"THE INEFFABLE EXPRIENCE"

http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/articles/dienske.html

In the context of OUR (the Ethiopian Elite) self-assessment, I think it is not far-fetched to look into the depth of such essays to understand the "ontological" roots of our intolerance...and violence at large......

....I think in the final instance our political problems too....

......Problems of the elite as a consequence of ill-directed "ontological" experiences, which terminate in irrational notions ..........AND due to a lack or a misconception of the latter, an objective expression of spiritual solitude, which is not openly admitted but unconsciously expressed in a manifestation of intolerance and violence through the outlet of a common political activity, accessible without any intellectual legitimacy to all elements of a society like ours....with any demagogue playing the role of a "good leader" due to the low intellectual level of the community.............An activity which, under these premises of its leadership ultimately develops into a de facto dogma or religion, only good for corruption and self-consumption...hampering any positive social development..

AND

IF this " Subject" happens to come to a level of state power, by way of some historical circumstance or struggle; you can imagine ...and ...we have witnessed where the fate of that community ended up.......see from Stalin....through Mao.....up to Mugabe ......and our Melesses...; I name here only those from the left spectrum since they are the ones who are presumably sworn in for the welfare and freedom of their societies....I am not surprised by those from the right spectrum since it lies in the nature of their declared ideology not to be otherwise...

A political leader doesn't have to be a philosopher but the minimum one could expect is that he understands the scope of philosophy.....Otherwise he is for his community a programmed disaster in person ..

I liked both essays( i.e. see Angelo Campodonico too) but I have only to add what occurred to me at the last words of the first author...(Ineffable Experience/Dienske)...which goes like the following:

>>>>>>>

"The unnameable reminds us of a rich, uncontrollable dimension of our existence and of the importance of the non-linguistic. "In the beginning was not the Word---earlier reigned the grand silence" is the first line of a poem, written by a Dutch poet, J. C. Schagen, who will have the final say in this article:

in the beginning was not the Word---earlier Reigned the grand silence before the first word is the sigh of the sea and after the last it lies in the dust you can pick it up like that the first word---nothing it lies in the dust you can pick it up like this the last word---nothing"....

AND

Here follows the notion which won't leave me......

So...."after the last it lies in the dust you can pick it up like that the first word---nothing- it lies in the dust you can pick it up like this the last word---nothing".

..."nothing"....Pick it up.....NO A THING......Pick it up ....Not a thing is.....THE SPIRIT.......

"..nothing"......nothing meaning NOT A THING......NOT A Thing is SOMETHING other than a THING....and Not a thing is for sure A SPIRIT......The SPIRIT ......................and of course for those who doubt, always with the HOPE under the cover of the positive rational search, which is human and legitimate...

In this sense I wouldn't be bored to re-read and contemplate again and again along :

The Origin of Philosophy

A Parable I like!

More: See
Angelo Campodonico on ontological exprience

SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION

Ervin Laszlo ...A "Beautiful MIND".

SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION An Interview with Ervin Laszlo

Please download his extensive interview to get introduced to his thoughts.

http://www.mediafire.com/?yne5zyrlzto

Or available on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYq7LdHSeNY&feature=player_embedded

More from the site:

http://worldshift2012.org/content/about

Grain for Cars !!?

"Shall we use grain to fuel cars or to feed people?"

Fritjof Capra on

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/new-facts-life

A Rationale and Guide for Nonviolence

".... life, from its beginning more than three billion years ago, did not take over the planet by combat but by networking."....Fritjof Capra /

http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/new-facts-life

Revolutions and wars are exceptions to the rule, coup d'etats are perversions of the rule....And the rule seems to be evolution embedded in creativity/emergence, whose existence becomes apparent in due time and space to initiate a fundamental change..... That is, I presume, the Kernel of human experience in history .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_evolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocultural_evolution

What is the inter-relation between social structure and collective consciousness ?

What is the role of structure and collective consciousness in our future human development...?

*

Following is an aspect which I think is very relevant in our context and helpful for our community's political dead-lock:

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Chapter Twenty-Two

A rationale and guide for nonviolence
as a basis for conscious evolutionary activism.

Hier reproduced in summary in accordance with the permission of the author:

http://evolutionaryactivism.com/wagn/Copying

In any situation or system, seek ways

to replace force with consciousness.

...

Force, in this context, refers to the use of coercion or

overwhelming strength or power to dominate, control, or otherwise

get one's way, often against resistance. The power used

can be physical, economic, social, intellectual, emotional, military,

psychological, technological, etc. The more force used,

the less we take into account the nature or needs of the Other.

The more we take the Other into account, the less force and

resources we need to accomplish mutual ends.

Consciousness, the capacity to be aware, in this context,

includes all the interior dimensions and capacities of life that

can—among other things—help us deal successfully with

our changing world by sensing, understanding and creatively,

collaboratively relating to the conditions in us and the entities,

interactions, and contexts around us.

This evolutionary moment challenges us to bring the power

of consciousness to bear on the process of self-reflective evolution

itself to replace the creative violence of supernovas, lifeand-

death struggles, and wars with highly aware intelligence,

wisdom, and care.

So as evolutionary activists, we seek to replace force everywhere,

• in every entity (every individual, group and

system);

• in every interaction (every conversation, exchange,

conflict, and engagement with nature);

• in every context (every situation, culture, gathering,

community and urban design); and

• in every form of consciousness (in all sensing,

learning, visioning, morality, and all other forms

of thinking, feeling and experience).

.....

...

Our consciousness then evolves

towards true collaboration, where we—

you and I, us and our adversaries,

humankind and nature—help each

other get what we each need and want—in cooperatives,

family conversations, in deliberative democracy, in Nonviolent

Communication, in permaculture.

...

This shift from force to consciousness is the fulcrum of

human evolution at this critical time—at individual, collective,

and systemic scales.

As we reach our planetary limits, the downsides of force,

violence, and control become increasingly obvious. Our

technological and social capacities to generate harm through

our efforts to force, impact, and control people and life—no

matter how well intended—threaten our extinction.

...

The more fully we understand, the less force or energy

we need or want to use. The less energy we use to serve any

given need, the more efficient and elegant our systems and

behaviors become, making them favored by natural selection

and the general directionality of evolution.

..

Guidance concerning evolutionary means:

..

• A addresses the role of conversation.

• B talks about creative use of diversity.

• C explores how to handle dissonance.

• D discusses deep, inclusive simplicity.

...

..

Guidance concerning realms of evolutionary action:

...

..

• 1 deals with the health of the systems themselves.

• 2 deals with contexts and systemic awareness of them.

• 3 deals with the systemic capacity to effectively respond

to complex, changing circumstances.

...

1. Cultivate healthy self-organization.

..

• Cultivate healthy behavior

• Cultivate healthy power

• Cultivate healthy flow

2. Cultivate healthy systemic contexts.

..

• Healthy social context.

• Healthy contexts that govern meaning

• Healthy physical contexts

• Healthy natural contexts

3. Cultivate healthy systemic responsiveness and collective

evolvability.

..

• Cultivate collective intelligence, learning, and

memory -

• Cultivate collective self-awareness, integrity,

and humility -

• Cultivate the collective capacity to generate and

pursue shared intentions -

• Cultivate systems that embody collective compassion

and mutuality -

• Cultivate the collective ability to make wise,

creative decisions -

• Cultivate collective co-creativity and evolutionary

sensibilities -

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This is a section/chapter from Tom Atlee's " book :

"Reflections on Evolutionary Activism"....

(Tom Atlee & friends : ....These are....interesting intellectual and activist circles of our generation...with a lot of new insights and ideas)

http://evolutionaryactivism.com/wagn/Get_involved

More: See if you like:

http://nonzero.org/reviews.htm
http://nonzero.org/index.htm

http://socio.ch/evo/index_evo.htm

Nonzero Sum

"Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect."

http://www.nonzero.org/reviews.htm
http://www.nonzero.org/toc.htm
http://www.nonzero.org/intro.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonzero:_The_Logic_of_Human_Destiny

A Brief Summary of Nonzero (as it appears on the book jacket)
At the beginning of this book, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial ooze to the World Wide Web." Twenty two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded--and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless. Ingeniously employing game theory—the logic of "zero-sum" and "non-zero-sum" games—Wright isolates the impetus behind life’s basic direction: the impetus that, via biological evolution, created complex, intelligent animals; and then, via cultural evolution, pushed the human species toward deeper and vaster social complexity. In this view, the coming of today’s interdependent global society was "in the cards"—not quite inevitable, perhaps, but, as Wright puts it, "so probable as to inspire wonder." So probable, indeed, as to invite speculation about higher purpose—especially in light of "the phase of history that seems to lie immediately ahead: a social, political, and even moral culmination of sorts." In a work of vast erudition and pungent wit, Wright takes on some of the past century’s most prominent thinkers, including Isaiah Berlin, Karl Popper, Stephen Jay Gould, and Richard Dawkins. He finds evidence for his position in unexpected corners, from native American hunter-gatherer societies and Polynesian chiefdoms to Medieval Islamic commerce and precocious Chinese technology; from conflicts of interest among a cell’s genes to discord at the World Trade Organization. Wright argues that a coolly scientific appraisal of humanity’s three-billion-year past can give new spiritual meaning to the present and even offer political guidance for the future. Nonzero will change the way people think about the human prospect.

"I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine" .....to .....Cyberspace....

Interesting...

On ....Way back from "I'll scratch your back and you scratch mine" .....to .....Cyberspace....
Scott Atran has something to say....
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SCOTT ATRAN
Anthropologist, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris; Author, In Gods We Trust

THE FOURTH PHASE OF HOMO SAPIENS

I received this year's Edge Question while in Damascus, shuttling messages from Jerusalem aimed at probing possibilities for peace. And I got to thinking about how my thinking on world peace and transnational violence has been shaped by the Internet, and how the advent of the Internet has framed my view of human history and destiny.

http://www.edge.org/q2010/q10_3.html#atran

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/01/at-the-edge-of-thought.php

"The Particle Adventure"

http://particleadventure.org/index.html

As far as there is a lot we still have to discover in the sphere of the "Material Plane", it is overweening to make any final judgement along the "Spiritual Plane"...

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information[1]

George A. Miller (1956) Harvard University

First published in Psychological Review, 63, 81-97.

"And finally, what about the magical number seven? What about the seven wonders of the world, the seven seas, the seven deadly sins, the seven daughters of Atlas in the Pleiades, the seven ages of man, the seven levels of hell, the seven primary colors, the seven notes of the musical scale, and the seven days of the week? What about the seven-point rating scale, the seven categories for absolute judgment, the seven objects in the span of attention, and the seven digits in the span of immediate memory? For the present I propose to withhold judgment. Perhaps there is something deep and profound behind all these sevens, something just calling out for us to discover it. But I suspect that it is only a pernicious, Pythagorean coincidence."

Scientific Research Sources

(in a way for the "Harmony Model"*):

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_(number)

http://web.missouri.edu/~cowann/docs/articles/in%20press/Cowan%20et%20al,%20Tall%20tales%20in%20press.pdf

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/121360014/PDFSTART

***

"In the psychology of information processing the number 7 is a somewhat “magical” invariant:

According to Miller (1956) it manifests itself as a constraint of the span of absolute judgment,

the span of immediate memory, and of the span of attention. This limit (or these limits?) of about

seven, plus or minus two, has (or have) since figured prominently in information processing

theories. Miller (1956: 91) warned against assuming “that all three spans are different aspects of

a single underlying process”. But “generality” is a relevant dimension of empirical progress.

Thus it is still tempting to search for one “underlying process” or for one “covering law” for

several regularities corresponding with each other in a certain respect.

Arguments presented in Fenk-Oczlon & Fenk (2001a,b) point to the behavioral relevance

of the magical number 7 in general - independently of the sense modality of the input or even

independently of whether the respective activity is of rather afferent/perceptual or

efferent/motoric nature, and independently of whether one analyzes activities of human beings

or non-human animals. As suggested by the experimental findings by Köhler (1952) with birds and

by Brannon & Terrace (2000) with non-human primates, this limit of about 7 is no specific

characteristic of human information processing. A fascinating finding is reported by Kareev

(2000): Small series of about 7 plus minus 2 data pairs produce stronger correlations between the

respective variables than the population. This would mean that a span of comprehension

comprising about 7 elements or chunks of elements does not reflect a rather arbitrary cognitive

limit, but that there must have been a selective advantage and selective pressure for pushing up

the limit to this region where minimal indications and minimal contingencies can be detected

with a minimum of “computational” work.

All these findings were discussed as indicating some general, extralinguistic or prelinguistic

cognitive preconditions of language, i.e. some sort of “matrix” allowing for as well as

constraining the evolution of our complex language system. Is it possible to see some more

specific communalities, if one concentrates on those limits that seem to occur in different fields

of linguistic research?

Linguistic information is a special type of message processed by our cognitive apparatus. If

the number seven marks some general limits of this apparatus, it should also show in languages,

because language must have developed in adaptation to the general constraints of this apparatus

(Fenk-Oczlon & Fenk 2001a)." (My emphasis)

http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gfenk/magical.pdf

*http://berhane-hilina.blogspot.com/2007/11/purpose-of-l-i-f-e-quintessence-purpose.html

"Consciousness Revolutions"

http://www.naturalism.org/reviews.htm

"The Ego tunnel"

http://www.naturalism.org/metzinger.htm

http://mbdefault.org/9_passage/default.asp

The Four Pillars of Education and "The Harmony Model"

The Quintessence of Life lies on:(cf. the Harmony Model)

(“The Four Pillars of Learning”/ cf. UNESCO*)

I. The social plane

1.“Learning to do”

Family, Community, State :

The process of “learning to do”

begins in the family, extends

in the community and obtains its

sublime nature in the state.

II. The cultural plane

2.“Learning to live together”

Love, Ethics, Laws:

The fundamentals of “Learning to live

together” takes its initials in love, begins

to take norms in moral ethics of the

community to sublime in the laws of

the “democratic”state.

III. The Material plane

3.“Learning to know”

Mankind, Nature, The Universe:

“Learning to know” mankind, nature and

the universe at large is the basics of Life

escorting man from the cradle up to the

depth of That Beyond.

IV. The Spiritual plane

4.“Learning to be”

Conscience, Religion, Faith:

“Learning to be” is the ultimate

purpose of life, be it to take its final

or intermittent expression in a healthy

social conscience, tolerant religion or faith,

philosophically sound to sublime in the

maturity of the Human.

*The Harmony model I like to promote, as demonstrated here in short, happens to go with

“UNESCO’s “The Four Pillars of Education” (J. Delors).

From the Four Pillars of Education (UNESCO)

From the Four Pillars of Education (UNESCO):

http://www.unesco.org/delors/delors_e.pdf

Learning to be

http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/LearningToBe/index.htm

"....

education should contribute to every person's complete development - mind and body, intelligence, sensitivity, aesthetic appreciation and spirituality. All people should receive in their childhood and youth an education that equips them to develop their own independent, critical way of thinking and judgement so that they can make up their own minds on the best courses of action in the different circumstances in their lives.

......

This human development, which begins at birth and continues all through a person's life, is a dialectic process which is based both on self-knowledge and on relationships with other people. It also presupposes successful personal experience. As a means of personality training, education should be a highly individualized process and at the same time an interactive social experience."

http://www.unesco.org/delors/delors_e.pdf

Learning to Live together:

"Learning to Jive together in peace and harmony is a dynamic, holistic and lifelong process through which mutual respect, understanding, caring and sharing, compassion, social responsibility, solidarity, acceptance and tolerance of diversity among individuals and groups (ethnic, social, cultural, religious, national and regional) are internalized and practised together to solve problems and to work towards a just and free, peaceful and democratic society.
This process begins with the development of inner peace in the minds and hearts of individuals engaged in the search for truth, knowledge and understanding of each others cultures. and the appreciation of shared common values to achieve a better future.
Learning to live together in peace and harmony requires that quality of relationships at all levels is committed to peace. human rights, democracy and social justice in an ecologically sustainable environment."

http://www2.unescobkk.org/elib/publications/LearningToLive/LearningToLive.pdf

Learning to DO:

http://www.unevoc.unesco.org/fileadmin/user_upload/pubs//LearningToDo.pdf

On Violence

http://www.hannanewcombe.com/category/001book-2/?pg=17

From:

Hanna Newcombe

The remedy? (We did say that peace research aims to prevent, not only predict, the ravages of disease.) First, the bringing up of children in a loving, caringly permissive, and consistent moral environment, in which adults set good examples rather than merely preaching about right conduct and character.

Secondly, avoiding propaganda attempts to dehumanize anyone, even if it at first sight some individual leaders seem to deserve it; and resisting mentally the influence of such propaganda if it is beamed at us. (“The truth shall set you free”, says the Bible.)

Thirdly, never performing acts that we are ordered to do without first measuring them against the yardstick of our moral conscience, regardless of the exalted or superior social positions of the person ordering it. This may involve active civil disobedience at times, even at great personal danger; but we are obliged to do it under the higher law of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal’s precepts.

Fourthly, trying to prevent crises or stressful situations or mutual frustrations; this may involve international (United Nations) mechanisms of preventive diplomacy or preventive peace-keeping.

Fifthly, staying away from fanatical beliefs of any kind; never claiming absolute truth for which we must fight, perhaps even giving up on the Utopia of a future perfect world. Leonard Cohen (“The Future”) warns us: “Forget your perfect offering…There is a crack in everything…that’s how the light gets in.”

From:

How Things Come Together is a collection, in three parts, of essays and occasional writings by Hanna Newcombe.

http://www.hannanewcombe.com/

How Things Come Together

How Things Come Together is a collection, in three parts, of essays and occasional writings by Hanna Newcombe.

http://www.hannanewcombe.com/

NINE AXIOMS*

The nine axioms of algebra are:

1. Associativity (distributive law)

2. Identity element for addition (e.g. zero)

3. Identity element for multiplication (e.g. 1)

4. Additive inverses (i.e. negatives)

5. Multiplicative inverses (i.e. reciprocals)

6. Commutative law for addition

7. Commutative law for multiplication

8. Total ordering

AND

9. (Least) upper bounds for sets.

The (8 + 1) dimensions of social reality:

1. State and Laws

2. Community and Ethics

3. Family and Love

4. Human and Hope

5. Mankind and Conscience

6. Nature and Religion

7. Universe and Faith

8. God and Deliverance

AND

9. Beyond dimension

We shall not cease from exploration

And the end of all our exploring

Will be to arrive where we started

And know the place for the first time.

T.S. Eliot

* The sequence of the nine Axioms is from Hanna Newcombe

The STATE

Oppenheimer On-line.

http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/state0.htm
http://www.franz-oppenheimer.de/index.php

Oppenheimer reminding on the genesis and legacy of the modern state.

Though these days, modern states don't necessarily have to go to war to get hold of new territories (not always). They only need to get hold of the bad minds in the new territories!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/03/africa-land-grab


***
To regulate my Anger I have to fly...*

See

Cosmic Continuation

EARTHDANCE :

Living Systems in Evolution

Elisabet Sahtouris

copyright © 1999 by Elisabet Sahtouris

*

In a book review... ( a german novel* on enlightenment / for children too) I recently listened to...
A child charakter explaining, what reading means to a group of his friends, who are illiterate said, "reading is like walking all over in a forest and sometimes very very far; but without moving your feet".
*
When you get older, it is like flying too! :-)

Living Systems in Evolution

Promoting Harmony.....

Science is speaking the Language of Harmony ...

I would say Elisabet Sahtouris is one of the pioneers....along this line....

she tells us in a few words...

..

"I like to think of creaturehood as life music played on a keyboard, with consciousness or

spirit represented by the high keys, electromagnetic energy as the mid-range and matter

as the low keys. With this metaphor, we see that Einstein showed us how to transpose the

music of the mid-range to the low range and back, with his simple equation E = MC2. Now

we are seeking the key to transposing from the high keys into the world of matter via

electromagnetic energy, through the ZPE field, called the Plenum by the Greeks, the ether

by Europeans and the Implicate Order by physicist David Bohm. I participate in many

different discussion groups on this subject, mostly with other scientists, all of us asking: "If

consciousness is the source of creation, just how does it transmute into our measurable

electromagnetic energy? What are the properties of electromagnetic energy that we do

not yet understand? What keys lie in the ZPE range?"...

http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/capetown.html

Living Systems in Evolution

Elisabet Sahtouris, PhD.

Presented as part of
At Home In The Universe: a symposium
on the developing dialogue between science and religion
at the
World Parliament of Religions
Capetown, South Africa, December 1999

More from the same Author:

EARTHDANCE

http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Erthdnce/chapter12.html