Van: "Integral World" Aan: Onderwerp: High Spirits Datum: maandag 22 december 2014 8:36 INTEGRAL WORLD MAILING LIST =========================== http://www.integralworld.net Newsletter Nr. 539 Amsterdam, December 22th, 2014 HIGH SPIRITS - The Transformative Functions of Humour - BRIAN VAN DER HORST My interpretation of the inexorable appropriateness of levity in celestial, clinical and cognitive matters is that humour is the most enlightened form of human communication. A good chuckle fulfills all the conditions required for classic satori, samadhi, and most garden varieties of transubstantiation. In the first place, humour is the only form of expression that operates outside time and space. We ordinarily go about our linear, idea-follows-opinion-follows-fact-follows-argument way of the world. But a joke operates outside of this lockstep continuum. Like the sphere that visited the two-dimensional denizens of Flatland, humour lives in a domain outside, yet encompassing, our physical reality. What is the universe of laughter? It doesn't operate by the same rules as ours. For in the dimension of whimsy, two disparate objects can occupy the same space at the same time. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/vanderhorst3.html ANNOUNCING PROSE - H.B. AUGUSTINE Prose was envisioned in March 2014 by a professional writer frustrated with the worlds of publishing and technology. Taggle, DBA "Arc Reactor," decided to acquire, develop, and launch Prose. In September, the mobile app launched. In November, the web app launched. Across both platforms, nearly 1,000 writers and several thousand readers comprise the Prose community. Prose serves to level the playing field for writers around the world, and to make the experience of both reading and writing in general, as fast, as social, and as entertaining as possible, particularly through a combination of minimalist design, social intimacy, and writing challenges. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/augustine27.html THE CEREBRAL MIRAGE - The Deceptive Nature of Awareness - ANDREA DIEM-LANE One of the most significant discoveries of modern science is that the world we perceive around us is not as it appears. Rather, neuroscience, evolutionary biology and quantum physics have demonstrated that our day-to-day reality is a relative construct, built upon a scaffolding of information bits that betray their real origin and causation. For instance, the other day, I remarked to my oldest son, Shaun, that the ocean water around Catalina Island looked exceptionally blue. But, given his deep knowledge of science, my son responded that such “blueness” was actually not in the water at all, but how different light waves get absorbed and refracted. The colors we see are due to the spectral properties of light. The longer wavelengths of light (such as red, orange, and yellow) are more readily captured by H20, whereas the shorter wavelength of light (such as blue) gets refracted and thus we see the color blue, particularly if the water is clear. Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/diem-lane13.html GEOMETRIC MEDITATIONS - ON THE AQAL A Pythagorean Integralism - JOE CORBETT Is it really just a coincidence that 96 percent of the universe is invisible and unknown to us, whereas our consciousness also operates largely (some say in the 95 percent range) out of processes that are unconscious and completely outside of our awareness? Could this mean not only that the universe is in fact a giant brain that is mirrored in our own brain, but that the unconscious of the cosmic brain is now accelerating its expansion after its initial conscious, visible, awakening to its own light and material? Finally, could this mean that the initial awakening to subtle forms of consciousness (in Brahma’s dream sleep) is now entering the deep-sleep stage of the cosmos, whereby the endless forms most beautiful that are dreamt of in subtle consciousness are left behind for the causal stage of Brahma’s sleep, where consciousness returns to its source in the unity of being and the deep healing of wholeness in formless existence? Read more: http://www.integralworld.net/corbett28.html To SUBSCRIBE to this Integral World Newsletter or change your email address, click here: http://www.integralworld.net/pommo/user/subscribe.php To UNSUBSCRIBE, update your account by logging in. For explanation, see: http://www.integralworld.net/nl_faq.html