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The Conscious [personal] and the Unconscious [collective]
0September 29, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
The coniunctio of inside-outward and outside-inward
Part I Graphical Aids for Exploring the Relation of Conscious [personal] to Unconscious [collective]
The first part of this essay consists of a suite of ‘thought experiments’ supported by graphical ‘thinking-tools’, to ‘set the stage’ for an integrating discussion as to the nature and origins of ‘the conscious’ [personal] and ‘the unconscious’ [collective]. Part II is a written discussion based on dialogue and reflections on how we come to our view of world and self and the relation between two [or, alternatively, how we distinguish the conjugate aspects of ‘self/inhabitant’ and other/habitat’ from the unidynamical world we are included in]. (more…)
Rediscovering Holodynamic Living: The Revaluation of Values
0September 23, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Outside-inward animated community
I don’t know anyone who does not appreciate the values captured in Paula Underwood’s story [told in her capacity as keeper of the Native American oral tradition], ‘My Father and the Lima Beans’. It is a very simple story, taking less than three minutes to read. Meanwhile, the values implicit in this story are virtually opposite to the values in our modern Western society, suggesting to me that Nietzsche was right, there must be a ‘revaluation of all values’.
The rediscovering of holodynamic living implies such a ‘revaluation of values’. ‘Holodynamic living is the view that comes to us in a ‘relational understanding’ of the world we live in.
Another Native American [Kiowa] author, Scott Momaday, seems to go just as directly to heart of the matter as this excerpt from the life experience of Abel in ‘House Made of Dawn’ captures;
“… and you just looked around at all the new and beautiful things. And after a while, the trader put some things out on the counter, sacks of flour and sugar, a slab of salt pork, some canned goods, and a little bag full of the hard red candy. And your grandfather took off one of his rings and gave it to the trader. It was a small green stone, set carelessly in thin silver. It was new and it wasn’t worth very much, not all the trader gave for it, anyway. And the trader opened one of the cans, a big can of whole tomatoes, and your grandfather sprinkled sugar on the tomatoes and the two of you ate them right there and drank bottles of sweet red soda pop. And it was getting late and you rode home in the sunset and the whole land was cold and white. And that night your grandfather hammered the strips of silver and told you stories in the firelight. And you were little and right there in the center of everything, the sacred mountains, the snow-covered mountains and the hills, the gullies and the flats, the sundown and the night, everything — where you were little, where you were and had to be.”
What do these two stories have in common?
[see also the five-minute overview of this essay]
Modern Post-Aboriginal ‘Civilization’: The People of the Machine Archetype
1July 31, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
'community' = relational resonance where 'supply' is conjugate with 'demand'
Part I: The flip from ‘man belongs to the land’ to ‘the land belongs to man’
Introductory Poem: The White Man’s Re-awakening
The globally dominating ‘way of doing things’, the self-imposing of land-ownership-based sovereigntism on the entire living space of the earth, the self-imposed primacy of a money-based, profit-oriented ‘economy’ evidently derives from a ‘twisted way’ of understanding the world dynamic, which seems to have gotten a foothold first in Europe and proceeded from there to ‘infect’ the world, largely by force, followed by acquiescence and co-optation, as in the forced conversion of aboriginal ‘man belongs to earth’ to the ‘machine world view’ of western civilization where ‘the most powerful machinery ‘owns the earth’.
For many people living within this globally dominating belief system [aka ‘Western civilization’], the name of the ‘most powerful machine’ is God. For others [worshippers of science], it is ‘the machine that goes by the name ‘organism’’, and more particularly, the one we call ‘man’. (more…)
Defining ‘Maya’: Realism or Pragmatic Idealism?
0May 28, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
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Atlantic Hurricanes: 2008 Season
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Hurricanes are emergent forms in a continually transforming ‘relational space’. They are like ‘sailboaters’ that derive their form, power and steerage from the dynamic habitat they are situationally included in. At the same time, they seem also like ‘powerboaters’ whose animative sourcing seems to originate locally, from out of their internal processes.
Ernst Mach, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Poincaré and others [the ‘relational theorists’] contend that this ambiguous non-duality [aka the relativity of habitat and inhabitant] pervades nature, that it applies to man just as it applies to hurricanes. We can ‘feel’ some truth in this. From our own experience, we seem to be born into a relational space, a web of relations that is always calling to us to ‘rise to the occasion’ [e.g. as our parents age and/or pass on] and to let our development and behaviour be orchestrated by the ‘opening’ that presents to us in the dynamic habitat that we are each uniquely situationally included in.
Yes, its also true that we can think of ourselves as rational-purpose-driven powerboaters that start planning, in their own right, ‘who they are going to be when they grow up’. But, unless we are robots programmed with the celebrity profiles of media personalities, our assertive actions take on ‘real meaning’, like the hurricanes, from the unfolding situational [spatial-relational] dynamics we find ourselves included in [the hurricane emerges, develops and acts in the service of restoring balance in the ‘dynamics of the habitat’ (thermal energy flow-field) it is situationally included in].
In this case, our animative sourcing does NOT simply come from our interior, from our craving for ‘power’ to make things happen according to our individual preference, but, as Nietzsche suggests, the animative sourcing of our development and behaviour comes from our ‘Will to Power’, from our sailboater’s innate need to ‘rise to the occasion’ of the dynamic situations we find ourselves in. To be coming purely from our notionally ‘internal’ powerboater ‘make-things-happen-the-way-we-want’ power would blind us to, and deny us our natural opportunity to answer, nature’s call to us; ‘to take our place in the natural scheme of things’.
Is the ‘powerboater’ view of ourselves, then, nothing other than … ‘Maya’, … ‘Fiktion’, … ‘schaumkommen’, …. mere ‘appearances’? (more…)
AWAKE! The End is Nigh; – The End of History
2May 21, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Awakening into reality
This is the end of human history, the end of the growth of humanity.
These words sound ‘kind of like’ Biblical prophecy, why is that? It is presumably because they seem to speak to the absolutes of ‘existence’.
There IS something BIG going on that the above words literally address, if we examine them carefully. (more…)
The Duplicity of the Colonizer Culture
0April 23, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
duplicity breeds in the gap between absolutism and relationism
The Source of the Duplicity in the Globally Dominant Colonizer Culture
Peter D’Errico has written a clear and credible, if disturbing, account of the duplicity of the colonizer culture, that permeates U.S. ‘Federal Indian Law’ and its administration, entitled ‘American Indian Sovereignty: Now You See It, Now You Don’t’.
This following essay describes the source of this ‘duplicity’ which permeates the globally dominant Western ‘colonizer culture’, while tying it to a schism in the foundations of scientific understanding (more…)
Accepting Responsibility For Our Own Actions… Is the Problem!
0March 17, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
In nature, transforming space trumps time-based cause-effect constructivism
We are a culture [we of the globally dominating Western culture] that believes in ‘guilt’ and ‘innocence’ and ‘blame’ and ‘forgiveness’. That is, we are a culture that assumes that human development and behaviour derives fully and solely from the interior of each human understood as a ‘thing-in-itself’, an ‘absurdity’ yet the cornerstone of our cultural belief system.
We believe that science and rationality, rather than being tools of convenience, are addressing ‘reality’, the real world of our experience, which is a major error, as philosophers such as Mach, Nietzsche and Poincaré have elaborated on, not that they have ever had the attention of the ‘social mainstream’. We are stuck in a mental box that we seem unable to escape from, and Mach has put a name to it; it is called ‘three dimensional space’. (more…)
What is ‘Science’? What is ‘Language’?
5February 23, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
Reality is something other than a language game called 'Science'
Science is an internally consistent system that does a good job of explaining ‘appearances’; i.e. ‘what things do’. What it does not do a good job of, is in giving us an understanding of how the world we live is transforming, and how our ‘what things do’ oriented science relates to the transforming of our living space.
At the end of the nineteenth century there was a wave of scientific applications that we loosed on ourselves. We knew a lot about how to ‘construct them’ but we didn’t know how their use would transform our landscape and our lives. That’s because science deals in ‘what things do’ as if these things are ‘things-in-themselves’. (more…)
Resurrecting Reality
0January 30, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
tranquil image of a continually transforming space; fixed operating theatre for human dynamics?
All my philosophical investigations have led me back to ‘the mathematics of belief’; to the type of ‘reason’ and ‘logic’ we use to ‘make sense’ of our experiencing of the world, and in the case of Western civilization, to ‘bury reality’ beneath it. (more…)
‘Transformation’ – Where ‘production’ and ‘destruction’ are ‘conjugates’
0January 23, 2012
by ted lumley
in APN
'Production' is a concept that ignores its own conjugate, 'destruction'
Would you want to know the source of major dysfunction in the world? … even if it challenged the foundational assumptions/beliefs of your culture? (more…)
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