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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THE MOVIES and THE ARTISTS: NOSTALGIA OF PAST FUTURE LIVES

"The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night 1888" by Vincent Van Gogh.

I always found this painting to be a perfect illustration of my idea of the Nostalgia of Past Future Lives. 

I have always thought that being a painter, a writer, an actor, a director, a sculptor, an artist, generally speaking, gives you the freedom of living, imagining, portraying so many lives, so many characters and an infinite palette of feelings and emotions. 

Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia (Nostalgia) is also a masterpiece, showing the sad and tragic end of the artist, doomed to be consumed by his own obsessions.

The thin line between fiction and reality, between the reality enriched with the artistic emotion and the unseen world of the painter's brush or actor's gesture, demoted to indifference and lack of understanding, diminished so cruel by the reality of the static world, of the ordinary of life, that thin line trying to part two worlds, visible and invisible...

Let the poetry of the artistic expression vibrate in your mind, see the story as it unfolds before your eyes. 

And now see this picture in the greater picture of life and art. What would his life have been if he had only given up his exhausting search for answers? 

You can feel him going through his past lives, real and imaginary, you can feel him denying his possibility to find peace and beginning to embrace the fatality of the unavoidable end. 

Both the painting and the movie photograph recount stories born out of fictions of the artistic mind in which you most probably - and hopefully- will not find yourself into, taking into account the supreme challenge that both artists - Vincent Van Gogh and the Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov - the character of Nostalghia - who was traveling to Italy to research the life of 18th-century Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky, who lived there and committed suicide after his return to Russia - failed to overcome: the challenge of living. 

Beauty, eternal youth, adventure, forbidden liaisons, splendor, glory, fame..."Dorian Gray"

Keeping the balance between the dangerous world of arts, creation, transformation, duality, notoriety, and hunger for more and the normal and safe world of the reality of everyday life, family, modesty, and equilibrium is a challenge that can be won: Van Helsing and at the same time Hugh Jackman.

Choose nostalgia of your past future lives, choose to travel between real and unreal, choose to live adventurous and different every day, choose to impersonate or create various characters, if you feel like, if you earn to do it, yet, don't forget who you are and whom you love!

Don't forget to come back between us, mortals, and don't forget to enjoy the simplicity and beauty of life and people!

Don't forget to always remember your way back...

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APPRECIATE & BE THANKFUL FOR WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE

What is your first thought when you get up in the morning?

Do you feel good about yourself?

Are you happy with your life? With your current situation?

Do you have random thoughts?

What do you think about?
Do you think about yesterday's events & people? Do you think about what actions you need to take today? Do you turn the TV on and watch the news? Do you drink your coffee or tea and just plan your day?

What about later on, during the day? Do you think about what you don't have & you wish you had?

What are your thoughts at night? How do you mentally end your day, before going to sleep?

Do you think about the past? Or the future?

Are your thoughts bright or dark?

Take a minute right now and reflect upon these questions:


DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE?

DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE, ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU?

HOW OFTEN?

ALL THESE THOUGHTS, ARE THEY THOUGHTS OF APPRECIATION?

DO YOU EVER TAKE THE TIME TO EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR THE THINGS YOU ALREADY HAVE?

DO YOU EVER TAKE THE TIME TO EXPRESS YOUR GRATITUDE TO THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE & WHO LOVE YOU?

Be honest about your own answers.

Depending on your answers, try & see how it impacts your life, your state of well-being, of happiness, of fulfillment.

You may never know what tomorrow brings. We all hope for the better, of course.

You may be too focused on what you want, or worse, on what you don't want, and ignore what you have and the people you love.

Be here & now,

Be grateful for being alive. Be grateful for this day. For this very moment.

Enjoy every benefit of your present life.

Appreciate what you have. Appreciate the people you love. Share your appreciation.

Say to your loved ones how lucky & fortunate you are to have them in your life. Kiss them. Hug them. Caress them. Smile & be thankful.

Don't hold back your affection. Show it!

Start your day by taking inventory of the things you are grateful for!

It is sufficient for an efficient start, to identify at least one thing or person you are grateful for.

It may be surprisingly difficult at first, being accustomed to take everything for granted.

As you continue this exercise, though, the second, the third morning, you will be overwhelmed as to discover there are so many reasons for appreciation, that will put you in a state of well - being.

As you go through the day and you get angry or upset about so many reasons, try to remember the thing/person you are grateful for, and you'll feel better.

At night review your list, and go to sleep with a smile on your face.

You will find this amazing feeling of appreciation, of gratitude, of thankfulness, that will change your life.

This feeling will attract to it, as a magnet things, persons, events, contexts, that will boost it, and from this state of well-being, you will attract the whole list of things you have ever desired, because feeling good is the key to happiness & happiness is the key to everything you have ever wished to accomplish!

Let appreciation be your guide:)

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THE FIRST MILLION

The number of dollar millionaires globally has shot up 164 per cent since 2000 to 34.8million individuals in 2014 - with 41 percent of them living in the United States.

The world's population is 7. 3 billion individuals. 

So, a percentage of roughly 0,5% of the world's population are millionaires. 

Are you going to be one of them? 

Do you wish it? 

And if you wish it and you are determined to get there, how long it will take? 

And the most important question, how do you estimate you will feel on the road to your first million, when you get there & in the aftermath? 

There are millions of ways to earn your first million ( I refer,  obviously, to legal & honest ways), though the legend says one should not ask the millionaire how he made his first million. 

As statistics show, the American Dream is real, as real as it gets: almost 50% of the world's millionaire reside in the USA.

So, in the USA, almost 4.5% are millionaires.  Does that mean that if you live & work in the USA, your chances of becoming a millionaires increase up to 9 times?

Perhaps.

Money is very important. More money is very important. 1,000,000 dollars is ... exquisite!

It is essential in one's life, though it is often minimized in  a hypocrite way, as in:

Money is not important, you should be satisfied with your present financial status, don't ask for more, search stability & comfort instead of chasing dreams, assuming risks & dramatic changes of life & career, or  .... ( you can fill in the blank).


What can you do with 1,000,000 dollars?

Well, you can buy your dream home, your dream car, you can travel the world, you can have fun, enjoy your freedom, if you are smart enough & invest your money wisely, you may never have to work again.
And you have worked quite hard to get there, haven't you?

But you can also be calm about it, you can deposit half of the sum into a bank account, you can earn interest, you can invest, you can start a successful business, and earn the second million.

You can invest a percentage of your first or second million in people: financing a brilliant idea, helping intelligent young people without revenues to realize their potential, doing charity work, and so forth.

You can save lives, you can empower your community with education, social & health services, training & guiding for career & business start-up.

You may give it any other use.

Money is very important. It can change lives. For the better. Or for worse. It's a matter of choice.

What is more important, on the other hand, is the place it holds in your priority list.

It should never come first.

The first priority should be, in my opinion, feeling good about yourself & lead a life immersed in love, happiness, joy & enthusiasm.

First priority should be, also, to believe in yourself  & in your ideals, to follow your purpose, and your purpose should grant value & usefulness to other people.

Of course you should first - if you want to, if you feel like - set the definite & precise goal to earn your first million in order to get there.

My first million is an objective for me also, a means to realizing my major purpose.

Don't forget though to enjoy your journey in the meantime.

I know millionaires who lead a spectacular life in a modest way.  I know millionaires who lead an agitated life, their business occupying all their thoughts, worrying 24/7. I know millionaires who can divide efficiently their time between family, leisure & business.

I know people who are happy & content without ever intending to become millionaires.

I know people who would like to become millionaires, but taking into account their behavior & mindset, most likely won't get there.

If you want to become a millionaire & lead at the same time the  happy & spectacular life you dreamed of, remember this:


GETTING THERE IS ALL THE FUN!

I CONGRATULATE YOU IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR FIRST MILLION!

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