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This pod is dedicated to ‘Evolutionary Activism.’ Join documentary filmmaker, podcaster, writer, and evolutionary activist Velcrow Ripper on a journey into the heart of conscious evolution. As Andrew Cohen has said, the time to ‘Be Here Now’ has ended. We need to ‘Do Here Now.’ How can we align ourselves with the breaking wave of evolution? We are the...(more)
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Let’s start with the beginning. Evolution. What we are interested in here is beyond the limited notions of Darwinian Evolution. We’re interested in the definition espoused by Cohen, Wilber, Beck et al. The universe has an intrinsic ‘urge to become.’...(more)
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  Velcrow : Spiritual Rebel

Why This Urge to Become?

Velcrow said Mar 15, 2006, 11:52 AM:
 

This is a biggie. It’s the elephant and we are all the blind humans, each one of us grasping a different piece and finding a wall, a snake, a crystal ball…
but the nice thing about networking our thoughts we can add our pieces to the puzzle and it can form a whole.
  Velcrow : Spiritual Rebel

Re: Why This Urge to Become?

Velcrow said Mar 15, 2006, 5:56 PM:
 

Why not just stay potential? What a journey it has been, even our own personal little 14 billion year slice of the eternal pie. 14 billion years of complexifying, complexifying, from oneness to diversity. I am resplendent in divergence! The universe cries. But why? Why diverge?
  Katya : The waker

Re: Why This Urge to Become?

Katya said Mar 17, 2006, 2:30 PM:
 

I see it in this way:

The world, the complex “unknown” womb of potential was ebbing one day as usually had been for millenia and then it created the multitudes of levels of which we are all part.

We are specles of this womb, all carrying the code that allows us to reintegrate into its simplicity at the end of our human journey (of one or a million lifetimes)

The whole thing is for enterntainment I think, just for the sake of it.

We as a unified consciousness developed this elaborate playing field we now live in, ever complexifying to try and mirror the greatness from which we came. It is just a game, a process, an experiment without expected results.

And so we are in the same way a reflection of that. We are simple and infinitely complex. And we occasionally strive to be more aware, more in tune with the womb that created us, but ever playful and experimental.

Thats the world I live in. :)

Katya
  Velcrow : Spiritual Rebel

Re: Why This Urge to Become?

Velcrow said Mar 17, 2006, 5:47 PM:
 

That take on the urge to become, reminds me of when I interviewed Thomas Berry, a wonderful elder and one of the driving forces in the Deep Ecology movement. He said, “The human is that being in whom the universe reflects on celebrates itself and it’s numinou origins in a special mode of consciouss self awareness. So the role of the human, is to celebrate.”
  Velcrow : Spiritual Rebel

Re: Why This Urge to Become?

Velcrow said Mar 17, 2006, 5:49 PM:
 

Since it’s impossible to edit these posts, let me rewrite that wonderful word, which is not niminou, but rather

“numinous”.