[FRIAM] "for women, discovering a different ground of self rather than our conditioned sense of need, control, insecurity..." Elisabeth Debold: Rich Murray 2011.12.14

[Rich Murray]

"for women, discovering a different ground of self rather than our
conditioned sense of need, control, insecurity..." Elisabeth Debold:
Rich Murray 2011.12.14

http://www.evolvewomen.com/the-ultimate-spiritual-practice-for-women/

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 8:58 pm
The Ultimate Spiritual Practice for Women
by Elizabeth Debold

* 22 Comments

When you think about women and spiritual practice, what pops into your
mind? Leggy ladies in tights doing a downward dog? Wafty women in
white flowing robes dancing among flickering candles? Pop cultural
images of women interested in spirituality often imply that the goal
of spiritual practice for women is to become hyperfeminine. (Click for
a send up of the “Yoga Girl” image.) Yoga or sacred dance are
beautiful, and we certainly need more beauty in the world. And yoga
can lead to significant transformation -- the inspiring story of Ana
Forrest is just one testament to that -- but too few of us set our
sights on real, tangible, spiritual evolution as the goal of our
practice. Becoming more fit and calm and lovely is fine. But becoming
more femme is hardly a transformation that’s going to rock the world.
As Ken Wilber once wrote on the pages of What Is Enlightenment?
magazine,

Transformative spirituality does not seek to bolster or legitimate any
present worldview at all, but rather to provide true authenticity by
shattering what the world takes as legitimate.

Meditation is a practice of transformative spirituality. Why? Because
it challenges who we think we are at the most fundamental level. It
reveals to us an ever-present dimension of reality beyond mind, time,
and our embodiment through which we can recognize that we are not some
object clinging for security to the surface of this spinning planet.
No, we are WHAT IS. The infinite unmoveable perfection of Being, the
ground of everything, itself. This realization, when taken seriously,
frees us from our false identification with our personal history and
all the ways things have been. The door opens to true, shattering
transformation.

And for women, discovering a different ground of self rather than our
conditioned sense of need, control, insecurity or the thousands of
ways that we are looking, looking, looking for anything outside of
ourselves to validate who we are and give us direction and purpose,
well, that is essential. It’s essential if we want to transform and,
through our transformation, shatter the world that we know has to
change at the core


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Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

[Roger Critchlow]

Why worry?  They've probably been flying with Windows machines in the
cockpit for years.

-- rec --

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Gillian Densmore wrote:

> One small problem: what happens when the ipad crashes? The techie in
> me is well aware of what happens when a OS crashes I don't think
> anyone wants to here: umm sorry for the detour our charts chrashed.
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM,   wrote:
> >  Hmmm...could this be a spoof as a result of Alec Baldwin's recent
> > contretemps aboard an AA flight for refusing to turn off his iPad while
> the
> > plane was still at the gate but the cabin door closed?
> >
> > - Claiborne -
> >
> >
> > On Dec 13, 2011, at 22:49, Owen Densmore  wrote:
> >
> > How Star Trek: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=18725
> >
> > I'm wondering just how useful this is .. is it really better than
> whatever
> > they did before?  Or is it just a "look at me" stunt.
> >
> > Anyway, you'll certainly feel more secure with trek-y pads.
> >
> >-- Owen
> >
> > 
> >
> > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

[Gillian Densmore]

One small problem: what happens when the ipad crashes? The techie in
me is well aware of what happens when a OS crashes I don't think
anyone wants to here: umm sorry for the detour our charts chrashed.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 PM,   wrote:
>  Hmmm...could this be a spoof as a result of Alec Baldwin's recent
> contretemps aboard an AA flight for refusing to turn off his iPad while the
> plane was still at the gate but the cabin door closed?
>
> - Claiborne -
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2011, at 22:49, Owen Densmore  wrote:
>
> How Star Trek: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=18725
>
> I'm wondering just how useful this is .. is it really better than whatever
> they did before?  Or is it just a "look at me" stunt.
>
> Anyway, you'll certainly feel more secure with trek-y pads.
>
>    -- Owen
>
> 
>
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
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Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

[qef]

 Hmmm...could this be a spoof as a result of Alec Baldwin's recent contretemps 
aboard an AA flight for refusing to turn off his iPad while the plane was still 
at the gate but the cabin door closed?

- Claiborne -


On Dec 13, 2011, at 22:49, Owen Densmore  wrote:

> How Star Trek: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=18725 
> 
> I'm wondering just how useful this is .. is it really better than whatever 
> they did before?  Or is it just a "look at me" stunt.
> 
> Anyway, you'll certainly feel more secure with trek-y pads.
> 
>-- Owen
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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Re: [FRIAM] Oh my gawd...

[Marcos]

On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:55 PM, Robert J. Cordingley
 wrote:
> Shouldn't theorems be independent of arbitrary decisions regarding what is
> or is not a prime number?  Otherwise I'll have to believe that
> mathematicians are just making up stuff.

Of course its all "made up".  What do you think an axiom is?

I'm being a bit cynical, but the various arbitrary starting points
from which all theorems derive are the end-products of a
millennia-long "natural selection" process.  Even the concept of
"number" could, in theory, be totally re-written, but at this point,
it would be mostly a pointless act of rebellion.

If you want a great read on the subject, see Gregory Chaitin.

mark


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Re: [FRIAM] American Airlines Gets FAA Approval to Use iPad During All Phases of Flight

[Tom Johnson]

Yeah, but will they have to turn them off during take-off and landings?
Of course it will reduce insurance claims for bad backs given the size of
the briefcases those guys lug around.

-tj

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Owen Densmore  wrote:

> How Star Trek: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=18725
>
> I'm wondering just how useful this is .. is it really better than whatever
> they did before?  Or is it just a "look at me" stunt.
>
> Anyway, you'll certainly feel more secure with trek-y pads.
>
>-- Owen
>
> 
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
>



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