Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Video Teaching Project

My desire to teach cosmic truth to a wider audience recently got a boost as I started 'video blogging' about it on YouTube. It is just beginning now, but the project calls for, 'direct, informal, lovable communication of cosmic truth. It is not expected to be overly scripted and should evolve into an effective medium for conveying messages in an easily digestable form'.

As is pretty well known, many spiritual teachers are remembered more for their utterances in person than for their books, (if they even wrote any), so this may offer a more 'immediate' route to teaching. The words on this screen are composed of generic characters- only by cleverly arranging them can I convey the emotion and feeling that I wish to. Handwriting is a little better, as it expresses your personality in the style- but it has pretty much died a death in this internet age.

It is hard to get to grips with new technologies- they keep changing so quickly and many would have you believe that you are doomed by using the wrong company's apps or devices- which means trailing through reviews before choosing anything. In some ways I regret starting out with MSN Spaces, as it takes so long to load and has a childish audience (on the whole), but it is there and there to stay, at least in terms of telling people what I am up to. It is the only place friends look me up.

My blogs here on Blogger have attracted a little attention, but it is deeply felt and relevant. It is not so much how many readers you have, as how well they understand you. All the anonymous hits on Pbase can't compare to the few heart-felt comments on Blogger. It is all so relative.

Nevertheless, my teaching project is inherently evangelical, a reach-out from the powers of heaven to the often sadly lost peoples of the Earth. It needs to be accessible- it needs to convey feeling directly as words without feeling lose their meaning- or even worse, attain a generic one. So lets all hear it for the video-blogging project- may it avoid technological hurdles and inappropriate attention, and help people to discover their true nature- help people to be free from the 'matrix' of modern, consumerist life.

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