There are extraordinary events happening on this planet of ours that give good reason to believe that we are going in the right direction, or at least allow us to go in the right direction in case we choose to do so.

One of these events is the annual TED conference. A gathering of people who are able to look at the world in more unorthodox ways. I don't agree with all of the views, but that is actually good, as - otherwise - it would probably be boring. Each active participant has twenty minutes to show his slant on life. There are talks from the high-tech field to the esoteric.

A talk very much on the esoteric side is by Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, who gave a very inspiring talk recounting her experience with a stroke...

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She bases her experience still very strongly on physical phenomena, and this is a very valid view-point because it leads us in the right direction. We just have to keep our eyes open, in order not to get lost in the significance of the material side, her experience originated from. I had to think of the stories of Carlos Castaneda in which initially the attainment of higher levels of awareness seem to be dependent on the ingestion of peyote. In the later part of the stories it then becomes clear that this was only the way, but that indeed these higher levels of awareness can be reached - and should be reached - without any help of physical means, as they are above that material realm.