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EQUAL Views for October 24, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:20:59 GMT

Scientists need to better understand framing, MIT professor says; new photos of Heath Ledger in last role; Obama's "Lucifer problem"; problems in rebuilding a broken Iraq.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
MIT Professor: Even our brightest minds often lack the required mental frameworks and models to accurately interpret science. ... Alan Greenspan shows humility and remorse: "Yes, I've found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is. But I've been very distressed by that fact." ... Hugo Schwyzer: "Our faith must permeate sex." ... Examines the idea of "Jesus as Lover".	New photos of Heath Ledger, acting in his final role for film "The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus." ... He's wearing a mask. ... Researchers: The eye and its connections to the brain are surprisingly open to evolutionary change. ... With electroretinography, mice have even been changed to allow them to see in new colors. ... How plants learn to defend themselves against their insect enemies.
America's Brand: Foreigners prefer Obama 4:1. ... Europe: "Across the Continent, Bush hatred has been replaced by Obama-mania." ... Obama's associations now include Lucifer. ... FOX blogger wants McCain to press the satanic connection: "Do you think that admiring a Lucifer-admirer would make a difference to some voters?" ... Andrew Sullivan: "The closet leads many closeted gay men to adopt far right politics."	Survey: 50 percent of doctors give placebo treatments. ... Institutional pressures in time-constrainted environment partially responsible. ... Reconstructing Iraq: Money isn't a problem for development agencies working to rebuild. ... But advisors face massive structural problems: paper-based accounting systems, violence against government employees, the blackmarket, etc.
Holon of the Day: The Telescope

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Tags: science, framing, Lucifer, gay, evolution, Heath Ledger, plants, electroretinography, Jesus

EQUAL Views for October 23, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:21:16 GMT

Oliver Stone's "W" movie reviewed in all four quadrants: Bush's motives, his behaviors, the cultural reference points, and the damage inflicted on the world by a failed presidency.

Inquiry: What Does Oliver Stone's "W" Tell Us About George W. Bush?
Entertainment Weekly: "The fascinating, clumsy rhythms of blind men trying to describe an elephant (a Republican pachyderm), bravely fronted by one intrepid explorer with his eyes wide open, looking for nuance" ... Roger Ebert: "If there is a saving grace, it may be that Bush will never fully realize how badly he did. How can he blame himself? He was only following God's will." ... Me: Bush's motivations seem surprisingly easy to read; low hanging fruit for a biopic.	Roger Ebert: "In his presence, Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice tend to defer, to use tact as a shield from his ego and defensiveness. But Cheney's soft-spoken, absolutely confident opinions are generally taken as truth." ... Marc Ambinder: "Powell, in a meeting at Bush's ranch, warning Bush that if he 'breaks' Iraq, he'll have to buy it." ... Me: Bush's actions are bumbling, incompetent, and have grave consequences.
Entertainment Weekly: "The director fixes on the Freudian through-line in a Greek tragedy/SNL comedy." ... Marc Ambinder: "The story Stone presents has been told over and over, creating grooves in the brains of Bush-haters... Bush's religious conversion is treated sensitively and believably" ... Me: Bush rose to power on the basis of his everyman, frat-boy personality, religious conversion, and privilege.	Roger Ebert: "One might feel sorry for George W. at the end of this film, were it not for his legacy of a fraudulent war and a collapsed economy." ... Me: The monumental failures of the Bush legacy--the war debacles, worsening climate change, the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression, the collapse of the GOP--are brushed over. Stone's omission gives the film a certain lightweight, SNL skit quality that feels tragically inappropriate.
Holon of the Day: The Pencil

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Tags: Oliver Stone, W, George W. Bush, movies, films, reviews, Joe Perez, Roger Ebert, Marc Ambinder

EQUAL Views for October 22, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:55:41 GMT

Beer in all four quadrants ... plus "let Joe Lieberman stay", questioning green jobs, and cancer's last hurrah.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
What to call "this feeling in our gut ... our internal compass is broken ... cancer's last hurrah." ... The "Sufi call": to choose the higher destiny in each moment. ... "God" calls a customer service center in India when "fragile lives come undone" . ... Which "God"? ...Drunkenness: "anger, sadness, depression, euphoria, lightheartedness, joviality, and sexual disinhibition."	Cost to dress a vice presidential nominee and her family: $150,000. ... Obama Beer: "The flavors are individually unique but gain their solidarity from their indivisibility." ... Which is what Ken Wilber would call Matera Unitas Multiplex. ... New B&B was old B&B in Groundhog Day. ... Find your polling place, Toto. ... New York Times: can we stop DAC? Drunken Asynchronous Communication.
Glenn Greenwald: If Democrats don't punish Joe Lieberman, they "care about nothing beyond perpetuation of their own power." ... Me: Joe's judgment has been poor, infuriating, but not unforgivable. Let Joe stay. ... Ross Douthat: conservatism means making taxation more redistributive rather than less. ... Beer Hunter: Is beer the cause of civilization?	Brian Beutler wonders if green jobs are a hoax. ... He notes: Nobody knows if new green jobs will really offset the jobs lost by getting greener. ... What does GOTV look like? 250,000 volunteers sent to 20 states. ... And that's just the AFL-CIO. ... Jonathan Alter: Here comes "Neo-Keynesian economics." ... Radley Balko: How'd the beer industry get so rich? Big government.
Holon of the Day: The Toilet

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Tags: beer, cancer, God, Ken Wilber, green jobs, economics, conservatism, Joe Lieberman

EQUAL Views for October 21, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:41:48 GMT

Mountain climbing shrinks the brain, the smell of space, addressing the "credibility gap" for pseudonymous bloggers, overseeing the largest pool of wealth in America, and why passion in the workplace is overrated.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Robert Sutton: In work life, passion is overrated and indifference underrated. Save your passion for truly worth jobs; if you feel oppressed or humiliated, it's better to cultivate an ethic of detachment. ... That's one of four bits of advice for "working with assholes". ... David Van Biema asks: "Is it OK to pray for your 401(k)?" ... "Yes" say clerics: "the very act of prayer transfers some anxiety onto the divinity."	New York Times: Mountain climbing is bad for you. Climbers' brains reduced in both white and gray matter. ... Behavior study: men take more risks when they're in an angry state; women take fewer risks when they're feeling disgusted. Their evolutionary take: such behaviors are evolutionarily-selected traits. ... Kevin Gianni offers a 7-day free online educational seminar (now happening) on living the raw foods lifestyle.
People don't trust pseudonymous bloggers as much as those who give their real names. Could certification improve the credibility of the anonymous? ... Chris Dierkes: George Will is wrong about the secessionists in the Episcopal Church. ... Also, Dierkes takes the "down on Palin" side in the Republican civil war. ... Me: The Episcopal Church isn't a "cautionary tale", but a crucible of spiritual evolution. ... And, with Dierkes, hope the GOP finds a younger, more tolerant, less wingnut vision.	Washington Post: Competing visions on how to regulate the $55 trillion credit default swap market as SEC, CFTC, and FRB-NY gear up. ... Conservative forces want a private clearinghouse, but some Democrats favor a heavy hand at the SEC. ... Light Rail is Good: It creates neighborhoods in ways that buses don't and can't. ... NASA astronauts: space smells like fried steak and hot metal. Mmmm... Mmmm...
Holon of the Day: The Printing Press

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Tags: space, financial crisis, Episcopal Church, Republican, sex and gender, raw foods, prayer, passion

EQUAL Views for October 20, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:51:13 GMT

The significance of Shuka's greeting, study says men like Facebook more, Proposition 8 ahead in the polls, and the sad case of the dope-addicted elephant.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Priya Devi R tells the Vedantic story of how Shuka's greeting at the palace of Janaka taught him everything he needed to know about truth: the non-identification with the body. ... John McCain's foul mood. A friend tells the New Yorker: "John's personal comfort level is low with everyone right now. He's angry. But it [Palin's pick] was his choice." ... Barack Obama's equanimity. ... David Brooks: No "rage, resentment, fear, anxiety, bitterness, tears, ecstasy, self-pity or impulsiveness."	In China: Animal smugglers got an elephant addicted to heroin, rendering it unable to return to the wild. After three years of rehab, the elephant makes "continuous trumpeting noises", his eyes "streamed with tears". ... Gay sex produces offspring. In beetles. ... First-ever mating photos: gorillas never before seen in face-to-face copulation. Have they been getting ideas by watching us?
Another sex difference: men are 13% more likely to value their online communities as much as their off-line ones. ... Chevy Chase: Saturday Night Live's brilliance? They let Sarah Palin go live without a script. Palin's fatal flaw? She can't improvise. ... Terry Mattingly: Affirmative action for evangelical journalists to fight newsroom bias? That will help "only if those evangelicals are real journalists."	Prop. 8: Californians are narrowly pro-bigotry. ... Many gays (including Andrew Sullivan) think Obama should cut an anti-8 ad. ... Me: I'd be happily surprised if he did, but that's just too much to ask. Obama is progressive in many areas, but just "more of the same" on civil rights. ... GOP complains about Obama's "secret $300 million". Silly. Finance laws should focus, as they do, on the big fish. I thought the GOP was for sensible limits on intrusive government regulations?
Holon of the Day: The Clock

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EQUAL Views for October 17, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:50:20 GMT

Every Quadrant Under a Lense. A look at self, culture, nature, and spirit...

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Lynn takes on the "Obama is an Alpha Male" meme. She says Obama's self-control and maturity appeal to women, though men--especially those who compete with Alpha Males in the dating market--might see "jerk". ... Michael Hussein Gregory sings snark, predicts McCain will win the state of desperation. ... Stanton Peele via WH: Nobody is a slave to addiction. "The most successful treatments are nonconfrontational approaches that allow self-propelled change."	The Caveman Diet: Ray Mears discusses the "Paleo" diet. Returns to hunter-gatherer fare: meat, seafood, fruit, vegetables, roots, nuts, and seeds; rejects agricultural-era and industrial-era innovations. ... The Oxytocin Factor: Psychologist says: "Which [candidate] makes you more comfortable? Comfortableness is a sign that oxytocin is being released, and that's the person you should vote for."
Sarah Palin has only been on the national scene for weeks, but she's already the most Orwellian speaker I can recall. ... Virginia GOP gives "Evil" a face. How the GOP probably Photoshopped an image. GOP leaders, especially McCain, must repudiate this indecency. But will they? ... Joe Klein on the most frightening eight words in the English language (it's the last sentence of his column).	Sign of the Times: You can buy a "TV Guide" at the supermarket for $2.99. But the magazine business itself just sold to a private equity fund for $1.00. ... The Economist: Paul Krugman the theorist still recognizable in Krugman the polemicist. ... Old Krugman: Economic gains from trade arise not from specialization, but from scale, competition and choice. His real achievement was in communicating more effectively than anyone else.
Holon of the Day: The Mirror

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EQUAL Views for October 16, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:49:17 GMT

Self, culture, nature, and spirit considered in individual and collective dimensions, subjective and objective perspectives...

Inquiry: Who Won the Third Presidential Debate?
McCain: Opens the debate with: "Americans are hurting and they're angry," but it sounds like he's projecting. Frequently doesn't sound convinced by his own talking points. ... Obama: Could he possibly come across as more earnest? Even people who disagree with him on the issues must be impressed with his sheer seriousness. ... Edge: Obama wins by conveying a believable, sincere self. ... McCain loses by conveying un-self-aware, calculating self.	McCain: On the plus side, he's energetic, spunky. On the down side, somewhat angry, sarcastic, condescending, frowns, sticks out his tongue, rolls his eyes. As usual, his face is noticably pale. ... Obama: he's cool as a cucumber, unflustered, presidential in tone. On the down side, somewhat dull, repetitive, gives weak delivery. Edge: Obama wins by his reassuring, confidence-inspiring behavior. ... McCain loses with his grumpy, condescending behavior.
Obama: On the defensive, especially over whether voters can trust him and identify with him. Linked to terrorists, radicals, and negative ads? Linked to race-baiting? Linked to baby killing? It's gotta be confusing to low-information voters. ... McCain: Stresses his concern with average Americans, his years of experience and military service. Seems "mainstream." ... Edge: McCain wins by playing offense well. ... Obama loses by playing defense on unfriendly territory.	McCain: Distracted by too-little, too-late character attacks on his opponent, he fails to convince that he would be a stronger steward of the economy, fails to distinguish himself from Bush's policies. ... Obama: Focused like a laser beam on driving home his populist approach to economic policy--"trickle up" economics--and rebutting false charges on taxes, healthcare, etc. ... Edge: Obama wins on points.
Holon of the Day: The Eyeglasses

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EQUAL Views for October 15, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:48:19 GMT

A daily look at self, culture, nature, and spirit...

Inquiry: What's the Root of the Financial Crisis?
Lack of consciousness to recognize the moral imperative to realize the economic well-being of all beings (worldcentric), in healthy relationship to Nature, not the furtherance of mere national self-interest or pure self-interest. ... Lack of self-understanding to grasp the fully social dimensions of the self, producing distorted emphasis on individual rights and responsibilities. ... Greed and corruption by "very bad people".	Consumer borrowing run amuck, undisciplined. ... Impusive buying based on false beliefs that housing prices always go up, stock market valuations reflect reality, and other illusions. ... Bigger McMansions, more highly leveraged real estate investments, exploding CEO salaries without no correlation to performance. ... Less job security (adjusted for inflation), declining real wages, impacting consumer confidence.
Lack of a reigning global philosophy that can effectively call for institutional solutions to address the failures of globalized capitalism. Failed anti-regulation ideologies, reflexively biased against democratic socialism, which couldn't forsee the limits of market forces. ... Poor political and religious leadership that failed to challenge Americans' debt culture. ... The Prosperity Gospel and all other justifications for materialism.	Fiscal policies of privitization of public resources, allowing irresponsible use of bizarrely complex financial instruments (derivatives, credit default swaps, etc.), the consolidation of the financial industry into institutions "too big to fail". ... Energy policies that failed to direct precious capital into renewable energy resources rather than the housing bubble. ... Business management polices that incentivized sales of risky, highly leveraged securities products.
Holon of the Day: The Windmill

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EQUAL Views for October 14, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:47:10 GMT

A daily look at self, culture, nature, and spirit...

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Bruce Alderman looks at Body-Mind-Thought Interplay. He reports: "I did sense - or, perhaps, enact - a fuller, more layered, but also more open field of experience..." The two components of the soul's matrix, according to Valdas Slabada. W's dreams, cut. ... Colin Farrell: "There is something incredibly internally vivacious about feeling pain or mourning..."	Michael Beringer makes and installs fake palm trees, sometimes using real palm bark hollowed out to accept a cell phone tower and bolted to concrete. It makes him feel happy. But somehow it makes me feel sad. Meet a text-messaging elephant (not really). ... The Savanna Principle explains why men's brains have trouble with silicone breast implants and hair dye.
Chris Dierkes discusses John Caputo's "Weak Theology". Is God a be-ing? Or is God an event? Or is God a verb? ... ~c4Chaos recommends "In Debt We Trust", saying: "One way to get out of this credit mess is through collective awareness." ... Obama Ad Sighting on an X-Box game. ... The worst headline Jay Leno has ever seen: "Her Orifice Was Her Office".	Crisis fallout: there's reason to worry about the rise of far right parties in Europe. ... Thomas R. Cusack: US has reached a "political and economic leadership nadir" in the ratio of cognitive capabilities to destructive capabilities. Republican National Committee: "We're not giving up on McCain." ... But they may be bailing out their vulnerable Senators.
Holon of the Day: The Gunpowder

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EQUAL Views for October 13, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:45:45 GMT

A daily look at self, culture, nature, and spirit from four perspectives: the individual interior, the individual exterior, the collective interior, and the collective exterior.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Bill Harryman: Why study the brain? Because doing so can help us to have more "compassion for ourselves". ... Displaying humility, Nagarjuna asks: What lessons can be learned from being "lost in confusion"? ... Wit: Who said "I guess, maybe I'm just, I don't know, a maverick"? ... What feeling arises with the financial crisis? Gary Stamper says it's "Cognitive Dissonance: an uncomfortable feeling or stress caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously."	Recipie for Happiness: "Go shop for something new, then have lots of food for dinner, then go to an interesting place on a Saturday. If all this happens on your birthday, even better." Based on a major behavioral study of Weblogs. I hope to try this prescription next weekend and see how it works. ... An icon in memory of Matthew Shephard. ... A ballot used to be a bean, a bullet, or a pea.
A n Episcopal priest in Seattle "falls in love" with Islam, following her calling to an interspiritual path, but sadly she can't do so as a priest. I wonder whether her appropriation of Islam is an acceptance of a radically fragmented inner life or a step down a more integrated path. Hard to say. ... Harvey Cox: The Market is "like one of the devouring gods of old,"... Too early to predict Obama v. Jindal in 2012?	On Healthcare: The key difference between Obama and McCain on healthcare policy: Obama prizes solidarity; McCain prizes autonomy. The feminine approach encourages sharing of risk across a society and across an individual's lifespan; the more masculine approach will save young and healthy people money in the short-term, but endanger all of society and even themselves in old age.
Holon of the Day: The Plow

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EQUAL Views for October 10, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:34:23 GMT

In less than a month, Americans will go to the polls to elect a new president and vice president. Here's my own endorsement, highlighting a handful of the issues at the top of my priority list, and informed by every quadrant:

Inquiry: Who Should Be the Next US President?
Spirit: Do you sense the tilting of the World Spirit? Do you hear the earth crying? Listen to the voices of the souls yet to be born. ... Character: Obama has demonstrated a fundamental level of honesty, transparency, and fairness. Temperament: Obama shows a capacity for self-criticism and a willingness to adapt his views to changing circumstances. "First class" versus "erratic".	Age: Obama's health is unquestionable; McCain, at 72, the survivor of melanoma, is somewhat risky. ... Race: A mixed-race man breaks the race barrier. ... Foreign Travel: A president who has lived abroad and a worldly VP portends a less ethnocentric and more worldcentric pool of residual knowledge.
The Vision We Need: McCain's: ethnocentric pride, bringing Christian-right values into the public sphere, corporate tax breaks, and a vague call to service. Obama's: hope for a struggling middle class, protecting civil rights (and extending rights to same-sex couples), breaking the grip of corporate lobbyists, and encouraging national unity. ... The GOP Needs Renewal: The GOP is out of ideas and energy. Defeat will encourage the emergence of a healthier and stronger conservatism.	Leave Behind Reaganomics: Obama rejects the failed policies of "trickle down economics" and extreme deregulation, offering a much needed progressive course correction. ... Universal Healthcare: Healthcare is in major need of reform, and only Obama takes seriously the moral imperative to expand access to all who want insurance. ... Bring the Iraq War to an End: Obama wants to end the misconceived and mistaken war expediently but carefully, saving lives, treasure, and stature.
Holon of the Day: The Horse Collar

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EQUAL Views for October 9, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:33:00 GMT

"EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense" is published Monday through Friday at Joe-Perez.com.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Sri Aurobindo: "Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal." ...Susan K. Perry: To silence your inner critic while writing, separate your emotions from your judgments. ... Is Ramesh Ponnuru celebrating moron-ness by mocking people who pronounce words correctly? Know-nothingness is fashionable on the right these days.	Guess who is reportedly taking Ibogain, a nutritional supplement sometimes used to treat dementia and Alzheimer's? ... McCain's brain in a fog? ... A Seattle restaurant warns: "Our ingredients are subject to change at any time." Ah, the darned consequences of impermanence.
Did Barack Obama flip-flop on gay marriage? ... Americans think he's friendlier to religion than McCain. ... He is; it's a sign of Obama's success in combining respect for tradition with politically liberal policies. ... Obama on Reinhold Niebuhr. Camille Paglia: Palin represents a new way of feminism, a "brand-new way of defining female ambition." ... Andrew Sullivan: Paglia's embarrassing. ... Me: Palin seems (quite precisely) one step forward for feminism, but two steps back.	Chicago prepares for its first gay high school; officials expect reduced dropout rates, suicide risk, and homelessness. A worthy idea for any city with a sizable youth population. ... Still no real Palin press conferences or any medical records, not even the birth certificate of Trig Palin. Why allow bizarre rumors to linger even remotely as a question?
Holon of the Day: The Chariot

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Tags: obama, mccain, religion, politics, andrew sullivan, gay high school, writing, aurobindo

EQUAL Views for October 8, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:31:03 GMT

Welcome to "EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense", a new daily column at Joe-Perez.com.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
James Wagner: sleetooto blekadownasanchi foonoowachipaw ... Unlike the sun, the shape of our self does not approach 99.999% perfection, if we measure perfection by the standards of our inner judgments. ... Is this a sublime postpostmodern icon of the fragility and lack of fecuntity of vision-logic cognition in an age of the monological inner life?	Peak conditioning: John Craig combines dietary journaling, strength training, and subtle body exercises ... Did former Lehman CEO Richard Fuld get a knockout comeuppance while working out on the treadmill? ... After winning the fight to exume Cardinal John Henry Newman's corpse, the Vatican dug up the grave to find no body. ... Libby Purves: "Ghastly sideshow ... You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh."
Joe Kort: How do heterosexuals play Twenty Questions? ... Is this how fundamentalists see 1980s music videos? ... John McCain should have stuck to the issues instead of getting testy ("That one") or sleazy. He still could in the 11th hour. ... In Nepal: A newly annointed goddess must have perfect hair, eyes, teeth and skin, and must not be afraid of the dark.	The debate format: dreadfully dull, poorly executed ... and at least 30 minutes too short. ... Weimar America? Does today's GOP remind anyone else of the social conflicts of the 1930s, when totalitarian regimes whipped their sheep into a frenzy by stirring fear? ... Factoid: there are 30 billion square feet of large flat roofs in the US, ripe for covering with large flat solar panels.
Holon of the Day: The Glass

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Tags: james wagner, perfectionism, postmodernity, peak conditioning, richard fuld, john henry newman

EQUAL Views for October 7, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:51:30 GMT

Welcome to "EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense", a new daily column at Joe-Perez.com.

Inquiry: What's Going On?
Matthew Fox, a male feminist who rediscovered the noble warrior: "It's time for men to grow up spiritually." ... Marc Ambinder on John McCain: "Hector the Projector". ... Johnah Lehrer: This election's a contest between two modes of decision-making, one dominated by trusting in gut instincts and the other by "metacognition" or the "art of self-overhearing", the ability to think about your thinking.	Geneticist: "Human evolution is over." The two key factors: younger fathers and declining childhood mortality. ... The New York Times: how a presidential candidate's height and weight correlate to victory, in graphic form. ... Swallow or spit? Protect yourself from the risks of oral sex. Conclusion: "Swallow or spit, just don't let it sit."
Desmond Tutu interview on KOUW: "This is a moral universe... Perhaps all Christians should be pacifists. But I am not a pacifist." If all religionists were pacifists, how might the world be different? ... Joe Klein on the McCain sleaze: "A desperate empty embarrassment." ... Ezra Kline: If McCain loses, America will repudiate the "nothingburger" politics of diversion. ... Jay Leno: O.J. stands for "overdue justice."	Gender Income Disparity: after a sex change, men who became women earned 32% less income; women who became men earned more. ... Asia Times: Rich Asians don't lend to poor Asians, preferring to invest in societies with a long cultural tradition of grassroots political reformers. ... How bad is habitat loss? Half of all mammals face decline; a quarter face extinction.
Holon of the Day: The Highway

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Tags: asia, cognition, Desmond Tutu, election, evolution, feelings, feminism, men, warrior, projection

EQUAL Views for October 6, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:46:57 GMT

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EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense By Joe Perez Inquiry: What's Going On?
Neale Donald Walsch: The New Spirituality can be summarized in Twelve Foundational Truths, beginning with belief that "There is only One Thing, and all things are part of the One Thing That Is." ... Liz Sweibel: minimalist art "pushes the point of paying attention." Martin LeFevre: In the bigger scheme of things, i.e., the existential challenge to consciousness itself, "'Too big to fail' has to be read as ‘the bigger they are the harder they fall.'"	T-Shirt Sniffing Study: UK women on birth control pills desire the wrong men; after taking the pill, women were more attracted to the odors of T-shirts of genetically similar men. ... Airlines to passengers: Would you like an X-Ray with that pat-down?
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi: Former leftist priest Miguel d'Escoto, president of the UN General Assembly, is under pressure to say that the "root cause" of the global economic crisis is "a small group of global corporations", but d'Escoto wants instead to pioneer a "spiritualization of the UN." ... This past Saturday was World Animal Day, so if you haven't already done so, consider taking the time to acknowledge the diversity of animals in your life.	From 2001 to 2006, an estimated 45 gay couples killed themselves across heterosexist Indian society as activists strived to change laws to reflect acceptance for homosexuality as a valid way of life. ... Meanwhile, Uganda will soon beef up its anti-gay repression. ... The US Supreme Court: We'll hear arguments in a gay marriage case on December 9.
Holon of the Day: The Catapult

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EQUAL Views for October 5, 2008

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:43:40 GMT

"EQUAL Views" is my new Web-only column. Here you'll find a quick multi-perspectival take on the whole universe of developments in the realms of self, culture, nature, and spirituality.

EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense By Joe Perez Inquiry: What's Going On?
I agree with Steve Pavlina: as people grow in consciousness, they tend to change their investment habits. ... Do women have a different creative process than men? They may struggle with the fear of giving too much to their art. ... Dan Ariely: People oppose the bailout, in part, because they want revenge. So an emotive response trumps reason. Why did a baseball player put a penny in his jock strap after each win? It has to do with feeling powerless.	Chemical engineers have succeeded in turning vegetable oil into jet fuel. It seems some brave pilot flew a plane for more than 30 minutes. ... High-caloric diets may inflame the brain, preventing the activity of IKKß/NF-κB to protect animals from obesity. ... Senseless in Australia: A seven-year-old boy bludgeoned many well-loved animals and fed some of them to a crocodile. Zookeeper: "We're horrified!"
Arthur Versluis on the history of mystical sexuality from Bacchic revelry through Christian repression and esoteric schools reappearing in the modern era; but draws no clear line between pre-rational egocentric eroticism and trans-rational Kosmocentric eroticism. ... Marc Ambinder sniffs the new McCain/Palin meme: "He's culturally foreign. He doesn't share your values. He's dangerous."	"Flat" in the title of Thomas Friedman's new book refers to the rise of the middle class, not a monological view of consciousness. ... New York Times: Barack Obama and Bill Ayers didn't share ideas; they merely "crossed paths." ... Scientific American: Mounting evidence that polygyny was the norm for sexual behavior throughout human prehistory and history. Was?
Holon of the Day: The Map

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Tags: animal cruelty, bailout, Barack Obama, biofuel, consciousness, creative process, eroticism, mystical, sex, integral

Introducing EQUAL Views

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:03:13 GMT

I'm pleased to introduce my new Web-only column, "EQUAL Views". Here you'll find a quick multi-perspectival take on the whole universe of developments in the realms of self, culture, nature, and spirituality. Each column includes a link to "Holon of the Day", a daily look at some of the Web's most intriguing photography and art.

EQUAL Views: Every Quadrant Under a Lense By Joe PerezInquiry: What's Going On?
Corey deVos introduces a dialogue between Ken Wilber and Saniel Bonder who discuss the relationship between East and West in the spiritual journey. ... Roger Ebert on the Biden/Palin debate: "In university terms, she was being asked to defend her doctoral thesis without having written it." ... The screenwriter who penned Basic Instinct and Showgirls finds faith.	A wink is worth a million words. A woman asks about Palin's debate performance: "Did she just wink at us like she was America's cocktail waitress?" ... Chris Dierkes discusses Drew Westen's new book "The Political Brain", an attempt to ascertain the important emotional factors involved in voting (conclusion: it's the PARTY, stupid).
A spoonful of Naomi Wolf snark from Paul Constant, who recalls Wolf's influence on the Al Gore victory in 2000. ... Glenn Greenwald says that recent polling underscores the condescending and distorting attitudes towards the public held by most pundits. ... Bob Woodward wrote that during White House discussions on Iran, a senior military leader asked Bush what his strategy was. Bush's answer? "They're assholes."	Conservatives have seemingly overcome their objections to socialism, making the $700 billion government bailout into law ... Americans who get their healthcare from employers may have reasons for concern about the McCain health plan. ... A warning by Lauren about the burgeoning market for "revenge porn". ... The USDA says a million more Americans are now on food stamps. ... How cold is it in Antarctica? Even the penguins want to vacation in Rio.
Holon of the Day: The Coin

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Tags: animals, bailout, Biden-Palin debate, Bush, Chris Dierkes, coins, Drew Westen, faith, integral

Indigo

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Sat, 26 May 2007 08:17:10 GMT

I'll be traveling shortly so I'm posting my contribution to Blogopolooza early "Saturday morning. I may not be around to answer comments on Saturday, but I'll drop by as soon as I'm able to.

The Indigo Level of Consciousness

Beyond the familiar sights and sounds of teal (existential, evolutionary, systemic) and turquoise (intellectual, meta-systemic, integrative), there is another worldspace that is associated with the Integral consciousness. The findings of developmental psychology begin to become more exceptional and less sturdy, because fewer individuals have progressed to these terrains and so detailed studies are rarer and theoretical orientations more clumsy). At the same time, personal experience and the reports of other individuals becomes more relevant to refining the maps and exploring the territories.

Indigo is the altitude immediately beyond turquoise in Ken Wilber's Integral Theory, alternately known as the psychic or astral level in other developmental theories of mind. In these remarks, I'll briefly describe the descriptions of the indigo level as it appears in the work of three writers: (1) Susan Cook-Greuter ("A Detailed Description of the Development of Nine Action Logics in the Leadership Development Framework...", 2002); Ken Wilber IV ("The Psychic Level," Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: 1995); and Jim Marion's ("Chapter 9 of Putting on the Mind of Christ. Psychic Consciousness" 2000). After describing the indigo level, I'll weave together some of the common threads and describe a few practices known for heightening awareness of the indigo consciousness.

Cook-Greuter, Wilber, Marion

First, in the leadership developmental theory of Susan Cook-Greuter, the transition from the turquoise to the indigo and violet levels of consciousness is depicted as the arrival of a "Magician" or ego-aware level of consciousness. Cook-Greuter: "As the process of self-awareness deepens and reasoning becomes further differentiated for Magicians, access to intuition, bodily states, feelings, dreams, archetypal and other transpersonal material increases. More than that, these sources of knowledge can become as important as rational deliberation for making sense of experience and for finding meaning in life." Thus, the post-turquoise developmental styles increasingly draw from non-rational sources, leading even to temporary states in which the personal self-sense disappears. The result is increasing witnessing with detachment to non-rational states without the ego's efforts to control and affirm itself.

At Indigo level, people more often than at earlier stages say that they are watching or witnessing the parades of thoughts and feelings come and go without trying to direct them. Thus, they experience moments of freedom from the ego's constant striving. Cook-Greuter describes the indigo paradox thusly: "The more one is conscious and proud of one's psychic powers and ego-transcending quest, the more clearly one's ego is still enthroned."

The consequence of such paradox may mean a feeling of increasing complexity, hubris, the need for ever larger theories to account for the self, and a sense of envy at the simplicity of others' self-sense. Indigo is less self-important than turquoise and less fervent in the desire to help others to achieve their potential. Indigo becomes more self-tolerant, using mature defenses to grapple with their own flaws, and sometimes choose less mature behavior styles and tolerate their own raw impulses. Persons at indigo are intrigued by the need for human meaning-making, fascinated by the limits of rational thought, and absorbed by the need to live within the paradox of language.

Ken Wilber introduces the psychic (indigo) level in Sex, Ecology, Spirituality as the first of the genuinely transpersonal levels of consciousness. Wilber goes to great length to equate the notion of the World Soul with Emerson's notion of the Over-Soul, an anchor of the higher Self that knows no defined personal roles such as male or female. It is the ever-present observer within the self, or the Witness, that emerges at this stage. In Emerson's thought: "The Soul is tied to no individual, no culture, no tradition, but rises fresh in every person, beyond every person, and grounds itself in a truth and glory that grows to nothing in the world of time and place and memory.... all things are made sacred by relationship to it--one as much as another. All things are dissolved to their center by their cause.'

Emerson finds in direct experience of the Nature the fullest expression of Spirit. It is not Spirit itself, but an expression of symbol of Spirit that saves Emerson's naturalism from regressing to "undifferentiated biospheric immersion." Emerson's mysticism of the Over-Soul embraces Nature, but transcends it. Wilber defines three distinct worldviews on the relationship between nature and spirit:

1. Magical indissociation, spirit equated with nature.

2. Mythic disassociation, nature and spirit ontologically separate.

3. Psychic mysticism, nature a perfect expression of spirit, united and conjoined.

Wilber links this third worldview to the psychic domain (soon to be called the indigo level). In a footnote, Wilber continues: "The psychic level, which is the realm of initial transpersonal or mystical awareness, often involves a great number of seemingly unrelated phenomena, from various types of actual paranormal cognitions and events (e.g., 'astral travel,' out-of-the-body experiences) to numerous preliminary meditative states; kundalini awakenings (especially of the first five chakras); reliving of birth and pre-birth states; temporary identification with plants, animals, humans, aspects of nature, or even all of nature (nature mysticism, cosmic consciousness)--to name a very few. What all of those have in common is that the mystical experience moves beyond ordinary or conventional reality (the gross/waking realm), but still takes a part of its referent the gross/waking realm."

Jim Marion summarizes the nature of the psychic consciousness: "At the psychic level of consciousness we no longer identify the self with the rational mind. Instead, we identify the self with the inner witness that observes body, emotions, and mind. This inner witness is the permanent self, the part of the self beyond spacetime. The permanent self has senses such as clairaudience and clairvoyance that roughly parallel the physical senses, and which are referred to in the New Testament. Persons with psychic consciousness may make use of abilities such as healing by the laying on of hands, prophecy, and speaking in tongues."

Marion describes prophecy as a spiritual gift residing at the psychic level of consciousness. Prophecy is distinct from speaking in tongues, the utterances spoken in trance by members of mythic religion and translated in kind by other mythic religionists. Instead, Marion says, the major spiritual traditions have advised against the development of prophetic powers until one is grounded in the psychic level itself. Prophecy includes foretelling the future; but moreover, it means "opening our inner psychic faculties to hear the words, or see the images, sent down from the spiritual planes (including our own 'higher selves' or souls) for our guidance." Such prophetic messages were an important part of early Christian spirituality, and today it is practiced primarily among Christian new agers and spiritual and metaphysical churches (because there's no longer support for it in mainstream Christianity).

Basic competence at the psychic level is necessary for spiritual development; however, developing the gifts of prophecy is not. Basic competence in psychic experiences involves becoming interested in the events of our own psyche and the ability to see and feel what is going on within us. For Marion, it marks the arrival of a truly contemplative mode of consciousness.

Indigo Consciousness

Perhaps the greatest distinguishing characteristic between the turquoise and indigo levels of consciousness is the ability to hold the integrated self's identity, even the structures of our own shadows and conscious awareness, as an object to the witness.

The ego-aware mind hears its own voice and is aware of its modulations of volume.

The ego-aware mind is the first level of consciousness to sense the falseness of conventional understandings of causality.

The ego-aware mind speaks its own voice and is capable of raising and lowering its tone.

The ego-aware mind feels its own sensations and is attune to the inner hum and stirrings of its own body.

The ego-aware mind sees itself and all the contents of its consciousness and is aware of its separation from the mind.

Indigo is less concerned than turquoise with developing comprehensive worldviews or integrating partial conceptions of reality into flexible and flowing holistic syntheses. Indigo "takes for granted" that the psyche, culture, nation, and world are inseparable at the root. Its growing awareness of connectedness and unity is without effort; it is simply becoming more attuned to the sights, sounds, and dynamics of one's own psyche.

Conventional awareness perceives events and causes. Indeed, the entire architecture of the Newtonian worldview is based on the notion that events cause other events to unfold in a linear continuity of time. Detectable cause precedes observable effect.

Take prayer, for example. A prayer that something beneficial will happen in the future AND IT DOESN'T is an example of magical thinking. A prayer that something beneficial will happen in the future AND IT DOES is an example of thinking that may be magical or may be participating in transrational structures of knowing. Actually, whether or not the event happens in the future is irrelevant. A genuinely transrational structure of knowing is able to understand the prayer as an opening of the Soul to Nature, regardless or whether Nature pays heed to the Soul within any specific time frame.

The ego-aware mind begins to perceive the unity of causation and observation. Past, present, and future no longer appear as strictly linear points along a line, but as segments of a loop that can mutually interact. Suddenly, the contents of the future appear as repeating patterns of connecting symbolism extending forward into the future based on past trends and present contours.

Indigo is more fascinated by the need for transrational structures of meaning-making and solution-seeking. Art, story, symbol, image, and metaphor may become more intriguing than concept, idea, theory, and framework.

Indigo tends to derive greater satisfaction from communal and relational expressions of meaning-making. Whereas turquoise may be content with a perfectly ordered meta-systematic philosophy, indigo allows for flexibility, fuzziness, and vagueness of concept in order to allow for new bonds of community to arise within a more generous and fluid orthodoxy.

Indigo tends to become more tolerant with flaws, character defects, and shadows. Rather than strive to incorporate and overcome every failing and disowned portion of consciousness, indigo may become satisfied with giving expression to lower impulses with an attitude of playful acceptance, or letting others have their shadows. "So I am selfish with my love of ice cream. Then I shall permit myself an indulgence, and be morally tolerant of those who are also occasionally self-indulgent."

Indigo steers clear of magical indissociation, which equates spirit with nature. Also avoided are mythic disassociation, which separates nature and spirit, and rational disassociation, which separates reason and spirit. At the psychic level, nature, reason, and spirit are united.

Putting in into Practice
I find myself drawn to avenues of a contemplative mode where I can simply observe the contents of my psyche, without judgment or analysis. I develop kindness and humility and good nature at my own failings simply by being present to all that arises within my awareness. Generally, this happens without a devoted spiritual practice. It happens by contemplative awareness on everyday life.

Dramatic shadow work is a particular exciting way to practice mindful awareness, attune to the psychodnymaics of a moment, the complex interactions between participants and observers in a shadow work healing process. Guiding him step-by-step through the process of becoming an impartial observer or witness of his own inner dramas of the mind. That turns me on; that helps me to feel that I am on the cutting edge of my awareness in the indigo faculties.

Writing is also of special beneift, particularly when I allow myself the indulgence of writing in a stream of consciousness mode. Whole Wrting is a technique I often use to hear, feel, relate to, envision, symbolize, and tell stories about the working of my inner life. The truth is it's not a very turquoise practice. Its very chaotic and unstructured fashion deconstruct the analytic rigoeour and rationalistic precision demanded by turquoise systematizing. It is more of an indigo-responsive practice: it permits unfettered awareness of the egoic mind in its most expansive and embodied position of knowledge. From there, the AQAL tools of analysis are not really necessary after the fact, except as an impression or style or decoration. Turquoise says: "When I speak about my achievement-oriented value, I tag such phrase with an orange color in order to communicate the value that inheres within the word at a turquoise worldspace." Indigo says: "When I speak about the need I feel to make money, I sense an orange impression and it seems right to me to dabble the phrase with a bit of orange paint to say, 'See here's what I feel like. I see orange."

Prophecy is another fascination of mine at indigo because I am simply struck, over and over again, by the seeming coincidence of the events in the life of my psyche and the world around me and the world of nature. I see prophecy in an absolutely knock-your-socks-off astrology reading (ever had one of those by someone you take seriously? It's a trip.) I see prophecy in the connections between my dreams, visualizations, and the happenings of my life. I've learned tremendous respect for the power of the unknown and the veneration for events and visitations that seem best interpreted at the psychic level rather than the rationalistic level. I have had numerous friends share with me stories of "entity possession" that are deeply troubling and disturbing (entites being psychic pheneoma at lower levels of the astral realm of being). I have been blown away by the power of the mind to create unexpected and disturbing realities, or at least to raise the possibilities of mind/body connections in ways that command respect. There was a a time a few years ago when I was struggling writing a few scenes for a screenplay. I thought of my friend J in Boston and thought about an event in our friendship. I wrote about it, even though I hadn't seem J in many years. I also thought of my friend M and was troubled by seeing a character molded after him in the screenplay taking a knife and contemplating an act of violence. I got an email that very week from J. He had a dream in which I had died that upset him greatly. He contacted me from out of the blue to see if I was okay. I got a a call from M and learned, much to my surprise and horror, that he had been troubled by obsessions of cutting himself to the point of suicidal ideation.After some similar events unfolded, I stopped work on the screenplay. Too much weird shit was happening in my life.

I don't understand all the events I've encountered from the psychic relam of being, nor do I claim to have proof that these events are beyond a shadow of a doubt not explainable by mere coincidence and synchronicity. But I have earned reverence and humility before the powers of consciousness over which I have little control and in which I am, seemingly, an explorer, not an experienced guide. At its best, the pre/trans fallacy tells people at orange to wisen up and stop listening to the regressive voices of magenta and amber that are holding them back. It's a powerful idea. But as consciousness ascends the ladder, even the pre/trans fallacy appears relatively true. Where bodymind, soul, spirit, culture, and nature intersect ... where cause and effect reveal themselves as two associations in mind, neither to be absolutely privileged over the other ... then the pre/trans fallacy can hold us back to a fuller embrace of the highest dimensions of spirit. At indigo, we move beyond "weird shit happens" into the role of the ego-aware observer of mind, opening ourselves to al the discoveries ahead, whether they be mundane and ordinary, or of the "weird shit happens" variety.
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Joe Perez is a Seattle-based writer. His new book, Soulfully Gay: How Harvard, Sex, Drugs, and Integral Philosophy Drove Me Crazy and Brought Me Back to God, is now released from Integral Books.

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Blogapolooza

http://wolfspirit.gaia.com — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:10:47 GMT

You can find my blogs at Until and Integral Christian. I'm also participating in Zaadz's I-I Blogapolooza 2007, when I'll be adding my own blog contribution here.

today: pelle
tomorrow (Tue): jane
Wed: ewan
Thur: maryw
Fri: colin
Sat: wolfspirit
Sun: timelody

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