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

Developing an interest in art recently I just found an interesting photoshop contest on worth1000. The contest objective is to take a fine art picture and remove the people, leaving everything else in place.

The results are eerie but also entertaining and exhibit an amazing mastery in photoshop given that missing parts, e.g. background in a place where a human body part was, need to be repainted in a realistic way.

And in a way this is strangely inverse to nude art and porn. In those you see people without clothes, here it is the opposite.

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As long as I can remember, I have been weary of interpretations of art and literature. This basically goes back to school where we were supposed to take apart great works in both art forms and come up with interpretations and meanings for details in them.

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A user on our forum posted a snippet from an Elias Session today where Elias says that visuals are the most powerful sense to create perception. Just a few minutes later I generated a nice synch by finding an animation video on haha.nu which fits the topic on multiple levels.

I'm a great fan of animation movies so this gives me a great excuse to post it here (not that I need any) together with the opportunity to create some insight, especially because the movie is quite powerful (according to haha.nu it was nominated for the Oscar in 2002).

(Warning: some blood and violence involved.)

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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 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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Ms Kampusch had been shielded from the public since her escape from being held capture for eight years (after having been kidnapped at the age of eleven). After bolting to freedom she was taken secret place to shield her from the intense media interest, so there were no pictures and only small bits of news and a lot of speculation.

I felt drawn to the case since the first day and followed most of the coverage on national and international agencies through Google News. There were many interviews with psychologists and experts and they all seemed to stress her weakness which struck me as odd because my own impression (call it a gut feeling) was, that despite the horrors which she must have lived through, she was in an okay state.

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Last week a news item which went around the world caught my eye. A girl who had been abducted at the age of 11 and who had been assumed dead had reappeard after having been held capture for eight years. If you have missed the story, here is an article from the 24th from SpiegelOnline and one from the International Herald Tribune of the same day (one day after her escape).

I don't want to go into details about what appeared when and where in the media, except this: After she escaped, the police describe here in reasonably good physical shape and as reponsive and intelligent. Later it was reported that she did and does not want to have contact with her parents (she is currently in a secret place and does not appear in public as of her own choice) but did meet with teenagers of her own age. Police reported that said that she had sexual contact with her kidnapper (Mr. Priklopil) but said she was not forced and that it had been her free will. Then there was an item about the fact that she had shown signs of sadness when she was told that Mr. Priklopil had died (he had committed suicide on the day after she escaped). Some time later a neighbor was found who said that he had visited the house once to borrow a tool while she was there, not knowing who she was he thought that she might be a friend or relative. He said that "she seemed friendly and happy". Also, she has written an open letter, which was published two days ago and which I will link to further down in this text.

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Here are three news items which make me think that the parents involved may be in for a surprise sooner or later (all stories deal with parents being concerned about the protection of their kids).

Either that, or our dead guys (Elias, Abraham, etc.) are pretty wrong in their asessments of children, as they all point out that in our time you can learn a lot about your beliefs, judgments and limitations by paying attention to your kids, because those shift kids are a lot more aware of themselves, their realities and what they want and a lot less willing to bear with artificial limitations.

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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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I was reading a thread on NWV today which reminded me of something which occurred to me a couple of weeks ago.

When I started reading Seth in 1985 I had no idea about spritual concepts and their ideas around the ego. The ego was mentioned a couple of times in the Seth books, and I took them as they were presented there without understanding what the fuzz about that was. The only connection I had with this word, was egotistical and that was about it.

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