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By Adrienne Papp

What is the meaning of life?  “Nobody knows.” This was the answer I first heard in philosophy class at the University of Economics, where I got my Master of Science, and MBA degrees. One of the best schools in Europe.

Then, all the “new age” stuff came around, but we still could not express what the “meaning” of life was, – at least not conclusively. Then, finally we turned to science. It was time!  We are really in the last second of the 24^th hour. Not that my math teacher at the University did not say exactly the following words some twenty years ago: “…and here, ladies and gentlemen, we arrive to God! For we know in mathematics that THERE IS further from this point forward,” (referring to probability calculations, which nobody could comprehend despite of Einstein, and our very handsome  teacher,) “but we do NOT KNOW  WHAT THAT ‘FURTHER’ IS. THAT ‘FURTHER’ IS GOD’!” he said. Then he started drawing circles after circles on the blackboard. I thought: ” I see, this is what I had always known,” – not consciously of course. Not to the degree that it became obvious to me then. At the time it was just a lingering feeling, but one that I always knew was true.

In recent years Quantum Physics came to the rescue to a certain degree in the understanding (scientifically,) proving and correctly interpreting this “spiritual” power. But,  the word “spiritual”  got overused and discounted in the 21^st century for a number of reasons. Therefore, I feel it is better worded for the sake of  this article and of its true meaning to use  the Latin word spiritus instead of “spirituality.” Recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, neuroplasticity, biochemistry, and other fields tell us, with mathematical precision in a feedback mechanism, much about the nature of human beings, including the workings of the brain, our physical and psychological selves and how the two connect, our behavioral characteristics, and the power of the mind, or in brief: about our spirit, the true nature of man and the essence of our existence.

Photo: The Image of Energy

So, now “spiritualism” (which lately sometimes is better expressed as “transformation”) all of a sudden gains credibility and traction with the support of the scientific community, confirming that what we intuit and sense is not only true, but it is a scientific presence, an immaterial aspect of the self. Something that we should pay attention to if we are to make it on Earth instead of dooming ourselves to extinction, which we do in many ways, – one of it is the  never ending self-centered chatter of the mind that leads to poor actions and reactions, causes and consequences and  to endless variation of outcomes in this instance for the worse. And this is a repeated cycle that we are stuck in and deal with day in and day out. The problem is our thinking. Because creating endless variations all by itself is part of the unpredictable quantum world, and is actually the law of  quantum physics: the world of endless possibilities. What possibilities? You decide! For better or worse! (In our current world, things seem to be happening mostly for the worse, but this is again the subject of a whole different discussion. Why is it this way? is there a reason? The answer is: yes, there is.) Mind is nothing else than the brain in action, which has a hundred billion neuro cells, each with at least 40,000 ways of connecting and forming neuro nets. Use this in a mathematical equation and you will have the number of mind-levels we as humans are able to create. It is technically infinite when you use all that we know in physics and mathematics to calculate the number of probabilities. This recognition alone can be the beginning of the end of unconscious, involuntary and compulsive habitual thinking, which is the core of all unhappiness and the cause of repetitive destructive behavior.

Now we know that  it is us who chose individually what we want to think and create, and what we do not.  Once the information about our own power is available it is simply a decision, a choice whether “to be, or not to be,” to think or not to think, chose one path over another, or lead a life of unconsciousness, and so it goes. There is not something outside there that will tell you who you are and what your life should be about as an individual. You actually have a choice for yourself about everything in your life.  And, once you make that choice there is nobody coming to save you should the choice  turn out to be a “mistake.”  You have to do it  for yourself. If you need help, it is you who will summon the help you need. If you believe in God it is you who will pray accordingly. In other words, you are the one making things happen. Jesus referred to faith with the size of a mustard seed, which is the tiniest of seeds. Yet, as the quantum world proves it, the smaller we go, all the way into subatomic particles, the more energy and creative power there is. So, if your faith is as big as a mustard seed, you are able to create.

Understanding our true nature will eventually create new realities and a new level of human consciousness. Once something has ALREADY been crated based on our choices according to that current level of consciousness, it is very hard if not impossible to undo that which has been materialized and objectified, – just like we know it from Newtonian physics.  That is the very point we are at as a planet and species at this very conjunction in history. With the addition of our understanding of the quantum law, which started its observations with Einstein. The quantum law says that the environment is an extension of the mind. This means that if we change our mind, something in the outside world must change. And that is the gift we have. And, by using this gift we can literally change the environment, – and that is to change the world.

Our brain is designed to evolve and the meaning of life in my opinion is now obvious: it is creation and evolution. Both of which mean: to overcome our fears, take action and just go for it!  This “it” is called consciousness. There is nothing to wait for anymore. With the current understanding of who we REALLY are, we know that we can create new realities and new levels of mind.  It is not a phrase, or a theoretical conclusion, but a call to action!  Theoretically understanding something is not evolution. Doing it is. Whatever it is that you are passionate about, just do it for as long as it serves humanity one way or another, small or big, understood or not, seen or unseen. For when you set sails in the direction of your passion, you create new levels of mind. You do not need to wait till everyone else around you becomes conscious. You may wait forever! Instead, use your mind ( your higher self), pay attention to your thinking, and with this new understanding manifest  your passion  into reality! Your soul will be joyous for it, which is the closest emotion to the feeling of the presence of God, and your life will also be an inspiration to others, which is what in return will further inspire you! (A lot more can be said about interconnectedness, which is overlooked by almost everyone today. This subject alone would go beyond the means of this article.)

So, I believe that the old slogan “nobody knows what the purpose of life is” is obsolete. I think the meaning of life is CREATION. When we pay attention to the meaning of the word “creation” it is a LOT bigger and embraces a lot more than what we have ever known up to this point in history. By the word “creation” I mean: manifesting in a physical world things that do not yet exist, but things that the mind is capable of calling into being. To create from the unseen into the seen. All humans do this already except not consciously. And, even when they do it consciously, the ability to evolve that consciousness onto a yet higher level is still ahead of us. And, it is also a task. We know it from the results of scientific research and lots of hard data that the brain is capable and is designed to do a lot more than it is doing today. Or, rather, what we allow it to do today. The brain is designed to evolve.

Without going into the ongoing conflict between Church and Science (which now surprisingly enough, but finally seems to almost merge at certain conjunctions), one of the points I am trying to make, and that science has confirmed, is that “spiritualism,”  ( although the wrong word)  is nothing else than “awakening to,” or “understanding of,” is very real.  Do not discount it! It’s a truth that must be understood as we fight for the planet’s survival along with our own! We might need a new vocabulary, which I wrote an article about before, but I believe it is coming now quite rapidly. Until then, let’s use what we have, for in truth, what we have is always more than what we really need. This is an axiom that is quite overlooked and greatly misunderstood.

Not only Consciousness is now a MUST and has become a reality, with its own scientific validation, but it’s also a principle that successful people intuitively understand, a source of inspiration that can be endlessly tapped. While mentally understanding an axiom is mere philosophy, experiencing it is life. And, when we allow ourselves to become fearless enough to experience certain knowledge more than once, we make it a habit, and when something is habitual it eventually becomes a part of our personality. This personality promotes a way of thinking, a mind-set, and a general approach to life, which then as the result of a new experience becomes a feeling and further perpetuates the new personality through the mind-body connection, through the feeling and thinking, thinking and feeling loop , forming the display of a new personality.  ( In other words: first thinking, then doing, then being.)  Not necessarily who we COULD ultimately become of course!  But, it certainly reflects a new personality born out of the mind with its consciousness at that time. The ultimate personality depends on our understanding and continuous practice of consciousness and who we want to become, who we are capable of becoming, and the repeated decisions and practice that lead the way to that even newer personality that will eventually become habitual again, but on a much higher level of consciousness!  In other words: it requires the practice of the biology of change! That, which we can see on the screen of a brain scan. Evolution.

Like the millionaire mind-set, the poverty consciousness, the victim mentality and a myriad of other human conditions based on thinking patterns examined by science show us that each of these mindsets manifest exactly what their beliefs are.

This observation is also proven in quantum physics as one of the quantum laws. As an example, if I give a million dollars to a poor man, it will not be long before he becomes poor again because his beliefs will be manifested in his life independent of its immediate good fortune or surroundings. Sometimes despite of its surroundings, sometimes because of it, – due to habitual compulsive  thinking, – but never as a direct and unalterable cause of the outside world alone will he create! The cause is the mind . Its power of belief is what will create!  Every man’s life is created by the way he thinks.

Although the statement that “every man is for himself” is an old cliché, it is also true. Only you can change the way your brain is wired and only over time, but never with time! Only by living in the here and the now! Not in the future and not in the past. Both are illusions. The past is over and is nothing else than the recordings of the mind. The future does not exists. It lives only in the mind’s projection. If the future “feels” better than the past or present, it gives you hope.  If  it “feels” worse than the past it causes despair.( Have you noticed that you might be in Paris and in love in the moment, but you are still unhappy thinking of some past experience that seems to dominate the present? It does not even exist, but you “feel” it?  You might be CURRENTLY wealthy and healthy, yet “feeling” the old poor and unwell self?” Whatever the case, you lose out! You are not in the present and you see things through a lens that your mind has created – based on who you are, or more exactly, who you think yourself to be,  who your habitual and environment-conscious mind has made you believe at the time. )  Be always in the now!  The now is divine, and divine is the only real! Whether you believe in the divine or not, the truth is that nothing really exists in the past and nothing exists in the future. Everything is ONLY and EVER happening in the NOW! Your imagined future can only and will only happen in the NOW when you get to that future point in time. Can it be any other time? Of course not!

This is the point where we could discuss the time and space continuum as viewed by quantum mechanics, but that is a vast subject and would make this article too long and too dense. Does time really exist? How about space?  Space only exists because of the empty space between the walls of a room. If there was nothing empty between two objects there would not be two objects. We are only able to perceive objects because there is emptiness between them. The creative essence always is in the emptiness, in the “no-thing”. And, not in the “things,” as is the general belief. The energy in the nothing is what will create the thing as the result of your thinking. This is when a thought becomes a thing. This is how Mr. Ford created cars. It started with a thought.

When you start using your brain differently, you will be thinking differently and thus you will be manifesting your life and its circumstances differently. For life is nothing more or less than what you record, just like on the film of a camera through its lenses. And, you watch that same film over and over again, for that is the only one you have… This is why Einstein said that a problem created by a certain mind cannot be resolved by the same mind. It is time to record something new!

Let’s evolve our brain through the God-given ability that we have: through the frontal lobe, which is the biggest in size of all living creatures in the case of humans, – we are able to create more than we THINK!

To become conscious is the task of the 21st Century. Becoming conscious means that you feel it with every cell of your body. Consciousness lays not in the chatter of the mind but in the silence, – it is a recognition made by the silent watcher.  It is not the busy and habitual mind, but it is a new level of mind.   Consciousness is not in the “things,” but in the “no-things” where all creation starts, Put your unwavering attention into your consciousness, believe that you can have it, and allow it to come to you. Do not try to “get there.” That would be your old self, the ego wanting to “achieve” something. Consciousness must be felt! Learn to welcome it and you shall manifest your mind.  And, that is to live by the quantum law!

About the Writer: Adrienne Papp is a recognized journalist who has written for many publications including Savoir, Beverly Hills 90210, Malibu Beach, Santa Monica Sun, The Beverly Hills Times, Brentwood News, Bel-Air View, Celebrity Society, Celeb Staff, It Magazine, Chic Today, LA2DAY, among many others. She is the President and CEO of Los Angeles/New York-based publicity companies, Atlantic Publicity andAtlantic Publisher. Adrienne writes about world trends, Quantum Physics, entertainment and interviews celebrities and world leaders. She also owns Spotlight News Magazine.

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By Adrienne Papp

Knighting on October 10, 2009, California

Knighthood is not something that belongs only to old times as portrayed in the legendary movie, the First Knight in which Richard Gere plays Lancelot and is costarred by Sean Connery and Julia Ormond. A tale of war-weary King Arthur, his soon to be wife, Guinevere and love stricken Sir Lancelot in a love triangle and their fights and lives by the Sword.

Knighthood in fact exists today. The Orders of Constantine the Great and of Saint Helen are Orders of Knighthood, founded in 312 A.D., whose members are dedicated to the Chivalric Principles of Personal Honor, Courage, Integrity, Duty, Charity and Service. The Orders create a forum for worldwide community by recognizing worthy men and women of exceptional accomplishment with an invitation to membership without regard to race, religion or nationality. The Orders promote the expansion of Chivalric Principles through fellowship with each other and with other Knightly Orders thus providing a model of leadership and strength of spirit, which advances Civilization. It is an honor indeed for anyone worthy to be Knighted by His Grace, Michael Schmickrath, The Duke of Gardham in an official and very traditional ceremony that started only 300 years after Christ and conserved its principals to this day, which is no small task by any means.

“ Duty is the most sublime word in our language.  Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more. You should never wish to do less,” said General Robert E. Lee, based on which principals the Order nurtures the innovators of tomorrow by applying the noble principals of yesterday.

There is much confusion about the nature of Chivalric Orders. Many of the original Chivalric Orders arouse in response to the Crusades. Others originated due to the need for valiant Knights to serve and protect their Sovereign Lords. As we think of Knighthood, we always think of the Knights of old during the European wars and feudal times, but we neglect to mention the valiant Samurai of Japan, or the brave Zulu warriors of South Africa just to mention a few.

Then there is the modern Knight. Many of the Orders continued well after the crusades as their original purpose had ended. The modern Knight and Lady evolved into bodies dedicated to charity, educating the public, helping the poor and the sick, and other good works while acknowledging those who performs similar acts of kindness and generosity. According to traditions and by virtue of the ancient charter, the Grand Masters have the power to confer a Knighthood in their respective orders. The Orders use the honorific prefix of Chevalier or Dame.

In 312 AD, an outnumbered band of soldiers on the eve of the battle swore loyalty to the ideals of honor, courage and service. They swore and Constantine accepted their oath and led these knights to victory.

Today, these extraordinary orders of knighthood is known as the Imperial Orders of Constantine the Great and of Saint Helen, dynastic Orders under the Patronage of the ancestors that ruled the Byzantine Empire from 1057 to 1458, and again from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries. Though the Orders were founded by a Christian, today members of the Orders come from all Judea-Christian religions and nationalities and, while members of these Orders no longer need to go to battle or use their lances and armor in good repair, they still strive to provide leadership which enhances civilization, following the powerful concepts which inspired those first knights to victory.

One such Knight is Chevalier Robert Simone, author, lecturer, Executive Director of Universal Sound and Light Productions; featured writer for FATE Magazine since 2005, and Host/Producer of 104.4 FM London, England; news producer and on-air commentator in 2001 for HBC 94 FM, Himalayan Broadcasting Corporation. He traveled the world before he became a Knight and is a great advocate of subjects such as Quantum Physics and how this underestimated science relates to our every day life.

“A Knight must fight for what is Right and to do his duty with the utmost of his ability,” says Robert with great determination and commitment.

Perhaps we should all follow a road that maybe less traveled by, but in the end is well worth the effort, integrity, but mostly our dignity.

Source: Mission Statement of the Orders

About the Writer: Adrienne Papp is a recognized journalist who has written for many publications including Savoir, Beverly Hills 90210, Malibu Beach, Santa Monica Sun, The Beverly Hills Times, Brentwood News, Bel-Air View, Celebrity Society, Celeb Staff, It Magazine, Chic Today, LA2DAY, among many others. She is the President and CEO of Los Angeles/New York-based publicity companies, Atlantic Publicity andAtlantic Publisher. Adrienne writes about world trends, Quantum Physics, entertainment and interviews celebrities and world leaders. She also owns Spotlight News Magazine.

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“Getting Older is Better than Being Dead” – George Clooney

By Adrienne Papp

Academy Award winner George Clooney, quit his job as a broadcast journalist at the age of 21 and slept in a friend’s closet in his first year in Hollywood before he broke into television, and later into films. He is notorious for having a witty, wry sense of humor, which comes out at every turn in this interview. Clooney’s playfulness is obvious on screen and off as he shares one of his tricks he pulled on a friend, Matt Damon. Once Damon, while vacationing in Clooney’s villa at Lake Como in Italy, and desperately wanting to lose 30 pounds after a movie role, was exercising twice a day and only ate salad. To get a good laugh, Clooney hired a woman who took in an inch or so almost daily from Damon’s pants without him knowing. He kept on wondering how it was possible in God’s name that he seemed to be gaining weight as his pants were getting tighter and tighter while he was eating next to nothing and exercising vigorously. Having no children Clooney certainly seems to have found a way to entertain himself with his friends just the same.

Right around the corner he has three movies coming out almost simultaneously:  The Fantastic Mr. Fox, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Up in the Air. He is now filming The American.

“That is pure coincidence,” he says referring to the current trio, “because they’ve been made over the past two years. However, there’s no doubt that some people will be thinking ‘That Clooney fella –– does he NEVER stop?’ But I can assure them that I do, and that I am pretty pernickety about projects these days.”

Contemplating his graying hair the 48-year-old actor says with a laugh: “It’s an interesting thing to watch yourself grow older on screen. I was watching Up in the Air and I thought, ‘Jesus, who’s the old gray- haired guy?’ And it was me. I never wear make-up for movies and it’s starting to show.”

“But I’m kind of comfortable with getting older because it’s better than the other option, which is being dead. ”

Up in the Air, is a romantic comedy drama, and The Men Who Stare at Goats, is a black comedy.

In the Up In The Air, Clooney portrays a businessman, Ryan Bingham, who leads an empty life out of a suitcase with a job that has him traveling around the country firing people. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams, his company does the unexpected: ground him. This story about a man who is ready to make a connection is arriving this December to theaters. “It’s a bit close to my own persona so I knew I’d have to take that baggage on, and it would be okay” he says.

In The Men Who Stare at Goats, a war-comedy in which Clooney portrays Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army’s First Earth Battalion, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.  A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Cassady, as he is trying to lose himself in the romance of war after his marriage fails, and certainly gets more than he bargains for from Cassady as he reveals the existence of a secret, psychic military unit whose goal is to end the war as we know it.

The film is based on a book by Jon Ronson, a British journalist, which tells true insights of various psychic phenomena. The film, which will be released in November costars Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey and was co-produced by Clooney.

“The script had been around England and Hollywood for a while and it wasn’t going to get made because things started working against it,” he says. “We worked our magic to get it independently financed. From the very beginning it was one of those projects where I had to go to Ewan and Kevin and Jeff and everybody and say, ‘Let’s all just jump in and do this and have some fun.’ We made up stuff in the script that we thought was funny, but the weirdest stuff in the film is the true stuff.”

Both Up In The Air and The Men Who Stare At Goats received great critiques at the Toronto Film Festival last month and Oscar talk is already building around Clooney, who previously won and Oscar for his role in Syriana.

The Fantastic Mr. Fox is an adventure animation about angry farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with a sly fox, and look to get rid of their opponent and his family.

Clooney, seems to have fallen in love with the concept right away.

“How could you not? I’ve been a huge fan of Roland Dahl for as many years as I can remember, and I love working with Wes Anderson.  Wes told me that it was the first book that he ever really appreciated as a kid, and when you hear something like that, you have to find out what all the fuss is about.  I wasn’t disappointed.  And then it was also Wes’ first foray into stop-motion animation, so I was a sucker for it from the beginning, as soon as I was asked to voice Mr. Fox.”

Clooney has a villa on Lake Como where he rides his Piaggio motorbikes and races his speedboat.  He loves to entertain and is an enthusiastic host to his friends.

“Tons of people have stayed and everybody shows up for dinner,” he says. “I’ve had some of the most fun dinners ever there. We have wild, fun evenings of interesting people telling interesting stories. I relate to nothing but joy and happiness there and getting the villa has been the greatest thing I’ve ever done for myself.”

Clooney was briefly married to Talia Balsam in 1989, and remained determinedly single ever since. He has been recently linked with Elisabetta Canalis, a presenter on Italian television, but his focus remained his own production company.  He produced and starred in a string of films, including the Oceans 11 series, and received a best actor nomination for Michael Clayton.

“I’ve been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I’m proud of. But I have to be honest and admit that I’m much more successful now than I ever dreamed that I’d be. It’s all icing on the cake from here on in, but you know that I still don’t feel that where I am now is a success? …, but, I’m very comfortable with what I’m doing ” he says.

George Clooney and I share the same motto: When someone says ‘‘Trust me’’, in this industry, it’s probably wise to get it in writing!

About the Writer: Adrienne Papp is a recognized journalist who has written for many publications including Savoir, Beverly Hills 90210, Malibu Beach, Santa Monica Sun, The Beverly Hills Times, Brentwood News, Bel-Air View, Celebrity Society, Celeb Staff, It Magazine, Chic Today, LA2DAY, among many others. She is the President and CEO of Los Angeles/New York-based publicity companies, Atlantic Publicity andAtlantic Publisher. Adrienne writes about world trends, Quantum Physics, entertainment and interviews celebrities and world leaders. She also owns Spotlight News Magazine.

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By Adrienne Papp

Based on the performance of his new movie The Day the Earth Stood Still, Keanu Reeves is still The One when it comes to delivering big budget special effect extravaganzas. Audiences around the world filled theaters and sat still for Reeves’ in the remake of the sci-fi classic, making it the top movie of the weekend with a $31 million debut, according to box office estimates. The new 20th Century Fox release also added $39 million in 90 overseas markets for a worldwide total of $70 million.

The movie is a big budget remake of the 1951 tale of an alien named Klaatu and his giant robot enforcer who come to Earth with a warning about the consequences of humanity’s destructive nature. In the new version, Reeves delivers a slightly different message. Starring opposite Jennifer Connelly, who plays Helen Benson, a world renowned scientific expert, Reeves brings serious warning of an impending global crisis – things must change for the Earth to be saved, and it may already be too late. The ‘big issue’ that the film deals with has been changed from the nuclear arms race of the original to the current crisis of global warming. We see not only a spectacular film, but also one that carries a message that everyone can relate to, and should be concerned about. But, it also addresses a question about human nature in its purest form: are we biologically programmed to only act when we are up against the wall and even threatened with extinction, or, is it just a bad habit, arrogance and laziness, which less than noble characteristics we can change if so willed? Which is it? Are we really powerless, or just, well, ‘stupid?’

‘The Day the Earth Stood Still is a visually stunning movie with timely issues,’ said Fox distribution executive Chris Aronson. ‘Basically, how we treat each other and how we treat this planet that we call home.’

And it’s altogether appropriate that Reeves is the one to convey the message. A proven big screen presence in the megahit Matrix series, Speed and other starring roles, Reeves has not only the ability to deliver the Big Message to Earth, but also has some pretty strong beliefs about extraterrestrial life as well. According to recent interviews, Reeves role in the movie found him wondering about life in other parts of the Universe. He came to the conclusion that there has to be life on other planets and thinks it ‘crazy’ to think that the Earth contains the only life in the Universe.

Looking at this issue from a closer perspective, like what quantum physics has to offer, it seems to me there maybe chances for mankind that we do not have the ability to understand today. It is however time that we found out.

‘I’ve met people who have seen UFOs, but I don’t know anyone who has been abducted,’ says Reeves. ‘How could there not be life on other planets? The universe is so vast. I guess a lot of people won’t believe in extraterrestrial life until they see evidence, until an alien lands in Central Park like my character does in the film, but the idea that life doesn’t exist anywhere but here is crazy.’

‘In God We Trust’ says the treasury on every American dollar bill. I have not met anyone who saw God or collected admissible evidence of God’s existence. Yet, in our very material world we declare the truth of the ‘unseen’ even printed on money. How can we then question the countless scientific evidence of forces beyond our understanding only because we cannot touch, taste and smell them with ordinary measures? Worse yet, we do not care! The universe is ‘invisible’ and if we do not feel its laws we deserve everything we get. Humans somehow discount their truest emotions: their innermost feelings. This denial may be the root of all evil.

Reeves, as Klaatu, issues the ultimatum that sets up the action when he says ‘If the Earth dies, you die. If you die, the Earth lives.’ It’s a message that’s also echoed in Disney’s big animated hit Wall-E, where consumption and waste have caused humans to leave the planet for life on a space station.

How much more chaos and catastrophes do we need in order to see what there is, and not the more comfortable version: what we want to think there is?

An actor who continues to prove himself as box office gold, while at the same time keeping a low profile, Reeves avoids the celebrity spotlight but has a devoted fan base that will now only increase in size with The Day the Earth Stood Still. Probably Hollywood’s most soulful and intelligent artist, he chooses roles that bestow important messages. He is not a frivolous or career driven guy, but one who takes a keen interest in his fellow humans. He sincerely cares about people, the human suffering and our frightening planetary and social conditions. To him it is important to be kind to mankind. Keanu’s love of his craft is obvious, but his roles also seem to be his communication to the world, an expression of who he really is. His soul and heart is in every character he plays. Miles and miles of heart is what Reeves adds to the screen. An innocence and genuine interest in the human condition is what Keanu transmits to those who share in his intelligence. His spectacular sense of humor, simple elegance, an old fashioned gentleman’s mannerism (hard to find anymore), coupled with a stable and loving upbringing by his extraordinary and bright Mother made him an irreplaceable citizen of the world.

Balancing his very serious approach to life with his fun loving, sweet and friendly side, he lacks the dignitary illusion of a Hollywood star. He enjoys hockey, surfing, playing bass, sipping wine with friends and uses a vocabulary most would need to carry the Webster Dictionary to decode. His nightmare that his headstone would contain the epitaph ‘He Played Ted,’ a reference to his character in the silly time travel comedy smash Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, is now the safest bet on the very wrong horse in a vey good race. That old broken record some journalists put into nearly every article written on him for the past few decades was simply their own ignorance and had very little to do with what this extraordinary man has to offer. Keanu, whose sharp and witty mind outdoes his unbeatably handsome looks, is still The One, whether it be Neo in The Matrix, or Klaatu in The Day the Earth Stood Still. And, my feeling is, he is here to stay.

Image courtesy of Adrienne Papp

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