http://www.kosmictom.com the personal blog of Tom Huston Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:59:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After setting up my profile at the new, just-launched Integral Life website, I've been visiting the nascent discussion forums and have started to engage with other members a bit. In the section headed "What does an Integral Life mean to you?" I responded enthusiastically to one member's suggestion that integrity ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/integrity-the-foundation-of-an-integral-life/ My wife snapped this cell-phone pic of London's famous statue of Eros, the Greek god better known as Cupid (his Roman derivative), while we were walking through Piccadilly Circus on Saturday. There were lots of people sitting around the base of the distinctive landmark, but hardly anyone seemed ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/the-kosmocentric-stage-part-2/ "You ask, how can we know the Infinite? I answer, not by reason. It is the office of reason to distinguish and define. The Infinite, therefore, cannot be ranked among its objects. You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/quote-of-the-day-brought-to-you-by-plotinus/ Today at the main EnlightenNext center in Lenox, Massachusetts, we had what we call a "practice day" -- meditating together from dawn to dusk. Our colleagues at the London center did the same. Meanwhile, our spiritual teacher, Andrew Cohen, was leading two hundred people through the finer points of Evolutionary ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/blissed-and-gone/ Mac Tonnies' blog tipped me off to "the largest sand drawing on Earth." Check it out! Very impressive stuff...though not quite as impressive as the Olympics opener yesterday. That three-hour spectacular display of epic magnitudes of machinelike human precision and techno-majestic creativity almost made me want to enroll in the ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/ordinary-terrestrials-putting-crop-circles-to-shame/ What does it mean to be "Kosmocentric"? That's the question I want to explore over the coming weeks on this blog. It's something that, as a student of Andrew Cohen's teachings of Evolutionary Enlightenment, I think about all the time, and it's also a clear line of inquiry ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/the-kosmocentric-stage-part-1/ My teacher Andrew Cohen's latest Quote of the Week: Q: Traditionally, enlightenment has often been described as "ego-death." Is it possible to attain a state where the ego actually dies? A: Well, I've met one or two people in my life in whom it appeared that the ego had literally died. But ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/08/an-attainable-goal/ Now, I'm sure everyone and his brother has seen this by now, in one iteration or another, but we were watching the latest edition of "Where the Hell Is Matt?" at the end of our WIE editorial meeting the other day, and this morning I woke up thinking it would ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/07/worldcentric-joy/ A friend just tipped me off to a fascinating song by a Denver band called the Flobots. They're a Gen-Y alt rock/rap group doing what alt rock does best: lamenting the state of everything. Check out the video for their hit single "No Handlebars" below. Upon an initial viewing, I ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/07/no-handlebars/ I've been neglecting this here blog for the past couple of weeks while we've been working one-pointedly to get the latest issue of WIE out the door, but after finishing my final tidbitty tweaks today, I flipped through the latest issue of Rolling Stone, which tipped me off to something ... http://www.kosmictom.com/2008/06/a-day-in-the-life/