I saw a line in a recent New Yorker article about America's endless wars, and it's been been rattling around in my head ever since: "In Syria, McKenzie visited the Green Village, a community of decrepit apartment blocks near a bombed-out oil facility that served as the operational headquarters for the final push to erase the caliphate, in 2019.
Wonderful thank you... love that description of the abyss.
Thankfully love, joy, peace, creativity and wisdom are infinitely vast—just like their Source. Feeling any one of the above is liberating and comforting: we zoom out on the aspects of humanity which are stupid, ugly and cruel and bask in our vastness.
Recharged, we can then zoom in once again and endeavour to bring some of the above characteristics of infinite vastness with us. Love, peace, joy, creativity and wisdom create space because they are spaciousness itself: primordial characteristics of spacious consciousness. They can shift perspectives and behaviours....ultimately they bring a spacious quality to the small, limited life under pressure which we describe as individual and collective suffering.
Spaciousness and excessive pressure/suffering cannot exist together. The pressure and confinement of a cruel, limited experience of life dissipates in the presence of spaciousness, in the presence of our deepest nature.
Yes, we're silly little bonobos that talk, but our stupidity is letting elites use the legal status of 'the corporation' to destroy lives and planet so they grow their power. End corporations, we won't seem so stupid. I so love us too...
The one thing we actually DO understand, at least in general terms, are the principles by which biological systems sustain themselves on the third planet — symbiosis, reciprocity, recycling materials, energy flows and the second law of thermodynamics. All principles that we dispute by their violation every bloody day.
I must disagree with your final statement, given that I hope we don't make it for the sake of preserving as much of that biosphere as possible by our removal from the picture. Could be that I'm just old, but it's also that I love the logical magnificence of that natural system, far more than than I love the word salads we develop to cover for our deficiencies and destructiveness. Human-contrived entities are now characterized as ecosystems — the political ecosystem, the economic ecosystem, etc. etc. Sure, the word can be used more generally to describe interconnected complex systems. But each of those human constructs violates the aforementioned principles of natural ecosystems on a daily basis, yet we persist in diversion-denying that fact. Humans are anti-ecological in so many real senses, that I need a cigarette when I listen to that rubbish.
I agree very much with what was said. What a time to be alive. We, the ones that are aware of our place in the infinite universe, must rise to power. Or else, the renaissance came after the black death, as it broke down the social order. Is time we evolve in our priorities, to better reflect the understanding we now have. Keep it up, we are ideologically superior to those accelerating our extinction.
This must be why l reflexively gag at all flag-waving attempts to fetishize the American military. The gap between the leaders and the lead grows ever more obvious.
Wonderful thank you... love that description of the abyss.
Thankfully love, joy, peace, creativity and wisdom are infinitely vast—just like their Source. Feeling any one of the above is liberating and comforting: we zoom out on the aspects of humanity which are stupid, ugly and cruel and bask in our vastness.
Recharged, we can then zoom in once again and endeavour to bring some of the above characteristics of infinite vastness with us. Love, peace, joy, creativity and wisdom create space because they are spaciousness itself: primordial characteristics of spacious consciousness. They can shift perspectives and behaviours....ultimately they bring a spacious quality to the small, limited life under pressure which we describe as individual and collective suffering.
Spaciousness and excessive pressure/suffering cannot exist together. The pressure and confinement of a cruel, limited experience of life dissipates in the presence of spaciousness, in the presence of our deepest nature.
Yes, we're silly little bonobos that talk, but our stupidity is letting elites use the legal status of 'the corporation' to destroy lives and planet so they grow their power. End corporations, we won't seem so stupid. I so love us too...
Brilliant!
The one thing we actually DO understand, at least in general terms, are the principles by which biological systems sustain themselves on the third planet — symbiosis, reciprocity, recycling materials, energy flows and the second law of thermodynamics. All principles that we dispute by their violation every bloody day.
I must disagree with your final statement, given that I hope we don't make it for the sake of preserving as much of that biosphere as possible by our removal from the picture. Could be that I'm just old, but it's also that I love the logical magnificence of that natural system, far more than than I love the word salads we develop to cover for our deficiencies and destructiveness. Human-contrived entities are now characterized as ecosystems — the political ecosystem, the economic ecosystem, etc. etc. Sure, the word can be used more generally to describe interconnected complex systems. But each of those human constructs violates the aforementioned principles of natural ecosystems on a daily basis, yet we persist in diversion-denying that fact. Humans are anti-ecological in so many real senses, that I need a cigarette when I listen to that rubbish.
I agree very much with what was said. What a time to be alive. We, the ones that are aware of our place in the infinite universe, must rise to power. Or else, the renaissance came after the black death, as it broke down the social order. Is time we evolve in our priorities, to better reflect the understanding we now have. Keep it up, we are ideologically superior to those accelerating our extinction.
This must be why l reflexively gag at all flag-waving attempts to fetishize the American military. The gap between the leaders and the lead grows ever more obvious.