Ryan Ange - Remembering the body in the information age

My friend Ryan Ange is now the metaphysical spirituality blogger for The Examiner in Nashville TN. His first article is a good one - a brief taste is provided below. I look forward to seeing where he goes with this.

S. Ryan Ange is a writer, philosopher, poet, spiritual practitioner, and weight lifter who has studied philosophy and spirituality for nearly twenty years. He is a member of Integral Institute.

Remembering the body in the information age

New Man New Woman, 1984

Photo: Alex Grey

• March 10th, 2011

“…we have come to the point in biological history where we now are responsible for our own evolution. We are self-evolvers. Evolution means selecting and therefore choosing and deciding, and this means valuing.”—Abraham Maslow

Excerpt:

In the dialectic of progress we have forgotten where we came from. We were so impatient to evolve that we have attempted to kick out the lower rungs of the evolutionary ladder that has allowed us to reach our present height. We have forgotten our bodies. Evolution, the process of becoming more complex and more whole, is spirit-in-action. The same spirit that gave birth to the manifest world moves through us too. We are, so far as we know, the latest evolutionary model—cutting edge biological technology. What this means is that for the first time in human history we are in control of our own evolution. What this also means is that we are co-creating our world now. And the vehicle of this co-creation is our bodies.

Go read his whole article.

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