Short Reflection & Guided Meditation | Earthworm Practice for the Anthropocene III | Online Wednesday-Mornings

Overview of the last 12 months, Conditions that help engagement: 1. contentment and appreciation; Dr Luke Kemp, his study on civilizational collapse and the value of happiness; contentment and burnout; 2. Anger as being pivotal, types of anger; recent world changes related to anger; tempus nullius; risks and care in relation to anger; Aristotle on the value of anger; Mahakala as a helpful image; 3. An inclusive way of looking; Mother Theresa and one’s family circle; Analyo Bhikkhu and the question of what can one do; 4. Equanimity: perspective of John Gray on the myth of progress in the field of ethics and politics - with examples; Philip Blom on a view of homo sapiens and the comedy of homo sapiens seeing itself as the ruler of nature; 5. A sense of duty and the soulful quality that can come with that; 6. Stories and images: Ursula Le Guin and the Ones who Walk Away from Omelas - with an interpretation; James Hillman and Michael Ventura; Kuan Yin as an image and how she is seen by some in a large Buddhist charity.

Further possible characteristics of images: slightly less fabricated, sense of divinity, an unfathomable quality, soft and elastic edges, timelessness, sense that images can’t be fully captured or reduced, sense of other images being in the field, echoing or resonance between the image and oneself.

Julie Nelson and the romantic belief in knowledge from a perspective-free viewpoint; the interaction of eros, heart-mind-soul and the conceptual framework; the characteristic of soulfulness; Jack Kornfield on an approach to images in psychedelic experience: how that differs from imaginal practice; working with characteristics that may not be present; other characteristics: the lattice, grace, trust, reverence, humility, values, beauty, duty, fulness of intention, participation; imaginal views of oneself; WH Auden and Henry Corbin; caution on talking about images with others; the six devas on Lantau Island, what they represent, and how they could be related to.