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TIP JAR for Lloyd and Richard
(Didn't these guys do a great job?) It was mid-summer and Lloyd wrote to NNH saying, "I got so much from this site during a long winter, that I would like to help create a dream website."  Lloyd lives way north in Sweeden. After hours of daily Skype discussion and Lloyd's academic and family demands, (and usually til 2:00 or 3:00 am for him), this creation took place. Who knows, maybe the creativity has just begun?
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The most important thing that I have learned about life by doing this show, (and that which really none of us have learned), is how to receive. Please receive this show with total ease and effortlessness.

I have never made any part of this site commercial, not because I have some altruistic idea that it doesn't take money to make our modern world go around???? It's just that I'm too concentrated on new guests and preparing archives, to have any time to think about financing this thing or setting it on a firm foundation.

Friends have convinced me that there should at least be a way to add energy. So here it is. Donations will be processed in our old company name (when I had a job) Central Art Service.

I would love a partner, (someone who is just as crazy as I am). That would be someone who would do just about anything to get this message out, as far and wide as possible. I think that together we could make this effort really "sing".

A Very Big Thanks

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Just a note that we are really greatful for the advertisements that appear on the Streaming Players, becasue that is how we pay for the Livestream and Ustream service and their bandwidth that we use. They do not create any other cash flow for NNH.

Another way to look at it:

Here is some groundwork for a conversation about awakening to "the true essence" of being human. Let's say for the sake of humility, that neither you nor I really know what that is. That way nobody has to preach and we can admit that we are talking strictly in concepts and ideas, expressed in the world of the written word and thought.

Let's start by looking outward, toward how science functions. Look at some of the scientific "papers" given in the respected talks hosted by TED.com. In particular I was recently "triggered" into action by an older talk about Bio-Tech Engineering. The viewpoint of all science must be that we are victims of circumstances, victims of disease, aging, degeneration and pain, and science and applied technology can be our savior. There is never the consideration that these discomforts may have their own usefulness. Of course a pain is a signal to stop doing something that proves to be damaging. Think of a life where none of those signals would have any importance? If it were given to each of us to be the architects of our own lives, would we choose only those "chocolate covered moments"? Would that be a life of value for us and for those around us?

Harking back to an old favorite book "Understanding Media: The Extension of Man" McLuhan defines technology as a "counter irritant" to the irritations afflicting man. In other words, technology is our response to pain. Does it turn out to be an endless cycle? Would there still be a technology in a mankind that doesn't conceptualize and feed the pain idea? Example: it's a long trip to work, an hour, let's build a super highway. Or, maybe it is not a pain to take that daily journey, and that actually, time by myself and among those whom I pass is the highlight of my day, OR gosh there's a better job just 2 doors from my house? Here pain could be subjective and/or useful to steer life. For example, is aging a deeply felt pain, or is it a contemplative pleasure?

What I wish to say is that the scientific exploration is premised on certain assumptions that we all live from (more or less) conventional interpretations of our own lives. These interpretations are that we all embrace the same conventional concepts about our life. In fact we live as this conceptual knowledge, and in the end we embody, or we are living as a concept, because who we think we are IS a concept.

But what are we before that concept, before that thought? Isn't thought somehow dependent on our humanness which has the capacity to be aware of the thought? Yet we are taught to ignore this basic essence. Our schooling doesn't really ignore it, it is premised on not even acknowledging that it exists, (a pure and true blindness to the obvious). Yet all that science comes up with, and is fed to us as these conceptual beings, looks really good on a research grant application or a business plan.

Where is the research grant for knowing who you are? Or for those who do know, where is the financing to involve themselves in the media to spread the good news? As far as I can see, the investment has been a million to one skewed toward scientific hype.

I hold nothing against living in the world of modern scientific conveniences nor having money. But what satisfaction has that proven to be, in all these years before I had some notion of who I am?

If you want to talk about seriously projecting these web casts, no need to go through Pay Pal. Just email me your phone number and a good time to call, and I would love to talk.

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