Thursday, April 26, 2012

Biomimicry explained

Excerpts from the Bioneer's Conference: Janine Benyus
http://vimeo.com/biomimicry/biomimicry

has shared wised words of wisdom and logic. IUNC has found that the red list contains 7,500 conservatives who are holding on to the last of what is left of the old paradigm. There are clouds of worry on peoples' faces as they come to terms to the destructive forces that have worked to vanish over 90% of species on earth. They recognize that the economic quake that has soon to hit will be the largest in human history, with smaller quakes already proven to reek havoc on societies and the human web.

What they have forgotten to look at is the inherent wisdom of Nature's power and experience. Rather than fighting against Nature, we must look to become Nature's apprentice. Her pupil, student, and child.

We must return to the source of creation and stop fighting against it. Surrender is on its way, with resistance close behind her.

The failed paradigm of the old design is catching up to the modern world.
The failed paradigm of the old design is should not be cast aside as a failure, rejected from consideration and acknowledgment. No the unraveling paradigm of the past is merely a showing of our young, often times proud and stubborn, species. We fumble and forget how much is put into the system. How much work is needed to create the structures and plans for the future.

Did you know, cement makes up six to eight percent of the world's CO2 emissions? That is a large contribution if you think about it.

The total contribution of aircraft emissions to total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions was considered to be about 2 percent in 1990 (IPCC, 1990).
The point is, ground asphalt and buildings made of cement are a significant contributor to green house gases and rising CO2 levels. The point is, the architectural designs of the past, especially through mainstream construction have greatly been poor and incomplete. If people were wise they would realize how designing using principles and patterns in nature, is the smarter and more effective way of constructing reality.

Benyus offered an extensive list of examples in how learning the patterns and designs created by nature can have a leading influence in the designs and scientific efficiencies in the future. She says, the beauty of the scientific path is that we have found the knowledge in the study. This knowledge, or wisdom, tends to reduce friction. This wisdom lets things flow. What some wise people call, the state of harmony. Benyus inspires by reminding us, there is still abundance left and the wisdom of the Earth is waiting for us to re-enter the conversation.

The dialogue is beginning.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Periods of decline and dissolution represent necessary phases within cyclical time perspectives. In Hinduism, for example, the present epoch is considered to be the last of four ages -- it is called the Kali Yuga, named destroyer goddess and dark mother. Kali usually depicted dancing on a corpse, brandishing weapons, and wearing a garland of skulls, strumpet, promiscuous tongue sticking out, blood dripping from her fangs. This time suggests that we a revival is merely the answer,but a total renovation of form.

The first phase returns to the Sata Yuga, Shakti ecstasy. In Taoism it is called the reversal of the movement of Tao.
Aztecs call this the age of the Fifth Sun: sacrificing 70K people a year to keep the Fifth Sun alive and happy. What decadence will do in the face of decline.
what do the Hopi say?

An alternative perspective withholds judgements.

11. We might consider the ways that the current world situation: billions of people sitting on a decreasingly rich natural world, facing an increasingly uncertain life: is both an improvement and and decline from the previous epoch (tribal societies with stabilized populations, living what some may call simpler and others more complex lives, more balanced with the natural world)

And we began to think myth as a way of thinking we have outgrown. But I can argue that the myth form is the very thought string that we are ancestrally tied to. The fact that indigenous and traditional cultures remain valid orientations of reality must account for something. Prophecy then, might be based, not haphazardly on fantasy, but on attunement to subtler levels of reality. On forms of awareness that overriding dominant train of mental thought wanted to forget, in order to develop empirical and rationalistic thought.

Armin Geertz: "Prophecy is a thread in the total fabric of meaning. In the total worldview. IN this way it can be seen as a way of life and of being."
Each person has to go through their own process, confronting their habitual patterns and conditioned mechanisms, their habits of denial and avoidance. Their moments they run away from the fear and threats that claim to haunt the psyche. The overcoming, growing into a more awake and real human being is our mission.

Who is William Irwin Thompson? are we really approaching the claim that some are saying: "a catastrophic bifurcation" ? Whatever does that mean? dividing branches.
Maybe not. We may be approaching the roots of the thing. Ah but with roots there are branches.

subhuman, posthuman; genetic engineering to artificial intelligence.

Culture is based on a mythological substrate. a basis for interpreting and understanding reality. Language is our expression. What happens when we begin to combine languages?

I am seeking to define a change in the nature of consciousness, "there is only one medium in which this change can be registered": thin consciousness itself. 3 RofQ

On one hand, I seek to build the architectural, philosophical "scaffolding" -- a structural support system for this transition. The great Turning. The awakening. On the other hand I follow my own process -- (what is your process? Dance. Breathe. Yoga, swimming. Breathing. Dance. Love. Life abounds in experience. Solitude. Meditation. Community. Celebration. Trance dance and Epiphanies. Class pondering the nature of things. Surrendering. Death and rebirth. Creation and destruction. Swimming in the flow. Poetry jam slams.

Return of Quetzalcoatl

Daniel Pinchbeck, author of Breaking Open the Head
p3 much of what we take for knowledge is actually a projection of the world in our head. It is our psychological compositions that create our reality, scientific inquiry not exempt.

5 the other side of the fence mentality; create an ignorance by avoiding the underlying aspects of a situation; this contradicts the internal hopes for a better future. For as long as we continue to see the other as an alien, a foreigner, an enemy, harmony cannot exist. Is this ironic? I think not. A species that uses competition and violence as their primary mode of relating, dominated by technology that destroys relationships is doomed at that point.
When we ask ourselves, what is the situation: from all sides; then we begin to open our hearts to the visibility of subjectivity. While also growing our listening and acknowledgment as modes of relating. These are very different.
Ed Ayres God's Last Offer: an analysis on global plight. Offers statistical support and rational argument for sounding the alarm. Enormous biological (ecological) and abiotic alterations (Ayres claims is hard to accept and comprehend for most people). This is changing. Picks apart the mechanisms of dissimulation and deception
population growth
consumption of resources
mass extinction of species, systems and interspecies relationships
carbon emission

Are you the driver who pounds on his gas accelerator when your car is running out of gas?