She obviously was not Fox Mulder, but she did have two posters that read, “I Want to Believe.” The two were scrolled, tubed in cling wrap and tucked side-by-side into her large linen shopping tote. I could not see if they pictured hovering alien spacecraft but I doubt if they did. The background to [...]
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No Reason to Believe
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on May 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Integral Dissipation
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province, tagged Bennitta Roy, Dr. Charles Hyder, Dr. Stirling Colgate, Integral Journal, Integral Philosophy, Into the Cool, Levels of Development, Process Theory, Second Law of Thermodynamics on May 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The tourist brochures that are endlessly pumped on-line from Integral Province are clear that most of the natural charm of this map-generated territory is the willingness of the Provincials here to lend their spirits to the cosmic course of healing and evolution, they give the known universe an integrated voice in the repetition of [...]
The Atheists are Coming (Gasp…!)
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province, tagged Atheism, Belief, Four Horsemen, Richard Rorty on January 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The two, hour-long videos of Hitchens, Dennett, Dawkins and Harris talking on atheism are making their way through the Integral Province. I made a short comment on them at Open Source Integral and was asked to expand on the thoughts. One of the main reasons for pursuing the matter further was it gave me the [...]
Vultures Copulating on The Roof: An Essay on Wholeness
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on December 22, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m jotting notes at random for this essay on Wholeness and two vultures are copulating on the second roof down the ridge. iTunes is playing John Prine’s song “Illegal Smile.” I’m jotting a note about a YouTube vid on sustainable One Taste Buddhist orgasms (Jana posted it on Integral Visioning’s forum but I’ve watched [...]
Whatever Gets You Through
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province, tagged Integral Philosophy, satire on December 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A Soap in One Prologue and 11 Lines
Prologue
To live sanely is to limit the awareness. It is to draw back from the incoherent cusp of each on-setting moment to organize snippets of conditioning into sheltering illusions and idealized blinkers. Enough of these patches can be cobbled together into a process that one can call their [...]
Integral Province: Sensualist move on…
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province, tagged Art, Integral Philosophy, Ironwork, Ken Wilber, Matthew Dallman on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
If you are at large in the Integral Province, a tourist perhaps or a Seeker or stumbling through the sprawling Integral Mall of consulting care givers and Espiritu-Social Democrat change agents, looking maybe for half a rack of fleshy smoked ribs and a pint or two of IPA…sensualist move on. To [...]
To One in the Dark V
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Wandering toward Conclusions
Wandering like a vagabundo: I like hats. Some time ago on receiving a commission for two years of work I designed a hat and had it made for me. It is a subtle and elegant vanity, charcoal and black. I was once told it [...]
To One in the Dark IV
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Context: The Bowers of Halandri
For several days M had meetings in the center of Halandri, a suburb on the slopes above Athens. When we walked there we often detoured a few blocks off the main avenue, Pendelis, to skirt behind rows of high-rise cells, an abandoned [...]
To One in the Dark III
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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“To goddamned hell with maps!”
B. Traven, Treasure of the Sierra Madre (a paraphrase)
The cartographers of the Integral Province have never produced a foil of certainty or a certifiable map of any territory I have ever crossed. In fact, despite the claims that such a thing [...]
To One in the Dark II
Posted in Raving from the Integral Province on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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Context: Rudy’s Direct Transmission
Rudy was rare; probably one of the last in the U.S. to die of general paresis, said to have been the death of Nietzsche. Once I knew another man who’s problems with a severed arm entailed him to share space in a veteran’s [...]
