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THE WAY THINGS ARE: The meaning of life is to be found in thinking about what is reality and the beauty of reality is to be found in our DNA's memorization of all forms that have been successfully retained along the four billion years of evolution of the principle of life on Gaia our earth. In the end what I mean to say is that beauty is something objective and what we call ugliness is then simply our unconscientious feel of something evolution did not retain.
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  • http://www.livingthefield.com/

    Rated Feb 01 2008 • 3 reviews • science, video, reality, worldviews, animism • livingthefield.com

    Lynn McTaggart
    via BurkinaLoveFaso , on an interview of Lynn McTaggart on Google Video

    Video interview with journalist and author Lynn McTaggart. She and her publisher/husband Bryan Hubbard are directors of a public company called What Doctors Don't Tell You Ltd, which publishes newsletters which scientifically critique mainstream medicine. As well as continuing to write about alternative medicine and editing the What Doctors Don't Tell You publications, McTaggart has also developed a program called Living The Field, based on an understanding of the zero point field that is not accepted by the scientific community. She is heading The Intention Experiment, a large scale web-based investigation to discover if intentions can affect the physical world.

    Living The Field the scientific exploration of spirituality, offering a bridge between science and spirit.
    The Intention experiment
    wddty.com [wddty.com]

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    an interview of Lynn McTaggart on Google Video

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    Lynne McTaggart, author of the Field, talks about her vocation, the basis of happiness and the power of intention.


    Specialization leads to separation, dependency and sickness. Freedom and health come with autonomy.

    What we know for a fact:
    1. We are particles of the whole we live in (humans, all other animals and all matter).
    2. All particles are interconnected within the whole.
    3. Healthy particles are open to the others and also to the resonance of our global interconnectedness.

    Willpower separates us. Willpower results out of greed, the search for prestige and more generally the effects of individualism that tend to collapse the societal polarity of humanity. Holistic health systems are thus concentrating on relaxation, meditation and "letting go" as techniques to "stop the mind" in order to allow the self to open to the other particles.

    Two schools of thoughts are thinking along the lines of what I describe here above.
    - the top to bottom school of specialists who try to impose their truths on the individuals. Lynn McTaggart falls in this category and makes a living from her status of specialist.
    - the bottom to top school that rejects the truths of any top to bottom specialist. Buddha, Lao Tze and others fall in this category. This was also the case of the "men of knowledge" or shaman under animism.




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  • Ran Prieur

    Rated Nov 14 2006 • 10 reviews • animism • ranprieur.com

    The difference between tribal and civilized
    via Jason Godesky / The Antropik Network, in Ran Prieur Online

    November 13. Here's an edited-down version of an email I got from Thomas, who has learned about tribal culture from his grandparents who actually lived in a tribe:

    The difference between tribal and civilized is human ownership. In true tribal life, human beings are owned by their tribe and by extension a land base. It is the earth itself that actually accounts for everyone and mediates, leaving behind those who can live with its rules.

    No one can interact with any individual without going through their owner. No individual stands alone -- we are all ambassadors. Tribal life is a very serious life of negotiation and watching your step and conduct. People only meet on social basis, NEVER utility basis as we do in civilized life. There is no on-going project that all must partake in other than each one fulfilling their individual ambitions to become people of the land.

    Freedom from true social protocol is what civilization has always strived to protect. With it, every single individual can be objectified fully and forced into any type of despicable labor. It is the blueprint for how to remain unequal entities whose worth is judged solely on utility to the the state.

    I am usually stumped because I want to tell people what is wrong with civilization without them trying to form a group with me, without them turning to me as some authority. It is so hard for people who do not know social barriers and are so used to being belittled and dependent to finally become their own heroes.


    The "social vs utility" bit just about knocked me off my chair. In a tribe, purely utilitarian relationships are forbidden! The economic is a subset of the social, and in a land-based tribe, the fundamental social relationship is between the people and the land. But in civilization, the social and the economic are carefully separated. It's uncool to accept money from your family -- you're supposed to "earn" it through a utilitarian deal with strangers. We don't want to chat with the person behind the counter -- we just want our coffee.

    The difference between tribal and civilized
    Alpha Dogs, Wolf Packs & the Wandering Free Families

    One of the best and succinctest definitions hat I have ever seen about animism versus civilization: "In a tribe, purely utilitarian relationships are forbidden! The economic is a subset of the social, and in a land-based tribe, the fundamental social relationship is between the people and the land."

    But I don't agree with Ran on civilization: "in civilization, the social and the economic are carefully separated." It seems to me that with civilization there is more like an inversion from "The economic being a subset of the social" to the social being a subset of the economic"



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  • berrypickers review - StumbleUpon

    Rated Aug 30 2006 • 1 review • stumblers, worldviews, animism • stumbleupon.com

    Native American Wisdom


    via berrypicker's SU pages, in Native American Wisdom Quotes




    I do not think the measure of a civilization
    is how tall its buildings of concrete are,
    But rather how well its people have learned to relate
    to their environment and fellow man.
    Sun Bear of the Chippewa Tribe


    Humankind has not woven the web of life.
    We are but one thread within it.
    Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
    All things are bound together.
    All things connect.
    Chief Seattle, 1854

    URL: berrypicker's SU pages
    URL: in Sapphyr's pearls of wisdom

    Real pearls of wisdom.




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  • Musée du quai Branly Lart et la science - LeMonde.fr

    Rated Jun 19 2006 • 1 review • arts, visualization, animism • lemonde.fr


    The museum of the "first arts".
    The French decided upon a new name to designate "primitive arts" that was sensed to convey a judgement centered in Western superiority. Good for them but the dammage has long been done. This new museum is nevertheles bound to become one of the "premier" institutions celebrating the visual arts under animism...
    in Le Monde Culture by Frédéric Edelmann
    """ ... une aventure rare : la redécouverte des collections ethnographiques du Musée de l'homme du Palais de Chaillot et celles du Musée des arts africains et océaniens de la porte Dorée, dans le 12e arrondissement, augmentées de dons et d'achats importants.

    Au total, 300 000 objets. Seuls 3 500 figureront dans les collections exposées de manière permanente au terme d'un long travail commun. L'emplacement de chaque pièce et de chaque vitrine a été pensé par Germain Viatte, responsable des collections, et Jean Nouvel, depuis les premières heures de la mise en oeuvre du projet.
    Le nouveau Musée du quai Branly - 40 600 m2, 232 millions d'euros - est l'une des institutions culturelles les plus ouvertes sur Paris, mais aussi l'une des plus mystérieuses. """

    URL: The museum of the "first arts".



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  • EastSouthWestNorth: Religion in China - Part 2

    Rated May 02 2006 • 1 review • anthropology, religion, animism • zonaeuropa.com


    Religion in China
    Chinese are known to be born as non believers. Religions nevertheless thrive. How to make sense of this paradox. If you are interested to know read these translations.
    in ESWN translations by Roland Soong
    """ Translation of the last of three Phoenix Weekly reports about Christian churches in rural China. "Whichever church has a better reputation in curing illnesses, they will have more believers." """

    URL: Part 1
    URL: Part 2
    URL: Part 3


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  • http://www.polare.com/news/click/-4,2589887/

    Rated Apr 13 2006 • 1 review • anthropology, history, religion, animism • polare.com


    The Gospel of Judas. And Jesus laughed.
    Religions are stories for glueing minds into a common belief system about reality. They were then imposed by the men of power to shape the societal cohesion necessary to assure their political control.
    in the NewYorker by ADAM GOPNIK about "The Gospel of Judas" published by the National Geographic
    """ ... the Judas Gospel is an eye-opener anyway. First, because it is useful to be reminded, in a time of renewed fundamentalism, that religions actually have no fundament: that the inerrant texts and unchallenged holies of any faith are the work of men and time. Any orthodoxy is the snapshot of a moment. That the Church has long had answers to gnosticism, in all its varieties, does not mean that gnosticism was always doomed to heresy. """

    URL: The Gospel of Judas.


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  • berrypickers reviews - StumbleUpon

    Rated Apr 13 2006 • 1 review • philosophy, worldviews, animism • stumbleupon.com


    Ancient voices
    berrypicker's posts are always a discovery.
    via Berrypicker, in Native American Poetry by Momfeather
    """ Did you listen today? What did your hear?
    The ancient ones call and we feel them around us, but we do not listen. We no longer hear the voices in the wind as the leaves and branches tell us stories. The moon brings us messages and we do not see them. We are to busy with the world created by man. Take your children back to the times when the voices were heard and the signs were given. Go back before the importance of Creation leaves us forever. The voices of the ancestors may have been silenced by the death call but they are only a whisper away. Their music may have faded from our ears but must we let the delicate sounds of our past go with them? Our children need the teachings that are leaving us forever. Sing the words in a lullaby, whisper to them so they hear, lead them and they will follow. Never let our traditions die. Respected and revered the old ones still walk with us. They hold our hand to help us see. They still lead us and we must follow. We need not let the dreams they had for the future depart this life. This is why they honored us with their wisdom. When they leave us one by one, they take the book with them, leaving a patchwork of dreams on the web of life. What we do with the patches will help us to grow in wisdom. The Earth Mother is bountiful enough for all her children. Working together we can bring back the unique and powerful voice of our past. Grasp the insights and perceptions in the wind. The future of our children depends on our actions today. Do not let the voices of the ancestors or the echoes of their songs fade away. """

    URL: Berrypicker's SU pages


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  • http://anthropik.com/2006/03/during-the-middle/

    Rated Mar 11 2006 • 1 review • anthropology, history, religion, animism • anthropik.com


    From hunter / gartherer to agriculture
    Excellent article about a subject of immense importance in human evolution.
    in the AntropikNetwork by Benjamin Shender:
    """ For hundreds of thousands of years humans lived as foragers. And then approximately ten thousand years ago humans began to farm. Why would people work so unbelievably hard? And to no appreciable advantage? The obvious answer is that there was an advantage, they certainly did not voluntarily reduce their quality and length of life. """

    URL: During the Middle

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  • fUSION Anomaly. Shamanism

    Rated Mar 06 2006 • 1 review • philosophy, animism • fusionanomaly.net


    Animism
    "The tragedy of our cultural situation is that we have no shamanic tradition. Shamanism is primarily techniques, not ritual. It is a set of techniques that have been worked out over millenia that make it possible, though perhaps not for everyone, to explore these areas. People of predilection are noticed and encouraged. "
    URL: Animism


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    fUSION Anomaly. Shamanism

  • Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest

    Tagged Feb 08 2006 • 0 reviews • art, animism • nau.edu

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    Archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest