Haha u r beaten!

nominingue...

The Ink...

Orlando, Florida. For the people I never knew...

you had to be where you were
to get to where you are.

you had to do what you did 
to know what and why, you had to do.

you had to live a life of what you lived
to live again alive.

you had to die because an evil
decided to take your life.

you had not been known by me
and I not known to you.

you had my hearts the moments my hearts
heard about the moments you died.

you had the right to live and love 
and love and live alive.

you had it taken away from you
as you were taken away.

you have my thoughts as my thoughts have you
tied up in my mind.

you have my tears and  future tears
for future stolen lives.

Beasty

when the beast comes next to you
and lays beside you
leaning on you
staring into your eyes
tiger stripes take breaths
and the mini growl within
the eyes seduce
and take your heart
places you want to stay
because if you move
but an inch or more
you will ruin it's day
and most comfortable place

Out There At The Lake...

I am still here...

there were days that threw
me over the highest cliffs
of God's fingertips 

mind

"It is by will alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the juice of Sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

Fire and Ice

Black and White

Lac Chaud, moins 20

Grown

here's to us
the wonderful
the outdoorsy types
the natureboy and girl
here's to the lake
that will soon be our nest
the sky that will fill
our lungs
the sun that will shine
in our minds and hearts
here's to the music and laughter
here's to life
in all her glory
grown out of our life

hold your heart out

artiste...Carla L. ;) lovely job

 there will always be time for patience

as the world goes by

minds converge under electric lines.

intangible, succulent, throbbing minds...

striving hive of misanthropist humanoids

to each his own...

buy more, spend less, consumers

submerged under the cities smog...

no more i say after today i make my way

as the world goes by

my mind is free to change the worlds

of people who just need to be heard... 

myself and her where nature breathes

life into our life

the mountains surround our souls

as springtime comes in form of a renaissance...

thy neighbor be thy friend...

your thoughts be thy fiend

if you can find a way  to love all the anger and 

frustration and anxiety and hate and despair

and all those other difficult unmentionable things

you will always win, all the time, everywhere.

do not fear.

hold your head high

and hold your heart out

Awareness

 

 

 

The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

On this day of July 7, 2012, a prominent international group of cognitive neuroscientists, neuropharmacologists, neurophysiologists, neuroanatomists and computational neuroscientists gathered at The University of Cambridge to reassess the neurobiological substrates of conscious experience and related behaviors in human and non-human animals. While comparative research on this topic is naturally hampered by the inability of non-human animals, and often humans, to clearly and readily communicate about their internal states, the following observations can be stated unequivocally:

• The field of Consciousness research is rapidly evolving. Abundant new techniques and strategies for human and non-human animal research have been developed. Consequently, more data is becoming readily available, and this calls for a periodic reevaluation of previously held preconceptions in this field. Studies of non-human animals have shown that homologous brain circuits correlated with conscious experience and perception can be selectively facilitated and disrupted to assess whether they are in fact necessary for those experiences. Moreover, in humans, new non-invasive techniques are readily available to survey the correlates of consciousness.
• The neural substrates of emotions do not appear to be confined to cortical structures. In fact, subcortical neural networks aroused during affective states in humans are also critically important for generating emotional behaviors in animals. Artificial arousal of the same brain regions generates corresponding behavior and feeling states in both humans and non-human animals. Wherever in the brain one evokes instinctual emotional behaviors in non-human animals, many of the ensuing behaviors are consistent with experienced feeling states, including those internal states that are rewarding and punishing. Deep brain stimulation of these systems in humans can also generate similar affective states. Systems associated with affect are concentrated in subcortical regions where neural homologies abound. Young human and nonhuman animals without neocortices retain these brain-mind functions. Furthermore, neural circuits supporting behavioral/electrophysiological states of attentiveness, sleep and decision making appear to have arisen in evolution as early as the invertebrate radiation, being evident in insects and cephalopod mollusks (e.g., octopus).
• Birds appear to offer, in their behavior, neurophysiology, and neuroanatomy a striking case of parallel evolution of consciousness. Evidence of near human-like levels of consciousness has been most dramatically observed in African grey parrots. Mammalian and avian emotional networks and cognitive microcircuitries appear to be far more homologous than previously thought. Moreover, certain species of birds have been found to exhibit neural sleep patterns similar to those of mammals, including REM sleep and, as was demonstrated in zebra finches, neurophysiological patterns, previously thought to require a mammalian neocortex. Magpies in particular have been shown to exhibit striking similarities to humans, great apes, dolphins, and elephants in studies of mirror self-recognition.
• In humans, the effect of certain hallucinogens appears to be associated with a disruption in cortical feedforward and feedback processing. Pharmacological interventions in non-human animals with compounds known to affect conscious behavior in humans can lead to similar perturbations in behavior in non-human animals. In humans, there is evidence to suggest that awareness is correlated with cortical activity, which does not exclude possible contributions by subcortical or early cortical processing, as in visual awareness. Evidence that human and nonhuman animal emotional feelings arise from homologous subcortical brain networks provide compelling evidence for evolutionarily shared primal affective qualia.

We declare the following: “The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Nonhuman animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”
* The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness was written by Philip Low and edited by Jaak Panksepp, Diana Reiss, David Edelman, Bruno Van Swinderen, Philip Low and Christof Koch. The Declaration was publicly proclaimed in Cambridge, UK, on July 7, 2012, at the Francis Crick Memorial Conference on Consciousness in Human and non-Human Animals, at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, by Low, Edelman and Koch. The Declaration was signed by the conference participants that very evening, in the presence of Stephen Hawking, in the Balfour Room at the Hotel du Vin in Cambridge, UK. The signing ceremony was memorialized by CBS 60 Minutes. [10]

The Great Dictator. (greatest speech ever written)

Chuck

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness - not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost....
  The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men - cries out for universal brotherhood - for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world - millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people.
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. .....
Soldiers! don’t give yourselves to brutes - men who despise you - enslave you - who regiment your lives - tell you what to do - what to think and what to feel! Who drill you - diet you - treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don’t hate! Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!
In the 17th Chapter of St Luke it is written: “the Kingdom of God is within man” - not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people have the power - the power to create machines. The power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Then - in the name of democracy - let us use that power - let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world - a decent world that will give men a chance to work - that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfil that promise! Let us fight to free the world - to do away with national barriers - to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

BoomBoom

crossing the rivers

anticipation recommence

clearly worthy ponder

sound create creature

words spit writer

sleep deep sleeper

dream big dreamer

freak fun friendly

moving toward trees

gathering snowy leaves

walk silent parks

past homely mount

tracks white count

ready steady pounce

sun jumps on clouds

leave the city

nature smells pretty

quiet anticipation

starting over again

beat hearts beatly

see so clearly

summer coming freely

De L'Argent

having been
caving in
saving sins
giving grins

black doves
white crows
cats howl
dogs meow

clouds sink
skys reach
ground screams
trees freak

monkeys meet
stomping feet
hands greet
money street

keep

they were so much more themselves than the others who were not so fake

they dripped of intelligent intellect and brandy and something of an ape

they whipped themselves as punishment in front of their gods to proove

they could persist in their lives as their forefathers and mothers groove

they pounded out hymns with hammers of djinns and shouted out in tongues

they grinded and stripped the earth of it's life as they stole the planets air with their lungs

they whisper stories to the children of how it used to be when the earth was green

they farmed and drank water from clear cups with the sunshine on the wall sparkling clean 

they are so far away now as the colony spread out from the blue marble halls

they pray to someday return to the natural church and be surrounded by her walls

they wait for the day for the soul to arrive and take them to where they've never been

they will follow and follow and go until she stops and decides to build where she's seen

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