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Social Change Originates from Within

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Jun 12, 2018

Role of Self-Realization in Societal Change

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Reformed Racist and Reformed Jihadist Shift From Violence to Love

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Nov 28, 2017

The Hypocrisy of Violent Compulsivity

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Oct 9, 2017

Society: The Outward Expression of What We Are

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Oct 2, 2017

GETTING TO KNOW THE ALIEN GALAXIES WITHIN US

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Dec 21, 2016

How Happiness Turns into Well-Being

Dec 21, 2016

Oct 22, 2016

You're Invited! To Bridge Mind into Matter through Interactive Experiences

Oct 22, 2016

Oct 10, 2016

Life, Liberty and The Pursuit of Wholeness: From Work-Life Balance to Work-Life Integration

Oct 10, 2016

Jun 23, 2016

THE FRONTIER OF CONSCIOUSNESS HACKING

Jun 23, 2016

"The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Cuz if you can do that, then you can do anything."

R. Linklater

The Way It Is

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost. Tragedies happen; people get hurt or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding. You don’t ever let go of the thread.

W. Stafford

You see, history has historically been how we choose what data to forget. Our brains work that way too. We don’t form memories to write our stories. We write our stories to suppress inconvenient memories. If you ever go spelunking in the Big Data dump that is your subconscious, you will find a spaghetti landscape of crime-scene tape. History is the technology of forgetting, not the technology of remembering.

Venkatesh Rao