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[Lawrence]

… Thanks for that entropy site –I think… I was reading through your old ‘Regeneration’ site, and some of your Kundalini site. I then went over to that entropy web page you provided… Man… that is some dry reading (the entropy site –not yours)…

… Back when I was pulling this theory together, I felt that I needed to get a more technical leg up on the whole entropy thing, in order to better position myself for all the counter arguments that I was sure were going to come my way… What Jeremy Rifkin wrote about entropy was quite simple, very poetic, and intended for the lay reader -and I was the lay reader. Although all the scholarly writings on this subject were very similar, and were as dry and highly technical as is shown in that same webpage you shared, I was prepared to do my duty none the less, and study up on the second law of thermodynamics. However, almost as soon as the ink was dry on the paper that became my theory, I began to look much more closely, and expansively into the multiple webs of non-rational synchronicity, that had actually come together to make this whole thing possible in the first place… As I began to review just exactly what I was doing up to this point that led to all this ‘intense relativity’ –it became quite clear that there was much more going on, than simply ‘the scientific process…’

… Within a very short period of time, I began to see this whole theory and this whole experiential gestalt, I became a part of, as far more  than merely a scientific discovery –as fascinating as that was. I began to interpret this whole thing as a spiritual/mystical event that hopped and skipped synchronisticly over scientific laws as though they were playthings…

… I was sitting at my metaphorical desk doing my entropic homework, all the while a metaphysical Muse was dancing all around me with example after example of a Universe that just simply ‘plays’ with the pliability of our own seemingly ‘ridged’ scientific laws… Needless to say, it didn’t take long before I dropped my pen, my paper, and the second law of thermodynamics like a bad date, as I skipped class and went off to dance with the Muse herself…

… I lost interest in the second law of thermodynamics almost as fast as it initially caught my attention… It was this ‘other’ reality that really began to intrigue me far more than scientific objectivism… It still does…

… I rarely revisit my theory… It’s there… still valid… quietly at the ready… like a loaded, metaphysical gun, ready to be fired when called upon to do so…

… I dust if off occasionally… Feel the weight of its potentiality… admiring its simple form and engineering… Before I place it back on its metaphorical pedestal, I think to myself, very soberly; “You’ve got one shot here, genius… Don’t fuck it up…”

[Jana]

I get ya, and you will probably find far more coherence with what Nassim Haramein, Dan Winter, Ananda Bosman and the esteemed Tom Bearden say about entropy...and the king himself Viktor Schauberger...
And if you did want to get into it I could send you my Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life by Eric Schneider and Dorion Sagan.

In my biggest revelatory period of 3 weeks (associated with  Bangladesh cyclone 2007 Nov.)...I linked up precognition with differential of the positive and negative ions of the solar wind...creating a gyroscopic timing wheel device for the sequencing of precog and associated event....needless to say I don't talk about that to 99% of people or they would look at me crosseyed.


Levy writes: “More than ever, current-day humanity is certainly acting as if it’s a species possessed. Eminent theologian and 9/11 Truth Activist David Ray Griffin writes, “It does seem that we are possessed by some demonic power that is leading us, trancelike, into self-destruction.””

This inexorable demonic power is unexamined shadow (demons) and unexplored light (daemon).

[Lawrence]

I get ya, and you will probably find far more coherence with what Nassim Haramein, Dan Winter, Ananda Bosman and the esteemed Tom Bearden say about entropy...and the king himself Viktor Schauberger...

… Looks like your friend Nassim is going to be in Boulder this Thursday. Schauberger seemed like a real renaissance man…

And if you did want to get into it I could send you my Into the Cool: Energy Flow Thermodynamics and Life by Eric Schneider and Dorion Sagan.

 

… Normally I would say; “Thanks, for the recommendation, but I can buy it, and save you the trouble,” but, at the same time, I would also not want to turn away a warm hand of hospitality, either… I will accept your generous offer, and hope to reciprocate in kind, myself…   

In my biggest revelatory period of 3 weeks (associated with  Bangladesh cyclone 2007 Nov.)...I linked up precognition with differential of the positive and negative ions of the solar wind...creating a gyroscopic timing wheel device for the sequencing of precog and associated event....needless to say I don't talk about that to 99% of people or they would look at me crosseyed. 

… Well, I’m probably as unfamiliar as the 99% but I am open to more clarity on the subject, if you would feel so inclined…

... This inexorable demonic power is unexamined shadow (demons) and unexplored light (daemon).

… I like that interpretation much better than the former. It’s a hard enough struggle as it is, for me to keep from demonizing blubber people. I could throw my whole empathy rant out the window if I truly saw all this as a giant struggle between angels and demons…

… Talk about ‘unexamined shadow’ –that last post of mine, where I talked about my disinterest in entropy- that was a real struggle to get those words out… in the end, the Muse finally came to my rescue. But before that happened –I struggled mightily for those few words… I know it has everything to do with my own personal ‘demons’ –as they say- and those demons go by the name of ‘doubt’… Nothing demonic, or mysterious there. Just a damn shadow… A damn big shadow…

[Jana]

Yep I am going to see Nassim again.

Animal Rationalism: Exploitive rationalism, or rationality driven by the reptilian circuits leads to dys-integration, dissociation, separation and isolation.
Spiritual Rationalism: Illuminated rationalism, or rationality driven by the heart and the enteric-intuitive brain leads to wholism, synergism, regenerosity and inclusiveness.

Humanity has been living in hierarchical social structure since its inception as a species. Consequently the way we have been using the rational mind in pyramid culture is one damn big shadow. We are rationally adapted to work at jobs that damage our brains through status poisoning and limit our potential creativity. We are rationally adapted to follow orders and limit the expression of our light and our truth. The rational mind keeps us within a strict code of silence over not bringing up shadow with friends, family and fellow workers.  The rational mind focused intently on survival interspersed with escapism, will not allow us flights of fantasy, wild imaginings, and illuminating poetry of perception, nor any deep connection with the surrounding nature and the soul of the day. The rational mind prevents our exposure to the elements, eliminates risk, reduces spontaneity, exits relationship, reduces learning by mistake and cuts down alternative choices and experiences to that of the automaton preprogrammed from childhood to a certain kind of limited destiny.

Rationality, after love, is the supreme tool of the humanizing principle! But it must be used in the service of love, liberation, abundance, creativity, the Muse and enlightenment. Otherwise it operates in the service of fear, consumption and Gaian destruction. Turning the rational eye into the heart we then see deeper into the interconnected whole, consequences are obvious and moral certitude backs our convictions...and we can thus act in honor and self-respect to bring about a sane and enchanted world.

[jimtzu]

great that you get to see Nassim again.  keep us posted on that. 

Humanity has been living in hierarchical social structure since its inception as a species

not so sure about that statement... i think in the pre-deluvian ages and perhaps after, before the "male-god" illusion took over that things were in a more natural state of beingness.

[Jana]

As soon as we became pack animals...hierarchy became a part of our social chemistry. In the past it may have had a place to play in selective breeding, the safety of the clan and social stability. But we have to question the validity of the structure of hierarchy itself if it acts to suppress human evolution, when we now know that social evolution is the only thing that will save our species and the planet. If we are to have benign leadership it must be universal and Godly as it has never been before.

It appears that capitalism, socialism, communism and fascism are all default structures that disregard true human needs and the evolution of humanity. We have yet to create a polis-structure that ennobles and enables the human condition. Until the individual is encouraged to rise to their full sovereign power our civilizations will  tend to degenerate the humanizing principle. Thus the structure of society we live in will tend to be adverse to our highest well-being...therefore we will have to fight our own tendencies to comply to self-diminishment and fight the existing sociosphere in order to BE all that we are.

• Codependent Institutions—Codependency IS the lack of sovereignty. In pyramid systems we give up our rights and self-respect to cater to a preexisting hierarchy of dominance. Silence, or the inhibition of the expression of truth maintains the status quo of these systems of exploitation. All pyramid systems maintain themselves through conscious and unconscious means of suppression and favorism. Thus most religious training is about the loss of individualism in the service of the head honcho or the power and position of the church (or State). Evolution is about the development of the sovereign individual, while the traditions of codependency are holding the species back in infantilism and preventing the expression of the extreme pain that the loss of soul-freedom causes.

[Lawrence]

great that you get to see Nassim again.  keep us posted on that. 

Humanity has been living in hierarchical social structure since its inception as a species

not so sure about that statement... i think in the pre-deluvian ages and perhaps after, before the "male-god" illusion took over that things were in a more natural state of beingness.

… I share Jimtzu’s concerns and observations…

… Since I’m not too fond with the ‘quote’ function here at Michaels place –simply because it renders the text so dang tiny- I have chosen to leave these excerpts from Riane Eisler’s book ‘The Chalice & The Blade’ free from that very quote mechanism. To make things easier to digest, I will make one final observation, or comment myself, at the very end of these excerpts. All the rest is all Riane Eisler…

http://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/084466734X/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254882445&sr=1-11

“… Preserved in a cave sanctuary for over twenty thousand years, a female figure speaks to us about the minds of our early Western ancestors. She is small and  carved out of stone: one of the so-called Venus figures found all over prehistoric  Europe…”

“… One result of re-examining human society from a gender-holistic perspective has been a new theory of cultural evolution.  This theory, which I have called Cultural Transformation theory, proposes that underlying the great surface diversity of human culture are two basic models of society.
 
The first, which I call the ‘dominator model,’ is what is popularly termed either ‘patriarchy’ or ‘matriarchy’---the ‘ranking’ of one half of humanity over the other. The second, in which social relations are primarily based on  the principle of ‘linking’ rather than ranking, may best be described as the ‘partnership’ model. In this model –beginning with the most fundamental difference in our species, between male and female- diversity is not equated with either inferiority or superiority.

   Cultural Transformation theory further proposes that the original direction in the mainstream of our cultural evolution was toward partnership but that, following a period of chaos and almost total cultural disruption, there occurred a fundamental social shift. The greater availability of data on Western societies (due to the ethnocentric focus of Western social science) makes it possible to document this shift in more detail through the analysis of Western cultural evolution. However, there are also indications that this change in direction from a partnership to a dominator model was roughly paralleled in other parts of the world.

   The title ‘The Chalice and the Blade’ derives from this cataclysmic turning point during the prehistory of Western civilization, when the direction of our cultural evolution was quite literally turned around. At this pivotal branching, the cultural evolution of societies that worshiped the life-generating and nurturing powers of the universe –in our time still symbolized by the ancient chalice or grail- was interrupted (people interrupted). There now appeared on the prehistoric horizon invaders from the peripheral areas of our globe who ushered in a very different form of social organization.  As the University of California archaeologist Marija Gimutas writes  -the power to take rather than give life that is the ultimate power to establish and enforce domination.

“… For millennia men have fought wars and the Blade has been a male symbol. But this does not mean men are inevitably violent and warlike…”

“… Even though humanity obviously consists of two halves (women and men), in most studies of human society the main protagonist, indeed often the sole actor, has been male.

   As a result of what has been quite literally “the study of man,” most social scientists have had to work with such an incomplete and distorted data base that in any other context it would immediately have been recognized as deeply flawed…”

“… Through the use of the dominator and partnership models of social organization for the analysis of both our present and our potential future, we can also begin to transcend the conventional polarities between right and left, capitalism and communism, religion and secularism, and even masculinism and feminism. The larger picture that emerges indicates that all the modern, post-Enlightenment movements for social justice, be they religious or secular, as well as the more recent feminist, peace, and ecology movements (or Unitarians), are part of an underlying thrust for the transformation of a dominator to a partnership system…”

“… This theory in part derives from an important distinction that is not generally made. This is that the term ‘evolution’ has a double meaning. In scientific parlance, it describes the biological and, by extension, cultural history of living species. But evolution is also a normative term. Indeed, it is often used as a synonym for progress: for the movement from lower to higher levels.

   In actual fact, not even our technological evolution has been a linear movement from lower to higher levels, but rather a process punctuated by massive regressions, such as the Greek Dark Age and the Middle Ages. Nonetheless, there seems to be an underlying thrust toward greater technological and social complexity. Similarly, there seems to be a human thrust toward higher goals: toward truth, beauty and justice. But as the brutality, oppression, and warfare that characterize recorded history all too vividly demonstrate, the movement toward these goals has hardly been linear. Indeed, as the data we will examine documents, here too there has been massive regression…”
“… The chapters that follow explore… the story of how the original partnership direction of Western culture veered off into a bloody five-thousand year dominator detour…”

“… A new designation, Civilization of Old Europe, is introduced here in recognition of the collective identity and achievement of the different cultural groups in Neolithic-Chalcolithic southeastern Europe,” writes… Marija Gimbutas in ‘The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe.’ This ground-breaking work catalogs and analyzes hundreds of archaeological finds in an area extending roughly northward from Aegean and Adriatic (including the islands) all the way up into Czechoslovakia, southern Poland, and the western Ukraine.


… As you can well imagine, Riane Eisler is no big fan of hierarchies either. It was in part because of this very assumption that I asked her a question, a few years back, when I went to see her on one of her book signing tours. I asked what she thought of Ken Wilber in particular, and integral philosophy in general. The response she gave was so quiet I had to lean into the table she was sitting at, and ask her to repeat her response once again. She looked up at me and very sadly replied; “We’re like two parallel lines, running side by side, but never coming together…”

[Jana]

The parallel lines mode is as it should be until humanity gets globally more on the same page.

All primate troops have hierarchy...wherever two may gather there is subtle or overt hierarchy...power struggle. Some primates are more aggressive like baboons  , and some more good natured like bonobos .

I like James DeMeo's take on the war like Saharasian tribes taking over the settled neolithic (megalithic) tribes.
There seems to have been an advanced civilization of stone cutters prior to the comet hit of 12,500 BC...around the time that the last ice age was coming to a close.
Agriculture began around 11,000 Turkey, Mesopotamia, Vedic culture.
Civilization or cities began driven by trading
Just like with the different apes...human races/tribes would exhibit different levels of aggression and male dominance...rising and falling over time with changing conditions.

There were hunter gather sapiens in Europe along with the Neanderthals...then agrarian tribes from  the Caucasus region moved on up after the ice sheet melted more. The European bloodlines probably emerged from the Tigris-Euphrates river system (40,000 BC) which then fed the Scythian populations of the Russian/Asian steeps (9,000BC)...and then continued north and west as the ice retreated (4,000 BC).

Really it wasn't until the weapons of war become more advanced with the development of metallurgy that the human species turned into a genocidal mad creature.

There is still a haze around the advanced prehistorical culture of the mega-stone cutters...but their structures seem more mystical, spiritual, cosmological and Druidic than even civil or fortifications for protection. It seems only since the Sahara and Asian deserts occurred starting around 8,000 BC that humans have made war and bootie a major pastime.

[jimtzu]

i like to explore the "alternative" views of HIS-TORY...  a lot of the "official" narrative that goes unquestioned is more of a cultural/societal egoism that we all like to take for granted.  one example is the "history" of the united states,  just barely two hundred years old, but in that short time the hubris of a peoples story can be seemed to be undermined by the truths that get buried in Howard Zinn's history of that same time period...  those messy facts and actions that actually tell the tale of how things have gotten us to where we are today.  genocide, slavery, racism of all sorts, greed, that gets magnified over time.  now take that same process of glossing over and expand it over the millenia and the official story and reality are so far apart that it doesn't even seem like the same events are being talked about.
the pre judeo/christian/muslim history has almost been wiped out and everything is filtered thru that lens.  the history of egypt is 3 times longer than the time of the biblical age to now.  how much is lost from that and the millenia before that.  the mother goddess' barely get any mention and what of the times before that when people were more in touch with the natural world around them. 

[jimtzu]

a great RS article on history and celestial time

Discoveries like the ancient Greek Antikythera computer (1500 years before the invention of precision geared devices) the Baghdad batteries (2000 years before Volta "invented" the battery) or dental and brain surgery artifacts found in ancient Pakistan (8000 years out of historical sequence) appear "anomalous" within our current paradigm of history. However, they are not unexpected according to the ancient cyclical view.

more..


http://www.realitysandwich.com/history_and_celestial_time

[Lawrence]

The parallel lines mode is as it should be until humanity gets globally more on the same page.
 

 … And when does humanity get more on the same page, one might ask?
… Could it be when the parallel lines mode 'ceases' to be 'as it should be, perhaps?'…
… The status quo is as it should be -until it's not?…
… That's one of the better koans I've come across in quite some time –which is not to say it’s not good, because I'm a huge fan of koans myself. As a matter of fact, it too, is yet another one of my own, personal 'processes' –and a very powerful process at that!… 

All primate troops have hierarchy...wherever two may gather there is subtle or overt hierarchy...power struggle

… And that is the number one argument or justification for mans inhumanity to man –or nature for that matter- from every social darwinist since time immemorial. "That's the way it's always been." If you subscribe to such a rationale, there will never be a time in the future of humanity –and I mean 'never'- when mankind will be freed from the burden of ever getting beyond his primitive, primate past…

… The only way to get beyond this never ending limitation is by refusing to subscribe to the social darwinist rationale in the first place –particularly Muse Mining iconoclasts! Not even Darwin subscribed to such a narrative… We didn't need Riane Eisler to show us that our planetary cultural narrative for mankind has 'always' –metaphorically speaking- exhibited an obvious gender bias. God the Father being the most obvious of them all…

… But it can be argued that it did take the advent of women entering the fields of science in greater and greater numbers to begin to see 'animal interactions' –and not just primates- in a whole new manner other than alpha-male interactions… Women came into the field –literally, they left the labs and went off to the bush- and began to recognize familiar, nurturing, and cooperative characteristics in animal societies that men were just too biased to see…

“It’s a man’s world,” the saying goes. "If you have any doubt, look at the animal kingdom." At first glance, it does indeed look as though males in the animal kingdom just might have an added advantage with size and aggressive tendencies over female creatures. The most obvious advantage to such Alpha-male status, or added aggression is that often times it could mean the difference between eating and not eating, if you just happen to be a carnivore… The social downside to that very same male aggression is that it usually makes you a perfect asshole around your neighbors even –and especially- when you are no longer in ‘hunting mode’…

… This is such a ubiquitous problem with males in the animal kingdom that many animal societies (female-centric) just simply exile young males from their various troops into a life of semi-permanent solitude. Only allowing them to return for mating purposes… And this is the analogy that social scientists think we should be using as a cultural metaphor for our own human condition?…
 
… Damn, if even the females in the animal kingdom can’t stand to have these basket cases around, what in the hell makes us think that this knuckle dragging, Alpha-male way of life is one that us ‘higher’ primates need to emulate?... Thank God women could see past this limiting narrative –even if those women just happened to be animals…

[Jana]

The premise of awakening sovereignty is the transcendence of animal-wired power plays through each individual becoming a conscious "fair witness" of the dominance/submission game. We each then incorporate within us the Alpha Male and Alpha Female (ie: King and Queen) by building up the prefrontal lobes and the "good parent" function. By being mindful of primate stress chemistry we can monitor and modulate our states, behaviors and responses more in line with a "noble" or sovereign condition. Sovereignty is a process that aspires to empowerment, power sharing (egalitarianism) win-win, compassion, creative expression and spiritual liberation. Developing social meta-awareness is indeed the only way to create a healthy evolving human community or civilization...and so eventually we will discover how to do it on a global scale. To not do so is to continue to abuse Gaia, ourselves and to spread our degenerative diseased species, with all its flaming hubris, throughout the cosmos. This is not a struggle between male forms of power and female forms of power...it is the grand adventure of the discovery of personal empowerment, dignity and freedom from automatic social stress and the brain damage that status chemistry produces.

Robert Sapolsky is one of my main heros; I used him a lot for BOK, with his permission. Check him out on youtube and googlevideo. He makes human nastiness palatable because you can see it is all biochemistry and conditions....funny guy. His work is central to all that I write, that his why his picture is above my desk.
Nassim Haramein is another of my great heros, as he gave us back "beauty" in cosmology and physics. I thought science was going "mad" until Nassim came along.

[Lawrence]

... Thank you for another beautifully written piece... I will certainly explore your recommendations...

... I wish you great en-joy-ment this evening...

... Have a playful experience!...

[Jana]

The Nassim talk was awesome as usual, a universal theory is definitely brewing, and I can give you a more indepth write up than last time.

It appears that water molecules...the liquid crystalline structure of the bonding angles acts like a spontaneous ever changing universal supercomputer transferring information from the contractive or vacuum side of the universe to the matter or radiant side. This is how biology informs the vacuum and is in-formed by the vacuum. I think Nassim said that water forms a shape that is the inverse (interiors) of the 64 star tetrahedron shape of the geometry of the vacuum.

Tomorrow I will go into how everything in the universe is related to Wilhelm Reich's notion of cosmic superimposition.

Tonight I will give you a practice that arose for me during the event:

This exercise is for removing the veil of separation and reconnecting to the unified field through which all things are One. In an infinitely energetic universe where there is no shortage of energy, consciousness or love so we never have to lack for either, we just have to learn how to harvest it. Making light or eating spin is a process of going within to the stillness at the axil of rotation at the eye of the vortical torus of the Merkabah.

To Uni-phi with Uni-verse do the following steps:
• Stop the mind’s self reflexivity…the way it turns back onto itself.
• Decentralize awareness making the specificity and multiplicity one thing.
• Open the heart (8Hz) and breathe deeper
• Relax the cells –(zero inhibition of light)
• Warm ones field – (remove darkness and fear)
• Smiling at the atomic level – (Unification)
• Making love with the vacuum - (no separation)
• In this there can be no collapse of awareness recursively back into the past known identification with the self – (radiant awareness)
• Then we see “reality” in pure awareness through the eyes of the universe observing itself. (cosmic consciousness)
• Healing involves moving the flow of energy-consciousness to promote better feeding of matter with vacuum energy. Matter being simply spinning black holes in the infinitely dense fabric of spacetime.

Social equalization
Since there is an infinite amount of energy available everywhere we don’t have to fight for it. All power differentials and struggles relate to a deficiency in the degree of parental compassion developed in the prefrontal lobes and the ability to create light and eat spin. The more still we are the more we cohere, connect and imprint the vacuum. We become a vacuum engineer able to harvest energy and information from the vacuum by streamlining our phi ratio vortexing towards the singularity. All relationship becomes sacred when we Uni-phi with Uni-verse.

[Lawrence]

… After I read your references to Baboons and Bonobos, it triggered a reminder that I had a fascinating article about an interesting scientist who was studying baboons himself. There was also a recent National Geographic special on PBS about the same scientist, and that very same study… Sadly, I could not find the article in question, so I could not incorporate this added dimension into my previous comments like I had hoped…

… What this scientist did talk about, was a troop of baboons he was studying twenty years ago, that took to the habit of scavenging food from a human garbage dump. Although life for this troop seemed relatively easy –since all the food they could eat was all within easy reach- this life of leisure soon showed its downside…

… It turned out that some of the meat in this dump ended up with a strain of tuberculosis that killed only those animals in the troop that ate the infected meat. Not all of the baboons had the status to eat meat. Only the dominant, aggressive males allowed themselves the pleasure. Females, and less aggressive males were left out of the loop. As a result, the disease killed off all the aggressive males, which left the troop with only females and a small number of the more ‘mellow’ males of the clan…

… Baboon society did not collapse as a result. They continued to live the life of a troop of baboons. The only difference was that they suddenly started living that life without all the stress and strain that accompanied a ‘normal’ troop of baboons with all that male aggression playing itself out on a daily basis and keeping baboon culture in a constant state of stress and tension… This new way of interaction within this baboon troop became the norm over time. As new baboons would come into the troop to integrate, they would bring in the usual baboon aggression with them, only to learn rather quickly that this form of behavior was not looked upon too favorably in this troop. They learned the new ‘norm’ in short order and soon came to adopt this newer –less aggressive form of baboon-hood- as their own…

… The most fascinating lesson of all is that twenty years later, this same baboon troop is still functioning in this less aggressive manner, while each and every other baboon troop all around them are still functioning in their usual high stress mode –which is ‘the norm’ for most baboon troops in the wild…

… Not only does this example show that ‘peace’ can actually be taught in the animal kingdom itself –which can only leave one encouraged regarding the human animal- but it also shows that once this particular way of life is experienced –in the animal kingdom- that even animals prefer this form of cultural interaction over its more aggressive alternative…

… Btw, that scientist in question –the one whose article I could not find- turns out to be –as I’m sure you already know- none other than your own Robert Sapolsky…
 
… Now then, it seems to me that the next obvious question might be, ‘what’s the human equivalent of giving all the aggressive human males on planet earth their own version of baboon TB?’…

… Well, literally ‘killing them off’ might be more than a little counter-intuitive to those advocating for a more inclusive cultural metaphor… But, a ‘metaphorical’ die- off of this particular meme might not be out of the realm of possibilities… What could possibly be the cultural equivalent of a metaphorical die-off?

… Many social commentators who recognize the go nowhere trajectory in which society appears destined for, believe that the only possible way that this particular course is to be altered will be accomplished through a great cataclysmic event –generally through environmental or political upheaval… The problem with relying on such a scenario to rescue us from our own social abuses is that if the basic cultural model that brought us to the precipice in the first place is not fundamentally altered –after the crisis passes- we will only find ourselves yet again, reverting back to social darwinistic tendencies as that is the only model we have ever really known for certain… Until that fundamental model itself is turned on its head, once and for all –we will be returning to, and dancing to this same old tune, time and time again…

… I’m looking for a paradigm shift myself. The end of civilization as we know it, perhaps. But only as metaphor. I’m open for suggestions with regards to our metaphorical die-offs, but in case none are forthcoming –I do have this metaphorical gun, loaded and ready to fire… The only problem is, there’s only one bullet… So, it’s got to be true and it’s got to be accurate… There may be no margin for error here… Timing is everything… circumstances are everything… Even the wind has to perfect… But imagine the rewards if all comes together… a whole new ’process’ for experiencing reality…