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San Francisco: Can it be Simulated?
0June 12, 2011
by ted lumley
in Ted's Blog
An exciting point through which the world is expressing itself
San Francisco is the name of a place that has a lot of ‘romance’ to it. The historical narrative of its genesis is at the same time, a historical narrative of change going on around the world, the unravelling of the old ways of the old world, the threads of which were being spun into the surprising and exciting artefacts of the new world including this gem of a city on the west coast of North America. The richness and diversity of the entire world and its deep-rooted cultural traditions is the weave that San Francisco is made of, and those ‘threads’ continue to serve as an electrical connective webbing that makes ‘San Francisco’ a bright point through which the global plenum expresses itself. (more…)
Open Letter of Tribute to Brigette DePape … with video
0June 6, 2011
by ted lumley
in Ted's Blog
Brigette DePape 'sends a message' during Throne Speech
Dear Brigette,
There is something I can feel that is going on in this picture of you holding the ‘Stop Harper’ sign that is not showing up in the picture.
It is ‘tension’. (more…)
The World in a Grain of Sand
0June 1, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
electron microscans of plankton (radiolaria skeletons, less than .1mm)
To see a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a Wild Flower,Hold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour
-William Blake, ‘Auguries of Innocence’
The radiolarians are among the most beautiful microbial eukaryotes. They are significant components of the marine plankton and are characterized by mineralized cytoskeletal components that appear as nested spheres and spines; so that they often look like as tiny free-floating star-bursts.
When large numbers of them and their planktonic relations get together, they look like this; (more…)
A Brief History of the Anima Motrix
0May 11, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Pamphleteering: - Islands Independent photo
My inquiry into ‘what is not going right’ in our mainstream society has now piled up more than 30,000 hours, which, at minimum wage, would have a value of over $250,000. Here is my latest ‘free’ report. (more…)
What is Politics Doing to Community?
0April 26, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
When God sprinkled the earth with humans or when they climbed out of clam-shells as in Haida Creation Myth, they were quickly attracted to oases, forest groves, green valleys, snug harbours and paradisiacal islands, like iron filings attracted to magnets. ‘Community’ thus evolved, in the ‘habitat-orchestrates-the-inhabitants’ manner as Nietzsche has described it; “evolution is a process of diffusion in which outside-inward flow predominates over inside-outward flow.” That is; the dynamics of habitat orchestrate the dynamics of the inhabitants; when a tree grows tall and sprouts dates, it orchestrates tree-climbing behaviour in humans; ditto for valley corn, prairie grain, forest game and marine fisheries. (more…)
On ‘disliking’ the cultural CUSTOM of celebrating birthdays
0February 28, 2011
by ted lumley
in Ted's Blog
On my ‘dislike’ of our cultural CUSTOM of celebrating birthdays
(parties/celebrations and exchange of best wishes are great, but can’t we trigger them differently? [and avoid cyclic repetition])
just in case anyone is interested, my dislike of our custom of celebrating birthdays is explained as follows. (more…)
Rant
3February 27, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
expression unencumbered by word-based language
My feeling is that a ‘true rant’ should spontaneously emerge, like the howling of coyotes orchestrated by the rising of a full moon.
But I have lost my coyote voice and coyote ways so I feel as if I am stuck with language.
Language is a poor vehicle for my rant because it divides everything up into subject and object and then has to set everything in motion using verbs. My experience of the world is nothing like the way it is served up in language. The world of my experience is an innovatively unfolding spatial-relational continuum, a ‘flow of becoming’ that includes me. (more…)
Pender Island or Pirate Island?
0February 25, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage.
Musings on the globally pervasive quest for ‘more personal’ community: . . .- It seems that many people have grown tired of living within a system that is ‘constantly bickering with itself’ and seems, in many ways, to be growing more ‘internally intolerant’. The discomfort is not coming simply from differences in views and their associated debates, since these have always been accepted as part of normal living and the normal social dynamic. It seems instead to be coming from the growing un-civility of it all. We may applaud the significant extension to our ability to communicate furnished by cell phones and internet technologies, but these technologies open the door, as well, to an extreme impersonality [e.g. ‘bullying’ that exposes the private life details of an individual to a voyeur crowd that can easily exceed the capacity of the Coliseum] and to the infusing of discordant notes that continually accumulate and never seem to get resolved, engendering a lingering ambiance that is sort of graffiti like. In the new media, many speak in abusive and derogatory tones that ‘would not be tolerated in a physical space’. At the same time, the boundarylessness opens the way for new connections that have the potential to bring people together in a ‘more personal’ community.
What kind of change is in its birthing process? (more…)
Transcending Science and Religion (Transcending Theory)
0February 18, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Viewing a life-cycle removes the ecological (conjugate habitat-inhabitant relational) dimensionality
‘Theory’ is a way of understanding how the world works which in turn shapes our behaviour and how we relate to and engage with one another and with our shared living space.
‘Theory’ can be either religious or scientific and the theories of our culture are infused into us early on in our lives. As B. F. Skinner observes; “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”. That is why children who grow up in a culture that embraces particular religious theories (God created nature in the form of a collection of local material beings) and scientific theories (the earth occupies the centre of the universe) tend to believe in the same theories, and to infuse into their children at an early age, these same theories. As in the examples in parentheses, there tends to be overlap in these religious and scientific theories; e.g. the ‘absolute being’ of ‘local material bodies’. Since the world is evidently ‘evolving’, there have been different religious and scientific theories that try to reconcile a world undergoing continual ‘becoming’ and a world portrayed in terms of a ‘collection of material beings’. (more…)
How Rational Thought is Screwing Up Our Understanding
1February 6, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
This essay is for sharing with those who may have interest in the intuition that rational thought is screwing up our understanding by ‘going with vision, thought and language’ rather than with our ‘feeling experience’ of situational inclusion in the unfolding spatial plenum.
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escher's 'print gallery' / including the observer in the observed
Rational thought turns us into judges that accept, LITERALLY, the forms we see ‘out there in front us’ and ‘their actions’ as if we were ‘not included’ in what we are looking at ‘out there in front of us’. Thus an oppressive regime that allows extreme wealthy and poor classes to form (protects the continuing disparate wealth shift by ‘right to own and possess’ laws, sees ‘theft’, the inevitable ‘short circuits’ that develop between such extremes, as actions in-their-own-local-right perpetrated by forms or ‘beings’ that exist in their own local right. This notion that ‘local forms’ and their actions are ‘real’ is something that we gather from our visual sensing and that we further affirm in thought and language by defining and word-labeling these forms. As John Stuart Mill observed; “Every definition implies an axiom, that in which we affirm the local existence of the object [form] defined.” (more…)
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