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Shifting the Very Nature of Relationship
The post that started with the Arjuna Ardagh quote could have gone off in another direction. What Ardagh and Watts both propose is essentially a radical shift in the nature of relationship. They are proposing that there is no “other.” … Continue reading
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Meditation to Become One With Space
This meditation is from a presentation I gave at the Lifwynn Foundation conference recently. It is intended to help you get past the boundaries of subject, object, and space. Hence it is clear that the space of physics is not, … Continue reading
A HUNDRED GULLS — a poem
Well definitely not quite so many Yes, not quite on the jetty in the big lake today As I watched curlicues of waves wash over cleaning sandy shore
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Tango — a poem
I wrap my arm around you press my heart into yours, trusting that I will not fall while fading into the oblivion of music and moving and breathing and losing myself in the dance
Goodbye to “It”
All somethings are someones. –David Spangler That quote hit me in a way that the usual psychospiritual talk doesn’t. It forced me to face up to the assumptions I have about the nature of life itself (and what is alive … Continue reading
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Tagged consciousness, David Spangler, Language
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Introducing Mobius (strips) and Klein (bottles)
Two visual structures that I use a lot are the Möbius strip and the Klein bottle because they embody a paradox. Specifically, they have only one side although it seems to be two sides. That concept is very important for … Continue reading
The Emerging Paradigm Shift and the Assumptions it is Questioning
New paradigm writers are asking us to question the assumptions/presuppositions we’ve had for the past few centuries. These assumptions include materialism, reductionism, and the influence of randomness. They are asking us to investigate different assumptions such as consciousness as the origin of matter, energy, and the laws of nature (Goswami); that we are one being in many physical forms (Haisch); and that we can consciously influence our own evolution (Barbara Marx Hubbard). Continue reading
Posted in Assumptions/presuppositions, Consciousness, Science
Tagged consciousness, David Bohm, global mind, interconnectedness, paradigm shift
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My Questions for Paul Frommer, Creator of the Na’vi Language in Avatar
Na’vi, the language of the Pandorans in the movie Avatar, perhaps can help us look at our own languages and find ways to express the kinds of interconnectedness we saw on Pandora. Continue reading
Posted in Language, Oneness, Structure
Tagged Avatar, Language, Na'vi, Oneness, Paul Frommer
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How Do We Speak from Wholeness?
Did you choose to believe that you’re a separate being from everybody else? No, that was so firmly established both by your experience of yourself as a young child and by how others treated you, then reinforced by language that separates I from You, that you just take it for granted that we’re all separate. If we’re not separate, how do cast aside the language crutch that keeps us thinking and talking as if we are separate? How do we speak from wholeness–both individual wholeness and wholeness of the Universe? Continue reading
Before Speaking from Oneness, Feeling It
How do we become “one with” other sentient beings? It seems so much easier to become one with things, such as the spinnaker that I trim while sailing. What fear must we conquer in order to be so present to our oneness as a human body, that we respond the way our individual bodies do, ie, when we have an itch, we automatically scratch it? How do we become one with each other in such a way that we know our connectedness the way my body and your body each knows its own connectedness? How do we become “the human body”? Continue reading
The Default State of Being Human
Arjuna Ardagh asks, “What have we come to accept as the default state of being human?” then answers, “Most agree that human consciousness is characterized by an unnatural sense of separateness, a sense of a ‘me’ and a ‘not me.’ We act as though we are separate from the source itself, from the divine. On the basis of this feeling of separation stands everything else that feels abhorrent to the heart—child abuse, domestic violence, people lying to and cheating each other, environmental degradation, war. All of these things arise from this feeling of ‘me’ and ‘them’ as separate, or ‘me’ and ‘the planet’ as separate” Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Watts, Arjuna Ardagh, Oneness, Separateness, Wholeness
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Being a Cell in the Earth Organism
What can this body of humanity (and even the body of the earth, including humanity) as a whole accomplish with you accomplishing your part and everybody else, all the other cells, accomplishing theirs? What grandness could the earth/human organism be up to in the universe?
Before we can get to this place of integration, we need to recognize just how connected we all are, as cells are in a body. And we need to expand our ways of being in “communication” with each other. I put the word “communication” in quotes because it is so much more than the external type of linguistic smoke signals we currently send to each other through writing and speaking. It’s more like a communication that involves feeling from the inside. Do we need to ALL be in that state of profound being-in-love-with in order to attain that kind of internal communication that my body’s cells have with each other? Continue reading
