The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day… we become seekers. — Peter Matthiessen
The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day… we become seekers.
Yes, yes, it is Robbie Burns night – and here’s one for him Little Flo
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An inspired remix: ‘We Are All Connected’ (ft. Sagan, Feynman, deGrasse Tyson & Bill Nye)
more at symphonyofscience.com melodysheep apparently uses Reason 4.0 (instrumentals), Adobe Audition (audio editing), and Melodyne (auto-tuning), but the musicality, art and inspiration is all his own. Good stuff.
The tragi-comic drama of reality! Our ignor-ance is scary that you have to laugh! If you read this piece (“addicted to nonsense”) – check the melodramatic ending! It’s interesting to me that, whilst the picture is bleaker than we might care to acknowledge in our waking lives, the end isn’t necessarily nigh! On the contrary. Radical change is nigh – and the saviour is YOU, baby! [Yes, yes - like, Neo - WAKE UP - You are the One]
… What really matters in our lives—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the steady deterioration of the dollar, the mounting foreclosures, the climbing unemployment, the melting of the polar ice caps and the awful reality that once the billions in stimulus money run out next year we will be bereft and broke—doesn’t fit into the cheerful happy talk that we mainline into our brains. We are enraptured by the revels of a dying civilization. Once reality shatters the airy edifice, we will scream and yell like petulant children to be rescued, saved and restored to comfort and complacency. There will be no shortage of demagogues, including buffoons like Sarah Palin, who will oblige. We will either wake up to face our stark new limitations, to retreat from imperial projects and discover a new simplicity, as well as a new humility, or we will stumble blindly toward catastrophe and neofeudalism…
read the article
And, in case nobody told you yet…
thereisnospoon
… And each and every one of you is being taken for fools. You work for an election or two to put chosen leaders in place, and expect those leaders to work their “leadership” magic to ram reforms down the throats of the corporate sector, failing to understand just how fully the corporate sector holds the cards. It’s not the campaign contributions: it’s the persuasion money. You’re looking for a savior. And like that Savior of biblical fame, s/he isn’t coming, as long as there are people like me out there. I personally won’t work for a company or organization that goes against my personal convictions. But 99% of us certainly will…
… And each and every one of you is being taken for fools. You work for an election or two to put chosen leaders in place, and expect those leaders to work their “leadership” magic to ram reforms down the throats of the corporate sector, failing to understand just how fully the corporate sector holds the cards. It’s not the campaign contributions: it’s the persuasion money.
You’re looking for a savior. And like that Savior of biblical fame, s/he isn’t coming, as long as there are people like me out there. I personally won’t work for a company or organization that goes against my personal convictions. But 99% of us certainly will…
Go on! Read the rest of this perspective piece here.
as above, so below
(underlying cultural influence on the theme of Christmas and New Year)
winter solstice is considered the strongest of the four main power points of the year. The light returns… masculine sun gains strength from this day till summer solstice (when sun begins to wane again.)
Now… is when we might ritually let go in our bodies, minds, hearts and spirit of what we don’t want to carry into the new cycle of increase.
Celebrate, release, renew!
To elaborate, here’s astrological notes by Patricia Liles: Winter Solstice – Sun enters Capricorn 0º at 10:47 AM MST on Mon. December 21st. This is an important solstice and a time to do something with community towards change. … Read the rest of this entry »
My new hero (after Hank Moody, Californication) – a strong and clear spokesman of the imminence of climate change as it relates to our collective evolution as an awake global community. Yes, wake up they say, wake up and smell the (fairtrade) coffee and we might truly call ourselves an intelligent species, or toast!? I encourage you to watch through part 2 to get the noble dude’s message. This corroborates our evolutionary potential as alluded to here in the inspirational largest movement on earth by Paul Hawken (at the Bioneers conference in 2007)
An elegant and eloquent short. I like it because it offers (to me) a clear and honest juxtaposition of two worlds (without newagism or sensationalism) and where my values and heart truly lie – with the soil under my feet, a feeling community, and a simplification from distractions by knowing where my deepest pleasures in life really lie…
Again, in spite of RAW’s advise “do not adjust your mind – it is reality that is malfunctioning”, after successfully returning from Black Rock City after the 7th (or 8th?) journey to that wild and glorious place, I find my neurones are just beginning to regroup and the synapses starting to fire in the correct order once more, to fit consensus reality, kind of. But, each time one’s perspective is broadened by some radical experience, it’s hard to squeeze the consciousness genie back in it’s bottle, … Read the rest of this entry »
