Numinous Nonsense

Commemorating Black Tuesday

My buddy Paul S. blogged about an event that went down at I-I last year around this time, where several people quit. What he is calling Black Tuesday. I had already left I-I (only months earlier, actually) but I was glad I had: It was exactly one year ago today that I and nine [...]

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The Nascent Edge

nascent - Beginning to exist or develop; Coming into existence; emerging The Nascent Edge is my attempt at creating a more lively expression to supplant the common common phrases like, “leading edge”, “cutting edge”, “bleeding edge” or even “frothy edge”. While I can’t fully take the credit for this phrase (it does have a couple [...]

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Introducing the trans-Vincent Vincent

Camille Paglia is hailed as a “post-feminist feminist”. Ken Wilber’s Integral Spiritual Center is pioneering a “trans-path path”, and in his most recent article in What is Enlightenment, “The leading-edge of the leading-edge” he explores all things trans-personal and post-conventional. So as not to get left behind I’ve adopted this interesting semantic modifier, [...]

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The Spiral Wizard

Is the theory of spiral dynamics is behind the Wizard of Oz? Liam Quirk, adjunct professor of English, @ Rider University seems to think so. He has been delivering an interesting talk about Dorthy’s journey through Oz as being an integral awakening of sorts. Dorothy’s journey wasn’t simply a case of following [...]

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No-Self and the Evolving Self

I recently made my way through two very interesting books, one by the Christian mystic Bernadette Roberts, What is Self? and the other by developmental psychologist Robert Kegan, In Over Our Heads. Bernadette Roberts explores the path towards the culmination of what she calls no-self, which begins with an identification with ego at the [...]

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What do WorldChanging & WIE have in Common?

Well, for starters they are now both aware of one another. Alex Steffan, of World Changing, recently promoted the most recent issue of What is Enlightenment?: Run, don’t walk, to the newsstand to get yourself a copy of the latest issue of What Is Enlightenment?. … I’d never seen this magazine before, but Ross Robertson [...]

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