Brian Eno: ‘Sex, drugs, art… they’re all ways of surrendering’
Eno's contention is that there are four areas – religion, art, sex, drugs – in which this kind of surrender is prized. "These are areas where you stop being manipulators of your surroundings and become recipients. In religion, you stop being you and you start to become us. With drugs, you go from being you to being part of everything. In lots of So... See more
Stuart Jeffries • Surrender. It's Brian Eno
Sure, but the way to stop a tipping point is not to freak out about 30% of the Amazon. It’s to devolve power and control to the people who are on the frontlines of that struggle and to return the power to them to self-govern their relationships to land and living systems and to fight back against the desecration of the sacred.
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
Zoom in and obsess. Zoom out and observe. We get to choose. When we reach an impasse, we may experience feelings of hopelessness. The ability to stay out of the story, zoom back, and see new pathways into and around a challenge will be of boundless use. If we allow this principle to work on us as we work on it, our imagination frees us from the web
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The main problem with Burning Man — and with the current psychedelic renaissance — is the lack of a meaningful systems-level critique. Such a critique would understand humanity’s natural vitalizing impulses — our innate yearning for ecstasy and transcendence through altered states, eroticism, liberated movement, and community communion — as antidot... See more