Guru Corner

Disclaimer: Teachers highlighted in the guru corner are not being recommended or promoted for spiritual guidance. They are merely individuals who exemplify certain spiritual qualities that are placed here for us to observe and use in whatever fashion works best for us.

"From the Harper edition cover flap, Harper say:]


Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been hailed by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest minds of this century. His creation has already changed the way people do business, entertain themselves, exchange ideas, and socialize with one another. With new online businesses and communities forming every day, the full impact of Berners-Lee's grand scheme has yet to be fully known.


Berners-Lee's creation was fueled by a highly personal vision of the Web as a powerful force for social change and individual creativity. He has never profited personally from the Web but has devoted himself to its continued growth and health. Now, this low-profile genius tells his own story of the Web's origins-from its revolutionary introduction and the creation of the now ubiquitous WWW and HTTP acronyms to how he sees the future development of this revolutionary medium. Today, Berners-Lee continues to facilitate the Web's growth and development as director of the World Wide Web Consortium and from his position at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science.


Berners-Lee offers insights to help readers understand the true nature of the Web, enabling them to use it to their fullest advantage. He shares his views on such critical issues as censorship, privacy, the increasing power of software companies in the online world, and the need to find the ideal balance between the commercial and social forces on the Web. His incisive criticism of the Web's current state makes clear that there is still much work to be done. Finally, Berners-Lee presents his own plan for the Web's future, one that calls for the active support and participation of programmers, computer manufacturers, and social organizations to make it happen.


His vision of the Web is something much more than a tool for research or communication; it is a new way of thinking and a means to greater freedom and social growth than ever before possible." - Excerpt taken from What's The Flap About?

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Beyond The Dream

A man who steals for a living but is known as "The Saint" captured my eye the other day. It was a very amusing thriller on satellite about a man who tries to steal the ultimate secret: free energy through cold fusion. Peculiar to the whole story was the idea that this thief was far more sophisticated and worldly than his target: a naive, innocent professor who held the keys to free energy in little notes she stuffed in her bra. I guess I had to laugh. I do believe most of our objective imagery is our inner Self's way of trying to speak to us.

As I watched this woman, it was an accurate metaphor for the type of innocence we will need to blast past our entrenched belief systems into a world where free energy is a possibility. Only the naive think you can get something for nothing right? Unless, of course, you are a thief! These are two belief systems at odds with each other that we need to integrate before we can create wealth, or free energy, in our lives. To step outside the support system of the current belief system does take a certain gullibility, a certain trust or faith in the universe to provide. And when we get it, we sometimes think we don't deserve it because we "stole" what wasn't rightfully ours. We didn't work hard enough for it so it must be someone else's!

This is the paradox our society is resolving as we embrace more and more systems that don't require us to deny ourselves or stifle our creativity just to make a living. The dream of Individual as Creator is becoming manifest before our eyes. I truly do believe when our consciousness integrates the ideal of free energy within Essence this solution will become physically manifest in society.

When that happens, what will our world be like?

The energy markets will crumble. With that, manufacturing costs will slide. People will find that what we held next to our hearts was worth far more than what was put on our plates. I truly do believe this will happen. When? It's only a question of time.

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