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Enjoy.
Escape to the Present
Consider a time line.
This time line is fundamentally a mathematical construct. We contrive a three arbitrary points — a point in the past, a point for the present, and a point in the future.
It is not unusual for people to have the experience of time flowing from the past to the future. Continue reading
Do we see reality as it is?
We do not, nor can we, see the real world — not as we are. Humans evolved to not see the real world. Because seeing the real world does not help us survive.
Instead we see an augmented reality.
When a bear wanders into our vicinity, we do not see the bear. We see an icon that represents the bear.
Why? Because the icon can be fashioned to help us act in a manner that will improve our chances of survival. Seeing the real bear apparently does not do as well.
We are programmed by our DNA, and trained by our experience to see icons rather than reality. Continue reading
Blender as a Work Opportunity
One of the reasons that I elected to mentor these Blender classes was because I felt it was good. for personal transformation. That’s one reason. Everyone can benefit from that. By the way, here’s a bit of good news. Even a very beginning total noob level of building skills with Blender can provide the context for the spiritual transformation.
The second reason is that with practice some people will learn Blender well enough to make objects, to use in the SL Virtual Ashram and to use in our Kitely building project. In addition those objects can be used in the games that EJ is creating. Not everyone will get
to this level. But many of you will.
Blender – Handy Links
Official Blender Links
Blender.org Homepage — This is the place to download blender and access news, updates and background information related to Blender.
Blender Official youtube page — Here you will find a few introductory tutorials, lots of news, a bunch of movies made with Blender, and other Blender Org related video uploads. Some of the movies are fun. The tutorials were worth watching. But, for myself, the rest of the videos were not as yet relevant.
Tutorial Channels
These are some of the channels that I have found useful. It is not all the channels. I will be adding links for additional channels as we progress with the tutorials.
Chocofur — youtube channel — This is the channel for chocofur. He’s the fellow doing the 20 part Blender 2.8 tutorial we are using.
First Homework Assignment
Installation and Interface – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 1/20]
Object Selection and Transformation Gizmo – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 2/20]
Moving, Rotating, Scaling – Blender 2.8 Beginner Tutorial [Part 3/10]
Blender — An Introduction
What is Blender?
Blender is a 3D modeling program — and much, much more.
This description comes from the Blender website: “Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.”
For examples of the above mentioned functions check out Blender’s Features page.
What Blender Can Do For You?
Possible Employment
Continue readingDream-Life: A Gateway to Past Lives
I’ve been finding the Dream-Life Game to operate as a gentle gateway to past lives.
Some folks have a natural blockage to accessing past lives. This “natural blockage” can be described as a concern that when the doorway to previous incarnations is pulled ajar that one may be overwhelmed by a flood of memories. Overwhelmed by quantity, vividness, and perhaps content. I find this concern to be a quite reasonable — misguided, but definitely reasonable.
Continue readingFluid Attention & Crystallized Attention
Fluid attention and crystallized attention are defined by the qualities of the director of the attention — not the attention itself. Fluid and crystallized are terms referring to the meta form of attention.
Continue readingQMV What’s In A Name?
Question: “While running for people like my father, i use the following words:
‘This run is addressed to the being of my father Darth Vader’ Is it completely fine to use both relation as well as name to strengthen the connection?”
Answer: Yes Luke, that is perfectly fine.
Continue readingQMV Running For Groups
Question: “Hi , can you give me ideas on wordings so that i can run for my family members as a whole — and be as effective as doing it individually. It really stresses me out, as i have not been able to do for everyone individually. I have tried to use “family” or “home and family” but my mind pops up every time, and it distracts and asks: what does “family” mean? Is it parents or parents & brother or even grandparents…or what about uncle’s family and cousins. Please help me sort this out.”
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