It’s a cool week. I get to put a lot of really interesting stuff in the Dose each week. But I don’t know if I’ve ever been more excited about a week. Because there’s a lot of people bitching and a lot of people lost and a lot of people hurting, but overall the world is moving in a wonderful, beautiful, marvellous direction. And today we’re looking at two signs of that progression. Isn’t it exciting to be living through a renaissance!
I’ll start off with an absolutely wonderful article from Psychology Tomorrow Magazine. In it the writer writes about a man whose life was very different from, and yet in many ways almost exactly the same as, my own. His route was extremely similar from an internal perspective, but I find it fascinating how he had virtually identical internal experiences and yet they were created by external circumstances that were remarkably different. Certainly every quote from him in the article is something I either have said or would feel entirely comfortable saying (although I actually can fill in some of the remaining blanks noted). I sometimes work with my friend Christina, and I can’t help but think that she has/will laugh when she reads it because his points sound so much like me. It’s a great article and it points to a brighter future for our world. Enjoy:
The Neuroscience of Suffering – And Its End
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You may have seen a recent Scientific American article talking about how we’re learning that elephants are much smarter than we realized. I can’t help but wonder if the elephants are learning we’re not as smart as they thought. 😉
We have to change our ideas of Human Beings being masters of this Earth. There’s no reason for us to believe that except hubris. Because we can talk and manage energy to the point where we can overrun the planet does not mean that we own it. Who were we to put up fences? Who were we to invent the idea of property? Pretty bold. But we’re hitting a wall in numerous ways. And people can feel it. They’re looking for something real. Something intense and beautiful and unrecreatable. They want life to be more of a Mandala, where they can intricately build aspects of themselves and then destroy them in order to engage in the act of creating another. We’re getting less interested in things and status and more interested in experiences. This is a good thing.
As regards the video: I remember seeing this guy many years ago, before he’d learned as much as he knows now. By using his own experience rather than other people’s teaching, he found new ways to approach old ideas. In the end his discoveries seem inevitable. It would be counter-intuitive to even consider that he might be wrong. It just makes sense. And it makes you wonder what this world will look like if we all start raising all the world’s children to have this level of connection capability. It’s one of the best videos on the internet. Enjoy:
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Have yourself a wonderful weekend.
peace. s
