Process

by Antonio Dias

process

early 14c., “fact of being carried on” (e.g. in process), from O.Fr. proces “journey” (13c.), from L. processus “process, advance, progress,” from pp. stem of procedere “go forward” (see proceed). Meaning “course or method of action” is from mid-14c.; sense of “continuous…

As with so many words, we rarely look at where they came from, what they have meant, can mean. Stuck in current usage, we cannot see how a bit of programming, of conditioning, controls how we think and how we expect to communicate. From there, things spiral out to entrap every aspect of how we act.

When we hear process, what do we, well, hear?

On Responsibility

by Antonio Dias

Another post I’d like to recommend. On Responsibility from cricket7642.

My friend shared a memory with me, from years ago, of a doctor she once met. Something he had said at the time has stayed with her all these years: people, he reflected, talk about their rights and responsibilities, but really “we have only responsibilities.”

Wonderful insight into the place of voice and relationship within the integrated personality.

The Order of Thought

by Antonio Dias

I’m writing to ask you to take a look at my friend Peter Kajtar’s Kickstarter campaign.

Peter is writing a book building on the work of David Bohm and J Krishnamurti, The Order of Thought.

I’ve cited his work many times here.

I consider what he is doing to be one of the most significant efforts going on anywhere today. The clarity he brings to Bohm & Krishnamurti’s work and the promise inherent in the wider connections he makes and the further insights he has made – is making – are unique and so valuable. Essential, if we are ever going to spread and deepen our understanding of the effects of incoherence on every part of our predicament and creatively address our situation.

Kickstarter is now just another swamped new media. Without direct introductions feeding attention to a particular project it will remain lost in the noise no matter how important and valuable it may be.

I’m reaching out to you. Asking you to reach out to your extended networks. We need to find that rare demographic, someone who can both see the value in what Peter is doing and make a cash contribution to assist in its completion.

Peter has a young family. He is moving to England from Germany early next month. He must find a way to support his family even if it means setting The Order of Thought aside for an indefinite period of time.

To my eye this would be a tragedy.

I consider this an epochal watershed cloaked in one individual’s domestic economic difficulties.

We are all struggling today, but not many are capable, or have made such wonderful and promising progress on such an important piece of work, as he has!

OK, enough!

Please take a look for yourselves. Remember everything you see on his site and on his Kickstarter appeal was done by one person with limited means.

Thank you,

Between Posts…

by Antonio Dias

Here is a post I strongly urge you to read.

The Stades Last Stand.

One of the forces affecting what gets written here is my sense of the need for something to be written. If something is not being said, then let me take a stab at it. But when others write eloquently on a topic of importance, well, then it’s time to give them our attention and not simply clog the works with more verbiage.

That’s how I feel about this piece by my friend, Christian Ford.

So, please read it.

He has laid out our physical predicament as clearly as anyone has to date. If we are to move on, we need to absorb these facts and follow their repercussions where they take us.

More on this soon, I hope.

Unfortunately Hogsalt does not accept comments. If you would like to respond, feel free to do so here. I’ll see that he reads it.

A Web of Obligations

by Antonio Dias

We tie ourselves within a web of obligations, forgetting that while these so-called acts of responsibility are meant to help us fulfill our lives, they actually keep us from it.

What struck me was the way we handle the mid-term. It’s not just in the short-term that we do everything twice. In the mid-term, in “projects” lasting weeks or months or years, we believe that without concocting an agenda and then serving its demands we are simply drifting without direction.

Sometimes, over the longest term, when we consider our life’s trajectory over decades, we do see the way, as John Lennon so aptly put it, “Life happens while we were busy making other plans.”

We do not consider the implications of this in how we deal with things as they are going on. We revert to believing that, “It’s the plan stupid!