EVE REVERE: The YIN MIND – ‘The Eternal and Ephemeral’

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Whether it was Wallace or Darwin who was first,

they both learned:

species adapt to their environment.

 

Wallace found insects, beetles,

that had differences of form

on two sides of a river.

Darwin found that isolating factors

caused species to adapt:

islands, mountain ranges, rivers,

they all supplied isolating factors.

 

However, beyond the isolating factors of nature,

there are self imposed isolating factors i.e.

1. the belief in free-standing existence,
2. the belief in particles, versus transitive patterns of energy.
3. the belief in the possibility of objectivity.

These are self imposed

and culturally propagated

isolation factors.

 

Subsequently, we adapt to these isolating conditions:

we compete and we conflict

for energy.

We believe in the necessity

of toughness, of forcefulness and of conflict.

We believe in the survival of the fittest

and we have a particular definition for fitness.

 

There is an alternative!

 

We can abandon the control dramas

that fill our lives.

We can abandon intimidation, interrogation

aloofness and pathos.

We can see and we can undertake:

beliefs and practices

that assume connectedness,

wholeness, integrity, unity and oneness.

Connectedness implies and infers

a flow of consequences.

 

Some belief systems attempt to have authority

over the flow of consequences.

The continuation of an open life-style

is implied and is inferred as derived

from communication, from combining efforts,

from cooperation and from coordination,

the fruits of aligning one’s beliefs

with the connectedness of all.

 

Now, we use control dramas

to treat loneliness, separation,

alienation and isolation.

The pathetic seek to be controlled and to be dominated.

The aloof seek sympathetic interest

in overwhelming proportions.

The interrogator seeks to break

the stand-off of aloofness.

The intimidator seeks to gain energy

from the pathetic.

 

We adapt to the environment

of assumptions and beliefs.

Our culture is saturated

with those adapting means.

We see examples

of those who successfully gain

energy to furnish their

separated, isolated and even alienated selves.

We conform to the practices of these control dramas

and we regard our conformity as a necessity.

 

We don’t explore

the derivation of energy

from system gains.

We don’t explore

openness, connectedness,

an acknowledgement of our dependence

upon nature

and upon one another.

We don’t explore

the abandonment of our being

in free-standing existence.

 

We perpetuate our belief

in free-standing existence

as a kind of necessary simplification

a simplification by arbitrary elimination.

We assume the appearance of things

to be sufficient to explain

the nature of existence,

the high virtue of physical reality.

 

We need scheme enlargement.

 

Order is shown:

1. in uniformity and in regularity
2. in uniqueness and in complementarity.

In regular geometry

spheres have the lowest surface to volume ratio,

tetrahedrons have the highest surface to volume ratio.

 

The Platonic solids

deploy the sequence:

sphere, icosahedron, dodecahedron,

octahedron, hexahedron (cube) and tetrahedron.

These Platonic solids nest

one within the other.

 

Three properties determine surface to volume ratios:

1. scale,
2. geometry,
3. asymmetries.

Energy flows, hesitates and continues its motion

towards, to, into, within, through, out of and from

every form or every entity,

every charge or every charge fraction (quarks).

Charges are energy containing and energy conveying forms.

Everything in nature

shows continuous change,

at varying ratios.

Rocks are the longest lasting, slowest forms.

Living cells are the most ephemeral, transitory and impermanent.

 

We regard concrete and steel,

marble and travertine as virtuous

because of their durability.

However, seeds and their emergent forms,

in cycles, outlast the adamant substances and forms,

and they evolve.

 

2010, ECOhealth / Eve Revere

Orig.: October 26th, 2010

Edit: November 9th, 2010

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