20 posts tagged “fluffy”

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

A couple of nights ago I was lying on my friend's couch reading a book when he suddenly handed me some printouts.

Friend: Here. Check this out. Very interesting read.

Me: WTF? Ok. Fine. What's this all about?

Friend: Just read it. It's something about psychological projection and stuff.

Me: Hmm. Ok, I'll read the damn thing…

And so I read the damn thing… and whoah! This looks like the same principles as the voice dialogue in the BIG MIND process.

The printout is an excerpt from a book called, Embracing Each Other. It's a very good read. It gives a very interesting perspective on subpersonalities (aka “selves”), how to understand them within the context of one's personal life, relationships, and never-ending process of becoming more conscious.

Here's the gist:

1. For every primary self with which we are identified, there are one or more disowned selves of equal and opposite energy.

2. Each disowned self is projected onto some person or some thing.

3. The people and things of the world that we reject, hate, and judge, or conversely, those we overvalue, are direct representations of our disowned selves.

4. As a corollary to the third law, each person we judge, hate, reject, or each person we overvalue, is a potential teacher for us, if we can step back and see how the basis of our reaction is a disowned self of our own.

5. So long as a self is disowned within us, we will continue to repeatedly attract that particular energy in our life. The universe will bring us the people we judge, hate, and resent over and over again until we finally get the message that they are reflections of that which is disowned in us. Or, in contrast to this, the universe will bring us people whom we find marvelous and irresistible, people who make us feel inadequate, inferior, and unworthy. This will continue until we realize that these people are merely showing us aspects of ourselves that we have disowned.

~C (for Consciousness is a process…)

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

Just finished watching this very cool film. It's called, I AM. It's a free movie. What makes this film especially cool, aside from its very meaningful message, is that it's also probably "the first major 'open source film' project in history" wherein everyone is invited to co-create the film. I'll look forward on how this film would evolve overtime.

In the meantime, go ahead and check it out. It's a very touching story of our collective Kosmic journey, from creation (or Big Bang if you don't dig Intelligent Design), to evolution, to awakening.

So keep an open mind while watching the film. Relax and breathe in the imagery. Allow yourself to drift into a meditative awareness...

And to all the Trekkies out there, I'm sure you'll dig this. It's like a prequel to Star Trek generations ;)

Thanks to Casey for the heads up!

~C (for Cosmic voyage)

(Crossposted from zBlog:~C4Chaos)

I've always wondered how Ken Wilber's vision of singularity would look like. I have some ideas of Ray Kurzweil's version which, for the most part, focuses on the exterior technological changes.

Below is an excerpt from a WIE interview with Ken Wilber. As I expected, Ken's version tends to focus on the interior psycho-spiritual development as aided by mind-expanding technology, aka brain-mind machines.

If only those two thinkers would have a public dialogue so they can give us a more inclusive picture of Integral Singularity….

(via zPod:Singularity)

WIE editors asking Ken Wilber about anything. here's something about Ken's version of the “singularity.”

Q: Finally, we’d like to ask you to let your imagination run wild. Please describe, in a stream of consciousness, an unabashedly utopian vision of a truly enlightened future … a world theocracy in which the nondual God becomes the organizing principle. Picture the year 2316 …

KW: Right, but my imagination jams at the beginning on the word “theocracy” because in the past that has meant mythic-theocracy, which is what we don’t want now. Go to Iran if that is what you want. But a truly enlightened future, in my opinion, would be one in which the center of gravity of the culture is at violet or higher, and states of consciousness are navigated at will, which would almost certainly be accompanied by brain/computer interfacing. Virtually all material wants will have been vanquished by nanotech (I’m with Ray Kurzweil on that), and the environmental crisis is long ended. The main concern for such a society is how to help individuals move up the great spiral of development and spectrum of consciousness because all exterior goods and needs have long ago been met. So what’s a poor culture to do?

Interior growth alone will answer that call. And interior growth demands structures and stages, which—unlike states—cannot be induced by drugs, meditation, or brain/mind machines. Addressing this need for interior growth will be the call of tomorrow’s integral culture.

Once that challenge is met, and I believe it will be, the second major problem will be the simple fact that, even in an ultraviolet culture, everybody is still born at square one, at infrared, and must begin their evolution and development from there. Even in today’s society, whose center of gravity is orange/green, everybody is born at square one, which is why we still have pockets of red culture (in street gangs, for example) and amber culture (in all of Kansas, it seems). But those types of problems will not disappear in any conceivable future, so they will need to be addressed creatively.

Then, the extraordinary states and stages available today only to those who work incredibly hard (via meditation, therapy, yoga, etc.) will be commonplace to all. The very Ground of All Being will be as obvious as one’s original face, as vast Emptiness announces both Freedom and Fullness for all souls, an ecstatic release and quiet riot of spiritual radiance drenching each and all, as eternity falls in love with the productions of time all over again, so that looking deep within, one can find only the entire Kosmos, with galaxies swirling where you thought your heart was and supernovas exploding in the middle of what used to be your mind, and spirit itself as simple and obvious as the sound of the rainfall on what is left of the old and forlorn world, long gone in time, never found in space, this simple and ever-present feeling of Being, now and now and endlessly now.

(via zPod:SSE)

Check out this awesome interview with Amory Lovins via Social Innovation Conversations. A must-hear :)

Amory Lovins is one of the globe’s most visionary thinkers. His focus is an issue of global proportions – the enormous potential of energy efficiency and renewable energy resources. As CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, he has already been credited with having done more than any other single individual to redefine the thinking around energy policy and to link it with environment, development and security issues. Lovins and his the team of researchers delight in challenging conventional wisdom by demonstrating advanced resource productivity that avoids depletion and pollution, and still shows a profit.

It’s not all thought and no action for Lovins. He has worked aggressively to move his ideas into widespread practice, chiefly via the private sector, spinning off several for-profit companies from the nonprofit he runs, RMI. Not surprisingly, he was chosen several years ago by the editors of The Wall Street Journal as one of the people most likely to change the face of world industry.

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

Part 1 is cool. But this Part 2 is just perfect of the Labor Day holiday...

(via zPod:Integral Institute)

   Entrepreneurial Idealism and the Integral Model. Part 2. Right Bucks. Right Business. Right View.

 

”Brian Johnson is the co-Founder and Philosopher/CEO of social networking phenomenon Zaadz.com, a website which is one of Integral Institute’s esteemed “Integral Friends.”*  A 32-year-old font of idealism-in-action, Brian is a rather extraordinary example of the passion, creativity, and drive of an emerging wave of integrally-oriented twenty- and thirty-somethings worldwide.

 

“Brian beings the conversation by mentioning his passion for “conscious capitalism,” and how the Zaadz “plan” as described on the site actually leads with capitalism, and then mentions the spiritual emphasis.  He comments, “I deliberately do that… I’m trying to create a compelling ‘yes-and’ story here.”  In other words, he’s trying to take a more integral perspective and show how capitalism and spirituality can not only coexist, but actually support each other.  However, he continues, not everyone is so excited to see these two things come together, and certain camps have been particularly vocal in denouncing his entire approach, following a general “capitalist pig” theme.

As Ken comments, there are several different things going on here.  To begin, even more fundamental than how one might feel about capitalism—or any of the economic systems available—is how one feels about money in general.  Generally speaking, a strong negative view of money can be attributed to either 1. exclusively ascending types of spirituality or 2. the green altitude of development (types and altitude/levels being two of the five elements in the AQAL Approach, the others being quadrants, lines, and states).”

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(also posted on zPod:Starship Social Enterprise)

P.S. Here's the link [PDF] to the Right Bucks essay that Ken Wilber wrote two decades ago. Happy (right) Labor Day!

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

“Small minds talk about people, Average minds talk about events, Great minds discuss ideas”

If you want to know why Ken Wilber is an important figure in the domain of ideas, all you need to do is click on this Google Book Search and see how deeeeep the rabbit hole goes.

http://books.google.com/books?q=ken+wilber

So regardless of what you think about the man, do yourself a favor: put on a great mind, and never argue with an idiot.

(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com)

“Social entrepreneurs have existed throughout history. St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan Order, would qualify as a social entrepreneur – having built multiple organizations that advanced pattern changes in his “field.” Similarly, Florence Nightingale created the first professional school for nurses and established standards for hygiene and hospital care that have shaped norms worldwide. What is different today is that social entrepreneurship is developing into a mainstream vocation, not only in the United States, Canada, and Europe, but increasingly in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In fact, the rise of social entrepreneurship represents the leading edge of a remarkable development that has occurred across the world over the past three decades: the emergence of millions of new citizen organizations.”

Source: How to Change the World : Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas

I'm an only child who grew up in a humble country along the Pacific ocean. I remember spending my lazy afternoons with friends and neighbors just chilling out under a bayabas tree. Me and my friends were fond of watching Jackie Chan movies and anything that had to do with ninjas. We were crazy about sci-fi movies too. Thank God for VHS tapes!

I consider myself a social person but I'm the type who is more on the introvert side of the scale. That's why I can watch movies alone and get lost in books for days, only getting up if I need to eat, drink, stretch, or pee. Some people will label that as “geeky.” Then call me a blissful geek for all I care.

There was a point in my life when I had the urge of developing my personality. So I devoured inspirational books, spiritual books, philosophical books, scientific books, self-help books, and those uber-mindblowing books about enlightenment and integral stuff. Yet I was still screwed up. I still didn't know where to start and what to do with my life. Books are fingers pointing to the moon. It's so obvious now, but I was still clueless back then.

I'm at the stage in my life right now where I get easily bored with spiritual talks, philosophical dialogues, stupid lemon-eating debates, and feel-good literature. Those are still cool once in a while but most of the time I find them empty at best, or just another version of a blissful drug at worst. They give me a sense of elitism and make me think I'm special, that I'm much more intelligent and compassionate than others. Well, nothing wrong with that, and besides, those blissful drugs water the seeds of vision. But where's the action? Ah, exactly! That's the main ingredient that has been missing in my life all along.

Philosophical, intellectual, and spiritual stuff can really pump us up, but they're very partial. Most of them lack the real world examples to put our vision into action. At worst, they could even make us more naive about how interrelated things are in the social dimension –  politics, economics, business, science, religion, and stages of moral development.

You see, I'm one of those naive people. So I've decided to do something about it. Instead of the never-ending personality development and purely intellectual, theoretical, and spiritual stuff, I will switch my focus on more “practical” matters in the area of social enterprise. This is my way of taking off too much attention on myself, and instead, investing a better part of my psychic energy on how to really make a better impact on others.

The first phase of my solution would be to change the flavor of my intellectual consumption, starting with books. I've created a Starship Social Enterprise book list via zBooks so that I can keep tabs of these books while sharing and discussing them with others.

The next phase would be to integrate everything I've learned and put them into collective and collaborative action in the real world. Zaadz would be my tool. Zaadz would be my livelihood that will make it possible for me to do these crazy things. We'll see.

AQAL
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Pre-conventional: What's a blog? ;
Conventional: Check me out! ;
Post-conventional: Don't look at me, check this out! ;
Trans-post-conventional: What's a blog?
}

(via zPod:Integral Institute)

Finally! Ken Wilber and Brian Johnson, two of my rockin' mentors, get to talk about fluffy stuff!

Entrepreneurial Idealism and the Integral Model. Part 1. Introducing Zaadz.

”Brian Johnson is the co-Founder and Philosopher/CEO of social networking phenomenon Zaadz.com, a website which is one of Integral Institute’s esteemed “Integral Friends.”*  A 32-year-old font of idealism-in-action, Brian is a rather extraordinary example of the passion, creativity, and drive of an emerging wave of integrally-oriented twenty- and thirty-somethings worldwide.

“So what is Zaadz anyway?  Let’s start with the name: as Brian explains, zaad is Dutch for “seed,” and in the same way that an acorn has the potential to grow into an oak, each one of us has a “seed” within us that can unfold into our own highest potential, and Zaadz wants to support us every step of the way.  Following hot in the steps of personal transformation, the Zaadz mission is as follows: “We’re gonna change the world.  Our math goes like this: you be the change + you follow your bliss + you give your greatest strengths to the world moment to moment to moment + we do everything in our power to help you succeed + you inspire and empower everyone you know to do the same + we team up with millions like us = we just affected billions = we (together) changed the world”—bet you’ve never seen a social networking site say that before!”

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