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THIS IS A BIGGIE FOR ME, SO BIG THAT I THINK THAT IT WAS COMMUNICATED TO ME FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE!

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Erich Jantsch only lived to age 51 (1929 – 1980) and his obituary, written by a close friend, Milan Zeleny,  says; “his work remains unfinished and his dreams unfulfilled”.  How BRUTAL!  A few weeks ago, I hunted for and found the only biography of Erich that I could find, which was more like a short notebook, The Quiet Ganesh: finding Erich Jantsch”, by Leah M. Sciabarrasi, … which put together notes on 59 small pages, a gathering of comments from people who knew him or had views on his work.   I was just ‘going with the flow’ as I tried to make sense out of how Erich and his amazing work with titles including “Design for Evolution (1975) and The Self-Organizing Universe (1980) seemed to be treated as a passing novelty, while my view was, based only on his THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS, which he presented at the “International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences’ (ICUS) in Tokyo in 1973, where one can get a copy of his handwritten notes from his presentation (I have had this copy of his notes for some time and they are easy to read.  One can download a copy from;  https://icus.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Jantsch-Erich-Transexperiential-Inquiry.pdf )

THE EERY ‘COINCIDENCE’ was that after having reviewed ‘The Quiet Ganesh’ which was a skeletal review of his life and work, I searched the internet for an obituary for Jantsch, and found the two-pager by Zeleny which I printed out and showed, as it came off the printer, to my daughter Alison, who noticed in reading it, that Jantsch died on December 12, 1980 (I had no idea of his date of passing) but here I was printing his obituary out on this very same day DECEMBER 12, 2025, forty-five years after his passing.  This might not mean much to most people, and I myself am not what one would call ‘superstitious’, but I have such a strong connection with the work of Jantsch, in particular, his understanding of LEVELS OF AWARENESS which more than make sense to me (these awareness levels answer many questions in regard to problems with our WESTERN CULTURE).

 

OK, Jantsch’s THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS is like the ROSETTA STONE in that it ties together OTHER WORK such as Nietzsche’s argument that there is no such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING, that it is just the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR so that when we use LOCAL AUTHORING in our language we are constructing a DISTORTED PSEUDO-REALITY where we say things like “THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning the conjugate “SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS” and thus without CAPTURING THE SENSE-EXPERIENCE BASED REALITY of the all-including TRANSFORMATION.

 

OK, that is ONE OF THE THREE THINGS that when PUT TOGETHER, can help to give us an understanding wherein the SUM transcends the PARTS.

 

The SECOND THING can be gleaned from deserved attack on the LEGITIMACY of the notion of GROWTH.  We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are making strong progress in digging ourselves into a hole which it is not going to be easy to climb out of by our pursuit of economic GROWTH.  For example, as even economists are saying;

 

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* * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY  * * *

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AUTHOR’S PREFACE:   I would say, that for WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS (based on my former experience as such), one develops KNEE-JERK ASSUMPTIONS that are bound into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING practice that bring forth SIMPLIFIED INTERPRETATIONS of “REALITY”.  For example, we say ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning that THE SURROUNDINGS MUST SHRINK in conjugate relation which entails overall TRANSFORMATION of the landscape.  Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS “WARNS US” that statements that are “LOGICALLY TRUE” such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING” are INHERENTLY INCOMPLETE and therefore WHAT IS “LOGICALLY TRUE” is not REAL due to its INCOMPLETENESS, and THIS CAN GIVE RISE TO CONFUSION. In an indigenous or Modern physics FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE where we AVOID the use of NAMING-instantiated BEING, where one says for example, “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, we capture the reality of everything being in continuing transformative flux, which AVOIDS what Nietzsche calls ‘the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR’ which supports the abstraction of “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT”.

 

Because of the INCOMPLETENESS of our LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS involving “LOCAL AUTHORING” such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which simply DROPS OUT MENTION of how what is REALLY GOING ON is “THE TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE” which includes, as well, “THE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS”, we are exposed to building SERIOUS MISTAKES into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS.  For example, while those using VERB based linguistic conceptualizations such as indigenous aboriginals are using RESTORATIVE JUSTICE because, IN REALITY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING (violent events derive from relational dissonance which IS CO-CULTIVATED by a relational social matrix and while relational dissonance MANIFESTS by VENTING THROUGH an individual, it is NOT AUTHORED BY THE INDIVIDUAL.  For example, the RELATIONAL DYSFUNCTION in a social collective that manifests through an individual such as Ghislaine Maxwell who encouraged girls to participate in prostitution, while this dysfunction is a social relational community dysfunction (relational dissonance) VENTS through Ghislaine and others, it is NOT LOCALLY AUTHORED by Ghislaine and this is understood in indigenous aboriginal cultures where there the community response is to ACCEPT THAT THE RELATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE COMMUNITY ARE THE SOURCE OF THE DYSFUNCTION (such as prostitution), so that a HEALING CIRCLE approach is in order, and NOT, as in WESTERN CULTURE, a SCAPE-GOATING OF THE IDENTIFIED PATIENT, the ALLEGED SICKO that, instead of being a LOCAL AUTHOR, is THE VENT for the manifest expression of TENSIONS building within the social collective.  The INDIVIDUAL such as Ghislaine … IS THE VENT through which TENSIONS in the social collective are made manifest, but that individual IS NOT THE “AUTHOR” of the acts; the community is the AUTHORING source, hence the RESTORATIVE JUSTICE approach of indigenous aboriginals instead of WESTERN CULTURE SCAPE-GOATING of the person or persons through whom the community-cultivated TENSIONS are VENTED.

It is IMPORTANT to KEEP IN MIND that “THERE ARE NO LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” in the real world of our sense-experience wherein we, the participants in the social dynamic are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as with STRANDS in a WEB where the SOURCE of the VIOLENT VENTING OF a STRAND is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT in origin and is LOCAL and EXPLICIT “ONLY IN APPEARANCE” (Schoroedinger’s “Schaumkommen”).  WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE IS BASED ON THE MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING WHICH DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS A DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR.  Yes, the INDIVIDUAL STRAND IN THE WEB is the VENT for VIOLENT ACTION that stems from the BUILDUP of TENSIONS in the WEB, but the STRAND IN THE WEB THAT IS VIOLENTLY VENTING IS NOT THE AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE.

Whether the manifest action is deemed BENEFICIAl or DETRIMENTAL, it must be understood that its REAL ORIGIN is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (coming from the WEB and merely VENTING through a STRAND), rather than being LOCAL and EXPLICIT (coming from the STRAND ITSELF).  Thus, there is NEVER any such thing as LOCAL AUTHORING, there is only LOCAL VENTING that derives from NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WEB-AUTHORING.  This is the UNDERSTANDING of indigenous aboriginals, Taoism/Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta and Modern physics, and supported by NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM.  The STRAND in the WEB is a metaphor for CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where the CONDENSATIONS are “BOTH” themselves “AND” the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM THEY ARE FORMING (NONDUALITY). WESTERN CULTURE UNDERSTANDING is HUNG UP ON LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING based on the DUALISM of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM; i.e. LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL OBJECTS IN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

 

In the STRAND IN THE WEB UNDERSTANDING, RESTORATIVE JUSTICE MAKES SENSE rather than PUNITIVE JUSTICE.  WESTERN CULTURE STANDARD PUNITIVE JUSTICE SCAPE-GOATS the IDENTIFIED PATIENT (the person identified by the finger-pointing community as an independent SICKO whose convicting and punishing effectively CONSIDERS the overall social collective, apart from the IDENTIFIED PATIENT, to be innocent-unless-proven guilty).   The imposing of the abstraction of LOCAL AUTHORING by WESTERN CULTURE PUNITIVE JUSTICE is the imposing of a SCAPE-GOATING of the IDENTIFIED PATIENT WHICH IS A MISTAKE that ignores the REALITY of the INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE of the STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB (aka CONDENSATIONS IN THE PLENUM). The DECLARATION of INDEPENDENCE of the INDIVIDUAL is a WESTERN CULTURE SUPPORTED ABSTRACTION that is NOT SUPPORTED by indigenous aborginal cultures, nor by Modern physics.  Indigenous aboriginals have developed a system of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE based on the interconnected and interdependent STRANDS in the WEB wherein VIOLENT outbursts are understood as NONLOCAL and RELATIONAL in origin, unlike the MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION of WESTERN CULTURE which has assumed the LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS based on what Nietzsche has pointed out is the DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR.

In the Genealogy of Morality and Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the purported deed itself. For Nietzsche, this double error is a fundamental misinterpretation of reality driven by grammatical and psychological habits (a “superstition of logicians”). He argues that there is no independent, unified “subject” or “ego” that stands apart from its actions and causes them. Instead, actions and thoughts are part of a stream of becoming, a complex interplay of drives and physical processes, without a stable, internal “doer”. (In other words, Nietzsche argues against the “superstition” that a discrete agent (the ego) exists prior to action, suggesting that “the doer” is merely a linguistic fiction superimposed upon the deed itself.)

 

The reality is;… there is NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS as is acknowledged in FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES.  We can see WHY IT IS that indigenous aboriginals’ RESTORATIVE JUSTICE makes NO ASSUMPTION of LOCALLY AUTHORED CRIMINAL ACTIONS but instead understands VIOLENCE in terms of RELATIONAL DISSONANCE that emerges as TENSIONS that build in the community and are not resolved (as with the HEALING CIRCLE).

The NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT CONTINUING nature of the DYNAMIC WORLD of our sense-experience ARGUES AGAINST using a “LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL BEING based FOUNDATION for LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of QUOTE/UNQUOTE “REALITY”.

The story of the old man and the horses is a Taoist parable about embracing UNCERTAINTY, illustrating how seemingly GOOD or BAD “EVENTS” are INTERCONNECTED, and we CAN’T KNOW THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME.  When the farmer’s horse runs away (bad luck), he says “Maybe”. When it returns with wild horses (good fortune), he says “Maybe”. When his son breaks his leg training them (bad luck), he says “Maybe,” and when the son is spared from war due to the injury (good luck), he still says “Maybe,” reminding us that the world we share inclusion in is an ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM which our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME “FRAGMENTS” in a SUBJECTIVE manner which is OPEN TO BIAS.

For example, the October 7 Hamas massacre that killed over 1200 Israelis and took over 250 hostages was masterminded by Palestinian Yahya Sinwar who was born in the Khan Younis refugee camp to parents who had been displaced from Ashkelon in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. The camp was densely packed with impoverished families, who lived in poor conditions and relied on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for basic services.  While the Isaeli-Palestinian conflict is part of a continuum, the linguistic conceptualizing habit which ISOLATES, EXTRACTS and GIVES NAMES to EVENT-SPIKES rooted in a continuing STRIFE as with the TITLE “OCTOBER 7 MASSACRE” re-presents a SPIKE in the CONTINUING STRIFE as “AN EVENT” or “VICIOUS ISOLATED ACT”.

The point is that while we use BINARY LOGIC to notionally TURN THINGS ON AND OFF to simplify our linguistic conceptualizing of such things as persisting tension instigated STRIFE, thereby reducing things (IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING) to a SEQUENCE of SEPARATE BUT RECURRENT LOCAL EXPLICIT SPIKES in the uninterrupted continuing sequence of violent UPS-AND-DOWNS.  Here we may ask; WAS OCTOBER 7th A LOCAL, EXPLICIT VICIOUS ACT OR NOT?

This  ISOLATING OF A SPIKE in a continually TENSIONED RELATIONSHIP is like the mathematical operation of DIFFERENTIATION which isolates the LOCAL AND EXPLICIT by DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, THUS “CREATING” a notional “LOCAL EXPLICIT EVENT” that will be ‘discussed and dealt with’ ON ITS OWN, based on its superficial appearance of something LOCAL and EXPLICIT which is only the TIP OF THE ICEBERG.  Thanks to this intellectual-linguistic conceptual simplification, what results is RETRIBUTION for the VIOLENT EVENT which DOES NOTHING for the root source problem of persisting RELATIONAL TENSIONS, in which case RETRIBUTION aggravates the UNRESOLVED TENSIONS, SPRING-LOADING THEM in preparedness for the next violent outburst.   Here is ANOTHER CASE where MANAGEMENT is LOCAL, EXPLICIT “EVENT-BASED” while the ISSUES are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT RELATIONAL BALANCE/IMBALANCE based.  Military force is used to PERPETUATE IMBALANCE and preserve SUPERFICIAL PEACE, but as with the FRENCH REVOLUTION, the unaddressed IMBALANCE maintains a LATENT TENSIONAL PRESENCE that will NEVER BE RESOLVED by PRETENDING that the PERIODIC ERUPTIONS of VIOLENCE are REALLY LOCAL, EXPLICIT phenomena, and NOT the product of unresolved NONLOCAL, IMPLICIT rather than LOCAL and EXPLICIT tensions.  ARE WE MISTAKEN IN OUR LABELLING OF ERUPTIONS OF VIOLENCE IN LOCAL AND EXPLICIT EVENT based TERMS rather than acknowledging the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT influences which are their real but deeper origin?  MAYBE, … MAYBE NOT!  (There is a [Goedel’s Theorem] incompleteness to all finite logical propositions)

 

NOTE THAT WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are commonly conditioned to think in terms of people as INDEPENDENT BEINGS, but the REALITY IS, as acknowledged in Modern physics, indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta cultures, that we are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT by virtue of our being CONDENSATIONS of the all-including energy-charged PLENUM which means that we are like STRANDS in a WEB.  This is THE REALITY that WESTERN CULTURE has NOT WIDELY WOKEN UP TO, largely due to the popularity and pervasiveness of BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LANGUAGE and THINKING.  BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing IS TOO SIMPLE and cannot handle the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which supports the physical reality affirmed by Modern physics where the CONDENSATION (material form) is, AT THE SAME TIME, “BOTH ITSELF AND THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM IT IS INCLUDED IN”, which gives the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB relation.

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WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are “SO CONFIDENT” that “WE KNOW WHAT WE’RE TALKING ABOUT” that it makes MY JOB NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE, because MY JOB, THIS TASK I AM HEREWITH UNDERTAKING, IS TO EXPLAIN HOW WE WESTERN CULTURE-CONDITIONED PEOPLE are USING A WAY OF SPEAKING, WRITING and COMMUNICATING aka A FORM OF LANGUAGE, or “LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING” that is ROYALLY SCREWED UP.

 

Ideally, I should NOT be trying to share with you the STORY of HOW OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME IS SCREWING UP OUR MIND, by a COMMUNICATION that is BASED ON WHAT I AM CLAIMING IS THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that is SCREWING UP OUR UNDERSTANDING.  I think WE CAN GET AROUND THIS if we review the fact WE ARE CAPABLE OF LESS SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING as well as the TOO-SIMPLE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that does NOT SCREW UP OUR UNDERSTANDING.  For example, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME if I say “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.

 

THAT IS, WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUING FLUX so that our PARTICIPATION in the WORLD can be likened to getting one’s TIMING RIGHT as if getting into the CYCLIC REVOLUTIONS OF THE SKIPPING ROPE so that “MY ENTRÉES are in HARMONY WITH THE CYCLICITY OF THE SKIPPING ROPE”.

 

BUT THERE IS ALSO THE TYPE (B) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING wherein WE ASSERTIVELY IMPOSE OUR NEW PLAN REGARDLESS of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING situation by USING A ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITION such as WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A TOWN IN THE CLEARING WE MADE BY BULLDOZING DOWN TREES TO OPEN UP THE NEEDED “EMPTY RECEPTACLE” TO ACCOMMODATE OUR NEW CONSTRUCTION.

 

THE TYPE (A) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION IS where the UNFOLDING RELATIONAL DYNAMIC WE SHARE INCLUSION IN “INVITES US TO PARTICIPATE”.

 

 

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.

 

Wild geese  by   Mary Oliver

 

 

“TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE”.

 

Emerson: Whilst a necessity so great caused the man to exist, his health and erectness consist in the fidelity with which he transmits influences from the vast and universal to the point on which his genius can act. The ends are momentary: they are vents for the current of inward life which increases as it is spent. A man’s wisdom is to know that all ends are momentary, that the best end must be superseded by a better. But there is a mischievous tendency in him to transfer his thought from the life to the ends, to quit his agency and rest in his acts: the tools run away with the workman, the human with the divine. (i.e. the human EGO runs away with the divine INSPIRATION). 

 

Emerson is describing how EGO runs away with us, and this is the MISTAKE is the point I must bring to the fore and EXPLAIN “UP FRONT” in * * * THE WESTERN CULTURE PROBLEM and its REMEDY  * * * ,  where we show how “WE” HAVE modified our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME by DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE and “GOING WITH ONLY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING” as if in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, a PSEUDO-EMPTY SPACE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have SUBSTITUTED for the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.

 

HELLO, ONE-SIDED WESTERN CULTURE PSEUDO-REALITY BASED ON MALE ASSERTING/ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE (i.e. NON-PARTICIPATING) SPACE, where everything is FULLY AND SOLELY UP TO US thanks to the SIMPLIFIELD ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME WE HAVE DEVELOPED, …. GOODBYE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING; i.e.  the AMAZING WORLD THAT OFFERS ITSELF TO OUR IMAGINATION, CALLS TO US LIKE THE WILD GEESE, HARSH AND EXCITING, OVER AND OVER AGAIN ANNOUNCING OUR PLACE IN THE FAMILY OF THINGS.

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The PRE-PUBLICATION DRAFT

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The data are coming together to say this to me, … WESTERN CULTURE is undergoing a kind of self-implosion which is captured by some (as in attached article by Gilchrist) as dropping out the RIGHT BRAIN and GOING SOLELY WITH THE LEFT BRAIN (in his two-brains model).  Although I deal in wave-fields rather than split brain theory, he is clearly talking about a real shift in the general ‘understanding approach’ of WESTERN CULTURE which is tied to our differing LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACHES.  That is, there are differences in LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACH between indigenous aboriginals who employ “FLOW-BASED” linguistic conceptualizing such as “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX INCLUDING OURSELVES, … to “BEING-BASED” linguistic conceptualizing such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”, and my friend HENRY is GROWING DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”.

 

I am ready to publish my understanding of what is going on here, which reviews the findings of Bohm, Vygotsky and others, and so I am open to receiving suggestions from anyone in regard to potential facilitators (people who edit and ‘coach’ the writer as to how to EFFECTIVELY present such materials).  Or if anyone reading this may be interested in being a kind of EDITOR/ADVISOR, that could help me get these understandings of things into an appealing and digestible presentation form. (my contact address is emiliano@goodshare.org)

 

Basically, my presentation will take the reader (or listener or viewer) through an understanding of how our presentations to ourselves of our wave-field world, we have split into two conjugate parts (male asserting/actualizing and female accommodating/enabling  AND THEN, DROPPED OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING part (component) and SUBSTITUTED IN ITS PLACE,  ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, so that our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING of REALITY has DRIFTED INTO a ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme (e.g. we have shifted from ‘to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose’, to simply one-sided male asserting/actualizing constructs that DROP OUT the FEMALE ENVELOPE (the season which is somehow appropriate for certain types of action, as also implied in Shakespeare’s “there is a tide in the affairs of men…”.   In terms of the conjugate relational combination of female accommodating/enabling (the appropriate season) and male asserting/actualizing action, what commonly happens in our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing is that while our actions continue to be inductively shaped by unfolding events, our language has shifted towards purely one-sided captures of WHAT WE DO (the male asserting/actualizing conjugate aspect) DROPPING OUT the predominating, ever-present female accommodating/enabling situation.  YES, WE CAN MAKE OUR OWN ONE-SIDED PLANS OF MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING,  AND CARRY THEM OUT without sensitivity to the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conditions.  For example, the CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

 

There is also the CONTRASTING views of ROBINSON CRUSOE who tried to reshape the SOUTH SEAS DESERTED ISLAND environment he was marooned on, into something more like what he had become accustomed to in European home situation, … and SUZANNE DE LA PACIFIQUE who was also marooned on a SOUTH SEAS DESERTED ISLAND and who, instead of imposing her FRENCH customs on her environment, opened herself up to a personal transformation putting her in HARMONY with the NEW ENVIRONMENT she found herself in.  In other words, we are always in this confluence of what WESTERN CULTURE might call the NATURE-NURTURE influences based on the model of the HUMAN BEING which is notionally a SEPARATE and INDEPENDENT BEING with internal action asserting/actualizing powers as well as capabilities to respond and adapt to environmental influences.   Such a model is BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based (there are either MATERIAL ENTITIES OR EMPTY SPACE and thus very different from the indigenous aboriginal and Modern physics understandings which are NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based where the individual is an INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT flow-feature in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

 

Vygotsky raises an important point (essential to in-depth understanding) here, in that WE CAN’T LEGITIMATELY SPLIT what is essentially the WAVE-FIELD into a PEAK (male asserting/actualizing) and a trough (female accommodating/enabling) and then KEEP THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING while TOSSING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING, … NOT BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE UNFAIR TO THE FEMALE COMPONENT but BECAUSE THESE TWO DO NOT SPLIT APART, THEY ARE FLIP SIDES OF A SINGLE COINAGE (which is why we have to have complex (real + imaginary) mathematics in dealing with our WAVE-FIELD reality.  Vygotsky criticized Piaget for Piaget’s SPLITTING APART of SCIENTIFIC (local and explicit) and SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit) linguistic conceptualization, pointing out that these dual aspects of language are CONJUGATE and like the peak and trough of a wave, DO NOT SPLIT APART INTO TWO SEPARATE THINGS so that one could KEEP THE MALE ASSERTING PEAK and DROP OUT the encumbering FEMALE TROUGH as in our commonly used WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing scheme..

 

This screw up appears to come from EGO supports the notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development which is NOT REAL but a fabrication based on the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR; e.g. ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ which makes no mention of the conjugate SHRINKING of WILDERNESS.  ACHTUNG!  NOTA BENE!  We are making the same mistake that Piaget made that Vygotsky pointed out, THE GROWING OF THE TOWN and the SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS … ARE NOT TWO SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT ACTIONS, they are CONJUGATE aspects of the ONE DYNAMIC of TRANSFORMATION of the overall LANDSCAPE.  Vygotsky CATCHES PIAGET in making the MISTAKE of BUILDING INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM the practice of teaching our children (too) SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing.  This is the source of many problems in WESTERN CULTURE social dynamics and it is the reason why WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have NOT accepted, as makes sense and as the indigenous aboriginals and Modern physics have, the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as the foundation for linguistic conceptualizing.  Vygotsky has pointed out this MAJOR ERROR which persists in the WESTERN CULTURE family of linguistic conceptualizing schemes.

 

“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”  [implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE].

“Our disagreement with Piaget centers on one point only, but an important point. He assumes that development and instruction are entirely separate, incommensurate processes, that the function of instruction is merely to introduce adult ways of thinking, which conflict with the child’s own and eventually supplant them. Such a supposition stems from the old psychological tradition of separating the structural from the functional aspects of development.” –Vygotsky

 

THIS is pointing to a FOUNDATIONALLY IMPORTANT ERROR in our WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing scheme which Vygotsky is flagging; i.e. while our observations support a WAVE-FIELD based structure of the world we are living in and ‘talking about’, wherein the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MATERIAL FORMS AND THEIR ACTIONS ARE ONLY APPEARANCE (e.g. the TOWN is GROWING) while the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ENERAGY-CHARED PLENUM is the REALITY (i.e. the LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATIONS of the PLENUM (wave-field) are only APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen, in Schroedinger’s language).

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GETTING CLOSE TO GOING TO PRESS WITH THIS INVESTIGATION

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My investigative scheme is to bring everything into connective confluence, and so, for example, it does not make sense to come up with fragmented understandings when the original meaning involves many INTERCONNECTIONS and INTERDEPENDENCIES.  Systems scientists (like Martine Dodds-Taljaard and the pioneers of systems science such as Kenneth Boulding) capture this in the expression ‘The name of the devil is suboptimization’.  This WARNING is just common sense because the world of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE is such a world (a wave-field) wherein everything is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, where there are rivers that run through multiple countries and what one country does to that river; e.g. fish it out, or pollute it etc. in optimizing their needs as if they REALLY WERE “INDEPENDENT” as their “DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE” purpurted them to be.  SUBOPTIMIZATION of the “DECLARED” INDEPENDENT NATIONS impacts what happens in all the other countries the river passes through.  That action by that one country which pays no attention to how it impacts other countries is called SUBOPTIMIZATION, but it is more like GLOBAL SCREW-UP.

 

[Author’s comment: This essay opens the door to comparisons between understandings that differ based on WHICH TYPE of LOGIC is being used in their capture and presentation; i.e. the LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM and/or the SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM.  For example, we may describe the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE in which there is TOWNING as a dynamic, included feature wherein the TOWNING is INCLUDED within the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE as requires the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, and ALTERNATIVELY, we may SEPARATELY FOCUS on ‘THE TOWN’ and describe ‘the TOWN’ as a LOCAL, EXPLICIT THING-IN-ITSELF that is undergoing “ITS OWN GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT” as if within an EMPTY REFERENCE FRAME.  A note on the differing, CULTURE-BASED logic preference can be found in Appendix II]

 

Ok, that is just one example of PROBLEMS arising from “TAKING SERIOUSLY” our DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE and corresponding MAKE-BELIEVE (behaving as if we were independent and thus pursuing SUBOPTIMIZATION while in reality we are woven into a matrix of INTERCONNECTIONS AND INTERDEPENDENCIES), This is why our WESTERN CULTURE SOCIETY is commonly FRAGMENTED because even within a country where WE SAY things are divided up into provinces or states, there are problems with, for example, the more  populous provinces or states consuming or messing up more of the atmospheric or river system based resources and in the process screwing up access to resources essential to the innately INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT brother and sister provinces and states. By using language that (falsely) treats the provinces or states as INDEPENDENT, we contradict the physical reality of our own presuppositions;

 

As regards the academies, they are established in order to regulate the studies of the pupils and are concerned not to have the program of teaching change very often: in such places, because it is a question of the progress of the students, it frequently happens that the things which have to be chosen are not those which are most true but those which are most easy. And by that division in things which makes different people form different judgements, it so happens that certain people are in error contrary to their own opinion.” – Johannes Kepler, ‘Harmonies of the World’

In plain and simple terms, if we are sometimes speaking of the TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE and implying the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where the TOWNING is a dynamic FEATURE WITHIN the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, … and AT OTHER TIMES, speak of the TOWN AS IF IT WERE A THING that is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods, while it makes our linguistic conceptualizing SIMPLER, puts that SIMPLER CONCEPTUALIZATION … “AT ODDS WITH”… our sense-experience affirmed awareness wherein THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.

 

We can see that this is a general issue because of our WESTERN CULTURE habit of TALKING ABOUT THINGS and WORKING ON THINGS as if they are SEPARATE THINGS even though we live in a world that is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT (an ‘energy-charged PLENUM filled with CONDENSATIONS.)

 

Inquiry into WHAT IS GOING ON HERE causes us to reflect on the type of LOGIC we are using, and while indigenous aboriginals and modern physics use NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM, Western Culture folks commonly use BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM (where we assume that space is empty).  So, consider how BINARY LOGIC ‘works’ (has us thinking) in the case of INDEPENDENT NATIONS.  We actually COMPETE on an INTER-NATIONAL basis in such things as concern material GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION.   Once we start TALKING in BINARY LOGIC terms of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION there is a DISCONNECT in that what is REALLY GOING ON is TRANSFORMATION of the OVERALL LANDSCAPE.

 

For example, supposing that all the nations in the world are COMPETING in their production of wood products.  Canadian forest product industries are in competition with American and Brazilian and Russian etc. forest product producers and all of these competitors are investing in their own industrial GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, … but while nobody is talking OUT LOUD about it, what is also occurring is SHRIINKING of the FORESTS, AGING and COLLAPSING of the former DEVELOPMENT, and outright CONSUMPTION of what is being PRODUCED, … and all of these FEMAEL ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate dynamics add together with all of the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION so that “WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON IS TRANSFORMING OF THE OVERALL LANDSCAPE”.

 

Indigenous aboriginals use language that is “FLOW-BASED”  rather than “BEING-BASED”  so that there is acknowledgement that The GROWING OF THE TOWN IS PART OF A TRANSFORMATIVE DYNAMIC that includes the SHRINKING of WILDERNESS , so that one can never rightly speak GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION a if these were REAL THINGS because THEY ARE NOT REAL THINGS.  What is REAL is the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE which includes BOTH the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION TOGETHER WITH (IN ONE CONJUGATE PACKAGE WITH) SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, AGING and COLLAPSE of prior DEVELOPMENT and CONSUMPTION of PRODUCTION.  The REALITY of what’s going on here is TRANSFORMATION of the LANDSCAPE, an understanding that is built into indigenous aboriginal FLOW-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING while our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING is in terms of MATERIAL-BEING based GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION.

 

OK, there are STILL more mistakes as to how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS express things with our simplistic one-sided MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ONLY way of speaking about CHANGE that we are being forced to deal with, than these I have mentioned, and NOTICE that the core problem is that our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACH is to USE THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING aspect ONLY

This MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION is NOT REAL because it is constrained to the LOCAL and EXPLICIT and leaves out mention of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT.

 

In other words, we capture all of the male asserting/actualizing stuff which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT such as the TOWN is GROWING, but we DROP OUT MENTION of the female accommodating/enabling stuff which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT which is the more basic part of TRANSFORMATION.  So here we see the problem, in our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, of FRAGMENTATION pointed out by Bohm, and we can see how we add to that problem when we consider Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS (i.e. this includes these one-sided incomplete MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITIONS such as ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’).  Goedel’s Theorem is reminding us that this PROPOSTION, “THE TOWN IS GROWING” is INCOMPLETE.  NOTA BENE! … WATCH OUT BECAUSE WE ARE CONFUSING OURSELVES BY FRAGMENTING OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING OF REALITY with all of these INCOMPLETE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING” without mentioning the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate “THE WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING”.

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WHY WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE STAYING ON THE “LEMMING LEAP” PATH

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AUTHOR’S PREFACE:  The Title refers to the fact that as we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS continue to DROP OUT the female accommodating/enabling conjugate from our linguistic conceptualizing; i.e. as we continue to use BEING based linguistic conceptualizations such as ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ (the male asserting/actualizing part) while SAYING NOTHING about the conjugate SHRINKING of WILDERNESS (the female accommodating/enabling part) and thus SAYING NOTHING about the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, WE ARE, IN EFFECT using language to construct a SIMPLIFIED VOYEUR VIEWED PSEUDO-REALITY (the TOWN is GROWING) which is AT ODDS with our INCLUDED SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY (there is TOWNING in this all-includingTRANSFORMING WORLD; i.e. the TOWNING is a FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM and we HUMANINGS are also FEATURES within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

 

–––  NONBINARY (BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUMINCLUSION OF MAN-IN-EARTH (CONDENSATION OF WAVE-FIELD IN WAVE-FIELD): 

This we know, the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood which unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.”— “Chief Seattle”

This is supported by Jantsch LEVEL 1 (TRANSFORMATION) MODE of AWARENESS where we see ourselves as included in an ALL-INCLUDING  TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.  However, we continue to struggle with lesser, BINARY LOGIC based forms of AWARENESS

 

 

––– BINARY (EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUMSPLIT OF MAN AND EARTH (“MATERIAL BEING” IN EMPTY SPACE): 

Genesis 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

This is supported by the LEVEL 3 CONSERVATIVE and LEVEL 2 LIBERAL modes of AWARENESS wherein we conceive of ourselves (or believe ourselves to BE) INDEPENDENT BEINGS with our own DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR-given powers of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and developments as if we were NON-INCLUDED INDEPENDENT BEINGS acting and interacting in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

 

In the NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM based linguistic conceptualizing, there is TOWNING and HUMANING in the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.  EVERYTHING is included in the TRANSFORMING PLENUM, including OURSELVES.   

In the BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based linguistic conceptualizing wherein the TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods, we visualize this as if the GROWING TOWN is situated within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.  We do not ‘see’ in this visualization, the SHRINKING of WILDERNESS.  The TOWN seems to have a LIFE OF ITS OWN, a MALE ASSSERTING/ACTUALIZING thing-in-itself where “THE TOWN” is no longer a TOWNING that is an inextricably included RELATIONAL FEATURE WITHIN THE ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING PLENUM.

In the BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based linguistic conceptualizing, WE CONCIEVE OF OURSELVES AS SEPARATE and INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS with “OUR OWN” GRAMMAR GIVEN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS; i.e. as INDEPENDENT HUMANOIDS.  The INDEPENDENT BEING conceptualizing SIDESTEPS our SENSE-EXPERIENCE GROUNDED REALITY wherein the TOWNING or HUMANING is a relational FEATURE WITHIN the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, as captured in indigenous aboriginal culture with the STRAND in the WEB conceptualization and in Modern physics with the CONDENSATION of the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM.

 

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IF WE CHOOSE BEING-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING THEN WE CANNOT BE INCLUDED IN OUR OWN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZINGS since MATERIAL BEING based THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES CAN ONLY EXIST (maintain their independence) WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

IF WE CHOOSE FLOW-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING THEN WE OURSELVES, as FLOW-FEATURES, ARE INCLUDED IN THE MANNER of A STRAND IN THE WEB OR a WHORLING in a FLOWING, IN OUR OWN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING where we are DISTINGUISHABLE NOT BY OUR INDEPENDENCE (WE ARE “NOT” INDEPENDENT OTHER THAN BY OUR APPEARANCE).  That is, the WHORLING has an APPEARANCE that is “DISTINGUISHABLE” from the FLOWING it is included in, but IT IS NOT INDEPENDENT of the FLOWING.  In fact the WHORLINGS IN FLOWING ARE ALL INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT since they are FLOW-FEATURES and there is ONLY ONE FLOW, hence the “seeming” “INDEPENDENCE” of a FORM IN THE FLOW (e.g. a WHORLING IN THE FLOWING) is only “APPEARANCE”.

 

CONFUSION CAN ARISE in the case where a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme is used that gives a FOUNDATIONAL ROLE to BEING where the WHORLING-IN-THE-FLOWING is LINGUISTICALLY CONCEPTUALIZED as a NOTIONAL “WHORL” THING-IN-ITSELF with (“ITS OWN”) GRAMMAR GIVEN POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING of LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT.  Another way to say this; THERE IS NO PLACE FOR “BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC” in linguistic conceptualizing of sense-experience since EVERYTHING IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) FLOWING CONTINUUM and the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) FLOWING is ONE THING while the WHORLINGS aka CONDENSATIONS, are only LOCAL and EXPLICIT IN APPEARANCE which a COMPELLING REASON for NOT DESIGNING A LANGUAGE that builds in a FOUNDATIONAL ROLE for BEING.  As Schroedinger reminds us, BEING is only APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen).

Our indigenous aboriginal brothers and sisters are saying, in their flow-based language, the equivalent of … “In the transforming landscape wherein there is increasingly more TOWNING that is encroaching on, and shrinking the WILDERNESS so that this new MIX has a growing imbalance in favour of the European-man’s interests which leads to more of the European-man’s constructions at the expense of the loss of Wilderness and loss of four-leggeds and winged and crawling ones”. 

 

 

 

This is a TRANSFORMATION that is NOT acknowledged in languages that speak in terms of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION of goods which are UNREAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES common to WESTERN CULTURE communications that fail to acknowledge, and which simply DROP IT OUT all mention of the conjugate (to growth, development and production) SHRINKING of Wilderness, the AGING of developments and the CONSUMPTION of that which is PRODUCED, … all of these FEMALE ACCOMMODATING CONJUGATES contributing … TOGETHER WITH (i.e. IN CONJUGATE RELATION WITH) THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCTION”, … TO an OVERALL TRANSFORMING, thus exposing the INCOMPLETENESS of the LANGUAGE we are using, the INCOMPLETENESS that DISTORTS all of our positive assertions as to what is going on, as Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions points out must be the case.

The reference to LEMMINGS in the title of this essay  is to point out how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are moving forward EN MASSE, in pursuit of CONSTRUCTING SOME EXPANSIVE AND WONDERFUL (anthropocentric) LIVING QUARTERS, but there is just ONE WORLD and we are CANNIBALIZING THE WORLD THAT WE ARE AT THE SAME TIME CONSTRUCTING beause we are INCLUDED in that world that we are at the same time EXPLOITING, not realizing that; THE WORLD WE LIVE IN IS NOT SOMETHING SEPARATE FROM OURSELVES.

The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived.  Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”  This is equvalent to what Chief Seattle is saying; i.e. “Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.”

This PREFACE is a REMINDER that WE ARE INCLUDED IN THE WORLD of our SENSE EXPERIENCE (we are included in the BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM sense, as with STRANDS in a WEB); THE WORLD is NOT SOMETHING SEPARATE THAT IS OURS to EXPLOIT/CONSUME.  

END OF AUTHOR’S PREFACE:  

 

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We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have heard PLENTY OF WARNINGS about being on the PATH TO DEEPENING DYSFUNCTION (e.g. Jules Henry’s ‘CULTURE AGAINST MAN’ strongly supported by renowned Psychiatrist Ronald Laing), but MOST OF US do NOT have the CONFIDENCE to depart from the basic traditions of our FAMILY and our CULTURE, … UNLESS, … WE COULD ALL MAKE THE MOVE TOGETHER, which is NOT going to happen.  For example;

  

“T.S. Eliot studied Eastern religions in detail at Harvard, learning some Sanskrit and some Pali, and soon concluded that “their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys.” For a young man disillusioned with his banal surroundings and desperate to break away from his family, there was something wonderfully aloof, impersonal and invulnerable about the Buddhist notion of the spirit, free of all attachments and desires. And by the time he was composing The Wasteland, which ends, of course, with the chant “Shantih shantih shantih,” he was genuinely considering a conversion to Buddhism. But the truth was, he wrote, “my only hope of really penetrating to the heart of that mystery would lie in forgetting how to think and feel as an American or European: which for practical as well as sentimental reasons, I did not wish to do.”

Schrodinger seems to have had the same problem. …” — Ned Beauman, ‘Great Mahavits’ January 4, 2010

 

WE ARE MOSTLY ALL PROUD PEOPLE THUMBING OUR NOSE AT APOCRYPHAL PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE PATH OUR WHOLE SOCIO-CULTURAL GROUP IS SAID TO BE PUSHING FORWARD ON.

 

HOW DID WE “BECOME LEMMINGS COMMITTED TO THIS PILGRIMAGE TO HELL?”  Ronald Laing together with Jules Henry have given us the answer;

 

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

 

TO IGNORE OR NOT TO IGNORE???

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The “REAL MEANING” that is accessed in Modern Physics and in Indigenous Aborigininal Culture

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In speaking of the The “REAL MEANING” that is accessed in Modern Physics and in Indigenous Aboriginal Culture, I am going in REAL DEEP, to the understanding level of indigenous aboriginals the Modern physics mode of understanding.  In this mode of understanding, we do NOT simply except, as ‘reality’, the one-sided concept of male asserting/actualizing such as “the town is growing” but instead acknowledge TRANSFORMING OF THE OVERALL LANDSCAPE which includes, at the same time, the SHRINKING of wilderness. This is consistent with indigenous aboriginal language (which flow-based) and Modern physics (Bohm’s ‘rheomode’ language).

What we have to look at in this case is REALITY as affirmed by our sense-experience which is the reality of inclusion in CONTINUING RELATIONAL TRANSFORMATION.  Our PROPOSITION that ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’, while TRUE is INCOMPLETE (Goedel’s Theorem says that all finite LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS are INCOMPLETE), and the REALITY lies beyond the INCOMPLETE TRUTH; i.e. that the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING, and this is supported by a NONBINARY form of LOGIC; i.e. the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM which we ACKNOWLEDGE that when the TOWN is GROWING, the LANDSCAPE is TRANSFORMING since what is also occurring is the SHRINKING of the WILDERNESS.  This understanding of TRANSFORMATION is supported by our SENSE-EXPERIENCE while it is ABSTRACTION for us to speak ONLY of the GROWTH of the TOWN, which, like Elon Musk’s “LAUNCHING OF A ROCKET” or CONSTRUCTION of a MANUFACTURING PLANT which mentions only the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING actions and FAILS TO MENTION of WHAT IS REALLY OCCURRING which is TRANSFORMATION that includes NOT ONLY WHAT IS GAINED BUT WHAT IS LOST in the conjugate process of FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (e.g. the loss of diversity and natural complexity that is part of the VIRGIN LANDSCAPE).

As Schroedinger points out, the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING component, which is the LOCAL and EXPLICIT PART of what is happening which is certainly NOT the FULL STORY (it fails to acknowledge the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT conjugate LOSS).  That is, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT development such as the GROWTH of the TOWN is ONLY superficial “APPEARANCE” aka “SHAUMKOMMEN”, which DROPS OUT MENTION of the SHRINKING of WILDERNESS, which, together with the GROWTH of the TOWN, constitutes TRANSFORMATION of the landscape.

 

The REAL MEANING of an event IS IN THE TRANSFORMATION IT BRINGS ABOUT, which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (wherein the overall reality is transformed) rather than THE EVENT in its LOCAL and EXPLICIT ASPECT which WESTERNC CULTURE BINARY LOGIC based THINKING will ASSESS as EITHER GOOD OR BAD WHICH FAILS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE REAL IMPACT which is the TRANSFORMATIONAL ASPECT: For example, YES, the TOWN DID GROW LARGER, and this is undeniably GOOD NEWS for INVESTORS, THE ECONOMY and for HUMANS IN NEED OF ACCOMMODATIONS AND SUPPORT SERVICES, but it is NOT ALL THAT HAPPENED because the REAL ACTION, meaning overall action is TRANSFORMATION that includes the LOSS OF WILDERNESS with its valuable and important (to overall systemic conditions) DIVERSITY.

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The CONSEQUENCES of the REALITY that SPACE IS NOT EMPTY

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Author’s Preface: 

 

WESTERN CULTURE has evolved a STANDARD LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING HABIT which DROPS OUT acknowledgement that we are included in an ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and therefore WE ARE “NOT”, as we commonly make out to be the case in our everyday speech, INCLUDED IN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

 

PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES are engendered as a CONSEQUENCE of the REALITY that SPACE IS NOT EMPTY while our LANGUAGE PRETENDS that it IS EMPTY.

 

BY using LANGUAGE that REDUCES THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM to EMPTY SPACE, we SIMPLIFY our CONCEPTUALIZATIONS of REALITY in that we need concern ourselves, as far as our language is concerned, ONLY with actions that are MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING such as ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING’ (as if within an EMPTY SPACE) in which case we make no accounting for the CONJUGATE ‘SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS’ and thus we OBSCURE the overall reality of the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE, and push ahead with LANGUAGE that has us IMAGINING what we call “GROWTH” of the TOWN when THERE IS NO SUCH THING as “GROWTH” in the REAL WORLD of our SENSE EXPERIENCE which is informing us of the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE, … AS IS CAPTURED IN INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES, and as Bohm and Alan Watts and others point out “WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS SHOULD BE CAPTURING TRANSFORMATION RATHER THAN GROWTH IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME”.

 

We WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because of the SIMPLIFICATIONS we have built into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME such as the SUBSTITUTING of EMPTY SPACE for the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, has allowed us to conceive of ourselves AS IF WE ARE LIVING IN A REALITY THAT FEATURES “GROWTH”, “DEVELOPMENT” and “PRODUCTION” of goods, while all the while, and as the LANGUAGES of indigenous aboriginals and MODERN PHYSICS are reporting, WE ARE INCLUDED WITHIN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.  So, there is a PROBLEM here and it is not just that “GROWTH”, “DEVELOPMENT” and “PRODUCTION” are “TOO SIMPLE” and fail to capture the reality we affirm with our sense-experience, the PROBLEM is that we are CONSTRUCTING WITH LANGUAGE, A SUBSTITUTE REALITY based on MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ONLY while our SENSE-EXPERIENCE “IS INFORMING US DIRECTLY OF OUR INCLUSION IN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM” wherein “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” as Heraclitus said, and as is the understanding of Modern physics, Indigenous aboriginals, Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta.

 

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, in order to remove ourselves from the deepening PROBLEMS of FRAGMENTATION of OBSCURANTISM pointed out by Bohm, need to be using a FLOW-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME and BREAK OUR HABIT of speaking in the FALSE TERMS of GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION whereby we MAKE THE MISTAKE of constructing SIMPLIFIED PSEUDO-REALITIES which we are SUBSTITUTING for our SENSE-EXPERIENCE GROUNDED REALITY”, a MISTAKE that is the SOURCE of FRAGMENTATION.

 

1 FRAGMENTATION AND WHOLENESS  (from Wholeness and the Implicate Order, David Bohm, 1980)

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.

 

Bohm ALERTED US TO THIS PROBLEM TO US” in 1980, highlighting the FRAGMENTATION that we are creating by way of our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme which is giving a foundational role to the MISTAKE of our SUBSTITUTING ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE for the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM ( “Space is not empty.  It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” (Bohm). 

 

So, in our sense-experience affirmed reality, and as captured in the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING schemes of Modern physics, indigenous aboriginals, Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta, THE STUFF what we Western Culture Adherents are continuing to MISTAKENLY refer to as an “empty space dotted with material fragments”, …  is the all-including WAVE-FIELD aka ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.

 

We are now in the year 2025, 45 years after Bohm’s warning and we are experiencing continuing FRAGMENTATION as in the POLARIZING CONFLICT in WESTERN CULTURE “POLITICS” between CONSERVATIVES (Republicans) and LIBERALS (Democrats).  Both factions are falling into the TRAP of using, for their understanding, the too simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM, the LOGIC of CLASSICAL PHYSICS instead of the needed NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, the LOGIC of MODERN PHYSICS which is also the LOGIC of indigenous aboriginals which supports a REALITY WHEREIN SPACE IS NOT EMPTY, WHERE LOGIC IS NONBINARY.  When we use NONBINARY LOGIC, our awareness opens up to the INTERCONNECTEDNESS and INTERNDEPENDENCE of all material forms as with indigenous aboriiginal STRANDS IN THE WEB.  Here, the origin of actions and developments is understood to be NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, calling for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, rather than PUNITIVE/PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE.  PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE is based on “APPEARANCE” of actions and developments that are MISTAKENLY assumed to be LOCAL and EXPLICIT.

Because the FOCUS is on the particular STRAND in the web that is manifesting VIOLENT ACTION, that STRAND is easily (BUT MISTAKENLY) conceived of as a LOCAL and EXPLICIT SOURCE OF VIOLENCE.  The REALITY is that the VIOLENT ENERGY is of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT origin, deriving from TENSIONS that HAVE BEEN BUILDING IN THE SOCIAL RELATIONAL WEB; i.e. in the relational matrix of the INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT social collective.

 

This completes the AUTHOR’S PREFACE to introduce what this essay, The CONSEQUENCES of the REALITY that SPACE IS NOT EMPTY, is ALL ABOUT.

 

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Language vis a vis the SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL (Explaining the Miner’s Canary)

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AUTHOR’S PREFACE:  This essay LOCATES, IDENTIFIES and EXPLAINS some VERY BASIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION ERRORS that have become part of the  COMMON WESTERN CULTURE REALITY CONCEPTUALIZING PACKAGE.

The Miner’s Canary experience is highlighted because of the BREAKTHROUGH INSIGHT it brings, which could be described as the RETURN of the DEA ABSCONDITA (the Goddess in Hiding), which is referring to the fact that our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION SCHEME has DEMOTED AND DROPPED OUT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING while PROMOTING the use of MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ON ITS OWN”, which is unrealistic since MALE ASSERTING and FEMALE ACCOMMODATING EXIST “ONLY IN CONJUGATE RELATION AND DO NOT EXIST SEPARATELY”.

Not only does it NOT MAKE SENSE to SPLIT APART the ANDROGYNOUS WAVE-STRUCTURE and talk about “WHAT THE PEAK DOES” and “WHAT THE TROUGH DOES” as if that made sense (it does NOT), but to DROP OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate (e.g. to say ‘the TOWN is GROWING’ without mentioning the conjugate SHRINKING of WILDERNESS) is CRAZY because THERE CAN BE NO ‘PEAK’ WITHOUT the ‘TROUGH’ because that is the nature of our WAVE-FIELD world, but as Vygotsky points out, THIS IS WHAT PIAGET and the WESTERN CULTURE TEACHING PRACTICE IS DOINGl  As Heinrich von Kleist says, this is our FALL FROM GRACE since INSPIRATION (the nonlocal and implicit) FILLS THE HEART while EGO (the local and explicit) SWELLS THE HEAD.

The Miner’s Canary narrative reminds us that“Space is not empty.  It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” (Bohm).  The message of the Miner’s Canary is that TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS induce VIOLENT BEHAVIOURS so that we must be careful to NOT BLAME the Luigi Mangionis and Tyler Robinsons for their violent acts since we all share inclusion in the same community, where the STRAND IN THE WEB interconnection and interdependence means that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are NOT JUSTIFIED in our SCAPEGOATING of the INDENTIFIED PATIENTS, while IGNORING the rising TOXICITY in our common everyday environment.

The public support, quietly expressed for Mangioni and Robinson, is considerable and points to an intuitive awareness of the STRAND-in-the-WEB reality where the VIOLENCE that VENTS through the INDIVIDUAL STRANDS is coming from the WEB, an understanding that is radically UNLIKE the WESTERN CULTURE VIEW of INDEPENDENT BEINGS in an absolute empty and infinite SPACE in which case the ‘VIOLENT INDEPENDENT BEING’ is credited with AUTHORING the VIOLENCE, UNLIKE the VIOLENT STRAND IN THE WEB where it the STRAND is the CONDUIT that is VENTING the community’s AGGREGATED TENSIONS where the RESPONSE to VIOLENCE is the HEALING CIRCLE whose aim is to resolve the TENSIONS in the WEB in a RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FASHION.

 

WESTERN CULTURE, in spite of long standing critiques by philosophers and anthropologists including Jules Henry, Ronald, Lang, Ernest Becker, David Bohm, Lev Vygotsky and many more, remnains a BINARY LOGIC based DISASTER and Donald Trump is only the latest person at the political helm that keeps us LOCKED IN BY HIGH SWITCHING COSTS (programs of rewards and recognition and punishments and denigration based on BINARY LOGIC judgements).

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Vygotsky’s disagreement with Piaget is to do with LANGUAGE and THOUGHT and what is important in how we EDUCATE our CHILDREN

 

Vygotsky rightly criticizes Piaget for ... (I will use their terminology here although terminology varies in dealing with this (real + imaginary) wave-field subject matter) .. THE SPLITTING APART of the SPONTANEOUS (the imaginary) and the SCIENTIFIC (the real) components of phenomena, AND THEN TOSSING OUT the SPONTANEOUS component (the imaginary).

 

Vygotsky makes the point that THESE TWO (the SPONTANEOUS and the SCIENTIFIC) ARE NOT SEPARATE THINGS AND THEREFORE THEY CANNOT BE SPLIT APART, so that since we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have been following the mistaken practice of Piaget, which was operative prior to Piaget giving it a huge boost, we are introducing a ROYAL SCREW-UP INTO OUR CHILDREN’S AND THUS INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE’S THINKING and SOCIAL DYNAMIC.  In Vygotsky’s words;

 

“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”   implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE.

 

“Our disagreement with Piaget centers on one point only, but an important point. He assumes that development and instruction are entirely separate, incommensurate processes, that the function of instruction is merely to introduce adult ways of thinking, which conflict with the child’s own and eventually supplant them. Such a supposition stems from the old psychological tradition of separating the structural from the functional aspects of development.” –Vygotsky

 

What Vygotsky is saying, and he expends a lot of effort in explaining this in his classic work Мышление И Речь, Психологические Исследования – … Myshleniye I Rech’, Psikhologicheskiye Issledovaniya (Thinking and Speech, Psychological Research), the popular English translationg entitled “Thought and Language”, is that the child’s natural capability for language has a ‘complex’ (real + imaginary) structure which Piaget’s approach to teaching screws up by having the child DROP OUT the spontaneous (the imaginary) while retaining ONLY the scientific (the real), which is a major screw-up since the spontaneous (imaginary) and scientific (real) ONLY EXIST AS CONJUGATES AND NOT AS TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES.

 

THIS IS IMPORTANT!  The common practice in WESTERN CULTURE has become the ERRONEOUS practice used by Piaget which PERVADES our WESTERN CULTURE language usage mode; i.e. our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING OF REALITY.

 

THE FIRST PIAGET ERROR (NOW THE POPULAR BUILT-IN WESTERN CULTURE ERROR) is the crafting of our operative language in a manner that suggests that the SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit) conjugate and the SCIENTIFIC (local and explicit) conjugate are TWO SEPARATE THINGS WHICH CAN BE CONSIDERED ON THEIR OWN.

 

e.g. THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE (which is one thing, the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE which includes an interesting feature, the TOWNING) which is reduced to ‘THERE IS A TOWN THAT HAS EMERGED IN THE LANDSCAPE’ (which is now TWO THINGS)

 

THE SECOND PIAGET ERROR (NOW THE POPULAR BUILT-IN WESTERN CULTURE ERROR) is the crafting of our operative language in a manner that DROPS OUT THE SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit) conjugate so that we no longer even mention that the SCIENTIFIC (local and explicit) is INCLUDED WITHIN the SPONTANEOUS (nonlocal and implicit).

 

e.g. ‘THERE IS A TOWN IN THE LANDSCAPE’ is reduced to ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING’ … as if within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE.

 

WHAT IS BEING DONE HERE WITH THESE TWO ERRORS IS THAT WE ARE CONSTRUCTING A NEW BINARY LOGIC based PSEUDO-REALITY wherein we can speak of EITHER the town OR the landscape as if they were TWO INDEPENDENT THINGS-IN-THEMSELVES.  THIS IS THE EXPOSURE TO CONFUSION THAT IS NOW THE GENERAL CASE IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING and COMMUNICATING, which Vygotsky is pointing out.

 

NOTICE THAT what has been done here is that the SCIENTIFIC (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT) has been CHOPPED OUT and PRESENTED SEPARATELY AS IF IT EXISTED IN ITS OWN RIGHT (IT DOES NOT!) while the SPONTANEOUS (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) has become the DEA ABSCONDITA (Goddess in Hiding) having been REPLACED by ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, a restructructuring that gives the MISTAKEN IMPRESSION of a “reality” that is LOCAL and EXPLICIT.

The dropping out of the SPONTANEOUS (the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) is like mathematical DIFFERENTIATION whereby we LOSE the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT LANDSCAPE while LIBERATING the SCIENTIFIC (the LOCAL and EXPLICIT).  It is IMPORTANT TO NOTE, … and this is Vygotsky’s point, … that SPONTANEOUS and the SCIENTIFIC “DO NOT SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE PARTS, AS WE IMPLY IS POSSIBLE WHEN WE “LINGUISTICALLY” DROP OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SPONTANEOUS AND GO WITH THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AS IF ‘ON ITS OWN’.    This is a MISTAKE, in that the SPONTANEOUS and SCIENTIFIC are CONJUGATES and are NOT TWO SEPARATE THINGS.

THERE IS “TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” but THERE IS NO “TOWN” that is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING GOODS; i.e.the TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE IS AN INCLUDED FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE AND IS “NOT” A SEPARATE THING THAT IS CAPABLE OF ‘GROWING IN ITS OWN RIGHT’ as our WESTERN CULTURE “BEING” based LANGUAGE equips us for MISTAKINGLY ASSERTING.

 

This summarizes what Vygotsky’s complaint about the dumbing down of our language, a ‘dumbing down’ that Piaget has helped to reinforce which is now the WESTERN CULTURE OPERATING STANDARD; i.e. (almost) no-one is saying “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, but thanks to Piaget and the general trend, (almost) everyone is saying; ‘The TOWN is growing, developing and producing goods, which implies a SPLITTING APART of the CONJUGATE “TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” and DROPPING OUT the phrase; “IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, which REDUCES …. the TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE wherein ‘everything is in included within the relational flux (mitakuye oyasin) …to ‘THE TOWN’, as if it were a THING-IN-ITSELF notionally with its own GRAMMAR given GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION.  Instead of capturing the reality of the LOCAL and EXPLICIT town being a TOWNING FEATURE within the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE (implying a conjugate relation), PIAGET and WESTERN CULTURE have picked up on the double error of NAMING and GRAMMAR based practice of SPLITTING the ONE THING (the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE WITHIN WHICH THERE IS AN INCLUDED FEATURE; i.e. the TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE), …  into TWO SEPARATE AND INDEPENDENT THINGS (the local and explicit [scientific] TOWN … PLUS the nonlocal and implicit [spontaneous]) LANDSCAPE, and then DROPPING OUT the “nonlocal and implicit”[spontaneous] LANDSCAPE.

 

“Though fundamentally different in nature, the development of scientific [local and explicit] and spontaneous [nonlocal and implicit] concepts represents two sides of the same concept formation”   implying a WAVE-BASED STRUCTURE.

 

The problem is, to quote Vygotsky; … “He (Piaget) assumes that development [spontaneous] and instruction [scientific] are entirely separate, incommensurate processes” … i.e. when they are instead, conjugate aspects of a complex (imaginary + real) dynamic.

 

The important difference here lies in how our language influences our conceptualizing of reality; e.g. if we speak in terms such as “there is towning in the transforming landscape”, using only verbs and no nouns, we convey the reality wherein EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX as is supported by our sense-experience, however, if we using NAMING to SPLIT OUT what we are calling ‘THE TOWN’ (the scientific which is local and explicit) together with GRAMMAR to SEPARATELY “ANIMATE” this SPLIT OUT ‘TOWN’ and use GRAMMAR to impute to it “ITS OWN LOCAL POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” as in “the TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”, … we are abstractly INFUSING IMAGINARY LOCAL POWERS INTO ‘THE TOWN’ that CONFLICT with the understanding captured with FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE such as “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.

 

THE PROBLEM that Vygotsky is pointing to concerns our (Piaget’s) WESTERN CULTURE popularizing of a particular way of using language that REDUCES and SIMPLIFIES our linguistic conceptualization of a world in continual flux wherein everything is related within an all-including TRANSFORMATION.  Starting with our sense-experience, we understand that the nonlocal and implicit TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE INCLUDES the local and explicit TOWN and there is really only one thing here since “the local and explicit” (scientific) TOWN and the “nonlocal and implicit” (spontaneous) TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE concepts represent two sides of the same concept formation”.  

 

In the flow-based languages of indigenous aboriginals and Bohm’s Modern physics compliant Rheomode flow-based language, there are ONLY VERBS and no NOUNS because there are no MATERIAL BEING BASED OBJECTS in the sense-experience affirmed TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.

 

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OK, this note had to first of all deal with popular WESTERN CULTURE MISCONCEPTUALIZATIONS that STAND IN THE WAY AND BLOCK the explaining of the Miner’s Canary as is the primary goal of this note entitled;  “Language vis a vis the SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL (explaining the Miner’s Canary)

 

I have attached the short piece (following this essay)  “How the Miner’s Canary Insight Breaks the BINARY LOGIC STRANGLEHOLD”  (1140 words)

 

The POPULAR WESTERN CULTURE USE OF BINARY LOGIC IS A MAJOR SCREWUP which can be exemplified by considering the difference between how INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE would handle the events involving Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson.  That is, because indigenous aboriginal cultures understand that EVERYTHING IS RELATED as in INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, there is no remedy for outbreaks of VIOLENCE by way of ELIMINATING or INCARCERATING the apparent PERPETRATOR HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN, because the situation is that of STRANDS in a WEB where DISTURBANCE IN THE WEB manifests “THROUGH THE DYNAMICS OF THE STRAND” but THE STRAND IS NOT THE AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE, ONLY THE CONDUIT and it is the BUILD-UP OF TENSIONS IN THE WEB that is the SOURCE of the VIOLENCE while the VENTING STRAND is only the CONDUIT, hence the need for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than the PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE AS USED IN WESTERN CULTURE.

 

PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE, where the adventure stories of clever sleuths hunting down the GUILTY PERPETRATOR, popularized in WESTERN CULTURE by AGATHA CHRISTIE, have no equivalent in indigenous aboriginal culture with its RESTORATIVE JUSTICE where the understanding is that THERE IS NO LOCAL EXPLICIT AUTHOR of CRIMINAL VIOLENCE because VIOLENCE develops from the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT as with STRANDS IN A WEB where the WEB is the generator and the reservoir for accumulated tensions, while STRANDS are conduits for the VIOLENT ERUPTIONS co-cultivated in the multi-stranded WEB.  The VENTING STRAND is NOT the AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE.  This is a simple, verifiable reality that is CONTRADICTED by WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE based on the FALSE NOTION of “INDEPENDENT BEING” occupy an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE in which case, WESTERN CULTURE LAW SUPPORTS A MISTAKEN ‘SCAPE-GOATING OF THE “PARTICULAR INDEPENDENT BEING” HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN’, while common sense and indigenous aboriginal cultures UNDERSTAND THAT THE ONE HOLDING THE SMOKING GUN is the CONDUIT for VENTING of TENSIONS that develop within the WEB (the social-relational collective).  The WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE APPROACH IS EXPOSED AS RIDICULOUS in cases such as those involving Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson.

 

In any social collective, tensions and strife can arise in the many-stranded complex WEB of relations and the STRAND that becomes the CONDUIT for the VENTING of a buildup of tensions, participates along with the community in general, in a HEALING CIRCLE where it is understood that emergent VIOLENCE of a STRAND, does NOT ORIGINATE WITH THE STRAND but is a VENTING from the buildup of tensions in the WEB.  The ROOT PROBLEM is the buildup of tensions in the WEB and the VIOLENT STRAND IS ONLY THE “MINER’S CANARY” warning of the buildup of tensions in the WEB or in other words, the issue of A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT wherein the STRANDS IN THE WEB that BECOME VIOLENT, while they are LOCAL CONDUITS of VIOLENCE (building in the WEB), “ARE NOT LOCAL AUTHORS” of VIOLENCE, hence the need for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE.

 

Western culture continues to HOLD ON to the absurd “DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR BASED LOCAL AUTHOR CONCEPT” and give it FOUNDATIONAL STATUS in the WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE SCHEME, even to the point that, in cases like that of Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson, where 340 MILLION PEOPLE are presumed INNOCENT while a miniscule fraction is presumed GUILTY.  This is due to the RIDICULOUS notion of the existence of 340 MILLION “INDEPENDENT BEINGS” which persists because of MALE EGO that claims SOLE AUTHORING of actions which are generally deemed GOOD and BENEFICIAL   That has opened a Pandora’s Box, however, since the BINARY LOGIC based SUPPORTIVE PROPOSITION of THEY EITHER AUTHORED IT OR DID NOT AUTHOR IT leads to results such as 1 person authored it while the other 339,999,999 INNOCENT ONES “DID NOT”, since in WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING everyone is INDEPENDENT and is the FULL AND SOLE AUTHOR of THEIR OWN BEHAVIOUR.

 

LET’S FACE IT, AS STUPID AS THIS SOUNDS AND AS IT IS, the stake in the ground holding it place is the WESTERN CULTURE REWARDS AND RECOGNITION SYSTEM which is based on FULL and SOLE LOCAL AUTHORSHIP which is without any STRANDS IN THE WEB “BLURRING”, where the “BLURRING” is telling it like it is (we can use references to the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT versus the LOCAL and EXPLICIT to clarify what is meant by the WEB ‘BLURRING’ what goes on.

 

The NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) SOURCE OF “AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT” is the understanding of indigenous aboriginals that leads to their development of a RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than to a WESTERN CULTURE STYLE PUNITIVE/PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (identify and eliminate the LOCAL AUTHOR of the VIOLENCE).  IN OTHERWORDS;….

 

The ROOT PROBLEM is the buildup of tensions in the WEB and the VIOLENT STRAND IS ONLY THE “MINER’S CANARY” warning of the buildup of tensions in the WEB or in other words, the issue of A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT wherein the STRANDS IN THE WEB that BECOME VIOLENT, while they are LOCAL CONDUITS of VIOLENCE (building in the WEB), “ARE NOT LOCAL AUTHORS” of VIOLENCE, hence the need for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE rather than PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE.

 

THERE ARE TWO OPTIONS FOR UNDERSTANDING “HOW THINGS WORK’ AND ONE LEADS TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE AND THE OTHER TO PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE.

 

IN THE FIRST OPTION, THE VIOLENT PERSON (STRAND-IN-THE-WEB) IS RESPONDING TO A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, while in the SECOND OPTION, the VIOLENT PERSON IS THE LOCAL, INDEPENDENT AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE.

 

THE ELICITED RESPONSE IN THE FIRST OPTION (which is employed by indigenous aboriginals) IS THE RESTORING OF BALANCE IN THE WEB.  THE ELICITED RESPONSE IN THE SECOND OPTION (which is employed by WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) IS THE ELIMINATING OF THE PURPORTED LOCAL, INDEPENDENT AUTHOR OF THE VIOLENCE.

 

The “MINER’S CANARY” allusion refers to THOSE WHOSE VIOLENT or seemingly ABERRANT actions are THEIR RESPONSE TO INCLUSION IN A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, in which case there is no point hospitalizing them to cure what is assumed to be their INTERNAL ISSUE or to incarcerate them because of their INTERNAL INTENTION-DRIVEN VIOLENT ACTIONS.  These approaches are BINARY LOGIC based in that our model of reality consists of the CANARY or PERSON situated within an EMPTY SPACE in which case there is only ONE PLACE TO LOOK FOR THE SOURCE OF THEIR ABBERANT BEHAVIOUR and it is IN THEIR INTERIOR.

 

ONE MUST shift to a LOGIC LESS SIMPLE THAN BINARY LOGIC (where the ORGANISM WITH THE VIOLENT BEHAVIOUR IS IN EMPTY SPACE) and that LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY LOGIC is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM wherein THERE IS NO EMPTY SPACE, but what there is, is the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM within which there are MATERIAL FORMS THAT ARE CONDENSATIONS of the PLENUM in which case they are BOTH THEMSELVES (the CONDENSATIONS) AND the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM they are CONDENSATIONS IN.   There means that EVERYTHING (all of the CONDENSATIONS of and in the PLENUM) IS INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, as with STRANDS IN A WEB, which means that the STRAND is NOT the AUTHOR OF ITS OWN BEHAVIOUR because, while there are STRANDS IN THE WEB, THERE ARE NO INDEPENDENT STRANDS THAT AUTHOR THEIR OWN BEHAVIOUR.   Here we encounter the equivalent of the “THREE BODY PROBLEM’ i.e. the THREE STRAND PROBLEM which points out the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence.  The same applies to three or more interconnected strands in the web, or to three or more swimmers in a WATER BALLET where it is impossible to RATE INDIVIDUALS ON THEIR PERFORMANCE (the individual that is best to GIVING THEMSELF UP SO AS TO SUSTAIN OVERALL HARMONY AND AESTHETIC cannot be judged on something called THEIR OWN PERFORMANCE because it does not exist due to “the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence”.

 

The common WESTERN CULTURE PRACTICE is to impose an ABSTRACT ABSOLUTE REFERENCE FRAME as the basis for extracting from INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT participants in a complex dynamic, their own INDIVIDUAL, SEEMINGLY INDEPENDENT DYNAMICS.  This may FEED THE EGO but it collapses the natural harmonies and resonances that and bring into play the adage (INSPIRATION FILLS THE SOUL while EGO SWELLS THE HEAD).

 

What happens when we shift our reference from the SPONTANEOUS to the SCIENTIFIC?

 

Heinrich von Kleist captures ‘what happens when we shift our reference from the SPONTANEOUS to the SCIENTIFIC’ in his essay;  “On the Marionette Theatre”

 

… I told him I was well aware how consciousness can disturb natural grace. A young acquaintance of mine had as it were lost his innocence before my very eyes, and all because of a chance remark. He had never found his way back to that Paradise of innocence, in spite of all conceivable efforts. “But what inferences”, I added, “can you draw from that?”

 

He asked me what incident I had in mind.

 

“About three years ago”, I said, “I was at the baths with a young man who was then remarkably graceful. He was about fifteen, and only faintly could one see the first traces of vanity, a product of the favours shown him by women. It happened that we had recently seen in Paris the figure of the boy pulling a thorn out of his foot. The cast of the statue is well known; you see it in most German collections. My friend looked into a tall mirror just as he was lifting his foot to a stool to dry it, and he was reminded of the statue. He smiled and told me of his discovery. As a matter of fact, I’d noticed it too, at the same moment, but… I don’t know if it was to test the quality of his apparent grace or to provide a salutary counter to his vanity… I laughed and said he must be imagining things. He blushed. He lifted his foot a second time, to show me, but the effort was a failure, as anybody could have foreseen. He tried it again a third time, a fourth time, he must have lifted his foot ten times, but it was in vain. He was quite unable to reproduce the same movement. What am I saying? The movements he made were so comical that I was hard put to it not to laugh.

 

From that day, from that very moment, an extraordinary change came over this boy. He began to spend whole days before the mirror. His attractions slipped away from him, one after the other. An invisible and incomprehensible power seemed to settle like a steel net over the free play of his gestures. A year later nothing remained of the lovely grace which had given pleasure to all who looked at him. I can tell you of a man, still alive, who was a witness to this strange and unfortunate event. He can confirm it, word for word, just as I’ve described it.”

 

 

WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HAVE BEEN DROPPING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE FROM OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS and “GOING WITH” the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE ON ITS OWN.  THIS IS VYGOTSKY’S CRITICISM OF PIAGET, POINTING OUT THAT THE SPONTANEOUS AND SCIENTIFIC are ONE THING WITH TWO ASPECTS LIKE A WAVE WITH PEAK AND TROUGH WHERE WE ARE ABLE TO, BUT WE ARE TALKING RUBBISH WHEN WE DO IT, SPLIT THE PEAK AND TROUGH APART AND SPEAK OF THEM AS IF THEY WERE TWO SEPARATE THING, AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, TOSS OUT THE TROUGH SINCE IT SEEMS KIND OF USELESS and CONTINUE WITH A LANGUAGE CONSTUTED “ONLY” BY THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE, as if that action was TRANSPIRING IN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.   Such a language has THROWN OUT ITS CAPABILITY OF COMMUNICATING the full ANDROGYNOUS dynamics of NATURE such as “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” where the TOWNING is INCLUDED IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE.  THE REDUCTION TO THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE ONLY SUPPORTS ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONCEPTUALIZATIONS.

 

THIS LOSS FROM OUR LANGUAGE of THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE reduces our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS TO SUCH CONSTRUCTS AS “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING THINGS” where there is “NO MENTION OF THE CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS AND THUS NO MENTION OF THE TRANSFORMING OF THE LANDSCAPE.

 

What our WESTERN CULTURE DROPPING OUT OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING DOES and going forward with COMMUNICATIONS that are reduced to the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ONLY, … is equivalent to DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT STRUCTURAL COMPONENT and GOING SOLELY WITH THE LOCAL AND EXPLICIT STRUCTURAL COMPONENT, as just described.  EVERYWHERE WE WANT TO LOOK IN OUR MODERN DAY WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING HAS BEEN DROPPED OUT.  WE (OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING HABIT) HAVE BEEN DROPPING IT OUT.   WE no longer say things like “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE” which DOES include BOTH the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE together with the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate (BOTH the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT WAVE-TROUGH together with the LOCAL and EXPLICIT WAVE-PEAK).

 

NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO USE BOTH CONJUGATES of FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING which is NONLOCAL and LIMPLICIT together with MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT, the former must be mentioned FIRST because the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT provides THE SOCKET for the LOCAL and EXPLICIT to PLUG INTO (to form the conjugate relation).

 

BUT WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING HAS GOT INTO THE HABIT OF DROPPING OUT THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT SOCKET and GOING WITH ONLY, AND ON ITS OWN, THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT PLUG (the ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITION such as “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”.

 

THIS ISSUE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DEVELOP THE HABIT OF DROPPING OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate and LEADING OFF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING WITH THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITION (the MISTAKE WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE MAKING), which equates to the SHIFT from the SPONTANEOUS TO THE SCIENTIFIC IS WHAT Heinrich von Kleist is writing about in his essay;  “On the Marionette Theatre”

 

Vygotsky is agreeing with and explain how WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE SCREWING UP in the fashion described by Heinrich von Kleist and by the Neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist who captures it in the classical physics terms that “the left side of our brains have taken over our minds”

 

EVERYTHING that has been discussed in this essay POINTS TO THE SAME THING; i.e. the indigenous aboriginal understanding of reality is CORRECT and endorsed by MODERN PHYSICS while what now the POPULAR WESTERN CULTURE APPROACH TO LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING IS WRONG because it is DROPPING OUT the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE WHICH IS NOT ONLY PRIMARY in the sense it is the SOCKET for the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALING CONJUGATE TO PLUG INTO, BUT WITHOUT IT, LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS DEGENERATE INTO ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, which as Vygotsky points out, IS UNREAL since the REAL structure is where the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING ARE CONJUGATES: … I.E. … THEY DO NOT EACH HAVE THEIR OWN ONTOLOGICAL EXISTENCE.  What is REAL is ONE ANDROGYNOUS UNUM wherein the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING is REAL while the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING FORMS are only APPEARANCE (Schaumkommen).

 

The TOWN THAT IS GROWING is an IMAGINARY LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION that is simply Schaumkommen (APPEARANCE).

 

THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE is the REAL LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION capturing the PHYSICAL REALITY.

 

WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES based on the BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM, … of MATERIAL FORMS IN EMPTY SPACE, … are INCAPABLE OF CONCEPTUALIZING THE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIU, … wherein MATERIAL FORMS are CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, which supports a REALITY wherein EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT.

 

These understandings are the understandings of BOTH indigenous aboriginals AND MODERN PHYSICS!

 

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’

 

Regarding the title of this essay; Language vis a vis the SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL (explaining the Miner’s Canary)

 

When the reader considers the Heinrich von Kleist story that captures ‘what happens when we shift our reference from the SPONTANEOUS to the SCIENTIFIC’ in his essay;  “On the Marionette Theatre” … we can see where the distinction between SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL can be coming from; i.e. when our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING OF THE “WORLD’ includes BOTH FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING and MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugates, we speak as if we are included in the energy-charged PLENUM wherein WE ARE CONDENSATIONS which is consistent with the STRAND IN THE WEB understanding of indigenous aboriginals.  This is where the FEMALE ACCOMMODSATING/ENABLING NONLOCAL and the IMPLICIT is the SOCKET for the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING LOCAL and EXPLICIT.   But as Vygotsky points out, Piaget supports a linguistic conceptualizing scheme that DROPS OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE (IMPOSSIBLE to break off a wave-trough in reality) and employs ONLY the notional MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate with a new partner to make up for the DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING which is a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, thus implying that ACTIONS IN THIS NEW REALITY fabricated by WESTERN CULTURE take place within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.  This NEW LINGUISTICALLY CONCEPTUALIZED ‘REALITY’ because it now ONLY INCLUDES THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING explains what happens to the initially graceful youth who employe the SPONTANEOUS (the female accommodating/enabling) in its natural FOUNDATIONAL ROLE wherein the SCIENTIFIC (the male asserting/actualizing) was secondary; e.g. the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE is the female accommodating/enabling that is in conjugate relation with the TOWNING and the YOUTHING in the TRANSFORMING, but what happens in the Von Kleist story is that the youth becomes self-conscious and egotistical and thus dependent on the SCIENTIFIC and losing touch with the SPONTANEOUS.

 

What has happened to WESTERN CULTURE is that the ENTIRE WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVE has become dependent on the SCIENTIFIC and has been losing touch with the SPONTANEOUS.    Since the SPONTANEOUS is our natural grounding in the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT wherein everything is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, it must be the SOCKET into which the SCIENTIFIC, which is LOCAL and EXPLICIT PLUGS INTO so that the SCIENTIFIC does not become the source of FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM, which has been increasingly manifesting in the WESTERN CULTURE social dynamic.

 

Language vis a vis the SPIRITUAL and MATERIAL (explaining the Miner’s Canary):

 

Because our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING has been steadily shifting away from “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose” where we used language that supports the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING “SPONTANEOUS” within its conjugate relation with the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING SCIENTIFIC, and are now commonly focusing EXCLUSIVELY on the LOCAL and EXPLICIT SCIENTIFIC CONTENT without the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT SPONTANEOUS such as “the TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING’, we are DROPPING OUT the SPIRITUAL conjugate (the unbounded container) and substituting only SCIENTIFIC conjugate of local content as if within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

 

The MINER’S CANARY anecdote is a reminder that “Space is not empty.  It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” –David Bohm, in which case, we may experience through our inclusion in the PLENUM, inclusion in NURTURANCE and inclusion in TOXICITY, the KEY POINT BEING that ‘our BEHAVIOUR’ is NOT simply SOURCED FROM OUR INTERIOR as WESTERN CULTURE tends to assume (using the one-sided male-asserting/actualizing model) but as the Miner’s Canary shows us, our behaviour is being INDUCTIVELY SHAPED by INFLUENCES within the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which may be NURTURANT and may be TOXIC, in which case the behaviours of Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson may be inductively shaped by the evident toxic environments that manifest in a highly polarized WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL DYNAMIC, in which case the REMEDY is NOT the ELIMINATION of the MINER’S CANARIES but the RESOLVING of TOXICITY in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM as experienced by CONDENSATIONS aka STRANDS IN THE WEB which are IN NO WAY ‘INDEPENDENT BEINGS INSULATED FROM ONE OTHER BY THEIR NOTIONAL INCLUSION IN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE’; i.e. in the energy-charged plenum, EVERYTHING (all condensations) are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, as understood by the STRANDS IN THE WEB aphorism of indigenous aboriginals and CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM as understood by Modern physics, and agreement which is reaffirmed by; …  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.” .

 

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HOW THE MINER’S CANARY INSIGHT BREAKS THE BINARY LOGIC STRANGLEHOLD  (1140 words)

 

BINARY Logic is the EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM as exemplified by “EITHER MATTER OR SPACE” of CLASSICAL PHYSICS

 

NONBINARY Logic is the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM as exemplified by the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and ITS CONDENSATIONS of MODERN PHYSICS

 

What we have taken to be MATERIAL OBJECTS or ORGANISMS in EMPTY SPACE are CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT.  “Space is not empty.  It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.” –David Bohm

 

The Miner’s Canary that ‘fell ill’ inside the mine was an important signal; i.e. “Canaries are more sensitive to poisons like Carbon Monoxide than humans and would show signs of distress, such as lethargy or falling off their perch, before humans. This would give miners time to evacuate the dangerous environment.”

 

In WESTERN CULTURE, the knee-jerk presumption in seeing symptoms of illness in a person or bird is to assume that ‘THEY HAVE AN ILLNESS’ in their internal systems, and NOT that they are healthy and sensitive and are reacting to a TOXIC ENVIRONMENT as in the case of the miner’s canary.

 

The CONFUSING ELEMENT here is that some HUMANS are MORE SENSITIVE (and to different things) THAN OTHERS so that if the ENVIRONMENT (e.g. the SOCIAL DYNAMIC) becomes CONFLICT FILLED aka TOXIC, the MORE SENSITIVE INDIVIDUAL MAY GO BONKERS, a BREAK-DOWN that will be interpreted by the LESS SENSITIVE MAJORITY WHO ARE CO-CREATING THE TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, as if the SENSITIVE INDIVIDUAL is EXPERIENCING ITS OWN INTERNAL ILLNESS WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM, and will HOSPITALIZE or INCARCERATE the VIOLENT or BONKERS individual.  That is, the less-sensitive majority is UNAWARE that they are CO-AUTHORING A TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, and are mistaking the ABERRANT BEHAVIOUR of the SENSITIVE INDIVIDUAL as being INTERNALLY SOURCED when it is IN REALITY EXTERNALLY SOURCED by TOXICITY they are co-contributors to.

 

This explains the CONFUSION of investigators into ASSASSINATIONS such as those by Luigi Mangioni (who shot and killed Brian Thompson) and Tyler Robinson (who shot and killed Charlie Kirk), in that they check out as psychologically ‘normal people’ instead of psychopaths.   This has been a common finding with mass shooters and points to an understanding wherein violent behaviour is sourced by TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS, which is why indigenous aboriginals respond to VIOLENT OUTBURSTS in the social collective with RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (gathering everyone in the healing circle) rather than with PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (eliminating of the perceived perpetrator or ‘smoking gun holder’). The holder of the smoking gun is, in indigenous aboriginal, culture, seen a STRAND in the WEB of community (wherein the STRANDS are interconnected and interdependent).  In this understanding, the STRAND as the shooter is the CONDUIT for VENTING TENSIONS that build up within the WEB (the social collective).  There is NO LOCAL AUTHOR in this STRANDS-in-the-WEB, which is why JUSTICE is RESTORATIVE rather than purificationist.

 

Bohm’s statement; “Space is not empty.  It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves.”

This means that the PLENUM may be TOXIC (dissonant) or it may be NURTURANT (resonant) but NOT EMPTY and while the less sensitive may not be aware of a shifting of the PLENUM from NURTURANT to TOXIC, it is evident that Mangioni and Robinson were very aware and felt ‘called into action’ by such shifts (like Miner’s Canaries that not only sense TOXICITY but act so to as try to eliminate it).

 

In order to understand what is going on here, the LOGIC cannot be the SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM where we focus on the LOCAL, EXPLICIT MATERIAL ORGANISM (canary or human and its INTERNAL WORKINGS.  The LOGIC in this case must be the LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM, the standard logic in Modern physics wherein the material CONDENSATION is BOTH itself AND the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM it is included in.

 

It is EASY for us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to CONFUSE ABERRANT BEHAVIOUR of a human due to a TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, as INSTEAD deriving from the DYSFUNCTION in the interior neural system of that human.  The notion of internal neural system authoring is promoted by our standard use of BINARY LOGIC based language which DROPS OUT the female accommodating/enabling conjugate of the energy-charged PLENUM and constrains action to the male asserting/actualizing (what the active agent does as if in empty space).  In other words, BECAUSE OF OUR USE OF SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM based LANGUAGE, the ENVIRONMENT containing the action is constrained to being EMPTY SPACE in which case it is impossible to introduce the notion of a TOXIC environment since that ‘SLOT’ is filled by the standard fill-in of EMPTY SPACE.  In order to introduce the presence of a TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM is required.

 

Note that in the case of the Miner’s Canary, the full understanding was already there for us since someone had tuned in to the fact that CANARIES are more sensitive to environmental influences than humans and are great DETECTORS of TOXIC environments, so long as people do not MISTAKE their aberrant behaviours as having an internal, psychological defectiveness origin rather than a (toxic) environment induced origin.

 

There is NO REASON why this same TOXIC ENVIRONMENT phenomenon (since that which is TOXIC to one person may be INNOCUOUS to another who does not have that same ‘sensitivity’) WOULD NOT apply to VIOLENT outbursts in the case of the assassinations by Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson who were reacting to what, to them were TOXIC ENVIRONMENTS fuelled by those they targeted (Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk).

 

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The CONFUSING ELEMENT here is that some HUMANS are MORE SENSITIVE (and to different things) THAN OTHERS so that if the ENVIRONMENT (e.g. the SOCIAL DYNAMIC) becomes CONFLICT FILLED aka TOXIC, the MORE SENSITIVE INDIVIDUAL MAY GO BONKERS, a BREAK-DOWN that will be interpreted by the LESS SENSITIVE MAJORITY WHO ARE CO-CREATING THE TOXIC ENVIRONMENT, as if the SENSITIVE INDIVIDUAL is EXPERIENCING ITS OWN INTERNAL ILLNESS WHICH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM, and will HOSPITALIZE or INCARCERATE the VIOLENT or BONKERS individual.

 

Many people will only thinly veil their support for the actions of Luigi Mangioni and Tyler Robinson, suggesting that while the material developments are saddening; i.e. the loss of husbands to wives and families, there has been some sort of needed spiritual uplifting. As with Robin Hood and Jean Valjean, the material laws dominate even if at the expense of spiritual well-being, and when people re-prioritize the spirit over the material, there is intuitive uplift even in the presence of material loss.

 

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WHY WE (WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) NEED TO ‘RE-LEARN HOW TO SPEAK’

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Dialogue, as spoken in the days of Shakespeare, it seems MORE ELOQUENT than today’s speech, SO WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR SPEECH AND WHY?

 

“Iain McGilchrist’s book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World, makes the case that the left hemisphere has taken over our minds and reshaped the world in its image in a way that is good for neither humans nor the planet and everything that lives on it.

“A way of thinking which is reductive, mechanistic has taken us over,” said McGilchrist in The Divided Brain.

 “We behave like people who have right hemisphere damage.

“The left hemisphere’s goal is to enable us to manipulate things, whereas the goal of the right hemisphere is to relate to things and understand them as a whole. Two ways of thinking that are both needed, but are fundamentally at the same time incompatible.”

“[The left hemisphere] treats the world as a simple resource to be exploited. It’s made us enormously powerful. It’s enabled us to become wealthy, but it’s also meant that we’ve lost the means to understand the world, to make sense of it, to feel satisfaction and fulfilment through our place in the world.”

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/neuroscientist-argues-the-left-side-of-our-brains-have-taken-over-our-minds-1.6219688#:~:text=*Originally%20published%20on%20October%2022,understand%20them%20as%20a%20whole.   “

 

Ok, McGilchrist is a NEUROSCIENTIST and he is describing what is going on from a NEUROSCIENTIST’S point of view, and his findings are REAFFIRMED in the languages of PHYSICS by Bohm and in PSYCHIATRY by Laing and Vygotsky and in Philosophy by Wittgenstein in the respective languages of their profession; i.e. THEY ARE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING; … i.e. as McGilchrist puts it, WE’VE LOST THE MEANS TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD.

 

*** NOTE ON LANGUAGE USAGE * * *

 

Since my investigations have been based in PHYSICS and the REVOLUTIONARY RE-THINKING of PHYSICS which has taken things from MATERIAL OBJECTS IN EMPTY SPACE, to the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where we now recognize MATERIAL FORMS to be CONDENSATIONS OF THE ALL-INCLUDING PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD, my preference has been to use the language of DAVID BOHM.  Bohm describes what is going on in the WAVE-FIELD based terms of “THE DROP OUT OF THE FEMALE CONJUGATE, referring the PEAKING and TROUGHING of the WAVE where the PEAKING is the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING component of the WAVE and the TROUGHING is the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING component of the WAVE, … and HERE WE MUST NOT FORGET that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX so that PEAKING and TROUGHING only give the APPEARANCE that there are “PEAKS” and “TROUGHS”.   This is just a CAUTIONARY NOTE to remind ourselves that THERE ARE NO ACTUAL “THINGS” such “PEAKS” and “TROUGHS”, there is only “PEAKING” and “TROUGHING”.  We can’t CATCH A PEAK and put it in on display as a stand alone item, and likewise in regard to the TROUGH.

It is NOT my desire to COMPLICATE THE HELL OUT OF THINGS, thus CONFUSING THE READER, but having “WORKED” on the challenges of communicating these things for many years, I know that EVEN famous thinkers like PIAGET (as Vygotsky points out) SCREW UP by FORGETTING THAT WHILE OUR LANGUAGE HAS THE CAPABILITY OF PUTTING TOGETHER AN AMALGUM OF “TRUTH AND LIES” (LANGUAGE IS “PUTTY IN OUR HANDS”) IT SUPPORTS OUR MISTAKEN ELABORATIONS ON “WHAT A PEAK DOES” (“WE SAY THAT” IT GROWS LARGE AND PUSHES THINGS) and “WHAT A TROUGH DOES” (“WE SAY THAT” IT DEEPENS AND OPENS UP AND REALLY SUCKS), our MANNER OF SPEAKING in terms of WAVES, if we are not careful, CAN CONFUSE THE ISSUE and MISREPRESENT PHYSICAL REALITY, and, YES, VYGOTSKY IS CORRECT, PIAGET HAS REALLY SCREWED US UP, but we are OVERCOMING HIS SCREW-UP IN THIS NOTE.

*** END OF NOTE ON LANGUAGE USAGE * * * *

 

Ok, the above note is just a CAUTION to reminds ourselves that what we really need is a FLOW BASED LANGUAGE rather than the BEING BASED LANGUAGE that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are using, because by our giving a foundational role in our language to the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING (inventing things-that-be) and GRAMMAR (giving local authoring powers to the invented things-that-be), while it CONVENIENTLY BREAKS EVERYTHING UP INTO LOCAL, EXPLICIT SEPARATE FRAGMENTS, gives us in the same fell swoop, AN EXPOSURE TO ERROR BY WAY OF SPLITTING APART THAT WHICH, IN REALITY, IS INNATELY NON-SPLITTABLE; i.e. WHERE THE MATERIAL FORMS (CONTENT) AND THEIR ENERGY CHARGED PLENUM (CONTAINER) “ARE ONLY ONE”.

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BRINGING EVERYTHING TOGETHER

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Has the WORLD EVER SEEN a more POLARIZED and DYSFUNCTIONAL SOCIETY than today’s WESTERN CULTURE where the extremes are now playing out in the U.S. under the divisive leadership of Donald Trump, where the OPERATIVE POLICY continues to be EVERYONE IS INNOCENT UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY so that in the case of the killing of Charlie Kirk by Tyler Robinson, 340 million Americans caught up in VICIOUSLY POLARIZED SOCIO-POLITICAL TENSIONS which spawned this killing of Kirk, continue to HIDE BEHIND THE “INNOCENT UNLESS PROVEN GUILTY” shield.  There is NO MOVE in the U.S. towards RESTORATIVE JUSTICE which would hold the full 340 million responsible rather than SCAPE-GOATING a SOLO STRAND IN THE TWISTING, TURNING WEB.

A HEALING CIRCLE IS NEEDED but BINARY LOGIC based PURIFICATIONISM continues to dominate in WESTERN CULTURE “JURIS PRUDENCE”.

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We live in a world wherein different people see things DIFFERENTLY because of our use of DIFFERENT LANGUAGES (LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES).

Much like Erich Jantsch, my philosophical investigations suggest that we have developed within our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING ACTIVITY, THREE DIFFERING WORLD VIEWS based on THREE DIFFERING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES, much as in Jantsch’s scheme, but with important differences.

In order to get to the highest of OUR THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS (which is common to Jantsch’s and my own conceptualization) we can consider the MINER’S CANARY situation wherein our AWARE EXPERIENCE derives from our inclusion in what Modern physics calls THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka the WAVE-FIELD in which we are CONDENSATIONS, which is consistent with the STRAND-IN-THE-WEB understanding of indigenous aboriginals.  Both David Bohm and Erwin Schroedinger have pointed to this SAME STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD we live in wherein “SUBJECT AND OBJECT ARE ONLY ONE” which acknowledges that we are in relationships that can be conceived of as STRANDS in a WEB consistent with the CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (WAVE-FIELD) understanding which requires NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM.   That is, this “SUBJECT AND OBJECT ARE ONLY ONE” relation gives us an understanding wherein we are “BOTH” ourselves, the condensation “AND” at the same time, the energy-charged PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD that we are included in.

The Miner’s Canary anecdote recounts how the miners brought canaries into the mines with them because the canaries are SENSITIVE DETECTORS OF DANGEROUS GASES SUCH AS METHANE when mixed in with the common oxygen/air mix, which had led to explosions and loss of miners lives.  Our common WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME does NOT distinguish between a HUMAN working on the surface of the earth and a HUMAN working in a mine.  This is because our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME uses NAME-TAGS with FIXED, UNCHANGING LABELS, for example, “HUMANS” and “CANARIES”, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS give ourselves the impression, THROUGH THIS SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM based scheme, the impression that we are a SELF-CONTAINED SYSTEM constituted by our INTERNAL PHYSICAL “PARTS” including our internal organs, circulatory and resperatory systems etc.

NOTA BENE: THIS IS THE SIMPLE REDUCTIONIST SYSTEM OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION which is the LOWEST OF Jantsch’s THREE LEVELS). In this LOWEST of AWARENESS LEVELS we use BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM to cast ourselves as INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS with our own powers of movement and interactions with OTHER INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS within a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.

[We may keep in mind here Korzybski’s reminder that ‘the WORD IS NOT THE THING’  which comes into play in Bohm’s observation that FRAGMENTATION built into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME can bring on FRAGMENTATION in our MIND (such as Schizophrenia) and thus FRAGMENTATION in our sociel dynamics].

By constructing our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS in terms of MATERIAL OBJECTS moving and interacting within an EMPTY SPACE CONTAINER, this means that our CONCEPTUALIZING only has to deal with the DYNAMICS of LOCAL, EXPLICIT, MATERIAL BEING things, as if this “empty containing space” served as ‘insulation’ that rendered “INDEPENDENT” all of the MATERIAL BEINGS within it. This supports a BINARY LOGIC based SIMPLICITY in the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS that avoids COMPLEXITIES such as the famous one pointed out by Heracitus; ”

“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”   – Heraclitus

Heraclitus’ understanding that ‘EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX’ has been supported by INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURES, and also MODERN PHYSICS where it ties to the INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT nature of CONDENSATIONS in WAVE-FIELDS. HOWEVER, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS CONTINUE TO USE THE SIMPLISTIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which speaks of a FRAGMENTED PSEUDO-REALITY consisting of ABSOLUTE MATERIAL BEING based objects (THANKS TO OUR NAMING the CONDENSATIONS) and our notional equipping them with “THEIR OWN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS”  (which is THANKS TO THE GRAMMER WE HAVE BUILT INTO OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME).

David Bohm has pointed out HOW CONFUSING THIS WESTERN CULTURE FRAGMENTED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME has been and continues to be for our WESTERN CULTURE social collectives; e.g. his following LEAD-IN to the FIRST CHAPTER of Wholeness and the Implicate Order.

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

 

The title of this chapter is ‘Fragmentation and wholeness’. It is especially important to consider this question today, for afragmentation 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.

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