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Hans Memling in Brugge
..[T]he Memling Museum [is] housed in the former Hospital of Saint John. The hospital functioned from the 13th century onwards, and much of the museum’s collection is devoted to illustrating its history. Sixteenth century surgery tools used at the hospital are particularly chilling to behold, especially those used for “trepanation.”…
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The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse
A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out this piece. Neoliberalism is a cancer on our culture and…
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Arm Kids to Combat Propaganda: Teach Reason – the Fourth “R” – in the Classroom
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Our children need sound thinking skills to reverse our mindless path of death and destruction. Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: At last, a return to something approaching the way people have always learned well: reading, writing, arithmetic, and how it all comes together as/in sound…
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You’re Too Strong Not to Keep on Keepin’ On
A blessed Friday to all throughout the world.. Now, get up and shake that ass! Related articles Vault: Gladys Knight at 1983 Plumfest (newsnet5.com) Soul Train: Gladys Knight & The Pips – I Heard It Through the Grapevine (soulbrotherspeaks.com) Video: Gladys Knight performs ‘The Way We Were’ on NAACP Image…
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Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Mind and Nature
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions A podcast lecture by Abel Gunter from the international conference ‘Nietzsche on Mind and Nature’, held at St. Peter’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. See on cleverbeast.tumblr.com Related articles Rick Roderick on Nietzsche (hornokpleese.wordpress.com) The…
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Diogenes in the Marketplace > Babette Babich
A most joyous thing to read for an old anarchocynic like myself… But ‘know thyself” works dialectically in an extraordinary way to make such sundering readings redundant: “for Thales, knowledge of the heavens and self-investigation could proceed directly parallel to each other.” (537) (Peter) Sloterdijk ends here in a fashion…
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Honest Acknowledgment
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately suppressing them. Venerable Analayo Related articles What is God? (Matrignosis)…
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Institutions starting to walk the Broader Impacts walk
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions CSID’s own Robert Frodeman is slated to keynote an upcoming Broader Impacts Infrastructure Summit. This summit marks the first of its kind for its focus on institutional infrastructure, prima… See on cas-csid.cas.unt.edu
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University Presidents—Speak Out! | The Nation
See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Where are their voices on the major issues of the day? Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Yeah. Not going to happen. Though it really does need to happen. See on www.thenation.com
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Originally posted on simonhlilly: The white noise of the next universe, the white noise of the last, muttered thoughts, scratched messages, attempts to sustain the unsustainable: the instant of now, pinned to a dead language, thought too big for itself, hot air, black hole, white noise, verse reverse obverse, the…
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Absolutely Awake to the Encompassing
I am sure that if you look through my site, you would find me to be some kind of Buddhist social critic. I post all kinds of Buddhist sayings as well as lots of material on the Society of Control and the fate of Millennials. Somewhere in there you would…
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Zen Gateway Online
A brief guide to The Zen Gateway website – the online community for Chan/Zen Buddhism. via Zen Gateway Related articles Learning To Live In The Moment With ‘The Dude’ (wnyc.org) Hakuin: The sight of one hand clapping (japantimes.co.jp) Temple teaches meaning of Zen (toledoblade.com) existence and zen (zendictive.wordpress.com) inviting mindfulness…
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Originally posted on Drive All Night: Dear friends, Welcome to Drive All Night: aka, what I’ve been working on for the past five months! Whether you’ve been directed here through Facebook stalking, a referral from friends, or a web search for Bruce Springsteen concert videos, I’m beyond thrilled to finally…
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Millennials Come of Age: America’s Most Stressed Generation
More information to digest concerning the growing chasm as we move from the Society of Discipline (of which Boomers & Gen-X make the last generation) into the Society of Control (of which Millennials make its first generation). First came the “Baby Boomers,” then came “Generation X.” The branding of…
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