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To: Jamey who wrote (35170)	5/1/2003 1:54:47 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

I compliment you on your post to McR. Not a new concept but surely a good one. Jesus, alone, in the desert. No food. Apparently little or no water. Forty days and nights. Humbled and teachable- by his father, God. Also don't forget the intial baptizing in the Jordan before embarking into the desert to meditate ...now I ask you what is the difference from that and from 300yrs before the recording of mass ritual purifications , reverent pilgrimage and bathings in the river Ganges over in the Indus? How funny it is , 300yrs later they start doing it over in the river Jordan . And 25million gathered by that same river last year , over 2300 yrs later . Ever heard the story of the 100th monkey ?

To: Jamey who wrote (35170)	5/1/2003 1:59:04 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

The 100th Monkey A story about social change. lightshift.com by Ken Keyes, Jr. The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30years. In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkey 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 wayand 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 Koshimam 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! .html