an change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
As Elisabet Sahtouris has said in - Ecosophy: Nature’s Guide to a Better World
In this truly cosmic model, the Greeks believed that if we knew how
the greater cosmos was organized, we would know how to organize
our human cosmos. The greater cosmos came out of chaos, which was
not seen as the disorder for which we use the word chaos, but as the
unpatterned no-thing-ness of the universal source, the infinite
potential (chaos, more as in today’s chaos theory) within which all
arises. Thus, the matter of how cosmos-as-order arose and functions
is of supreme importance for human life.
Although ‘The Great Wave’ is often seen as typically Japanese, in fact
it mixes influences from both east and west. Hokusai’s imagination
had been captured in his youth by his discovery of European-style
perspective. Now, aged about seventy, he adapted European
perspective in a very inventive way, playing games in the image
between the relative sizes of the large storm wave in the foreground
and tiny Mount Fuji in the distance. Japanese prints such as 'The Great Wave' influenced Western artists
such as Whistler, van Gogh and Monet. During the 20th century and
beyond, the image has spread even more widely into popular culture
and has been frequently replicated and adapted. It is even painted as
a mural on a house in Camberwell, South London. This British
Museum Exhibit is a unique opportunity to delve into the story
behind this iconic work, learn how Hokusai made ‘The Great Wave’,
and discover how the print has become a truly global inspiration.
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om any form of conceptual engagement with the mind. Allow your attention to become vast, wide, open, and clear. In that wide-open space, all kinds of things may come and go—thoughts, emotions, physical sensations—but don't focus your attention on any of them. Let your awareness expand in all directions, until it becomes so vast that you're paying attention to everything at the same time while not focusing on anything in particular. Keep letting your attention expand until awareness itself becomes the object of your attention. Keep letting your attention expand to infinity, until all the structures of the created universe begin to crumble and you start seeing through everything. Finally, when everything falls away, you will awaken, in your own experience, to the unborn, unmanifest Ground of Being, the empty void out of which the whole manifest world sprang into existence. In this place, nothing has ever happened. The universe has not yet emerged; you have not been born; even time itself has not yet begun. When you find this limitless no-place, then your deepest sense of yourself and of life itself will change from one of imprisonment and limitation to one of unqualified freedom.
~ Andrew Cohen…
ap. Now over 250 million people are utilising this infinitely flexible tool and its applications have multiplied to span all areas of education, business and home life.
In this latest collaboration with creator of iMindMap software and author of GRASP The Solution, Chris Griffiths, the inventor of Mind Maps explores and defines their relevance today.
You will learn both the theory and the practise of an infinitely versatile technique from the inventor himself and world experts in the field of innovative thinking.
Discover how to update your thinking by using:
- Powerful, practical applications for Mind Mapping in everyday life- Different thinking modes to find better solutions- Simple memory techniques to drastically improve your recall- Daydreaming processes to generate huge creative leaps
With a collective 60 years of research and experience, Tony Buzan and Chris Griffiths will show you how to take the most powerful thinking tool available and use it to turbo-charge your creativity, productivity and success in the modern age.
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losing your house from the added financial burden?
If you were to have a serious disagreement with a coworker, would it end up changing your overall work culture?
If a forest were to be struck by lightning, would it turn into a raging forest fire that wipes out half the forest?
If your country elected a demagogue, would it cause the country to descend into an autocracy? Robb Smith - Integral LIFE
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as atomized knowledge by dividing it into disciplines, subdisciplines, and sub-subdisciplines—breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances. The trend has serious ramifications. Understanding the nature of knowledge, its unity, its varieties, its limitations, and its uses and abuses is necessary for the success of democracy… We must reform higher education to reconstruct the unity and value of knowledge.[15]
This is not a problem isolated in the ivy towers of universities. It is an acute problem also for all of us, who have personbyte and firmbyte limits, but who also need to understand a world that is rapidly changing due to science, technology, and globalization.
The bio-social-physical you and me are never outside the matrix, but in this scientific and philosophical exercise we seem to stand away, looking down on the matrix from above. So far as we know, no other entity in the universe has achieved this capacity, and it is in this domain that humans are no longer middling creatures of the matrix. Our self-transcendence, realized especially through the progress in science and economics, art and culture, is a super and completely natural emergent phenomena. We come to understand the matrix from the inside out, though the matrix knows nothing of us.[15] V. Gregorian, V., “Colleges Must Reconstruct the Unity of Knowledge.” Chronicle of Higher Education 50(39): B12. 2004.
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es, social calm and liberal democracy, we need to upgrade our meaning making to match the complexity of the world we are creating.
Metamodernity is an alternative to both modernity and postmodernism, a cultural code that presents itself as an opportunity if we work deliberately towards it. It contains both indigenous, premodern, modern, and postmodern cultural elements and thus provides social norms and a moral fabric for intimacy, spirituality, religion, science, and self-exploration, all at the same time.
Metamodernity provides us with a framework for understanding ourselves and our societies in a much more complex way. It is a way of strengthening local, national, continental, and global cultural heritage among all and thus has the potential to dismantle the fear of losing one’s culture as the economy as well as the internet and exponential technologies are disrupting our current modes of societal organisation and governance.
Metamodernity will thus allow us to be meaning making at a deeper emotional level and a higher intellectual level compared to today; [IT] will allow us more complex understanding, which may match the com- plexity of the problems we need to solve. Appropriate meaning making is the best prevention against the frustrations that generally lead to authoritarian ideologies and societal instability.
Using metamodernity as the filter through which we see the world and as a template, we can create, among other things, new and appropriate education, pol- itics and institutions for our societies of the 21st century. A VISION such as this may even give hope.
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