Category: Spirituality
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On Hineini, Team Spirit and Recognition
I’ve been reading a soon-to-be-published book on Digital Dharma: A User’s Guide to Expanding Consciousness in the Infosphere, by Steven Vedro, which proposes an integration of spirituality and technology based on the seven chakras. I hope to post an entry on the book after I finish it, but one of the many gems I’ve encountered…
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The Twelve Steps for Technology-Centered Designers
A friend and I were recently discussing the prevalence of technocentric design and thinking in many of the world’s leading technology research and development centers, both in industry and academia. During the course of the conversation, in which we recounted people, places and projects that seemed to reflect an approach that might be characterized as…
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Spiritual Computing: Toward Meaningful, perhaps Transcendental, User Experiences
Craig Warren Smith visited Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto, on Thursday to present and discuss some ideas relating to Spiritual Computing. As Craig describes it: Spiritual Computing (Spiricomp) elicits the potential of digital networks for fostering the spiritual growth among individuals and communities. … The investigative method of Spiricomp is unusual. Made possible by HH…
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Warrior Monk: A Spiritual and Soulful Retreat
I attended a four-day retreat, Warrior Monk, before the holidays, with the goal of achieving greater clarity, courage and commitment in following my heart. The workshop "welcomes those in transition and those seeking their next level of authentic growth, healing and spiritual connection," and includes a combination of meditation, poetry reading and writing, chanting, singing…