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December 2008 
Sense of Place
Michael
As I awoke to the sunrise of this summer solstice & became basked in the light and
heat of our sun ...
recollections of previous sunrises came to mind - the most memorable of which always "see" the sun "climbing into" an azure blue emptiness of sky.
That was NOT to be today because within half an hour the sun had become obscured by a bank of cloud which - with the 'seeding' assistance of the contrails of the early morning trans-atlantic flights - quickly spread to 6 octa coverage - and in the process reminded me of my absent friend and working associate - Rex Beddis - who was one of the first to establish global inter-school-children relationships as part of his "Sense of Place" initiative with OUP.
Following the EU constitution "spat" which has broken out between the "camps" of Tony Blair & Gordon Brown, over the last few days - Blair will today meet Merkel & Sarkozy & WHO KNOWS what the outcome of the meeting of 27 leaders will be - particularly if Poland executes it's veto. Equally so Don Beck & Elza will present their 'case' to the UN with respect to the Palestinian situation - whilst mayhem continues to spread from the "land" between the rivers or as they say in arabic 'the island' between the rivers.
IT IS of course the empty space between the "islands" of politics, religion & science that have to be "bridged" in order that a fully integrated & INTEGRAL solution might be achieved whether that takes the form of an INTEGRAL UNITED NATIONS or whatever. ALL success today must be offered, therefore, to both the EU & UN & their co-operative discussions in the hope of an appropriate outcome - in the face of a combination of economic necessity, national pride & the multitude of diverse political, religious & scientific perspectives. Even the Pope is "doing his bit" - so to speak - with his "10 point charter" aimed at road-rage drivers.
More significantly than ALL of this, however, comes the news of the latest findings of a small army of geneticists in respect to the relative importance of so called junk DNA and the interaction of the parallel worlds of RNA/DNA rather than DNA/RNA. In the context of the CRISIS in science, Roger Highfield's article in Tuesday's Telegraph entitled - Life just got a lot more complicated - makes ABSOLUTELY fascinating reading - revealing a MATRIX of connexions & interconnexions - and furthermore, the video - which supports the on-line version of the article - makes for compulsorary viewing also.
OUR DNA is made of the same DNA as the tree ... the tree breathes what we exhale ... when the tree exhales we need what the tree exhales ... so we have a common destiny with the tree.
The Reader's Digest recently reported in an article entitled ...
HOW YOUR MIND HEALS YOU ...
In one of brain biology's most amazing advances, scientists have found that our brain may actually help our immune system fight disease. It took 20 years of careful experiments for Dr. Kevin Tracey to see it that way - and goes on to say - now scientists and doctors have begun taking the next step, harnessing the immense power of the human brain to help people heal themselves e.g. using scanners and software that allowed patients to see their own brain activity, scientists at Stanford University trained participants to reduce chronic pain by just visualising and learning to control it.
AS WE approach an understanding of this level of interactive complexity, however, ONE must also begin to consider Douglas Harding's Youniverse ... and then contemplate that that level of understanding and "sense of place" has to be expanded to encompass the perspectives of an even BIGGER picture of an entire system of multiverses and that if Lee Smolin IS interested to the point where he thinks Lisis's work is “fabulous”, reading that New Scientist article becomes a priority, in the context of the 24th November 2007 New Scientist article entitled “Into the void”...
... in order that we come to realise a sense of self and appreciate, with humility, that as mere "pimples on the backside of humanity" - NOW is the time for us ALL @zaadz to join hands on the bridge of ONE LOVE ...
on our journey to change the world through the ACTIONS of Rights AND/DNA Humanity
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When the physical environment affirms our importance, we think more clearly and boldly.
When our bodies are cared for and respected, our thinking improves.
In our materialistic society, where many people have a hard time acknowledging the legitimacy of subjective consciousness, much less the reality of this relatively new concept called intersubjective consciousness, such assertions require us to step out of our usual patterns of thinking. They ask us to embrace the possibility that there may be more going on beneath the surface of culture, in the subterrranean corridors of our collective consciousness, than we previously realised.
They ask us to entertain the notion that there may in fact be crucial patterns of order, created in the crucible of fifty thousand years of human evolution, that gives shape and form to the complex and often chaotic nature of human life.
Carter Phipps
A sense, almost in fact, of GLOBAL CIVIC DUTY - as expressed in J.F.K's famous admonition to
“ask not what your country can do for you, but rather what you can do for your country”
[planet] - http://www.integralworldgovernment.org/integral_world_government.htm