This is a video-webpage (a video of my webpage at:
http://hcsvx.hcsi.com/mark/webdoc8science.html ) called "Science Questions?"
In it I ask things like; perhaps the seen and the unseen should not be separate? Perhaps the known could increase and be more complete if the unknown were allowed into the known? Perhaps to be human and only look at nature through the mind is ineffective? Perhaps the centuries-old hatred between Science and Religion could be minimized if each found validity in the others' quality? Perhaps this could equate to a more authentic knowledge?

 

This video I produced with my wife narrating is in keeping with my new icon - a wholeness perspective. To me this is more of an educational/spiritual video suggesting that a human being is akin to a wholeness perspective (part in the whole/whole in the part), and that humans contain a natural inclination towards the good of the whole.

There have been subtle, yet wonderful waves of evolution and expansion from Spirit that have
occurred for thousands of years. These waves started to become more noticeable in 1947 - "The
Year of the UFO."
Then, a very noticeable evolutionary wave occurred in the late ‘60's, especially in 1967. A wave
of democracy never seen before.

Seeing the dysfunctional relationships at home and recognizing our Nations' inhumane foreign
policies, the young people of the 60's expressed a more authentic feeling of what the United
States was founded on: The voice of the people being the government. Because they witnessed
the opposite - a government dictating it's own people - they adopted a political resistance and
embraced values of being fully human.

The corner of Haight & Ashbury in San Francisco originated

                Equinox & Solstice celebrations

                               
                        planetary events

                               
                  and acts of public theatres

                               
of redefining who one was in order to create the culture that they wanted to live in by assuming
                    the authority to do it.
                               
These events were orchestrated by a collection of people known as the Diggers. The Diggers
were a community-action group of Improv actors who blended a desire for freedom with a
consciousness of the community in which they lived. (See Wikipidea Diggers theatre)

Food Not Bombs displayed acts of compassion to Vietnam Vets and the homeless. Both the Vets
and the homeless felt a hopelessness in which the younger generation resonated with.

Most contained a childlike playfulness


                               
                               
       and many  sensed their own indigenous spirituality

                               
                               
They saw themselves in another person and knew they were their brothers' keeper.


                               

Knowing that they were lovingly and continually taken care of by the Universe, a saying sprang
          up naturally, like a flower through cement…

                               
                               
    A wonderful sense of trusting in life warmed these souls.

The awareness of the ‘60's then lingered into the ‘70's where it spread and deepened
underground. One reflection was in much of the music of the early ‘70's, especially in the
Progressive Rock genre. A spiritual awareness was specifically expressed through the music of Yes, Jon Anderson, The Moody Blues, and others like some Crosby Stills Nash (& Young), Joni Mitchell, Oregon, and John McLaughlin (to name a few).


Further incoming waves of consciousness came in the late ‘80's, cresting with the Harmonic Convergence. "This wave of the late 1980's is the most powerful pulsation of awareness to enter the conceptual atmosphere of human consciousness since before recorded history" - "Starseed - The Third Millennium - Living in the Posthistoric World" by Ken Carey. A very noticeable wake from this wave was the coming down of the Berlin Wall.



A 2007 version of the 1960's wisdom of trusting in life is, perhaps, reflected in today's
affirmations? Trusting in life feels like a matter of the heart. Affirmations (trusting in one's own statements of belief) seem to be more of a matter of the head. Perhaps the combination of trusting and affirmations will allow Spirit to help us be more whole...more human...more divine?

Considering all of these evolutionary waves of expansion,
and the insanity happening in the Iraq war where democracy is "forced from without,"
and with an extreme sense of disempowerment never felt before,

perhaps we will see something unprecedented in this year of 2007?
Perhaps we could see the rise of equally empowered individuals?
Perhaps we will truly see how it is the people themselves that are the ones who instigate change
from within and true democracy and freedom are welcomed
indicating that Spirit does rise from within, naturally...

Because CNN changes their webpages so often, I wanted to put in the pix and text instead of the link to the page.

Image from the December 25, 2006 icover of TIME magazine
Text from a 12-17-06 CNN report.

(Time.com) -- The "Great Man" theory of history is usually attributed to the Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who wrote that "the history of the world is but the biography of great men." He believed that it is the few, the powerful and the famous who shape our collective destiny as a species. That theory took a serious beating this year.

To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. A war dragged on in Sudan. A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the bomb, and the president of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming, and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s.

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

And we are so ready for it. We're ready to balance our diet of predigested news with raw feeds from Baghdad and Boston and Beijing. You can learn more about how Americans live just by looking at the backgrounds of YouTube videos -- those rumpled bedrooms and toy-strewn basement rec rooms -- than you could from 1,000 hours of network television.

And we didn't just watch, we also worked. Like crazy. We made Facebook profiles and Second Life avatars and reviewed books at Amazon and recorded podcasts. We blogged about our candidates losing and wrote songs about getting dumped. We camcordered bombing runs and built open-source software.

America loves its solitary geniuses -- its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses -- but those lonely dreamers may have to learn to play with others. Car companies are running open design contests. Reuters is carrying blog postings alongside its regular news feed. Microsoft is working overtime to fend off user-created Linux. We're looking at an explosion of productivity and innovation, and it's just getting started, as millions of minds that would otherwise have drowned in obscurity get backhauled into the global intellectual economy.

Who are these people? Seriously, who actually sits down after a long day at work and says, I'm not going to watch Lost tonight. I'm going to turn on my computer and make a movie starring my pet iguana? I'm going to mash up 50 Cent's vocals with Queen's instrumentals? I'm going to blog about my state of mind or the state of the nation or the steak-frites at the new bistro down the street? Who has that time and that energy and that passion?

The answer is, you do. And for seizing the reins of the global media, for founding and framing the new digital democracy, for working for nothing and beating the pros at their own game, Time's Person of the Year for 2006 is you.

Sure, it's a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary. Web 2.0 harnesses the stupidity of crowds as well as its wisdom. Some of the comments on YouTube make you weep for the future of humanity just for the spelling alone, never mind the obscenity and the naked hatred.

But that's what makes all this interesting. Web 2.0 is a massive social experiment, and like any experiment worth trying, it could fail. There's no road map for how an organism that's not a bacterium lives and works together on this planet in numbers in excess of 6 billion. But 2006 gave us some ideas. This is an opportunity to build a new kind of international understanding, not politician to politician, great man to great man, but citizen to citizen, person to person. It's a chance for people to look at a computer screen and really, genuinely wonder who's out there looking back at them. Go on. Tell us you're not just a little bit curious.

Copyright © 2006 Time Inc.

Listen to this child's voice!