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The Spark of the Opposites I.
2011-08-09 00:05:00 (First part of two; reworked from an response offered to Jung-Fire, an email discussion group mostly about Analytic Psychology and Carl Jung. These two parts are in response to the question, how do you hold the tension of the opposites?) … Continue reading → More About: Opposites , Spark
Give Me the Soft Kind
2011-07-26 08:04:00 Their fiscal anarchism has now led to their threat to destabilize and possibly upend the American and global economy because they refuse to compromise an inch. They control only one part of the government, and yet they hold all of … Continue reading → More About: Soft , Give
Glisssssssssendo
2011-07-22 12:28:00 Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good. This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is … Continue reading →
Attar: What Is Not the Mystic
2011-07-21 08:13:00 Atar-Sufi Poet-The Whole World is a Marketplace for Love
Planet of the Snake-Oil Loving Apes
2011-01-17 14:17:00 David Lee takes Ken Wilber to task, Frisky Dirt, Why Ken Wilber’s New Creationism is Pseudo-Science, for reprising his odd views on evolution. Those views can be encapsulated in quotes from The Guru and the Pandit. Eros, Buddha, and the … Continue reading → More About: Snake , Apes , Planet , Loving
Periodic Table of Visualization, and more
2011-01-08 05:48:00 click to enlarge Visit the following link to access the pop-up examples for each of the Periodic Table of Visualization s‘ cells. I’m fond of graphical ways of showing relationships between concepts and domains. Here’s a few more depictions from my … Continue reading →
Teaching Cartoon: What?s Good For You
2011-01-05 18:42:00 click for large version Fast Freddie’s cat stands in for Nasruddin here. This falls into the class of teaching stories in which the person doesn’t know any better. (Gilbert Shelton of course, from The Further Adventures of Those Fabulous Furry … Continue reading → More About: Cartoon , Teaching , Good
Stop Boxing
2011-01-03 17:18:00 When I’m working playfully in my squareONE transformative learning mode, I’m always doing a version of the following experiment, here defined as its hypothesis: Given experiential engagement of a novel process and its novel set of data, the learner will … Continue reading → More About: Boxing , Stop
Dispersal. Wind Over Water
2011-01-01 13:08:00 In dispersal there is development. The king comes to have a shrine. It is beneficial to cross great rivers. It is beneficial to be correct. EXPLANATION Dispersal means disorganization and disorder. In the body of the hexagram, below is water … Continue reading → More About: Wind , Water
What, no there/their?
2010-12-23 13:36:00 Ten Most looked-up words (Merriam-Webster for 2010) 1. Pretentious 2. Ubiquitous 3. Love 4. Cynical 5. Apathetic 6. Conundrum 7. Albeit 8. Ambiguous 9. Integrity 10. Affect / Effect Flash poem: APATHETIC cynical love pretentious integrity albeit ambiguous affect ubiquitous … Continue reading →
Catscape
2010-12-20 13:24:00 I enjoy giving our cats nicknames, so Glori has earned with ease the nickname ‘Stretch.’
Light Strokes
2010-12-17 07:46:00 Artist: Random International Installation at Sadler’s Wells for Wayne McGregor’s production of Far | Random Dance Company Working at the fringes of innovation in science, art and design, rAndom International have developed a series of projects and installations that aim … Continue reading → More About: Light
Zen Story: Cyclin?
2010-12-13 12:29:00 A Zen Teacher saw five of his students return from the market, riding their bicycles. When they had dismounted, the teacher asked the students, ?Why are you riding your bicycles?? The first student replied, ?The bicycle is carrying this sack … Continue reading → More About: Story
(ARK) Table Mountain
2010-12-12 04:29:00 Table Mountain (S.Calhoun 2010) ‘Appropriated Random Kitsch’ or ARK. Theme is the one place in the entire universe I’d like to visit the most. (chosen, appropriated frames: using Dreamlines; hat tip to programmer Leonardo Solaas) More About: South Africa , Cape Town , Table
Bernie Gets It
2010-12-11 07:51:00 Ok, got your attention… …and he always has. His twitter stream His history-making fillibuster (CSPAN search result) from December 10. Bernie Sanders If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that … Continue reading →
Reduced Bateson Set: set up III. Actuality Matters
2010-12-08 23:36:00 (I continue musings which exemplify what I’m musing about. This is the set up to my presenting a schema, the Reduced Bateson Set, I can use to interpret my experience of other person’s presentation of information. Caveat: I am entertaining … Continue reading →
Fishin? Sort of
2010-12-05 20:40:00 Somewhat in alignment with the Bateson motive, here’s our two new cats, in some relation to an aquarium screensaver. I installed a demo of on my wife’s Macbook. Glori, the mostly black short hair cat, and, Sassy, the tiger short … Continue reading → More About: Sort
What If Your Parents Had Never??
2010-12-04 06:13:00 In my continuing research into what I term transformative anthropology, or, into developmental serendipity in the human life cycle, every question or speculation is worth investigation. This includes questions considered ridiculous: “What if your parents had never met?” To which … Continue reading → More About: Parents
Mantra Modes Revived
2010-12-02 06:45:00 Mantra Modes, The Artistry of Abdullah Ibrahim, was one of my very first web initiatives. It was developed in 1996 and then published as part of the old Hoon Web. I have dragged it into the 21st century after the … Continue reading →
Teaching Cartoon. Top This
2010-11-30 06:37:00 (source: Zen Forest Sayings of the Master, complied by Soiku Shigematsu) More About: Cartoon , Teaching
Great Beyond
2010-11-26 18:16:00 A trip beyond the edge of the observable universe More About: Great
All All There
2010-10-14 06:05:00 Dave says to me after the game, It was all there. What a great game. I affirm this, Yup. Actually, whatever “it” is, my guess “it” is all there every weekend, in the Free Play softball game. Except, to say … Continue reading →
Two Batesonian Teaching Cartoons
2010-10-13 04:36:00 Okay. I mentioned I had this darn insight many years ago: something like a Batesonian metalogue–which are sprinkled throughout his books–seems to be discoverable in the deep structure of particular Sufi teaching stories. This old insight has evolved and this … Continue reading → More About: Cartoons , Teaching
Minding the Mind
2010-10-11 02:47:00 My favorite (Gregory) Batesonian teaching story, reconfigured and originally via Idries Shah. A frenchman is teaching another french rudimentary english. “So, the word for froid crème glacée is ‘cold ice cream.’ ” “What’s the word for chaude crème glacée?” “Oh, … Continue reading → More About: Mind
Self ?Splanin?
2010-10-05 08:15:00 ?What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?? Lacan I’m not qualified to be dog catcher, but if I ever threw my hat in the ring, I’d have a ton of … Continue reading →
United We Stand, So, Bend Over
2010-09-26 04:08:00 The Orange Man announces another fatuous documentation–in a long line of such productions–of things the Republican Party will never, ever, manage to do. I’m not sure it would be politically wise for them to execute any of their plans. For … Continue reading → More About: United , Bend
The Precision of Imprecision
2010-09-23 07:47:00 Charles Sanders Peirce Louis Menand’s capsule intellectual history of American pragmatism’s initial development, The Metaphysical Club, was an enjoyable read. But even little ol’ me could note he advanced a highly selective narrative, where he chops off C.S. Peirce’s technical … Continue reading →
The Sting And its Habitus
2010-09-20 14:28:00 The election September 7, in northeastern Ohio, “NEO,” marked a dramatic turning point in the region’s model for self-governance. A new county charter was passed in 2009. It was a rush job, and its opponents either argued to retain the … Continue reading → More About: Sting
A Hopeful Leader
More articles from this author:2010-09-18 20:23:00 Sarah Haile-Mariam. While earning her B.S. in Communications at New York University, Sara volunteered as a grassroots organizer, surrogate and out-of-state coordinator for the New York Obama campaign. Sara spoke on behalf of the campaign at rallies and town halls … Continue reading → More About: Hopeful 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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