January 2012 Blog Posts (7)

ELECTION TIME - A MEMORY

Esalen Institute on election night in 1980…I am participating in an extended study program there which involves honored scholars from a number of disciplines. On this night, Ronald Reagan is winning the election. After dinner, we are all invited to remain in the dining hall for a talk by physicist Fritjof Capra, who is in residence there at the time writing his book THE TURNING POINT. He talks to all of us assembled there about Toynbee’s take on the fall of…

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CORRECT ARGUMENTS



Let's dissect a true statement, and reword it to fit the dangerous truth. "It is sadly not evident that the world is collapsing upon the rise of materialism." Though the statement is true, it does not fulfill it's potential. Our media has a way of altering issues to seem less influential. The statement is an important one, and must be understood directly and wholey. 'People, the world is going to collapse due to your idiotic materialistic ways. which are selfishly… Continue

In times like these we are faced with a choice! 



Do we sit in our ivory towers surrounded by crystals, self help books, reciting positive mantras, or in our modern houses, surrounded by the treasures of our material attainments, cocooned in our individual frames of reference, saying "that it won't happen to me, I am ok!"



Or do we face the facts, observe the world around us, even the shadow aspects of which we find uncomfortable, and act…

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From a successful crime-prevention model we moved on to studying complexity, but we did not find in mainstream science what we were looking for. So we have proposed some new concepts, these are some of our findings:

Complex order is created by intention, rules of action and information. 

All three of these elements are really information.  Information is everywhere and is the basis of our Universe. The Universe is entangled by information. The Universe learns by…

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From January 11th New Scientist article: At the beginning of the 1970s, a group of young scientists set out to explore our future. Their findings shook a generation and may be even more relevant than ever today. The question the group set out to answer was: what would happen if the world’s…

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UNICORN RISING

grazing on green violets in spring

we hear with gentle hearts

the soft sounds

of new music

from green gold reeds

as the sun warms a new Dayrose

on slender vines

strong enough to weave new clothes

for the Emperor

born from the breath of the Unicorn

.--Barbara Smith Stoff