Expensive Lipstick and Truth Suppression.
http://www.campusalbertainnovatesprogram.ca/Energy&Environment.html
It has been along time since Pasteur / Fleming and other scientists developed - penicillin which saved multitudes of people and animals from biological attack on their person. Today in the land of the free'con'omics a plan to research the use of microbes to solve the energy / carbon crisis of our time is an opportunity not to be missed. The search / research to find the “antidote” to the poisoning of mother earth's aquifers, part of the collateral impact in recovery of all available carbon based gas and oil, is in theory operable and ongoing. To search deep in the rocks and life – underground in the “mordor of middle earth” - for the new microbes to vaccinate, prevent and cure the damage from in part where the life giving water flows.
The damage is a result of fracturing the layers of the earth using toxic poisonous substances. Framing such “holy grail” quest to find such key to eternal life, to maintain our lifestyle -- might be named as a state of delusion. Such is an exercise in obfuscation to continue the obsession to find the last gas and oil at all cost might reveal psychopathic tendencies if looked at in another perspective. Could it be that “The Alberta Innovates Program” is truly a rouge to dress up the situation so people won't see the beast as it is? Rouge and lipstick on what ever "beast" or wolf , we require few woodsman to decapitate and relieve us of our impending death.
Could it be from their knowledge of Black-water Whiskey and the sulphur bacteria in most water found in rural Alberta today (long-term effect of oil and gas exploration) that they have placed such misdirected hope or was it just the whiskey of power and the elixir of greed?
Will our miniscule presence in time be known in future decades as to when they poisoned humanities source and sustenance of life – the water of life transformed to the water of death.
Still wondering
To understand the world often one must look from the bottom up. We are who we are by how we treat the weakest, vulnerable, and voiceless amongst us.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Call me Ishmael.
I have been away - visiting - listening - sorting out my narrative. I ponder Herman's words written so many years ago in the tome "Moby Dick". Call me Ishmael. What has changed in the human condition? How much of Captain Ahab is in my being? Are my obsessions leading me to my own death? Is my destiny unfolding as the fates are directing? Is my life providing sustenance for others?
I live in Canada a country where the Captain's - obsessions are destroying and holding many entwined to a dream - more like a nightmare! The narrative of my country is not based on a victory on some foreign soil, where our patriots left their bodies for the worms as the military mongers proclaim! Yet our government is promoting and using the military budget to do just that. Canada's great victory in the war of 1812??? Huh?
I am painting my own "white and black" house with strips of "dried red blood". Old Mexico is the color. What lies hidden in the unconscious of such choice? A house planted on territory that from many was said to be unoccupied - yet perhaps stolen by the newcomers intent on building a new life for themselves! People from crashed and war torn countries were "advertised to" by the corporate interest who marketed a dream of "the new land". I am now coming to recognize my Canadian identity as a member of Treaty 6. As it takes two parts to a treaty I am beginning to identify with my responsibilities of the treaty.
They had promised to share the land - water - and resources. Many are still in wait for promises made years ago. I too complicit in the ongoing story - wanting to hide my white shame privilege through busy-ness and distraction. It seems like Chapter 90 in Herman's Tome. The winds of time - still blow "the Pequod" the ship of life that I am on - towards the unknown future. Yet it is known - like the whale oil industry - taking everything than innocently lives - and regardless of the cost - there still is blood on the light in my house and the gas in my car! I confess - and promise to repent! But when Jesus asks -
Just still wondering - Have you made changes in your life lately??
I live in Canada a country where the Captain's - obsessions are destroying and holding many entwined to a dream - more like a nightmare! The narrative of my country is not based on a victory on some foreign soil, where our patriots left their bodies for the worms as the military mongers proclaim! Yet our government is promoting and using the military budget to do just that. Canada's great victory in the war of 1812??? Huh?
I am painting my own "white and black" house with strips of "dried red blood". Old Mexico is the color. What lies hidden in the unconscious of such choice? A house planted on territory that from many was said to be unoccupied - yet perhaps stolen by the newcomers intent on building a new life for themselves! People from crashed and war torn countries were "advertised to" by the corporate interest who marketed a dream of "the new land". I am now coming to recognize my Canadian identity as a member of Treaty 6. As it takes two parts to a treaty I am beginning to identify with my responsibilities of the treaty.
They had promised to share the land - water - and resources. Many are still in wait for promises made years ago. I too complicit in the ongoing story - wanting to hide my white shame privilege through busy-ness and distraction. It seems like Chapter 90 in Herman's Tome. The winds of time - still blow "the Pequod" the ship of life that I am on - towards the unknown future. Yet it is known - like the whale oil industry - taking everything than innocently lives - and regardless of the cost - there still is blood on the light in my house and the gas in my car! I confess - and promise to repent! But when Jesus asks -
"What do you think? A man had two sons; he went to the first and said, 'Son, go and work in the vineyard today.' He answered, 'I will not'; but later he changed his mind and went. The father went to the second and said the same; and he answered, 'I go, sir'; but he did not go. Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going into the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him; and even after you saw it, you did not change your minds and believe him.
Why can I understand it but not implement the choice I need to change! Grant me forgiveness - so I can heal - and take steps to the new life that is upon us.!
Just still wondering - Have you made changes in your life lately??
Friends we need to know!!
I discovered something about myself today. An article at the Toronto Star challenged my sense of my own being. I have to interpret my own competency. http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1137874--why-incompetent-people-are-too-incompetent-to-know-they-re-incompetent?bn=1#article
Are humans questioning what is happening in their world? The impacts of the internet has help us to look at ourselves. It has the potential to challenge and assist humans to confront or use critical questioning as to what they believe they know with what they actually know. An example of misplaced assumptions in Canadian parliamentarians filled the House of Commons with mea-culpas as some realized some incidental truths of what they thought they knew, had to be confessed only to find out what they claimed a few days before as truth was false. The Vikileak and Anonymous related to issues in some way creates a level of mis-trust that leaves everyone's integrity in question. What appeared yesterday as attempts to "save face" perhaps will provide a saving grace that will reduce their ego's impact on the denial of truth and what is spoken. Consider the possibilities of the internet becoming the "new Parliament of the Canadian People" and the impact on the current institutions and procedures.
I sense Parker Palmer in his description of "standing in the tragic gap" may have an insight we can use. His call to introspection of our living and using community to as part of the reflection model may offer a way forward. Watch the video
It seems to me that with opportunities to gather people from all over the world in conversation small groups the world could be changed dramatically for the better. If each of us was to treat everyone as a friend and others as a friend I haven't got to know yet we could make a difference. I want to thank the person I did not know across the table at a pancake breakfast - ask me the question - "What will you be doing with the rest of the day?" A good way to enter deeper into relationship with those we do not know as friends.
Hope you see new ways to encounter others in your life! Would you recommend a community that is welcoming and challenging?
Still wondering
Are humans questioning what is happening in their world? The impacts of the internet has help us to look at ourselves. It has the potential to challenge and assist humans to confront or use critical questioning as to what they believe they know with what they actually know. An example of misplaced assumptions in Canadian parliamentarians filled the House of Commons with mea-culpas as some realized some incidental truths of what they thought they knew, had to be confessed only to find out what they claimed a few days before as truth was false. The Vikileak and Anonymous related to issues in some way creates a level of mis-trust that leaves everyone's integrity in question. What appeared yesterday as attempts to "save face" perhaps will provide a saving grace that will reduce their ego's impact on the denial of truth and what is spoken. Consider the possibilities of the internet becoming the "new Parliament of the Canadian People" and the impact on the current institutions and procedures.
I sense Parker Palmer in his description of "standing in the tragic gap" may have an insight we can use. His call to introspection of our living and using community to as part of the reflection model may offer a way forward. Watch the video
It seems to me that with opportunities to gather people from all over the world in conversation small groups the world could be changed dramatically for the better. If each of us was to treat everyone as a friend and others as a friend I haven't got to know yet we could make a difference. I want to thank the person I did not know across the table at a pancake breakfast - ask me the question - "What will you be doing with the rest of the day?" A good way to enter deeper into relationship with those we do not know as friends.
Hope you see new ways to encounter others in your life! Would you recommend a community that is welcoming and challenging?
Still wondering
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Life below the Tropic of Capricorn
President Sarkozy's little brother - wants to assure the world that the private financiers will maintain the economic order in order to replace the central banks of many of the smaller countries. As Chief Executive to the Carlyle Group - one of the large alternative sources of capital available to the world - drawn from the exploitation and non - sharing of the wealth derived from the energy and resource rich regions of the world; assures us that all will be okay according to a report in "the Australian" a few days ago
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/private-equity-can-help-europe-says-sarkozys-brother/story-e6frg926-1226217666803
The one percenters believe their own humble opinions as the messiah's who will rescue humanity from its depravity. We should not be fooled by foolishness alone. The reality of most of humanity is defined by struggle - survival - violence - and the in-ability to participate and offer their gifts to the whole of life. I appreciate the freedom to speak foolishly into the mix of the madness of the new "wonderland" we now live in.
May the days of the journey ahead - whether it is flight to another country until the tyrants have died or been replaced, or for the child born in the outback village in the territories - may they be symbols of hope that one day - soon - a new way of life will emerge. Here in the lighted half of the world where the days are reaching their longest periods of light may we be awake to the darkness around us.
May this season be filled with hope - joy - and grace
on the way to Uluru to watch the sunrise and set
bruce
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/economics/private-equity-can-help-europe-says-sarkozys-brother/story-e6frg926-1226217666803
The one percenters believe their own humble opinions as the messiah's who will rescue humanity from its depravity. We should not be fooled by foolishness alone. The reality of most of humanity is defined by struggle - survival - violence - and the in-ability to participate and offer their gifts to the whole of life. I appreciate the freedom to speak foolishly into the mix of the madness of the new "wonderland" we now live in.
May the days of the journey ahead - whether it is flight to another country until the tyrants have died or been replaced, or for the child born in the outback village in the territories - may they be symbols of hope that one day - soon - a new way of life will emerge. Here in the lighted half of the world where the days are reaching their longest periods of light may we be awake to the darkness around us.
May this season be filled with hope - joy - and grace
on the way to Uluru to watch the sunrise and set
bruce
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Being alive - feeling good!
Finding one's voice in the wilderness can be difficult and suppressed by one's own imagination and mind. I am offering to others to what I wrote to my activists friends who I feel were responding to what is going on around us. The words I offer are in love and in the tradition of claiming my role as a deacon within my faith tradition.
I too want to thank the posters / cross posters. I have edited this on the evening that I heard Danny Michel - sing Maybe You Can Find it in Your Heart.
http://www.dannymichel.com/newsite/welcome.html
I can declare that where humanity is today - in the midst of a huge reorganization on many institutional and confines of the contexts - ways of living - based on the human desire of the old ways to live beyond a scarcity mind set on consuming more. Such current narrative being promoted by those with the most is falling apart. The ancient seven wonders of the world remind us of civilizations that have disappeared. Our current one - is like the one described by Ishmael - in Herman Melville's tome - Moby Dick. We are on the Pequod - together sailing towards our end at the bottom of the seas of time.
http://youtu.be/6Ugkain3QUg Danny's song Feather Fur and Fin
Such knowledge and information can very easily effect our moods and ultimately take us into the darker places where we find ourselves living. Such moods include - Dispair - Resignation - Cynicism - immobility - victimization - blame - resentment - anger and fear. What has happened and is happening will continue to happen. We too will experience the impacts as are all other life forms on Mother Earth. Coming to the realization and acceptance of what is and how we chose to respond to what happens to us is a powerful skill to become who we intend to be. If we continue to operate out of the behaviors we have come to use based on the old story we create to explain ourselves to the universe we will get stuck in the mud of the lakes where the water has disappeared. When I am given the choice to respond to a situation - I can choose a different response and choose to live in a different mood. This is the activist dance that then goes on in our mind.
I offer that I have found myself in exagerrated cycnicism and sarcasm - but if I can stand up turn around from looking backwards to looking forward in inspiration of a vision using my creativity to live fully alive with what I have - around me and by working together as citizens of earth we can support each other, including our enemies. By taking out of our vocabulary the word "enemies" - replacing it with "the friends I do not yet know and appreciate" I can change my being.
If I declare I do not like being a victim and take responsibilty for where I / we are together we can create options and actions - including civil disobedience - to invite others to do the same and to invite the powerful to engage in dialogue. Such when we sing and dance together our hearts and minds can be changed.
If I can get forego the resentment - anger - self pity and all the energy it requires sitting in such space, transformation can happen. I can allow acceptance of what has happened and what is happening may continue. It is what it is. I can turn into the realization and responsibility that I have the power within myself and along with the community to make a difference. Accepting such I can be the person I am destined to become as I can be.
If I let go of the moods of resignation - and use the energy that is currently immobilizing in such situation - and convert it to ambition to do and stand and walk on the path of an aliveness and sense of healing and vitality.
I have recently returned from a program called "returning to Spirit" which gave me the tools and path towards empowerment. Why does it take me fifty years to become "When I'm you" especially to find the happiness that comes with letting go of the imagined person I thought I was. Now I can be the you I really am. I have experienced finding "the spark in my heart." I was lost in times old ways!!!!!
http://www.returningtospirit.org
Such work included getting in touch with the basic core belief I held unconciously for most of my life. The lie perpetuated was; I am not important!!
The behaviors and patterns I used to support and grow my "concept story" were when I was in the four ugly moods - were exagerrated cycnicism / sarcasm and inserting my story and my crap into the conversations. Persons were unable to hear or listen as I suspect they became tired of my "incessant wisdom and need to explain" such as I am doing now.
Our mind and our behaviors when we do the dance of moods I described above for me was that I could not pay attention or hear others. I was self absorbed and often isolated and withdrew from being fully alive. I dare say a form of depression - and would by others be described as "mentally ill" which is a term often used by the powerful to discredit anyone who could not dance the power and oppression dance - of the delusion they invite and encourage us to live.
So I offer my weekly "sparrow speak" - chirping my voice to the universe - because it is now out there and as James Brown sings "I Feel Good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzlpTRNIAvc&noredirect=1
so good -
bruce
P.S. Thanks Danny for your insights and music to wake up the nations. Bob Marley likes it !!
I too want to thank the posters / cross posters. I have edited this on the evening that I heard Danny Michel - sing Maybe You Can Find it in Your Heart.
http://www.dannymichel.com/newsite/welcome.html
I can declare that where humanity is today - in the midst of a huge reorganization on many institutional and confines of the contexts - ways of living - based on the human desire of the old ways to live beyond a scarcity mind set on consuming more. Such current narrative being promoted by those with the most is falling apart. The ancient seven wonders of the world remind us of civilizations that have disappeared. Our current one - is like the one described by Ishmael - in Herman Melville's tome - Moby Dick. We are on the Pequod - together sailing towards our end at the bottom of the seas of time.
http://youtu.be/6Ugkain3QUg Danny's song Feather Fur and Fin
Such knowledge and information can very easily effect our moods and ultimately take us into the darker places where we find ourselves living. Such moods include - Dispair - Resignation - Cynicism - immobility - victimization - blame - resentment - anger and fear. What has happened and is happening will continue to happen. We too will experience the impacts as are all other life forms on Mother Earth. Coming to the realization and acceptance of what is and how we chose to respond to what happens to us is a powerful skill to become who we intend to be. If we continue to operate out of the behaviors we have come to use based on the old story we create to explain ourselves to the universe we will get stuck in the mud of the lakes where the water has disappeared. When I am given the choice to respond to a situation - I can choose a different response and choose to live in a different mood. This is the activist dance that then goes on in our mind.
I offer that I have found myself in exagerrated cycnicism and sarcasm - but if I can stand up turn around from looking backwards to looking forward in inspiration of a vision using my creativity to live fully alive with what I have - around me and by working together as citizens of earth we can support each other, including our enemies. By taking out of our vocabulary the word "enemies" - replacing it with "the friends I do not yet know and appreciate" I can change my being.
If I declare I do not like being a victim and take responsibilty for where I / we are together we can create options and actions - including civil disobedience - to invite others to do the same and to invite the powerful to engage in dialogue. Such when we sing and dance together our hearts and minds can be changed.
If I can get forego the resentment - anger - self pity and all the energy it requires sitting in such space, transformation can happen. I can allow acceptance of what has happened and what is happening may continue. It is what it is. I can turn into the realization and responsibility that I have the power within myself and along with the community to make a difference. Accepting such I can be the person I am destined to become as I can be.
If I let go of the moods of resignation - and use the energy that is currently immobilizing in such situation - and convert it to ambition to do and stand and walk on the path of an aliveness and sense of healing and vitality.
I have recently returned from a program called "returning to Spirit" which gave me the tools and path towards empowerment. Why does it take me fifty years to become "When I'm you" especially to find the happiness that comes with letting go of the imagined person I thought I was. Now I can be the you I really am. I have experienced finding "the spark in my heart." I was lost in times old ways!!!!!
http://www.returningtospirit.org
Such work included getting in touch with the basic core belief I held unconciously for most of my life. The lie perpetuated was; I am not important!!
The behaviors and patterns I used to support and grow my "concept story" were when I was in the four ugly moods - were exagerrated cycnicism / sarcasm and inserting my story and my crap into the conversations. Persons were unable to hear or listen as I suspect they became tired of my "incessant wisdom and need to explain" such as I am doing now.
Our mind and our behaviors when we do the dance of moods I described above for me was that I could not pay attention or hear others. I was self absorbed and often isolated and withdrew from being fully alive. I dare say a form of depression - and would by others be described as "mentally ill" which is a term often used by the powerful to discredit anyone who could not dance the power and oppression dance - of the delusion they invite and encourage us to live.
So I offer my weekly "sparrow speak" - chirping my voice to the universe - because it is now out there and as James Brown sings "I Feel Good!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzlpTRNIAvc&noredirect=1
so good -
bruce
P.S. Thanks Danny for your insights and music to wake up the nations. Bob Marley likes it !!
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Poetry or Prose
Living in the chaos of dysfunction
Accepting and living a response ability
Beyond the meager walls of my self contained
a yearning to be "Rhinestone Cowboy"
the song embodied in my soul
leaving fragments of greatness
to leave behind
as story and legend
oh what is such psalm of ages past
wandering the land of being
in tune with life around us?
Many cry out in despair -
Critics of all that is wrong
wounded by injustice
in their minds eye
the easy place of critique and pain
desiring more
yet unable to lift a step
a finger to forge ahead
such oppression - such lingering doubt
no sympathy for others on the path?
Why brutal - lateral violence -
such human living contain?
Godde help my soul proclaim
Yet why such madness
mental illness often proclaimed
blame the victim
self included - such fear -
such dread of night -
holds on so tight.
A voice caught in the trap of changing rules
by politicians vagarious choice
wondering why the time to issue visas to return
to menial work - as lowly servants
tests the patience and endurance.
(plight of many foreign temporary workers aka slaves)
Such patience and endurance -
lived values
our own fore-parents
did accept when offered passage
that built the nation within where we dwell.
Why such mean spirited ignorance
consequences of actions and words
come to destroy the will to live
as such is the result?
Could it be pathology within those who quest for power
failing to recognize the impact
on those imposed.
Is it not such named pathological?
Is such thoughtlessness
or extended righteousness?
Imposed to placate the little soul within
the drunken sailors at the
parliamentary ball?
Why such misery needs to be imposed
Is it fear like ancient kings of Eygpt?
Where are the midwives to deliver the future generations?
Or are these coming angry children going
to give up and wander in limbo
between life and hell of greatest pain?
Yet from strange lands we take the rich
the educated - professionals in mimicry
of Nebechenezzer of Bablyon.
To let them live
or send them home to Jerusalem
with riches for them to carry on
Curse the Samaritans - who were not chosen
Stayed behind - like the older son -
While the younger prodigal
did spend the inheritance for life secure
only to find he too was welcomed home.
So where is this home that people long for?
Why can we not invite the strangers in to our tents?
To try to claim as ours
As was only lent to us to care for
Yet we still dance the same old story
as it was in the beginning - is now - forever yet to be?
If such godde is still alive - growing - changing - welcoming us home
Can we not do the same - and in grace - celebrate and sing
so all are welcome in this time a place?
Such stiff - necked people we have become
Our hearts turned inward on our souls
Yet in the days ahead -
Let us dance the freedom dance -
sing the songs of celebration yet again
Hoist up the cup of grace and reconciliation
To begin again - the new day dawns eternal
here and now in this space "The Eternal Now"
With thanks to Paul Tillich and Glenn Campbell and the calls for help I recently received?
Accepting and living a response ability
Beyond the meager walls of my self contained
a yearning to be "Rhinestone Cowboy"
the song embodied in my soul
leaving fragments of greatness
to leave behind
as story and legend
oh what is such psalm of ages past
wandering the land of being
in tune with life around us?
Many cry out in despair -
Critics of all that is wrong
wounded by injustice
in their minds eye
the easy place of critique and pain
desiring more
yet unable to lift a step
a finger to forge ahead
such oppression - such lingering doubt
no sympathy for others on the path?
Why brutal - lateral violence -
such human living contain?
Godde help my soul proclaim
Yet why such madness
mental illness often proclaimed
blame the victim
self included - such fear -
such dread of night -
holds on so tight.
A voice caught in the trap of changing rules
by politicians vagarious choice
wondering why the time to issue visas to return
to menial work - as lowly servants
tests the patience and endurance.
(plight of many foreign temporary workers aka slaves)
Such patience and endurance -
lived values
our own fore-parents
did accept when offered passage
that built the nation within where we dwell.
Why such mean spirited ignorance
consequences of actions and words
come to destroy the will to live
as such is the result?
Could it be pathology within those who quest for power
failing to recognize the impact
on those imposed.
Is it not such named pathological?
Is such thoughtlessness
or extended righteousness?
Imposed to placate the little soul within
the drunken sailors at the
parliamentary ball?
Why such misery needs to be imposed
Is it fear like ancient kings of Eygpt?
Where are the midwives to deliver the future generations?
Or are these coming angry children going
to give up and wander in limbo
between life and hell of greatest pain?
Yet from strange lands we take the rich
the educated - professionals in mimicry
of Nebechenezzer of Bablyon.
To let them live
or send them home to Jerusalem
with riches for them to carry on
Curse the Samaritans - who were not chosen
Stayed behind - like the older son -
While the younger prodigal
did spend the inheritance for life secure
only to find he too was welcomed home.
So where is this home that people long for?
Why can we not invite the strangers in to our tents?
To try to claim as ours
As was only lent to us to care for
Yet we still dance the same old story
as it was in the beginning - is now - forever yet to be?
If such godde is still alive - growing - changing - welcoming us home
Can we not do the same - and in grace - celebrate and sing
so all are welcome in this time a place?
Such stiff - necked people we have become
Our hearts turned inward on our souls
Yet in the days ahead -
Let us dance the freedom dance -
sing the songs of celebration yet again
Hoist up the cup of grace and reconciliation
To begin again - the new day dawns eternal
here and now in this space "The Eternal Now"
With thanks to Paul Tillich and Glenn Campbell and the calls for help I recently received?
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Do we need "a" reality? Carl Roger's prophesy of contemporary Canada!
Carl Rogers essay near the conclusion wrote "we are wiser than our intellects, that our organisms as a whole have a wisdom and purposiveness which goes well beyond our conscious thought. ...men and women, individually and collectively, are inwardly and orgasmically rejecting the view of one single, culture - approved reality. I believe they are moving inevitably toward the acceptance of millions of separate, challenging, exciting, informative, individual perceptions of reality. I regard it as possible that this view like the sudden and separate discovery of the principles of quantum mechanics by scientists in different countries _ may begin to come into effective existence in many parts of the world at once. If so, we will be living in a totally new universe, different from any in history. Is it conceivable that such a change can come about?" Roger's concludes his essay
"..that if nations follow their past ways, then, because of the speed of world communication of separate views, each society will have to exert more and more coercion to bring about a forced agreement as to what constitutes the real world and its values. Those coerced agreements will differ from nation to nation, from culture to culture. The coercion will destroy individual freedom. We will bring about our own destruction through the clashes caused by differing world views."
mms://64.41.121.56/saybrook.edu/NeedReality1.wma
He goes on to offer hope: "But I have suggested an alternative. If we accept as a basic fact of all human life that we live in separate realities; if we can see those differing realities as the most promising resource for learning in all the history of the world; if we can live together in order to learn from one another without fear; if we can do all this, then a new age could be dawning. And perhaps -- humankind's deep organic sensings are paving the way for just such a change."
mms://64.41.121.56/saybrook.edu/NeedRealty2QA.wma
I had an experience in listening to this - that it mirrored the disciples at the feet of Christ listening to the master. My response to first reading the quote and then listening to Roger's deliver the essay at a conference - I was struck by the polarization that he concludes would occur. The message mirrors what has happened in Canada's election. On the one hand a message of values that the world has abandoned - and how the described "zealots" want to make life where everyone is in agreement to the leaders demands versus those who appreciate the amazing diversity and wonder of everyone's powerful unique perception of reality and being able to honor and listen to each other.
Now as I hear the words that the state will have to apply more coercion to have people comply and give up individual rights in order to implement thier agenda I can understand the needs for prisons. When we hear and cheer for the death of Osama Bin Laden - we are allowing a precedent to be set that it is okay to seek out and kill another human being because their ideas may be contrary to our own. The years ahead with a "strong and stable majority government" should be looked at with sceptism and foreboding as to what lengths the "authority chooses to unleash on the masses" of oppressed people - blind to their oppression.
To be subversive is a calling Jesus had .... will you join him on the journey?
"..that if nations follow their past ways, then, because of the speed of world communication of separate views, each society will have to exert more and more coercion to bring about a forced agreement as to what constitutes the real world and its values. Those coerced agreements will differ from nation to nation, from culture to culture. The coercion will destroy individual freedom. We will bring about our own destruction through the clashes caused by differing world views."
mms://64.41.121.56/saybrook.edu/NeedReality1.wma
He goes on to offer hope: "But I have suggested an alternative. If we accept as a basic fact of all human life that we live in separate realities; if we can see those differing realities as the most promising resource for learning in all the history of the world; if we can live together in order to learn from one another without fear; if we can do all this, then a new age could be dawning. And perhaps -- humankind's deep organic sensings are paving the way for just such a change."
mms://64.41.121.56/saybrook.edu/NeedRealty2QA.wma
I had an experience in listening to this - that it mirrored the disciples at the feet of Christ listening to the master. My response to first reading the quote and then listening to Roger's deliver the essay at a conference - I was struck by the polarization that he concludes would occur. The message mirrors what has happened in Canada's election. On the one hand a message of values that the world has abandoned - and how the described "zealots" want to make life where everyone is in agreement to the leaders demands versus those who appreciate the amazing diversity and wonder of everyone's powerful unique perception of reality and being able to honor and listen to each other.
Now as I hear the words that the state will have to apply more coercion to have people comply and give up individual rights in order to implement thier agenda I can understand the needs for prisons. When we hear and cheer for the death of Osama Bin Laden - we are allowing a precedent to be set that it is okay to seek out and kill another human being because their ideas may be contrary to our own. The years ahead with a "strong and stable majority government" should be looked at with sceptism and foreboding as to what lengths the "authority chooses to unleash on the masses" of oppressed people - blind to their oppression.
To be subversive is a calling Jesus had .... will you join him on the journey?
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