Laura Chat ~ August 2011 ~ Part 3
August 21, 2011
8/21, 10:34amHernandez Laura
now everyone's a saint
8/21, 10:35amBarry Kort
And if all else fails, ask a red-headed scientist.
8/21, 10:35amHernandez Laura
just don't tell the vatican
did Einstein have red hair
8/21, 10:35amBarry Kort
Do you know how a red-headed Jew greets the Pope?
I don't think Einstein had red hair. But Darwin did.
So did Mark Twain. And so does JK Rowling.
8/21, 10:37amHernandez Laura
yes she does....but she paints it blond
no
how does a red headed Jew greet the Pope?
hi you Natzy
8/21, 10:37amBarry Kort
He says, "Good Yontiff, Pontiff."
8/21, 10:37amHernandez Laura
war criminal
lol
Yntiff
Yontiff
what's that
Natzi
8/21, 10:38amBarry Kort
The current Pope looks like Darth Sidious.
8/21, 10:38amHernandez Laura
i don't remember how to spell natzi
OMG...does he look evil to you?
8/21, 10:38amBarry Kort
Yontiff is Yiddish for "Good Day"
8/21, 10:39amHernandez Laura
Yontiff..........Barry
8/21, 10:39amBarry Kort
Well, he doesn't look like My God. but that's another image in the Mind's Eye.
8/21, 10:39amHernandez Laura
and how do you say thank you in Yiddish
the Pope look like a God
8/21, 10:40amBarry Kort
B'Vakasha.
8/21, 10:40amHernandez Laura
maybe one with horns on it
interesting
Akasha
8/21, 10:42amBarry Kort
Akashic Record.
8/21, 10:42amHernandez Laura
is the word for the energy that hold the so called yes
reading my mind you empath
okay okay.... i don't mind
now tell me the secret to enlightment for an empath
8/21, 10:42amBarry Kort
Actually, B'Vakasha means Please.
8/21, 10:43amHernandez Laura
i was wondering if this was a case of the My big fat greek wedding
8/21, 10:43amBarry Kort
OK, so if the Goal is To Become Enlightened, what must be the Initial State?
8/21, 10:43amHernandez Laura
when they tell the guy to say a phrase in greek that means something else
clear
i mean believe in nothing........
so that your mind can be open to learn
i mean don't be a jerk that thinks you know everything
clear
8/21, 10:45amBarry Kort
So your theory is that the initial state, from which one pursues the Goal of Enlightenment is a State of Clarity?
8/21, 10:45amHernandez Laura
what you think you know can change in an instant by something you learn in the next half hour
an empty mind.....a silent mind......clear
clarity...........in a sense of
8/21, 10:46amBarry Kort
Do you equate empty headedness with a clear mind?
8/21, 10:46amHernandez Laura
it is okay that you don't know everything
no a quiet mind
8/21, 10:47amBarry Kort
A placid mind?
8/21, 10:47amHernandez Laura
yes
8/21, 10:47amBarry Kort
If you were in a state of placidity, what would motivate the effort to pursue enlightenment?
8/21, 10:47amHernandez Laura
tranquil
8/21, 10:48amBarry Kort
Does a creature who is placid and tranquil get up off its duff and go on a quest in pursuit of something it desperately wants?
8/21, 10:48amHernandez Laura
well one thing is pursuing and another thing is receiving....info you have no way of knowing......
that leads to enlightment
yes
a creature can do that
or he can sit still and feel the answer
as when my friend had lost his keys
couldn't find them
he was mowing the grass and had a gut feeling
the keys were under a Rock
8/21, 10:50amBarry Kort
Was he going about looking for them everywhere?
8/21, 10:50amHernandez Laura
and they were
no
he was mowing the grass
and had a feeling where the keys he had not been able to find would be
8/21, 10:51amBarry Kort
He wasn't letting the grass grow under his feet.
Did he lose them the last time he mowed the lawn? Did they fall out of pocket the last time?
8/21, 10:51amHernandez Laura
i was told that when Einstein couldn't find the answer to the next problem he was working on, he's leave the laboratory and go into nature and watch it at work...and assimilate
no, he thinks one of the boys...his sons or his sons friends
hid them there
to get into the house later on
8/21, 10:52amBarry Kort
If Einstein were in the lab, puzzling over a vexing and perplexing problem, do you reckon his mind was placid and tranquil?
8/21, 10:52amHernandez Laura
or have a pair of keys outside the house
no
he was frustrated
because he could find the answer
i see where you are going
8/21, 10:53amBarry Kort
Frustrated. Definitely not in a placid state of tranquility.
8/21, 10:53amHernandez Laura
like the time on the Star Wars movie
8/21, 10:53amBarry Kort
Where am I going?
8/21, 10:54amHernandez Laura
you need to be tranquil and in a placid state of mind to find the answer
tranquility = enlightment
will lead to
8/21, 10:55amBarry Kort
Have you ever seen the Eureka Moment when a scientist solves a problem they've been puzzling over for a long time?
8/21, 10:55amHernandez Laura
yes
Eureka
yes
other people have those too
not just scientist
8/21, 10:56amBarry Kort
Like the famous Eureka Moment of Archimedes.
8/21, 10:56amHernandez Laura
who is Archimedes
?
8/21, 10:56amBarry Kort
Oh, you don't know the Archimedes Story?
8/21, 10:56amHernandez Laura
probably read about him in school and forgot
no please tell me
8/21, 10:57amBarry Kort
He was a Greek who is said to be the first Engineer. He used applied mathematics to solve real problems.
The monarch had a gold crown, but he wasn't sure if it was pure gold or a cheap metal alloy.
The monarch asked Archimedes to assay the crown to determine if it was pure gold or not.
Archimedes could weigh the crown, to determine its mass, but because it was oddly shape, he didn't know the volume. And he need to divide the mass by the volume to get the density, so as to assay it.
So the problem was how to find the volume of the crown.
Archimedes was vexed and perplexed by this problem. But he took time out to go to the public bath.
And as he stepped into the bath, the water overflowed the lip of the bath, and Archimedes realized that as he immersed his body in the bath, he displaced an equal volume of water, which overflowed the lip of the bath.
So he suddenly realized he could obtain the volume of the gold crown by immersing it in water and seeing how much water it displaced.
8/21, 11:03amHernandez Laura
Ahh.....watching how the universe works
like Einstein
but yet
8/21, 11:03amBarry Kort
Archimedes was so excited at finding the solution to his problem that he jumped out of the bath and went running down the streets of Athens exclaiming, "Eureka! I have found it!"
8/21, 11:03amHernandez Laura
someone else could have watched hat
and not comeout with that insight
"insight"
i didn't now that sotry
story
8/21, 11:04amBarry Kort
Archimedes had a "prepared mind" to appreciate the solution when it appeared to him in the public bath.
8/21, 11:05amHernandez Laura
i hope he remembered to put his garment on
or was he so involved with the answer that he forgot he was naked
lol
8/21, 11:05amBarry Kort
No, he ran naked down the streets exclaiming, "Eureka! I have found it!"
8/21, 11:05amHernandez Laura
see that's just it
a genious
wouldn't think of the fact that he was running around naked
he would think of the fact that he has found the answer
oh.....thanks for telling me that story
did he get put injail
jail
for streaking
8/21, 11:07amBarry Kort
No, but later on, an idiot soldier killed him for no good reason.
8/21, 11:08amHernandez Laura
i wish you had not told me that part of the story
now a great mind (another one) is gone due to some idiot
and i say we all have an idiot inside
specially when you get thrown off your center
but you feel steady as a rock
how old are you?
8/21, 11:09amBarry Kort
It's an important part of the story of his life. Archimedes was sitting quietly at his desk, concentrating on a math problem when a soldier entered at random. Archimedes, lost in thought, ignored the soldier. The soldier, who felt he was being ignored, killed Archimedes on the spot.
8/21, 11:10amHernandez Laura
what kind of scientist are you?
8/21, 11:10amBarry Kort
I am a Systems Scientist.
And I am 66 years old.
8/21, 11:10amHernandez Laura
systems
what kind of systems
oh that reminds me
today is Marc's birthday
reminds me again
he is 29
i'm old
8/21, 11:11amBarry Kort
Any kind of system. I am a Systems Thinker.
8/21, 11:11amHernandez Laura
i have a 29 year old
oh
m
so if i got hit from the left side
8/21, 11:12amBarry Kort
My brother has children who are in their 40s and who have children of their own.
8/21, 11:12amHernandez Laura
at whatever speek
i'm the only one
who had kids out of the four of us
and i'm the youngest
oh and i forgot to tell you
they found me in the trash can
where were you found?
lol
8/21, 11:13amBarry Kort
As a baby?
8/21, 11:13amHernandez Laura
it was what they use to say to make me angry i guess
no
i guess when i passed them
my sisters
8/21, 11:13amBarry Kort
Oh, it was just a joke to annoy you.
8/21, 11:13amHernandez Laura
i'm 5'3
they are 4'11
i'm the tallest in my family
8/21, 11:14amBarry Kort
You were adopted.
8/21, 11:14amHernandez Laura
my dad is 5'5 and mom is 4'10
no my granpa's on both sides were really tall
i'm short
actually by the outter world standards
but i walk in here and i'm the one who can reach the cup on the top cubbard
i'm also the one that was able to accomodate the best
8/21, 11:15amBarry Kort
I was the shortest in my grade school class. Now I'm about 5' 5".
8/21, 11:15amHernandez Laura
to coming to live in a different culture
are you serious??
you are as tall as my daddy
and i guess my bother.......
8/21, 11:16amBarry Kort
At my tallest, I was about 5' 6", but ones spine shrinks an inch or so with age.
8/21, 11:16amHernandez Laura
ever heard the song
short people have no reason to live
lol
8/21, 11:17amBarry Kort
Silly song.
8/21, 11:17amHernandez Laura
ithought that song was funny
8/21, 11:17amBarry Kort
I recall that song, from the 1970s.
I write silly songs, too.
8/21, 11:17amHernandez Laura
but sometimes when you're dealing with short people you have to deal with the short part before you deal with the person....like a napoleon thing
or somehting
something
i don't feel it in you though
you are self assured
dad's dad was tall
also killed when dad was 12
shot in the head
8/21, 11:18amBarry Kort
Yes, I have more confidence than anxiety.
Yipes.
8/21, 11:19amHernandez Laura
i have more anxiety than confidence
i think
dunno
yes
and his father
8/21, 11:19amBarry Kort
That must have been traumatic for the family.
8/21, 11:19amHernandez Laura
was killed in a card fight
hit by a bottle on the head
dad was 12
8/21, 11:19amBarry Kort
Yipes. Too much violence.
8/21, 11:20amHernandez Laura
he became an epileptic due to a high fever at one and 1/2
no meds to control it then
so yes it was hard all around
8/21, 11:20amBarry Kort
To much family trauma.
8/21, 11:20amHernandez Laura
yup
that was on dad's dad side
on grandma's side
her dad discovered a cave full of silver
outside Guadalajara
near la cola del caballo
they say when they got married he had the altar covered in sivler
then you know how people sometimes exaggerate
i was not there
but i was told a lot of them got killed in the revolution in Mexico in 1901
Grandma was also trauatized
so
yes
8/21, 11:22amBarry Kort
Too much political violence in our culture.
8/21, 11:24amHernandez Laura
i did Family Constellation Healing
that was not our culture
that was Mexican Culture
after the culture of the Quetzalcoalt
and the building of Tenochtitlan
and Tenochtitaln becoming Mexico City
where i was raised
they had to get independence from the Spaniards and the French
8/21, 11:25amBarry Kort
I mean Human Culture. Not just American or Mexican or European Culture.
8/21, 11:25amHernandez Laura
Maximilian and Carlota were French
OH
yes
very violent
Humans have choices
we all have an idiot in us
and we are all good at something
8/21, 11:26amBarry Kort
Humans also have a predilection to choosing badly.
8/21, 11:26amHernandez Laura
and we can get our angry on and loose our connection to grace
well
yes......Humans have mood swings
8/21, 11:27amBarry Kort
Yup.
8/21, 11:27amHernandez Laura
and if you catch them at the wrong time
Houston we have a loose Rocket
pair that with alcohol or drugs
and Houston we have a crazy loose Rocket
and lawyers drug of choice seems to be cocaine
doctors drug of choice
seems to be the harder stuff
because they are around it
i don't see how you can want anything other than the clearest mind to work with
it's hard enough with hormones and PMS and periods for girls to keep a cool mind
a placid mind
just with our physiology
then add drugs to that
and there's no common sense left
it's a wonder to me we've evolved this far
8/21, 11:30amBarry Kort
If you want to solve difficult problems, you want a brain in good working order, not messed up on dope.
8/21, 11:30amHernandez Laura
correct
8/21, 11:30amBarry Kort
But people who are suffering with painful problems seek an anodyne palliative.
8/21, 11:30amHernandez Laura
i don't drink don't smoke....well i smoke sage sometimes
yes
Daddy told me not to call them drugs becasue it sounds bad
but those are drugs
8/21, 11:31amBarry Kort
I'd rather be a sage than smoke one.
8/21, 11:31amHernandez Laura
meds i mean
lol
it helps clear you
one time my heart was going fast
real fast
8/21, 11:32amBarry Kort
Dream sleep clears me.
8/21, 11:32amHernandez Laura
and i smoked sage
and boom
clear
oh during moments like that you can't sleep
you are racing
8/21, 11:32amBarry Kort
Being a red-head, I don't pump adrenalin unless I am in a life-or-death situation.
8/21, 11:33amHernandez Laura
i have to read that whole page about red heads so i can better understand my red head
she is so particular
she would sit on the floor and throw tatrums
for no reason
8/21, 11:33amBarry Kort
She probably craves Oxytocin, too.
8/21, 11:34amHernandez Laura
and she would hord food
8/21, 11:34amBarry Kort
She wants a hug, silly.
8/21, 11:34amHernandez Laura
and hide it under her crib
no
i hugged her all the time
i loved on her all the time
she would just start crying
and i would try to hold her
and she'd refuse
8/21, 11:34amBarry Kort
But she wants Oxytocin, which you cannot provide unless you are also wet-nursing.
8/21, 11:35amHernandez Laura
and i'd say is your diaper dirty or are you hungry or do you want mama to hug you
and all she did was scream
no i stopped at six months or five moths
so i would sit next to her quietly
8/21, 11:35amBarry Kort
Did she arch her back when she screamed when you picked her up?
8/21, 11:35amHernandez Laura
so she would know she was not alone
no i didn't pick her up she would kick if you did
you had to leave her be
just sit and be there
8/21, 11:36amBarry Kort
So she didn't arch her back.
8/21, 11:36amHernandez Laura
don't touch
yes
i guess
it was long ago
but sometimes she did
8/21, 11:37amBarry Kort
My suspicion is she was suffering from Oxytocin Deficit.
8/21, 11:37amHernandez Laura
lay on the floor screaming and arch her back i frankly didn't know what to do
except sit there
8/21, 11:37amBarry Kort
If she arched her back, that's the Unken Reflex.
8/21, 11:37amHernandez Laura
oxytocin Decficit
how do you fix that
8/21, 11:37amBarry Kort
Mother's Milk.
8/21, 11:38amHernandez Laura
what?
Mother's milk has gone dry
8/21, 11:38amBarry Kort
8/21, 11:43amHernandez Laura
That was interesting....
on the Tyra show
when talking about what happens to a woman when she likes a guy
this one girl scientist said
once a woman opens her legs ....meaning yes to sex
her oxytocin level goes up
and she is instantly connected emotionally to the man she is saying yes to
8/21, 11:44amBarry Kort
Right. Men crave ocytocin. The stuff of Cupid's Arrow.
8/21, 11:44amHernandez Laura
where as for men this is not happening
they are after another chemical reaction
which they go after from the woman smell
and also women can tell who they want to procreate with through the smell of the man
is this for real
?
8/21, 11:45amBarry Kort
The Scent of a Woman (movie w/ Al Pacino).
8/21, 11:46amHernandez Laura
their wearing cologne
she was wearing perfume
8/21, 11:46amBarry Kort
But perfume is fake pheromones.
8/21, 11:46amHernandez Laura
and Al Pacino may be cute....but he's an emotional ball of knots
oh
i thought it was flowers
8/21, 11:46amBarry Kort
The real stuff can be very powerful, if there's enough of it in the air.
8/21, 11:46amHernandez Laura
oils of flwoers
flowers
8/21, 11:47amBarry Kort
I like the aroma of almonds.
8/21, 11:47amHernandez Laura
i love almonds
i became allergic to nuts
honey
and got off glutten or gluten
and i love the smell of vanilla
8/21, 11:48amBarry Kort
Honey is also therapeutic.
8/21, 11:48amHernandez Laura
not to me
one spoon full of honey
8/21, 11:48amBarry Kort
Yes, I love vanilla, almonds, chocolate, and dill.
8/21, 11:48amHernandez Laura
and that's a three day migraine no one can control
i love ice cream in vanilla wafers with peanut butter and chocolate
have you had Iranian rice
8/21, 11:49amBarry Kort
Maybe mix caffeine w/ honey to avoid the migraines.
8/21, 11:50amHernandez Laura
with white basmati rice and white potatoes in the middle
you cook the rice first......then the potatoes
8/21, 11:50amBarry Kort
Put honey in tea that is high in caffeine.
8/21, 11:50amHernandez Laura
then you layer
first rice....then dill.....then potatoes .....then dill...then more rice......
put in big round pan and cook for 25 or so minutes.....
8/21, 11:50amBarry Kort
I don't think I've had that rice and potatoes recipe, no.
8/21, 11:51amHernandez Laura
it is an Iranian dish.......
delicious
we have a restaurant
near here
Cool Cafe
8/21, 11:51amBarry Kort
I like almost anything with almonds in it.
8/21, 11:51amHernandez Laura
it is owned by an Iranian.......
have you had almond butter
oh and Amaretto
that's cany
candy
8/21, 11:52amBarry Kort
I've had dishes made w/ almond paste, but not almond butter.
I am mad for Amaretto.
And Almond Macarooms.
8/21, 11:54amHernandez Laura
Almond Macaroons
i've never heard of those
and i don't go near Amaretto
8/21, 11:54amBarry Kort
They are yummy.
8/21, 11:54amHernandez Laura
it tastes just like candy to me
yes it is
but i can't have it
8/21, 11:55amBarry Kort
Bummer.
8/21, 11:55amHernandez Laura
alcohol gives me a headache
no alcohol
once for about 6 months i was allergic to sunlight
8/21, 11:55amBarry Kort
Maybe that's why you are an Empath.
8/21, 11:55amHernandez Laura
like in 7th grade
why
i had actually never even though to ask why
once i figure out what i was
what i was feeling was called
8/21, 11:56amBarry Kort
Your Mirror Neurons can fire w/o causing a headache, but independent concentration on problem-solving causes migraines.
8/21, 11:56amHernandez Laura
i never thought to ask why
what?
what are Mirror Neurons
hey Barry
you know of the Yuen Method
and Kam Yuen
8/21, 11:57amBarry Kort
It's the part of the brain circuitry that provides the Empathy Function.
8/21, 11:57amHernandez Laura
a 37th generation Shao Lin Master
but first what are Mirror Neurons
8/21, 11:57amBarry Kort
I am not familiar w/ Kam Yuen.
8/21, 11:58amHernandez Laura
there is a part of the brain that provides cicuitry to empathy?
it is how i am wired up?
8/21, 11:58amBarry Kort
Let me see if I can find some recent articles on Mirror Neurons.
8/21, 11:58amHernandez Laura
oh.......that's what Darrel Stoddard meant
by you're wired a little differently
he is the inventor of biotape
he worked some with NASA
this biotape when i found it
8/21, 11:59amBarry Kort
Yes, I am wired a lot differently from most people. I am mid-way between Neuroytpical and Aspergers Syndrome.