(...) Ravi Ravindra remembers us of the rishi Dirghatamas of Rigveda, and his statements about the relationship between the I (aham) and the cosmos (idam):
"I know not clearly whether I am the same as this cosmos: a mystery I am, yet, conceived in mind I wander".
One verse later Dirghatamas says
"When the first born principle of Rta (cosmic law) entered in me, then of this vak (speech) I obtained a portion".
Discussing absolute knowledge, R. Ravindra mentions about the vedic sacrifice as the "sacrifice of the mind (citta) for the sake of purusa, the only true seer. This purusa is not your or mine, is the pure power of seeing". The seer, the seen, the seing are all one: purusa. This state is called kaivalya = of alones, not in the sense of separation, but simply because there is no other (only purusa, purusa is only).
(...) "Rta is like a wave pattern and satya (truth) like a particle pattern. Both of them are one reality - rta is the flow of time and satya the expansion of space.


HOPE WEEK 2 : 22 - 26 Feb 2010
THE CIRCULATION OF HOPE / IMAGINEERING THE NOW
or Everything you always thought you knew about hope, but are about to redefine!
collaboration between a.pt and Micromarché

In this practice-based workshop radical_hope and aude thensiau explore the mobility of hope within a city.
hope as the now, de-futurized
hope as a social body, de-individualized
hope as an social affect, de-personalized
hope as invention
hope as auto-poetry
hope as a moment of change
hope as a choreography
hope as movement
how can this hope be communicated throughout the city?
how can hope be an answer to your own question?
how can you reach people you don't know to join in the circulation of hope.
in this 5-day workshop we will develop different strategies to make hope mobile and volatile, make hope travel and return,
set up conversations with unknown participants, start up dialogues with non-present collaborators.Possible strategies,
probably
not to be used, but nice as a starting point: recounting, laziness,
branding, self-instruction, wild card invitations, object-chain
letters, ...
working times: 22 - 26 Feb, (monday to friday), 10-18h
last admissions: 20th of february
place: MicroMarché, Steenkoolkaai 9, 1000 Brussels


Somewhere in a near future, art became the new religion of this decaying society, after monotheism, capitalism and permaculture all failed, as these unhappily confined people to sets of rules and prescriptions that gave not enough room for a mature expression of individualities.
Art was the highest form of juxtaposing personal expression with the ever-changing structures, of manipulating time and space (which they needed to do, as these recourses were shrinking day by day) and of decently reacting on each other – its was what they thought when decided to resume to art in this unnamed society.
And as each political structure does, art authorities established their own instruments for negotiation, as they subversively kept democracy as the core illusion of their state, designed according to some particular mind mapping principles adopted from the highly adorned theories of artificial intelligence.
The most at hand instruments were people. In order to have them negotiating, they were initially put in different positions, so that they could develop different views on whatever the subject was, so that they had something to negotiate about. In order to have (different) positions, on top of the ever-changing snowflake structures of Reality - which was less important in the mind mapping context - they imagined a pyramid. We must mention that as the art of the Pyramids, next to the art of war were the dearest heritage left behind by the previous generation. On all this, the simplified principles of “emotional intelligence” (or - for dummies, as it was called in the preceding era) were applied. The psychoanalytical techniques were finally swept, or at least this is what the massa was told. The three top layers of the pyramids used to secretly meet for mutually exchanging psychoanalytic sessions with each other. As they were highly versatile in this science, they could easily swap roles between therapist and patient, which they did, by tossing a coin the evening before the planned event.
All was
functioning as a “dames blanches” soup, until the heads of the pyramid had the
tremendous idea of releasing some of their leadership secrets into the young
generation, as a mean to insure the continuity of their knowledge and its
progress towards pure wisdom (this was the level at which one didn’t need to
apply principles of the pyramid, the art of war nor any of the emotional or
artificial intelligence).