http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc Raising awareness through personal growth Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:42:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The concept I have to play around with today is the internet, the world wide web, and as usual my head spins wildly, grappling with the tails and tendrils, up-sides and down-sides of my subject, in this case, the biggest thing in human history. The internet is the ultimate in the ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2007/01/31/the-internet/ Spontaneous creative expression is the ultimate in intuitive improvisation. It is also the riskiest. How well will the message be projected? How well will it be received, if it ever is? Such a spontaneous moment where genius is born, or another asshole is unleashed upon the world... visionaries blossom or ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2007/01/18/insurgent-art-101/ Right, let’s take a controversial topic today. Religion. The world’s great spiritual traditions. And militant atheism. The pope is in Turkey today, as a head of state, as a source of encouragement for the country’s beleaguered Catholic population and most importantly, it would seem, as an agent of dialogue between religions- ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2007/01/10/why-dont-you-both-just-shut-the-hell-up-and-talk/ “We have no trouble getting universities for exchanges. They like us because we’re old and have cobblestones” Jimi Hendrix roars from my computer and I’m briefly dislocated from my musings, part of which includes the above statement. My German tutor said it a few weeks ago, in a context that is ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2007/01/03/tradition-or-do-i-prefer-their-old-stuff-better/ What is Consciousness? Where is it? Dualism: It is customary (at least in my experience) to start with an explanation of dualism. One very influential version of this theory was put forward by René Descartes. In it he described consciousness (the mind) to be separate from the body. In such a ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/27/the-external-perceiver-the-basics-part-1/ In the winter of 2001, my wife and I journeyed to Beijing to stand on The Great Wall; a barrier long ago conquered, broken into segments by the erosion of time and neglect. We wandered in awe through majestic ancient courtyards of a former royal extravagance, sipping tea at the ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/22/stone-soup/ It has taken a brief and bitter struggle with myself but, now at one a.m. of a new day I am going to write. I could have left myself in the comfort zone and tomorrow, rested, record today’s events as a coherent and pretty whole. But that would hardly ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/20/returning-from-galway/ Consciousness is a favorite subject of mine. It tickles my brain and I can't help but be aware of how important it is to understand what consciousness is. The more we know how it is involved in our phenomenal experience, the more we are able to control our environment (including ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/17/the-external-perceiver-prologue/ While on a bike ride at the canal, i started looking around. Dodge a person here, dodge one there. It was like an old Nintendo game. There was nothing better! Inside this game, i had my thoughts about the various interesting people in my life. How the wind whistles through ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/15/once-upon-a-bike-ride/ (The Dublin Bus: Bus of the Ford of Hurdles) Of all the popular myths you know about Ireland, it is unfortunate that the most irritating and banal of them all, is also the most true. It rains. It rains in a way that robs your sight of colour and mind of ... http://globalconscious.com/blogs/gc/2006/12/12/bus-atha-cliath/