August 31, 2007 • 4:00 pm
a week since my last post. hmm. better than a month. not that there isn’t lots to talk about- Philadelphia. Fish on cars- or not. xianity w/o an edge. Bondology. The trouble is, i just let things boil (not simmer- boil, in a good way) in my head and never quite get them out in the blogosphere (hopefully first and last use of that term in this blog). Need about a week of good, strong, uninteruppted (by work, cats, other projects, life) blogging… or just a few minutes on a daily basis?… i have over 50 items listed that i still want to put up here- just haven’t found a groove for regular posting. Greatly admire folk who can get it out there on a regular basis- doens’t have to be daily, just with some regularity. The blog-fast excuse only works once or twice a year…
Filed under: Blogging, Interdisciplinary Action
August 24, 2007 • 12:57 pm
“The secret to contextual thinking is that the whole discloses new meanings not available to the parts, and thus the big pictures we build will give new meanings to the details that compose it. Therefore, choose your big pictures wisely.” -ken wilber
Our big pictures, worldviews, or metanarratives are made up of little insights and little ideas- observations made along the way. These little pieces color the big picture in a certain way, then when we step back and look at the whole we can be surprised by what all the little pieces add up to. What we discover (un-cover what was previously covered up) is that we have a way of looking at life that we may not have quite appreciated in full, and not realised how the little details interact to form a bigger picture. The big picture then informs the little parts and colors them a slightly different shade… what happens to the big picture when the little pictures shift? The big picture, our worldview, reflects that on a large scale.
This is why we always have the capacity to learn and grow and (hopefully) mature, because our lives are integrated, not static or divided into autonomous categories. Every bit that we pick up can have a significant impact on the other bits we already have and cause us to see, not just one category differently, but wide fields of thought and assumption can be dramatically shifted.
Filed under: Integral, Interdisciplinary Action, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Psychology
August 22, 2007 • 8:20 am
Hey. Thanks for faithfully checking in on my blog while i am decidedly unfaithful about posting. May you find nub here. You need to check this out: A Foothill in the Mouth by Stuart Davis. Apparently, he has several episodes out- i haven’t seen the others, but if there as funny and poignant as this, i need to see the rest. BTW, I found this via tooling around on kenwilber.com – this site will not blow your mind, you will only wish it did.
Lastly, if you have a band all set to go and are just waiting for aliens on a magic carpet to arrive and tell you what to name your band, please consider Disheveled Malice. That name is just an invitation to do sweet guitar riffs with your mouth.
Filed under: Interdisciplinary Action, Philosophical-Possibly Theological, Pomo, Recommends
