force vive

"[…] solutions to the various global crises certainly demand efforts on the..."

Mon, 07 May 2012 23:06:00 +0200

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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.

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- Ken Wilber. Sex, Ecology, Spirituality. Notes in [brackets] by me.

"The thought manifests as the word. The word manifests as the deed. The deed develops into habit. And..."

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 11:12:23 +0100

“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.”

The universe is in us.

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 12:56:21 +0100

The universe is in us.

(via We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth on Vimeo)

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 13:49:22 +0100

(via We Were Wanderers On A Prehistoric Earth on Vimeo)

Photo

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:48:06 +0100

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having human..."

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:44:42 +0100

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having human experiences.”

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Dalston

Sun, 08 Jan 2012 13:36:24 +0100

Dalston

Dalston Mind & Body Space

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:16:51 +0100

Dalston Mind & Body Space:

A project I’m working on here in London with a group of lovely people.

“Reunite mind and body.

Starting early in 2012, the Dalston Mind & Body Space will host activities to stimulate mind and body - and reunite the physical with the emotional and intellectual.”

"The formulation and dissemination of interesting interpretations of reality form the basis for..."

Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:57:32 +0100

“The formulation and dissemination of interesting interpretations of reality form the basis for constructive collective action.”

- J.G. March

"If we were becoming fatigued by this deluge of inspiration, Benedikt Foit and Habib Lesevic woke us..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:40:42 +0100

““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.””

- via http://horseshoenail.org/

"Wer sagt, es gebe Gott nicht und nicht dazusagen kann, dass Gott fehlt und wie er fehlt, der hat..."

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:36:00 +0100

“Wer sagt, es gebe Gott nicht und nicht dazusagen kann, dass Gott fehlt und wie er fehlt, der hat keine Ahnung.”

- Martin Walser Über Rechtfertigung, eine Versuchung | www.faz.net | Readability

"Marifa (Arabic: المعرفة‎), which literally means knowledge, is the term used by Sufi Muslims to..."

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:04:00 +0100

“Marifa (Arabic: المعرفة‎), which literally means knowledge, is the term used by Sufi Muslims to describe mystical intuitive knowledge of spiritual truth reached through ecstatic experiences, rather than revealed or rationally acquired. M. Fethullah Gulen, in his book onSufism, describes Marifa (“knowledge of God”) as special knowledge acquired through reflection, sincere endeavor, using one’s conscience and inquiring into one’s inner world. In this, it is distinct from scientific knowledge, or ilm, which is based on study, investigation, analysis, and synthesis. The opposite of scientific knowledge is ignorance, while the opposite of marifa is denial.”

- Wikipedia

Quantec called this video Force Vive … Life Force, Living...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:23:00 +0100

Quantec called this video Force Vive … Life Force, Living Force.

Sunrise in Braunschweig (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:06:00 +0200

Sunrise in Braunschweig (Taken with instagram)

"The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. […] The end of the..."

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:35:00 +0200

“The end of the world as we know it is not the end of the world full stop. […] The end of the world as we know it is also the end of a way of knowing the world”

- Sensing & Knowing: David Abram in conversation with Dougald Hine

"I’d say that a social contract fit for the future has probably got to be eudaimonic, centered..."

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:13:59 +0200

“I’d say that a social contract fit for the future has probably got to be eudaimonic, centered on the right to have the capacity to create — and the responsibility to pursue — lives lived meaningfully well.”

- @umairh (Umair Haque); via his blog.

"There are good stories and mediocre stories and downright bad stories. How are they to be judged? If..."

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:09:00 +0200

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There are good stories and mediocre stories and downright bad stories. How are they to be judged? If they do not aim at a static or “literal” reality, how can we discern whether one telling of events is any better or more worthy than another?

The answer is this: a story must be judged according to whether it makes sense. And “making sense” must here be understood in its most direct meaning: to make sense is to enliven the senses. A story that makes sense is one that stirs the senses from their slumber, one that opens the eyes and the ear to their real surroundings, tuning the tongue to the actual tastes in the air and sending chills of recognition along the surface of the skin. To make sense is to release the body from the constraints imposed by outworn ways of speaking, and hence to rejuvenate one’s felt awareness of the world. It is to make the senses wake up to where they are.

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- David Abram - The Spell of the Sensuous

Problema

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:04:00 +0200

Problema

"Go out in a field and lie down at night. Look DOWN into the stars. Pretend that gravity has you..."

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:23:25 +0200

“Go out in a field and lie down at night. Look DOWN into the stars. Pretend that gravity has you glued to the bottom of this planet. How do you know which way is up?”

"Most of us are accustomed to consider the self, our innermost essence, as someting incorporeal. Yet..."

Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:29:00 +0200

“Most of us are accustomed to consider the self, our innermost essence, as someting incorporeal. Yet consider: without this body, without this tongue or these ears, you could neither speak nor hear another’s voice. Nor could you have anything to speak about, or even to reflect on, or to think, since without any contact, any encounter, without any glimmer of sensory experience, there could be nothing to question or to know. The living body is thus the very possibility of contact, not just with others but with oneself - the very possibility of reflection, of thought, of knowledge.”

- Merleau-Ponty via David Abram’s The Spell of the Sensuous