P3D experience and optimization and resonance

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"I found it interesting that these
birds learned this without training or observing this behavior in other
birds.  Apparently, creatures must learn to optimize the extraction of
important data via experience and optimization.  This might be what make
us pursue stereo as well."  
                                                     -Toeppen

That is right and the why is this!  If someone follows someone else instead 
of their 
own path, they will never realize their own uniqueness.  When I looked at Mr. 
Abrahams shells, I saw in them elements of the things that I had been looking 
for 
to describe my perception of the way relationships work.  In other words, I 
saw my 
SELF .  That was why I was so in awe.  And that is healthy!  As long as we 
respect
the fact that everyone of us has the right to feel the same way.  And that is 
why I 
say, "Who can call themselves an authority on art?"  We should all strive to 
find 
our own uniqueness.  Sometimes there are movements in art, and that is when
a group of friends break away from the pack and say "No!  I want to do it 
this way!"
That is healthy!  We are at different places at different times, but all 
roads lead, 
hopefully to enlightenment and enlightenment is equal to Joy + understanding. 

The alternating coil moves through a wire and a flux of magnetism is created.
When the coil is wrapped around a nail an electromagnet is created.  That is 
the
purpose of conversation, represented by alternating current: give and receive 
or
receive and give.  Each turn of the coil is a different perspective and the 
force or 
power behind it is our feeling or our thoughts.  I certainly do not wish to 
prolong 
a discussion about electromagnetics, but simply wish to make you see that 
when we become detached from our feelings that our purpose and focus are taken
away from ourselves,  our own magnificense and on to another's vision or one
that is similar to our own.  Magnetism is created by the compression of 
multiple 
sources of flux , (each turn), and the field grows larger and larger as our 
understanding, or pain, or whatever it is we are feeling increases.  I 
studied this at 
one time, but it was a long time ago and my brother is re-educating me about 
it.

But, what I have found is that if I do not resist the input, I = E/R, then I 
create! 
I = Work and E = energy and R = resistance.  the level of creativity 
increases as 
the resistance to the energy decreases.  I am not so sure how that effects 
communication, but it's a great formula for creativity.  P= IE    power = 
work X energy
Some people filter out energy as noise; some people amplify the energy with
their response and some people dissipate the energy with their response and 
some
people neither add to  or detract from the energy, but simply respond on a 
horizontal
level with the energy.  On an electrocardiogram that would indicate death, 
but in 
reality it may just indicate that we are in harmony with all bandwidths.

I just know that I respond when I can and dissipate when I can't and when I 
find a 
note, a picture, like Mr. Abrahams shell with it's trasparency and it's 
movement and
its qualities of building and growth  patterns, I see myself and I like what 
I see.  And 
that is how a healthy person should feel, in touch!  A psychotic person 
reacts, but
does not create and everything someone else creates, he tries to destroy 
because 
he feels destroyed himself.  He or she sees power in destruction and power is 
all 
he or she cares about.  I dissipate my own power, because power is not what I 
seek, 
As Andy Warhol once said, "In the future we will all be remembered for 15 
minutes."
I say, "In the future we will remember our friends and our friends are not 
those who 
attack us, but those who tell us how they feel and allow us to tell them how 
we feel, and share their ideas with us and their wealth of knowledge with us 
and listen to us
share our wealth of knowledge with them.  These are our friends.  They will 
teach us
that we can laugh at ourselves and them, they will teach us that we can get 
angry 
just like them, they allow us to BE without question.  Our parents didn't and 
that is
why we don't.  And I have found this to be true across all cultural , 
economic and 
educational boundaries.  We are all creative, we just have to peel back the 
layers of 
calluses that we have acquired to protect ourselves from the callous.  The 
only problem with that is that half the time I can't tell when Olivia is 
acting and when she
is really crying, because her tears are so real.  Allow yourself to be 
transformed,
you will find gold there...... promise.  We can only get new ideas by letting 
old ideas 
go.  I do not wish to tell you how to paint, but the process of discovering 
yourself
so that you can create!  Our perceptions are simply a reflection , usually of 
ourselves.  So, if you see something and you understand it, was it not 
already yours?  This is the "point of departure" Dr. T referred to , as I see 
it .  Our eyes adjust to the light or lack of it, without fear and without 
intimidation, that is the horizontal, the calm point of view, and makes for 
effective communication, maybe ;but the creative will simply respond with 
spontaneity.
 
And yet again I show you myself, a simple perspective, for some I have met 
who only paint harmony and filter  out the rest, (Larry Berlin),  some only 
paint pain, (remember Durer?), and others paint a lot of chaos, (Picasso ?)  
Everything anyone says is simply a point of view and insistence on one's 
omnipotence is simply a statement that ALL  I see is myself.   I would have 
pointed to photographers I've known, but I allowed my artists friends to 
dismiss them for me, a long time ago,  Never again.  Another observation, we 
site the well known, even though we might know ones we like more, because it 
is the well known that are well known.  That too, must be rectified, somehow. 
 I must get ahold of Mary Ruth and show you her work.  You'll love it, I bet! 
 Be inspired,  but look to yourself for your own voice.  And I think you do.  

That bird reminds me of Gene who adjusts to everyone depending on who they 
are and he strives to understand them or to at least reach an understanding 
with them and I bet that bird reminds Mr. Toeppen of himself.  And the only 
point that Gene,(my husband),  and I differ on is that he is only interested 
in using the creativity of his employees to increase his own wealth, and 
since this bird is a bird of prey, I wonder how much that applies to Mr. 
Toeppen as well?  That is not necessarily a judgement, but an observation 
with a question mark.  "The longer you hold someone captive ,  the more they 
learn about you and your operation, so the logical thing , to me, would be to 
encourage them to progress and move on and to send in their replacement, when 
they leave, and invest in them when you can."  My purpose is to create a 
better world, however dispersed I must become.  I have lived in nothingness 
most of my life.  If someone with more influence can take my words and 
concepts and turn them into something more powerful, that is exactly
what I wish them to do.  I succumb to this bird of prey.   And I intend to 
order that cd as soon as possible.  Thanks for reminding me.  I see the 
movement is the photographer, not the subject.  That is me too!  Different 
subject handling, but same approach.  I will add elements of  you  to me and 
pass us along, (& along with your URL !)  

Love you all, 

Teri