"Ave Amira" full original 30 minute version, with new NEWLY DONE English subtitles in 1080p High Definition (HD).
Documentary by Barbara de Baare en Sylvia Willems. COPYRIGHT © Omroep Gelderland (GLD) 2016, the Netherlands.

“Ave Amira” is a documentary by GLD of the Netherlands about Amira Willighagen at 12 years old. The 30 minute documentary was originally broadcast on Dutch TV on December 22, 2016. Amira was followed by Omroep Gelderland during the course of 2016 during crucial moments, the first days at secondary school, coaching by a new vocal teacher, a performance in Poland in the middle of a school week, a sold out Christmas concert and at a gathering of the biggest Amira fans during a fanday. The documentary gives a unique insight of Amira's life, both as the singer and the normal girl.

An original full definition version without subtitles (but with closed caption) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-DOKdIaxU
The full song performance by Amira shot in Poland and partially included in this film can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lmJQvLUivU
This is the only version of this video that is in true 1080p HD and includes the full original 30 minute Dutch documentary and has English subtitles. Other versions on YouTube with subtitles are in lower (720p) resolution and are 28:55 and 24:25 respectively. Both have material cut out.

https://amira-online.com/
Visit Amira's charitable foundation Gelukskinders (lucky children) https://www.gelukskinders.org/en/
Amira's official YouTube page https://www.youtube.com/user/nederlanderpeet
Amira at Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amira_Willighagen

This video is about a minor technical matter pertaining to my book "Evolution of Perception Re-Explained" (2021). You can buy my book at Amazon at www.amazon.com/dp/B08XLD3NNP

This video was originally recorded and uploaded to YouTube on Mar 19, 2021.
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This is a redo of Part 1 of a series titled "What Meher Baba Really Taught." The original was long and overly autobiographical. Thus I have replaced it with this shorter Part 1. You can still watch the original if you like here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/trlnXakZbNHO/. And the full series is available on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJgb-r09WT7ZF5qdsF6FrRjycAFhpzJFH

The 23-part series “What Meher Baba Really Taught” was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC from February 14 to May 28, 2023. This redo of Part 1 was recorded and uploaded on January 24, 2024.

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Live in Madison. Amira Willighagen sings "Amen" at Sandy Creek Baptist Church, Madison, GA (USA) on December 10, 2023. For the official 2023 music video with the Ndlovu Youth Choir go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiOY8xk7Eec

Madison, Georgia, USA

Amira Willighagen returns to Holland's Got Talent for the 2023 Holland's Got Talent All Stars live show. Recorded in Aalsmeer, Netherlands on May 19, 2023. Broadcast on Dutch television channel RTL4 on December 30, 2023. Amira sings Ebben! Ne andrò lontana from the 1892 Italian opera La Wally by Alfredo Catalani.

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In this video I reflect aloud on my overall intention in doing over 100 videos on philosophy and I bid farewell, at least for now. Part of knowledge is knowing when to stop.

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The book by George Berkeley that I mention in this video is 'Alciphron' (first published in 1732). The book is written in the form of seven dialogues in which Berkeley argues with the so-called 'free-thinkers' of his day that the existence of God is rationally necessary. Berkeley foresaw what he believed was a dangerous trend of atheism, a prophecy that has sadly come true in the West.

This video was recorded and uploaded in Myrtle Beach, SC on December 15, 2023 by Christopher Ott.

Note: I apologize for the confusing lighting, which can be distracting and annoying. I would redo it, except I'm pretty sure I would not be able to repeat it. I didn't have notes. I simply took a stab at a conclusion, which had been on my mind to do for a long time, and I feel like it generally worked out. It conveyed what I wanted it to convey and accomplished what I wanted to accomplish. Best wishes to all who have accompanied me on this five year journey. Who knows what I'll do next. I like to surprise myself.

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This video was recorded and uploaded on December 3, 2023.

Perception? Infinite Intelligence? How are the two related and what evolves? Chris Ott Hub: https://sites.google.com/view/chris-ott-hub

This video was recorded and uploaded in Myrtle Beach on November 30, 2023.

Some of the dynamics of the lens/perceptual schema concept are gone over.
This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on November 10, 2023.
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We question the prevailing paradigm of physicalist cosmology. In its place we propose a theory of psychic emergence.
This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on October 28, 2023.
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“None of the great Masters in the past has given such explanations as I have. They were great Masters, great Avatars, and they realized so many souls. However, what they gave or left to the world was only shariat..... While what I give is the explanation of the Knowledge that is beyond the scope of the ordinary intellect to grasp and understand….. What I explain is a subject beyond the comprehension of the mind and [it is given] only to those who are prepared to digest it, not to everybody. For all can neither grasp it nor tolerate it nor even bear to hear it….. The very foundation of all my explanations is sanskaras, which no religion has explained. I have put it so clearly and logically. Nowhere are sanskaras explained so elaborately or so eloquently.” – Meher Baba, Lord Meher, Online edition, p.700 (1926) (retrieved 11/16/23)

This video had to be re-uploaded on October 17, 2023 due to technical issues. It was originally recorded and uploaded May 27, 2022.

I go over the underlying points I'm making in this series and correct a common misconception about the connection between the brain and perception at the end.

This video was recorded in Myrtle Beach, SC on October 3, 2023. The full Metaphysics series of 20 videos was uploaded from June 1 - Oct. 4, 2023.

Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
'On Cause' Part 1, Glossary of terminology that will arise in this talk series. This is a weekly series. I film regularly on Thursdays in Myrtle Beach, SC. Filming sessions are closed to the public.

Download my first book here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RXyA9zScPdNDhe63JF7rLcrkl6mWdixm/view?pli=1

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
Discussion of issues surrounding causation. Includes discussion of:
1. Causal chains
2. Cause as explanation vs. mere nominal causes

The points to take away from this 30 minute talk are that, in the strongest sense of the word cause (as that which is truly responsible for an ultimate outcome), there can only be a single cause for all occurrences. And for it to truly stand as the cause, it must be accompanied by an actual explanation of how it produces its outcome, and not simply be a cause 'in name only,' or what I call a mere 'nominal' cause.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
I discuss what we know without any doubt. It comes down to 'things present themselves in the form that they do' or 'experience happens as it does.'

If we presume there is a witness to this experience, we are making the mistake of taking that from the experience itself -- which is in itself unreliable. For the sense of 'me' is something built up over time from experience, and is not known a priori. That things present in the way they do is self-evident and cannot be coherently denied by anyone. Hence it is known beyond all coherent doubt. And, that truth must be coherent, we know from our intuition of non-contradiction. Finally, how we know our innate intuitions have to be right will have to wait for another day -- as it is a deep and powerful subject.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
I talk about knowledge and belief. We review the point that all we really know is how things appear, not whether it is true, and add that all beliefs are nevertheless based on those appearances.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
I explain what is meant in philosophy by the "external world" or "external causal objects." Sometimes the wording is "causally responsible external object." "The thing in itself" has also been used. We could also add to the list of references to it "real world," objective world," "outer world," "physical world," and "material world." Kant referred to it (below) as "things outside of us." These are all simply various words to reference to the same concept, a world of objects independent of our experience.

Errata:
At 19:14 I misspelled "conundrum."
At 25:17 I cited the year 1788. 1787 is correct.
At 25:25 I mistakenly said Immanuel Kant spoke of a "controversy" about our knowledge of the external world. I meant to say "scandal," which is what Kant said. The full quote by Kant is: "It still remains a scandal to philosophy . . . that the existence of things outside of us . . . must be accepted merely on faith, and that, if anyone thinks good to doubt their existence, we are unable to counter his doubts by any satisfactory proof" (Kant, Second edition of his Critique of Pure Reason, 1787).

The most notable philosophers who eventually appealed to 'common sense' to defend the existence of the external world were Thomas Reed, Bertrand Russell, and G.E. Moore. Common sense is a very controversial justification, as everyone feels their views are common sense.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
In Part 6, I explain why attempts to do away with the theoretical ‘external world’ concept never worked, and by the time processes were being considered in science as a way to replace mere nominal occult causes to explain things, philosophers had built a bulwark around insisting on such an old fashioned method of positing occult causes. It had even become a litmus test for having ‘common sense’ to declare one’s unshakable faith in its existence — preening metaphysical thought from progressing in tandem with the physical sciences. They were discovering evolutionary processes, while philosophers were left behind clinging to their occult theoretical nominal cause. And that is why the ‘mind-body problem’ has appeared intractable.

The link below will take you to a page where you can download my 2004 book, The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance. While I have disavowed some of what is in that early try at my idea, it still remains as a useful primer to the basic concept.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
Go over yet again the difficulty with the external world, and how it came to be a litmus test for common sense, in spite of being scientifically regressive.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
An alternative to an external world. A psychic evolution that produces the world of experience.

“All we can do is experience things, and then we’re gone.” — Jonathan Antoine, tenor
• Jonathan Antoine interview (2020)

My original 2004 book, "The Evolution of Perception & the Cosmology of Substance," can be downloaded here: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pip;pi...

Historical Fallacy: "A set of considerations which hold good only because of a completed process, is read into the content of the process which conditions this completed result.

"A state of things characterizing an outcome is regarded as a true description of the events which led up to this outcome; when, as a matter of fact, if this outcome had already been in existence, there would have been no necessity for the process."
— John Dewey in 1896 in The Reflex Arc Concept in Psychology

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
I explain why the process that I described in the previous talk avoids the problem of falling into solipsism that other theories that attempt to avoid the problematic external world fall into. Solipsism is the unintended consequence of such theories, whereby the world logically winds up being in an individual's own mind, or an expression of his own ego, a wholly subjective experience. Such a solipsistic view is in fact portrayed in the 1999 movie "The Matrix."

Unfortunately, parts of this talk, I realized later, were not very clear. I plan to clarify those parts in a subsequent video. In particular, I don't think my point was clear in cutting up the can of Spam. It is a thought of mine that the notion of an "external world" might be in part based on the fallacy of thinking of our experiences being located "in" our brain, or in the past "in" our mind. I point out that the process model I suggest that our head/brain are in the phenomenal world (since it evolves with it); and the world is thus not in our head. Your head is in the world, the world is not in your head. Perception is something without location, as it precedes the schema of space. It's not a critical point, just a point of interest to me. So I apologize if this left some listeners flummoxed.

This talk was recorded at the Avatar Meher Baba Circle Center in Myrtle Beach on May 18, 2020.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
An addendum to On Cause Part 9, meant to clarify certain points that were poorly explained.

For example, I go over the intended point of the Spam presentation, the notion of several people watching a piano performance, the problems that a process avoids that a theoretical occult object as cause falls into, and the example of Galileo's Tower of Pisa experiment to demonstrate the necessity of the oder of the arriving of perceptual schemata.

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
In this second to last part of this series on causation, I discuss intuitions, the last problematic part of my theory of perception.

Download my book 'Evolution of Perception' for free here: https://sites.google.com/site/eopearlyessays2012/

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Series of talks given from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.
Concluding remarks, and why this idea will not be accepted now.

I suggested watching the BBC documentary 'The Century of the Self' if you haven't. It explains the sophistication with which people's thoughts, attitudes, and perceptions can be distorted without their knowing it, to the point they even feel their fed attitudes are rebellious and original. And where the public's natural intuitions about things as basic health and freedom can be perverted and corrupted for selfish ends of others. Namely see manipulation of attitudes about smoking by Edward Bernays. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Download a free PDF copy of my 2004 book, 'The Evolution of Perception,' where I first described my theory of such. I am currently working on a much more thorough rewrite that I plan to have available on Kindle before the end of this year (2020).

Books I mentioned in this talk:
"My Philosophical Development" (1959) by Bertrand Russell, in which he gives a well explained first hand account of the abandonment of Absolute Idealism in around 1903.
"Patterns of Discovery" (1959) by Norwood Hanson. Hanson discusses the form of logic known as retroduction, as well as assumptions about causal chains, and ways of perceiving that influence what we believe we see, all things germane to the topic of these talks.
"Proof of An External World" (1939), a paper by G. E. Moore in which he admits he cannot actually prove the existence of the external world and likely never will. He winds up holding up his hand to prove the existence of the hidden 'external world,' which only demonstrates the existence of the experiential world, my precise point in this talk series.
"The End of Science" (1996) by John Horgan. Horgan describes the end of the era of discovery of laws, and the advent of a period marked by 'ironic science,' such as Hawkings backward time equation. The book is still highly popular and was re-released in 2015. https://www.amazon.com/End-Science-Knowledge-Twilight-Scientific/dp/0465065929/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+end+of+science&qid=1590585896&sr=8-1

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This series of talks was recorded from Mar 8 – May 26, 2020.

“Meher Baba’s Statements on Other Planets"
A talk by Chris Ott given at the Avatar Meher Baba Circle Center in Myrtle Beach, SC, USA on 9/19/2021
Camera by Judy Mangold

Meher Baba was a 20th century spiritual master who, in his main books, wrote about the theme and purpose of Creation. Here we cover his statements about ‘other worlds’ as they relate to our Earth in that cosmology.

My compilation of Meher Baba’s statements on other planets used in this video is from my blog: https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.com/2014/03/baba-on-intelligent-life-on-other.html
(All references to "Lord Meher" are from the original print edition.)

Part of the material discussed in this talk is from "Shri Meher Baba, His Philosophy and Teachings" by Ramjoo Abdulla, 1933. The material from the book was later republished serially in The Awakener Magazine, Volume 15 Numbers 1 and 2 © 1954, 1955

Link to "The Awakener Magazine" http://www.theawakenermagazine.org/avol15/av15n01-02/av15n01-02preface.htm#Previous%20Page
(This link takes you to the first page, from which you move forward, but due to it coming out serially you may need to go to other issues to continue)

For my full interpretation of “Lord of the Rings” in line with Meher Baba’s cosmological teachings see my blog post “God Speaks in Lord of the Rings”
https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.com/2012/11/god-speaks-in-lord-of-rings.html

Also “There and Back Again”
https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.com/2012/11/there-and-back-again.html

And “Baba and Lord of the Rings"
https://meherbabathoughts.blogspot.com/2012/10/baba-and-lord-of-rings.html

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