{"id":1868,"date":"2014-10-01T19:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2014-10-01T19:05:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T03:05:05","slug":"learning-at-warp-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1868","title":{"rendered":"Learning at Warp Speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of the theme of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_History\">big history<\/a>&#8221; recently. Collective leaning is a powerful force, and it\u2019s not clear we\u2019re learning. Big history shows us the broad sweep of evolution, physical, chemical, biological. We haven\u2019t had the knowledge to tie all these together before the mid-late 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>We are the living residue of complex galactic and stellar evolution, planetary formation, geological evolution over many billions and then millions of years. We are the culmination of biological evolution on this planet, and this in turn has affected geology! We are either a culmination of animal, mammal, and primate evolution, or perhaps a spin-off into the catastrophic possibility of a species becoming clever, but not clever enough to stop itself from killing much of life on this planet\u2014and itself, too.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing about this \u201cbig history\u201d facilitates an emergence of a sentiment that\u2019s open to inter- and trans-spirituality, quite beyond the battling dogmatic \u201creligions\u201d that have tied us not only to roots in wisdom and fellowship, but also many sins\u2014patriarchy, ethnocentrism, materialism, etc. Religion may be said to have supported imperialism, feudalism, monarchism, colonialism, exploitative capitalism, and other \u201c-ism\u201ds that have characterized pre-modern and modern societies.<\/p>\n<p>Postmodern societies are spawning a multiplicity of forms that contrast. I\u2019m far from saying that all that comes nowadays is good stuff. Some offers promise, other developments seem to me to be seductions, forms of addiction, and other pitfalls. But that\u2019s the way it goes. Sometimes something that I shake my head about turns out to be good after all. (I call my initial reluctance \u201cthe fuddy duddy complex!)<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to introduce into this transition a number of methods that offer promise of consciousness-raising. I hope to make a tiny contribution to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reminded of the theme of &#8220;big history&#8221; recently. Collective leaning is a powerful force, and it\u2019s not clear we\u2019re learning. Big history shows us the broad sweep of evolution, physical, chemical, biological. We haven\u2019t had the knowledge to tie all these together before the mid-late 20th century. We are the living residue of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-spirituality-and-philosophy","category-wisdom-ing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}