March 23, 2011
Greetings Tensegrity Weblog Readers and Writers! We are very happy to open here today an offering that has been a long-held dream–an online place where we can share research and articles of interest to those who are engaged in what don Juan Matus called a romance with knowledge. We are delighted and honored to begin with three recent articles by Dr. Deepak Chopra, who in our view is deeply engaged in such a romance with knowledge, and who raises the bar in the popular discussion of a broad range of issues, including health, science, spirit, evolution, and consciousness.
Here is our first “Article of Interest” and the first of three we will post by Deepak Chopra: “Why God’s Future Depends on Science,” Dr. Chopra writes: ”…science has reached a point where certain basic mysteries cannot be solved without resorting to the one thing that spirituality has always specialized in: consciousness.”
Please read, enjoy, and feel free to add your comments below
cleargreendreaming
Living in Germany I observe how the first days of spring open all kind of energies now: the butterflies appear, greens and flowers start sprouting, humans start laughing, contacting and passing by on the street. Participated at the Star-Workshop in Amsterdam I asked myself – and you: is it possible that we are touched by the stars, the moon that their vibrations might be perceived by us? Sounds so simple, wellknown, but I never got aware of it so deeply beforehand. It’s scientifically prooved that metabolism changes triggered by outer ‘inputs’ as climate, light or age. Hormons are like our own “drugs” we have to learn managing inside our body and the network between glands, cells and emotions and areas of the brain is enormous. We’re now facing the challenge to learn from other cultures, as mother earth has passed her wisdom to everyone of them in a slightly different shade – yet each human being is responsible for him/herself – as it has always been. And there is this vast field of emotions: I can do my own research and study about them, stalking patterns of behavior in order to finally find out, which are truly mine or which ones are mere socially influenced ending up as interpetations of my smart mind? A quite exhausting fieldwork sometimes ;) yet the only way to find out? What still fascinates me is this idea of the assembladge point: once it moved I perceive differently…so I often find a “way out” by Magical Passes or Recapitulation. It’s just about doing it, diving into it, stepping over the seemingly known. Science is an approach to wisdom with its own course, in its pace and born in its time and it might be just natural that it meets spirituality… and I’m happy that they start talking respectfully to each other :)
To me ‘science has reached a point where certain basic mysteries can only be understood’ when science identifies one of it’s flaws: ratiocentrism.
Ratiocentrism is the illusion that we can understand the organization/nature of reality rationally. Or that the organization of reality is somehow adapted/fitted to our way of thinking.
There is a certain arrogance to this basic premise of scientifice knowledge. Similar to the long held idea that our earth was the center of the universe (geocentrism). And after that our sun was thought to be the center (heliocentrism). And then we found out our sun/star was just one among countless other stars.
To me ratio seems to be one model among many to understand the world. It is not the central way of understanding, just one model among many, and one with limitations.
I like the model that the people from ancient Mexico used to communicate and understand their truths; through poems/songs. Instead of making you think about a piece of knowledge, it makes you experience a truth directly. Take for instance the idea of death as an advisor. You can think about it rationally, or feel it’s finality directly. Which one makes the most sense?
Pre-colombian poem, Otomi people, known for their eloquence, their love of flower and song:
‘The river passes, passes,
never stops.
The wind passes, passes,
never stops.
Life passes,
never returns.’
click, click
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_whitacre_a_virtual_choir_2_000_voices_strong.html
Just wonderful! A new era of musical collaboration! Thank you!
This is unbelievably amazing! Thank you very much for sharing this video!
Reading the two previous posters: one is talking about ‘flowers’ and the other has ‘flower’ in their name. What comes into view thanks two these two is the sense of:
opening, flowering, flowering of awareness, countless flowers opening to the rays of the suns inside.
two poems by Francisco Alarcon:
*
Songs
xochitl
flower
flor
*
Nahual
this whale
can’t stop
singing
from
the bottom
of the sea
I would like to recommend an article on the phenomenological reduction at
http://www.iep.utm.edu/phen-red/
Thank you!
I love the way D Chopra just rolls out insight after insight as if it were no simpler than breathing. What he is saying has such a wonderful flow. I find myself as if on a river suddenly, and I like it very much, and what the next bend may bring is always exciting with him. The future is in league with what his present is offering.
Its hard to negotiate with myself at times whether this important gender exploration is a matter of speeding up or slowing down my awareness. My dreaming attention holds the wheel mostly though, and that’s a matter of clasping earth and sky in one sturdy gesture, even if my horizons are eclipsed. Its the horizons which source the unbending purpose and sobriety necessary to keep this strange vessel ‘self’ sacred and in action. ‘Self’, what a strange savour that has! What is gender when self is still surprised at its own coming into being and awareness? Its some sort of detail, that if managed with infinite care, blossoms to unimaginable wonders of communion with other beings – ‘selves’ – afloat. And is there an end to other selves?
There is no end.
There is no end.