Living within Our War on Nature
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We ask here: Which world do we live in? Do we inhabit the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-anima-soul, soma-corpus-body) of Nature? Or do we only inhabit physical sub-corporeal worlds, in which only measurements count? Many people believe, in their lives and work, that only economic growth counts. Thus, in legally authorised and socially myopic duties, at local, national, and global scales, their attention is on maximising short-term profits and long-term economic wealth in various heartless operations within Business-As-Usual. Consequently, in various inattentive ways, many marginalise and externalise coldly the health of people and planet (air, waters, soils, plants, and animals) from their immediate concerns and future considerations. Thus, many of us fail to live Heart-Centred lives, failing to truly LOVE familiar and unfamiliar people, and failing to fully engage with the thriving of life on our precious planet. So, ALL OF US are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen). Let us go much deeper here in our inquiries: Why are we cascading so madly with various interacting ecological and social crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It)?
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Succumbing to Our Collective Suicide Pacts in Business-As-Usual's Intensifying Relentless Wars on Nature and Others; Attuning to Whole-Hearted Thriveability in Our Climate Solidarity Pacts for All Living Beings on Our One Shared Planet
With the release of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, scientists have delivered their ‘final warning’ on the climate crisis: act now or it’s too late! No new coal, gas, or oil! Net zero by 2035, or as close as possible to 2040! “Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.” – UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, COP27. All of us in business-as-usual are on the “highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” We are breaking many ecological boundaries and we are failing to cooperate with each other to secure the basic living needs of all sorts of living beings in each generation and across all generations on our one shared planet. So, why are we cascading so madly into TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)? Here we ask ourselves: Which world are we living in? Do we live with many non-modern people with the Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature? Or do we live with many modern people with physical sub-corporeal worlds? In the Wholeness of Nature, QUALITIES – like COLOURS, LOVE (Agape-Eros-Agency-Communion), BEAUTY in Skills, GOODNESS in Relations, and TRUTH in Vision (Who Is the Seer)? in Methods (How Is Seeing Being Done?) and in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen) – are much more valuable in many situations than limited sets of reductive measurements. In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the familiar Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), countless body-soul-heart qualities that are present in various living worlds are discounted, because ONLY MEASUREMENTS COUNT. Thus, much too often for people living in our modern, post-modern, and meta-modern worlds, Nature is denatured, human beings dehumanised, qualities (like life, love, body, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, et al.) disqualified, “unfriended”, as “Ghosts in the Machine.” Too overcome these gross reductionisms, we need to work with each other in local, national, and global Climate Solidarity Pacts to transform our lives from alienation towards harmony, to live well with each other in intra-generational and inter-generational equity, within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social allocations of our planet's limited living capacities and capabilities for everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Unity and Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature.
Succumbing to Business-As-Usual's Relentless Wars on Nature and Others in Collective Suicide Pacts; Attuning to Whole-Hearted Thriveability with All Living Beings on Our One Shared Planet in a Climate Solidarity Pact
With the release of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, UN Sec-Gen António Guterres delivered a ‘final warning’ on the climate crisis: act now or it’s too late! No new coal, gas, or oil! Net zero by 2035, or as close as possible to 2040! “Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.” All of us, implicated in various ways in business-as-usual, are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” In addition, we are breaking many other ecological boundaries and we are failing to cooperate with each other to secure the basic living needs of all sorts of living beings in each generation and across all generations on our one shared planet. So, why are we cascading so madly with multiple interacting crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)? We must ask ourselves: Which world are we living in? Do we live with many non-modern people within the Unity and Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature, or with many modern people within physical sub-corporeal worlds? In the Wholeness of Nature, QUALITIES – like COLOURS, LOVE (Agape-Eros-Agency-Communion), BEAUTY in Skills, GOODNESS in Relations, and TRUTH in Vision (Who Is the Seer)? in Methods (How Is Seeing Being Done?) and in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen) – are much more valuable in many situations than limited sets of reductive measurements. In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), countless body-soul-heart qualities that are present in various living worlds are discounted, because ONLY MEASUREMENTS COUNT. Thus, much too often for people living in our modern worlds, Nature is denatured, human beings dehumanised, qualities (like life, love, body, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, et al.) disqualified, “unfriended”, as “Ghosts in the Machine.” Too overcome such gross reductionisms, we need to work with each other in creative Climate Solidarity Pacts to transform our lives from our current alienations towards various cooperative harmonies, to live well with each other in intra-generational and inter-generational equity, within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social allocations of our planet's limited living capacities and capabilities for everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Unity and Wholeness of Nature.
In Our Climate-Ecological Emergency, "We Need to Learn How to Work with Nature; Rather Than Against It."
We need to decide, as individuals in our inter-personal communities in our collective societies, do we want to continue, or not, with our current degenerative ways of living, exploiting both nature and human beings in pursuit of reckless economic growth, defined in diverse ways as the profit motive, "greed," GDP, CSR, ESG, SDGs, et al.? We warn that each of these indicators of economic growth (GDP, CSR, ESG, SDGs, et al.) fails to take into account: 1) ecological thresholds - a planetary ethic that accepts full responsibility for maintaining the quality of our planet’s air, waters, lands, minerals, plants, and animals; and 2) fair social allocations - an intergenerational ethic that accepts full responsibility for securing the full dignity and for generating the full development of each and every human being within and across current and future generations (Ralph Thurm, The Big Sustainability Illusion; UNRISD, Sustainable Development Progress Indicators; r3.0, Thresholds of Transformation; et al.). We warn that many of us in our lives may decide to continue with our current trends in “waging war on nature” which “is senseless and suicidal” (UN Secretary General António Guterres, UNEP report, Making Peace With Nature; David Attenborough’s A Life on Our Planet; Greta Thunberg’s I Am Greta; Ubiquity University; et al.). Much better than continuing with our current escalating ecocide (see Great Acceleration graphs) and with intensifying episodes of horrifying humanicide, which can be seen everywhere, most significantly with the general loss of Spiritus-Intellectus (Latin), Pneuma-Nous (Greek), Rūh-‘Aql (Arabic), Buddhi (Sanskrit), Heart-Centred Values, we need to decide as individuals in our various communities to work with each other to move out of our current degenerative ways of living to regenerate altogether in individuals and communities the beauty, goodness, truth, and other precious qualities that can be found in our Full Humanity and the Wholeness of Nature. One option opens to a good future, leading into happiness for each and all; the other does not, remaining stuck in constant suffering.
Why Are We Cascading So Madly with Interacting Ecological-Social Crises into TEOTWAWKI?
Why are we cascading so madly with interacting ecological and social crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It)? Wherever we look, we see life on earth under stress as clean air, waters, and lands continue to become dirty air, waters, and lands. Can we go from modern body-mind heartlessness into timeless spiritus-anima-corpus heartfulness? Can we go from working within the collapse of nature-humanity into living for the true care of people-planet? Can human beings live with each other, thriving with each other, in relative harmony and shared peace? Here we try to hold people from Primal traditions, Oriental traditions, Semitic traditions, Modern schools, Postmodern schools, and Metamodern schools, ALTOGETHER! Although appearances suggest human beings are different from each other in many ways, nevertheless, all of us participate in our common humanity and in the community of all living beings in various ways. To truly address our personal, social, and ecological problems, at local, national, and global scales, we need to be grounded in our common humanity and in the community of all living beings in fully heartful ways.
We Must Live WITH Nature, NOT Against Nature, in Our Climate Crisis
Here all of us are in CODE RED with our escalating climate crisis, with our current business-as-usual trends already condemning ourselves to 1.5°C degrees of global heating by about 2030, and, given that for many of us changing ourselves is much too hard, already re-signing ourselves to allowing around 3.0°C degrees of global heating within the lives of a generation or two! Indeed, each of us, all of us, are living in very challenging times. In addition to dooming ourselves to inhabiting increasing global heating for many forthcoming decades, we have • our ongoing challenges with Covid into the foreseeable future • our ongoing decline of biodiversity and life on Earth, with Sir David Attenborough saying emphatically, “Our planet is headed for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it.” • Harald Sverdrup et al.’s ongoing research into the limits of current supplies and declining resource quality, compounding within forthcoming years, of key resources, that are expected to be needed in transforming from degenerative to regenerative economies • current economic systems that deliberately 1) fail to consider the necessity of living within our planet’s limited ecological thresholds, and 2) fail to provide secure social foundations for everybody with everybody in genuine intragenerational and intergenerational justice, and • political systems that 1) fail to go beyond divisive debates between various “us” versus “them” contenders, 2) fail to generate diversity informed “all of us, interconnecting with each other” dialogues, and 3) fail to work to integrate what is good, true, and beautiful in the various contributions amongst various rightsholders. Behind all of these existential crises, however, is our key metaphysical crisis in our understanding of Nature. Is ‘NATURE’, the tribhuvana in the Vedic East, the tripartite kosmos in the Latin-Greek-West, composed of corpus-soma-body, anima-psyche-soul, and spiritus-pneuma-heart, altogether? Or, do we continue to blind ourselves in believing ‘nature’ is simply reducible to limited measurable entities within modern Cartesian space-time? Our choices decide our futures!
Living WITH Nature Amidst Our Inter-Acting Crises: Who is Seeing x How Seeing is Being Done x What is Being Seen
Many of us recognise that humanity faces the greatest emergency in our existence – a crisis far deeper and more complex than many of us are able to recognise. Our emergency comprises many catastrophic risks, including resource scarcity, ecological collapse and extinction, global overheating, food insecurity, weapons of mass destruction, global and local pollution with ongoing poisoning of air, waters and lands, pandemic diseases, population overgrowth, and uncontrolled new technologies. Underlying these risks is widespread apathy to Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and a Sense of the Sacred in All Living Beings on our Planet, with many people trapped in all sorts of collective and individual delusions. Many voices have raised their concerns about these threats – and here I add mine to them. These risks are all interlinked. None of them can be solved simply in isolation. However, they can be overcome – with universal cooperation, persistent goodwill, and bold determination. No government yet has a comprehensive plan for dealing with these inter-acting sets of risks that endanger our civilization, our own and children’s futures, and life on our Planet as an abundant ecosystem and home for all species. Here we call on the governments, institutions, cultures, and peoples of our Planet to develop a clear plan and a pathway for Human Survival in the 21st century, URGENTLY. We also urge the propagation of local and worldwide discourses across and amongst diverse actors, with all of us working, planning, and acting NOW, to address all of these risks, altogether, in ways that make none of them worse. Here we make a delicately nuanced attempt to envision fairer, safer, healthier, and more sustainable futures for all peoples and all living beings on our Planet. (Adapted from a recent The Council for the Human Future statement)
Attuning to Whole-Hearted Thriveability with All Living Beings on Our One Shared Planet in Climate Solidarity Pacts; Surrendering Our Lives to Business-As-Usual's Relentless Wars on Nature and Others in Our Collective Suicide Pacts
UN Sec-Gen António Guterres, with the release of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report, delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis: act now or it’s too late! No new coal, gas, or oil! Net zero by 2035, or as close as possible to 2040! “Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.” All of us, implicated in various ways in business-as-usual, are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator.” Furthermore, we are breaking many other ecological boundaries and we are failing to cooperate with each other to secure and ensure the basic living needs of all sorts of living beings in intra-, and inter-generational equity on our one shared planet. So, why are we cascading so madly with multiple interacting crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End Of The World As We Know It)? We must ask ourselves: Which world are we living in? Do we live with many non-modern people with the Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature? Or do we live with many modern people within physical sub-corporeal worlds? In the Wholeness of Nature, QUALITIES – like COLOURS, LOVE (Agape-Eros-Agency-Communion), BEAUTY in Skills, GOODNESS in Relations, and TRUTH in Vision (Who Is the Seer)? in Methods (How Is Seeing Being Done?) and in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen) – are much more valuable in many situations than limited sets of reductive measurements. In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in terms of the Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), countless body-soul-heart qualities that are present in various living worlds are discounted, because ONLY MEASUREMENTS COUNT. Thus, much too often for people living in our modern worlds, Nature is denatured, human beings dehumanised, qualities (like life, love, body, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, et al.) disqualified, “unfriended”, as “Ghosts in the Machine.” Too overcome such gross reductionisms, we need to work with each other in creative Climate Solidarity Pacts to transform our lives from our current alienations towards various cooperative harmonies, to live well with each other in intra-generational and inter-generational equity, within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social allocations of our planet's limited living capacities and capabilities for everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Unity and Wholeness of Nature.
The Unbearable Unawareness of our Ecological Existential Crisis
Jus Semper, 2023
In the last two years, the full report on Mitigation of Climate Change prepared by the IPCC scientists, as well as research from other centres, such as the Stockholm Resilience Centre, have consistently confirmed that we are following a trajectory of doom. Unless we veer fast in the opposite direction, the odds that we will be facing planetary catastrophes that will put at great risk the existence of life in our planet on the next twenty years are realistic and likely. Not surprisingly, we continue to see that such existential threat— the direct result of the dominant socioeconomic structures of capitalism—continue to fall on the indifferent ears of those in power, particularly in the Global North, the overwhelming precursor of the planetary rift we face. Instead, these elites persist on a narrative that makes most people think that all we need to do is to decrease our carbon dioxide emissions to address climate change (which is only one of the nine planetary boundaries that we are on the verge of or have already transgressed) without changing the consumeristic lifestyle systems required for capitalism to sustain itself. They push, explicitly and implicitly, the idea that Promethean technological prowess will solve our problems, such as the fact that we are well underway of the Sixth Mass Extinction, so that we can confidently continue to pursue our consumeristic impulses in our quest for happiness. Based on the track record delivered by the centers of power, it is evident that humans and nonhumans will surely reach our demise in the next few decades unless the common people rid themselves of the delusional and Promethean narrative advanced by the centers of power that has captured public opinion. To accomplish this, we must debunk this narrative and set the record straight. There is no possibility of future generations enjoying a sustainable and dignified life unless we radically change our culture and lifestyle habits and learn to live in harmony with our home, planet Earth. We must treat our planet with great care, as we would a friend we depend on for our lives. Hence, we must wake up, mobilise, and organise in order to force the replacement of the structures of unrelenting growth, endless consumption, and enormous inequality at the same time that we change our values and daily habits if we want to bequeath to future generations a life with dignity and joy. The great challenge is to provoke awareness and critical thinking among the common people. The market reigns supreme, transforming people into consumer units, alienating and depriving them of their dignity and making them believe that success and happiness lie in having things, so that we can consume and feel happy through instant gratification. Consequently, replacing the deeply embedded culture of consumerism that is instrumental for capitalism to sustain itself is a colossal challenge. Yet, people must become conscientious and internalise that the only way to save humans and nonhumans, and the resources required from nature for both to survive and prosper, is by drastically radically cutting consumption in order to diminish our ecological footprint, replacing our structures and steering our trajectory towards a transition of consumption degrowth until we reach a sustainable steady state of production and consumption. We must embark on a sustainable transition that is safe and just for all living things and the planet. Furthermore, because capitalism’s nature requires endless growth, the only way to accomplish this is through an ecosocial Geocratic Paradigm, or “Government by the Earth”. In this paradigm, humankind lives to take good care of its home as its friend, the planet. In Geocratia, instead of vying to possess and consume to survive, people enjoy a dignified life without all of the excesses of consumerism. In Geocratia, many basic needs, such as health care, education, and water—currently rendered as mere merchandise—are universal rights with guaranteed access to all people to live comfortably but frugally. There is no choice if we want to avoid the catastrophic trajectory of doom that we are rapidly undergoing, unless we prefer to ensure reaching our final demise in the next few decades.
May All Beings Be Happy: Max Wealth for the Few, and Leave All Others with Grim Lives and Futures, or Live Well within Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability with Wholeness and Tripartite Unity in Nature, Each Community, and Each Person?
We ask here: Which world do you live in? Do you inhabit the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-anima-soul, soma-corpus-body) of Nature? Or do you only inhabit physical sub-corporeal worlds, in which only measurements count? Many people believe, in their lives and work, that only economic growth counts. Consequently, in various agreeable or disagreeable ways, many are occupied in marginalising and externalising coldly the health of people and planet (air, waters, soils, plants, animals) from their immediate concerns and future considerations, in their socially myopic and legally authorised duties to maximise short-term profits and long-term economic wealth, at local, national, and global scales, in various heartless operations within business-as-usual. Thus, many of us fail to become truly Heart-Centred in our lives, failing to LOVE familiar and unfamiliar people, and failing to engage with the thriving of life on our planet. So, ALL OF US are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen). Let us go much deeper here in our inquiries: Why are we cascading so madly with various interacting ecological and social crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It)? Obvious or not, our current cold heartlessness cannot continue. We must change or perish. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres thunders repeatedly: “Humanity has a choice: Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.” So, here we must stand, altogether! We – members of our various Primal, Oriental, Semitic, Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern communities – must work with each other to inhabit Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability in which we are enabled to transform our current lives from my ego-centric “me” isolations, and our various ethno-socio-centric “us versus them” alienations, towards world-centric “all of us, altogether” cooperative harmonies to live well with each other, with intragenerational and intergenerational equity, within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social distributions of our planet's limited living capabilities-capacities, within everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity of Nature.
Living within Our “War on Nature” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen), Authorised by Our Current Economy: May All Beings
Be Happy with Ecological Integrity in Nature, Social Coherence in Each Society, and Wholeness and Unity in Each Person
Skills for “Post Doom, No Gloom” Living: Michael Dowd, Post-Doom
OUR PLANET NEEDS ECOLOGICAL INTEGRITY,
in Tropical, Temperate, and Polar Habitats, Altogether.
NOT escalating ecological overshoots of various ecological
boundaries within various local, national, and global habitats.
OUR SOCIETIES NEED SOCIAL COHERENCE, at Local, National,
and Global Scales. NOT social divisions, with inhabitants within
a social division refusing to learn to understand any Other.
EACH PERSON NEEDS PERSONAL UNITY, within Dependent
Child-Student, Independent Adult, and Inter-Independent ElderSage, Living with Others, in Body-Soul-Heart, Altogether.
NOT reductive body-based materialisms, nor reductive
mind-based idealisms, nor supposed mind-body dualisms.
Nate Hagens: The 7 Things That Scare Me Most | Frankly 38 - YouTube
Frontiers | Listen to the science! Which science? Regenerative research
for times of planetary crises (frontiersin.org).
Seers Seeing the Seen: Who Is Seeing? How Is Seeing Being Done? What Is Being Seen?
ME
US
US
INTER-INDEPENDENT
ALTOGETHER
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
Child? Student? Adult? Elder? Sage?
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT - Kosmos-centric
Wholeness (Agape), and Unity (Eros),
with Agentic and Communal VirtuesVices, in Full Humanity, in tune (or
not) with Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL - World-centric
“All of Us, working to inter-connect
with each other” in the dialogues of
civilisations, each of which with their
own versions of contents and
discontents [personal/collective artsskills, inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised
social contracts-disciplines
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
“My” Ego-centric Agency-Communion
How Is Seeing Being Done? Within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences Within
Primal Traditions
Oriental Traditions
Semitic Traditions
Modernity
Post-Modernity
Meta-Modernity
The Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface
Modernity: A mix of Monist Materialists (Mind inside
of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings, from Ego-centric
Matter in Cartesian space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]), Monist
Me, to Ethno-Group-centric US, to Socio-centric US, to
Idealists (Matter inside Mind) and Matter-Mind Dualists.
World-centric All of Us with Each Other, into Noetic
No Vedic Tribhuvana (Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū).
Kosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One) in
No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/IntellectusTripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body.
Heart, Psyche-Anima-Soul, and Soma-Corpus-Body).
Multi-cross-inter-trans-meta-disciplinary engagements
Engaging in dialogues on skills in arts, relations-moralsethics, and sciences, in matrices-systems-organisations,
in attempts to
in terms of living
in terms of
with people inside and outside of various Primal Traditions
co-ordinate
systems designs
selected from less
in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, and Oceania; various
diverse data sets
and/or flat nonto more complex
Oriental Traditions in Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism et al.;
in sciences of
hierarchical
developmental or
various Semitic Traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam et
measurement
relations in
evolutionary
al.; various modern disciplines (sciences of measurement); within and across
various critiques criteria, e.g., from
various post-modern disciplines (critiques of modern); and various disciplines of modern lifeless egocentric me to
various meta-modern disciplines (modern + postmodern).
e.g., IPCC & WHO
mechanics
worldcentric us
Experts-Achievers in Skills in Arts, in Morals-Ethics in Relations, and in Disciplines in Sciences in Organisations within
Our Primal
Our Oriental
Our Semitic
Our Modern
Our Postmodern
Our Metamodern
Tradition with
Tradition with
Tradition with
Lives with
Lives with
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open ↔ closed
open ↔ closed
body-soul-hearts
body-soul-hearts
body-soul-hearts
body-minds
body-minds
body-minds
Conforming to OUR Authorised Narratives-Norms-Rules-Roles-Rituals-Heritage-Traditions within
Our Primal Ways
Our Oriental
Our Semitic
Our Modern
Our Postmodern
Our Metamodern
of Living with
Tradition with
Tradition with
Lives with
Lives with
Lives with
open ↔ closed
open ↔ closed
open ↔ closed
open ↔ closed
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open ↔ closed
body-soul-hearts
body-soul-hearts
body-soul-hearts
body-minds
body-minds
body-minds
Born into a
Born into an
Born into a
Born into a
Born into a Post- Born into a MetaPrimal World
Oriental World
Semitic World
Modern World
Modern World
Modern World
© Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Thriveability within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu
What Is Being Seen?
With Love (Philia)?
Heart-centred Kosmos
with all sorts of Seers,
Seeing, and the Seen
from the Sensory
Surface of Beings to the
very Heart of All Beings
Our DIALOGUES with
various Others within,
across, and beyond our
current readings of skills
in arts, relations-moralsethics, and sciences, in
matrices-systemsorganisations, at local,
national & global scales
Our DEBATES within Our
Social Contracts in Arts,
Morals-Ethics, Sciences,
in Organisations, in Our
Eco-Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY
to Our Prescribed
Community Narratives
and Group Norms
My Life in My Body
Levels-Stages-Degrees of Duty of Care to Child to Student to Adult to Mature Elder to Sage
From Heartless “Us” Versus “Them” Polarisations To Heart-Centred Human Integrity,
Within Each Person, Within Various Communities, Living in Tune With Nature, Heart-Soul-Body, Altogether
All of Us,
Nature and
Humanity,
Altogether,
with Deep
Compassion
and AllInclusive
Wisdom
All of Us,
InterConnecting
with Each
Other
Us,
Our
Knowledge in
Our Social
ContractsDisciplines
Us,
Our
In-Formation
in Our
Community
Me, My Life
Oriental Values
Meta-Modern
Semitic Values
(in Confucianism,
Values
Post-Modern
(in various schools
Modern Values
Taoism, Shintoism,
(in trying to hold
Values
within Judaism,
(in Cartesian
Hinduism, Jainism,
Modern and Post(in various critiques
Christianity, Islam
Sciences)
Buddhism, Sikhism
of Modern Values) Modern knowledge
et al.)
et al.)
claims altogether)
Non-Modern Triple Worlds: Heart-soul-body, Pneuma/NousModern Cartesian body-mind: a spatio-temporal world
psyche-soma (Greek), Spiritus/Intellectus-anima-corpus (Latin),
represented mathematically in terms of the Cartesian quadruple
Rūḥ/‘Aql-nafs-jism (Arabic), Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū (Tribhuvana) et al. (x1, x2, x3, t) with a linear temporal and three spatial coordinates
Wholeness [Agape-Feminine Nature], and Unity [Eros-Masculine Nature], with Agentic [Masculine] Energies and Communal
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices [Qualities Loved, degraded, or denied] within Each Stage-Level-Layer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set of Skills, in Arts, Morals, and Sciences, in Each Person, in Each Community, and in Our Shared
Humanity, in tune (or not) with the Wholeness and Unity of Divine Nature, Life, Light, and Love, “All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
Primal Values
(in First Peoples in
Africa, Asia, Europe,
Americas, Australia,
and Oceania)
All of Us working to inter-connect with each other in the dialogues of civilisations, each of which with their own versions of contents
and discontents [personal/collective intentions-behaviours-arts-skills, inter-personal relations-morals-ethics-cultures, and
authorised sciences, based on given or selected assumptions-methodologies-outcomes] in matrices-systems-organisations
“Our” Primal
self-/we-authorised
social contractsdisciplines
“Our” Oriental
self-/we-authorised
social contractsdisciplines
“Our” Semitic
self-/we-authorised
social contractsdisciplines
“Our” Modern
self-/we-authorised
social contractsdisciplines
“Our” Post-Modern
self-/we-authorised
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“Our” Meta-Modern
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community’s
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“Our” Oriental
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“Our” Semitic
community’s
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Born into a
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An Intimate Conversation with Leading Climate Scientists To Discuss New Research on Global Warming - YouTube
Global warming in the pipeline | Oxford Open Climate Change | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
New Study Warns of an Imminent Spike of Planetary Warming and Deepens Divides Among Climate Scientists - Inside Climate News
2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted territory | BioScience | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
COVID Policies in Many Countries Are Being Corrupted by All Sorts of Dodgy Interests in Business-As-Usual. See UK COVID Inquiry.
'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of
public health
John Snow Project Editorial
06 November 2023
'Endemic' SARS-CoV-2 and the death of public health John Snow Project
May All Beings Be Happy: From Primarily Maxing My/Our Wealth to Compassion and Wisdom in “I-I” Enlightenment, “IWe-Thou” Relations, and “I-We-Seen” Sciences, Based on Various Skills in Varying Degrees in Various Divine Qualities
In my street, in my city, and on our one shared planet, there are people with cultural heritages from Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, North-Central-South America, and Oceania.
Accordingly, in my work, I try to give appropriate attention and due care to the life-affirming values that can be found within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Hindu, Taoist, Buddhist
et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Muslim et al.), Modern (Cartesian sciences), Postmodern (various critiques of modern), and Metamodern (modern + postmodern) communities, as
independent identities, as inter-independent parties, and as truly appreciated interactive communities on our planet, altogether.
Xiye Bastida, a young Otomi-Toltec woman from Mexico, in her life and work, like many people, struggles to hold her non-modern Indigenous values, which are in
tune with Mother Nature, with her modern values, which work to devitalise nature, turning living beings into inanimate resources that can be measured, made into
various products, and monetised by businesses for their short-term profits and for the ongoing ‘economic growth’ of some privileged corporations and nationstates. Xiye Bastida, nevertheless, gave a courageous heartfelt speech at the United Nations in New York in September 2023. She defended the simple dignities of
Mother Nature, celebrating Her precious gifts of clean air, clean waters, and clean lands, International Day of Peace 2023 | YOUTH EVENT PROGRAMME | United
Nations & Xiye Bastida (xiyebeara.com). Now, with all that already said, let us look at the Oceania — Connecting Climate Minds proposal.
We are looking for case studies from Oceania that will broaden global understanding of the intersection of climate change and mental health. Relevant case studies could discuss:
• A problem in a community, e.g. A population living in a coastal community already experiencing sea-level rise, where individuals are anecdotally reporting increasing rates of
depression or anxiety.
• An intervention in a community or country, e.g. An NGO implementing a community-based intervention to enhance the psychological resilience of climate-affected populations.
• A policy, e.g. A country or city passing a national mental health policy that has strong emphasis on addressing the mental health impacts of climate change.
• A research project, e.g. investigating the mental health impacts of climate change using participatory methods or combined health and environmental big data.
Please correct me if my impressions are inadequate, but this proposal engages with which understandings of climate change? mental health? non-modern? modern? both, united?
Non-modern Primal, Oriental, and Semitic communities have witnessed, and continue to lament, the ongoing destruction of Mother Nature over many decades, sorry, centuries.
Despite truly heroic efforts, these communities continue to see clean air become dirty air, clean waters become dirty waters, clean lands become dirty lands, as all sorts of modern
pollution continue to intensify and interact in air, waters, lands, bodies, and minds, degrading and destroying the habitats of many plants, many animals, and many human beings.
In contrast to the Love of Nature that can be found within various non-modern Primal, Oriental, and Semitic communities, many people in various Modern, Postmodern, and
Metamodern communities continue to authorise their selected knowledge claims based on what philosopher Alfred North Whitehead called, in the 1920s, Cartesian bifurcation.
Cartesian ‘bifurcation’ [...] constitutes a dichotomy which divides the world into two substances, namely Thought (res cogitans) and Extension (res extensa). This gives rise to the
belief that the ‘objective’ world can be wholly described in quantitative terms. In light of [Wolfgang] Smith’s ontological distinction, this is tantamount to the reduction of the
corporeal to the physical. Therefore, qualitative attributes—such as colour, sound, or taste—are taken, in the Cartesian paradigm, to be mental or subjective. On the other hand,
the quantitative attributes—the ‘extended’ (i.e., measurable) aspects—of the world are taken to be the ‘really real’. Quantities are thought to have ontological priority over
qualities, insofar as the latter are merely ‘in our heads’ (res cogitantes). What is left in the external world, then, are objects which can be accounted for, without residue, in
mathematical terms (res extensae) John Trevor Berger, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » Surveying the Integral Cosmos | Philos-Sophia Initiative [text has been adjusted].
Now, when we investigate modern concepts of mental health, human wellbeing, and climate change, we find that, for modern people, each concept continues to be a Cartesian
concept, dependent on the primacy of res extensae (quantities-measurements-data) over res cogitantes (qualities), and thus on sciences of measurements, primarily selected
metrics (e.g., Building systemic resilience, productivity and well-being: a Mental Wealth perspective), and secondarily selected case studies. Crucially, according to these modern
Cartesian measurement-based accounts, human wellbeing does not require participation in “I-I” enlightenment (the journey from one’s surface self into Heart-Centred Oneness
with Nature and Humanity in deep compassion and all-inclusive wisdom), nor participation in various “I-We-Thou” relations, in which the Divine in one person sees and dignifies
the Divine in another person (which people in the Vedic East call Namaste, and people in the non-modern West call Love Thy Neighbour), nor participation in non-modern wisdom
schools with attention on inhabiting, in varying degrees from shallow to deep, various Divine Qualities, like Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Joy, and Love (Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), in
Nature, Arts, Morals, Sciences, and Organisations. I'm sorry if what I am raising here with you is not familiar knowledge, nor perhaps yet easy to understand. Perhaps this will help.
Have you seen the image of three modern frogs in water in a saucepan (p. 34), which is slowly being heated? One frog says, concerned, my calculations show something is wrong
here. Another frog says, without any concern, everything is good here. And the third frog, annoyed, abruptly dismisses any concerns with contempt, "alarmist!" Let us ask here:
Which frog is being physically healthy? mentally healthy? spiritually healthy? In modern ways? In non-modern ways? In non-modern and modern, altogether ways? Any one of
them? I hope you can now see that I am trying to engage with some vital issues here. Will you join us in participating more fully in Whole-Hearted Nature and Humanity?
W.E.I.R.D. Is Now Normal
David Attenborough:
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
El Nino Fizzles. Planet Earth Sizzles. Why? (mailchi.mp)
Dr Andrew Forrest - Special Climate Presentation at Oxford
University - YouTube
2023 state of the climate report: Entering uncharted
territory | BioScience | Oxford Academic (oup.com)
Climate Action Australia – Climate Change
(wordpress.com)
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New UN University Report Warns about Risk Tipping Points
with Irreversible Impacts on People and Planet | UN University
W.E.I.R.D. Is Now Our Normal
Global Warming is Accelerating. Why? Will We Fly Blind?
Technical dialogue of the first global stocktake. Synthesis
report by the co-facilitators of the technical dialogue
October 2023 was around 1.7ºC above the preindustrial average!!!
Chasm between climate action and scientific reality laid bare
in UN stocktake | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Apostolic Exhortation Laudate Deum of the Holy Father Francis
to all people of good will on the climate crisis (vatican.va)
Dr Andrew Forrest at Boao Forum for Asia Perth 2023 |
Fortescue
"Business will kill your children:" Was Andrew Forrest's climate
speech really that "loopy"? | RenewEconomy
All planetary boundaries mapped out for the first time, six of
nine crossed - Stockholm Resilience Centre
Increasing Heat with Intensifying Lethal Humidity
Will Kill Millions in Forthcoming Years-Decades!!!
Post Doom
COVID-19: A NEW DISEASE PARADIGM - John Snow Project
Earth ‘well outside safe operating space for humanity’,
scientists find | Climate crisis | The Guardian
Arctic News: Methane eruptions threaten (arcticnews.blogspot.com)
The Great Simplification | Film on Energy, Environment, and
Our Future | FULL MOVIE - YouTube
Wilful ignorance drives civilisation collapse - Pearls and
Irritations (johnmenadue.com)
Jem Bendell – essays on collapse risk, readiness & response
Climate change undermines nearly all sustainable
development goals | World Meteorological Organization
United In Science 2023 (wmo.int)
Beyond-growth-dialogue-with-the-european-commission
(eeb.org)
Much Too Often To Love Our Full Humanity and the Wholeness of Nature Altogether Is Considered To Be Not Normal!
Ecological Integrity in Nature? Social Coherence in Each Society? Wholeness and Unity in Each Person?
Living within Intensifying Ecological Crises
Are You Familiar with this Common Reading of
Modern Science, As an Independent Magisterium
with Limited or No Regard for Humanity’s Wisdom?
Arctic News: 2023 (arctic-news.blogspot.com)
Excerpt from Edward F. Kelly et al. Beyond Physicalism:
The rise of modern science has brought with it increasing
acceptance among intellectual elites of a picture of reality that
conflicts sharply both with everyday experience and with beliefs
widely shared among the world’s great cultural traditions. A
particularly stark but influential early statement of the emerging
picture came from philosopher Bertrand Russell:
Global temperatures set to reach new records in next five
years | World Meteorological Organization (wmo.int)
2023!
2023!
That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they
were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and
beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire,
no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual
life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the
inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to
extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple
of Man’s achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a
universe in ruins—all of these things, if not quite beyond dispute, are yet so
nearly certain, that no philosophy which rejects them can hope to stand. Only
within the scaffolding of these truths, only on the firm foundation of
unyielding despair, can the soul’s habitation henceforth be safely built. (“The
Free Man’s Worship,” 1903)
There can be no doubt that this bleak vision continues to dominate
mainstream scientific thinking and has contributed to the
“disenchantment” of the modern world with its multifarious
attendant ills. Prominent recent spokesmen include, for example,
Nobel prize winners such as theoretical physicist Steven Weinberg,
for whom “the more the universe seems comprehensible, the more
it also seems pointless,” and physicist-turned-neurobiologist Francis
Crick, whose “astonishing hypothesis” declares that “You, your joys
and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of
personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behaviour
of a vast assembly of nerve cells and their associated molecules. As
Lewis Carroll’s Alice might have phrased it: ‘YOU’RE NOTHING BUT A
PACK OF NEURONS.’” (my highlights).
Overt conflict between science and religion has erupted
sporadically since the stirrings of science centuries ago, and recent
years have witnessed a series of heavily publicised attacks on nearly
all things religious by well-meaning defenders of Enlightenmentstyle rationalism. Such persons clearly regard themselves, and
current mainstream science itself, as reliably marshalling the
intellectual virtues of reason and objectivity against retreating
forces of irrational authority and superstition. For them the truth of
the picture sketched above has been demonstrated beyond
reasonable doubt, and to think anything different is necessarily to
abandon centuries of scientific progress, release the black tide of
occultism, and revert to primitive supernaturalist beliefs
characteristic of bygone times.
Contributors to the present volume share a very different view.
We believe it takes astonishing hubris to dismiss en masse the
collective experience and wisdom of a large proportion of our
forebearers, including persons widely recognised as pillars of
human civilisation, and we are united in believing that the single
most important task confronting all of modernity is that of
meaningful reconciliation of science and religion. We
emphatically reject, moreover, the idea of simply exiling these
humanly vital subjects to independent “magisteria” where they
can go their separate ways as a means to uneasy truce, as
originally decreed by Descartes and recently suggested again by
Stephen Jay Gould.
Let Us Ask Here: Are There Any Better Readings of
Nature, Human Society, and the Human Person?
[Russell and Whitehead's] Principia Mathematica, though read by only a
stalwart few, has even so had a powerful impact upon Western civilization:
in outlawing IW [irreducible wholeness], as it were, it has promoted a
leveling down of Occidental culture, a drastic flattening thereof in toto. I
surmise that the nihilistic nominalism of the point set paradigm has
eventually filtered down to the public at large as the last word of Science,
and in so doing has contributed decisively to the “enlightenment” of
millions. One might say that it has disenchanted the universe, deprived it,
in the eyes of the “enlightened ones,” of the authentic mystery residing in
every natural thing – down to the humblest. And so it has in effect
dehumanized a significant portion of mankind by rendering it profane. The
fact is, nonetheless, that the domain of quantity does not exclude
irreducible wholeness; if such were the case, not only could there be no
music or traditional arts, but there could be no physics as well.
— Excerpt from Wolfgang Smith,
Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology
A Brief Overview of Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics: Who is Seeing? How Is Seeing Being Done? What is Being Seen?
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
ME
US
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
US
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature], and Unity [ErosMasculine Nature], with Agentic
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
Community, and in Our Shared
Humanity, in tune (or not) with
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
With Love
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Modernity?
Modernity: A mix of mainly
Monist Materialists (Mind
inside Matter in Cartesian
space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]) in a
mechanistic universe in which
measurements count,
some Monist Idealists
(Matter inside Mind), and
some Matter-Mind Dualists.
Huston
Smith,
Levels of
Reality,
Levels of
Self,
Why
Religion
Matters
p.224
What Is Being Seen?
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
Post-Modernity: Challenges modern lifeless mechanics and
authoritarian knowledge claims. Meta-Modernity: Tries to
hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether.
Modernity Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of
Qualities (Truth-Goodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana.
No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Psyche-Soma).
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Our DIALOGUES with various
Others within, across, and
beyond our current readings of
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
relations-morals-ethics, and
skills in sciences, in matricessystems-organisations, at local,
national & global scales
People in Primal-Oriental-Semitic Traditions tend to see
losses in Heart-Centredness, with disturbing degradations
in air, waters, lands, plants, animals, and humans.
People in Modernity-Postmodernity-Metamodernity
tend to see “historical progress”, and work for “ongoing
progress” according to their chosen set of indicators.
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations in
Our Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
Prescribed Community
Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesRituals-Heritage-Traditions
See CACOR: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear. Skills for “Post Doom, No Gloom” Living: Michael Dowd, Post-Doom.
Born into a
Primal World
Born into an
Oriental World
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a PostWorld
World
Modern World
Born into a MetaModern World
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My Life in My Body
Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within “I-I” Enlightenment, the Heart of “I-We-Thou” Relations, and in Wisdom Schools
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
An Oriental
Tradition?
A Semitic
Tradition?
Modernity?
Modernity
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Disqualifies
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [Agape(Flatlands) the
Feminine Nature], and Unity [ErosQuality (Love) of
Masculine Nature], with Agentic
Qualities (Truth[Masculine] Energies and Communal
Goodness-Beauty).
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
No Vedic
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
Tribhuvana.
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentNo Tripartite
The Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface
Inhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
Kosmos
of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings,
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
(Pneuma/Nousfrom Ego-centric Me to Ethno-Group-centric US to SocioCommunity, and in Our Shared
centric US to World-centric All of Us with Each Other into Spiritus/IntellectusHumanity, in tune (or not) with
Heart, psycheKosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One)
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
anima-soul, and
in Tripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body.
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
soma-corpus-body).
The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
ME
US
US
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
A Primal
Tradition?
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Child? Student? Adult? Mature
Elder? Sage?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
Engaging in dialogues (on skills in traditional arts and crafts,
“I-I” Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, and Divine
Qualities) with various people inside and outside of various
Primal Traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, and
Oceania; various Oriental Traditions in Confucianism,
Taoism, Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Sikhism et
al.; various Semitic Traditions in Judaism, Christianity, Islam
et al.; various modern disciplines (sciences of measurement);
various post-modern disciplines (critiques of lifeless
mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims); and various
meta-modern disciplines (working to hold modern and
postmodern knowledge claims altogether).
What Is Being Seen?
With Love (PhiliaCommunion)?
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Multi-inter-trans-disciplinary engagements, e.g., r3-0.org
Priority is: Economic
Growth [Wealth]?
Wellbeing: PeoplePlanet-Prosperity?
Living Well within
Earth’s Systems?
Disciplines in Silos
Disciplines Inter-Acting
Disciplines in Systems
Our DIALOGUES with various
Others within, across, and
beyond our current readings of
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
relations-morals-ethics, and
skills in sciences, in matricessystems-organisations, at local,
national & global scales
Experts-Achievers in Skills in Modern Arts, Modern
Experts-Achievers in Skills in Traditional Arts and Crafts, “I-I”
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Individualism, Modern Instrumental Relations, and Modern
Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, and Divine Qualities
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Sciences and Technologies (including Sciences of
(including Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Love (Agape-ErosRelations-Morals-Ethics, and
Measurement, Information Technologies, Computers,
Agency-Communion), Music, Wisdom, Compassion et al.) in
Sciences, in Organisations in
Mobile Phones, Social Media, Netflix et al.) in OUR
Traditional Sciences in OUR Communities.
Our Society
Organisations in OUR Communities.
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Teachings in Skills in Traditional Arts and Crafts, “I-I”
Teachings in Skills in Modern Arts, Modern Individualism,
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
Enlightenment, “I-We-Thou” Relations, and Divine Qualities Modern Instrumental Relations, and Modern Sciences and
Prescribed Community
DEPENDENT “US”
(including Beauty, Goodness, Truth, Love (Agape-ErosTechnologies (including Sciences of Measurement,
Narratives-Norms-Rules-Roles“Our” community’s narratives-rules- Agency-Communion), Music, Compassion, Wisdom et al.) in
Information Technologies, Social Media et al.) in OUR
Rituals-Heritage-Traditions
roles-norms-heritage-traditions
Traditional Sciences in OUR Communities.
Organisations in OUR Communities.
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
Born into a
Primal World
Born into an
Oriental World
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a PostWorld
World
Modern World
Born into a MetaModern World
© Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Thriveability within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu
My Life in My Body
Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Alan Urban’s 10 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature], and Unity [ErosMasculine Nature], with Agentic
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
Community, and in Our Shared
Humanity, in tune (or not) with
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
INTER-INDEPENDENT
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
US
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
US
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
ME
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
What Is Being Seen?
With Love
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Modernity?
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
10 Reasons Our Civilization Will Soon Collapse (okdoomer.io) 3. The Failure of Green Energy:
A deep dive into the problems world leaders have let spiral out of control. Pollution, Jevons Paradox, Peak Metals
ALAN URBAN
4. Dwindling Resources:
Selected sections from original article.
Rubber, Sand, Fertilizer
That’s right. Our entire global industrial civilization is going to collapse. And 5. Topsoil Erosion
soon, which means within the lifetimes of most people alive today.
6. Water Shortages
I realize this is quite the claim, and a pretty terrifying one if you’re under 50 7. Climate Change
or so. In this article, I will list 10 problems the world is facing, each of which 8. Biodiversity Loss
could cause the collapse of civilization all on its own. Which means, if even
9. Migrant Crisis
one of these problems isn’t solved, our civilization is doomed.
10. Increasing Conflict
Before I continue, let me explain what I mean by “collapse.” First of all, it
Conclusion
doesn’t necessarily mean that humans will go extinct. While that is certainly a For decades, it’s been obvious that our global industrial civilization has an
plausible scenario given the many existential threats we are facing, I still
expiration date, but only recently have many scientists come to realize that
believe it is unlikely. Small groups of humans survived in very difficult
the expiration date could be during their own lifetimes.
conditions for tens of thousands of years.
Fifty years ago, humans overshot the carrying capacity of the planet. Since
By collapse, I mean a breakdown of social institutions like governments and then, we have been exploiting the Earth’s resources faster and faster, stealing
economies, followed by a dramatic decline in the human population. I realize from future generations. Our civilization wouldn’t even exist without fossil
that’s still kind of vague, so here’s a more specific definition I found in the
fuels, but we are rapidly running out of them. And it appears green energy
book, How Everything Can Collapse.
won’t be able to replace them as there aren’t enough metals in the ground.
It says, “A collapse is the process at the end of which basic needs (water,
Even if we had unlimited clean energy, we would still run out of crucial
food, housing, clothing, energy, etc.) can no longer be provided [at a
resources like rubber, sand, groundwater, and the ingredients for fertilizer. As
reasonable cost] to a majority of the population by services under legal
the world’s topsoil erodes, it will get harder and harder to grow enough food
supervision.”
for everybody.
As society breaks down, life will get simpler and simpler. By the late 21st
Eventually, we might not be able to grow food at all. Water shortages are
century, people will be living the way they did in the early 19th century.
already becoming a major problem, and this is just the beginning. Climate
How do I know this? Let’s start with humanity’s biggest problem. No, it’s not change is drying up the rivers, burning down the forests, and causing
climate change. It’s something most people have never even heard of.
disasters the likes of which we’ve never seen.
1. Overshoot
Meanwhile, life of all types—from tiny plants to giant mammals—are going
Although I’ve listed overshoot as just one of the many problems humanity is extinct even faster than they did during previous mass extinction events. As
facing, I could argue that it’s the only problem we’re facing because every
the web of life falls apart, human societies will become impossible to
other problem on this list is the result of overshoot. Let me explain…
maintain.
If you’ve never heard of ecological overshoot, it’s what happens when an
All this chaos will lead to the worst migration crisis in the history of the world.
organism uses up an ecosystem’s resources faster than they can regenerate. The political tension and fights over resources could very well lead to nuclear
This happens all the time in nature.
annihilation. But things are so bad that even without nuclear war, we could
2. The End of Cheap Fossil Fuels
still see human extinction by the end of this century.
Before I explain this, you need to understand how important fossil fuels (coal, Believe it or not, there’s a lot more bad news that I didn’t cover in this post. I
oil, and natural gas) are to our civilization.
barely touched on climate tipping points, and I could have written about
The first and most obvious use for fossil fuels such as oil is to make gasoline our crumbling infrastructure, the millions dying from pollution, the increasing
and diesel for our vehicles. Without those, our civilization would completely risk of deadly pandemics, and much more, but this article is already far longer
collapse because truckers need diesel to get food and supplies to the stores. than I originally intended.
Not to mention the fact that most people in the developed world need
It doesn’t please me to share this information. Personally, I am terrified. Not
gasoline to get to their jobs.
just for myself, but for my two young children who I had before I knew all
But gasoline is just one small part of our precarious civilization. As explained this. I apologize if I have frightened you.
in the book, How The World Really Works, there are at least four other things Why Climate Change Will Crush Civilization Like a Bug
we need: cement, steel, plastic, and ammonia. And they all require fossil
(collapsemusings.com)
fuels.
Born into a
Primal World
Born into an
Oriental World
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a PostWorld
World
Modern World
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Our DIALOGUES with various
Others within, across, and
beyond our current readings of
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
relations-morals-ethics, and
skills in sciences, in matricessystems-organisations, at local,
national & global scales
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations in
Our Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
Prescribed Community
Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesRituals-Heritage-Traditions
Born into a MetaModern World
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Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Andrew Fanning’s Work on Downscaling Doughnut Economics to Nations
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
What Is Being Seen?
With Love
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
Our DIALOGUES with various
Others within, across, and
beyond our current readings of
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
relations-morals-ethics, and
skills in sciences, in matricessystems-organisations, at local,
national & global scales
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations in
Our Society
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
Prescribed Community
Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesRituals-Heritage-Traditions
ME
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature], and Unity [ErosMasculine Nature], with Agentic
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
Community, and in Our Shared
Humanity, in tune (or not) with
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Modernity?
US
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
US
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
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Born into a
Born into an
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a Post- Born into a MetaPrimal World
Oriental World
World
World
Modern World
Modern World
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Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within r3.0’s Passionate Work on Activating Restorative Norms
Who Is
Seeing
within the
Seer?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Many Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences?
r3.0 Conference 2023 | Activating Restorative
Norms (r3-0.org)
Heart-centred
Kosmos with
all sorts of
Seers, Seeing,
and the Seen
from the
Sensory
Surface of
Beings to the
very Heart of
All Beings
Our
DIALOGUES
with various
Others within,
across, and
beyond our
current
readings of
skills in arts,
morals-ethics,
and sciences
EYE OF HEARTSPIRIT
“All of Us, All
of Life,
Altogether”
views of
Restorative
Norms
r3.0 Conf Intro 2023.pptx (r3-0.org)
EYE OF
WORLD-SOUL
INTERINDEPENDENT
“All of Us,
inter-relating
with each
other” views of
Restorative
Norms
EYE OF
RATIONAL
MIND
INDEPENDENT
“US” views of
Restorative
Norms
Our DEBATES
within Our
Social
ContractsDisciplines
EYE OF INFORMATION
DEPENDENT
“US” views of
Restorative
Norms
EYE OF
CORPOREAL
BODY
What Is
Being
Seen?
CONFORMITYLOYALTY to
Our Prescribed
Community
Norms
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Body “ME”
Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Bill Baue’s The Lost Decade: Sustainability Standards Sabotage Sustainability
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
INTER-INDEPENDENT
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
US
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
US
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
With Love
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Modernity?
2014 The European Union (EU) enters the sustainability standards space,
initiating foundational work on its Non-Financial Reporting Directive (NFRD).
2020 When IIRC published its updated International Integrated Reporting
Framework, it acknowledged that humanity is approaching “planetary limits,”
but nevertheless continued to reject integrating the carrying capacities of the
capitals.
2021 GRI releases its revised Universal Standards, eviscerating the “heart of
sustainability reporting” of “placing performance information in the broader
biophysical, social, and economic context” by eliminating contextualized
performance assessment.
2006 In its 3rd Generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G3), GRI advance a nonsensical definition of sustainability (amounting to definitional
introduces the Materiality Principle, inclusive of not only traditional
cooptation) and a sociopathic approach to materiality that has been likened
reporting’s financial materiality thresholds, but also sustainability thresholds to focusing on gunpowder wounds on the trigger finger.
encompassed in Sustainability Context.
2023 I?SB issues its first two Sustainability Disclosure Standards, which fail to
2011 In G3.1, GRI initiates the process of sabotaging sustainability standards integrate sustainability thresholds, and the Basis for Conclusions neglects to
by replacing Significance of Economic, Environmental, and Social Impacts on document the public input urging I?SB to integrate sustainability thresholds.
the horizontal axis of its Materiality Matrix with Significance to the
2023 The EU releases a revised set of ESRS that expand integration of
Organization – shifting the analysis from a systemic to a narcissistic scope.
sustainability thresholds into almost all the Environmental Standards, but
2013 In G4, GRI refuses to provide implementation guidance on the
Sustainability Context Principle, despite the fact that 66 prominent
sustainability experts co-signed a Public Comment Letter urging it to take this
baseline step, and providing a general specification as an example of the
approach GRI could take.
thresholds remain absent from the overarching Standards, as well as from the
Social and Governance Standards. Just before the final release of the entire
set of Standards, the EU releases a Delegated Act that diluted the Standards
from mandatory to voluntary. In the end, the EU adopts the ESRS set with
thresholds intact, as well as a performance standard approach, but retains
2013 In its Conceptual Framework, the Sustainability Accounting Standards the voluntary elements.
Board (SASB) refuses to integrate the thresholds that define sustainability, The Decade Ahead (2023 →)
repudiating the idea that companies should hold themselves accountable for
2023→Scenario One (most likely): sustainability standards continue to
respecting such thresholds (in addition to external accountability
sabotage sustainability.
mechanisms).
2013 In its International Integrated Reporting Framework, the International Scenario Two (possible): sustainability standards make an abrupt about-face
to integrate the thresholds that define sustainability and thereby advance
Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) integrates the multiple capitals, but
refuses to call for respecting the carrying capacities of the capitals (respecting authentic sustainability.
Lost Decade: Susty Standards Sabotage Susty (r3-0.org)
sustainability thresholds).
Born into an
Oriental World
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
2021 The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation
launches an International Sustainability Standards Board (I?SB) that absorbs
IIRC and SASB to build on their foundations to create disclosure standards for
financially material sustainability-related information.
2022 After shifting framing from NFRD to the Corporate Sustainability
Reporting Directive (CSRD) in 2021, the EU develops a set of European
2002 In its 2nd Generation of Sustainability Reporting Guidelines (G2), the Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) Exposure Drafts with sustainability
Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) introduces the Sustainability Context
thresholds absent from the overarching Standard, but included in one of the
Principle, tied to economic, social, and environmental thresholds (“limits and Environment Standards (on Biodiversity).
demands”), thereby establishing an authentic approach to sustainability.
2022 I?SB releases Sustainability Disclosure Standard Exposure Drafts that
Born into a
Primal World
What Is Being Seen?
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
The Lost Decade: 2013 - 2023
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature], and Unity [ErosMasculine Nature], with Agentic
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
Community, and in Our Shared
Humanity, in tune (or not) with
Selected sections from original paper.
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
Historical Context: 2002 - 2013
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
ME
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a PostWorld
World
Modern World
Our DIALOGUES with various
Others within, across, and
beyond our current readings of
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
relations-morals-ethics, and
skills in sciences, in matricessystems-organisations, at local,
national & global scales
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations in
Our Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
Prescribed Community
Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesRituals-Heritage-Traditions
Born into a MetaModern World
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Holds the Transcendent Unity of All Beings
Eye of Heart-Spirit in Emptiness Sees and
Eye of Contemplative World Soul,
Living with Noetic-Yogic Practices of
Purifying, Illuminating, and Unifying
Bodies, Souls, and Hearts, Engages in
Esoteric
Depths
One-in-Many, Many-in-One,
Wholeness and Unity, Wisdom
and Compassion for All Beings
e.g. from my surface self
e.g. Tao
to the Heart of All Beings
Te Ching
e.g. Wise Souls
e.g.
Wise
Seers
Inter-Independent Dialogues, Working on
Transforming Our Personal Selves,
Inter-Personal Relations, and Eco-Social
Worlds, in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Pathways to Wholeness and Unity Are Broken
in Modern Times due to Cartesian Bifurcation
e.g. Inter-Personal, Inter-Cultural, and Inter-Organisational
Relations in Our Local, National, and Global Agreements
Our Eye of Rational Mind Sees OUR Independent Experts-Achievers in OUR Disciplines in Arts, Morals, and Sciences
within Our Schools of Negotiated Action in Primal Traditions, Religious Traditions, Modernity, Post-Modernity, and Meta-Modernity, respectively.
In Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern Disciplines, Our Eye of Rational Mind Tends to be Trained, Using Empirical Methodologies, to Focus Attention on Measuring
Exoteric Surfaces, in Terms of the Familiar Cartesian Coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t). This Restricts Participation in the Universal Qualities of Beauty, Goodness, and Truth.
Exoteric
Surfaces
Our Eye of In-Formation Sees OUR Dependent Conformists-Loyalists Learning and Living with OUR Rules and Roles
within Our Schools of Prescribed Action in Primal Traditions, Religious Traditions, Modernity, Post-Modernity, and Meta-Modernity, respectively.
My Life in Primal Traditions Oriental Traditions Semitic Traditions
Modernity Post-Modernity Meta-Modernity
What Is Being Seen within Five Stages-Levels-Layers of Reality
Stages-Levels-Layers-Degrees of Participation in Beauty, Goodness, and Truth
Who is Seeing: Five Eyes of Potential Knowing within Human Beings
Stages-Levels-Layers in Human Development from ME to US to All of Us, Altogether
From the Heart of All Beings to the Sensory Surface of Things: From the Sensory Surface of Things to the Heart of All Beings
My Eye of Corporeal Body Sees MY Sensory Experiences
WHO is Seeing within the Seer x HOW is Seeing being done with selected methodologies x WHAT is being Seen within Five Levels of Reality
Knowledge depends on the mode of the knower, for what is known is in the knower according to the measure of their mode of knowing [adjusted] – Thomas Aquinas (1225-74)
See Vedic Sanâtana Dharma, Latin Sophia Perennis, Samuel Bendeck Sotillos’ Paths That Lead to the Same Summit, and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy’s Paths That Lead to the Same Summit
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May All Beings Be Happy: Max Wealth for the Few, and Leave All Others with Grim Lives and Futures, or Live Well within
Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability with Wholeness and Tripartite Unity in Nature, Each Community, and Each Person?
We ask here: Which world do you live in? Do you inhabit the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-anima-soul, somacorpus-body) of Nature? Or do you only inhabit physical sub-corporeal worlds, in which only measurements count? Many people believe, in their lives and work,
that only economic growth counts. Thus, in legally authorised and socially myopic duties, at local, national, and global scales, their attention is on maximising
short-term profits and long-term economic wealth in various heartless operations within Business-As-Usual. Consequently, in various inattentive ways, many
marginalise and externalise coldly the health of people and planet (air, waters, soils, plants, and animals) from their immediate concerns and future considerations.
Thus, many of us fail to live Heart-Centred lives, failing to truly LOVE familiar and unfamiliar people, and failing to fully engage with the thriving of life on our
precious planet. So, ALL OF US are “on a highway to climate hell with our foot on the accelerator” (António Guterres, UN Sec-Gen). Let us go much deeper
here in our inquiries: Why are we cascading so madly with various interacting ecological and social crises into TEOTWAWKI (The End of the World as We Know It)?
From Living Worlds Woven Delightfully with Qualities, like Colours,
Many people, in Primal (First Nations), Oriental, and
Many people, in modern, postmodern, and
to Modern Worlds Reduced to Our Selected Sets of Measurements.
Semitic communities, inhabit in various ways in
metamodern communities, learn to inhabit in
varying degrees Qualities – like Colours, Love in
various ways in varying degrees physical subAgape-Eros-Agency-Communion, Beauty in “I-I”
corporeal worlds, represented mathematically in
Skills in Arts, Goodness in “I-We-Thou” Heart-toterms of the familiar spatio-temporal Cartesian
Heart Relations, and Truth in Vision (Who Is Seeing
coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t). So, in inhabiting their
in the Seer? dependent child-student? independent
selected “I-it” indicators, many people tend to
adult? inter-independent elder?), in Methods (How Is
disregard “I-I” and “I-We-Thou” Body-Soul-Heart
Seeing Being Done in arts-narratives-stories-myths?
Qualities that are present in our living worlds, as
in inter-personal relations-morals-ethics? and in monooften in their work they claim authoritatively that
/multi-/inter-/trans-/meta-disciplinary sciences?), and
ONLY THEIR MEASUREMENTS COUNT.
in Outcomes (What Is Being Seen within a given skillConsequently, reality is quantified-flatlanded,
context-discipline-field?) within the Wholeness and
nature denatured (with air, waters, soils, plants,
Tripartite Unity of Nature (Pneuma/Nous-Rūḥ/‘Aqlanimals, and humans heartlessly exploited for
Source of Image: Wolfgang Smith,
Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, psyche-nafs-anima-soul,
short-term profits), qualities (like life, body, mind,
Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » To Be or Not To Be an Apple
and soma-jism-corpus-body in non-modern Greeksoul, spirit, arts, morals, sciences, love, feminine,
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Sun (Heart-Spiritus/IntellectusArabic-Latin-West, or Vedic Tribhuvana in the Oriental Pneuma/Nous)
masculine,
beauty, goodness, truth, justice, music,
outside the cave of space and time seeing all things,
East) – which are more valuable in many situations
colours)
disqualified,
human beings dehumanised,
with various limited ways of seeing apparent things inside the cave
than acquired modern habits of only recognising and
all of them “unfriended”, as increasingly W.E.I.R.D.
of space and time, e.g., Universal Principles and Action Steps from The
Convergence Magazine by Light on Light - Issuu.
privileging selected sets of reductive measurements.
“Ghosts in the Machine.”
Obvious or not, our current cold heartlessness cannot continue. We must change or perish.
As UN Secretary-General António Guterres thunders repeatedly: “Humanity has a choice:
Cooperate or perish. It is either a Climate Solidarity Pact – or a Collective Suicide Pact.”
So, here we must stand, altogether!
We – members of our various Primal, Oriental, Semitic, Modern, Postmodern, and Metamodern
communities – must work with each other to inhabit Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability in which we
are enabled to transform our current lives from my ego-centric “me” isolations, and our various ethnosocio-centric “us versus them” alienations, towards world-centric “all of us, altogether” cooperative
harmonies to live well with each other, with intra-generational and inter-generational equity, within our
planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social distributions of our planet's limited
living capabilities-capacities, within everybody with everybody, and with all of this in tune with the Wholeness and Tripartite Unity of Nature.
Please see: Hottest July ever signals ‘era of global boiling has arrived’ says UN chief | UN News, "Unlearning Economics": Jon Erickson, Josh Farley, Steve Keen, and Kate Raworth | The Great
Simplification, Al Gore: What the fossil fuel industry doesn't want you to know | TED Talk, Job One for Humanity, Climate Emergency Forum - YouTube, ClimateSafe Villages - YouTube.
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Surveying the Integral Cosmos: A Review of ‘Physics &
Vertical Causation’
29 August 2023 Book Review, Philosophy of Physics, Wolfgang Smith
John Trevor Berger
Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » Surveying the Integral Cosmos |
Philos-Sophia Initiative
According to the experts of standard cosmology, we live in a universe
which is uniformly egalitarian, a homogeneous mass of subatomic
particles. And this purported ‘cosmological principle’, we are told, holds
from the furthest observable (and unobservable) reaches of the
universe, to the ordinary moment of lived experience. The problem is
that this world-picture completely contradicts what seems to be
manifest to us, self-evidently, by our five senses as well as our shared,
‘common’ sense of things. If what the experts are telling us is true, then
we really are living in an illusion—and many of them have no qualms
about telling us just that.
For the better part of four decades, Wolfgang Smith has been gradually
chipping away at this impasse, and his project breaks new ground in
Physics and Vertical Causation: The End of Quantum Reality.
First published by Angelico Press in 2019—and now available exclusively
from the Philos-Sophia Initiative—the book is an indispensable
companion to the Initiative’s feature documentary on the life and work
of Prof. Smith, released in 2020, The End of Quantum Reality. It is also
the true sequel to his paradigm-shifting 1995 monograph, The Quantum
Enigma: Finding the Hidden Key—now also available from the PhilosSophia Initiative.
Physics and Vertical Causation (PVC) picks up just where The Quantum
Enigma (TQE) left off: namely, the discovery of ‘vertical causality’ (VC).
Yet while TQE was primarily restricted to VC’s relevance to the resolution
of the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, PVC probes widely
and deeply into the presence of VC throughout the cosmos en masse—
not to mention the ‘microcosm’, man himself. Indeed, while it may not
be readily apparent by the book’s title, the work is, fundamentally, a
study in cosmology; the title simply indicates whence cosmology must,
in our time, take its point of departure. For if, as Smith maintains, physics
is the foundational science—and quantum mechanics “physics come into
its own”—then our entire view of the cosmos is necessarily affected by
how we interpret quantum theory.
One should take special note, incidentally, that the author’s decadeslong project reaches its summit in his last work, Physics: A Science in
Quest of an Ontology (soon to be re-released in a second, Revised and
Expanded edition). And these three books—The Quantum Enigma,
Physics and Vertical Causation, and Physics: A Science in Quest of an
Ontology, in this order—form a kind of ‘trilogy’, each one building upon
the breakthroughs of the previous: a journey from the bare bones of
quantum physics to a full-fledged renascence of Neoplatonist
cosmology, wherein one finally sees how physics generally, and quantum
mechanics specifically, fits into an ordered cosmological hierarchy.1
* * *
Devoted readers of Wolfgang Smith know only too well the great care he
takes—in the formulation of his position on a given issue—to articulate
his ontological distinction between the ‘physical’ and the ‘corporeal’:
to the world “as conceived by the physicist,” versus the world as
originarily manifest to sensory perception. In PVC, he takes a great stride
forward by the introduction of his etiological distinction between
‘horizontal’ and ‘vertical’ causation. But since the etiological distinction
hinges upon the ontological, let’s first take a look at the latter.
Owing in large part to his tremendous philosophical prowess—a rarity
among contemporary scientists—when first confronted with the
quantum reality problem, Smith saw something to which other
theoretical physicists seem to be completely myopic: the conundrums
and ‘paradoxes’ of quantum theory never stemmed from the side of
physics in the first place. Rather, the origin lay in a deeply sedimented
philosophical presupposition—one postulated by the likes of Galileo
Galilei and John Locke, but most closely associated with René Descartes.
Cartesian ‘bifurcation’—a term coined by Alfred North Whitehead,
which Wolfgang Smith has put to good use throughout his authorial
career—constitutes a dichotomy which divides the world into two
substances, namely Thought (res cogitans) and Extension (res extensa).
This gives rise to the belief that the ‘objective’ world can be wholly
described in quantitative terms. In light of Smith’s ontological
distinction, this is tantamount to the reduction of the corporeal to the
physical. Therefore, qualitative attributes—such as colour, sound, or
taste—are taken, in the Cartesian paradigm, to be mental or subjective.
On the other hand, the quantitative attributes—the ‘extended’ (i.e.,
measurable) aspects—of the world are taken to be the ‘really real’.
Quantities are thought to have ontological priority over qualities,
insofar as the latter are merely ‘in our heads’ (res cogitantes). What is
left in the external world, then, are objects which can be accounted for,
without residue, in mathematical terms (res extensae).
Smith’s philosophy of physics rests squarely upon the rejection of
bifurcation, and indeed he has demonstrated that quantum paradox is
itself a byproduct of the Cartesian partition. It is this unexamined
assumption which underlies and, in a way, defines what is commonly
reckoned as the ‘scientific outlook’, and it is precisely this—not, that is
to say, some remaining ‘incompleteness’ in quantum mechanics—that
renders the quandaries of quantum theory insoluble from a technical
standpoint. Remove this epistemological fallacy, however, and
foundational physics starts to make sense. Nor is anything scientific
sacrificed in so doing: what is rejected, rather, is a false philosophical
dichotomy. The physicist, then, is not, in the strict sense, dealing with
the corporeal world—that world in which we find ourselves via cognitive
sense perception—but with a subcorporeal domain: one which has been
discovered, and to a certain degree ‘constructed’, by the interventions
of the physical scientist. And these procedures are what brings into the
sphere of observation what the author identifies as the physical
universe—the world, once again, “as conceived by the physicist.”
Now the ontological distinction, as mentioned above, necessarily
entails a complementary etiological distinction. For if there are these
‘strata’ in the order of being—these two different ‘worlds’ so to speak,
the corporeal and the physical—then there must be some mode of
causation which is capable of traversing between the two, on pain of
not being able to conduct the business of physics to begin with. And
this defines a causality which is unknown to modern physics: a causal
mode that is not field-based, but acts instantaneously—‘above time’
as it were. Hence we have a distinction between horizontal and vertical
causation. Horizontal causation may be generally thought of as
‘physical’—the well known relation of ‘cause-&-effect’ operating in
space and time—whereas vertical causation is supra-spatiotemporal.
The author has thus identified a causal mode whose field of action
vastly exceeds that of physical causation. And the central objective of
PVC is to bring out the immense scientific, cosmological, and
philosophical implications of this discovery.
* * *
Although first recognized within the context of resolving the quantum
measurement problem, Smith found that VC is ubiquitous; its effects
come into view on all sides, even from the strictly operational
viewpoint of the physicist. It makes sense of the fact, for instance, that
corporeal objects do not ‘multilocate’; or that cats cannot be, at once,
dead and alive. The intelligibility and stability of form that we find in
the corporeal world owes precisely to VC. Smith also shows how VC
demystifies J. S. Bell’s celebrated interconnectedness theorem: the
phenomena of ‘nonlocal’ interactions become perfectly intelligible
once we see that there can in fact be cause-to-effect relations which
do not involve a transfer of energy through space. It is worth pointing
out, in this connection, that the ‘instantaneity’ of VC is truly
atemporal—not just ‘super-fast’.
PVC argues as well for the crucial role that VC plays in biology, which
for nearly two centuries has been basically reduced to physics, for no
better reason than that the Cartesian axiom necessitates such a
reduction; res extensae are, after all, governed by horizontal causation
alone. Smith demonstrates the invalidity of said reduction, specifically,
in arguing that a physicalist biology—by virtue of its inability to
recognize vertical effects—is, in principle, incapable of comprehending
the physiology of a living organism. In other words, a physiology based
upon the contemporary paradigm is able to comprehend an organism
only to the extent that it is inorganic!
Finally, as he ascends to the anthropic level, the author explains how
VC accounts for man’s ability to produce ‘complex specified
information’ (CSI). Indeed, it follows upon the strength of William
Dembski’s 1998 theorem that CSI cannot be produced by means of
horizontal causality: our very ability to generate CSI—or, if you prefer,
intelligible forms—necessitates the existence of VC.
* * *
What is perhaps the most astonishing about PVC—especially to those
unfamiliar with premodern thought—is Wolfgang Smith’s analysis and
appropriation of what he terms the ‘tripartite cosmos’, manifested, in
its respective ways, in both the macrocosm (the world) and the
microcosm (the human person). His analysis of the ‘cosmic icon’
the human person is one, integral being. Neither macrocosm nor
microcosm is ‘three beings’, but rather one being with three ‘levels’.
The cosmic icon, in any case, depicts human nature as well as the cosmos
at large.
* * *
2 gives us a concise symbolic
depiction which effectively encapsulates the cosmic tripartition. The
book’s magisterial final chapter, “Pondering the Cosmic Icon,” brings into
full view this fecund symbol—to which the author has referred in
previous works as a kind of primordial archetype whose presence
reverberates throughout traditional cultures—and we find in following
Smith’s decoding of the icon the rediscovery of an integral cosmos.
But the author really breathes new life into the cosmic icon, and what it
depicts, insofar as his reflections on the import of modern physics play
an important role in his definitions. First basing himself upon traditional
sources, Smith posits that the cosmos consists of three tiers or domains:
the corporeal, the intermediary, and the spiritual.3 What makes Smith’s
account of the cosmic tripartition unique is that he differentiates these
three domains vis-à-vis their spatio-temporal ‘bounds’. That is to say,
whereas the corporeal world is bound by the conditions of space and
time, the intermediary is bound by time alone, while the spiritual is
bound by neither space nor time. One should note well here that the
corporeal domain—the sensorily perceived world in its entirety—is
actually the lowest stratum of the cosmic hierarchy. From the latter it
follows that the physical, or ‘subcorporeal’, is technically ‘below the
bottom’ of cosmic reality; hence the author’s characterization of physical
objects as ‘sub-existential’. The architecture of this trichotomy, then, is
accompanied by the realization that our vaunted differential equations
simply do not apply above the corporeal plane, for the simple reason that
said equations presuppose the bounds of space and time. Whereas VC
acts from the highest reaches of the ontological hierarchy, physics—by
virtue of its modus operandi—is restricted, once again, to the ‘lower
third’ of the tripartite cosmos.
As for man himself: the microcosm is constituted by the tripartition of
body (corpus or soma), soul (anima or psyche), and spirit (spiritus or
pneuma). Inasmuch as the human person is a true ‘cosmos in miniature’,
whatever can be said of the macrocosm is echoed in the microcosm. For
instance, while the body is bound by space and time, the soul is bound
by time alone, and the spirit by neither space nor time. But it’s crucial to
remember that, just as the macrocosm is one, integral being—whose
tiers are distinguishable, but not separated, by particular bounds—so
What is also new in PVC—and which will no doubt come to the surprise
(and consternation) of many—is Prof. Smith’s final and decisive break
with the physics of Albert Einstein.4 While in previous decades Smith
suggested that while the theory of relativity may well pertain to the
physical universe, it does not, strictly speaking, pertain to the corporeal
world. PVC, however, tells a new tale. Smith now lays it down
categorically that, even on purely physical grounds, Einsteinian relativity
is a no-go. And it turns out that relativity falls on shockingly simple
theoretical grounds. The author also provides a brief exposé on several
little-publicized falsifications of relativity on empirical grounds.
Upon analysis of the basic premises of Einstein’s original 1905 paper on
special relativity, Smith finds that Einstein’s Principle of Relativity is
based upon little more than the fact that it offers a reason why the
Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 failed to detect any orbital
velocity of Earth. That the principle of relativity preserves the Copernican
cosmological principle may explain why—even in spite of adverse
empirical findings from Einstein’s time to the present day—the theory
remains sacrosanct by the physics establishment. Intriguingly, we also
learn that the renowned formula E = mc²—perhaps the most celebrated
‘proof’ of Einstein’s theory—is derivable from classical electrodynamics.
Smith contends that, in the final count, Einsteinian relativity is founded
on ideological grounds, not empirical ones.
Of the many areas of inquiry wherein ideological scientism has instigated
what the author characterizes as a “war on design,” two in particular
stand out: (1) Darwinism, which denies design in the origin of biological
species; and (2) relativistic physics, which negates design on a cosmic
scale. Apropos the latter, Smith’s argument is that the equations of
classical physics, in conjunction with Mach’s principle, actually imply a
geocentric cosmos—and this is surely the epitome of design ‘on a cosmic
scale’.
The possibility of Einsteinian space-time is, furthermore, ruled out on
rigorous metaphysical grounds, in light of the author’s reflections on the
tripartition of the integral cosmos. For if the bounds of space and time
are ontologically incommensurable, there simply cannot be—as a matter
of principle—any such intelligibly combined phenomenon of ‘spacetime’. Moreover, Smith demonstrates that an ‘absolute simultaneity’, a
universal Now—categorically absent from the notion of Einsteinian
space-time—is globally defined throughout the corporeal cosmos.
* * *
A final note: The epithet “the end of quantum reality”—the subtitle of
the book and title of the documentary film—has been met with some
unwarranted prima facie skepticism. Is Wolfgang Smith suggesting we
abandon quantum physics, after all the technological wonders it has
wrought for instance? Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact,
Prof. Smith is among quantum mechanics’ strongest defenders.
What, then, does this ‘end’ refer to? It refers to the end of a spurious
cosmography which would reduce the corporeal world to the physical
universe: the popular notion that all those corporeal entities with
which we are in continuous contact are no more than ‘aggregates of
subatomic particles’—to wit, the idea that reality is fundamentally a
quantum reality. But quantum physics is one thing, while ‘quantum
reality’ is something else entirely. There is thus no ‘pseudoscientific
obscurantism’ here. Quite to the contrary: we are here presented a
cosmological vision which renders pseudoscientific—or at any rate
untenable—the pop-cosmology peddled for decades by the likes of
Stephen Hawking, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Lawrence Krauss, et al. It is this
false picture which comes to an ‘end’. After absorbing Smith’s insights
one realizes just to what extent authentic science has been
contaminated by fallacious philosophical presuppositions which have
no place in scientific inquiry. By drawing a clear distinction between
physics and philosophy, the author brings the true nature of physics
into optimal clarity. On seeing this, we find that the genuine,
‘operational’ findings of quantum physics fit like a glove into the
ontological hierarchy and the perennial wisdom of mankind.
What emerges from the considerations of Physics and Vertical
Causation is an incomparably enlarged worldview: a cosmos vast
enough to encompass all of modern science—from the distant stars to
subatomic particles—as well as the quintessential patrimony of
antiquity. The discovery of vertical causality has reopened the door to
truths higher than those discoverable by empiriological means.
Wolfgang Smith has shown that a radical expansion of our worldview
is both scientifically admissible and absolutely necessary for a proper
understanding of physics, not to mention our own human nature.
References:
1.
Recall that, in the original Greek, the word for cosmos is the
antithesis of chaos. If the universe really were just a
homogenous amalgam of ‘quantum stuff’, no model of it could
meaningfully lay claim to being a bona fide ‘cosmology’.
2.
Impressively featured in The End of Quantum Reality—but not
fully explained! Again, the book and the film are complementary.
3.
Readers familiar with his more recent work will note that the
‘spiritual’ (or ‘celestial’) is now customarily designated by the
term ‘aeviternal’. For all intents and purposes one may take
‘spiritual’, ‘celestial’, and ‘aeviternal’ as interchangeable.
4.
More accurately: with how Einstein is conceived in the popular
imagination, viz. in association with his theory of relativity.
Einstein in fact made two major discoveries having nothing to do
with relativity, one on the photoelectric effect (for which he duly
received the Nobel), the other on Brownian motion. That these
are bona fide contributions to the field is beyond dispute.
John Trevor Berger is Editor of PSI Publishing. A writer and musician
from Atlanta, he is a graduate of Georgia State University, where he
studied Philosophy, English Literature, and Art History.
The Fundamental Crisis in Our W.E.I.R.D. Modern World’s “War on Nature”
The integral kosmos and integral human being are ontologically tripartite, composed of the
Tribhuvana or “triple world” in the Vedic East, Pneuma/Nous-Rūḥ/‘Aql-Spiritus/IntellectusHeart, psyche-nafs-anima-soul, and soma-jism-corpus-body in Greek-Arabic-Latin-English.
In ordinary corporeal worlds, various QUALITIES, like
COLOURS, are more valuable in many situations than
reductive measurements.
In the modern cosmos, human beings learn to inhabit a spatio-temporal world
represented mathematically in terms of three spatial coordinates and
a linear temporal coordinate: the familiar Cartesian quadruple (x1, x2, x3, t).
In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, regardless of
various body-soul-heart qualities that are present in a living
context, only MEASUREMENTS count.
Source: Wolfgang Smith, To Be Or Not To Be An Apple, Philos-Sophia Initiative.
In corporeal worlds, QUALITIES – like colours, love, and other virtues that In modern physical sub-corporeal spatio-temporal worlds, represented
presence beauty, goodness, and truth in various ways – have more value in mathematically in terms of the familiar Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t),
many situations than QUANTITIES-measurements-data. Moreover, qualities QUANTITIES-measurements-data have primacy in many situations. Thus,
participate in the Wholeness of Nature (spiritus-heart, anima-soul, and Nature tends to be denatured, human beings dehumanised, qualities (like
corpus-body) in principial equilibrium, uniting various complementaries and life, love, mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine, masculine, et
oppositions (silence-sound, essence-substance, masculine-feminine, yang- al.) disqualified, “unfriended” as “ghosts in the machine.” This is said to be
yin, good-evil, et al.) at the Heart of All Beings. What is GOOD for planetary good? for economic growth, opening pathways for technological innovations,
health and human happiness is human beings becoming fully alive, living with attention on making evermore profits, mandated by law, with limited or
creatively in tune with Universal Spirit (Seer) and Sacred Nature (Seen).
no responsibility for spiritual transformation from ego- to Heart-Centredness.
Inhabitants: People living in tune with Universal Spirit and Mother Nature (Sat-Chit-Ananda) include Inhabitants: People operating with Cartesian principles (res extensae [extended things in space-time], and
Heart-Centred philosophers, metaphysicians, mythologists, and storytellers in our Primal Traditions (in res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]) include modernists, who hold that “physics is the basis of reality and
Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas, Oceania, et al.) and in our World Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, that science and rationality set people free,” postmodernists, who hold “a critical stance towards
Christianity, Islam, Taoism et al.) that say: 1) beyond the worlds of things, lives, minds, and souls is Divine knowledge and science, and power structures, unconscious drives, cognitive biases, and arbitrary social
Presence, 2) in living beings, there is a natural capacity for, a relative similarity to, and a deep longing constructions that enthral human minds,” and metamodernists, who hold “a worldview which combines
for Divine Presence, and 3) the true goal of existence is conscious participation in Divine Presence.
the modern faith in progress with the postmodern critique” (Source: Metamoderna).
“According to the traditional wisdom of humankind, the anthropos constitutes actually a microcosm: a Susanne Cook-Greuter, Vertical Development Academy, in Paul van Schaik’s Urban Hub 23: Integral Africa,
“cosmos in miniature,” a fact which entails that even as a human being is tripartite – consisting of corpus p. 116, refers to our W.E.I.R.D. English mediated version of reality, and “how the world is being colonized
(body), anima (soul), and spiritus (heart) in the Latin West, the tribhuvana or “triple world” in the Vedic and influenced by Western ideas of what it means to be a developing human being.” W.E.I.R.D. (original
East – so too is the cosmos at large tripartite (corporeal, intermediary, and spiritual). It is thus the artist, version found in behavioral sciences) – Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic. W.E.I.R.D.
and above all the saint – the “pure in heart” – who know how to perceive” (adjusted), Wolfgang Smith, (Susanne Cook-Greuter’s version) – White, Educated, Integrally-informed, (post)-Rational, Developmental.
The End of Quantum Reality, Physics and Vertical Causation, The Vertical Ascent, The Quantum Enigma, W.E.I.R.D. (my version) – Western, Educated in modern Cartesian principles (res extensae [extended things
Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions, Science & Myth, Cosmos & Transcendence, and his essays, in space-time], and res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]), Industrialised in mechanistic information
Vertical Causation and Wholeness, The Tripartite Wholeness, Cosmic versus Measurable Time et al., Philos- systems, Rich in exploiting Nature’s limited resources beyond our only planet’s natural carrying capacities,
Sophia Initiative; Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Who Is Man? (Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol.2, No.1); Ananda Democratic in reducing the quality of human maturity to a single vote in regular or occasional political
K. Coomaraswamy, The Christian and Oriental, or True, Philosophy of Art; Whitall N. Perry, The Spiritual elections. Moreover, much of this also tends to be V.U.C.A.: Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous.
Ascent (previously A Treasury of Traditional Wisdom); Titus Burckhardt, Sacred Art in East and West, The A Key Question for All of Us in the 2020s: Are there healthy ways to integrate the limited worthwhile
Universality of Sacred Art, The Seven Liberal Arts (Studies in Comparative Religion, Vol.16, No.1&2, discoveries that have been made and continue to be made within our modern physical spatio-temporal
www.studiesincomparativereligion.com); Henri Bortoft, The Wholeness of Nature; Cynthia Bourgeault, Eye worlds into a living harmony within corpus-anima-spiritus, within Universal Spirit and Mother Nature, on
of the Heart; Richard Rohr, The Universal Christ; Center for Action and Contemplation (cac.org); Karen our planet? Footnotes2Plato | Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation, Wolfgang Smith & John Vervaeke: a
Armstrong, Sacred Nature; Samuel Bendeck Sotillos, The Transfiguration of the Human Being et al.
Dialogos on Turning Toward a Science Grounded in Platonism & Levels of Intelligibility – John Vervaeke.
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Secretary-General's opening remarks at press conference on
climate | United Nations Secretary-General, 27 July 2023.
A very good morning.
Humanity is in the hotseat.
Today, the World Meteorological Organization and the
European Commission’s Copernicus Climate Change Service are
releasing official data that confirms that July 2023 is set to be
the hottest month ever recorded in human history.
We don’t have to wait for the end of the month to know this.
Short of a mini-Ice Age over the next days, July 2023 will shatter
records across the board.
According to the data released today, July has already seen the
hottest three-week period ever recorded; the three hottest
days on record; and the highest-ever ocean temperatures for
this time of year.
The consequences are clear and they are tragic: children swept
away by monsoon rains; families running from the flames;
workers collapsing in scorching heat.
For vast parts of North America, Asia, Africa and Europe – it is a
cruel summer.
For the entire planet, it is a disaster.
And for scientists, it is unequivocal – humans are to blame.
All this is entirely consistent with predictions and repeated
warnings.
The only surprise is the speed of the change.
Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the
beginning.
The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling
has arrived.
The air is unbreathable. The heat is unbearable. And the level
of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.
Leaders must lead.
No more hesitancy. No more excuses. No more waiting for
others to move first.
There is simply no more time for that.
It is still possible to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees
Celsius and avoid the very worst of climate change.
But only with dramatic, immediate climate action.
We have seen some progress. A robust rollout of renewables.
Some positive steps from sectors such as shipping.
But none of this is going far enough or fast enough.
Accelerating temperatures demand accelerated action.
We have several critical opportunities ahead.
The Africa Climate Summit. The G20 Summit. The UN Climate
Ambition Summit. COP28.
But leaders – and particularly G20 countries responsible for
80% of global emissions – must step up for climate action and
climate justice.
What does that mean in practice?
First, emissions.
We need ambitious new national emissions reduction targets
from G20 members.
And we need all countries to take action in line with my Climate
Solidarity Pact and Acceleration Agenda:
Hitting fast forward so that developed countries commit to
reach net zero emissions as close as possible to 2040, and
emerging economies as close as possible to 2050, with support
from developed countries to do so.
And all actors must come together to accelerate a just and
equitable transition from fossil fuels to renewables -- as we stop
oil and gas expansion, and funding and licensing for new coal, oil
and gas.
Credible plans must also be presented to exit coal by 2030 for
OECD countries and 2040 for the rest of the world.
Ambitious renewable energy goals must be in line with the 1.5
degree limit.
And we must reach net zero electricity by 2035 in developed
countries and 2040 elsewhere, as we work to bring affordable
electricity to everyone on earth.
We also need action from leaders beyond governments.
I urge companies as well as cities, regions, and financial
institutions to come to the Climate Ambition Summit with
credible transition plans that are fully aligned with the United
Nations’ net zero standard, presented by our High-Level Expert
Group.
Financial institutions must end their fossil fuel lending,
underwriting and investments and shift to renewables instead.
And fossil fuel companies must chart their move towards clean
energy, with detailed transition plans across the entire value
chain:
No more greenwashing. No more deception. And no more
abusive distortion of anti-trust laws to sabotage net zero
alliances.
Second, adaptation.
Extreme weather is becoming the new normal.
All countries must respond and protect their people from the
searing heat, fatal floods, storms, droughts, and raging fires that
result.
Those countries on the frontlines -- who have done the least to
cause the crisis and have the least resources to deal with it -must have the support they need to do so.
It is time for a global surge in adaptation investment to save
millions of lives from climate [carnage.]
That requires unprecedented coordination around the priorities
and plans of vulnerable developing countries.
Developed countries must present a clear and credible roadmap
to double adaptation finance by 2025 as a first step towards
devoting at least half of all climate finance to adaptation.
Every person on earth must be covered by an early warning
system by 2027 – by implementing the Action Plan we launched
last year.
And countries should consider a set of global goals to mobilize
international action and support on adaptation.
That leads to the third area for accelerated action – finance.
Promises made on international climate finance must be promises
kept.
Developed countries must honour their commitments to provide
$100 billion a year to developing countries for climate support
and fully replenish the Green Climate Fund.
I am concerned that only two G7 countries – Canada and Germany
– have made until now replenishment pledges.
Countries must also operationalize the loss and damage fund at
COP28 this year. No more delays; no more excuses.
More broadly, many banks, investors and other financial actors
continue to reward polluters and incentivize wrecking the planet.
We need a course correction in the global financial system so that
it supports accelerated climate action.
That includes putting a price on carbon and pushing the
multilateral development banks to overhaul their business models
and approaches to risk.
We need the multilateral development banks leveraging their
funds to mobilize much more private finance at reasonable cost to
developing countries -- and scaling up their funding to
renewables, adaptation and loss and damage.
In all these areas, we need governments, civil society, business
and others working in partnership to deliver.
I look forward to welcoming first-movers and doers on the
Acceleration Agenda to New York for the Climate Ambition
Summit in September.
And to hearing how leaders will respond to the facts before us.
This is the price of entry.
The evidence is everywhere: humanity has unleashed
destruction.
This must not inspire despair, but
action.
We can still stop the worst.
But to do so we must turn a year of
burning heat into a year of burning
ambition.
And accelerate climate action –
now.
Three Concise Views of Human Development:
From “ME” to “US” to “All of Us, Humanity and Nature, Altogether”
Feminine Presence of Wholeness
3. Worldcentric “All of Us”,
with Each Other, Altogether
+ Ethno-Socio-centric “US”
Our Community
+ Egocentric “ME”
My Body
Nondual:
Emptiness
is Form;
Form is
Emptiness
The Dream
Metaphor
of Mary &
Jane
(Rupert
Spira
Summary) |
Sloww
Source of Image:
Ken Wilber, The Integral Vision,
Welcome to Integral Life – Integral Life
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave: Sun (Heart-Intellect-Pneuma), outside the
cave of space and time, seeing all things, with various limited ways of
seeing apparent things inside the cave of space and time.
18. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Causal Formless)
17. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Subtle Archetypal)
16. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart (Integrative Visioning)
15. Vision-logic (late, ~28 years onward): Cross-paradigmatic
engagements, dialectical developmentalism with seer [who is seeing] x
seeing [how is seeing being done in arts-morals-sciences] x seen [what
is being seen in a skill-context-field] x why [purpose, good or ill]
dynamics as World Process-Soul
14. Vision-logic (middle): Inter-connects various contexts-histories
13. Vision-logic (early, ~21 years onward): Initial inclusivist-pluralist
skills-stories-contexts-contracts-disciplines-matrices-systems, diverse
dynamic multi-cross-inter-trans-meta-disciplinary contexts-histories
5. All of Us, Humanity and Nature
(Heart-Soul-Body), Altogether
4. All of Us,
Interconnecting with Each Other,
Inter-Independent Inclusivists
3. Us, Our Social Contracts Centred,
Independent Disciplinary
Experts-Achievers
2. Us, Our Community Centred,
Dependent Rules-Roles Conformists
1. Me, My Body Centred
2. Ethnocentric “US”
Our Community
+ Egocentric “ME”
My Body
1. Egocentric “ME”
My Body
Masculine Quest for Unity
12. Formal rational mind (late formal operations, self-/we-authorised
expert-achiever disciplinary esteem): Multiple static formal rational
readings of skills-stories-contexts-contracts-disciplines-systems
11. Formal rational mind (early formal operations, ~11-21 years):
thinking-feeling about thinking-feeling, questioning literal exclusive
readings of skills-narratives-stories-myths-concepts-symbols-imagesemotions-impulses, formalising rationality, static universal formalism
10. Rules-roles mind (late concrete operations): OUR literal one-rightway myths, OUR rationalisations of OUR exclusive mythic structures
9. Rules-roles mind (early concrete operations, belonging, ~7-11 years):
Concrete-literal readings of narratives, stories, myths, images, symbols,
concepts, emotions, and impulses; learning OUR skills in reason, will,
sentiments, imagination, and memory; locus of mythic power is in OUR
deified mythic socio-political Order (family, tribe, community, or nation)
8. Concept (representational mind) (~2-4 years): Ego omnipotence
transferred to local Power-Gods
7. Endocept: Ego omnipotence challenged
6. Symbol (~2 years): Locus of magic power = ego
5. Image: Word magic, phantasmic-emotional, narcissistic
4. Impulse (~9 months): Subject-object fusions “selfobject”
3. Exocept “hatching” (~5-9 months): Hallucinatory wish fulfillment
2. Perception: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body
1. Sensation: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight,
smell, sound, taste, and touch)
Matter (sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, polymer, cellular): Undifferentiated, pleromatic body
Adapted from: Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, Transformations of Consciousness, Integral Psychology, Integral Spirituality. Notwithstanding the reductionist claims of many modern scientists, such as “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons”.
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Approximate Correspondences of Stages-Levels-Layers in Human Development Across Selected Models
Kosmoscentric Ways of Living
Worldcentric
Ethnocentric Sociocentric
Egocentric
ME (in Dependence)
US (in Independence)
All of Us, Altogether (in Inter-Independencies)
Who is
Seeing
in the
Seer?
Abraham
Maslow
Hierarchy
of Needs
Jane
Loevinger
WUSCT, Ego
Development
Robert Kegan
Orders of
Consciousness
Jennifer Garvey Berger
Susanne
Cook-Greuter
MAP
VeDA’s LMF
William R.
Torbert
GLP ActionLogics
Edward J.
Kelly
ActionLogics
Kurt Fischer
Skill Assessment,
Theo Dawson
LAS, Lectica
Clare W.
Graves,
Spiral
Dynamics
Non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern worlds tend to inhabit different understandings of human development.
Non-modern worlds value the spiritual “I-I” journey from my self to True Self, Divine Qualities, and Oneness with the Wholeness of Nature.
Modern worlds, informed by Cartesian bifurcation, value things that can be measured, primarily measurements of res extensae in modern
physical and life sciences, and secondarily measurements of res cogitantes, often reduced to modern psychometrics and/or sociometrics.
Post-modern worlds tend to critique modern lifeless mechanics with living systems designs, often in terms of non-hierarchical relations.
Meta-modern worlds tend to value from less to more complex, developmental, or evolutionary understandings, with some choosing to use
models of adult development, like the models presented here [also see the charts in Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology (pp. 197-217)].
Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability involves inter-relating non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern values at child “ME”,
adult “US”, and sage “All of Us, Altogether” stages-levels-layers of development within the Wholeness (Spiritus-Anima-Corpus) of Nature.
Unitive
Ironist
SelfTranscendence
SelfActualisation
Integrated
e9
Autonomous
e8
Aesthetic
Individualistic
e7
Cognitive
Conscientious
e6
Self-Esteem
Self-Aware
e5
Belonging
Conformist
e4
Delta
e3
Socialized/
Interpersonal
(Third Order)
GroupCentred
Diplomat
Diplomat
Safety
Self-Protective
e3
Instrumental/
Imperial
(Second Order)
Self-Centred
Opportunist
Opportunist
SelfTransforming/
Inter-Individual
(Fifth Order)
Self-Authoring/
Institutional
(Fourth Order)
Construct
Aware
SelfActualising
AlchemistMagician
Alchemical
Strategist
Transforming
SelfQuestioning
Individualist
Redefining
Abstract Systems
(Ab3)
SelfDetermining
Achiever
Achiever
Abstract
Mappings (Ab2)
Skill-Centred
Expert
Technician
Expert
(Ab1/Rp4) Single
Abstractions
Impulsive
e2
Survival
Pre-Social
e1
Impulsive
(First Order)
Principled
Systems (P3)
Principled
Mappings (P2)
Single Principles/
Axioms (P1/Ab4)
Impulsive
Impulsive
Representational
Systems (Rp3)
Representational
Mappings (Rp2)
(Rp1/A4) Single
Representations
Action
Sensorimotor
(A1, A2, A3)
Turquoise
Global View
Yellow
Flex Flow
Green
Human
Bond
John Kesler
Integral
Polarity
Practice
Worlds
Aware
Kosmic
Aware
Pattern
Aware
Construct
Aware
Systems
Aware
Context
Aware
Achievement
Orange
Strive Drive
Blue
Truth Force
Red
Power Gods
Expertise
Meaning
Discerning
Awareness
Power
Relations
Purple
Kin Spirits
Seeking
Beige
Survival
Sense
Life
Ken Wilber
Integral
AQAL Theory
Terri O’Fallon
STAGES
Pacific
Integral
Nondual
Unity
(Clear Light
White,
Ultraviolet,
Violet)
Unified Tier
(7.0 – 8.5 pp)
(Indigo)
Graded
Wholeness
(Turquoise)
Holistic
(Teal)
Pluralist
Harmony
(Green)
Rational
Achievement
(Orange)
Mythic Love
(Amber)
Magic Power
Vitality (Red)
Magic Sex
(Magenta)
ArchaicHunger
(CrimsonInfrared)
Illumined
(6.5 pp)
Universal
(6.0 pp)
Transpersonal
(5.5 pp)
Construct
Aware (5.0 pp)
Strategist
(4.5 pp)
Pluralist
(4.0 pp)
Achiever
(3.5 pp)
Expert
(3.0 pp)
Conformist
(2.5 pp)
Rule Oriented
(2.0 pp)
Egocentric
(1.5 pp)
Impulsive
(1.0 pp)
(pp = person
perspective)
Proposed correspondences of stages-levels-layers across these selected models of human development are approximate. Keep in mind each model privileges its own selected sets of variables, such as linear time within
Cartesian coordinates. Adapted from: Tom Murray, Sentence Completion Assessments for Ego Development, Meaning-Making, and Wisdom Maturity, Including STAGES, Integral Leadership Review, Aug.-Nov.2017.
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Three, Five, or Eighteen Stages-Levels-Layers-Degrees of Skilfulness within Various Values within Each Person,
within Inter-Personal Relations within Communities, and within Sciences within Our Organisations
All of Us
US
In Our Love: in creative plays of Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
In My Love: in AgapeEros-Agency-Philia
ME
In Divine Love: in creative plays of
Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Varying Capabilities in Various Skills in Arts, in Morals-Ethics in
Inter-Personal Relations, and in Various Sciences, in each Person, in
each Community, and in each Organisation, in our Eco-Society
18. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus-Heart (Causal Formless)
17. Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus-Heart (Subtle Archetypal)
16. Pneuma-Spiritus-Heart (Integrative Heartful Visioning)
15. Vision-logic (late, ~28 years onward): Cross-paradigmatic
engagements, dialectical developmentalism with seer [who
is seeing] x seeing [how is seeing being done in arts-moralssciences] x seen [what is being seen in a skill-context] x why
[purpose, good or ill] dynamics as World Process-Soul
14. Vision-logic (middle): Inter-relates contexts-histories
13. Vision-logic (early, ~21 years onward): Inclusivistpluralist-dynamic skills-contexts-contracts-disciplinesfields-histories-matrices-systems
12. Formal rational mind (late formal operations,
self-/we-authorised expert-achiever disciplinary esteem):
Multiple static formal rational contracts-disciplines-systems
11. Formal rational mind (early formal operations, ~11-21
years): thinking-feeling about thinking-feeling, questioning
literal exclusive readings of symbols-myths-concepts,
formalising rationality, static universal formalism
10. Rules-roles mind (late concrete operations):
OUR literal one-right-way myths, OUR rationalisations of
OUR exclusive socio-political mythic structures-functions
9. Rules-roles mind (early concrete operations, belonging,
~7-11 years): Concrete-literal readings of myths, concepts,
symbols, images, and impulses; learning OUR skills in
reason, will, sentiments, imagination, and memory; locus of
mythic power is in OUR deified mythic socio-political Order
8. Concept (representational mind) (~2-4 years):
Ego omnipotence transferred to local Power-Gods
7. Endocept: Ego omnipotence challenged
6. Symbol (~2 years): Locus of magic power = ego
5. Image: Word magic, phantasmic-emotional, narcissistic
4. Impulse (~9 months): Subject-object fusions “selfobject”
3. Exocept “hatching” (~5-9 months): Hallucinatory wish
fulfillment
Primal
Values
Oriental
Values
Semitic
Values
Modern
Values
Postmodern
Values
Metamodern
Values
Heart-Centred Arts, Morals, and Sciences, One-in-All, All-in-One, Humanity and Nature, Altogether
No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Heart, Psyche-Anima-Soul, and Soma-Corpus-Body),
nor Vedic Tribhuvana (Svar-Bhuvas-Bhū), within Modern, Postmodern, or Metamodern Sets of Values.
Inter-Independent “I-I” skills in individual and collective arts, “I-We-Thou” skills in inter-personal relations-moralsethics-cultures, and “I-Org” skills in sciences, interconnecting with each other, within, across, and beyond various
schools within a Primal Tradition (various schools within First Peoples in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South
America, Australia, and Oceania), various Schools within an Oriental Tradition (various schools within Taoism,
Confucianism, Shintoism, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism et al.), and various Schools within a Semitic
Tradition (various schools within Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.), and within, across, and beyond various
schools with Modern (sciences of measurement) sets of values, various schools with Postmodern (critiques of
lifeless mechanics and authoritarian knowledge claims) sets of values, and various schools with Metamodern
(working to hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether) sets of values, within, across, and beyond
various places in Europe, North-Central-South America, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Oceania.
Independent
Independent
Independent
Independent
Independent
Independent
expertsexpertsexpertsexpertsexpertsexpertsachievers in one achievers in one achievers in one achievers in one achievers in one achievers in one
or more Arts,
or more Arts,
or more Arts,
or more Arts,
or more Arts,
or more Arts,
Morals, or
Morals, or
Morals, or
Morals, or
Morals, or
Morals, or
Sciences in one
Sciences in one
Sciences in one
Sciences in one
Sciences in one
Sciences in one
or more Schools or more Schools or more Schools or more Schools or more Schools or more Schools
in our Primal
in our Oriental
in our Semitic
with our Modern
with our Postwith our MetaTradition
Tradition
Tradition
Values
modern Values
modern Values
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
in our Primal
Tradition
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
in our Oriental
Tradition
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
in our Semitic
Tradition
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
with our Modern
Values
Born into a
Born into a
Born into a
Born into a
Community in a
Community in
Community in a
Community with
Primal Tradition
an Oriental
Semitic Tradition
Modern Values
in Africa, Asia,
Tradition
(Judaism,
in Europe, Asia,
Europe,
(Hinduism,
Christianity,
Africa, Americas
Americas et al.
Buddhism et al.)
Islam et al.)
and other places
2. Perception: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)
1. Sensation: Self-enclosed, uroboric, sensory-corporeal body (sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch)
Matter (sub-atomic, atomic, molecular, polymer, cellular): Undifferentiated, pleromatic body
Nondual: Emptiness is Form; Form is Emptiness
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
with our
Postmodern
Values
Dependent
students in skills
in one or more
Arts, Morals, or
Sciences in one
or more Schools
with our
Metamodern
Values
Born into a
Community with
Postmodern
Values in
Europe, Africa,
Asia, Americas
Born into a
Community with
Metamodern
Values in
Europe, Africa,
Asia, Americas
Adapted from: Ken Wilber, The Atman Project, Transformations of Consciousness, Integral Psychology, Integral Spirituality. Notwithstanding the reductionist claims of many modern scientists, such as “You’re nothing but a pack of neurons”.
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Looking into the Philosophical Roots of Current Obsessions with Limitless Economic Growth on Our Limited Planet
On Cartesian Bifurcation in the 1920s
Whitehead spoke of the “bifurcation of nature into two systems of reality” (1920
[1986: 30]) to denote the strategy—originating with Galileo, Descartes, Boyle and
Locke—of bifurcating nature into the essential reality of primary qualities and the
non-essential reality of “psychic additions” or secondary qualities, ultimately to be
explained away in terms of primary qualities. Whitehead sided with Berkeley in
arguing that the primary/secondary distinction is not tenable (1920 [1986: 43–44]), that
all qualities are “in the same boat, to sink or swim together” (1920 [1986: 148]), and that,
for example,
“The safest general
characterization of the
European philosophical
tradition is that it consists of
a series of footnotes to
Plato.”
Alfred North Whitehead
Vedic Tradition
Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)
Excerpt from Alfred North Whitehead (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Modern West
the red glow of the sunset should be as much part of nature as are the molecules and
electric waves by which men of science would explain the phenomenon. (1920 [1986:
29])
Whitehead described the philosophical outcome of the bifurcation of nature as follows:
The primary qualities are the essential qualities of substances whose spatiotemporal relationships constitute nature. … The occurrences of nature are in some
way apprehended by minds … But the mind in apprehending also experiences
sensations which, properly speaking, are qualities of the mind alone. These sensations
are projected by the mind so as to clothe appropriate bodies in external nature. Thus the
bodies are perceived as with qualities which in reality do not belong to them, qualities
which in fact are purely the offspring of the mind. Thus nature gets credit which should
in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for his song: and
the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics
to themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency
of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colorless; merely the
hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly. (1925 [1967: 54])
“The enormous success of the scientific abstractions”, Whitehead wrote, “has foisted
onto philosophy the task of accepting them as the most concrete rendering of fact”
and, he added:
Thereby, modern philosophy has been ruined. It has oscillated in a complex manner
between three extremes. There are the dualists, who accept matter and mind as on
an equal basis, and the two varieties of monists, those who put mind inside matter,
and those who put matter inside mind. But this juggling with abstractions can never
overcome the inherent confusion introduced by the ascription of misplaced
concreteness to the scientific scheme. (1925 [1967: 55])
On Cartesian Bifurcation in 2023: An Excerpt from Wolfgang Smith’s Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology
To the extent that modern physics possesses an ontology
at all, it has tended to be the Cartesian doctrine of
"bifurcation." Not only, however, does this thesis prove to
be untenable, but since the advent of quantum theory it has
rendered physics de facto incomprehensible. This book
introduces an astoundingly uncomplicated and inherently
Platonist ontology in which the quantum theoretic stratum
assumes its rightful place within the hierarchy of being.
An ontological distinction is thus to be made between the spatio-temporal world
as perceptible, and that world as conceived by the physicist: the two are by no
means the same. No wonder that—from the physicist’s point of view—the
measurement problem could not be solved: what else can you expect, given that the act
of measurement—inasmuch as the result must be perceptible—transcends “the world
of physics” categorically! What strikes me as perhaps the most amazing fact concerning
the quantum measurement quandary is that it has apparently failed to rouse the physics
community at large from their “Cartesian slumber.”
What is called for is an ontological distinction between the spatio-temporal world
as perceptible and the world as conceived by the physicist: the corporeal and the
physical, we shall say. It appears that Eddington was right: there are in truth “two
Here is An excerpt from 'Physics: A Science in Quest of an Ontology' tables.” There is namely the one I can see and touch, and the one made of “atoms and
the void” which I cannot.
- SAND (scienceandnonduality.com)
The first step towards an ontological comprehension of physics
consists in the rediscovery of what we term the corporeal domain,
which is basically the perceptible, beginning with the visual. It is
neither necessary nor feasible—initially, at least—to speculate about the
other four senses, nor to worry about “border cases” and the like. To regain
a grasp of “the corporeal” it is needful to substantiate that the grass is
indeed “green”: and this should suffice to break the Cartesian [1] spell.
There is thus a categorical distinction to be made between the world as
conceived by the physicist—which we refer to as the physical—and the
perceptible world in which we “live and have our being,” which we
distinguish ontologically from the physical as the corporeal.
What renders a corporeal entity thus irreducible is the ontological fact that, in its
essence, it is not subject to the bounds of space and time. And this notion of irreducible
wholeness leads quite naturally to the Platonist ontology represented by the tripartite
cosmos, as we have come to conceive of it. In this ontology the integral cosmos
divides hierarchically into three domains, ranging from the corporeal—subject to
the bounds of both space and time—to what may traditionally be termed the
aeviternal, which is subject to neither and must consequently be the ontological
stratum from which both VC and IW are ultimately derived. Dante refers to it poetically
as “the pivot around which the primordial wheel revolves,” a metaphor in which that
“primordial wheel” refers evidently to time, which proves in fact to be definitive of an
ontological stratum referred to traditionally as the intermediary domain, of which the
corporeal is the termination. The integral cosmos may therefore be represented in
iconographic mode as a circle in which the center represents the aeviternal realm,
the interior the intermediary, and the circumference the corporeal domain.
Having rejected Cartesian bifurcation, we reflect upon what this entails in
regard to the measurement problem of quantum theory. And the fact is
that, having restored ontological rectitude, the resolution of this conundrum [1] René Descartes (1596–1650) posited a division of reality into two substances: res cogitantes (things of
literally “stares us in the face”! This is what we wish now to explain.
thought) and res extensae (things extended in space). A. N. Whitehead named this partition “bifurcation.”
In place of the Cartesian dichotomy of so-called res extensae versus res
cogitantes—which has proved to be spurious—another ontological
dichotomy has now taken its place: one needs namely to distinguish
ontologically between the entities of physics and the entities comprising
this ordinary perceptible world. What invalidates the Democritean [2]
premise is the fact that qualities—beginning, yes, with color—have once
again been recognized as bona fide components of the “external” world.
And this has drastic implications for physics, given that—by its very modus
operandi—it has no eye for qualities! A worldview based upon physics is
bound, therefore, to exclude the “qualitative dimension” of the cosmos—
not because it is not there—but because this science is categorically
incapable of grasping that dimension, that aspect of the world.
The interest of modern physics is with res extensae, which are purely quantitative and conceived of as
wholly “objective”; res cogitantes are, in this paradigm, merely subjective constructs “in the mind” and
include qualitative attributes, such as color. —Ed.
[2] Democritus of Abdera (5th century BC) declared: “According to vulgar belief, there is color, the sweet
and the bitter; but in reality, only atoms and the void.” Cf. Hermann Diels, Die Fragmente der
Vorsokratiker (Dublin: Weidmann, 1969), vol II, p. 168. —Ed.
Wolfgang Smith graduated from Cornell at age eighteen with majors in physics, mathematics, and
philosophy. He subsequently contributed a theoretical solution to the re-entry problem for space flight.
After taking his doctorate in mathematics at Columbia, he served for thirty years as professor of
mathematics at M.I.T., U.C.L.A., and Oregon State University. Smith then devoted himself to correcting
the fallacies of scientistic belief, focusing on foundational problems pertaining to quantum theory and
visual perception by way of the traditional tripartite cosmology. The Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation’s
documentary on his life and work, "The End of Quantum Reality", is now available on disc and digital
platforms worldwide. Visit Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » to go much deeper into the
philosophical roots of our current problems.
Our Fundamental Crisis in Our W.E.I.R.D. Modern World: Why Are We Overshooting Many Ecological Thresholds,
and Failing to Care for the Basic Needs of Many Living Creatures on Our One Shared Planet?
WHOLENESS (SPIRITUS-ANIMA-CORPUS) OF NATURE
Modern Physical Sub-Corporeal Worlds
In ordinary corporeal worlds, the
QUALITY of QUALITIES, like COLOURS,
LOVE, BEAUTY in Skills, GOODNESS in
Relations, and TRUTH in Vision (Who
Is the Seer?) in Methods (How Is
Seeing Being Done?) and in Outcomes
(What Is Being Seen?), are often more
valuable in many situations than
limited reductive measurements.
A Critique of Cartesian Principles
In modern physical sub-corporeal
worlds, represented mathematically in
terms of the familiar three spatial and
one linear temporal Cartesian
coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t), regardless of
various body-mind-soul-heart qualities
that are present in various individual
and collective living worlds,
ONLY MEASUREMENTS COUNT.
Source of Images: Wolfgang Smith, Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » To Be or Not To Be an Apple.
In corporeal worlds, QUALITIES, like Colours, LOVE
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia), Beauty, Goodness, and
Truth, in all sorts of ways, have more value in many
situations than QUANTITIES-measurements-data.
Moreover, QUALITIES participate in the Wholeness of
Nature (pneuma-spiritus-heart, psyche-anima-soul,
and soma-corpus-body) in principial equilibrium,
uniting various complementaries and oppositions
(silence-sound, darkness-light, essence-substance, virtues-vices, masculinefeminine, yang-yin, et al.) at the Heart of All Beings. What is GOOD for
planetary health and human happiness involves human beings becoming fully
alive; growing up as artists; developing stages-layers of skills in LOVE, Beauty,
Goodness, and Truth in each person, in inter-personal relations, and in ecosocial organisations; learning to live creatively in tune with Universal Spirit
(Seer) and Sacred Nature (Seen); waking up to be Wise Sages.
Inhabitants: People living in tune with Universal Spirit and Sacred Nature (SatChit-Ananda [Being-Consciousness-Bliss]) include Heart-Centred storytellers,
mythologists, philosophers & metaphysicians in our Primal Traditions (Africa,
Asia, Europe, Americas, Australia, Oceania) and in our World Religions (Taoism,
Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam et al.) who say:
1) beyond the worlds of things, lives, minds,
and souls is Divine Presence, 2) in living
beings, there is a natural capacity for, a
relative similarity to, and a deep longing for
Divine Presence, and 3) the true goal of
existence is evermore conscious participation
in the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in
timeless Divine Presence.
In modern physical sub-corporeal worlds, represented
mathematically in terms of (three spatial and one linear
temporal) Cartesian coordinates (x1, x2, x3, t),
QUANTITIES-measurements-data are the primary or
much too often the only concern in many situations.
Consequently, Nature tends to be denatured; human
beings dehumanised; qualities (like life, love, body,
mind, soul, spirit, beauty, goodness, truth, feminine,
masculine, justice et al.) disqualified; “unfriended” as “Ghosts in the Machine.”
This is said in business-as-usual to be good? for economic growth (GDP)?, with
attention focused on technological innovations, production and consumption of
goods, and evermore profits, mandated into law to authorise ongoing abuses of
people and planet, but with limited or no responsibility for supporting human
development from “ME”-, and/or “US”-centredness into “ALL of US”, ALL of LIFE,
Altogether, HEART-CENTREDNESS in each person, in our inter-personal relations,
and in our eco-social organisations, at local to global scales.
W.E.I.R.D. (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic) Inhabitants:
People operating with Cartesian bifurcation (res extensae [extended things in
Cartesian space-time], and res cogitantes [“things of the mind”]) include:
Modernists, who tend to
hold that modern
“physics is the basis of
reality and that science
and rationality set
people free.”
Post-Modernists, who
tend to hold “a critical
stance towards
knowledge and science,
and power structures,
unconscious drives,
cognitive biases, and
arbitrary social
constructions that
enthral human minds.”
Meta-Modernists, who
tend to hold “a
worldview which
combines the modern
faith in progress with the
postmodern critique.”
(Source: Metamoderna)
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Exposing Hidden Issues within the UN Framework: Valuing What Counts
António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Published Jun 6, 2023
Gross domestic product (GDP) is the most widely used benchmark to measure a
country’s economic progress and the value of the goods and services it
produces.
GDP also reflects a harmful anachronism at the heart of global policymaking: our
economic models and measurements overlook many aspects that sustain life
and contribute to human well-being, while perversely placing disproportionate
value on activities that deplete the planet.
Within this context, I have introduced a series of proposals, not to replace gross
domestic product, but to outline a path to develop complementary metrics that
more fully recognize what matters to people, the planet and our future.
Due to inherent limitations, GDP is failing to sufficiently address the
environmental and social concerns of our world.
For example, GDP does not account for air pollution, natural resource depletion,
environmental degradation, and biodiversity loss. It also fails to capture the full
extent of the informal economy, such as unpaid care work in households, or the
social value of activities like health care.
GDP also continues to be used – or misused – as the benchmark for important
national and international policy settings, particularly in development
financing.
By using GDP as a proxy for development, we fail to recognize that sustainable
development is affected by multiple factors, such as access to resources,
inequalities, and the significant vulnerabilities that may exist in countries with
high levels of GDP.
Moving beyond GDP is fundamental to building an economic system that gives
value to what counts – human well-being – now and in the future, and for
everyone. Effectively measuring what counts can have a transformative impact
and help lead the world toward a more just, inclusive, and sustainable
development path.
To that end, today I present three proposals to help develop a universal and
comprehensive measurement of progress and sustainable development to
complement GDP.
A) A renewed political commitment from UN member countries to create a
conceptual framework that can accurately “value what counts” for people, the
planet, and the future, anchored in the 2030 Agenda.
B) The elaboration of a robust technical and scientific process, informed by
sound and disaggregated data, resulting in a UN value dashboard featuring a
limited number of key indicators that go beyond GDP.
C) A major capacity-building and resourcing initiative to enable countries to
use the new framework effectively.
We need a paradigm shift in what we measure as progress, so that we can
capture data on the activities and outcomes that societies truly value, and then
use the data to better inform our policy and financial decisions.
By moving beyond GDP, we can measure what we truly value, reconsider what
we mean by progress and, on that basis, re-evaluate how we distribute
resources and commit to real change.
Valuing What Counts: Framework to Progress Beyond Gross Domestic Product (linkedin.com)
Beyond-growth-dialogue-with-the-european-commission (eeb.org)
Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales (1)
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
What Is Being Seen?
With Love
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
Modernity?
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
Post-Modernity: Challenges modern lifeless mechanics and
authoritarian knowledge claims. Meta-Modernity: Tries to
co-ordinate modern and postmodern knowledge claims.
Modernity Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of
Qualities (Truth-Goodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana.
No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Psyche-Soma).
Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales
TRUE VALUES PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVING LIFE WITHIN TRIPARTITE NATURE (Pneuma/NousOur DIALOGUES with various
(HeartPsyche-Soma) IN HEART-CENTRED COMMUNITIES [within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Taoist, Hindu,
Others within, across, and
SoulBuddhist et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Islamic et al.), and some people within Modern-Postmodern- beyond our current readings of
Body)
Metamodern Communities, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South America, Australia & Oceania].
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
Post-Growth Standards
Modern
relations-morals-ethics,
and
Esoteric
(Mind-Body)
Degrowth Standards
skills
in
sciences,
in
matricesFluid
Ideal
systems-organisations, at local,
Contextual
UN
SDPI
Standards
System
national & global scales
Identities
Values
Doughnut Economics
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
Modern
(Body-Mind)
Shared
Material
Values
ME
US
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Modernity: A mix of mainly
Monist Materialists (Mind
inside Matter in Cartesian
space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]) in a
mechanistic universe in which
measurements count,
some Monist Idealists
(Matter inside Mind), and
some Matter-Mind Dualists.
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeFeminine Nature], and Unity [ErosHuston
Masculine Nature], with Agentic
Smith,
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
Levels of
[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
Reality,
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
Levels of
denied] within Each Stage-LevelSelf,
Layer-Degree of DevelopmentWhy
Inhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
Religion
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
Matters
Community, and in Our Shared
p.224
Humanity, in tune (or not) with
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
US
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
Valuing What Counts
UN SDG Standards
ESG Standards
Exoteric
Fixed
Contractual
and/or
Prescribed
Identities
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations in
Our Society
CSR Standards
Modern
Integrating Doughnut Econ into business education | DEAL CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
(Body-Mind)
Prescribed Community
Compete to Maximise Private Profits and Economic Growth (GDP) with no deep regard for personal
Shareholder
Narratives-Norms-Rules-Rolesintegrity, social coherence, and living within ecological boundaries, ending with intensifying personal and
Material
Rituals-Heritage-Traditions
social crises interacting within ecological overshoots of our planet’s limited carrying capacities.
Values
Born into a
Born into an
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a Post- Born into a MetaMy Life in My Body
Primal World
Oriental World
World
World
Modern World
Modern World
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Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales (2)
Who Is Seeing within the Seer?
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and skills,
inter-personal relations-moralsethics, and authorised sciences] in
matrices-systems-organisations
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised social
contracts-disciplines
ME
US
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
Modernity?
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Modernity
Kosmos-centric Wholeness [AgapeDisqualifies
Feminine Nature], and Unity [Eros(Flatlands) the
Masculine Nature], with Agentic
Quality (Love) of
[Masculine] Energies and Communal
Qualities (Truth[Feminine] Energies in Virtues-Vices
Goodness-Beauty).
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
No Vedic
denied] within Each Stage-LevelTribhuvana.
No Tripartite
Layer-Degree of DevelopmentThe Less Travelled Spiritual Way from the Sensory Surface
Kosmos
Inhabitation of a Skill and Each Set
of Beings to the very Heart of All Beings,
of Skills, in Each Person, in Each
(Pneuma/Nousfrom Ego-centric Me to Ethno-Group-centric US to SocioCommunity, and in Our Shared
centric US to World-centric All of Us with Each Other into Spiritus/IntellectusHumanity, in tune (or not) with
Heart, psycheKosmos-centric Heartfulness (One-in All, All-in-One)
Divine Life, Light, and Love,
anima-soul,
and
in Tripartite Kosmos, Vedic Tribhuvana, Heart-Soul-Body.
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
soma-corpus-body).
The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narratives-rulesroles-norms-heritage-traditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
What Is Being Seen?
With Love
(Agape-Eros-Agency-Philia
Post-Modernity? Meta-Modernity?
[Communion])?
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
US
Dependent Child? Student?
Independent Adult?
Inter-Independent Elder? Sage?
Heart-centred Kosmos with all
sorts of Seers, Seeing, and the
Seen from the Sensory Surface
of Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Intersecting Economic Standards at Local, National, and Global Scales
PEOPLE LIVING WELL WITH EACH OTHER IN LOVING LIFE WITHIN TRIPARTITE NATURE (Pneuma/NousOur DIALOGUES with various
Psyche-Soma) IN HEART-CENTRED COMMUNITIES [within Primal (First Peoples), Oriental (Taoist, Hindu,
Others within, across, and
Buddhist et al.), Semitic (Judaic, Christian, Islamic et al.), and some people within Modern-Postmodern- beyond our current readings of
Metamodern Communities, in Africa, Asia, Europe, North-Central-South America, Australia & Oceania].
skills in individual-collective
arts, skills in inter-personal
Transforming economies to foster genuine and inclusive wellbeing through
Post-Growth
Standards
Modern
relations-morals-ethics, and
ecologically sustainable and equitable post-growth societies (Source: EEForAll)
(Mind-Body)
skills in sciences, in matrices1. Abandon GDP 2. Universal Basic Services 3. Focus on SUFFICIENCY
Degrowth Standards
Ideal
systems-organisations, at local,
4. Reduce Inequality 5. Just Transition (Source: Degrowth Vienna)
System
national & global scales
UN SDPI Standards
“Authentic Sustainability” for Prosperity-People-Planet (r3.0 - Ralph Thurm)
Values
DEAL (doughnuteconomics.org), Beyond Growth 2023, and Beyond-GDP
Doughnut Economics
Maintain Economic Growth within Prescribed Care for Environments and People
Modern
Our DEBATES within Our Social
Valuing What Counts
GDP plus People plus Planet (Valuing What Counts)
(Body-Mind)
Contracts-Disciplines in Arts,
UN SDG Standards
Maintain Economic Growth within Our Prescribed 17 Goals for People-Planet
Shared
Relations-Morals-Ethics, and
Maximise OUR Corporate Profits with OUR Prescribed Governance for Selected
Sciences, in Organisations in
Material
ESG Standards
Environments and Selected People (e.g., GRI, ISSB, EFRAG, or ESRS Standards)
Values
Our Society
CSR Standards
Maximise OUR Corporate Profits with OUR Prescribed Care for Selected People
Modern
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to Our
(Body-Mind)
Compete to Maximise Private Profits and Economic Growth (GDP) with no deep regard for personal
Prescribed Community
Shareholder integrity, social coherence, and living within ecological boundaries, ending with intensifying personal and
Narratives-Norms-Rules-RolesMaterial
social crises interacting within ecological overshoots of our planet’s limited carrying capacities.
Rituals-Heritage-Traditions
Values
Born into a
Born into an
Born into a Semitic Born into a Modern Born into a Post- Born into a MetaMy Life in My Body
Primal World
Oriental World
World
World
Modern World
Modern World
TRUE VALUES
(HeartSoulBody)
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Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within “I-I” Enlightenment, the Heart of “I-We-Thou” Relations & Wisdom Schools
Who Is
Seeing
within the
Seer?
EYE OF HEARTSPIRIT
“All of Us, All
of Life,
Altogether”
views of “I-I”
Enlightenment,
and “I-WeThou”
Relations
EYE OF
WORLD-SOUL
INTERINDEPENDENT
“All of Us,
inter-relating
with each
other” views of
“I-I” Waking &
“I-We-Thou”
Relations
EYE OF
RATIONAL
MIND “US”
INDEPENDENT
views of
“I-I” Waking &
“I-We-Thou”
Relations
EYE OF INFORMATION
DEPENDENT
“US” views of
“I-I” Waking &
“I-We-Thou”
Relations
EYE OF
CORPOREAL
BODY
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences?
Ken Wilber’s Pointing Out Instructions (Witness Exercise)
A Non-Modern Understanding of Transformation: METANOIA
Notice first of all the broad, distinguishing features of the transcendent self
[Eye of Heart-Spirit]: it is a center and expanse of awareness which is
creatively detached from one’s personal mind, body, emotions, thoughts,
and feelings. So if you would like to begin to work at intuiting this
transcendent self within you that goes beyond you, the you that is not you,
then proceed as follows:
Slowly begin to recite the following to yourself, trying to realize as vividly as
possible the import of each statement:
I have a body, but I am not my body. I can see and feel my body, and what
I can see and feel is not the true Seer. My body may be tired or excited,
sick or healthy, heavy or light, but that has nothing to do with my inward
I, the Witness. I have a body, but I am not my body.
I have desires, but I am not my desires. I can know my desires, and
what can be known is not the true Knower. Desires come and go,
floating through my awareness, but they do not affect my inward I, the
Witness. I have desires but I am not my desires.
I have emotions, but I am not my emotions. I can feel and sense my
emotions, and what can be felt and sensed is not the true Feeler.
Emotions pass through me, but they do not affect my inward I, the
Witness. I have emotions but I am not my emotions.
I have thoughts, but I am not my thoughts. I can know and intuit my
thoughts, and what can be known is not the true Knower. Thoughts
come to me and thoughts leave me, but they do not affect my inward
I, the Witness. I have thoughts but I am not my thoughts.
This done – perhaps several times – then affirm as concretely as you can:
I am what remains, a pure center of awareness, an unmoved Witness of all
these thoughts, emotions, feelings, and sensations.
Sources: Ken Wilber, No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to
Personal Growth, pp.128-9; Grace and Grit: A Spiritual Journey Through Life,
Loss & Beyond, p.126; and Welcome to Integral Life – Integral Life.
Treya Killam Wilber: So what exactly are some of the essentials of the
perennial philosophy?
KW: One, Spirit exists, and Two, Spirit is found within. Three, most of us
don’t realize this Spirit within, however, because we are living in a world of
sin, separation, and duality—that is, we are living in a fallen or illusory
state. Four, there is a way out of this fallen state of sin and illusion, there is
a Path to our liberation. Five, if we follow this Path to its conclusion, the
result is a Rebirth or Enlightenment, a direct experience of Spirit within, a
Supreme Liberation, which—Six—marks the end of sin and suffering, and
which—Seven—issues in social action of mercy and compassion on behalf
of all sentient beings.
Sources: Ken Wilber, Grace and Grit, p.81; Grace and Grit - The Movie.
We are told that “The heart is deep” (Psalm 64:6) or, as St. Makarios states,
“the heart is an immeasurable abyss.” The heart is, as St. Philotheos of Sinai
(9th or 10th century) states, the “place of God” which, when the Divine dwells
within it, becomes “the heaven of the heart.”
In the Jewish tradition, the Divine Intellect will then dwell in its proper abode,
within the spiritual heart of the human being, where it becomes the “eye of
the heart” (‘ein ha-lev): “In the hearts of all that are wise-hearted, I have put
wisdom” (Exodus 31:6). The Gospel refers to this “heart-intellect” here:
“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” (Matthew 5:8). The
Lakota holy man Hehaka Sapa, more commonly known as Black Elk (1863–
1950), provides a stunning passage outlining the “eye of the heart”:
I am blind and do not see the things of this world; but when the Light comes
from Above, it enlightens my heart and I can see, for the Eye of my heart
(Chante Ista) sees everything. The heart is a sanctuary at the center of which
there is a little space, wherein the Great Spirit dwells, and this is the Eye (Ista).
This is the Eye of the Great Spirit by which He sees all things and through
which we see Him. If the heart is not pure, the Great Spirit cannot be seen,
and if you should die in this ignorance, your soul cannot return immediately
to the Great Spirit, but it must be purified by wandering about in the world.
In order to know the center of the heart where the Great Spirit dwells you
must be pure and good, and live in the manner that the Great Spirit has taught
us. The man who is thus pure contains the Universe in the pocket of his heart
(Chante Ognaka).
Black Elk, quoted in Frithjof Schuon, The Feathered Sun: Plains Indians in Art
and Philosophy (Bloomington, IN: World Wisdom Books, 1990), p. 51.
Source: The Quest For Who We Are - Fons Vitae Publishing
John Denver (The WILDLIFE Concert):
“Music does bring people together; it allows us to experience the same
emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter
what language we speak, what colour we are, the form of our politics or the
expression of our love and faith, music proves we are the same.”
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What Is
Being
Seen?
Heart-centred
Kosmos with
all sorts of
Seers, Seeing,
and the Seen
from the
Sensory
Surface of
Beings to the
very Heart of
All Beings
Our
DIALOGUES
with various
Others within,
across, and
beyond our
current
readings of
skills in arts,
morals-ethics,
and sciences
Our DEBATES
within Our
Social
ContractsDisciplines
CONFORMITYLOYALTY to
Our Prescribed
Community
Norms
My Life in My
Body
Light One Candle
Peter, Paul, & Mary - Light One Candle (PBS Holiday Concert) YouTube
Light one candle for the Maccabee
children
Give thanks that their light didn't
die
Light one candle for the pain they
endured
When their right to exist was
denied
Light one candle for the terrible
sacrifice
Justice and freedom demand
And light one candle for the
wisdom to know
When the peacemaker's time is at
hand
Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and
our tears
Light one candle for the strength
that we need
To never become our own foe
And light one candle for those who
are suff'ring
Pain we learned so long ago
Light one candle for all we believe
in
Let anger not tear us apart!
Light one candle to bind us
together
With peace as the song in our heart
Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years!
(lasted for so many years!)
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and
our tears
Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and
our tears
What is the memory that's valued
so highly
That we keep it alive in that flame?
What's the commitment to those
who have died
When we cry out they've not died
in vain
We have come this far, always
believing
That justice will somehow prevail
This is the burning, this is the
promise
And this is why we will not fail
Don't let the light go out! (don't let
the light go out!)
It's lasted for so many years
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and
our tears
Don't let the light go out!
It's lasted for so many years
Don't let the light go out!
Let it shine through our love and
our tears
Don't let the light go out!
Don't let the light go out!
Don't let the light go out!
Songwriter: Peter Yarrow
Peter, Paul and Mary - Light One
Candle - YouTube
ONE LIGHT, MANY CANDLES NOW AVAILABLE - YouTube
Noel Paul Stookey
©2008 Neworld Media Publishing
One light; many candles
One sky; many stars
One sea; many rivers
One Love; many hearts
One light; many candles
One sky; many stars
One sea; many rivers
One Love; many hearts
One life; many dreamers
One death; many tears
One word; many meanings
One hope; many years
One world; many mountains
One hill; many trees
One tree; many branches
One branch; many leaves
One light; many candles
One sky; many stars
One sea; many rivers
One Love; many hearts
One And Many
One Light Many Candles –
A Multifaith Program in
word and song presented
by Reverend Betty Stookey
and Noel Paul Stookey
Bodhisattva
Thich Nhat Hanh
Ten Love Letters to the
Earth – Thich Nhat Hanh
(emergencemagazine.org)
Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Chosen Values for Awakening Heart in Nature and Humanity (1)
Who Is Seeing within the
Seer?
A Primal Tradition?
First Nations in Africa, Asia,
Europe, Americas, and Oceania
An Oriental Tradition?
Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Jainism, Shintoism et al.
A Semitic Tradition?
Judaism, Christianity,
Islam et al.
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
Child? Student? Adult? Mature
Elder? Sage?
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness
[Agape-Feminine Nature], and
Unity [Eros-Masculine Nature],
with Agentic [Masculine] Energies
and Communal [Feminine]
Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each
Set of Skills, in Each Person, in
Each Community, and in Our
Shared Humanity, in tune (or not)
with Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and
skills, inter-personal relationsmorals-ethics, and authorised
sciences] in matrices-systemsorganisations
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised
social contracts-disciplines
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narrativesrules-roles-norms-heritagetraditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
With Love (PhiliaCommunion)?
Heart-centred Kosmos
with all sorts of Seers,
Seeing, and the Seen from
the Sensory Surface of
Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
US
INTER-INDEPENDENT
Our DIALOGUES with
various Others within,
across, and beyond our
current readings of skills
in arts, skills in interpersonal relations-moralsethics, and skills in
sciences, in matricessystems-organisations at
local, national & global
scales
Our DEBATES within Our
Social Contracts in Arts,
Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations
in Our Eco-Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to
Our Prescribed
Community NarrativesNorms-Rules-RolesRituals-HeritageTraditions
US
ME
What Is Being Seen?
Huston Smith, Levels of Reality, Levels of Self, Why Religion Matters, p.224
News - The Matheson Trust
Born into a
Primal World
Born into an
Oriental World
Born into a
Semitic World
Born into a
Modern World
Born into a PostModern World
Born into a MetaModern World
My Life in My Body “ME”
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Seer, Seeing, and Seen Dynamics within Chosen Values for Awakening Heart in Nature and Humanity (2)
Who Is Seeing within the
Seer?
Non-Modern Heart-Centred Lifecycles in
A Primal
An Oriental
A Semitic
Tradition?
Tradition?
Tradition?
Huston
Smith,
Levels
of
Reality,
Levels
of Self,
Why
Religion
Matters
p.224
Modern Cartesian Linear Time in
PostMetaModernity?
Modernity?
Modernity?
Modernity: A mix of mainly
Monist Materialists (Mind
inside Matter in Cartesian
space-time [x1, x2, x3, t]) in a
mechanistic universe in
which measurements count,
some Monist Idealists
(Matter inside Mind), and
some Matter-Mind Dualists
Post-Modernity: Challenges modern lifeless mechanics and
authoritarian knowledge claims. Meta-Modernity: Tries to
hold modern and postmodern knowledge claims altogether.
Modernity Disqualifies (Flatlands) the Quality (Love) of
Qualities (Truth-Goodness-Beauty). No Vedic Tribhuvana.
No Tripartite Kosmos (Pneuma/Nous-Psyche-Soma).
This reform agenda – for conversions from modern reductionisms to
Tripartite Nature and Humanity – is Heart-Centred within Nature, and
Heart-Centred within various communities, and within various selves.
ME
US
US
INTER-INDEPENDENT
ALL OF US, ALTOGETHER
Child? Student? Adult? Mature
Elder? Sage?
EYE OF HEART-SPIRIT
Kosmos-centric Wholeness
[Agape-Feminine Nature], and
Unity [Eros-Masculine Nature],
with Agentic [Masculine] Energies
and Communal [Feminine]
Energies in Virtues-Vices
[Qualities Loved, degraded, or
denied] within Each Stage-LevelLayer-Degree of DevelopmentInhabitation of a Skill and Each
Set of Skills, in Each Person, in
Each Community, and in Our
Shared Humanity, in tune (or not)
with Divine Life, Light, and Love,
“All of Us, All of Life, Altogether”
EYE OF WORLD-SOUL
World-centric working to interconnect with each other in the
dialogues of civilisations, each of
which with their own versions of
contents and discontents
[personal/collective arts and
skills, inter-personal relationsmorals-ethics, and authorised
sciences] in matrices-systemsorganisations
EYE OF RATIONAL MIND
Socio-centric INDEPENDENT
experts-achievers, “US”,
“Our” self-/we-authorised
social contracts-disciplines
EYE OF IN-FORMATION
Ethno-centric/Group-centric
DEPENDENT “US”
“Our” community’s narrativesrules-roles-norms-heritagetraditions
EYE OF CORPOREAL BODY
Ego-centric Agency-Communion
How Is Seeing Being Done within Each of Various Schools in Arts, Morals, and Sciences within
The "Four Forces" of Modern Psychology and the Primordial Tradition:
Interview with Huston Smith | Samuel Bendeck Sotillos - Academia.edu
Born into a
Primal World
Born into an
Oriental World
Born into a
Semitic World
Born into a
Modern World
Born into a PostModern World
Born into a MetaModern World
What Is Being Seen?
With Love (AgapeEros-Agency-Philia
[Communion])?
Heart-centred Kosmos
with all sorts of Seers,
Seeing, and the Seen from
the Sensory Surface of
Beings to the very Heart of
All Beings
Our DIALOGUES with
various Others within,
across, and beyond our
current readings of skills
in arts, skills in interpersonal relations-moralsethics, and skills in
sciences, in matricessystems-organisations at
local, national & global
scales
Our DEBATES within Our
Social Contracts in Arts,
Morals-Ethics, and
Sciences, in Organisations
in Our Eco-Society
CONFORMITY-LOYALTY to
Our Prescribed
Community NarrativesNorms-Rules-RolesRituals-HeritageTraditions
My Life in My Body “ME”
© Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative, Heart-Centred Thriveability within Everybody and with Everybody, Curator of Integrative Currencies, Gerard Bruitzman – Academia.edu
We Need to Work with Each Other to Live Well with Each Other,
in Intra- and Inter-Generational Equity, within Our Planet’s
Ecological Matrices-Thresholds, with Fair Heart-Centred Social
Allocations (in Both Nurturing and Guiding Our Varying
Capabilities and Capacities to be Loving [Agape (Feminine),
Eros (Masculine), Agency (Masculine), and Communion-Philia
(Feminine)] in Child, Student, Adult, Elder, and Sage.
Thus, Each Person, with their Chosen Creative “I-I” Skills, with
their Inter-Personal “I-We-Thou” Relations in their GroupsCommunities, and with their Organisations, in Health, Education, Economics, and Politics, in their EcoSocieties, lives with Everybody, within the Wholeness of Nature (the Tribhuvana [The Triple World: Svar
(Heaven), Bhuvas (Air), Bhū (Earth)] in the Vedic East, and Pneuma/Nous-Spiritus/Intellectus-Rūḥ/‘AqlHeart, psyche-anima-nafs-soul, and soma-corpus-jism-body in non-modern Greek-Latin-Arabic-West).
Post Doom
People in non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern worlds value different
understandings of nature and human development.
Non-modern worlds value the spiritual “I-I” journey from my self to the Self of all selves,
Divine Qualities, Love, Beauty, Goodness, Truth, and the Wholeness of Nature.
Modern worlds, informed by Cartesian bifurcation – as mathematician-metaphysician
Wolfgang Smith confirms in his books, Physics, The Vertical Ascent et al. – value things
that can be measured, primarily measurements of res extensae [entities in Cartesian
space-time, in physical and life sciences] and secondarily reductive measurements of res
cogitantes [things of the mind, such as psychometrics-sociometrics in psychologicalsocial sciences], without true regard for Qualities, and the Wholeness of Nature.
Consequently, in modern economics, reductive measurements, such as GDP, ESG, and
UN SDGs, tend to ignore the Quality of various Qualities (Colours, Music, Love [Agape-Eros-Agency-Communion], Compassion, Wisdom, Beauty,
Goodness, and Truth) within the Seer, Seeing, and the Seen in the Wholeness and Unity (Pneuma/NousSpiritus/Intellectus-Rūḥ/‘Aql-Heart, psyche-anima-nafs-soul, soma-corpus-jism-body) of Human Wellbeing.
Post-modern worlds tend to 1) critique modern lifeless mechanics with selected living systems designs, often
in terms of flat non-hierarchical relations, and 2) critique various myopic authoritarian knowledge claims.
Meta-modern worlds attempt to include modern and postmodern values in developmental or evolutionary
from less to more complex understandings, with some meta-modern commentators working with models of
adult development (See Institute of Applied Metatheory, Beyond Meta-Modernism: Human Development
from the Perspective of Complex, Evolving, Living Systems | by Dr Robin Lincoln Wood | Feb, 2023 | Medium,
the models of human development presented in Ken Wilber’s Integral Psychology [pp. 197-217], models of human development presented in
this paper, and Marianne Williamson 2024, who in her presidential campaign is trying to go beyond current habitual left versus right constructs).
Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability involves inter-connecting non-modern, modern, post-modern, and meta-modern values at child “ME”,
adult “US”, and evermore inclusive, inter-relating, and integrating, “All of Us, Altogether” stages-levels-layers of personal intentionalbehavioural, inter-personal relational and cultural, and social organisational development within the Wholeness and Unity (Pneuma-SpiritusHeart, Psyche-Anima-Soul, Soma-Corpus-Body in the Greek-Latin-West, and the Tribhuvana [The Triple World] in the Vedic East) of Nature.
Gerard Bruitzman, Advocate for Integrative Heart-Centred Thriveability within Everybody with Everybody, Gerard Bruitzman - Academia.edu
Have You Seen the Movie Don't Look Up? Changing Our Focus from Science to the Wholeness of Nature
I found the popular movie Don’t Look Up – a climate change allegory, featuring a comet crashing into earth – provocative, funny, upsetting, at times, but seriously inadequate.
A much deeper understanding of our intensifying ecological-social metacrises, in my view, is available at Post-Doom.
Michael Dowd, in Sanity 101, introduces five stages of awakening, using Paul Chefurka’s framework.
So, in your view, is our metacrises, no problem, just one problem, many problems, interconnecting many problems, or a
significant part of our whole predicament (Michael Dowd's Sanity 101: Living Fully in an Age of Decline (Basic Training))?
Now, I ask you to determine which mix of these stages of increasing awareness, from asleep to trying to see the whole
shebang, seem to be involved in informing your own understanding of our escalating ecological-climate emergencies.
For myself, I struggle to understand, even though I would like to inhabit, a more inclusive stage-5 awareness.
If you watch Michael Dowd's Sanity 101, you will see his superb review of a popular way W.E.I.R.D. people
tend to evade the full predicament of our escalating ecological-social metacrises – techno-optimism.
To its credit, Don’t Look Up provides its own curious critique of techno-optimism, ending with (oh dear Meryl, what one
does for the sake of art!) the gory consumption of a naked dim-witted American president by a hungry dinosaur!
Now we must go beyond various techno-optimisms, championed by various techno-billionaires. According to Bill Baue,
a systems transformation catalyst at r3.0, there are other options: ESG (blah! blah! blah!) or Sustainability: You Choose.
Whoops! Sustainability – everybody living well within our local-global ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social
allocations of limited capacities and capabilities for each body with everybody – is totally ignored in Don’t Look Up!
Instead, the movie offers a naïve stage for science, with no awareness of the various ways inquiry-minded sciences turn
into closed-minded scientisms, which in stage-5 views is seen as another crucial problem in our shared metacrises.
Some philosophers of science, usually ignored by many, continue to warn us about the outcomes of Cartesian bifurcation.
John Trevor Berger: Cartesian ‘bifurcation’—a term coined by Alfred North Whitehead, which Wolfgang Smith has put
to good use throughout his authorial career—constitutes a dichotomy which divides the world into two substances,
namely Thought (res cogitans) and Extension (res extensa). This gives rise to the belief that the ‘objective’ world can
be wholly described in quantitative terms. In light of Smith’s ontological distinction, this is tantamount to the
reduction of the corporeal to the physical. Therefore, qualitative attributes—such as colour, sound, or taste—are
taken, in the Cartesian paradigm, to be mental or subjective. On the other hand, the quantitative attributes—the
‘extended’ (i.e., measurable) aspects—of the world are taken to be the ‘really real’. Quantities are thought to have
ontological priority over qualities, insofar as the latter are merely ‘in our heads’ (res cogitantes). What is left in the
external world, then, are objects which can be accounted for, without residue, in mathematical terms (res extensae).
Philos-Sophia Initiative Foundation » Surveying the Integral Cosmos | Philos-Sophia Initiative.
This drastic modern reduction of reality into abstract mathematical terms, engineered by our W.E.I.R.D. Cartesian
mindsets, also ignored in Don’t Look Up, ends with many of us waging our current all-consuming war on Nature.
Now let us ask here: what must we do to stop waging our stupid, currently escalating, degenerative war on Nature?
In other words, how do you and I become truly whole, and thus fully happy, in our lives – which involves each person
and each community living well with each other within our local-global ecological matrices-thresholds, and with fair social
allocations of limited capacities and limited capabilities for each person and each community – as we learn to secure the
precious wellbeing of all forms of life within each generation and across all generations on our beautiful planet?
Gail Hochachka – Making meaning of climate change towards greater climate action. Gail Hochachka - The Psychology of Climate
Change: Understanding the Causes and Finding Solutions to the Great Challenge of Our Time - Deep Transformation Podcast.
W.E.I.R.D. – Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, with ready access to the dedicated work of many UN agencies, understands better than many what is happening on our planet. He keeps on
saying, REPEATEDLY, again and again, “Humanity is waging war on nature. This is senseless and suicidal” (UNEP report, Making Peace With Nature). With the release of IPCC
Sixth Assessment Report: WG1, he declared a Code Red for Humanity! At COP27 in Egypt, he said, “We are on a Highway to Climate Hell with our Foot on the Accelerator!”
So, here we are in CODE RED with an escalating climate crisis, with our current BAU trends already condemning ourselves to 1.5°C degrees of global heating within a few
years, and, given that for many of us changing ourselves is much too hard, re-signing ourselves to allowing around 3.0°C degrees of global boiling within a generation or two!
Moreover, we are not yet ready to talk about abrupt runaway climate change, prompted by geophysical surprises yet to be considered or measured in IPCC reports, which would turn
our current, already very alarming, IPCC projections, in each of five authorised scenarios, into more blah! blah! BLAH!, Arctic News: Crossing 3C (arctic-news.blogspot.com).
Indeed, all of us are living in very challenging, unsettling times (Said E. Dawlabani, Paradise Lost | The Sequel – Kosmos Journal; Jeremy Lent, Solving the Climate Crisis Requires the
End of Capitalism). In addition to deliberately choosing with BAU to dooming ourselves to inhabiting uninhabitable global boiling in upcoming years-decades, we have
• our ongoing challenges with COVID-19 with novel everchanging variants that are likely to continue to emerge to disrupt, upset, and terminate many lives into the foreseeable future.
• according to the WWF and Zoological Society of London’s 2022 Living Planet Report, population sizes of mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and fish declining by 69% on
average since 1970, and, with ongoing significant losses of habitat continuing to be orchestrated by BAU, population sizes are likely to decline into the foreseeable future.
• Sir David Attenborough presenting, in Breaking Boundaries and A Life on Our Planet, his thoughtful accounts on the devastating environmental consequences of humanity’s
rapid economic and population growth in recent decades. He laments the tragic ongoing decline of biodiversity and life on Earth, saying emphatically, “Our planet is headed
for disaster. We need to learn how to work with nature; rather than against it.” (UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15), POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK).
• limited supplies and declining resource quality of key resources, compounding within upcoming years-decades, according to Nate Hagens (The Great Simplification) and
Harald Sverdrup et al. r3.0 2020 Conference, WORLD7, Global Integrated Assessment Model, that will be needed in any transformations into regenerative economies.
• economic systems that deliberately, legally externalise from their accounts, unethically, unsustainably 1) fail to consider the necessity of living within our planet’s limited
ecological matrices-thresholds, and 2) fail to provide secure social foundations for everybody with everybody in genuine intragenerational-intergenerational justice.
• political systems that 1) fail to go beyond divisive debates between various “us” versus “them” contenders, 2) fail to generate diversity informed “all of us, interconnecting with each other” dialogues, and 3) fail to work to integrate what is true, good, and beautiful in the various contributions of various rightsholders.
Now, let us dive from what is happening on our observable measurable surfaces into our metaphysical depths. There is much more of crucial importance to be considered here:
• in physics, as A.N. Whitehead, Nick Herbert, Wolfgang Smith, Sabine Hossenfelder, et al. have declared in various ways for decades, physicists have “lost their grip on reality”.
• in philosophy, too few understand humanity’s Heart-soul-body metaphysics which can be found within humanity’s diverse languages, from East to West, from South to North.
• in religion, noetic-yogic practices of purification, illumination, and unification, in Heart-soul-body, in individuals, communities, and kosmos, that generate METANOIA from
exclusive self-centredness and/or exclusive group-centredness into the Universal Heart of All Living Beings too often tend to be ignored in both theoria and praxes.
Now, with this barest outline of our global-national-local metacrises in place, let’s ask: what does authentic development and overall regenerative transformation truly mean?
• in humanity’s wisdom traditions, development means noetic transformations from self-centredness and/or group-centredness into the Universal Heart of All Living Beings.
• in metaphysics, development means awakening ever more inclusive modes of the seer (who is seeing in epistemic views in me-centred body, us-centred community, or heartcentred, all of us, living beings, altogether?), seeing (how is seeing being done with our current methodologies?), and seen (what is being seen in various ontological domains, in
individuals, communities, and kosmos?) into ever more inclusive modes of wisdom and compassion in Heart-Centred Service of the Wellbeing of All Living Beings.
• in modern science, development means, in ordinary, “instrumentalist”, “positivistic” terms, using limited “sciences of measurement”, advances in technological innovations.
• in capacities management, development means putting into place the cyclical renewal of limited living capacities, not our current reckless taking, using, and wasting of resources.
• in biodiversity management, development means re-wilding habitats and re-generating biodiversity, not continuing with polluting air, waters, and lands in business-as-usual.
• in climate action, development means reducing, stopping, and drawdown-ing emissions of greenhouse gases as much as possible as quickly as possible within our current
decade, the 2020s, and working to repair, restore, and regenerate the natural balance of our planet that was present in the Holocene in which all forms of life tended to flourish.
• in economics, development involves going beyond our current degenerative BAU exploitations, and various ESG LaLaLands, transforming key initiatives, like Ralph Thurm’s r3.0Presentation-WEALL-NL-February-16-2023 (r3-0.org), and UNRISD’s Sustainable Development Performance Indicators (SDPIs) User Manual, at pathfinding organisations, like
r3.0 Conference 2023 | Activating Restorative Norms (r3-0.org), Global Thresholds and Allocations, UNRISD SDPI, Earth4All, DEAL, and WEAll, into a regenerative economics,
based on everybody living well with each other in Heart-soul-body within our planet’s ecological matrices-thresholds and with fair social allocations for everybody.
• in politics, development means local-national-global co-ordinations in robust, ethical, and Heartful Service of the Wellbeing of Life in All Beings on our Precious Planet.
Now, let all of us move out of our current forms of “deadly incrementalism” (BAU, CSR, ESG, UN SDGs et al.) into truly robust, multi-dimensional, regenerative transformations.
We repeat here that a tangible way forward must work to coordinate what is happening within who is seeing, and how is seeing being done with our methodologies, both of which are
resulting in what is being seen in our various Covid, biodiversity, ecological matrices-thresholds, climate, economic, and political crises, separately, interconnectedly, and altogether.
Time for each of us to respond with all of us to overcome our current degenerative ways of living, which have resulted in all of us living in our CODE RED life-threatening world.
I wish you, everybody, well, in our challenging, unsettling, hopefully transformative times, in moving out of our heartless ways of living into Heartful Regenerations, Gerard Bruitzman.
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