Fear is the absence of accurate information.  Some people may say that it is logical to be afraid of a lion, a tornado, a person with a gun, a banker, etc. however, if you truly understand the situation along with your options then there is literally NOTHING to be afraid of.  Of course there may always be something that we don't know about and in that case fear may be present.  I have found that when I have felt fear that if I take a deep breath then the increased oxygen in my body enables clearer thoughts and inspirations to be available to me.  So, the deeper I breathe the more options are available to me and the quicker my brain works in conjunction with the adrenalin that might be flowing in me to evolve the most optimal result possible for myself and the people that I care about or whom ever else happens to be in close proximity to me at the time.

Courage is only seen as courage to a person who is fearful.  To the person who appears to be courageous they are simply more "aware" of their options and therefore more confident in obtaining a viable solution.

Someone who is reckless basically does not fully understand the circumstances.  So-called negative emotions or non-happy feelings are also an example of either the absense of information or presence of inaccurate or mistaken information.  People who actually do know better need to authoritatively advise such foolhardy people in a way that those specific people CAN understand.  Sometimes a voice that is loud but controlled as with speaking while engaging the diaphram can give emphasis to the gravity or intensity of the situation to communicate that which may not be explained well with words only. 

A truly wise person has a full arsenal of possibilities to deal with people with less knowledge and less conscious awareness.  9/11, while potentially totally contrived by people OTHER THAN members of the fanatical sects of the religion of Islam, may have been what some people call "a teaching tool on a grand scale" where a few thousand people's lives were lost in order to teach a lesson to billions of people.  What might that "lesson" have been?  The lesson may have had something to do with extreme levels of power.  The lesson may have had something to do with getting more people on the planet to work together rather than apart.  The lesson may have had something to do with consolidating all of the financial systems.  The overall lesson appears to be one of "the need for togetherness" like we either survive together or we die apart.  Perhaps we all need to work together to survive some impending disaster that is thought to be too terrible to attempt to explain to the majority of people who may react out of fear rather than knowledge and wisdom?

What ever the case...

"The deeper the breath, the better the outcome."  -- Pi PhD

There is no such thing as a sane person in my own personal experience.  I have found that every single person on the face of the planet has some aspect of insanity in or to them.  Any person who has a single point of focus could be said to be insane just because of that reason (obsessive-compulsive).  Now, there are LOTS of people who would argue with my definition of insanity, however, those people demonstrate themselves to not only be insane but not recognize the level of their own insanity hence defining themselves as  insane under "my" definition which has to do with "my" communication of "my" ideas which no one can really argue about thus even further demonstrating their insanity.

So, if there ever was such a thing as a MOST sane person then that would probably be the person who has recognized and "manages" their own insanity in the most effective way which only that person themselves can really determine because only they can experience what is actually going on inside their own head.

The Catholic Church recognized this insanity issue long ago and referred to it as "sin" and actively sought to "shepherd" its flock of sheeple and act on behalf of God in this endeavor thus being "God's hand on Earth" as it understood (or created) the purpose of the story of Jesus to be.  Jesus' so-called saving of people was basically helping people to see and understand this insanity within themselves so that they would not repeat insane acts over and over again.  People learned to work together in small "integral" (Essene, Monastic, Masonic, etc.) communities to point out each other's insane moments and to standardize ways of doing things as a means of minimizing insane behavior.  This standardization of behavior or custom/ritual on larger and larger scales has resulted in HUGE societal systems which we are now finding out are very unstable and vulnerable to total collapse (apocalypse).  This is way too obvious as seen in the recent 60 Minutes story about the $60 trillion (yes, trillion with a "T") "shadow" market on Wall Street which makes the $700 billion (with a "B") bailout seem like a drop in bucket.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4502673n

Soon we will see "The Hand of God" in action as some "miracle" shows up to offer a "sane" remedy to all this extreme nonsense.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912

"The deeper the breath, the better the outcome."  -- Pi PhD

Everyone seems to think that being human is a good thing when the term was originally created to mean something along the lines of "less than."

So, what makes us human?  Our dysfunctions make us human.  Our frailties make us human.  Our "less-thans" make us human.

We were ALL meant to be optimal "beings" and individual geniuses.  Humans are simply people who "follow" someone ELSE's guidance like sheep (sheeple?).  This is why the Bible talks about the Shepherd tending his Flock so much.  So many people do not realize that there is a choice to be Consciously Aware and Enlightened.  If you do not make that choice then you are a human, you are less than your true potential.

The phrase, "It's only human" is no EXCUSE for being stupid, ignorant, illiterate, ill-informed, ill-advised, insane, dysfunctional, etc.

Seek to be MORE or better than human and you will be.

As profound as I think that I am, I am working on understand this guy. If you think that you are getting lost then jump down to the last paragraph for a pretty profound example...

"When everyone is playing their best move to everyone ELSE's best move then no one is going to move."

Non-Cooperative Game Theory has to do with the best strategic action being NOT to cooperate with the majority opinion. This is not to say that a person OPPOSES the majority but rather simply does not act as one of the majority such that the majority of people do not look at you as a threat. If you take any position or opinion that appears to be against any other position or opinion then you pose a threat to that other entity and they will take steps to defeat you whether you are an actual threat or not. In the case of a corporation these steps are mostly unconscious and not the result of an actual human being using sentient capability to properly evaluate you or your thoughts and actions.

John Forbes Nash, a mathematician and professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, came up with what has become known as, "The Nash Equilibrium." Everything has a tendency to seek a state of equilibrium. All opposition will receive opposition in return so the optimal state-of-being is to understand all points of view such that you do not feel any need to oppose them. If you feel that a particular point-of-view is destructive or sub-optimal then it is advised that you present additional information that might help to improve that other point-of-view and make it more integral.

A Non-Cooperative Game Theory-oriented game of chess would most likely end in a king versus king draw where all of the pieces have been removed or taken and you are left with only the two kings on the board. In this scenario at least one player chooses not to win the game but also chooses not to lose the game either. Winning the game puts the other player in a "less-than" position with a potential need for revenge. Whereas, by tying or drawing the game with neither player having any point advantage leaves both players with a sense of equality and safety.

We can see an aspect of this concept being played out in present-day politics where two major political parties are BOTH manipulated by a behind-the-scenes "non-participating" entity to make it appear that they are both close to each other in popularity such that which ever party wins the other party has a sense of, "Well at least it was close." This scenario is very obvious as of this writing in October of 2008 where the actual popularity of Barack Obama is so overwhelming that the people behind the poles manipulate both the poles and the interpretation of the poles in the media so as to make it look closer than it actually is. A similar situation happened in both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections except that the actual vote itself was manipulated to appear to be close ENOUGH that the other party chose not to enforce legal measures to reveal the deception.

This came from: http://www.PiALOGUE.info

Breathing deeply often.

"Breathe deeply often as the deeper the breath the better the outcome."  -- Pi PhD

When ever I feel blocked and I tune in to myself I notice tension in my physical body and many times I notice that I have difficulty taking a deep breath. If I relax for a moment and gradually breathe deeper and deeper until I can take a full and complete breath by filling my lungs to what I know to be their full capacity then the mental, emotional, spiritual blocks go away and I have immediate access to perfected wisdom or knowledge that is not polluted or otherwise impacted by reactive impulses. Then, my genius works optimally for my current state of conscious awareness and I optimize my personal growth potential to the extent that I am ready for it in that moment. Each successive moment builds upon my previous growth as I progressively exponentially transcend what I thought was my previous self.

Hah! They would be . . . i n v i s i b l e . . .

The real me is amorphous as I continually adjust my awareness and understanding of life on an on-going basis such that I am never the same person from one moment to the next.  Any attempt to define me so as to create a Halloween costume of such a caricature would be impossible.  It would be like attempting to capture the REAL "Integral" Obama as opposed to the Obama that is middle-izing his appearance in an attempt to be elected President of the United States.  It is like attempting to define "Integral Politics" which appears to be a contradiction in terms ... UNLESS ... you think about it this way then ANYTHING is possible: