d I am in the world.
I am part of nature, and nature is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with all living things. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the web of life on the planet.
I am part of society, and society is part of me. I am what I am in my communication and communion with my fellow humans. I am an irreducible and coherent whole with the community of humans on the planet.
I am more than a skin-and-bone material organism: mybody, and its cells and organs are manifestations of what is truly me: a self-sustaining, self-evolving dynamic system arising, persisting and developing in interaction with everything around me.
I am one of the highest, most evolved manifestations of the drive toward coherence and wholeness in the universe. All systems drive toward coherence and wholeness in interaction with all other systems, and my essence is this cosmic drive. It is the same essence, the same spirit that is inherent in all the things that arise and evolve in nature, whether on this planet or elsewhere in the infinite reaches of space and time.
There are no absolute boundaries and divisions in this world, only transition points where one set of relations yields prevalence to another. In me, in this self-maintaining and self-evolving coherence- and wholeness-oriented system, the relations that integrate the cells and organs of my body are prevalent. Beyond my body other relations gain prevalence: those that drive toward coherence and wholeness in society and in nature.
The separate identity I attach to other humans and other things is but a convenient convention that facilitates my interaction with them. My family and my community are just as much “me” as the organs of my body. My body and mind, my family and my community are interacting and interpenetrating variously prevalent elements in the network of relations that encompasses all things in nature and the human world ...
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so what else is possible?".
As is known by many I was born a dyslexic in the world of lexics
but, supported by family and life, enabled to truly understand
the mis-guided code of the lexics in order to fit.
Since my early awareness of Jung, Graves, Carson, Harding and
Pirsig at Grammar School, I have followed my own personal voyage
of discovery and know as da Vinci would know that your lexic
masterpiece will forever sit next to Pirsig's original.
You must now think about your own "Lila".
http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-if
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hich is not at all surprising, given the brain's need to accommodate the requirements of such different modes of operation. It is apparent that both strategies are needed in the long run. For some time now, human culture has been almost entirely dominated by tools and technologies that support the sequential brain strategy-linked with words. However, quite suddenly, in historical terms, a new set of tools has been dumped into our laps. We should expect that moving from one strategy to the other will have powerful consequences.
"Thinking like Einstein" - Thomas G. West
Advantages accompanying dyslexic processing style:
Reflection of a different pattern of brain organisation and information processing that creates strengths as well as challenges.
Strengths and challenges are inextricably connected: dyslexic challenges are best understood as trade-offs made in pursuit of other, larger cognitive gains.
Often strengths in big picture, holistic, or top-down processing, though may struggle with fine detail processing.
Many show strengths in Material reasoning or the ability to mentally create and manipulate an interconnected series of three-dimensional spatial perspectives.
Many show strengths in Interconnected reasoning, or the ability to perceive more distance or unusual connections, to reason using interdisciplinary approaches, or to detect context and gist.
Many excel in Narrative reasoning, or the ability to perceive information as mental “scenes” that they construct from fragments of past personal experience (episodic memory).
Many shows strengths in Dynamic reasoning, or the ability to accurately reconstruct past events that they didn't witness or to predict future states, often using insights based reasoning and “episodic simulation”, particularly in conditions that are changing, ambiguous, or incompletely known, and where “qualitative” practical solutions are required.
Acronym used for four areas of strength: MIND.
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id that we can, too.
This leads us to three vital practices that help us connect to these Three Faces:
The 3rd-person Infinite Face is accessed through reflection ABOUT the Divine.
The 2nd-person Intimate Face is accessed through devotional prayer TO God.
The 1st-person Inner Face is accessed through meditation AS God, the realization that I am one with God.
In reflection, we contemplate the glory of creation, from quarks to the infinite cosmos. We think deeply about the Unmanifest as well as the manifest world. This can move us into praise, worship, awe, and mystical immersion in all of nature itself. This is the home of nature mysticism.
Prayer has a long, traditional and mystical history in Christianity as devotion, conversation, and communion with God, frequently addressed as a deity form. Prayer is often expressed by spoken or inward mental words addressed to God in a 2nd-person, personal way. It can also involve chanting, dancing, glossolalia, and other devotional forms. Prayer is the home of deity mysticism.
Meditation, in an integrally-informed Christian framework, focuses on the progressive quieting of the mind, leading to detachment from all forms and a realization of our nondual True Self, our Oneness with God, I Amness. While Christian prayer focuses on our relating to God who is the Divine Other, Christian meditation centers on our identification as God - I am one with all that God is. We may think of prayer as operating in the subtle realm of forms, while mediation ventures into the causal realm of formless emptiness (or “fullness” as we may also experience it). This is the home of formless mysticism.
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Added by Michael Grove at 7:45 on September 19, 2013
r, while for
other sense perceptions no such correspondence can be established.
We are accustomed to regard as real those sense perceptions which
are common to different individuals, and which therefore are, in a
measure, impersonal. The natural sciences, and in particular, the most
fundamental of them, physics, deal with such sense perceptions. The conception of physical bodies, in particular of rigid bodies, is a
relatively constant complex of such sense perceptions. A clock is also
a body, or a system, in the same sense, with the additional property
that the series of events which it counts is formed of elements all of
which can be regarded as equal.
The only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that
they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this
they have no legitimacy. I am convinced that the philosophers have
had a harmful effect upon the progress of scientific thinking in
removing certain fundamental concepts from the domain of
empiricism, where they are under our control, to the intangible
heights of the a priori. For even if it should appear that the universe
of ideas cannot be deduced from experience by logical means, but is,
in a sense, a creation of the human mind, without which no science is
possible, nevertheless this universe of ideas is just as little independent
of the nature of our experiences as clothes are of the form of the
human body.
This is particularly true of our concepts of time and space, which
physicists have been obliged by the facts to bring down from the
Olympus of the a priori in order to adjust them and put them in
a serviceable condition. Albert Einstein
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can I act as a conscious and sensitive man without losing my masculine edge?
How can I find the inner strength and fortitude I need to face the great challenges of my life?
How can I overcome aggression and use my anger in a constructive, rather than destructive, way?
How much of my identity as a man is being conditioned and limited by my culture, and how can I become free of those limitations?
How can I be more present and find more happiness in my intimate relationships?
How can I establish a more healthy relationship with sex, intimacy, and pornography?
How can I find and express my masculine power without being a complete asshole about it?
Many men struggle to ride the line between power and compassion, between strength and vulnerability, between purpose and passion. It can be difficult for men to venture very far beyond the conventional norms of masculinity, and we have few roadmaps or role models to help men cultivate qualities like sensitivity, presence, and openness without feeling like they are surrendering their masculinity in the process.
Our world places some unforgiving restrictions upon men when it comes to the avenues of self-discovery and self-expression available to them. The more we can begin opening these avenues to men, the better the world will be.
This is what makes this discussion so important. Robert and Ken disclose a newly emerging path for men in the 21st century, one that allows these “softer” qualities to actually enhance and deepen a man’s sense of masculinity, rather than diminish it. It is a discussion that brings some much-needed relief to the pain so many men feel in their hearts, minds, and guts.
Whether you are a man who is looking for new ways to develop and express your masculinity, or a woman who wishes to better understand and support the men in your life, you will definitely want to check out this provocative discussion.
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holographic mind-shift to consciously interpret the subconscious
manifestations of the world and re-act to Buddha’s call to ACTION
which was so succinctly confirmed by Moses and subsequently by
Jesus, Mohammed, Albert Einstein, Carl Jung, Teilhard de Chardin,
Alan Watts, Richard Feynman et al.
TO KNOW MY TRUE AUTHENTIC SELF • TO KNOW THAT ME and THE UNIVERSE EXIST AS ONE • THEN NO MATTER WHAT IS or WHATEVER ISN'T • I AM PART of EVERYTHING THAT EVER WAS and EVER WILL BE • TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE STARS and THE UNIVERSE and THAT WE ARE ALL CONNECTED to EVERYTHING and NOTHING EVER ENDS
Michael Evans
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e the guest of honor, Princess Diana, onto the dance floor at midnight for a spin to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. The subsequent moment, captured in photos, was so iconic that the gown that Diana wore—an off-the-shoulder blue velvet number by London couturier Victor Edelstein—has since been dubbed “the Travolta dress.”
In the new PBS documentary special Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets, premiering September 13, the titular royal historian takes a closer look at the iconic fashion piece—which sold for $347,000 last year—and also unravels other captivating tales of royal family members.
Last year Travolta looked back on his dance with Princes Diana, telling Yahoo Entertainment, “I didn’t know until I got there that I was supposed to dance with her. [Princess Diana] kept that a secret when she met me. She didn’t know that Nancy Reagan hadn’t told me yet that this was the plan—that I was the Prince Charming of the evening.”
He continued, “I was awestruck with her. She led the way, and I thought, Well, that’s not going to happen! I’ve got to go back to my school days of learning ballroom dancing and show that I can lead her.” Of the dress, the actor added, “I could probably sketch it in my mind because it was so specific.”
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Added by Michael Grove at 17:26 on September 12, 2020
king for himself and traveling on the bus - Francis, an Argentine who was elected on Wednesday, replaces Benedict XVI, whose papacy was plagued by a series of public relations blunders at the start of his reign that offended many. Benedict angered the Muslim world with a speech in 2006 in which he appeared to endorse the view that Islam is inherently violent, sparking deadly protests in several countries as well as attacks on Christians. After being revealed to the world, Pope Francis dined with the cardinals in a Vatican residence where he thanked them for electing him but then quipped:-
"God forgive you for what you've done!"
As Damian Thompson concludes in today's Telegraph editorial page article -
"It's a shame that Cardinal Bergoglio never had the opportunity to mingle incognito in the bars of modern Dublin, where he would have found an intensity of hatred for the Catholic Church that the Gordon rioters might have recognised. Young Irish people especially can hardly mention the Church without a curl of the lip. Older folk, meanwhile, feel miserably betrayed. It's the same story in, say, Boston or Quebec. How telling that the siblings of Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, no longer go to Mass regularly.
I know this is a downbeat response to what, for Catholics, is a joyful and hopeful event. But savage reform to the curia is required so that Pope Francis can (should he wish) take advantage of the successful Benedictine reforms: for example, the formation of a breed of bishop who – as the new Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth is demonstrating – are reclaiming their spiritual authority from hippy-generation bureaucrats and using it to promote the so-called "new evangelisation". To put it bluntly, a Church associated in the public mind with child abuse isn't likely to be good at any sort of evangelisation, new or otherwise. Nor can it face down its angry, condescending and well-informed enemies. So welcome, Holy Father. You know what needs to be done; do not stay your hand." (which has been changed to 'and let the sackings begin' in the online version)
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