THE ATTRACTION AND THE MACHINE OF DREAMS: IMAGE RECOGNITION NEURAL NETWORK

I am ATTRACTION:

I feel how my unwavering confidence in attracting what I desire with the intensity that surpasses the limits of my own consciousness generates the impulse that transforms my mind, my soul, my heart, my will, my vision, the totality of my inner resources into a magnet that embeds in its nucleus the whole universe, a magnet that attracts through its irresistible power all that it needs to attract so that the entire universe can rearrange itself for the fulfilling of my wish.

''I KNOW'', not ''I hope'', not ''I wish'', not ''it is possible'', not ''it is probable'', not ''it is '' attainable'', not ''I would like'', not ''I must'', not ''I would enjoy'', but I KNOW that the vibrations of my thoughts will attract the path that leads to my dream, to my wish transmuted into positive obsession. 

Because my dream is the one that defines me, my dream is the destination that attracts me and that I attract, my dream is the destiny upon which I exerted the freedom of choice, my dream is the film that my mind has been playing over and over, the film that my mind has been refining, recreating, reinventing and en-chasing ever since I have had the first conscious remembrance of its genesis, at the age of 5 years. 

If you have the courage and confidence to gaze sincerely in the depths of your being, you will recognize the dream you had within that magic period of the human being's existence, between the age of 3 and 7 years, when the enchantment and disenchantment of the world happen simultaneously.

That very moment when you felt, even before being able to verbalize a simple thought, that everything is possible for you, when nothing was forbidden and nothing was withheld from you, when the whole world was yours, that moment when you had a direct connection  with the Infinite Intelligence of God and of the Universe and you spoke with them without using words, that moment is the same moment when the magic of imagination and unlimited access ability of your mind were annihilated by the brutal separation thereof, and by  the restrictive chaining  of rules and limitations: '' you are not allowed'', '' you will do as I say'', '' you will think, act and behave as society, school and parents dictate...''

You have forgotten to remember!

If you take a leap of faith in the abyss of your mind, if you trust yourself not to get lost in the labyrinth that hasn't been mapped yet, you will succeed to find the prison where your dream is held captive and you shall set it free!

THE MACHINE OF DREAMS developed by the giant GOOGLE, IMAGE RECOGNITION NEURAL NETWORK is the first step taken in the fascinating adventure of discovering how the human brain functions during the creative process.

The Network sees in the image, according to the level of interpretation of growing complexity, from edges, angles and bends, as in the interpretation of a photograph depicting antelopes, to the identification in a famous painting of the pointillist  George Seurat of basic forms, as circles or curve lines, transforming the painting into a new work of art, and up to the visualization in a simple image with sky and clouds, by successive restructuring, in a loop, of a painting embodying a multitude of creatures similar to birds.   

At a more sophisticated level, the network was trained to over-interpret more complex images: from a trees landscape, the network recomposed a painting of impressive buildings, in a landscape with mountains and lakes the network saw and gave birth to a picture with towers and pagodas, and in an image of leaves, the network discovered a strange bird. 

This technique was named by the Google specialists  "Inceptionism" ( inspired probably the concept of the film Inception), concerning the architecture of the neural network they are using.

The next step:

Applying an iterative algorithm, the artificial neural network designed by Google managed to create paintings containing an endless display of sophisticated forms in a fractal ensemble. 

A fractal is a geometric figure fragmented of broken, that can be divided into parts, so that each of these parts can be an approximate miniature copy of the whole. The word fractal is derived from the Latin fractus, meaning broken or fractured.  

These are psychedelic images of hallucinating beauty, as you can witness:   

These amazing techniques will help us to understand and visualize the manner in which our neural networks are capable of performing the most difficult processes of classification, these techniques will help us discover how learning processes work.

These techniques can become working instruments for artists, new ways of mixing in visual arts, and in all that sum up for the creative process.

Your mind is infinitely more powerful, it has a creative and imaginative capacity net superior to this artificial intelligence. 

REMEMBER WHO YOU FORGOT YOU WERE!

RESTORE THE BEAUTY OF FREEDOM AND LET YOURSELF MAGNETIZED BY THE ELECTRIFYING ATTRACTION OF YOUR MIND!

BE YOUR OWN MACHINE OF DREAMS, TRANSFORM THE REALITY AND ATTRACT FOR YOURSELF THE FULFILLMENT THAT GRAVITATES AROUND YOU, WAITING TO BE CAPTURED!

BE ATTRACTION!

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INTEGRITY

The compass that will show you the right way, when you feel lost, when you are on the verge of losing your path, when you don't know anymore the right direction, when you are confused and frustrated, the compass that will help you reach your destination, that compass that always shows you the north of the integrity, don't you ever lose that compass and don't you ever ignore it!

Being integrity means being whole. Being complete.

Be yourself! Respect the truth of your own identity! Be integrity towards yourself, always know and tell yourself the truth about yourself, don't deceive yourself!

Those sum up the meaning I choose for '' to thine own self be true'', though the context in Shakespeare's play, Hamlet, is quite different: Polonius advises his son, Laertes,  in a hypocrite way, to be ''true'' to himself, in such a manner, that what follows, as night follows the day, be that he will not be able to be ''false'' to any other person. 

The sense that Polonius intends is that his son must follow his interest - obtaining for himself the most advantageous results and avoiding the actions that are disadvantageous for his image, that ruin his public status and perception, as lending or borrowing money, engaging in relationships with women of doubtful condition and/or morality.

The one giving the advice, Polonius, is exactly the opposite of his incentive: he manipulates and controls his son, as he does with other people, lies, cheats, spies, conceives intrigues, machinations, schemes,  makes use of the malefic art of dissimulation and concealment, by falsely promoting and aggrandizing virtues, and thus implying his own virtues ( nonexistent substantially), with the purpose of disguising his true intentions and with the purpose of protecting and attaining this interests, born out of envy, greed, malice and thirst for power.

He does everything except being true to himself and to the others, his actions leading to the tragic end of himself, of his son, Laertes, and of his daughter, Ophelia.

"Integrity is doing the right thing. Even when no one is watching." - C.S. Lewis

If you succeed to be integrity towards yourself, you will be integrity towards the others. 

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it. 

Most of the time the right path isn't the easiest. 

Most of the time, though it has already been hard enough for you to decide which is the right path, it is even more difficult to really and truly decide to follow that path, and yet more difficult than actually walking the path is not to give in to the temptation of renunciation, not choosing the facile and comfort instead of integrity and persevering in your integrity. 

Integrity is a combination of these verbs: Think/Say - Believe/Feel - Do/Act

When what you say and what you think, what you believe and what you feel, what you do, and how you act coalesce and become one, then you will have succeeded to define yourself as integrity.

Think about the times you thought and said something, yet you believed and felt different.

Think about the times when what you did was in complete opposition with what you said and thought. 

Think about the times when you acted against what you truly believe, against what you feel, though you could have been, thought, said, and acted according to what you have already decided. 

What impact had all these ways of being and all these actions and types of behavior upon the others? 

Were you content with yourself or were you disappointed with yourself?  

Did you make others sad? Did you falsify their expectations? What do you think caused all of that? 

Is it possible that the main cause was the lack of integrity, and first of all, the lack of integrity towards yourself?

You can now choose a different way of being, a different path: 

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity". - W. Clement Stone

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THE ROAD: THE INITIATION JOURNEY

There are moments in life when you feel that the ROAD attracts you, you feel somehow that it talks to you, it calls you. 

THE ROAD, that road who has been waiting for you for a long time, as you well know it, that road which you can hear whispering to you: '' I'm here, I am patient, you will arrive to me, sooner or later '', that specific road you can see flashes of, from time to time.

When you dream, you are free, you are unencumbered. 

Your imagination grants you this freedom, and that is the actual moment when the JOURNEY begins:

It will come a day when the perspective of your life well will change.

The day will come when your thirst for knowledge, for understanding, for freeing and fulfilling yourself will be strong enough for defeating the fear of the unknown, the fear of danger, the fear of not being powerful enough and astute enough in order to face all the challenges you will meet on the road, to face and overcome all the obstacles. 

The ROAD is a mystery, the road is hermetic for the uninitiated: 

This is exactly the reason for which you will never find out if you would have succeeded or not, as you cannot understand the ROAD before stepping on it. 

This is the true purpose of the INITIATION JOURNEY: to live your PERSONAL LEGEND, to turn yourself from the uninitiated into the initiated.  

You have no guarantee that you will succeed. 

You have no guarantee even that this is your true road.  

You have no guarantee that walking on your road you will not lose your way, that you will not be deceived or mislead from the right path and from the destination that destiny has chosen for you and that at the same time you have chosen.

You have no guarantee that your true path will not be lost forever in the labyrinth of the roads of the world.

If you don't take the first step though, you will never find out what could have happened if you had begun your initiation journey. 

You will have in front of you both before choosing to begin your journey and during the journey the possibility of choice:

YOUR CHOICES WILL BE THE ONES THAT WILL DEFINE YOU!

During your journey you will make mistakes, you will suffer, you will lose things that you are so attached to, in the present, you will be engaged in confrontations, confrontations for which you cannot be prepared enough, as you cannot know yet what, when and how will happen.

The INITIATION JOURNEY of every one of us is different from each other's. 

Your unwavering faith, the help that the Divinity grants you before you even ask for it, in His endless Generosity, Wisdom and Love, your faith and your love will be the water which will soothe your thirst, pain and dispair, your faith and your love will be the fire which will warm and protect you in the moments of loneliness and fear, your faith and your love will be your strongest weapons.

You will learn that you are much stronger than you believe, you will learn that the time to do what you are meant to do, the time to be what you always wanted to be, that time is right now!

Now is the time to begin THE JOURNEY and THE ADVENTURE OF YOUR LIFE!

No one will be able to explain to you what you must do and how you can succeed before you have already taken the decision for yourself.

At the end of your journey, you will discover your PERSONAL LEGEND: " When you're on a journey to fulfill your Personal Legend, the whole universe conspires to help you achieve it" - The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

I cannot tell you, no one can tell you what the extraordinary transformations you will go through will be like, how much you will evolve, but the result will be in such manner that your former self will remain a distant memory, a memory you will be able to look at with clemency, tolerance and a slight nostalgic smile. All these things will happen. 

You will then understand that: " At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie" - The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho.

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