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My name's Benedikt. This is where I post things that inspire me.

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[…] solutions to the various global crises certainly demand efforts on the ecological-economic-financial [and technological] front, which is where most efforts are now being concentrated. But it’s a losing proposition without a corresponding shift in worldviews that will allow citizens and their governments to perceive the greater advantage in the lesser death (the surrender of some sovereignty for the greater good).

Tribal consciousness will not do; mythic-imperialism will surrender nothing; ethnocentric cleansing could care less about a worldcentric consensus. Mythic-membership is and always has been perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of its true believers (and thus even more so the lives of nonbelievers) in order to advance the cause of the One True God, and if that means global suicide in exchange for life eternal, well, that’s a small price, no? And magical blood cleansing would rather take its ethnic tribal self, and the world, into oblivion than mix with unpure tribes.

Thus, without in any way denying the crucial importance of the ecological and economic and financial factors in the world-demanding transformation, let us not forget that they all rest ultimately on a correlative transformation in human consciousness: the global embrace, and its pluralistic world-federation, can only be seen, and understood, and implemented, by individuals with a universal and global vision-logic, where the new scarce resources involve not only material-economic shortages, but the resources of a meaning-in-life that can no longer be found in self or tribe or race or nation, but will finds its context, its therapia, its omega, and its release, in a worldcentric embrace through which runs the blood of a common humanity and beats the single heart of a very small planet struggling for its own survival, and yearning for its own release into a deeper and truer tomorrow.

— Ken Wilber. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. Notes in [brackets] by me.
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The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And the habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care. And let it spring from love, born out of concern for all beings.

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The universe is in us.

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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having human experiences.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.
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The formulation and dissemination of interesting interpretations of reality form the basis for constructive collective action.
— J.G. March
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If we were becoming fatigued by this deluge of inspiration, Benedikt Foit and Habib Lesevic woke us up with a start. Their game, Energy Streetfight, uses play as a way of engaging people to make real reductions in their CO2 footprint. Passionate critics of the ‘consumerism virus’, the pair advocate the importance of individual action in combatting simplified but currently dominant notions of progress as economic growth. Consumerism affects our perspective and leads to psychological passivity and the logic of taking. While culture spreads the virus, it is also culture that can cure us, one revolutionary mind at a time.
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