Comments - WE are the NORMAL ones ... - Gaia Community2024-03-28T20:29:26Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A168&xn_auth=no“People are so afraid of…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2016-06-17:5313775:Comment:240012016-06-17T08:20:41.982ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span>“<strong>People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit </strong></span><span><strong>everything into a tiny little box with </strong></span><strong>a specific label</strong>,”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rosie_king_how_autism_freed_me_to_be_myself" rel="noopener" target="_blank">says 16-year-old…</a></strong></p>
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<p><span>“<strong>People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit </strong></span><span><strong>everything into a tiny little box with </strong></span><strong>a specific label</strong>,”</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/rosie_king_how_autism_freed_me_to_be_myself" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says 16-year-old Rosie King</a></strong>, who is bold, brash and autistic. She wants to know: Why is everyone so worried about being normal? She sounds a clarion call for every kid, parent, teacher and person to celebrate uniqueness. It’s a soaring testament to the potential of human diversity.</p>
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<p></p> I believe that it would BE…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2015-12-08:5313775:Comment:203442015-12-08T06:19:06.587ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I believe that it would <em>BE an almost impossible task to even consider <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/main/search/search?q=Leonardo+da+vinci+connessione" target="_self">becoming</a></strong><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>a</strong></em> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-leonardo-link" target="_self">Leonardo da Vinci</a></strong>, let alone …</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">I believe that it would <em>BE an almost impossible task to even consider <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/main/search/search?q=Leonardo+da+vinci+connessione" target="_self">becoming</a></strong><strong> </strong></em><em><strong>a</strong></em> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-leonardo-link" target="_self">Leonardo da Vinci</a></strong>, let alone <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=887049497989969" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BEING HIMSELF</a></strong>, unless one could be regarded as one of the <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/we-are-the-normal-ones" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NORMAL ONES</a></strong>; and in the particular case of Leonardo da Vinci, born as a <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/own-two-hands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">left-handed</a></strong>, dyslexic bastard, rejected by [y]our father, to a world of the City States of the land that was eventually to become Italy; whose collective....</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/1053333611361556" target="_blank" rel="noopener">predominately patriarchal mindset</a></strong></em>, at that TIME, was based on the religious beliefs of <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=398555973505993" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ROME</a></strong> and </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">the <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1165645353463714" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gregorian Calendar</a></strong>; when even the barbarian hoards of northern Europe and Scandinavia had by </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">this time accepted the 'dowsing in water' of baptism, as a requirement of subscribing to the...</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">"<em><strong>new then</strong></em>" <strong>ORDER of DENIAL</strong> of our species very <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=913100535384865" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>connessione</em> with NATURE</a></strong>.</span></p>
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<p></p> When one considers Jesus as…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-09-19:5313775:Comment:160202013-09-19T06:45:44.241ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>When one considers <strong>Jesus as Jesus</strong> rather than <strong>Jesus as Christ</strong> a completely</p>
<p><em><strong>new perspective</strong></em> of <strong>the Relationship between Jesus and GOD</strong> is established.…<br></br><br></br><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719134?profile=original" target="_self"><img class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719134?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="640"></img></a></p>
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<p>When one considers <strong>Jesus as Jesus</strong> rather than <strong>Jesus as Christ</strong> a completely</p>
<p><em><strong>new perspective</strong></em> of <strong>the Relationship between Jesus and GOD</strong> is established.<br/><br/><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719134?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="640" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3133719134?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="640" class="align-full"/></a></p>
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<p><span><strong><a href="http://integrallife.com/integral-post/transforming-power-integral-prayer" target="_blank">Jesus talked ABOUT God, TO God, and AS God. He said that we can, too</a></strong>. <br/><br/></span></p>
<p>This leads us to <em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-your-favourite-part-of" target="_blank">three vital practices</a></strong></em> that help us connect to these Three Faces:</p>
<blockquote><p>The 3rd-person Infinite Face is accessed through <strong>reflection</strong> <strong><em>ABOUT</em></strong> the Divine.</p>
<p>The 2nd-person Intimate Face is accessed through devotional <strong>prayer</strong> <strong><em>TO</em> </strong>God.</p>
<p>The 1st-person Inner Face is accessed through <strong>meditation</strong> <em><strong>AS</strong></em> God, the realization that I am one with God.</p>
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<p>In <strong>reflection</strong>, 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. <em><strong>This is the home of nature mysticism</strong></em>.</p>
<p><strong>Prayer</strong> 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. <em><strong>Prayer is the home of deity mysticism</strong></em>. </p>
<p><strong>Meditation</strong>, 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 <em>to</em> God who is the Divine Other, Christian meditation centers on our identification <em>as</em> 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). <em><strong>This is the home of formless mysticism</strong></em>.</p>
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<p><span><span> </span></span></p> The BBC 4 documentary examin…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-04-16:5313775:Comment:142222013-04-16T17:19:32.226ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span><strong><a href="http://www.buddhastation.com/open-mind-videos/jesus-was-a-buddhist-monk-bbc-documentary/" target="_blank">The BBC 4 <em>documentary examines the question</em> “Did Jesus Die?”</a></strong>. It looks at a bunch of ideas around this question until minute 25, where this examination of ideas takes a very logical and grounded turn with surprising conclusions that demonstrate…The three wise men were Buddhist monks who found Jesus and came back for him around puberty.…</span></p>
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<p><span><strong><a href="http://www.buddhastation.com/open-mind-videos/jesus-was-a-buddhist-monk-bbc-documentary/" target="_blank">The BBC 4 <em>documentary examines the question</em> “Did Jesus Die?”</a></strong>. It looks at a bunch of ideas around this question until minute 25, where this examination of ideas takes a very logical and grounded turn with surprising conclusions that demonstrate…The three wise men were Buddhist monks who found Jesus and came back for him around puberty. After being trained in a Buddhist Monastery he spread the Buddhist philosophy, survived the crucifixion, and escaped to Kashmir, Afghanistan where he died an old man at the age of 80.</span></p>
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<p></p> "EVOLUTIONARY is a play on…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-07-04:5313775:Comment:114492012-07-04T09:33:49.369ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>"<strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PeaceloveIam/posts/261589647278972?comment_id=972662&notif_t=like" target="_blank">EVOLUTIONARY is a play on the word "REVOLUTIONARY</a></strong>", and I mean it to convey something of the revolutionary nature of evolution as an idea. Evolutionaries are revolutionaries, with all the personal and philosophical commitment that word im<span class="text_exposed_show">plies.</span></p>
<p><span class="text_exposed_show">They are not merely…</span></p>
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<p>"<strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PeaceloveIam/posts/261589647278972?comment_id=972662&notif_t=like" target="_blank">EVOLUTIONARY is a play on the word "REVOLUTIONARY</a></strong>", and I mean it to convey something of the revolutionary nature of evolution as an idea. Evolutionaries are revolutionaries, with all the personal and philosophical commitment that word im<span class="text_exposed_show">plies.</span></p>
<p><span class="text_exposed_show">They are not merely curious bystanders to the evolutionary process, passive believers in the established sciences of evolution, though all certainly value those insights.</span></p>
<p><span class="text_exposed_show">They are committed activists and advocates - often passionate ones - for the importance of evolution at a cultural level."<br/><br/>- <strong>Carter Phipps</strong> - <strong><a href="http://www.readevolutionaries.com/" target="_blank">EVOLUTIONARIES</a></strong> -<br/>Unlocking the Spiritual and Cultural Potential of Science's Greatest Idea.</span></p>
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<p><span class="text_exposed_show"> </span></p> A Brief History of Integral…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-10:5313775:Comment:113052012-06-10T09:44:55.011ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.integralworld.net/visser24.html" target="_blank">A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.integralworld.net/visser24.html" target="_blank">A Brief History of Integral: The Story So Far</a></strong></p>
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<p></p> A radical new view of human n…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2010-11-05:5313775:Comment:12302010-11-05T14:33:36.000ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
A radical new view of human nature has been slowly emerging and gaining momentum, with revolutionary implications for the way we understand and organize our economic, social and environmental relations in the centuries to come.<br />
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<b><a href="http://empathiccivilization.com/humannature" target="_blank">We have discovered Homo Empathicus.</a></b>
A radical new view of human nature has been slowly emerging and gaining momentum, with revolutionary implications for the way we understand and organize our economic, social and environmental relations in the centuries to come.<br />
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<b><a href="http://empathiccivilization.com/humannature" target="_blank">We have discovered Homo Empathicus.</a></b>