The Inside Joke

The entire world order is built on inside jokes (okay, slight exaggeration, but I'm making a point here), those moments where awareness resides in a shared sensory experience; the task is communication, but the end result is usually enjoyment. 

From our first encounter with an individual (or an idea) to each subsequent encounter thereafter comes a number of "first times" ... the first time we think of something, the first time we feel something specific regarding a specific thought, and so forth. 

This endless field of perceptions make up the beginning of a game we have been playing since childhood: 

Pretend

Playing Pretend propels us toward vertical independence, the fundamental building block from which all imaginative thought grows. 

We might be the type of person who prefers to put pieces back into the places where we believe they fit... or we might be the type of person who decides to hop over the fence, try their hand at picking some pieces up, all the while enjoying the heck out of the experience that comes with discovering all new places where the pieces might also fit!

Ideas, thoughts, feelings, experiences, perceptions, visions, epiphanies, explosive sensations: the arsenal of accessories from which we choose to explore our world. 

Life is like a game of sorts... following mazes, accumulating points, treasures, and experience; we either move forward, sail backward, or steady our ships so that the world's crashing waves, roaring calms, and tsunami-like experiences might manifest into a calm, smooth, endlessly delightful, marvelously delicious spinning ride... 

...Or 

into an Explosive New Shinning Star ~ 

Or...

...into whatever you like

The experience of pretend is the inside joke that resides in the person having it. 

You might be a delightfully curious person, feeling yourself compelled to follow the White Rabbit... 

Or...

You might be a Storyteller, 

busy creating or building fairy tales for others ...

Or... 

Perhaps you're just accumulating adventures... endlessly and creatively assimilating them all while actively adding new elements to heighten each subsequent discovery until some of those discoveries explode into the starting points of new adventures or brilliant ideas you bring to life.

Eventually, or in some cases, suddenly and quite magically, Pretend brings us right before the Queen Mother herself... 

She is also on a magical ride. Imagine the world from her viewpoint. We are one of the many characters that delight her, too! We are all Cocreators of the world we seek...

Are you dizzy yet?

What did you think about the spinning tea cups? What was your first, second, third, thought? Are you looking at it now? If you're reading this sentence you're probably thinking to yourself that you wish you were looking at the picture instead of reading this endlessly looping sentence whereby you keep reading because the sentence keeps going on and on until you realize that I am playing with you, messing with your head, purposely writing just to see if you'll keep reading, kind of like the picture, right?

Fun, huh?

For me, the spinning tea cups make me giggle before my mind has a chance to dart off in every conceivable direction I have time to entertain. The dizzying sensations physically take me back to childhood when my friends and I would play outside, spinning ourselves silly until we fell down on the grass laughing and giggling for hours on end.

This is that space where tea cups magically came to life... 

Whether we want to be soothed by life or have fun with it, however we choose to experience our world, we are doing it through the veil of pretense. Pretense is that which brings us hope and the enduring belief in the attainability of our wishes. Herein lies the inside joke. 

Admitting that most of what we do is playing pretend brings with it confidence, enthusiasm, positive thinking, and excitement about life's possibilities. It is the essential essence needed to thrive and move forward in the world and within ourselves. 

We mostly operate from this pretend stage ~ it is our center by which we learn how to be and how to act. We are on always on stage. We are also in the audience. We are the characters, the script writer, the director, the financier, the costume designer, the marketer, the negotiator, and all the other -ers one could imagine surrounding each stage of life. 

If we're lucky, we never forget that LIFE is our play time. We are all the proverbial child galloping through our own productions of life. Our giant horse causes a sensation! Chairs get knocked over! 

CRASH! BOOM! BANG! 

Things get moved about... 

SWOOSH! 

Our horse's foot gets tangled in ropes, pulling down entire sets with one sweeping motion! We raise all sorts of havoc and attention and yet, by golly, 

It is our play!

If we don't like how it unfolds, we can try something 

NEW!

We can apologize to the audience; to our parents, teachers, children, colleagues, friends, loved ones; to our dentist, our baker, to the guy at the deli, and to our mailman for the disruption, which reminds them (and us) that we are the director of our lives, responsible for the outcomes; the comings and goings of all the central characters, the theme, all the little foreshadowing events...

EVERYTHING! 

Disruptions are simple reminders that we are writing our own script. Like the audience, we don't know exactly what all of our efforts will look until they're up on stage, but our eyes are wide open when the curtain comes up. 

After all, we're acting in this play, toO! 

Random Thank You Messages

Dear Readers:

I have spent a considerable amount of my time ~ and yours ~ going off on various subjects that either strike me as funny, are cosmically funny, are funny-peculiar or funny-hmmmm, makes-ya-think, but I haven't contributed anything funny to HTTF for awhile. 

As luck would have it, I don't actually have anything funny to say today, either. Still, rather than waste valuable brain power valuing the mind or going off on one of my favorite subjects: energie, I thought I'd send out some Random Thank You's, starting with yours...

Thank you for visiting Happy Thoughts Travel Fast! 

Thank you APPLE!

For sending the world mixed messages on eating apples.

Thank you SCOTLAND!

For the Coolest James Bond ~ EVER! 

Thank you JUICY COUTURE!

For the comfy velour tracksuits and multi-colored Yorkies!

Thank you DEAN KAMEN!

For helping Weird "Al" Yankovic pull off White and Nerdy!

Thank you EDWARD SEYMOUR!

For helping Graffiti Artists by transforming bug spray into the most amazing aesthetic aerosol ~ EVER!

Thank you FDA!

For taking all the foods I thought were healthy and marking them: UNHEALTHY.

Thank you THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE!

For giving me FOUR FOOD GROUPS of unhealthy food choices.

Thank you DR. SEYMOUR BUTTS!

For embarrassing us all when we feel our most vulnerable.

Thank you EDWARD A. MURPHY!

For naming all the "stuff" that goes wrong in the world.

Thank you DR. MARTIN COOPER!

For inventing a way that everyone can get ahold me...

Thank you RUTH HANDLER!

For uniting men and women in unrealistic expectations.

Thank you DICK FULD!

For showing the world how one can obliterate all sense of social responsibility and get away with it.

A final thank you THE U.S. TREASURY MINT!

For spending 1.26 cents of taxpayer money to mint a penny and for spending 7.7 cents to mint a nickel. Children everywhere are learning the value of a penny saved.

How Much Is Your Brain Worth, Part 4

How Much Is Your Brain Worth, 

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Valuation of an Intuitive Mind

Mind or Mentance Valuation models can be used to value intangible assets such as for characteristic valuations, but also for attributes, qualities, elements, aspects, and distinctions. Since few encounters that benchmark intangible assets can ever be observed in the mind of another, one often assess values on these mental attributes or characteristics using either a present mind value model or by estimating the costs to recreate the mind's efficacy. Regardless of the method, the process is time-consuming and arduous.

Valuations of intangible intellectual assets are often necessary for professional or personal relationships as well as for scholarly analysis of any given intellectual occurrence wherever it may arise.

İlhan Koman at work on his best know work in Turkey, Mediterranean (1978–80)

F L U X from candas sisman on Vimeo.

A beautiful, intuitive, coherently pulsating display of energie.

Fully enjoyed this artistic achievement.

Society indirectly gives an estimate of an individual's intangible worth in accordance with agreed-upon milestones or success indicators in a wide array of activities or artistic creations; however, the difference between perceived value and actual value of a mind can differ.

With respect to offering an assessment of intangible assets once might consider the difference between what a mind has produced and what it can reproduce.

The discoveries or realizations made by a mind operating at this level of efficiency are not as much an end to the epiphanies corresponding with overcoming suffering of the mind but rather the beginning of an entirely different level of mental operandi that is more energized and conscious of its prior ignorance as a starting point for processing the experiences that lie beyond the most recent state of awareness.

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Josh Wade, TWF

Team Wade Fitness

Relating intuition of mind to the same intellectual force held and expressed from within the physical body we can look to the differences between endurance and performance; endurance being that smooth and controlled release-like movement whereby the body operates consistently and coherently in a constant state of tension or motion; performance being that spike or surge in force or intensity whereby the body engages at a higher level resulting in an acceleration which flows through the body allowing it to operate at an entirely different, higher level of performance. 

Josh Wade exhibits an example of intuitive intelligence in the body as he shares his intuitive approach to body building with his clients. By respecting the natural curvature of the spine, by evaluating the individual's present physical condition and the amount of effort and determination they bring to a task, he can tap into his own intuition to help them meet their physical transformation goals. 

Curvature of Space-Time

Einstein proposed that mass and energy distort the shape of space-time so that falling objects (i.e., resistance) are simply rolling into depressions and orbiting bodies are simply rolling around in the depression. The objects are not undergoing forced motion; they simply follow the lay of the land. This leads to the bending of starlight, orbital motion, and to other lesser-known, more extreme distortions.

What I, as a long-time distance runner, describe as "endurance", Josh Wade describes as "Type 1, Slow-Twitch movements"; what I describe as "performance", Wade describes "Type 2, or Fast-Twitch, explosive responses" whereby one digs deeper to push harder, reaching this higher state in physical form. It is here where growth is magnified and physical intuitiveness is multiplied. Josh's approach confirms an inherent intelligence or natural force that is present in varying forms and manifesting in mental, physical, and/or artistic-like expressions of it.

Гений искусства (Genius of Art), 1820

Karl Bryullov

Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Rapid acceleration, strength and growth (physical) or epiphanies and insights (intellectual) are compounded in this intuitive state otherwise known as the force of intelligence or mind's ability to function in an intuitive state. 

Think (Moore's Law) x (n-1).

Measuring the value of intuition is akin to defining the meaning of life. The landmarks exist in new territories, development quickly evolves into ever more efficient and complex levels of experience and encounters of newly perceived realizations entice and ignite intuition, resulting in sudden flashes that are later holistically processed.

©Shenn

Artful Voyage

As the mind or rather raw intelligence (wherever it may reside) accesses properties of perception of a higher magnitude and for an extended time in that state, it begins to realize that it is not yet organized on that level.

Thus, prior epiphanies gleaned during the suffering stage can be drawn from for strength of mind and as a storehouse of images from which to make sense of the new sensations the mind perceives in this higher functioning state. Our center does not operate from that state.

An analogy of this state could be made by thinking of a child. A baby babbles, but does not yet comprehend what he is saying. A child loves, but does not yet understand the intricacies of relationships. In this sense, intuition resides in the realm of the unconscious - it filters down, but we do not normally operate from this place. Whether or not it is possible to do so for extended times without damage to the host material, I cannot say, as I do not operate in this space except for in short bursts, but it is interesting to think about.

Valuing intuition is complex and requires one to be comfortable in the space of new realizations. It requires of the evaluator to make a shift in perception, a transformation of sorts that distributes a higher knowing throughout the lower levels of the mind and/or body so that the entire entity is operating in the highest frequency available for each level of experience it has within itself.

It is here that the mind guides the brain and body to base reactions off of principles rather than by feelings, to devise a strategy rather than repeat impulsive behavior, to create within ourselves rather than merely discover.

The force of intuition is dynamic and expansive. It is the energie stored in matter, full of potential for transformation into heat, light, and activity. This same energie when redistributed through the other levels of the mind or body is systematic and calm, much like how a body builder lowers a weight with precision and control. This force organizes, orders, and governs the flesh and our emotions.

Ironically, without energie coming from the core or our source mind or body, there is nothing to organize, nothing to govern. Without energie coming from this peak of performance, the core energie turns toward chaos and dissipates into nothingness ~ atrophy.

Intuition is not merely a state of understanding, but a state of being. Intuition is not a particle or a thing, it is an experience that shapes other experiences. Operating in the intuitive zone is more than having a flashlight for what comes ahead; it is akin to illumination, to having wisdom, clarify, and purpose in what we perceive and communicate to others.

(RANDOM FACTOID: What takes 4 weeks to communicate via email, 

takes 2 hours to communicate in person]

Given that intuition is harmonious with all levels of mental and physical existence, its presence alone is sufficient to increase the vibration and frequency of differing states to the point whereby a connection is made and communication is less of an effort. With the understanding intuited in higher states of consciousness, we not only see ourselves but we see our relative configuration, position, and accompanying data in conjunction with others, our interactions, and our environment. It is both an archetypal and literal level.

When we value intuition in the mind we heighten our understanding toward the simultaneous needs of others. Understanding allows an intuitive mind to see beyond one's own needs in situations and in relationships with others. We are able to bring the objective witness to observe our struggles in regulating and modulating ourselves in harmony as we constantly move onto new thoughts, visions, emotions, and sensations. This intelligence or force works through all core material in a way that feels calming, natural, and stable.

Developing our intuition not only brings consciousness to our experience, but also activity, and directed transformation. With vision, inspiration, communication, and the sentiments associated with a higher knowing or appreciation for existence in and of itself, we can energize our strategies and direct them with clear intent.

Finally, intuition allows us to manifest our core mind to perform what seems like miraculous feats of strength. Conception, vision, inspiration, compassion, transformation, and connection enter into our physical reality and people transform themselves into ardent life participants. Intuition brings the body to life, it is where passion resides, and it gives consciousness a place to exist.

The rest is just details.