My friend Theo Horesh, who I met while attending an ongoing group in Boulder called “the philosophy gang” recently started blogging. His new blog, Reframe America, is an integral commentary and response to the domains of politics, philosophy, culture, business, and spirituality. More specifically…
Reframe America seeks to reframe public discourse through the generation of innovative, broadly appealing, socially and environmentally responsible, perspectives on subjects of national concern. By emphasizing intriguing and refreshing perspectives on the same old issues and by changing the terms of debate, we hope to reframe cultural and political discourse and the meaning of America.
I first heard about Theo several years ago, when my boss at the time Ken Wilber remarked at how brilliant one of his comments was on the old Integral Naked forums. I very rarely heard these kind of compliments from Ken, who is himself one of the most brilliant minds I’d ever met. Once I got to know Theo, it became obvious why his comment stood out. He is one of the most voracious readers and learners I’ve ever met. How somebody can read that much, and from such a variety of different fields of knowledge, I will probably never know. Not only that but the guy is a very solid writer as well as an engaged meditator, having spent many years practicing and reflecting on the importance of spiritual development, and his writing certainly reflects that. So it is with great excitement that I learned he was going to begin blogging, and now that he has started it looks like he’s going to be pretty prolific.
Here’s an excerpt from one of his first posts, Evolution in the Spirit of Democracy, that should give you some feel for his writing:
Democracy ultimately confronts us with the construction and dissolution of our dreams. Through the democratic process, we stand at the center of possibility emerging. We choose an end. Paint space with the color of our dreams. Give shape to vision. Create fields of consciousness. Then animate creation through a simple show of hands. But after all is said and done, the ends are never certain when they are always subject to a vote. Worlds are built and destroyed in the field of democratic dreams. To watch this play with equanimity, as an actor in the grand drama of human evolution, is both beautiful and awe inspiring. This is the vantage of the Bodhisattva politician and the master statesman. From this vista, in the fray of political battle but not of it, the creation and destruction of the world is witnessed. To stand here is to be one with what Hegel referred to as the spirit of history, ever reaching outward in multiplying spirals of awareness. Consciousness awake to its own evolution. A hall of mirrors animating itself. This too is the Philosopher’s Dream.
