mindfulness

If you go deep enough deeper than thought deeper than feelings and intuition deeper than you can you will go out of yourself and end up in cosmos and you will see how well ordered the universe is to create life on earth and you will appreciate all life on earth even the mosquitos  and the snakes and when you come home you are more than yourself  

There is alway another perspective to look at. If you meditate and become aware of your thoughts and feelings, you will be more able to shift perspective. And you will be aware of that your perspective changes without your will. An interesting and very broad way to look at our world is big history. Let's take the history on life on Earth. Its 65 million years since the dinos disappeared. It's just 10 000 years since we started to be farmers. We have changed the life on earth for many living beings because of that. But since 10 000 years in the history of our planets is not much, it may not mean so much in the long run. A man with an even bigger perspective is Sean Carroll. He is a cosmologist and professor of physics. He is interested in the questions that some thinks is not necessary, because they seem impossible to answer as: what happened before the Bing- Bang? Are there more universes outside our universe? And what about time? If  there are many univer

We all want to believe in world that turns better and better. For many beliefs this is central. Marx believed in progress to better world and was inspired by Hegels thought about the law of a "weltgeist"that insured progress. Capitalism seem to promise luck if we buy more and more stuff, at least does the advertisement say so.  And we all now the promise of a paradise in religious contexts. John Gray is a retired professor from London School of Economics and Politic Science and has written a lot of books. Maybe he can be seen as a pessimist, but he can also be seen as clear eyed. He is a supporter of the green movement and  Lovelock's idea about Gaia. In Grays book "Straw Dogs" he claims that humanity probably will destroy itself, but life will go on anyway. The title of the book is inspired by some words from Lao Tzu: "Heaven and earth are ruthless, and treat the myriads of creatures as straw dogs." Gray gives some examples of his view; w

What is complexity? Actually it's a complex question, cause nobody really knows. There are different interpretations of the word. Its usually compared with "complicated" that often is seen as a phenomena with many layers up on each other. Lets say a huge hamburger. If you just order it and it alone in a bar. It may be complicated  if they have to make a special one for you and what to pay would create some discussion. It may be complicated to eat because of its size. But wait, I think the hamburger can be seen in a complex light too; If we consider the cow that the meat came from. If we consider the food the cow ate, the sun and the water that was needed for the grass to grow.  Maybe fertilizers  were used too...Maybe the meat came from one of the calves that are slaughters right after they are born because they are males. And then the farmer his och hers family, maybe some kids, some neighbors, some machines and son on. Then the transport of the calves to th