Ideas

"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. 


But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas".
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George Bernard Shaw, 07/26/1856 - 11/02/1950
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A simple and subtle take on a central part of modern life.
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In many areas knowledge and ideas are closely guarded.
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In others such as the internet ideas are lying around for all to find and share.
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This blog shares ideas.
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Your newspaper does so too.
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Most media share ideas.
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Ideas are crucial to our evolution and survival.
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And where do ideas come from?
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From our brains?
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No the brain just organises our thoughts.
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The brain is like an operating system. 
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You have to put stuff in before anything much comes out.
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So ideas come from our thoughts?
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And where do our thoughts come from?
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Ever wondered how original your thoughts are?
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How much original thinking do you do?
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And where does that thinking come from?
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Your mind maybe?
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Beyond your mind perhaps?
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Given that ideas are the life blood of our world.
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Funny how few people ever think of where their ideas come from.
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Some certainly are triggered by what we see hear or observe around us.
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Others come from applied thought.
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An area of study.
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Yet the really powerful ideas come from the subtle realms. 
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Most honest scientists admit that their most powerful insights have come when they were not thinking.
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The idea just came into their heads.
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Often fully formed.
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It just appeared.
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It answered the question they had been thinking about and once they let go voila it appeared.
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So we can observe that many of the best ideas comes fully formed when we are not thinking.
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Does that mean that they already exist?
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That somehow we tap into them?
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And where would that somewhere be?
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Yes and yes.
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It is said that there is nothing new under the sun.
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Nothing new in the Universe.
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We are not in a position to argue this, so can observe that ideas are in one sense a mystery.
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In another we can say that they come from the world of ideas or the Akash as the ancients called it.
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A belt around planet earth if you will containing all the information about planet Earth recording every action, everything that has ever happened here.
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Many might protest, however that is how it is.
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Think about it, a few years ago we would have laughed at our current computing capabilities.
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Cloud computing allows us to store unimaginable quantities of information.
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So why would we any longer laugh at the idea that the Akash exists?
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So coming back to ideas.
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When someone is trying to understand something with his mind he can go so far.
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When he relaxes then he can go further, beyond mind, as he is then open to the world of ideas or the Akash.
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It is then that the answer often fully formed comes into his head.
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So in a very real sense it is not his idea at all.
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It already exists in the Akash.
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He tuned in by relaxing and the answer was given.
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It was there already fully formed.
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So our brilliant discoverers are getting their ideas from a source that already exists.
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Meaning that ideas are not maybe what we thought them to be!