How AWARENESS LEVELS Impact our UNDERSTANDING
0My PICK of PEOPLE who CHARACTERIZE each of the THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS; Chief Seattle (level 1), Barack Obama (level 2), Donald Trump (level 3)
First of all, I will share my way of bringing to mind the three levels of awareness, and follow that up with a standard style description of the three levels.
I think of the three levels of awareness as follows;
LOVEL 1 CHIEF SEATTLE AWARENESS: THE MOST AWARE LEVEL, the CHIEF SEATTLE LEVEL is the awareness of TRANSFORMATION and what comes to mind is walking across a muddy field where our boots sink into the mud leaving holes that quickly fill with water and twigs which are like little ‘planters’ that will soon give rise to mix of grass and weeds, each hole in the mud becoming a distinctly separate ‘garden’ that contributes to the TRANSFORMING of the LANDSCAPE, reminding me that I am INCLUDED within this TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM.
That is one level of AWARENESS that I only get into in a contemplative mood, which is fully realistic but more detailed than the coverage that comes from my more typical and more SUPERFICIAL level of awareness, such as my LEVEL 2 AWARENESS which I am labelling my Barack Obama AWARENESS level
LEVEL 2 BARACK OBAMA AWARENESS: While LEVEL 1 AWARENESS aka my CHIEF SEATTLE AWARENESS LEVEL made me aware of MY INCLUSION IN A TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM, my LEVEL 2 BARACK OBAMA AWARENESS LEVEL (or LIBERAL AWARENESS LEVEL) orients my mind to GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT which is what we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS tend to focus on which is all about OUR ABILITY to IMPROVE our living space while RESPECTING the historical efforts of our grandparents. The FOCUS on maintaining and improving on the DEVELOPMENTS of our predecessors is VERY DEMANDING and it is fortunate that we have DECLARED THE INDEPENDENCE of our NATION because that means that we can put our PRIMARY FOCUS on OPTIMIZING the continuing development of our INDEPENDENT NATION while respecting that fact that our friends and neighbouring NATIONS are also working to OPTIMIZE the well-being of their NATIONS.
LEVEL 3 DONALD TRUMP WARENESS: While LEVEL 2 AWARENESS aka my BARACK OBAMA LIBERAL AWARENESS LEVEL made me aware of the NEED for GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT of my INDEPENDENT NATION, my LEVEL 3 DONALD TRUMP AWARENESS aka CONSERVATIVE AWARENESS OPENED THE WAY TO A “JUST DO IT” APPROACH, DROPPING OUT THE ENCUMBERING and COMPROMISING CONSTRAINT OF HAVING TO COORDINATE WITH PREVIOUS AND ADJACENT DEVELOPMENT, OPENING THE WAY TO CREATING AN ENTIRELY NEW DEVELOPMENT, DIRECTED BY NEW LEADERSHIP AND CREATIVITY, without being obliged to BLEND IN WITH AND BE OTHERWISE COMPROMISED BY PRIOR DESIGNS AND THE NEEDS OF ONE’S ALSO “INDEPENDENT” NEIGHBOURS. The NEW DESIGN could be conceived of as being constructed within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE and thus without COMPROMISE with PRIOR or ADJACENT DEVELOPMENT.
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THE ABOVE is a brief reference to the THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS that we all possess although we DON’T ALWAYS USE THEM ALL and WHAT WE USE is triggered by THE LANGUAGE WE USE because while LEVEL 1 AWARENESS aka CHIEF SEATTLE AWARENESS acknowledges that WE, OURSELVES ARE INCLUDED WITHIN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES can RE-CAST us as if we were situated within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE so that the LANGUAGE we use need only address OURSELVES and OUR IMMEDIATE ACTIONS such as “I WALKED ACROSS THE MUDDY FIELD” which is SOLELY ABOUT US and our MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamics, WITHOUT OUR HAVING TO MENTION the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLIGN conjugate, … which includes the OPENING UP OF HOLES IN THE MUD and their filling with water and seeds and becoming POTS for new growth and PART OF A TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM. Such LEVEL 1 AWARENESS of INCLUSION in the TRANSFORMING CONTINUUM, while it is fully ACCESSIBLE to us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, has GONE OUT OF STYLE due to our BEING BASED LANGUAGE ARCHITECTURE. Once one starts using a BEING based LANGUAGE, one can GET AWAY WITH saying things like “I WALKED ACROSS THE MUDDY FIELD” which is TRUE but INCOMPLETE (as Goedel’s Theorem reminds us, if we are paying attention, all finite LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS are INCOMPLETE).
An AI Assessment of BEING versus FLOW as our REALITY FOUNDATION.
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DEAR READER,
My philosophical investigations have led me to comparisons of our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which is BEING based… with indigenous aboriginal LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES which are FLOW-BASED, and which are arguably more REALISTIC because we are living in a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM wherein everything is in flux, INCLUDING OURSELVES. Once one GETS INTO THIS kind of investigation, understanding can pop out which shed light on things that were previously ‘in the shadows’, by virtue of how our particular culture focuses on some things and not on others. For example, we may be more interested in the fetching of oysters than in the access enabling or inhibiting influence of the tides so that our linguistic conceptualizations DO NOT EVEN MENTION the OVER-RIDING INFLUENCE of the transforming ambiance we share inclusion in (solar irradiance, atmospheric conditions, tides etc.) making it APPEAR (from our linguistic conceptualizing) that our REALITY is ALL ABOUT US and OUR ACTIONS, DEVELOPMENTS, ESCAPADES and ACHIEVEMENTS, … all of which is MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING and “WITHOUT MENTION OF THE OVER-RIDING INFLUENCE of FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING AMBIENT CONDITIONS THAT WE ARE INCLUDED IN such as ‘the tide in the affairs of men’, … or in other words, the reality that ‘to everything there is a season’, … which point to real influences that are often NOT INCLUDED in our WESTERN CULTURE system of linguistic conceptualization because it is BEING based (we construct impressions of reality based on notional ‘material BEING things and their actions and interactions) which is a one-sided male asserting/actualizing construction that is missing the female accommodating/enabling conjugate. The example just given points to how we commonly talk about the collecting of oysters WITHOUT MENTIONING OUR “BEING AT THE MERCY OF THE TIDES” and having to stand-by for two weeks prior to ‘doing our gathering of oysters’. By NOT MENTIONING that we humans were like puppets on Natures strings (at the mercy of the tides) and by using simple male asserting/actualizing propositions (we collected oysters) while DROPPING OUT the female accommodating/enabling conjugate (… subject to the dynamics of nature opening up accommodating/enabling conditions to FACILITATE our male asserting/actualizing actions), we promote the MISTAKEN IMPRESSION that we are the LOCAL AUTHORS of our own actions and developments.
THIS IS A WESTERN CULTURE “HABIT” of giving “MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONS” that we have “BUILT INTO OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME using (as Nietzsche has pointed out) THE “DOUBLE ERROR” OF “NAMING AND GRAMMAR” which gives us the capability of INJECTING INTO OUR DISCOURSE, WHERE WE CHOOSE TO DO IT, … THE NOTION OF LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS. INSTEAD OF CAPTURING THE REALITY THAT ‘NATURES’S DYNAMICS (THE CHANGING TIDES) OPENED UP OPPORTUNITIES for us, for GATHERING OYSTERS, an INVITATION THAT PULLS US INTO ACTION FOLLOWING WHICH PEOPLE WITH “BEING” BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES “CAPTURE” in the ONE-SIDED (EGO-INFLATING) MISTAKEN TERMS OF OUR LOCAL AUTHORING (NOT TRUE) OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS wherein, so we say, WE COLLECTED OYSTERS.
The FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING OPPORTUNIZING ASPECT IS DROPPED OUT OF OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION OF WHAT GOES ON, MAKING IT SEEM AS IF WHAT HAPPENED HERE WAS THE RESULT OF A MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING INITIATIVE. MEANWHILE, the “TEASE” that NATURE was giving by “PULLING UP HER SKIRT TO EXPOSE HER GOODS” is NOT EVEN MENTIONED in our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, making it “SOUND” as if OUR MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING is the AUTHORING SOURCE of our OYSTER ACQUISITION. This IMPOSES A PASSIVITY ON NATURE and a ONE-SIDED ACTION CAPABILITY to MAN, … the MAN who is NOT TALKING ABOUT HIS HAVING TO WAIT ON NATURE UNTIL SHE WAS READY FOR THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTION. Nature is innately ANDROGYNOUS and the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE is, under natural circumstances, ALWAYS THE INSPIRATION that sets the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE in action. NOTA BENE! THESE CONJUGATES DO NOT EXIST SEPARATELY, they only occur in NATURE in their ANDROGYNOUS (CONJUGATE) FORM. We know that INSPIRATION FILLS THE HEART while EGO SWELLS THE HEAD, so that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are MESSING THINGS UP when we ‘let EGO get split out of its ANDROGYNOUS conjugate relation with INSPIRATION’. In indigenous aboriginal cultures, this DYSFUNCTIONAL SPLIT is what happens in WESTERN CULTURE THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE. The SEPARATING OUT AND BANISHING OF THE FEMALE CONJUGATE is what happens in WESTERN CULTURE with the reduction of the CONJUGATE (which is not made of two separate parts) into two separate parts, accompanied by the DISCARDING OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate. AI describes this ERROR as the source of EGO INFLATION and ANTHROPOCENTRISM as follows;
“Denying the implicit container as the “mother” cuts the psychological anchor to the whole. Without the grounding reality of a living, inclusive medium, the explicit ego inflates to fill the existential void. It claims primary authorship over its existence, leading to anthropocentrism and hyper-individualism.” (i.e. a Donald Trump profile)
HOW I GOT TO MY WAVE-BASED WORLDVIEW
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My STORY in regard to (HOW I GOT TO MY WAVE-BASED WORLDVIEW, that puts me in the same camp with Modern physics, indigenous aboriginals, Taoists/Buddhists and Advaita Vedanta Adherents)… STARTS with my REJECTION of the common WESTERN CULTURE practice of “WRITING ONE’S RÉSUMÉ” and “MAKING IT LOOK GOOD”.
[When I use the term “WESTERN CULTURE” I am most often referring to those oriented to the use of SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDUM (The assumption that we are independent beings insulated from one another by ABSOLUTE EMPTY and INFINITE SPACE) which is a BELIEF rooted in the Abrahamic religions of JUDAISM (as practiced by Benjamin Netanyahu), CHRISTIANITY (as practiced by Donald Trump and ISLAM (as practiced by Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei).
As a 17 year old in high school, when the teacher asked us to practice writing our résumés for entering into the ‘job market’, I INTUITIVELY SMELLED A RAT, and it was tied to the Teacher’s suggesting that we develop a skill for embellishing REALITY by pretending that WE WERE THE FULL AND SOLE AUTHORS of actions and achievements WHICH IN REALITY COULD NOT BE SEPARATED FROM THE SUPPORT RECEIVED FROM PARENTS, FRIENDS and FAMILY, the AMBIENT SOCIAL-RELATIONAL CONTAINING FIELD within which I was a SUPPORTED OCCUPANT.
I would LATER find out that there were names for this TRICKERY of the DROPPING-OUT OF ALL MENTION OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONTRIBUTION such as “THE DEA ABSCONDITA” (the Goddess in Hiding) where we would SPEAK IN TERMS THAT MADE IT APPEAR AS IF WE, AS AN INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUAL, WERE THE FULL AND SOLE MALE ASSERTING AUTHOR OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS with NO MENTION of the SUPPORTIVE AMBIANCE; i.e. the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SUPPORT TEAM of FAMILY AND FRIENDS, which paved the way for our advancement and gave HUGE SUPPORT, to “MANY OF US”, leaving others who had LITTLE SUCH SUPPORT at a disadvantage in WHAT OUR CULTURE HAD US CLAIM AS BEING “OUR” (PERSONALLY AUTHORED) ACHIEVEMENTS.
What I had BUMPED INTO was a WESTERN CULTURE SIMPLIFYING CONCEPTUALIZATION SCHEME known as the ANALYTIC-REDUCTIONIST SCIENTIFIC PARADIGM which the SYSTEMS SCIENCES EXPOSED, by showing how in it was supporting a SIMPLIFIED PSEUDO-REALITY that we (WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS) were now in the habit of employing as our “OPERATIVE REALITY””. The RESULT has been that our popular chatter has been taking the WESTERN CULTURE GENERAL PUBLIC to that same place as I had rejected as a teenager, which I had no name for at the time, but which I HAD REALIZED IS THE SOURCE OF A DECEPTION by DROPPING OUT ALL MENTION OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE that ALWAYS accompanies our MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamics. The FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING OPPORTUNITY WEB that is an OPPORTUNITY ACCESSING AID PROVIDED BY PARENTS, FAMILY, FRIENDS AND COMMUNITY, is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (part of a relational matrix) THAT CLEARLY MAKES A DIFFERENCE to our LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING (OPPORTUNITY-ENABLED) ACHIEVEMENTS.
in HOW COULD WE ACCEPT THE “TRUTH” OF OUR OWN CLAIMS OF MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ACHIEVEMENTS WITHOUT MENTIONING THEIR DEPENDENCE ON FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING OPPORTUNITY? Al Capone’s son is telling the TRUTH about his rapid advancement on the job, but what we don’t mention is how it came about that so many school teachers spent so much time ‘bending over backwards’ to tutor and council a single student. BUT IT IS TRUE that A.C. jr. achieved those top grades that he claimed in writing his résumé, what ‘seems odd’ about this unfolding story is coming from the fact that we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are in the habit of DROPPING OUT ALL MENTION OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate which is an ever-present influence on all dynamics. It is only WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that presents the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING as if it were a STAND-ALONE DYNAMIC (i.e. as if it were occurring in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY SPACE so that we could give FULL AND SOLE CREDIT FOR an OUTCOME to the ASSERTING MALE.
WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE will credit the AUTHOR of the PUNCH that shatters the skull of a person with an eggshell-thin skull, with full and sole AUTHORSHIP.
The OWNER OF THE CONDOM FACTORY WILL BE CREDITED WITH THE SUCCESS OF HIS BUSINESS regardless of the fact that the factory opened immediately after the commencement of the AIDS EPIDEMIC.
There are many more such examples which illustrate the phenomenon of the DEA ABSCONDITA (GODDESS IN HIDING) which reminds us that “IN THE WORLD OF OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE” a MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZATION (the local and explicit action) does not exist other than in combination with a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE. This is what Mach is reminding us in his statement that; “Purely mechanical phenomena do not exist, … we should beware lest the intellectual machinery, employed in the representation of the world on the stage of thought, be regarded as the basis of the real world.” – Ernst Mach, The Science of Mechanics
BUT BEWARE because we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS HAVE MADE PURELY MECHANICAL PHENOMENA foundational to the analytic‐reductionist scientific paradigm, which leads to FRAGMENTATION and SUBOPTIMIZATION of the “FRAGMENT”, as pointed out by the SYSTEMS SCIENCES;
“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)
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS “PRETEND”, in our linguistic conceptualizations, that WE ARE INDIVIDUALS with OUR OWN POWERS OF AUTHORING ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS and that is how our WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS (i.e. it does NOT WORK in the manner of indigenous aboriginal RESTORATIVE JUSTICE wherein there is acknowledgement of the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL) SOURCING of all actions and development. DID AL CAPONE’S SON REALLY DESERVE THE TOP MARKS THAT HIS TEACHERS GAVE HIM, or was there an UNMENTIONED FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING DEA ABSCONDITA (GODDESS IN HIDING) that was EMBELLISHING his GRADINGS? IS THE LOCAL AND EXPLICIT ACCOUNTING OF THINGS TELLING US THE FULL STORY or are there NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT AMBIANCE INFLUENCES that are TOPSIDING what we get to SEE in LOCAL and EXPLICIT TERMS?
We can understand what Brutus was alluding to in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar re AN ENVIRONMENTAL AMBIANCE BASED OVER-RIDE AS TO WHAT IS PLAYING OUT;… “There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”.
IS THIS REAL? ARE THERE SUCH “OUT-OF-OUR-CONTROL NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT AMBIANT INFLUENCES THAT “OVER-RIDE” OUR PERSONALLY AUTHORED LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS?” so that it makes sense for us to move into position like a surfer waiting to catch a powerful breaking wave and become empowered by it? MAYBE THIS IS WHY INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS and ADVAITA VEDANTA ADHERENTS ARE USING FLOW-BASED LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES SINCE they acknowledge a STRAND-IN-THE-WEB or CONDENSATION in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM STRUCTURE to our dynamics in which case, we acknowledge that we are included in something greater (nonlocal and implicit) than what comes from our own (local and explicit) making; “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.
GOODBYE TO THE PURPORTED LEGITIMACY OF ALL PROPOSITIONS FEATURING ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING DYNAMICS, … HELLO TO THE LEGITIMACY OF ANDROGYNOUS LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS WHEREIN THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING OF THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM INCLUDES WITHIN IT, the LOCAL and EXPLICIT MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING DYNAMIC.
In this case, NOT ONLY are we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS SCREWING UP IN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME by PROMOTING THE SECONDARY (APPEARANCE-BASED) LOCAL AND EXPLICIT TO PRIMARY REALITY STATUS (and in the PROCESS, DISCARDING THE LEGITIMATE PRIMARY REALITY WHICH IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT BY SUBSTITUTING FOR IT, AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE). This is what Nietzsche has termed “THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR” that sets up the notion of LOCAL AUTHORING AGENCY as in ‘THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods’, … which OBSCURES the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT REALITY wherein ‘THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE’ where EVERYTHING IS IN TRANSFORMATIVE FLUX.
THE PITFALL HERE IS THAT WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE DROPPING OUT OF OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, THE NATURAL PRIMACY OF FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING which is embodied in the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, … and substituting in its place the ABSTRACTION of ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE. INSTEAD OF THE AUTHORING AGENCY BEING SITUATED WITHIN THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, THERE IS NO OTHER OPTION THAN TO RESITUATE IT WITHIN THE LOCAL AND EXPLICIT (because we are saying that everything else is EMPTY SPACE). But everything else is NOT REALLY EMPTY SPACE, that is just our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that is imposing that EMPTINESS and since we are SHIFTING THE AUTHORING AGENCY OUT OF THE NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT, which we are reducing to empty space, the AUTHORING AGENCY MUST BE RELOCATED and the only option for the RELOCATION is the LOCAL and EXPLICIT since we have REDUCED the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT to EMPTINESS. “IT IS OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING DESIGN THAT HAS DONE THIS; i.e. IT IS OUR WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE THAT IS RELOCATING THE SOURCE OF AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS FROM THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM) TO THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT (MATERIAL BEINGS). THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENS THAT EASTERN CULTURE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (where the understanding is that the AUTHORING of actions and developments is of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT ORIGIN) is traded out for WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (where the understanding is that the AUTHORING of actions and developments is of LOCAL and EXPLICIT ORIGIN).
The REALITY IS NOT THAT SPACE IS EMPTY, which is the false notion that forces us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS to SHIFT THE SOURCE OF AUTHORING AGENCY WHICH IS, IN REALITY SITUATED WITHIN THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM (now an empty space) INTO THE ONLY POSSIBLE LOGICAL ALTERNATIVE WHICH IS THE LOCAL and EXPLICIT CONDENSATIONS, EVEN THOUGH CONDENSATIONS DO NOT HAVE A PRIMARY ONTOLOGICAL STATUS (they are only APPEARANCE based in the manner of WHORLINGS in FLOWING) where it is impossible to SCOOP OUT A WHORLING from the FLOWING since its SEEMING INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE is only APPEARANCE (Schroedinger’s Schaumkommen).
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS HAPPENING WITHIN OUR ARCHITECTING OF LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEMES, AND THERE IS A MAJOR ERROR BEING MADE IN OUR WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING DESIGN WHICH IS THE “DROPPING OUT” OF THE “FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE” AND THE SUBSTITUTING IN ITS PLACE OF AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE. NOTE THAT IN THE WORLD OF OUR SENSE EXPERIENCE, THERE IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL AMBIANCE BASED OVER-RIDE AS TO WHAT PLAYS OUT IN THE WORLD OF OUR SENSE-EXPERIENCE OF INCLUSION THEREIN; i.e. “There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.” –Brutus, in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE SHUTTING OUT THE FEMALE CONJUGATE!. HERE’S HOW THAT IS HAPPENING
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE: If you read and understand this AUTHOR’S PREFACE, you will understand where Rudyard Kipling’s poem EAST IS EAST and WEST is WEST and NEVER the TWAIN shall MEET, is coming from; i.e. from the EAST’S common use of less simple NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM (where one says things like “THERE IS TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein REALITY is grounded in FLOW). In this reality which contrasts with the WEST’S common use of simple BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (where one says things like “THE TOWN IS GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods”, wherein REALITY is grounded in BEING). The WESTERN CULTURE “MISTAKE” of giving THE FOUNDATIONAL ROLE in LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION to “BEING” HAS BEEN and PERSISTS IN BEING THE SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM in WESTERN CULTURE COMPREHENSION AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS. SUCH DYSFUNCTION does NOT DEVELOP within CULTURES whose LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING IS “FLOW” rather than “BEING” based.
The common DISTINGUISHING of “EAST” and “WEST” (and never the TWAIN shall MEET) is tied to these TWO VERY DIFFERENT EAST and WEST approaches to LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING, the former which is FLOW-BASED and the latter which is BEING-BASED, which is why “NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET”. As we know, the EAST’S indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta linguistic conceptualizing approaches (and also the Modern physics linguistic conceptualizing approach) lead to RESTORATIVE JUSTICE which is in marked contrast to the WEST’S Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christiantity and Islam which employ linguistic conceptualizing approaches that lead to PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE.
This DIVISION into TWO VERY DIFFERENT JUSTICE SYSTEMS is because, in the EASTERN FLOW-BASED scheme of things (as also in MODERN PHYSICS), THE ORIGIN OF EVENTS is understood to be NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT as with STRANDS IN A WEB, and as with CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM. BECAUSE of the PRESUMED INTERCONNECTION AND INTERDEPENDENCE of dynamics in the case of STRANDS IN A WEB and CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which is assumed, IN THE EAST, to COMMUNITIES OF PEOPLE, … the FULL COMMUNITY assumes responsibility for LOCALLY EMERGENT VIOLENCE (relational dissonance that, while NONLOCAL in origin, manifests in LOCAL, VIOLENT ERUPTIONS). In this case, where the ‘unrest’ is understood as coming from NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) TENSIONS in the inerconnected, interdependent SOCIAL MATRIX, the “HEALING CIRCLE” is used to resolve relational tensions that are manifesting in social dissonance so as to restore relational balance and harmony and thus SUBSUME the VIOLENT VENTING of tensional STRESS that is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT. CONTRASTINGLY, in the WESTERN BEING-BASED scheme of things, the understaning is that VIOLENT OUTBURSTS derive from LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS AUTHORED by MATERIAL BEINGS ACTING and INTERACTING in EMPTY SPACE, in which case the remedy for emergent VIOLENCE is to IDENTIFY and ELIMINATE or INCARCERATE the LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORS of VIOLENCE.
WHICH IS IT? THE EAST’S UNDERSTANDING OF VIOLENCE IS THAT OF CROWD (WEB) VIOLENCE THAT VENTS FROM STRANDS IN A WEB WHERE THE VIOLENT “VENTING” , WHILE “LOCAL AND EXPLICIT”, STEMS FROM TENSIONS THAT ARE OF A NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL ORIGIN) that BUILD WITHIN THE WEB. MEANWHILE, THE WEST’S UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, .. VIOLENCE IS THE EXPLOSIVE ENERGY THAT VENTS FROM INDEPENDENT BEINGS WHO ARE (THOUGHT TO BE) THE FULL AND SOLE AUTHORS OF THEIR OWN ACTIONS? (Let’s not forget Goedel’s Theorem of INCOMPLETENESS of all finite logical propositions, which means that, as Bohm points out, we can establish that John Wilkes Booth pulled the trigger that launched the bullet that killed Abraham Lincoln, the AUTHORING SOURCE in the relational understanding includes the influence coming from the invention of gunpowder and much more. What emerges as REALITY involves a matrix of many relationally interdependent contributing influences, particularly when we accept that HUMANS are NOT REALLY “INDEPENDENT BEINGS” but are more like STRANDS in a WEB or CONDENSATIONS in the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM where all things are INTERCONNECTED and INDEPENDENT.
So our UNDERSTANDING OF EVENTS is in general COMPLICATED by differences in opinion as to whether people are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as is the case with STRANDS IN A WEB) and/or CONDENSATIONS in a PLENUM in which case we are confronted with something akin to; … “the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies [strands] moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence” (As Isaac Newton put it; An exact solution for three bodies, exceeds, if I am not mistaken, the force of any human mind”). IT SHOULD BE NO SURPRISE, THEN, THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST, INCLUDING INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, HAVE OPTED FOR “RESTORATIVE JUSTICE” rather than WESTERN CULTURE STYLE “PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE” SINCE IN THE STRANDS IN THE WEB UNDERSTANDING IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH “AUTHORSHIP” OF AN ACTION IN LOCAL, EXPLICIT TERMS, which is Bohm’s point in using the example of Booth’s shooting of Lincoln, wherein the invention of gunpowder was an important contributor.
In fact, People ‘from the EAST’ tend to understand REALITY in terms of their being included in something GREATER THAN THEMSELVES so what they do and how they develop, they see as being inductively shaped by how the world opens up opportunities (or exposure to hardships) for them, in combination with how adept they are in meeting the emergent challenges or opportunities; e.g. In two weeks time there will be a low tide that will facilitate the collecting of oysters from Nanoose Bay. The REALITY that NATURE is the orchestrator of our DANCING FOR OUR SUPPER is NOT SUPERSEDED by our ability to formulate BEING based linguistic conceptualizations where PORTRAY ourselves as being the full and sole AUTHORS OF OUR OWN ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT. While it is TRUE that it was from our own volition that we collective oysters from Nanoose Bay, TRUTH is a SIMPLE LOGICAL STRUCTURE that, as in this example and as in general FAILS TO CAPTURE THE UNFOLDING REALITY wherein we waited two weeks for a LOW TIDE that was the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING that made facilitated my MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ‘fetching of oysters’ and, in fact, orchestrated my movements as with a PUPPET ON A STRING which is a crude way of acknowledging that WE ARE INCLUDED IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES that we don’t bother to mention in our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME which is thererore haunted by the DEA ABSCONDITA (Goddess in hiding). As Chief Seattle reminds us; 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.
People ‘from the WEST’ tend to put more emphasis on their (our) own personal actions and developments as supported by WESTERN CULTURE tendency to use one-sided male asserting/actualizing language where one says “We gathered oysters from Nanoose Bay”. This makes use of Goedel’s theorem of the incompleteness of all finite logical propositions, opening the door to this type of one-sided male-asserting/actualizing proposition which DROPS OUT ALL MENTION OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate (i.e. we could acknowledge that we are included in a dynamic world that is GREATER THAN US and that ‘there are tides in the affairs of men’ and if we wait for the low tide that will come in two weeks time, we will have easy access to the OYSTER BEDS’. If TRUTH be known, we are CONDENSATIONS that share inclusion in the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM.
NOTA BENE” BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM IS TOO SIMPLE A LOGIC TO SUPPORT THE UNDERSTANDINGS THAT COMES WITH THE LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDING MEDIUM: as is required for conceptualizing CONDENSATIONS in the energy-charged PLENUM and/or STRANDS in the WEB (wherein the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT AMBIENT INFLUENCES predominate over the LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTUALIZING AGENTS). BEWARE ARGUMENTS wherein PARTICIPANTS are mixing and matching SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM with LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM. As Bohm points out, the shooting of Abraham Lincoln could be blamed on the inventor of gunpowder and other developments within the unfolding continuum and not simply on James Wilkes Booth and his pistol in which case EASTERN CULTURE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE can be seen as more appropriate than WESTERN CULTURE PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (since there is no LOCAL, EXPLICIT IDENTIFIABLE AUTHOR (to PRAISE or BLAME) and the origins of BOTH VIOLENT/DISPERSIVE and AMIABLE/UNIFYING developments are NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT [relational]).
The thing to keep in mind is that WESTERN CULTURE IS MISTAKEN, as Nietzsche has pointed out, in its EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM (EMPTY SPACE BASED) BELIEF IN PERSISTING BEING which puts one at odds with UNDERSTANDING based on the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where the MATERIAL FORM (CONDENSATION) and the CONTAINING MEDIUM (ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM) ARE ONE COMPLEX (ANDROGENOUS) NONDUALITY. WESTERN CULTURE HAS BEEN MAKING A DOUBLE ERROR IN ITS LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING OF THIS ANDROGYNOUS REALITY; THE FIRST ERROR IS THE NOTIONAL SPLITTING INTO TWO SEPARATE PIECES OF THE ANDROGYNOUS NONDUALITY, as in PIAGET’S method of TEACHING which pervades WESTERN CULTURE. PIAGET SPLITS APART INTO TWO SEPARATE PIECES THE ANDROGYNOUS WAVE-FIELD, RETAINING AND USING THE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING CONJUGATE AS IF IT EXISTED IN ITS OWN RIGHT, and DISCARDING THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE AS IF IT EXISTED IN ITS OWN RIGHT, leaving us WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS with a NOTIONAL STAND-ALONE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AGENT THAT PURPORTEDLY EXISTS OUT OF THE CONTEXT OF ITS INNATE ANDROGYNOUS NATURE, … A MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AGENT THAT WESTERN CULTURE PROMOTES WITHIN ITS LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME AS IF IT WERE SOMETHING “REAL” THAT IS PURPORTED TO BE “OPERATIVE” WITHIN A NOTIONAL ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE. The ABSTRACT (UNREAL) BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM) COMBINATION of MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING AGENT AS IF WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE EXEMPLIFIES what has been termed THE DEA ABSCONDITA (GODDESS IN HIDING) since by infusing EMPTY SPACE in place of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, we ARTIFICIALLY PROMOTE the CONDENSATIONS which are in our SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY SECONDARY to the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, into PRIMARY AUTHORING AGENT STATUS.
This PROMOTING of the SECONDARY CONDENSATIONS of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM to PRIMARY AUTHORING AGENTS, which comes about by SUBSTITUTING EMPTY SPACE for the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, creates CONFUSION because while the REAL AUTHORING SOURCE IS A NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL) AUTHORING SOURCE (i.e. the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM), WESTERN CULTURE is SUBSTITUTING NOTIONAL LOCAL and EXPLICIT AUTHORING SOURCES for the purely APPEARANCE based CONDENSATIONS aka Schaumkommen
As Bohm makes clear; 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.”
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS have MISTAKENLY DEVELOPED A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING APPROACH THAT IS TURNING REALITY INSIDE-OUT, REDUCING THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT PLENUM WHICH IS THE “GROUND FOR THE EXISTENCE OF EVERYTHING, INCLUDING OURSELVES, to A POWERLESS EMPTINESS OF INFINITE EXTENT WHILE PROMOTING CONDENSATIONS, which are merely APPEARANCES in the same sense as WHORLINGS IN FLOWING which have NO LOCAL AUTHORING POWERS WHATSOEVER, TO PURPORTED LOCAL, EXPLICIT AUTHORING AGENTS.
The NOTIONAL TRANSFERRING OF AUTHORING AGENCY FROM THE NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING FLOWING) TO the LOCAL and EXPLICIT WHORLINGS IN THE FLOWING (WHICH APPEAR TO BE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING WHORLINGS) is a MISTAKEN INTERPRETATION that is elsewhere identified by Nietzsche as “THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR” which explains how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are using a linguistic conceptualizing scheme that INVERTS the NATURAL ORDER of THINGS by impliying that WHORLINGS (which are LOCAL and EXPLICIT) are the AUTHORING SOURCE OF FLOWING (which is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT [relational]). The REALITY is just the OPPOSITE; i.e. the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (FLOW) is the source of the LOCAL and EXPLICIT (WHORLING).
Thus, WESTERN CULTURE linguistic conceptualizing, is in effect REMOVING ALL MENTION OF THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which is the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT “GROUND FOR THE EXISTENCE OF EVERYTHING” … and SUBSTITUTING ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE, leaving us with the FALSE IMPRESSION that the CONDENSATIONS of the PLENUM, which are only APPEARANCES (Schaumkommen) ARE INSTEAD, LOCAL EXPLICIT MATERIAL BEING based ENTITIES moving about and interacting in an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE.
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE SHUTTING OUT THE FEMALE CONJUGATE! HERE’S HOW THAT IS HAPPENING.
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Consider these lines from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar;
“There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.”.
Or, this line from the Bible;
“To everything there is a season and a time to every purpoose”To everything there is a season and at time to every purpose”
In both cases, there is an acknowledgement that WE ARE INCLUDED IN SOMETHING GREATER THAN OURSELVES in which case our common use of the DOUBLE ERROR of NAMING and GRAMMAR where we speak in terms of THINGS having POWERS of LOCAL AUTHORING of ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS is MISLEADING. For example, I may say “I gathered oysters from Nanoose Bay” which, while TRUE, is subject to Goedel’s Theorem of the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL FINITE LOGICAL PROPOSITIONS. In this example, it may be that I had to wait two weeks for a low tide (female accommodating/enabling) to facility my (male asserting/actualizing) move, in which case it would be TRUE but INCOMPLETE for me to simply say “I gathered oysters from Nanoose Bay”. But when I simply state that “I did this or that”, it seems to imply “WITHIN AN ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE” because I make NO MENTION of having to contend with a complex FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING SITUATION where I have to JUMP THROUGH HOOPS to carry out my MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING dynamic.
So, the lines in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar make sense because emergent situations are constantly inducing changes in our asserting actions. As David Whyte says, “Ten years ago, I turned my face for a moment, and it became my life.” … from ‘the Heart Aroused’ by David Whyte. While we can keep a diary and document our actions, an account of WHAT WE HAVE DONE fails to capture the plethora of PATHS NOT TAKEN that would have been LIFE-CHANGING. The girl that winks at the boy may only wink once to see if there is fire in the connection as in “I turned my glance and it became my life”. THIS IS TELLING US THAT OUR LIVING EXPERIENCE, which is a continuing sequence of ENCOUNTERS, HAS AN ANDROGYNOUS (WAVE-LIKE) STRUCTURE WHEREIN FEMALE ACCCOMMODATING/ENABLING IS ON THE HUNT FOR A MATCH-UP WITH MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING, NOT SIMPLY ON A RANDOM BASIS BUT IN PURSUIT OF RESONANT CONNECTION
RESONANT CONNECTION is COMPLEX to the point of MYSTERIOUS and lies beyond the reach of Artificial Intelligence, yet it is FOUNDATIONAL to our LIFE EXPERIENCE.
THE RELATIONAL PLENUM TRANSFORMS, THERE ARE NO “THINGS-THAT-CHANGE”
0PREFACE: THE THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS: Because we, ourselves, are INCLUSIONS within the TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM, Nature equips us with THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS (as described by Erich Jantsch). WESTERN CULTURE has evolved a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME that common SUBSTITUTES for this THREE-WAY “NON-BINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM”, the TWO-WAY BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC of the EXCLUDED MEDIUM. One way to think of these THREE LEVELS of AWARENESS and how we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS use LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING to REDUCE the THREE LEVEL AWARENESS to TWO LEVEL AWARENESS is to think of HOW SOLAR IRRADIANCE (highest level 1) manifests in the Earth’s atmospheric dynamics. While the FIELD of INVISIBLE SOLAR IRRADIANCE IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT, it sitimulates TWO DIFFERENT types of VISIBLE BEHAVIOUR described in TERMS OF LOW PRESSURE ZONES (FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING INFLUENCES THAT PULL THINGS AROUND, and in terms of HIGH PRESSURE ZONES (MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING INFLUENCES that PUSH THINGS AROUND. Our WESTERN CULTURE MISTAKE is that we become DIVIDED into BINARY LOGIC based OPPOSING GROUPS, a CONSERVATIVE GROUP that supports LEVEL 3 AWARENESS, where the understanding is in terms that the WAY TO GET THINGS MOVING IS TO GIVE THINGS A PUSH. The SECOND, OPPOSING MEMBER OF THE BINARY LOGIC PAIR is the LIBERAL GROUP that supports LEVEL 2 AWARENESS that can be described by the understanding that the WAY TO GET THINGS MOVING IS TO SEDUCE or ENCOURAGE/INDUCE their active participation; i.e. a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING infuencing approach.
WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, because WE HAVE BECOME SO PRE-OCCUPIED WITH THE DIVISION AND ARGUMENT OVER WITHER “WHETHER WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE WORLD IS THE RESULT OF MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING (the CONSERVATIVE OPINION) OR FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (the LIBERAL OPINION), … LOST IN THE SHUFFLE IS THE LEVEL 1 AWARENESS OF THE NONLOCAL AND IMPLICIT INFLUENCE of ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMATION.
There is NO POINT in arguing over whether THE HURRICANE IS STIRRING UP THE ATMOSPHERE (the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING VIEW) of whether THE ATMOSPHERE IS STIRRING UP THE HURRIANE (the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING VIEW)… BECAUSE BOTH OF THOSE VIEWS ARE SECONDARY DEVELOPMENTS ARISING FROM THE PRIMARY AGENCY OF SOLAR IRRADIANCE WITH IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT and non-reducible to something LOCAL and EXPLICIT and AMBIGUOUS which brings forth UNRESOLVABLE ARGUMENTS such as “DO CONTINENTS DRIFT OR DOES THE SEAFLOOR SPREAD”. These TOO-SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC BASED OPPOSING PROPOSITIONS ARE THE RESULT OF USING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING BASED ON “BEING”. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “BEING” IN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (the WORLD that we share inclusion in).
“Nothing indeed has exercised a more simple power of persuasion hitherto than the error of Being, as it was formulated by the Eleatics for instance: in its favour are every word and every sentence that we utter!—Even the opponents of the Eleatics succumbed to the seductive powers of their concept of Being. Among others there was Democritus in his discovery of the atom. “Reason” in language!—oh what a deceptive old witch it has been! I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar.” –Friedrich Nietzsche, “Twilight of the Idols” (in the chapter “Reason in Philosophy”).
Where there is TRANSFORMATION, AUTHORING IS NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT rather than LOCAL and EXPLICIT
Once we introduce the ERROR OF BEING into our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, we have an ARTIFICIAL TOOL that supports LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING in terms of the LOCAL and EXPLICIT ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS of “BEINGS” which becomes the source of FRAGMENTATION in WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE AND THROUGHT. This is why David Bohm, and Zen scholar Alan Watts and many others have pointed out that WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS need to UPGRADE our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME from our popular but TOO SIMPLE MATERIAL OBJECT BASED (BINARY LOGIC BASED) SCHEME to a LESS SIMPLE FLUID (PURELY RELATIONAL) SCHEME which employs only VERBS and avoids all dependency on NOUNS since NOUNS imply BEING. (“BEING” serves as a foundation for UNREAL ABSTRACTIONS such as GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION, all of which imply BEING which OBSCURES the physical REALITY of TRANSFORMATION wherein, as Heraclitus affirmed, EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX.
This PREFACE is to REMIND THE READER that we have THREE LEVELS OF AWARENESS and that the HIGHEST LEVEL OF AWARENESS, LEVEL 1 AWARENESS, is the AWARENESS OF OUR INCLUSION IN THE ALL INCLUDING, CONTINUALLY TRANSFORMING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM, and that THIS HIGHEST LEVEL OF AWARENESS IS BLOCKED WHEN THE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME GIVES A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO “BEING”. For example, “THE TOWN IS GROWING” gives a foundational role to BEING which is INCOMPATIBLE WITH the understanding that “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE” wherein EVERYTHING IS IN INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT FLUX. Our SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMS that we are included within a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM wherein “TOWNING IS A RELATIONAL FEATURE WITHIN THE TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUUM” and there is NO SUCH THING AS A “TOWN” (THAT PURPORTEDLY GROWS AND DEVELOPS AS A “THING-IN-ITSELF”), and resides within a notional “ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE”.
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THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLICATIONS OF “DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE”
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PREFACE:
The reader of this essay, in order to understand it, must keep in mind that there are ISSUES with the LANGUAGE we are using. As David Bohm and others (Lev Vygotsky) have pointed out, the physical make-up of the world we are living in is based the BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM where the ALL-INCLUDING MEDIUM is an ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM within which there are CONDENSATIONS (things such as OURSELVES) where our relationship with the CONTAINING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM is like that of WHORLINGS in FLOWING, as given by NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC of the INCLUDING MEDIUM. While this is consistent with the OLD UNDERSTANDING that “TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE” which is a REMINDER that we SHARE INCLUSION IN A CONTAINER that is NOT EMPTY but FULL so that OUR ACTIONS ARE NOT SIMPLY OF OUR OWN AUTHORING, but derive from the ANDROGYNOUS combinaton of the currently ACCOMMODATING or DISACCOMMODATING PLENUM … AND… at the same time, FROM OUR OWN ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS. While we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are in in the EGO-INFLATING HABIT of claiming that we are the AUTHORS OF OUR OWN ACTIONS, such as FETCHING OYSTERS from Nanoose Bay, as if our POSTIVE MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING DYNAMIC of GATHERING OYSTERS is “THE FULL STORY”, the REALITY is that we will wait WEEKS for a LOW TIDE that opens up easier access to the Oyster beds. Here we see how our WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME employs the SIMPLIFICATION of DROPPING OUT MENTION of the PRIMACY of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATE (the ‘season’ that opense up opportunities for actions on our part, that we SPEAK ABOUT while DROPPING OUT MENTION of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING opporunity THAT IS A PRIMARY SHAPER OF OUR MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING DYNAMICS.
This WESTERN CULTURE HABIT of DROPPING OUT, in our LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME, ALL MENTION of the EVER-OPERATIVE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate to our MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING actions and developments (which is sometimes referred to as THE DEA ABSCONDITA or GODDESS-IN-HIDING), is EGO-INFLATING since it CREDITS MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING for actions that are PREDOMINANTLY INFLUENCED BY FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING). In WESTERN CULTURE, FULL RESPONSIBILITY is given to the AUTHOR OF A PUNCH that SHATTERS THE SKULL of the recipient, REGARDLESS of the fact that the recipient has an EGG-SHELL THIN SKULL. In WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE, this is referred to as “TAKING YOUR VICTIMS AS THE COME”. The point here is that WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING has a common habit of DROPPING OUT MENTION of the EVER-PRESENT and PRIMARY INFLUENCING ROLE of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING influence. INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES ARE FLOW-BASED, AS IS ALSO THE CASE IN MODERN PHYSICS, which means that everything is related (MITAKUYE OYASIN) and there is NO SUCH THING as ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ON ITS OWN; i.e. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS LOCAL AUTHORING because we are living within a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM and that is why MODERN PHYSICS supports the indigenous aboriginal understanding that JUSTICE must be RESTORATIVE since “THERE ARE NO LOCAL AUTHORS” of actions and developments. The person that is a STRAND IN THE WEB of the interconnecting and interdependent social collective, is a CONDUIT for VENTING tensions that build within the social collective AND IS NOT THE “LOCAL AUTHOR” of actions and developments.
THERE ARE NO LOCAL AUTHORS OF ANYTHING in the real world of our SENSE-EXPERIENCE of inclusion in the transforming relational continuum. All actions and developments are of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) ORIGIN. THIS IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS/BUDDHISTS and ADVAITA VEDANTA and it is SUPPORTED BY MODERN PHYSICS. This the foundation for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE which follows from the fact that the ORIGN OF EVENTS is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT while what APPEARS to be LOCAL and and EXPLICIT is, in Schroedinger’s terms, “Schaumkommen” (APPEARANCE)
The WESTERN CULTURE “CONDITIONED” READER may be SO ACCUSTOMED to using LANGUAGE that SUPPORTS the SIMPLIFYING LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME wherein the natural primacy of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING INFLUENCE of the PLENUM is DROPPED OUT, leading to a LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that is based ONE-SIDEDLY on MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING WITH “NO MENTION OF THE INNATE, NATURAL PRIMACY OF THE FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING conjugate. For example, while the FULL REALITY is that THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS are in the habit of using SIMPLIFICATION that DROPS OUT MENTON OF the natural primacy of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING (I.E. THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE) and PROMOTES the SECONDARY MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING conjugate TO A MISTAKEN PRIMARY STATUS.
THE COMMENTS IN THIS ESSAY ARE BASED ON THE FULL UNDERSTANDING (MODERN PHYSICS AFFIRMED) WHEREIN MATERIAL ENTITIES ARE CONDENSATIONS OF THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM which means that ALL CONDENSATIONS are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, CONSISTENT ALSO WITH INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE UNDERSTANDINGS AND WITH THEIR ‘STRANDS-IN-THE-WEB’ LANGUAGE STRUCTURE.
This means that WESTERN CULTURE LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING that presents ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS as LOCAL AUTHOR BASED is OVER-SIMPLISTIC, UNREAL, and THE SOURCE OF FRAGMENTATION and OBSCURANTISM (as affirmed by Bohm and by Modern physics in general). GLOBAL SOCIAL DYNAMICS involve INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE, making them NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL) and CANNOT BE REDUCED TO SIMPLE TERMS OF THE LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENTS ON THE PART OF “QUOTE/UNQUOTE” “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” or “INDEPENDENT INDIVIDUALS” (i.e. we are CONDENSATIONS in a world of INTERCONNECTION and INTERDEPENDENCE which is aptly captured in the indigenous aboriginal “STRANDS IN THE WEB” metaphor. Since there is NO SUCH THING AS “LOCAL AUTHORING” OF ACTIONS and DEVELOPMENTS, “JUSTICE” must be “RESTORATIVE” as in INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL, TAOIST/BUDDHIST and ADVAITA VEDANTA CULTURAL TRADITIONS rather than “PUNITIVE” (PURIFICATIONIST) AS IT IS IN WESTERN CULTURE.
Wikipedia Note: Indigenous aboriginal, Taoist/Buddhist and Advaita Vedanta cultures and traditions align far more closely with restorative justice (focused on healing, interconnectedness, and repairing harm) than with strictly retributive or “purificationist” justice (which relies on exclusion, punishment, or ritual cleansing). [EML note: This difference in conceptualizing JUSTICE is due to the understanding that emergent actions and developments are of NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational) origin [EASTERN view] rather than being of LOCAL and EXPLICIT origin [WESTERN view])
The CONFLICT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES (CHRISTIAN BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC BASED UNDERSTANDING IN TERMS OF INDEPENDENT NATIONS THAT ARE THE LOCAL AUTHORS of ACTIONS THAT ARE DEEMED EITHER GOOD OR BAD) … AND…. IRAN (ISLAMIC BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC BASED UNDERSTANDING IN TERMS OF INDEPENDENT NATIONS THAT ARE THE LOCAL AUTHORS OF ACTIONS that are DEEMED EITHER GOOD OR BAD)…. IS MISUNDERSTANDING THAT IS BLIND to the REALITY of NATIONING (AS VERBS, NOT NOUNS) WHICH ARE INCLUSIONS (CONDENSATIONS) in an ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM (THE ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM) which AFFIRMS the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (RELATIONAL) ORIGIN OF THEIR (AND ALL) DYNAMICS. This calls for RESTORATIVE JUSTICE (due to NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT origin of events) rather than PURIFICATIONIST JUSTICE (based on LOCAL and EXPLICIT AUTHORING).
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF MODERN PHYSICS THAT IMPACT THE UNDERSTANDINGS SHARED IN THIS ESSAY:
CONSIDER the fact that indigenous aboriginals ceremoniously CROSS THE U.S.- CANADIAN BORDER WITHOUT “STOPPING AND CHECKING IN WITH CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION” TO DEMONSTRATE their belief in the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things (CONSISTENT WITH MODERN PHYSICS WHEREIN MATERIAL FORMS ARE CONDENSATIONS OF THE ALL-INCLUDING ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM).
The indigenous people ARE CORRECT IN THEIR STATEMENT SUPPORTING THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND INTERDEPENDENCE OF ALL THINGS, … or in other words, … THEY ARE CORRECT IN THEIR UNDERSTANDING THAT WE ALL SHARE INCLUSION IN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM WHEREIN “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” (as captured by “MITAKUYE OYASIN”).
WESTERN CULTURE “IMAGINARY LINE BASED DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE” create the ABSTRACTION of LOCAL, EXPLICIT BEING based ENTITIES such as “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” which is a GREAT MISTAKE that gives WESTERN CULTURE SOCIAL COLLECTIVES THE IMPLIED “RIGHT” TO “DO THEIR OWN THING” AS IF “THEY REALLY WERE INDEPENDENT” by way of simply “DECLARING THEIR INDEPENDENCE”. This ELEVATING OF TRUST IN LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATIONS (such as DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE) so that they TRUMP the understanding coming from our SENSE-EXPERIENCE, US SUSTAINED BY NOTHING OTHER THAN EGOTISTICAL PRIDE TIED TO THE IMAGINARY “BEING” CALLED THE “INDEPENDENT NATION” that is a purely IMAGINARY LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZATION SUPPORTED BY COLLECTIVE COMMITMENT. This COMMITMENT is based on SECURING THE RIGHTS TO OWNERSHIP OF LAND BY SIMPLE STAKING OUT AN AREA OF LAND AND BACKING UP THE NOTIONAL “OWNERSHIP” OF THE STAKED-OUT AREA WITH MILITARY FORCE.
Indigenous aboriginals are CORRECT in CALLING OUT THE BULLSHIT NATURE OF WESTERN CULTURE IMAGINARY LINE BASED DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE, but the PERSISTENCE of this CLAIM, RATHER THAN BEING BASED ON SENSE-EXPERIENCE, is BASED ON INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION BACKED UP BY MILITARY MIGHT, which has opened up game-play that can be likened to MUSICAL CHAIRS where the DANCE of MILITARY EMPOWERMENT DETERMINES the PURPORTED “BEING” of the “INDEPENDENT NATION”. For example, consider this HISTORY OF POLAND The Changing Borders of Poland’.
The CHANGING BORDER OF POLAND is exemplary of how WESTERN CULTURE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE UNNATURAL CONDITION “INDEPENDENCE” IMPOSED ON A WORLD THAT IS NATURALLY INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT (as our SENSE-EXPERIENCE informs us, RIVERS and WINDS and all REAL PHYSICAL DYNAMICS are NOT GOVERNED BY INTERLLECTUAL AGREEMENTS BASED ON IMAGINARY LINE BOUNDARIES. That is, The Changing Borders of Poland’ provides a historical account of MILITARY ACTIONS used to BACK UP CLAIMS OF “OWNERSHIP” OF AN IMAGINARY LINE BASED “PIECE OF PROPERTY” that is, IN SENSE-EXPERIENCE REALITY (which is where the indigenous aboriginals are “coming from”) FULLY INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT with the NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM. THAT IS THE REAL (SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED) “REALITY” while the POSTULATED DIVISION INTO “INDEPENDENT PARCELS OF LAND” CALLED “INDEPENDENT NATIONS” is ABSTRACTION BASED ON “NOTHING OTHER” THAN INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION BACKED UP BY MILIATARY POWER.
The READER may be thinking that to QUESTION this FIRMLY ESTABLISHED AND GLOBALLY IMPLEMENTED PRACTICE, whether or NOT, it ‘makes sense’, is FUTILE because this PRACTICE OF BELIEVING IN INDEPENDENT NATIONS is now LOCKED IN BY IMMENSE “SWITCHING COSTS” (i.e.the human INVESTMENT in this approach, achieved and maintained SIMPLY by MILITARY FORCE IN SPITE OF THE CONFLICTS IT SOURCES such as “SUBOPTIMIZATION”. The “SYSTEMS SCIENCES” thinkers have used the phrase “THE NAME OF THE DEVIL IS SUBOPTIMIZATION” to point out that WE ARE CRAZY to pursue actions that FALSELY ASSUME THE INDEPENDENCE OF NATIONS WHICH ARE, IN REALITY, INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT as is everything in this world of continuing TRANSFORMATION.
WESTERN CULTURE is a BREEDER of “SUBOPTIMIZATION” based on DECLARATIONS OF INDEPENDENCE which FLY IN THE FACE of the PHYSICAL REALITY wherein EVERYTHING is INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT as captured in the indigenous aboriginal aphorism “MITAKUYE OYASIN” (“everything is related”) which means that “SUBOPTIMIZATION IS A DISASTER” because it is based on THE UNREAL INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION OF (DECLARED) “INDEPENDENCE” of INDIVIDUALS and NATIONS which are “INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT CONDENSATIONS WITHIN ONE, ALL INCLUDING ENERGY CHARGED PLENUM. THE PLENUM IS THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ALL OF THE CONDENSATIONS THAT DEVELOP EITHIN IT. 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).
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WHO IS IN CHARGE OF OVERSEEING THE CORRECTNESS OF THE LANGUAGE WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING?
0WHO IS IN CHARGE OF OVERSEEING THE CORRECTNESS OF THE LANGUAGE WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE USING?
WHOEVER IT IS, I HAVE A COMPLAINT: because WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS ARE BEING STUCK WITH A “TOO-SIMPLE AND UNREALISTIC” BEING-BASED LANGUAGE WHILE INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS AND MODERN PHYSICS USERS “LUCKED OUT” WITH THEIR POPULARIZED USE OF “LESS SIMPLE AND MORE REALISTIC” VERB-BASED LANGUAGE which addresses the fact that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX (as Heraclitus correctly observed and Modern physics has affirmed)..
WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS, BECAUSE OF OUR TOO SIMPLE “BEING-BASED LANGUAGE” ARE CONFRONTED WITH THE ISSUE THAT HERACLITUS ADDRESSED BUT WHICH WESTERN CULTURE, BY FOLLOWING THE SIMPLIFIED “BEING-BASED LANGUAGE” DESIGN OF PARMENIDES, CONTINUES TO SCREW-UPON. THE FACT IS THAT IT IS A SCREW-UP TO GIVE A FOUNDATIONAL ROLE TO “BEING” IN LANGUAGE DESIGN BECAUSE, FOR EXAMPLE, BY ASSIGNING THE “BEING-BASED” NAMES “MOUNTAIN AND VALLEY” to those familiar features, rather than going with VERBS such as MOUNTAINING and VALLEYING, WE OPEN THE DOOR TO STATEMENTS SUCH AS “THE AVALANCHE CRASHED DOWN THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN AND CAME TO REST IN THE VALLEY BELOW”, … THUS OPENING THE CAN OF WORMS THAT “THE MOUNTAIN IS NO LONGER THE SAME MOUNTAIN AND THE VALLEY IS NO LONGER THE SAME VALLEY”.
We recognize in this, Heraclitus’ “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” observation; “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
EVERY TIME WE WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS USE INCOMPLETE-BECAUSE BEING-BASED LANGUAGE SUCH AS “THE AVALANCHE CRASHED DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE”, we are INTRODUCING THE CONFUSION that comes with the INCOMPLETENESS OF ALL MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING PROPOSITIONS WHICH ARE LACKING FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATES. There is INCOMPLETENESS in that WHILE OUR POSITIVE (ONE-SIDED MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING) PROPOSITION MAY BE LOGICALLY “TRUE”, it is at the same time “INCOMPLETE”, (and therefore UNREAL) because it is IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE AN AVALANCHE CRASHING DOWN THE MOUNTAINSIDE AND LODGING IN THE VALLEY WITHOUT LEAVING A HOLE IN THE MOUNTAINSIDE SUCH THAT “THE MOUNTAIN IS NO LONGER THE SAME MOUNTAIN” and SUCH THAT “the VALLEY IS NO LONGER THE SAME VALLEY”. The REALITY is that the LANDSCAPE IS UNDERGOING TRANSFORMATION constituted by a ZERO-SUM GAME of CONJUGATE GIVING and RECEIVING of material.
As Zen scholar Alan Watts has pointed out, there is a problem here, in WESTERN CULTURE, in giving a foundational role to NAMES that imply BEING rather than VERBS that imply FLOWING and thus GIVE DIRECT SUPPORT TO TRANSFORMATION as in the languages of indigenous aborginal cultures. In FLOW-BASED LANGUAGES, by saying “THERE IS TOWNING IN THE TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”, we acknowledge that EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX
[My removing references to Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem].
NOTE: My philosophical investigations are coming from a WAVE-DYNAMICAL PERSPECTIVE and I have habitually tied Goedel’s theorem of incompleteness to the incompleteness in our WESTERN CULTURE LANGUAGE in our dropping out of the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING wave conjugate and our use of the MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING “ON ITS OWN” even through the WAVE-FIELD VIEW of the world would have us understand that there is always a FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING that comes together with MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING. For example, if the TOWN authors its own GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT and PRODUCTION (which are MALE ASSERTING/ACTUALIZING ‘conjugates’, which are always, in sense-experience reality, tied up with the FEMALE ACCOMMODATING/ENABLING CONJUGATES such as the SHRINKING of wilderness, the DECLINE of prior DEVELOPMENT, and the CONSUMPTION of that which has been previously PRODUCED. [My removing of references to Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorem is because it is not needed and it may confuse the main train of thought rather than to add support.
BY USING A “BEING” BASED LANGUAGE IN A REALITY WHEREIN EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX, WE ARE INTRODUCING WHAT NIETZSCHE CALLS “THE DOUBLE ERROR OF NAMING AND GRAMMAR” which SIMULATES “UNREAL LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTION AND DEVELOPMENT” in a world where our SENSE-EXPERIENCE IS INFORMING US THAT EVERYTHING IS INCONTINUING FLUX SO THAT IT IS A MISTAKE TO DESIGN OUR LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME WITH “THE BUILT-IN LOCAL AUTHORING FALSEHOOD”. WE ARE LIVING WITHIN AN ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM WHEREIN “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” WHEREIN…. THERE IS NO “LOCAL AUTHORING OF ACTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT”.
THAT WE LIVE WITHIN A TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM IS THE UNDERSTANDING OF MODEN PHYSICS and OF INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS, TAOISTS AND ADVAITA VEDANTA ADHERENTS, …. BUT, FOR US WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS,…WE HAVE CHOSEN TO DEVELOP A LINGUISTIC CONCEPTUALIZING SCHEME THAT SIMPLIFIES AND REDUCES OUR REAL SENSE-EXPERIENCE AFFIRMED REALITY, … TO AN UNREAL INTELLECTUAL ABSTRACTION BASED PSEUDO-REALITY GROUNDED IN THE BINARY LOGIC BASED CONCEPT OF “BEING” THAT SUPPORTS THE BOGUS CONCEPT OF “LOCAL AUTHORING” WHICH WE USE TO CREATE A “FRAGMENTED, BEING-BASED PSEUDO-REALITY”, A BOGUS PSEUDO-REALITY THAT HAS “TAKEN OVER” AND IS NOW SHAPING WESTERN CULTURE IMPRESSIONS OF WHAT WE PURPORT TO BE “REALITY” WHICH IS “NOT REALITY” BUT A FRAGMENTATION BASED SUBSTITUTE PSEUDO-REALITY.
The TEN COMMANDMENTS VERSUS RESTORATIVE JUSTICE
0WESTERN CULTURE HAS A TRADITIONAL ‘ADDICTION’ TO SIMPLE BINARY LOGIC, the EITHER/OR LOGIC of the “EXCLUDED MEDIUM” wherein actions are EITHER RIGHT OR WRONG in which case WESTERN CULTURE JUSTICE is PURIFICATIONIST (i.e. oriented to the ELIMINATION of ALL BEHAVIOURS THAT ARE “WRONG” through the practice of REWARDING and CELEBRATING THOSE WITH “GOOD BEHAVIOURS” and PUNISHING and “DENIGRATING” THOSE WITH BAD BEHAVIOURS.
EASTERN CULTURE and INDIGENOUS ABORIGINALS HAVE A TRADITIONAL ORIENTATION TO LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDED MEDIUM wherein the UNDERSTANDING OF “WHAT AN ACTION IS” DIFFERS FROM WESTERN CULTURE EXCLUDED MEDIUM because of the understanding (AFFIRMED BY MODERN PHYSICS) that EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT. There is a BIG DIFFERENCE HERE in that the UNDERSTANDING is that the ORIGIN of all events is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational), deriving from the SOCIAL COLLECTIVE and merely MANIFESTING THROUGH an individual seen as a STRAND in the INTERCONNECTING/INTERDEPENDENT WEB. This agrees with MODERN PHYSICS where material forms are CONDENSATIONS of the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM wherein there is the same (STRAND IN THE WEB type) INTERDEPENDENCE and INTERCONNECTION between the dynamics of the CONDENSATIONS and the dynamics of the ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM.
MODERN PHYSICS ”SUPPORTS” THE LESS SIMPLE NONBINARY BOTH/AND LOGIC OF THE INCLUDED MEDIUM e.g. “There is TOWNING in the TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE”
MODERN PHYSICS “DOES NOT SUPPORT” THE TOO-SIMPLE BINARY EITHER/OR LOGIC OF THE EXCLUDED MEDIUM e.g. “The TOWN is GROWING, DEVELOPING and PRODUCING goods” as if within an ABSOLUTE EMPTY AND INFINITE SPACE
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NOTA BENE: In the MODERN PHYSICS understanding of dynamics, EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED AND INTERDEPENDENT AS WITH STRANDS IN A WEB (condensations within the PLENUM) and that is why MODERN PHYSICS supports indigenous aboriginal RESTORATIVE JUSTICE because the AUTHORING AGENCY is NONLOCAL and IMPLICIT (relational). Imagine the multiple participants in a WATER BALLET simulating the opening of a LOTUS BLOSSOM. The authoring source that determines the quality of the opening blossom is the GROUP and there is no FIXED, ABSOLUTE REFERENCE FRAME with which to make JUDGEMENTS ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS. ONLY THE GROUP CAN BE JUDGED which is the situation that gives rise to RESTORATIVE JUSTICE.
In physics, it is impossible to isolate and measure each individual’s movements in a group of THREE OR MORE participants who are using one another as references. This is known as ‘the THREE BODY PROBLEM’; i.e. “the impossibility of calculating the individual movements of three or more bodies [strands] moving under one-another’s simultaneous mutual influence”.
Migrating From BEING-based to TRANSFORMATION-based Language
0hi X
re our brief discussion on ‘what I am working on’, here is a ‘bit’ more of an explanation.
We live in a world that is continually TRANSFORMING and it makes sense to devise a LANGUAGE to share our experiences in it, that is capable of dealing with TRANSFORMATION and that is what the indigenous aboriginals did and when they talk in terms of STRANDS IN A WEB, they are capturing the INTERCONNECTIONS and INTERDEPENDENCIES that are an innate aspect of the ALL-INCLUDING TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM that we share inclusion in. As Zen scholar Alan Watts has pointed out, we WESTERN CULTURE ADHERENTS made a big mistake by giving the abstration of “BEING” a foundational role in our LANGUAGE based conceptualizing scheme. For example we are stuck with saying things like ‘The avalanche crashed down the mountainside and spilled into the valley below’. FINE, except that THE MOUNTAIN IS NO LONGER THE SAME MOUNTAIN WHEN THE AVALANCHE MATERIAL BREAKS OFF, and THE VALLEY IS NO LONGER THE SAME VALLEY as it fills up with AVALANCHE DEBRIS. The REALITY is, as Heraclitus rightly said, “EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX” because we are living in a TRANSFORMING RELATIONAL CONTINUUM.
WHAT IS THE PROBLEM WITH OUR LANGUAGE HERE? As Zen scholar Alan Watts points out (and many others), it is not wise to use a language design that gives a foundational role to “BEING” when the world we are trying to capture with such language is a TRANSFORMING WORLD WHERE EVERYTHING IS IN CONTINUAL FLUX. This is the problem that those working on Modern physics RAN INTO in their documenting of their philosophical investigations. For example, David Bohm, author of the 1980 classic Physics text “Wholeness and the Implicate Order”) observed the following, as cited by his associate F. David Peat;
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’
So, we are living in a world where EVERYTHING IS IN FLUX and where “THINGS” including people, are “CONDENSATIONS of the all-including ENERGY-CHARGED PLENUM aka WAVE-FIELD” in which case these CONDENSATIONS are INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT, a reality that indigenous aboriginals capture in their flow-based language as follows, and I will juxtapose this with the Modern physics understanding to highlight the common understanding that we are included condensations in an energy-charged PLENUM in which case everyone is in some way INTERCONNECTED and INTERDEPENDENT;
MODERN PHYSICS: 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 CONDENSATION of the PLENUM is “BOTH” itself “AND” the PLENUM it is included in]
INDIGENOUS ABORIGINAL CULTURE: 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)
Exceptionally Performing Teams
0My own (company sponsored) research into ‘exceptionally performing teams’ exposed how BALANCE is the NATURAL substitute for TITLE-based organizational structure. The following is a summary of the TEAM research findings;
In about 1993, I maneuvered my way, in my work, to undertake a study of ‘exceptionally performing teams’. I had been asked to develop a workshop for producing managers [within a petroleum exploration and production operational setting] on ‘how better to invest in ‘information technology’. My idea was to explore exceptional team operations, to see how they were ‘drawing in technology’ into their operations, so that the investigation didn’t have to start from the various current strains of technology and specify ‘how these should be used’.
A lot of things fell out of this investigation, and a successful workshop was developed, which was run two or three times prior to truncation by a major company re-organization. But there was an important ‘philosophical finding’ that I was left ‘holding in my hands’, that needed to ‘go somewhere’, to be communicated and then more deeply understood, but I did not know where to take it, or exactly how to share it, since it was very subtle.
My early ‘retirement’ in March 1, 1996, was strongly influenced by my desire to ‘work on’ a continuing investigation into this ‘philosophical finding’ and developing ways to generally share it. One place I took it was to ‘Complexity’, the Journal of the Santa Fe Institute which was a new ‘university’ orienting to the ‘sciences of complexity’. This institute was created by scientists-philosophers who felt that universities were pre-occupied with ‘linear theory’ and that ‘nonlinear dynamics’ was being largely ignored.
This seemed like a very appropriate ‘home’ for my ‘orphaned’ philosophical finding and I tried to capture it in an essay entitled ‘Complexity and the ‘Learning Organization‘: Addressing team performance in new science terms’. The ‘new science’ referred to modern physics, relativity and quantum physics, which opened the door to ‘re-connecting’ the ‘team’ and the ‘environment’ that it was situationally included in, in the manner of [and this came to my attention later] Mach’s principle; “The dynamics of the inhabitants are conditioning the dynamics of the habitat at the same time as the dynamics of the habitat are conditioning the dynamics of the inhabitants.”
That is, the ‘orphaned philosophical finding’ I was left ‘holding in my hands’ was that the ‘identity’ of the exceptionally performing team ‘blurred’ by virtue of its building resonance into its interfacing with the world [with its host community; its suppliers, customers, service contractors, employee families etc.].
The orthodox ‘best practice teams’ were more like precision engines, ‘things-in-themselves’ with clear stand-alone identities and well defined component parts [employee roles] while the three teams that were identified as ‘exceptionally performing’ that we [myself and a colleague] ended up ‘investigating’ were distinguished by BREAKING ALL THE RULES, having thrown away their business cards [abandoned their defined credentials and position descriptions; i.e. their TITLES] and put the organization chart in the blender [The largest of the three teams, ‘team X’, was comprised of 150 members and used an unused aircraft hanger to have their ‘general assemblies’] . They had also blurred the interfacing between their ‘self’ and the ‘others’ they were engaging with, dragging portions of the activities of the others inside of their team operations and letting part of their own activities be drawn into the operations of the others. This was an operation in which everyone’s spirits soared. In fact, one of the hourly union workers who was made a full member of the team like everyone, extolled the process saying how happy he was to work in this team-X environment since it had ‘put his head back on his shoulders’.
[To put this person’s comment into context, hourly workers in typical operating situations are simply ‘told what to do’ and are not privy to what the operations are all about much less the business, and in team-X’s reinventing of itself, everyone was given instruction in all aspects of the operation, including the financial/business aspects, and union workers found themselves sitting beside engineers after hours, on their own hook, watching the vital statistics of the operation on computer monitors and using their on-site knowledge to kibitz on how to solve performance problems and devise performance improvements].
So the philosophical problem was at the same time a quasi-mathematical problem. As always, headquarters management scrutinized the production of all of the teams, giving rise to a ‘system performance’ curve as a function of ‘time’. This curve was outstanding in the case of the team under study, and seemed to be almost doubling the performance of the best ‘normal’ teams. Headquarters management, far from the teams themselves, were ecstatic and naturally wanted to promote the members of the team most responsible for this remarkably high production, and clone the team.
The members of the exceptional team realized that HQ management was ‘getting it wrong’, the high performance was not coming from them, the team components/members in the sense of the team as a ‘thing-in-itself’ with its own locally originating, internal process driven and directed ‘production’, … the exceptional performance was coming from the team’s deliberate attempt to be defined more from the outside-inward, by the needs of those they were engaging with. They were moving away from being locally defined; i.e. they were moving towards letting the defining of the team = ‘the universe expressing itself’, in the sense that the web of relational engaging they were included in was influencing them outside-inwardly at the same time they were influencing the relational web inside-outwardly [Mach’s principle].
What ‘the numbers said’ was clear in a historical graph of production. The production of ‘team X’ had climbed up to where it was doubling the performance. Even after describing the ‘complex source’ of this rising production, headquarters management regressed to the view that the rise in production had to be attributed to ‘improvements in the team’; i.e. improved skills and commitment of the team members, improved cooperation, teamwork, synergy within the team, improved leadership in the team. In other words, the increase in production, they attributed to the team seen as a ‘thing-in-itself’ with its own locally originating, internal components and processes driven and directed productive behaviour.
Headquarters’ management selected those team members who most impressed them, promoted them and transferred them to other operations so as to ‘clone’ this high performing ‘team X’. But it didn’t happen. It turned out that it had been a rare exception in team X’s middle management having let team X ‘break all the rules’ and blur their positional role plays within the team and blur the boundaries where the team operations ended and the supplier, customer, service contractor operations began. The middle management in the case of team-X not only provided this umbrella protection beneath which team X was breaking all the rules of engagement, but in their [middle management’s] interfacing with headquarters management, they translated everything arising in the new mode of team play into the orthodox format thus presenting a continuous picture of what was going [in the usual numbers based format]. Team X could not be cloned because such umbrella protection and translation was a rare item and it had been a necessary prerequisite to what had been the spontaneous emergence of the exceptionally performing ‘team X’.
The philosophical problem I was left holding on to was;
‘how does one explain that the source of ‘local’, ‘visible’, ‘material’ physical results derives from purely relational dynamics; i.e. from influences that are ‘non-local’, ‘non-visible’ and ‘non-material’ as seemed to be the case with ‘team X’?
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