RE: (Fwd) Wilber/Shambala interview ("transideological" social trends)

From: Mark Leith <mark_at_cool-tools.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:56:45 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030BDA3.20010523071911@fatcity.com>

antidisestablishmentarianism - I know big words too!! :)

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mantidis.html

Really Eric - where do you get all the time from to collate this extraordinarily extensive yet thoroughly interesting psycho babble? :)

Mark (Eric wannabe)

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Pierce
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 07:51
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L trends)

(repost for list newcomers)

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http://wilber.shambhala.com/html/interviews/Shambhala_interview.cfm/xid,2676 /yid,5800264
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http://www.scottlondon.com/
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http://www.rkey.com/thetazone/
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http://www.rkey.com/thetazone/#constructivism

excerpt:

        ...
     Among its many insights, constructivism adds perspective to the
     unfortunate historical propensity of humans to objectify the
     mind as an entity subject to environmental factors.
     Constructivism is best known as a critique of international
     relations theories which assert that rational behaviors of
     nation-states must necessarily conform to the exigencies of an
     anarchic world system. The framework can be extended to reveal
     similar patterns in superstitious eschatologies, statements like
     "The devil made me do it," and a wide range of modern
     materialist and historicist philosophies, notably extremist
     forms of Marxism and Social Darwinism.

     The propensity to "blame" environmental factors as an excuse for
     human behavior has become increasingly sophisticated in recent
     years, leading to a philosophy of mind that proclaims
     computerized telecommunication as destiny. Not only are such
     concepts being promoted with fanatical energy, they are being
     used to justify social transformations that are increasingly
     rapid and disruptive. The rising interest in "memes," which
     holds that ideas acquire people (rather than people acquiring
     ideas) is an important part of this distressing trend.

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(by the same guy, an explortion of the struggle between progressive proponents of a model of internet governance based on participatory democracy vs commerical interests :

http://www.rkey.com/dns/overview.html )

http://www.context.org
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http://216.122.74.136//ICLIB/IC03/TOC03.htm
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http://216.122.74.136//ICLIB/IC03/CoriGord.htm

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http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/FeaturesIssue.html
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http://www.wholeearthmag.com/ArticleBin/373.html
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Sustainable culture:

http://www.resilientcommunities.org

excerpt:

What's Behind Resilient Communities?

Something's afoot in the United States, and Canada, and Australia, and Europe, and Asia and Africa -- all over the world. Increasing numbers of people are saying they want a different life than that being offered by industrial-era society. Paul Ray, in his 1997 Integral Culture Survey: A Study of the Emergence of Transformational Values in America says that as much as 25% of
populations in industrial countries are looking for a better way of life.

Why?

Forces are coming together to shift dynamics in very dramatic ways. There is a growing split between the rich and the poor not only within countries both developed and undeveloped but also, of course, between them. There is a huge increase in population over the last century, which when coupled with production increases, has led to shortages of land, water and clean air. There is growing evidence that global warming and climatic instability, evidenced this year by the number of severe fire and flood problems around the world, threaten current human habitation patterns in significant ways. New forms of nuclear, biological and chemical weaponry are threatening humanity and both nation state rivalries and terrorism create continuing anxieties

There is an economic crisis as our reliance on economic growth and affluence collides with changing personal commitment and ecological realities. There is a social crisis as growing poverty and growing wealth co-exist on the same planet. There is a moral crisis as our ability to feel outrage about the state of the world is buried by our busyness and statements from economists and politicians that "we have no choice." There is an ecological crisis as fish stocks are overconsumed, fires burn out of control, forests diminish, land erodes. And there is, above all, a spiritual crisis as we lose sight of our real goals and substitute instant gratification in place of a search for true meaning.

At the same time, the seeds for change are growing. More and more people are beginning to examine the ways in which they are living their lives. Those of us doing so are saying that we want less stress and more time. We're saying we want to have a positive impact on the global environment rather than a destructive one. Many are being drawn to a new emphasis on building healthy relationships and towards exploration of spirituality.

We are looking for a new way to live -- a more resilient way of life.

                                    (continued)

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http://www.nrf.org/
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http://www.nrf.org/cpguide/index.html

http://www.rmi.org

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