05/30/2010
04/21/2010
01/27/2010
09/02/2009
07/08/2009
06/01/2009
03/26/2009
12/10/2008
09/18/2008
08/13/2008
07/19/2008
05/21/2008
03/13/2008
12/07/2007
09/06/2007
07/23/2007
05/15/2007
04/10/2007
03/08/2007
01/10/2007
10/23/2006
09/01/2006
07/02/2006
04/20/2006
03/21/2006
02/22/2006
01/21/2006
11/01/2005
10/01/2005
09/01/2005
08/03/2005
06/01/2005
05/06/2005
04/12/2005
03/03/2005
The March/April 2006 - Life In Balance OM-Line Newsletter
A. Hello and Welcome
B. March/April 2006 Events
C. 2006 Upcoming Events
D. Articles and Information
"In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an
inherent desire to attain balance."
- Jakob Wassermann, German author (1873-1934)
THE RITES OF SPRING
Hello and a warm spring greetings to all. Welcome to the March/April
Life In Balance OM-Line Newsletter.
As in the classic cycle of re-growth we have completed the next Life
In Balance CD, the Mediation CD. This new disc reflects our on-going
desire to empower the listeners with their own set of healing and
centering tools. The seed for this new release has grown out of the 7
years of facilitating Sound Healing Sessions in Pittsburgh and around
the country. Look for a May release date.
As we begin a new cycle of touring and creating new music, we are
drawing to us a person who is able to help promote and book us. We
are looking for someone who has the skills to help bring Life In
Balance to a wider national and international audience. (Or other
additional talents that you can be used for Life In Balance.) It is very
important to us that the person is someone who has experienced us
or is tuned into similar healing vibrations. It makes sense to us to first
look within our on-line "family" who live all over the county, and some
outside the USA . If you or someone you know fits, please e-mail us.
In the mean time, please visit our brother group, Unius, at:
UNIUS
and listen to the two releases, "Ominations" and "Breathing
Underwater". Unius is Jamie McMenamy who has been involved
behind the Life In Balance scenes since our conception. He was
actually present when Steve and Ami met.
March/April Events:
March 25th: Telephone Conference Call
Noon to 1 pm. Call 212-990-8000, enter pin: 7446#
Life In Balance will discuss the rhythm of wholeness and the power of
sound. Each week Carol Davis (760-367-7718) hosts interesting
conference calls discussing spiritual and healing, legal and scientific
subjects.
March 26th: Yoga on Centre, Equinox Sound Session
6016 Penn Circle South (Centre Ave.) 412-363-9642. Pittsburgh, PA,
7 pm to 8 pm. $10 Yoga On Centre
You MUST e-mail and let us know you're coming:
lifeinbalance@comcast.net
Classic Life In Balance Sound Healing Meditation using Quartz
Crystal Bowls and electronically enhanced Flutes. Participants will lie
down on mats while the vibrations from the bowls and flutes help to
heal, relax, rejuvenate and transport.
April 22nd: Spring Sound Healing Festival
A Touch of Serenity and Citadel of Inner Peace
5000 East 345th Street, Willoughby, OH
440-951-9452 for information or reservations. $25.
Doors open at noon.
12:30 Vibration Sound Therapy by Barbari Tisi
1:15 Tuning Forks by Mark Dressler
2:00 Affirmation with Cathy Smith
3 till 5 pm Life In Balance Sound Healing Meditation followed by trance
dance music.
Readings, Chair Massage, Vibration Sound therapy, Reiki and healthy
snacks available throughout the day.
April 23rd: Unity of Greater Cleveland,
9 & 11 AM Sunday Services;
followed by a 12:30 Sound Healing Session
3350 Warrensville Center Road; Shaker Heights, OH 44122
Unity Greater Cleveland
Music and CDs:
Both "Star" and "deeper" are available locally at the North Hills (PA)
Borders on McKnight Road.
"LIVE" is available only by mail or at sound healing meditations, just $10 +
$3.
"Star" is available as a digital download on almost all of the Internet music
sites including Apples iTunes. Go to iTunes and type in "Life In Balance".
.99 cents a song. Also, order it as a "hard" disc through
CD Baby . You can listen to 2-minute samples of each song on cdbaby.
CDs are also available at:
Backroads Music 1 800-767-4748 (this is great because you get to
talk to a real live person).
Target, Amazon, Borders
New Leaf (wholesale)
Or through us on our web site.
Join the Life In Balance My Space and discussion groups at
My Space
Also, we need people to write "reviews" on these download sites. Please
take a few minutes to write a few lines and spread the sound. We greatly
appreciate your contribution to the continued expansion of the Life In
Balance sound.
2006 Upcoming Events
Confirmed dates, many more to come – watch for updates.
May 5th: Agape Healing Center
Life In Balance Concert
907 Roosevelt Ave., York, PA 17404
(717) 846-3900
Agape Healing Center
May 6th & 7th: May Day Fairie Festival
Sproutwood Farm in Glen Rock, PA
Fairie Festival
May 12th: SouthSide Works (6-9 pm) Pittsburgh, PA
Music at Town Square in the heart of SouthSide Works
Southside Works
May 20th: Blair County Arts Festival
Penn State Campus, Altoona, PA
Blair County Arts
June 9th: SouthSide Works (6-9 pm)
Music at Town Square in the heart of SouthSide Works
Southside Works
June 10th & 11th: First Annual Western PA Fairie Festival
Coopers Lake, Slippery Rick, PA; 724-715-7171
Fairie Festival
June 16th weekend: 9th Annual Kryon Summer-Light Conference
The College of the Siskiyous, Weed, CA close to Mount Shasta, CA
Kryon
June 30th to July 4th: Grateful Fest #7, Nelson's Ledges
Located in the country town of Nelson, Portage County, NE Ohio
NLQP
July 8th: SouthSide Works (3-5 pm)
Music at Town Square in the heart of SouthSide Works
Southside Works
July 14th weekend: 10th Annual All Good Festival
Marvin's Mountaintop, Masontown, WV
All Good
September 15th: SouthSide Works (6-9 pm)
Music at Town Square in the heart of SouthSide Works
South Side Works
November 17th weekend: Universal Lightworkers Conference
Boca Raton, Fl
Light Workers
god speed john motto, your spirit remains free
Articles from the web
You don't exist, so don't worry about it
Column: The Stainless Steel Wizard
Posted on Tuesday, 7 March, 2006
Ken Korczak: What are you worried about right now? Well, it's an almost guarantee
that you are worried about nothing, for the very reason that you don't exist! You have
no worries because you have no mind or body or life to worry with — it's all an illusion.
No worries, but more significantly, no worrier. If you think this sounds like utter
nonsense, some of the most brilliant scientists, philosophers and theological thinkers
of our century would disagree with you. Science and math suggest that we humans
don't exist, (even though there is really no math or science — more illusions!) The
advent of quantum mechanics and modern physics increasingly imply that our
existence as human beings is a kind of persistent illusion. We are under the false
assumption that we're people, we only imagine we have bodies and brains, and minds
functioning inside those brains.
Illusions, all of it. Listen to what one of the greatest physicists of the century, Authur
Eddington said of quantum theories: "In the world of physics…the shadow of my
elbow rests on the shadow table as the shadow ink flows over the shadow paper…the
frank realization that physical science is concerned with a world of shadow is one of
the most significant of recent advances."
By "shadow" Eddington meant illusion. More than any other science, it is particle
physics that is confronting the fundamentals of reality, and more and more, the
evidence point to the fact there is no reality! For the past 300-some years, the world
has been under the impression that everything is made up of atoms, "the building
blocks of the universe." It was the great Isaac Newton who solidified our impression
that atoms were like billiard balls. Pile enough of them on top of each other, set them
in motion and you get rocks, trees, animals and people. But in 1900 Albert Einstein's
hero, the brilliant Max Planck, revealed some incredibly disturbing discoveries he
made while trying to solve problems concerning the radiation of energy. To make a
long story short, Planck was forced to conclude that matter at its most fundamental
level is not continuous, not solid. There are no tiny billiard balls. When you break
down an atom, you get an electron, a proton and maybe a neutron. But it turns out
these are not the smallest units either. You can break things down further to bosons,
quarks, W particles, tachyons and a lot of other shadowy "things" that just sort of wink
in and out of existence.
Where do things go when they "wink out?" Nowhere! They cease to exist! Then they
come back again. So what? you might ask. Well, as you know, the human body is
made up from the fundamental elements of nature. We are mostly water, but we also
have iron in our blood, calcium in our bones, and such. But each of those substances
are made up of individual atoms, which in turn are made up of ghostly bits of nothing
that just sort of come and go, in and out of reality. Scientists call this blinking process
"quantum fluctuation." So when the elements of your body fluctuate, so does your
body, and so do you! So does you brain and the chemicals in your brain! In fact, you
may be in a state of nothingness more often than you are in a state of somethingness
(even though there really is no somethingness!) As the currently popular medical guru
Depack Chopra points out, all of us are dead (nonexistent) for much of the time, yet
we are all constantly afraid of dying, not realizing we are dead much of the time! (Oh
by the way, there's no such thing as time either. Einstein proved it was an illusion, but
we won't get into that right now). Even at its most solid state, the atom turns out to be
not very solid at all. Atoms are 99.999999 empty space. If the nucleus of an atom
were the size of a ping-pong ball, and if you were to place it in the center of a large
football stadium, the electrons that orbit around the nucleus would be at the outer
walls of the stadium. What is between the nucleus and the electron? Nothing! And
what are the nucleus and electron made from? Smaller and smaller bits of energy
which are not solid, but actually whirling fragments of light. Even a block of solid lead
is nothing and light, acting as "something." So is your car. So are the chemicals in
your brain. So are you. Once during a long, boring drive from Grand Forks to
southern Missouri with one of my graduate school professors, we became embroiled
in a lengthy debate about the deep issues of the universe. I argued that all was
illusion, and he argued for solid reality. When I mentioned the unreal nature of
fundamental particles, he said: "That makes no difference! All this means is that these
fluctuating bits of energy are what we are made out of — but we are still us, still the
same, still real solid people. Are your saying is that we are more fundamental than
atoms." He also said: "If I whacked you with a baseball bat, I bet your pain wouldn't
feel like an illusion!" At the time, I was stumped to answer because that was before I
understood the nature — or more accurately — the mechanics of illusion. I didn't
realize that even our argument was an illusion! The fact is, my professor and I could
have argued for years on end and neither of us would have convinced the other
because BOTH of our aurguments were false! Why? Because neither of our
arguments exist! The fact is, language is one of the primary ways in which we
become deceived into believing in solid reality. Once a creature reaches the stage
where it can manipulate symbolic language, you can bet that creature is deeply buried
under many layers of illusion. I also should have quoted the Uncertainty Principle and
the Incompleteness Theorm to my professor.
You see, the idea that language is all illusion is not a simple belief, but a fact which
has been proved mathematically. Back in the 1920s, a German math genius by the
name of Kurt Godel produced a rigorous mathematical demonstration which showed
that all logic was ultimately self contradictory. Godel's proof is known as Godel's
Theorm, but also as the Incompleteness Theorm. It states this:" It is impossible to to
establish the logical consistency of any complex deductive system except by
assuming principles of reasoning whose own internal consistency is an open question
as that of the system itself."
Whew! That's just a fancy way of saying that, no matter what your viewpoint — it's
wrong! You will never be able to convince someone of what you believe because all
rhetoric is, by nature, fundamentally inconsistent.That's why arguing politics and
religion is so frustrating — no one is ever right, literally! All arguments are rigged from
the start!.But there's even more bad news for reality. It's called the Heisenbreg
Uncertainty principle, suggested and later proved by one of the fathers of quantum
mechanics, the great Werner Heisenberg. His principle states:"The position and the
velocity of an object cannot both be measured exactly, at the same time, not even in
theory. The very concepts of exact position and exact velocity together, in fact, have
no meaning in nature."What this means is that physical objects cannot be pinned
down to absolutely exist in any one place at any given time. Like Godel's Theorm, this
principle comes with a rigorous mathemetical proof.So not only are all verbal
arugments fundamentally inconsistent, and therefore false, but physical matter
ultimately cannot be measured.
As one physicist put it:"Our conception of substance is only vivid so long as we do not
face it. It begins to fade when we analyze it … the solid substance of things is another
illusion … we have chased the solid substance from the continuous liquid to the atom,
from the atom to the electron, and there we have lost it."It's amazing how
complimentary Godel's Theorm and the Uncertainty Principle are — they both
devastate the idea of a solid physcial world filled with ultimate "truths." There are no
objects, no people and no truth. We've only been tricked into thinking so, as weird as
this sounds.Who have we been tricked by? Ourselves! And we don't exist! Odd!You
might ask: How does knowing that you don't exist help you with your daily troubles?
Well, in fact, it helps a lot. Indeed, this knowledge can lead you to an extreme state of
happiness, even bliss. How?By getting to work at realizing that you are buried under
many layers of very tricky, persistent illusions, which because of their mathematical
inconsistency, are driving you nuts! It seems like you can never find ultimate truth, true
peace and the purest of love becaue you are trying to get these things under the false
assumption that they exist in some real way.
They don't. And neither does pain, suffering and worry.The greater degree to which
you become aware that you and your world is all sticky illusion, the greater your
feeling of being happy, loving and truthful will become. Why this is so becomes plain
when we give a more conventional example of how illusions cause pain.We all know
someone who has mistaken money for what money represents, or mistaken money
for happiness. Money itself is just paper, a symbol which rerpresents material goods.
Some people fall under the illusion that money is an end it itself, so they mindlessly
persue more and more of the green stuff until they have a heart attack and die.All
would agree it's good to be free of the illusion of money and materialism.Well, as it
turns out, the more illusions we get rid of, the better off we are.
Getting rid of illusions like money, drugs and sex addictions is easy compared to
getting rid of major illusions like death, time, language, and physical existence, but it's
far from impossible.I should warn you also, that the more you try to achieve
happiness, the worse off you're likely to get because happiness is an illusory concept
which does not exist. You'll get very frustrated, although frustration does not exist
either. Sorry.So it's better to work on getting rid of illusions themselves and let the rest
take care of itself.The brilliant psychologist-philospher-author Ken Wilber describes
seven layers of illusion in his groundbreaking book, The Spectrum of Consciousness.
In this book, Wilber takes you step by step through the kind of illusions human are
trapped within, from Nothing to the deepest layer of illusion, which he calls
"dualisms."The more you understand the nature of illusions, the various kinds of
illusions, (especially language, time, the separation of objects in space) the more likely
you are to find your way out.
This is what Zen and other forms of meditation are about — to get you to stop thinking
so that the ultimate silence of the greater reality of Nothing can be realized.But as any
Zen master would warn you, the minute you start thinking that Zen meditation is going
to help you, or that the Zen philosophy is going to help you, or any philosophy or any
religion — in that assumption you get lost again!What's truly weird about illusion is
that you have to use illusions to get rid of them, and it's hard describe how this gets
done. Remember Godel's Theorm: all arugments based in language are
fundamentally inconsistent, and therefore, just more traps.Even what you are reading
here right now is a trap, though this article strives to point out the fact that you are
trapped by illusions! But I think it's at least better to know you're in jail, than being in
jail and thinking this prison we call "life" is our true home.
Some might say: "Okay, but it's better to exist as an illusion that suffers than to be
nothing at all!"So let me throw you this bone: The big Nothing scientists and
philosophers speak of is not so much the complete lack of anything, as it is a
singularity of pure Virtual Potential. It does not exist, but has the potential to exist if it
wants to. It's Nothing, but a kind of dynamic Nothing. Whatever. Words and labels are
tricky.But the reason you have the illusion of being, along with its joy and suffering —
you want it. At the same time, you can have the bliss of realizing Infinite Potential
without the suffering of the illusion of objective existence. In fact, this is your condition
right now. You just don't know it. It's weird. A lot of people who read this article are
going to say: "Jeez! What a load of utter nonsense!" And guess what? They're right!
Please take a moment to visit Ken's Webs site at: www.starcopywriter.com
Article Copyright© Ken Korczak
