Thanks so much for you photo. I guess we are both violinists, and hope we seek to play some duets in the not-too-distant future. Mejor in Espana.

Harvey

Thanks so much for you photo. I guess we are both violinists, and hope we seek to play some duets in the not-too-distant future. Mejor in Espana.

Harvey

These times are very “interesting.” Negative possibilities include the chance of a violent dictatorship (Hitler took over in a very similar moment!) or a theocracy of someone who seeks equally great power, or…

In these contexts – noting the vast rise of “strong” religion – in America, and in much of the world – I’ve been thinking of new possibilities of thought. I’ve been thinking more about how to “create” or “inspire” meaning and the future (what my teaching-as-dialogue is toward, I hope): a Meaningful Life, Who Owns the World: different notions of history and of the future which I hope and try to “inspire” in “Next Places” and “Teaching as Dialogue” (the latter should be “up” on this website in the near future.

So how to imagine a future “beyond” history, envisioning a sense of future without national boundaries (global warming implies this, I think), and create a sense of living a long-est life, while continuing to grow and expand?

Harvey

These times are very “interesting.” Negative possibilities include the chance of a violent dictatorship (Hitler took over in a very similar moment!) or a theocracy of someone who seeks equally great power, or…

In these contexts – noting the vast rise of “strong” religion – in America, and in much of the world – I’ve been thinking of new possibilities of thought. I’ve been thinking more about how to “create” or “inspire” meaning and the future (what my teaching-as-dialogue is toward, I hope): a Meaningful Life, Who Owns the World: different notions of history and of the future which I hope and try to “inspire” in “Next Places” and “Teaching as Dialogue” (the latter should be “up” on this website in the near future.

So how to imagine a future “beyond” history, envisioning a sense of future without national boundaries (global warming implies this, I think), and create a sense of living a long-est life, while continuing to grow and expand?

Harvey

The last time I saw you we talked briefly about the moon landing. That one picture of the big blue Earth, you said, made globalism possible by offering up the world as something that can be sensed as a whole. Questions of faith (could the photo have been a hoax?) aside, I would submit to you that this global cosmology is an interested fiction. And the interested parties have names and addresses. When our understanding of the world loses all organic connection to our experience of the world, our consciousness (or, in academic parlance, our being/doing) is ripe for the picking. I have started to write down a series of notes to the future. I’d like to think I would’ve thought of this without having taken your class, but who knows. Nietzsche makes sense to me right now; record the available genealogy and pray that the future sees the future before its too late.

Is this hopelessness? How do we take on the neocons and postmods yet take up neither their noble lies nor their insidious nothings? Monsters and battling them… Blech!

The last time I saw you we talked briefly about the moon landing. That one picture of the big blue Earth, you said, made globalism possible by offering up the world as something that can be sensed as a whole. Questions of faith (could the photo have been a hoax?) aside, I would submit to you that this global cosmology is an interested fiction. And the interested parties have names and addresses. When our understanding of the world loses all organic connection to our experience of the world, our consciousness (or, in academic parlance, our being/doing) is ripe for the picking. I have started to write down a series of notes to the future. I’d like to think I would’ve thought of this without having taken your class, but who knows. Nietzsche makes sense to me right now; record the available genealogy and pray that the future sees the future before its too late.

Is this hopelessness? How do we take on the neocons and postmods yet take up neither their noble lies nor their insidious nothings? Monsters and battling them… Blech!

Ironic, the sounds created (by imagination?) transport us energetically beyond – or could it be we are more fully within ourselves making music, overwhelming our habitual perception of ordinariness?

Extra Sensory, Memory Sensory, Image Sensory? I feel that all our sensory perception is grounded in tactile perception – I do not know where or when in space or time – that gets a bit complicated. Returning to my ground substance allows me to “hear” and to feel grateful for this fleeting gift.

I’m here in the Twin Cities for several days at a seminar at the Doubletree on La Salle and my window just happens to face south – felt your presence so strongly – I wanted to respond in kind.

Ironic, the sounds created (by imagination?) transport us energetically beyond – or could it be we are more fully within ourselves making music, overwhelming our habitual perception of ordinariness?

Extra Sensory, Memory Sensory, Image Sensory? I feel that all our sensory perception is grounded in tactile perception – I do not know where or when in space or time – that gets a bit complicated. Returning to my ground substance allows me to “hear” and to feel grateful for this fleeting gift.

I’m here in the Twin Cities for several days at a seminar at the Doubletree on La Salle and my window just happens to face south – felt your presence so strongly – I wanted to respond in kind.