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All things Wisdom, Love, and Beauty. We contemplate the meaning of life and love, the true nature of success, the nature of reality, the nature of self and mind, the nature of health and healing, the essence of beauty, the need for sacredness, the unity of mind and nature, how we can take steps toward a more vitalizing ecology of mind and a more skillful and realistic mind of ecology, and more.
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What is the force no human or god can resist? Why might it seem like a monster? And what does it have to do with our workaday life?
What is the biggest bite of knowledge fruit humanity has ever taken? How would pausing to genuinely savor and then metabolize that juicy bite change the way we live and work?
The brain is sometimes called the most complex structure in the known universe. Somehow or other, that brain is related to our mind. What is the most complex structure of the mind? And what is its affect on our lives?
In our culture, we have placed a set of habitual notions about time on top of the soul’s instincts and intuitions about rhythm and temporality. The physicist David Bohm said that, “. . . every thought assumes time. Whether we discuss thought or anything else, we always take time for granted. And we take for granted the notion that everything exists in time. We don’t take for granted that time is an abstraction and a representation, but we take for granted that time is of the essence—reality—and that everything is existing in time, including thought.” What if we have some very unskillful notions about time? What if the evolution of our culture depends on shifting our relationship with time?
How do we move forward in our lives? Maybe you have some problem or challenge in your personal life, or in your professional life. Or maybe you can sense the general stuckness of humanity, and maybe you even take that to be your own stuckness. Given all the confusion of the world, all the fear and uncertainty within our own soul and in the soul of the world, how can we find genuinely creative and beautiful ways to cultivate our lives forward, and cultivate the life of the world forward at the same time? The answer lies in stepping forward and backward at the same time/
An inquiry into the nature of habit and freedom, the meaning of life, and how we can do our jobs and live together while feeling good in our mind, heart, and body, and feeling good about ourselves, about how we are living and loving.
Why self-help might not be working for you, and what to do if you think it IS . . . The self-help-industrial complex is huge. Whether you consider yourself a self-help junkie, a self-help fan, or a self-help critic, contemplating the self-help catastrophe will shed light on our cultural and ecological emergency.
In part an addendum to the first contemplation on the self-help catastrophe. But this addendum is also its own contemplation, since we will consider some important topics, like spiritual materialism and systemic incoherence. Another installment in the series of contemplations to understand the self-help catastrophe, and to find ways out of it.
A philosophical short story in the style of Sophiaesthetics and metta-physical fiction.
True story: First bar fight, age 5. What does it mean?
What is the experience of "This changes everything"? How can this basic philosophical/spiritual experience disrupt our delusions--both our individual and cultural delusions? And how can we cultivate such an experience?
Healing, wholeness, the challenges of suffering, and the paradoxes of success. In what sense is life a self-healing truth? What is the nature of health and healing? What is the nature of sickness—our cultural sickness and our own mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical sickness?
If we have the wrong vision of what a human being is, our soul will never fly. If we have the wrong vision of what reality is and what the World is, we will create suffering for ourselves and others. The “Start with Why” (or “golden circle”) theory is an example of dangerous wisdom in the bad sense: It gives us the wrong vision, and it ultimately makes us and our culture more incoherent.
Understanding the structure of all our experience can help us transform ourselves and our culture. We can't start with Why if Why already started with us, and if that Why contains the "karma" of our culture, of the land where we live, and our own ignorance, confusion, hopes, and fears as well. In order to start with Why, we have to understand the structure of our experience, and begin to walk a path that can heal our personal and collective karma and trauma. The traditions of LoveWisdom can help, and it begins with gaining clarity about the nature of our own mind, experience, and activity.
Understanding the structure of experience helps us to enter a more skillful way of life. We could call it the essence of the philosophical path: To gain intimacy with our own experience and understand the nature of reality and the nature of our own mind. Once we begin to understand the structure of experience, we can practice more deeply, and we can approach a wonderstanding of the mind of Nature as well as the nature of our own mind.
LoveWisdom teaches us the magic of the world. What is magic? Is there "real" magic? How can we experience it? Is there an important relationship between magic and ecology? How can magic and the experience of magic illuminate some of the most profound teachings of the wisdom traditions, and thus illuminate our own lives and the life of the world we share?
In this first episode of a short series on magic, we look into the experience of magic, and its potential to transform us. This episode is "safe" for skeptics, but even this first contemplation leads us into dangerous wisdom, and the series will take us to places that scare even the most sober scientists and seekers.
We consider three ways of understanding magic philosophically and scientifically, including a contemplation of the principles of magic crystalized by the poet W.B. Yeats. This episode helps us sense the intimacy and resonance between magical consciousness and spiritual or ecological consciousness. Ultimately, magic has to do with the practice and realization of ecosensual awareness, arising as wisdom, love, and beauty. But, first we have to face the taboos. Dangerous wisdom here---wisdom that carries us out of our own skin.
In part three in the series overall (part one is "How Magic Saved My Life"), we continue our contemplation of the first principle of magic outlined by the poet W.B. Yeats, on mind, and continue to the second principle, on memory. We consider aspects of mind and memory supported by peer-reviewed scientific evidence, but which defy the general paradigms of dominant culture science.
Can we remember the future? If magic is mindfulness, and mindfulness means remembering, what is the relationship between past, present, and future? In giving us the principles of magic, Yeats mentions memory, but does not explicitly mention expectation and the future. In some sense, that appears implicitly in the third principle of magic, but here we look at the interwovenness of past, present, and future, the way memory appears right now, and the way possibility calls back to us like an unconscious memory. This episode is dedicated to the memory of horses---to their memory of the world, and our shared memory, as well as our shared possibilities for healing and transformation.
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