Arron Startex, Live in Alton

This time i'm Live on Stage at the Festival in Alton Explaining Consciousness and my own Journey in this hopefully Inspiring Speech.

The Origins Of Knowledge

In the recent months i have been doing a lot of reading, Within this researched i came across a book by Jeremy Narby called The Cosmic Serpent DNA and the Origins of Knowledge. In the book Narby despite his initial skepticism, found himself engaged in an increasingly obsessive personal quest which led him to the conclusion that ancient peoples, from the Aborigines to the Egyptians, have known for millennia about the Double helix structure - something conventional science only discovered in 1953. Most living organisms have the same sort of genetic material, DNA, in their cells. DNA contains two strands wrapped around each other in a helix, and these strands are held in place by four chemicals called bases:
adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C) and thymine (T).

The figure below is taken from a Mesopotamian seal of c. 2200 B.C. and shows "the deity in human form, enthroned, with his caduceus emblem behind and a fire altar before." The symbol of this Serpent Lord was a double helix, similar with the representation of DNA.



myths and rites of these twin snakes frequently appear in ancient drawings in a remarkably consistent symbolic sense. Wherever nature is shown as inherently divine, the serpent is revered as symbolic of its divine life."

Below is the staff carried by Hermes in Greek mythology.





And here is a similer not so ancient image.














Food For Thought?

John Lennon's views

As promised we are looking at other inspirational artists views on the world, this episode is on John Lennon and his views on Peace with a little remix of an unreleased Lennon demo called "That's the way the world is"
Part of this video contains animation from "I met the walrus" a great video that i would also recommend watching. That video cam be seen here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmR0V6s3NKk

John and Yoko created a lot of publicity for the peace movement in 1969 by staying in bed while being filmed and interviewed,
and their single with Plastic Ono Band 'Give Peace a Chance' became the "national anthem" for pacifist.
John himself was no angel, he could often be angry and troublesome but his heart was in the right place.

"What we're really doing," said John, "is sending out a message to the world, mainly to the youth, to anybody who is interested in protesting for peace or protesting any form of violence." John summoned up the message in
one colloquial phase: "Give peace a chance."
As the phasing of John's famous chant suggests, the model for all the Lennon's peace propaganda was Madison Avenue advertising.
John believed deeply in the power of images and slogans.
He was sure that during his years as a Beatle he had mastered these techniques and so he put his energy into using this knowledge to help the world.

The Meaning Of Life

Well here it is, The next video, The Meaning Of Life.
So life's meaning it seams is to experience things, there is no losing in experience, Weather you have a good day or a bad one at the end of it you have still gained an experience so its win win whatever happens, The area of Atoms we call the physical body which we know as us is mealy vibrating matter, and it happens to be this area of vibrating atoms we see as ourselves is simply the area we have had full control over since the body's birth. Your body, the floor beneath you, the air around you and everything else from here to the outer limits of our infinite universe is you.

Atoms themselves are not solid, they have no solidity, but our brain decodes these atomic vibrations as solid or non solid. This decoding process we call the senses. So if the person we see in the mirror is not us but mealy atomic vibrations then what makes us us? The best explanation that i can find is that we are us simply because we are conscious, religions would call this our soul, i prefer the term consciousness. we are awake, we are alive, we exist and are able to take control of an area of atoms so we can decode other atomic vibrations so we can have experiences. We are conscious. So here's the crazy part, From this wider perspective it seams that there is no such thing as Death, Or at least not death as it is widely believed to be. Dieing would simply mean the group of atoms stops decoding, you would stop experiencing this reality and leave behind a set of conscious less atoms. So what do we see when our consciousness, our us, leaves this reality? That's a much more complex question to answer, the biggest problem being that nobody fully See's it till there dead, the best we have to go on is near death experiences. All over the world there have been reports from people brought back through CPR of bright lights at the end of tunnels, there whole lives flashing before there eyes and everything coming together simultaneously with no concept of time. Personally i wonder if this state is similar to the state we slip into each night which we call sleep. In this sleep mode we can create events people places, there's no concept of time, theres Happiness and even fear. Much of these events taken from experiences we had while we are awake. If the state we fall into after death is anything like sleep then we can simply re-imagine a new reality for us to experience. So the meaning of life is to experience, collect experiences that we can learn from and add to our imaginations and mebey even use to create a better reality for our consciousness after we leave this one. Weather you have a good day or a bad day no matter how it goes, this is a little i usually do, i still remember that I've had an experience from that day, if its a bad day we still gained an experience so you cant ever lose you've always gained something.

Looking at the world in this way has made me realise there is very little to fear, Its your reality your decoding so chose what you decode wisely as what you see you will become, your senses will decode what you see on television as your own experiences because the brain cannot define between the two. so be careful what allow your mind access to. So live for peace and always remember there is nothing for you to fear because you can never lose experiences you can only gain them.

Peace everybody, and enjoy the video.
Arron Startex. x