By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 28 Jun 20
https://medium.com/media/1956d8ce86eea71922f2a31a4f90f800/hrefIt’s an extraordinary record of spiritual transformation in music, hidden in plain sight.More than once, while in the middle of a deep meditation or transformational process, I would find myself singing songs I hadn’t heard in decades, dredged up from deep memories of adolescence. I’d often find that the words were exactly appropriate for the moment, a perfect guide from the subconscious. Invariably those songs would be from the band James.I delved back into the music, and listened with new ears to songs that outlined the process of personal growth and awakening. I came to the conclusion that they must have been
https://medium.com/media/1956d8ce86eea71922f2a31a4f90f800/hrefIt’s an extraordinary record of spiritual transformation in music, hidden in plain sight.More than once, while in the middle of a deep meditation or transformational process, I would find myself singing songs I hadn’t heard in decades, dredged up from deep memories of adolescence. I’d often find that the words were exactly appropriate for the moment, a perfect guide from the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 27 Jun 20
It’s an extraordinary record of spiritual transformation in music, hidden in plain sight.More than once, while in the middle of a deep meditation or transformational process, I would find myself singing songs I hadn’t heard in decades, dredged up from deep memories of adolescence. I’d often find that the words were exactly appropriate for the moment, a perfect guide from the subconscious. Invariably those songs would be from the band James.I delved back into the music, and listened with new ears to songs that outlined the process of personal growth and awakening. I came to the conclusion that they must have been
It’s an extraordinary record of spiritual transformation in music, hidden in plain sight.More than once, while in the middle of a deep meditation or transformational process, I would find myself singing songs I hadn’t heard in decades, dredged up from deep memories of adolescence. I’d often find that the words were exactly appropriate for the moment, a perfect guide from the
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 7 Apr 20
Some notes Covid 19 and beyondThe Rashomon gate which Kurosawa’s crew constructed for Rashomon (1950)“Corpses piled on bridges, corpses blocking off a whole street at the intersection, corpses displaying every manner of death possible to human beings. When I involuntarily looked away, my brother scolded me, “Akira, look carefully now.” When that night I asked my brother why he made me look at those terrible sights, he replied: “If you shut your eyes to a frightening sight, you end up being frightened. If you look at everything straight on, there is nothing to be afraid of.”Akira Kurosawa describing his boyhood experience after
Some notes Covid 19 and beyondThe Rashomon gate which Kurosawa’s crew constructed for Rashomon (1950)“Corpses piled on bridges, corpses blocking off a whole street at the intersection, corpses displaying every manner of death possible to human beings. When I involuntarily looked away, my brother scolded me, “Akira, look carefully now.” When that night I asked my brother why he made me look
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Feb 20
The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia.Continue reading on Medium »
The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia.Continue reading on Medium »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 14 Feb 20
The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia.Continue reading on Medium »
The emergency is about the urgency to act. The crisis is about the need to transform. The meta-crisis is the tenacity of our inertia.Continue reading on Medium »
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 16 Aug 19
https://medium.com/media/6248aa0e93ab23aa98a7c21fe82602a8/hrefIn this video, Ronan Harrington explores 5 ways in which transformational festivals are held back from genuinely changing our culture.If you are a festival goer, would love to know if you agree with any of the following or have more to add:Lurking behind celebration, a culture of hedonistic escapism that disassociates from fully our life struggles and the crises facing society.2. Lurking behind connection, new set of status games and hierarchies based on who’s the most beautiful, spiritual, and knows the best tunes.3. Lurking behind personal growth, a new culture of self absorption that eats into service toward wider social change projects, and keeps
https://medium.com/media/6248aa0e93ab23aa98a7c21fe82602a8/hrefIn this video, Ronan Harrington explores 5 ways in which transformational festivals are held back from genuinely changing our culture.If you are a festival goer, would love to know if you agree with any of the following or have more to add:Lurking behind celebration, a culture of hedonistic escapism that disassociates from fully our life struggles and the crises facing society.2. Lurking behind
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Mar 19
Image of Bacanal de los andrios via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacanal_de_los_andrios.jpgI live in London, and sometimes it feels like the city runs on coffee and alcohol. It’s relatively obvious why we drink coffee. It offers bursts of energy and alertness to help us think and work, and we don’t find that desirably bitter taste elsewhere easily. But our reasons for drinking alcohol are more complex. It’s not that alcohol as such tastes particularly good, though it comes in various tasty forms; and while we might explain it away as unwinding after work, taking the edge off, making social life more fun, or having
Image of Bacanal de los andrios via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacanal_de_los_andrios.jpgI live in London, and sometimes it feels like the city runs on coffee and alcohol. It’s relatively obvious why we drink coffee. It offers bursts of energy and alertness to help us think and work, and we don’t find that desirably bitter taste elsewhere easily. But our reasons for drinking alcohol are
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 6 Mar 19
Image of Bacanal de los andrios via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacanal_de_los_andrios.jpgI live in London, and sometimes it feels like the city runs on coffee and alcohol. It’s relatively obvious why we drink coffee. It offers bursts of energy and alertness to help us think and work, and we don’t find that desirably bitter taste elsewhere easily. But our reasons for drinking alcohol are more complex. It’s not that alcohol as such tastes particularly good, though it comes in various tasty forms; and while we might explain it away as unwinding after work, taking the edge off, making social life more fun, or having
Image of Bacanal de los andrios via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bacanal_de_los_andrios.jpgI live in London, and sometimes it feels like the city runs on coffee and alcohol. It’s relatively obvious why we drink coffee. It offers bursts of energy and alertness to help us think and work, and we don’t find that desirably bitter taste elsewhere easily. But our reasons for drinking alcohol are
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 18 Feb 19
More than any other species, human beings are gifted with the power to manipulate their environment and the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge across generations.The first of these gifts we call technology; the other we call culture. They are central to our humanity.Accumulating over thousands of years, culture and technology have brought us into a separate human realm. We live, more than any animal, surrounded by our own artifacts. Among these are works of surpassing beauty, complexity, and power: human creations that could not have existed — could not even have been conceived — in the times of our forebears. Seldom do we
More than any other species, human beings are gifted with the power to manipulate their environment and the ability to accumulate and transmit knowledge across generations.The first of these gifts we call technology; the other we call culture. They are central to our humanity.Accumulating over thousands of years, culture and technology have brought us into a separate human realm. We
By: The Posts Author | Posted on: 15 Feb 19
Photo by Martin AdamsIf I say, “The reason the hawk circled over me nine times and headed East was to tell me to begin my return journey,” does that sound scientific to you? Or am I projecting meaning onto a world that is essentially random?Do the events of our lives have any meaning, or do they just happen to us? Do we create the reality we experience, or is reality something already out there, that we move through? Which answer seems more “scientific”? The difference between these two belief systems is more than a mere matter of philosophical opinion. Each actually
Photo by Martin AdamsIf I say, “The reason the hawk circled over me nine times and headed East was to tell me to begin my return journey,” does that sound scientific to you? Or am I projecting meaning onto a world that is essentially random?Do the events of our lives have any meaning, or do they just happen to us? Do