Mind Body Spirit and Enchantment of Place Presentation
Mind. Body. Spirit and Enchantment of Place Presentation to Gaia Storytelling Lab 21 October 2020 David M. Boje https: //davidboje. com for these slides
What is Spirit? In Chat, write your answer What was Spirit in Premodern times (before industrial revolution, before Enlightenment, etc. ) How is Spirit defined in 2020?
Greek Myth of Gaia Mother Earth, The mother of us all, the oldest of all, hard Splendid as rock Whatever there is that is of the land it is she who nourishes it, It is Earth that I sing – Homer
In Premodern “The Earth was held sacred as the embodiment of a Great Spirit, the creative power of the universe, manifest in all phenomena of nature” (Daniel Hillel, cited p. 115 Suzuki/1997/2007)
What is Earth Spirit? Mind. Body. Spirit is inseparable from Nature, the landscape, seasons, lives of the other animals, mountains, rocks, trees, streams and caves Then industrialization turned Earth into Dirt (Suzuki, 115) Humans became terrestrially uncoupled from Earth Spirit & truth of fertile soil no longer seen as sacred soil of organisms
Hopi of New Mexico “Hopi land is held in trust in a spiritual way for the Great Spirit Massau’u” (Suzuki, 118) ❤�� -of-Care of Hopi is stewardship for the Earth’s land & water. Including the Microcosmos of microorganisms as elements of Earth unit water, air, soil, and fire (sun energy) into webs of life
One teaspoon of healthy soil has lots of Life that is ignored in Liquid Modern Times
George Ritzer (2005) The Re-Enchantment Process of Rationalization leads to Disenchantment Efficiency Calculability Predictability & Control
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Capitalism has become Sustainability Theater I live in New Mexico ‘THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT’ There is no room for Enchantment Marx’s prophecy of alienated production & consumption fulfilled Guy Debord – we have become spectators to simulations: 1. Disneyfication 2. Las Vegasization 3. Mc. Donaldization Fake Storytelling is more Real than the Real
BREAKOUT QUESTION: How to Re-Enchant a Disenchanted World of LIQUID MODERNITY?
Thomas Moore (1996) The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life Spirit of Place Take a walk, do Debord’s Dérive-Walking in Paris, or Benjamin’s Flaneur strolling through the mall. What are stories about place, its history, its geniuses “We need a ‘nose’ to detect the spirit of a place” because rational thought won’t take us there (Moore, 82)
The Dérive • The dérive is a revolutionary strategy originally put forward in the "Theory of the Dérive" (1956) by Guy Debord • See THEORY OF THE Dérive • Download for Android • Download for MAC
Keith Basso (1996) Wisdom Sits in Places New Mexico Apace, ‘stalking with stories’ E. g. I [Boje] know the Organ Mountains. I hike Baylor’s Canyon, for vision quest in September 2020 “… stories go to work on you like arrow … stories make you live right. Stories make you replace yourself” (Benson Leung, cited p. 38).
“All these places have stories” (Basso, 1996: 48)
Peter Tufts Richardson (1996: 185 -193) See Boje study page on line
Chogyam Trungpa (1973) Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism What is Spiritual Materialism It is Egoistic, the rationalization of spiritual path Cutting through ego for “True spirituality to be realized” (p. 14). What is wrong with taking spiritual sides? (put answer in chat)
What is wrong with taking spiritual sides? (put answer in chat) ANSWER: Judgement that one should be doing path X and not doing path Y or Z (Trungpa, 1973) In Buddhism the ego of bureaucratic mind, the desire to accumulate more spiritual materialism, makes one blind to whole ensemble of spiritual paths What is beautiful is not the junk shop of clutter, it is beauty of simplicity
The spiritual path of truth is by meditation Trungpa 1973 Similar to Derive Walking and Flaneur Strolling Walk then pause. Choose object to look at, and it brings mental calm and the heart concentrations on (e. g. ) Roadrunner Pond Fairy Shrimp Pond Tadpole Pond Hackberry Tree, seed Heart becomes open to the energy of place, the spirit of place
This is the Truth of the Path of Simplicity. Walking Exercise on Zoom- DO THE FOLLOWING: Stand, and walk about your place Be aware of leg lifting, swinging, each foot swinging, toes pressing into place. Simplicity of the Samathha-Walking-Meditation
I am Jain “All good deeds blossom from Truth” (Gurudev Chitrabhanu, a handout he gave to me).
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