To Errol is Human

WHAT'S AN INFINITY TO DO? The Nature of the Human Stock Exchange (continuation of last Blog... "What's Real and How Would you Know?) So, what's an Infinity to do? Where is it going to spill if it wants to diversify, if it is already filling up everything…always? Why, the finite, of course. "What's that?" asks infinity of itself. "Well…that's what would happens if I separate the In from the Finite"… There you have it. Could that be what happened 13.4 billions years ago? The "In"…separated from the "Finite" knowing full well that that was impossible…hence the illusion, but hey...an illusion might be a really fun thing…like putting an amazing puzzle back together…with the addition of something the Infinite could only dream about…Novelty…and indeed the infinite does probably and literally dream novelty it up…and that's where you come in. Everything grows out of the nature and the quality of The Exchange . E...

What is "real" and how would you know? Is something real if it has weight? Mass? What about an experience…Is that real? What makes experience real? Is the memory of the experience "real"? Is any movement you make real? With your body? thoughts? Movement of the heart? Feelings? Are they real? Is anything that is fleeting real? What about motion itself? Or Stillness? Is pain real? Pleasure? Is reality a Who? A what? A why? All of the above? None of the above? What of any passing experience is real? Understandably, there is so much to occupy us just to maintain, perpetuate and gratify ourselves, that these questions go mostly un-asked…and if they are asked, will they lead to answers? (My roommate in college assured me that there is no answer. Was he right?) Are any "answers that rise from the depth of being" real as it relates to the problems of living? The demands of life? If you follow this line of questioning far enough it leaves you off at... ...

How The Laughing Heart Provides the Tools, Methods and Context for Advancing the Six Memes in the First Tier toward the Second Integral Tier. Using Humor with Families (q.v. "Spiral Dynamics" p://www.spiraldynamics.com/book/SDreview_Dinan.htm ) It seems that to consciously and actively participate in the evolutionary spiral, we'd want to advance each meme to its highest development and to assist it in transitioning to the next meme. (Meme = cultural matrix that has distinctive values, belief systems, ways of behaving that have evolved out of each other in an attempt to solve evolutionary problems. Each meme partially solves problems from the previous meme while generating new and different problems that in turn give birth to the next cultural matrix--meme). While we need to honor and work with the evolutionary cycle/spiral, it is equally important to realize that we can interface with all memes in any given instant through accessing the still point that ...

BEHIND THE SEEMS BEWARE THE USEFULNESS OF GENERALIZATIONS. Accessorize, okay…generalize…watch out! When you make a generalization, you're not actually describing anything that's really going on, just some temporary approximation about life to make it more "manageable." Like the fellow in the picture, as he sits reading his paper near the Brooklyn Bridge. He's probably accepting some generalization, or at least an approximation of reality at that moment. He may be reading about mass starvation, or massive layoffs, or just the plight of the masses, but even mass human suffering doesn't accurately describe what's going on at any given moment, because each person is having his or her own unique experience of tribulation. While it may appear that suffering is shared by the collective, and though it is influenced by the collective, in fact, all suffering as well as joy is experienced on an individual basis. Maybe this guy's just a sports fan, in fact a NY Ya...