Monthly Archives: February 2016

Ten Ways to Heal from Civilization Disease

Posted on February 28, 2016 by Dave Pollard

image: creative commons CC0 license from pixabay The theme for a recent ‘rhythm meditation’ retreat at my house was healing. Since my current preoccupation with meditation is mostly about learning to deal with stress more effectively, it was very much … Continue reading →

Posted in Our Culture / Ourselves | 4 Comments

solitaire

Posted on February 26, 2016 by Dave Pollard

so now I see the sense of Gaia, the collective Intelligence of all-life-on-Earth, a single gently-balanced ‘organism’ in the endless process of becoming, through evolution not as ‘progress’ but as exploration — Gaia as one intelligence, one organism, one ‘environment’ of … Continue reading →

Posted in Creative Works, Illusion of the Separate Self and Free Will | 5 Comments

After Us the Dragons

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Dave Pollard

Many people find it hard to believe I can be, on the one hand, resigned to the utter collapse of our civilization culture in this century (not suddenly, but over several decades of great hardship and struggle), and, on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Collapse Watch, Our Culture / Ourselves | 7 Comments

Note to Self

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Dave Pollard

To: Dave’s Self c/o Dave the Organism Date: The Eternal Now Hi Self, I think it’s time we had a talk. You’ve been doing some amazing work managing the organism called “Dave” that we’re both inhabiting, and I really appreciate … Continue reading →

Posted in Illusion of the Separate Self and Free Will, Our Culture / Ourselves | 8 Comments

A Theory of No-Mind

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Dave Pollard

Biologists and cognitive “scientists” have developed something called a Theory of Mind which posits that humans are possibly unique in having evolved the capacity to conceive of the existence of separate ‘selves’, our own and others’, with unique and divergent beliefs, ideas and perspectives, … Continue reading →

Posted in How the World Really Works, Illusion of the Separate Self and Free Will, Our Culture / Ourselves | 17 Comments