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I’d love it if you could unpack some of this. You gloss over some pretty big statements here.
by mprev 8y ago
I’d love it if you could unpack some of this. You gloss over some pretty big statements here.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoI need more of this as well. Comments, books... whatever. Even if it isn't real its a fascinating and beautiful story.
- carapace 8y agoI'll try (and yes, some of this is allegory, or metaphor, or whatever.) Normal human consciousness is very different from what we have now. Normally we're very hip and mellow and happy. (Cf. G. I. Gurdjieff) The dimly remembered golden age was just normal life, then there was this accident (maybe it was the still-hypothetical Younger Dryas Comet Impact, maybe not.) There was a global disaster (flood, the oldest human societies have actual oral traditions handed down from the survivors.) In the aftermath of that we fell into a kind of Lord of the Flies scenario and developed agriculture and cities (both pathological aspect of our sundering from Nature/Reality.) All of what we think of as human history is the story of accident victims recovering from a terrible disaster, rising up out of a kind of nightmare or coma, and returning to normal healthy existence, which feels so good (in comparison to the trauma-filled previous existence) that e.g. Christians call it the Kingdom of Heaven. As we heal our individual and collective trauma we have rediscovered e.g. the basic structure of the Universe (astronomy, cosmology, the Standard Model) and begun to live in harmony with Nature (e.g. Permaculture and other forms of applied ecology). As a side effect of living in harmony with Nature we can communicate with other intelligent beings around us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Plants (esp. Findhorn) https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/ https://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/