Great piece, Alpha. Thanks for this. Consciousness is underrated, or treated as something woo woo. Yet it's fundamental. I think a lot of what we are seeing today is a desperate attempt to hold on to that old linear, mechanical mindset.
I can't help feeling that we know all we need to intuitively already and it's more that we've forgotten it rather than that we are evolving to understand better. Even getting caught up in the need to understand, to have knowledge, is perhaps a bit of a trap. We just need to tune in again, as we used to... But in the meantime, understanding living systems is absolutely important to be able to counter the linear, left-brained thinking approaches that are so destructive.
I think there were indigenous traditions that intuitively knew how to live with the earth in natural ways...... Also there is an integral way which connects all that local intuitive knowledge into global framework. So e.g. how one local action, affects something on another continent through the hydrological cycle.
I'm pretty sure that intuitive integral knowledge worked on a global as well as a local level, because of our natural interconnection with all of life, with the water cycle being all part of that.
My sense is that they knew a lot more than we give them credit for, because they knew it intuitively even if they didn't know it rationally or through empirical knowledge. The similarities we find in structures that they built all over the world are striking, for example.
Appreciating this post and its perspective and how it's resonating so fluidly with a piece I'm writing currently....considering what changes are possible with ultimate shifts in how we think and perceive ~ moving from a self-centered orientation to the center in-between with water as the actual and metaphorical medium of exchange! From an ecological medicine point of view, we are conduits of the water cycle itself!
Nice piece, Alpha! For any of you who work with children, here are two games I use to help children develop an integral systems view of the world. https://peterkindfieldphd.substack.com/p/field-trips-for-all-of-us-transformative-dda and https://peterkindfieldphd.substack.com/p/the-build-a-system-game
Love reading this and a plus for ideas with children
Great piece, Alpha. Thanks for this. Consciousness is underrated, or treated as something woo woo. Yet it's fundamental. I think a lot of what we are seeing today is a desperate attempt to hold on to that old linear, mechanical mindset.
thanks Rob, yes there is a grasping to hold onto the linear mindset, as a new evolving, more integral ways of seeing emerge.
I can't help feeling that we know all we need to intuitively already and it's more that we've forgotten it rather than that we are evolving to understand better. Even getting caught up in the need to understand, to have knowledge, is perhaps a bit of a trap. We just need to tune in again, as we used to... But in the meantime, understanding living systems is absolutely important to be able to counter the linear, left-brained thinking approaches that are so destructive.
I think there were indigenous traditions that intuitively knew how to live with the earth in natural ways...... Also there is an integral way which connects all that local intuitive knowledge into global framework. So e.g. how one local action, affects something on another continent through the hydrological cycle.
I'm pretty sure that intuitive integral knowledge worked on a global as well as a local level, because of our natural interconnection with all of life, with the water cycle being all part of that.
yeah there was a sense that there was a global connection. But I think many indigenous societies did not even know there were other continents.
My sense is that they knew a lot more than we give them credit for, because they knew it intuitively even if they didn't know it rationally or through empirical knowledge. The similarities we find in structures that they built all over the world are striking, for example.
Very beneficial to understand the evolution of consciousness in regards to systems theory
and likely how closely it parallels our planets biofunctional systems
yeah as our consciousness rises we will understand more the planets geophysiology
Appreciating this post and its perspective and how it's resonating so fluidly with a piece I'm writing currently....considering what changes are possible with ultimate shifts in how we think and perceive ~ moving from a self-centered orientation to the center in-between with water as the actual and metaphorical medium of exchange! From an ecological medicine point of view, we are conduits of the water cycle itself!
Thanks for the reflection of how we are conduits of water cycle from
Ecological medicine perspective