Tag: Awe

Final Repository & Existential Vertigo

Final Repository & Existential Vertigo

This is not a partisan speech. Hardly political.

The Government has promised to announce the final disposal of nuclear waste within a few weeks. This has been investigated and decisions have been postponed for a long time. But now it’s going to happen. The debris from Sweden’s nuclear project so far will be buried somewhere. And somehow.

But the fact that you should now be able to find an arrangement that should be safe, so that radioactivity does not disappear into the groundwater, for a hundred thousand (!) years ahead, gives me vertigo. Existential vertigo.

Normally, surely, if you investigated something for forty years and had div researchers plugged into the problem, then surely you should be able to make a decision? It applies to almost anything! Build a ring road around Stockholm, demolish Slussen, move a whole small town (Kiruna), etc. Perhaps the next generation will fool us. That it got bad. Like sailors eradicating the terrible dodo for a hundred? years ago. But every time needs to act and dare to make decisions based on what you think you want at the time. Normally, it is reasonable. On almost any other issue…

What if humanity and the Swedes are still there in 10,000 years? The entire East Coast is uninhabitable, people need to get iodine intravenously, diseases… For a decision the ancestors made ten thousand years ago

I am completely uninhaposed about this. But they’d rather spend a few billion dollars on a solution that isn’t permanent instead. Wait for a decision for at least one or two generations. Just in case…

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/kopparkapseln-kan-spricka-redan-om-100-ar

I wonder if they had a philosopher involved in the investigation? We are talking about “philosophical practice”, as a complement to psychotherapy, the existential. I don’t know, I don’t know. But here would really be needed philosophical competence, someone who can look beyond numbers and probability calculations.

“Wonder Yoga”

“Wonder Yoga”

“Yoga.” I put it in Google and got a lot of pictures. And maybe I’m the one who’s getting dull and creaky, but I felt that most of it radiated about the same as if I’d googled gymnastics or fitness.

Doesn’t yoga mean “getting in touch with God”? My experience with yoga is an evening course via NBV in the eightties. We were in a room at a nursing home in the small Dalecarlia town where I grew up. “Hatha yoga” was it. And so I know there’s a direction called “Gnana yoga” (?). But it should be thoughts of a certain quality, and performed with some discipline, one can imagine… “Bhakti yoga”, to serve others, helpfulness.

In another post the other day, I hatched the expression “Wonder yoga”. (It wasn’t entirely new, I remember pondering on it last winter as well.) That expression strikes me somehow. Wonder, and I don’t mean only, or primarily, an elated, grand feeling or experience. But something else. Or something else as well.

I’m going to watch Friday’s finale of Idol. “Hang loose,” the host says when it’s between two participants at the end. To “hang loose” in relation to the answers to the big questions. That actually comes close to what I mean.

Martinus faces resistance

Martinus faces resistance

Always refreshing, but so rarely only happens when the Danish Martinus Thomsen’s (1890-1981) esoteric system gets some qualified, interested, moderately benevolent, resistance like this! (The section will be a kind of variant, with the same qualities, as the Nexus article from -82,I think.)

“Martinus Thomsen was in his thirties experiencing a transformative spiritual experience. He received strong divine light, and met a Christ figure. This led to him receiving what he called cosmic consciousness. He spent the rest of his life writing down what had been revealed to him. The life’s work was named the Book of Life. The name Is also the Third Testament.

We talk to Mikael Krall and Olav Johansson about the man and the work.”

“Magical Thinking – About the Bigger Reality” #075 MARTINUS THOMSEN (2 h 2 min)

Link to podcast: https://bit.ly/3xk4VRL

An interview that evokes the thoughts of both those who interview, as it seems, and in me who listen.

Surely it’s about faith, for me (even if I’ve been cowardly out of? o hardly dealing with metaphysics anymore) and most people. But with the addition that perhaps there are others for whom the beliefs in this field (reincarnation for example) are actually knowing, I don’t know what’s possible, but I feel like I need to keep this open in the wigifying case.

Otherwise, I became some kind of… I don’t know what?… The philosopher of dissatisfaction who takes every opportunity to cause trouble just because… Or as if it were trapped in some belief of their own (either that something metaphysical is not found, or that in a matter of fact it is not possible to have self-perceived knowledge of this) … And that would be a kind of prison, that with, o waste of energy.

I have a great sympathy for the approach that the big questions, which Martinus and others have published the text about, would in fact lack answers. At the same time, can’t even your attitude include keeping life open might actually work in a certain way, o that others may have gained knowledge of this? It doesn’t cost anything, keep it open, I think.

But what would it take? It has to be a balancing act in higher school. Some kind of wonder yoga 😃

Life goes on

Life goes on

This picture was taken by my father 30 years ago. He was about as old as I am today. When he were in town he came by my job. I don’t think he ever really understood what I was doing. And I was too young and confused to care, or to realize that I cared.

Now dad’s gone. The year before E arrived. Dad’s birthday was this weekend, the little guy’s tomorrow. I became a father myself. At least today I know how good he was, my dad.

Thinking about this is like standing in an existentially damn cross-drag. Enigmatic, sad, and feeling strangely happy at the same time.

No wonder people have become religious.