Brave New World by Aldus Huxley was part of my high school curriculum so I was forced to read it in my youth.   It is more than 30 years since I read Brave New World and such was the impression upon me that I remember it surprisingly well till this day.  I also remember it being one of the hardest books to get into as I struggled with the first chapter or so trying to follow multiple conversations of the different characters being introduced into the story.

Once into the book I was fascinated by the dystopia Huxley described where on surface all the world problems had been solved and finally everyone was happy.  The scariest thing about this dystopia was that it seemed to work and there was no opposition to it nor could one develop.

A world where everyone belonged to everyone and nobody belonged to anybody. This was achieved by removing the function procreation from individuals and assigning it to the state.  Babies are no longer born but genetically engineered and decanted from test tubes. 

The practice of eugenics and cloning is used to create a caste system with members naturally predisposed to their role in society and re-enforced further by conditioning including constant subliminal instructions from birth to be happy with their role.

Sexual promiscuity is promoted and even taught to young children.  Forming long term relationships is frowned upon and considered unhealthy.  Emotions are kept under control with voluntary doses of Soma drug to modulate feelings.    There is even a new religion with Henry Ford as the figurehead admired as the father of modern mass production.

Brave New World – the Movie

I recently became aware that a 1998 movie had been made and was very curious to see it.  I finally got a copy and just finished watching it.  I found it generally disappointing as it failed to present the same believable model of the dystopia I had read in the book.

Visually the movie was disappointing and unconvincing.   The movie is meant to be set far in the future after the death of Ford and devastating World Wars that resulted in the setting up of a world government, but the technology shown was at best contemporary and in many cases already dated.

The clothing was also very dated with a mix of contemporary and retro 60s.   In one scene the World Controller had on a bright orange suit with huge chunky orange beads and would have looked in place on a set for Austin Powers.

The movie only superficially covered the caste system and neglected the cloning aspect among the lower castes.   At one point in the movie a Delta Tea lady is asked if she is happy to be a Delta and she confirms she is using a programmed response from her conditioning.   To my mind she looked far too normal and unconvincing compared to glazed eyed moronic Delta I expected to see.

There were changes to the characters and story line also that I think detracted from the believability.

In the book Bernard is socially inapt but desperately wants fit in.  He is physically shorter than other Alpha plus caste members and there are rumours that alcohol was accidently administered to his test tube this being a method employed to stunt the growth of Epsilons. 

The rivalry between Bernard and his boss culminating in a plot to kill Bernard using a reconditioned Delta are additions not found in the book.  While this made the characters far more human by our standards they are inconsistent with the socially conditioned members of Brave New World where such personal rivalry and aggression would be alien concepts.  

In my opinion there is too much missing from the movie and it fails to deliver the believable vision of a dystopia that Huxley wanted to warn us about.   I suggest skipping the movie which is very forgettable and reading the book.

At first it seemed to me to be just another buzz word in the amazing mix of ideas that quantum physics explores but it kept popping into my head and slowly its real meaning started to hit me. It is an idea so exciting with so many ramifications that you will never see the world the same way again.

A month ago I came across and audio program of the same name by Mike Dooley and I knew I had to listen to it. Mike was actually featured in The Secret and has been running a website for many years with what he calls the adventurers club. The concept being that life is an adventure. He also has a mailing list called Notes from the Universe which I have been subscribing to for some time.

So I downloaded it aware that it would not really be on the topic of quantum physics but related none the less.

I have actually listened to a lot of material from many of the world’s most renowned motivational speakers and the messages of many are similar. From each I can usually gleam a new insight or some clarification of a topic I am already familiar with.

Watch this Youtube video of Mike talking about his Notes from the Universe

The 12 hour audio program Infinite Possibilities from Mike knocked my socks off. For me it was a lot more than a few more insights and some clarification – it actually helped me put some important jigsaw pieces for the puzzle of like together. Everything has started to make a lot more sense.

Many programs can be motivational and inspirational but this was enlightening and liberating. If you are interested in Mike’s message in the above video or perhaps already familiar with him in The Secret then you are here to take your next step on your road to understanding. You are here to discover Infinite Possibilities.

I came across this brilliant use of technology and thought it was a brilliant example of creative thinking. 

I am a bit of a technology buff and very interested on how new technology impacts on society so this is of particular interest to me.

 Here is the description:

‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

 Watch this video first – it should amaze you

If you enjoyed that then you can learn a more about how it works in the second video which is a presentation to TED

Pranav Mistry is the brilliant mind behind this new sixth sense.  Many people watching it might be thinking that he and MIT Media labs have developed totally new technology.  This is not really the case.  

It is really just a new human interface connecting up existing technologies.   They do not show the little “box” that runs it all but anyone that has a new i-phone will recognise many of the applications.  I do not mean to take away from the brilliance of the concept.   I admire this guys mind.

I don’t think I could ever go back to a mobile phone with a keypad now!

Abraham is not a person but rather ARE non-physical entities that communicate through Esther and jerry Hicks.   Esther claims to channel  these entities from source energy from which we all originate.   She describes what she is doing as tapping into “infinite intelligence” which is the same term that Wallace Wattle used in the last century to describe much the same concept.   

Here is a summary of some of the major concepts of Abrahams teachings:

• You are a physical extension of that which is non-physical.
• You are here in this body because you chose to be here.
• The basis of your life is freedom; the purpose of your life is joy.
• You are a creator; you create with your every thought.
• Anything that you can imagine is yours to be or do or have.
• You are choosing your creations as you are choosing your thoughts.
• The Universe adores you; for it knows your broadest intentions.
• Relax into your natural well-being. All is well.
• You are a creator of thoughtways on your unique path of joy.
• Actions to be taken and money to be exchanged are by-products of your focus on joy.
• You may appropriately depart your body without illness or pain.
• You can not die; you are everlasting life.

I had seen references from time to time about Abraham being included in the first release of the secret but later removed by Rhonda Byrne for some reason.  I had suspected that maybe Rhonda decided that using “Abraham” would be too way out there when many of the ideas of the secret were already going to challenge people.  It turns out this was just my own speculation.

First the “The Secret” Original Intro with Esther Hicks and deleted scenes:

Next Abraham – via Esther Hicks – explains why there are two versions of “The Secret” DVD and why Abraham is no longer in the video. Recorded live at a 2007 Abraham-Hicks workshop

Just the other day I surfed to another blog and saw something that seemed to have been written for me.   It was on the blog of Dov Barron  and saw the following:

What if the shit is a gift?

What if what’s going on right now in your life is the greatest gift you could have ever imagined, however there is no way for you to know it for at least 3,6, 12 or 36 months from now?

What if the heat of your situation is what is needed to hatch your dream?

What if ‘this’ hatches a passion within you that under any other circumstances you couldn’t have seen let alone embraced?

What if ‘this’ was is a game you play with yourself?

What if this become your best way to let go of what you no longer needed?

What if this is all a lesson in learning to trust yourself?

What if all this is simply to have you see what really matters?

What if this is your wake up call?

And what if you woke up?  What would you be waking up from?  What would you be awakening into?

What if you’ve been so focused on what might happen that you’ve blinded yourself to what is happening that’s great.

What if in truth this is a precious jewel wrapped in crap? Would you be willing to take the chance of getting your hands a little dirty in order to really find and recognize that jewel?

I can relate to everyone one of those lines having recently come out of the most shitty experience of my life. 

At first I spent a lot of time in reflection and asking how I could have attracted a sick psychopath into my life.  How he so easily sabotaged my relationship with my girl friend and turned her against me taking my baby son away from in the process.

The part that really got to me was that he did it for fun.  I have since learnt a lot about this very sad individual and been in contact with members of his family who have basically disowned him and apologised to me for the pain he put me through.

The cruellest irony is that in engaging and fighting him I have pushed them closer together.   Had I handled it differently he would have had his jollies breaking up my relationship and moved on long ago. 

In her he has found a girl he can control.   She buys drugs for him and they use together.  I know she has been living in fear as once she called an ex-friend crying and telling her that I had people following them around and had a contract out on their life.   Wow me!  Amazing what a combination of a manipulative lying psychopath and drugs can do to someone who is otherwise very intelligent.   Apparently fear is a common control method a psychopath uses in a relationship.

Last week I was advised that a notice had been placed in the newspaper with an Arrest warrant for me.  Upon further investigation I have determined that it was for non support of my child.  Again this is the psychopath playing games.  

They both disappeared last year as he has arrest warrants in two countries.  I tried to send money via her family but they refused to accept it telling me I needed to sort things out with her directly which of course I could not do.   They have always been able to contact me but chose not to and now have quietly lodged a case against me just to obtain an arrest warrant and publish my picture in the paper in an attempt to embarrass me.

I am so far beyond that.   In fact I totally amazed myself over the next few days by being totally relaxed.  I felt an inner peace and total lack of concern about the matter.   I have no intention of going back where they are anyway.   Not while the psychopath is on the scene anyway and I know that it is only a matter of time before he moves on.   

I just need to wait.   Even if he read this and out of his determination to win at all costs resolved to stay with my ex-girl friend he will still eventually move on.   A psychopath can modify or curtail their behaviour only for a short period but their sickness is hard wired in their brain.  He will move on sooner or later.

Anyway back to my reflection.  I have come to realize that I really did attract everything that happened into my life. 

I am actually very loyal person and the other thing I really could not understand was how someone that you love could be so evil to you.  How could they intentionally hurt you so much.  At first I blamed the psychopath but when I really analysed the situation the ex-girlfriend was a very active participant in the nasty games they played on me.

I have finally realized that she is still a victim despite her very active participation, and I realize that I have a responsibility to help her once the psychopath does abandon her.   I have obtained an additional ATM card already for that purpose. 

I have also realized that I neglected her emotionally and was so selfish and preoccupied with my own feelings that I allowed the tragedy to unfold.  I basically did everything wrong in terms of my reaction.

 There was a time when she was constantly testing me and demanding things from me but it was the psychopath that was pulling the string.  So of course I failed each test.    The psychopath was also pretending to be my friend and feeding back lies and half truths to her.  I really had no chance.

I say I had no chance but I was acting instinctually.  There are fundamental principles in life that can guide your actions and if you adhere to these then things can only go in the right direction.  This is what Wallace Wattles calls Acting in the Certain Way.

I feel like I have been on a long journey and these experiences have made me stronger and prepared me for something special.  

So when I read  What if the shit is a gift? I thought yes it has been.

I had three questions and created a separate ticket for each.

Question 1 : Application Bug (very minor) – Reminder function display
Question 2 : New Functionality request – add additional questions to Daily Journal
Question 3 : Windows Support – Subliminal application and dual monitor extended desktop

If you read the descriptions below you will see that these are all very minor concerns and when I think about it  THIS IS ALL I HAVE FOUND after using the application for a month then I have to conclude that Attractor Genie is VERY GOOD.   I find more issues with most of the “big name” applications where they have hundreds of developers.

Question 1 : Application Bug (very minor) – Reminder function display

I reported what is a real bug with the Reminder function.  If you create a reminder with multiple lines that extend down below the default displayed onscreen you cannot scroll to read them despite there being a scroll bar.  It is disabled and “greyed out”.    The reminder function does not support hyper links so you cannot have a link to open the fully txt from another source.  You also cannot click to open the original reminder to view in full.

Now if the Reminder function only allowed you to input the same number of lines it displays I would have just accepted this as a limitation but because it allows you to enter more that it displays it can be considered a bug. 

The response from support was to send me this asking if mine worked the same.

I’ve just setup a reminder on my PC
Here’s what happens on my PC
http://i42.tinypic.com/2wdpowm.jpg

Yes it would work that way on mine also but had they tested it with more than 4 lines they might have noticed the problem also.  I have created the same test with 10 lines to demonstrate and only 7 are displayed.

 
The scroll bar to the right does not work

Question 2 : New Functionality request – add additional questions to Daily Journal

In the daily journal there is a questions tab.   There you will find about 40 categories of questions with each category containing a number of pre-written questions designed to prompt you to think further about topics you are concerned about.  I think this is a great resource that I will write more about later.

My question to support was can I add my own questions.   My reason for wanted to do so is that I am current doing another online course that provides me with daily questions and I thought it would be great to use Attractor Genie rather than print off the question sheet and physically write the answers as they course suggests. 

I also asked about the data structure of Attractor Genie thinking I might be able to edit the files and insert my own question category.

This is not a bug with the Attractor Genie application but rather a request for a new functionality in future updates. 

Question 3 : Windows Support – Subliminal application and dual monitor extended desktop

I asked about the subliminal application and support for dual monitor extended desk top configurations explaining that it only seemed to work on the primary monitor (1) and I wanted the subliminal messages to display on the second monitor (2).  The response was to show me what the working subliminal screen should look like and some irrelevant suggestions. 

Subliminal
This is how it would like:
http://i44.tinypic.com/osxx8w.jpg

If you don’t see all parts of the Subliminal Generator It means
that you are not using “a native resolution” on your PC  Screen.

Please change the screen resolution(set it to 1024×768) and see
If anything changes.

Yes this is what it looked like for me but had nothing to do with my question.  

I would have accepted a response that they did not support dual monitor extended desk top configuration.   I have since resolved this problem and It turns out that it is a Windows function and nothing at all to do with Attractor Genie.

I am running vista on a notebook with a second monitor attached and using the extended screen option.   To set this up you right click the desktop and select “Personalize” and then “Display Settings”.  It does not give you the option there to change the primary monitor.

When I run the subliminal application from Attractor genie it only displays on the first monitor (the smaller notebook screen) which is not the primary one I use.   Therefore it was not much use to me as at the very best I would only pick it up in my peripheral vision.

In what can only now be called serendipity my display went crazy for no apparent reason with my display rotated.  I had no idea what was happening but it forced me to delve deeper into the options. 

I actually found that for some reason my screen rotation had changed under “Graphics Options” “Rotation”   You get there by a Right Click on the desktop and not via “Personalize” where I had been looking.  I fixed the rotation but also noticed “Graphics Properties” and what do you know…It gives you the option to specify the primary monitor.    

Not only has this fixed my Attractor Genie subliminal application (have it running now – works perfectly) but it has also fixed some other minor irritations with the dual screen extended monitor configuration.  It’s wonderful now.   The only thing is that I had to physically rearrange my desk as the notebook now needs to sit off to my right.  

I suppose all of this would not make any sense to anyone that has not seen the extended desktop working.

While assisting people wanting to run the subliminal application with dual monitor configurations is probably beyond the scope of Attractor Genie support I invite them to take this information and add it to their knowledge base as it might assist other attractor genie users in the future.

These are instructional videos to get you started and I do recommend them.  They do sound a little amateurish in production (they are really just a voice over with a guy giving a demo on how to use Attractor Genie) but do give you the information you really need to get started.   They often refer you to the manual for more detailed information.

The Attractor Genie Manual

Now I have to say that their manual is particularly good to help you get started.   Many applications I have purchased in the past include a manual that does not really tell you anything.  I will give the Attractor Genie top marks for the manual and recommend anyone who gets Attractor Genie to read it. 

The Attractor Genie Support

My first experiences with contacting support have been a little disappointing. It’s not that support was rude or initially failed to respond.  They did get back to me within the specified time period with responses to my questions.   What is disappointing is that while they tried to help they did seem to really understand my questions.  See my next post My support Questions to Attractor Genie

 Conclusion

It’s a great application which I continue to use on a daily basis. 

The documentation and tutorials are comprehensive and easy to follow.  The support response was timely and friendly and probably great for people that need help on how use the program but not as technical as I needed.  I am sure that if ever I encountered a more serious problem it would be referred to a more technical resource so I am not at all concerned.

I highly recommend the Attractor Genie Application to Anyone

It is simply any place where you put images of something you desire in a place where you will regularly see it so you can remain motivated towards it.  

This concept is used by most people in one way or another.  Even those who would reject the idea of the Law of Attraction see at least the motivational power in images.   The images could be of something you want, a goal you want to achieve or someone you aspire to emulate. 

A mind movie is an electronic version of a vision board but multi-media rich including sounds and visual effects.   Mind movies were pioneered by Ryan Higgins who created it as a visualization tool to assist with the law of Attraction.  He promotes them as a way to make The Sectret and the law of attraction work for those that have not been able to get results.

I actually purchased his Mind Movie package last year and proceeded to make a mind movie but came to a grinding halt when it came to select the images and captions.   Soon after that other events in my life took over and it was forgotten and remained uncompleted ever since. 

I recently purchased the Attractor Genie program with a suite of tools including Attractor Movie which is the same concept as a mind movie.   So I know have two tools to create mind movies but still have yet to produce any.

I have been using the Attractor Genie program now for more than a month and suddenly I realized why I was not able to complete my original mind movie.

I have previously spoken about the home page of the Attractor Genie program and how it has four areas; My vision, My Purpose, My values and My Identity.   I talked about how valuable it has been to start thinking about those areas of my life and initially putting down a few ideas, then returning to them to refine them until they really took shape.   

I was looking at these four areas a few days ago as you do whenever you open the Attractor Genie program (probably why they are on the home page) and the thought suddenly occurred to me that there is the script to my mind movie. 

This was the blockage to my creating a Mind movie in the past.   I really did not have the right script. Sure I had put together some ideas but they really were not expressing the message I wanted.  So when it came time to select the images and text it was a struggle. 

Everyone is different and there are thousands of people who purchased the Mind Movies package and were immediately able to produce their Mind Movie.   I needed to think about what I really wanted and valued first before I was ready to start.  

As I have not yet produced a mind movie I cannot give an opinion on the Ryan Higgins Mind Movie package vs. the included Attractor Movie version.   As I own both I will try both when the time comes and write a review here.

What I can say now with certainty is that the Attractor Genie program is worth having regardless of how good I later determine is mind movie component to be.   The Ryan Higgins Mind Movie package will have to be significantly better for me to recommend to anyone they buy it in addition to the Attractor Genie program.

If like me you already own the Ryan Higgins Mind Movie package and are struggling creatively to make your first movie then get Attractor Genie and forget about making any type of mind movie until you have worked through the four areas I spoke about.

Find out more about the Ryan Higgins Mind Movies package HERE

Find out more about the Attractor Genie program HERE

In all honestly half of them I just click delete on immediately as they are not something I relate to, or they don’t inspire me, but occasionally one is a Gem or perhaps the message I needed to see at that time.

This is one such message I recently received that I have preserved storing it in my Attractor Genie Journal.

Isn’t it nice to know that you haven’t yet laughed, all that you’ll laugh? That you haven’t yet met, some of your very best friends? And that you haven’t yet dreamed, all that you’ll manifest?

That all bridges will be mended? That all sadness will be healed? And that life never ends?

That all of your challenges will be won? That all of your triumphs will be shared? And that the difference you’ll make, has already begun?

Well, it is for me, because I also know that if you don’t see these things yet, you will.

Could it get any better?

The Universe

I actually forwarded it on to someone who immediately responded that they knew someone that really needed that message and would forward it to them.

Here is Mike giving a Toast Masters address about “Thoughts Become Things”

Infinite Possibilities is one of the best and most enlightning programs i have every listen to – it gets my highest recommendation. You can visit Mike’s website and subscribe to his daily messages from the Universe here  http://www.tut.com/

In my youth I did read two of his works; Thus Spoke Zarathustra and The AntiChrist and both made a deep impression on my thinking.  He was an amazing thinker greatly misunderstood and maligned.  

His book The Anti-Christ was written over 100 years ago and completely debunked practiced Christianity. 

I did a quick search and found a copy of the work online
http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/tkannist/E-texts/Nietzsche/AntiChrist.htm

There is one passage in that book that defines Christianity as

a revolt of all creatures that creep on the ground against everything that is lofty: the gospel of the “lowly” lowers . . .

This is a slightly different translation to what I read but the basic meaning is the same and greatly influenced my view of Christianity for many years after.

I viewed Christians as a mass of sheep resentful of anyone that dared to think for themselves and not meekly follow a doctrine designed subordinate and control the masses.  I understood exactly what Karl Marx mean when he said that Religion is the Opium of the people.

Christianity proclaims that the meek shall inherit the earth.  I could not accept that mediocrity should be rewarded above endeavour and achievement.  It did seem like a concept thought up by those resentful of those who were aloft.

I also disliked the images of Christianity with Jesus being crucified on the cross.  In contrast are the images of the beautiful and powerful Greek gods and I wondered why we were asking to worship such a pitiful image.  Of course we are told that Jesus died for our sins, the concept of original sin is an idea I disdain.  The focus on the glorification of suffering, and suggestion that we are put here on earth to suffer and through suffering we will be closer to God is another idea I still totally reject.

In his Thus Spoke Zarathustra Nietzsche announced to the world that the concept of God is dead and is written in parables to mimic the bible.  I read the book twenty years ago and don’t remember the details but Nietzsche suggests man as at a dangerous crossing with an abyss below and on the other side is the overman.  What we can evolve to when we overcome ourselves.

This concept of the overman was hijacked by Nazi Germany who adopted and perverted the works of Nietzsche making it the state Philosophy and promoting the idea of the overman as the Aryan.   

In the last decade of his life Nietzsche suffered mental illness and was in the care of his sister who just returned after her husband Forster, an extreme right wing racist, committed suicide in Paraguay where he was trying to establish an Aryan colony.   The sister influenced by extreme right wing ideology edited and distorted the last writings of her brother under the title A Will To Power.

So how do I feel today about Christianity?   I think for me it was a case of throwing out the baby with the bath water.  There are some very negative things in Christianity but there is much more “good”.

There is also the YOU SEE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR factor.   If you have an idea or belief you continually look for “proof” to support your idea and if it happens to be a belief in negative aspects of Christianity then that is what you will see in abundance.   If you look for good in Christianity you will find it in even greater abundance.  It’s all to do with what we focus on and I no longer focus on what is negative.  Subsequently my view of Christianity today is far more positive these days.

Despite the positive idea of the overman which was more along the lines of reaching a state of enlightenment much of Nietzsche’s works and ideas focus on negativity.  I doubt I will read anymore Nietzsche but as an original thinker he is to be admired.