The Juried Show COUNTER LOBBY

                   The juried show is gallery law. If we want to show, we must audition. Only be accepting the challenge of competition can we hope to be fair. We submit work to be judged.

                   Social business media is like collective journalism. I find LinkedIn and :ello: provide information otherwise too difficult to access through the conventional news media or search engines alone. This mutual magazine culture is the modern self generating hub for expertise. We are sharing professional experience. One possible long term effect of our evolving social media is the chance for more effective counter lobbying campaigns. This information on technological advances is for me a major boon to my research.

                     I have been documenting the dynamics of popular opinions and their changing biases on both sides of the Spirit Tech Revolution, pro and con.          The direct link is to this page. 

                   I would like to post two excerpts I submitted for review and acceptance on a comment blog through LinkeIn: Question was:         Are there different levels of souls??

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                     I just experienced the transition of a being very loved by me. And someone said to me that the souls of non humans are different that the souls of humans. Therefore, a psychic that speaks with spirits is different between each other as one speaks with non humans and the other with humans...

                     But spirits are spirits and I do not see how or why they would be any different. If we consider the Buddhists, then the fact that a soul can be incarnated into a worm or a cow or a man has no consequence and any psychic should/could be able to contact them...

                     Yet, if we believe that of reincarnation, then what happens with the psychics that reach out the dead and what about those who are about to die that see their long dead loved ones coming back to fetch them? illusion?

                      "There are no higher levels of awareness, there is only awareness." The Upanishads say, The Self is Ubiquitous." Corrupted interpretations of the Wheel of Karma blames people to believe we "Make our own reality." We can only accept reality. Collective Karma is resolved through the self dissolving; By living, and passing, and by detaching from expectations of higher and lower. The contributions we make are never ours. All good is shared. There is no separation between what is highest and that which is lowest. Only providence is divine. "The self is Ubiquitous." Pride and egotism can creep into any dogma.                     

                    I got a little preachy as I know most Psychics know nothing about linguistics. I added;

                    We may be confusing apples with the tree. Humans and the human form by which we can be created and are loved, is where we get our "Human" language. Listening does not have to be reduced to a language. As readers we use language. As sensitives we are sensitive. They are never going to be the same thing. It is only the human mind that thinks it is superior, an error of ego orientation. Familiars and other supportive lifeforms are not bound by the limitations of human linguistics. The awareness of self in humans is identified linguistically as "I." Philosophers and social psychologists wrestle with the place of language in the pretense of sentience in humans. If we limit human intelligence to human reading adaptations alone, we are "talking" about the achievements and pride identified with the Human Realm. Again there is no higher or lower levels of awareness, (And again I include all life,) there is only awareness. I don't know if this helps.

                     I still argue, If we want to understand uniquelly human sentience, we may be talking about aesthetics (That's the ability to choose and make selections,) not language. Most trials of submission by which our actions, deeds and offerings are judged, come down to selections made be discriminating judges. If we to rise above the prejudices of a jury, words alone must never limit the full complement of an appeal.