Kirsten
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Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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It's all retch and no vomit.
- Alan Watts
Idea that we can leave our body behind and just exist on another plane. As selves, personalities, inside constructs we have built but all that time our bodies are the space actually creating our reality.
Could do meditation imagining not just no language, but also no body, what would we know without a body. What would we share, talk about, think abo
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How do we talk about power without overpowering.
Feels like we are so attached to power meaning overpower. Then we try to compare it with other things like wisdom. (article by Kaspar) on LinkedIn/Illuminem.
But then isn't wisdom also power?
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Hmm this really makes me think of how artists bring so much more to the art which an algorithm cannot anticipate. Artists with their feeling bodies are tapped into the pulse of time and societal shifts and their own human experience. Art often therfore alerts to collective or social phenomena and are therefor not just pretty pictures or entertainment. Like the last paragraph of this article in that regard. Creativity and art are there to push back against all of this. Getting back to creating outside the algorithm seems related to being human outside the algorithm which is linked to so many things. Thin extension to media and things Douglas Rushkoff talks about. Narratives shape.
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Power is a tricky one, many definitions, but here is a little thought. The way we often seem to speak about power is that those who reign over entire countries with threats and violence have more power than we have.
And I have been questioning for a while the consequences of repeating these types of stories to ourselves.
I think that the the person
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