s compassion for myself in another
form. It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering — the suffering you feel is real
suffering, just as the other person is suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering
in themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way to reduce the other person’s
suffering, and your own. If the other person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because
you’ve reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.
That’s a powerful thing.
And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion.
But that’s the only kind there is.
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n way of seeing it." Michael O'Callaghan
The Global Vision movie is an impressionistic musical feature film conceived as a collective self-portrait of Humankind and the biosphere – a concept without precedent in art or motion picture history. It will also be the first feature film to be collectively designed by its own audience on the web.The content will form a mythopoeic sales pitch for a sustainable civilisation, and an artistic attempt to express our human identity at the dawn of the global age, in an inspiring way that is meaningful for the global public. Looking at the pattern that connects humankind, the biosphere, technology, and the collective unconscious, the film is also a metaphor about the connection between the world situation and one's own way of seeing.Now in development for theatrical release.
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ystems theory on the one hand, and on the other, a currently emerging initiative called Global Balance which aims to move human civilisation into a more co-operative way of behaving, bringing all parts of the system into balance for a sustainable future. It concludes that the emergence of a global system designed to meet the needs of all, is a natural part of the evolution of the human species. By learning from evolutionary biology, social change agents can create the natural design that will allow human civilisation to develop its next scale of co-operation "... I would applaud the fact that he has published his integral take
on the world of work and have downloaded a Kindle edition of his
"WHY WORK?" and shall of course keep people updated accordingly,
on his views of that which I believe is particularly important for my
soulmate and I's own children and their children's children.
An Experiment in a Complex Change Initiative
In 2009 we engaged in the 2020 Climate Leadership Campaign, led by the State of the World Forum, and aiming to engage policy makers, business and citizens in a commitment to achieve 80% CO2 reduction by 2020.
We worked on a three-day event that ended up being about 240 people from different sectors of society and different countries, 90 international and the rest were Brazilians, a mix of context and sectors of society, and a mix of age groups. So quite a diverse group of people looking to create some coherence – not just connection to a vision although that’s a very important prerequisite but a shared framework for collaboration on what we need to work on.
80% reduction in CO2 from pre-industrial levels by 2020 was an ambitious target, one which none of the political community are really talking realistically about but which a significant percentage of the scientific community say is what actually needs to happen if we’re going to keep the planet under 2 degrees warming. When we got there, we were challenged by the location, which wasn’t ideal, as well as by the leadership of the initiative which was very emergent, to put it politely – moving targets, changing contexts, a changing landscape pretty quickly. There was little which we could rely on as being fixed, down to the last minute really. We were designing and adapting on the fly as we went.
In the design team itself, of course, there were different interest and perspectives. People get to meet each other a few days before the event and then we have a pre- design. We had to get to know each other and get a process that would work for the diversity of participants and the ambitious goals of the campaign.
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Added by Michael Grove at 12:19 on December 20, 2019
aith that governed over the feudal economy with the
Age of Reason. Theologians and philosophers have continued to battle over faith vs.
reason ever since, their debates often spilling over into the cultural and political arenas, with
profound consequences for society.
Today, however, at the outset of a global economy and the biosphere era, a new generation
of scientists, scholars, and social reformers are beginning to challenge some of the
underlying assumptions of both the Age of Faith and the Age of Reason, taking us into the
Age of Empathy.
The empathic advocates argue that, for the most part, both earlier narratives about human
nature fail to plumb the depths of what makes us human and therefore leave us with
cosmologies that are incomplete stories—that is, they fail to touch the deepest realities of
existence. That’s not to dismiss the critical elements that make the stories of faith and
reason so compelling. It’s only that something essential is missing—and that something is
“embodied experience.”
In the empathic civilization, spirituality invariably replaces religiosity. Spirituality is a deeply personal journey of discovery in which empathic experience—as a general rule—becomes the guide to making connections, and becomes the means to foster transcendence."
ALL hail to Jeremy Rifkin, the Huffington Post and the Royal Society of Arts in London
... and if that's enough to convince us that A NEW GAIA IS on the right track then
Taking Back OUR lives from the Wall Street Mafia - should be the order of the day!!??
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s compassion for myself in another form.
It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering —
the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is
suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering in
themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself
when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way
to reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other
person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve
reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see
them suffer. That’s a powerful thing.
And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of
compassion. But that’s the only kind there is.
…
s compassion for myself in another form.
It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering —
the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is
suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering
in themselves. So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself
when you see someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way
to reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other
person opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve
reached out and let them know that you too suffer when you see
them suffer. That’s a powerful thing. And so you ease your own
suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of compassion. But that’s the
only kind there is.
…
s compassion for myself in another form.
It’s another self-compassion method.
Imagine the pain you feel when you see someone else suffering -
the suffering you feel is real suffering, just as the other person is
suffering. Yet, most people don’t actually ease that suffering
in themselves.
So, how do you ease that suffering in yourself when you see
someone else suffering?
You reach out, empathize, make a connection, and look for a way to
reduce the other person’s suffering, and your own. If the other person
opens up, that’s great. If not, that’s OK, because you’ve reached out
and let them know that you too suffer when you see them suffer.
That’s a powerful thing.
And so your ease your own suffering, and it’s a selfish sort of
compassion. But that’s the only kind there is.
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ey truly are. When a woman is connected to her Feminine Power . . .
She has become the most authentic version of herself
She has discovered her higher purpose or calling
She has confidence in her own ability to create the resources she needs to thrive
She has relationships that mirror her value
She has a richly rewarding personal life filled with intimacy and connection
She is spiritually connected and attuned to her own inner compass
She's able to attract the support she needs to fulfill her highest calling
She has the ability to empower others in her family, community, the larger world and more . . .
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cting women in art has evolved dramatically but remained a key theme over time. It is funny to think that such a small and simple artifact can have such a huge importance in history and be so highly revered when it looks as though a five year old could make it with play-doh. But I think it ultimately reflects the evolution of the human brain and the way it works as various cultures progress and develop. The people of the Paleolithic cultures value fertility in a woman above all, but hundreds of years later, let’s say English people of the Middle Ages nobility, value obedience and wealth in addition to fertility. As cultural values transform, the impact they have an artistic themes and elements shifts as well.By examining the lineage of the “Venus” figures, you can see this notion take shape, from Venus of Willendorf to Venus de Milo to Venus of Urbino.
What is also interesting as you refer back to often, is the concept of symbolism. Almost every archaeological discovery has an attached symbolic meaning of some sort. Who is to say what hair symbolizes? Can it not just be a simple depiction?Personally, I think that using symbolism is an important tool for archaeologists to help piece together bits of information to form a whole picture and further develop their understanding of a culture that we have little connection to.
http://anthropology.msu.edu/anp264-ss13/2013/03/28/venus-of-willendorf/
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