Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Christophe in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Wisdom of the body (or: the shame dance). cha cha cha

Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Tom in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Hi Irmeli, it's precisely the experience of which you speak  here that inspired this thread: I sometimes wonder about the complexity, and even amazing intelligence of my subconsciousness and my body. It seems to me... More »

Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Tom in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Hi Ted, I don't perceive myself to be under the illusion you say.  The thing about clocks is their speeds can be compared.  So, yes, I have one clock speed, you have another.  Neither is... More »

Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by valli in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

hi tom i think this is an important and valid question. especially in a post modern context that allows contradictions to sustain agendas.( for instance how can wilbur suggest universal adressal for the AQAL model... More »

Re: Radical Understanding IV

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Tom in Integral Archipelago

Of course, people typically associate consciousness, or God, with light. My having explained a little of this to you, do you think Wilber's assertion that science doesn't support mysticism can be upheld?

Re: Open Windows. Anger - How I deal with it - 4

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Gien in One Light Many Windows

Here's an example of a creative way to channel anger to make positive change, both for oneself and others in the world. What would you do if your guitar was broken by an airline company... More »

Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Balder in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Yes, I follow that.  And it's essentially what a number of Buddhist teachers warn against when they assert the emptiness of emptiness:  emptiness is a relatively useful strategy but don't get stuck in it as... More »

Re: Is Consciousness an Emergent?

Posted on Oct 25th, 2009 by Zakariyya in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Look, don’t be negative or emotional about this. I think your quest with the thread is very noble. But I just add to the mix that we need an INTEGRAL approach. Science, mysticism, religion and... More »

Re: Seeds of light for C & C please

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Meenakshi in Poets Workshop.

Divine consciousness that once roamed the land As teacher, healer, sage, Sowed seeds of longing as it rose into eternity Has returned to fulfill its promise To blossoms that are now unfurling --

Re: The natural state?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by David in Integral Archipelago

Hi Tom, Yes, it would be interesting to explore the UR correlates of these deeper states and higher structures further. However, I don't think there is evidence to suggest that these deeper state experiences/realizations are... More »

A few resources for consciousness events - Boulder/Denver

Posted on Oct 27th, 2009 by Caryn

Here are a few links to make it easy to find something soulful to do. Resource Article Please let me know if you have other links and I'll add them to future articles. Bliss to... More »

What do you expect from life?

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by tea42

I don't really expect anything out of life. Although I know there are things that I take for granted that I expect to be with me... and I can't be aware 24/7 because they are... More »

Power Prayer For Infinite Supply with Reverend Jennifer Hadley ~‏

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by jenniferhadley

Power Prayer For Wellbeing with Reverend Jennifer Hadley ~‏

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by jenniferhadley

Power Prayer For Quality with Reverend Jennifer Hadley ~

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by jenniferhadley

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OH HOW SWEET IT IS TO ACCEPT OURSELVES AS ALL THAT WE NEED TO BE

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Desmond

Oh how sweet it is to accepy ourselves as all that we need to be , And accept every conscious deep breath as our center of gravity, Which feeds and supports us with itself in all... More »

MADE AFTER THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by jufa

MADE AFTER THE POWER OF AND ENDLESS LIFE Never is there a law in Life which is not universal. And in the Master's revelation that He was made after the power of an endless life,... More »

A Note

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by IsisMoon1180

All the poetry and letters I write are deeply personal. It is apart of my experiences, and based on my existence. It is not to encourage are promote anyone to follow my path. I'm currently... More »

Two sides of a coin

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Davenstar

I don't like looking at all the success and acheivements I have made in my life, even thought they are obvious, because it feels like I am showing off and it alienates the people around... More »

One hundred worshipers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become "unity" conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

From the collection of Lincoln's papers in the Library of America series, Vol II, pp. 520-521. The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

Nature in the garden is nature tamed, cultivated, made subservient to human purpose, brought into subjection to conscious purpose. A garden is not merely a piece of nature fenced in near the house, like a wolf chained at the back door; but nature cultivated and trained like a dog tamed and trained for human ends. Art in the garden is the human element appropriating and elevating the natural for human purpose.

We must see that consciousness is neither an isolated soul nor the mere function of a single nervous system, but of that totality of interrelated stars and galaxies which makes a nervous system possible.

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in conscious virtue bold, Live o'er each Seene, and be what they behold: For this the Tragic Muse first trod the stage.

To watch an American on a beach or crowding into a subway, or buying a theater ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which though it's never self-conscious, amounts o a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

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