The YIN MIND

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To attempt to isolate and to define,

which is a basic method of scientific experimentation,

is to simplify, by elimination,

to disconnect,

to remove from its context.

 

It doesn’t matter

what it is that is isolated and defined,

the process, the method, the experiment,

is counter-evolutionary.

 

The method of isolation and definition is employed

in the pursuit of knowledge.

 

What is affected, as a yield,

is not knowledge,

but fragmentation, separation, isolation and alienation

of the experimental set

of substances and of forms.

 

We need to be asking different questions,

different kinds of questions.

 

Of what is this a part?,

not, what are its parts?

 

We do not know more

about the nature of water

by learning it is constituted

of two (2) atoms of hydrogen

and one (1) atom of oxygen.

 

Admittedly, we know how to break the water down

into its member atoms.

 

However, we do not understand:

water’s solvency,

water’s states,

water’s function, chemically,

water’s essential role, in life and in living processes.

 

We may learn the bonding angle of 104^o 31’

between the hydrogen and the oxygen atoms.

 

We may learn of water’s dipole moment arm

(the distance over which its charge forces operate).

 

Water is truly a wonderous molecule

Water is an agent.

Water is a medium.

Water is a fluid, at room temperature and above.

 

However, this is not a discussion of water.

 

This is a discussion of counter-evolutionary forces.

 

These counter-evolutionary forces

are related to order and to disorder.

 

Order is a property

of aggregations

of associations

of affiliations and

of alliances.

How connected and how related

are the subjects or the objects

in a set?

What is the system gain

derived from the kinds and the degrees

of connectedness and relatedness?

Any time and every time

that we diminish

the connectedness and the relatedness

of the members of a set,

we yield some kind and some degree of disorder.

 

Any time and every time

that we increase

the connectedness and the relatedness

of the members of a set,

we yield some kind and some degree of order.

So, we need to see

that isolation, separation and alienation

are sources of disorder,

connectedness and relatedness is diminished.

 

On these pages,

in these paragraphs,

within these sentences,

words are combined.

 

The more connected and the more related

these combined words are,

the greater the meaning

and the greater the significance of the words.

We do not improve or increase

the meaning or the significance of the set of words

by knowing the number of pages,

the number of paragraphs,

or the number of sentences in a document.

 

A word count only provides an indication

of the kind and the amount of attention

that may be required to read the words.

 

The words might not be well related or well connected.

 

Most printed documents

do not use a line

to indicate a kind or a degree

of connectedness or of relatedness in a set of words.

Most printed documents

only use lines

to indicate an expiration of the amount of room

on the particular line.

The format of printing, herein,

attempts to improve

the meaning containing and the meaning conveying

functions of the document.

 

The writings and the publishing traits

of this author and this publisher

combine to improve

the eye tracking,

the comprehension and the retention

of the meaning contained herein.

This format is evolutionary.

 

The universe, the reality

have natural processes

that prompt evolution.

 

We are surrounded by relentless evolution.

 

We need to learn to admire it,

to appreciate it, to uphold it,

and to abstain from delaying it

or preventing it.

 

Can we, somehow,

diminish the counter-evolutionary forces

of disorder?

 

Can we increase the connectedness and the relatedness

of every thought, of every imaginative process

and of every act?

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© 2011, ECOhealth / Eve Revere

Original: May 18th, 2011

Edit: May 18th, 2012

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