You know how moonlight, when it’s really bright and cold, seems to hum and stick to you? That’s my favorite thing.
2013/11/16
We are a way...
Jung said our purpose is to lighten the darkness of the creator*. Which, when you get to really understand Jung, means -- We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself. Or more simply -- Love is the way in.
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My son (a musician and bot-wrting programmer) writes me:
I don't understand what that means.
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I write:
In a word, compassion.
We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself was the theme of Carl Sagan's Cosmos. (And now we have your buddy Tyson)
What I think that means is that ...
...we choose what we want to be. Consciousness is Matter waking up to itself. If we want to keep living as a species, we need to understand that we come from, are part of, in all times, the Cosmos. That the symbiotic path -- whose guiding wisdom is compassion -- is the principle of what endures.
We are made to be artists. Creators. Love is the way in.
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([*CREATOR: to frame things in the time/space/matter standard projection of human/experiential terms, i.e., "cause/effect"]
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They need us!
EXTRA CREDIT!! Artificial Intelligence could make us extinct, warn Oxford University researchers
Elon Musk: artificial intelligence is our biggest existential threat
our over-specialization makes things dangerous
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from mike:
*Awareness, which is always just a little larger than the 'universe' it 'contains' and the very nature of sentiency seems - as far as i can make out - to manifest simultaneously as *quintillions* of ants, stars, fellow sentient beings and other sundry possibilities of similar nature. To imagine that one is only one of these - let alone an infinitesimally small speck of nothing within it - is the gateway to hell.
Listening - in the blazing sunlight - to Arvo Pärt's exquisite Ode IX, from Kanon Pokajanen (album I Am the True Vine, put out by harmonia mundi usa). If you don't know Pärt's work at all, GET to know it: in my opinion the most beautiful stuff being written today. Suggested albums are:
Tabula Rasa (ECM)
De Profundis (HMU)
Te Deum (ECM)
I Am the True Vine (HMU)
Aside from Sainte Colombe and certain Dhrupad artists, this is about all I listen to while working.
A. N. L. Retentif
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From: deborah
More ants:
INDRA'S LESSON
Joseph Campbell
(1904-1987)
Wisdom Stories
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The Reality of Quantum Weirdness
“As is the atom, so is the universe; as is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm; as is the human body, so is the cosmic body; as is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.”
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