Introduction Making decisions is one of the most frequently encountered activities in our life. The vast majority are individual decisions, which we hardly notice: choosing a new shirt, scrambled or fried eggs for breakfast or go for a walk or not fills our lives. They go on and on from the moment we wake up […]
Author: pietoma
Practice in nature
Introduction I was planning to write a post about friendship, but my recent experiences motivated me to change the topic and, instead, write about the resting mind practices in nature, more specifically the ancient forest called Forrest des Loges. I wrote earlier about practicing in nature, but it was only mentioned as one of several […]
Simplicity and mind resting
Introduction The term simplicity has two different meanings: one positive, which points out that something is easy to comprehend or to do. The second one is pejorative from which comes its derivative “simpleton,” saying that someone is stupid, uneducated, etc. Also, such an expression as “simplistic” implies that it is not complete and faulty. On […]
Human cruelty and wisdom
Introduction The subject of human cruelty is challenging. We encounter it on the various scale in our everyday life, but reading about horrors how purposefully it is used all over the world makes you terrified. I must confess that I avoided this topic because it appears to contradict the key premise that wisdom is […]
Wisdom agriculture cooperative
Introduction This article is a result of my recent promise whar can we do NOW to help ourselves, the world and, at the same time, move towards the creation of Wisdom Society, The choice of agriculture may sound rather strange: we habitually associate agriculture with the farming industry, with hundreds or even thousands of hectares […]
Wisdom Cooperatives
Introduction As I mentioned in the last version Vision 2020, the forthcoming posts will be dedicated to what we can do now to gradually move towards establishing of Wisdom Society. At the same time, these activities should help ourselves and others in both mental and physical sense. This combination is necessary: who can trust that […]
Urban Nucleus
Introduction After long consideration and advice from my friends, I decided to introduce the idea of beginning the Wisdom Society in an urban setting. That by no means implies that I abandon the original idea of Wisdom Society as a self-sufficient egalitarian social structure, which has to have a sufficient amount of land to be […]
Poison of patriarchy
Introduction In the previous article about cars and trucks, I promised that I will write about the absurdities of stratification, but after some consideration, I decided to use instead of the word “poisons.” Absurdity seems too weak to express the damage of phenomena, which stratification created. One of them is patriarchy, History Patriarchy could […]
The absurds of stratification: cars and trucks | Part 2
Introduction The article became longer than expected, so following suggestions of my friends, who remind me to keep my posts as short as possible, decided to break it into two parts. Why has it happened? Now is the turn for a question: why has it all happened. There is one fundamental cause, which is the […]
The absurds of stratification: cars and trucks | Part 1
Introduction It is the first of the series of forthcoming articles describing absurdities of our world. I will write about their manifestation and how social and economic stratification produced them. Also, I will present some suggestions on how to avoid them, or at least reduce their effects. There are so many of them that discussing […]
Millenia of indoctrination
Introduction In this post, promised a long time ago, I will write about the development of stratification in Human society and its consequences, both physical and mental. By now, it is well known that the humans or Homo Sapiens, since its inception in the Paleolithic era, lived in small, egalitarian, matrilineal hunter/gatherers groups. The reasons […]
Beyond nucleus – wisdom village, town and more
Introduction Isolated nuclei would have a little chance to survive in the face of a violent world crisis. They depend on several services and products which they must acquire from the outside, such as medical care, electric energy supplementing local production, variety of equipment for everyday life, farming, etc. Consequently, Wisdom Society to succeed must […]
Meeting
Dear Friends, I am inviting you to the ZOOM meeting at 17:00 GMT + 2:00, on May 9. During this meeting, you will have an opportunity to express your views about my presentation of the idea of Wisdom Society. The ZOOM meeting number is 847-860-6974. Hope to see you there. Best wishes, Tomasz P.S. If […]
Relations of the wisdom nucleus with the natural environment
Introduction One of the most essential principles of Wisdom Society is preventing the ecological destruction of our planet. This article presents ways to incorporate this principle in the wisdom nucleus. We already mentioned some pertinent features of the nucleus: the members’ residence, agriculture, energy, natural environment and water. However, the nucleus goes beyond the non-destruction […]
The joy of daily life in Wisdom Nucleus | Part 3
Introduction In our present society daily life is divided among work and leisure, more or less adopted from some traditional religious views. On top of that, in more affluent countries, there is an allotted period for vacation, which varies from country to country, type of occupation, etc. We are accustomed to that and hardly question […]