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Wit, Spiritual Technologies, Turning Away from thin brands
A note from Frank Visser*, who has used a graphic I created to head a reposting of an article, THE ‘SPIRIT OF EVOLUTION’ RECONSIDERED Relating Ken Wilber’s view of spiritual evolution to the current evolution debates, had me thinking for a moment about Wilber … Continue reading
Posted in cultural contradictions, integral, psychology
Tagged Frank Visser, Gregory Bateson, irony, Ken Wilber, new age, parody, self-development, spirituality, Teal Swan
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Death To Me
Morbid Anatomy Teaser for The Midnight Archive, a New Web Video Series Based Around the Event/Gallery Space Observatory, Brooklyn
Found: Coleman Barks
Several weeks ago I went searching on the net for Coleman Barks. Barks, a poet, is most well known for his versions of Rumi. In fact, to the extent Rumi is known by the English-speaking world, a lion’s share of the credit accrues to Mr. Barks and to his colleague and co-author John Moyne.
Having done this same search years ago, I knew there are numerous resources and media, but, one such resource at the CBC had been taken down, an interview with Barks and Andrew Harvey by Mary Hynes (as part of Ms. Hynes’ Tapestry Series.) I made an inquiry.
Lo and behold a few days later a nice gentleman from the CBC emailed me and asked if I would be interested in providing an introduction for this archival podcast. I jumped at the opportunity to help bring the interview back into circulation.
The podcast at the CBC is back, and listed here. (Direct download-mp3)
Coleman Barks interview at Lapham’s Quarterly. (mp3)
Video at Poetry Everywhere (PBS)
The Big Red Book is the newest exploration of Rumi by Coleman Barks. It focuses on Rumi’s relationship with Shams of Tabriz. One of the aphorisms of Shams is a touchstone for me:
Follow the perfume, not the tracks.
The following video provides a beguiling introduction to Rumi and Shams.
Jalaluddin El-Rumi & Shams El Tabriz from Raphael Rousseau Sason on Vimeo.
Mining Under the Common Ground
Separate truths It is misleading — and dangerous — to think that religions are different paths to the same wisdom [excerpt Boston.com April 25, 2010] Of course, those who claim that the world’s religions are different paths up the same … Continue reading
Secrets Revealed
I noted recently via a google alert that lectures of Idries Shah, taken from a series of hard-to-obtain cassettes, have been made available on the web site, The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge. Ishk.net is ostensibly the web … Continue reading
Posted in sufism
Tagged culture, experiential learning, idies Shah, Idries Shah, spirituality, sufism
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Groups & the Development of Consciousness
My colleague and friend Robert has asked in a comment to Sustainability, Systems Awareness & Eros, “However saying that, I don’t know if the “group” consciousness actually manages to effect a real conscious change in both individuals and in groups. … Continue reading
ALICE & BOB
Swamini Turiyasangitananda Alice Coltrane passed January 14. She was one of the deeply beautiful human beings. “In these kinds of times we live in now, with war, floods and fires, it is not unusual because they have been occurring throughout … Continue reading
IT WOULD TAKE A LOT OF TIME AND THOROUGH ATTENTION
I’m very curious about the process through which people really get to know each other. And, just as fascinated by the processes through which people fool themselves into believing they are getting to really know one other. There is overlap … Continue reading
RENAMING & PREPARING TO PREPARE
I added the emphasis in the following clipping. …food for reflection. I’ll follow up with a teaching cartoon shortly. Excerpt. The Wisdom of Sufic Humor, Idries Shah; originally published in Human Nature; April 1978 Sufis see many traditional prayers and … Continue reading
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Tagged adult learning, experiential learning, spirituality, sufism
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SOFTLY HARD PROBLEMS
Dana Gaynor’s The Journal of Psychospiritual Transformation has some fairly ‘hard’ minded articles about its subject matter. For example, on the contents page of vol.1 you’ll find an article by Charles Tart, “An Emergent Interactionist Understanding of Human Consciousness”. It … Continue reading
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Tagged cognitive psychology, consciousness, outsider research, psychology, science, spirituality
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STRAIGHT TO THE PLAYFUL HEART
In my trolling for items of interest, I happened upon a terrific resource, the web site of Yannis Karaliotas. He’s an explorer and scholar with very similar affinities to my own. His paper, “The Element of Play in Learning” is … Continue reading