Looking-Glass Well-Being
Tired of Dumbing Down?
... Evolve! (and try a Mini-Mission!)

Where do you fit in?...
Are you still dumbing down?
Still "too busy" apparently?
Still burning yourself out just to impress?
Loosing the plot?
... Or are you evolving?

The fact that you are reading this next paragraph suggests you have a longer attention span than the majority of web users!
On average, surfers spend no more than 10 seconds browsing the contents of a single web page (which either says something about the web page or the surfer!) - so a whole page of text usually stands no chance. But if you show the attentiveness to absorb the vibe of Looking-Glass then you may be aspiring towards a higher plane of thinking.
In fact, finding patience to read and take in the inspirational essence of a guide such as this will not only trigger positive changes within you but you may subliminally inspire others to follow your lead.
Why?
Skimming over sound-bites, browsing comments and signing web petitions rarely motivates long-term change for the internet majority. With lifestyles in westernized cultures being fast-edited into snapshots of superficial existence (no thanks to dumbing-down TV, Americanized marketing gobbledegook, disposable income and a profusion of short-lived gadgets to spend it on), wouldn't it make a change to tap into a dormant realm of your own life-force that could completely enlighten and realign your sense of purpose on this earth forever?
This page offers some guidance on how to step outside the periphery of short-sighted cultural influences and realize the unparalleled benefits of "natural aspirations".
There is no reason to feel that by exploring areas of compassion as a life-affirmation that you are engaging in a radical protest or an obsessive cause. On the contrary, because it is only true intellgence that walks that path of life - providing you aspire to such causes non-violently and with engaging diplomacy.
There's no getting away from the fact that planetary survival is on the downward spiral and even the media are realising the increasing importance of projecting the appalling state of affairs our world is in ... all because of how we have treated it and its occupants. Discussion on global instability, whether social, humanitarian or environmental has now often become requisite at trendy diner parties - even though it's just a token jesture of acknowledgement rather than a serious discussion to do anything about it.
And this is the point ...
Normally, people will react to a cause only because it may momentarily affect them. For example, the firework campaign on these sites triggers off a flurry of votes only when a loud bang during national celebrations reminds them to think about the detrimental effects to animals and sensitive areas of the community. A news item highlighting the plight of children starving in a third-world country does the same thing - alerting the comfortable-classes to reach for their credit card and the phone. But these short-lived expressions of compassion are actions of a society's guilty sub-conscience, because the other 99% of their lives are driven by self-serving conformity - living a non-reciprocal life designed to enhance their own well-being above all else.
Whether we are a starving Ethiopian orphan or a company executive, humanity is primarily driven to take more than give. However, this trait can be adapted to actually serve a positive purpose by a small readjustment as to what aspires each of us individuals to attain what we recognise as a level of self-achievement. This is possible by understanding the reciprocal balance of nature, and the following paragraphs should help you achieve that harmonic ... without you loosing any social credibility!

Your Ascension To A Naturally Aspired Lifestyle

Being guided by natural aspirations means to unreservedly strive towards a way of living and thinking that's harmonious with the natural world ... to naturally desire what is instinctively right; as to how to live life in harmony with the planet. On such a path you unconditionally feel a strong and consistent urge to find the equilibrium within you that connects you with the natural alignment of earth's evolution, and therefore the universe itself.
The word "aspire" normally relates to people wishing to reach and attain something for personal gain and achievement. So that would be a cerebrally driven aspiration whereby one is aiming for so-called success on the hierarchy of social standing and affluence; things like a pop or film star or in fact any kind of self-profiting academic or business venture etc. "Naturally aspired" plays on that definition by suggesting that altruistic aspirations can be motivated through other areas of your brain, like the limbic system, rather than the mental / motor dexterity of the cerebellum. In fact, the human race is in danger of becoming dissociated from the huge least understood area of our brain; which harbour receptors that channel emotions and instinctive, independent thinking - as we become more and more technologically attuned to computer-based interaction and non-emotional calculation. This is causing an ant-like singularity based on patterns of cerebral based human wiring - almost identical to computer technology, which is a mirrored representation of the human cerebellum.
(More about this in detail coming soon )
Feeling naturally compelled to save nature for example, or help people understand the global advantages of becoming vegetarian etc. are all natural aspirations. So these can be put into action by rooting yourself in the natural world around you; striving as a human to work with the planet. It's an action that you might call unconditional interdependency and you will need to recognise that such actions create not just personal achievement but a reciprocal achievement; helping the planet to help yourself. Therefore, vocational aspirations are perfectly acceptable and even neccessary to persue life achievments with a sense of wellbeing, but doing so in accordance to the parameters that will trigger reciprocal benefits for the planet. If you can get that balance right you'll come across far more credible and cool as someone for other people to aspire to. You become the trendsetter towards a naturally aspired way of thinking amongst your peers and even on a global scale!

Looking-Glass is not specifically a self-help mission trying to save people from their own folly; but its aim is to save the planet from people's destructive behaviour - and by initiating the thought that people can harness nature as an aspirational exercise is perhaps the best example to follow.

Syncopate yourself to the pulse of your home-world and discover the most naturally aligned universal harmonic ...
Peace within you from around you.

As you may have realized when reading on the introduction to the Looking-Glass Well-Being Gateway, "self" improvement is only half the story when making a positive difference to your life:
" The Looking-Glass definition of well-being is mainly about how you outwardly reflect your life mission; your view of the world outside your own body and how much you care about the Earth on which you live and breath.
Helping to nurture the planet back into good health will automatically bring benefits to you ... because the positive energy you give out will return to you. The transparent effect of such a compassionate endeavour is that you are rewarded with a clear inner conscience and ultimately a healthier journey through your life ... inwardly and outwardly. That is the true harmonics of well-being."

This above is an important affirmation and worth repeating to yourself, as it underlines the natural foundation of the Looking-Glass philosphy and points you towards the goal that you may eventually aspire to reach.

Mini-Missions

Here are some examples of how you might integrate natural aspirations into your own world, to achieve a lifestyle and even vocational goals that leave you with a clearer conscience - and an uplifting sense of achievement at no cost to the planet. Even monetarily, these examples don't cost anything extra and you don't need to make major changes ... you'll just be making a difference as part of the natural flow of compassionate awareness.
These are called Mini-Missions:

TRAVEL
There is no doubt that contention is growing over the use of gas-guzzling four-wheel drives - the status symbol of those ignorant city people who clearly don't give a hoot about the environmental impact their behaviour is causing. It's likely that you may even know people like this and simply because you are friends with them, you are either concerned but too polite to confront them about it or too anaesthetized by the relationship to consider it a big deal anyway. Well, it is a big deal, because it is only through people being willing to speak out amongst friends about it that slowly but surely the message will hit home.
Your mini-mission takes four roles here:

• 1. If you drive your own car, make steps to either have it converted to LPG or replace your car with a fuel efficient model that will get you at least 60mpg. Vegetable based fuels are becoming increasingly available so always check with your car dealer that whatever car you buy that it will run on these alternative fuels when they become available in your area. Remember that using vegetable based fuel means that as much Co2 is absorbed by the crops that grow the 'fuel' as Co2 is released as you drive! Also remember that, in the long-term you will also save money.
• 2. Make a point of highlighting the benefits of 'green' driving to your friends.
• 3. Walk or cycle whenever you can. It's an obvious suggestion (mini-mission), but it's all to easy to jump in the car just to a couple of hundred metres to grab a takeaway!
• 4. Due to the increasing concern over the environmental impact of aircraft travel (especially short-haul flying), it's time, right now, to explore alternative means of travel that are kinder to the environment. Remember, the amount tonnage of Co2 emissions you alone create when flying a round trip from the UK to Spain is the average equivalent of around 6 months driving in your car. Or a one way trip to New York from London means you need to plant around 60 trees to compensate for all the greenhouse gases you alone would have used up.
  Train travel, particularly across Europe is an enjoyable and relaxing experience. More details for UK travellers can be found here

HOME WORKING ENVIRONMENT
More people each year are now working from home and are often using an outhouse for an office. This kind of layout is ideal to create an independent alternative energy source to run the electrics for most of your office/studio needs. The roof of your outhouse / shed makes an ideal surface for a solar panels. And a small (bird-safe) wind turbine will also sit perfectly on the roof. With these combined and properly installed you can easily run all your interior lighting and a laptop computer with an extra LCD monitor, plus a small music system.
With such an ecofriendly layout you can feel confident that perhaps 8 hours of your day are spent without using up earth's non-renewable energy. (And in the long-term, saving you money)

LEATHER
Leathers sofas and leather car interiors represent just two of the most widespread and easily attained "luxuries" which kill animals and destroy sensitive ecosystems for no other reason than decadence. Each year, leather is becoming cheaper and more abundant (in fact, anyone with taste that hits a little deeper will recognise that leather furniture is simply tacky as well as murderous), but there is an even more 'irreversably destructive' reason why leather is a definite no go - even for non-veggies.
Much of the leather in your house and car is the skin stripped from beef cattle (and young calves), farmed on deforested land - much of which was precious rain forest in Brazil. First you need to make the connection that you are indirectly causing death and irreversable destruction, and once you do, allow the guilt to take-over, accept it and change your way of thinking; don't fight it! - there's no room for pride when asserting a change in your own behaviour that could help save lives and entire ecosystems. When you buy leather you are not only killing cows but also apes and hundreds of other species associated with the destruction of the natural world.
Whether you are vegetarian or not, make it a Mini-Mission to avoid buying decorative, fashionable or any lifestyle item which involves the killing of animals - most particularly, threatened, wild species.

SOY
We tend to buy organic products to feel better about ourselves and the planet, but when you buy food made with organic soy, make sure that you aren't buying soy that has come from illegal plantations in Brazil. Thousands of square miles of Amazon rain forest are being destroyed each year because they are cut down to make way for organic soy plantations. So check with your supermarket where the soy beans came from, before inadvertently contributing to the destruction of the world's most precious environment for animals and trees. Some organic soy products are rain-forest friendly, so make it a mini-mission to find out which!

PALM OIL
Like Soy, most palm oil is destroying the last of the world's rain forest and with it driving orangutans to extinction. One in ten of supermarket products contain palm oil; from foods like bread, crisps and chocolate to cosmetics, soaps, shampoos and toothpaste. So each time you go shopping, ask questions. A shop manager will probably have no idea, but persist and make sure your question is logged. An action like this will eventually make the manufacturers listen and do something positive about it.

Looking-Glass keeps you on course

Those of you who aspire to the instinctive harmonics in global compassion, cultural and artistic mood, will realise that you are exploring a web environment which harnesses all these - your favourite things.

Looking-Glass aims to provide you with a cool, refined and pure-happening view of the wonderland paradigm.
The unparalleled natural instinct by which this web experience is created provides you with quality interaction through carefully reviewed items and info. There's more substance here than web novelty and gimmicks, leaving room for reflection and passive motivation towards world healing.

Looking-Glass, along with VeggieGlobal is a cyber-solar system. It sounds a little corny, but that's exactly how it structurally works. Like all communities, cities, countries and planets, there is a source - or nucleus - that provides the the essence of Looking-Glass this entire web matrix. So even though each environment may be different there is a presence of this philosophy supporting each area. In this way, you'll find many useful gateways and paths leading to quite different cultural interests and environments - helping you to build up your Mini-Missions.
The aura that encircles this planetary mosaic is awakening, soothing and reflective - evoking dormant thoughts and dreams - both light and shade. If you once aspired to inner resolutions before the world grabbed you by the unmentionables and dragged you through life's pantomime, then perhaps the Looking-Glass Dreambeat will reawaken those aspirations!

Understanding the tapestry of the material and non-material universe.

Dreambeat is a term created by Looking-Glass that reflects an essence of instinctive purity across the planet and the universe or, in fact, the "paraverse". (Something that will be explained in a future site update). Even in arts and music the essence of "dreambeat" can sometimes be detected, and shows that there are elements of human creativity which harmonize with the karmic balance. It's not a religious conotation in any way but instead an emotion drawn from nature, and Dreambeat philosophies are crafted to resonate with natural harmonics and complementary spectrums of colour. Like stardust, the Dreambeat scatters its presence throughout the Looking-Glass web retreat, and whenever you feel inclined you can explore its meaning, which projects ways to help you transcend to a higher plane of thinking.
Bringing a philosophy into a multi faceted environment can be a tricky thing, needing careful and unobtrusive placement - and Looking-Glass excludes nobody who wishes to explore this new and unique perspective of compassion towards the better cause.
But remember, there is absolutely no element of religion attached to this philosophy, and certainly no focus based on a single "author's" overflourishing, empty interpretation - no group hypnosis - no leadership. As mentioned in the Mission Statement, Looking-Glass projects an ethereal quality, but with also a more pragmatic view and substance - avoiding the pretence of new-age psychobabble, academic jargon or contrived art-speak ... The Dreambeat only signifies the essence that triggers euphoria or a realization of what is instinctively harmonious to all aspects of the universe; the evaluation of mood and response through everyday living and how judgement and action, both rational and irrational, affects us as individuals - and as an entire planet.

You already may consider yourself environmentally aware - You may already be vegetarian and you may eat and live "organically". But are these actions derived or contrived through fads and fashion?... Do you actually have an organic personality?...!

To feel the pulse of the dreambeat, you must imagine rooting yourself into this Earth. Like a baby is pacified by its mothers heartbeat, humankind must finally listen and respond to the fading pulse of mother Earth. This way you can grow intellectually, intuitively and empathetically. Regardless of fads and fashions you can be consistently tuned to the natural harmonics of the universe, and in turn help not only bring this planet back to life, but change humanity's role from parasites into planetary gardeners.
With this in mind, it's hoped that you'll find food for thought and enlightenment through our editorials as we want to help you make wise and positively purposeful decisions. And above all, Looking-Glass should naturally retain its exclusive appeal as a safe haven, solely by attracting those who are driven by unreserved compassion - and those whose subconsciously seek a path by which to interact and transcend through contemplation and insight - beyond the deceptions of everyday humanity. That is the aim of this experience, and we hope you may harmonize with these opportunities and breathe in the atmosphere presented here.

At this point you have a choice of options on your journey through the Looking-Glass:

If you would like to begin with the Dreambeat and explore a unique path to extended consciousness then
find out more...

If you would like to find out more about Looking-Glass then
read an in-depth description...

If you would like to explore the rest of the huge Looking-Glass Solar System from the Homelands Reception.
find more here ...