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Was 9/11 a Black Swan?
"A black swan is a unpredictable event that defies prediction." ...WAS 9/11 A BLACK SWAN?
Nassim Taleb, a scientist-philosopher-businessman, makes the case that 9/11 was a black swan. A black swan is a unpredictable event that defies prediction. An outlier. I agree. He expands:
A vicious black swan has an additional elusive property: its very unexpectedness helps create the conditions for it to occur. Had a terrorist attack been a conceivable risk on Sept. 10, 2001, it would likely not have happened.
In their analysis of black swans (which by definition will likely never be repeated), human beings engage in what is called hindsight bias. This is the tendency to believe that the event was predictable based on knowledge gained after the event occured. In effect, people unknowingly substitute current knowledge of outcomes into the gaps of knowledge that were present when building earlier expectations of potential events. In regards to 9/11, Nassim points out the following (with additional analysis from this weblogger given the complexity of the topic):
globalguerrillas.typepad.com/glo...html
www.edge.org/3rd_culture...b_index.html
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www.windsofchange.net/archive...4867.php
www.xent.com/pipermail/f.../029793.html
Cancer: The Great Mother
Cancer, the Great Mother, represents the feminine force that spirals all life upward to higher levels of being. Cancer is the sign of the home, fertility, reproduction, intuition, feeling, desire, strength, protection and insistency. She is the jungle, the forest -- the mystery, depth, passion ... She is the spiraling evolutionary force apparent in the natural cycles of all things -- a lunar month, a solar year, a life, the Earth, the manifestation of an idea into being.The cycle teaches us that the only constant in life is change. Nothing is static. From the tiniest cell to the most complex organism, the eightfold cycle repeats:
1. SEED (new beginnings, rebirth)
2. SROUT (challenge, out with the old, in with the new)
3. GROW (root, break bindings in order to change)
4. BUD (develop, evaluate)
5. FLOWER (fulfill, consummate, illuminate)
6. FRUIT (wisdom, experience, teach)
7. HARVEST (reap, let go, reflect - grace, poise, gratitude)
8. COMPOST (transform, recycle, extract nourishment for the soil and the new cycle)
With Cancer, grounded in the magic of our home as a temple, we let our feeling nature show us the way. Cancer tells us that in order for our physical form to become a true and divine home for our Spirit, we must ground and learn to express the harmony and wholeness inherent in the cycles of nature (the feminine principle) AND to align with our indwelling Eternal Flame (the masculine principle). For the Moon (rules Cancer) has no light of her own -- she reflects that which is symbolically eternal ... the light of the Sun."
The Violet Flame
The Violet Flame is a high-frequency spiritual energy that can transmute (transform) negative energy and karma into positive energy."As you begin to use the Violet Flame, you will experience feelings of joy, lightness, hope and newness of life, as though clouds of depression were being dissolved by the very sun of your own being ... The Violet Flame forgives as it frees, consumes as it transmutes, clears the records of past karma (thus balancing your debts to life), equalizes the flow of energy between yourself and others, and propels you into the arms of the living God." - El Moyra
Sit quietly and envision the Violet Flame surrounding you.
THE JOY OF FORGIVENESS
Beloved I AM Presence, flood my Being and every single etheric record since the beginning of time with the Joyful Experience of Divine Forgiveness. In forgiving I let go of the ignorance, confusion and pain of this world. I now know I have come to Love Life FREE, and so I shall.
This is the Heart Center of my existence, the Joy of Forgiving Life as it enters my awareness. From this moment forth, I AM setting all Life free into a higher vibration with the Gift of Forgiveness that my Father-Mother God have given so freely into my keeping.
I AM a Force of the Violet Flame of Forgiveness flooding this sweet Earth!
I AM the Joy of Forgiveness.
I AM the Joy of Forgiveness.
I AM the Joy of Forgiveness.
(repeat 4 times)
and/or
I AM A FORCE OF VIOLET FIRE
I AM a force of the Violet Fire more powerful than any human miscreation.
I breath the Violet Flame of Limitless Transmutation into my Heart Center, and I breathe it out through my Heart Chakra into the core of every person, place, condition or thing in my life, conscious or unconscious, past or present, through obvious choice or through karmic liability.
As this Sacred Fire floods the Earth, the Violet Flame transmutes all energy less than God's Perfection back into Light. The Violet Fire is Loving free every point of my Universe.
I AM Free! I AM Free! I AM Eternally Free! And So it is.
(repeat 4 times and as often as you like)