A Cocktail of Unity

Written by Kamyar Saturday, 07 February 2009 11:29

Here are the ingredients of a Unity cocktail:

1. A short letter by Francisco J. Varela titled "Why the mind is not in the head." It consists of 5 small paragraphs, but the message, if truly understood, can change the way you perceive everything. Here is a quote:
   

   ... the basis of mind is the body in coupled action, that is, the sensory-motor circuits establish the organism as viable in situated contexts. Form this perspective the brain appears as a dynamical process (and not a syntactic one) of real time variables with a rich self-organizing capacity (and not a representational machinery). So in this sense the mind is not in the head since it is roots in the body as a whole and also in the extended environment where the organism finds itself.

2. Last night I watched a documentary titled Heima. It takes you through a beautiful musical journey in Iceland. It's an amazing blend of humanity, nature, culture and sound. I think, music is a universal language, and not only within humans. It can also connect us with the natural world and the whole universe.
3. Love Until it Hurts is a short and insightful answer by Ken Wilber. He talks about feminine way of mysticism and it's difference with a masculine way.

I hope you will enjoy them as much as I did.

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