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New Eon Dialogues

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In some traditions when the season is dry and holding a fire is too dangerous to light we make what is called a Green Fire.

The plant nation that gives away their medicine to remind us about the magic and beauty of fire.

A beautiful dance of the four elements.

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Higher Plane Vineyard, Forest Grove WA, Australia

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Listening to the wisdom keepers throughout the day, and reflecting on my own thoughts about fire, one of the first things that came to me was that fire is very much a human thing. Other animals run from it, it is only humans, and our earlier hominid brothers and sisters, that worked with fire. Gathering around the fire is a human experience, in fact, the fear that other animals have is one of the ways we use fire as a tool to keep us safe. Our working with fire allowed us to expand all over the earth to climates we would have not been able to live in. The reverence for fire is very old and found in ancient cultures everywhere.

Another thought that came to me was while fire is not something we can hoard, this is not the case for the fuel for the fire. There is a lot of power associated with access to fuel - look at the geopolitics surrounding oil. Think of the women who walk for miles to collect firewood. Access to the means to sustain fire is power.

All this gets me thinking about the power balance between humans and fire. It is a relationship that we need to tend, to be concious of.

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Where life is abundantly supported by the elements.

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Volcanic fire, the crucible of creation of new Earth.

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My name is Ariel Ky. Preparing for today, I pulled together many photos of fire and smoke, both from witnessing and participating in Purepecha ceremonies here in Michoacan, as well as two photos from my past visiting the Tien Hou temple in Qingdao, Shandong Province in China.

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Fire hot enough to melt copper in Santa Clara de Cobre in Michoacan. Fire as a creative force in making copper objects.

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I can draw

Uri Noy Meir

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Peace prayers burning in China.

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Sacred fire in China cleanses and purifies, heals and shapes the fire in me that now burns in Mexico that burns in each and everyone of us whereever we are or have been in this life and previous lives. Let us remember through fire wholly who we are.

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Fire uniting our past, present and future in sacred timelessness, ever being consumed, ever renewing.

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Hearth fire brings us closer together.

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Gemstone healing layout

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Solstice Ceremony 2024 Honoring the Earth

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Illuminating and radiating our sacred fire

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Ceremony honoring desapericios

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 Around the fire - Chaudière-Appalaches - 

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 Around the fire - Chaudière-Appalaches - 

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Around the fire - Let's bring to the forefront of our consciousness the most beautiful belief and the most beautiful experience in truth: Choosing Connection. It may be uncomfortable, demanding, counterintuitive, but everything in us wants this. Choosing the Connection is not always easy but being Right only brings crumbs, the Connection is the banquet.

in every Moment

in every Conflict

in every Particle

in every Second

in every gesture

in every Movement

in every Word

in every Relationship

in every Bite

in every Chicane

in every Breath

in every step

in each Choice

in every look

in every Caress

in every Dollar

I choose to be right

Or I choose Connection?

- by Colin Perreault

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Hola from Buenos Aires, Argentina 🇦🇷

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I see no one from Cape Town so wanted for now just to place my pin! x Amanda Lamond

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Crespina Lorenzana, Province of Pisa, Italy

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I also have fire

My fires beauty

See me enjoy me

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SO very grateful to have stumbled into this wonderful gathering today. I am grateful to everyone involved and to my shamanic path for bringing me here today, thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Vienna Circle

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We are all one

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Enjoying this connection with you <3 -Málaga

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Enjoying this connection with you <3 -Málaga

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Enjoying this connection with you <3

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Making Fire....

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The pollarity of fire and water. No One with the Other. No life without death. The power of our hands, our being and coming together by a common purpose. 

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The beauty of Wisdom in shape of illustration.

Artist: Mario Pereda

mpereda.gr@gmail.com

More at www. cuandoescuchodibujo.com

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More of the illustrations I captured online. May they vring light and inspire the necessity of silence and expand the consciousness and wisdom of fire.

Artist: Mario Pereda

mpereda.gr@gmail.com

More at www. cuandoescuchodibujo.com

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Here, more of the illustrations.

Artist: Mario Pereda

mpereda.gr@gmail.com

More at www. cuandoescuchodibujo.com

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With love, my graphic recording illustrations from the Round 1 of this amazing wisdom dialogue day.

Thank you for this beautiful ceremony

Artist: Mario Pereda

mpereda.gr@gmail.com

More at www. cuandoescuchodibujo.com

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Stealing the Fire ... was it an act of selfless love and sacrifice or a hubris or both? Today's fire, 'AI', will it burn or warm our cities and minds? Worth reading, i think.

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Do not annoy the gods. If there's one lesson classical mythology teaches us, it's that you should know your limits and mind yourself. Beware of hubris: the act of boasting arrogance and self-aggrandizement that man pitches against God, the gods, or the forces of nature. It's sticking a middle finger up at Thor, turning your back on a visiting angel, or trying to steal from Zeus. Hubrisis Icarus, of the waxen wings, flying too close to the Sun. But it's also your friend, Gary, who thought he could drive home in a blizzard.

Most people reading classical literature get the point. Stay in your lane. But there is one icon of Greek mythology who didn't read the memo: Prometheus. Here's how his story goes:

Zeus was angry at humanity, as he often was, and so took away their capacity to make fire. Prometheus looked down at the shivering, withering people below and took pity on them. Without asking Zeus, he lit a torch from the Sun and smuggled fire back down to Earth. For his treachery and hubris, Prometheus was fastened with unbreakable chains on a mountaintop. Each day, an eagle would gorge on his liver, and every night the liver grew back for fresh torment.

Prometheus ought to be a cautionary tale: Do not mock the gods. But he was instead celebrated and worshiped, eventually becoming the poster boy for the Enlightenment. Prometheus is the righteous rebel who welcomed an eternity of suffering in the name of human advancement. His is the loud and irrepressible voice telling us to innovate, invent, and progress. His very name means "forward thinking." There are a lot of Prometheans at the moment.

The Prometheus complex

Big Think recently spoke with Dan Carlin, host of the popular podcast Hardcore History and author of the bestseller The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments. We asked him for his thoughts on the rapid evolution of AI and, more broadly, the history of humanity's relentless drive to innovate.

"You know, I've always been fascinated with this idea about the hubris of the Icarus getting too close to the Sun kind of thing," Carlin told Big Think. "[I wonder] whether or not human society actually has the agency that we think we have to not invent something if we think it might be bad. If you look down the technological road in the distance and see something horrible, could humankind go, 'Oh, you know what? We're just not going to go there.' I'm not sure we have that agency."

In the 1930s, the French philosopher and psychoanalyst Gaston Bachelard made a similar point. Bachelard called it the "Prometheus complex." This is how Bachelard described it:

"To know facts and to make things are needs that we can characterize in themselves without necessarily having to relate them to the will to power. There is in man a veritable will to intellectuality. We underestimate the need to understand... We propose, then, to place together under the name of the Prometheus complex all those tendencies which impel us to know as much as our fathers, more than our fathers, as much as our teachers, more than our teachers."

The backdoor to knowledge

AI is like a door. We know that behind the door there is a huge, unknown landscape - Narnia through the ChatGPT wardrobe. The question is: What does that landscape look like? The point that Carlin and Bachelard make is not that we aren't aware of the potential dangers of the future or that we're not having important conversations about what AI might mean, but that, ultimately, those concerns are beside the point. We possess an impulsive urge, an intellectual twitch, that forces us forward. We will walk through that door and continue developing AI and all sorts of technologies.

This urge doesn't necessarily stem from a utilitarian position - it's not that we are necessarily driven toward greater efficiency, socially realistic chatbots, or medical breakthroughs. At the core, it seems the deeper drive is to invent anything that we're capable of inventing.

Carlin's point leans on one made by the British science historian James Burke in his TV series Connections. Burke makes the case that all knowledge is connected and that even if we try to avoid this or that because some people think it's bad, it's impossible to avoid. All roads lead to progress.

"It's not possible [to avoid invention], because all knowledge is interconnected like a web," Carlin told Big Think. "If you walled off a certain part of it because you saw the potential downside, you would get to the same outcome sort of in a roundabout way, right? The connections might not be direct, like saying, 'Oh, I see nuclear weapons in the distance; let's go there,' but we would go through the back door, and eventually we would discover everything around that thing."

To bring Carlin's analogy home, we can think about the idea of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. AGI is the point at which AI can perform a wide variety of tasks so competently that it matches or exceeds human intelligence and performance. Some people might see AGI as dangerous. Others may see AGI as the savior of humanity. But while we have debates and conversations, we're still marching toward AGI. Scientists and programmers behind their computers are solving "everything around that thing." Our hands and our brains will, perhaps unconsciously, drift toward the very thing we're debating if we should do.

The Prometheus complex can be seen over and over again in the history of science. It is not simply that Edenic urge to eat the fruit or push the red button. It's the fact that as the rational, intellectual part of ourselves wrestles with the decision, a deeper, Promethean part of ourselves has pressed it already. Thankfully, it usually turns out okay.

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Dan Carlin on humanity's uncontrollable "Prometheus complex"

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"Hardcore History" host Dan Carlin recently spoke with Big Think about the history of humanity's seemingly uncontrollable urge to create.

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Fire of change by White Mountain (Mt. Kilimanjaro)

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Fire of change by White Mountain (Mt. Kilimanjaro)

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Fire in the hearts of the Maasai leading an initiative to regenerate landscape and livelihood in the White Mountain (Mt. Kilimanjaro) region across territories of Kenya and Tanzania.

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embassy of the earth white mountain unifying force

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In 1999 a large World Peace Gathering took place in The Hague, The Netherlands, a place I just moved to after a ten year stay in the US. I took my son Frankie to school one morning when the father of one of Frankie's classmates approached me. He said: 'We're looking for host families to offer a bed and a meal to some of the Indigenous Peoples at the Peace Conference.

The right place for the sacred fire was found on an estate in Wassenaar, close to The Hague. The fire was lit and the ceremonial space was kept 'running' for the remaining days of the peace gathering, with many people joining ceremonies, mainly in the evenings, including me. I never missed a night because it was such a mesmerizing experience where people were opening up and truly speaking from the heart, from their innermost being. All around this sacred fire.

One of those mornings I woke up from a remarkable, very clear dream, which I shared with Bruce and Duane later that day. I was dreaming about gathering places, Earth homes, on all seven continents of our planet. A gathering place where people with real pressing issues would sit with the 'moving ground', having a deep exchange about possible future directions and ways to resolve the crisis. In the dream I really experienced the immense power and spirit of the community. Bruce and Duane listened attentively, after looking at me for a while they responded: 'Frank, we know.'

Professor Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi showed in a worldwide study that people are able to achieve groundbreaking performance if the match between challenge and capacity is made. Joy, contentment turned out to be an important by-product. These investigations have revealed that what makes experience genuinely enjoyable is a state of consciousness that Czikszentmihalyi calls "flow" - a state of concentration so focused that it amounts to absolute absorption in an activity, pushing past boundaries into a new reality. Under the guidance of Mihali Csikszentmihalyi we successfully researched how flow is grounded in the dynamics of community , the group. It became one of the pillars of Embassy of the Earth.

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Community Led Change | Embassy of the Earth

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The Embassy of the Earth is a Foundation that facilitates community led change through fostering unprecedented collaboration.

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Fire in the hearts of the ǂNū-khoë Peoples (also referred to as Damaran) to build their healing Center, rooted in traditional knowledge and practices. A space where farming, teaching and healing interweave. https://www.tribal-wisdom.org/page/1119/traditional-healing-at-g%C3%B9-oadara-center

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The fire in the hearts of the Advisi farmers, fighting to protect their Indigenous farming practices and protecting the Indigenous seeds of the land.

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I pray for Grandfather Fire to take his rightful place in our rituals and ceremonies, alongside the other elements who we invite and revere. I pray for more places and spaces where we can light a fire and listen to the wisdom that emerges, from silence.

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Let fire speak to you

Listen and give voice to its wisdom

Share it as words or images

If you feel called to join the broadcast live with live fire, a story, a song, a ritual use this link https://streamyard.com/tm3sqtey89 and write to Uri +39 3342834302

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THE FIRE ROOM | Let fire speak to you Listen and give voice to its wisdom Share via words or images here or on the padlet | By ImaginActionFacebook

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Let fire speak to you Listen and give voice to its wisdom Share via words or images here or on the padlet

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War

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Remember Who we Are

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Toute vie est une vie, aucune vie n'est supérieure à une autre. (Charte du Mandé)

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Scène Égale théâtre forum sera en communion avec les vibrations du feu de joie pour partager des énergies positives pour le monde. Samba MBALO et ses collègues seront les étincelles qui inonderont le monde de joie.

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Lukeko Gaun, A Village For Arts and Farming, Lukeko gaun, Bhukhel, Nepal

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A residential farm stay for art, healing, love, organic farming, accompanied by accommodation and cultural exchange

https://www.instagram.com/lukekogaun/

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Lukeko Gaun, Arts & Farming on Instagram

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Healing is potentially within us... No need to look far. Seeking within, rather than without, can be the place of finding. I don't want to spoil the ta-daaa effect of this clip, but please make sure to read the video description to get the full context about this piece of work, which I made as an exercise for the Transformative Media Creation course I took in 2018-2019.

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I takes a single flame to burn the world

It takes a single flame to light a room

It takes a single flame to warm our hearts

It takes a single flame to illuminate this whole

Uri noy meir

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NASA Mission Control Center, Houston, TX, USA

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Solar storms - The Universe is on Fire

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How NASA Tracked the Most Intense Solar Storm in Decades - NASA Science

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During the first full week of May, a barrage of large solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) launched clouds of charged particles and magnetic fields toward Earth, creating the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of auroras on record in the past 500 years.

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Lesotho African Sangoma (Traditional Healer) Initiation Pt 1 - Levite Fire Ritual

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Eternal flame in Ateshkadeh Zaroastrian Fire Temple, Yazd Iran   part 2

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The fire ceremony is considered to be the heart of Mayan spiritual practice. Mayan fire ceremonies is a beautiful event, full with fragrant incenses and flowers, and of the color of the fire. All performed in a sacred cave on beautiful Lake Atitlán. Follow The Points Guy family as we make our offerings for all we have received in our lives, where we make our offerings for the things we wish to repair and where we ask for our needs to be met.

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Healing by Fire In A Sacred Mayan Cave | Guatemala Travel | The Points Guy

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At the beginning of time when all was in darkness, the gods gathered in Teotihuacan. Around a great fire they made sacrifices of themselves and in making these sacrifices they created a new cosmic era. To mark this moment of creation, Teotihuacanos conduct the New Fire Ceremony at the base of the Sun Pyramid.

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The Teotihuacan Fire Ceremony | Native America | Sacred Stories | PBS

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Chiribiquete National Park, Solano, Guaviare, Colombia

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ImaginAction's creative performance “COB-Conference of Beings” to be presented for the first time at the ISHHR. The 11th ISHHR Conference for Health and Human Rights themed on Collective Healing: Restoring the relationship of humanity and nature.

Chiribiquete National Park, Solano, Guaviare, Colombia

https://vimeo.com/773261342/045a101d5c?share=copy

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Reconectando, ImaginAction, and The Work That Reconnects Network collaborated on the 2nd of November, 2023.  Ilaria Olimpico, Shyontoni Ghosh, Hector Aristizabal, and Uri Noy Meir, facilitated the session titled “Bestiary” at the Gaian Gathering organized by The Work That Reconnects Network. The essence of this session could be captured in the phrase: “Honoring our pain with tears, celebrating community with laughter, and dancing between the two.”

https://vimeo.com/881220980/7e29e2d1ea?share=copy

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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

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Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbEVqZEDzPQ

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Message from the Mother  - from the Kogi Nation Colombia

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Relaxing Music & Campfire • Relaxing Guitar Music, Soothing Music, Calm Music

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Climate change is making wildfires more extreme. Here’s how

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Australia fires: Preventing the spread - BBC News

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Pompei, Metropolitan City of Naples, Italy