Re: Other Integral Spaces

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Albert in The Integral Pod

Well, the online form of any yahoo group is certainly limited. However the quality of discussions at LIC in the last years is the best I ever witnessed in integral country. The radical diversity and... More »

Re: Sources for Hinduism

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

VEDA - Vedas and Vedic Knowledge Online-"Veda" is Sanskrit for "knowledge". Sanskrit was the language of Vedic civilization. Vedic culture, based on Vedic scriptures (sastras) called Vedas, flourished all over the ancient world with center... More »

Re: Tribal Spirituality

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

Torchholder, thank you for sharing how you found your path.  That is the wonder of the many paths that have come into earth; each of us can find the one that leads to what we... More »

Re: Soundtracks

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by ch3shyr3_cat in Dreams of Artists™

I really really really really (can't stress really enough) loved Coraline. I saw it the second day it came out and I would really love to see it again. It's so aesthetically pleasing. Not to... More »

Re: Spiritual significance of testicles?

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by --- in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

Well, in Biblical Judaism and several other spiritual paths, oaths/contracts were typically sworn/entered into by grabbing the other man's genitals - Genesis 24:2, 9, 10. The word 'yarek' is an euphemism for 'genitals': ירך yârêk... More »

Robo-sapiens, alienated narcissism &'Cultural Autism'

Posted on May 30th, 2009 by Lisaji in Integral Archipelago

Will Androids Ever Feel Real? The Turing Test and Cultural Autism May 25th, 2009 by Elizabeth Debold * Another great blog post by Elizabeth Debold! Enjoy! Of course, you are free to discuss anything that... More »

Re: What could you do right now to help the next generation?

Posted on May 30th, 2009 by bensoph in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Completely change our lifestyles.  Completely change the foundations of our culture, develop new cultures.  Challenge the dualistic thinking and show the Earth, the universe, and each person as a functionining integrated organism.  Allow the egotistical... More »

Re: Can one be intolerant of intolerance and still be credible?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Mr. in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

In some areas, intolerance can be a good thing. One can be intollerant of a disease (like cancer) that invades one's body. One can be intolerant of harmful people (terrorists or pirates for example) and... More »

Re: Peter Sloterdijk

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by Deepak in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Thank you Albert for starting this interesting thread and thanks for the members for the introduction to and info about Peter Sloterdijk . Ah...yes I talso often struggle to express myself in the English language....but... More »

Re: Shaping Integral Judaism

Posted on May 20th, 2009 by --- in God Pod or Life, the Universe and Everything

But I'm inclined to agree with Ketutar and her wonderful example about the Indian temple, that in trying to “improve” religions the essence may be lost. Going out on a limb here... Kind of reminds... More »

What would you most like to teach?

Posted on Oct 27th, 2009 by Ted

Trust. Trust yourself enough to love yourself, to listen to your own intuitions. Trust your self enough to make your own choices, in the face of the disagreement of others, or the censure of culture,... More »

What is easy for you?

Posted on Oct 26th, 2009 by Ted

Asking questions, finding answers, finding patterns. I think it is easy for everyone, but I think our education systems, culture and institutions, beat it out of most of us, and teach us to obey the... More »

A Taste of India

Posted on Oct 24th, 2009 by Albert

next month, in November, India will see at least 2 great, global forums. A Taste of India  is the TEDIndia conference in Mysore. And world economic forum is having his summit in New Delhi: Indias... More »

Where do your answers come from?

Posted on Sep 9th, 2009 by Spirit Warrior

Defeat. That is where all the Wisdom is. Victors learn nothing from their illusion of mastery. We are a victory culture.

What does greatness mean to you?

Posted on Aug 14th, 2009 by sandi

Greatness is in danger of being brought down to the humanized version of "Awesome".  In lieu of searching our vocabularies for the appropriate words, we hit on the first or second over-used word being thrown... More »

Labyrinth Walk and Gong Bath

Posted on Aug 9th, 2009 by Laurie

As part of the " Wisdom Years Birthday Initiation " for our friend, Susan Wisehart -- author of Soul Visioning -- Len and I, along with about 30 other guests, had the opportunity to walk... More »

The Spell of the Sensuous: Interview with David Abram

Posted on Jun 28th, 2009 by le soleil

We have a great mix of discussion participants , which you can glean from comments posted here .  Let's begin! - ~ - Thank you to  Albert and  Balder , who shared the  Interview with David... More »

What do you believe about astrology?

Posted on May 21st, 2009 by Darlene

I'm not an astrologist nor do I usually read a horascope. I know a bit about it because I enjoy cultural studies and have some friends who are interested in it. According to the Greek zodiak I'm... More »

Theoretical Introduction (Thesis Proposal Section) 5/19

Posted on May 19th, 2009 by leensylus

Weekly Association: The Circle, by Paulo Coelho

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Aart Hilal

The circle is the most used geometrical symbol and its shape reminds the shape of the Sun and the Moon. For ancient philosophers, such as Plato, the circle represents the perfect shape. It is said... More »

The most distinctive mark of a cultured mind is the ability to take another's point of view; to put one's self in another's place, and see life and its problems from a point of view different from one's own. To be willing to test a new idea; to be able to live on the edge of difference in all matters intellectually; to examine without heat the burning question of the day; to have imaginative sympathy, openness and flexibility of mind, steadiness and poise of feeling, cool calmness of judgment, is to have culture.

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that . . . I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a landscape view. . . . The essence of a field is that the cultural accommodates the natural there. The human being makes room for and makes use of those organisms that are not him. In that way the field is a poem to symbiosis, and a human contract with the natural.

There is a theory of societal evolution that goes like this: Barbarians invent a new culture. A middle class emerges to manage and help perpetuate the culture. An aristocracy eventually develops out of the middle class and devotes their energies to making things comfortable for themselves. Finally, a new set of barbarians smash everything apart and destroy the status quo so that the process must start all over again.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Whoever controls the media-the images-controls the culture.

When the Russians succeeded in putting the first satellite into orbit, one of their scientists is reported to have said, "Now that we have conquered space, our next conquest is that of man." An American anthropologist, Leslie A. White, of the University of Michigan, is reported in a Detroit newspaper as saying, "A cultural system which can launch earth satellites can dispense with Gods entirely." This is a great day for the false scientist-they who have left God out of their education. Of these the Apostle Paul even in his day warned his weakening convert, Timothy, to beware of: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called. (I Timothy 6 :20.)

MONEY, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it. An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable property.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

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