An inclusional worldview
INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL TRANSFORMATIONISM (NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) VS. WESTERN CULTURE CONSTRUCTIVISM (LOCAL and EXPLICIT)
INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL TRANSFORMATIONISM (NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) VS. WESTERN CULTURE CONSTRUCTIVISM (LOCAL and EXPLICIT)
Like Bohm, Nietzsche and Schroedinger, One can follow (and I have followed) the path of psycho-philosophical investigation that informs us that different varieties of language (linguistic conceptualization) are giving us different understandings of REALITY which in turn give rise to what we know and refer to as differing CULTURES. ‘Language and Culture Are Frameworks Through Which Humans Experience, Communicate and Understand Reality’ (Vygotsky, 1968)
The following aphorisms point to TWO CHOICES of LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE which “PUT US INSIDE OF TWO DIFFERENT REALITIES”.
“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose”….’There is a tide in the affairs of men”. The former is from the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8) and the latter is from Shakepeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’.
If we AGREE with this proposition, we thus agree that we can NEVER CLAIM PERSONAL AUTHORSHIP OF ANYTHING due the fact that, stated in WAVE-FIELD terms the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING is ALWAYS, to SOME EXTENT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER, EXPANDED or DIMINISHED by the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONDITIONS it is SITUATIONALLY INCLUDED IN. As FARMERS, FARMER ‘A’, may bring to harvest a BUMPER CROP and be celebrated for his skills and strong effort, and perhaps, his generosity and benevolent charity to ‘less productive’ members of the local community, while FARMER ‘B’ who skills and labors were equivalent to, or greater than FARMER ‘A’s, experienced crop failure due to hailstorms and flooding.
While our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME HAS US USING SIMPLIFIED BINARY LOGIC TO STATE IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, FARMER “A” PRODUCED A BUMPER CROP, while FARMER “B” FAILED TO PRODUCE ANYTHING OF SUBSTANCE, and to CLAIM THESE PROPOSITIONS TO BE THE HONEST TRUTH. However, as Goedel’s Theorem affirms, ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS (though they may be provably TRUE) are INCOMPLETE. In this example, what was NEVER MENTIONED was the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING of the ambient dynamics which are CONJUGATE to the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING actions of the FARMER, BOTH of which are CONTRIBUTORS to the UNFOLDING REALITY.
In other words, WESTERN CULTURE employs a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which is SOLELY MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING BASED, WHICH ‘DROPS OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE” which is INHERENT in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD in which WE and our PROJECTS are INCLUDED. Farmer “A” found his crop-cultivating actions to be in harmonious relation with the ambient dynamics while Farmer “B” found his crop-cultivating actions to be in dissonant relation with the ambient dynamics, which is to remind ourselves of the Goedel’s Theorem INCOMPLETENESS of all FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS, and they are INCOMPLETE because “BINARY LOGIC” PROPOSITIONS consist ONLY of MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING activity which comes by DROPPING OUT the natural WAVE-FIELD FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate.
Aphorisms such as ‘to everything there is a season’ EXPOSE AS “TOO SIMPLE” the common WESTERN CULTURE ONE SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ONLY linguistic conceptualizing scheme based on the abstraction of MATERIAL BODIES moving about in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, which portray human dynamics in BINARY LOGIC terms of EITHER ‘in motion’ OR ‘at rest’, FAILING TO ACKNOWLEDGE the QUANTUM LOGIC relation wherein MATTER is a CONDENSATION of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM such that MATERIAL FORMS are, as with WHORLINGS in FLOWING, “BOTH” themselves “AND” the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (WAVE-FIELD) they are CONDENSATIONS IN, WHERE “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” and where EVERYTHING IS RELATED (mitakuye oyasin) by way of BEING CONDENSATIONS of the ONE, ALL-INCLUDING WAVE-FIELD.
As David Bohm points out;
“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
HERE’S HOW “WESTERN CULTURE REALITY” with its SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC foundation diverges from “INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL & MODERN PHYSICS REALITY” with its LESS SIMPLE QUANTUM LOGIC foundation. NOTICE THAT THIS DIFFERENCE IS BROUGHT INTO PLAY IN LANGUAGE as follows;
WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING OF ‘REALITY’ DROPS OUT THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and SUBSTITUTES AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE of INFINITE EXTENT, REDUCING MATERIAL DYNAMICS FROM A QUANTUM LOGIC WAVE-FIELD BASIS IN WHICH WE ARE INCLUDED SO THAT THE MATERIAL FORM IS UNDERSTOOD AS A CONDENSATION OF THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED WAVE-FIELD PLENUM WHEREIN EVERYHING IS RELATED, EXPOSING THE OVER-SIMPLICITY OF THE NOTIONAL ‘INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEING WITH ITS OWN GRAMMAR-GIVEN POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS. INSTEAD, WE, AS CONDENSATIONS OF THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM ARE CONSTITUTED BY INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND INTERDEPENDENCE AS IN ‘STRANDS IN THE WEB-OF-LIFE’.
To behave as if we are INDEPENDENT BEINGS when the REALITY is that we are STRANDS IN THE WEB-OF-LIFE or in other words, we are included in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence, a is a recipe for FRAGMENTATION (acting AS IF WE ARE INDEPENDENT when we are NOT) and OBSCURANTISM (using linguistic conceptualizing that is in the ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING terms of WHAT NOTIONAL INDEPENDENT THINGS DO AS IF IN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE, DROPPING OUT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the CONJUGATE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE, which is the PRIMARY REALITY, the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate being ‘APPEARANCE’, ‘the TOOL’ that has, in WESTERN CULTURE, ‘RUN AWAY WITH THE WORKMAN’ (Emerson).
“The above aphorism (The Name of the Devil is Suboptimization’), attributed to Kenneth Boulding, points to the inherent weakness characterizing the mindset and socio‐economic, political, educational and managerial practices of Western Industrial society as it developed over the past 300 years. It has its basis in the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which, despite the remarkable technological applications it spawned, is inappropriate, conflict‐generating and dysfunctional in a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence …” — György Jaros and Martine Dodds-Taljaard (International Society of Systems Sciences)
The WORLD (REALITY) as seen by the Systems Sciences as also by Modern physics, is a world of INTERDEPENDENCES AND INTERCONNECTIONS, a WEB OF INFLUENCES within which we are an INCLUDED STRAND so that our sense-experience informed understanding is that; “To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose”….’There is a tide in the affairs of men”, in which case the LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING of our behaviour in the simple terms of one-sided MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING as if in a notional absolute empty and infinite space, an abstraction that comes by way of DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE (the female accommodating season or tide THAT DOMINATES in shaping the outcome of our MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamic), a “DROPOUT” that is accompanied by SUBSTITUTING ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE is standard in WESTERN CULTURE and is the SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM (the DEA ABSCONDITA [GODDESS IN HIDING]. Note that the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING is PRIMARY in our WAVE-FIELD REALITY but it complicates LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING because it is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (as with WHORLING in FLOWING with its QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC RELATION) while MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, although SECONDARY and only APPEARANCE is LOCAL and EXPLICIT which has simpler (BINARY LOGIC EITHER/OR) LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING requirements.
NEVERTHELESS, QUANTUM LOGIC SUPPORTS WAVE-FIELD CONCEPTUALIZATION WHILE BINARY LOGIC ONLY SUPPORTS MATERIAL OBJECT BASED MECHANICS.
QUANTUM LOGIC accommodates the less simple relations as pertain to CONDENSATIONS of the ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD wherein the CONDENSATION IS BOTH ‘ITSELF’… AND AT THE SAME TIME… THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM that is the MOTHER OF ALL MATERIAL CONDENSATIONS.
Meanwhile, SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC DROPS OUT THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM BY SUBSTITUTING ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, but of course that DROP-OUT is only in the WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING scheme, hence the reference to the DEA ABSCONDITA (the GODDESS IN HIDING) because while FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WAVE-FIELD CONJUGATE remains operative in our SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY, WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS NO LONGER ACKNOWLEDGE IT IN OUR INTELLECTUALLY SIMPLIFIED BINARY LOGIC LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME. Because we allow our actions and developments to be SHAPED by our SIMPLIFIED (REDUCED TO BINARY LOGIC) linguistic conceptualization, we infuse a DROPOUT into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS which is equivalent to a SHIFT IN PERSPECTIVE from INCLUDED SENSATE EXPERIENT (wherein we understand ourselves as included in the world we are ‘looking out at’) as comes with QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC, … TO, …EXCLUDED INTELLECTUAL VOYEUR which comes with BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC where ‘PEOPLE’ are seen as INDEPENDENT MATERIAL BEINGS with their own GRAMMAR-GIVEN POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development, an INTELLECTUAL VOYEUR VIEWING based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION scheme which EXCLUDES the VOYEUR OBSERVER.
QUANTUM LOGIC is the LESS SIMPLE operative logic of an ALL INCLUDING WORLD IN FLUX (RELATIONAL TRANSFORMATION);
-1- QUANTUM LOGIC INCLUSION 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”
QUANTUM LOGIC ACKNOWLEDGES THE “INCLUSION” of MAN IN THE WAVE-FIELD, while BINARY LOGIC is TOO SIMPLE “BECAUSE, IN SUPPORTING ABSOLUTE “BEING” IN EMPTY SPACE, BINARY LOGIC DROPS OUT THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate OF THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM and that BINARY LOGIC DROPPING OUT is the source of FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM.
-2- BINARY LOGIC SPLIT 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.
Here we see the second of TWO CHOICES for linguistic conceptualizing of the world of our sense-experience. The BINARY LOGIC choice which SPLITS MAN APART FROM THE EARTH AND OPENS THE WAY TO THE NOTION OF MAN BEING ABLE TO “EXPLOIT THE EARTH”.
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SO, IN THESE TWO EXAMPLES, we see the TWO CHOICES OF “FOUNDATION” for linguistic conceptualizing of the world of our sense-experience. The BINARY LOGIC FOUNDATION choice SPLITS MAN APART FROM THE EARTH AND OPENS THE WAY TO THE NOTION OF MAN BEING AN INDEPENDENT BEING WITH ITS OWN POWERS OF ACTION AND DEVELOPMENT WHICH EQUIP HIM FOR “EXPLOITING THE EARTH”. ALTERNATIVELY, THE QUANTUM LOGIC FOUNDATION choice wherein MAN and EARTH are INCLUDED as CONDENSATIONS IN THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED as with STRANDS IN THE INTERCONNECTED, INTERDEPENDENT “WEB-OF-LIFE” aka “WAVE-FIELD home of CONDENSATIONS”.
We may recall how indigenous aboriginals embrace QUANTUM LOGIC and AVOID BINARY LOGIC since QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC fits with the thingless-connectedness of ‘all my relations’ (mitakuye oyasin) where everything is in flux, in which case, there is no BINARY LOGIC “STAND-ALONE GOOD” or “STAND-ALONE BAD”, i.e. no “STAND-ALONE GOOD OR BAD BEINGS”, only RELATIONS which can be HARMONIOUS OR DISSONANT herein as individuals WE ARE “ALL OUR RELATIONS” (mitakuye oyasin). IN THIS UNDERSTANDING THERE CAN BE NO BINARY LOGIC EITHER GOOD OR BAD BEING BASED SPLIT, there can only be relational HARMONY/RESONANCE and DISSONANCE which are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT. There are no BEINGS in this understanding and thus NO SUCH THING AS ‘GOOD BEINGS” and “BAD BEINGS”, there are only ALL MY RELATIONS (mitakuye oyasin) which leads NATURALLY TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE instead of WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (the incarceration or elimination of BAD BEINGS and the rewarding and proliferating of GOOD BEINGS..
As the Anishnabe say;
“At the core of our spiritual beings we make no artificial distinction between the sacred and the profane. Unlike Western culture, we have not suffered through that artificial separation”
According to Tomoko Masuzawa, any cosmology without a sacred–profane binary was rendered invisible by the field of religious studies, privileging Christianity at the expense of non-Christian systems because the binary was supposed to be “universal”, –Wikipedia
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AUTHOR’S SCHOLIUM an overview of the idea-sharing goal built into the above commentary.
It is important, in the decipherment of this communique, to acknowledge the AUTHOR’S ATTEMPT to share QUANTUM LOGIC (WAVE-FIELD based) UNDERSTANDINGS while employing a linguistic conceptualizing scheme that is grounded in SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC that supports SIMPLE MECHANISTIC UNDERSTANDINGS (understandings which employ that abstraction of BEING in foundational roles) but which must, at the same time, INTRODUCE LESS SIMPLE QUANTUM LOGIC based linguistic conceptualizing which can deal with a WAVE-FIELD reality. To this end, it is IMPORTANT to MAKE NOTE OF the fact that expressions such as; 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.” and, as well, “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.”
As Bohm, and Alan Watts have pointed out, because we live in a WAVE-FIELD world, we need a FLOW-BASED LANGUAGE wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED TO EVERYTHING; i.e. “All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the sons of the earth” as is the finding of MODERN PHYSICS wherein material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including WAVE-FIELD.
AS WE KNOW, WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS continue to CLING to the INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION of a BINARY LOGIC based PSEUDO-REALITY consisting of ABSOLUTE LOCAL, INDEPENDENT MATERIAL ENTITIES with GRAMMAR GIVEN MOVEMENTS and INTERATIONS within a notional ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE OPERATING GROUND.
IT IS NOT MY WISH, in this AUTHOR’S SCHOLIUM, to regurgitate what has been presented in the body of this essay which as sought to illuminate on the role of LANGUAGE in regard to how ‘Language and Culture Are Frameworks Through Which Humans Experience, Communicate and Understand Reality’ (Vygotsky, 1968)
When we use BINARY LOGIC based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION, we are DROPPING OUT the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING WAVE-FIELD conjugate and GOING WITH the SIMPLIFIED RESIDUE of a MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ‘mechanism’ as if in ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE
This is the source of FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM, … ERRONEOUS (MIS-) UNDERSTANDINGS that PSYCHOLOGICALLY WALL PAPER OVER OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE SUPPORTED “AWARENESS” OF INCLUSION IN .. a world characterized by global interconnectedness and mutual interdependence”
As Zen scholar points out, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS need to DROP OUT OF OUR LANGUAGE, the ABSTRACTION of “BEING” and acknowledge in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX which requires VERB-based LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING
As soon as one sees that separate things are fictitious, it becomes obvious that nonexistent things cannot “perform” actions. The difficulty is that most languages are arranged so that actions (verbs) have to be set in motion by things (nouns), and we forget that rules of grammar are not necessarily rules, or patterns, of nature. This, which is nothing more than a convention of grammar, is also responsible for (or, better, “goes with”) absurd puzzles as to how spirit governs matter, or mind moves body. How can a noun, which is by definition not action, lead to action?” —Alan Watts, ‘Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are’
MEANWHILE, WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE LOCKED INTO THE CONTINUING USE OF BINARY LOGIC BY ‘HIGH SWITCHING COSTS’ (our WESTERN CULTURE REWARDS AND PUNISHMENTS PROGRAMS ARE BASED ON BINARY LOGIC).
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AGAIN (excuse the repetition which I am using for emphasis), my point in this note is that WESTERN CULTURE, thanks to BINARY LOGIC based language, is on a path to increasing social FRAGMENTATION and PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSCURANTISM. The FRAGMENTATION comes through the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR which supports the UNREAL notion of LOCAL AUTHORING of actions and development as, for example, in the BINARY LOGIC based ‘The TOWN is GROWING’ (as if in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE CONTAINING SPACE), … where the reality is the QUANTUM (BOTH/AND) LOGIC dynamic wherein ‘there is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ wherein EVERYTHING IS IN RELATIONAL FLUX. The QUANTUM BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM in this case points to the fact that the TOWNING IS BOTH ITSELF AND THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE IT IS INCLUDED IN.
The PSYCHOLOGICAL OBSCURANTISM comes with the DROPPING OUT of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (WAVE-FIELD) conjugate; i.e. the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE is the HOLDING GROUND in which the TOWNING is ‘APPEARANCE’. That is, we cannot lift out ‘TOWNING’ and put it in a separate holding tank (a notional absolute empty and infinite space) where we can WATCH THE TOWN GROW in a one-sided MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING SENSE. .
THERE IS NO GROWTH OF THE TOWN WITHOUT CONJUGATE SHRINKING OF WILDERNESS aka LANDSCAPE, … and OVERALL, what is going on here is TRANSFORMATION, which is where WILDERNESS IS SHRINKING in conjugate relation with GROWING of the TOWN, this dynamic being, overall, TRANSFORMATION.
As Vygotsky affirms;‘Language and Culture Are Frameworks Through Which Humans Experience, Communicate and Understand Reality’ and the currently employed WESTERN CULTURE use of a SIMPLIFIED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that DROPS OUT the less simple QUANTUM LOGIC foundation of WAVE-FIELD reality and SUBSTITUTES the SIMPLER BINARY LOGIC foundation of BEING-based reality is a recipe for a CULTURE based on FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM. The BINARY LOGIC, oversimplistic reasoning that supports the abstractions of INDEPENDENT BEINGS with notional POWERS OF LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENT that may be EITHER GOOD OR BAD, is a far cry from our MODERN PHYSICS AFFIRMED FLOW-BASED WORLD that is consistent with indigenous aboriginal WEB-OF-LIFE CONCEPTUALIZATIONS, wherein EVERYTHING IS RELATED, where the remedy for STRIFE is the recultivating of relational RESONANCE (the subsuming of relational DISSONANCE) rather than the BINARY LOGIC based PUNISHING and ELIMINATING of BAD BEINGS and the PROLIFERATING and REWARDING of GOOD BEINGS (THERE ARE NO ‘BEINGS’; i.e. BEINGS are only APPEARANCE that we attach NAME tags to.
END of “AUTHOR’S SCHOLIUM”.
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INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL TRANSFORMATIONISM (NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT) VS. WESTERN CULTURE CONSTRUCTIVISM (LOCAL and EXPLICIT)
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