mindfulness

Jem Bendell, who is the founder of the Deep Adaptation (to climate change) movement, started it with a paper.  It's now downloaded more than 100 000 times.  But it's now also read bye scientists that not miss to mention that Bendell is a professor of sociology and not an expert of climate change.  Though Bendell refers to scientists he is accused for doing cherry picking among them.  Bendell is also very sure of his findings: We are on our way towards a collapse of civilization. We should grieve and then prepare for the collapse.  Many young people will die, but hopefully humankind will survive in some form.  A respected journal,  Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal (SAMPJ), rejected the paper. A publisher explained that the paper wasn't peer reviewed. They wanted Bendell to correct the paper so it reflected the facts.  Bendell didn't do so but posted it in a blog.  Bendell means that the journal didn't want to post the p...

It seems to be quite clear. It's relations I think it's too narrow to just say that's it's about other people. Of course it also can be relations to dogs, cats and so on. But also relations to trees, flowers and wild animals. I can sit for hours and look at swallows  in the sky or near the sky. But at the end of the day I mayfLong for the touch of another human. Buy ourselves we are nothing. Yes, it seems that we Are our relations. That is what holds us together. But what happens when an important relation ends? And beware of bad relationships:  A

 At least that's what Rupert Sheldrake.  And he means he could show scientific proof for it.  Well, Sheldrake is not a newcomer in that business.  He has had dialogs with Krishnamurti long ago and he is a defender of the idea that a morfologic field is surrounding us and is binding us together in a great distance.  Nowadays he doesn't speak so much of that field. In his latest book he writes about the benefits of an spiritual practise. He himself meditates in the morning and and prays in the evening.  And it seems to make him more happy; he makes jokes and smiles a lot in this lecture. (you can see the whole speech at IAT-tv)    Is he into New Age. Maybe. But he means that it's science. And I can follow him in that - meditation, and some discipline to do it regularly, preferably with others, seems to make you, at least, more satisfied.  For me it's enough to do it once a day, but also to try be mindful in the everyday things, as washing the d...

 Jeremy Lent believe that we need the latter, a deep transformation. Then we can stop climate change and save civilisation.  Jem Bendell, the founder of Deep Adaptation (to climate change) means that it is too late. We have to prepare for a civilization crash.  We have to learn to use  permaculture, to grow our own food and to live near freshwater.  And we have just ten years to prepare for that....  As you can see on this film from Nasa, the change in temperature has rapidly increased the last decades.    It seems clear that the temperature is increasing fast and it's because of human activity.  Already now people are suffering from the effects of the climate change.   you can read about it. for instance, here;  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-effects/ Well, I'm not an scientist and cannot predict the future.  But there are visions for a sustainable world:  Jeremy Lent mea...

This post is under reconstruction.... Is there never a right view?  Maybe not Let's say that there are many planets with intelligent life in our universe and of course they have their own view - that's perspectivism: there are never just one perspective of a phenomena, but a lot perspectives -       not understand their views.   Do our brains and our consciousness compose even such things as mathematics  B i mathematics is "out there", as Pythagoras and his modern followers think, then there may be absolute truth - anyway in science.          what  about art, religion and the things that give life meaning for us?   I'm sure the inhabitants in different planets will have different opinions about that.  In our time, which in the west are quite secular, many of us find the meaning in nature  and we may include certain people in what we call nature. Maybe the near and dear...

When I looked at my naked foot this morning i could see that it was the foot of an ape.  Not good enough to swing from tree to tree, but good for long walks.  Yes, we are intelligent monkey's https://www.livescience.com/11119-men-apes-competing-status.htm l Does that mean that we are violent by nature. Not necessarily. Chimps is sad to be violent, but their relatives on the other side of the Congo river is not - the bonobo's also chimps, but a little bit smaller. The latter has another culture. They live in a matriarchy. Maybe the majority of us now is very little violent. Or at least less violent than earlier generations.  And of course, i now talk about men.  And if we are there may be a hopeful future in front of us.  If we look at the new we see much violence, but if we compare it with how many people we are on this Earth, we can see in another perspective.  AI may have a bad side, but if we handle it with care it may help us with the climate change and...

Dont forget about the small miracles. Like sunshine in graas. It's a wonder to live on mother Earth. To meet the first butterfly; Or to take a flying and walking meditation: