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What does it mean to actually "think"? How often do we do it?

What would Joseph Campbell have to say about The Singularity? The answer may surprise you.

What exactly is the calling, where is it emanating from, and why are we so attracted to it?

Why does the hero need to be pushed to the point of near defeat for the victory to mean so much?

David Christian gives a TED talk on Big History, an intellectual movement which views history from "the Big Bang to the present". (video)

What is it at the heart of humans that move us to accomplish the truly great?
Our culture trumpets certain personality traits and discourages others. But are those standards absolute or relative? How would our society look if we accepted the rightness of there being essential differences between our various points of view? At the same time, it would bond us to know how strongly similar so many of us are.
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Hi Rebecca! I'm quite honored that you read my piece - you're quite a force, so I appreciate your appreciation of my…
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great great great great great great. i just did not have the energy to take this on and i knew it had…
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Oh and one more thing, just read this from Joe's interview with Stuart Davis...
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Rochelle,
This dance gets better!
The distinction you make about how kids deal with overwhelm when things do not work is to…
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Hey Rochelle - really appreciate u taking on this tendency of the integral community to deny all kinds of constructed reality in…
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ah, Gregor, thanks for explaining the optimism bias, I think I get it - partly a defense against our mortality, partly fuel…
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Great conversation everyone, and great article TJ. It's got me thinking that there's probably a lot of places where psychological, mystic, religious…
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Gregor - something the bunch of us have talked about with regard to the stuff we publish - we see our essays…
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Hey TJ,
I can barely ski a blue, so I'm smoking what you're rolling here!
Lot's to ponder here, thanks for the…
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Gregor - I felt exhilarated and exhausted after the ski run. I've never attempted a black diamond run on an actual ski…
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No worries, John - people call me Seth all the time.
You raise a very good point, about the verifiability of the…
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Re books by Naranjo, most influential for me was 'The One Quest'. He and Robert Ornstein wrote 'Psychology of Meditation', and…
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I think I meant to say 'how you felt'! ha
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Hey TJ, you forgot to tell us who you felt after the ski run!
I hadn't thought intersecting those two before, my…
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Whoops - I meant to address that to TJ, not Seth. :)
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Seth, what bothers me about the Enneagram is that, for instance, reading "The Wisdom of the Enneagram" we are offered, again and…
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