July 2011
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Mystery Egg
For Mother’s Day
a desperation of our species:
does childlessness
imply
motherlessness?
without children, what will propel us
toward motherishness?
Cura—the original mother
(toward a vocation of care
in the sense of devotion)
you have seen me
my silhouette cutout
screams MOTHER against the stars.
o black against the sky
(another ode to the void)
pointilles of light shine the outskirts
twinkle...
March 2011
2 posts
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Dear Mom, your other daughter is moving to Spain.
apparently. apparently. she needs an ocean of breathing room. heh. heh. ocean/breathing? but how? a quartered ocean? delineated water? drawing lines on waves charting freedom (and knowledge of… fuck. the edge of the world? what are we looking at anyway? the open waters like a scene from a movie. i don’t know what happens out there. tales of dragons snagging ships in clenching,...
August 2010
1 post
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Stir (like) Crazy/Stick in the Mud
mind alive with language, myriad fumbling tongues slavering, sloshing, frothing out thoughts slipping on word formation of electromagnetic impulse, dense clouds gather fast try to scream lightning and leap before it catches the tree, we must seem to all-seeing eyes immobile of mouth and foot unable to get away with what we want to get across mind like time flies
May 2010
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proverbial dessert
in this the time of sinking ships we still want to have our damn cake! and eat it/smash it into our faces/the faces of loved ones/ parade in it/ parade on it/ take it to bed/ sneak it into the movies/ lick the frosting off of it/ or fingers/ slowly or hurriedly too! nevermind that. what we WANT is to have the damn cake! and to continue to do whatever we want!
April 2010
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dreaming
Just accepted to the Naropa University MA program for TRANSPERSONAL ECOPSYCHOLOGY, and into another vector of my spherical education.
Where are our dreams going?
xoc
13 moon lunar calendar for peace →
white magnetic wizard →
mahicari in guatemala →
glittering webs over lago de atitlan?? →
starstuck
although i have not been posting, i have been adventuring in the spherical realms…look out for these updates coming soon!!
really, where are our dreams going?????
xo
c
February 2010
3 posts
Biochar combats global hunger, poverty, and poor... →
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Hubble and the heart
a void
avoided likened to
bivalves’ secret
quickening pearls secretions
shut tight in a bubble galaxy of
creamy pixilated mollusk husk
mystifying Hubble captures
snap emergings dividing
decayings diverging
implodings opposing flash
force no mortal could muster
tucked and folded
bundled up neural networks beyond measure
highways to the moon and more wrapped
back in the corporeal...
January 2010
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the nature of natural
how we think about nature…is it possible to think about the natural world without politicizing it? without fettering it with possession, romanticizing it, thinking of it in the context of us, instead of vice versa? is it possible to appreciate and admire for the truth of it, and not the conceived meaning? i’m not talking coats and rugs. i’m not talking cameron’s avatar...
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of...”
– Professor Robert Sapolsky (via rabbit-hole) (via madeofstarstuff)
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whew
now that I am done with my grad school application (see LOOOOOOOONG post below), i have more memory space available for pursuing new knowledge (isn’t that the point? i guess in a sphere you have the possibility of returning to the same location, randomly)
i will post some of the original Dear Naropa letter that may have been a little more radical, and more loosely connected
xoc
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Dear Naropa University,
I am interested in radical change. As individuals and as a species we need to understand Ecopsychology. Everything is combined, everything is connected, how can it not be? We are in a web, we are a web— our Earth. We are our Earth, we are a part of Her. I believe we can save/salvage our planet through science, but we can only save ourselves as a species through compassion. I am...
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healthcare spending to life expectancy ratio →
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BBC How the Earth Made Us →
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Guide to the Transpersonal Internet →
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compassion pool
o unchangeable divine light
toppling out of the heads of
friends and foes alike,
undeterred by perception
taste touch smell sound sight,
overarcing past and future selves
variously vast and slight,
idea-dream-vision-hallucinations,
vivid elucidations
elude delusion—they don’t exist,
fuck your reality and every false claim in it—
you brace for the demands of the...
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Wilderness Rites of Passage →
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spherical education exercise 1
Hi everybody, here is a conceptual example of spherical education that you can perform easily and then get my drift if you are a little fuzzy on it.
The point of this exercise is to notice how many ideas are attached to each individual idea, and that ideas cannot simply be compared on a binary scale. Ideas have connections to other ideas on millions of binary scales, that, put together, make a...
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Purpose of sphericaleducation.com
So, while I am seeking a new forum//waiting for the dream forum to appear (cohort to be named BEAR in posts) I’ll explain a little bit about my concept of spherical education.
This idea came up for me through a senior-level humanities discussion class at UNC Asheville (spr 08). Somewhere in a sexuality/tolerance/modern human behavior topic-cloud I began to think about the binary...
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Google is watching, but no categorization
Bear sez GOOGLE IS WATCHING/// rather, Google is indexing this blog, but I don’t like the lack of categories, so I’m not filing away! I don’t want to be a social commentator, or an academically-driven social commentator, it’s the same thing!
We are where we are, and that is ok, but we can’t not try!
But I am not enjoying the tumblr experience so far. I want...
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Power Songs →
amysticgarden:
What Is a Power Song and How Do I get One? by Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls
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“psychologists know that reality is dependent on our perception of it”
– Dr. Leslie Gray, “Shamanism and Ecopsychology” 1995
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http://www.woodfish.org →
The Woodfish Institute works to pair indigenous ecoknowledge with today’s technologies, to broaden and deepen our understanding of our world and our selves in it.
December 2009
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“Love calls us to the things of this world.”
– Richard Wilbur
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Erich J Knight comments on biochar →
Internexperiment
Oooh, check it out…google “spherical education” and here I am! Can’t wait to get some more interactive/media/word-art/mix up! I have a dream for a dream catalog with scroll AND flip pages once the media site goes up. LOTS MORE TO COME! YAY!
