The Evolution of Consciousness

If you’re in any doubt about my current views and interests then this video is about the quickest intro to the kind of developmental, evolutionary, non-Dogmatic, post-post-modern, integral methodological pluralist view that I hold.

Watch it, it’s simpler than it sounds   😀

Filed under: AQAL, both/and, Darwin, Evolution, Integral, Spiral Dynamics, Video

Ideas to die for

Memes. Fit for their own survival. Not yours.

Dan Dennett on Ants, terrorism, and the awesome power of the meme.

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Dan Dennett: Can we know our own minds?

"Scientists, using their from-the-outside, 3rd person methods, can tell you things about your own consciousness that you'd ever dream of. And the fact that you are not the authority on your own consciousness that you thought you were.“

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Bill Moyers with philosopher Daniel Dennett

Moyers: Is there a ‘ground of all being’
Dennett: Sure! I’d like to be able to thank someone for the universe we live in but the best I can do is study it, learn about it, with awe. Anselm described God as that being than which no greater can be conceived. If that is your definition of God then I DO believe in God. The universe is greater than we can conceive and it’s far greater than anything I can fully comprehend.

So who is right? Dennet or Anselm?

If, in meditation we can come to a place of rest and identify our true self, or identify with everything that is arrising with no subject or object distinctions, then aren’t we too experiencing Anselm’s God?

Can we explain it using blogs and words and gestures? No.

So who is right?

BOTH Dennet AND Anselm!

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NO! – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

“Listen carefully. Any real lama will be completely unconcerned with your problems in this life. Any real lama will only be concerned with your death and where you take rebirth.”

Telling it like it is. Hard to swallow perhaps but bye bye Boomeritis!

Another version of the hugely popular teaching by Tsem Rinpoche on the poem of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s “How to Know No”.

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