Pessimistic consensus One thing that I see continually around me is people’s general lack of a positive vision for our future. We have a general lack of consensus around where we are going as a species, other than pictures of gloom related to any number of doomsday, grim terminal futures you see all around us….
Presentation given for ZDAY2011 in Portland OR. How can the transition happen, what would a possible transition look like, and is the transition we are talking about even unique in Earth’s history? And what can we do today?
Cybernetics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics Is a subject which has come to my attention following reading some material from a book called “Web of Life” by Fritjof Capra: Home Until now I have had an assumption of what it is all about, but never a clear clean definition. The most interesting aspect of Cybernetics to me currently is…
Spiral Dynamics is an integral world-view promoted by the likes of Ken Wilber, Steve Macintosh and others. It describes various stages of cultural development along the path towards greater degrees of awareness / consciousness. While I do have my criticism which pertains primarily to the projected stages beyond our current one, the theory is quite…
In the not so distant future, people will be marketing devices, and especially electronic/computer related ones for entirely different qualities than they do today. A typical computer will be something that you buy for its craftsmanship, something that you know was built to last 20 to 50 years or more, even if you throw it…
The stimulation of awareness is, in my belief, the single most fundamentally important aspect of ourselves we need to develop. Through awareness we ask questions, we learn, we develop our own thoughts, we become educated – wise even. The lack of awareness is the root from which all problems arise. War, environmental problems, disease, suffering,…
For quite some time I have been interested in theories that discuss the balancing between right and left brain thinking, and the translation of ideas from one field to another. Ken Wilber’s book [my review] opened up a new domain of philosophical thinking. Through this interest I have heard a great deal mentioned recently about…
i had a really nice time in spain with Josiane. We rented a car – drove around costa brava, visited beautiful beaches, the mountains and even the little commercial petrol-shopping enclave of Andorra. So much love, a really special person, beautiful times. Photos from our trip [first week uploaded, second week still needs to be…
You may have heard of the "flower of life" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flower_of_life You may have heard of the "flower of life"