieval, regression, rebirthing, hypnotherapy/NLP, ceremony, forgiveness work, can be extremely helpful, especially if a person is unable to break free of an old belief/energy. We shift the energy & belief at the original cause and core. I channel empowering self-healing techniques they can do on their own to continue the healing and keep building the positive energy.

We don’t ever have to be 100% healed, nor is that even possible so long as we are human. But we need to be healed enough to be free to focus on what we do want, move forward and create from an aligned, clear, positive state of being and love.

6- ALIGN, ATTRACT, ACT.

People so caught up in the Law of Attraction who simply read a few books, go to a few workshops, watch a couple of movies, often fail to understand that trying to get into ACTION mode before you are ALIGNED does not work. Law of Attraction works – once we are aligned with our desires. If some part of our subconscious mind or energy field is still playing the tape of a limiting, negative belief, we are not going to be able to just attract what we want, no matter how many affirmations we say or vision boards we make!

7 – I want to make one more point about the past and this concept of time. We can only live in one time: the present. We need to heal and learn from our past and draw upon its power, we need to envision and align with our best future, and yet we can only live right here, right now. All times exist in this moment of choice: now.

I personally feel we need to spend MOST of our attention right here, where we live. In this body. On this planet. Enjoying this life to the fullest. Mindful. Heartful. Soulful. Bodyful. Beautiful! When we work with the concept of time as fluid and simultaneous and quantum rather than linear, we find that every moment is a portal home.

We can also change our past shamanically, redream it. This helps us create our best future as well. This can be done through shamanic trance healing and/or conscious dreaming.

We each have the power to facilitate miraculous healing and success beyond our wildest imagination. We don’t have to spend years healing the past. We can heal it in an instant, or it may take several months or longer, but if we go deep enough and work at the level of the soul, core beliefs and original causes, the quantum and cosmic fields and on all levels, if we do this work with a vibration of love for ourselves and all beings, we will grow into being who we came here to be.

I love the Abraham work but sometimes a phrase taken by itself does not present the complexities of the spiritual nature of the Universe. True healing and conscious creation of our lives will always involve navigating the territory of our past with loving kindness and forgivness, with an open mind and a willingness to learn and grow so we can create an even better future. And we can do this today.

If you would like more information about Omnidimensional Healing of Core Issues blended with intuitive life coaching, and a free Special Report on Law of Attraction Graduate School – Abundance Affirmations with Ooompf!, please visit my main website at:

www.LoveandSpirit.org.

Hace ya varios meses las corrientes marinas de internet me llevaron a estos dos videos, que explican en inglés cómo partiendo de un punto (sin dimensión) podemos ir añadiendo una tras otra.

Tras ver los dos videos nos quedan las siguientes ideas claras:

- Un punto no tiene dimensión.
- Con la recta que une dos puntos tenemos la primera  dimensión: longitud.
- Si añadimos otra recta que corte a la primera tenemos anchura y longitud.
- Con tres rectas tenemos la tercera dimensión: anchura, longitud y profundidad

¿Qué sucede ahora con nosotros y la cuarta dimensión?

Esto es divertido, porque de la misma forma que el dibujo de la nave espacial del otro día es una sólo una sección de un objeto tridimensional, nosotros también somos una sección de un objeto tetradimensional. Para ver la nave completa en dos dimensiones sería necesario dibujar sección por sección. Por ejemplo en esta web podemos ver cubierta a cubierta la nave Enterprise NX-01 (Star Trek) o incluso secciones verticales . Exactamente lo mismo sucede con los humanos: nosotros no podemos ver toda una vida desde que nacemos hasta morir a la vez, sino que vemos sección a sección del camino.

Y ya es cuando entra en juego la quinta dimensión. El ejemplo que ponen es una cinta de Möbius. Para alguien que recorriera la cinta (bidimensional) parecería sólo un camino recto mientras la cinta se retuerce vista en tres dimensiones. Lo mismo sucede con el tiempo. Para nosotros parece un camino recto, mientras que para alguien que sea capaz de ver estas 5 dimensiones le parecerá sólo uno camino de los infinitos posibles.

Y a partir de aquí ya …

La sexta dimensión permite a quién se desplace por ella por ella saltar de un tiempo y una posibilidad concreta a otra. En la quinta dimensión si quiséramos hacer eso primero tendriámos que desplazarnos en el tiempo hacia atrás, modificar algo y ver el resultado desplazándonos hacia delante.

Si imaginamos que todo el universo con todos sus posibles caminos temporales (finales) es sólo un punto, la séptima dimensión sería unir este universo con otro universo con condiciones de arranque distintas (diferente valor para las constantes universales).

En la octava dimensión añadimos un universo más para obtener una superficie de universos con condiciones de arranque distintas.

En la novena dimensión añadimos un grado de libertad más a todos los posibles universos con todos sus posibles caminos. La realidad sería por tanto un espacio tridimensional de universos con todas sus posiblidades (dimensión 10).

En resumen, con cada dimensión añadimos un grado de libertad. Podemos pensar que cada dimensión no es más que una línea en la que la dimensión anterior es un punto.

Una vez llegado a este punto tenemos la versión del video con anotaciones, que complementa y amplía todo lo dicho.

Sobre agujeros de gusano …

Por ejemplo un pliegue de un espacio bidimensional dentro de un espacio tridimensional crearía un “agujero de gusano” y permitiría saltar instantaneamente de un punto a otro dentro de ese espacio bidimensional.

Representación de licencia libre de un agujero de gusano.

Un agujero de gusano en tres dimensiones permite el teletransporte. Uno en cuatro, el viaje en el tiempo acorde a nuestra posición en el espacio-tiempo. Uno en cinco, permite saltar a universos paralelos consistentes con nuestra posición en el espacio tiempo. Uno en seis saltar a todos los universos paralelos con las mismas constantes físicas. En siete, universos con diferentes constantes físicas.

¿Como sería la vida de criaturas que vivieran en un “mundo plano”?

Un peculiar personaje nos enseña este mundo, asustando en su explicación a los simpáticos “comecocos” que viven allí:

Podemos imaginar que una criatura que viviera en una dimensión superior a la nuestra podría ser considerada como un dios.

Bueno, y para acabar, recordar, que tenemos universo, multiverso (el conjunto de universos paralelos) y omniverso (el conjunto de todos los universos paralelos con todas sus condiciones de arranque).

Hala, me voy a dormir que ya empiezo a estar espeso para entrar con la geometría fractal o con la teoría de las supercuerdas. Si veís algo que necesite corrección (no soy físico ni matemático) o quereís comentar algo como siempre sois bienvenidos.

Psychic Sterling Sinclair Reflects On The Universal White Blanket, November 10, 2009

After the first day that I met God / The One, my concept of the universe was different for it seemed that two things had changed about me:

1/ I saw the world as being made up of vibrating pieces all in a relationship with each other;

2/ I saw the world as being one of many worlds all in the same place simultaneously existing.

At the age of 10 years old, I recall not understanding “solid,” nor understanding limited forms of travel.  I just could not figure out why people’s views were so limited.

The strange thing is, I cannot remember my perception prior to being sucked into that fluxing blue– purple orb called God.  It is like my memory of past perceptions was erased.  No need to see a falsehood and fall back into old paradigms.  But what happened was, I still had to live in this world where people believed in solids, gravity, and time, etc.  In order to live in this world, I had to learn to live it the way everyone (or so I thought) lived their life with certain perceptions that I no longer had, assuming that I had them before my experience.

When at the age of 18, I stood before God one more time and it was then that I received my mission and my ability to navigate the white blanket.

What is the Universal White Blanket?

The universal white blanket is the entirety of existence.

The white blanket has every universe held within it.

Multiple dimensions all laying on top of each other.

There are a few images that may help:

The white blanket is like layers of pastry that are distinct but cannot be separated;

The white blanket is like a snow white blizzard whereby the flakes cannot be seen and the white never ends but you know that you are moving through it;

The white blanket is like thin layers of woven fabric all laying on top of each other, yet each layer is slightly shifted or rotated so that a linear passage through the layers is impossible.

However, where these images fall apart are:

The layers are not disconnected;

The layers do not exist without the other layers;

What affects one layer, affects them all;

Just as the woven blankets lay on top of each other they also stand next to each other;

The white blanket is infinitely thick, long, wide and…;

The white blanket has no end.

Although I write about it in a 3 dimensional illustration, the consistency of the white blanket is actually simultaneously both 0 dimensional and infinitely dimensional.

Think about it this way, if you were born in and stood in the centre of an infinitely large glob of an opaque vanilla pudding, your view and concepts of dimensions, space and time would be what?  Both, all and nothing.

In order to navigate the white blanket, you must allow yourself to be the blanket, for only the blanket and the One know the blanket.  Travel (for a lack of a better word) through the blanket is only possible by knowing the blanket rather than understanding the blanket.

Although traveling through the blanket appears to be your choice and your direction, when one with the blanket, it is actually the blanket that is guiding you to the place you need to be.

I visualize moving through the blanket as —by first knowing the motivation of my diving in and the longed for response/outcome, I am drawn through the blanket as though I am a fluid needle that never breaks a strand within the blanket.

In order to return from the blanket, one must have a place of origin, that is the person’s faith.  The gift given to the individual by Godself/the Oneself.  Without intention and motivation one cannot find the proper location within the blanket.  Without faith, one cannot find oneself out of the blanket.

Faith is not belief.  It is one’s relationship with the One, not one’s concept of the One.

If ever lost in the blanket, which can happen if you are suddenly shifted off track, a loved one who shares your faith can retrieve you.

That is why, I will not take a student, unless he or she or ? can tell me truthfully what his, her, or ?’s faith is and who shares that faith with them.

How do I consciously make use of the blanket?  I must consciously make a decision that the white blanket can be trusted and allow myself to take the journey without fear and without doubt, for what you see in the white blanket is often what cannot be understood or welcomed.

After a while, slipping in and out of the white blanket is spontaneous and seamless.

I did not realize I was doing that until about 5 years ago.  A gentleman asked me why I was answering his questions before he asked them.

I naturally described diving through  the white blanket and existing in often 5 existences simultaneously having the almost the same discussion.  In some instances, he had already asked the questions and the answers were being spoken, therefore  I was answering his questions before he thought he asked them. 

When working as a healer, I find other places where I am working with the client in the white blanket and when one of those places have a cure or a treatment method, I allow one or both of two things happen:

1/ The treatment is replicated here in this place;

2/ the cells and structure of the client receive information from the healed or healing client and the program for illness is overwritten with a program for healing.

It appears that the information from within the White Blanket to another place in the White Blanket can be blocked by a program virus which sets off course the health of an existence.

If we return to the initial concept of dimensions and multiple universes incorporated with time and space travel, the white blanket dictates that we not leave our current position or time but become one with the blanket and let intent, motivation, and faith guide the way in and out.

When looking at travel at speeds greater than the speed of light, instant cures for disease, and information gathering, science in general has gone wrong by looking outside the self rather than looking at the relationship of the self with the self, the One, and the White Blanket.

An object in motion stays in motion until and opposite equal or greater force is applied to the object.  This makes sense as long as one perceives motion as that which one can document as movement and energy.  What this law overlooks and counters is the thought that movement is faster the more still the object becomes.  Physical motion is the very thing that slows down or even prevents motion in the White Blanket.

I hypothesize that if science can look within the life of the intentional, motivational, and faith related nucleus of any cell, the white blanket will be found.  When this happens, the travel at the speed of light will become a mediocre dream of the past which will seem slow in comparison to the perceived speed of movement in and out of the White Blanket.

Just imagine, stillness being the fastest form or movement.

Just imagine, by standing perfectly still, one would be able to travel to any end of the universe without collision.

Spontaneous travel.

Unlimited knowledge.

Immediate cures.

I imagine travel agents selling tickets to people, not to go to far off lands or planets but rather, to themselves in another dimension or existence.

The White Blanket holds the answers.

The world and our existence can still be saved as long as the viral program is written to allow for our existence to commune with the whole of the White Blanket.

Blessings,

Sterling

Make me sweet again

fragrant and fresh and wild

and thankful for any small event.

- Rumi

This month we all come together with loved ones and devote our awareness for a few hours to thankfulness. Perhaps your family, like mine, will join hands and take turns sharing what each one is grateful for, today and over the past year. And whether you have a formal or informal practice of expressing gratitude at your Thanksgiving table, I’m sure you feel the energy of gratitude throughout your celebration.

But why do we reserve a mere one day a year for this? I propose we make every day a day of giving thanks. Oh, we don’t have to stuff ourselves with stuffing and gobble down turkey…Somehow I think the original intention of the holiday, gratitude for the Earth’s bounty, for peaceful, harmonious coexistence, for life itself, has gotten lost in all the gluttony and football games.

Let’s remember the true spirit of Thanksgiving, not only on the holiday, but throughout our lives. To be full of greatness, we must be grateful.

We must laugh and

We must sing.

We are blest by everything.

Everything we look upon is blest.

- William Butler Yeats

So why should we practice gratitude more often? Here are 5 good reasons:

1. You will feel happier.

When we focus on how full our cups already are, we experience life in a much more positive way. Most of us in this country do not have cups that are half full, half empty, as the saying goes. Our cups are 90% full! Look around you. Look within you. How full is your cup? The Universe is showering blessings upon you each and every day, each and every moment, and we can choose to see and appreciate these gifts or remain unconscious, cranky and unfulfilled. Enough cvetching already! Do you want to be (more) happy? Gratitude is the fastest, most effective way to increase your personal sense of joy about the life you are already living.

2. Gratitude facilitates more harmony in relationships.

Expressing gratitude and appreciation to the people in our lives, of course in a sincere way, from the heart, improves our relationships. As a relationship coach, I have seen that the simple practice of focusing on the positive and expressing true appreciation can dramatically improve marriages, friendships and even work relationships.

This doesn’t mean you have to “suck it up” and put up with being disrespected or abused. If your relationship brings you more pain than joy, you will need in-depth counseling and much more than just a “focus on the positive” bandaid. But for most generally healthy relationships, sprinkling more “Thank you so much for doing that!”s and “I really appreciate…”s, expressing the love in your heart can do wonders.

Many of us take so much for granted, particularly from the people we love the most. Everyone needs to feel seen, heard and valued and this enhances intimacy and emotional safety, bringing you closer.

3. God/The Universe will bestow more blessings upon you. I don’t claim to be in charge of the Universe, but it is a universal spiritual law that the more thankful we are, the more blessings we receive! It’s as if remembering to say “Thank you!” opens the faucet of life’s blessings. I truly have noticed that it’s more than just being more aware of what is already present; there is, over time, an actual increase in things to be thankful FOR.

What you think about, and thank about, you bring about. – Dr. John Demartini

Perhaps our Creator appreciates being appreciated, just as we do, and is more inclined to give more of the good stuff to us when we really appreciate what we get. As Neal Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God, says, the correct prayer is one of gratitude.

There is an old Jewish proverb that goes like this. Two men, equally poor (or equally rich, depending on your perspective) meet in the village. The first man says, “So how is it going with you?”

The second man replies, “Oy! Life is terrible. My wife is sick, my cow won’t give milk, and business is lousy.”

God, hearing his response, thinks “Why you ingrate! I just gave you a new house, healed your ulcer, and found the best husband for your daughter. So you think things are bad now? I’ll give you something to complain about!”

Finally, the second man stops his kvetching and asks the other fellow, “What about you?”

“Well, I tell you, life is so good.  We fixed the leak in my pipes so now my house is dry again. I had a nice Sabbath with my wife and children, a humble meal, but we are together. My horse, well, his leg is still broken but he’s such a good friend to me, and I know business will pick up soon,” his neighbor replies.

God smiles and thinks, “So you think things are good now? I’ll give you something to be thankful for!”

So whether you think of the source of blessings as God, the Universe, or your own intention, gratitude is an essential key to loving your life, and it opens the door to greater and greater blessings, creating a positive spiral that continues to build.

Here is a wonderful message I channeled for you from Archangel Michael:

G O D =   Gratitude Opening Doors!

As William Blake said, “The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.”

4. You will also receive more of what you want from the people in your life.

Of course, this applies on the human level as well as the spiritual level. Have you ever had a friend of family member that you gave gifts to, but who never remembered to thank you? Didn’t you feel after a while, “Hey, why should I bother giving them anything? They never even appreciate it.” And after a while, you feel resentful and stop giving them gifts, am I right? I thought so. Therefore, when we appreciate what we receive, whether tangible or intangible, from others, we actually receive more because we are give-to-able. We receive with an open heart and open hands, with a smile. People love to give, and there is a great gift in being a giver, but only when we sense that the gift is truly received and appreciated.

It’s important to receive graciously, compliments and favors as well as physical presents.

How well you receive compliments symbolizes how well you receive love.

Practice being a wide receiver. – Alan Cohen

If you tend to argue or inwardly doubt it when people praise you, you have some deep self-love work to do. If you have been a “giveaholic” your whole life, or if you have a hard time believing in your own worthiness,or just feel disconnected from your joy, I suggest you get The Radical Self-Love Workbook, a complete course in deepening unconditional self-love, deservingness and creating the life of your dreams, from the inside out! (It also makes a wonderful holiday gift for someone you love who needs to love themselves and their lives more.)

http://www.loveandspirit.org/book1.html

5. It’s just plain polite. Courtesy. Etiquette. Manners. It’s the right thing to do. It also sets a good example for others, of all ages. ‘Nuf said.

So join me this month and always in cocreating a more positive life experience for yourself and our community by making every day thanks-giving!

In my next post, I will share 8 Great Ways to Boost Your Gratitude Attitude! (I guarantee there will be several you have never heard of before, new inspirational ideas for really living gratitude as a daily practice.)

If this piece inspired you in some way, or you have your own gratitude stories to share, please comment below. You can also share this on your social media pages, with your list, and sign up for the RSS feed for my blog.

THANK YOU for reading my blog today!

Blessings & blissings to you!

Love,

Sage

Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. – Evelyn Underhill

Excerpted largely from The Radical Self-Love Workbook, copyright 2008

http://www.loveandspirit.org/book1.html

By Sage Taylor Kingsley-Goddard

Today will just be some quick results we get from this build up.

First, if we localize a polynomial ring at a maximal ideal, say at , then . This is because has Poincare series so the order of the pole is which is the dimension by the last post.

This one will be really useful later: . Let such that are a basis for the vector space. Then by Nakayama’s Lemma the generate . Thus .

This one is also useful in algebraic geometry. If is Noetherian, and , then every minimal ideal belonging to has height . Unfortunately, we cannot push this to equality. Geometrically the example is that if is the twisted cubic, then has height 2, but cannot be generated by less than 3 elements.

Lastly, we’ll do the famous Principal Ideal Theorem. If is Noetherian and is neither a zero-divisor nor a unit, then every minimal prime ideal of has height 1. By the last paragraph we know that . If then it belongs to . Thus every element of is a zero-divisor which is a contradiction since .

Enjoy ALL this beautiful mix from Dimension

01. Dimension – Catamaran (Intro Mix) [TBA]
02. First State feat. Sarah Howells – Brave (Myon & Shane 54) [Magik Muzik]
03. Andy Moor & Ashley Wallbridge feat. Ashley Wallbridge – Faces (Original Mix) [AVA]
04. Dimension – Nebuchanezzar [CDR]
05. Nic Chagall feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn – This Moment (Prog Mix) [High Contrast]
06. Sunlounger feat. Kyler England – Change Your Mind (Original Mix) [Magic Island]
07. Sun State – Fight for the Future (Dimension Remix) [Emphase]
08. Adam Nickey – Callista (Original Mix) [Anjunabeats]
09. Armin van Buuren pres. Gaia – Tuvan (Andy Blueman Remix) [Armind]
10. Dash Berlin with Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren – Man on the Run (Original Vocal Mix) [Aropa]
11. Paul van Dyk feat. Johnny McDaid – Home (Cosmic Gate Remix) [High Contrast]
12. Fast Distance & Dimension pres. Balearia – Heaven Rain/Atapulco [Monster Tunes]
13. Vast Vision feat. Fisher – Everything (Aly & Fila Remix) [Future Sound of Egypt]
14. Dimension – Keops [TBA]
15. Moussa Clark & Terrafunka – She Wants Him (Blake Jarrell’s Panty Dropper Remix) [Armind]
16. Dimension – Coral Reef [Emphase]
17. Cold Blue & Del Mar – 11 Days (Sebastian Brandt Remix) [In Trance We Trust]
18. Fast Distance vs Dimension – Above the Clouds [Magic Island]

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I was in a training on multi dimensional language, called MDX, when the teacher asked how you would draw 5 or 6 dimension.  The class started talking about the thickness of lines and colors and other variations on how a two dimensional graph would have more dimensions.  After noodling on it for a while, I think there’s a better way:

First, graphing one dimension is easy.  You take a line and put a point on it.

One dimension is a line with a point on it (I've deliberatly avoided all color or line thichness to avoid confussion with the other class members suggestions.) The answer is: you draw another line and where it intersects. Each dimension is a point on a line. You can draw those lines in any way you want as long as you show the point where they intersect.Dimensions one through six

Here there is the first promotional poster for the new scream movie…About the cast, Courteney Cox, Neve Campbell, and David Arquette are all set to return, but beyond that, they haven’t even chose a director. We reported in October that Dimension was supposedly close to getting Wes Craven back to direct Scream 4-

The plot is nothing new, Mtv reported this: “The fourth one is an ensemble. It’ll take place right now, 10 years later, and it’s going to take place in [Sidney Prescott's hometown of] Woodsboro. We’ll have our three main characters, and we’ll be introducing several more. We’ll also be introducing a little group, a little ensemble of new castmembers. That’ll take us through the next three.”

“If you play video games long enough, you’ll enter another dimension”

With our December 2009 issue already out and our January 2010 issue right around the corner (can you believe that?), it’s time to announce our 2010 Dream Team. This talented group of 10 women will bring you fresh designs in every 2010 issue of our magazine, as well as act as stellar magazine representatives at various events and activities.

Let’s get to their names and faces (and a few get-to-know-you questions), shall we? Drum roll, please . . .

Congratulations to the following 2010 CK Dream Team members:

Cindy Tobey

1. How long have you scrapbooked? 12 or 13 years now.

2. What is your favorite technique? Stitching, either by hand or machine. A close second would be painting.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Buttons or decorative brads. It would be so hard for me to choose just one type, though.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Junk mail, catalogs, home decor, book covers, clothing tags . . . everywhere, really.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? This is always a hard question for me to answer. Organized, quirky and ever-changing.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? The creative process. I love that I’m preserving family memories, but it’s the process that keeps me coming back. I LOVE it!

Deena Wuest

1. How long have you scrapbooked? I started paper scrapbooking in 2000, shortly after my first daughter was born. I was actually one of those people who swore I would never try digital scrapbooking. Ha. Can you imagine? It was five years later when I realized I was drafting every layout on the computer and using it to design and print my text. Piecing everything together manually turned into the last step, as if it were almost an afterthought. Finally, when my toddler ate half a layout and repeatedly date-stamped his shirt, I reluctantly walked through a Photoshop tutorial. I completed my first digital layout in 2005, and I was completely and utterly in love. I still thank my then-destructive two-year-old son for helping me find my passion.

2.  What is your favorite technique? I don’t know if it’s officially a ”technique,” but I love using bold typography on my layouts. The fact that you can create art using just letters and numbers is so fascinating to me. Honestly, I get excited over the placement of text. (I’m still not sure if I should be alarmed by that or not.) While I love fonts and have over 1,000 of them on my computer, I use the same journaling font on around 90% of my pages. At first, I seriously thought I needed a support group. I’ve since embraced it and actually found that using the same font provides a sense of continuity in my albums. Hmm. Who knew?

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Interesting question. Since most of my layouts are digital, I am going to claim the “digital brush” to be an embellishment. Brushes add so much to a layout and can range from graphic and bold to soft and subtle. I love the flexibility and freedom they provide. You can adjust the color, size, opacity and blend mode. You can combine them, delete portions . . . the list goes on. It’s complete creative control. I love that!

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Everywhere. While I love to be inspired by clever design found in advertisements, books, billboards, movie posters and CD covers, I also find myself being inspired by the small things. An unusual color scheme found on a candy wrapper, the texture of a blanket or a spoken phrase heard over the radio have all sparked scrapbook layouts.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Simple. Clean. Graphic.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love the fact that this amazing hobby allows me to combine my passion for my family with my passion for design. I love that it provides a creative outlet where I’m free to try cool, new things, to experiment and to play. But mostly, I love what it allows me to leave for my family. It’s more than documenting what they wore for Halloween or what they received for their birthdays. Granted, that’s important information. But even more so I want them to know how much they are loved. I have always considered each layout to be a “love note” that just happens to contain a sprinkling of life events. To me, that’s what scrapbooking is all about. And that’s why I love it.

Jen Jockisch

1. How long have you scrapbooked? 6 years.

2. What is your favorite technique? Anything using foam adhesive. I love the depth and dimension it adds to pages.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? The one thing I can’t do without is patterned paper. I love mixing different colors and patterns and finding funky combinations.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Home-design blogs and ads on Nick Jr. (Seriously, there is some great stuff there.)

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Layered, fun and a little whimsical.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I like that I’m not only doing something I love, but I’m actually being productive by documenting my family’s story.

Kim Watson

1. How long have you scrapbooked? Nearly five years. I started when my little boy was six months old. I wanted to journal his life in a creative, meaningful way.

2. What is your favorite technique? Coming from a fashion background, I love stitching and using fabric. Paper crafting and creating my own embellishments also make the list.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Alphas, definitely alphas.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Fashion, craft world, photography and interior design.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Feminine with a touch of whimsy.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love that it satisfies me on so many levels: my need for a creative outlet, my love of writing and my interest in photography. Above all, the most important reason is to leave a legacy for my children.

Laura Vegas

1. How long have you scrapbooked? I have scrapbooked for about 14 years now. I started a year before my oldest daughter was born.

2. What is your favorite technique? Collaging is a technique, right? I love to collage my layouts together–whether it’s making photo collages or just arranging my photos and patterned papers into a collaged look to fill up the page. It’s like piecing together a puzzle, and I just love arranging things until they fit together to my liking.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? This really isn’t fair to all the other fabulous embellishments out there, but I would have to pick ribbon. The majority of my layouts have ribbon used in one way or another. Since ribbon can be used in so many ways, I never get bored with it.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? My main inspiration comes from either my photos or product. Great photos can be the starting point for so many layouts. If the photos don’t inspire me, then most likely product will. I’m very product driven, and I will often create layouts just because I want to use certain products or papers, without even knowing what photos I am going to use. So my layouts have been known to start with photos or end with photos. Both ways work for me.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? My style is definitely clean and linear, with a lot of straight lines. I gravitate toward bright, fun colors, and I love to use many photos on my layouts. I’m also a big fan of embellishments, and I love to find the perfect amount of fun “stuff” to complete my layouts.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love that I’m recording memories and events. Just by looking at their scrapbook albums, my girls will always know what happened in our lives. But I think what I love most about scrapbooking is the creative release it gives me. I spend most of my days doing mundane, everyday things over and over. So I feel my happiest when I get some creative time every day to play with paper and embellishments and to have something pretty to show for my time at the end.

Maggie Holmes

1. How long have you scrapbooked? I started back in high school and have been hooked ever since!

2. What is your favorite technique? Right now my favorite technique is color misting. I love to use masks, stencils and anything I can get my hands on that will combine with the color mists to make a cool effect!

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? My first answer would be patterned paper, but I guess that isn’t really an embellishment. Assuming I can’t use patterned paper, I would say chipboard. You can do anything with chipboard and customize it to work with any layout.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Everywhere! Seriously, I am always thinking in creative mode, and I see everything around me—nature, fashion, type, ads, magazines, home decor, photography, etc. Somehow it all mixes and combines in my head and eventually translates into what I create.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Eclectic for sure. I love to mix things–different colors, different patterns and different mediums. I hardly ever use items made to match. Instead, I use bits and pieces from different lines and manufacturers. Combining everything together is where the magic happens for me.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love two things about scrapbooking. I love that I’m capturing and recording our family story. Our lives pass by so quickly, and I can’t imagine not having all my albums to look back on. The second thing I love is the creative process and the fulfillment and joy I get from scrapbooking. It just feels great to pull all these beautiful products and mediums together to make something that is so unique and meaningful to my family and me.

Sara Winnick

1. How long have you scrapbooked? I’ve been scrapbooking since my daughter Anna was born in 2002–seven and one-half years!

2. What is your favorite technique? It’s impossible to choose just one!  I have a thing for clear embossing, but I also love piecing together various elements to create cool titles.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Only one? It’s a toss-up between chipboard hearts from Heidi Swapp for Advantus and Flair from American Crafts.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Real Simple magazine never fails me.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? I love bold colors and stripes, so I often use them on my pages.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love creating new pages, but there’s nothing quite like flipping through old layouts remembering.  I scrapbook for so many reasons, but to remember is the biggest reason I love this hobby.

Susan Weinroth

1. How long have you scrapbooked? Since 2004.

2. What is your favorite technique? I love to machine-stitch and sew little tidbits to my pages.

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Hmmmmmm. That’s tough! I’d probably have to go with rhinestone brads from American Crafts–they are a current favorite of mine!

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Home decorating magazines, various favorite websites and storefront displays.

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Clean and colorful with a few fun twists thrown in!

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I love that scrapbooking has become my “job” and that it allows me to stay at home with my toddler-aged son, while at the same time allowing me to preserve my family’s photos and memories.

Suzy Plantamura

1. How long have you scrapbooked? I’ve been scrapping forever. I made scrapbooks in high school with memorabilia, cards, schoolwork, etc. The only difference was they didn’t have any pictures! Once I had Sophie (who is now ten), I started scrapping the way I do now, with lots of photos and journaling.

2. What is your favorite technique? Anything that includes markers–I love hand journaling, doodling, adding borders or coloring in stamped images. Markers are so much fun!

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Probably ribbon—I can’t seem to make a layout without it.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? I don’t spend a lot of time getting inspired. As soon as I see pictures and products, I feel ready to go! When I make the time, I find inspiration everywhere! Catalogs, magazines, books, posters, nature, fashion, home decor–it all speaks to me! If I really wanted to get inspired, I would blog hop more often. Again, time prohibits my ability to do this, but there are so many online resources available to inspire us scrappers!

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? I’d like to say whimsical, but I don’t always feel that from my pages. But I try! My mathematical mind wants things neat, tidy and aligned, but my creative side wants things messy and artistic. I struggle to balance the two. I wish I could scrap more freely without any constraints!

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? There is nothing I don’t like about scrapbooking. I like every little bit of it–from starting with buying products to taking the photos to designing the pages. It’s all soooooo fun! There’s nothing more fun to me than getting a new box of products (especially if they’re free!) and sorting them all and organizing them. It’s pure heaven for this girl!

Wendy Sue Anderson

1. How long have you scrapbooked? Forever! I remember helpling my mom when I was a little girl. We used rubber cement (yikes!!) to glue school papers, birthday cards, etc. into a big, green scrapbook. I made my own high-school scrapbook in a magnetic photo album (yikes again!). After I married, I discovered Pebbles in My Pocket on my lunch break one day. I’ve been scrapbooking (safely) almost every day since then!

2. What is your favorite technique? I love machine-stitching on my projects. My parents bought me a sewing machine as a college graduation gift. It’s my favorite scrapbooking tool!

3. If you were allowed only one scrapbooking embellishment to use on a layout, what type of embellishment would you choose? Hmmm, I would use buttons. Or ribbon.

4. Where do you look for design inspiration? Everywhere: catalogs, magazines, websites, blogs, picture books, shampoo bottles, junk mail, the grocery store . . .

5. How would you define your scrapbooking style? Clean, simple, cute, consistent.

6. What do you like most about scrapbooking? I really enjoy being creative, but I think my favorite part is seeing my kids enjoy the pages in their scrapbooks. I’m glad they’ll always have a record of the cute things, fun events and interesting family stories from their childhoods.

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We’re thrilled to have each of these talented gals on our CK Dream Team for the coming year. They have already brought so much to our magazine and are sure to inspire you in the year to come.

Thanks to Our Dream Team Sponsors
To get their CK year off to an awesome start, we sent each of these gals a lovely welcome gift provided by our 2010 Dream Team sponsors. A great big thank-you goes out to the following incredible companies:

Adornit – Carolee’s Creations, Advantus, American Art Clay Company, American Crafts, Anna Griffin, BasicGrey, Bazzill Basics Paper, Bella Blvd, Bisous, Bo-Bunny Press, Buttons Galore, C.R. Gibson, Clearsnap, Close To My Heart, Colorbök, Core’dinations, Cornish Heritage Farms, Cosmo Cricket, The Crafter’s Workshop, Creative Memories, Die Cuts With a View, Dimensions, Doodlebug Design, Dyno Merchandise, EK Success, Elmer’s, Eyelet Outlet, Fancy Pants Designs, Fiskars Americas, GlueArts, Glue Dots International, Graphic 45, Hambly Screen Prints, Helmar Adhesives, Hero Arts, iLoveToCreate, a Duncan Enterprises Company, Imaginisce, Inkadinkado , It Takes Two, Jenni Bowlin Studio, Jillibean Soup, K&Company, Karen Foster Design, Krylon, Little Yellow Bicycle, Maya Road, McGill, Mimi Collections, Pebbles Inc., Piggy Tales, Pink Paislee, Prima, QuicKutz, River City Rubber Works, Sakura, Sandylion, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L, ScrapGirls, Scrapper’s Guide, SEI, Singer, Sounds Easy, Spellbinders, Stampendous!, Stampin’ Up!, Technique Tuesday, Therm O Web, Unibind, We R Memory Keepers, Zva Creative

A New Contributing Writer
In addition to announcing our Dream Team, we have a talented new contributing writer to announce. Mou Saha, a wonderful member of our 2009 Dream Team, has joined our writer roster. We’re delighted to have her working with us in this capacity next year! Congrats, Mou!

A Note from You
Now, please join us in welcoming our newest creative crew by leaving a comment. You’re welcome to suggest ideas you’d like to see them cover in the year ahead, or you can simply give them a happy e-hello. Either way, we know they’ll love hearing from you!

Cheers!
Megan Hoeppner, Creative Editor