Excellent essay and highly informative on so many levels. Outdated scientific ideas, such as survival of the fittest and the duality of mind-body hang on, I think, because most of the scientific comminity still see it as valid. What is especially threatening to the medical communuty is the holistic approach to our minds and body and our increasing understanding of human and non-human animal consciousness.
This is an evolving field with a lot of exciting areas of research happening, increasing our understanding of, among other matters, how our mind works. Suffice to say, the computer model hardy explains it.
Indeed, the computer model hardly explains it. That's why we hardly have anything to fear from AI. It's the Anthropocentric mindset which is scary, with all its supremacy attitude, convictions and behaviour, all driven by fear. Fear breeds fear.
Thank you for this beautiful piece of writing! I am always amazed how you craft your essays, it reads like poetry. We see the world how we are. Our beliefs are so deeply intertwined with who we think we are that we are feeling naked when we strip them down to the core of our essence. Some people are using fear to control others, or their own fear is so big that it spills over and destroys worlds. All the more it is important to turn towards Love. I think old theories live on because we carry those ancestral beliefs and only when we consciously approach them they can be shifted. The nervous system plays an important part as our bodies are trying to keep us in the same patterns (Joe Dispenza has interesting stuff on that). We often are caught up in a cycle of beliefs, body reactions, thoughts and habits. I hope your essays will find their way into a book one day. 🙏💕
Thank you so much for saying this 💕🙏 I was hesitating about posting it, thinking it might be a little too 'heavy and dry'.
The writing is the result of years of practice (and heaps of trust that something beautiful will eventually transpire from the awfully awkward initial scribbles of the novice writer I was 25 years ago). And as you correctly observe, every piece is crafted. In the spirit of full disclosure: it takes me about 2 weeks to craft an essay from draft and research, through several edits, and final piece. (I always work on several pieces in parallel)
I share your insight that the desire for control and destruction comes from fear. And yes, the nervous system plays an important part in our reactions. I'm deeply grateful to all the wonderful people who put their expert knowledge to good use and show us how everything is connected.
But my deepest gratitude goes to every fellow human who has the courage to embark on their inner journey towards Love 💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏
My next chapter in the Synchronosophy series will be on self-love. (to be published this coming Saturday) I'd be interested in your thoughts.
As I've long said (slightly tongue in cheek, but only very slightly), the history of science is the history of failed theories -- and that's science's own self-definition of how it 'progresses'. The reasons why long-disproven scientific theories still have traction ages after they have been officially invalidated (even by scientists themselves), is that during their heyday "The Science" is taken as an (eternal) truth and becomes embedded in academic curricula, political policy-making, 'popular science' writings, film, novels ... and culture generally. By which time certain vested interests have tapped into the current 'scientifically backed' gravy-train - and from there the love of money trumps all.
There's more as to why good ideas (in their era) become bad ideologies, which would mean charting how ideologies grow and take root, why idols engender role-reversals promoting fear, and how means and ends (which are one thing) become split apart giving us non-logical statements such as "the ends justify the means" -- but all that's for another time and place.
Meanwhile, another wonderful article my sweetie -- you keep writing, we'll keep talking, and I'll keep chopping wood and carrying water. 💜
When I think of theatre, I think of make-believe. You suspend reality for the performance, and if it's really good, you get lost in it.
I have to be reminded of the other kind of theatres as there's nothing make-believe about war or operating, but there is a kind of "play" going on. Playing god. Messing about.
This is not to say I'm not in awe and gratitude for the advances in medicine, it's just interesting how the word 'theatre' evolved.
Theory as spectacle (and I certainly don't remember it being taught this way) does put a spin on worldviews, doesn't it? Reminds you to be the observer in a world very busy participating.
Thank you, Veronika for such a thought-provoking post - with fantastic quotes, from Buckminster Fuller, who has an excellent name ;)
Absolutely! That's what theatre has become. Playwrights and actors showing us another reality. The original théātron (from theā́omai, theâsthai "to gaze at, view, watch, contemplate") was a place where the Ancient Greeks performed their tragedies ~ not as an entertainment in today's sense (according to experts) but as a way to process their emotional experience. Actors literally performed their collective grief, broken hearts, life struggles whatever... Isn't that an amazing thought?
Yeah Buckminster Fuller. Brilliant man, inspired mind, and an excellent name too ~ it was an ancestral family name, used for several generations as a middle name. He made it his main name: R. Buckminster Fuller is a lot more memorable than Richard B. Fuller, don't you think?
Thank you. Another great read! You always leave me walking away in contemplation. It takes years for new evidence to get seen and gain the momentum to overcome a theory. Even an outdated one whose time has passed. Theory has also become a theatre in the cult of hollywoodish performance. Imitation the new religion in a dualistic race to the bottom. Reacting vs creating on screens that never reflect our soul. We are in the world and it is in us. Time to see through our hearts not just our eyes. 🙏❤️
Yes, it takes years, if not centuries sometimes. It's not because there is no new evidence. We've had scientific evidence for almost a century now that 'matter doesn't exist'. Everything is energy! Oneness instead of duality, right? And yet, people like Brian Cox (bless him) promotes the 'cutting edge view' that 'matter contains energy'... what can one say?
Time to see through our hearts, as you suggest, since those eyes are blind. The heart can see and understand oneness.
As we live into the questions. The grand delusion of separation broadcast all around us. Yet as we lean into that spirit of awareness we can feel that energy of oneness breathing a sigh. Symbiocene. Thanks for leading the way.
Excellent essay and highly informative on so many levels. Outdated scientific ideas, such as survival of the fittest and the duality of mind-body hang on, I think, because most of the scientific comminity still see it as valid. What is especially threatening to the medical communuty is the holistic approach to our minds and body and our increasing understanding of human and non-human animal consciousness.
This is an evolving field with a lot of exciting areas of research happening, increasing our understanding of, among other matters, how our mind works. Suffice to say, the computer model hardy explains it.
Thank you Perry 🧡🙏
Indeed, the computer model hardly explains it. That's why we hardly have anything to fear from AI. It's the Anthropocentric mindset which is scary, with all its supremacy attitude, convictions and behaviour, all driven by fear. Fear breeds fear.
True on all accounts.
Thank you for this beautiful piece of writing! I am always amazed how you craft your essays, it reads like poetry. We see the world how we are. Our beliefs are so deeply intertwined with who we think we are that we are feeling naked when we strip them down to the core of our essence. Some people are using fear to control others, or their own fear is so big that it spills over and destroys worlds. All the more it is important to turn towards Love. I think old theories live on because we carry those ancestral beliefs and only when we consciously approach them they can be shifted. The nervous system plays an important part as our bodies are trying to keep us in the same patterns (Joe Dispenza has interesting stuff on that). We often are caught up in a cycle of beliefs, body reactions, thoughts and habits. I hope your essays will find their way into a book one day. 🙏💕
Thank you so much for saying this 💕🙏 I was hesitating about posting it, thinking it might be a little too 'heavy and dry'.
The writing is the result of years of practice (and heaps of trust that something beautiful will eventually transpire from the awfully awkward initial scribbles of the novice writer I was 25 years ago). And as you correctly observe, every piece is crafted. In the spirit of full disclosure: it takes me about 2 weeks to craft an essay from draft and research, through several edits, and final piece. (I always work on several pieces in parallel)
I share your insight that the desire for control and destruction comes from fear. And yes, the nervous system plays an important part in our reactions. I'm deeply grateful to all the wonderful people who put their expert knowledge to good use and show us how everything is connected.
But my deepest gratitude goes to every fellow human who has the courage to embark on their inner journey towards Love 💖🙏💖🙏💖🙏
My next chapter in the Synchronosophy series will be on self-love. (to be published this coming Saturday) I'd be interested in your thoughts.
Oh I am looking forward to the one on self-love! Thank you for your kind words!
As I've long said (slightly tongue in cheek, but only very slightly), the history of science is the history of failed theories -- and that's science's own self-definition of how it 'progresses'. The reasons why long-disproven scientific theories still have traction ages after they have been officially invalidated (even by scientists themselves), is that during their heyday "The Science" is taken as an (eternal) truth and becomes embedded in academic curricula, political policy-making, 'popular science' writings, film, novels ... and culture generally. By which time certain vested interests have tapped into the current 'scientifically backed' gravy-train - and from there the love of money trumps all.
There's more as to why good ideas (in their era) become bad ideologies, which would mean charting how ideologies grow and take root, why idols engender role-reversals promoting fear, and how means and ends (which are one thing) become split apart giving us non-logical statements such as "the ends justify the means" -- but all that's for another time and place.
Meanwhile, another wonderful article my sweetie -- you keep writing, we'll keep talking, and I'll keep chopping wood and carrying water. 💜
and writing wonderful poetry...
thank you for keeping the home fires burning ❤️🔥
When I think of theatre, I think of make-believe. You suspend reality for the performance, and if it's really good, you get lost in it.
I have to be reminded of the other kind of theatres as there's nothing make-believe about war or operating, but there is a kind of "play" going on. Playing god. Messing about.
This is not to say I'm not in awe and gratitude for the advances in medicine, it's just interesting how the word 'theatre' evolved.
Theory as spectacle (and I certainly don't remember it being taught this way) does put a spin on worldviews, doesn't it? Reminds you to be the observer in a world very busy participating.
Thank you, Veronika for such a thought-provoking post - with fantastic quotes, from Buckminster Fuller, who has an excellent name ;)
Absolutely! That's what theatre has become. Playwrights and actors showing us another reality. The original théātron (from theā́omai, theâsthai "to gaze at, view, watch, contemplate") was a place where the Ancient Greeks performed their tragedies ~ not as an entertainment in today's sense (according to experts) but as a way to process their emotional experience. Actors literally performed their collective grief, broken hearts, life struggles whatever... Isn't that an amazing thought?
Yeah Buckminster Fuller. Brilliant man, inspired mind, and an excellent name too ~ it was an ancestral family name, used for several generations as a middle name. He made it his main name: R. Buckminster Fuller is a lot more memorable than Richard B. Fuller, don't you think?
Thank you. Another great read! You always leave me walking away in contemplation. It takes years for new evidence to get seen and gain the momentum to overcome a theory. Even an outdated one whose time has passed. Theory has also become a theatre in the cult of hollywoodish performance. Imitation the new religion in a dualistic race to the bottom. Reacting vs creating on screens that never reflect our soul. We are in the world and it is in us. Time to see through our hearts not just our eyes. 🙏❤️
Thank you Jamie. 💕🙏
Yes, it takes years, if not centuries sometimes. It's not because there is no new evidence. We've had scientific evidence for almost a century now that 'matter doesn't exist'. Everything is energy! Oneness instead of duality, right? And yet, people like Brian Cox (bless him) promotes the 'cutting edge view' that 'matter contains energy'... what can one say?
Time to see through our hearts, as you suggest, since those eyes are blind. The heart can see and understand oneness.
As we live into the questions. The grand delusion of separation broadcast all around us. Yet as we lean into that spirit of awareness we can feel that energy of oneness breathing a sigh. Symbiocene. Thanks for leading the way.
Thanks for joining me on the path, as always 💕🙏
And thank you for reminding us of living into the questions❣️ You don't know how much that is helping me to gain greater clarity in my writing too.
Thank you so much for reading and appreciating my work 💕🙏
Your words mean a lot ❣️❣️❣️