Law of One - Understanding Reality

Editor's Notes

• #51: The great migration of wildebeest is one of the world's most dramatic natural wonders: Every year in Africa, more than 1.5 million wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti in Tanzania and into the Masai Mara in Kenya in search of fresh grazing pastures. Photographers and brothers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas journeyed to see the migration first-hand, recording the huge effort in stunning photos, time-lapse sequences, and a video. It's the largest mass-movement of land mammals on the planet—and the thunderous charge is nowhere more hectic than at the Mara river, where the thousands and thousands of animals are forced to converge in order to cross to the other side.
• #52: Swarms of rational idiots are able to make complex decisions, as if guided by a larger intelligence—and it is a lot cheaper to build an idiot. Coral forms complex, porous structures that are surprisingly similar to those built by insects, full of chambers and holes but remarkably stable.
• #61: Dennis Waite The Book of One The Ancient Wisdom of Advaita 448 pages,  A comprehensive, yet entertaining introduction to Advaita, the non-dual philosophy which provides a completely reasonable explanation for who we are and the nature of the universe. There are many 'self-help' approaches promising enlightenment and happiness but most are illogical and lack any proven capability. Advaita has a guru-disciple tradition stretching back for several thousand years and can guarantee the sincere seeker a progressive path to self-realization.A 21st Century treatment of this ancient eastern philosophy, this book addresses all of the issues that are covered by both traditional teachers from the lineage of Shankara and by modern 'satsang teaching' and Direct Path methods stemming from Ramana Maharshi and Krishna Menon Topics are explained in an accessible and readable manner, using amusing quotations and stories along with an abundance of metaphors from a wide variety of sources. Some of the most difficult concepts are clarified, whilst recognizing that this knowledge is ultimately beyond language or intellectual understanding. The Book of One is perhaps the most accessible, articulate and relevant book on the nature of non-duality. www.advaita.org.uk(zvg) 9|5|10
• #63: The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.
• #68: www.psylords.info - 500 × 349 - Search by image Bacteria are smart enough that when they have hard conditions, instead of competing with one another, they act collectively to spread nutrients and transmute resources in a manner that requires group coordination.
• #69: Highly evolved communities Colony of Paenibacillus vortex bacteria. Example of an elaborate colony that P. vortex can form, such as the one in the accompanying image, when grown for a few days in a Petri dish under laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments it may face. While the colors and shading are artistic additions, the image structure is part of an 8cm diameter colony of tens of billions of these microorganisms create as they use “chemical twitting” to self-organize and to solve problems together in the absence of rulers. The bright dots are dense groups of bacteria, termed vortices, which swarm collectively around a common center to better pave the way on hard surfaces and protect themselves from hazards. As the cells replicate, the vortex expands in size and moves outward as a unit, leaving behind a trail of older, non-replicating cells, which form branches. Bacteria have developed intricate communication capabilities (e.g. quorum-sensing, chemotactic signaling and plasmid exchange) to cooperatively self-organize into highly structured colonies with elevated environmental adaptability. (http://www.cell.com/trends/microbiology/abstract/S0966-842X(04)00138-6) The power of cooperationWhile the number of bacteria in a colony can be more than 100 times the number of people on Earth, bacteria are twittering (“ bacterial twittering” or “chemical tweeting”) to make sure they all know what they all doing (by exchanging “chemical tweets”); each cell is both an actor and a spectator in the bacterial Game of Life. Acting jointly, these tiny organisms can sense the environment, process information, solve problems and make decisions so as to thrive in harsh environments. In better times, when exposed to an environment containing abundant nutrients, instead of rushing to exhaust the available resources, as human communities often do, bacteria save for the future and make sure to be prepared for hard times that might befall them in the future. But how smart bacteria really are, and what makes them that way? The impact of the team's research is three-fold. First, it shows just how "smart" bacteria can really be — a new paradigm that has just begun to be recognised by the science community today. Second, it demonstrates bacteria's high level of social intelligence — how bacteria work together to communicate and grow. And finally, the work points out some potentially significant applications in medicine and agriculture. The researchers looked at genes which allow the bacteria to communicate and process information about their environment, making decisions and synthesizing agents for defensive and offensive purposes. This research shows that bacteria are not simple solitary organisms, or "low level" entities, as earlier believed — they are highly social and evolved creatures. They consistently foil the medical community as they constantly develop strategies against the latest antibiotics. In the West, bacteria are one of the top three killers in hospitals today. Swarming motility allows microorganisms to move rapidly over surfaces. The Gram-positive bacterium Paenibacillus vortex exhibits advanced cooperative motility on agar plates resulting in intricate colonial patterns with geometries that are highly sensitive to the environment. Social Intelligence of Bacteria Social-IQ score of bacteria was developed and evaluated for all bacteria with sequenced genome. The new score can help to better benefit from high IQ friendly bacteria and outsmart pathogenic ones.  Bacteria, long perceived as simple creatures, are now recognised to be smart beasts that can conduct intricate social life while using sophisticated chemical language, one we have only recently begun to decode. The bacterial power of cooperation is manifested by their ability to develop large colonies of astonishing complexity, as seen in the picture
• #70: Social IQ distribution. The distribution of the social IQ scores of the 502 bacteria in terms of the relative scores (relative to the average score divided by the standard deviation). The bacteria strains marked green belong to the Paenibacillus genus.   Our best friends and worst enemiesBacteria are the most prolific organisms on Earth. Many of them are fierce killers, but many more are indispensible to our survival. In our rush to free the human race from deadly bacterial diseases, we created a major health problem worldwide: bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics. Even in the West, bacteria are one of the top 3 killers in hospitals today. Unaware of bacteria's social intelligence, which allows them to learn from experience to solve new problems and then share their newly acquired skills, we use antibiotics indiscriminately. As a result, bacteria developed multiple drug resistance, and we can't invent new drugs fast enough to beat them. Acknowledging bacteria’s social intelligenceTo change this threat to our health, we must realize they have social intelligence. Only if we accept how smart they are can we find ways to destroy the pathogenic bacteria and at the same time find new ways to better exploit the capabilities of friendly bacteria for our benefit. There is now hope that soon we will find new ways to fight drug-resistant pathogenic bacteria. Our study shows that the pathogenic bacteria are not so smart; their Social-IQ score is just at the average level. Acknowledging that bacteria are smart will direct research effort to gather information and to deepen the understanding of bacteria's social intelligence. Then, we will learn how to outsmart the bacteria - for example, by tampering with their communication or by turning toxic material they produce against them, as we have recently shown. Harnessing bacterial intelligenceThis information can also be directly applied in “green” agriculture or biological control, where bacteria’s advanced offense strategies and the toxic agents they synthesize are used to fight harmful bacteria and fungi and even higher organisms. The Paenibacillus genus bacteria, to which the three smartest bacteria belong, are known to be a rich source for industrial, agricultural and medical applications. Bacteria are often found in soil and live in harmony with a plant’s roots –– a process called symbiosis.  The environment down there is very competitive, and bacteria help the plant roots access nutrients; in exchange, the bacteria consume sugar from the roots. Both help each other. For that reason, bacteria are now applied in agriculture to increase the productivity of plants and make them stronger against pests and disease. The Social-IQ score could help developers screen which bacteria might work best for each task.
• #86: The Hair Worm is a parasite capable of infesting grasshoppers and compelling them to commit suicide by drowning so the worm can be released back into an aquatic environment.
• #87: There is a species of Liver Fluke that find their way into the bodies of mammals through ants -- ants which they control! And the whole thing happens because snails, ants, and cows just want to get a bite to eat.The adult liver flukes (Dicrocoelium dendriticum) live in the bodies of mammals like cows or sheep where they produce eggs that are passed out of the animal in its stool. Terrestrial snails come along, smelly a nice poopy dinner, and gobble up the stool that is infested with an unwanted worm egg salad.Now the eggs begins the next stage of this bizarre life cycle. Inside the snail, the eggs hatch small larva known as miracidia. The miracidia multiply inside the snail's digestive glands, and are expelled from the snail's body in the slime the snail leaves in its wake. From here, ants appear. Just like the snails ate up the cattle's poop, so the ants want to make a meal out of the snail's slime. They collect it into balls, and take it back to the colony for supper.Little do they know that this meal will be the death of them.The larva in the slime has since developed into metacercaria, small spherical cases that contain an intermediary stage of the parasite. Inside their ant hosts, the metacercariae encyst in the ant’s body cavity. Eventually, one metacercaria takes root in the ant's nervous system and it is from here that the metacercaria robs the ant of its will.For reasons still unknown to science, the metacercaria change the ant's behaviour to put them in harm's way. In the cool evenings and early mornings when grazing mammals are about, infected ants are forced by their zombie masters to crawl to the tops of flowers and grass. They stay there, stationary and fixed, until a lumbering mammal looking to satisfy a snack attack comes along and munches up all the vegetation.The Vegetation infested with ants.The Ants infested with liver fluke parasites that infect the mammal.If the ants are lucky enough not to be eaten, they return to their normal behaviour when the day warms. But, the next night or evening when the day cools, they are again compelled to climb to their deaths under chemical command of their fluke worm masters.This video from National Geographic illustrates the bizarre process.
• #93: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eakKfY5aHmY
• #130: Holographic Schematic
• #159: Raindrops on a pond
• #168: Red light interferes with blue light resulting in the total “apparent elimination” of all light (black)
• #175: The electromagnetic spectrum
• #184: (A vibration or frequency.)
• #186: John 1:3 Through him all things were made.
• #260: Star Wars - Leah
• #262: Scientific American Magazine – Aug 2003 – Are You a Hologram
• #263: New Scientist - 2005
• #266: Holographic Schematic
• #268: Holographic plate
• #271: Broken Holographic Plate ‑ (each fragment contains the whole 3-D image).
• #273: Goldfish on TV
• #290: Platonic Solids
• #291: Platonic Solids
• #294: Two Double Tetrahedrons
• #295: Tree of life
• #301: Double tetrahedron
• #306: Iridium atoms
• #307: Φ Curated From: The Resonance Project Φ Music directly reflects the structure of space-time. Here we see how the musical system called “the circle of fifths” perfectly maps to the cube octahedron, or what Buckminster Fuller called the “vector equilibrium” which is comprised of 6 pairs of equal and opposite vectors that perfectly match the 6 pairs of tri-tones (the interval that divides the 12-tone musical scale perfectly in half). We already have the fractal geometry of the structure of the vacuum of space encoded into our musical systems! For more on the connection between music and Sacred geometry check-out this excellent website on cosometry which explores the fractal holographic nature of the cosmos created by The Resonance Project board member Marshall Lefferts : http://cosmometry.net/basics-of-the-music-system
• #312: Beryl Crystal
• #313: Two Double Tetrahedrons
• #314: Chambered Nautilus
• #316: DaVinci
• #317: Human Being
• #318: Frog
• #319: Fish
• #320: Dragonfly
• #321: Phi Ratios in Butterfly
• #322: Metatron's Cube
• #347: Electrons have no specific location
• #357: Matter
• #363: The electromagnetic spectrum
• #372: Here are some former false beliefs; however, some people still hold to these beliefs.
• #373: Current Misconceptions and Illusions Based on Newtonian Physics and believed by many well educated people. Also called the “Scientific Paradigm”
• #379: Iridium atoms
• #487: Table of vibrations
• #497: The electromagnetic spectrum
• #576: Taihe Mountain, Xuanyue Mountain, Wudang Mountain