tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-375475392011-11-19T05:45:21.579-08:00Ideas to support a diverse, sustainable, peaceful, compassionate, and prosperous world. If you have an opportunity to serve or empower someone, take it.Rionnoreply@blogger.comBlogger141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-41521595406291706432011-11-12T12:02:00.000-08:002011-11-12T12:06:27.806-08:00

Sometime in 2007 I came up with what I thought was one of the coolest masks ever.Number two of the Five Sutras of the Aquarian Age, "Recognize that the other person is you. I created a mask that allows others to see themselves when they look at you. I called it "The Mirror-Mask."And it is awesome!

Rionnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-86454376105742780882011-09-09T03:12:00.000-07:002011-09-09T03:56:15.030-07:00

Or maybe they can be called exercices.When I was really young, maybe eight, I was sitting on my couch and thinking about outer-space. I was pushing my imagination to the greatest outreaches of the universe. And then I got to the end. What is beyond outer-space? ... Nothing ... I had a very Zen moment. I am a big fan of thought experiments. They allow us to think about really fun things like

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My dad has never really been full of "fatherly advice," it was only a little more than a year ago (I'm 27 now) that we ever really talked about relationship stuff, and that conversation lasted about ten minutes-was tremendously useful-and would have been even more useful if we had had it 15 years prior. At least from what I observed my dad never went out of his way to guide me and my brothers,

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I was just thinking about how I could live a really comfortable life with less than $10,000 per year. So I looked at what the Gross World Product per capita is, and low and behold, if the money produced this year were equally distributed to every man, woman and child in the world, we would each have a purchasing power of more than $10,000. Now what would I do with an automatic $10,000 income? I

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Before waking up this morning I was engaged in one of the coolest game experiences I have ever had. It was a two person head-to-head virtual reality Wand Dueling game. It used these three technologies: A brainwave headset for casting silent spells and manipulating the virtual world. (TED.com Brainwave Headset)The Kinect Controller expanded to for observing all 3D movements. With Kinect

Rionnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-85187157291469332462010-11-21T07:32:00.000-08:002010-11-21T16:42:15.869-08:00

There is a spelling rhyme that goes : when you assume, you make an 'ass' out of 'u' and 'me'. Or as my brother Simon says, "When you make an assumption, you make an 'ass' out of 'umption'."In either case asses are involved. Studying economics exposes a person to a lot of assumptions. However, most people's understanding of economics is limited to the free price mechanism where price is

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God is a very complex system. I would actually go so far as to say that God is the most complex system. Like with any complex system, in order to understand God we have to make assumptions and models. For instance, before we could see Earth from outer space, we made the assumption that Earth is a sphere. You can go to the science store and find a model of the Earth that is about the size of a

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It all boils down to a cultural shift. We, the big 'we', the all of us 'we', need to value the world's beauty and grandeur. Wow, now that is a tall order. How can one value something that they don't know exists? Hmm, that is an interesting dilemma. The thing that I think will be most effective in changing our culture of hyper-individualism, consumerism, and ecological disconnection is

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Water is needed to sustain life on the planet. The world is 75% water, but only a small ever decreasing amount of that is actually clean enough to drink. I am constantly exploring how we can make sure that we have enough clean water for life to thrive.I became aware of the water crisis that is facing the world when I saw the movie "Cadillac Desert" which is a documentary based on the book by

Rionnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-32303616015461425812007-03-21T20:35:00.000-07:002008-04-02T12:21:53.629-07:00

How is it that people can choose inanimate objects or concepts over Life? Going so far as to destroy life in order to posses something as silly as a shiny rock. Is it comfort that people seek? Pleasure? The age old question: what is the purpose of life? The only answer that makes any sense for me is to use my life to serve life. People may answer this question with the idea that we are here

Rionnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-64202151202852898182007-02-24T22:29:00.000-08:002007-02-25T00:28:56.206-08:00

A friend of mine just told me this idea he had where tons of people would stand on street corners all over the city and sing the same song. I think that is such a creative thing to do. So, I'm game. It will take a lot of organizing and a lot of courageous people, but it will be such a blast. There are so many creative things we can do to make the world a better place, we are so lucky.

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For peace sake! Like so many mothers say, "Be the bigger person." Being the bigger person is really hard, but we (humans) can do it. Cuz being the bigger person really just means being human. I encourage and am actively working to support a cease fire in the Middle East! As well as peace everywhere. In Seattle, WA, 1999, I got to witness and take part in shutting the World Trade

Rionnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-56757818182715549152007-02-14T09:20:00.000-08:002007-02-14T10:32:35.231-08:00

The reason I decided to finish high school in India was so I could learn Kundalini Yoga and share it with the activist community in Portland, so we would be able to be as proactive and productive as possible. The most powerful tool that we have is ourselves. Kundalini Yoga is called the yoga of awareness, because it helps us be intuitively aware of ourselves and the world around us. It is a

Rionnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37547539.post-67246772398697047612007-02-13T19:25:00.000-08:002007-02-13T20:40:38.144-08:00

Well, I am a little behind the times when it comes to this whole blogging thing, but I hope to stay on top of the technology from here on out. So, I will start using this blog as a venue to share thoughts and stories.To inspire others to get on the info-tech band-wagon here is a list of suggestions to make the most of the Information Age:In the age of information, the entire global community is

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