Video essay of NH. Many of the photos are courtesy of the Mount Washington Observatory some are mine. Audio is Courtesy of the Shaw Brothers "New Hampshire Naturally"
I love this! Your photos are wonderful. I graduated from Berlin High in 1957, and my YaYa sisters from that time are coming to my home in Manchester next week. I am incorporating this video in a welcoming ritual which I have prepared for them. Thank you so much for including photos that us "north country" natives can appreciate. It's perfect! Elaine Belliveau
The quality of our dreams is both a reflection of our thoughts and actions as well as a general foreshadowing of the fate of our souls in the next life...A nightly, temporary karma that beckons us to change - for the good - so as to avoid a more permanent karma. A karma that is inflicted not by this or that “religion”, but instead by our eternal inner witness (that sits at the matrix of consciousness, who witnesses all of our deeds) when this body is shed. Terrible people consequently have terrible nightmares. It’s an intrinsic law of human nature that’s deniable, yet self-evident. Occasionally they’ll have a pleasant dream that will try and prod them towards loving kindness, just as good people will occasionally have nightmares for various other reasons(from PTSD to being on a pharmaceutical that isn’t good for us to eating too much pizza or chocolate before sleep, etc). But ultimately, the overall quality of our dreams that inevitably accrues over a lifetime directly correlates with the type of person we are and our character as human beings, and thus portends our “fate” with regards to the afterlife. And once the terrible people of this world realize that those nightmares that they most assuredly are having not only reflect their actions in this life, but also the fate of their souls in the next, those terrible actions that are being mirrored back to them in their dreams -as nightmares- will become harder and harder to commit...Until then, good people will continue to suffer during the day, and terrible people will continue to suffer during the night. Beauty(🌷)+Complexity(🌎) =Intent(❤️) The Figure 8 Analogy: An analogy on life, death, the dream-state and the symbolism intertwined within the human experience. We human beings are not traveling in the abstract motion of a straight line towards death (for instance, the numerical straight line of say 1-89). Instead, we are moving in the motion of a figure 8. The Figure 8 is a natural repeating pattern that is divided into two halves and is thus the perfect symbol to represent the human life cycle and our two primary states of existence that we are continuously moving in and out of -the Awake state and the Dream state. When we awake from sleep we come full circle to when we fall back asleep (represented by the bottom half of the figure 8 )and when we go into the dream state we come full circle to when we awake from the dream state (represented by the top half of the figure 8 ). Upon death; the figure 8 of life untwines, but it’s not the body untwining from the mind that this analogy represents. It's two states of mind untwining to form a larger state of mind. (8-0) Because the awake state is really a state -of mind, with our body's physical reality "consciously" intertwined; and the dream-state is also a state of mind, with our body's physical reality "subconsciously" intertwined. Therefore; upon death, these two states of mind untwine to form a “larger” state of mind. A state that has all the potentialities of the dream world (flying, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) combined with all the actualities of the awake world(nature, form, bonds, etc). This I refer to as the transitional analogy. While conceiving The Figure 8 Analogy, I realized life and death must be perceived -from one point of view- as seperate entities(the transitional analogy(8-0), but must also be perceived -from another point of view- as inseparable entities(the symbolic analogy👇), both of which are ultimately linked by the dream-state. The symbolic analogy consists of the untwined figure 8 of life/the 'circle of death’, if you will, which -abstractly- overlapps the ‘circle of life’/the Earth, with the overlappment representing the dream-state, like the common area in a venn diagram, and implies that the dream state is just as much a part of life as is of death ~by which semi-explains precognitive dreams, prodromal dreams, "visitations" by deceased relatives, etc; for the dream-state has a foothold in the afterlife, and is based on the premise that “while our body sleeps, our dream state symbolically represents the state that awaits upon our body's ultimate rest.” In other words, while we are lying down and sleeping/dreaming, this natural process symbolizes where we go when we're ultimately lying down/dead -to a place "like" our dream-state...A state "of mind” with our body's physical form+bonds eternally engrained and intertwined. 👁~8~👁
This song may well be one of the best tourism advertisements for New Hampshire ever written. And who doesn't love the Shaw Brothers!!!
My native state, I have wandered far and wide and New Hampshire will always be home.
Same
Everybody's favorite little state once they get to know it. Pics do a nice job describing the diversity of landscaped packed into such a small area.
Lovely scenes of the most beautiful state in the USA!!! That's why I vacation there every autumn : )
I love this! Your photos are wonderful. I graduated from Berlin High in 1957, and my YaYa sisters from that time are coming to my home in Manchester next week. I am incorporating this video in a welcoming ritual which I have prepared for them. Thank you so much for including photos that us "north country" natives can appreciate. It's perfect! Elaine Belliveau
love these guys and this song!!! lived IN NH for years. I just finished crying about this and my missing NH.
Ahhh ... THIS is the rendition used by WMUR back in the 1980's at sign-in time.
I DID type sign- ON...
This is the original version, Later versions replaced the village square with first rays of the sun. Learned and love this version.
Fabulous video!!! I Love it!
The quality of our dreams is both a reflection of our thoughts and actions as well as a general foreshadowing of the fate of our souls in the next life...A nightly, temporary karma that beckons us to change - for the good - so as to avoid a more permanent karma.
A karma that is inflicted not by this or that “religion”, but instead by our eternal inner witness (that sits at the matrix of consciousness, who witnesses all of our deeds) when this body is shed.
Terrible people consequently have terrible nightmares. It’s an intrinsic law of human nature that’s deniable, yet self-evident. Occasionally they’ll have a pleasant dream that will try and prod them towards loving kindness, just as good people will occasionally have nightmares for various other reasons(from PTSD to being on a pharmaceutical that isn’t good for us to eating too much pizza or chocolate before sleep, etc). But ultimately, the overall quality of our dreams that inevitably accrues over a lifetime directly correlates with the type of person we are and our character as human beings, and thus portends our “fate” with regards to the afterlife.
And once the terrible people of this world realize that those nightmares that they most assuredly are having not only reflect their actions in this life, but also the fate of their souls in the next, those terrible actions that are being mirrored back to them in their dreams -as nightmares- will become harder and harder to commit...Until then, good people will continue to suffer during the day, and terrible people will continue to suffer during the night.
Beauty(🌷)+Complexity(🌎)
=Intent(❤️)
The Figure 8 Analogy:
An analogy on life, death, the dream-state and the symbolism intertwined within the human experience.
We human beings are not traveling in the abstract motion of a straight line towards death (for instance, the numerical straight line of say 1-89). Instead, we are moving in the motion of a figure 8. The Figure 8 is a natural repeating pattern that is divided into two halves and is thus the perfect symbol to represent the human life cycle and our two primary states of existence that we are continuously moving in and out of -the Awake state and the Dream state.
When we awake from sleep we come full circle to when we fall back asleep (represented by the bottom half of the figure 8 )and when we go into the dream state we come full circle to when we awake from the dream state (represented by the top half of the figure 8 ). Upon death; the figure 8 of life untwines, but it’s not the body untwining from the mind that this analogy represents. It's two states of mind untwining to form a larger state of mind. (8-0)
Because the awake state is really a state -of mind, with our body's physical reality "consciously" intertwined; and the dream-state is also a state of mind, with our body's physical reality "subconsciously" intertwined. Therefore; upon death, these two states of mind untwine to form a “larger” state of mind. A state that has all the potentialities of the dream world (flying, telepathy, psychokinesis, etc) combined with all the actualities of the awake world(nature, form, bonds, etc). This I refer to as the transitional analogy.
While conceiving The Figure 8 Analogy, I realized life and death must be perceived -from one point of view- as seperate entities(the transitional analogy(8-0), but must also be perceived -from another point of view- as inseparable entities(the symbolic analogy👇), both of which are ultimately linked by the dream-state.
The symbolic analogy consists of the untwined figure 8 of life/the 'circle of death’, if you will, which -abstractly- overlapps the ‘circle of life’/the Earth, with the overlappment representing the dream-state, like the common area in a venn diagram, and implies that the dream state is just as much a part of life as is of death ~by which semi-explains precognitive dreams, prodromal dreams, "visitations" by deceased relatives, etc; for the dream-state has a foothold in the afterlife, and is based on the premise that “while our body sleeps, our dream state symbolically represents the state that awaits upon our body's ultimate rest.”
In other words, while we are lying down and sleeping/dreaming, this natural process symbolizes where we go when we're ultimately lying down/dead -to a place "like" our dream-state...A state "of mind” with our body's physical form+bonds eternally engrained and intertwined.
👁~8~👁