Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label consciousness. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

We are a big community, don't forget it!


This is the perfect time to remember that we are a big community. 
We are humans, a species that is able of creativity and humour but also destruction and wars. What really matters is the fundamental choice we make, not our beliefs, our life style, our culture, our location. That's why I don't use words as "religion" or "spirituality", I prefer "expanded consciousness" or just "consciouness" (António Damásio).

We share ideas, experiences, techniques. 
We laugh together. We even sing together. 
We build bridges, public spaces, new projects everyday. 
We try to find new ways of improving quality of life everywhere. 
We know that we do have the science and the technologies to do it, and we know that it means to protect the planet and other species. 
We have that responsability.









Saturday, April 27, 2013

"Close Encounters of the Third Kind" projects on extra-terrestrials the best parts of human nature


Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a Spielberg movie about extra-terrestrials that reveals much more about terrestrials. It projects on extra-terrestrials the best parts of human nature.

This week I found on youtube a video with a scene I wanted to show you today:



Just notice how some of these scenes look like a documentary, that's an art mastered by very few directors: it seems real because it's about real people, it could happen that way. And also notice how strong is human quest for the truth. They want answers. No boundaries can stop them. Their need to understand overcomes fear.
Religion, science and politics have tried to fill this human quest. We are submersed by information, manipulation, consumer marketing, the constant noise. This movie also reminds us that we must always question information and try to validate it.
No given explanation can replace individual counsciousness, especially when it makes resonance with others'. We need one another, we are communities, so, we must learn how to respect other's space and time.