There is one certainty that each of us should look to when building Brain Power and using Mind Over Matter to solve our problems. We should look to those less fortunate. People just like you and me. People that find themselves in circumstances they never conceived would happen to them. People that never thought they would need to steel themselves against adversity to the level that some are forced to endure.

The immensity of the human spirit is immeasurable in the worst of times. Look to these people as a point of reference for overcoming adversity – a guiding light. Their lessons can be your guide.

In the wake of the Victoria Fires, it gave me the opportunity to look deep – to appreciate who and what I have around me. No matter what I may be dealing with at any given time, can compare to what others may be going through.

People that have taken the opportunity in their lives to develop their mental strength and abilities are also taking steps to prepare themselves against the hard times. Everyone has them, but when you have developed device to see yourself through to the other side of the hurdles, it makes the preparation very worthwhile.

Recently, someone suggested that I do some writing about the fires, the death, anguish, and heroism emerging like the rising phoenix when the fires hit Victoria Australia. I attempted to look at this as a topic of my writing, but I write from my heart and the truth. Since I had not been directly affected by the fires, I decided not to write about others experiences. I will leave that to the media. What I have decided to write about is my observations, and how I have used this opportunity to count my blessings.

Setting the Stage

Since my readers are International, I need to tell you a little about what was – before the fires. We had had a cool, lower than normal temperature, summer up to this point. Suddenly, we were having the highest ever recorded temperatures and southbound winds. This set up an extreme fire danger condition. For many years the residents of Victoria bushland had been worried of the buildup of native scrub compiling and creating an explosive fire danger.

Politics Deemed Just as Guilty

Politics had prevented the clearing of this debris in the winter months, as it had been in previously. About 10-15 years ago, through political pressure from ‘green’ groups, back-burning and clearing had all about ceased to reduce fuel buildup. Clearing of the deadwood had been reduced to only 2-3% of all the forest areas that used to be available to gather wood from. Cattle and sheep that had grazed and automatically cleared many of these areas were banned from these areas. Owners were not even allowed to clear the fuel from their own property for fear of heavy fines, even imprisonment.

The entire area had become a time bomb – primed and ready to explode. The resulting conflagration led to losses of such magnitude never before seen in Australia. When fire travels 3 KM per minute, huge fireballs prevail before a wall of fire 120 feet or more into the sky, it is overwhelmingly apparent that nothing much is going to stand against it. It sounds like a freight train coming your way, much like the sound of a tornado. The only word that does not even come close to describing the effect – HORRIFIC!

Lessons Learned Elsewhere as Example

I used to live in America. In the area that I am from there is a technique that is taught in fire prone areas called “Stewardship”. Stewardship is a way of dealing with the natural fire dangers in a way that benefits everyone. The conservationists decided long ago that it was better to clear the debris and scrub than to keep putting so many people at risk, even reducing the amount of trees on a property to reduce the overall fire danger. It’s not a perfect solution. But it is a solution that both sides could live with.

People love nature and want to live amongst it. But, sometimes those people in their obsession to live amongst the trees, overlook the obvious hazards. Most of the people that were killed in the fires never gave it a second thought that they may be victims of their own passion.

A Change in Attitude

The fires came through, and things have changed considerably – literally overnight. People that have never been exposed to the raw carnage that followed are having to deal with situations that usually only trained professionals must deal with. Innocence is shattered and can never be returned. The shock of what has happened hasn’t even had time to set in for most of them.

The human spirit is resilient. Most of these people have been traumatized and need counseling. Even the Firefighters that have had many years of experience have never had this type of exposure. As they are driving by certain homes, they know of how people perished there. The whole landscape is some areas looks, feel, and smells like a war zone.

My heart goes out to these people. I have offered my assistance to those that are interested.

I Count My Blessings

I am very blessed that I have not been around the fires. I am located quite a long way from where the loss of life is high. But, we still get the reports on the radio and TV. There were fires around my area, but the loss of life was not high. Only about 80-100 homes destroyed. A recent report had over 1800 homes had gone up in flames, and over 7000 people displaced, hundreds of thousands of acres burned, and the expected dead to be over 300.

Seeing the pictures of the re-united families, and some that will never be re-united, gives me the opportunity to be thankful for the people I hold dear. They are beside me and with me. I don’t have the added stress of looking after property, livestock or pets that have been scalded or dying. I never even lost power through this. I count myself as being so blessed. The potential remains that the fires could erupt again in my area. But, I am grateful that I have the opportunity to observe heartbreak from a distance.

Even though I can feel for them, there is no way that I can feel the same as what they feel. It is their experience. It is an experience I would not want to walk in. They will carry the scars with them forever. It has changed their physical landscape as well as their emotional landscape. They will be forever changed.

Time Heals Many Wounds

Time will heal many of the wounds, but people won’t forget. Many of them will never forgive the people responsible – from government bureaucracy and self-serving politicians that encouraged the tinder to build up into a time-bomb, to the arsonists that lit the deadliest of the fires. The arsonists have committed mass murder to the level of terrorism.

Finally, there is solid discussion and inevitable action taking place in the government to provide substantial firebreaks, back-burning and clearing of debris and fuel statewide and beyond. It appears that the people are choosing to ignore political groups that have brought them to this precipice of decision.

The Aussie Spirit Survives

No matter how bad you think your problems are, there is always someone worse off than you. Following the shell-shock of the results of the fires, within 1 week of the fires erupting, huge efforts were mounted to pull off charity functions of every sort imaginable. At date, the Red Cross has already exceeded $100 Million in donations.

Help is coming in from the International community as well. Even the Queen of England is Donating personally to the injured. It is just amazing to see where all the outpourings are coming from! Condolences have even come from enemy states.

Reaction of the People and Government

The government has not put a cap on the expenditures to get these people back on their feet. Holden/GM has donated new cars for a year for those affected. The outpourings from the populace is absolutely incredible. It may actually be the trigger that gives our economy the needed stimulus to get things revved up again.

People, no matter how they are hurting from their own situations are digging deep to help in every way imaginable. It expresses the strength Australia possesses in its people. It is a credit to all. Even though I wasn’t directly affected, through observation I have been profoundly affected!

To the Aussie Spirit – Good On Ya’!

Shannon Panzo

PS: “If life was always a positive experience, we would not have anything to compare to. Therefore, we would not learn to appreciate it.”

Intuition, Insight, Knowledge, Invention, and Lateral Thinking

Today’s lesson is about Lateral Thinking, Invention, Mind Over Matter, and the Power of Thought. Insights and intuition come from the subconscious mind. These are just a couple of pieces that give you subconscious power over things in your life.

Intuition, Insights, and Predictions

I like to make predictions form time to time to see how accurate I am. Most people invent based on solving problems. Some people invent based upon need, and insight of how to solve the need. Some people take the high road altogether and allow the universe to tell them what to invent, whether it is needed or not, or if it solves any problem that currently exists. Some scientists write this off as statistical extrapolation and an over-active imagination. Maybe it is.

If you have lived any type of life at all, you will have had an experience like this: You are going along doing whatever it is you do. Some thing or event triggers something in you that says, “I could really use a Widget right now.” (A ‘widget’ is some ‘thing’ that is usually a concept or idea.) You suddenly come to the realization that you have never seen anything like your ‘widget’.

Is ‘Necessity’ Really the Mother of Invention?

At that point, you are given an opportunity to invent, market, and distribute your widget. But, for whatever reason, you decide not to invent your ‘widget’. Then, 6 months to a year later, you are going through the aisle of a store, and THERE is your ‘widget’. Someone else had the same insight as you did that the world was to have this ‘widget’. But, like so many other things that happen in life, it wasn’t you that took action on this. That is fine too. It is your life you are living – not someone else’s life.

Throwing Stones at Glass Houses…

At his point I could throw down the gauntlet, stand on a soapbox, and expound on the indefinable of the Universal Knowledge being re-discovered and instantaneously remembered by thousands of people across the Earth at the same time. You have all heard it before, but it still doesn’t give you permission to rip off someone else’s work that they have put their effort, time, and money into. It diminishes the entire human race when even one person takes that selfish approach.

Oh, the Irony…

(This next part is talking directly to those people that actually think it is alright to do things this way.) This attitude of taking someone’s good idea or product and making it your own, is very limited thinking. Instead of using the Law of Attraction to bring in your own idea or product, you would rather take the LAZY way. Even more important is you don’t realize what Karmic damage YOU are inflicting upon yourself. That leads me down the path to another soapbox I don’t wish to visit right now. So let’s not go there.

I am GIVING Away a Valuable Idea!

Staring down at my expensive frying pan, and thinking, why would this “Teflon Coated” pan cost so much more than most others? (as my fried eggs are stuck to the bottom of the oil laden pan, again) Sure the base metal is better and thicker. The handle is a little better. By and large, it pretty much does the same job for the same amount of time, and can be just as easily damaged as any other Teflon coated pan. It does have a lifetime guarantee!, that by the grace of God, and sending it back to the company, usually overseas, to review the damage at their discretion if they are going to send you a new one. Well, I think you are getting the picture…

There are currently cooking pans on the market that tout that they are stick-free AND Teflon Free as well. But, what I am talking about is something that I have not even heard that anyone has even thought of yet. Maybe they have! Maybe my invention is already sitting there waiting for me on the shelf to buy. That would be Wonderful! So, if any of you reading this story knows of such a Monster in cookware, please let me know.

As I alluded to before, this is a lesson about Lateral Thinking. Let’s start with the basics. Cookware sticks to food because it comes in contact with the food. (No kidding!) Heat and desiccation of the common surface causes adhesion (sticking). So what we want to create is a no-touch surface of cookware. Already, you must be thinking that I am out to lunch. Trust me, I am not.

There is an engineering principle using super-sonics and hyper-sonics to agitate, stir, or create a nonstick environment. Sonics are used in a jewelry cleaning machine to clean your jewelry. Sonics are also used in factory hoppers to prevent substances from sticking to their sides.

Nano-Engineering

So let’s see if we can create a condition on a surface that creates a touch-free environment. There are many types of way materials, metal, compounds, etc. can be applied or stuck permanently to a surface. Some of those can be shaped on a microscopic level by the application process. And some of those materials can be used to create hyper-sonics when exposed to a heat source of a range top.

We may have started with 10,000 different materials, 1000, after application, 100 after microscopic shaping, 10 after creating the hyper-sonics via applying heat as the energy source, and 1 or 2 after considering human consumability.

What this would create is a surface that once heated never actually comes in contact with the food. Therefore, it just doesn’t stick. Ultimately clean as well. Is it possible – Yes. What am I basing this premise upon – A lifetime of information gained and knowing how to apply it in various ways – knowledge.

I am NOT Kidding! I am Giving IT Away!

Do I know which material, or the application method? No, but I have some relatively sound ideas how it can be done with today’s technology. But,… I am GIVING the idea away to the person that will invent it. They will have or gain the needed information to create it. I am choosing not to spend money or time in that direction because my life is focused in other directions. Namely, by teaching people the means by which they can accumulate their lifetime of information, and know how to use it to create a great life for themselves.

How do I remember all of the different types of information and how to apply them? Mental Photography! Mental Photography gives me a tremendous amount of information quickly and intensely. Beyond just information, it gives me usable knowledge of how to apply the information. It strengthens the synapses and brain function so that I can retrieve information from all parts of my life, as I need to apply it.

This is true Lateral Thinking, because I can take pieces of one type of knowledge and glue them together with other types of knowledge, run an internalized statistical probability program which tells me how probable the outcome is. The never-stick fry pan has very high probability with the tools scientists have available, such as nano-technology and nano-engineering. Additionally, I would suspect the scientists should look to the titanium compounds first. The application is the fun part. I also estimate a vertical platelet application, probably electrically applied.

An Old Prediction to Reality!

About seven years ago, I told people that they were going to invent a way of storing several complete movies on a unit that would measure ~ 1 cubic centimeter. Today, I now own a flash drive 1.5×1.5×0.3 cm in size that has no less than 4 Gigabytes, and I know that at least 8 GB is available in the same size. The whole drive is the same size as the USB plug portion – which doubles its length. Amazing!

I have made predictions of the stock market, the price of gold, the interest rates of banks, seasonal changes, and many other valuable things. One of my accounting friends recently reminded me that I had “pegged” another one, with regards to the fall of interest rates, recession, etc.

The mysterious thing is where do I get my information from to base my complex algorithms upon? I don’t really have a source of this type of material out here where I live in Australia. You would think that I surround myself with heaps of financial data to consume my day – I don’t. So where do my predictions come from? From the either? On the air? That’s the wonderful thing about it. These are not just guesses, either. Some are very specific.

Stepping outside the lines…

I live between two worlds. The world I live in, the physical world, and this other world rather indefinable except for the qualities of ebb and flow, color, frequency, energy, nuance and innuendo – sort of an altruistic spider web stretching across the universe. My choice is to stay grounded so I can help others. Mental Photography is my key that opens the doorway to this other realm.

So, when my clients want to increase the power of the mind, and step through the portal of “mind over matter”, I know they can achieve it – because I’ve already done it.

No Matter where life takes you, where you are going, or where you have been, you are right where you are meant to be, experiencing whatever you are meant to be experiencing. You are there of your own making. No excuses, no blame, that’s just the way it is.

Always the best to each and every one of you,

Great Things Happen!

Shannon Panzo