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Welcome to blogsoma, your virtual vault for self-discovery. We here at Soma Space are excited to have a forum to demonstrate how the images we focus on impact our social identity. Throughout history, pictures have shaped our personal and collective awareness. The visual medium of language serves as the evolutionary envelope of human nature. This blog will take you to the places words cannot express. You’ll be able to look at everything from pop culture to your most intimate relationships in a new light. The tools we’ll be sharing here are from the heart of the somatic worldview, which delivers you to what’s been called Level 3 Consciousness. This is where the world of ideas meets the world of action.
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Wednesday, 21 April 10 - 06:05 AM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in General |
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Message From Zion
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Sunday, 06 December 09 - 02:16 PM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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The Surprise For The Machines...
My graduation gift from 6th grade was a pong computer game. I must of spent that whole Summer playing that game. Two vertical lines and a dot. That was the height of entertainment in 1976. When I see what passes for a video game now I literally feel like I'm 900 years old. The gamers left me in the dust after RBI 2 and TechmoBowl. I've never played Madden or HalfLife or Grand Theft Auto or any of that Wii stuff. I don't own an iPhone or a Blackberry or even a Bluetooth. Yet I've probably done more technically overwhelming things than anyone I know. I'm eternally grateful for Terapad, BlogTalkRadio, CityMax (yeah even them) and the 100's of other freeware platforms I've been able to master over the years. Whew!
But the web is getting crowded. You Tube itself takes up 10% of the bandwidth up here. Facebook has enough users to be the 4th most populated nation in the world if it was a country. We've gone from mass media to multimedia to social media and every re-launch has invited a new element of security, communication and technical obstables. It's time someone but the humans back in charge. Well I found us the dude!
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This week on Soma Time: Your Culture Vulture we welcomes Richard and Della Jorgensen from Awareness Communication Technology and they...welcome me! Yes, I'll be aboard The Midnight Sun, they're incredible 68 foot ocean sailing yacht which serves as their company headquarters. To watch a video about The Midnight Sun - click here - Get a sneak peak at their work by visiting AWARECOMM.COM. I'll represent you non-techies!
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
Click For a preview of this week's show: LIVE FROM SAN DIEGO!
Click to get the replay of last week's show: CLIMATEGATE
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Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
NSMDOC - Raw Feed
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Friday, 04 December 09 - 11:26 PM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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Climategate & Sciencehate
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Sunday, 29 November 09 - 05:14 AM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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Holy Kilimanjaro Batman!
I remember thinking when the health care debates started in the Summer that they didn't 'name the cereal' right. No one from the Democrats, Progressives, or the feverish Obamanauts understood that the politically wonky words PUBLIC OPTION wouldn't have any meaning outside the beltway. So they are still down there kicking the can and re-wording this mongrel now as we move from sunblock to de-icers. That reminded me of another ill-fated campaign - Global Warming. It too has now fallen on it's own putard...and it still may get past the sleepwalking American public.
The whole Global Warming meme was doomed from the beginning because it described one side of the coin. In fact, all of these End of the World scenarios, be they religious, political, or scientifically backed are all lost to me. If any of them are right...we ALL die. So what's the effin difference?
They all have their divined remedies too. The faithful have their agenda. The hawks have their utopian ideals. And the green energy types have theirs. From this soma's seat, it's all stemming from our lost narrative. Somewhere upstream we shed the ability to put the linear elephant in the non-linear cage. Now it's too late. And we have to just settle for this mess that's here and make the best of it. The dissonance is deafening us.
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This week on Soma Time: The Mind-Body Magic Hour we welcome the aforementioned Erik Qualman AKA @equalman to the program to defend his book Socialnomics and hopefully explain to me how much interactivity the world can handle. Has the 4th wall been torn down so many times that it no longer exists? Have we gone behind the music and beyond the point of no return? What will privacy look like in 5 or 10 years? We'll ask this sape.
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
Click For a preview of this week's show: CLIMATEGATE
Click to get the replay of last week's show: ERIK QUALMAN
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Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
Ice, Ice Baby!, MRF 11.29
Speed Sells...
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Sunday, 22 November 09 - 04:18 AM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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Crackerbarrel Culture?
The web is awash with advise. Even I give some here. But there's something creeping me out about the direction we're going. In the last month I've interviewed two futurists on the show; Jeremy Gutsche, author of Exploiting Chaos and Paul Guercio, from The Merlin Project. Now we have Erik Qualman, author of Socialnomics on this week. Why am I doing this? Because the ADVICE we're getting is useless. No one knows wtf is going on. The emerging technology is dictating to us how we will behave, communicate and lead our lives. It's no longer an extension of us...it is us. We can't humanize it anymore. Our flaws are in the machine.
Between all the 1's and 0's we live our daily lives in the grey scale between the digital extremes. It seems the more we personalize our lives online, the more we impersonate ourselves offline. Peer pressure and being popular used to be important until the end of high school. Now it's a rite of passage for most of our adult lives. We're now taking it to the next level.
Remember all the cliques in high school? Now that we're all being told to pick our groups again. So we went from an Open Source era of freedom and sharing and anonymity to an Ajar Source era where we opted in and asked permission of others to join us (we still do). Now we're entering a phase of Closed Source again where you need to know the secret password to get inside. So if we're all going to rely on our e-pals to eval every purchase, preference & life choice, does the empower or overpower us. Ask a high school student. Or go to CLASSMATES.com (yuk to that)!
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This week on Soma Time: The Mind-Body Magic Hour we welcome the aforementioned Erik Qualman AKA @equalman to the program to defend his book Socialnomics and hopefully explain to me how much interactivity the world can handle. Has the 4th wall been torn down so many times that it no longer exists? Have we gone behind the music and beyond the point of no return? What will privacy look like in 5 or 10 years? We'll ask this sape.
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
Click For a preview of this week's show: ERIK QUALMAN
Click to get the replay of last week's show: PAUL GUERCIO
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Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
This Submarine is Yellow Alright!, MRF 11.22
Time Surfer
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Sunday, 15 November 09 - 04:08 AM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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The Ultimate Time Out...
On the average day the media will perpetuate any number of myths, fears or urban legends. The apocalyptic theme has had traction for years and with pepetual natural disasters, two wars (at least), a worldwide economic meltdown, a Level 6 H1N1 pandemic and an equally pestulent vaccine campaign underway, the idea that the end is near isn't a tough sell. Add some ancient Mayan literature, some other religious doomsday rhetoric and Hollywood's take on 2012 (pack a lunch) and cue the R.E.M. song, right?
Not so fast my fatalistic friends. There's another side to this story. From Braden's Fractal Time to Straus & Howe's hauntingly accurate Fourth Turning to the now all to tangible Invisible Landscape of the McKenna brothers, there are an equal amount of metaphysical and scientific angles on what's happening that doesn't have us running for cover with John Cusack and company. This week we get to cut through them all together.
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This week on Soma Time: Beyond The BS we welcome futurist Paul Guerico who's the co-Founder of something called the MERLIN project. Along with his partner, SDI (Star Wars) physicist Dr. George Hart they developed a process to see the terrain of a person's lifetime. They've been upgrading their computer technology since the project began in 1989.
For more on the origins and applications of MERLIN - click here If you want to get a 2009 taste of MERLIN's style - click here
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
For a preview of this week's show, click here (2)
Get the on-demand replay of last week's show, click here (3)
Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
If Timing Is Everything, Lack Of It Is Everything Else, MRF 11.15
Derange Agents
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Sunday, 08 November 09 - 07:16 AM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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The Virus Of Violence...
If you weren't glued to the aftermath of the Foot Hood murders or frying your retinas over the health care reform bill, you probably saw or heard about this incident from the MWN semifinal match between BYU and New Mexico. New Mexico's Elizabeth Lambert (#15) demonstrated some savage EXO signatures, whipping up on BYU's Kassidy Shumway #21 especially. Why does something so trivial get millions of YT views and gets attention on every local and national sports station? Remember the Bubble Boy?
The reason isn't logical or even complete in and of itself. The video spread because it's violent. It'd be the same if it had sexual content, as what happened to Erin Andrews a few months back. Sex & violence spread rapidly, but often dissipate out of the public's awarenesss just as rapidly. To be a trend, you need other vectors to make sure an idea gets maximum exposure and also gets internalized. Someone figured this out...
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This week on Soma Time: Beyond The BS we welcome author Jeremy Gutsche, to discuss his new book, "Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways To Spark Innovation During Times Of Change". I will be holding his feet to the fire about the whole 'personal branding' trend which cause me to wretch every time I hear it spouted from the mouths of some internet marketing maven. To get a quick take on Jeremy visit: http://www.exploitingchaos.com/
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
For a preview of this week's show, click here (2)
Get the on-demand replay of last week's show, click here (3)
Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
I'm Hip to Be Squared, MRF 11.09
Dark Miracles
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Saturday, 31 October 09 - 02:31 PM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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Fool Me Once...
OINKTOBER is over but the spector of Swine Fear keeps ramping up. I said on last week's show I'd cross the street and not focus on the relentless agenda of the 'powers that be' to literally spook the public into being experimental lab rats. It's silly to complain about it really. They have no interest in allowing people access to real information or to make what can be a life-altering decision from a grounded position. So I'm going to cross the street, like I promised and give you ways to transcend this and live with a new awareness where you're aware of what you really are. To do that, we need to truly go 'beyond the bs' and create the 'mind-body magic hour' each week on the show to give you a clearer path to a somafied life.
If H1N1 is everywhere, the mind-body magic is...everywhere else!
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Join a conversation with attitude...and believe me, I'll bring it!
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This week on Soma Time: Beyond The BS we welcome Dr. Bill DeMoss, from the Dead Chiropractic Society (DSC) to finally discover if there's a big enough bridge in the culture to guide people from 'swine to fine' as it were. We'll kick off a month of magic talk with a devout innatist (I'll explain) who is using the messages of dead healers to help the wounded healers of chiropractic better serve their practice circle. Pack a lunch! 
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
For a preview of this week's show, click here (2)
Get the on-demand replay of last week's show, click here (3)
Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
Live & Let Cry!!!, MRF 11.02
Fear Fractals
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Saturday, 24 October 09 - 07:04 PM (GMT -05:00) By Mark R Filippi in Dr. Mark |
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Fool Me Once...
OINKTOBER may be winding down, but the Swine Fear is just beginning to spread. Obama declared a state of emergency late FRI. The plan is to offer 50 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine by mid-NOV and another 150 million in DEC. So this month was just a ramp up of what the government plans on being a sustained campaign of allopathic strongarming. Be afraid.
That aside, look at the movies out there. We have Paranormal Activity and Saw VI at the top of the box office. A spoof like Zombieland has already grossed close to $50M. NOV will bring us The 4th Kind and 2012 and others, like Shutter Island, are in the pipeline. Why are all these scary movies so popular, on-demand even? Are we so fried with fear that we require it in all forms of entertainment? Look at the stunt the Balloon Boy family pulled off. Popular shows on network TV this Fall include ones like Fringe and FlashForward. There's another CSI show and some incumbants like The Mentalist and Medium keep luring viewers to the screen. I even like me some Dexter too There's even a show that just says it all - Trauma! We watch all this get away from war, disease & pain?
My point is the culture is exploring the immaterial world and it's collective unconscious incompetence promotes fear and excitement. Since those are the active ingredients of learning something new, it's fine with me that we're here. Moving through it to frustration and confusion and the conscious incompetence that it brings is what concerns me more.
Those are tougher things to translate into entertainment...
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and for some of you...about frickin' time! LOL...
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This week on Soma Time: Beyond The BS we welcome Drew Oliver, the brains behind the bugs at GIANTMICROBES.COM to get the scoop about his company is dealing with the Swine Flu pandemic. It's a must listen!
Feel free to call or submit your questions in advance by e-mailing us at nakedsoma@gmail.com . The rest of you can just tune in live and hang.
If you've ever wondered why people do the things they do, we're waiting to tell our side of the story each week. The landscape has been changing on SOMASPACE.ORG too. Get your mouse over there and check it out our new S-List Primer page. It has everything you'd ever want to know about profiling in one place (1)
For a preview of this week's show, click here (2)
Get the on-demand replay of last week's show, click here (3)
Dial In Number: (646) 478-4847
Show Time: WED 9pm-10pm EDT
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