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our theme song
LOOKING AHEAD:
9-8 Permutations of Fear: Domination, Sadism, Lord
of the
Flies
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three contemporary"New Age" guided meditations that may help you find a power animal in the Native American tradition:
Steven Farmer
Shamanic
Denise Linn
this is another calisthenic of the sympathetic imagination, trying to imagine what it was like to be Native American, especially their connection to nature. And, of course, that way it is 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, anotherWeltanshauung, 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.
*William Blake called them your "mind-forged manacles"
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EMOTIVE ETHICS
the oldest, most common approach to ethics, sometimes called
"Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself":
In feeling terms:
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
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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.
David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech
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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
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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL" St. Augustine
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