Existential Rehab (ER)
[resuscitating your inner life one insight/epiphany at a time]
[resuscitating your inner life one insight/epiphany at a time]
One of my childhood sports (in addition to water polo) was rowing. Rowing alone on the river always felt very philosophical to me. This vignette is an existential musing on the theme of an old childhood song.
On freeing ourselves from societal definitions of meaning and on taking personal control over what we consider to be significant (“existential nihilism”).
Miike Snow's song "Animal" - imho - is an anthem of Darwinian self-acceptance: we all slip... because we are all animals. "Humankind" is a construct.
We grow up thinking we are human. Humanity is just a concept. A dualistic concept that separates us from the animal kingdom.
Atomic means indivisible. Atoms, as we think of them, are divisible. But oneness isn't. Oneness is atomic. A nondual perspective on who/what you are and aren't.
"Are mycelial networks conscious? If so, would mycelial networks run on a software of duality or nonduality? Are we - so-called humans - mobile mycelial diaspora?" - pattern-break questions may lead to paradigm-shifting answers. This video is designed to provoke curiosity about consciousness and the concept of nonduality which is at the foundation of Eastern approaches to equanimity.