Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?

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Another of the splendid TED series of videos.

This person’s informed opinion about the political results of different anatomy leads her to wider-reaching speculation, and the posing of problems that seem only theoretical now, but will soon engulf us if not dealt with, I suspect. Or, more likely, they will engulf us and then we will deal with them. But looking at this from the perspective lent by the guys upstairs – that we are not the individuals we think we are, but are communities – lends this video yet another dimension.

http://www.ted.com/talks/alice_dreger_is_anatomy_destiny.html

What, here still?

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My friend Charles Sides has a nice entry in his blog this morning that probably applies to lots more people than one would commonly think. It begins like this:

A year ago yesterday I moved into the lake house with a goal to experience unitive consciousness. I viewed this as an escape from earthly existence. As I wrote in a previous entry I wasn’t interested in the old cliché, “chop wood, carry water, enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.” My version was “chop wood, carry water, out of here.”

Looking for an exit I’ve read and studied many of the paths: Buddhism, Hinduism, Kabbalah, Sufism, the Fourth Way, the Course in Miracles, Edgar Cayce…you name it and I’ve probably read something about it. But, nothing worked; I’m still here.

To read the rest, http://charlessides.wordpress.com/

An opening of the heart

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My “virtual friend” (i.e. we’ve never met) Stuart Dean sends me something that, with his permission, I want to share with you, as I know that at least some of you will connect with it. In his accompanying email notes that for his whole life, “I have been irritated by the two great commandments for giving a destination without a road map, but I’m finally starting to get a handle on them.”

See if you can read this as the record of a first-hand experience, without letting your own opinions of God and religion get in the way.

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The Cosmic Internet, some reactions

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What do the following authors (in alphabetical order) have in common, besides creativity, a passion for exploration, and a lifetime’s thoughtful observation of the world around them?

Robert Bruce (OBE pioneer)

Joseph Felser, Ph.D., (professor of philosophy)

Ervin Laszlo (systems theorist)

Carla Rueckert-McCarthy (channeler of the Ra material)

Charles Sides (businessman)

Michael Ventura (cultural explorer)

They have all provided  advance cover quotes for my new book, The Cosmic Internet.

To see the cover in full color, and to order from Amazon, go here:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_19?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=the+cosmic+internet&sprefix=the+cosmic+internet

 

 

The Guys Upstairs, society and creativity

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The link below will take you to a post on my Context blog, which in turn comes from Bill Totten’s blog, which I find to be a consistently interesting source of information from other sources.  I cite this here because it struck me that the four principles that were discussed fit in exactly with the stuff the guys upstairs have been giving me for a dozen years. Kind of makes you pay attention, you know?

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Ice Age cave painters and scientific myths

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This story, courtesy of the Weekly Science Report put together by Steve Detwiler, makes me laugh, it is so naïve. “To me at least, finding these great paintings from so far back in time is a bit like finding an iPad with no previous evidence of the development of electronics. How does humanity plunge so suddenly into this great sea of creativity? Unless there is a whole history of extremely old and not-very-good cave paintings still to be discovered, we are left with the sudden birth of a fully formed pictorial art.”

At least the writer is thinking, but his assumptions are so ridiculous. They are worth noticing only because he shares those assumptions with what is called “science” – which, in context, means “currently popular opinions among mainstream scientists,” which sounds, and is, a lot less authoritative!

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