It has been refined through millions of years of successfully adapting and evolving to be best suited for Reality-At-Large. Let's set the record straight: your body is the most ancient and advanced biological technology in existence. On the other hand, we've also inherited the Scientific Materialist paradigm that what you truly are is a Mind riding around in a largely useless meatsack prone to deterioration and primitive modes of being.
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On one hand, we still carry latent beliefs inhereted from Christianity that the body is essentially the vehicle of Sin - full of primal drives that lead to anarchy. The human body has been largely villified by modern culture as the rational mind and scientific materialism have risen to power. 🧬 Re-Enchanting the Human OrganismĪ quick note on the ancient wisdom of the human organism. You have the entirety of your Being available to enact and implement solutions to any identified problems. It means your surface area for development has dramatically increased. Fortunately, this is a gift, an opportunity. There is no separation between mind and body. You are a holistic, dynamic, complete organism.
Modern culture is currently plagued by the epidemic of Mind-Body dualism, the idea that the mind and the body are somehow entirely distinct and separate entities, influencing each other but remaining largely islands of their own. What does the 'inner work' aspect of the Yoga of Becoming look like? It looks like Hedonic Engineering - creating a bio-psycho-spiritual growth stack to address and compliment the specific areas of focus you identify.įor a great introduction, I'd invite you to watch this talk by Jamie Wheal, where he lays out many fundamental principles we'll address here in more detail. If your external engagement with the outer world surfaces latent blocks/traumas/obstacles that need to be addressed - how do you go about doing that? The Yoga of Becoming is a dynamic dance between inner world development and outer world engagement, unifying them in a virtuous cycle for sustained personal evolution. If you haven't yet read the essay, it's helpful to start there before exploring further. The different perspectives of perpetrators and victims in the same situation suggest the challenge of interpreting a twined phenomenology, requiring different interpretive strategies for fun and cruelty.This post double-clicks on a key component of the Yoga of Becoming, that of Hedonic Engineering. However, in considering fun and cruelty, we argue, following John Levi Martin, that the former is judged by first-person recognition and the latter through third-person analysis. In this, we provide a meso-analysis of the occasions in which groups engage in activities that are widely judged to be disreputable and deviant, even if providing enjoyment and increasing group cohesion.īy examining ethnographic observations of gang activity, bullying, hooliganism, political violence, and brutality in prison, we argue for the concept of “dark fun.” We focus on the role of collective effervescence, local group cultures, and moral ordering as contributing to dark fun. While fun is generally conceived as positive engagement and community building, we explore the linkage between fun and cruelty, suggesting that acts of violence and humiliation can be situated within hedonic experience. “Dark Fun: The Cruelties of Hedonic Communities”
This week we welcome Professor Gary Fine from Northwestern University, Evanston, USA. The FinWork Futures Research Centre organises research seminars, workshops and other events investigating the future of financial work in relation to the global rise of digital technologies.
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