Kirsten
@rootyarn
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
rootyarn.com
Open Source Ecology | Future Builders Academy – Planet Earth Generic Website Template
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Future Building Curriculum by dude with fusion physics degree - looks useful
It means that the really important sort of censorship we ought to worry about pertains less to the management of information, and more to the management of attention.
James Williams • Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy
from ‘Stand out of our Light’ by James Wilson Williams
Saved this in 2020….
Mentioning machines understanding us better than we understand ourselves. Maybe that is because we do not understand ourselves very well and we have relied too much on machines for that understanding. We increasingly do. Tell me how many steps I took, how deep I have been sleeping…what to do if I am not sleeping. Not saying there cannot be very valuable knowledge gained this way, but if we ignore the other ways that we come to know things of course we will lag behind and will be easily manipulated. One of the big spriritual questions often asked as a form of inquiry is ‘Who am I’, and right now when we ask that question we often turn to machines to answer it. What do I do instead you might say? Humans managed to survive (with fewer comforts you might argue, but also more content in many ways) for a long time without machines. If there isn’t a machine when you ask ‘Who am I’, what comes up? What do your emotions tell you about this? What do the trees say? What do the bugs say? What does your skin say? There are so many answers that have nothing to do with machines and this is a form of intelligence. To have any chance at not being hollowed out by machines we need to turn to this other intelligence and start giving it the value it has in our lives. It comes before machines. It is older and wiser and we would not be here without it.
Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.
My fear was often that I am ignorant because of what I don't know. I actively spent energy resisting certain information from becoming something that I know. I pushed it away and there was a fear that this was some kind of laziness. It was definitely meant to save energy. And that energy was often used on staying in the unknowing, holding tension
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Knowing can just be knowing peace. There doesn't always have to be a causal or linear relationship where there is a problem and then we come to know the solution. Or where we have a question and then come to know the answer.
We can know love, we can know cold, we can know peace and joy. And there doesn't have to be any urgency.