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Consciousness

Workshop – Elemental Transformation: Changing How We Work with Change

by Seth on February 3, 2010

Form / Re-Form / In-Form / Trans-Form
Elemental Transformation: Changing How We Work with Change
 
A hands-on/minds-on workshop with Frank Chester and Seth Miller
Saturday, March 20th
9 am – 5 pm
Live Oak Charter School Petaluma, CA
All workshop materials provided. Cost: $100
Minimum 15 people required: tell your friends!
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The Art of Nature: Alchemy, Goethe, and a New Aesthetic Consciousness

by Seth on December 20, 2009

Are you fascinated by the beauty of forms in the natural world?  Do you sense something amazing at work out there, like an intelligence that lies just beneath the surfaces of things?  Then I invite you to read a new essay that explores the building of a new aesthetic consciousness that seeks to connect us with [...]

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Coincidence, Randomness, and Meaning

by Seth on November 30, 2009

Maybe you’ve had this experience:  You are thinking about an acquaintance that you haven’t thought about in a long time and at that moment the phone rings.  ”What are the odds that it’s Jerry?” you think to yourself.  And when it IS Jerry on the other line it seems somehow magical, amazing, beyond mere chance. [...]

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Musings on the rise of the intellect in ancient Greece

by Seth on November 27, 2009

I’ve always been struck by the historical uniqueness of ancient Greece.  The most amazing and radical transitions were experienced by the culture(s) present around the Aegean sea during only a few centuries.  The most striking thing about the transformation was the rise of a thinking that started to take itself as its own object.  We [...]

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Musings on Paleolithic Art and Consciousness

by Seth on November 23, 2009

I’m actually somewhat uncomfortable calling Paleolithic renderings “art” – not because they don’t meet some standard set of criterion, but because of the very nature of the ‘calling’ itself seems to go against the experience of the makers of the art.  See, there again, an assumption: “the makers of the art”, which includes a dichotomy [...]

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