While reading an article on the current controversy in Australia over a proposed new mining tax, it occurred to me how much we are swayed by local interest groups, at the expense of our own long-term wellbeing.

I've recently read that there's been a significant drop in the levels of empathy by young people. No big deal you might think in regards to achievement.

I woke this morning thinking "nah, who am I kidding, I love being a belief diagnostician". Working on my warm bedside manner to make like the good Belief Doctor will have to wait another day. Speaking of being the diagnostician, there is a subject that catches my attention from time to time ... and it is the debate between religious people and atheists. As far as I'm concerned the heavy lifting has been done in sorting out the issues. I should know, I did the lifting.

It only occurred to me this evening, while I was attempting to program this website, how much I've allowed myself to fall into bad habits.

Or should I say, fall back into bad habits ... habits only arise due to repeated behaviours, which stem from beliefs, which of course stem from the decisions we make on a moment by moment basis. There's some great sayings on this subject, along the lines of "from thoughts come habits, from habits come destiny" or some such.

In my previous post I had said I was going to setup another site devoted to 'productive-creativity' - creativity that is productive, useful, valuable. In broad terms, I was thinking that the new website should be a hub of ideas and processes related to productive-creativity, or 'innovation' in the context of business.

But as I was browsing through the wealth of information that can now be found via links through twitter, I'm wondering if I really want togo that way.

In a recent blog post I realised I now feel the need to change from explanations (aka, this site, detailing the deeper machinery of life), to "guide and teach, not in the actual mechanics of making, but in the art of getting results."

This morning while viewing and commenting on a philosophy forum, I responded to someone who chided or inferred that I was naive and gullible.

update - Saturday 17th, 6.20 am

I woke this morning with a deep sense of dread. Something was very wrong.

After some time the reason emerged, and basically echoes a famous saying, or variations of: "Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made." or, "To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making".

While I have enjoyed wonderful insights into the deep making of life, I sense people generally sleep better at night if they are unaware of how reality is 'made.' Too deep, too 'in your face' -- simply too awkward or shocking to deal with.

This sentiment was echoed by the founding fathers of quantum mechanics. As Niels Bohr reportedly quipped "Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it". Erwin Schrödinger wrote in 1935 "It is rather discomforting that the [quantum] theory should allow a system to be steered or piloted into one or the other type of state at the experimenter's mercy in spite of his having no access to it."1

More recently David Albert, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University reflected that he finds the evidence of quantum mechanics, and the implications, 'very very very disturbing'.

So who am I to go around disturbing people to a very very very high degree? Besides, what's in it for moi?

I need to change tact. I'll use the process, and knowledge of how reality is made, to guide and teach, not in the actual mechanics of making, but in art of getting results. So previous content has been removed from public view, just like the making of sausages.

stay tuned.

1. 1. Prof. Amit Goswami, quoting Erwin Schrödinger's paper "The present situation in quantum mechanics" in the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 124: 323-38

As explained previously, I've decided to hitch-hike back to Sydney, seeing where it takes me, what experiences I have.

Thursday 25th March,  2010: This morning I began my hitch-hiking, heading South out of Cairns to Innisfail (from where I'm presently writing this).

Some years ago during my avid-reading phase when I couldn't wait to get home from work to read more, or postponing going to work in order to read, I came across one quote which has stuck with me ever since.

"Spontaneity knows its own order."

It's a quote from one of Jane Roberts' Seth books, which I highly value as wise, profound sources of information into the deeper rhythms and systems of life.

But the idea that 'spontaneity knows its own order" is one that I've resisted. It's not easy to ignore the expectations of, and commitments to others - financial, social or otherwise - to simply follow one's intuitions.

And yet, early into my desire to 'let go' and see where life takes me, I'm getting a glimpse of the immense depth to the possibilities and experiences that might ensue.