Shifting our frames
Themes and Tools — Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
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Contemplative space is hard to define. Contemplation is generally not a practice that offers immediate jolts of anything. There’s (well, usually) no chatty/ethery response from on high, no neatly cleared path unfurling after a good long think. In fact, more often it feels like “nothing” at all is happening in that open space. The “soft” characteris... See more
Lia Purpura Published • The Ecology of Attention
And although many of the experts who speak in this manner – relegating the sensuous world to a kind of secondary or derivative status – are avowed atheists, and although they will rail passionately against the creationists and any others who they think are caught up in a superstitious worldview, this approach that privileges abstract dimensions, wh... See more
Coming to Our Animal Senses: A Conversation with David Abram
I like how this frames scientific ways of thinking that disconnect us from our own experience of the world as an ideology akin to religion
Brian Eno and James Bridle on Ways of Being | 5x15
youtu.beBrian Eno and James Bridle talking about the ideas in Ways of Being
It’s time to replace the old linear model of success with a circular model of growth, in which goals are discovered, pursued, and adapted – not in a vacuum, but in conversation with the larger world.
Big Think: The 3 cognitive scripts that rule over your life
From Ness Labs
The term ‘resource’ always befuddles me. If we would simply drop the prefix, ‘‘re,’’ whenever we use the term, it would become apparent that we’re almost always talking about ‘sources’, like springs bubbling up from the unseen depths. But when we put that little prefix in front of the word, and speak of things as ‘resources’, we transform the enigm... See more
Coming to Our Animal Senses: A Conversation with David Abram
It’s true that we roll up our sleeves and help you dig yourself out if you’ve ended up under a literal pile. But to really effectively organize, it’s generally necessary to change your relationship with Stuff. To do this, some people need to excavate painful memories, face difficult truths about relationships, question the amount of time they dedic... See more
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Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds (SSIR)
ssir.org
Practices for Transitions in a Time Between Worlds
A whole series of articles and projects for thinking the world and reimagining our futures.
https://ssir.org/supplement/practices-for-transitions-in-a-time-between-worlds#