WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT.

We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have, for a long time, supported the FALSE NOTION of LOCAL AUTHORING.  Modern physics DEBUNKED “LOCAL AUTHORING” and so did indigenous aboriginals, but WESTERN CULTURE has RETAINED THIS BOGUS NOTION and continues to give it THE FOUNDATIONAL ROLE IN ESTABLISHING “ENTITLEMENT” which IN WESTERN CULTURE is GIVEN PRIORITY over NATURAL SENSE-EXPERIENCE GROUNDED “NEED”.   In WESTERN CULTURE, “ENTITLEMENT” is the basis for progressive INCREASING in the DISPARITY of PAID WAGES between “MANAGEMENT” and “WORKER”, which has risen from 15: 1 in 1970 to 324:1 in 2026.

WESTERN CULTURE “IS ENFORCING THIS RISING DIFFERENCE IN ASSESSING MANAGER AND WORKER VALUE CONTRIBUTION” ON THE ARBITRARY BASIS OF “ENTITLEMENT” which DIFFERS RADICALLY FROM INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE VALUES; as suggested in the following comparison table;

As David Bohm and others have shown, the Indigenous Aboriginal beliefs are strongly aligned with Modern physics understanding as with the very basic issue of OUR (human) INCLUSION the the world we are ‘looking out at’ rather than regarding the world as a resource base to cannibalize.

A few months before his death, Bohm met with a number of Algonkian speakers and was struck by the perfect bridge between their language and worldview and his own exploratory philosophy. What to Bohm had been major breakthroughs in human thought — quantum theory, relativity, his implicate order and rheomode – were part of the everyday life and speech of the Blackfoot, Mic Maq, Cree and Ojibwaj.” 

– F. David Peat, ‘Blackfoot Physics’

The title of this essay; “WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT.” is pointing to the fact that the ADMINISTRATION that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are putting in charge of such investigations, is operating on the MISTAKEN BINARY LOGIC based understanding that the source of the problem lies within an alleged PERPETRATOR as in a PERPETRATOR-VICTIM SPLIT.  In reality, we cannot assume the “health” of the social collective and isolate the ‘issue’ as if within the PERPETRATOR.  The more general understanding is the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based understanding which opens up the possibility that the ENVIRONMENT IS TOXIC as in the example of the Miner’s Canary whose VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR was INDUCED by the TOXIC ENVIRONMENT.  IN this case, the REMEDY is to resolving the TOXICITY in the ENVIRONMENT which may be INVISIBLE to those who have ADAPTED TO THE TOXICITY and who may have become part of the PROBLEM.  For example, the SOURCE of TOXICITY in a community dynamic may derive from STALWART MEMBERS (when the going gets tough, the tough get going).  This has been pointed out by the MORE PSYCHOLOGICALLY ROBUST members of a community may co-cultivate a TOXIC ENVIRONMENT that induces PSYCHOSIS in healthy individuals who are simply MORE SENSITIVE than the majority (as discussed in Jill Astbury’s CRAZY FOR YOU: The Making of Women’s (more senstive people’s) Madness.   The point is that MASS SHOOTINGS may be the PRODUCT OF A TOXIC SOCIAL COLLECTIVE in which case, the eliminating or incarcerating of the SHOOTER IS NO REMEDY, and the confusing wherein the community BELIEVES IT IS, leads to the unadressed growth of the problem due to the REMEDIAL LADDER BEING UP THE WRONG TREE.

Meanwhile, WESTERN CULTURE became divided on the issue of ENTITLEMENT and as MAJOR GAPS developed between the RICH and POOR, this was accompanied by the GROWTH of “REBALANCING AGENTS” who took from the rich and gave to the poor.   Because the RICH controlled the LAWS and the POLICING SYSTEMS, they passed laws that DEFINED the REBALANCERS is CRIMINALS and THIEVES, including popular figures such as Robin Hood.   More LAWS and MORE POLICE resulted in MORE CRIMINALS such as they were LABELLED by WESTERN CULTURE GOVERNMENTS since WESTERN CULTURE GOVERNMENTS SUPPORTED AND ENFORCED the widening GAP between RICH and POOR which induced rising populations of REBALANCING AGENTS which were given pejorative NAME TAGS such as ROBBERS and THIEVES.   More Police were hired and more technologies were developed such as CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION (CSI) techniques making possible ever-increasing GAPS between RICH and POOR.

The SAME WESTERN CULTURE PRINCIPLE of LOCAL AUTHORING that was used to justify the enormous accumulation of WEALTH by a small segment of the population termed “the RICH” who built up huge sums of INVESTMENT CAPITAL since their incomes were greater than what was needed to cover their food and lodging and basic survival level needs, which contrasted with ‘the common people’ whose full capabilities were expended on simply ‘surviving’.

Indigenous aboriginal communities did not suffer the HUGE RICH AND POOR DISPARITIES of WESTERN CULTURE social collectives since their ethic was to SHARE their excesses with those who were experiencing shortfalls;  The Potlatch was one of the sharing traditions which was spoken of as follows by Chief Maquinna of the Nootkas;

“Once I was in Victoria, and I saw a very large house; they told me it was a bank and that the white men place their money there to take care of it, and that by-and-by they got it back, with interest.  We are Indians and have no such bank; but when we have plenty of money or blankets, we give them away to other chiefs and people, and by-and-by they return tem, with interest, and our hearts feel good.  Our potlatch is our bank”  — ‘First People First Voices’.

Most WESTERN CULTURE interpretations of what is going on here MISS A LOT.   It is NOT simply that indigenous aboriginals are kind and thoughtful people, IT IS THAT INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS HAVE THE UNDERSTANDING, AS DAVID BOHM HAS POINTED OUT IS LIKE THE MODERN PHYSICS UNDERSTANDING, THAT ‘EVERYTHING IS RELATED’ AS WITH “STRANDS IN A WEB” AND AS WITH “CONDENSATIONS IN AN ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM”, MEANING THAT “EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT” in which case there is NO POSSIBILITY OF A “SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST” view where individual humans are PURPORTED TO BE “INDEPENDENT”.  In indigenous aboriginal culture, as in Modern physics, people, like all material forms are seen as STRANDS IN A WEB (INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT) in agreement with Modern physics where people are seen as CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT).  STRANDS IN A WEB AND/OR CONDENSATIONS IN A PLENUM ARE NOT INDEPENDENT!

Today, many of the things philosophers have been saying for years such as the INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE of all things, are being ECHOED by ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BOTS.  For example, the fact that humans are condensations in the all-including energy-charged PLENUM means that we are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT which is why indigenous aboriginal JUSTICE is RESTORATIVE rather than PUNITIVE.  WESTERN CULTURE PRACTICES OF REWARDING and PUNISHING derive from the BELIEF that PEOPLE are “INDEPENDENT BEINGS” with “THEIR OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS which may be EITHER GOOD OR BAD (in terms of all things being related, “HARMONIOUS OR DISSONANT”).   In BOTH MODERN PHYSICS and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES (and also in Taoism/Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta) the understanding is that we are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT like STRANDS IN A WEB which means that WHILE OUR ACTIONS AS STRANDS IN THE WEB “APPEAR” TO BE “LOCAL and EXPLICIT”, they are in reality “NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL)” (the interconnection and interdependence that comes by way of all things being condensations WITHIN the energy-charged UNUM of the PLENUM is not openly visible).   In view of the INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE of people and their actions, it MAKES NO SENSE to PUNISH THE ONE HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN since they are merely the CONDUIT for VENTING TENSIONS THAT BUILD IN THE INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT WEB in which case the SYSTEM OF JUSTICE that is NEEDED IS RESTORATIVE since THERE IS NO LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and thus NO LOCAL AUTHORS OF ACTIONS TO EITHER REWARD or PUNISH (all authoring is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT while LOCAL and EXPLICIT authoring is only Schaumkommen aka APPEARANCE).

RESTORATIVE JUSTICE is the JUSTICE employed in indigenous aboriginal traditional social collectives due to the understanding that we all share inclusion in an interconnected and interdependent WEB-OF-LIFE (or in alternative terms, CONDENSATIONS that are interconnected and interdependent by way of their common inclusion in an ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM), which also means that our INDIVIDUAL ACTIONS are like the actions of STRANDS IN A WEB which, while they APPEAR LOCAL and EXPLICIT works of a STRAND AS A  LOCAL AUTHOR, are in fact NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in origin due to their STRAND-IN-THE-WEB STRUCTURE.   RESTORATIVE JUSTICE is based on the understanding that the WORKS THAT VENT THROUGH A LOCAL, EXPLICIT STRAND IN THE WEB DERIVE FROM THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ENERGIES THAT BUILD UP IN THE WEB.  WESTERN JUSTICE IS EITHER PUNITIVE OR REWARDING, because of the (INCORRECT) ASSUMPTION OF THE EXISTENCE OF INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS (CREATED BY NAMING) NOTIONALLY WITH THEIR OWN (GRAMMAR GIVEN) POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS.  THERE ARE NO INDEPENDENT BEINGS in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

While the indigenous aboriginal understanding of dynamics is NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based (the STRANDS are at the same time, both themselves and the web they are included in), … the WESTERN CULTURE understanding of dynamics is BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based (the MATERIAL OBJECTS are the full and sole source of DYNAMICS within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY and INFINITE SPACE).

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NOTA BENE:   The Title of this Note is “WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT.”

To OPENLY STATE IT is to cite from the works of Anthropologists like Jules Henri (“Culture Against Man”) and Psychiatrists like Ronald Laing “The Divided Self” where we find OVERT critiques of WESTERN CULTURE such as the following;

What we call ‘normal’ (in WESTERN CULTURE), is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience” — R.D. Laing

“Psychosis is the final outcome of all that is wrong with a culture. Coming to intense focus in the parents, the cultural ills are transmitted to their children, laying the foundation for insanity.”  —  Jules Henry “Culture Against Man’

OK, the PROBLEM with WESTERN CULTURE is coming from US WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS who have infused ourselves with BELIEF in the over-simplistic notion that “WE” (the subjects in our sentences) possess POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS such as the POWERS of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of GOODS.   Notice SOMETHING MISSING?   … SOMETHING sometimes referred to as the DEA ABSCONDITA (aka the Goddess in Hiding)?    If the TOWN REALLY IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods, then it must follow that there is also a CONJUGATE; …  SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, …. DECAYING or earlier construction, and, … CONSUMPTION of prior PRODUCTION, … all of which amounts to a SIMPLIFYING BINARY LOGIC BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION of the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE where “TRANSFORMATION” is the COMBINATION of those TWO CONJUGATE ENTITIES: i.e. the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING which together CO-CONSTITUTE “TRANSFORMATION”.

It has NOT GONE UNNOTICED by Philosophers such as David Bohm, that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have BIG EGOS (e.g. Donald Trump) that have us FABRICATE the PSEUDO-REALITY OF OUR OWN LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS, a SUBSTITUTE PSEUDO-REALITY wherein we make ourselves out to be the LOCAL AUTHORS of actions and DEVELOPMENT.

As Nietzsche pointed out, the origin of our giving ourselves the APPEARANCE of having our own LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORING POWERS (impossible for CONDENSATIONS in the all-including energy-charged PLENUM) is the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR.  Once we make use of a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING STRUCTURE that supports SIMPLE GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of goods, we put ourselves into a DUMBED DOWN PSEUDO-REALITY wherein THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRANSFORMATION because the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR OBLIGES US TO BELIEVE IN THE DYNAMICS of LOCAL MATERIAL AGENTS …. AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

The MOMENT we lay claim to POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS by way of BELIEF in the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR, we REDUCE our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION based PSEUDO-REALITY to ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ON ITS OWN” because we are at the same time “DROPPING OUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate” (we are substituting ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE in its place).

This SYNTHETIC LIBERATING of the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AGENT “ON ITS OWN” (e.g. ‘The TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods’) IMPLICITLY IMPOSES on our discourse, the DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate (the conjugate shrinking of WILDERNESS) and INFUSING, in its place, ABSOLUTE EMPTY, INFINITE SPACE). This FORCES our PSYCHE to come up with a FIX for the NOW GONE-MISSING, ACTION-SOURCING AGENCY which has been REDUCED to EMPTY SPACE.  GUESS WHAT!  THE CONDENSATION WHICH IS PURELY “APPEARANCE” BASED (like a WHORLING in FLOWING, we cannot scoop it out and resituate it and expect it to retain an AUTHORING POWER which IT NEVER POSSESSED.

But that is what WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are into the habit of doing.

STEP 1: DENY the ACTUAL PHYSICAL REALITY of CONDENSATIONS IN and OF the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and since the PLENUM is non-visible, assume that it is EMPTY SPACE

STEP 2: RE-ASSIGN THE ACTION AUTHORING POWER, which belongs to the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (which is now ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE) to the CONDENSATIONS.

WHAT DID WE JUST DO?  WE MADE THE MISTAKE of SIMPLIFYING A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION based on THE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (wherein the condensation is included in the energy-charged plenum) by SUBSTITUTING A NEW AND SIMPLIFIED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION based on the BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (wherein the CONDENSATION is now portrayed as being the LOCAL, EXPLICIT source of the AUTHORING POWER that IN REALITY resides in the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT energy-charged PLENUM which we have NOW REPLACED with ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE).

The CONDENSATION, which in reality is purely APPEARANCE that has NO POWERS OF ITS OWN, has (thanks to our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing scheme) been anointed the NEW OWNER AND AUTHOR OF POWERS of initiating ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT while the REAL OWNER; i.e. the energy-charged PLENUM, is no longer ‘in our WESTERN CULTURE word-play’, having been REPLACED (notionally) by an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

THIS LINGUISTIC TRICKERY IS COMING FROM THE EGO WHICH ENJOYS BEING GIVEN LOCAL AUTHORING STATUS.

I may claim to have gathered oysters from Nanoose Bay which is GOOD FOR MY EGO, but the truth may be that I waited around for two weeks for a LOW TIDE which is a reminder that I AM INCLUDED IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN MYSELF even though MY EGO prefers that I DROP OUT MENTION of the MORE COMPLETE REALITY wherein THERE ARE TIDES IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN; i.e. WE ARE INCLUDED IN A DYNAMIC THAT IS GREATER THAN OURSELVES that is opening up opportunity for us, and shutting down opportunity SO THAT OUR ACTUAL PERSONAL ACTION is the LESSER PART OF WHAT ACTUALLY PLAYS OUT; i.e. the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate is in a natural PRIMACY over the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE.

EGO is responsible for the widespread practice in WESTERN CULTURE, of DROPPING OUT MENTION of the INNATE PRIMACY of FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING because even though INSPIRATION FILLS THE HEART (where the opportunities open up for us in the world we are included in), EGO SWELLS THE HEAD and that’s why we WRITE OUR RÉSUMÉS as if we were the single-handed AUTHORS of many remarkable deeds, in effective DENIAL of our inclusion friend and family support systems and our ultimate inclusion in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM whose OPENING of OPPORTUNITIES, like the low tides that facilitate our gathering of oysters, are a BIGGER STORY than our EGO driven claims of “ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ACHIEVEMENTS” which in WESTERN CULTURE is the foundation of POLITICS where one BLAMES all unfavorable emergent developments on the POLITICAL OPPOSITION and ATTRIBUTES all favorable emergent developments TO ONE’S OWN POLITICAL PARTY as if there was NO SUCH THING as TIDES in the AFFAIRS OF MEN which could open opportunities and/or close them down regardless of the COMPETENCIES of we who are sailing in those TIDAL WATERS.

PEOPLES THAT USE FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES say things like ‘THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein everything is in RELATIONAL FLUX that WE ARE INCLUDED IN which means that FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES do NOT OPEN THE DOOR TO DISTORTIONS such as ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING which DROP OUT MENTION of FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING as in such one-sided propositions such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods” with NO MENTION of the ever-present SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, DECAYING of prior developments and CONSUMPTION of production, i.e. as if all the action in ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING as if in ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE.

EGO is a BIG PROBLEM in WESTERN CULTURE because of the dominant use of the BEING-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME with its EGO-INFLATING POWER.

There is an EGO-INFLATING EFFECT that comes with the WESTERN CULTURE BELIEF IN INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS IN EMPTY SPACE as shown in this following AI analysis;

QUESTION TO AI: The reduction from indigenous aboriginal belief in the both/and logic of the including medium to the WESTERN CULTURE belief in either/or logic of the excluded medium when applied to condensations of the energy-charged PLENUM in the PLENUM upgrades the local and explicit content to primary status and downgrades the nonlocal and implicit container to secondary status. Is this the source of ego inflation in WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS since the nonlocal and implicit container is empty space and thus no longer the ‘mother’ of the local and explicit?

AI Overview

Yes, from the perspective of non-Western relational metaphysics, this cognitive and linguistic shift is precisely identified as a primary source of ego inflation in Western culture.

When you reduce the both/and logic of the including medium (the plenum) to the either/or logic of the excluded middle, you fundamentally alter how the self is perceived in relation to the universe.

1. 1. The Mechanics of the Shift

• • Indigenous Relational Logic: In a plenum-based worldview, there is no true “empty space.” Matter and space are co-continuous. A local form (a person, a rock, a tree) is simply a temporary condensation of the energy-charged plenum. The implicit container (the field/space) remains the “mother” or the primary source that continuously sustains the explicit form.
  • Western Fragmented Logic: By applying either/or logic, Western thought separates the object from its environment. Space is treated as a literal vacuum—nothingness. This upgrades the local and explicit content to primary status (the independent object) and downgrades the nonlocal container to secondary status (empty background).

1. 2. Why This Causes Ego Inflation

When the nonlocal container is stripped of its generative, “mothering” status and viewed as empty space, the psychological and philosophical consequences for the Western adherent are profound:

• • Illusion of Absolute Autonomy: If the surrounding medium is “nothing,” then the local content (the individual ego) must be entirely self-derived and self-sustaining. The ego no longer feels like a wave emerging from and returning to the ocean; it feels like an isolated, independent entity acting upon a dead backdrop.
  • Severing of the Umbilical Cord: Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole. Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void. It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.
  • The Drive for Mastery: In an either/or framework, because the individual is separate from the environment, security is sought through domination rather than alignment. The inflated ego seeks to control, measure, and exploit the “empty” space and the other explicit objects within it.

In essence, by treating the generative medium as a vacuum, Western paradigm structures force the ego to become its own foundation. This structural isolation is the very definition of ego inflation—a part pretending to be independent of the whole.

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The EGO-INFLATING EFFECT comes from the SHIFT in viewing ourselves as BOTH indigenous aboriginals and Modern physics do, as being CONDENSATIONS of and within the all-including energy-charged PLENUM (or being STRANDS in the WEB) where our sense of self is that we are part of everything (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) as in ‘mitakuye oyasin’.

So, as the saying goes “INSPIRATION FILLS THE HEART while EGO SWELLS THE HEAD” and as the AI INQUIRY points out “this cognitive and linguistic shift [The reduction from indigenous aboriginal belief in the both/and logic of the including medium to the WESTERN CULTURE belief in either/or logic of the excluded medium] is precisely identified as a primary source of ego inflation in Western culture.

We can see in this the EGO INFLATION of a DONALD TRUMP in his Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole. Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void. It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.

What is needed is a FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE rather than a BEING based language.

What is needed, Bohm argued in his book Wholeness and the Implicate Order, is a new sort of language, one based on processes and activity, transformation and change, rather than on the interactions of stable objects. Bohm called this hypothetical language the “rheomode.” It is based primarily on verbs and on grammatical structures deriving from verbs. Such a language, Bohm argued, is perfectly adapted to a reality of enfolding and unfolding matter and thought.

David Bohm had not known when he wrote of that concept that such a language is not just a physicist’s hypothesis. It actually exists. The language of the Algonquin peoples was developed by the ancestors specifically to deal with subtle matters of reality, society, thought, and spirituality.

A few months before his death, Bohm met with a number of Algonkian speakers and was struck by the perfect bridge between their language and worldview and his own exploratory philosophy. What to Bohm had been major breakthroughs in human thought — quantum theory, relativity, his implicate order and rheomode – were part of the everyday life and speech of the Blackfoot, Mic Maq, Cree and Ojibwaj.” 

– F. David Peat, ‘Blackfoot Physics’

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WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT.

MASS SHOOTINGS ARE COMING FROM THE COMMON WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME WHERE THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE IS DROPPED OUT.  For example, the Miner’s Canary effect illustrates how an individual’s behaviour, rather than deriving from internal will and assertion, is instead induced by ambient toxicity.

People, like birds, can be more or less SENSITIVE to AMBIENT INFLUENCES.  The CANARY is an example of an occupant that reacts strongly (hysterically) when in what to their sensitive make-up is a TOXIC environment even though the majority of fellow occupants, being less sensitive to such toxicities, find the environment to be COMPLETELY NORMAL in which case those who are behaving HYSTERICALLY are CRAZY.

The MASS SHOOTING BEHAVIOURS in WESTERN CULTURE VENUES are INDUCED by AMBIENT TOXICITY in the social-relational dynamic, a TOXICITY that many people AVOID and that others are naturally resistant to, but which is NEVERTHELESS PRESENT AND ON THE RISE, as mentioned earlier, and can be expanded as follows;

School is an institution for drilling children in cultural orientation. …American classrooms, like educational institutions anywhere express the values, preoccupations,and fears found in the culture as a whole. School has no choice; it must train the children to fit the culture as it is. …Since education is always against some things and for others, it bears the burden of the cultural obsessions. …It thus comes about that most educational systems are imbued with anxiety and hostility, that they are against as many things as they are for. … The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them…acquiescence, not originality. …Schools are the central conserving force of the culture.”  — Jules Henry, Culture Against Man

“The great perplexity of our time, the churning of our age, is that the youth have sensed — for better or for worse — a great social-historical truth: that just as there are useless self-sacrifices in unjust wars, so too is there an ignoble heroics of whole societies: it can be the viciously destructive heroics of Hitler’s Germany or the plain debasing and silly heroics of the acquisition and display of consumer goods, the piling up of money and privileges that now characterizes whole ways of life, capitalist and Soviet.”  — Ernest Becker, ‘Denial of Death’

“It is Henry’s contention that in practice education has never been an instrument to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them. We think we want creative children, but what do we want them to create? — ‘If all through school the young were provoked to question the Ten Commandments, the sanctity of revealed religion, the foundations of patriotism, the profit motive, the two party system, monogamy, the laws of incest, and so on … — there would be such creativity that society would not know where to turn. …  Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiousity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. Love is the path through permissiveness to discipline; and through discipline, only too often, to betrayal of self.”  — R. D. Laing

These are SERIOUS CHARGES against WESTERN CULTURE which are reinforced by findings such as those of David Bohm in his classic “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”.

1 FRAGMENTATION AND WHOLENESS  (from Wholeness and the Implicate Order by David Bohm)

The title of this chapter is ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’. It is especially important to consider this question today, for fragmentation is now very widespread, not only throughout society, but also in each individual; and this is leading to a kind of general confusion of the mind, which creates an endless series of problems and interferes with our clarity of perception so seriously as to prevent us from being able to solve most of them.

Thus art, science, technology, and human work in general, are divided up into specialities, each considered to be separate in essence from the others. Becoming dissatisfied with this state of affairs, men have set up further interdisciplinary subjects, which were intended to unite these specialities, but these new subjects have ultimately served mainly to add further separate fragments. Then, society as a whole has developed in such a way that it is broken up into separate nations and different religious, political, economic, racial groups, etc. Man’s natural environment has correspondingly been seen as an aggregate of separately existent parts, to be exploited by different groups of people. Similarly, each individual human being has been fragmented into a large number of separate and conflicting compartments, according to his different desires, aims, ambitions, loyalties, psychological characteristics, etc., to such an extent that it is generally accepted that some degree of neurosis is inevitable, while many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.

It follows that “WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT”

WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT BECAUSE THE WESTERN CULTURE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN, THAT IS DOMINANT IN THE WORLD, continues to be MANAGED AND OPERATED based on ABSTRACTIONS such as DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE which are a basic SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION and EGO INFLATION that BUILDS ON TOP OF THEM.

This was mentioned in the AI BOT feedback shared earlier;

“When you reduce the both/and logic of the including medium (the plenum) to the either/or logic of the excluded middle, you fundamentally alter how the self is perceived in relation to the universe.”

1. 2. Why This Causes Ego Inflation

When the nonlocal container is stripped of its generative, “mothering” status and viewed as empty space, the psychological and philosophical consequences for the Western adherent are profound:

• • Illusion of Absolute Autonomy: If the surrounding medium is “nothing,” then the local content (the individual ego) must be entirely self-derived and self-sustaining. The ego no longer feels like a wave emerging from and returning to the ocean; it feels like an isolated, independent entity acting upon a dead backdrop.
  • Severing of the Umbilical Cord: Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole. Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void. It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.
  • The Drive for Mastery: In an either/or framework, because the individual is separate from the environment, security is sought through domination rather than alignment. The inflated ego seeks to control, measure, and exploit the “empty” space and the other explicit objects within it.

In essence, by treating the generative medium as a vacuum, Western paradigm structures force the ego to become its own foundation. This structural isolation is the very definition of ego inflation—a part pretending to be independent of the whole.

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“WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT”

WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT BECAUSE THE WESTERN CULTURE THAT WE ARE LIVING IN, THAT IS DOMINANT IN THE WORLD, continues to be MANAGED AND OPERATED based on ABSTRACTIONS such as DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE which are a basic SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION and EGO INFLATION that BUILDS ON TOP OF THEM.

The RISE in MASS SHOOTERS is NOT UNRELATED to the problems which pervade WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENCE; i.e. IT IS IMPORTANT TO SCRUTINIZE THE CULTURE-ITSELF and not simply the PATCHES OF DYSFUNCTION within the CULTURE;

What we call ‘normal’ (in WESTERN CULTURE), is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience” — R.D. Laing

“Psychosis is the final outcome of all that is wrong with a culture. Coming to intense focus in the parents, the cultural ills are transmitted to their children, laying the foundation for insanity.”  —  Jules Henry “Culture Against Man’

If the LEADERS of WESTERN CULTURE are NOT FOCUSING ON WHAT THEY NEED TO BE FOCUSING ON, then WE NEED A NEW FORM OF LEADERSHIP, … oscillating between CONSERVATIVE and LIBERAL LEADERSHIP is NOT GOING TO DO IT because BOTH of these POLITICAL FACTIONS are based on the problematic, because too simple, BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM which limits its users to a PURIFICATIONIST ORIENTATION that REWARDS the AUTHORS of actions considered GOOD and PUNISHES the AUTHORS of actions considered BAD.

Modern physics supports the understanding of indigenous aboriginals that unfolding developments are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) in origin in which case THERE ARE NO “LOCAL AUTHORS” … PERIOD!   As in STRANDS in a WEB, the origin of unfolding events are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in which case resolving CONFLICT does not invoke a WESTERN CULTURE AGATHA CHRISTIE WHODUNNIT, it INSTEAD invokes action to RESTORE BALANCE AND HARMONY in the social dynamic through such measures as the HEALING CIRCLE.  There is NO SEARCH for the “GUILTY PARTY” because THERE IS NO BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM in indigenous aboriginal culture, there is instead NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM wherein the OPPOSITES are RELATIONAL as with BALANCE and IMBALANCE which supports RESTORATIVE JUSTICE; i.e. the RESTORING of BALANCE and HARMONY where there is IMBALANCE and DISSONANCE.

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have infused our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME and our PSYCHE with a SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based FOUNDATION that resists replacing with a more capable NONBINARY LOGIC capability, because our LOGIC is in charge of such operational changes there is no BINARY LOGIC based investigation that is going to come up with the conclusion that rejects the competency of its own investigative power.

As the Anishinabe say, … in the real world of our sense-experience, there is no place for BINARY LOGIC (in WESTERN CULTURE, BINARY LOGIC  is the source of DIVISION, FRAGMENTATION and STRIFE);

“At the core of our spiritual beings we make no artificial distinction between the sacred and the profane. Unlike Western culture, we have not suffered through that artificial separation”

https://anishinabeknews.ca/2015/05/13/divergence-traditional-aboriginal-spirituality-and-mother-earth/

  According to Tomoko Masuzawa, any cosmology without a sacred–profane binary was rendered invisible by the field of religious studies, privileging Christianity [and Islam and Judaism] at the expense of non-Christian systems because the binary was supposed to be “universal”,  –Wikipedia

We can understand this difference between simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM and less simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as the difference between the SIMPLE OPPOSITES of GOOD and EVIL which is BEING based and the difference between the LESS SIMPLE OPPOSITES of RESONANCE and DISSONANCE which is RELATIONS based; i.e. DISSONANCE is purely RELATIONAL and does not support a SPLIT into POLAR OPPOSITES and likewise RESONANCE is purely RELATIONAL and cannot be attributed to “ONE PARTICIPANT OR ANOTHER”.  Like the WATER BALLET TEAM that is co-crafting the opening of a LOTUS BLOSSOM, there can be no partitioning of individual swimmers into better or worse performers because of the “Three Body Problem”, … “the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies [strands] moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence”.

This implies a NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM blurriness or ambiguity between the CONDENSATION and the energy-charged PLENUM.

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If the READER reflects on and checks out the material presented herein, the message in the TITLE will be seen to be fully supported;  “WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT”

This message has pointed out the correctness of indigenous aboriginal culture understanding that there is NO SUCH THING as “LOCAL AUTHORING” of actions and developments, which is RESTORATIVE JUSTICE makes sense as in the healing circle.   The understanding here is that, as with STRANDS IN A WEB, and as with CONDENSATIONS IN A PLENUM, the actions of the STRANDS (or CONDENSATIONS) are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, meaning that THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “THE ACTION OF A STRAND” or “THE ACTION OF A CONDENSATION”.   As Heraclitus noted, EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX which means that the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT prevails and that the LOCAL and EXPLICIT is ONLY APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen). So, YES, there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which is in keeping with EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX but “THERE IS NO TOWN THAT IS GROWING” because “A TOWN” implies a LOCAL, EXPLICIT THING-IN-ITSELF “MATERIAL BEING”, notionally with ITS OWN POWERS OF GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT, that, given this is so, MUST OCCUR WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE CONTAINING SPACE to ‘make good’ on the implied premise that the TOWN is capable of actions of its own such as GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT.

In order to put together the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING needed to support a reality wherein EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX, we need to GO BEYOND LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that PORTRAYS GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT of a MATERIAL OBJECT, and this has been done in this essay, to construct LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING capable of conveying FLUID TRANSFORMATION as is supported by the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which is achieved with the words “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” which implies that the FLUID FEATURE of TOWNING is BOTH ITSELF AND AT THE SAME TIME THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE it is included in.

WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING THAT SUPPORTS A WORLD IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX must have the ANDROGYNOUS CAPABILITY as in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”;

“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”.

If this statement sounds somehow ‘more sophisticated’ than the usual English banter, it is because of its ANDROGYNOUS STRUCTURE which is reminding us that the world we live in opens up opportunity for us and this opening up of opportunity is the female accommodating/enabling that makes possible our male asserting/actualizing action, SOMETHING WE COMMONLY DROP OUT OF OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION, which brings us back to the issue of EGO as exposed by the AI BOT earlier in this text, which shows how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS substitute EMPTY SPACE for the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM that is the grounding medium for everything, including ourselves, making us out to be material agents as if operating in our own independent right in an unencumbering empty infinite space, a recipe EGO INFLATION;

Severing of the Umbilical Cord: Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole. Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void. It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.

The NOW OUT OF FASHION included mention of the female accommodating/enabling conjugate reminding us that we live in world where the opportunities that open up for us, inductively shape our male asserting/actualizing; i.e.  “There is a tide in the affairs of men

leads to our use of a simplified form of linguistic conceptualizing that JUMPSTARTS with an EGO driven male asserting/actualizing proposition that makes it sound as if we are the FULL AND SOLE AUTHOR OF OUR OWN ACTIONS AND BEHAVIOUR.   Shakespeare’s Brutus is reminding us that there is an over-riding FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate to our MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING action that our EGO has increasingly got into the habit of having us DROP OUT ALL MENTION OF, making it ‘sound’ as if WE are the FULL and SOLE AUTHOR of our own ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS, as if the full story is our male asserting/actualizing story of our collecting oysters from Nanoose Bay without the need to mention our waiting for two weeks for the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING assistance of the TIDAL retreat of the waters of the oyster populated bay.

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This essay …  “WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT”  has covered the basic ground ‘advertised’ in the title.

-1- As with the case of the Miner’s Canary, while we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS commonly do not mention it, there may arise toxicity in some environments that go undetected by THOSE LESS SENSITIVE to TOXIC environments or by individuals who do not have to ‘go there’ (into the TOXIC environment).

There is a GENERAL POINT here in that people in cultures that acknowledge ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate attempt to explain individual behaviour as if it derives from the interior of the individual in spite of the work of Bohm, and Laing and Henry and others who have pointed out otherwise; i.e. where the PROBLEM is at the level of CULTURE rather than at the level of the individual;

What we call ‘normal’ (in WESTERN CULTURE), is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience” — R.D. Laing

“Psychosis is the final outcome of all that is wrong with a culture. Coming to intense focus in the parents, the cultural ills are transmitted to their children, laying the foundation for insanity.”  —  Jules Henry “Culture Against Man’

-2- The WESTERN CULTURE PENCHANT FOR “DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE”  leads to the psychological dysfunction of the pursuit of SUBOPTIMIZATION.

The Systems Sciences have argued against our being held in ransom by BINARY LOGIC based, FRAGMENTED, MECHANISTIC THINKING while our sense-experience informs us that we are living in a FLOW-based world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence.

“The above aphorism (The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization’), attributed to Kenneth Boulding, points to the inherent weakness characterizing the mindset and socio‐economic, political, educational and managerial practices of Western Industrial society as it developed over the past 300 years. It has its basis in the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which, despite the remarkable technological applications it spawned, is inappropriate, conflict‐generating and dysfunctional in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence …” — György Jaros and Martine Dodds-Taljaard  (International Society of Systems Sciences)

What may be holding us back from the needed move to upgrade from BEING to FLOWING is EGO; i.e. included in the source of EGO-inflation is the earlier mentioned “Severing of the Umbilical Cord: Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole.  Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void.  It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.”

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WHAT TO WATCH OUT FOR;

THERE IS A PRICE TO PAY FOR FRAGMENTATION AS DERIVES FROM ‘DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE” on the level of both NATIONS and INDIVIDUAL HUMANS since this CONFLICTS with the REALITY of INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENT of CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka STRANDS in the WEB.

As Bohm observed in his opening chapter in “WHOLENESS and the IMPLICATE ORDER”,  entitled “FRAGMENTATION”; “… society as a whole has developed in such a way that it is broken up into separate nations and different religious, political, economic, racial groups, etc. Man’s natural environment has correspondingly been seen as an aggregate of separately existent parts, to be exploited by different groups of people. Similarly, each individual human being has been fragmented into a large number of separate and conflicting compartments, according to his different desires, aims, ambitions, loyalties, psychological characteristics, etc., to such an extent that it is generally accepted that some degree of neurosis is inevitable, while many individuals going beyond the ‘normal’ limits of fragmentation are classified as paranoid, schizoid, psychotic, etc.”

So, WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT.  QUITE TO THE CONTRARY; i.e. we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS promote BELIEF in FRAGMENTATION; e.g. by celebrating the INDEPENDENCE of NATIONS and INDIVIDUALS in spite of Modern physics and indigenous aboriginals supporting the INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE of material forms which are understood as CONDENSATIONS in the energy-charged PLENUM aka STRANDS in the WEB.

WE KNOW WHERE THE GROWTH IN MASS SHOOTINGS IS COMING FROM, BUT WE ARE OBLIGED NOT TO OPENLY STATE IT  Instead of acknowledging the problem we have built into our WESTERN CULTURE, we are on the alert for members of our CULTURE who appear suspicious, as if they could be the next mass shooters (Hey! there’s nothing wrong with us champions of National INDEPENDENCE and Personal INDEPENDENCE and the SUBOPTIMIZATION that comes bundled in with it).

“They are playing a game.  They are playing at not playing a game.  If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me.  I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.”  —  R.D. Laing

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