What do we mean when we describe a feeling or experience as “spiritual”? In a You Tube conversation with Pyrrho 314, Matt Segal (Footnotes to Plato, see my blog roll) makes some comments towards a definition of Spirituality. I felt we didn’t quite get to grips with it on that occasion and wanted to explore…
(For some reason I can’t get this to copy my actual format of the poem correctly, however, here it is!) Jean Genet Son of a Bitch (A one man show at the Outhouse Dublin) For Zion Ashkenazi “…we hopefully elevate ourselves – without giving in to smugness – above the self-limiting level of voyeurs,…
I was there too! I read a lot of Genet and thought this has to be interesting! And it was….thanks Zion,
The Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica: (pictured below right) http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/05/west-antarctic-ice-sheet-collapse “This Antarctic glacier may be history, says new research. It contains almost two feet of sea level rise, and that’s just the beginning. NASA.” ( by Chris Mooney) The Glaciers (Posted for my friend Rolf) “And death shall have no dominion… Though they sink…
For the link to this lecture go to my friend Matt Segal’s blog at http://footnotes2plato.com/2014/05/10/evan-thompson-ciis-tonight/ (The lecture was given at the Californian Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco.) My comments on this will be general and so I hope understandable even if you have not seen the presentation to some extent. My first worry…
Daniel Barenboim’s East West Divan Orchestra: This is an orchestra formed of young Arabs and Israelis based in Sevilla, Spain, once a centre of Islamic/Jewish harmony. After the concert in Ramallah in 2005: Finally, an emotional Barenboim stepped onto the platform. “It is our belief that the destinies of these two peoples, Israel and Palestine,…
The Journey of the Universe “The Journey of the Universe” is a book by Brian Thomas Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker (Yale, 2011). It is also a DVD based on the book and presented by Brian Swimme. See for further information: http://www.journeyoftheuniverse.org I will also put a link below to a presentation given by Brian…
I make reference to this in my post “Journey of the Universe by Swimme and Tucker.” I read the entire chapter of Hawking and some more and agree with Emil Karlsson totally: I have not read the Stenger in any detail though. Debunking Denialism Many creationists that are proponents of the fine-tuning argument likes to quote…
I worry about the way Cosmology and its acompanying hidden Theological agenda at best distract us from a spiritual union with the planet, our home, and at worst alienate us from such a connection. More to follow: watch this space! 3 men go into a TV shop, where they buy a TV for £30 and…
The Hug of Gaia 