Cosmos Café is a weekly virtual dialogue series that focuses on deep questions of cosmology, consciousness, and culture. Our conversations are designed (or intended) to be open-ended, creative, and inclusive. These are performative experiments in cooperative intelligence, grounded in shared reading materials and suggested media, where the participants are both subjects and objects, obervers and observed, as we hone our minds to the edges of our maps and explore our intutions of possibilities beyond.
Each session is recorded (audio and video) and posted here on the forum for ongoing discussion, and can also be accessed via our global podcast feed and the archive page on Metapsychosis.com (both forthcoming).
**We meet each Tuesday via ZOOM video conference at 1 p.m.12 pm Mountain Time (Denver, USA) [convert time zone]—unless otherwise indicated. ZOOM link: Launch Meeting - Zoom
Talks are open to all Cosmos members. To participate, please first introduce yourself on any topic in the #commons:cafe channel. Use this thread to suggest new topics and help plan future sessions.
Edward Kelly, et al / selected essays from Irreducible Mind & Beyond Physicalism
** @achronon suggests: IR “Chs 1, 2, & 9, plus maybe 3 &/or 4, probably 6, definitely 8”
**@madrush suggests: BA #7, “Hyperspatial Models of Matter and Mind” and BA #10, “Conscious Body: Mind and Body in Abhinavagupta’s Tantra”
**@Douggins suggests: BA #15 “The Emergence of Evolutionary Panentheism”
Thanks for catching that, George. It should be fixed now. This link should go to the Cosmos Café sub-channel under Infinite Commons.
That works for me! Would you like to create a topic for it, with any overview or prep-sources you may have? If you paste in the link to the new topic next the the bullet point for the date, the system will automatically pull in the title.
@johnnydavis54, when we met up in New York, you mentioned a writer you had met at the Gebser conference, who you thought to invite to a future cafe. Shall we include her name here and relevant links?
I’ve tried to save the edit to Cosmos Cafe events but it won’t let me and I
cant get access to the page at all. Are you able to send out a link to the
call?
@madrush: Again, my technical incompetence shines forth …
I don’t know how to “move” (or at least reposition or even copy) this to the Reading section of our session page for this evening. I think it belongs there.
You are making me feel competent with tech stuff! I think I just did what you wanted to do…move the Genesis reading to the Reading section for 1/9 Cafe page?
Heh, heh, heh … you are, and will certainly remain, miles ahead of me on this tech stuff, young man.
Now, I do get the linking stuff, but I would have loved to have added that nice little YouTube window that John provided here over there on the other page. It’s not only an eye-catcher, it plays in place (doesn’t open a new tab). (Is this done by using the “upload” function in the menu instead of the linking one? Ah, there’s so much I need to learn and probably won’t.)
You basically typed out the instructions right there!
I updated to have the embedded video (probably should have let you practice!). I copy the link above (left click on “The Book of Genesis - Alexander…” then “copy link address”) -->go to the 1/9 Cafe page —>click edit —>and yes, click “upload” → “from the web” → paste link.
Thanks for your help, @Douggins. One slight emendation to your recipe. You actually don’t need to “upload”–>“from the web.” To embed a video, you only need to paste the YouTube link (this is the important part) on its own line; though the upload option obviously works as well.
Pasting in a website link on its own line will also (though not always, depending on the site) generate a preview box.