{"id":26,"date":"2012-02-18T23:25:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acceleratingevolution.info\/CS\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2016-03-26T19:24:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T19:24:21","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/?page_id=26","title":{"rendered":"Welcome."},"content":{"rendered":"

Living life as an adventure, not as a trial — one breath at a time.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

WELCOME.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0 This website and blog is dedicated to exploring ways and views that can help us better remember or awaken to our essential spiritual nature — and to really appreciate and enjoy our human adventure on planet earth — to thrive rather than survive each precious day. The site has several parts<\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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My bio or story<\/strong><\/span> describes some<\/span> of my personal adventures and explorations on planet earth —\u00a0<\/span>how\u00a0to live life with a sense of fun and curiosity.\u00a0\u00a0The best view I have found so far starts with a deep sense that I am actually an infinite spiritual being that is having a creative human experience — an extension of Source energy. In growing up I become so embedded\/ fascinated\/ frightened with this physical world I totally forgot my connection with my True Self;\u00a0 I became convinced I was this vulnerable separate mind and body called Carter.\u00a0 This website is dedicatied to\u00a0discovering views and practices that help us reestablish or remember our True Selves and the true joy it can bring to every moment of our lives.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Accelerating Evolution<\/strong><\/span> describes one of those explorations. The integral theories of Ken Wilber freed me from the idea that to connect with spirituality I had to drop my rationality – to regress to medieval or tribal times.\u00a0 Instead, I\u00a0discovered that our desire for a better world and life has led not only to higher technology and economics but to higher stages of morality and spirituality. The Accelerating Evolution model I developed predicts that by the last half of this century these powerful creative forces will open us to the mature rational or integral stage and even spiritual levels of consciousness \u2014 and soon racism, sexism and even violence will become as morally repugnant as the infanticide, cannibalism and slavery of our earlier stages. [But the process getting there, like most changes, \u00a0may be bumpy!]<\/span><\/p>\n

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Russia Blogs.<\/strong><\/span> In the fall and winter of 2010, my wife sFranny and I went to Germany and Russia to help build out a new theater in St. Petersburg. I wrote a series of blogs on that adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Blogs<\/span><\/strong> will deal with my ongoing explorations and adventures. The first one will be based on an email I sent to a friend who was struggling with the spiraling doom of depressive thinking — it recommends, among other things, some of the tools of positive psychology<\/span><\/p>\n

Carter Vincent Smith<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Contact me at \u00a0 CarterSmith@alum.MIT.edu<\/a>\ufffd
\n<\/span><\/span>Gardena (Los Angeles), California.\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Living life as an adventure, not as a trial — one breath at a time. WELCOME.\u00a0\u00a0 This website and blog is dedicated to exploring ways and views that can help us better remember or awaken to our essential spiritual nature — and to really appreciate and enjoy our human adventure on planet earth — to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cartersmith.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}