@NoraBateson It would seem to me then that the only relevant question is: how do we challenge the dominance of this methodology of centralised control which pervades society, the environmental movement and mainstream ecological thinking?
5. The intimacy of the entanglement is vivid, moves in liquid and gaseous movements, (not lego blocks) -- squint your eyes, tilt your head-- feel it in the periphery, approach with awe.
4. This jump will not be easy for those who are looking for a methodology, measurements, or defined outcomes. In fact perception from within the transcontextual moving processes of life will appear incoherent from that vantage point. Concepts of 'agency' will be transformed.
3. There is a great deal of material that is 'about' systemic process-& very little to demonstrates ways of being, perceiving, communicating from 'within' systemic process...The need to make this jump is urgent. The systems are not over there, we are utterly of & in them.
There is a deep mishap lodged in the illusion of possible control of living complex systems without nth order destruction.
I suggest most of the current ideas around 'change making' --are infected w this epistemology of control.
Inherently, control is a violation of ecology.
“I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgements.”
― Carl Sagan
(The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark)
Recent work in neurocardiology [suggests] the heart is a sensory organ and an information encoding and processing center with an extensive intrinsic nervous system, enabling it to learn, remember, and make functional decisions independent of the cranial brain. ~Larry Dossey, MD
Love is all there is, it makes the world go 'round Love and only love, it can't be denied No matter what you think about it You just won't be able to do without it Take a tip from one who's tried
- Bob Dylan
Dean Radin and other parapsychological researchers found a very strong correlation between someone thinking of another and physiological response in the other.
keeping on learning
keeping on reaching
keeping on the ground
keeping on tuning in
keeping on honing into the possibilities
keeping on sensitizing
keeping the noise at bay
Think of the billions of years that passed before there were eyes to see or ears to hear. What a gift is life, and what a privilege for us to be able to receive it in gratitude and wonder. ⭐️ 🙏❤️
“it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer