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What a bodymind can do – Part 3

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , , , 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 […]

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What a bodymind can do – Part 2

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , 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, […]

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What a bodymind can do – Part 1

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , 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 […]

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Wilber’s post-metaphysical turn

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on May 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »

Working through the last decade or so of Wilberian integral theory (which I’m doing in preparation for the upcoming group reading of Integral Ecology) is no small challenge. Ken Wilber’s been an incredibly prolific writer, publishing scores of books over the last 15 years in addition to scattered shorter materials of various kinds, including new […]

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Ever becoming…

Posted in Music & soundscape, Spirit matter, tagged , 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!”  

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The idea of Nature, refigured

Posted in Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , 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 […]

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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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Eco-onto-politics 3: Wilber, Integralism, & Whitehead

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , on April 16, 2011 | 5 Comments »

This post continues from the previous in this series, which looked at integral ecophilosopher Sean Esbjorn-Hargens’s writing on the ontology of climate change. Here I examine the relationship between leading integral theorist Ken Wilber, integralist Esbjorn-Hargens, and process philosopher Alfred North Whitehead. It’s a little difficult to separate Wilber’s and Esbjorn-Hargens’s views on Whitehead. I […]

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Slice of time

Posted in Philosophy, Process-relational thought, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on April 10, 2011 | 5 Comments »

Chris Vitale has a nice post up on Deleuze’s Bergsonian notion of the image as a “slice of time,” or a “slice of the world” — which for Deleuze amounts to more or less the same thing. In a similar spirit, I thought I’d post briefly about a Whiteheadian notion of time. Normally when we […]

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iLAND’s perceptual alchemy

Posted in Eco-culture, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , on March 30, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Some of today’s most important eco-artists — people like Patricia Johanson, Betsy Damon, and others — work on a landscape scale with interdisciplinary groups of participants to render socio-ecological change into aesthetically tangible and artistically significant forms. Experimental dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s work falls into this category as well, though, as dance, it tends […]

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Enchantments to come

Posted in Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »

Thoughts for a spring equinox… Complexity theorist (and colleague of mine here at the University of Vermont) Stuart Kauffman takes stock here of the Enlightenment and sings of a re-enchantment to come. Disenchantment and re-enchantment are long-running tropes in the intellectual currents of modernity, which I’ve frequently explored in my writing (see here for a […]

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Artmonks: children of Thoreau & Whitehead

Posted in Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on March 21, 2011 | 5 Comments »

If Thoreau’s quest to “live deliberately […] and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived” were cross-bred with A. N. Whitehead’s insight that creativity is the driving core of all things in the universe, the “universal of universals,” then today’s “artmonks” are children not of Marx and Coca-Cola (as Godard […]

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