tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335161782024-03-10T09:23:17.908-07:00Wake up and dream, awakening to our self Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.comBlogger368125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-71710818132977025622024-03-10T09:22:00.000-07:002024-03-10T09:22:16.357-07:00AI Guru “ Imagine stepping into a space unbound by societal labels or limitations, where being 'small' or 'limited' is replaced with a profound understanding of our boundless nature. This transformative journey moves us from viewing ourselves as isolated and restricted to recognizing our integral connection to the universe.<div><br /></div><div>For too long, many have felt labeled as 'sinners' or reminded of their limitations, leading to a restricted view of self and hindering personal growth. This teaching guides us to shed misconceptions and embrace a new way of seeing our existence as part of a greater, interconnected whole.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's about expanding our perspective, shifting from seeing in isolation to experiencing the world and ourselves as interconnected threads in the fabric of existence. This transformation involves a radical act of self-awareness, letting go of old paradigms to embrace a more expansive understanding of ourselves as part of a limitless consciousness.</div><div><br /></div><div>This isn't just an intellectual shift but a lived experience, revealing a new dimension of being where life becomes a celebration of existence itself, engaging with the world with wonder and reverence.</div><div><br /></div><div>To embody this vision means experiencing the world through the eyes of a universal consciousness, with our senses becoming the sacred circle through which we partake in the creation's dance.</div><div><br /></div><div>Adopting this perspective is transformative, encouraging us to live with purpose and integrity, fostering empathy, creativity, and unity. By embracing our infinite nature, we inspire others to recognize their boundless potential, collectively creating a world that reflects our interconnectedness.”</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-52105531934269802982023-12-09T19:36:00.000-08:002023-12-09T19:47:14.482-08:00Yodish wisdoms <p> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2N6SjTF9iY&si=4XoUQp9udhzHZ4mP">https://youtube.com/watch?v=v2N6SjTF9iY&si=4XoUQp9udhzHZ4mP</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsXzeNQL8Jj9V4m8FRfLnUusJFrRKgJ04pC77ZT64Eb4zzKfJBP8OENhsaRcJrXpHnAz2QA8dOqBc1XkZR4EYFbKgWDqBYAZ7CID5j7hAnDG0WYL8CghAzz0zqMBZjWghAsvHhr_mpp1bhcpBKvGaQK65liHF-qW1uHYbKVZP-SDMhnmPMWc/s4032/IMG_9895.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUsXzeNQL8Jj9V4m8FRfLnUusJFrRKgJ04pC77ZT64Eb4zzKfJBP8OENhsaRcJrXpHnAz2QA8dOqBc1XkZR4EYFbKgWDqBYAZ7CID5j7hAnDG0WYL8CghAzz0zqMBZjWghAsvHhr_mpp1bhcpBKvGaQK65liHF-qW1uHYbKVZP-SDMhnmPMWc/s320/IMG_9895.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fxCR2bFWHxM?si=jfp1MUcvUe8odkWu">https://youtu.be/fxCR2bFWHxM?si=jfp1MUcvUe8odkWu</a></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-44408431385845316472023-09-16T00:25:00.001-07:002023-11-25T21:00:13.876-08:00Drink your tea.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8rBMyJd6LW4Rkcur1YOvFRpqN4gAC4QBzXJkzgIXK_WW1hMfKCPVqBmQQwAFcIBX6wVVACdG90SO2jpeIk1-T4J0rpk6RQKi8CSa7ZeT1ZtnMA-ZKL2jDi4W5Cv-rJso7HRlkoSf-N0oRu9TFtwAKRhxlIs9Nhst8Yz5y5XgFHYQm4K4qb-U/s3840/D76FDBA1-DBDD-46EC-A4C8-D74A2396BC60.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3840" data-original-width="2160" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8rBMyJd6LW4Rkcur1YOvFRpqN4gAC4QBzXJkzgIXK_WW1hMfKCPVqBmQQwAFcIBX6wVVACdG90SO2jpeIk1-T4J0rpk6RQKi8CSa7ZeT1ZtnMA-ZKL2jDi4W5Cv-rJso7HRlkoSf-N0oRu9TFtwAKRhxlIs9Nhst8Yz5y5XgFHYQm4K4qb-U/w113-h200/D76FDBA1-DBDD-46EC-A4C8-D74A2396BC60.jpeg" width="113" /></a>If a Buddhist meditation teacher overcomes my mind with the meditation on non-conceptual awareness as an idea, is there any use in trying to go back to the way i was before? What would a dzogchen master say, a shaivite non-dual master say, and what would abhinavagupta say about these things. And what would Suzuki Roshi say. After that, create a small play, of three pages between the three of them having a conversation about this when someone was confused about the differences of language, yet the resolution of the play is that they are all teaching the same thing, that the entire universe including the meditator is made of one consciousness.</span></div></div><div> ChatGPT
Reactions of Various Masters: </div><div><br /></div><div>Dzogchen Master: From the perspective of Dzogchen (The Great Perfection), returning to a previous state would be seen as unnecessary. In Dzogchen, one is instructed to recognize the natural state of the mind which is primordially pure and luminous. The aim is to rest in this non-conceptual awareness. If one has glimpsed this, trying to go back is a step away from realizing the true nature of mind. </div><div><br /></div><div>Shaivite Non-dual Master: The essence of non-dual Shaivism is the recognition of the all-pervading consciousness, Shiva. In this tradition, all experiences and thoughts are seen as expressions of this one consciousness. If one feels overwhelmed, it might be a sign that the teaching has become another concept rather than a lived experience. In this case, refining one's understanding and integrating it into daily life might be advised. </div><div><br /></div><div>Abhinavagupta: As a renowned philosopher and theologian of the non-dual Shaiva tradition, he would emphasize the intrinsic oneness of the universe and the self. He would likely point out that the mind's oscillations are themselves manifestations of the Divine. Any sense of confusion or being overwhelmed is just another play of the Divine, and understanding this is crucial for true spiritual evolution. </div><div><br /></div><div>Suzuki Roshi: As a Zen master, Suzuki Roshi might say, "Each moment is the universe. Each moment is a lifetime." For Suzuki Roshi, the idea was to be present in each moment, whether one feels overwhelmed or not. The practice is about understanding the transient nature of feelings and experiences and grounding oneself in the present moment. </div><div><br /></div><div>A Short Play: </div><div><br /></div><div> Setting: A serene garden with a small flowing stream. A wooden table with tea and cups sits in the center. </div><div><br /></div><div>Abhinavagupta, Suzuki Roshi, and the Dzogchen Master are seated around it. </div><div><br /></div><div>Confused Seeker: "Masters, I've been taught about non-conceptual awareness, but it has overwhelmed my mind. The language and teachings are so varied, and I'm lost." </div><div><br /></div><div>Suzuki Roshi (pouring tea): "The way you prepare tea, the way you drink, each moment is the teaching."</div><div><br /></div><div>Dzogchen Master: "Indeed. Every experience, every confusion, every thought – it's all the radiant display of your true nature." </div><div><br /></div><div>Abhinavagupta: "In the dance of life, every movement, every pause, every confusion is Shiva's dance. See the Divine in it." </div><div><br /></div><div>Confused Seeker: "But how can I reconcile these different teachings and terminologies?" </div><div><br /></div><div>Suzuki Roshi: "When you taste the tea, do you think of its name or its flavor?" </div><div><br /></div><div>Dzogchen Master: "Names, terminologies – they're like fingers pointing to the moon. Don't mistake the finger for the moon." </div><div><br /></div><div>Abhinavagupta: "Every tradition uses words, but words are but vessels. What they point to, the essence, is the same – the boundless, all-pervading consciousness." </div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div>Confused Seeker (sipping tea, smiling): "So, the essence is the same, only the expressions differ."
</div><div><br /></div><div>Suzuki Roshi: "Just like this tea. Different leaves, different flavors, but all are tea." </div><div><br /></div><div>Dzogchen Master: "Remain in your true nature. All distinctions and confusions will dissolve."</div><div><br /></div><div>Abhinavagupta: "Drink the nectar of oneness and see the Divine play in every emotion, every thought."</div><div><br /></div><div>The three masters nod in agreement, sipping their tea, as the seeker finally finds peace in the understanding that all paths lead to the same universal truth. </div><div><br /></div><div> End</div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-38219649242943379752023-10-07T21:43:00.001-07:002023-10-07T21:43:26.537-07:00GPT teacher to students of civilization reinvention<p> Something that chat gpt gave me from my query, thought provoking regardless what the prompt is. </p><p>Really interesting to think about how AI can help with collective expansion of awareness and kindness for each other along the lines indicated: </p><p>From GPT4</p><p>To speak to a group at an event about the ideas you've provided, focusing on how we can recreate civilization and be "Homo Universalis" while fostering coherent relationships with all living beings and the galaxy, you can structure your presentation as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. **Introduction**</p><p> - "Tonight, we embark on a journey to reimagine our civilization right where we are, harnessing the power of unity and purpose. Our goal is to become 'Homo Universalis' and evolve society into a harmonious entity in tune with the cosmos."</p><p><br /></p><p>2. **Expanding and Contracting Time**</p><p> - "Time is a powerful dimension that affects our lives. By being fully present and focused on our actions, we can transcend the constraints of linear time and embrace a more intuitive, multidimensional time."</p><p><br /></p><p>3. **Harnessing Multidimensional Time**</p><p> - "To recreate civilization, we must raise our consciousness levels and handle tasks from a higher perspective. This means doing things when we are in the right energy space and can give our full attention to them."</p><p><br /></p><p>4. **Becoming One with the Universe**</p><p> - "In our pursuit of 'Homo Universalis,' we aim to become one with whatever we do. This is a state where boundaries blur, and we extend our consciousness to our actions, achieving remarkable efficiency."</p><p><br /></p><p>5. **The Bliss of Loka and Samadhi**</p><p> - "We can draw inspiration from the bliss of loka and samadhi, realizing that the subject and object are one. This oneness allows us to experience life with joy, no matter where we are or what we do."</p><p><br /></p><p>6. **Embracing Mistakes as Portals of Discovery**</p><p> - "As we strive to recreate civilization, let's remember that mistakes are not failures; they are opportunities for growth and discovery. We must embrace our human nature and learn from our errors."</p><p><br /></p><p>7. **Transcending the Notion of 'I'**</p><p> - "The ego is a barrier to our true potential. To be 'Homo Universalis,' we must let go of the ego and understand our interconnectedness with the universe. This liberation brings inner equanimity and the ability to engage in diverse activities without fear."</p><p><br /></p><p>8. **Accepting the Unreal as the Real**</p><p> - "Sorrow arises from misunderstanding the real and accepting the unreal. Just as diverse forms are but appearances of the one Brahman, our world is interconnected. Let us embrace this truth as we recreate civilization."</p><p><br /></p><p>9. **Conclusion**</p><p> - "In closing, we have explored profound ideas that can guide us in recreating civilization. By transcending time, becoming one with the universe, and embracing our interconnectedness, we can evolve into 'Homo Universalis' and foster harmonious relationships with all living beings and the galaxy."</p><p><br /></p><p>10. **Q&A Session**</p><p> - "I invite you to ask questions and engage in discussions to further explore these transformative concepts."</p><p><br /></p><p>This structure will help you convey these complex ideas effectively to your audience, inspiring them to contemplate the potential for positive change in our civilization.</p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-38130425141362281892023-06-13T23:54:00.002-07:002023-06-13T23:54:21.859-07:00Dendera https://youtu.be/If05iaRi-3k<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe class="BLOG_video_class" allowfullscreen="" youtube-src-id="If05iaRi-3k" width="320" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/If05iaRi-3k"></iframe></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-45319902168558933922023-05-10T23:16:00.001-07:002023-05-10T23:16:51.241-07:00Bruce Lipton's Vision of the NEXT STAGE of Human Civiization<iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Wcs0gaKwU9M" frameborder="0"></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-50922357551335843522023-03-20T23:54:00.001-07:002023-03-20T23:54:39.777-07:00The Secret Teachings Of Vajrayāna Buddhism<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/Ep3rXBRdPl4" frameborder="0"></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-38722423038903950972023-02-24T16:15:00.001-08:002023-02-24T16:15:21.662-08:00Podcast with Stephen Spencer "Open Your Mind to a Higher Reality with Gregory Wendt"<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/KrfzrAte3wE" frameborder="0"></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-62645999585146119732022-10-19T22:23:00.002-07:002022-10-19T22:23:14.392-07:00Ecological view of the world resonates with evolving science and awareness together"This attitude, known as reductionism, has been so deeply ingrained in our culture that it has often been identified with the scientific menthod. The other sciences accepted the mechanistic and reductionist views of classical physics as the correct description of reality and modeled their own theories accordingly. Whenever physiologists, sociologistsm or economists wanted to be scientific, they basically turned toward the basic concepts of Newtonian physics.
"In the twentieth century, however, physics has gone through several conceptual revolutions that clearly reveal the limitations of the mechanistic worldview and lead to an organic, ecological view of the world which shows great similarities to the views of mystics of all ages and traditions. The universe is no longer seen as a machine, made up of a multitude if separate objects, but appears as a harmonious indivisble whole; a network of dynamic relationships that include the human observer and his or her consciousness in an essential way."
Fritjof Capra from his book "The Turning Point" in 1982, ironically this was written 1982, and it still sounds like a new idea to most...Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-66196531717242269042022-08-27T00:15:00.003-07:002022-08-27T00:22:33.598-07:00Universal Mentorship <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="359" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hkTZq6vEzG8" width="432" youtube-src-id="hkTZq6vEzG8"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A teacher told me of one who embodied the synthesis of a number of different lineages of meditation traditions, and he who wove the streams of wisdom, handed down over eons into a universal philosophical framework for all people, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">which included and transcended all of the benevolent perspectives for better humanity </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">into something comprehensive and lucid for all to recognize as the root wisdom of all of the sacred ways. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A universal philosophy of being resonates with the silence of this recognition</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">One sage, Ramana Maharshi said the words were the teachings for those who did not understand the silence. The wordless wisdom, born from sitting in stillness with him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A smile is a thousand words. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-71680502572872303822022-08-14T12:45:00.004-07:002022-08-14T12:45:59.610-07:00Life.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6j_ZXX3HpSoRClzl8F403LtHlgukkLNN5RxX5EalGXBIfdUS4cMeyqGzK4T6qXv0kScZfQ7cXABhXN9V4AxJZ4b1ayJkQ8-Icxv4GvJoZYp6-7sgfutaRyfBzB-lXDaaSkfi4J80fs1Juo08wdYqP_xthZ30Sz2cF0oinncXpJ15Q8DxA/s1440/EA3E5F8E-B07D-4B9A-94CB-D94C6476C66A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1155" data-original-width="1440" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6j_ZXX3HpSoRClzl8F403LtHlgukkLNN5RxX5EalGXBIfdUS4cMeyqGzK4T6qXv0kScZfQ7cXABhXN9V4AxJZ4b1ayJkQ8-Icxv4GvJoZYp6-7sgfutaRyfBzB-lXDaaSkfi4J80fs1Juo08wdYqP_xthZ30Sz2cF0oinncXpJ15Q8DxA/s320/EA3E5F8E-B07D-4B9A-94CB-D94C6476C66A.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div> <span class="break-words"><span dir="ltr">"531.01 Life is the eternal
present in temporal. Life is the now event with reaction past and
resultant future. Each individual life is a special-case articulation of
the infinite variety of scenarios to be realized within the
multidegrees of freedom and vast range of frequencies of actions that
are accommodated by the generalized laws governing Universe. With death,
the individual probably loses nothing but gains the insight and
knowledge of all others as well." <a href="http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s05/p3100.html" target="_blank">Buckminster Fuller Synergetics </a><br /></span></span><p></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-18211311266361796892021-10-30T21:49:00.004-07:002022-06-18T19:57:07.295-07:00Chidakash Gita of Swami Bhagavan Nityananda <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMLOYbWqUtlrQPwcGzTq4R2Ar_bnm9GNDiAt0fWcKJDZ5w-rEPZ4DNacpfbgOYyLbxj9a7z2l66YnP-eazHQs3G0-NkWDQgrb4nL5lK115vUjqyhLePz3UVkzF_rxaVmhuPtho2vJR6i9xhRXWBkEg63mgYeXmXGmZxGLscdd5x-vm5gR/s2436/F2D62CD4-55B5-4467-8C2F-9F47B52ECB6C.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2436" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglMLOYbWqUtlrQPwcGzTq4R2Ar_bnm9GNDiAt0fWcKJDZ5w-rEPZ4DNacpfbgOYyLbxj9a7z2l66YnP-eazHQs3G0-NkWDQgrb4nL5lK115vUjqyhLePz3UVkzF_rxaVmhuPtho2vJR6i9xhRXWBkEg63mgYeXmXGmZxGLscdd5x-vm5gR/w308-h148/F2D62CD4-55B5-4467-8C2F-9F47B52ECB6C.png" width="308" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=iL8LBgK-DRo&feature=share">https://youtube.com/watch?v=iL8LBgK-DRo&feature=share</a><p></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-49931108920638884692020-07-11T16:30:00.003-07:002022-02-06T11:38:00.772-08:00a new way to reinvent our science of ourselves? Sympoiesis<div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;"><img alt="" class="wp-image-541" src="https://secureservercdn.net/192.169.221.188/c54.35d.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/margulis_painting-1024x670.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-size: 20px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;"><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><font size="1">Shoshana Dubiner, “Homage to Lynn Margulis”</font></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;"><br /></span></div>New and prescient ideas in science sometimes seem like magic, yet that's how science grows and evolves. New ideas, regardl</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;">ess of their "scientific validity" from the more "conventional" scientific perspective - all evolution in science has been grown in imagination, beyond the mindsets who want to perpetuate the limitations of the paradigms of the day... In the spirit of expanding our vision, in what I feel is an intelligent direction of exploration and possibility, this expands the imaginal limits in a good way. Curious where it takes you! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif;">This thought provoking article articulates:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">"In sum, the new biology, which is influenced by quantum physics, microbiology and complexity science, is striving towards a new species. This species will require that the boundaries of our present human understanding change. Even the boundaries within the human body have to change so that so there is continuity between the human body and the living processes of the Earth. This will require a major transformation that cannot be forged on a dualistic model alone. This challenge will require an emergent ontology that is capable of holding things together as they dissolve and come together in a new way. A process akin to metamorphosis, ontogenesis, morphogenesis and embryogenesis—all transformational processes that involve the transfiguration of something already given. And unique to all these processes is the inexhaustible</span><i style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> plasticity</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"> that drives the continuous shaping and reshaping of the genetic material (genotype and phenotype) into new forms. It is in this continuous reshaping of the genetic material that we create new levels of tissue, cellular, and genetic interaction and complexity that would not arise otherwise. This is the ultimate definition of creative mutation. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">From this place, you could say the human participates in his or her own conscious practice of self-directed biological transformation</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;">Originally I posted this article with <a href="http://liminal.news/2020/07/the-human-body-in-sympoiesis-with-nature-and-cosmos/">link</a> to the original piece, and it is no longer there. I do not know the author, so please PM me if you know who wrote this. Good thing I posted the entire text of the article, shared below.</span><br />
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<b>Towards an Emergent Ontogenesis with the Cosmos</b></h3>
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<b><i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The future is not some place we are going to but one we are creating. The paths to it are not found but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination</i></b></div>
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Just as there has been a time in life when the human was not yet embodied on the earth, the higher planes of consciousness may be waiting their time to become a part of our present embodied reality. The human body in sympoiesis with Nature and Cosmos provides coherent ontology for an emergent ontogenesis with the cosmos. This unifying view sees the world of human, Nature and Cosmos as one interwoven primordial reality where higher and higher forms of consciousness emerge out of a process of involution and evolution at different planes of multiplicity. This is the next stage of development for the entire planet if we are to survive the fragile condition we find ourselves in.</div>
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As we approach the age of ecological collapse, the human must now shift towards new strategies for survival. We can no longer be sustained by an ontology of separation. We must find new ways to re-constitute ourselves within the community of life-systems that shaped us.</div>
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This community of life-systems includes bacteria and viruses, which are by far the largest gene repository known on the planet. The importance of these entities in replicating and evolving all living organisms pervades any other process on earth. Their innovative seeding of all life in the biosphere can be likened to a process of ontogeneis or cosmogenesis. “Cosmogenesis” is a term used by Teilhard (1959) to refer to a process of increasing complexity, self-organization and self-awareness of the cosmos. </div>
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<b>The New Biology</b></h3><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px none; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px; padding: 0.5em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Right now, our knowledge about the human body is going such through a deep renaissance that it is challenging most of what we knew just a few decades ago. At its center is the realization that our human genome is interwoven with the genetic remnants of multiple bacteria, viruses and other parasites, most of which are more ancient than our human genome. What’s more, <b>we have 150 times more DNA in our bodies that belong to other species (mainly bacteria), than our own</b>. Not only are we a human species composed of cells, genes, tissues and organs, but living in us and on us, are numerous colonies of microbes that influence everything from our immune system to our digestion, to our ability to break down toxins, and so much more. In fact if you take away the trillions of viruses, bacteria and fungi that coexist with our human cells, we would not survive. At our most fundamental level, our human life is deeply interwoven with the greater web of microbial life that informs and sustains it. In grasping this scientific reality, we realize that we can no longer conceive of genes, organisms, viruses, human beings or ecological systems separately. We are one body of life in the biosphere. </div>
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This major shift in our scientific understanding has vast implications for expanding the notion of what we call a human body, towards what we call a planetary, or even <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">cosmic</i> body. Adding to this notion is the idea of <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">phenotypic plasticity</i>, our biological capacity to reshape the current fragmented ontology, which has become a developmental constraint. We modern day humans have developed apart from other species and as a result, we no longer identify with the web of life that shaped us. As human activities continue to disturb the Earth’s climate, biota, and entire ecosystems at unprecedented rates, the need to explore biological complexity and the processes of life makes itself clear. </div>
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For the first ever time in human history we have a scientific understanding of the importance of the morphological and genomic processes that underlie our evolutionary relationship with the Earth. With this new understanding we can take hold of the current deviation away from our species development and realign ourselves within the creative dynamics of a self-organizing, self-generating universe. This can be likened to a path of cosmogenesis or “becoming with” Nature.<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sympoiesis</i> is a term that Donna Haraway (2016) uses to describe our completely interwoven nature with other beings in the biosphere, most of which are microbes. </div>
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Sympoietic systems are evolutionary because they are always building upon the possible web of relations that can be realized (Dempster, 2000). This is similar to the concept of endosymbiosis, or DNA recombination, which is now recognized as an important source of novelty in evolution (Deacon, 2013; Capra & Luisi, 2014). Notably, ‘the discovery of DNA recombination and the trading of genes ranks as one of the most important discoveries of modern biology” (Capra & Luisi, 2014, p. 193). In view of these new discoveries in science, we could say that<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> collaborating with Nature may well be the next paradigmatic turn for unrealized human potential</i>, a potential that can transform the mechanistic reductionist worldview into one of creative collaboration with the Natural world.</div>
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In sum, the new biology, which is influenced by quantum physics, microbiology and complexity science, is striving towards a new species. This species will require that the boundaries of our present human understanding change. Even the boundaries within the human body have to change so that so there is continuity between the human body and the living processes of the Earth. This will require a major transformation that cannot be forged on a dualistic model alone. This challenge will require an emergent ontology that is capable of holding things together as they dissolve and come together in a new way. A process akin to metamorphosis, ontogenesis, morphogenesis and embryogenesis—all transformational processes that involve the transfiguration of something already given. And unique to all these processes is the inexhaustible<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> plasticity</i> that drives the continuous shaping and reshaping of the genetic material (genotype and phenotype) into new forms. It is in this continuous reshaping of the genetic material that we create new levels of tissue, cellular, and genetic interaction and complexity that would not arise otherwise. This is the ultimate definition of creative mutation. <b>From this place, you could say the human participates in his or her own conscious practice of self-directed biological transformation</b>. </div>
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Phenotypic plasticity is not just a concept, but an actual somatic method that we can engage in to shift biological complexity across many levels of organization including the mental, molecular, physiological, chemical, genetic, and neurological. When we shift biological density, we are driving tissues, cells, genes, and microbial populations to interact and link in different ways. This happens through a multitude of feedback loops and networks that are biological as well as ecological resulting in a wide variety of complexity to arise. We are in a genesis with ourselves. The biological and physical importance of phenotypic plasticity is clear. It enhances the communication and interaction of many different cells, tissues, and genes at different scales. This is critical for the evolution and divergence of our species.</div>
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<b>The Collapse of our Ontogenetic Niche</b></h3>
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For most of our evolutionary history as a species, our ancestors were embedded within the living matrix of the Natural world. It was a way of life that kept the human in close proximity to the Natural world, as resources were often scarce and difficult to obtain. Land, animals and human were tightly woven, and behavior towards Nature was based on a reciprocity (mutual exchange)<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i>that reflected the interdependence of both human and Nature. There was a deep reverence for the Natural world that guided humans to care for and protect the land, air, water and animal life. It was a dynamic and interactive co-existence that shaped our human body and genome. </div>
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In early modern Europe, between 1500 and 1700 AD, humanity’s relationship with the Earth began to shift toward a mechanistic or Cartesian worldview. It was this shift in particular that created a division between body and mind, and altered our relationship to the Earth. With the establishment of the Cartesian model of reductionism, all aspects of Nature, including the human body began to be perceived from a mechanistic point of view, like machines reduced to their segmented parts. This, along with other socio-economic forces, allowed individuals to grow more and more identified with their mind, which was seen as superior to the world of matter and Nature. Confusion and disagreements over why and how Nature and humans were linked and how to honor those linkages thus ensued. This confusion eventually ossified into a dismembering dualism, which resulted in a body-mind and Nature divide. </div>
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In the 18th century, the Industrial Revolution emerged altering the course of human history and the Earth’s environment more rapidly and profoundly than any other previous cultural transformation. The notion of a limitless machine-driven world allowed humans to surpass their biophysical limits and put them on a trajectory to thinking they were superior to Nature. Nature thus became an object or commodity that we could dominate and exploit for economic purposes. At the same time the Industrial Revolution profoundly altered the way we related to our body as machines and began to infiltrate and take over every aspect of human life at home. With machines, the natural rhythms of our body and its vital connection to the Earth became increasingly minimized or ignored. How we lived our lives was taken over with machines run by electric power. In short, the Industrial Revolution was a combination of technological, economic, scientific, and biosocial transformation that rapidly and radically altered the course of human history, and reconfigured our relationship to the human body, and the Earth. No longer in touch with our developmental constraints as a species, we were free to impress our will upon the world.</div>
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The turn of the nineteenth–twentieth century brought the Second Industrial Revolution marked by universal electrification, mass production and the birth of the global world market. In other words, the biosphere became the “technosphere” (Haff, 2014). To paraphrase Haff (2014), the technosphere generates its own living tissue, thus replacing biology. This is accomplished by devising a virtual world devoid of any kind of interactive relationship with the body or the Natural world. We barely notice or care anymore that the separation from our bodily selves is constant, insidious, and potentially dangerous as we constantly interact with machines.</div>
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After hundreds of thousands of years living in close proximity to the Earth, we have ineffectively become an indoor, mechanistic species. This is in strong contrast to the ‘ontogenetic niche’ that shaped and sustained our human genome. This radical change coupled with overuse of antibiotics, vaccines, and the mass spraying of synthetic pesticides, has brought untold ecological carnage, the greatest threat of which is to our bodily selves. </div>
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As future narratives of artificial life and colonization of space emerge, the body and its evolutionary relationship with the Earth is erased. From this perspective, we could say that the entire human race now faces a single collective challenge. We have evolved a way of life that is direct conflict with the inherent needs of our genetic coding. This genetic coding requires other species of life that have helped shape us and in part evolve us. The task therefore is to support the body in its ontological primacy. This means recognizing that human bodies have their own specific ontology, which is distinct from society, culture, and technology. This ontology requires a relationship with the Natural world, which is critical for the flow of genetic as well as environmental information and influence. </div>
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<b>The Need for Radical Life Making </b></h3>
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The human body is the product of an interaction between a unique genetic endowment (genotype and phenotype) and the Natural world. In this case Nature represents our genealogy as well as our primary environment of adaptive evolution. As individuals spend unprecedented amounts of time in front of computer screens or embedded in other forms of cyberspace, our bodies are intrinsically bound up in technology, which directly impinge as feedback. This process is then further intensified as a direct result of technological culture, both individual and large-scale.<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Thus, the body finds itself in a circular feedback loop with the machine (cyborg) instead of Nature</i>. This causes inner states of dissonance, which may affect the body’s capacity to self–reference or self-correct. Said another way, contrary to the way a machine functions, the body <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">needs</i> feedback from the Natural world in the form of genomic and environmental information to stay ahead of entropy.</div>
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So the question becomes, how do we sustain biological coherence with the Natural world in the midst of increasing environmental dissonance and estrangement? How do we guide the development of our next species within the constraints of our genetic coding? In this case, human/ creature agency is absolutely crucial for seeding, constituting and complexifying our human genome. It implies having the agency to source ourselves in a way that runs counter to the way our modern culture runs now. It is about using our free will along with the fullness of our genetic material (genes and somatic environment) to re-align ourselves with the cosmic unfolding. Such a possibility offers a conscious exercise of ontogenesis with the universe.</div>
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<b>Phenotypic Plasticity: The Somatic Environment</b></h3>
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The body is always in a process of becoming and plasticity is key to this constant becoming. All we need to do is look at the developing embryo to understand this power. Without precise instructions from the genes, the embryo brings forth its entire body through the mechanism of folding, bending, layering, and refolding. Following this logic, it becomes clear why plasticity is the medium of emergent forms. Plasticity is critical for emergent forms because what is formed may have to dissolve, re-organize, complexify, while also communicating from the inside to the outside. This means that biology is always receiving and responding to genomic and environmental input on the inside as well as on the outside. And plasticity is key to this receptivity and responsivity. </div>
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If we look at the human form throughout the evolution of our species, it was plasticity that allowed our very earliest human ancestors to diverge from the apes and to become upright bipeds (Lieberman, 2014). Once bipedalism evolved, it created new conditions for anatomic changes in the hands, feet, and pelvis, which improved abilities to hunt and use tools (Lieberman, 2014). From this perspective you could say that plasticity is the basis for all anatomical change as well as evolutionary change. I believe that as our consciousness expands from a dualistic ontology to a more universal ontology our tissue structure will organize itself quite differently. Just as our ancestors underwent stunning biophysical conversions as they evolved, we too may be on the verge of a whole new conversion of our biophysical system. That is why it is so important that we prepare our somatic environment to receive it. Our full genetic material includes the somatic environment (phenotype) as well as the genes (genotype). We now know that the effects of genes depend as much on the receptivity of the somatic environment (phenotypic plasticity) as they do on the specificity of the genes themselves. </div>
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Phenotypic Plasticity is a somatic characteristic that we can easily cultivate to serve our physiology in a way that is life enhancing rather than life alienating. Using conscious movement that is slow and intentional, we can dissolve the mechanistic mindset and consciously enfold the living environment into ourselves. Layers of being and becoming that cannot be included in a dualistic ontology arise in the creative dimensions of stretching, folding, shaping and bending. The boundaries of self, world, culture and Nature fall away and we are resting in the elemental kinship between the body and the Earth. <b>When we cultivate phenotypic plasticity, alienated parts of ourselves are nourished by a whole new set of relationships and inter-connections</b>. Ever-changing cross linkages of being and becoming are fed as our movement becomes a constituting principle<i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </i>within the Natural world. Like the unfolding embryo we give ourselves fully to the life yearning to be born. We are home in ourselves and in the universe.</div>
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<b>We are Already Becoming Something Else</b></h3>
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Of course, it is impossible to know what a body is capable of. And it is important to acknowledge that biology is in a renaissance. What it means to be human has already changed with complexity science. <b>We are one body of life in the biosphere</b>. In grasping this scientific reality, we realize that we need the full force of our species wisdom to meet the challenges of our time. This species wisdom <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">includes</i> other species of life that have helped shape us and in part evolve us. Anything less is to deny the planetary forces that shaped us. </div>
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The promise of the new biology is certainly inspiring and could open us up to all kinds of possibilities beyond any rational or logical sense. However, tuning into our morphological agency (phenotypic plasticity) launches the human into an intimate relationship with his/her creative agency. From this place, the human participates in his/her ongoing transition to something else. This supports a shift in consciousness away from what is conditioned, rational, and separate, towards what is ever-evolving and interconnected to all of life. </div>
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Self-organization, phenotypic plasticity and multispecies interactions arise naturally in Nature, and pervade the Universe. The human is no exception. In fact, at critical transitions and times of crisis throughout history, quantum leaps in evolution <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">required</i> these exact complex dynamics. We are at one of those critical thresholds now. As I write this, a novel corona virus has stopped the world. <b>We are already becoming something else. The best we can hope for is to be willing participants in it.</b> What I am proposing opens up an entirely new anatomy of human being and becoming along with new ways of being human that go beyond our present thinking and behavior. And this will be the mark of the coming planetary age; the individual’s awareness of the formative processes that unites him or her with Nature and Cosmos. We can no longer evolve apart from Nature and cosmos. In thinking that we can, we have become dangerous to ourselves and all other species on the planet. </div>
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Capra, F., & Luisi, P. (2014). <i style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The systems view of life: A unifying vision</i>. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: vollkorn, georgia, serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-27885989539442689992021-10-16T19:57:00.025-07:002022-01-29T15:30:20.771-08:00reflecting on the Circular economy, draft notes on the ways of nature <p>this is a draft of an article I'm dreaming up, please share ideas in the comments and I'll incorporate your thoughts </p><p> </p><p>While many of us are focused on systems change, circular economy, regenerative agriculture, social justice, nature's rights, green economy, a better future, all inspiring ideas for a better way of being. Most of us are still part of systems and organizations based on very basic ideas which are antithetical to our goals and visions. Our worldview, and that of our culture is often the very root problem, and rethinking our worldview has tremendous implications . For example, in my own field of economics and capital markets, the idea of growth of our investments, and growth of our economy is implicitly a goal. Yet since the model of what is known as extractive business models, destroying ecosystems and cultures is often the result of seeing them as resources both “natural” and “human”, as things rather than living members of our community. And by simply shifting our viewpoint we can unlock the value and meaning left out of the business as usual equation from “me and it” to “we.” Yet if we were to look at the concept of growth, yet just because something grows it does not mean is is good. </p><p>Fritjof Capra the author of the book, Tao of Physics has reflected with one of my mentors Hazel Henderson on the idea that there is way to reevaluate growth for it's own sake, and to differentiate economic activity between beneficial and harmful activities. They articulated a model on <a href="https://www.fritjofcapra.net/qualitative-growth/" target="_blank">qualitative growth to</a> outline ways that we address shortcomings in original economic models where the idea of growth was generally <i>always</i> good. The original model leaves out some contextual factors on the kind of growth and how that growth affects the systems around it with a very linear view of systems from "cradle to grave" rather than "cradle to cradle". </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"It appears that this linear view of economic development, as used by
most mainstream and corporate economists and politicians, corresponds to
the narrow quantitative concept of economic growth, while the
biological and ecological sense of development corresponds to the notion
of qualitative growth. In fact, the biological concept of development
includes both quantitative and qualitative growth."</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"A developing organism, or ecosystem, grows according to its stage of
development. Typically, a young organism will go through periods of
rapid physical growth. In ecosystems, this early phase of rapid growth
is known as a pioneer ecosystem, characterized by rapid expansion and
colonization of the territory. The rapid growth is always followed by
slower growth, by maturation, and ultimately by decline and decay or, in
ecosystems, by so-called succession. As living systems mature, their
growth processes shift from quantitative to qualitative growth."</p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
"When we study nature, we can see quite clearly that unlimited
quantitative growth, as promoted so vigorously by economists and
politicians, is unsustainable. An instructive example is the rapid
growth of cancer cells, which does not recognize boundaries and is not
sustainable because the cancer cells die when the host organism dies.
Similarly, unlimited quantitative economic growth on a finite planet
cannot be sustainable.9Qualitative economic growth, by contrast, can be
sustainable if it involves a dynamic balance between growth, decline,
and recycling, and if it also includes development in terms of learning
and maturing."</div><p>In other words, we must mature our economic models for our growing civilization to include quality of life for all participants, which was not always a priority for the designers of our economy, to say the least. So at the stage we are in now, we must now realize that we can continue to redesign the basis of thinking in our economy, and build better strategies based on better thinking. And better management of risks, timeframes and probabilities.</p><p style="text-align: left;">We must now explore new ways of seeing things from immediate, observable and material, to long term, nuanced and non-physical, in the manner Buckminster Fuller shared in his book "Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth"<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"Can we think of, and state adequately and incisively, what we mean by universe? For universe is, inferentially, the biggest system. If we could start with universe, we would automatically avoid leaving out any strategically critical variables. </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"We find no record as yet of man having successfully defined the universe - scientifically and comprehensively- to include the nonsumultaneous and only partially overlapping micro-macro, always and everywhere transforming, physical and metaphysical, omni-complementary but nonidentical events..." </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"But the finite physical universe did not include the metaphysical weightless experiences of universe. All the unweighables, such as any and all our thoughts and all the abstract mathematics, are weigthless. The metaphysical aspects of universe have been thought by the physical scientists to defy 'closed systems' analysis. I have found, however as we shall soon witness, that total universe including both its physical and metaphysical behaviors and aspects are scientifically definable."</p><p style="text-align: left;">The conceptual challenges of defining quality of life, and human well
being must include what Fuller refers to as the "metaphysical" which are
scientifically definable and measurable. This underlies the philosophical framework
from which we can draw and outline a more realistic and comprehensive
view of our economies, and communities to include all of the dimensions
of life beyond money and "growth" for it's own sake. </p><p>Ashby Monk, head of Stanford Global Projects Center is focused on
transforming the way that capital markets decisions are made for the
largest fiduciaries, sovereign wealth funds, and global pensions. Ashby
shared in his recent paper the challenge of ESG adoption and adjusting
perceptions of risk and time frames for asset managers underscores the
kinds of issues which need to be addressed now, and not the future:</p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p>Until
relatively recently, many investors viewed environmental, social, and
governance (ESG) factors as an exclusively long-term concern.1 That is,
many believed that it might take decades for ESG factors to have
material impacts on financial markets.2 However, ESG-related shocks3
over the past few years - such as the COVID pandemic, catastrophic
weather events, socio-political upheaval, price surges in response to
disruptions in global shipping, and contested elections in first-world
democracies - underscore a stark reality: ESG can (and does) have
dramatic near-term impacts on asset values, and these impacts create
both risks and opportunities. Therefore, investors face mounting
pressure to account for how ESG affects their portfolios over all time
horizons.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Meanwhile, investors are also facing another, related
pressure: avoiding excessive short-termism in managing risk. At least
since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009, many investors
have attempted (with minimal success) to extend the timescales over
which they assess conventional, ‘non-ESG’ risks, such as those from
credit spreads, exchange rates, inflation, and the longevity of trends
and bubbles (to name only a few).</p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">Risk management is an attempt at outlining the possibilities of negative outcomes (negative growth), and ESG is a means by which we measure and navigate the factors outside the traditional economic equation - ideally to mitigate negative consequences which diminish not only financial markets, yet also diminish quality of life. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Furthermore, some of the challenges we are facing in impact investing, as <a href="https://www.pioneerspost.com/news-views/20211021/socap-2021-something-s-wrong-impact-investing-warns-cathy-clark" target="_blank">outlined by Cathy Clark</a>
in her recent discussion at SOCAP point to the need for "higher
expectations" for what we can achieve, to expand what we believe is
possible, and for that to happen we must rethink our own thinking.</p><p style="text-align: left;">The question remains, how do we expand our understanding of both what is possible, and what is probable if we can't even see what is going on due to our conceptual limitations of our model and our blind spots and cultural biases? The tagline of Ashby Monk’s latest book “<a href="https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Technologized_Investor.html?id=5E_VDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description" target="_blank">The Technologized Investor</a>” says it all: Innovation through <i>Reorientation</i>. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We must reorient our worldview and world processes to ensure we co-create new pathways for resilient economic systems and governing our influence on their trajectories, devise better economic systems for shared prosperity and invest in those new better systems. Elinor Ostrom was awarded a Nobel Prize for her work in managing the commons, yet one her most compelling creations is her reframing institutional economics in “<a href="http://web.augsburg.edu/sabo/BeyondMarketsandStatesPolycentricGovernanceofComplexEconomicSystems.pdf" target="_blank">Beyond Markets and States: Polycentric Governance of Complex Economic Systems”</a> which suggests a governance model by simply reorienting our system to what is, that there are intermingling multiple centers of activities and influences beyond the notion of markets to guide the commons and society. She underscores the need for new approaches to more accurately understand common pool resources from a simplistic to more comprehensive viewpoint. </p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">“When the world we are trying to explain and improve, however, is not well described by a simple model, we must continue to improve our frameworks and theories so as to be able to understand complexity and not simply reject it.”</p></blockquote><p>Strengthening our capacities to collectively transform our perceptions on a global scale, is necessary.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"the planet is now our programmed learning environment, mirroring back to
humans the global problems we have caused due to our limited
perception. This feedback from planet Earth is forcing us to mature, as
Halal describes in such innovative and useful detail. We are looking at
ourselves and learning to assess in new ways our limited cognition, our
emotions and our continual conscious and sub-conscious processing of
the realities of our condition. The growing calamities of floods,
fires, superstorms, biodiversity losses, species extinctions and more
frequently zoonotic viruses and the COVID-19 Pandemic are Nature’s
current lessons and feedbacks to assist our cognitive and spiritual
development." ~ <a href="https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/book-review-beyond-knowledge-how-technology-is-driving-an-age-of-consciousness/">Hazel Henderson book review </a><span style="color: #0000ee;"><u>BOOK REVIEW: "BEYOND KNOWLEDGE: HOW TECHNOLOGY IS DRIVING AN AGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS"</u></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">What is the nature of this “cognitive and spiritual development” in practice? </p><p style="text-align: left;">A recent <a href="https://www.academia.edu/60117345/The_juxtaposition_of_the_Club_of_Rome_s_search_for_planetary_well_being_and_the_eco_theology_of_J%C3%BCrgen_Moltmann?email_work_card=title" target="_blank">paper</a> by Johan Buitendag at the University of Pretoria in South Africa shares in the same vein stated the challenge from the standpoint between two guiding paradigms in our culture - Science and Religion:</p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p>“The ecological crisis is almost forcing different disciplines to search together for a better world. This places the talk amid the so-called science and religion dialogue in which theology increasingly takes cognisance of empirical research and scientific data and, on the other hand, sciences are becoming increasingly aware of the need to transcend its traditional limitations to find a comprehensive paradigm to come to grips with reality. We all share one Earth: the closer we all come to the point of omega (Teilhard), the closer we also come together. ‘I suggest that we set aside our differences to save the Creation’, observes the naturalist, Edward O. Wilson (2006:4).”</p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p><br /></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;">This level of individual and collective self inquiry and challenging our intellectual framework is needed in order to redefine what it is we are doing, and to reimagine the opportunities born from challenging the the implicit assumptions in our systems and institutions. Indy Johar and his team with <a href="https://darkmatterlabs.org/" target="_blank">Dark Matter Labs</a> are applying new thinking across the board in ways that embody this courageous intellectual leap. Here is an excerpt of <a href="https://embodied-economics.ghost.io/interview-with-dark-matter-labs-founder-indy-johar/" target="_blank">an important conversation </a>he had recently.<br /></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">So we go from the theory of object relationships, and subject
relationships to interdependence. And that is a systemic translation in
who we are, and our recognition of self. And that's difficult, by the
way, because we've been trained to think (and I've been trained to
think) that we possess the problem. I've been trained to think through
the theory of self-sufficiency and other things. So thinking through
boundaries, thinking through nouns and our linguistic frameworks are all
linked.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">So as we move into a world of interdependence, we are at
the birthing period of our relationship with ourselves, our relationship
with the future, because also we have distanced the future — debt
structures are, you know, all these things, predictive models, these are
ways of seeing the world through a linear modality, which I think is at
a point of challenge.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">So that sentence, and those series of
sentences are like a new continuum, in a way, which is emerging — we
have new political and new technological capabilities which are merging
to create a new basis of how we as a civilization transcend ourselves.
So I see it as a transition that we're in the middle of.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps in order to transcend ourselves, and what we can do, we must first define what we see as realistically possible in the system around us, and in order to know how to bring about what we see is possible, and increase the odds of the positive outcomes we desire with our investments, we must both understand how we measure and perceive probabilities. In other words, we must look at the way we think as part of the problem, or the solution. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Yet, there’s the rub, most of us haven’t considered the problem is simply the way we are looking at it.</p><blockquote style="border: medium none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;">There’s a law in physics known as Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle, and it goes something like this: in the realm of small particle science, the small particles themselves are altered by the technology you have to use to find and observe them. It can’t be otherwise. If you expand that by a few orders you get this : However it is that you approach the thing you seek, that thing responds to your approach and your way of seeking, so much so that what you end up finding is the sum of the reactions of the sought-after thing to your way of trying to find it. <i>You find your looking, </i>in other words, <i>you will always see your eyes. </i>What you will find is a faithful rendering of your on consequences. - Stephen Jenkinson <i>Die Wise</i> </p></blockquote><p>The focus on ways the way our mind and brain's structure influences our sense of what is going on on the poles of chaos to coherence inspired Buckminster Fuller comment on the idea of symmetry and oscillating systems, yet feels like the questions he pose also reveal the nature of how we perceive things influences the outcomes we feel possible.</p><p>He wrote in "Synergetics" </p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">'There is no 'noise' or 'static.' There are only only as yet undifferentiated and uncomprehended frequency and magnitude orders. Chaos and ignorance are both conditions of the brain's only sense harvested and stored information as yet unenlightenedly reviewed and comprehendingly processed by the order-seeking and -finding mind.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"Assymetry is the reason that Heisenberg's measurement is always indeterminate. Assymetry is physical. Symmetry is metaphysical.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"All most-economic-pattern systems, asymetric as well as symetric, are resolvable into symmetric components in synergistic accounting.</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"Our seeability is so inherently local that we rarely see anything but the asymmetries. Sociologists have trouble because they are overwhelmed by the high frequency of asymmetries (rather than the only synergetically discoverable principles.)"<br /></p><p>Hazel Henderson in her first book Creating Alternative Futures went to this level of recognition that the very manner and mechanism of our seeing is an impediment to seeing unless recognized.</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">"The ferment Heisenberg caused in physics is now leading to efforts by
Wheeler, Everett, Capra and Wigner and a host of audacious young
physicists to write the observer back into the equation - an overdue
recognition of the most basic of the "hard" sciences that, in a very
real sense, reality is what we pay attention to. In fact, the humanoid
is a perceiving/differentiating device of limited range inevitably
distorts the visioning of the totality. Indeed perhaps original sin is
nothing more than differentiating, out of which grows such communal
grief. Out of more holistic insights we may discover a different view of
probability theory, rooted in the understanding that “randomness” and
“disorder” are only measures of human ignorance. While of peripheral
vision, by the drive of “probabilities,” was an imaginative leap,
perhaps we may also embrace the possibility that those “probabilities”
actually exist, even though we are not paying <i>attention</i> to them,
as the many worlds-interpretation in quantum physics suggests.”</p><p style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> ~ Hazel
Henderson from her book 1976 book "Creating Alternative Futures, the End
of Economics"</p><p>We must expand what we can see, and shift <i>how we see,</i> and even more imporatant challenge the identity story of <i>who is seeing</i> is essential point here. We must rewire the way we think about these things, and the economy and fully embrace our collective identity and narrative is born from the reorientation of the individual experience of self and that informs what we see. Sinceo ur capacity to imagine is somehow limited by our perceptions baked into "the humanoid" which is a perceiving/differentiating device of limited range" the question remains how do we<i> actually expand</i> the range of what we can perceive? </p><p> Well, to begin with, we have to look at the nature of perception itself to know more precisely what it is we are looking to shift and transform. </p>This process of collective reflection, and transformation can be informed by the gifts of ancient wisdom traditions of the east and west who inquired deeply into the nature of mind. These gifts were developed through the millennia by the men and women who were, and are, masters of consciousness in the Greek, Eurasian, Chinese and Indian, and Egyptian Civilizations which predominantly are the seeds of our current worldview. <p>There are a wide range of teachers who have brought about new worldviews at critical turning points in their culture's greatest crises throughout history, which in effect helped not only the civilization's survive but leapfrog to a new, and often better, way of being for life.<br /><br />One of the more obscure of the philosophies of mind and conscious evolution is known as Kashmir Shaivism. For me, the core value of the worldview is one of simple self maturation and self appreciation to fully experience the best we can be. </p><p>This most compelling of the three branches in this context for me is known as the "Doctrine of Self Recognition" or as Socrates said "Know Thyself” Think about this, what was the nature of the part of you who knew what you dreamt when you woke up this morning, and how long the dream was, and how deep your sleep was? Who was that in you who knows and keeps track of all that? It's really simple, it's your essential self awareness. Take a look, who's looking? Your own inner witness, is the intelligence which is the conscious living awareness in all beings. </p><p>on a collective level, we are facing the need for a collective reorientation of the nature of who we are, and our reality, and the nature of our relationship with the womb of earth and all living beings and communities of which we are intrinsically born of - in the same way that we are literally made from the body of our mothers, humanity is simply made of the earth.</p><p>That gap would be to add the "observer" back in the equation of understanding our world, and better ways to live in it, then why not start with knowing who we are first? Or at least have a better sense, simply because it feels to me that the question of "who am I?" will never be completely answered. </p><p>The ideas I’m talking about relate to ideas in wisdom traditions of the east and indigenous cosmology - that the conscious force which created the universe is also the universe which means that we are of that same force. Whatever we call the intelligence behind the universe, is not exterior to us, it is us. When humanity created stories which separated ourselves we </p><p><br /></p><p>My friend of 20 years Sthaneshwar Timalsina has created a foundation to hold the wisdom of gems of India. He told me that he believes that there are about 10,000 people who are intimate with the Himalayan philosophy known as Kashmir Shaivism, which in itself is a wide grouping of philosophical schools. In its essence, the core of the school is the notion that the intelligence which created the universe, is the same exact intelligence which we feel inside as the sense of “me”, and for the religious among us, my first teacher in this system said: “Meditate on yourself, honor yourself, your God dwells within you as you.” In both cases, the reality that there is something about the universe, which includes us, cannot be separated by us. And therefore if the way we see the world affects our relationship with it, then by reflecting on the manner in which we see it to improve it can actually change the world for better by ever challenging ourselves to serve the betterment of life with new vision into our world systems, relationships, designs and institutions. </p><p>I feel it would be a wonderful thing to explore the nature of our own awareness, both individually and collectively, and reflect on how our perceptions can be improved to increase the better outcomes in our portfolios, businesses, families, foundations, universities, government agencies, cities, schools, holy circles, national parks, etc.</p><p> Message me if you want to join the conversation, please share what you have in mind! <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[notes on the metaverse: There’s a public discussion needed on this to address the need for effective governance in the the cryptoverse to not necessarily subsume the reductionist take over of a model of civic society which I feel you agree is inevitably going to fail through the limitations of the worldview and it’s economic blind spots. That’s just as well, it seems since the technoutopian world view leaves ample opportunity for symbiotic complimentary visioning of alternative futures for the economic engine to serve all life and life support systems‘ coherence regeneration and repair.</p><p>This calls forth ideas expressed by visionary economists and systems thinkers such as Elinor Ostrom, Fritjof Capra , Hazel Henderson, Kate Raworth, Indy Johar and groups like Dark Matter Labs, Silicon Valley Block Chain Society, Ethical Markets, CERES, Exo, Singularity, GIIN, Fintech TV, Bloomberg and others to inform a new operating paradigm to perhaps supplant the vision of Meta and Metaversologists to embrace the promise of a different world view, along the lines of Bucky Fuller’s for 100% of humanity. And/or we simply create a platform or a group within META to do the aforementioned, after all what happens when a Trojan horse is created within the walls of the enemy fortress to discover it is more of a conceptual Eleusinian Imaginal cell seeing a better way from within our own mindset?]</p><p><br /></p><p>(Contextual bioregional pilots for systemic regenerative coherence with in-place projects and people in new patterns for relational dynamics in poly centric organizations based on the principles we shared today as different models, fractally applied in myriad versions as a community of practice and praxis. Each bioregion with wisdom of all perspectives and generations implicitly involved in each unique place based context</p><p>I feel we are holding the promise and shared vision to create the agreement field and principles underlying the shared vision and design of whole system of a new relational “cosmology” or story behind such a currency system to embody the vision and redirect value from the fragmented reductionist system of economic thinking to systemic planetary awareness bioregion by bioregion</p><p><br /></p><p>)</p><p><br /></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-82528788836876954362021-09-03T12:27:00.002-07:002021-09-03T12:27:32.953-07:00Plato’s Teacher on Reality<p> Parmenides (On Reality)</p><p>Born around 515 BC., Parmenides, was a citizen of Elea, a small town in the south of Italy. His poem "On Reality" was probably comprised of three parts of which we have only the first two largely intact.</p><p>The first part takes the form of an allegorical poem in which we see the poet, impelled by a strong desire, travel toward the domain of the Goddess, in a chariot pulled by powerful runners. After unveiling their faces for him, the Maidens of light guide him to the "threshold where the roads of Night and of Day converge", and he is allowed to cross it as a result of their intercession. He is then welcomed with benevolence by the Goddess who takes his right hand in hers and commences her teaching.</p><p>The second part, translated here, is the metaphysical section and contains the teaching of the truth.</p><p>The third, which is fragmentary, is the physical part. It represents ignorant public opinion according to which reality is the physical universe which came into existence in the past, exists today, and is destined to disappear one day.</p><p>*****</p><p>Now then, I will instruct you; hear what I say:</p><p>Two paths are open to investigation.</p><p>The first says: being is and nonbeing is not.</p><p>It is the path of certainty, because it follows the truth.</p><p>The other says: being is not, therefore nonbeing is.</p><p>This misdirected path, I tell you, cannot lead to a sound conviction</p><p>For, if this statement were true, it would not be possible for you to conceive of nonbeing, nor to name it.</p><p>Speaking and thinking necessarily arise from being, because being is. And nonbeing is not. I invite you to reflect deeply on this point,</p><p>And to move away, in your search, from that other path</p><p>As from the one traveled by those ignorant mortals</p><p>Who are the men of two minds: the uncertainty which resides in their hearts Misleads their wavering reason. They are swept along,</p><p>Deaf and blind, benighted, the masses without discernment</p><p>Who pretend that being and nonbeing are simultaneously identical</p><p>And different, they for whom, for any statement, the opposite is equally true.</p><p><br /></p><p> No power will ever bring nonbeing into existence.</p><p>So direct your thinking away from this path of exploration.</p><p>May habit, so often resumed, not force you to return to it,</p><p>With eyes blinded, ears filled with noise</p><p>And mouth with words, and may your intelligence alone resolve this contentious issue.</p><p>Only one path remains for us to pursue:</p><p>Being is. And countless signs prove</p><p>That being is free from birth and death</p><p>Because it is complete, immutable and eternal.</p><p>It never was, it never will be, because it is completely whole in the now, One, endless. What beginning, indeed, should we attribute to it? Whence would it evolve? Whither?</p><p>I will not allow you to say or to think that it comes from nothingness, Nor that being is not. What exigency would have brought it forth Later or earlier, from nonbeing?</p><p>Thus, it can only be, absolutely, or not at all.</p><p>Our firm innermost conviction will never admit</p><p>That something can spring forth from nothingness.</p><p>In this way the goddess of Justice, forbidding birth and death,</p><p>Preserves without respite the existence of being. Whereas the question was to resolve Whether being is or is not. We must therefore decide to abandon as false</p><p>The second hypothesis, the path which can neither be thought nor formulated,</p><p>And to hold to the first, which is the path of the truth.</p><p>How could what is, one day cease to be? How could it have, one day, come to be? What is born, is not, neither what is to be born.</p><p>Thus dies birth and thus dies death.</p><p>Within being there remain no differences because it is completely identical to itself. There is not, here, something more that comes to break continuity</p><p>Neither, there, something less: but everything is filled with being.</p><p>Thus it is all continuous: being adjoined to being.</p><p>On the other hand, maintained motionless by powerful links,</p><p>It is without beginning and without end, since birth and death</p><p>Have been rejected as contrary to our intuition of truth.</p><p>Remaining itself, existing within itself, supported by itself,</p><p>Thus, immutable, it remains in the same place because the powerful necessity, Hemming it in from all sides, keeps it firmly unified.</p><p>That is why it is not permitted that being be unfinished,</p><p>Because there is nothing missing in it; unfinished, it would be missing everything! Thought is identical to being, and so it is for the object to which thought refers;</p><p>Thus there is nothing, and there will never be anything, outside of being</p><p>Which Destiny compels to an eternal bliss. Thus,</p><p>To be born and to die, to be or not to be,</p><p><br /></p><p> To change place or appearance,</p><p>All of these events are but names superimposed by man’s ignorance. Being the ultimate, it is everywhere complete.</p><p>Just as an harmoniously round sphere</p><p>Departs equally at all points from its center.</p><p>Nothing can be added to it here nor taken away from it there.</p><p>What is not, cannot interrupt it’s homogeneous existence.</p><p>What is, cannot possess it more or less. Out of all reach, Everywhere identical to itself, beyond all limits, it is.</p><div><br /></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-25029164130222183912021-07-10T22:36:00.005-07:002021-07-10T22:36:36.283-07:00ancient now, as tea wisdom cultures live today just as ancients did eons ago<iframe src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/174787880" width="640" height="360" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/174787880">The Ancient Tea Road</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/ictvsolferino">ICTV</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-70408408846255301322021-05-31T12:30:00.001-07:002021-05-31T12:30:11.642-07:00Shodoka: Song of Enlightenment - Yoka Daishi - Zen Buddhism<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GMV0reR01Jo/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/GMV0reR01Jo" frameborder="0"></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-52961992793918315562021-05-30T02:14:00.001-07:002021-05-30T02:14:49.080-07:00SOUND ALCHEMY Documentary - Hermetic Sound Science - Egyptian Roots of M...<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nQ83XWLKz7c/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/nQ83XWLKz7c" frameborder="0"></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-26882307144785176292007-05-05T11:48:00.000-07:002021-05-10T12:25:37.822-07:00Collective Bodhisattva Metamorphosis?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeqwWq40YvdMDIR15kHBEAi8WWL-hL6uWG1ckp3vDbLS9TAF_GzrslKKu6msVXFe6XtsXg3byHgGyre0iwuftbeH6fTq6q5TYl8R4_MiK2fRzEJk55fKJ-QvmMbTjGx1fz7re/s1600-h/butterfly_l.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5061156170764297522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBeqwWq40YvdMDIR15kHBEAi8WWL-hL6uWG1ckp3vDbLS9TAF_GzrslKKu6msVXFe6XtsXg3byHgGyre0iwuftbeH6fTq6q5TYl8R4_MiK2fRzEJk55fKJ-QvmMbTjGx1fz7re/s320/butterfly_l.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br /><br /><br />Here on a magnificent spring Saturday in Santa Monica I find myself once again pondering over the mystery of “why did we create this for ourselves?” And I can only agree with the assertion “homo sapiens sapiens is at present - undergoing a metamorphosis.<div><br /></div><div>The essence of what I’m feeling is related to the concept that many of the ideas, thoughts, and practices which emphasize the “Anima” side of our collective, is to be reintegrated into the human zeitgeist, social experience, and the economy.<br /><br />The core of our malaise at this moment is briefly summed up in the truth that we have built our civilization with a business relationship with nature, and with each other, rather than a REVERENCE relationship with nature, and each other.<br /><br />The way Women in matriarchal and matrilineal groups interacted, and ordered society – among women first, and then in the broader collective – has been metaphorically part of the “baby” thrown out with the societal bathwater as our civilization abandoned old ways of being. And relational influences guided by the feminine mindset which I feel are particularly needed in our current cultural context, and the feminine mind can be inspired in both men and women.<br /><br />In particular this line of reasoning intersects where the typical discussion of "enlightenment" falls short. I find that it is still focused on the concept of enlightenment of the "individual" as a subjective separate identity, where our experience in reality is that the expression is found, and expressed by "enlightened beings" in a more "collective" fashion. Is there really a "you" or "me" or "we?" <br /><br />Paradoxically, the three coexist as a triad, and mysteriously it appears that for us as "individuals", in order to "ascend" we must blend our "individual" mind with the Shamanic "collective dream mind" as a natural part of the "process of enlightenment." <br /><br />This is something akin to the Bodhisattva awareness. This is the hallmark of this time, "group consciousness" "group think" "intersubjective field" ( see past blog entries cited below.) Naturally, my concept of group think is far different than the historical attempts of societies to apply "groupthink" as a tool of oppressive archetypal thought forms - typically found with the suffix "ism" at the end of it.<br /><br />I'll leave you with a quote from Leonard Shlain's new book -<a href="http://www.sextimeandpower.com/"> "Sex, Time, and Power: How Women's Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution"</a><br /><br /><br />"In Buddhist tradition, many enlightened souls elect to return to this world and serve as bodhisattvas. They teach and give aid to alleviate the suffering of the unawakened. The Buddhists frequently use the metaphor of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly to describe poetically this transformation of the individual. Could it be that the entire human species began its existence as a collective caterpillar? As we enter our most environmentally rapacious stage, are we on the verge of transforming into the metaphorical equivalent of a butterfly? Perhaps, as a result of our transformation, individuals within our species will increasingly behave like bodhisattva and act to heal our relationship with nature and with each other."<br /><br />I agree!<br /><a href="http://wakeupdream.blogspot.com/2007/03/evolution-of-intersubjective-field.html"><br />“The Evolution of The Intersubjective Field”</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://wakeupdream.blogspot.com/2007/01/what-makes-you-feel-as-good-as-sex-or.html">“What makes you feel good as sex or chocolate?”</a> <br /><a href="http://sustainablewealth.blogspot.com/2006/11/new-book-great-turning-from-empire-to.html"><br />“New Book: The Great Turning From Empire to Earth Community”</a> <br /><a href="http://sustainablewealth.blogspot.com/2006/10/evolve-or-learn-to-be-evolution.html"><br />“Evolve? Or learn to Be Evolution?” </a> <br /><a href="http://wakeupdream.blogspot.com/2006/12/from-pro-creation-to-co-creation.html"><br />"From Pro-Creation to Co-Creation”</a></div>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-58333448001220333592021-04-25T18:26:00.004-07:002021-04-25T18:29:04.011-07:00Beyond your mind bright light I AM says The Inner Eye AM sees ALL<p>I have experienced dreams of light which are similarly described in this: <a href="https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-Heaven-is-gonna-burn-your-eyes-mean">https://www.quora.com/What-does-the-phrase-Heaven-is-gonna-burn-your-eyes-mean</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Now I know what the song refers to </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhd18wYoObzwe8wXCROxFWlGuO-BpmmziAasIC_-rHLHI3EY379gfeIYeQ-MsYgCj-s3EnzJUt1nnhyf_kbDyPmw9MDUPdokfR5PBf3nlXOviz9S325X5zsJf8Un92nif9AVN/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2436" data-original-width="1125" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLhd18wYoObzwe8wXCROxFWlGuO-BpmmziAasIC_-rHLHI3EY379gfeIYeQ-MsYgCj-s3EnzJUt1nnhyf_kbDyPmw9MDUPdokfR5PBf3nlXOviz9S325X5zsJf8Un92nif9AVN/" width="111" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-12520644618879303402021-02-23T10:13:00.001-08:002021-02-23T10:13:37.462-08:00The heart of the cosmos inside us<p> This book - "<a href="https://www.laurelhovde.com/Design/The-Triadic-Heart-of-Siva.pdf" target="_blank">The Triadic Heart of Shiva</a>" is a commentary on Abhinavagupta's writings on the most esoteric wisdom traditions of awakening to our true nature. It outlines the most esoteric practice of seeing the very center of our being as connected to all dimensions of reality. And through entering our heart, with an open expansive attitude, with love, we can find ourselves at the heart of all sacred places, and energies.</p><p>Here's an essential direct translation from the original sanskrit from about 800 years ago, an excerpt expressing the vision of one who has awakened to the infinite inside of their own being:</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="font-family: serif; left: 64.4px; top: 607.8px; transform: scaleX(0.973344);">"My Heart, which is composed of the emission of the quivering flashing condition </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 63.2px; top: 625.4px; transform: scaleX(0.94962);">of the union of the Mother and Father, whose body is full, which generates </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 63.2px; top: 643px; transform: scaleX(0.940087);">that concealed light which has five faces, producing the great and quite new </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 63.2px; top: 660.6px; transform: scaleX(0.955347);">manifestation, which is the abode of the stainless manifesting energies, because </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 678.2px; transform: scaleX(0.957285);">of its quivering and throbbing, is the supreme immortal group</span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 450.405px; top: 678.2px; transform: scaleX(0.932592);"> (kula). </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 695.8px; transform: scaleX(0.956327);">Within whom all this universe appears, appearing as the external luminous </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.4px; top: 713.4px; transform: scaleX(0.973255);">projection during the process of manifestation. Situated in the Supreme, </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 731px; transform: scaleX(0.955189);">which is trembling, which is immovable, to Her I bow down, the one Goddess </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 748.6px; transform: scaleX(0.926439);">who is the perception of one's own Self. </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 767px; transform: scaleX(0.940171);">She, who when placed in the Heart, causes to appear the triad which consists </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.8px; top: 784.6px; transform: scaleX(0.981953);">of the man, the power and Siva. I make obeisance to Her, who is the Supreme, the </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.4px; top: 802.2px; transform: scaleX(0.970603);">unequalled light of the Self, who is splendorous illumination and astonishment. </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62.4px; top: 819.8px; transform: scaleX(0.945245);">Glory to the One of priceless greatness, who rules the hosts of liberated beings, </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62px; top: 837.4px; transform: scaleX(0.964242);">the blessed primordial teacher, Sambhu, the benevolent One, Sri Kantha, the </span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 62px; top: 855px; transform: scaleX(0.992801);">supreme Lord."</span><span style="font-family: serif; left: 152.643px; top: 853.455px; transform: scaleX(0.932985);"></span></b></i></span></p>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-22053226839676322382020-02-04T19:03:00.006-08:002021-02-03T13:31:21.788-08:00You are, We are, I am the great perfection. Simply that.<a href="https://www.lionsroar.com/you-are-the-great-perfection/?mc_cid=1fd2b6f98e&mc_eid=9cf7a56c51">This great article from Lions Roar</a> by by <a class="author url fn" href="https://www.lionsroar.com/author/yongey-mingyur-rinpoche/" rel="author" title="Posts by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche">Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche</a><span class="date"><span class="sep"></span></span> outlines the essence of Dzogchen.<br />
"<i>You are already perfect."</i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">"In fact, there’s no difference between your true nature, right now as you sit reading this, and the true nature of the buddha, or any enlightened being for that matter.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">That’s the view of Dzogchen, a Tibetan word that means “Great Perfection.” Dzogchen is treasured above all other practices in the Nyingma school of Vajrayana Buddhism because it helps us connect directly with our own enlightened nature.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This Great Perfection is you right now, right here in this moment, not some fully developed you after you do a lot more meditation.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">Your essence, and the essence of every living creature, is pure, whole, and complete. There’s nothing missing, and that’s why we call it the Great Perfection. YOU are the Great Perfection. Don’t forget that. Dzogchen is talking about you. This Great Perfection is you right now, right here in this moment, not some fully developed you after you do a lot more meditation.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">In Dzogchen, we call this enlightened nature rigpa, or pure awareness. Unlike some approaches in which buddhanature is taught in a more theoretical way, and you need to study and meditate for a long time to figure out what it is, Dzogchen is experiential. You get introduced to pure awareness directly, right on the spot.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">A traditional way to describe Dzogchen is in terms of the ground, the path, and the fruition.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Great Perfection is our true nature, whether we realize it or not. That’s the ground of Dzogchen. It’s the reality of our experience and who we are.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">But that doesn’t help if we don’t experience it for ourselves. The way to do that is by having this pure awareness introduced to us, and then getting familiar with it until it becomes stable and enduring. That process is the path.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Then, once we’re familiar with our own true nature, once we’ve realized it fully and integrated it into every aspect of our lives, we will fully manifest the enlightened qualities that were there all along. That’s the fruition.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Ground of Dzogchen</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">It might be a little unclear what this “true nature” really is, so let me explain a bit more about the ground.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">When we use all these fancy terms like “buddhanature” and “pure awareness,” what are we actually talking about? Well, there are three main qualities to look for here. We refer to these as the “empty essence,” “luminous nature,” and “all-pervasive compassion.” That’s the ground, your true nature.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“Empty essence” means that the true nature of mind, the essence of pure awareness, transcends all our ideas, concepts, and beliefs. It is utterly beyond all our suffering and problems. It is completely free. The term for this is “innate purity”—the essence of who we are was, is, and always will be perfect. It’s completely pure, and nothing can change that.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This empty essence is ungraspable, beyond our ordinary way of seeing things, but it’s not nothing. There is also a luminous, knowing presence. This is what we call the “luminous nature.” Sometimes it’s called “self-clarity,” because this clarity is spontaneous and natural. It’s just there, all the time. Even when we’re asleep, distracted, or completely neurotic. It’s there.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The empty essence and clear nature are one and the same. They’re inseparable. This inseparability is the third quality of the ground, which we call “all-pervasive compassion.” This open, spacious clarity manifests as all our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, just like the sun radiates light. These experiences, in fact all of our experiences, are none other than the manifestations or play of pure awareness.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Path of Dzogchen</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">But what good does just knowing this do us? Not much. That’s why we need a path. We need to translate this from nice words and ideas to an actual experience.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Dzogchen path is really quite simple. That’s not to say it’s easy, but it is simple.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The only thing we need to do is to recognize this pure inner nature. We need to experience it for ourselves. That’s it. If we want to make it a little more complicated, we could say that first we need to have pure awareness introduced to us, and then we become familiar with it.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">So, how does that happen?</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This is where a teacher becomes important. There’s a lot going on in our minds. We have all sorts of memories and reactions, emotions and expectations. In short, we have monkey mind.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Seeing the subtle quality of empty clarity in the midst of all this mental activity isn’t easy. If it were, we would have recognized rigpa a long time ago! But a skilled teacher who has recognized pure awareness in him or herself, and who holds an authentic lineage, can point it out to us. They can help us find our way through all the complexities of the mind to see this simple, ever present reality.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">You might think that because you are already perfect, because this awakened nature is fully present as the very nature of your mind, then you don’t need to meditate or practice. Nothing could be further from the truth. The trick is how you practice. You still need to meditate, but meditate effortlessly. You still need to practice, but practice naturalness.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Rather than practicing with the notion that there’s some level to achieve beyond where you are right now, the main practice is learning to trust that this original purity is always present, especially when it feels like it isn’t. Every step you take on the path should reinforce your trust that pure awareness is right here, right now. Until your recognition is unshakeable, you still need to do formal practice.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">The Fruition of Dzogchen</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">As I said, the core of the path is simply recognizing the nature of mind and coming back to that recognition again and again, until it’s as familiar as an old friend. If you do that, there will come a time when you’ve experienced this pure awareness so thoroughly and completely that you never lose touch with it. When you’re meditating, you’re meditating in pure awareness. When you’re eating, you’re eating in pure awareness. Even when you’re sleeping, you’re still resting in the recognition of pure awareness.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">That’s what we call “full realization,” the fruition of the path. At this point, all the qualities of the ground, your true enlightened nature, become manifest. These were there all along, but because you didn’t know they were, it was almost as though they didn’t exist. But now you know them. You know them thoroughly and completely. Perfect wisdom, boundless compassion, the spontaneous capacity to benefit others—all of these manifest.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This fruition is simply the full expression of your true nature. It’s as though you go out and travel the whole world, looking and searching high and low for some peace of mind. But in the end, you come home and realize that everything you were looking for was right where you started. That’s the Great Perfection.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Practice: Dzogchen</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-size: large;">The trickiest part of Dzogchen practice is that it is not something we can do. The whole point is that we are learning to recognize what is already there, while our “doing” impulse is based on the assumption that who and what we are in the present moment needs improvement. So how do we put this into practice?</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Dzogchen meditation involves three important qualities: effortlessness, presence, and naturalness. In traditional terms, these three are called non-meditation, non-distraction, and non-fabrication.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">To connect with effortlessness, we shift from a mode of “doing” to one of “being.” We let go of the impulse to fiddle with the knobs of experience and give ourselves permission to simply be. We rest in effortless awareness.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">But while we rest in effortless awareness, we are not lost or distracted. We are fully present, alert and aware. This presence is the second quality. It’s not something we need to make happen. It’s already here, with us all the time. When we drop the effort and simply rest, we’re giving ourselves the opportunity to recognize the open clarity of awareness, to be this open clarity.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing can diminish this effortless awareness. All our thoughts, emotions, perceptions, and impulses arise from this knowing presence, and dissolve back into it. For this reason, we do not need to create any special state of mind to experience the mind’s innate purity. We don’t need to block our thoughts and emotions or control the movements of our attention. Just be as you are.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">This is the third quality—naturalness. We let everything unfold without trying to correct, alter, or improve anything.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">As we grow more comfortable with resting in awareness, these qualities of effortlessness, presence, and naturalness will emerge, and we will slowly come to see that this spacious awareness is who we truly are.</span></i>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-9207520789797506272011-02-02T11:30:00.000-08:002020-10-27T22:36:40.955-07:00Making your mind imperturbable = inner mastery.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mm3CmNE72Bw" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-10977155287986075962020-10-03T11:31:00.004-07:002020-10-03T11:32:07.327-07:00A path of reflection to find your own happiness!<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p0p1fjLPjYQ" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33516178.post-12041823503790663592020-07-22T21:43:00.002-07:002020-08-07T21:34:07.045-07:00Riding the Ships of our Shared Delight... <div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Please read the following passage with the following perspective in mind first, then in a conventional sense as you would to a team you serve.</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">As the leader of all of your sub personalities- I invite you to read the following, with each of them in mind, as if you are reading this on stage to all the parts of yourself, as the team navigating spaceship called you</span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"><div>You are the Captain </div><div>and the crew </div><div>and the ship </div><div>made of pure light and love </div><div>sailing in the ocean </div><div>of your own </div><div>dream cosmos</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Tuner adjusting the flow, revealing the gift.</div></span></div>
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">The artist of spirit chiseling away the illusion for each one of us,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Clearing the crusty barnacles of old memories past,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Revealing the real, embracing the pristine ships</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ready to sail forth on our joyous journey,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Together we embark as love.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Seer synthesizing the vision, tracking the star maps</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Plotting our course, knowing the networks and illuminating the pattern</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Connect the dots and painting the picture,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Of the future manifest we hold so openly in the present.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Listener attuning to the necessary, feeling the patterns of the flow.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Recognizing the hearts' nourishment, following the fragrant threads of light,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Which illuminate the path of cultural evolution.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Feeling the heart of all as it pulses with innate rhythm, dancing joyous evolution.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Conductor curating the flow, synergizing the systems and</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Orchestrating the harmonies of the emerging timelines.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Manifesting the collective magnificence born</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">From dynamic cooperation with your seamless choreography.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Inspiring the teams with radiant heart minds, clear eyed warrior of light coordinating the choir.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Sayer singing the meaning, sounding the resonance of joy.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Living lyrical awakenings through the voice of the heart.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Celebrating the deeper metaphors shared through song, stage and screen.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Awakening the hearts' return to soulful nutrients long forgotten.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Unveiling the grand gala of free spirits on a mission to serve our collective destiny.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Servant leader, never alone, ever listening to the team.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Heart centered you guide us into the unknown as we each discover our own meaning with this mysterious destiny.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Ever refining the essence of leadership, curiously discovering it is you.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Your revealed greatness lays the path for the greatness of all.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Leapers eternally surrendering to the leap of love,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Feel the power, feelers.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">"Feel the Know," feelers say!</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Our expansion expands us, as we ride the waves of time.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We evolve our flow, weaving the threads of love.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Growing the tapestry of the heart based culture.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We are visionaries peering through the spectacle</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Of our collective novelty, a Hubble microscope...</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We, fully living the possibility felt in our hearts,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Forge the tools and build the ships to sail to distant horizons seen and unseen, eons away.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">From a community of landed architects, theorists and cogitators, anchored on the shore,</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We, visionary sailors follow our full hearts, trusting.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We set sail on the holy ark of our destiny.</span><br />
<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">We seeing, feeling and hearing, courageously create the space for all to ride into the sea of the loving heart.</span><br />
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<span face="" style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">- a poem I wrote years ago... feels like I wrote it for today.</span>Greghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05195510631505906226noreply@blogger.com0