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Gibrán X. Rivera's avatar

I’m so glad you’re doing what you’re doing Ali! Thank you for taking it on. I am looking forward to participating more actively.

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Alexander Beiner's avatar

Thanks man, I’ve been missing you on the calls! Hope to see you soon :)

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Leo's avatar

Wonderful - you are hitting a newly exposed nerve in the culture. Be courageous and carry on!

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YoginiMD's avatar

I do believe the quote about the truth setting you free is from Gloria Steinem.

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Darryl Bickler's avatar

I’ve got an answer to this separation of subject and object, it’s all down to alignment/polarity. I can explain if you are able to receive.

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Don Salmon's avatar

How is what Vance and Lyons describing "post" liberalism and not a return to the fierce Gods of the Vikings (what in Indian mythology would be referred to as the "asuras" or demonic beings - literally, beings with no conscience or morality in what would generally be considered the mystic Christian sense?

Over a century ago, as Sri Aurobindo was leading the Indian independent movement (originating the idea of non cooperation before Gandhi turned it into an absolutist non violence) he wrote, in "The Ideal of Human Unity," of the possibility of small intentional communities unified in a loose confederation across the planet, in what might be referred to as "contemplative anarchism."

He also spoke of the dangers of the return of the repressed vital forces - exactly what happened to supremely intellectual/scientific/philosophic Germany when those who "think with their blood" emerged to tear down the whole order.

You have an inhuman set of techno-nerds seeking to annihilate human consciousness; retro-Catholics hooked into the occult forces of perennials mixed with hierarchical medieval Catholicism, mixed in with the 21st century equivalent of the Master Race, the bloodless soulless liberal and neo-liberal consensus, the post Marxist wing of the progressives obsessed with distorted secular versions of moksha and samata, (liberty and equality) neither of which can manifest without a truly contemplative consciousness, and an almost complete absence anywhere I can find on the planet of people describing this in the larger context of the emergence of a radical new consciousness (hinted at by Jeremy Johnson in his Gebser studies - yet Gebser himself attributed his entire body of work to an encounter with "the force field of Sri AUrobindo" in 1931!

Just a few things to ponder.

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Naomi Thomas's avatar

The tenderness in your words and willingness to 'not know' is utterly refreshing Ali. Thank you for courageously paving the way for these brave conversations. The Kainos container is brilliant in its scope and literally frame-breaking in content. Just what we need to be guided firmly and gently into creating a completely new paradigm for the human experience. Perhaps we can collectively imagine a brilliant future together, where we are all "dancing each other home". As we say during a challenging psychedelic journey, just keep going!

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