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In biological physiology, awareness describes an animal's perception and cognitive reaction to a condition or event. Awareness does not necessarily imply understanding.

Awareness is a relative concept. An animal may be partially aware, may be subconsciously aware or may be acutely aware of an event. Awareness may be focused on an internal state, such as a visceral or deep down gut feeling, or on external events by way of sensory perception. Awareness provides the raw material from which animals develop qualia, or subjective ideas and beliefs about their experience.

Electro-chemical networks related to the chordate nervous system facilitate awareness as in the function of neuropeptides and their receiver sites in cellular communication. Researchers have debated what minimal components are necessary for animals to be aware of environmental stimulus, though all animals have some capacity for acute reactive behavior that implies a faculty for awareness.

Popular ideas about consciousness suggest the phenomenon describes a condition of being aware of one's awareness. Efforts to describe consciousness in neurological terms have focused on describing networks in the brain that develop awareness of the qualia developed by other networks. Those that are described in Spiritual Terms are closer to the intelligence that is responsible for creating the Universe and the human brain which is more of a receiver to translate God into form and experience.

Neural systems that regulate attention serve to attenuate or shrink awareness among complex animals whose central and peripheral nervous system provides more information than cognitive areas of the brain can assimilate. Within an attenuated system of awareness, a mind might be aware of much more than is being contemplated in a focused extended consciousness. If you were to take your attention from the bigger picture and place it on a specific object or experience within the big picture you might lose sight of the bigger picture for a moment, but the bigger picture remains regardless of the lack of attention.
In other words the mind is only capable of successfully giving attention to one thing at a time. If you put it on any object you would only see the surface of it at first glance. To understand it would mean the mind would have to leave the surface appearances behind to see what is inside of it or beyond just the single object or surface attention. Such is the case with the inward exploration of the mind and expanding consciousness.’

If we only look at the transitions of thought that make up the universe we will only perceive bits and pieces of the picture, or if it was a puzzle just the pieces of the puzzle. If you study only a few of the pieces it would be difficult to conceive of the entire picture without having studied all the other pieces and then putting them together, this can take a very long time and a lot of effort. If you went to the source you may become familiar with the seed which holds all of the pieces within as well as the completed picture.

Scientists are still trying to map the DNA molecule, to unravel the programming of the Human potential. With all of the variables how long do you think it would take to unravel the essence of the Human being bit by bit, every possible feeling and choice, including the subjective and objective capability to learn and understand, etc. etc.?


Antiquated Reasoning and evolution of Awareness


As one of the first humans looked about on our earth, he had a certain awareness of a limited area in which he traveled and hunted. He visualized himself as at the center of a well known territory surrounded by a larger expanse of a region in which he had never roamed, but which he nevertheless knew existed by means of communications with his fellow beings. .
Even though over a million years have passed between this first member of the human species and ourselves, this sense of being at the heart of our orb still exists in us. Man, while endeavoring to understand the universe around him, has repeatedly made himself, through the individual belief and experience of the ego, the center of the cosmos and thereby thwarted his efforts at obtaining his long sought after goal of the awareness of a Universe that is not separated by belief and individual points of reference.

What was true of the ancients, in trying to understand the motion of the sun and planets by considering the earth at rest, is still true today in the space age when man tries to unravel the enigma of space and time. . The delusions that hinder us in our perception of the true nature of the fields of gravity, magnetism and electrostatics are the following two:

1. The first delusion is that we, like our prehistoric friend see man or our beliefs of man, the ego as the focal point between the microcosm and the macrocosm. We are inadvertently saying this: a thing smaller than man has a certain order and has a certain set of rules; anything larger than man belongs to an entirely different order and has contrasting laws. This poses a question. . Does it seem logical to assume that this infinite universe, composed of an unceasing sequence of orbiting bodies building together to form larger revolving units, would pick man, a mere speck in this universe, as the center of coordinates to differentiate between a microcosm and a macrocosm? . It is very unlikely.
This assumption, that he is the midpoint of things, is the very thing that obstructs man in achieving the solution he so diligently seeks.

2. The second delusion that obscures the explanation of our environment is that we constantly seek a place in the universe that remains at rest. . We then try to express all motion in terms of items moving in respect to us or another object that we allege is remaining stationary.

The reason for this is that most of man's experience with movement here on earth is in solving problems involving a certain motion in regard to an immobile earth. . Our prehistoric friend found out that describing motion in respect to a quiescent earth worked just fine, and this method of description suited his descendents fairly well for over a million years.

Because of the simplicity of this method of portraying movement, the majority of the occupants of this planet earth see no reason for not continuing this arrangement for another million years. . This is not such an easy thing to do because Galileo and Einstein have both shown us that this method is not suitable in all cases, and that other people who may be journeying through space on another planet, revolving around another sun, may want to describe motion using their sun or their planet as a place of reference.

We can understand that they are going to express all motion that they observe in the heavens in respect to their sun or their planet being at rest. . We understand their situation only too well and we say to them, so that mistakes will be avoided, as we exchange information, that they should express all movement of celestial bodies that they observe by adding the phrase "Relative to Planet X". . We will then tell them that after our celestial observations that we will add the phrase "Relative to the earth"

The above presentation, a limited analogy of a portion of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, helps one realize that man through personal experience or ego does not have a monopoly on the point of view as to who is at rest and who is moving.
Interestingly enough in the awareness of the Human being there exists the potential to grasp the reality of the Universe if Man learns the truth of his existence relative to the source. Being a voice for the source one can easily transmit the experience of source through the media of the Universe or the Body. The only problem with the general acceptance of the human, being the point of reference, is when you accept the surface experiences of the Human or the changing experiences of the evolving human.

One can trace the essence of the universe back through human experience which is what makes the human so unique in the animal kingdom. Only the Human can question or desire to know him/herself and the source of the universe where the animals can not. This makes a human being an instrument of perception to the midpoint of the microcosm and the macrocosm rather than the midpoint itself. It is through awareness that one can be aware of the subjective and objective experience and follow both to the source.

We all have awareness, becoming aware of awareness is the recognition of what it is, conscious awareness would be the awareness of awareness. Becoming conscious of the Self is to trace the subjective experience back to its source, the Ascendant Self.

Enlightenment would be the constant living experience of the Ascendant Self moving through every thought feeling and action of experience.

There is a story about three blind men who would get together once a week when their families would travel into town to shop for their supplies. The families would gather in the center of town where they would leave their blind relatives to visit with each other as they went about their business.

The three would be busy chatting about whatever was relevant for them during the course of the week sharing their experiences and catching up on the latest gossip.

One day a traveler passed through town on an elephant. The event was something to speak of since not many elephants passed through their part of the country.

The town instantly came alive with the excitement of the event. The three old men were wondering what all the excitement was about and asked some boys who were passing by what was making everyone excited.

“There’s an elephant passing thru the town,” one of the boys replied.
“I’ve never seen an elephant nor do I know what it might look like,” said the blind man. “Neither have I said the other two together.”

The boys somewhat amused that the three blind men didn’t know what an elephant looked like immediately offered to take them to the elephant, to let them experience for themselves what an elephant might look like.
The boys being somewhat mischievous thought it might be fun to play a trick on the three men when they arrived, so when they came to the elephant they took them each to a different part of the elephant to feel the elephant and experience it.
The first was led to the Leg where he felt around the rough skin, and upward to what seemed a gigantic immovable object firmly planted in the ground.

He was then led back to his friends who listened to his description of a beast, “so big and solid it was like a Tree standing firmly in the ground.”

The second man was then led up to the front of the elephant where he began exploring the long trunk of the beast, the elephant being uncomfortable with the grasping hands of the man twitched his trunk sending the man flying to the ground. When the boy led him back to his friend he gasped in exasperation, “This elephant is a wild snake, most unpredictable and dangerous.” The first man said to them, “this cannot be, you cannot have touched the same beast as I.”

Finally the third man was led to climb upon some stacked crates at the side of the elephant and his hands guided to the ear. As he explored the huge ear he exclaimed, “Finally, I have solved this mystery, neither of my two friends have accurately described this elephant for it is like a giant living carpet.”

The boys thoroughly amused with themselves led the men back to the square where they argued over which description and experience was the correct one.

For the next few weeks the men relentlessly argued over the differences in their experience of the elephant.
Then one day, a man who had a reputation of being a wise sage and a great healer happened to be passing thru town and caught wind of the arguing blind men.

He listened to their arguments of the elephant, each describing the different experiences and refusing to acknowledge any truth in either of their friend’s experience.

The sage then stepped into the conversation and introduced himself. The three friends having heard of the sage asked if he could settle this dispute once and for all.

He then said to them, ”your blindness far exceeds your physical senses, it is not your eyes that do not see but your beliefs in the separation of your experiences. If you were to work together to discover the truth of the elephant I would heal your eyes that you may truly see this elephant for yourselves.”

The sage promised to return the following month to see if they could come to an agreement about what they had felt with their experiences of the elephant.

For the next few weeks to the irritation of their respective families they talked incessantly about their experiences of the elephant trying to solve the mystery of their differences.

Finally one of the three men remembering the snickering boys as they were each led to the elephant suggested that maybe they had been misled to experience different parts of the elephant and neither had quite grasped the entirety of the elephant at all.

This started the men to thinking about incorporating their experiences, and to piece together the mystery of this beast.
The first man said, “Perhaps this tree that I had wrapped myself around was only a leg of this huge beast and the snake one of many tentacles of this hideous creature, and the huge living carpet, a wing or some other appendage.” And so the contemplation continued until the sage would arrive.

At the end of the month the sage returned with an elephant to see if the three blind men had come to a conclusion in their quest for truth about their differing experiences.

He went to the square where the men were waiting anxiously for his return and greeted them on his approach.
“Have you come to a conclusion regarding the argument of what the elephant looks like?” he asked.

We have come to the conclusion that each of our experiences is valid. Even though our experiences and descriptions are different we have come to think that we have each a piece of the puzzle. We think we were misled by the boys who led us to different parts of this huge beast to deliberately set us apart in our experiences of the elephant. Together we think we can get closer to the truth rather than separately, but unfortunately we have only had one brief experience of the beast and without further examination would not be able to accurately solve the puzzle.”

“Very good,” said the sage, “If you would please follow me I think we can put an end to this mystery.” He then led the three blind me to the elephant. There he stopped and produced a salve which he administered to the eyes of each of the three blind men.
Within a few short minutes they each exclaimed that they were beginning to see shadow and light. Following that, the vision of the elephant became clear to each of them and they saw for the first time the huge leg that the first man had described as a tree, the long twisting trunk which was first thought to be a snake, and the third man exclaimed, “Look, look, the carpet is the beasts ear!”

The sage turned to each of them and said, “Each man is born with the senses to experience life, yet we each will experience it as we wish to experience it.

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Listening to Prime Time Sports w/ Bob McCown this evening. Show always comes back from commerical breaks with snippets of songs as "bumper music" that fades out as Bob comes back on the air.

Kicked off the 5pm hour with a "Courage" bumper fading out, followed by this by McCown:

"CanCon... The Hip... may have an announcement to make about The Hip at some point, not today though... stay tuned for further details!" and that was it, no further hint or mention.


Would think it would obviously be some sports-themed tie-in but really, that's about as vague of an announcement tease as there could possibly be :lol:


direct link to the .mp3 of the 5pm hour (the short tease kicks off the very start):
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We had high hopes for our last attempt at an archive but like so many things Hip it eventually died on the vine. (Although I've just moved the files to a new location for my new plan detailed below.)

I will share all of my recordings, and and all of the recordings that I have collected over the years. Over the course of the last few months I've been slowly copy all of the CDs and DVDs of audio and video to a massive RAID. This week we upgraded our business internet connection to a dedicated 20 meg service. During the evenings and weekends I will open the site up for downloads via FTP.

If you've got a show that I don't have please send me a note and I will hook you up with an upload username and password.

Ideally I'd like to find a way to make the site make a few bucks to cover off the cost of the drive (~ $1000). Any thoughts on this matter are appreciated.

If everything goes to plan the site will be online in the next two weeks. Between now and then please post your comments, suggestions, requests, etc., in this thread.

Tribute album. Read about it here:

http://exclaim.ca/News/justin_rutledge_r...vers_album

With all the (probably warranted) griping about where the state of Gord's live 'shouting' voice is at, how bout a little positivity?

Soliciting nominees for Gord's best vocals either in studio or live (preferably via youtube, if live)


I've long, long held the belief that the song Fully Completely is some of Gord's best vocal work, especially the delivery of the line

I ponder the endlessness of the stars; and

Bring me back in shackles and hang me long out in the sun,
exonerate me, then forget about me,
oh wait and you'll see, just wait and you'll see... FULLY, COMPLETELY

can't explain technically why, it just is to me.

you?