The Power of the Story

Will Healing Lead You to Your Destiny?

Robin Power — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:02:24 +0000

“Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.” -Caroline Myss

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Russell Brand in an interview with David Pinchbeck

Robin Power — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:05:49 +0000

“What canvas have we but the self?” Russell Brand You may not care for his movies or his brand of comedy, but this man is a philosopher.

Filed under: Finding Your Voice Tagged: change agent, David Pinchbeck, revolution, Russell Brand, the power of media, the role of media

Joe on “rising above limitation and restraint.”

Robin Power — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:19:35 +0000

Joseph Chilton Pearce on the dynamic of biology and culture is well-worth the length of this interview. And THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCENDENCE: A BLUEPRINT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT is certainly worth the read.

In this interview with Duncan Campbell, he discusses the reasons culture is violent. He explains that by its nature it inhibits our biological drive toward transcendence. We are creatures designed to adapt and change. However, culture is not. Culture demands status quo. This tension will always build into a rage. Governmental powers that understand this have learned to shape narratives so that “an outside force . . .is organized” into a demon. The building internal rage of the individual is then culturally focused around an externalized block to the drive toward adaptability. It diverts the attention away from the self and toward other and releases the rage there.

And much more. Talk at its best.

Filed under: Zeitgeist Tagged: duncan campbell, joseph chilton pearce, power of story, the biology of transcendence, transcendence, Zeitgeist

The Power of Community

Robin Power — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:10:22 +0000

The Power of Community cannot be overlooked. Our story around community has been corrupted through some erroneous beliefs about biology and evolution, which has created a cancerous culture.

Education researcher (and Kentucky native) Joseph Chilton Pearce has pointed out, “We have a name for cells that don’t work for the good of the whole organism. We call them ‘cancer’.” Pearce worries that a false understanding of our human role on the planet has led to tumor-like behavior on our part, rather than healthier kinds of growth.

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Filed under: Observations, Social Commentary, The Power of Community Tagged: create your reality, evolution, joseph chilton pearce, manifesting your destiny, political campaigns, power of story, self esteem, shift your power, the power of community, Zeitgeist

Robin Power — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:58:53 +0000

This is an exploration of the power of story to keep us trapped in our current mindset. Charles Eisenstein makes clear the necessity for a new story for the Western world and those cultures emulating us.

Separation is not an ultimate reality, but a human projection, an ideology, a story. As in all cultures, our defining Story of the People has two deeply related parts: a Story of Self, and a Story of the World. The first is the discrete and separate self: a bubble of psychology, a skin-encapsulated soul, a biological phenotype driven by its genes to seek reproductive self-interest, a rational actor seeking economic self-interest, a physical observer of an objective universe, a mote of consciousness in a prison of flesh. The second is the story of Ascent: that humanity, starting from a state of ignorance and powerlessness, is harnessing the forces of nature and probing the secrets of the universe, moving inexorably toward our destiny of complete mastery over, and transcendence of, nature. It is a story of the separation of the human realm from the natural, in which the former expands and the latter is turned progressively into resources, goods, property, and, ultimately, money.

Filed under: Mainstream mystic, Social Commentary, Zeitgeist Tagged: activism, charles eisenstein, power of the story, sacred economics, transcendence, Zeitgeist

A New Story

Robin Power — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:31:34 +0000

“A new narrative is emerging, one where each person is integral to the larger picture; the journey of each one of us being a part of the journey as a whole. And a new story is emerging that tells us that the possibilities are open for humanity to engage in creating its way forward, consciously, and with harmony, balance and respect to all systems. This new human story gives us a renewed sense of meaning to our lives and makes us want to “wake up” each morning and each moment to this great enterprise.”

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“My Favorite Parenthetical Thought”

Robin Power — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:18:19 +0000

“(Contained
within cosmic
laws is the energy of grace,
which animates
what we call higher motivation
when a universal law
emerges in our psyche
during a decision making moment,
it comes
as a messenger of grace,
as well as psychic motivation.
In contrast,
traffic laws on the highway
are not ‘grace-filled.’
They are order-keepers
of the mundane
world that lack
the animation of grace.
However,
an intuitive ‘hit’
to slow down
for no conscious reason,
which then turns out
to be a life-saving act
because another car
was out-of-control,
is an act of grace
operating in the mundane
world.)”

Carline Myss, April Salon (Year not recorded.)

Filed under: Poetry Tagged: caroline myss, Grace, mainstream mystic, Poetry, shift your power, transcendence, truth, Zeitgeist

Art is Divine

Robin Power — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:55:45 +0000

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” Picasso

Filed under: You are Important Tagged: art, art as prayer, creating your own reality

Joseph Chilton Pearce: The Power and Purpose of Play

Robin Power — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:49:53 +0000

“Real learning takes place in the state children call play. The majority of learning adults think of is conditioning and that looks and feels like school. Play is nature’s agenda for optimum learning and performance at any age, any field, anytime. This is one of the best reviews of the importance of play you will find anywhere – Joseph Chilton Pearce at this best with Michael Mendizza.”

Filed under: Finding Your Voice Tagged: brain development, education, joseph chilton pearce, play in education, power of play, purpose of play, reason for play

Lynne McTaggart Explains that Story is Seeing and Seeing is Story

Robin Power — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:59:15 +0000

“The stories we tell ourselves about how the world works ultimately govern what we perceive.” Lynne McTaggart

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The eyes have it, she says. What we are taught about how we relate to other, what our role is on the planet, governs the way we see–literally.

Filed under: Mainstream mystic, Observations Tagged: brain development, create your reality, lynne mctaggart; sense of self, manifesting your destiny, power of story, relationship of self to world. life purpose