TV Shows in America

There are a lot of really stupid shows on American TV, but amongst it all there are a few good ones: “Made” on MTV is a show where they take a teenage and help them fulfill a wish. In the episode I watched a 17 year old girl who was into punkrock and disliked at her school, but wanted to be the prom queen. So they sent her a Hollywood expert who coached her and made her popular at school and six weeks later she won the prom queen contest. It sounds corny, but it was actually a really good show.

Another show is called Parental Control. On this show the parents don’t like their daughter’s boyfriend, so they get to choose two new guys for her to go on dates with. It is very funny, but I think that it will wear a bit thin after a few episodes.

Retreat in Wyoming

I am at the Grand Tetons in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, next to Yellowstone National Park! I’m doing a two-week retreat organised by Susan Shumsky author of Divine Revelation, Exploring Auras, Exploring Chakras, Exploring Meditation and Miracle Prayer.

It has been a whole lot of fun and we have done a lot of interesting exercises for developing intuition and inner signals and contacts. Susan is very impressive and has a lot of experience and knowledge.

I was quite shocked when I arrived and found that there were only seven people on the first week of the course and that I was the only guy. But it has actually been fine and I have been very impressed by the intuitive calibre of the others. The second part of the course, which starts today, is more gender-balanced and should be a lot of fun because the 12 people who are arriving today are very experienced.

Here are some pics:

This is the group. Susan Shumsky is the tall lady with blonde hair.

We went up the gondola:

Jackson Hole is at 6000ft elevation. The Grand Tetons are 14,000ft.

This is an elk. I’ve also seen deer, two wild bears, eagles, but haven’t seen a moose yet.

This is my hotel where I’m staying. Jackson Hole is a ski resort like Aspen and Vail:

This is a Dodge Viper! 8 litre V10. It was parked outside my hotel.

Beliefnet.com

I just did this interesting test. It comprises 20 multi-choice questions about how you describe your beliefs. It then matches these against major religions. My results are below.

I definitely identify with Hinduism the most – particularly the branch Advaita Vedanta. The school of thought I identify with next is New Thought because it is very similar to Advaita. The other schools I accept as valid, since that is the all-inclusive view of Hinduism, except for Scientology which I don’t know much about. But if Scientology is anything like what is portrayed on the South Park episode, then it shouldn’t even be on the list.

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/76/story_7665_1.html

1. Hinduism (100%)
2. Mahayana Buddhism (75%)
3. Neo-Pagan (74%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (64%)
5. Jainism (61%)
6. Sikhism (61%)
7. New Age (61%)
8. Bahá’í Faith (56%)
9. New Thought (55%)
10. Scientology (55%)
11. Orthodox Judaism (49%)
12. Liberal Quakers (46%)
13. Reform Judaism (46%)
14. Islam (41%)
15. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (40%)
16. Theravada Buddhism (38%)
17. Taoism (29%)
18. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (21%)
19. Orthodox Quaker (20%)
20. Secular Humanism (20%)
21. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (12%)
22. Eastern Orthodox (12%)
23. Roman Catholic (12%)
24. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (10%)
25. Nontheist (8%)
26. Seventh Day Adventist (8%)
27. Jehovah’s Witness (7%)

Yanks

The US has not been able to keep out drugs and illegal immigrants. What makes them so sure they can keep out terrorists?

Watch this madness

This is very extreme skydiving.

PS Go and see the movie Sicko. It is excellent and my favourite of Michael Moore’s films.