{"id":975,"date":"2006-06-15T13:07:46","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=975"},"modified":"2006-06-15T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T21:07:46","slug":"brian-swimme-on-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/brian-swimme-on-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Swimme on waking up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV><span class=\"articleCopy\"><SPAN class=articleCopy><A href=\"http:\/\/www.wie.org\/j19\/swimme.asp?page=2\">Brian Swimme<\/A>&nbsp;on what happens when human societies confront situations for which we do not have a deep narrative:<\/SPAN>         <\/span><\/DIV><DIV><SPAN class=articleCopy><SPAN class=articleCopy><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">  <DIV><SPAN class=articleCopy><SPAN class=articleCopy>The point is that we   haven&#8217;t been prepared to understand what an extinction event is. We&#8217;ve had all   these great teachers. We&#8217;ve had tremendously intelligent people, going back   through time, but you can look, for example, through all the <I>sutras<\/I> or   Plato&#8217;s dialogues, and they never talk about an extinction. As a matter of   fact, I don&#8217;t think that Plato or the Buddha were even capable of imagining an   extinction. First of all, at that time we weren&#8217;t aware of evolution. We   weren&#8217;t aware of the whole process, so the idea of extinction didn&#8217;t make   sense. When every now and then scientists or other humans would find these   bones, they would assume that these creatures were actually still in existence   elsewhere, you know, on another part of the continent. So there wasn&#8217;t the   conception of extinction. We&#8217;re only now having to deal with what it means to   actually eliminate a form of life.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV>  <DIV><SPAN class=articleCopy><SPAN class=articleCopy><\/SPAN><\/SPAN>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=articleCopy><SPAN class=articleCopy>Time for some new stories eh?&nbsp; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thegreatstory.org\/\">Swimme and others have some<\/A>.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Swimme&nbsp;on what happens when human societies confront situations for which we do not have a deep narrative: &nbsp; The point is that we haven&#8217;t been prepared to understand what an extinction event is. We&#8217;ve had all these great teachers. We&#8217;ve had tremendously intelligent people, going back through time, but you can look, for example, through all the sutras or Plato&#8217;s dialogues, and they never talk about an extinction. As a matter of fact, I don&#8217;t think that Plato or the Buddha were even capable of imagining an extinction. First of all, at that time we weren&#8217;t aware of evolution. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-fJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}