An inclusional worldview
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Conflicting Realities: Immigrant and Indigenous
0August 15, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Conflicting Realities; Immigrant versus 'Indigenous'
After Columbus ‘discovered’ America [formerly known as ‘Turtle Island’], waves of colonizing European immigrants moved westward from ‘the Old Country’ and began the process of constructing the New World. There were many new things that they had to deal with including grizzly bears, poisonous snakes and the troublesome aboriginals that infested the forests and plains. The knowledge and technology of the immigrants easily overwhelmed resistance from the indigenous ‘fauna’ including the indigenous aboriginal peoples.
In the historical narratives that have been written about this era, those written by the immigrants eulogized the ‘creation of a New World’ while those written by the indigenous peoples spoke of the contamination and degeneration of a superior world, by waves of destructive rodent-like Europeans. (more…)
Ideas: Deconstructions of experience that humour mocks and politics holds us captive to
2July 27, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Awaiting program download into the centre of direction
Ideas: Deconstructions of experience that humour mocks and politics holds us captive toRochus Misch recounts his boss’s humour in his book (The Last Witness); (more…)
Resistance to ‘Updating’ Biological and Medical science with ‘the New Physics’
1July 12, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
What is holding up the ‘updating’ of ‘biological science’ and ‘medical science’ in the light of a more comprehensive ‘new physics’?
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Dr. Jeanne Keegan-Henry on the Medical Establishment’s suppression of ‘outside-of-theory’ remedies
“C. difficile is ‘always in the hospital”, says Dr. Keegan-Henry, intimating that the remedy is not in waging a war against c.difficile but re-storing floral balance in the digestive tract through probiotic therapy. She goes on to say that people are DYING UNNECESSARILY because the Medical Establishment (which she compares to a runaway supertanker or ‘Titanic-with-no-one-at-the-helm’) suppresses the administering of remedies that ‘don’t fit medical establishment theory’ [the medical establishment “blocks the best medicine”].
What is wrong with the medical establishment’s theory/model? (more…)
Reconciling Holistic and Western Medicine
0July 1, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
material forms are; (a) constructed from bits/pieces, or, (b) ripples within energy-flow?
The development of material form, behaviour and organization has historically/culturally been seen/understood in two evolutionarily-opposite ways;
(a) inside-outward determined material dynamics as in Western biological sciences
(b) outside-inward – inside-outward energy transformation as in the new physics
In (a), ‘genie-like genes’ have the wherewithal to manage the genesis-by-construction of the material organism (e.g. human ‘being’). In (b), material forms are ripple-structures that gather and re-gather in the evolving energy-charged spatial plenum [‘field’]
While (b) is supported by relativity and quantum physics, (a) is a ‘guess’ that gives the black-box response ‘genes’ to the question; “from whence comes the development of material form, behaviour and organization?”
This ‘hocus pocus’ answer to ‘what is life?’, which assumes inside-outward directed genesis, continues to play a primary foundational role in our globally dominating Western social dynamic, although new biological research is rapidly enlarging the ranks of ‘post-Darwinist’ and ‘post-Genetics’ [‘hologenomic’] scientists. (more…)
Updating Psychology: Logic of the Included Third
1June 21, 2011
by ted lumley
in APN
Summer Solstice Essay, 2011
The world is in a mess and we are having a devil of a time trying to understand why we behave the way we do, individually, and collectively, and ‘psychology’ does not seem to have any answers. In fact, psychology has been born and bred by those whose inquiry is ‘analytical’, hence the terms ‘psychoanalysis’, ‘Jungian analyst’ etc., and the practice of taking an individual into a safe haven where he can ‘open up’ and divulge to himself, the genetic sources of his own behaviour.
Whatever happened to ‘field’ as in physics, wherein outside-inward influence predominates over inside-outward influence?
[See also ‘A Field View of Logic’]
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…)
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…)
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