r as inanimate, to imply that the female, earthly side of things is inert, is just an object.
If we want to really throw a monkeywrench into the workings of the patriarchy, then we should stop speaking as though matter is in any way, at any depth, inanimate or inert.
Every indigenous, oral culture that we know of - every culture that has managed to sustain itself over the course of many centuries without destroying the land that supports it - simply refuses to draw such a distinction between animate and inanimate matter. David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implication
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low you to thrive. Tune into the heart, honor its knowing
and guidance, and then use the head to assist in the fulfillment
of your hearts authentic direction.
We see more, feel more and connect more. We bring in greater events
and people into our lives. We are intrinsically happy which inspires
greater happiness and opportunities. It is an upward cycle.
To choose fear or anger means we close our hearts. We find fault,
complain, fight, feel like a victim and invite suffering. Closing our
heart shuts down our internal energy. Life feels like a struggle;
events take more effort and few seem satisfying.
To choose love, opens our hearts, which amplifies our internal
energy. We see more, feel more and connect more. We bring in greater
events and people into our lives. We are intrinsically happy which
inspires greater happiness and opportunities. It is an upward cycle.
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n ordering that comes from a new Blue that is visioned and designed from a higher perspective of post-modern or 2nd tier thinking. The new Pope is shifting into Green and out of the jesuitical punitive mode of Blue and much of Christianity elsewhere has made that shift somewhat. Some parts of Islam have too, and the parts that you complain of regularly have not and are still in Red-Blue tribal and one-right-way thinking.
The necessary shift comes from a revisioning of spirituality which could still have a Christian perspective or any other religious tradition as its language, but is seen from a quite different sense of the relationship between human body and the spiritual world.
This is what I am articulating in "The Science of Possibility".
We have to reframe the old division between physical/material and energetic/spiritual in a way that recognises that we are simultaneously both, and that a part of our being lives at the interface. It gets called soul, as if that is separate or higher self, as if that is purely internal. The reality is that we are continually oscillating in and out of the layer of connectedness, because our electrons and positrons are moving back and forth between matter and source energy. Some people perceive the porousness of this boundary; most do not. Science does not know how to recognise it even though the evidence is abundant. For a healthy future, Western Civilisation needs to allow this viewpoint to reframe its view of religion in a way which recognises that all religions are cultural metaphors that assist us in interpreting our relationship with each other and the Divine realm. When that happens, all viewpoints will be chioces and all equally right. All will provide a useful moral fabric and none will require us to fight over them.
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fter his first breakthrough discoveries. I can show you what I mean by updating how he posed it.
Start with the DNA equivalent of 715 megabytes of information contained in everyone of the body’s estimated 50 million million cells.
Move on to a person with a brain more complex than anything else organic in the known universe.
From there proceed to a mind that, indubitably, is utterly dependent on that brain, but, in ways we still haven’t managed to explain, is indisputably more than “just a brain.”
Assemble a world of 7-plus-billion of these minds and organized them into 6,000 separate cultures.
After that, factor in the reality that we are swimming in the wake of, and sometimes mid-stream of, the 100,000 distinct systems of belief and meaning-formation conjured by the mind since the beginning of consciousness."
Dudley Lynch - 16 Sept 2014 -
When HE first envisioned the leap: how the late Clare Graves saw SENSE where so many before had seen only NONSENSE.
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the milestones reached in the last year alone have been exceptional.
DeepMind, the British AI company owned by Google, has defeated the world champion at Go, the ancient game that requires a finely-tuned sense of intuition to master. Driverless cars now seem like an inevitability rather than a curiosity. Error rates on image recognition technology have dropped from 25pc in 2011 to less than 4pc.
AI is graduating from theory and academic papers to everyday life. If the last 10 years has been defined by the plummeting costs of microprocessors and sensors that have made smartphones a commodity product, the future is about building intelligent systems that can make them more powerful.
Ergo, the companies that will profit might not be the ones with expertise in hardware design, but those who can build software that talks back.
The missing name here is Apple. The undisputed victor of the smartphone-building wars, in profit and influence if not quite in market share, Apple’s expertise when it comes to AI is less clear.
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space beyond is both pure and revered. On the ground a pace inside the gateway we have placed the Chiriana [dust hole], where one may dispose of mental dust/rubbish, such as selfish desires, before embarking on ones journey round the garden.
Winding paths lead from the entrance past the water garden to other..., and the element of mystery created reflects the mystery of the universe which we may contemplate whilst walking or sitting in one of the seating areas placed around the garden. This journey is a physical and sensory experience. Our eyes follow the stone paths, our ears hear the sound of our footsteps on the gravel and we feel connected to the earth. The canopy provided by the old willows creates an enclosed, sheltered, protected space in which we feel comfortable and relaxed. Water reflects the sky and the sound of running water stimulates our awareness of being alive, of being connected to the universe. In this calm yet vital environment we are able to examine our inner feelings and understand them.
Our senses offer a gateway to our inner being. As the pathways interconnect so the streams flow above and below ground, disappearing in one place to reappear further along, and the dry riverbeds of summer glisten and run during the wetter periods.
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