[GJM] Project Mind - www.projectmind.org

[robert searle]

Might be of interest to the more idealistic amongst
us!

R.Searle


--- "Marsha talia_light at yahoo.com"
<talia_light at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

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> http://in.integralinstitute.org/now.aspx
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http://www.integralinstitute.org/public/static/Default.aspx
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>   I think this group would be of great benefit!
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>   In Light!
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>   Marsha
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> "David S. Devor" <devor at USA.NET> wrote:
>           From: Shlomo Friedlander
> <s123friedlander at yahoo.com>
> To: Ashirah, Jesse Friedlander 
> Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 7:06:48 PM
> Subject: 
> 
> 
>     Dear Jesse and Ashirah (and other friends and
> family), 
> 
> I want to tell you about something quite special
> that you might not have heard about: Project Mind,
> and ask you to make a small, almost effortless
> gesture to lend your support to the project.
> 
> Project Mind has been conceived, organized, and
> driven forward by one stupendously original man,
> David Devor, who has become a close friend of mine
> over the last three years. The goal of Project Mind
> is astonishingly utopian: he wants to reduce (if not
> eliminate completely) 
> 
>       
>    mankind's obsessive concern with the material
> world 
>   
>    the pain and suffering caused by deficiencies of
> needed resources, 
>   
>    and needless waste of resources, 
>   
>    unproductive forms of competition (and more, no
> doubt).
> 
> Well, you might say, who doesn't want to do this?
> But, realistically speaking, it can't be done. Isn't
> that what we all think? David Devor has ideas, the
> likes of which I have never encountered before.  He
> believes that we can change the entire world along
> the lines I just alluded to by 
>     
>    multiplying the creativity of scientists (at
> least) a thousand-fold 
>   
>    so that they can make breakthroughs in
> understanding and organizing the physical world 
>   
>    which would dramatically improve the lives of all
> mankind and 
>   
>    free everybody to concern themselves directly and
> pervasively with realizing the holy purposes for
> which we were intended to strive, 
>   
>    in order to bring all of humanity to redemption. 
> 
> Devor's ideas are so advanced that it has taken me a
> couple of years to be able to state the nature of
> the project as clearly I did in the preceding
> paragraph, and admittedly what I have said so far
> will leave many of you still scratching your heads. 
> So let me encourage you to look at the PM website
> for some words from the source. 
> 
> I AM NOT SOLICITING ANY KIND OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT
> FOR THIS ORGANIZATION (although please feel free to
> talk directly to David if you feel inclined in this
> direction.) 
> 
> AT THE PRESENT TIME, YOU COULD SHOW SUPPORT FOR
> Project Mind AND ASSIST THE ORGANIZATION IN GAINING
> CREDIBILITY. All you would have to do is just what I
> have done:  apply for ASSOCIATE STATUS. (If you
> check "the Associate's page" on the website now,
> you'll find me there.) 
> 
> The primary benefit to you of taking this step is
> basically knowing that you are supporting a highly
> moral enterprise for the benefit of all. The cost to
> you is a few minutes to submit a personal resume
> that will be vetted in an easy-going way by staff of
> PM.  An additional "benefit of becoming an associate
> is that you get to read a beautiful, brilliant
> meditation on the major Jewish holidays everytime
> one comes around. You can see a typical essay at the
> end of my note.
> 
> In any case, I would appreciate some feedback from
> you by email as to whether this kind of
> communciation is useful, and how you want to respond
> to it. 
>   
> I wish you a beautiful, happy and kosher Pesah. 
> 
> 
>   Shlomo Dror 
> (aka Stephen Friedlaner)
> 
>   
>
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> 13 Nissan, 5768
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>   Dear Mochin Subscribers, Project Mind Associates
> and Friends,
> 
> Many of you are aware that tomorrow night, Sat.,
> begins the festival of Passover commemorating the
> Exodus from Egypt, 3321 years ago. This pilgrimage
> (to Jerusalem) festival, one of three (including
> Shavuot and Succoth) is all about transformation and
> the resulting freedom. Each Jew is expected to see
> himself as having, personally, come out of Egypt. 
>    
>   For an excellent, dramatic portrayal of the
> Passover story, click on:
>  
>
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x20axx_sortie-degypte_events
>    
>   The Hebrew word for Egypt, "Mitzrayim," indicates
> limitation and restriction. Pharaoh, in Hebrew, is a
> derivative of the word "Haphra'a" meaning
> "disturbance" or "distraction." Each suggests
> aspects of our habitual, limited, chaotic,
> unmobilized state of spiritual energy defined as
> impurity (Tuma) or "Chametz" (l'Hachmitz means to
> forfeit," "lose out" or "sour"). 
>    
>   In this state, we have the cloying, sweet illusion
> of completeness because we are so full of ourselves.
> Chametz ("leaven" or, literally, "sour") represents
> the fallen and spiritually isolated state from which
> we are expected to awaken on the path to personal
> and world transformation (Tikkun Olam) and,
> ultimately, total communion with the Creator
> (Dvekut, Panim el Panim - "Hu U'Shmo Echad"). 
>    
>   We yearn for spiritual purity and the experience
> of freedom it affords and are motivated by the
> higher purpose and mission for which we were
> created. In preparing for Pessach, we obsessively
> and lovingly remove every trace of leaven (fermented
> or "sour" food) from our homes and vehicles as part
> of the process of purifying ourselves of 
>   personal leavening - the ego inflation that issues
> from non-rectified and short-circuited expressions
> of our essence and separates us from one another and
> from our Creator.
>    
>   This state of spiritual sleep and metaphysical
> blindness is symbolized in the ritual of seeking the
> last crumbs of Chametz in the dark and are burned
> thoroughly the following morning in a bonfire
> bestowing a sense of finality to our corresponding,
> personal eradication of ego-inflation and impurity.
>   
> The eating of Matza (unleavened bread) and the
> scrupulous avoidance of Chametz helps us maintain
> contact with the spirit of freedom, purity and
> transcendence proper to this festival.
> Interestingly, although pronounced differently,
> "Chametz" and "Matza," words each consisting of 3
> Hebrew 
>   letters, are spelt almost identically. Both have a
> "Mem" and a "Tzadi" (common to the word "Mitzva" -
> commandment and "Mivtza" - project), while Matza
> termnates with a "Heh" and Chametz begins with a
> "Chet." Interestingly again, these letters,
> themselves, are almost identical although 
>   the "Heh" is open and the "Chet" is closed. Also,
> the "Heh," in Matza, is a representation of the
> Creator while the "Chet" in Chametz means sin!
> 
> 
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