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FOX VIDEO

OUR INSPIRATIONS

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

Dass Guided Imagery

Dass Words

FOCUS ON "in form"; levels of awareness:

349 DB ENTRIES:

"In esoteric cosmology, a plane other than the physical plane is conceived as a subtle state of consciousness that transcends the known physical universe..." (pg. 384)

"Such a realm, for example, is the microscopic domain of axons and dendrites, and neuro-transmitters washing across neuronal synapses - a dimension entirely concealed from directapprehension, yet which presumably precipitates, or give rise to, every aspect of our experience." (pg. 405)"….The human brain is still a mostly unknown territory and much of it's space and various mechanisms are still a mystery. This picture below is an image from the textbook of my Linguistics class. The colored areas show different sections with known functions but the beige, uncolored area is relatively unknown. As you can see, it's a relatively large area. This "realm" is mysterious but still controls, translates and transmits every aspect of our lives to us."

. "Carl Jung believed that people all over the world are intimately linked via the collective unconscious—the inherited part of our unconscious mind, a universal human "bathtub" that holds the memories, experiences, and wisdom of the entire human race" (Pg. 364).

"When you dream or meditate, you tap into this vast network of the imagination..." (364). ALSO GUIDED IMAGERY

 

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TODAY'S GOALS AND THOSE OF PROJECT ONE

To develop the sympathetic imagination, the basis of all ethics [see  below].

 To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

  To explore some of the animal archetypes of the collective unconscious

[2A2a] To return to the traditional college goals of developing character and conscience.

[2A2b] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination,which is essential to morality and ethics. Trying to imagine what it was like to be someone else is a form of experiential learning, the kind that can stick with you later. All of this depends on your willingness to be an actor, to willingly suspend your disbelief long enough to play the part. That willingness also enables you to FREE yourself from the world views that you may have inherited without conscious thought or decision on your part.* Trying out the worldviews of other cultures is the humanities equivalent of a scientific experiment. When you adopt, however briefly, another Weltanshauung, and see and feel as a member of that culture would, you test out whether any part of that philosophy of life is one you want to adopt and/or, by contrast, what part of the worldivew you inherited you may consciously want to embrace as an adult.

*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"

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TODAY'S ACTIVITIES: Dass words examined; "Best and Worst" for second half of alphabet; Quiz in class. P1 guided imagery. Discussion of P1 and  today's  readings and blog

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DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE:

THIS IS YOUR JOURNEY UNDERGROUND.

Alice invites you to the fourth stage of the hero's journey, an exercise in the katabatic imagination, to a world view of yourself as the story of your descent into your personal unconscious, the collective consciousness of your society, and the great collective unconscious , back to the origins of our species, back to the time when the human-nonhuman boundary was easily crossed, a journey repeated thousands of times each year now as people go down into a caves such as Lascaux to marvel at the depictions of animals on the cave walls, reconnecting you with the animals and all the living beings from whom you descend. I invite you to the totem animal vision quest and/or to retrace the path of Gilgamesh, Orpheus, Theseus, Jason, Heracles, Demeter, Odysseus, Aeneas, Jonah, Lazarus, Dante, Alice and many others down into the underground to discover your self , to regain something or someone you  lost, to undergo a series of tests and degradations which will collapse or dissolve your old self, return you to a more primitive state so that you can be reborn, returning from the underground with new power and the knowledge of a final state of 'wholeness' or integration that connects you to all, enabling you to reach your full potential.

 

 

 

At the entrance to Lascaux

in the cave

ENTER

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Alumna Swift Fox unburies a Native American Walrus Man hybrid totem in Alaska

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MOVING INTO THE ANIMAL WORLD, BECOMING ANIMAL

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thanks to Sindhu

AFRICA: THE ULTIMATE SOURCE?

illustrated by a visit to Animal Kingdom Lodge in Orlando

sign right outside our room!

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POPULAR CULTURE TODAY:

 

        

 Finding Your Power Animal in Fight Club

http://youtu.be/boj75h3urLU

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"A spirit Animal can be a persona that you wish to take on in different situations. For example, many dancers say when they go out on stage, Beyonce is their spiritual animal. They want to replicate how she dances and how she is able to put on such a great show. I am excited to find my spirit animal as well as our class' spirit animal. This is also known as Totemism. Which is, "Social or religious groups that feel a special affinity and which is often considered to be the mythical ancestor of the group." (545) This animal will represent the various personalities of the class. "

 

Vs. "Spirit Animal" Misuse in Popular Culture  (Links to an external site.)

 

Is this an example of the verb "To appropriate" ?

 

†1. To make (a thing) the private property of any one, to make it over to him as his own; to set apart. Obs. exc. as in 2.

 2. Const. to oneself: = 3.

1583   A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xx. 118   Here hee appropriateth the title of God to himselfe saying 'The Lord my God.'

1740   G. Anson Voy. round World i. iii. 32   Appropriating the whole ships provisions to themselves.

1876   E. Mellor Priesthood i. 15   The name 'priest~hood'..was never appropriated by apostles to themselves.

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take (something) for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

	synonyms:	seize, commandeer, expropriate, annex, arrogate, sequestrate, sequester, take over, hijack "the barons appropriated church lands" steal, take; informalswipe, nab, bag, pinch "he had allegedly appropriated company funds" plagiarize, copy; poach, steal, borrow; informal rip off "his images have been appropriated by advertisers"

 

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three contemporary guided meditations that may help you find a power animal in the Native American tradition:

Steven Farmer

Shamanic

Denise Linn

 

hawk's shape as it flashed by instructor at Waller Creek;

video of visit of red-tailed hawk to instructor at Waller Creek

videos of instructor "flying"; seeing from, feeling the perspective of red-shouldered hawk

 

 

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9-15 Your Power Animal; ETHICS FLAG: SYMPATHETIC IMAGINATION

 ASSIGNMENTS:

https://www.la.utexas.edu/users/bump/Being%20a%20Beast%20bk.pdf

pp. 14-15 of Becoming Animal  

534 Animism

535- 539  Shamanism

RUSSIAN SHAMAN

https://youtu.be/YeAp1fPt8Eg

"The changing of animals and supernatural creatures into other forms or humans, as well as the occasional transformation of humans into animals, is an important component of totem pole stories. Transformation is accomplished without effort and is sometimes referred to as shape shifting"

540-542  Totem Poles

543-546 Totemism and Power Animals,some definitions

547 -557                Animal Speak

558-561                Spirit Animals

WHAT  SPIRIT  ANIMALS ARE NOT

562-563                Power Animals table of contents

564                 Animal Spirit Guides table of contents

565                  Bless Me Ultima [CD flag: HISPANIC]; and Harry Potter,

566                Power Animals in Black Elk Speaks

566-589        Black Elk Speaks

590-594         Vizenor,  Interior Landscapes 

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 CONNECT, HAMMER INTO UNITY: Your Head and Your Heart

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