Park Geun-hye before their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 27, 2013.
President Xi Jinping on Thursday of June 27 held talks with Republic of Korea (ROK) President Park Geun-hye.
Park arrived in Beijing Thursday morning, kicking off her first state visit to China since taking office in February.
Xi said he hopes the visit will leave a good impression on Park, adding that China and the ROK have enjoyed long-term exchanges.
Xi said China attaches great importance to its ties with the ROK and their bilateral relationship is an important part of China's foreign policy.
Xi said he will work with Park to push their bilateral strategic and cooperative partnership in a healthy and energetic direction.
Xi said he believes Park's visit will further invigorate the development of bilateral relations and promote bilateral strategic cooperation.
Park said bilateral relations have seen remarkable development since the two countries forged diplomatic ties more than 20 years ago.
Park said she will use the visit to advance bilateral ties and push for more positive results regarding the maintenance of peace and stability in Northeast Asia.
It is important to promote bilateral cooperation in economics and security, she said, adding that it is also important to beef up people-to-people exchanges between the two sides.
She said both sides should establish a joint committee dedicated to people-to-people exchanges.
During her four-day visit, Park will also meet with Premier Li Keqiang and top legislator Zhang Dejiang.
Park will also visit Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
President Xi Jinping held talks with his Republic of Korea (ROK) counterpart Park Geun-hye on Thursday of June 27 and pledged to boost reciprocal cooperation between the two countries in an all-around way.
Hailing the progress of bilateral ties in the 21 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, Xi said China attaches great importance to its relationship with the ROK, adding that the two countries share common interests in promoting economic development, addressing regional problems and countering global challenges.
The development of bilateral ties not only benefits the people of the two countries, but also helps to safeguard peace and stability in the region and the world at large, Xi said.
Park arrived in Beijing Thursday morning, kicking off her first state visit to China since taking office in February. During her four-day visit, Park will also meet with Premier Li Keqiang and top legislator Zhang Dejiang.
Xi said both sides should respect each other's social systems and development paths, deepen win-win cooperation, work together to advance the process of denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and enhance coordination and cooperation on major regional and global issues.
Xi said China is firmly committed to seeking a nuclear-free peninsula.
"China resolutely safeguards the peace and stability of the Korean Peninsula and the region, opposes any party that disrupts peace and stability and adheres to resolving problems through dialogue and negotiations," Xi said.
Xi said China welcomes Park's proposal of a "Korean Peninsula trust process" and supports the improvement of relations between the north and south.
There have been some positive changes on the peninsula, Xi said, calling for related parties to make efforts to resume the six-party talks at an early date.
Xi said China would like to step up communication and coordination with the ROK regarding the talks.
Park said the ROK is committed to safeguarding peace and stability in northeast Asia, seeking a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula and resolving relevant issues through the six-party talks.
The ROK appreciates China's role in promoting denuclearization and safeguarding peace and stability on the peninsula, Park said, pledging to increase strategic communication and cooperation with China and create favorable conditions for the resumption of the six-party talks.
She underscored the ROK's commitment to improving ties with the DPRK on the basis of trust and laying a foundation for peace and unification on the peninsula.
The two presidents agreed to increase exchanges at multiple levels and in multiple areas, deepen economic and technological cooperation, make joint efforts to reach a free trade agreement, beef up cultural and people-to-people exchanges and enhance coordination in the United Nations and other major international mechanisms.
After the talks, the two sides issued a joint statement and an action plan to enhance the strategic partnership between China and the ROK.
According to the action plan, the two countries have decided to start talks on maritime demarcation at an early date.
"The two sides reconfirmed the vital importance of maritime demarcation in advancing bilateral ties, as well as boosting maritime cooperation," says the plan.
"(The two sides) have decided to launch maritime demarcation talks as soon as possible so as to advance the process of maritime demarcation," the plan says.
The two sides agreed to boost communication and cooperation, strengthen joint surveillance and management and enhance joint studies to protect fishery resources in relevant waters.
China and the ROK will also increase exchanges on historical studies, according to the action plan.
China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Thursday of June 27 agreed to push for the completion of a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA).
The consensus was reached during talks held between President Xi Jinping and ROK President Park Geun-hye.
The two sides reconfirmed that the goal of creating a China-ROK free trade zone is to reach a high-level and comprehensive free trade pact.
The two leaders welcomed the progress that has been made in FTA negotiations and instructed negotiation teams on both sides to strengthen their efforts in order to push the negotiations into their next phase, according to a joint statement issued Thursday.
The two sides agreed to extend their currency swap arrangement and discuss the possible expansion of their swap volume. They also vowed to deepen bilateral financial and monetary cooperation.
In the joint statement, the two sides pledged to enhance economic and trade cooperation, as well as coordination on macroeconomic policies.
They will expand cooperation in the areas of information and communication technology, energy, environment and climate change, according to the statement.
The two sides will also strengthen and expand communication channels in order to share experience in the areas of health, food security and demographic changes, it said.
During their talks, Xi and Park also agreed to enhance people-to-people exchanges between the two countries.
They decided to establish a joint committee on people-to-people exchanges and agreed to expand exchanges in education, culture, media, tourism, youth and local regions.
The two sides will beef up bilateral consular cooperation to facilitate personnel exchanges and safeguard the security, legitimate rights and interests of their people, according to the statement.
Substantial progress will be necessary for negotiations of the free trade deal between Beijing and Seoul, South Korea's top economic policymaker said on Thursday of June 27 ahead of the summit between leaders of the two countries.
"It is necessary to seek substantial progress that can conclude the first-stage FTA talks, now when one year has passed since the two countries launched the negotiations," Finance Minister Hyun Oh- seok said at a meeting with other policymakers.
His comments came ahead of the summit talks between Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Beijing later in the day. Park started a four-day visit to China on Thursday.
"If two leaders re-confirm a consensus on the need for progress of FTA talks at the summit, we should use it as a momentum and make intensive negotiation efforts," said Hyun.
The minister said China became the most important collaborator when South Korea implements overseas economic policy, adding that Beijing is Seoul's largest trading partner.
Since the two neighbors established diplomatic ties in 1992, their annual trade has grown almost 50 times and reached 256 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, according to Chinese official statistics.
South Korean President Park Geun-hye starts a four-day visit to China on Thursday. The visit, which comes months after both countries saw leadership change, is expected to open a new chapter in bilateral relations.
Since the two neighbors established diplomatic ties in 1992, they have seen sustained progress in their overall relationship, particularly in economic interactions.
China has been South Korea's largest trading partner for years. The large and populous country is also a major destination of South Korean investment and a primary source of foreign tourists.
Annual trade between China and South Korea have increased almost 50 times and reached 256 billion U.S. dollars in 2012, according to Chinese official statistics. Trade is expected to grow further as the two countries are working on a free trade area agreement.
Park's planned trip to China's western city of Xi'an, to be escorted by business executives, is also most likely to add fresh momentum to China-South Korea economic ties given the city's status as a Chinese inland hub and the increasing presence of South Korean companies there.
Though economic issues and cultural exchanges would be high on Park's agenda during her China trip, the situation on the Korean Peninsula is the topic that would capture most global attention.
The tense atmosphere surrounding the Korean Peninsula eased slightly last week after senior diplomats from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said the country was ready to join in any form of talks, including the long-stalled six-party talks.
For Park, who promised on her campaign trail and in her inauguration speech to build trust with Pyongyang, now faces an opportunity to do so.
The six-party talks is by far the most effective mechanism for the pursuit of lasting peace on the peninsula and in the Asia-Pacific at large.
Since the talks came to an impasse in 2009, hard-earned trust among concerned parties has been evaporating following unfortunate incidents one after another.
As a key stakeholder, China has repeatedly called for an early resumption of the six-party talks so as to realize lasting peace on the peninsula.
It is highly anticipated that Beijing and Seoul could make headway in this regard during Park's visit and breathe new life into stalled talks on the peninsula.
China and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have decided to start talks on maritime demarcation at an early date, according to an action plan issued on Thursday of June 27.
"The two sides reconfirmed the vital importance of maritime demarcation in advancing bilateral ties, as well as boosting maritime cooperation," says an agreement signed after President Xi Jinping held talks with his ROK counterpart Park Geun-hye Thursday afternoon.
Park arrived in Beijing on Thursday for her first state visit to China since taking office in February.
"(The two sides) have decided to launch maritime demarcation talks as soon as possible, so as to advance the process of maritime demarcation," the plan says.
Chinese leaders on Friday pledged to push China's strategic relations with the Republic of Korea (ROK) to a new high as they met with visiting ROK President President Park Geun-hye.
Premier Li Keqiang said China and the ROK are good neighbors and important partners, citing increasing political trust and more common ground in development strategies and goals.
Li called on the two countries to take a longer view and a more aggressive attitude, deepen cooperation in trade and the economy, investment, finance and new energy, and speed up the construction of the Free Trade Area (FTA).
Li briefed Park on China's economy, saying China's economic restructuring and upgrading will offer more room for China-ROK cooperation.
Li called on the two countries to make use of their advantages in technology, markets and human resources and to deepen economic cooperation, which will help boost East Asia cooperation.
In regards to the situation on the Korean Peninsula, Li said China's stance on seeking a nuclear-free peninsula is consistent, clear and firm.
China would like to make joint efforts with the international community, restart the six-party talks at an early date, resolve disputes through dialogue and negotiations, safeguard the peace and stability of the peninsula and promote development and prosperity in Northeast Asia, Li said.
Park said her visit to China, which started on Thursday, has produced fruitful results, including a consensus with Chinese leaders on developing bilateral relations.
Stressing that both countries are faced with the tasks of developing their economies and improving people's livelihoods, Park said the ROK would like to deepen pragmatic cooperation with China in all fields, expand investment in China's central and western regions and sign the FTA agreement at an early date, as well as boost bilateral and regional economic cooperation.
Park recognized China's role in resolving issues on the Korean Peninsula, saying the ROK would like to maintain close communication and consultation with China in this regard.
In a separate meeting with Park, top Chinese legislator Zhang Dejiang said China and the ROK are geographically close, the two peoples share deep bonds and bilateral cooperation has developed robustly since the two countries forged diplomatic relations in 1992.
Zhang, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature, reviewed the frequent exchanges between the top legislative bodies of the two countries, saying that cooperation in this regard has promoted China-ROK relations.
The NPC would like to deepen friendly relations with the National Assembly of the ROK, explore new ways to expand legislative cooperation and carry out the new consensuses of leaders, and bring the bilateral partnership of strategic cooperation to a new high, Zhang said.
Park said the consensus reached at the summit will usher in a new chapter of China-ROK cooperation.
She proposed that the legislative bodies of the two countries increase exchanges, expand cooperation and boost bilateral relations.
Park arrived in Beijing on Thursday for her first state visit to China since taking office in February. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Park reached a series of agreements during their talks on Thursday of June 27.


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Patriots News: DT Danny Shelton Signs New Contract with New England
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The New England Patriots announced Monday they have re-signed defensive tackle Danny Shelton.
Ben Volin of the Boston Globe broke down what it means for New England and Shelton:
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DT Danny Shelton is back. Played in 31 percent of snaps last year for the Patriots. Didn't do much for most of the season, but did have a big tackle in the Super Bowl. Betting he has to win a roster spot
The big tackle in the Super Bowl came against Los Angeles Rams running back C.J. Anderson when Shelton swam through the line and stopped his opponent in the backfield for a three-yard loss. The tackle earned him the league's Way to Play award for the week.
Shelton appeared in 13 regular-season games and two playoff games last season after being traded from the Cleveland Browns in the previous offseason.
Meanwhile, the run defense was a key part of the Patriots' success in Super Bowl LIII as the Rams were held to just 62 rushing yards on 18 attempts.
Re-signing Shelton allows for some continuity on the defensive line with Trey Flowers, Malcom Butler and Adrian Clayborn leaving in free agency.
The 25-year-old also has plenty of upside as a former first-round pick from the 2015 draft. He started 44 games in his first three years with the Browns and still made an impact in 2018 even with a smaller role with the Patriots.
With more playing time, Shelton has a chance to have an even bigger showing in 2019.
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ReNEW Schools Help Local Students' Futures Take Flight with Thursday's Cockails for a Cause
Nov 07, 2012 • Events
For some students in New Orleans, going on to college is a given. Their families offer ample support, and they receive sound guidance from trained professionals in their schools.
Others, however, have never left the city and don't have anyone in their family who has gone to college.
A local organization is working to change the outcomes for those less supported students by taking them to college. Literally.
"This year we're taking 450-500 kids to five different cities throughout the United States to visit colleges," said ReNEW Schools board member Liza Sherman. "We want to get them on a college campus so that basically they can get a feel for it."
Students on these chaperoned summer college visits engage in specific, unique opportunities and experiences, from admission to the MoMA, to a college t-shirt, to a lunch in a dining hall.
When "Brittany" went with her ReNEW peers on a trip to visit colleges in Texas, she learned that despite having two kids, she could still continue her education as most colleges provide dorms for students with children. Brittany is now proud to be a student at the University of Texas-Arlington.
"I never thought about going to college because they are far away and I wouldn't have a place to live," said 17-year-old Barnyka, another veteran of a ReNEW college visit. "Now I know colleges help with a place to live and you can meet lots of different types of people." Barnyka now says she wants to study in either Florida or New York.
When ReNEW isn't bringing students to college campuses, they are working to improve local schools. The organization operates five schools serving over 2300 k-12 students throughout the Uptown and Irish Channel area.
Of those five, two are Irish Channel Alternative high schools that serve very at-risk youth, those who have dropped out or been through the justice system, or any other problems that have severely impacted their prospects for the future.
"These alternative high schools offer alternative scheduling, they offer childcare, they pretty much do every thing they can to help these kids get their lives back on track," said Sherman.
"The whole mission of ReNEW," she added, "revolves around working with the schools with the most obstacles, the schools that have the most opportunity to improve."
The results are evident. Over the past few years, ReNEW has taken over the former Laurel and Live Oak Elementary Schools and increased their School Performance Scores by 23 and 21 points respectively.
In the spring of 2010, over 80% of students at Laurel Elementary were not on track to go to college; students were over-age, under-credited, and uninspired. ReNEW chartered the school that fall, and now over 53% of their students are on track for college (more than doubling the previous percentage).
Join ReNEW Thursday night for their Future Takes Flight, Cocktails for a Cause fundraising event, from 6:30 to 9:30 at 3128 Constance Street, featuring small plates from Serendipity, Mondo, Shake Sugary Bakery, Dijon, One, Whole Foods and others plus libations from Yellow Tail and Luksusowa Vodka.
For more info and to purchase tickets, please visit www.renschools.org/ftf or the event Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/events/197493563715510/?fref=ts.
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What is The Insight Project?
By Peter Shepherd
Finding the Inner Self
The Approach of The Insight Project
A Paradigm Shift
Starting The Insight Project
Why The Insight Project Is Unique
The ability to perceive and understand the true nature of something.
Knowledge obtained by this. [Oxford Senior Dictionary]
The Insight Project is based on emancipation through the direct experience of knowledge, i.e. through insight. The knowledge that sincere application of the procedures contained in The Insight Project will bring you, is all that is necessary for you to experience your own truth, your immortal identity, freedom from limitation, and genuine happiness.
Surely, you may say, we are in the midst of a "knowledge explosion" today. But this has not eliminated war, fear, poverty, anxiety or Man's daily inhumanity to man. Nor has it given man any legitimate knowledge of his make-up. It has only been "knowing about", not knowledge acquired from direct experience, from looking within.
Thus it is that man drifts aimlessly through a world seemingly without meaning or purpose - a world he created but over which he no longer exercises conscious control or power. Man today has lost his identity and his purpose for existing. He has lost his sense of the Game of Life. He is an unknowing and unwilling game-player. Never before has man been so much of a problem to himself.
Why does man, with all his intelligence, allow this situation to exist? Is there a practical answer?
Man does not know himself. The task now before you is to begin to know yourself. To possess self-knowledge you must first become free of illusions about yourself, the people around you, and the Universe. Until you begin to understand your illusions you will never be free to see the truth about yourself or anything else. That is, as intuitive knowingness, not "knowing about".
Illusions consist of all sorts of mistaken ideas you hold about yourself, false assumptions as to your abilities, erroneous concepts about your place and purpose in the world, and so forth. It is difficult to break-up these illusions because they have become deeply ingrained habit patterns. To be able to change, which is the only way to gain self-knowledge and freedom, you must do things you have never done before, and recognize that viewpoints that you were determined must be right, may possibly be wrong.
As Ouspensky says, "The greatest barrier to consciousness is the belief that one is already conscious." Just considering the matter, one for an instant wakes-up, then returns to slumber in the illusion that, yes, he is conscious. The truth of the matter is that 99% of the time, man is behaving mechanically - he is determined by external influences.
Nearly all of Man's thoughts, ideas, emotions, aspirations, words and moods are triggered by external influences. These trigger him automatically according to his previous conditioning, upbringing, education and experiences, and his innate human nature, instincts and drives. Creative work, the application of free will, is only possible if vision is unhindered by pre-conceived fixed ideas or reverence to singular ideologies.
The mind, while operating subjectively as one mind, can be differentiated into several levels of function:
Higher consciousness. This non-physical mind is the knowing of the Being: the Higher Self. It is non-verbal and therefore can only communicate to the other functions of mind through intuitive channels. This is direct, fully awakened perception and insight. It is an abstract quality, not a quantity; it is implicit, not explicit. It functions increasingly as the "ego-defenses" (protection of the self-image) of the conscious and subconscious mind are broken down. This mind of the spiritual essence of Being consists of the Being's considerations, postulates, opinions, evaluations, purposes, intentions and goals. It is the essence that is aware of being aware. It is free choice and creativity, what makes Man rise above the animal, the essence of life, love and truth.
Intuitive. This is a higher level of awareness that is non-verbal. It relates diverse sources of information to create a holistic picture. It functions through the right cortical hemisphere of the brain as its intermediary with the left hemisphere "ego" and the body. ESP is the "release" of intuition into your conscious experience.
Conscious. This is the level of awareness of Man in our left-brain oriented culture when he is not functioning automatically. It is verbalized thinking, reasoning and analysis. It is "knowing about". It is sequential and time-based. It uses the left cortical hemisphere of the brain as its intermediary with the body. It gives a sense of "ego" personality or self-identity, though this is transitory and shifts constantly and unknowingly through many ego-states or sub-personalities in response to changes of circumstances.
Preconscious. This contains all the things you know about and can recall but aren't examining at this moment. It is like the area of mind that the searchlight of consciousness can readily illuminate.
Subconscious. This level of mind contains decisions that have been made consciously at one time and that later became forgotten, though they are still active and effective. Also it contains the memories that at one time were experienced but which the conscious ego wants well out of the way of the Preconscious, i.e. they are suppressed, though they frequently emerge in dreams. The subconscious functions beneath the surface, and the decisions that accompany suppressed memories act as programming and are re-enacted unknowingly, through a reactive stimulus-response mechanism. Thus the mind becomes conditioned. Subconscious decisions are a left-brain function and subconscious emotional content is a right-brain function. The harmful split between left and right brain is a result of the conscious ego defending itself against painful memories and painful reality by the act of suppression, and the construction of rationalising beliefs and fixed ideas. It is necessary to break down these barriers and re-integrate the brain, so that the intuitive function of insight is possible. This is achieved by the method of analysis used on The Insight Project.
Unconscious. The unconscious mind is never brought into consciousness. It contains the most basic programming, the innate genetic blueprint of the human organism - the survival, sexual and aggressive drives and instincts, and the "body knowledge" of sensory and motor skills, innate and acquired. It automatically performs the millions of simultaneous directives that are essential for the human being to function. It also contains the "unexperienced experience" of traumatic incidents that caused unconsciousness or were unconfrontable and repressed at the time, and therefore were never absorbed into the database of the conscious mind. Nevertheless they are stored in every detail at this level of mind, and their contents continue to have an effect on the person in a stimulus-response manner.
From these definitions it is easy to see that the subconscious and unconscious minds play the major role in controlling your life and behavior, when you are not fully awake and self-aware in the present moment. In the normal human person they are responsible for over 90% of everyday thoughts, feelings, motivations, desires, prejudices, anxieties, tensions, illnesses, illusions, personality problems, and everyday behavior.
Thus The Insight Project seeks to re-orient your basic unconscious concepts by changing your normal reactions and responses to life's everyday occurrences, in the light of insight by the higher consciousness, intuitively perceived.
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All spiritual roads lead to that uncomfortable destination where the examination and acceptance of the inner self must take place. The first step is to realize our judgments and fears are self-created and limit our scope to deal with the present. They are the surface manifestations that capture our attention and keep us from focusing on the real blocks, deep in our psyche - the unconscious patterns.
So well have they been hidden, covered by justifications and illusory beliefs, which few have had the strength to break through them. They are the backbone of duality - the rigid "black and white" thinking that makes understanding of holistic truth impossible. But we are oblivious to this situation because we have protective shields - we hold on to the past or hide in the future. We have consuming interests, worries about our status or our possessions. Such shields are both a great help and a great hindrance to us. They pacify us and at the same time fool us, giving us a false sense of security.
Wholeness, or being totally in the present, is dependant on breaking the patterns, of erasing their duality; only then can new states of consciousness become possible. It's been known since ancient times in Eastern religions and philosophies and among some Western mystics, that one's resistance to the events and forces of life lead to one's imprisonment in a smaller viewpoint, an isolation from perception, participation and enjoyment of life.
It's only when a Being considers that he can't safely experience something, that he puts force out to stop it. That wouldn't be so bad, but as time goes by, he forgets what exactly he was trying to avoid and begins to generalize it. Eventually this resistance is occurring on an undifferentiated basis, and his intentions form blocks against much of the life and flows of energy of others around him. He has locked himself into a cocoon of his own making.
The procedures of The Insight Project, layer by layer, strip away the cocoon, leaving the Being in a sense quite naked, ridgeless and free. Those who have experienced these techniques talk of feeling reborn, that their life is starting anew, or that it is really starting for the first time. It removes the reasons why a Being restrains himself, releasing the energy and purposes to participate in all of life causatively - with CHOICE regained.
There is a difference between a viewpoint and an identity as we define them. A viewpoint is simply a point from which one perceives. A Being, in order to operate in this universe, needs to assume a viewpoint. He can then receive inflow and create outflow.
An identity contains a viewpoint, but it is more than that. An identity is a way one decides to be in order to deal with a situation or in order to manifest an intention. So it contains a viewpoint, but it's also an intention to accomplish something, with accompanying decisions, beliefs, considerations, evaluations and agreements. It's a package of rules and laws passed by the person of how to be in given circumstances.
Everyone has many such identities, necessary to participate in life. The ones that we give attention to on The Insight Project are ones the person gets stuck in - that are imprinted on his or her personality.
There are as many other fixed identifications as there are personality-types and the different masks people put on for all the varying social situations of their life. And there are very many more subtle ones relating to a person's complex belief-system, the affects of personal trauma, sympathies and bad actions plus the myriad affects of cultural conditioning (shoulds and shouldn'ts necessary to be acceptable to parents, teachers, employers, friends, lovers and society).
All of these identities have an accompanying intention - what the person wanted to achieve by that behavior. If he has formulated an intention and has not achieved or unmade it, then he is still in the middle of that action cycle and that cycle remains part of his perceived here and now, taking up his attention, i.e. his energy and power. He is, to that extent, "not all there" in present time. This tends to happen with an identification that the person is not conscious of, because it is such a familiar part of his life or because it is painful or uncomfortable to view and awareness of it is avoided - it becomes unconscious.
Most people have many frustrated intentions that are emotionally charged in this way, and are very adept at justifying and rationalising any manifestations of these "sub-personalities" so they are not recognized.
The Insight Project has many cunning techniques to awaken the Being, so that these debilitating trapped viewpoints can be freed, and the Being can come more and more into the HERE AND NOW, realizing the incredible resources that each one of us intrinsically possess. Previously perceived limitations dissolve away and new horizons appear. Life goals that seemed impossible then become an exciting new challenge.
The eternal question "Who am I?" is finally answered by turning the scientific method in on oneself to objectively determine one's true nature. With the tools of The Insight Project one looks at the goals, identities, roles and ways of being that are being assumed. Right now, not in the past. Usually these are being re-enacted unknowingly, rather than by conscious decision, and therefore no responsibility is taken for the identification. The reasons why one is compulsively playing a role, and therefore behaving reactively and unconsciously, have not been confronted. A network of rationalizations have been put in place to avoid having to make this confront. It is a network of safe solutions to the trials and tribulations of life. It is also the destroyer of awareness, and the preventer of insight.
The Insight Project examines the area of mental functioning that causes these survival computations to stick together, to form barrier against that which cannot be truly perceived. At a subconscious level, the responsibility that perceiving the truth would demand, is considered too much to take on.
The techniques taught on The Insight Project take down this barrier by questioning - with the aid of the Biofeedback Monitor - the validity or closeness to the objective truth, of one's every mental consideration.
The Being - YOU - knows, which is why the Biofeedback Monitor can work, but the mind hides this knowingness behind a fog of confusions, fixed ideas and "ways of being right". All of them are safe solutions that are being grasped onto, despite the fact that many of them conflict.
As one strips these away, gradually increasing one's awareness, responsibility and ability to face up to reality, new and previously unseen layers of rationalization and self-deceit become available to inspect. The view constantly changes and opens up, until finally, in the particular area that is being inspected, the truth is seen, and the breakthrough to insight obtained.
The technical procedures of The Insight Project involve examining the current viewpoint of the Being. This present time pole is what the past is hooked onto. There is a finite amount of current mental functioning but an infinity of past experiences that would take forever to resolve. By taking down the present time pole, the mass of the past falls away.
One is always looking for truth - something you didn't realize before - although at a deep level you already know it. But one's view is always conditional upon the degree of awareness, responsibility and confront you are adopting, for survival purposes or for purpose of game (the need to have challenges, interest, excitement). The way you see something is always conditional in this way, like colored glasses through which you view past, present and future - unless the subject has been released of all charged conflict.
Normal, human, perceptions are - as a rule - reactive or "stimulus-response", the result of the conditioning of a lifetime and even of previous lifetimes. Psychotic perceptions are, of course crazy; neurotic perceptions are illogical; but even normal human perceptions are still determined by others and far below the knowingness of a fully realized Being.
Realizing that what one had previously thought or decided was actually inappropriate, exaggerated, inaccurate, self-defeating or a false assumption will cause a release of charge - i.e. the emotional energy that had been bound up by frustration. But on The Insight Project one goes beyond that, digging up the lies, misconceptions and misattributed ownership of concepts or viewpoints - the source of the irrationality - to get to the actual truth of the matter, your OWN viewpoint, and this gives not just a release but a permanent erasure of charge. Then it's really handled for good, and you won't be re-creating problematic feelings as soon as the session ends, or troubled times re-occur.
In actuality, YOU KNOW. The Biofeedback Monitor helps to reveal your intuitive knowingness, and eventually, layer by layer, this truth is revealed, like a painting being cleaned of centuries of grime. YOU are revealed. Gradually you differentiate the Higher Self from the Composite body-mind of the human being.
The human animal is a sophisticated (highly evolved) combination of both its genes and the body-mind conditioned from conception by traumatic stimuli and parental and cultural influence. From this programming the personality-mask or "ego" develops, and this is multi-faceted, as different masks and different egos come into play in all the many and varying circumstances of life. The Being identifies with these multiple sub-personalities and the archetypal drives and survival instincts this earthly vehicle dramatizes.
Thus forms the Composite. However, the Composite is in conflict. The Being is not, essentially, of this world, and has no innate concerns with survival - he is interested in Game (involvements in scenarios that provide the opportunity for him to exercise creativity and have fun) and his considerations concern that. The human, genetic entity is primarily concerned with survival. What results is a mass of safe solutions to this conundrum.
When energy flows meet from opposite directions they impact and form massy blocks. Similarly, the conflict of intentions within the Composite being, form the mass of the Composite mental structure, and this mass of intention-counter-intention effectively acts as an "Imprint" or imposition upon the Being. It is the "unconfrontable" charge that causes the being to shut down drastically his awareness and responsibility for causation, to be "asleep" while the conditioning takes control. It is a primary purpose of The Insight Project to erase this Imprint.
The Imprint is the blockage that results from the spiritual and material intentions being identified as one, although they conflict in basic purpose. Subjectively it is the mass one feels that restricts one's awareness and limits one's space. It is the barriers, the impacted energy flows, the "ridges" between oneself and others, which make one feel alone and unconnected.The spiritual or non-physical element is trying to play games, but they have become unknowing (like actually becoming a piece on the chess board) and hence trap him. The physical element is programmed through evolution to survive, again without choice.
The Higher Self is not of this world, but adopts a viewpoint within it. Adopting a human body, its mind operates through the "via" of the human brain, to control the body and to perceive through the body. The behavioral instincts of the human are contained in the primitive "reptilian" brain, but this of course interacts with the highly evolved human cortex of the brain, the seat of "thinking consciousness".
The left half of the cortex works with verbal, sequential and analytical processes, while the right side deals with intuitive, emotional and synthesising processes. Both may be inappropriate. The left may adopt misconceptions, defensive rationalizations and survival computations - the fixed ideas of belief systems, which attach to the various assumed identities or ways of being. These are stimulated (usually unknowingly) by life circumstances.
In the right brain, distortion takes the form of suppressed feelings, emotions, attitudes, pains and experience - truth that is withheld. The Being communicates through the intuitive non-verbal right side (via a crystallized link from the pineal gland) and if right-brain awareness is detached from the left-brain conscious ego, the Being may become detached from mental consciousness - asleep behind a smoke screen of words.
Insights and practical ideas are useless if just "known about" - they are for everyone that can act, to test out empirically for themselves. All belief systems are just another potential trap and all the ideas described within the Project materials will either be discovered or not on your own venture into self-knowledge. The truth lies within you, no-one else can provide it for you. The Insight Project procedure completely eschews any type of evaluation - where you look and what you find are up to you, the course simply provides you with a set of powerful tools.
Just in the last few years there has been the start of a paradigm shift, or a new way of looking at things, in the area of science, metaphysics, information systems, psychology, medicine and ecology. These and many other subjects have become integrated by advanced thinkers (who recognized the dangers of blinkered specialization) into an holistic world-view, where the disciplines do not just exist independently but relate inter-actively.
It may be the only hope for our planet that this progress continues, since the radical new policies required for survival of this eco-system, will be ineffective if not allied with an holistic view of man, which recognizes his spiritual, mental, physical and social needs and problems.
This new holistic paradigm helps to connect many data of comparable magnitude from different fields of knowledge. Perhaps the most inspiring is the link between the new physics of quantum mechanics and the mystical study of metaphysics. The mathematics of quantum theory postulates a zero-point, a "static" outside of space-time. Further, changes to one particle may also incur simultaneous changes to other particles in that field - a synchronous communication of information that is outside of Einstein's laws of space-time.
This is an "information field", i.e. information itself has existence independent of space and time. For example, if Beethoven's 9th Symphony had only existed within the composer's mind, would it "exist" any less than it does today, on manuscripts and records around the world?
It may be said that this "creative-vacuum" is of a spiritual nature, or it is the nature of spirit. Physicist-philosopher David Bohm has postulated an extension of these principles from the micro-cosmic to the macro-cosmic, to explain the metaphysical causation by consciousness of matter, energy, space and time, in terms of physics. The results closely match both the findings of Eastern philosophers and the hypotheses of The Insight Project, so that the mystery of universal consciousness is now brought into the objective sphere, causing endless potential for further advancement of our understanding and for the humanisation of science.
There is a point in applied metaphysics, however, where personal experience of consciousness is essential to progress further, and where only a profound change in consciousness can effectively prove the hypothesis, that man is part of the spiritual causation of the material universe and that his considerations affect the universe, both as a single Being and as part of the whole Causative Order. Science lacks a technology for such change and the mystical techniques are hit-and-miss and require a life-time or more of training.
The techniques of The Insight Project however are proving to be a most effective method for each of us to discover our full potential. The Insight Project works to realize and integrate the Higher Self, the true spiritual Being. We can be at rest in this awareness, like the eye of a storm. The world whirls all around, in the field of consciousness. This "I" is both an observer and a constant center of all the activity. It is only at this center, having dis-identified from the many controlling forces, that the person achieves freedom, to master, direct and utilize them. Being at the center, the observer can also be seen as the experiencer, able to more fully experience inner and outer events and to become unafraid of living. The free person can move around in his personality and in the world, instead of being locked into fixed and safe patterns, and in that way can be in touch with unlimited potential for experience
The The Insight Project course contains the fundamental principles and techniques. You learn to apply the Biofeedback Monitor in the context of profound personal development procedures. On a well-proven gradient you gradually become skilled in working on your own with the techniques; in addition at all times you have as much support as you require by e-mail correspondence.
Pre-requisite for starting work on The Insight Project is either having made good progress with previous personal development such that you feel emotionally stable yet spontaneous and with a clear sense of spiritual identity - the practical exercises (Explorations) given in Transforming the Mind help to provide a preparation for The Insight Project.
The Insight Project is a set of analytical procedures that you apply to yourself, with the aid of biofeedback monitoring, in order to differentiate the spiritual part of your being from the mental and physical. Discover your Higher Self and its capability of Full Realization.
The Insight Project courses cover everything you need to know, from learning to do basic procedures in self-administered sessions, through to the most advanced techniques for spiritual self-realization available in the world at this time.
You can purchase Part I - Meta-Programming, work through it over a couple of years, then purchase the subsequent Parts II-V, which will typically provide five years of intensive spiritual development in total, plus remain as a wonderful resource for ever after. Alternatively you can buy the whole package of insight Parts I-V Complete and save $488. See this page for more information about the five Parts and the special package.
After your online purchase, you download the course in PDF format, which you can view in the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader. Or you may like to print out a copy - or print the pages you need as you go along.
Order the Part I - Meta-Programming course
with a payment of US$ 297.00
Part I is likely to take at least 12 months of regular sessions to complete, and the whole project typically 5 years. The payment includes personal email support by Peter Shepherd throughout your studies and work on the project. Your purchase is made in your local language and currency. We will confirm your purchase by email and supply the download link for all the materials.
IMPORTANT! To do the course you will need the InnerTrac™ Emotional Response Indicator
The Emotional Response Indicator is a type of Emotional Response Indicator specially designed to assist in psycho-therapeutic and personal development procedures. There are many situations in which it is extremely helpful to be able to detect the presence of emotionally charged, suppressed mental content just below or at the borders of subconsciousness. This is a tremendous aid in assessing which of many specific topics is most relevant to be treated and at the same time, such material is also accessible and readily viewable by the subject. This can save many hours of wasted searching and discussion and when you have used an Emotional Response Indicator for a short time you will wonder how it is possible to be effective in developmental therapies without one!
The recommended InnerTrac™ Emotional Response Indicator is presented below. It costs US$ 497 plus shipping. If you order, kindly inform the proprietor, Hank Levin (email), that you learned of the device at Trans4mind.com...
The revolutionary InnerTrac™ is a small, hand held device that measures subtle changes in the electrical resistance of the body that occur in the presence of stress and emotional arousal, including changes that are below the awareness of the client, i.e. subconscious stimulations. Therefore it is a form of Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) monitor. It is carefully designed to serve as a valuable guide in a remarkable number of healing modalities--from EFT, TFT and EMDR to traumatic incident reduction-- and is ideal for use on The Insight Project. It allows one to detect and pinpoint the presence of emotional "charge," and verify the progress of its resolution - a tremendous advantage for the practitioner. Note: on The Insight Project you are both the practitioner and the client at the same time, i.e. it is a self-delivered method of personal development.
The InnerTrac™ will detect the presence of, and measure the progressive release of, negative emotions. This makes it invaluable for guiding the practitioner through the successive steps of any effective therapy or application of positive psychology. Furthermore, with skill - and ful training is provided as part of the Insight Project - the Emotional Response Indicator can be used to assess a number of likely or possible issues, and ascertain the one with the most "charge" at the moment that is most accessible to be effectively handled. It will also show when you - the client - is upset; and it will indicate when you are "released" from the issue being handled.
Erick Espinar-Mick:
"In my view, The Insight Project is without doubt the safest, soundest and most powerful method of self-development available. After searching for countless years and unsuccessfully trying many different approaches, I've finally found my path. Peter's personal coaching has made possible for me to achieve in a few months what I thought would take a lifetime."
If you feel this path may be for you, please contact Peter Shepherd, Supervisor of The Insight Project.
Q: What I am really looking for is a way to tap into the real me without opening up doors that can possibly send me into some mental institution. Is this possible?
A: The Insight Project techniques are 'light' - you never get into traumatic incidents because you stay in present time and the questions are oriented that way. It's enlightening, like meditation but more directed and effective.
Q: What about this spiritual business. Out of body, telepathy and so on. It seems to me that we are not just a being inside a skull that is trapped but rather very human also, any comments?
A: The spiritual aspect of self is relatively abstract, it is non-verbal and can only be accessed intuitively. One can project a remote viewpoint from the body, and telepathy happens all the time for everyone, though usually not noticed (again because it is non-verbal and right-brain accessed and we live in a left-brain culture). The brain holds our experience and behavior patterns and we could not function as humans without it, of course. The human also comes, as with any animal, with a genetic inheritance, sexual and survival drives, and lots more. Humans are like speaking, reasoning chimps - i.e. very intelligent, with or without the 'spirit' or higher consciousness. Most-times we are asleep spiritually anyway and live our lives largely on this human level. The Insight Project aims to transcend our animal and cultural as well as our mental and spiritual conditioning.
Q: I would like to clarify something about the Insight Project course you offer. If a person decides not to use Emotional Response Indicator then how much benefit can he get by using the course? Please specify in percentage, like 80%, 90% or whatever, and you might add anything else as well that is useful in this context.
A: The danger of not using a meter is that the procedures would most likely be done in a purely intellectual manner. If we could work out our case intellectually, we would have done so already! The meter exposes when one's rationalizations are in error, in relation to inner knowing and suppressed emotional content. It would be possible for somebody who is keenly aware of their body biofeedback and is able to use their emotional awareness as a source of intuitive wisdom - that's really what the meter does - but such a state is normally achieved by doing The Insight Project, so it's chicken and egg. But yes, it's therefore possible. For a typical person, however, I'd expect only maybe 40% of gains compared with using a meter, and that mainly from using the information to help in reassessment of many life issues, if done in an objective and honest manner. That is, the information itself is of value, not just the techniques that require the use of a meter.
Q: What other approaches towards enlightenment do you recommend?
A: I recommend the methods described on our free Love is All You Need program, which helps you experience the state of unconditional love - key to lasting joy and fulfillment in your life.
Q: How long does The Insight Project take?
A: Working straight through the Part I The Insight Project course will take at east a year in most cases, but that isn't really the point. As you go you build up a collection of tools that can be used as appropriate at any time to handle the issues that you are dealing with right now, rather than on a preset agenda. So these are tools for life. The Insight Project offers a structured and continuing process of profound learning - here in this life rather than through many lifetimes of trial and error.
Remember though, it's a gradient thing, the insights come along the way, not just at the end, so life will get continually better for you and you'll carry the benefits into your following existence too.
Q: What exactly is the 'imprint phenomena'? Is it things we have taken from a source other than our own that have led to us getting stuck in this whole ball of wool in the first place?
A: Yes, it is misattributed ideas, beliefs, intentions and purposes, which have been accepted and identified with as though they were one's own. They may be valid or stupid or whatever, but the point is they are not yours and they are not applied consciously, leading to bypassed charge surrounding them.
Q: Is the 'Substitute Beingness' comprised purely of this imprint phenomena?
A: It may be a directly imprinted goal (through conditioning, heavy enforcement, etc) or a goal that is yours but heavily influenced by another's viewpoint or by prior imprinting/conditioning. The thing is, it's a biggie, it rules your life and awareness, and it's very heavily identified with and therefore is not visible to you. It's who you are that everyone else can see, but you're blissfully unaware that you're playing the role of this identity in every aspect of your life.
Q: If we are just recognizing things as imprinted, which seems to have the effect of disentangling us from that influence, then where does all the heavy attached charge go to? Does this also need to be handled so it doesn't hang around and have the chance of coming back to us?
A: Charge is erased by finding the truth. Charge is lies, alterations, negations, anything but the truth, and those lies are held in place by imprinted ideas accepted by a particular identity (sub-personality). When you realize and indicate the truth, or it becomes clear to you that something is not what it seemed, the charge has no more hold and the connection drops away. This includes all the trauma and frustrations (bypassed charge) that is experienced whenever that identity is in reactivation and being enacted.
Q: How much of The Insight Project is done with a meter and how much is just reading, affirmations, journaling or other non-metered work?
A: It's all done with a meter, after you have read the Introduction and studied the various methods that are applied. Affirmations and journaling are not part of the course.
Q: If done on a regular basis, how much time would be needed to get best results?
A: Daily session of about an hour, Mon-Fri say, about a year for each of the five Parts. It's a big project but you'll get gains and insights from the beginning, and they build up.
Q: Would the results be easily noticeable or would any change be so gradual such that progress would be un-noticed by the average user till months or years later?
A: When you get a big insight into your beliefs and way of being, which makes a big difference, both subjectively and other people who know you would notice. Little insights, too, add up, then you get the big ones. Feelings derive from beliefs and The Insight Project techniques therefore make a big difference in the way that you feel and act.
Q: Is The Insight Project fool-proof? does it require deep training or expensive coaching agreements after the fact to obtain a level of competence?
A: You need to be a reasonably intelligent and emotionally stable person - this is an advanced course. It requires a period of study, to understand the principles, and some time playing with the techniques and the meter to get the hang of what to do, until it comes easy... like riding a bike. There's no additional coaching expense, that's what you pay for really: my assistance all along the way, to help you understand and give you guidance if you don't know what to do next. I don't see your session notes, it's you who is responsible for your progress, but I do advise you whenever you need it.
Q: Does the meter need to be of a particular make or does it need to have particular controls?
A: It needs to be either the InnerTrac™ Emotional Response Indicator, in our opinion the best value, which uses LEDs - or something similar (such as Clarity Meter, Ability Meter, Mindwalker, etc), which use a needle meter movement. You'll need adjustment for sensitivity and balance (to keep the needle on the dial).
Q: Is The Insight Project a full course in itself, i.e. having a beginning, middle, and ending?
A: Yes; though it's in five Parts, each Part has a clear end point where you know that it's finished, then you go on to the next Part.
Q: Are the results predictable or is it different for everyone?
A: Specific insights different for everyone, but overall progress of resolution of case is predictable and same for everyone. The project is organized in a very specific sequence to match that predictable unravelling of case (i.e. the mental and emotion blocks that obscure insight have a clear and certain structure).
Q: Would The Insight Project be effective in removing/resolving issues with money or abundance in general?
A: Whatever issues you have, which is where it's different for everyone in the specifics, are automatically addressed in the course, as you work through. Particular issues may have many different elements that make up the problem, and those elements would likely be addressed at different points of the course, so you get more and further progress with a specific issue as you progress. A very basic issue like havingness has many elements, and some are addressed early on. The Insight Project gets you to see the truth of things, at the level of awareness, responsibility and confront you have at the particular stage of your development, so you may have insights about havingness, and then later on, further and deeper insights.
Q: Does one work on specifics with The Insight Project or is it some kind of auto-whatever-comes-up-in-the-moment kind of thing?
A: It's both: each Level of the course deals with a specific 'angle' on your case. At the same time, what comes up next for you is what you deal with. When you get some way into the project and have learned and practiced the main techniques, there are tools for finding the next thing to run, corresponding to the most charged issue at present on your case, so you may move around the Levels, going back to previous ones when necessary.
Q: Is The Insight Project useful in stress management?
A: Yes, since internal conflicts between goals, identities and beliefs are what make up the subjective structure of stressful problems. The more basic course, the New Life Course, addresses life skills, such as stress management that deal with more objective, in the world issues. You can if you wish work through that course in parallel.
Q: Where do I start?
A: Well, if you've been viewing the site for a while now, I guess you've read at least some of 'Transforming the Mind'. That's the area that the Insight Project takes off from. It's a personal development course based on the principles of rational-emotive psychology, with elements of NLP as well. It helps to get a person thinking clearly and emotionally stable, which one needs to be before going on to the Insight Project. Part I is an in-depth, advanced course that moves into the area of transpersonal psychology and spiritual development, and includes the use of a Emotional Response Indicator, which is essential.
When you get onto The Insight Project, you'll need regular time to devote to that, preferably a session (15-90 minutes) every day.
Note that these courses are personal and spiritual development, they are not a substitute for one-to-one psychotherapy or medical treatment, when these are needed. Though there is certainly a therapeutic element, because they are home-study these courses are for normally happy, healthy and stable individuals looking to enhance their quality of life further.
Q: Where does the name "Meta-Programming" come from?
A: In NLP a metaprogram is the particular way experience is filtered and perceived by an individual; this isn't hard wired, it can be revised. Meta-Programming is the process of creating a model of the structural patterns an individual uses to construct, maintain and reinforce their subjective reality. Metaprogramming is also a term used in computer programming and organizational management, referring to programs that supervise other programs, or to an objective designer and directorial role.
I use the word because it is appropriate to the course I designed, which encourages an external and directorial viewpoint toward the mind and its existing programs; to "go beyond" one's existing programming or life conditioning; to view, understand and transcend their structure and limitations. The higher consciousness being the programmer, established cognitive programs being the software, the cerebellum being the CPU. Metaprogramming, then, is a metacognitive function of mind, developing mindfulness or a witness viewpoint. Recently NLP itself is adopting that view - see here.
Can The Insight Project aid me in my journey? Yes, for sure, if you feel motivated to work hard at sorting out the real and deep issues that underlie your view of the world. The Insight Project exposes the conflicting intentions one is holding subconsciously that are resistant to your awareness. It clarifies your identity, beliefs and goals and leads to many insights of truth that would not otherwise be obtained, short of years of intensive meditation done well.
Is The Insight Project for Me?
~ Questions & Answers ~
Orsolya Ristz, interested in the Insight Project, questions
the Project developer and supervisor, Peter Shepherd...
(Please email me) if you have another question.
Also, see the FAQ on the Peter Shepherd biography page.
Transforming the Mind is a discussion of the philosophical and psychological context of The Insight Project. It contains valuable information and many useful practical exercises, which serve as preparation for those interested in the spiritual path.
The Introduction to The Insight Project is excerpted from the introductory course materials, giving a detailed description of the principles on which the Insight Project techniques are based.
Part I of The Insight Project is presented in 10 Levels. Level 1 includes the necessary GSR biofeedback monitor training and Level 2 teaches the basic skills of the Project on which the more advanced Levels are based, including Indicator Technique.
The Insight Project includes incredibly effective ways of discovering the previously obscured truth underlying any issue - your truth, based on your intuitive insight, newly visible when all conditioned programming is stripped away. It requires familiarity with a Biofeedback Monitor. You can get some fantastic insights by learning and applying these initial materials, and then go on to the full course with considerable confidence.
A good idea of what we are dealing with on The Insight Project may be obtained from the article A Crazy World But a Great Game Too! by Peter Shepherd.
What is the Higher Self? The article Enlightenment Explained by George A Lareau is a beautifully accurate description of what I would call the Higher Self, one's source awareness. To be enlightened is to have ready access to this state of knowing, and life never again seems so serious or limiting. The fixed ideas, identities and solutions of the past are gradually stripped away with The Insight Project techniques so that one is no longer carrying the burden of Time but nevertheless has all the benefit of life's experience.
Persuasion and evaluation are no part of The Insight Project; quite the opposite in fact. A good description of the subtle and not so subtle techniques of overt persuasion and brainwashing that are being used on the public today is this article: The Battle For Your Mind, by Dick Sutphen.
Cultural conditioning comes in many forms, however, and is not necessarily intended to be manipulative. Our everyday language - its definitions and habitual syntax - tends to blinker our thinking so that we hold fixed ideas and do not look at the world objectively and with an open mind.
Why the Insight Project is a unique way of self-development
By Erick Espinar-Mick
Contrary to most religions, movements and philosophies, The Insight Project presents us with ideas that don't require the adoption of new beliefs. Specially of those which cannot be verified by oneself or that are not backed up by rationality and science. The Cognitive Sciences and Transformational Psychology provide the Insight Project with sound principles and tools that can be trusted by their objectivity until they can be verified by the practitioner himself.
The Insight Project contains no bullshit or wild promises about spiritual states to be attained. Nor does it try to explain reality by creating a new cosmology (that would invariable be refuted in the future as knowledge evolves). In that sense The Insight Project deals primarily with the here and now, striving towards the acknowledgment of reality as it is.
This grasping of reality as it is, beyond all pre-conditioned ideas as how it should be, is what provides the firm possibility of results, since only now are we facing the real problem. The Insight Project doesn't provide an escape from the world, like many "spiritual" disciplines, rather it affords the means to face the demons of imprintedness and irrationality. By remaining in the world and challenging its views under the light of rationality, the practitioner achieves freedom from the barriers that hindered his experience (and enjoyment) of reality.
A further benefit of this down-to-earth approach is that it could be of benefit to everyone, not only those interested in spiritual development. Everybody wants to be happy, and in this time of media-conditioned superman expectations, almost everyone has difficulty with self-acceptance and frustrated intentions. The Insight Project's lack of religious flavor and its eschewal of pseudo-spirituality gives it a universal appeal, capable of reaching a wide array of people with different purposes and backgrounds.
Some of the key ideas contained in The Insight Project, which make it a uniquely workable path are:
The all-important role of the Subconscious in determining our psychology.
The multiplicity of identities (or masks) within us, and the possibility of transcending them and reaching our real self.
The acknowledgment of our self-created conundrum and its safe-solutions to the problems of survival.
The acknowledgment of the imprint phenomena as one of the main enemies of self-realization.
The Path of Love
Peter Shepherd is interviewed by Dr. Keith Scott-Mumby, who asks about his background, how and why Trans4mind was founded, what spiritual growth means in practice, and the heights that can be reached with The Insight Project, an advanced course which Peter developed and supervises. Here is the audio (1 hour)...
The Insight Project Home Page | Trans4mind | Email Peter Shepherd


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So Xiaomi announced there new mid-range phone, just now. The phone has been revealed to be the Redmi Note 7, which has already been made available in one prominent European nation, Spain. The company also launched the Mi Smart Sensor Set in the same country.Moreover, the Redmi Note 7 was first made available and launched in China and was then released in the market of India last week. Now the phone has made way in to European market as well, with Spain the initial destination.
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Moving on the device comes loaded with a 6.3-inch FHD+ notched display and is covered with Gorilla Glass 5 from both sides. In terms of the design, the Redmi Note 7 will come withwaterdrop notch which will lay the foundationfor the selfie camera. The phone is set to be powered by the Snapdragon 660 processor and will come witha 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage, which can of course be expanded using a Micro-SD card..
The new device will packa very high resolution, 48MP camera on the rear end which is coupled with a 5MP depth sensor. The selfie snapper will be a 13MP camera which will give users amazing selfies.. The phone has a rear-mounted fingerprint scanner and an IR blaster. Its phone comes with a battery pack of 4000mAh and also has support for Quick Charge 4.The phone also has a USB-C port at the bottom, an audio jack at the top and features the Bluetooth 5.0. The phone willbe made available in the following colors;
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Macros. What they are & how to use them.
Eating is one of the biggest dysfunctions in western society. Most of the time life seems to be a struggle of the waistline. The reasons are fairly simple. We are not educated about food, and food companies fill the things we buy with so much garbage it is staggering.
It makes sense from the food companies' perspective, as they are concerned primarily with monetary profit, not our health and love handles. However, there are several movements to changes these, the recent sugar tax, the organic movement worldwide, these are heightening people's awareness to what we put in our mouths. As Fitness Guru Elliot Hulse says about food: "What you eat becomes you…becomes the cells that make up your body".
Fear not if you are clueless about nutrition, your education begins today. And for the purposes of this article, we will be talking about nutrition for your physique. Your overall health and wellbeing will be affected also by these principles, but the first step is to get educated about the basics!
It really is that simple. There are also the unsung heroes of nutrition, these are the 'micronutrients' and we can define these as something you need trace amounts of to be healthy. Vitamins, minerals etc, more on these later. To get a handle on how these work, look on the back of food labels in stores. They will give you the breakdown of the macro and micronutrients contained in the food. It is a great habit to develop, as often we can have no idea what is going into our bodies. To shape your body to what you desire, or to make sure your insides are healthy, being mindful of your macros is important.
Tracking Macros is an important step in your health and fitness journey. To make a log of the foods you normally eat, and to work out the macros will often leave you with a shock. Another important point to make is the needs that your body has when you have an active lifestyle. If you are looking build muscle (everybody is) then your needs for protein increase. Protein synthesis is the process by which the body uses ingested protein to repair the damage caused to your muscles. This is a very important process in your physique goals.
Also it is generally recommended that you keep fat levels a little lower, there is some research out there that suggests a high fat diet, if maintained for a long period can have damaging health effects. So in short, yes track your macros, it will give you some needed clarity on your diet.
How to Track Them & How do You Calculate Macros?
So you are committed to eating healthily, and you'd like to know how to use all this macro wisdom you have been gifted to calculate macros. So how do we do this?
Use the website below here: http://macronutrientcalculator.com/ this will let you adjust your macros, and fulfil that calorie goal you are trying to hit. A very useful tool that is always being referenced on this site is MyFitnessPal. You can log your calories and macros, pre-set goals, and scan barcodes to add in everything you are eating.
In all this, we haven't truly mentioned micronutrients. And as mentioned, these guys are the unsung heroes of your dieting. The focus is always on macros because these make up the bulk of your diet, and they make sense to our brains. With micronutrients, it is harder for us to quantify individually, so they can be relegated to the background. However, we need to be careful that we keep the know the importance of these!
To be deficient in your micronutrients can cause you a world of problems. Your metabolism, bone density, heart rate, brain functionality, and many other things can be affected. Malnutrition statistics across the globe prove this unequivocally.
How can you make sure you get your nutrients?
Vegetables are filled with micronutrients, and having them every meal will mean that you are getting your share. Be diverse also, try different colours of veg to get a spectrum of nutrients, it will also avoid broccoli burnout (a term we have just invented to describe the effects of only eating broccoli).
Whole foods and generally non processed foods will have naturally occurring vitamins and minerals. Oats, Rice, healthy cuts of meat, beans, lentils, all of these are whole foods, and are packed with micronutrients to ensure you are nourished. To sum up. Track your macros, track your calories, and eat veg and wholefoods over any other processed garbage you are tempted to partake of.


Mrs. Jaquona Green is a high school graduate of Macon County High School in Montezuma, Georgia. She furthered her education at Fort Valley State University where she attained a Bachelor of Science in Education in 2013. She has actively been a co-teacher at Huntington Middle School, Taylor County Middle School, Skyview Elementary School, Byron Elementary and Byron Middle School. Her first experience with teaching was at her local church, Magonlia Baptist. This experience attracted her to the rewarding career of teaching. She is excited to begin her second year at Huntington Middle School this upcoming school year of 2014-2015 as a 7th grade Language Arts teacher and 7th grade Cheer Coach.
Sra. Green obtuvo su certificado de educación en ciencias de La Universidad del Estado de Fort Valley. Ella ha sido activamente co-profesora en la Secundaria Huntington, Secundaria de Condado de Taylor, Escuela primaria Skyview, Primaria de Byron y Secundaria de Byron. Su Primera Experiencia con enseñanza fue en la Iglesia. Esta experiencia la atrajo a la carrera de maestra.


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A FAMILY business from Hexham is putting its back into the annual Salvation Army Christmas Present Appeal.
For the sixth year in succession, Aligned Chiropractic from Hencotes is staging a Christmas Toy Appeal, asking practice members to bring in toys and gifts to go under the Christmas tree, before being donated to the Salvation Army appeal.
On Wednesday, anyone with an appointment with chiropractor, Belinda Ambrose was asked to pay up to half their fee with toys, and any extra money donated is put toward toys and included in the donation.
The Salvation Army collect the toys and delivers them to local families in the North East whose children might otherwise have very little or nothing at Christmas.
Please call our Hexham chiropractic office to learn more.


Drone enthusiasts would love to bring their drones to different places, especially if they want to take aerial photos everywhere. Obeying local laws when using drones is important, but drone laws for every country vary, and some places don't allow them at all. It is tedious to have to figure out drone laws as you go, and frankly, sometimes it could be a hassle especially if you have your drone in tow in a country that won't allow its use to begin with.
To help with the planning, frequent traveler Anil Polat created a world map that, in essence, shows the drone laws for every country. The map uses laws that have been sourced from each country's governing body and is frequently updated for the benefit of drone users around the world. As it is required that owners register drones with FAA, the map also provides links to registration forms as well as contact information that may be needed in requesting permission to fly in each country.
In the United States, drone laws differ from state to state, so Anil also included separate state laws as well as any area-specific laws in other countries when applicable.
Anil's map is hosted by Google My Maps, and the same data is available for the Android and iOS apps.
With the help of this smart map, there is no more reason for drone users to be caught unaware regarding drone laws in different countries, and it can plan their trips around respective laws of the next country on their bucket list.
Or learn more about our GPS drone tracking devices.


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Singaporeans in exporting IED's to Iraq: 'It was just business'
New York Law School Prof. Tai.Heng.Cheng defends anti American arms dealers
Four Singaporeans are accused of shipping—from Singapore to Iran (destination Iraq to kill Americans) – 6,000 radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.
They are being defended by former Singapore Police Officer, Tai-Heng Cheng.
Cheng got his law degree at the National University of Singapore, had is the author of an anti-American publication, Shaping an Obama Doctrine of Preemptive Force.
More incredibly, he is Professor of Law at New York Law School, where he has been since 2006.
The three men and a woman, all Singaporeans, are accused by the American government of conspiring to evade a US trade embargo against Iran.
The United States has requested their extradition.
New York Law School Professor, Cheng Tai Heng, is an expert witness for the defense.
He testified that the charge of conspiracy to defraud the US is not an extraditable offense under a treaty between the two countries.
This would mean that Singapore Reform Party Secretary General, Kenneth Jeyaretnam's associate, Baldev Naidu, should not have been extradited from Singapore to the U.S., and should not be sitting in a federal prison, today—for his illegal exports of U.S. arms.
The Singaporeans are accused of shipping—from Singapore to Iran (destination Iraq)—6,000 IED radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.
In statements read by their lawyers, they said they had believed that it was an ordinary business transaction.
The four, held under the Extradition Act, are Lim Yong Nam, 37, Lim Kow Seng, 42, Benson Hia Soo Gan, 44, and Wong Yuh Lan, 39.
They are believed to have tricked Digi into selling them the modules through a network of companies.
The modules left the US in five shipments from June 2007.
In May 2008, some were discovered in unexploded roadside bombs in Iraq. The shipments by these Singaporeans were destined to kill American soldiers in Iraq. Who knows how many of these IED devices were exploded killing Americans in Iraq?
Between them, the four could face 11 counts in the US – including conspiracy to defraud the US by dishonest means and illegal export of defense articles—if they are extradited to the U.S.
The four were all in the electronics parts distribution business when they were arrested on U.S. request in October.
All are believed to have been involved in the purchase and shipping of the modules.
They are alleged to have told Digi and the US government that the modules were to be used for a telecommunications project in Singapore.
In their statements, the four rejected the US charges.
Hia said he did not know the radio parts required an export license. And how did Singapore allow the IED equipment to be exported without a license.
Wong said she was unaware that American goods were not allowed into Iran.
Lim Kow Seng said it 'would not make commercial sense' for him to risk breaking the law.
Hia told reporters after the hearing as police officers handcuffed him and shackled his feet: "We're innocent."
A pre-trial conference will be held next Monday with Professor Tai-Heng Cheng fighting for the defendants.
Update: Feb 24, 2012
The Singapore High Court has revoked the bail granted to Lim Yong Nam, 37, one of four Singaporeans accused of sending United States-made weapons parts to Iran.
Lim, Wong Yuh Lan, 39, Lim Kow Seng, 42, and Benson Hia Soo Gan, 44 are facing extradition to the US, which accuses them of plotting to break its trade embargo on Iran.
A magistrate ordered their extradition two weeks ago. The four are challenging this decision.
Lim was originally released on bail of $100,000, on the grounds that he was suffering from depression. The other three were detained pending their extradition.
Last week, the prosecution applied to the High Court to revoke Lim's bail, arguing that the magistrate had no power to grant it under the Extradition Act.
Yesterday, Justice Choo Han Teck agreed with the prosecution.
He said that under the Act, there was no basis for granting bail pending any challenge to the magistrate's order for extradition.
December 12th, 2011 | Tags: arms dealers, Benson Hia Soo Gan, Choo Han Teck, IEDs, Lim Kow Seng, Lim Yong Nam, Singapore, Tai-Heng Cheng, Wong Yuh Lan | Category: Singapore
4 comments to Singaporeans in exporting IED's to Iraq: 'It was just business'
John Staunch
John Harding is a real shame to academics. One who doesn't know the economic prowess of Singapore is not fit to write on economic topics.
"By this standard, France, Portugal, and nearly every developed country in the world is doing better than Singapore in terms of debt."
Just look at the value of the Singapore Dollar will tell how strong is the economy of Singapore.
A shame to academics? Better to say, shame on the academic system in Singapore. You should know that national debt and the value of the currency are not necessarily connected. Any country can support its currency in the open market. This is especially easy for a small country – like Singapore. In fact, Singapore does support it's currency in the open market which is why you believe you have a strong currency. Singapore's educational system succeeds in that it turns Singaporeans into believers.
If you check, you will see, that over the last 90 days, the Singapore dollar has fallen from US$0.80 to US$0.77. The US is in bad shape, but still the Singapore dollar is sinking even against the US dollar.
Check your facts and don't just follow your Singapore education blindly.
Here are the facts – http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/
Lanny T
To John Staunch.
You just proved to everyone that you believe everything that the singapore govt tells you.
"economice prowess"?
we are going thru rough times in the US, and you want to talk about Singapore's economic prowess?
Sharp downturn for Q4 GDP, slump in exports, with downturn in
europe n the US.
Ouch for everyone!
Terrorists! I had no idea that this country had any to start with. OK…"alledgely"…


in its newest campaign and film, gucci gothic, gucci takes inspiration from the biblical story of noah and the ark. models are seen gathering animals across a rural landscape, including tigers, snakes, camels and ostriches, before leading them to a massive wooden boat the italian fashion house constructed to reenact the tale.
the film shows the group of models preparing for the flood, gathering animals and making the pilgrimage to the site where the boat is being built. the campaign was shot by british fashion photographer glen luchford and art directed by christopher simmonds. take a look at the images above and watch the campaign video below.


Congratulations to Monica, who was a student with us in 2014, on being selected for the New Zealand Silver Ferns squad. Definitely well deserved.
Congratulations to Moni Tongauiha, who came to us in 2015 from the Santa Barbara Rugby Academy. Moni has made the USA Islander Team who play the Saracens in Bermuda.
Refereeing the Central Bay of Plenty Rippa Rugby Tournament and Eastern Bay of Plenty Rippa Rugby Tournament.
For both tournaments our students helped to set up and referee the matches for the players. The majority of our students play rugby themselves, so they had to refresh themselves on the rules and they had to make sure it was a fair an enjoyable game for not only the players but the parents and supporters as well.
Refereeing the Central Bay of Plenty matches pushed most of our students out of their comfort zone. During the initial games, it was clear that they were nervous, but as the day progressed they started to get more comfortable and more confident.
The Eastern Bay of Plenty competition in Kawerau was a complete success, the referees (our students) were much more comfortable and confident within themselves, which in turn made it really enjoyable for both players and their whanau.
Everyone had an Awesome day!!!
During the school holidays, some of the students took the children from Kid's Central for a fun packed day of activities and a game of Rippa Rugby.
Fun was had by everyone on the sled pulling, where they had turns at pulling a sledge with either a 15kg or 20kg plate attached. This activity showed them that by using your arms you gain more drive and momentum and you can get much further.
They were split onto two teams for an obstacle course competition and a game of Rippa Rugby which they thoroughly enjoyed as they didn't want to stop.
Plyometric Session - explosive movements that allow you to move quickly.
Walking Tracks behind Whakarewarewa Club Rooms, Government Gardens so our International Players to view some of the natural geothermal wonders of Rotorua.


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Expression of Antonio Vivaldi's Music
2019 November 24, Sunday, 15.00
Trakai Castle Great Hall, Trakai
MUSICA HUMANA Ensemble
Soloists: ILONA GIRDŽIŪNAITĖ (violin), ROBERTAS BEINARIS (oboe), VYTAUTAS KIMINIUS (birbynė)
Works by Antonio Vivaldi
Venice's gleeful and festive life, carnivals, luxuriant theatre productions and city's rich folklore had great effect on Antonio Vivaldi's (1678–1741) music. The son of the violinist of San Marco Cathedral in Venice received a twofold education – ecclesiastical and musical (Italians amiably called him il Prete rosso [the Red Priest]). At an early agehe gained fame as a violin virtuoso, became maestro di violino (master of violin), later – a conductor of an orchestra and director of the conservatoire. Maestro led the girls' orchestra of the Ospedale della Pietà (Devout Hospital of Mercy). At the time it was one of the best orchestras in Europe. These responsibilities fuelled his compositional ambition. 40 operas, more than 500 instrumental concertos and symphonies, as well as cantatas, motets, oratorios – the number is mindboggling!
Vivaldi's concertos, of which he composed over 300, enjoyed great popularity. He was destined to complete the development of instrumental concerto, which lasted almost 150 years – from the beginning of the 17th c. to the middle of the 18th c. This afternoon the musicians present concertos for oboes (performed on both oboe and birbynė), violin concerto Winter from Four Seasons, overture to the opera L'Olimpiade and Sonata in D minor La Follia.
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