Arrogance and Humility This is an exploration of a special definition or metaphorical sense of the words "arrogance" and "humility". There has always been a sense of adamant, even refractory holding of a view, a belief, an opinion or judgement, in the word "arrogant". When one is "arrogant", one is unyielding. But there is another element in the meaning: it is the element of claim. The claim has a sense of attachment and a posture of defence. The attachment is personal. The defence is … [Read more...]
Arrogance and Humility
The Evolution of Conflict
The Evolution of Conflict The evolution of conflict when humanity resolutely persists in an action which distributes loss, limit, or constraint upon his fellow human while accruing gain, freedom, or ease, he plants the seeds of conflict. If between the two parties there are other issues of relationship, social stress may not inflame to conflict. Stress however, always awaits distribution for howsoever long across the profiles of civilization. Conflict is cataclysmic … [Read more...]
Alternative One
In the '50's, studies by the federal government of the U. S. indicated there were three alternatives in the near future. Three factors: 1) pollution, 2) population gains, and 3) the menace of nuclear war, created scenarios that indicated either: Alternative One, immediate and extensive curbs upon the economically driven rate of pollution (bottom line, data reduction, profit seeking - disregarding any and all other values) or two other alternatives: Alternative Two, underground … [Read more...]
All of Everything Connected
A Sweeping and Broad Session I'd like to differentiate between the name of this session and the name of the work by Gurdjieff called All and Everything. At one point in the text, I'll particularly point out the difference and distinction between 'All of Everything Connected' and Gurdjieff's concept of 'All and Everything'. This session is not just the synopsis of four or five or even ten recent sessions. This session is the bringing together of the large number of pieces of … [Read more...]
Aspects of Personality, Life and The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Aspects of Personality, Life and The Second (2nd) Law of Thermodynamics The consideration of personality relates to the nature of persons. Personhood relates to the uniqueness of being of an individual. Notice the word "unique". Notice the prefix "uni". That prefix means only one. There are some characteristics common to all, or common to many persons or beings. There are some attributes or characteristics common to few, and some unique. … [Read more...]
Honouring the Life and Works of Eve Revere . . .
HONOURING the LIFE and WORKS of EVE REVERE . . . It has been almost two years since Eve Revere passed away. I would like to take this opportunity to continue to post Eve's writings at A Celebration of Women. If you, the reader, wish to discuss any of the contents, please be welcome to correspond with me, Eve's partner: [email protected] … [Read more...]
Freedom: From, To, Of, For and With and the Complementarities
Freedom From , To , Of , For and With and the Complementarities Freedom Specified We may conceive of freedom as freedom from, freedom to, freedom of, freedom for and freedom with. Freedom from may require inhibition, constraints, limits, obstructions or boundaries. Freedom to, freedom of, freedom for and freedom with, may require the removal of those same inhibitions, constraints, limits, obstructions or boundaries. Complementarity and Sense Because freedom of the one kind … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND
The YIN MIND ________________________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at … [Read more...]
THE YIN MIND: Comes Revolution
The YIN MIND __________________________________________________________ When wisdom lacks so much that all there is to do is heap a naggin' touch on trouble when it comes . . . . . . well, a hungry man knows well the ache from lack o' food. You've not been his saviour to tell him 'bout starvation his destiny not eatin' soon. Pronouncements, proclamations: how many hungry how many dead! Too many sayin', "Please help" too few helpin' Well . . . I'm sayin' . … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND, The Eve Revere
The YIN MIND ________________________________________________________________ It is a culturally propagated influence: simplify and generalize! Why? Because we are cognitively impaired. We are and we have become closed. We seek certainty. Analysis is the method: to know by taking things apart, with our minds or with our hands. One scientific method commends us to isolate and to define. We presume a single path connection of cause and effect. In fact, at the juncture, some will … [Read more...]
EVE REVERE – ‘Some can’t see the forest for the trees’.
The YIN MIND Welcome! One professor said: “You can’t see the forest for the forests.” 'That is true. I always seek the contexts.' Since reading a book by an Oxford professor of human genetics: The Seven Daughters of Eve, I have watched for the subsequent discoveries of this Professor Bryan Sykes. Now, he presents us with the book: Adam’s Curse a Future Without Men. Here is an internet … [Read more...]
Eve REVERE – The YIN MIND: The Right Three (3) R’s
___________________________________________________________ Species and environments coexist and coevolve. … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND, Breath – swiftly blown
The YIN MIND _________________________________ Breath - swiftly blown from pursed lips propels a missile - like a feather and a strange observer watching me blow a feather may quite well feel he knows the use of the creature he watches. but then I leap from a bank into still water and a great splash rises and a strange observer . . well - And after that I shout in a canyon and a strange observer may well feel he knows the use of … [Read more...]
The Yin Mind – Systemic Sissipative Structures
The YIN MIND ___________________________________________________________ We live in a culture that commends that we get as much as we can and give as little as we can. Yet, life is characterized by flow. This motto, about getting and giving counters this principle about life as flow. In the book: Order Out of Chaos, Prigogine and Stengers show that dissipative structures, are determinate, when and only when the difference between what flows in and what flows out is … [Read more...]
The YIN MIND, Eve Revere
__________________________________________________________ Whether it was Wallace or Darwin who was first, they both learned: species adapt to their environment. Wallace found insects, beetles, that had differences of form on two sides of a river. Darwin found that isolating factors caused species to adapt: islands, mountain ranges, rivers, they all supplied isolating factors. However, beyond the isolating factors of nature, there are self imposed isolating factors i.e. … [Read more...]