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“Craziness” & habit

Posted in Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on June 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »

In a process-relational view, there are no crazies. There are those who subjectivate with the aid of habits developed in response to conditions that have changed sufficiently that those habits are no longer very effective, or are not considered appropriate by others. Calling someone — and treating someone as — “crazy” is a way of […]

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SAR “Nature, Science, Religion” volume out

Posted in Eco-culture, Science & society, Spirit matter, tagged , , , on May 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »

I received my copies in the mail this week of the book that arose out of the School of Advanced Research seminar on “Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment.” It’s a handsome volume, whose contents provide a level of cross-cutting conversation that, I think, is rare among edited collections. Catherine Tucker […]

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We are the 1%

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter on May 5, 2012 | 1 Comment »

The other 99% have apparently gone extinct. (The estimate is actually closer to 100% than 99%.) This I just learned form Joshua Schuster’s talk on “Digital extinction.” The earth’s biological diversity is also the highest it’s ever been. We are living between the achievement (of speciation to tremendous levels of flourishing) and the projection (that […]

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“Only a god can save us…”

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on March 16, 2012 | 9 Comments »

  In a comment to my last post on triads and divinities, my frequent commenter/interlocutor “dmf” points out a nice essay by Robert Gall called “From Daimonion to the ‘Last’ God: Socrates, Heidegger, and the God of the Thinker,” which Mark Fullmer has made available beyond the restricted-access community. Gall distinguishes between the god of […]

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Thinking through threes (& deities)

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , on March 14, 2012 | 14 Comments »

  One of the things that Ecologies of the Moving Image has left unresolved, and left me needing to think more about, is the extent to which my Peircian “triadism” holds up. Philosophically, the case for some sort of triadism as a way of getting around dualisms is, at first blush, appealing. But there are […]

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In a nutshell

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter on January 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »

Shinzen Young lays it all out: He has also started blogging (to add to his other  online  presences).

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Lynn Margulis, r.i.p.

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , on November 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Heard about this last night. She died peacefully at her home in Massachusetts yesterday evening, surrounded by family. (We had just seen her son Dorion Sagan, son of Carl, give a great talk at the anthropology conference last Friday, after which he and his partner had to speed back to Toronto to get their passports […]

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On theism/nihilism & other things

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The Speculative Realist blogosphere has recently been alight with debates over the role of religion, God, theism versus nihilism, the secular and the “post-secular,” and other such things. Since these are topics I’m naturally interested, and somewhat invested, in, I ought to participate, but time constraints have made that all but impossible for me recently. […]

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Fine-tuning the mystical experience

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , on June 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »

Time magazine’s Healthland supplement summarizes a recent clinical study of 18 healthy, spiritually inclined adults who were administered a certain drug over 5 eight-hour sessions. Among the results: Fourteen months after participating in the study, 94% of those who received the drug said the experiment was one of the top five most meaningful experiences of […]

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‘Self-help,’ James Ray, and spiritual culture

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , on June 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The news that self-help guru James Arthur Ray has been found guilty of three counts of negligent homicide brings to an end (of sorts) a saga that began with three deaths and numerous injuries at an October, 2009, sweat lodge ceremony outside Sedona, Arizona. Since I’ve written a handful of articles and half a book […]

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The view from here (& there)

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , on June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »

  In its “Best places to celebrate the solstice,” Salon.com urges us to “embrace your inner pagan” — at places like Glastonbury Festival (natch), the Hill of Tara in Ireland, Cusco in Peru, and the desert site of Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels in Utah (pictured above).

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CSG set free (sort of): 10th birthday reflections

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , on June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »

It seems that my first book, Claiming Sacred Ground, which came out ten years ago, is circulating for free online as a PDF. (I just downloaded it myself to see if it’s the real thing; it is. Do a PDF search for it if you want it.) I don’t mind people downloading it — it’s […]

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