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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On theism/nihilism & other things
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged cosmology, nihilism, panentheism, pantheism, speculative realism, theism, Whitehead on July 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Fine-tuning the mystical experience
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged findings, mysticism, spirituality 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 […]
‘Self-help,’ James Ray, and spiritual culture
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged religion, self-help, spirituality 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 […]
The view from here (& there)
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged paganism, solstice 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).
CSG set free (sort of): 10th birthday reflections
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged books, Claiming Sacred Ground, Ivakhiv 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 […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 3
Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged aesthetics, Buddhism, ecology, emergence, ethics, flow, logic, Peirce, Shinzen Young, Whitehead, Wilber on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This is the concluding part of a three-part article. Part 1 can be found here, Part 2 here. They should be read in the sequence in which they were published. The True, the Good, and the Beautiful All of this can be related to the triad of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 2
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, practice, Shinzen Young, Whitehead on May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
This continues from the previous post, where Shinzen Young’s model of core mindfulness practices was expanded into a system of classifying what a human bodymind can do. Here the model is deepened following the process-relational insights that are at the core of Shinzen’s system as well as of other (especially Mahayana and Vajrayana) Buddhist systems, […]
What a bodymind can do – Part 1
Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, meditation, mindfulness, Peirce, practice, Shinzen Young, Whitehead on May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments »
Working with Shinzen Young‘s system of mindfulness training, which I’ve described here before, and thinking it through in the process-relational logic I’ve been developing on this blog (and elsewhere), is resulting in a certain re-mix of Shinzen’s ideas, and of Buddhism more generally, with Peirce’s, Whitehead’s, Wilber’s, Deleuze’s, and others’. Here’s a crack at where […]
Ever becoming…
Posted in Music & soundscape, Spirit matter, tagged Buddhism, music on May 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Glad someone uploaded this to YouTube… It’s, of course, the Heart Sutra via the Akron/Family. “Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone completely beyond…” “Gone, gone, gone to the Other Shore, attained the Other Shore having never left. Oh what an awakening! All hail!”
The idea of Nature, refigured
Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged nature, Whitehead on May 4, 2011 | 6 Comments »
In defiance of the idea that Nature — the thing, or the idea (capitalized or not), or both — is either dead or unnecessary, I feel like posting some favorite passages from “Nature Alive,” the second of A. N. Whitehead’s two 1933 lectures on nature, published in Modes of Thought (1938/1968), which you can read […]
Music of the turning earth…
Posted in Media ecology, Music & soundscape, Spirit matter on April 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Today’s link dump is devoted to sound, earth, religion, language, and the creativity of friends… First the sounds. Here’s Science Friday’s Earth Day episode on the origins of music in the Great Animal Orchestra; and what American English sounds like to non-English speakers (hilarious):
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