Nonviolence. Metaphysics. Dialogue. Mathematics. Physics. Time. Space. Krishnamuti. Dialogue. Revolution. Education. Relationship.

DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue [audiobook], & other related texts...

Sine sole sileo / Without sun I am silent. The main theme in this dialogue circle tape.

SEE my related NEW ENERGY MANIFESTO at http://picture-poems.com/photoweek/poster_new-energy-manifesto.html

NEW DIGITAL AWARENESS, or the failure of education & ethical responsibility. . .

THIS IS PART ONE of an audiobook I'm making of David Bohm's (1917-1992)essential, ON DIALOGUE. It's intended for some of my friends and students, and all those interested in exploring nonviolence, ethics, the destructive and divisive nature of thought and thinking, in a serious, sustained way. Both alone, and collectively. I also feel strongly that such a dialogue circle forms the basis of a radically new performance practice in the Arts generally. 

In addition, I'm using ON DIALOGUE with my THEATER OF THE NEW project: SEE ON TWITTER at: https://twitter.com/theaterofthenew

SEE FULL TEXT at pdf [150Kb]: http://bit.ly/1JIleaE


DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue, part one

THIS IS PART TWO of an audiobook I'm making of David Bohm's (1917-1992)essential, ON DIALOGUE. It's intended for some of my friends and students, and all those interested in exploring nonviolence, ethics, the destructive and divisive nature of thought and thinking, in a serious, sustained way. Both alone, and collectively. I also feel strongly that such a dialogue circle forms the basis of a radically new performance practice in the Arts generally. 

In addition, I'm using ON DIALOGUE with my THEATER OF THE NEW project: SEE ON TWITTER at: https://twitter.com/theaterofthenew

SEE FULL TEXT at pdf [150Kb]: picture-poems.com/dialogue/david-bohm_on-dialogue.pdf


DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue, part two

THIS IS THE THIRD, and final, part of an audiobook I've made of David Bohm's (1917-1992)essential, ON DIALOGUE. It's intended for friends and students, and all those interested in exploring nonviolence, ethics, the destructive and divisive nature of thought and thinking, in a serious, sustained way. Both alone, and collectively. I also feel strongly that such a dialogue circle forms the basis of a radically new performance practice in the Arts generally. 

In addition, I'm using ON DIALOGUE with my THEATER OF THE NEW project: SEE ON TWITTER at: https://twitter.com/theaterofthenew

SEE FULL TEXT at pdf [150Kb]: http://bit.ly/1TQ4VxL


DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue, part three

THIS IS A KIND OF CODA or FOURTH part of an audiobook I've made of David Bohm's (1917-1992)essential, ON DIALOGUE. It's intended for friends and students, and all those interested in exploring nonviolence, ethics, the destructive and divisive nature of thought and thinking, in a serious, sustained way. Both alone, and collectively. I also feel strongly that such a dialogue circle forms the basis of a radically new performance practice in the Arts generally. This particular recording is not part of the ON DIALOGUE book, but more additional material I've brought together on the same theme.

In addition, I'm using ON DIALOGUE with my THEATER OF THE NEW project: SEE ON TWITTER at: https://twitter.com/theaterofthenew

SEE FULL TEXT at pdf [150Kb]: http://bit.ly/1zOENxY


DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue, part four

IMAGE: Whitebark pine Sentinel Snage…

SEE ALSO: DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue [audiobook], & other related texts... https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/sets/david-bohm-on-dialogue

The FOUR NESTED REALITIES & the GROUND OF TRUTH, a dialogue tape…

THIS IS A little improvised introduction to #Dialogue & what I call the red circle of 10 primary problems. Download referred to 100 MINIATURE posters I refer to at: (1) 10 PRIMARY PROBLEMS web http://bit.ly/1DrNyJV pdf http://bit.ly/1BuI9VX (2) DOUBLE CIRCLE of DIALOGUE web http://bit.ly/1DrOpu8 pdf http://bit.ly/1DrOIVX (3) ZERO WASTE web http://bit.ly/1zQMqyt pdf http://bit.ly/1zQMwGf (4) RIGHT ACTION INF THE FACE OF RUNAWAY CLIMATE CHANGE web http://bit.ly/1Cfbgh8 pdf http://bit.ly/1CfbmFG

FOR BACKGROUND ON Krishnamurti: The Story of Krishnamurti: W/ A Silent Mind http://bit.ly/16gVO6Q "Outside all Space & beyond all Time" #nonviolence #dialogue #meditation

FOR THE K/BOHM  dialogues [for some reason, I prefer studying them 12 to 1, backwards...]: LISTENING: #KRISHNAMURTI & #DavidBohm in dialogue: Can the brain free itself from all self-delusion? (12/12) http://bit.ly/1709AaD

MUSIC featured in header & coda is from THE MAGIC BOX project, "The Little Triangle," for #vibraphone & #marimba; it's a little Stravinsky-like study on 4 in the time of 3. The webscore is at: http://bit.ly/1wG9jDo pdf http://bit.ly/1CfchWI mp3 http://bit.ly/1wGakeF

INTRO: 10 Primary Problems, Thought & the Double Circle of Dialogue

This INTO is part of my THEATER OF THE NEW Dialogue Circle. [Follow on twitter & download ebook of same title at: https://twitter.com/theaterofthenew]

Two new resource pages on related topics mentioned in the talk are at: www.picture-poems.com/quinoa & www.picture-poems.com/hemp

LISTEN ALSO on soundcloud to "INTRO: 10 Primary Problems, Thought & the Double Circle of Dialogue" http://bit.ly/1AKhsrl

LET ME KNOW what you think!

IMAGE: Classic Windmill, Eagle Valley, OREGON

NEW ENERGY FARMING, revolutionizing the philosophy of agriculture

THIS IS A synth-voice little audiobooklet I've made for myself & students in my THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE poetry project. The idea is to learn key poems and texts by heart. Remarkably, it's always better to study them as SOUND ONLY. That is, without seeing any score, or notation, or written text.

It's also a way of celebrating Dr. King's work. It's like the great tree in the photograph. Deeply rooted in the best of rich soils, that of nonviolence, and truth. In fact, the Indo-european root of "oak," is DERU, which is also the root of many related words to truth, like trust, or that which is, like the oak's wood, solid, steadfast, constant.

THE TEXTS ARE AT: https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/glossary-of-nonviolence/

MUSIC header & coda is from my StarCycle PROJECT, MUSIC header & coda is from my StarCycle PROJECT, “Alnitak, “Hand Up Don’t Shoot,” for solo drumki. On soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/cliff-crego/starcycle-project-alnitak-hands-up-dont-shoot-for-solo-drummer

PHOTO: Whiteoak (Quercus alba) January, great signature native of OHIO country

Dr. Martin Luther KING Jr. -- glossary & six principles of nonviolence

AN APPRECIATION OF the great Noam Chomsky's work, in a somewhat odd and unusual way, by suggesting three essentially metaphysical mistakes with wide-ranging implications. ON POINTS (2) & (3), I also contrast Chomsky with the brilliant Swiss author, speaker, and professor of Peace Studies in BASEL, Dr. Daniele GANSER.

(1) On the nature of sound and language's resonance with the living Earth;
(2)The true meaning of 9/11; 

(3)And the nature of conflict, thought & consciousness

IMAGE: Heartleaf ARNICA (Arnica corfifolia, transition from flower to seed, MONTANE SPRING (June)

Noam Chomsky's 3 Great Mistakes . . .A critical appreciation

"Inviting the wider circle of NATURE into the smaller circle of DIALOGUE"...A stream-side dialogue tape. 

Recorded during mountain May snowmelt, I unpack an aphorism I like to use with my New Music Performance students -- including myself among them, in the spirit of "The teacher is the taught." The little 37-step saying is by F.M. Alexander, founder of the ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE. It goes like this:

"You are not here to learn exercises, or to learn to do something right, but to get able to meet a stimulus that always puts ou wrong, and to learn to deal with it." F.M. Alexander

IMAGE: Spring snowmelt on Summit Creek, close to where this dialogue tape was recorded....

THOUGHT & THE STIMULI OF MECHANICAL REACTION, a dialogue tape

A streamside dialogue tape on why ethical right action is always difficult, frequently taking the form of negation, of simply NOT DOING things we are tacitly strongly attached to. The 100 MINIATURES slideshow I refer to is at http://picture-poems.com/100

IMAGE: Fieldwork on top of Ruby PEAK, by my good friend Russ WESTLAKE, the WALLOWAS, OREGON.

CLIMATE CRISIS, TRUTH-IN-FUNCTION, & RIGHT ACTION, a dialogue tape...

IMAGE: The Grand HotelCamp, 2500 m. at Echo Lake, the #EagleCapWilderness, OREGON

OUR DIGITAL REVOLUTION, THE DEMONIC & DIVINE, & THE ENERGY OF RIGHT ACTION

IMAGE: American DIPPER, on Hurricane Creek, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON

QUESTIONING DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO CLIMATE CRISIS, a dialogue tape

A streamside  dialogue circle on 5 species of what I call conclusionary rhetoric 1) StrongTALK 2) SweetTALK 3) SmartTALK 4) HateTALK 5) BackTALK

PHOTO: Near where this talk wad recorded in the Eagle Cap Wilderness, OREGON. Slick Rock, HURRICANE VALLEY

THOUGHT & FIVE SPECIES OF CONCLUSIONARY RHETORIC, a dialogue tape

IMAGE: HAWTHORNS leafing out in mountain spring at 1420 meters, OREGON

THE ART OF LISTENING no. 1: music, nature, philosophy & new awareness

Like turning off a noisy machine, the passive awareness of KINPERCEPTION suspends the disruptive habits of runaway self-centered thought. In the free, open space thereby created, a signature asymmetry of human nature becomes self-evident: that CORRUPTION is fast and easy: PURIFICATION, is slow and hard.

The main idea explored in this dialogue tape is that thought is merely an instrument. But because this instrument of thought has broken itself off from the vastly larger circle of awareness and consciousness, it generates the powerful illusion that thought is all there is. This mistake, and more importantly the ignorance there of, results in a steady stream of contradictions and conflicts. It is also a tremendous waste of energy. The crucial point is that a kind of passive, effortless, ongoing awareness can easily sense these disruptions—akin to overt physical pain—and thereby stop them before they happen.

IMAGE: Basecamp at HOTEL PANOPTICON, the South WALLOWAS at 1350 meters, II.20.2021

KINPERCEPTION, or the passive awareness of the disruptive habits of thought

Composer. Writer. Photographer. Former conductor & founder of the ASKO ensemble.

On a bike/ski/hike trek of the Pacific Northwest studying native plants & climate breakdown 🌲 from sagebrush sea to whitebark pine. Composing off-grid the whole way.

#Sun2Sound 🌕 on Bluesky

THINKING LIKE A STONEPINE, a soundpoem manifesto https://vimeo.com/844665859

“LOVE & WATER, three thought poems w/ coda, PHAROS for small orchestra, “Nightwind”” https://vimeo.com/847079690 

CURRENTLY on mt bike/ski/climbing trek through Pacific Northwest, working on a photobook about WHITEBARK PINE COLLAPSE and CLIMATE CRISIS. BASES in the WALLOWAS | AMSTERDAM | ALPS. 

WEEKLY photo/poetry updates at www.picture-poems.com & THE CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE new music, poetry & dance performance project at www.cs-music.com

ALWAYS ON THE LOOKOUT for progressive, tech-savy, instrumental virtuosi interested in dialogue & collaborative undertakings.

CONTACT cliff@picture-opoems.com
Or on SKYPE or FACETIME @cliffcrego

MUSIC? The one thing humans do,
that makes the rest of nature jealous.

DAVID BOHM: On Dialogue [audiobook], & other related texts...

Cliff Crego