New Pod Members

If you have just joined this pod and haven't posted yet, please feel free to say hi and introduce yourself here.


These are for you:


Lisa
*Part of the welcoming committee :)

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Hi all,

My name is Annemieke and I live in the Netherlands. I am reading here for a few weeks now and I think the discussions are very interesting.

I have been spending to much time on Youtube lately, so I have not been reading as much as I would like. Especially ‘the problem of I' seems very interesting, so I want to read some more soon.

Maybe I will jump in now that I finally introduced myself.

Thank you for the great looking drinks,
Annemieke

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Hi Annemieke,

Welcome!!!!! You have such an interesting background, I am looking forward to you jumping in here.

Lisa

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Hi Annemieke,

It's great to see you here. Here is another ( it looks really tasty):



:)

David

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Welcome Annemieke!  I see the mods are bribing you with alcohol! 

Hey hold it!  Did “I” say “I”??  “I” did!  “I” also said “you,” and “alcohol.”  Pardon me, let me restate:

“Welcome” “Annemieke”!  “I” “see” “the” “mods” “are” “bribing” “you” “with” “alcohol.”

And on it goes.  : )

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Thank you for the welcome! And all the drinks here make me want to sit in such a philosophical cafe, music in the background and talk all evening about the essence of the ‘I'.

Great to meet you all,

Annemieke

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Hey everyone, 

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Hey Shaman Sun,

Good to see you here! We met briefly on the I-I pod.

You still like in New York?

peac e

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WELCOME!!! S.S

Here are a few ZEN cocktails for you:



which you can enjoy here:

Lisa

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Welcome Annemieke & Shaman Sun!

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Hello all,

Just saw this pod and recognized more than a few of you - so let's have some fun!

Frans

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Hey Frans,

Good to see you here buddy!!

Saw your post to me on Nicole's god pod. Was meaning to get back to that. Went riding in Steamboat a few weeks ago, conditions were great. I'd love to go to Lake Louise, tell me how much and when you have time and I will see if I can get a flight.

peac e

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Frans, ss, great to see you here. Here you go:




Those look really good. I think I'm going to get one for myself.


~David

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Thanks for the cocktails - they do look a little oxidized..:-).  I'm quite busy for the next few days but will engage after that!

e - time's always short, but I'm sure I can squeeze in a day or 2 any month.  Jan and Feb are - as a rule - frigid, but March is the #1 snow month…

Frans

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Hi Frans, & Hi Rachel ~ tuck in!

Lisa

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If you have just joined, here is a big hearty welcome. Feel free to introduce yourself here.

Lisa

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Hey,



So I’ve joined up here…thanks for the invitation David.



A couple of thoughts coming in. I looked this place over pretty well when Balder posted on Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality
pod a notice about linking up with the other Integral Gaia pods.
Several of them on his list look derelict and dead in the water, but
not quite as dead as some of those one can find by tapping the
“Integral” link on the Gaia homepage topics cloud. Those ones that are
active, like this one and a couple of others seem to be energized by a
few of the faithful performing like dancing bears before a moderately
small crowd of unresponsive members. This is the way it has always been
and this is the future.



Second, I live about 30 klm south of the southern shore of the
Caribbean, 10° north of the Equator, and I would suggest dropping the
tropical theme and situating this pod off the coast of Alaska or Japan
or Finland. The stuff on this pod is Northern, nothing much on this
site plays very well south of Cancer (23.4° North). Changing the world
is a northern illusion; what northern people do to entertain themselves
between feedings.



The tropics are for going to seed…







My blogs are:



Integral Liberties



Kabiri



in case anyone is interested.



Ciao, Steven

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Steven, nice to see you here!  You were sucking in for that photo, no?

Nice home!  How much is a house down there?

Your ascerbic highly integral wit will be a welcome addition.

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Tom,



No, mom always said to stand up straight. And what home? This one…?







belongs to a friend…we live in the highlands…visit.



Cost? Not worth keeping one’s head down. There is a Venezuelan murdered every 41 minutes.



Steven

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Funny posts, Steven.  :)



I was reading your blog Kabiri, too. I find that really absorbing. I haven’t made anything for years, but I used to love to go down to the basement and hammer away.



How do you feel about Chavez’s referendum victory?

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David,
You asked: How do you feel about Chavez’s referendum victory?

I am not a great fan of term limits, though neither am I a great fan of politicians. I am a fan of the will of the people. Term limits can be seen as a semi-contrived block to the people’s right to express their will. In a democratic environment, the people vest themselves with the government they deserve. If Chavez is to stay or go as president it is better left to the people in the moment, than to the rule of a law called a term limit.

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Steven: Changing the world is a northern illusion; what northern people do to entertain themselves between feedings.

I meant also to comment on this.  I agree, Northern types carry this view of “change,” with its attendant consequences and anti-What-Is movements.  One consequence of this the Northern view—or at least a correlation I’ve noted—is that Northern feedings are in no small part funded by work in the south, writ large on the history of civilization.  That correlation might have something to do with that illusion.

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Hi, I am Albert.



Nice to explore integral archipelagos. I see the SDi archipelago too and even lots of islands which are not labeled and mapped out right now:)



Like the early Europeans in Renaissance and later who found lots of American Islands:)One guy even tried to find India and discovered North America.



So I am open to unknown territory of every kind. May it be in perspectives, horizones, geographical regions or just in human mind, body and spirit.



My cosmic adress still to be determined..) My living space basically in Berlin, Germany at moment.



Cheers,
Albert

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Hi Albert,
Love it, the whole uncharted territory thing, that’s the spirit!



Lisa

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Welcome to the archipelago, Albert! Here you go:

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Thanks for the Welcome. Just checked the Wiki Definition or ARCHIPELAGO:



An Archipelago is a chain or cluster that are formed tectonically. I would very much like to expand this cartograpy to global affairs and any form of global communication. As Kosmos Journal and Integral leadership Review are doing already. The tectonic plates are greatly understood to in Spiral Dynamics Integral , as modifying, extending, developing and field testing the work of Clare graves.



This I would consider a minimum complimentary constellation besides AQAL.



Other more invisible integrating and integrative emerging islands could be named.



Lots to be discovered and explored:)



And the local, regional and national and continental deep basic layers of these clusters.

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Regarding Sdi, see this



2000 presentation by Don Beck at State of the World Forum

“Debates over globalization are but the surface-level collisions of the deeper tectonic plate-like cultural fault lines that remain hidden from view. The failure to both understand and deal with these evolutionary core value systems result in needless clashes over worldviews, constant threats of “us” vs. “them” or class-based violence, and expensive, politicized solutions that are both inappropriate and ineffectual. The WTO debates and conflicts in Seattle exposed these fault-lines. But where are the integral, cohesive principles and processes that can bridge over the great, global divides? Who can untie the global knot? How can the positive elements within both capitalistic thinking and socialistic goals be meshed for the common good? Consider the Twelve Postulates, an integral initiative based on an understanding of the complex dynamics that forge and transform human cultures, communities, and countries.”

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Albert, indeed! Lots to be discovered and explored!



There are many islands, atolls, and cays in this archipelago that have yet to be discovered, named, and populated!



What do you think might be out there?



At the moment we have Current Events Cay, which covers some of the ground you are talking about but not necessarily all. We might do well to expand to another island or two.



But where to expand, more specifically? What isn’t covered with the islands already within the archipelago proper? What in particular would need to have its own ideas? I have a few nascent ideas forming, but I will just let them germinate for the moment.



Thank you for the definition/etymology. I hadn’t looked at that yet, but I really love that kind of thing, and it’s important to know.



Chief Sea. Hmmm … we might want to recontextualize that somehow to make it sound more kosmocentric.  :) Maybe that’s our Teal shadow! (Integral expert, first-tier allergy) :)



Thank you also for the Don Beck article; I will be interested to read that.

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Let me give you an example what there is already.
 
its the Presncing Insitute Community. Founded by Otto Scharmer whom I met personally in 2004. And since then his work has truly fascinated me more and more.
 
If you like, you are invited here:
 
http://community.presencing.com/
 
There is also a conversation available between Otto Scharmer and Ken Wilber.
 
www.ottoscharmer.com
 
Best,
Albert

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Mapping the Integral U

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Albert,
Thanks for the link to the Presencing outfit…I’ve already dropped by and signed on, even wrote a little piece.
God, if pie in the sky had any nutritional value at all such sites as these could feed the world.

SN

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Hello islanders. Just swam ashore and excited about what ill find. I want to help create this new mindspace/worldspace with love and care as well as intellect. Peace Ruari xx

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Hi Ruari,

welcome to this beautiful desert island. It's a bit empty right now, but I'm sure the Islanders will be back soon. You know, everything comes back sooner or later. LOL :-)

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Hi Ruari,

That's a great first post!

I'm glad you made it,

David

Here you go:

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Hello, GoatFish, welcome to our little 2-t sanctuary! Hope you had a save swim across the vast oceans of 1-t. :P

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Hi everyone!

David kindly invited me here from IL (and I notice that I'm not the first nor the last). I've been active to a limited extent at the II-pod a year ago and recognize some names here. Last month I've been more active at IL.

I've just finished off some work and hope to have a bit more time to dig into som integral theory. I have some ideas that I want to share in time. I'm from Sweden btw and I hang a lot with the green meme irl and in forum discussions. That's a favorite topic of mine.

Glad to be here, I'd thought I take the opportunity and learn to surf.

Best regards to y'all and swim you later!
Kristian

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Hi FIcation,

I hear you are a dog trainer.
Did you know German Shepherds are also called 'Alsatians'? I always liked that.

Welcome,

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Hiya, men who doth emerge from the mysterious integral smoke. Welcome!

Nice to see you here.

Lisa

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Great to see you here, Kristian. There's something for you and Loke below.

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Thank's all! Loke will be delighted! :-)