He’s Just Had Coffee

As previous entries have implied, I recently visited the USA. I’m just uploading an interminable sequence of pictures to Flickr now. Seattle is here, then Portland (and Beaverton) and the various things I did near Boulder will follow.

I just went looking for Geoff Falk’s blog today to read his take on recent postings by Ken Wilber and noticed that, according to whois, his domain name has disappeared. His “Stripping The Gurus” site is alive, but his personal site seems to have fallen off the ‘Net. Has anyone had any contact with Geoff? Is […]

(Just because it’s nice to check occasionally) Googlism for: ken wilber ken wilber is a fraud ken wilber is a fraud by david deida ken wilber is the preeminent scholar of spirituality in our time ken wilber is the author of one taste ken wilber is america’s most translated academic author ken wilber is praised ken wilber is a champion of that which […]

Just a heads-up. There’s a new(ish) site called Open Integral which features a group blog with people like Ray Harris and Michel Bauwens talking about applications of Integral theory to things in the world. Worth following, I’d think. Technorati Tags: integral, p2p

In Metal phone, Schulze & Webb outline a vision-logic appreciation of the mobile phone as a space-time contour: The Nokia 5140i is an illusory object. Disconnected from the network when you’re underground, it becomes a lump of plastics and metals. Although safe in your hands, you wouldn’t want to eat the components. It, too, […]

The eerie mathematics of the family tree of humanity… Yet this was the ancestor of every person now living on Earth — the last person in history whose family tree branches out to touch all 6.5 billion people on the planet today. That means everybody on Earth descends from somebody who was around as […]

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself - And there isn’t one. That verse is attributed to Wei Wu Wei who is usually identified as an “ancient Chinese sage”, although in Peter Senge’s otherwise pretty […]

Terry Patten ran a really lovely night about fun with devotional singing and dancing for Integral Spiritual Centre and in the discussion afterwards, Ian McDonald from the UK quoted this great poem by Hafiz: God and I have become like two fat people on a boat We keep bumping into each other […]