This and That

Thou art That

My old touchstones:

"Inside is Outside"
"Make it New"
"All is One; One is All"
"It's an Open Book"
"Everything is Everything"

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I'm watching Milos Forman's "Hair" (1979) on TCM

It's 3:43 AM June 2, 2008. I'll be 58 in 30 hours.

Ken Wilber has said that the 60's hippies emphasized "feeling" over "consciousness" - true, a lot of them (us) did, but the body had to be re-contacted and re-integrated from the trauma (pathology) of the European dissociation of mind/body that occurred during the 16th-18th century enlightenment (instead of the healthy differentiation that was necessary progressively, evolutionarily, transformationally. So, the mistake many made was regressing back to pre-rational body only, not a new synergy of recontacted body and higher mind, what Da Free John calls "feeling-attention". But some of us did understand, and did transform. I had a sexual block, a 2nd chakra block, with a lot of fear there from trauma at around 2 years old (that I can't remember [something about not being touched enough, so consequently not loving my body, plus my self-judgments about being gay that I picked up from the culture at an early age [around 6 yrs. old] from the culture). Nevertheless, I was in tune with Leary, Ram Dass, de Chardin, Joseph Chilton Pearce, McCluan (that's another mixed bag).

The Integral idealism of the late 60s higher culture as evidenced through those people and the Love-Ins in San Francisco was unfortunately replaced with the decadence of the 70s, postmodern and creative as it was (e.g. David Bowie).
The New Age Movement came into being, with its mixed bag - some right-on parts that did not confuse pre- and trans-ratonal, but were decidely trans-rational, and some that confused pre- and trans-rational in a mess.

The postmodern era of the 70s ushered in so many advances, the 2nd feminist movement, the gay rights movement, the environmental movement, Planetcentric consciousness, (Kosmocentric Consciousness had flowered in the late 60s and still survived in the healthy New Age movements of the time), and tthe indigineous peoples' movements (there were some pre-trans confustions there, but, nevertheless) this was multiculturalism and pluralism in contrast to monoculture, a great advance; the error was that it was a relative pluralism that denied hierarchy, more properly characterized as holarchy, which denies depth, levels, development, and loving judgment (not based on race, sex, sexual orientation, creed), but on he holorachal "chain'' of being and development, all in a matrix of unconditional LOVE.