how powerful the brain really is

I've just read this awesome article: Placebos Are Getting More Effective. Drugmakers Are Desperate to Know Why. and I also recommend you do so since this thing just confirmed what has been know for many centuries and then forgotten: that healing is mostly a "faith" issue.
The article asks the question on why has the placebo effect been growing for the last 2 decades, it mentions the effectiveness of ad campaigns by evoking uplifting associations, so researchers say, the ads set up the kind of expectations that induce a formidable placebo response. I agree and not for the drugs also for everything you do/buy. Sports brands ads: they have long ago figure this out - your performance with some new shoes is improved by the kind of experience you associate it with. Visualization training that most Olympic athletes and even NASA astronauts go through can only mean that your brain holds the most powerful healthcare system within.
But the question remains, why would the placebo effect seem to be getting stronger worldwide? My answers are simple: there's a new shift in though worldwide, check any books best-selling chart and you'll spot "feel good / self-help / self-esteem" consistently on the top. Oprah books, "the secret", etc. There's also the same trend in blogs: the "improve yourself - improve your life" theme is growing by the numbers. Also the abandon of traditional religions is getting people to feel less guilty about their choices, they're not getting punished - they can feel better..
And you know what? I LOVE IT. because

Big Pharma's attempt to dominate the central nervous system has ended up revealing how powerful the brain really is. The placebo response doesn't care if the catalyst for healing is a triumph of pharmacology, a compassionate therapist, or a syringe of salt water. All it requires is a reasonable expectation of getting better. That's potent medicine.

Disarm the Weapons of Mass Distortion

In these times of crisis we need more than Money, i guess we need hope and a clear view!
We’re getting busy (not) dying and forget to get busy living. This is general paranoia, and watching the news every night reminds me of this:

“Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent"
From V for Vendetta

These words show us something that’s not so far out of our reality. Because the truth is: they spend more time showing us what to be afraid of than showing us what can be done. And worse of all: no one is explaining us WHAT KIND OF FUCKING LAWS ARE THEY MAKING AND HOW THEY WORK!! Everyday new laws are being approved that change our status as workers and even our freedoms. Anyway and not to get off topic (I’ll leave the politic manifestos to those who matter: YOU) we need hope.
We need to see thing as they are, not the way they are showing us… And another truth is that our lives are BORING (9 to 5 then home then work again) and the only we are getting our adrenaline rush is when we hear that our streets are full of menaces and then we can act on our most primitive action: survival. Even if it’s just the rush of surviving our western culture fake fears and addictions:-S

“I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars."
Tyler Durden

Cheer up. Do something you like. Express yourself and most of all don’t believe anything by word.
Power to the peaceful

test

is thing still on? I've been away for so long that i forgot this existed.. I'll just talk about stuff i hate just to clena my system:
I hate fucking traffic brigades they're stupid assholes so FUCK YOU.
I hate the fucking government FUCK YOU stupid politians chasing private interests and fucking up the system. health, education, retirement funds all things soon to disappear 'cuz of the fucking stupid people in charge, spending millions on stupid projects.
I hate people that think they know too much and in the end are so fucking miserable that can't even have normal relationships with friends.
I hate teachers who think they're so great and they can't see we all see they're worth shit or else they wouldn't be teachers but "doers".
I hate censorship: it's like some new fashion you can show, say or write what you want that the government will censor your ass. GET A FUCKING LIFE. Jezzz

ok think that's all. on with the summer vacation

no images, no explanations... this time trust me and just dare to:

www.lost.eu/39d1d

art is resistance

i don't want to make propaganda, since i'm not even getting anything from them, but it's a long time since i was excited about a new music album. and this one seems like the real deal: YEAR ZERO the new Nine Inch Nails album, one of my absolute favourite bands is doing a massive launch of the album by placing a lot of neat sites :-D and stuff filled with tiny conspiracies and stuff to make your brain juice shake real hard :-)check this out and explore it fully:
year zero

a new hope

long time since i posted here so i decided to change things a bit. i'll be shifting from my conspiracy theories (yeah they'll continue but not the main focus anymore) to a more creative posting service... what that means is that hopefully i'll start posting at least once a week and having a more personal feel. so you'll probably start seeing more drawings, sketches, music mashups, photos and videos. so the remix will be expanding, lol.

all i want for x-mas is Jesus' time machine

Now that we celebrate the birth of Jesus, let's think about what all that means and consider this :
http://www.sciforums.com/Jesus-a-time-traveler-t-45782.html
"What If Jesus was someone from a distant future who traveled back in time to enstate an image for future religion. To keep control of western civilization and fix whatever problems related to control or morality that might have been happening in his time?"
Not a new idea but i really support the idea that there's a time traveler throughtout our history, just check these mysterious characters that appeared to different civilizations:
1 - Avalokiteshvara, or Chenrezig as he is known in Tibetan, is the Buddhist deity who personifies the ideal of compassion. He can be portrayed in several different forms, two of the most popular being as a white deity with either four arms or 1000 arms( the extra arms symbolize his ability to help many beings simultaneously).
2 - In the Hopi Prophecy, a white man would come to them and help transform the entire continent into a spiritual paradise.
3 - To the Mayans in the last thousand years the being known as Quatzequatl the Great Feathered Serpent was a God who brought the teaching of peace to this part of the world and appeared as a white God with a beard. The drawings of him look almost identical to the drawings of the being known as Ea or Enki in the ancient Sumerian teachings. In fact they looked like the images we see of Reptilians.
There's even a theory that the last words Jesus spoke on the cross are actually Maya....

Maybe Buda, Mohammad and Jesus are all really the same guy and there are many other "white men" that i don't recall right now that travelled somewhere in time to give the same message, since they all have points in common:
-a strange white man, usually with beard, origin unknown
-teaches peace
-helps and gives new teachings
-always appears when a big civilization is prosper and ready to collapse on itself
-disappears without a trace...and always with the message that will appear later in time or something like "i will be back" :)

This was Halloween, the day we celebrate those who have secret human knowledge?!

Witches and Devils are they really the evil characters or just misunderstood beings? There’s this new book on sale: “the witch of oz”, that explains how the witch of oz is misunderstood; even the StarWars prequels served to explain that Darth Vader isn’t that bad... But I’m not here to defend the dark side J or even any Satan worship of any kind. My question is this; since people are always afraid of what they don’t understand; aren’t witches simply misunderstood characters because they’re in a level above normal people? Aren’t they simply fighting a system using extraordinary knowledge that some of us simply wish to understand through science and machines?
1# you find all those magic potions inside big pots disgusting and horrifying? Analyze what they put in some of the things you use daily and tell me what’s more disgusting: multivitamin formulas usually take fish’s sperm; most of the perfumes are made from the insides of many endangered species; red bull has that name because of something they use from a bulls testicle… and the list could on! Some bat wings and crow’s beaks from the big witch’s pot aren’t that bad after all. The ingredients used may look strange but, after all, they’re no better than the ones of modern science. At least they use only natural sources, not some strange additive nor chemical preservant.
2# magic spells. They whisper some magic words on your ear and then you do whatever they want… NLP have you ever heard about it? We only start to understand this amazing tool only used up until now by hypnotists and some psychologists. Neuro-Linguistic Programming is based on the idea that the human mind is a sort of computer - our verbal and body language are the programmes which allow us to change our own thoughts and influence other people e.g. using body language and speech patterns to create instant rapport with someone else. We already use such techniques on a sub-conscious level - NLP simply helps us crystalize what we already know.
3# supernatural abilities. Invulnerability, strength, speed… some of these things are all basis of proper knowledge of the human body and perfected skills. Watch any Shaolin Monks demonstration and you’ll understand how most of the limits of the human body are far beyond what you might believe. Given the proper knowledge and training your body can become harder, stronger and faster than you might expect. Ninjas also we’re said to be magical, just because they could appear and disappear out of nowhere and kill with amazing speed. Today we know they’re not magical but they have a rigorous training method to achieve amazing balance and stealth, they understand human anatomy and human weak points. Not magic just the right knowledge.

Well there are many more aspects, but you get the picture; I’ll explore this in later posts.

Wolverine M.D. the best there is what he does

This is an idea I submit free to Marvel or any Wolvie writer… Since Wolvie has senses enhanced like those of an animal so… he probably can do something like this:
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=57479
Wolverine CAN SMELL YOUR DISEASE. Isn’t this great?! Imagine this guy in a bar fight besides knowing here to punch best, since he has samurai training; imagine punching where it hurts YOU the most. If he can smell you have bad liver he can punch it and finish your liver out. There are endless possibilities… And also the potential to help someone he sees/smells, by advanced diagnosis. The best thing is, that you’re even giving him any new ability, you’re just exploring on his old ones.
And now for something completely different: http://www.seefido.com/html/dog_smell.htm
Wolverine can smell you age and general libido condition!

Batman and The Peak of Human Perfection

You hear it all the time on comics and movies: characters and people that trained to peak physical and mental perfection. Some of those that pop into my mind are Batman, Ozymandias (Watchmen), Doc Brass (Planetary) and even tv characters like the Pretender and Kwai Chang Caine. But what is that? ...physical perfection?! And is it really necessary?
Physical perfection like the one of the Batman is something related with strenght, speed, agility and even hardness like a thai fighter ( being able to hold a beating). Then there's the other level like Kwai Chang Caine, someone who is able to control and is aware of all bodily functions. But is it really possible to do it? But looking at popular magazines like Men´s Health and all other related to fitness and exercise we really believe its possible to achieve physical perfection in 7 steps or in 30 days worth of exercise... yeah right...
Unless you have unlimitedresourcess or live on a monastery its verydifficultt to dedicate so much time to that goal. Take for example the real life cases of Olympicathletess and Martial Artsgrandn masters: they dedicate lots of hours during the day to perfect their skills... And then can they be called the peak of human perfection? They also get sick. So another element iscontrollingg yourimmunee system and having a strong one. And how do you do that? If you read any New Age book basically its just keeping yourself happy and confident and your body will repel any decease... the truth is... it works. really check any motivation or self help book and they'll show you the numbers of people who better their health by their mind state.
So you must train your body and train your mind and you have physical perfection?! But wait your gonna go trought all that work for what? Getting a costume and fight crime? Police gets paid for that you risk a bullet in the brains... So.... You need a goal. And that is the key: you can have a specific goal and work to that (sell a product, becomepowerfull, ...) or you can just work to that never-endingperfectingg of your skills goal. A cross between Einstein (decoding the universe) and Leonardo DaVinci (inventing new and better ways to do things that are "impossible"). Ok great! Don't stand there. leave this computer get to work.... :) yeah but your happier sitting heresmilingg reading funny things, right? i agree or else i'de writing for nothing:)
but don't get demotivated, i didn't meant for that i like to believe those models of perfection they make us want to be better and i think they really help us. each human generation is stronger, smarter and faster than the other.. So maybe in two generations the Batman will be just a guy with a costume :)
anyway if you want to get any work done check these sites:
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/exercises.htm
http://www.susanjeffers.com/home/books.cfm
http://www.pathfinderscareerdesign.com/quotes/quotes.html

Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you

This title comes from the Nirvana song "territorial pissings" the thing that comes to mind when you see the fabulous 9/11 documentary by Dylan Avery. If you've never seen it i suggest you do it right now. It's a must see and this is how reality beats fiction anytime.
http://www.loosechange911.com/
http://loosechange911.blogspot.com/

The thing that bothers me the most is this: the most powerful country in the world main motivation is still money... c'mon this is the 21st century... but they are taking the road of the roman empire.. and honestly mr bush.. hope you crash and burn like those planes in those two towers and if americans are letting themselves be taken for the ride... it's their problem.. just don't drag the rest of the world with you, ok? so help you god that you all burn in hell like those poor firemen...

atrapadoenelsistema

atrapadoenelsistema, originally uploaded by fabio borquez.

Sometimes i don´t understand how nudity is censored and violence and everything that destroys human life isn't... i mean even the guy that invented dynamite felt sorry for what he did and created a prize for human achievement (Nobel). But i'm not against violence on movies and games i think that would be yet another censorship of human emotions. But what i don't understand is the way porn and erotica are censored and war images are not. Can you explain that ??
* as you marvel on the work of censored artist Fabio Borquez www.flickr.com/people/fabioborquez listen to this song:
"Underwear Goes Inside The Pants" by Lazy Boy. Nice brain fuel to think about :)

say you want a revolution

Dare is bether than don't.
Now is better than never.
Exploring the web, conspiracies and shadowy events that manipulate our world. This is a collection of evidence and ideas. Call it what you will: crafted, sculpted, engineered, woven, cobbled, assembled, collided... all meant to make you wonder. To question. To consider.