I wish everyone a very Happy Holiday Season, I am back! My life, since I last posted, has changed dramatically. A new job has me traveling frequently and inspired often. I continue to study belly dance and now perform with a group called Hypno Tribe, we perform in a show called Las Vaudeville every other month. I am currently writing choreography for my first solo performance. My life has completely changed.
Many things have not changed. I still continue my spiritual practices, occult readings and research as well as my creation of art and dance. I read tarot everyday, attend rituals and create rituals. I hope that my words and actions inspire and transform others. I have grown since the last time I wrote on this blog. I continue to learn on this journey, the more you know the more you know you don't know. I have healed and I also know what I need to work on. Some of my previous posts reflect my reflections and knowledge of that time. The veils continue to lift and my wisdom grows. Always a humble student of the Universe.
Blessed Bee,
Aphrodite Calling
For More of my Art, Dance or Make-Up visit www.Damia.co
Recent Nature Macrophotos I shot with a Cannon 30D, 3 different lenses used. I hope you enjoy and see the magic I do. Macrophotography is best enjoyed with high resolution large photos, it enables you to really see the detail.
WASHINGTON, D.C. & STANFORD, CA. – January 26, 2016 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Science and Security Board announced today that the minute hand of its closely watched Doomsday Clock will remain at three minutes to midnight, since recent progress in the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris climate accord “constitute only small bright spots in a darker world situation full of potential for catastrophe.”
Available in PDF format, the statement accompanying the Doomsday Clock decision opens with the following words: “Three minutes (to midnight) is too close. Far too close. We, the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,want to be clear about our decision not to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock in 2016: That decision is not good news, but an expression of dismay that world leaders continue to fail to focus their efforts and the world's attention on reducing the extreme danger posed by nuclear weapons and climate change. When we call these dangers existential, that is exactly what we mean: They threaten the very existence of civilization and therefore should be the first order of business for leaders who care about their constituents and their countries.”
Had we destroyed our home? What had we done to the earth? There had been many ways for life to perish at our hands; we had poisoned the air and water; we had ravaged the land. Perhaps we had changed the climate. Could it have been a plague or nuclear war? I remembered the galactic computer. What would it say about the earth?
There was our region of the galaxy; there was our world. I had found the entry for earth: HUMANITY: THIRD FROM THE SUN. They had heard our television broadcasts and thought them an application for cosmic citizenship. Our technology had been growing enormously (they got that right). Two hundred nation states, about six global powers, the potential to become one planet. Probability of survival over a century -- here, also, less than one percent. So, it was nuclear war, a full nuclear exchange.
There would be no more big questions, no more answers. Never again a love or a child; no descendents to remember us and be proud; no more voyages to the stars, no more songs from the earth.
I saw east Africa and thought, "a few million years ago we humans took our first steps there. Our brains grew and changed. The old parts began to be guided by the new parts, and this made us human -- with compassion and foresight and reason. But, instead, we listened to that reptilian voice within us, counseling fear, territoriality and aggression. We accepted the products of science; we rejected its methods".
Maybe the reptiles will evolve intelligence once more. Perhaps, one day, there will be civilizations again on earth. There will be life, there will be intelligence; but there will be no more humans -- not here, not in a billion worlds.
Today is Valentine's Day. A day of Love. What blocks us from Love? Fear, pain, power...
I hope others feel like I do. I feel it is my duty as a conscious human to transform my darkness and take away it's shackles from my heart. Love brings us closer to Unity, unity is our true state. We are One. I am going to share something very personal. The pain from breaking my relations with my entire family at times is unbearable. A darkness has touched me and poisoned me, the darkness of abuse and abandonment. This darkness I have transformed and continue to transform as it arises, learning along the way. These are the last words said/written to my parents. We have not spoken since, it has been over 3 years. I feel no child should have to beg for their parents to see them. They named me Joy in irony...
Little Joy
"It is really sad I have a beautiful soul and I am a beautiful person, but you have so much darkness inside you cannot see it. Darkness that you have a choice to hold onto or let go. With that said please never contact me ever again unless some changes are made, I will be blocking your email addresses after this email.
Some of my writing to leave you with...
"Pain is poison, we are the antidote. Pain enters us, moves through us, consumes us and sometimes takes over us. We let the pain poison us and pass the poison to others. We are the antidote, the antidote is to transform the pain. Transform it to acts and thoughts of kindness, touch the pain with compassion, love and understanding. You will find solace and peace through transformation."" I took my own advice in my healing process...transforming, changing, growing and healing.
Leaving you with a excerpt from Anodea Judith's The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love (I had the pleasure of spending time with her last weekend, she is a beautiful soul)
No one escapes being hurt somewhere along the way. Wounding and betrayal, abuse or trauma, disappointment and loss--these painful demons come to us all and leave their marks upon the heart. In a kind of war within ourselves, which, like all wars, creates suffering and numbing and wastes precious energy. War against nature, war within our own nature, war against others, and war against nations--it's all been around for so long that we have accepted it as a fact of life. When forces that have been locked in struggle and aggression find their way into peace, there is a vibration of harmony that can be felt by all. So many times in my past therapy practice, when patients integrated warring parts of themselves or resolved a deep conflict with another, there were cries of relief and tears of joy--the sound of a soul coming back home to its natural state of wholeness. This results in deep, inner healing. When old battles are resolved and wounds are healed, the heart has more room to truly open and love.
Piece: The Elementals Digital Artist: Joy Inglis (me) www.Damia.co, Untamed Beauty and Art.
Invoking the Elements by Aphrodite Calling
I use this in my practice everyday, it is something I wrote that speaks to me. I use it before tarot, before dance, before yoga...anytime I am logging in to Spirit. You are welcome to use in your practice as well.
Earth Below
(Imagine growing roots and rooting into the ground, the Earth's energies fueling your roots and moving through your body)
Sky Above
(Imagine the Sun, Moon And Stars, White Light and Energies filling your body)
Universe Within
(Imagine the Universe within, as above, so below)
I Am Fire, Change, Transformation (Imagine yourself as fire ,then as the Fire Elemental embodying the power and movement of the snake, the snake sheds it's skin in transformation)
I Am Water, Purification, Release (Imagine yourself as water, then as the Water Elemental embodying the power and movement of the fish, water is where all life began)
I Am Air, Wisdom, Growth (Imagine yourself as Air, then as the Air Elemental embodying the power and movement of the owl, all knowing and wise, flying through the air)
I Am Earth, Growth, Healing
(Imagine yourself as the Earth, then as the Earth Elemental embodying the power and movement of the lion, feeling the Earth's rhythms, feeling the power of the lion and the earth)
I like thinking about how much technology has changed my life. I have been on this Earth for almost 39 years. I remember the first home computer, my Father luckily had a passion for technology. Things have changed so much and the number reason why, technology. The Future is going to be a very interesting place for sure. Can we humans handle the power of Technology? Virtual Reality is about to change our psychology and our society in a major way. With the "good" there will also be "bad." Either way it is here, humans have choices to make. This is our next major evolution, The Merge. The Merge has begun....
INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior ...
we aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computing and electronic “smart” sensors; and refine coordination algorithms to manage multiple, independent machines.
Practical Applications
Coordinated agile robotic insects can be used for a variety of purposes including:
autonomously pollinating a field of crops;
search and rescue (e.g., in the aftermath of a natural disaster);
hazardous environment exploration;
military surveillance;
high resolution weather and climate mapping; and
traffic monitoring.
These are the ubiquitous applications typically invoked in the development of autonomous robots. However, in mimicking the physical and behavioral robustness of insect groups by coordinating large numbers of small, agile robots, we will be able to accomplish such tasks faster, more reliably, and more efficiently.
Vision and Aims
The collaborators envision that the Nature-inspired research could lead to a greater understanding of how to artificially mimic the collective behavior and “intelligence” of a bee colony; foster novel methods for designing and building an electronic surrogate nervous system able to deftly sense and adapt to changing environments; and advance work on the construction of small-scale flying mechanical devices.
More broadly, the scientists anticipate the devices will open up a wide range of discoveries and practical innovations, advancing fields ranging from entomology and developmental biology to amorphous computing and electrical engineering.
Through a relationship with the Museum of Science, Boston, the team will also create an interactive exhibit to teach and inspire future scientists and engineers.
As the futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted, somewhat hyperbolically, in 2003, “By the 2030s, virtual reality will be totally realistic and compelling and we will spend most of our time in virtual environments ... We will all become virtual humans.”
The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws, also known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction authorIsaac Asimov.
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
“1Q84,” Aomame said. “Are you talking about the fact that I am living now in the year called 1Q84, not the real 1984?”
“What the real world is: that is a very difficult problem,” the man called Leader said as he lay on his stomach. “What it is, is a metaphysical proposition. But this is the real world, there is no doubt about that. The pain one feels in this world is real pain. Deaths caused in this world are real deaths. Blood shed in this world is real blood. This is no imitation world, no imaginary world, no metaphysical world. I guarantee you that. But this is not the 1984 you know.”
“Like a parallel world?”
The man’s shoulders trembled with laughter. “You’ve been reading too much science fiction. No, this is no parallel world. You don’t have 1984 over there and 1Q84 branching off over here and the two worlds running along parallel tracks. The year 1984 no longer exists anywhere. For you and for me, the only time that exists anymore is this year of 1Q84.”
“We have entered into its time flow once and for all.”
“Exactly. We have entered into this place where we are now. Or the time flow has entered us once and for all. And as far as I understand it, the door only opens in one direction. There is no way back.”
“I suppose it happened when I climbed down the Metropolitan Expressway’s emergency stairway.”
“Metropolitan Expressway?”
“Near Sangenjaya,” Aomame said.
“The place is irrelevant,” the man said. “For you, it was Sangenjaya. But the specific place is not the question. The question here, in the end, is the time. The track, as it were, was switched there, and the world was transformed into 1Q84.”
Aomame imagined a number of Little People joining forces to move the device that switches the tracks. In the middle of the night. Under the pale light of the moon.
“And in this year of 1Q84, there are two moons in the sky, aren’t there?”
“Correct: two moons. That is the sign that the track has been switched. That is how you can tell the two worlds apart. Not that all of the people here can see two moons. In fact, most people are not aware of it. In other words, the number of people who know that this is 1Q84 is quite limited.”
“Most people in this world are not aware that the time flow has been switched?”
“Correct. To most people, this is just the plain old everyday world they’ve always known. This is what I mean when I say, ‘This is the real world.’
"So the track has been switched,” Aomame said. “If it had not been switched, we would not be meeting here like this. Could that be what you are saying?”
“That is the one thing that no one knows. It’s a question of probability. But that is probably the case.”
“Is what you are saying an objective fact, or just a hypothesis?”
“Good question. But distinguishing between the two is virtually impossible. Remember how the old song goes, ‘Without your love, it’s a honky-tonk parade’?” He hummed the melody. “Do you know it?”
“ ‘It’s Only a Paper Moon.’ ”
“That’s it. 1984 and 1Q84 are fundamentally the same in terms of how they work. If you don’t believe in the world, and if there is no love in it, then everything is phony. No matter which world we are talking about, no matter what kind of world we are talking about, the line separating fact from hypothesis is practically invisible to the eye. It can only be seen with the inner eye, the eye of the mind.”
“Who switched the tracks?”
“Who switched the tracks? That is another difficult question. The logic of cause and effect has little power here.”
“In any case, some kind of will transported me into this world of 1Q84,” Aomame said. “A will other than my own.”
“That is true. You were carried into this world when the train you were on had its tracks switched.”
“Do the Little People have anything to do with that?”
“In this world there are the so-called Little People. Or at least, that is what they are called in this world. But they do not always have a shape or a name.”
Aomame bit her lip in thought. Then she said, “What you are saying sounds contradictory to me. Let’s assume it was these ‘Little People’ who switched the track and carried me into this world of 1Q84. Why would they do such a thing if they don’t want me to do what I am about to do to you? It would be far more advantageous to get rid of me.”
“That is not easy to explain,” the man said, his voice lacking all intonation. “But you are a very quick thinker. You might be able to grasp, however vaguely,what I am trying to tell you. As I said before, the most important thing with regard to this world in which we live is for there to be a balance maintained between good and evil. The so-called Little People—or some kind of manifestations of will—certainly do have great power. But the more they use their power, the more another power automatically arises to resist it. In that way, the world maintains a delicate balance. This fundamental principle is the same in any world. Precisely the same thing can be said in this world of 1Q84 that now contains us. When the Little People began to manifest their enormous power, a power opposing the Little People also automatically came into being. And this opposing momentum must have drawn you into the year 1Q84.”
Lying like a beached whale on his blue yoga mat, the giant man released a huge breath.
“To continue with the train analogy: it is possible for them to switch tracks, as a result of which the train has entered its current line—the 1Q84 line. One thing they are not able to do, however, is to distinguish one passenger on the train from another—to choose among them. Which means that there may be passengers aboard who, to them, are undesirable.”
“Uninvited passengers.”
“Exactly.”
Again there was a rumble of thunder. This one was much louder than before. But there was no lightning. Just the sound. Strange, Aomame thought. The thunder is so close, but the lightning doesn’t flash. And no rain is falling.
“Have I managed to make myself clear thus far?”
“I’m listening,” she said, having already moved the needle away from the spot on his neck. Now she had it pointed cautiously toward empty space. She had to concentrate all her attention on what he was saying.
Where there is light, there must be shadow, and where there is shadow there must be light. There is no shadow without light and no light without shadow. Karl Jung said this about ‘the Shadow’ in one of his books: ‘It is as evil as we are positive … the more desperately we try to be good and wonderful and perfect, the more the Shadow develops a definite will to be black and evil and destructive.… The fact is that if one tries beyond one’s capacity to be perfect, the Shadow descends to hell and becomes the devil. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.’
“We do not know if the so-called Little People are good or evil. This is, in a sense, something that surpasses our understanding and our definitions. We have lived with them since long, long ago—from a time before good and evil even existed, when people’s minds were still benighted. But the important thing is that, whether they are good or evil, light or shadow, whenever they begin to exert their power, a compensatory force comes into being. In my case,when I became an ‘agent’ of the so-called Little People, my daughter became something like an agent for those forces opposed to the Little People. In this way, the balance was maintained.”
