Chaos, Complexity and emergence I
Everyone knows that one of the primary imperatives of life (at all levels) is to increase security, reduce threats and
Nonduality & Meeting the Meta-Crisis IV
The Crisis of Being March’s Parts level is the most elementary. But the examination of raw data cannot by itself
Nonduality & Meeting the Meta-Crisis III
A literal interpretation of meta-crisis suggests a combination of interdependent factors combining to create stress, most likely leading to, if
Nonduality & Meeting the Meta-Crisis II
From Zero to One To embody the non-dual view is to realize that a separate and unique identity dividing the
Nonduality & Meeting the Meta-Crisis
Below is the first in a series of posts, perhaps five, on what the non-dual view implies for our outlook
Being and Becoming
Despite the widening fissures in the foundations of modernity, the failure of conventional reductionist thinking to account for the truth
The Denial of Blackness
Blackness is disruptive, appearing from beyond the sharply codified ‘civilized’ landscape, arising from the relational, the tribal, re-enacting the alchemy of kinship, the recovery of natural authority, the intuitive recapitulation of one’s source, a perpetual invitation to and reminder of the inherent precarity of life.
Growth
The pursuit of growth, the acquisition of more, being determined to grow the ‘success’ of one’s life, whether driven by a sense of inadequacy or realizing most of one’s life is now in the past, chasing certainties in ever more precarious ways, is to never grow old, to remain a prisoner of the cultural definition of success and failure.
Enjoyment
Awareness of awareness is a blank canvas. It has no qualities. It neither facilitates nor impedes the activity of discursive mind: thinking, feeling or sensation. It does not catalogue; it has no preconceptions, agenda or even capacity to invent anything. It simply is.
Kolam: An Essay in Flour
A kolam may itself be an essay, non-linear and made with the intention of dissolution, but if so, it’s a different species of essay. It is an invocation that embodies history, the soul of a culture, the longing of an individual, the connection of a family, the collective imagery of a community seeing and seeking the divine in everything and externalizing the yearning to be reunited with it.
Spontaneous Presence 