Cosmos Café: Attuning to Ultimate Realities [Open Session]
Channel: Cosmos Co-op
Date: 26/07/2018

Mark and Michael join the call early and get to talking about “being gruff” and managing one’s own personality in relation to those with more delicate tastes.  The flip side has to do with how we receive hostility from others. How do we receive people who are being ‘uncool’ (whether online or offline) and not lose our ‘cool’? Ed refers to our reading group on Sri Aurobindo’s The Life Divine, and we shift into a discussion of how we perceive the world around us—what Marco calls “ultimate reality” but, as John and Geoffrey suggest, could also be approached in terms of “becoming,” “experience,” “feeling,” “attunement” and other words. Mark asserts (quoting Philip K. Dick) that the real is that which doesn’t go away when you stop believing in it—he gives the example of his personal physical/psychical pain in the aftermath of the 2016 elections—which leads into an exploration of how our beliefs and ways of feeling (affect) shape what we experience as real, who we become as persons, and how we communicate across our differences.

Participants:

Mark Jabbour
Michael Stumpf
Geoffrey Edwards
Marco V Morelli
Ed Mahood
John Davis

Recorded: July 17, 2018

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