Nearing my 67th birthday, I’d like to share a collection of the fundamental lessons I’ve learned along the way.
- Appreciating the Human Mindscape ~ Physical Reality divide.
- I am a self-aware introspective element in the Pageant of Evolution.
- We create our Gods from within ourselves.
- We cannot understand an organism, or system for that matter, without understanding its environment.
- Consciousness is the inside reflection of our body, interacting with itself, along with the environment and circumstance it's embedded within.
- An appreciation for Deep Time, billions of years worth, and Earth, the dance of geology & biology unfolding one day at a time, and that it produced me, along with all other wonders.
- There is no Body-Mind Problem, it is in actuality an Ego-God Problem.
- My body has taken better care of me, than I have of it.
- Consciousness is the product of Earth's biology, of interacting and living, when we die consciousness ceases like a light bulb that’s lost its power. All that awaits us is the deep dark eternal sleep from which none awake, and it is good.
- Yes, it is good, live your blessed moment while you have it to live, the universe doesn’t owe you anything.
- Our after-life unfolds within the hearts and minds of others, and it is good.
- We need each other to keep ourselves honest.
Bringing it back to Earth Centrism
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Recorded December 2019
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Recorded ~April, 2019
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Furthermore, for the record:
- A woman’s life is more important than a fetus’s life. Period !
- A fetus is a “human potentiality.” Only after it takes its first gulps of air does the little being take on the mantle of personhood.
- Infanticide and abortion to protect the living are as old as society! (why it matters, see Dobbs v Jackson)
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An Alternative Philosophical Perspective - “Earth Centrism”
Appreciating the Physical Reality ~ Human Mindscape divide
Being an element in Earth’s Pageant of Evolution
It’s not a “Body-Mind problem” it’s an “Ego-God problem”
A distillation of my journey upon life's stage, vintage 1955.
Hate to turn it political but politics matter!
Still looking to connect with people for whom these ideas resonate.
If we aren't changing minds we are losing.
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