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Monster
12-02-2002, 05:31 PM
So I was on my flight back to Los Angeles from Chicago's O'Hare airport, and I found myself sitting next to a woman who knows an awful lot about all the energy focusing, Chakras, "parapsychological phenomenon" stuff, all that jazz...basically all the stuff I believe in. She agreed with me that the main downfall of many of the groups that utilize these forces is that they have too many rules, and that the problem with rules is that they don't work for everybody. I also discovered that many of the things I had been doing instinctually were actually the "proper" ways of doing something. I shielded myself from what turned out to be Her connection to me by visualizing a closing door in my mind, and that turns out to be the preferred method of blocking. I also shield myself in the preferred method, although I never knew it or did it consciously. It just seemed like it would work, and it did.

Anyways, she started talking to me about The Hundredth Monkey phonomenon, and it's impact on humanity. She said that there is a rumor going around that humanity is fast approaching The Hundredth Monkey marker with this focusing of energy in individuals like myself, TGM, ABA, A_open_fire_, and others. From what she said, more and more people with our natual power are popping up all over the globe. What she said next shocked the hell out of me. "You are likely on the cutting edge of the Age of Aquarius."

Anyways, I did a teensy bit of digging (a google search) on The Hundredth Monkey, and discovered that the book on it is not copyrighted material, and found a good exerpt, so here it is, with a link to the entire text:

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The Hundredth Monkey
by Ken Keyes, jr.
The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.

Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.

Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes -- the exact number is not known.

Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes.

Let's further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.

The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice.

A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea --

Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

(from the book "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes, jr. The book is not copyrighted and the material may be reproduced in whole or in part. You can look at the whole book (http://suburbia.net/~jchoy/monkey/monkey1.html) .)

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What this means for humanity, then, is that as we approach this marker, we approach the next great collosal change in humankind.


Most people live a full measure of life, and most people watch it slowly drip away. But if you can summon it all up, in one place, at one time, you can accomplish something....wonderful.
--Sean Connery as Ramirez in "Highlander 2: The Quickening"

Monster
12-02-2002, 05:35 PM
Okay, don't use the link in the post to "the whole book." It doesn' work.

Here's one that does:
http://www.testament.org/testament/100thmonkey.html

Snouter
12-02-2002, 07:18 PM
Originally posted by Stage Monster
From what she said, more and more people with our natual power are popping up all over the globe. What she said next shocked the hell out of me. "You are likely on the cutting edge of the Age of Aquarius."

What natural power do you have? The monkey business is a bunch of BS. There are volumes of material written about the "age of aquarius," universal mind, and psychic phenomena written in the late 50's and throughout the 60's. I suggest you do some research. Over time interest in it waned and today young people are quite ignorant of it.

ÆSiR
12-02-2002, 07:25 PM
You know what you need.


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:: Smack ::

Wake up!

-Æ (Monkey boy)

Snouter
12-02-2002, 09:15 PM
Hopefully Kitty will defeat the those damn Monkeys. 1,000,000 Kitties are coming to getcha. LOL ;)

salach leine
12-04-2002, 12:04 AM
well... thankfully I have something POSITIVE to say about this.

sheesh, people.

I think that's really intriguing. Not BS at all in my eyes. I've always thought about that, and how jokes and fads can spread so fast around the country and the world... Interesting being that I am an aquarius.....
hmm
peace
Meredith

Monster
12-04-2002, 12:11 AM
And yet the most powerful people our age that I know, myself being one of them, are not...I'm a gemini, for example...

salach leine
12-04-2002, 12:52 AM
*sigh* this isn't an exalted or elitist thing, Zach. Perhaps we have more intuition... but...
you don't know how "powerful" anyone is. I would tell you more about myself for example... and my own experiences in the matter, and you might just be surprised... but by personal preference, I keep a lot of it to myself, as I'd rather explore the inner me very deeply. Incredibly engaging conversation, but based upon willingness to share and have one's deepest feelings known.
do you get what I'm saying?

Monster
12-04-2002, 01:25 AM
I forgot a word there, sorry.

It was supposed to say SOME of the most poweful.

Honest, it was, my hands just didn't move as fast as my mind did. Sorry....

TheGreatMonkey
12-04-2002, 03:12 AM
Zach me and you have power that manifests in ways that can effect others and the world around us, some may have power that is more subtle yet just as powerfull.

Also Aquarian's aren't known for their outright power

Aquarius witnesses to our membership of the human race, and to the importance of the creative activity of humanity. Following Capricorn, which emphasises the importance of the proper functioning of society, and the need to be a responsible member thereof, Aquarius may be seen as observing the boundaries and structures that people have made for themselves in order to live satisfactorily with each other, and noticing that people can be trapped therein, disabling them from living a fully human life unfettered by duties and responsibilities.

So Aquarius aims to show how to live within society without being bound by it in such a way as to stifle human creative activity. As an air sign, it does this by having an ideal about how life for humanity ought to be - but like all ideals, it has to deal with reality in terms of what human beings are really like, rather than simply how the mind considers they ought to be like, and this can lead to some painful lessons in life.

Aquarian ideals are rarely experienced in isolation. Aquarius is a socially oriented sign, and Aquarians usually function best with others, with friends or in a community of some kind - some may lose their sense of being individual human beings in the process, even to the extent of leaving themselves little to contribute to the associations they belong to.

Aquarius is co-ruled by Uranus, the first planet to be discovered beyond the boundary of Saturn. Uranus is associated with the Age of Enlightenment, when new ideas were flooding into society, many of which were upsetting at first. When Aquarians are functioning properly they may be a disturbing influence, for they bring people’s self-imposed limitations to awareness, offering a more enlightened approach. Other features of their birth charts may show how sensitive they are to people’s resistance to the ideals they espouse. Some placements of Mars, for instance, may show a determination to ram one’s point of view down someone else’s throat, never mind whether or not the other person is ready to receive such ideas! Compatibility in love will of course be an issue here.

One implication of the socially oriented nature of Aquarius is that if you have significant planets in the more personal signs (e.g. Aries or Taurus) in your chart, then you may experience your personal needs as getting in the way of your social conscience. Just remember you are a human being with human needs, and there is no shame in admitting them. Indeed, you must honour them in order to fulfil your destiny, for no amount of enlightenment will appeal to people if there is no place to be simply human, and if they see you ignoring or denying your human needs, your ideals will have no lasting appeal.

The above is just a brief sketch of the sort of qualities Aquarius should be aiming for. If you are experiencing difficulties on the way, the rest of your birth chart will indicate where these difficulties are, and a consultation would very likely provide clues as to how to deal with them. All aspects of our nature, as represented by the planets in signs and houses of our charts, need to be honoured and respected if the Sun is to effectively pursue its aims.


Its called the age of aquarious because its supposed to be a time of freedom and harmony, which are what aquarion's stand for.

Monster
12-04-2002, 03:29 AM
*claps* everybody give TGM a round of applause, it's one of, if not the first time he's quoted an article! Hooray, Monkey!

Corporate Avenger
12-04-2002, 03:52 AM
Time for more...


I've heard about that Monkey thing before, it is very interesting. I don't know if I buy the whole age of Aquarius stuff due to the way the world is. But who knows...

salach leine
12-04-2002, 11:11 PM
cool stuff about aquarianism TGM.
and no.... they AREN'T known for their outright "power"
props on the quote bit there
and Zach... it's ok. I think I knew what you meant but I wasn't sure.

Monster
12-05-2002, 12:35 AM
K, good. Don't want anybody else mad at me.

If this stuff is true, it's gonna be so cool...:D

ÆSiR
12-05-2002, 07:35 AM
Originally posted by Stage Monster
K, good. Don't want anybody else mad at me.

If this stuff is true, it's gonna be so cool...:D

Well if it is true, I know you got my back.

...until then.

I will persist to make fun of you, and taunt you, until you cry.

... lol

-Æ ( :D )

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