Category: Method or META HODOS
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Liberation in the 21st Century « Becoming Integral
Report on Liberation Theology in Africa from my good brother Sam Mickey over at Becoming Integral… The good news is that those outdated ideals are changing. As this conference in Ghana shows, young scholars and activists are taking up the task of renewing and rejuvenating liberation theology, articulating tactics…
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Textimony 20120802
We have all heard old Yoda’s admonition about Fear. Here is my attempt at the alternative: Fortitude is the way to the Light Side. Fortitude leads to patience Patience leads to love. Love leads to letting-go… Not needing, you will have what you need.
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Textimony 20120731
Virtue seeks justice in a symphony of gentle word & simple deed. Vice seeks justification in a cacophony of bitter talk & manic injury.
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A Nice Entrée into Object Oriented Ontology
Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews (including one by Eileen Joy), in the Fall. During the…
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Bruno Gets to the Matter @ Soul Spelunker
Please allow me to recommend Matt Dotson’s blog the Soul Spelunker. This new series on Bruno has been fun to read. Giordano Bruno formulated the most impressive theory of matter of any European philosopher, perhaps to this day. Using only his powers of speculation, Bruno formulated an amazingly powerful ontological…
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The Recipe for Success (Not What You Think It Is) « healthdemystified
For the longest time, I thought success was the result of a combo of luck and genes. Success, I thought, was reserved for a select few special people out there – something out of grasp for us mere mortals. I was wrong. Success is actually the result of failing well…
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Soul Spelunker: The Democratization of Imagination
Tom Cheetham is very profound. His phrase, “the democratization of imagination” is exactly what we are experiencing, and what I have been recently writing about. Imagining the Anima Mundi causes one to think along these lines. Western culture has been ascending for a very long time, but now we are…
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Together Alone Coming Down Later
After doing prostrations, bending old body into the smoke-filled interior of the strange bedding, mind detaches from flowing world. Ages pass into moments pass into chaos pass into stillness where all these perennial teachings push me to transgress, to overcome, to alleviate turbulent suffering regrets of disconnection, leaping despondent from…
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The sun god
So I preface this note with the following idea: an ethic based on empirical fact or facts, despite the contingency of the a posteriori, will be more concrete, literally and figuratively, than an ethic based on the a priori or an appeal to a transcendental deity. via The sun god.…
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Whatever Etc 0010: Losing Personal History
With props for Carlos Castañeda, por supuesto…
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Textimony 20120506
Becoming LIBERATED means being DELIBERATE in thought & in deed. Embrace opportunity, but DELIVERANCE must come from your own DECISIVE action
CALL ME MAGGIE 