[[MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES is the striking new documentary on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of “manufactured landscapes”—quarries, recycling yards, factories, mines and dams—Burtynsky creates stunningly beautiful art from civilization’s materials and debris.

Do you think God, if he exists, is really concerned about lines on a map and preferring one side over the other? Those are strictly human constructions, and perhaps we will soon see through them and instead experience something transcendent - no more will we categorize our thinking by lines drawn in sand. The tides of truth are hostile to our propensity to project, label, and demarcate.

A bit long, definitely worth the watch though!

What is cognitive liberty?

Cognitive liberty means that we ought to have the freedom, protected under law, to explore by whatever means we personally deem necessary, the full spectrum of human consciousness.

Here is Erich Fromm being interviewed by Mike Wallace speaking about man in relationship to his work, social relationships, his sense of value, god, union, our lack of creativity in social organization, the relationship of individual to society, consumption, happiness, production, intimacy, love, and other timelessly relevant topics.

Star0, I have a question for you -

Why do you think technology is going to serve as some sort of external salvation for humanity? If this is not what you think, my apologies, but I have insinuated that from your postings and news clippings. If this is what you think, please elaborate.

We all share a common fate, and that is death, so while we are here, for this brief cosmic interlude which we perceive as our lives, let us act upon our higher human faculties to make this suffering which we know on the material plane less of a burden amongst fellow man. We can act as medicine for each other.

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The Jungle Prescription is the tale of two doctors treating their addicted patients with a mysterious Amazonian medicine rumored to reveal one’s deepest self.