5/16/09

Interdependent realities, health, and symbiotic insainity

I saw Derrick Jensen (DJ) speak last night and I have a few thoughts.

First a quote from some reading on interdependent realities.
From Buddhism and the public sphere:

"Rather than blending and blending in with the limitless, mutual relevance of all things, attention and action rooted in blindness impose a single meaning or set of meanings on things determining what things "are" and "will be." In a world composed of things with essentially fixed natures, this might not be troubling. Determining what things really 'are' and 'are' not is to be able to act precisely and certainly in pursuing our own interests. But in a world in which all things are best seen impermanent or dynamic, in which our own interests are finally inseparable from those of others, and in which the predictable and the unprecedented are configuring our bodies, our lives, and our circumstances. Reacting or responding to challenging situations without clear understanding of their dramatic precedents and consequents the currents of meaning, outcomes, and opportunities that constitute our karma is almost invariably a guarantee of continued, if not intensified, trouble or suffering."
Hershock 2006 pg45


The Domination reality is as Totten puts it:

“The patterns of power and submission are inscribed on the bodies (or rather through the experience) of its members, through the ways we are taught to use, (experience), and treat our bodies from infancy onwards.” Totten, 2003. pg47

We are swimming in the reality that we wish to resist, we are that reality, we are the very thing we are seeking to resist. The Jail Cell, the government, our minds, our lives are in a symbiotic interdependent insanity loop that is inseparable by normal means. Any "way" that comes out of the reaction to any end of this loop is actually bound for further destruction of the biosphere. This is the difficulty of my solution, it requires a radical shift in perception that is not from the location of "doing, thinking, reacting, changing through more neocortical responses." No I am not suggesting a magical newage response, nor a passive response, nor a violent over throw. Yet anything that comes out of our imagination at this point in history will only repeat all that is historical and thus continue the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop. We are seeking to live in primitive ways, yet we are too far gone from this and any attempt to force this will result in furthering the domination of all living things. We are trapped!

Yet what we are trapped in; this box, this jail cell is completely and totally able to mutate, to reform, to fall off, to shed. But the efforts required to do this are great and the location is currently missing from our imagination as a collection of historical nervous systems strung together by family and passing on the historical trauma's of multiple generations. We are the edges of our species, no other time has a better way to deal with what is on our plate right now, so solutions must come not out of our insanity loop, but rather out of our interdependent mutual growing, maturing, creating, and reaching into the present vital moment, like nature, like play, like rage, and love that is in service to our mutual evolution and into the intelligent heart brain. No this is not some fantasy. It might seem like a fantasy especially since our species has collective amnesia to this vital organ, yet this organ like all the organs in our body have the capacity to be perceived, physically, emotionally, and somatically. This is why most responses to our global human situation will not include this organ, because it has been forgotten and to return to it will take effort. Not effort in doing or thinking, but rather in not doing, but in feeling. If we fail to feel our way through this time we will all play in some way or another into the symbiotic interdependent insanity loop and perpetuate the domination of all life.

This is a time for a new response, one that has never been an option and one that is difficult to see its fruit, except through how our values-intentions-actions create either virtuosity, interdependent connectivity, creative ever present awakening, and radical new ways to interact with the complexities of our reality or further to birth the domination reality that we swim in.

Simultaneously to these thoughts, I have a great understanding in my heart as to what he speaks, our human tragedy, our planet and our home. I too am terrified and feel a powerful rage at our situation. Yet I too feel called in the face of DJ's thoughts to mobilize for a radical shift in how we understand, respond, and relate to our predicament. First I must understand my place in all things, I must connect to the vital breath of life, and take ownership over making more creative interdependent beauty to relate, to return to my senses, and make actions based upon consciousness.

1 comment:

  1. Scot, In response to your post on environmental destruction and culture :

    Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.

    Industrial Society is destroying necessary things [Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land] for making unnecessary things [consumer goods].

    "Growth Rate" - "Economy Rate" - "GDP"

    These are figures of "Ecocide".
    These are figures of "crimes against Nature".
    These are figures of "destruction of Ecosystems".
    These are figures of "Insanity, Abnormality and Criminality".


    The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

    The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature [Animals, Trees, Air, Water and Land].

    Destroy the system that has killed all ecosystems.

    Destroy the society that plunders, exploits and kills earth 365 days of the year and then celebrates Earth Day.

    Chief Seattle of the Indian Tribe had warned the destroyers of ecosystems way back in 1854 :

    Only after the last tree has been cut down,
    Only after the last river has been poisoned,
    Only after the last fish has been caught,
    Only then will you realize that you cannot eat money.


    To read the complete article please follow any of these links.

    Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

    Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

    Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

    Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

    sushil_yadav
    Delhi, India

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