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Swedish painter Carl Larsson

Domestic bliss in exquisitely crafted watercolour... He made his home his masterwork - decorated and designed just whimsically enough to feel like a living painting, but without rendering the rooms uninhabitable or disturbing the rhythms of daily life. So lovely. What a concept - make your life art!

www.carllarsson.se/enstart.aspx  

Quantum Entanglement - "connectivity is THE property of quantum mechanics"

Physicists are going to be the new mystics. I feel it.  What we are - what we exist within - what "reality" is, they refer to as a "field of pure potentiality".   How incredible!  Imagine the transformation that could take place if humans deeply discover this! When I think of how a fearful, cynical, divisive consciousness has manifested in the world, clips like these convince me that peaceful consciousness can manifest as pervasively.

This is Gandhi all over again. You are infectious - your mind is quantum-ly entangled with everything else that exists.  By being in a present, love-motivated state, you emit it, you affect everything around you, and that is not a little thing, that is a beam of light!  "Be the change" he said, just BE it, no need to scream it from the rooftops or pull your hair out trying to cause waves of awakening in the population.
Your aware presence, your stilled mind, your open heart  -  are so powerful, in ways we cannot even fathom.

Quantum physics shows that the state of a particle or particles is not a static, discriminately knowable thing. In fact, it is the opposite. Active, influential, mysteriously continuous and connected to the observer.

Are we going to realize in a few hundred years, like Copernicus did, that our senses are not the determiners of truth? - that our perception of reality is only a perception, and that underneath the vast and varied menu of forms in the world lies a single, eternal force that we all emanate from and eventually return to? Are we going to understand that our thinking, chattering minds are NOT the totality of what we deem our "selves" and that a vast "field of potentiality" exists beyond it?  One that we all share - so in fact, we are not separate selves? Will this mean the dawn of compassion and the end of the frantic race? Man I love it when science and faith play nice together!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QcKDvcnZrE&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSqrb3VK3c&feature=related

http://cam.qubit.org/articles/intros/entangle.php

Check out this excerpt from a paper by Michael Brooks:
http://www.biophysica.com/quantum.htm

"But these problems may be  nothing compared to the bombshell that Caslav Brukner of the University of  Vienna has just dropped. As if our current understanding of entanglement  between widely separated particles were not sketchy enough, Brukner,  working with Vedral and two other Imperial College researchers, has  uncovered a radical twist. They have shown that moments of time can become  entangled too (www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402127).

They achieved this through  a thought experiment that examines how quantum theory links successive  measurements of a single quantum system. Measure a photon's polarisation,  for example, and you will get a particular result. Do it again some time  later, and you will get a second result. What Brukner and Vedral have  found is a strange connection between the past and the future: the very  act of measuring the photon polarisation a second time can affect how it  was polarised earlier on. "It's really surprising," says Vedral.

This entanglement between  moments in time is so bizarre that it could expose a hole in the very  fabric of quantum theory, the researchers believe. The formulation does  not allow messages to be sent back in time, but it still means that  quantum mechanics seems to be bending the laws of cause and effect. On top  of that, entanglement in time puts space and time on an equal footing in  quantum theory, and that goes sharply against the grain.

Space and time have always  been very different in quantum theory. A location in space is an  "observable" - like momentum or spin, spatial coordinates are  just another property any quantum particle can have. The passing of time,  on the other hand, has always been part of the backdrop. An electron can  have a particular value of spin, or momentum or location, but it cannot  have a particular time.

But if time can become  entangled, it should be considered as an observable, and there is no way  to write that into quantum theory. "People have tried, but something  in quantum mechanics always has to be violated if you want a proper time-observable," Vedral says. "So it could be that something in  quantum mechanics has to be reformulated."

In other words, Brukner's  result suggests that we might be missing something important in our  understanding of how the world works. Maybe that shouldn't surprise us.  After all, entanglement between two spatially separated objects already tells us that space doesn't really have the form that classical physics  says it does: instantaneous cause and effect across cosmological distances  is not something that any theory of the universe can cope with. And now  Brukner's result seems to extend this "impossibility" to events  separated in time as well.

It's not cause for  despair, though. We know that relativity and quantum theory have to be  meshed together if we are to create a "final" theory of how the  universe works. It is too early to read much into Brukner's result, but  maybe it is a clue about how to produce such a theory."

Elle Muliarchyk - photographer and model

Model. Sheesh. Does that even qualify as an occupation? Now now Sarah, play nice. This woman should definitely list "photographer and artist" before "model" on her resume.... Originally from Belarus, Elle came to New York to be a supermodel, but art came screaming into her mind and she had no choice but to obey its every command. Her unique twist is taking photographs in dangerous locations, sometimes the dressing rooms of posh boutiques, sometimes midnight forests in frightening suburban badlands... her photos conjure whole worlds and stories and emotions.... www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Quotes

Some fuel for your metaphysical fire. Shine bright fellow soldiers.
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some; it is in everyone.

And, as we let our own light shine, we consciously give
other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

-Marianne Williamson (quoted by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 Inaugural Speech)

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop and look
fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The more I learn of physics,
. . . the more I'm drawn to metaphysics."

-- Albert Einstein

"I decided early to give my life to
something eternal and absolute. Not
to these little gods that are here today
and gone tomorrow, but to God who is
the same yesterday, today,
. . . and forever."

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.