Toward a World that Works for Everyone
When tension increases, awareness decreases. The converse should also be true: When tension decreases, (1) awareness should increase. And so, in the midst of chaos, my awareness appears to be increasing. Having dropped Constant Comment, weathered the eruption of Humiliation that followed, (pant, pant) I notice that I have reached a place of … well, […]
I’ve just had some devastating news recently. It wouldn’t be fair to name the person involved. But I can’t imagine the shaft penetrating deeper into my heart. I’m going through one space after another – grief, hatred, the collapse of self-importance, helplessness. It also has me addressing some issues in my life that have been […]
Werner Erhard made the distinction between an us-against-them and an us-and-them world. A world that works for everyone is an us-and-them world. Others have called it win/win. Now, I was not raised in an us-and-them environment, not viewed from any angle – except perhaps the angle of the soccer or baseball team. Our team – […]
From 2017. Neuroscientists have identified how exactly a deep breath changes your mind By Moran Cerf, Quartzy, November 19, 2017 httpss://tinyurl.com/y4n7a544 Breathing is traditionally thought of as an automatic process driven by the brainstem—the part of the brain controlling such life-sustaining functions as heartbeat and sleeping patterns. But new and unique research, involving recordings made […]
I hypothesize that: When tension goes up, awareness goes down. Moreover, our awareness that our awareness has gone down also diminishes. I ask us to keep these two notions in mind. Long ago I was in a situation that so triggered me that I couldn’t see or hear a man shouting at me from a […]
