Looking at this world, I also have to recognise i live i a world that is completely existential.
No words cant do it justice. And it doesn´t matter how much i try to document it, or try to reach it by my rationality. It is existential. It creates my sense of existence out of this non-rational experience. And as such it is also beyond me. But I am very much inside it. It is my living present. The right here and right now.
A container of what we make of our reality. All ideas we try to create out of it.
We even call it reality.
Kategori: Natur
The quest of morality
When constantly being hammered by the conflict of public moral code and the contents of morality in itself, i am painfully questioned of what is psychologically valid in a personal sense.
About politics
All politics are about moral conflicts. And there are no general answers effective in moral conflicts.
They are individually suffered and no preaching can touch it.
If there is one single thing that reflects our world back to us, making it an image of ourselves and blackening out the rest.
It is this.
Democracy and how to go about it.
Maybe it is our parliament, and our gouvernment itself who need some adjustment.
What we see right now is that one part is missing in that equation. When considering the present situation, it is obvious something in our gouverning is not there, the parliament do not really answer to no one. The people they are responsible for is not really there, so they don’t have any real counterpart.
Just think about that for a moment.
Because right now they just answer to themselves. And this is not good democracy.
Who is taking care of our wealth. Were is our leadership of wealth. Who is taking care of our water. Our nature. Who is looking after our common good. Obviously, wealth is very much dependent on how new money first should be spent into the economy. But there is no true counterpart in parliament for that.
Our leaders badly need this. They should have to answer before the leader of wealth to be able to make good decisions for the people.
Right now, our parliament here in Sweden, as in many other countries, are divided among themselves, and arguing full time about who should be its leader. How parliament should be led, and in what direction. And with our media fully occupied by reporting on this disagreement, good decisions going out the window.
And this is currently built into the system by the absence of a real working counterpart.
For that to change, we need them to answer to someone on the basis of a working democracy, and that should be accomplished through a leadership of wealth.
With such a counterpart, our parliament then have to change its priorities to be only of concern to the wealth and wellbeing of its people.
We should even consider having a pre election on candidates where only women can vote. And after that we can all vote on the outcome of their election.
Our ambassador on Island suffered heavy criticism for it, but he is not too far from the truth, intuitively thinking democracy is being ”dismantled” by its current constitution in Sweden.
By thinking about it anew, we may actually adjust our parliament closer to its original vision, and maybe, we can then make our parlament the true working heart of democracy we want it to be.
So now you know who you are?
There is this a kind of realm for itself. Not out there, nor in here, yet both. It is not really a reality of a concrete kind. It is something that is happening to us, making my experiences mine, and also a bridge and an entrance to a psychic reality common to us all were we meet.
Its obvious entrance is through nature. Without it we would not be here.
This is illustrated with warmth by Oren Lyons in his story on being high on learned knowledge and its distant rationality coming back home after graduation.
About indigenous people
There is one thing we can learn from our indigenous people.
It has nothing to do with becoming them, mimicking or stealing their culture, or expropriate intellectual rights. It is about their presence, and to be able to change.
It is listening to ourselves to get a sense of the world.
To really sense the true force of its living inside of us.
What reality
Most people today live in only one single perpetual reality, measured and explained, beyond the perceived one.
How can we meet?
About an inner calling
A wonderful way to handle knowledge.
In times of a society in stress there is a call from a past mind latent in the present one to pay attention to its content.
We don´t have any elders in our society, just youth.
A base of reflexion
Daily life
Our actions are episodes constantly spinning out of our sleeping ancestors dreaming.
Do you think that’s air you’re breathing?
It is not we who imagine, but we who are imagined.
The mind is in the imagination rather than the imagination in the mind.
– James Hillman –
Memoria
Tank, load the jump program.
Reality as my fiction
Am i not a being whose reality comes wholly from my imagination and the beliefs that imposes.
Isn’t this what I perform and name with the mask of my behavior.
I am enacting and miming a reality that is completely a fiction. And this is were the drama and horrors we create and call everyday life comes from.
It is also what we call news.
About leadership today
Being directed by, and unaware of the patterns of behaviour that flow from the organizing structure of a certain collective itself, rather than the individuality of its members,
is getting us very close to how people have come to appreciate the political, financial and corporate leadership of today.
About power
When we as individuals confuse knowledge with power, we magically exaggerate our importance in relation to our self with the unconcious capacity for wisdom.
This creates the true sense of the word evil.
History is an attitude
I am caught in the present history as a problem of attitude between father time and eternal youth.
Indigenous knowledge from the north
”There is knowledge that cannot be acquired through anyone else. It cannot be transferred from one person to another. Every single person has to recognize it anew within himself. And by himself go through the trials that surround it.”
Smaug
The expired father
Imaginary speaking, we find ourselves acting out this figure of a heavenly father ruling over our apprehension. We are supporting a sky god character that has long since expired by continuing his formal character and making his outworn presence felt in everyday life in terms of rules and regulations, in dogmas and in dead ritual behaviour. We are upholding a system of belief by trying to fill us up with a sense of responsibility and duty towards social and religious convention. To something of the past. But by questioning his ruling, we might become something more than just a single part of his organisational maintenance. We have other ways to experience inner life as individuals.
We can actually become sensitive enough to become humans.
About public acknowledgement
Like all kind of extremists we seem to believe that we need public acknowledgement to exist. And then we get stuck in an outgrown historical setting of ideology and religious beliefs trying to make up our minds. Thats why people knowingly or not, tends to shy away from politics, old -isms and organised religion. People don’t need that to have a living connection to themselves today. Authorities, coming from the outside, from society, tradition, convention and scriptures, with its habitual and literal beliefs no longer provide any correspondence to our immediate personal experience of the here and now. People are looking elsewhere to find the answers to their needs. They are listening to the awakening voices from inside themselves.
Spring
It is spring. Our wagtail couple arrived today.
The origin of place
The effect of an earthly place on my senses is wedded to the memory of its origin.
The sense of place
When we are on vacation, or watching a mesmerising sunset, hiking or spending our free time outdoors, we get a sense of being, of being close to nature and of belonging to a place.
That sense is also what is lacking if we do not balance up our rational mind with this experience of true identity to land in our daily life.
It is a poor substitute to have a disconnected rational view of patriotism, or an ideology’s false sense of land, replacing the true personal experience of an inner sense in relation to a place. That inner sense is what we share as individuals with everyone else. Our true identity is not any combinations of collective identities like sex, race, social class, vocation, nationality, or religion. What we really share is that inner closeness to place, a true sense of being it. Of nature in ourselves. If we disconnect ourselves from that personal identity which is derived from this one context, we also miss out on having a true relation to land. We will start to look at it in a one sided rational way, and in rational concepts of ownership as in ideology, nationalism or religion. Or just as some infinite resource to fuel the growth of market economy with.
A consequence of this is that we are loosing our sense of being in ourselves. Of being in a true relation to a place. We are losing out on the essence of our relations to each other. And to life.