Browsing Archive: October, 2009
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
We can not help but give context to life. We can not help put meaning on life. As human beings we are built that way. Even if we say that life has no meaning, that is the meaning we are giving it. When we take the time to give our lives context, what we are in fact doing is providing ourselves with a container, a bedrock, an idea to measure things by. So to explore what context you are giving to life is not doing something that is foreign to you. Doing it consciously perhaps is, though o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Friday, October 16, 2009,
Life as art. What does that mean. Perhaps it would first be helpful to get an understanding of what art is. There are probably as many definitions as there are works of art and people participating, watching listening or doing. What art is for me is revelation. It is about revealing something about the world and humanity. It is not a weapon of politics in any shape or form, though one needs to have awareness of the arena. It is not asking people to emulate or possess something, be it a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Wednesday, October 14, 2009,
The gift to humanity. Joseph Campbell talks about the holy grail as the gift to humanity. While the two bands of angels were fighting, another group, who were dedicated to the human condition came on down and left the grail for us. It represents the bounty of humanity. I like the idea. As it is for me only when we really incarnate here, really inhabit our human state that we get anywhere close to being alive, and then we can experience the grandeur of it all. It is through being human t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Wednesday, October 14, 2009,
If we first accept that we are human, and make a move to understand what that means, what we are, what natural faculties we share with each and every other human, then the task is to live that well. What is a human being capable of. What are the attributes that makes us this particular species. Do we underestimate ourselves as an entire expression of life. Living consciously for me is to first understand this. It is the common ground that we all walk upon. Only then are we able to exp... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Tuesday, October 13, 2009,
I often hear the debate between heart and mind, between ego and being. The argument always leaves me feeling divided, like we are only here in bits and pieces until we wake up to the essential self, discard the tainted and move forth with the delights of the free world at our shoulder. It seems to me, that if the human being is perfect the way we are, if we are meant to be just as we are, then such proportioning of priority certainly misses the point. For if the soul is the eternal being i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Monday, October 12, 2009,
All I'm saying is we either make the human experience a machine, a very good machine, yet none the less, a mere expression of the quantum and mechanical world. Or can we comprehend even the intelligence that dares ask such. I am a machine when I am a slave to the thinking of others, when I am a servant to the knowings I keep deep buried. "To know thyself" so often quoted in the need to understand yourself. True. Yet first what we all of us are human beings. So what is that, come to kn... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Monday, October 12, 2009,
I am interested in this question. Is depression a mental illness, or is it a moment when life asks us to stop, to consider, to wake up to ourselves. Is depression a natural human phenomena that when embraced passes. Is it an illness because we make it one? We say that it is not natural so it belongs to the pocket of maladies that prevent productivity and functioning in
a particular world that measures success by what we do and achieve, not by who we are. Perhaps it is the way in which we ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 11, 2009,
Context is a good thing. It is useful to have a context, for a question, the way you look at
something, be with people, exchange, engage. It allows synergy, conflict in harmony, emergence of new
configurations. Playing with consciousness as your medium brings forth an experience of playing with organic
matter, from the inside.
So imagine you walked around with a cardboard box on your head, anything you encounter you shove into that box. Because there is only a curtain amount of room in... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 11, 2009,
It is interesting to note the way in which people go about their day to day lives. Not the moments that bring relief or recreation, not the moments on holiday, or over a wine and food. In these moments, our life is on hold, we are in the sacred space of football, or party, or eating, something other than the mundane. Time and space drift away for the brief interlude of something other. Where the poem writes itself is in our every day life, inside it, inside the relationships, inside the e... Continue reading ...
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About Me
I am an Alchemist, falling into the fires of transformation over and over as I realise the gold that I am. I choose to serve all humanity to that end, to raise the consciousness of humanity, one by one if that be the case. I am a writer, a speaker, an actor and fool.
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Browsing Archive: October, 2009
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 18, 2009,
We can not help but give context to life. We can not help put meaning on life. As human beings we are built that way. Even if we say that life has no meaning, that is the meaning we are giving it. When we take the time to give our lives context, what we are in fact doing is providing ourselves with a container, a bedrock, an idea to measure things by. So to explore what context you are giving to life is not doing something that is foreign to you. Doing it consciously perhaps is, though o... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Friday, October 16, 2009,
Life as art. What does that mean. Perhaps it would first be helpful to get an understanding of what art is. There are probably as many definitions as there are works of art and people participating, watching listening or doing. What art is for me is revelation. It is about revealing something about the world and humanity. It is not a weapon of politics in any shape or form, though one needs to have awareness of the arena. It is not asking people to emulate or possess something, be it a... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Wednesday, October 14, 2009,
The gift to humanity. Joseph Campbell talks about the holy grail as the gift to humanity. While the two bands of angels were fighting, another group, who were dedicated to the human condition came on down and left the grail for us. It represents the bounty of humanity. I like the idea. As it is for me only when we really incarnate here, really inhabit our human state that we get anywhere close to being alive, and then we can experience the grandeur of it all. It is through being human t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Wednesday, October 14, 2009,
If we first accept that we are human, and make a move to understand what that means, what we are, what natural faculties we share with each and every other human, then the task is to live that well. What is a human being capable of. What are the attributes that makes us this particular species. Do we underestimate ourselves as an entire expression of life. Living consciously for me is to first understand this. It is the common ground that we all walk upon. Only then are we able to exp... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Tuesday, October 13, 2009,
I often hear the debate between heart and mind, between ego and being. The argument always leaves me feeling divided, like we are only here in bits and pieces until we wake up to the essential self, discard the tainted and move forth with the delights of the free world at our shoulder. It seems to me, that if the human being is perfect the way we are, if we are meant to be just as we are, then such proportioning of priority certainly misses the point. For if the soul is the eternal being i... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Monday, October 12, 2009,
All I'm saying is we either make the human experience a machine, a very good machine, yet none the less, a mere expression of the quantum and mechanical world. Or can we comprehend even the intelligence that dares ask such. I am a machine when I am a slave to the thinking of others, when I am a servant to the knowings I keep deep buried. "To know thyself" so often quoted in the need to understand yourself. True. Yet first what we all of us are human beings. So what is that, come to kn... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Monday, October 12, 2009,
I am interested in this question. Is depression a mental illness, or is it a moment when life asks us to stop, to consider, to wake up to ourselves. Is depression a natural human phenomena that when embraced passes. Is it an illness because we make it one? We say that it is not natural so it belongs to the pocket of maladies that prevent productivity and functioning in
a particular world that measures success by what we do and achieve, not by who we are. Perhaps it is the way in which we ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 11, 2009,
Context is a good thing. It is useful to have a context, for a question, the way you look at
something, be with people, exchange, engage. It allows synergy, conflict in harmony, emergence of new
configurations. Playing with consciousness as your medium brings forth an experience of playing with organic
matter, from the inside.
So imagine you walked around with a cardboard box on your head, anything you encounter you shove into that box. Because there is only a curtain amount of room in... Continue reading ...
Posted by Phillip Gordon on Sunday, October 11, 2009,
It is interesting to note the way in which people go about their day to day lives. Not the moments that bring relief or recreation, not the moments on holiday, or over a wine and food. In these moments, our life is on hold, we are in the sacred space of football, or party, or eating, something other than the mundane. Time and space drift away for the brief interlude of something other. Where the poem writes itself is in our every day life, inside it, inside the relationships, inside the e... Continue reading ...
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