Image of the day is by Banksy, who I found through a post by Justin at ordinary extraordinary.~ Beliefnet has an article with Sex therapist Gina Ogden, who has a new book called The Heart and Soul of Sex: Making the ISIS Connection. ISIS stands for "Integrating Sexuality and Spirituality," which seems like a worthy pursuit, and certainly a part an integral relationship model. It's a good article.
~ Paul Salomne wants to redefine astrosexual away from its current limited meanings.
~ P2P Foundation has had three good posts in the last 24 hours:
* The Emergence of Diavlogging, in which they look at video blogs and their evolution.
* CommunityWiki: WikiMusic, in which they look at communal musical composition. This is very cool if you are a musician and like the idea of chaotic intention.
* Free from copyright. No rights reserved. A new kind of book by John Heron 2006, in which they promote John Heron's Participatory Spirituality: A Farewell to Authoritarian Religion.
~ CJ Smith at Indistinctunion provides a link to a new article by David Ignatius. Ignatius got to do a one-on-one with Bush on Iran, and the outcome is clear media manipulation by Bush (to my cynical ear). In all honesty, the proposals Bush says have been made are more than fair, but we also know that Iran's leadership is intent on having The Bomb as a way to solidify its power in the region (on par with India to the East and Israel to the West). Only Israel really stands in harms way if that happens, but no one in our government is willing to let that happen.
~ James at genius of insanity has a great post that shows how far out of line Bush is with his pro-torture stance.
~ Lin Jensen at Tricycle blog has a nice post on why we should never hope to "get it all together." If you look closely, you can find a Buddhist condemnation of integral theory:
Humans are attracted to constructing of their lives mental maps of linear progression aimed at improvement. We draw false and unwarranted assurance from maintaining a ready file of such maps as evidence that we know where we’ve been and where we’re going. We like to think that what we’re doing and where we’re headed amounts to making “progress.” We don’t much like chance events, because they can’t be anticipated or planned for and constitute a kind of messy interference in an otherwise well-designed itinerary. We don’t like sickness, old age, and death at all because these stubborn realities can’t be adapted to our travel preferences.I sometimes feel that this is exactly how integral theory is at odds with my Buddhist practice, which is probably why I have been reading more Pema Chodron and other Buddhist teachers than I have integral theorists. Anyone else ever feel this way?
~ ebuddha at Integral Practice is still grooving with the integral values exploration.
~ Matthew Dallman posts on his first day in a Great Books class. It appears to be sponsored by the U of Chicago as part of a certificate program. The classes focus on a close reading of the texts, beginning at the beginning of the Western tradition, and they reject the introduction of theoretical models that are not based in a personal reading of the texts. Every university ought to offer a program like this -- I'd be there in an instant. Sounds wonderful -- makes me wish I lived in Chicago, except for the weather, the traffic, and da Bears. No, really, I loved Chicago when I was there way back when.
~ If you'd like a feel-good story, Kira (my partner) posted this email she received (on her Zaadz blog) about a tigress whose kittens died. The mom went into depression, so the zoo keepers tried to find other tiger kittens she could surrogate, but failed. So, with no other options, they put tiger stripes on some orphaned piglets and introduced them to the grieving mom. Tigress and piglets, from the pictures, seem very happy.
~ Go check out Tom's Buddhist roundup at Blogmandu, all the cool kids are doing it.
~ Al at In Pursuit of Mysteries posts a link to a very cool video called We Want Your Soul. This is part of an experiment called Neave.tv.
~ Steve Pavlina at Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog posts on People and Subjective Reality.
~ An article on Nationl Geographic argues that humpback whale call are love songs. Everyone together now, "Ahhhh, that's cute." Seriously, though, Kira and I saw some of these beings close-up while we were in Nova Scotia, and I have to say that they have a presence about them that is hard to express. They are certainly as curious about us as we are about them. I have no doubt that if we could experience their songs the way they do, it'd probably be like hearing a Shakspeare love sonnet.
~ How did Michelle Malkin ever get a national audience for her juvenile rants? No link, just a question.
And that's a wrap.
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