An inclusional worldview
Archive for March, 2010
Spirit is a Commons
0March 21, 2010
by ted lumley
in APN
What if scientists had labelled ‘field’, ‘spirit’, instead of field? Would science and religion then be ‘more together’?
Buoyant spirits ................................... Sinking spirits
‘Spirit’ seems to be a property of nature that shows through in the dynamics of the diverse forms in nature.
However, our western culture decided to build a common worldview based on material existence rather than ‘field’, and we are so heavily invested in it now, that doing a ‘retro-fit’ to put ‘field’ or ‘spirit’ first, is like the proverbial ‘changing tires on a car while it is speeding down the freeway’. (more…)
The Western Myth of ‘Random Chance’
0March 17, 2010
by ted lumley
in Ted's Blog
Just where does the notion of a ‘random chance happening’ come from?
All of our experience testifies to the fact that Nature is continually gathering and regathering EVERYTHING in its ceaseless innovating. NOTHING is excluded from this continually unifying fluid-dynamic we know as ‘nature’.
The spacetime continuum we are included in is evolving as one dynamic entity, is it not?
We notionally divide transforming nature up according to OUR visual impression that there are ‘local, independently existing material objects/organisms/systems’ that APPEAR to us to have ‘their own locally originating (internal process-driven and internal knowledge, purpose and instinct-directed) behaviours’. (more…)
Author’s Subtext: Darwin’s Troubling Choice
1March 13, 2010
by ted lumley
in APN
One can understand very well Emerson’s view of ‘evolution’ and how it is more truthful to life and experience than Darwin’s, if and only if one trains one’s ‘mind’ to suspend acculturated ‘perception framing habits’.
Without suspending these habits, it is pointless to ‘debate’ an Emersonian ‘worldview’ with others. Emerson realized this and would not accept invitations to debate his views with those who were clearly coming from a different set of basic ‘framing’ assumptions than he. There would be no point since, by coming from different foundations, the two would be talking at crossed purposes, unless they preceded their debate with a debate on those different foundations.
Emerson declared what his were, but many people didn’t listen, so in spite of Emerson’s readings and writings being extraordinarily inspirational, the logicians working them over concluded that they boiled down to nothing tangible and usable, that they were all ‘smoke and mirrors’ e.g;
“Dr. Burnap of Baltimore described Transcendentalism as “a new philosophy which has risen, maintaining that nothing is everything in general, and everything is nothing in particular.”” (more…)
Darwin’s Troubling Choice
0March 11, 2010
by ted lumley
in APN
darwin................................... emerson....................................newton
Darwin, pausing briefly on the wave-washed decks of the Beagle, contemplated how close to the edge of an early ‘recycling’ in nature that the ship, its crew and passengers were now hanging. The thought of the ship being broken open by the sea and its plummeting descent to a peaceful resting place in the briny depths was not entirely unpleasant, in view of how it would bring an end to his frightful mal-de-mer. On the sea bottom, his body would be food for algae and the algae would be food for plankton and the plankton food for fish. Some other human mariner would eat that fish that ate the plankton that ate the algae that ate Charles Darwin and the circle of life would go on. In his log he wrote;
“In the Bay of Biscay there was a long and continued swell, and the misery I endured from seasickness is far far beyond what I ever guessed … Nobody who has only been to sea for 24 hours has a right to say that sea-sickness is even uncomfortable. The real misery only begins when you are so exhausted that a little exertion makes a feeling of faintness come on.” — ‘Charles Darwin and the voyage of the Beagle’. (more…)
What’s (the) Matter?
2March 6, 2010
by ted lumley
in APN
Chief Dan George, ........................... Erwin Schroedinger, ........................ Albert Einstein
Erwin Schroedinger, Albert Einstein and Chief Dan George get together in a longhouse on the Northwest Pacific coast to compare notes on science and reality and ‘what’s the matter’. The following is a transcript of their dialogue; .
Chief Dan George: Welcome, Erwin, Albert, let us start by paying tribute to the rocks which make Turtle Island possible for us to sit together here, patient bearers of moss and bird droppings (… mind yourself there, Erwin), we salute you, and we salute as well all of the four-leggeds, two-leggeds, rooted and winged ones, the running waters that transport us, the fresh winds that breathe life into us, and the sun now shining brightly above us which warms our brows and brings flowers from the earth to brighten our spirits. We are but strands in this web-of-life though our proud words often take us captive and have us strut about as if we were its owners. (more…)
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