mindfulness

So we can never be totally alone.  A society is more like a wood wide web - we are connected to relatives, children, friends, work, bus-drivers, health care and so on. We are also connected to history and nowadays to countries all over the world. We are connected to melting ice in Arktis and to what's happening in the Amazonas.  That's why Robert Macfarlane compares our world with the fungus network underground. The wood wide web;  It is said the the trees can communicate with each other with the help of the mycelium. A big tree can  nourish a smaller one through the mycelium that can spread very long in the depth.  As we can nourish or or even threaten a fellow being on another continent through our web.  We can also try to change the story of historical events, or of coming ages - so time is also included in our internet- games. So beware of the sources that writers in the internet use.  My source here is mostly Macfarlane's book Underland. Please re...

 Michael Shawe, an Australian producer and director has made a film called "Living in the time of dying". It is really powerful for the ones that really care for the future, who has time and energy enough to care. He interviews people who is caring but also sees the threat of a global tragedy that has already started.  So Shawe seems to come to the conclusion that what is best now is to do the things that really matters.  I guess that is, to be present, to listen and to care for the ones  that are near us, even animal and plants.  I'm not without hope that the situation can change and no one is knowing exactly what the future looks like.  Anyway here is the film:   So what can we do with the voices we have listened to in this film? Turn away? Stop to listen because its to scary? Or maybe just listen and not think much of it for some weeks.  Robert Macfarlane writes in his quite new book "Underland": We are presently living through the Anthrop...

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...