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….and then meet up with us, within the various online groups, adding us as a friend as you explore your way through the various online hubs and project pages.

Namaspirit is happy to bring a few studio projects together, in efforts to do our part in making this world more fun and calm and loving and interesting.

We have brought together our 100th Monkey Book hunt, and our Namaspirit Rideshare project to create Travel in Tribe. Our efforts as a yoga studio collective are partly to support true independent fiber arts, music and weaving. The mass consciousness process is an aspect of living fully and truly once deep understandings of the 100th monkey are a part of you. We have been using couchsurf for a while now, helping people who travel the world, sharing information and seeding connections for the days when we travel. Our rideshare project is a little sister to the Couchsurfing efforts, so we thought we would get it all together (to gather), and use the 100th monkey book hunt to help promote and connect us and to help support people and their purposes. Many people who travel are seeking places to practice and would like to share what they see, what they learn and read. And they have their eyes open, and ears to the ground, so we should honor them and share in the spirituality that motivated them to travel, a walk about or a or to take a pilgrimage.

We will now present a few links to the online groups, project websites and studios. And then below that, we will present some information about collective consciousness, the 100th monkey book we are seeking and some research by people that may help get you into the mode to network and build!
http://www.myspace.com/getthereal100monkeybook

Travel in Tribe Project Page at Couchsurf:
http://www.couchsurfing.com/group.html?gid=15979

And now our blurb, then the research…..

Who really benefits from The Global Consciousness Project, (GCP) also called “the EGG Project” ? According to the wikipedia; “The EGG Project is a long-running science experiment maintained by an international collaboration of about 100 research scientists and engineers. It is based on technology developed at Princeton to study interactions of consciousness with physical systems. The GCP has been collecting data from a global network of random event generators since August, 1998. The network currently maintains about 65 sites around the world running custom software that reads the output of physical random number generators and records a trial (sum of 200 bits) once every second, 24/7, continuously over months and years. The data is transmitted over the Internet to a server in Princeton, NJ, USA, where they are archived for later analysis. The result is a database of synchronized parallel sequences of truly random numbers.
The research question is whether there are deviations from randomness correlated with major events that engage the attention of large numbers of people. Such correlations are interpreted as reflecting the presence and activity of consciousness in the world.”

hmmmmm…….. Lets get back to the above very soon.

Now lets look at what the people can do, something from the heart, not of and for corporations, something done by us for us.

We found this…..

THE MASS CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT’s Friend Space (Top 24)
www.myspace.com/massconsciousnessproject
THE MASS CONSCIOUSNESS PROJECT has 10525 friends. And a cryptic message that says “when will we be ready?”

Now lets take a look at a book that is the spirit behind what the people are aiming for is their mass consciousness project, in terms of creating world peace, in terms of bringing love into the world.

The Hundredth Monkey by Ken Keyes Jr.

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars

What you can gather from the book is……

Chris Brown wrote, “Biologists Observe Evidence of Dream State Communications.

(portions of Ken Keyes book follow)

The story of the Hundredth Monkey.

Written from memory by Christopher A. Brown 12/19/02 from a reading of the original book produced by the team of biologists studying the Macaca Fuscata on Yoshimi island in the 1950’s.

The bios had been watching the monkeys for many years and had come to know them so well that they had names for them. One year there was a tremendous period of storms lasting over three months. The monkeys inhabited a valley that mouthed at the sea in a cove. There was a wide floodway that emptied near the center of the cove.

On one side of the cove there was large stand of trees bearing fruit that was the major food source for the monkeys. That side had no water. The other side had a spring and some fruit trees but not as much food generally.

It had been very dry and most of the monkeys were spending their nights on the side with the spring so water was available in the morning. later they would cross the small valley and harvest fruit to return later in the day for water.

One night the storms began with a exceedingly heavy downpour. So much rain fell that the monkeys could not cross in the morning to the side with food. The monkeys searched out what food they could find. This was not the most plentiful time of year. The biologists worried about the large population on the side with little food and projected that the food would not last long.

After about two weeks the monkeys were starving and the rain continued every few days or so keeping the flood channel 2 to 3 feet deep and flowing 15 to 20 mph. In this period the bios had decided to break their primary rule. To feed the monkeys interfering with the validity of their research. They reasoned they had been their for years and learned most of what was valuable about the behavior of their subjects while watching with telescopes from their floating barge blinds just beyond the gentle waves. They were able to see well enough to tell individuals apart and had developed names for them to distinguish them in their notes. They had become attached to their subjects and had affection for them. This sentiment overcame the strict scientific attitude of no interference and it was decided to help the monkeys to survive.

Sweet potatoes had been ordered up for the bios because they kept well and there were many on hand. A method of delivery had been devised that kept the bios hidden and actually provided a new type of observational study of the monkeys. In the night a raft was dispatched from a barge and taken into the mouth of the fresh water outlet. Beaching in fresh water flow, the bags of sweet potatoes would be dipped in the fresh water to remove what human smell could be washed away. The potatoes were then thrown by the bios onto the sand, spreading them out providing opportunity for the diverse group to be separate in the discoveries of the food in the hopes to reduce squabbling. When the wet potatoes hit the sand and rolled the sand stuck to them thickly.

The monkeys on the side with plentiful food still had plenty. A week or two went by and the bios watched the monkeys gather and eat the potatoes. They did not like the sand on them. Some nights it was raining still and they were washed on one side. The monkeys enjoyed them more. Around this time the routine of waking up in the middle of the night became tiresome and everyone was taking turns. The heavy rainfall gathered on the wide flat beach and formed a puddle during one particularly heavy rain. The puddle broke over the edge of the fresh water creek flowing to the ocean lowering the average 2 foot bank and created an eddy area where the bios could get closer to adjacent banks to distribute some of the potatoes. A few days after the potatoes were distributed there the first potatoes was washed.

One morning a baby female monkey with her aunt was near the fresh water eddy handling a sandy potatoes. The baby went down the easy slope to the fresh water and rinsed it off before eating it. The bios had several observation barges and one had a diagonal view upstream to the eddy. Through the powerful telescope they could see the baby enjoyed the clean potato much more than the gritty one. This continued for over a week.

Suddenly one morning the aunt, after the baby female washed her potato, took hers to the fresh water and followed the actions of the baby. Within a day or two her mate had mimicked the behavior. After a week and a half the practice had spread to the extended family of perhaps 15 to 20 monkeys. Slowly over the next 3 weeks up to 70 or 80 monkeys were washing potatoes in fresh water. The bios were having no trouble counting the monkeys involved with the practice until the numbers reached this point. They did their best comparing notes and they moved a barge to give a better view of an up stream area where a few monkeys had taken potatoes to eat. Around this time it was decided to distribute most of the potatoes nearer the ocean so they could observe and count the monkeys who were washing the potatoes better.

Sometime just before this the monkeys on the other side were beginning to starve. They had depleted all of the food growing naturally there and the bios had no trouble in deciding to break their rule a second time. One had decided to leave the island and explain to a higher authority why they needed such an increase in potatoes. They explained that they had garnered all the usable information they could from the monkeys over the last for or five years when the monkeys were living in a natural state and that there was a new opportunity to study the learning structures in the community of monkeys by feeding them. Larger quantities of potatoes were delivered.

(note) In the original book telling this story there was a break from the account of the monkeys behavior to note that there was a distance of perhaps three hundred feet between the two banks of the fresh water creeks and that the monkeys could not see each other or did not even pay any attention to the monkeys on the other side. Only in the upstream areas where the channel was narrower did the monkeys even notice their counterparts on the opposite banks. There was a mention that predators existed in the thicker vegetation and the monkeys liked to stay in the open near between few trees for sanctuary if needed. It was stated in this portion that because of what happened next that the bios realized that the retelling of the story, as it had happened, might be questioned due to the possibility that the monkeys on one side had learned from watching the monkeys on the other. The original story emphasized that the monkeys on one side almost never even noticed the monkeys on the other side. It was speculated that the monkeys could not see well at those distances. This realization contributed to the bios decision to distribute the potatoes closer to the ocean to improve the counting of the potato washing. In the beginning they had worried that the monkeys that rarely spent time by the ocean might notice the barges floating at the back edge of the waves while collecting potatoes nearer the ocean. it was also stated that the fresh water channel widened some making it very unlikely that monkeys near the ocean could see at all, monkeys on the other side.

At a point when about 90 monkeys were washing potatoes in fresh water the original baby monkey to first wash its potato went to the ocean to do do. It was speculated by the bios that the move of the potato distribution took the baby monkey away from its area of easy access to the fresh water and forced the baby to go to the ocean to rinse its potato. The bios noticed that the baby relished its potato greatly after rinsing in salt water. A few days later after washing the potato in salt water the aunt noticed the increased pleasure of the baby eating somewhat more potato than it had and going back and forth to the ocean for rinsing. the aunt again learned from the baby female and followed her to the ocean to rinse her food.

The learning spread quicker, the count the bios had been struggling to keep was approaching 100. At this time the monkeys on the other side were still eating sandy potatoes. One morning all of the monkeys on the side where the feeding began went to the ocean to rinse their potatoes. A few days later the all of the monkeys on the other side did the same.

the bios were astounded and immediately documented independent of the funding source what they had observed and wrote the original book titled, “the Hundredth Monkey” because by their very best count it was right at 100 when all of the monkeys on the side first fed began to rinse their food in fresh water. the bios noted that for a time prior to that a number of mostly older monkeys did not learn to wash potatoes at all even though they had tasted the food washed in fresh water.”

A friend of Mr. Browns, (over a decade ago) insisted that he read another account of the Hundredth Monkey. It was written by the team of biologists referred to in this account. The story was a little different but basically the same. The one important thing left out in this account was the fact that one day the monkeys woke up and they ALL were washing the potatoes.

If monkeys can do this it is logical to assume that we can do it better, more completely in a larger variety of ways.

What if the group had NO conscious awareness or control over the information? What would control the sharing of information? Compulsions? Is this why our society is out of control?

To check the story out that Mr. Brown shares, visit:

http://truthasaur.com/psycholo…

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AND HERE IS THE NAMASTEEZY STEP; OUR STEP TOWARD THAT UNITY AND OUR VIEWS ABOUT IT, OUR INVITATION TO YOU TO HELP US EXAND THAT HUMAN POTENTIAL.

THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, always the man of the moment, is perhaps most remembered for his statement made in the 1960’s that “the medium is the message.”

The seed of that statement contains the kernel of truth for all mediums and messages, revealing the yin/yang nature and relationship of both.

But that kernel did not sprout until the birth and subsequent development of what has now come to be known as “Interdependent Hip Hop (Namaspirit).” The message of Interdependent Namaspirit, seemly so disparate and contradictory at times, is none other than the ever-present, spoken, song or silent, expression of the essential medium of all experience – - the human heart.

Hip Hop(e), when undressed and unmasked, is none other than sincerity itself. It is quintessential sincerity clothed in the robe of human experience, crowned with the hope of all who cry out for justice and a future of interdependent existence – - where not only every being, but every experience, thought, sound, touch, taste, and consciousness itself is seen as wonderfully interdependent – - and treated with the care and dignity which should be afforded to each and every infinite manifestation of life; formed or formless.

We at Namasteezy have struggled since our inception, with the attempt to refine and purify our message. Each and every time we have done so, we have never been able to hold on to the then most recent version of that message. And now we know why, because “we,” all of us – - the “medium” of human experience itself – - is that message; and is constantly, wonderfully, and miraculously being expressed not only with, but also between, each breath we as individuals and the planet takes. And not just this planet, we call “earth,” but the entire dancing galaxies of endless star systems, the only seeming limitation of which is a reflection of our one “mind.”

After having thus struggled, and sweat “blood,” we now lie exhausted and at the same time blissfully free. For we have come to realize, through this process itself, that if the message of Hip Hop is to be perfected (which actually means wholly completed), it will only be so in that moment where “all possible expression of the infinite range of human experience” happens simultaneously.

We have been blessed with the guidance of seeing that this seemingly impossible moment is actually the reality of our happening, all of our happenings; and although at the beginning of our search for truth we viewed our attempt to achieve the perfect Hip Hop message as a problem, we now see, through the miracle of life itself, that not only is the medium the message, but the problem is the solution.

Marshall McLuhan also said that the “answers are always inside the problem, not outside.” We have learned that the “problem” or the “question” is the solution or answer, in a form, the main import of which, is signifying that the person or persons facing the problem or asking the question are qualified or ready to see the solution or receive the answer.

There is no path to perfection other than the perfection or completion of our own beings; and inevitably this will involve sincere or pure expression of body, speech or mind. The secret of that purity, that total, unmixed, unadulterated, and ultimately undifferentiated (in truth) expression, is that although it must, of necessity, arise from and traverse the path of all our idiosyncrasies, differences, and infinitely seemingly separate experiences – - it is only perfected in the moment in which all the distinctions disappear into and evolve out of the equanimity of the eternal, ever present and unperturbed penetrating moment of heart/mind livingness from and through which all of us are protected by the never ending shower of blessings.

It is the expression of that eternal and complete moment, the endlessly recurring marriage of the birth and completion of all experience that we here at Namasteezy are seeking, through Hip Hop. We have also come to realize that it can only happen when we and all others are joined together in that moment.

While this may not be physically possible, we know it can and will happen, for perfection, again, means “completion,” and all processes naturally seek and evolve into and out of completion – - not in the sense of measurements such as time, but because that ever present moment of eternal sameness is the amniotic fluid of all life.

We want to swim in that environment and are, and have been, ready to do so for quite some time now.

Will you join us? We are seeking to join with others, in and through the process of this unfoldment as it reveals its magically evolving presence. We ask you to take hold our outstretched hand, of our hearts and minds, and dance with us.

We want to dance through Hip Hop into the unfoldment of perfection itself. We invite you to participate with us. The moment you choose to do so, on whatever level you desire or are able, it will no longer be “us” and “you” – - but just “us.” Then step by step, we want to increase that “us” until there will simply be left the purity of the eternal moment of love itself, from which again all diversity will continue to be reflected and supported.

We know that this is not only possible, but that it happens, unnoticed, every day. Men and women on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. And when you are on the phone, radio or on the air, you have no body.

Further thoughts:

Other quotes by Marshall McLuhan:

“The story of modern America begins with the discovery of the white man by
The Native Americans.” [Give this, and the following, some thought in the context of working interdependently, right here, right now, for a better world.]

“With telephone and TV it is not so much the message as the sender that is
‘sent.’”

“Money is the poor man’s credit card.”

“We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into
the future.”

“You mean my whole fallacy’s wrong?”

When you are on the phone or on the air, you have no body.

“All advertising advertises advertising.”

“This information is top security. When you have read it, destroy yourself.”

“One of the nicest things about being big is the luxury of thinking little.”

“In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.”

“When a thing is current, it creates currency.”

“Men on frontiers, whether of time or space, abandon their previous identities. Neighborhood gives identity. Frontiers snatch it away.”

And here is a little something to get the vibes going, we thought this might inspire the art of artful dreaming, and get you into the 100 monkey mode…