I had a lovely conversation with my friend Alexander Beiner earlier this week. I will be a teacher in the upcoming course he is stewarding called New Ways of Knowing, which is stacked with teachers such as Nora Bateson, John Vervaeke, Sophie Strand, Jonathan Rowson, and Jim Rutt. You can reserve your spot in the course
I look forward to where this path of consideration is heading as certainly community (lack thereof) is a hugely important consideration for humanity’s wellbeing and, really, her survival. Without meaning to do a “but what about” I do want to speak up for the beautiful emergent communities around the globe. No, not the contrived intentional communities of digital nomads drinking smoothies at some pseudo-eco-village on the beach of a second world nation. I’m referring to communities of purpose and friendship and natural encounter. Neighbors, really, who are increasingly interested in spending time with each other and helping each other and letting their lives be beautiful stories together. I feel lucky to be a part of multiple interesting local communities which are built on friendship and common cause before transaction or codependency. I notice that not everyone finds their way into these local circles, not everyone has the openness, maturity, compassion to “hang” — but rather than foreclose on some assumed privilege or elitism, I want to see more people be able to become more open, mature, compassionate, or whatever it might take for them to find and feel community with others who reciprocally expand their potential to live a life of connection. Because it is only that love we have for each other, life, god, which truly makes life meaningful. May Peter’s Lifeworks help create both internal external conditions and causes for beautiful communities to grow and thrive. Peace.
I'd like to offer in gratitude for the validation of my family's life way what may be, for some, a tiny, nearly perfect shard to add to the evidence of a cultural turning or a spark of hope anyway. We live one house down from Norbert Weiner's, his atemporal next door neighbors. Gregg builds sculpture in and with the forest. We have regular careers. When I drive by Norbert's I think, wow, we're part of a beginning of an end of a particular cybernetics. Lifeworks are in active practice right next door to one of the harbingers, designers, Cassandras of Deathworks. The end, right next to the beginning, as usual.
A good tip if you want to thoughtfully introduce some the ritual to your lives - timebox the 🕯 Ritual Space 🕯 in your Google Calendar. I'm doing it for two weeks now and the simplicity of it works wonders.
I find the degree to which Nick Land's Meltdown appears to be coming true before our eyes most definitely disturbing. Are we being sucked into a techno-capitalist singularity? Hopefully not. But, if we are then maybe at some point it will bring about a resurgence in humanism.
So much in one article to think about, thank you Peter for crafting this. Our ordinary lives are indeed our canvas, our primary medium for expression - and it is through cultivating our external conditions, our IRL experiences and structures, that foster the emergence of our lifeworks as a never ending creative process to edge us closer to the sacred.
I look forward to where this path of consideration is heading as certainly community (lack thereof) is a hugely important consideration for humanity’s wellbeing and, really, her survival. Without meaning to do a “but what about” I do want to speak up for the beautiful emergent communities around the globe. No, not the contrived intentional communities of digital nomads drinking smoothies at some pseudo-eco-village on the beach of a second world nation. I’m referring to communities of purpose and friendship and natural encounter. Neighbors, really, who are increasingly interested in spending time with each other and helping each other and letting their lives be beautiful stories together. I feel lucky to be a part of multiple interesting local communities which are built on friendship and common cause before transaction or codependency. I notice that not everyone finds their way into these local circles, not everyone has the openness, maturity, compassion to “hang” — but rather than foreclose on some assumed privilege or elitism, I want to see more people be able to become more open, mature, compassionate, or whatever it might take for them to find and feel community with others who reciprocally expand their potential to live a life of connection. Because it is only that love we have for each other, life, god, which truly makes life meaningful. May Peter’s Lifeworks help create both internal external conditions and causes for beautiful communities to grow and thrive. Peace.
I like how you come back to art and artists as the lifeworkers I’ve had similar ideas for several years now 🙏
I'd like to offer in gratitude for the validation of my family's life way what may be, for some, a tiny, nearly perfect shard to add to the evidence of a cultural turning or a spark of hope anyway. We live one house down from Norbert Weiner's, his atemporal next door neighbors. Gregg builds sculpture in and with the forest. We have regular careers. When I drive by Norbert's I think, wow, we're part of a beginning of an end of a particular cybernetics. Lifeworks are in active practice right next door to one of the harbingers, designers, Cassandras of Deathworks. The end, right next to the beginning, as usual.
A good tip if you want to thoughtfully introduce some the ritual to your lives - timebox the 🕯 Ritual Space 🕯 in your Google Calendar. I'm doing it for two weeks now and the simplicity of it works wonders.
Another great post, awesome stuff.
I find the degree to which Nick Land's Meltdown appears to be coming true before our eyes most definitely disturbing. Are we being sucked into a techno-capitalist singularity? Hopefully not. But, if we are then maybe at some point it will bring about a resurgence in humanism.
Keep writing.
So much in one article to think about, thank you Peter for crafting this. Our ordinary lives are indeed our canvas, our primary medium for expression - and it is through cultivating our external conditions, our IRL experiences and structures, that foster the emergence of our lifeworks as a never ending creative process to edge us closer to the sacred.
On it!