Physicist

How may we make the following questions more instructive, productive, or realistic? How may they be improved.

~ In what way are fields the substance of existence?
~ What light is created through the interaction of a magnetic field and an electric field?
~ What is a very good reason to suspect that radio waves are very like light waves?
~ How is a field modifying my life right now?
~ In what way are invisible rays real?
~ What confusion are you experiencing about the nature of reality?
~ In the case where field overlapping initiates configuration, what is the nature of that configuration?
~ How true is it that the length of a light wave is about the width of a single cell organism? Who has seen significance in the phenomenon?
~ How do you express gratitude for your ability to recognize underlying pattern?

What Do You Say?

Students of neurology and kindred disciplines have been telling us for over a century that we speak, not only to tell others what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. That's not the whole story, but it seems an important part of it. What do you think the lesson here could be. I've thought it might be to take a bit more care about what we say to ourselves. Or,"Think before you speak." That seems actionable.

What Don't I Know About Faith

I've called faith a power to act informed by vision. That vision is informed by interpretation of experience, but a little optimism seems to help.
I've used the following little story as an example of the working of faith. One goes into his house at night with the thought that the electrical system has gone to hell and there is no way the light switch is going to work. He may spent the night in the dark. With a bit of faith he may be motivated to try the switch. Trying the switch he may still spend the night in the dark, but he has improved his chances for light. With continued faith he may repair a malfunctioning switch or an electrical system that has gone to hell.

What more were it good I learned of faith?

A Sheehan Was There

A Sheehan was on the Mexican boarder when Pershing had troops there and Villa and Huerta were just on the other side.
What was Jack Sirbridge doing then?

Questions Related to Prussia of the Past

When is the earliest time we may reasonably call Prussia, Prussia?

What was the nature of Prussian dealings with Geats? Where Geats a kind of Goth?

Which is correct? Northeastern Poland was part of Prussia. or Part of Prussia was northeast Poland.

Is it true that Jablon-Dobki was a small village during WWII in which Germans killed as large percentage of the population for hiding Jews? Is it true that parties interested in modern international law have said that the killing in the area at that time was of such a nature and extensive enough to be called genocide?

Is it true that Prussians sailed to the island of Birka to trade with Vikings before there was a Sweden?Is the Town on Birka Sweden's oldest?
Is it true that an important route to the Byzantine Empire ran from Birka through Prussia?

What can I learn about Ducal Prussia?

Get Understanding Now

Readers or students of "Get Understanding Now," please feel free to ask questions or make comments. If you do not make a comment constructive, please make it courteous.

What we are doing now is either attending to our awareness or being aware of our attention. I guess awareness is the main focus. We are presently focusing our awareness on the body. We are attending to one small portion of the body at a time to see what we can discover.We may expect our discoveries to be in structure, function, or sensation.

Get Understanding Now

Let me warn you that I intend to act like a teacher. You can call me Profe.

I was going to call this "You U." but that seems a bit grand.

What I intend to offer is suggestions.
I suggest that you get understanding now.

"Understanding" is the key word. It is an activity. One needs to do it. "To get" is also an action. By "Now" I mean here and now in this time and place where everything happens.

Understanding may be analyzed in a variety of ways. For now let's say that it is made up of awareness, practice, and mastery. Much understanding can come to seem hollow if it does not proceed from self-understanding. We seem to begin in an egocentric universe.

We can't understand everything and we don't have to understand anything. We do understand some things and I suggest that we set about understanding some more. So, we need to exercise our power of choice. Since my reason and a number of wise beings suggest that it is best to "know thyself" first, I choose that.

Some things you might try as ways to start to raise your level of awareness are:
~ explore how your body functions, including how it relates to your feelings and thoughts
~ witness your your emotions and see how they relate to your body and mind, including patterns in their happening.
~ observe your thoughts and note how the effect your actions and feelings
~ take some psychological, academic, and physical tests to see what they tell you
~ check out what others have learned about body, emotions, and mind.

Sounds like the course work for a BA in Self. Forget that. You can only do one thing at a time, so it seems best to choose only one thing at a time.
Oh, oh! For me, that's a bit of a problem. I'm coming to believe that there is no such thing as thing.

I'll give you an assignment. Do the following:
~ consider your meaning for 'awareness'
~ check out an other's understanding of awareness
~ try directing your awareness
~ try directing your awareness to your body
~ direct your attention to a small part of your body (nothing naughty)
~ try to make up your mind to pay more attention to what is going on with your body
~ consider getting a notebook in which to note your discoveries and your questions.

Good for you! You have raised your consciousness.

Twitter

I have not discovered how Twitter might be useful to me.
So far, I have not found it useful for teaching, learning, or developing a satisfying relationship. How are relating, learning, and teaching accomplished on Twitter?