21st Century Ecology of Life - Archive

Game over

September 25th, 2011 | Posted by Mushin in spirituality | What is real? - (6 Comments)

“Let go of all hope, all ye who enter here.” Those were the lines I read before I burst from my mother’s womb. Later I forgot, trying to be loveable, hoping to be loved… My brothers and sisters all over the planet hope… hope to restore dignity to societies run by intelligent but deeply disturbed … Read more →

lunacy, mad spasms, madness, rant, Reality, social networks, soul-food

Can God Live alongside Chocolate Icecream?

April 7th, 2010 | Posted by Mushin in spirituality - (1 Comments)

‘GOD & THE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM’ | FILM FROM NIC’S MONDAY9AM SERIES [2005/7] ‘… so many of the things people think they want, they want because they think they can’t have. And as soon as they find out they can have it, the want goes away.’ Starring MICHAEL NEILL | Comments on FACEBOOK MORE ‘MORE’ from Nic Askew … Read more →

god, love, meaning making, movie, Nic Askew, spirituality

Body, Soul and Spirit 1: Modes of being alive

This is the very first installment of what I hope will become a Body, Soul and Spirit series of posts that will meander around most of the topics that keep fascinating me since a while. Starting with a meeting with a great and lovely man in Basel, Switzerland who remembers a long line of incarnations … Read more →

awareness, collective consciousness, consciousness, enlightenment, flow, oneness, psychology, reflection, self, soul, spirituality, we-fullness, witnessing

The Living Field & the Art of Living

Wikipedia: Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature. In my most recent post I have been revisiting what I’ve called the Living Field, how I … Read more →

art, beauty, between-us, collective intelligence, consciousness, constellations, dynamic presencing, emergence, famil, happiness, relationship, spirituality, we-fullness

Into the Polyverse

My twitter-stream has many tweets like these: ColinUdeLewis “Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.” James Allen WilliamHarryman “95% of your emotions are determined by the way you talk to yourself.” — Brian Tracy bfederman A man’s own self is his friend. A man’s own self is his foe. Gita Good advise, … Read more →

co-evolution, enlightenment, imaginal cells, interconnectedness, oneness, self, transcendence, transpersonal psychology, vertical spirituality

Enlightening the Passions – Day 10 (Interlude)

A calm day starting out beautifully. And the interesting fact that, if a day starts like this it’s hard to focus on the more challenging feelings. So I took that as an invitation to explore – with my imagination, a major tool if used with care and not to avoid this, that or the other … Read more →

consciousness, culture, Descartes, family, feeling field, Hollywood, loyalty, religion, romanticism, science, spirituality

Self-Empowered Spirituality

(This is the non illustrated version; after I get proper permission, I will have some beautiful pictures alongside this blog) I have been writing about what I consider true 21st Century Spirituality before (on my zaadz blog), about Open Source Spirituality (here & on zaadz), and now I’ve had the opportunity to test some of … Read more →

co-creation, collaboration, cooperative spirituality, facilitation, guruism, self-empowerment, seminar, servant leadership, spiritual community, vertical spirituality, we-full living

Atheist Spirituality

My friend Robert Seltman from Kyoto, Japan, devoted a whole section of his excellent website (with a great old-fashioned design; gives me retro-feelings) to Atheism and what it is for different people. And as a last little illustration he had the below video by Alan Watts – who was the hero of youth and young … Read more →

Alan Watts, atheism, atheist spirituality, religion, spirituality

Basics of Truly 21st Century Spirituality

An interesting new conversation has started up on a year old blog entry of mine called, “An Amazing Question” and this afternoon I was interviewed around the topic of ‘pluralistic spirituality’ – so I guess it’s worth to look at some of these matters again. And so I thought that it might be helpful to … Read more →

John Heron, participatory spirituality, pluralistic spirituality, vertical spirituality, we-fullness

Me to the Power of Us

A beautiful video illustration a visionary statement by Michel Bauwens which expresses most beautifully the Path I find myself to be on. “Anyway, this is what the changes are about, augmenting the individual through relationality, with the object of creating common value �collectively�, through self-aggregation. The whole push of the p2p revolution is to create … Read more →

alignment, altruism, between-us, collaboration, collective intelligence, emergence, emerging archetype, evolution, Inclusionality, integral culture, Michel Bouwens, mutual apprenticeship, mutuality, open society, P2P, pluralistic spirituality, relating, relational, relational spirituality, relationship, self-organization, spirituality, values, video, vision, we-culture

Dancing With Systems

December 30th, 2007 | Posted by Mushin in spirituality - (0 Comments)

from Systems – We-Space Dancing With Systems by Donella Meadows Versions of this piece have been published in Whole Earth, winter 2001 and The Systems Thinker, Vol. 13, No. 2 (March 2002). Get the beat. Expose your mental models to the open air. Stay humble. Stay a learner. Honor and protect information. Locate responsibility in … Read more →

guidelines, systems

The Truth about Sweet Spirituality

October 23rd, 2007 | Posted by Mushin in spirituality - (0 Comments)

My dear friend Sandra put up an interesting post with some music, and among the three vids here was Tom Waits celebrating Chocolate Jesus. Sometimes when I hear music it sends ripples of joy through my body – it almost feels like my veigns are bubbling champagne – or should I say the sweetness of … Read more →

Amma, Buddha, chocolate, Deepak Chopra, Divine Mother, fundamentalism, Jesus, spirituality, William Donehue

Knowledge is…

… to man what pheromones are to ants, and the dance is to bees: it is a way to navigate in life to the greater good of all. Love, of course, also is a way to navigate, and so is ‘following your heart’, as is inquiring into the truth and beautification. Take this quote: Human … Read more →

collective intelligence, consciousness, Evan Thompson, evolution, interbeing, intersubjectivity, mutuality, relating, relational spirituality, we-culture, we-fullness, we-space

Integral We-Fullness – A Trialogue (The We of Us – Part 2)

The last trialogue The We of Us [alas, link no longer functioning] was published here on May 21st. Since then there has been two posts by Michel Bauwens of the P2P-Foundation on his blog; one in which he talks about my post “We are the Next Buddha” and one where he looks at Helen’s post … Read more →

acceptance, between-us, change, circle being, consciousness, David Suzuki, development, Douglas Cohen, ego, emergence, enlightenment, Helen Titchen-Beeth, Indra's net, Masaru Emoto, Masuro Emoto, Michel Bauwens, mutuality, relational spirituality, Robert Kegan, soul family, spiritual practice, story telling, storytelling, sub-personality, subpersonality, Susanne Cook-Greuter, We, we-culture, we-full living, we-fullness, we-space, Wu Wei

Defuse me

If I were a bomb ready to explode, if I have become dangerous to your life, then you must take care of me. You think you can get away from me, but how? I am here, right in your midst. (You cannot remove me from your life.) And I may explode at any time. I … Read more →

bomb, care, spiritual practice

We are the next Buddha

Helen wrote in her blog “Why the next Buddha will be a collective.” I hope to show with this article where I am coming from in this regard so that in the time to come we can have beautiful dialogues, trialogues or any other -logues to help this meme propagate. I guess, for me it … Read more →

acceptance, Alan Rayner, between-us, big mind, circle being, collective intelligence, consciousness, cooperative spirituality, dynamic presencing, emergence, emerging archetype, evolution, evolutionary enlightenment, facilitation, fractals, Genpo Roshi, human evolution, Inclusionality, John Heron, Jorge Ferrer, Jupiter, knowledge gardening, living field, Martin Buber, mutuality, my life, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, relationship, Samuel Bonder, satori, Saturn, senex, soul family, space, spiritual practice, spirituality, transpersonal psychology, What is real?

Towards an Integral & Pluralistic Spirituality

An archetype is emerging – the archetype of a participatory, integral and pluralistic spiritual culture. People all over the world — caring about the life on and of this planet, and experiencing themselves as embedded in continually expanding networks and environments — are seeking genuine, open and constructive dialogue and mutual support in their work … Read more →

archetype, between-us, consciousness, constellations, cooperative spirituality, emergence, enlightenment, evolution, integral culture, living field, pluralistic spirituality, relational spirituality, spiritual practice, spirituality

A Collective Emergence – a deep view into Andrew Cohens teaching

As part of his Evolutionary Enlightenment Teachings the spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen in an article “A Collective Emergence” speaks about what others have called “Circle Being” (Otto Scharmer), “Community Building (Scott Peck), “Circle of the Heart” etc. Andrew Cohen is talking, of course, about what happens within the framework of a certain context — that … Read more →

Andrew Cohen, between-us, circle being, community, consciousness, emergence, enquiry, relational spirituality, spiritual teacher

Dynamic Presencing

March 23rd, 2007 | Posted by Mushin in between-us | dynamic presencing | relational spirituality | video - (8 Comments)

These scenes were filmed by my friend Rolf Seiler during the Easter Seminar last year, and now I finally managed to get the editing done. It gives you an impression of one aspect of my work which I really love as it allows participants to often directly access spaces that are so often spoken and … Read more →

catharsis

The Open Secret

October 1st, 2006 | Posted by Mushin in consciousness | living field | spirituality | What is real? - (0 Comments)

14 billion years of evolution since the Big Bang. This planet, the solar system, the Milky Way – our galaxy… an endlessly large universe. This moment, this experience now, you and me… all time and space in a conspiracy to awaken in you and me right now. And so immensely rich is this cosmos that … Read more →

Contemplation