The world of pop-psy is full of clichés, pithy truisms, contrived formulae, lists of simple steps, and promises of quick, easy, miraculous results if you just follow these 5 simple rules every day or if you sign up for my program and have faith in the process.
In the posts below, I explore the many intersecting facets of cognitive permaculture, embodied/ecological cognition, living intelligence v. AI, living soulfully in a postsecular/postcolonial world, neoindigeneity, poetry, science, yin, and the like.
Ultimately, everything connects to everything. These writings are my attempt to trace these connections and explore emerging patterns as they are actively manifesting in this time of rapid sociocultural change.
Breathing With Your Feet
Have you ever breathed with your feet?
"The heart is the smaller cousin of the sun.
It sees and knows everything. …
The door to the mind should only open from the heart."
For hundreds of years, the mainstream (read: financially and socio-politically privileged) of modern science has assumed that "the mind" and its cognates – cognition, thought, mental activity, consciousness, etc. – is inside the head. That the mind, in short, is the brain. So, if we understand neural activity in the brain, we understand mind. There...
A Psychology of Anomaly
Living Heart Intelligence incorporates what could be called a psychology of anomalies. Science in the modern period, in pursuit of the illusory dream of a purely "objective" analysis of reality, has developed a debilitating allergy to anomalies. While this makes sense in some contexts (namely, research concerned solely with inanimate systems such...
Machines and Mystery
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't."
~ Emerson M. Pugh, Ph.D., IBM research engineer