Exploring The Shift
The shift is not a thing. It is the action of discovering Self.

One of the core concepts of the Elias teachings is the belief system of duplicity, or more precisely truth in conjunction with duplicity, which essentially refers to the idea, that certain things are generally and always better than others. Faster is better than slower, stronger is better than weaker, etc.

Most people will probably agree to that in one degree or another, but if you do, you've got to admit that animals are better than you:

I'm normally not interested in military issues and for what it is worth, I'd be more a peace activist than a soldier, although in fact I'm neither.

But when I read about Project Valour-It, which tries to give speech enabled computers to veterans with hand and arm injuries, I immediately wanted to lend some energy in form of money and blog attention, because I see it a project that is first and foremost for people and not the military and because it is a fine example of humanity and brotherhood.

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I just found an interesting post in Matt Heaton's Blog. Matt is the CEO of the company which hosts this website and I like his candidness and style. If you ever need web hosting, make sure you take Bluehost into consideration, if for nothing else, then for the honesty in one of his earlier blog post.

However in this particular post about winners and losers Matt shares his thoughts about his son's boy scout pinewood derby race and about the fact that they did not make it an actual race, i.e. that there was no over all winner.

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This post started out as a comment to a post on a blog by Chris Cree which I am following for some time. Chris is a nice and candid person with a Christian background and despite the obvious difference we had some interesting exchanges on his blog.

When visiting there this morning, I made a comment to a post about the source of wisdom, which resulted in a longish comment from Chris, which he turned into a blog post because of the lenght and because it fits his blog.

As I was writing a comment to that new post today, the same happened, i.e. it got quite long and since it fits the theme of my site quite well also, I'll also make it a blog post with trackback. In fact I'm quite thrilled about it, as this is the first time I'm really using the blog for what might be called debate an exchange of ideas with another blogger.

So, what follows is my response to Chris' post about finding truth.

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In May I came across an amazing animated movie project, which I find remarkable in many ways. It is the first open movie project. It is exceptionally well made for an amateur project, especially if you keep in mind that animated movies are usually multi million dollar prjojects (although a group of people working for seven months with the help of a university supercluster may be a bit of a stretch to the word amateuers).

I find many elements which remind me of conscious creation and the material which we explore here on this website.

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After blogging about Team Hoyt I recently mentioned here that the "CAN" video was gone from YouTube and speculated about the reasons. In fact I did try to contact the original author to ask him why he removed it, but unfortunately did not get an answer.

However, Mike (who is a visitor of this blog) has been searching for other sources of video and just wrote me an email that he found it again on YouTube. Apparently someone else had made a copy and posted it on YouTube and judging from the stats, it looks like it had been sitting there for two weeks already. It was just a bit hard to find (although it now has 175,000 views).

But be it as it may, I thought I'd let you know that the CAN video is back.

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I was writing about this music video and documentary two days ago and since then my thoughts kept circling around Team Hoyt.

Tammy posted the Sports Illustrated article on her blog and commented on my blog: I could watch videos of their story all day (well, maybe not ALL day, but you know what I mean). What an incredible inspiration. I completely hate that song, "I Can Only Imagine", but it fits this story so perfectly….leaves me cry'n everytime. What an incredible bond..an incredible dad, an incredible faith, an incredible family. Truly inspiring.

I do second that, I've watched the video for the umpteenth time and it always gets me too. I too don't like the song, mentioned that on my first post with my shooting a smart remark about religion. In fact I think the whole things doesn't have much to do with religion, unless of course you project religious ideals onto this remarkable relationship, which probably is not too far fetched, but it is not entirely my liking. Especially because I did not find a single reference to Christianity on the Hoyt's homepage, so this leaves me an odd taste of hijacking these people's life. Which is the reason why over the last times, I did watch the documentary rather than the video. But I don't want to be overly critical, the video is well made, touches many people's hearts, it touched mine in the first place and made me explore this wondrous family a bit more. This is a lot more than what can be said about most music videos.

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This music video and the Sports Illustrated article about the "Strongest Dad" really blew me away yesterday, so I watched it again this morning and followed a few links which I want to share here.

First of all, the names of the two is Rick and Dick Hoyt and they're known as Team Hoyt. Their homepage is http://www.teamhoyt.com/. If you google for Team Hoyt you'll find tons of articles, e.g. a recent one on USA Today.

Then there's a documentary about the two on YouTube which I find even more impressive and inspiring than the music video which seems to have been from footage from the documentary. And another video, although I did not that find as impressive as the other two.

I'm still in the process of reading and wrapping my thoughts around this and I'll sure write a bit about it here later, but for the moment I just want to share the links.

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And here's a complimentary linkback

While browsing the Technorati most populars today I found three videos which I liked.

Can

The first is a music video. As you can probably imagine, I'm not much into religion (in fact I'm most out of religion, organized religion anyway) but this video somehow made me thinking. I tend to see religious backgrounds as sort of – well – limited to say the least. This song seems to have a religious background but it's so deep and touching that I had tears in my eyes while viewing/listening. If your religion does that for you, I guess I have to rethink my position. And before you watch it, make sure to read the story behind it: Can (Video)

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