Mundus est Fabula: The World is a Story
posted by TranscendentBird | April 29, 2010
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IcerocketWe exist in a moment of nested holons, a richly layered and deeply woven webwork of intermingled concepts that are inextricably linked together through their contextual fabric. Every thought, every idea is born from the contexts that surround it, like expanding bubbles emerging from the historicity of the global unconscious, or effervescences within the primordial ooze.
The mind does not simply reflect truth, but rather extracts it from the ongoing process involving the collision and merging of ideas, and it is these collisions and mergings that happen within the ineffable mindspace that is unique to ourselves while simultaneously being interwoven to everything and everyone around us, the ultimate macrocosm and microcosm of thought. We all share in a knowledge of certain histories, of certain ideas, of the past and present. We all participate in the media in varying forms and we all can look at a cow and recognize what it is. It is because of our shared understanding of contexts that we are able to relate in these facets of the mind and it is these contexts that are infinitely embedded downward through time, upward through the future and existing all at this exact moment.
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explain please. . . .?
— Apr 29, 2010
This is one painting in a trio of pieces that will be installed as an installation within a space. there is a crocheted border that collaborates with the pieces as it intertwines between each of the paintings and then expands out into the space creating a woven web that must be navigated through. the title of the paintings is taken from a Max Ernst piece of the same title, both paying homage to and referencing his motives and body of work, harkening the specific context that i would like this to stem from within myself. now, the context that it is received within by the viewer will be much different as we all operate on our own levels and within our own framework of references that we understand our experiences from. this is beauty of life and the complexity that we all bring to the table at every given moment.
ha, ya I smelled Ken Wilber too!
— May 01, 2010
I just read "Sex, Ecology, Spirituality". I think the serious of perspectives that humanity has taken, collectively and in a fractal way as individuals (we develop in the same patter as the universe) are continually leading to a widening and expanding of all perspectives, so the Self is one with the cosmos, and at the same time, all perspective is obliterated, or seen through as a necessary developmental illusion.
The first step to seeing clearly, is realizing that you're constantly embedded in perspectives you didn't even know you were looking through.
What do you guys think of that? I definitely recommend Wilber's "Integral Spirituality" book.
yep
— May 03, 2010
i can't believe you got through that huge volume! i've tried it several times but i keep picking at it. i'll get through it eventually. it's an excellent resource for research papers as well.
"The first step to seeing clearly, is realizing that you're constantly embedded in perspectives you didn't even know you were looking through. "
i totally agree. we are inextricably linked to the world we live in and a product of our environment. when we recognize our surroundings, recognize and acknowledge the things that make up what is around us, then we have an understanding of where we are. that is when we can begin to see beyond it for sure. i think this is a good analogy. . . .one morning i woke up and looked out my window. i saw it to be very foggy outside and i was shocked to see how foggy it really was as the sun was rising. a little while later i looked out again and saw it was still foggy. it was in the second look that i realized i was in fact looking not at fog, but moisture accumulation from the inside of the room. the entire thing changed and i realized what i was looking at. we often "See" something one way only to realize that it in fact is totally something else. we are so mediated by our perceptions that we often don't actually "see" what's going on. we only see what we think we do. to see clearly, we have to notice that it's the window that's foggy and open it to see the clear day on the other side.
:)
