Gaea Hypothesis

Extinction of a high intelligent species

In our drive to compete God humanity has made great progress what I may call our state of Technocracy as a concept of our Democracy. Politicians who do not understand have their choices been determined upon scientists and economists, whose purposes are to prove how things work and how it could be even better – competing God. This in not only related to matter and mechanisation, it extends to life, as if the magic of life and its divine spark can be replaced by, yes what ? Gaea is known as the mythical goddess of the earth and nowadays it is a kind of religion that considers “Earth” and its habitants as 1 organ within an organic system as our cosmos represents itself within the whole.

The Gaea hypothesis, theory or principle of James Lovelock proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on earth to form a self-regulating complex system, contributes to maintaining the conditions for life on the planet. Topics of interests include how the biosphere and the evolution of life forms affect the stability of global conditional circumstances such as the climate and other environmental variables that effect the habitability on earth. When I consider this Gaea history, then we see some important aspects, first the term “Holocene epoch”. The Holocene epoch means that a great number of species were extinct by nature with more or less cosmic influences. Holocene is to be specified as we think about what human is doing now; more technocratizing the world at the cost of flora and fauna. Within some years even lots of human species and perhaps all. That’s the stage we’re in now. 

As you may know science is based upon “to ensure the unsureness or increase the grade of sureness by diminishing the unsureness.” So it’s about the process, the “how”-question.  Science is about Technocracy, where “technè” is Greek for the combination of meaning beyond “art, skills, product & competence” – a kind of syneaeresis or an intuitive simultaneously perceptively understanding of these 4 terms. Once Albert Einstein remarked : “God isn’t throwing dice”. Meaning that the cosmos as a high ordered structure could not be emerged out of chance or coincidence. The information beyond this cosmic con-structure wears its purpose – future – in it. Gaea – “Earth” – is part of this ever changing structure into new ones. Bruno Latour is 1 of the sociologist-philosophers, who elaborated this whole concept about Gaea :

“By 2016, the world’s geologists will officially decide whether or not Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropogenic. From Latour’s non-modern perspective, neither “nature” nor “society” can enter this new epoch unscathed. “The theater of Modern history has been destroyed and must be re-constructed from scratch”. Gone is the passive stage, “nature,” upon which the actors, “rational animals,” have for so long waged their wars and signed their peace treaties. The Anthropos is no longer in nature, nor outside of nature. Latour heralds the coming of an entirely new kind of political animal, a novel form of political body. They are a people to come, the people of Gaea, agents of an impatient planet.”  (summary by Matthew Segall)

How is it that so many different people feel what life, earth and a living planet mean and so few people don’t really care ? Is it possible that we step over to another planet when this one is washed, polluted and exhausted ? If Planet Earth has a purpose within the Universe, then is it possible that human is allowed to destroy this one ? Is that part of this purpose or is that too simple to admit and so drop our responsibility ? The highest law of the Universe is that is recovers itself. It will re-evoke its power of self-regulation and self-morphogenesis, with or without the human race. So in a way we do have a choice, that’s our free will, simply because we are spiritual beings.  

Action & Brain Type

Physical & Metaphysical sporting aspects

During my life as a sports trainer and coach since my 16^th year, it appeared that training at the lowest level was mostly involved with the physical an physiological aspects of the apprentice or student. Of course the necessary aspects of Didactics and Pedagogy were to be integrated in the all over skills of any trainer. Being highly qualified as a sports trainer & coach the main aspect within my training programs is the psychological approach. How is that acceptable ?

Before I was introduced into the method of “Myers Briggs Type Indicator”, I had sufficient knowledge and experience of all disciplines although more fragmentatedly approached. If I regard the content of this book of mine, I thought that it might be recommendable, if it really works what I am writing. Yes I does. I did lots of research in the backgrounds of MBTI, where it came from and what other research results proved why MBTI could also be associated with Brain & Action Type. MBTI is based upon Carl Jung’s philosophy of duality within the human being. Mainly Jung relied on his principles of the energy duality of “Introversion & Extraversion”.

Normally speaking interaction and intercommunication can only be both energies, no doubt about it, while Jung was talking about energies, that can be considered in an everlasting looping, continuingly exchanging directions – intro vs. extra. Earlier I compared this process in relation with bio-chemical elements within someone’s system (no one ever proved or disproved it yet). Where introversion is related to the Oxidator within the Tabel of Chemical Substances by Mendeljev and extraversion may be related to the prominent biochemical activities of Reductants. Where this table contains 9 main groups to complete nature’s content ?

Based upon dualities of Jung’s Katherine Benziger showed the world that preferred behavings were to be appointed to highly energy concentrated brain activities, the 4 divisions of the brain. With this information other dualities were located in the brain; based upon the research of the Myers-Briggs family. With simple terms : front left implies “logical thinking”, front right implies “intuitive perception”, back left implies “sensory perception” and back right implies “social thinking”. Further on they discovered combinations of this divisions. Firstly Benziger categorized people because of 1 partial, 2-, 3- and total (4) brain types. MBTI elaborated this knowledge into 4 categorizes and called these thinking styles : “Artisan-Guardian-Rationalist-Idealist”, the so-called “4 Brain Types”.

So here we have specified the preferred brain activities, that result in certain behavings including the physical activities. Within the sporting world Bertrand Théraulaz and Ralph Hippolyte discovered the relation between each brain type and the activities, that were specifically different according to each brain type of the player. So the way of thinking was in correlation with the way of moving. They called that aspect “Action Type”. Together with my good friend Jan Huijbers – writer of the Dutch version of the book “Totaalcoachen met Action Type” (together with Peter Murphy) – I expored the game of Action Type more deeply. So now, I look in the face and eyes of sporting individuals, observe their anatomy and motor skills. I listen to the choices of words and style of sentences. Thereby I know in 2 ways their thinking style and their preferred learning style as Kolb does in his own way.

A simple story as I tell it here to you. Is it sufficient ? No, it isn’t, because MBTI can’t tell the whole story. It does not describe the communication processes like Will McWhinney does with his “The 4 World Views”. These 4 world views of Will matches about 85 % with the 4 brain types of MBTI. It also doesn’t tell much about the way the decisions are to be made, energetically speaking like the bodygraph of “Human Design”. It doesn’t tell the kind of Intelligence and the related level, such as Dabrowski’s “Emotion as the motor of one’s individual development” at e.g. High Gifted children and people. And so there exist lots of different methods to profile individuals mostly focussed on the will to predict people decisions and actions. Why should you ? I don’t. I leave it up to one’s own “Autopoiesis & Concrescence”. All that I do it facilitate my players in the team.  

Ecology & Economy

The power of changing letters

My last book had the title “From Nomad upto Monad”. By exchanging the 2 consonants the word changes of course. But in essence, does the meaning of the word change in a extreme way ? No, it does not. Phonetically the words sound almost the same. So do the words in the title of this chapter. So is it right that ecology and economy almost mean the same ?

In earlier blogs I described several aspects within the Chaos Theory, efficiency is an important word within this theory. The word “economy” has also a lot to do with the word “efficiency”. Considering complex adaptive systems as dissipative structures – energically open systems – then it is obvious that these kind of systems find their own new order from the so-called chaos. When this new order complies to higher efficiency, then the stream of matter, energy and information keeps on going that way, in those loopings of that certain part of network. In a way this new order is not predictable, because it finds out by itself : “auto-poiesis & morpho-genesis”; it’s the implicate order. Described in a biological-mechanistic way. The physical way as the opposite of the metaphysical way; “concrescence”.

The term “Ecology” – mostly related to the biological version of nature, unfortunately the term “Economy” – is strongly related to money nowadays. So the criterion for efficiency is related to money. Neglecting and ignoring all aspects that lie beyond it. The real qualia of whatever being reduced and transformed into the criterion called “money”. Efficiency is about nature, about pureness, emerging from structures, that are no longer effective anymore. What I mean is that effectiveness is synonymous to the word “functionality” – the reason to be alive and the unique essence to survive. This unique essence is based upon the combination of “Form & Function”, where Form or Constructure represents the biological part and the function in a way the psychological part in relationship with Teleology, what is linked to the process of gaining consciousness. It manifests itself as described. In case of human being I talked about the 2 integral processes; autopoiesis and concrescence, leading to transcendence.

So it seems to be right that human being has the capability to think, to create and generate, that’s pure and awesome. The real Artisan – Artist, how close are these 2 words related ? – works from other criterions than those related to money. Posing deadlines for perfecting creations can be based upon financial criterions, but that has to do with financial dependence, nothing less. Every amateur – its Amor or Love for the activity – is based upon the nature and intrinsic motivation. Where this motivation is highly congruent with someone's meaning of life. The way of gaining this purpose for life is related to the thinking style, the temperament and anatomy. That means pure Passion, the road of the heart to reach that.

And so I talk about nature, I talk about the micro-Ecology of human, surrounded by the macro-Ecology, the cosmic nature. If it seems that this relation – esoterically speaking – is so clear, why would we disturbe this balance ? If there is a balance within the whole universe, then it has to be economical as well, because nature & cosmos are self regulating – morpho-genesis – structures, that are influenced by the whole itself, not by a criterion as money, made up by man. Money is the tool to avoid frustration when having no control of your life and those of other people. The secondary product this process creates is Paranoia and-or Jealousy.

Money is used for greed,  eager for power & control , to demand the right to do with nature as man likes to. Destroying flora and fauna for own benefits, while all the money in the world can’t buy animal species, that were extincted because of man's activities during the last decennia. So what has money to do with the economical structure of our Ecology ? Is our Economy really representing our Ecology ? If you deeply understand these 2 words, then you do not have to worry about (human) sustainability anymore.

Systasis & Synaeresis (final)

The integral structure of the consciousness

In a way it is clear to experience that the divine spark – the magic of life – leads to the mythical way of dealing with the dualities of and in life. Mostly experienced as polarities because of all personal prejudgements, interests and convictions of human beings. From some points of view I talk about a divergence of the magical germ, that is convicted to walk this road trying to convergent through someone’s life back to the source; Riemann’s Zèta-function, i.e. spiraling cycles converting to the absolute asymptote of the void’s.

One of these processes is autopoiesis in a way similar to Dabrowski’s  “Positive Disintegration” of the brain issue at High Gifted and High Sensitive people, what makes their minds more capable to accept energies of other dimensions, that is necessary beneath the process of concrescence. The so-called “Body-&-Mind”-duality (Descartes) only in a way as meant with the term “synergy”.

To have more understanding why Gebser introduced “systasis & synaeresis” is to make it more clear how the process of individual transcendence proceeds. As I consider the word “mind” it should be brought into a broader perspective, because I associate it to the several kinds of intelligence within its spectre. The complete integral intelligence – intelligence as the empowerment to actualize individual potential – may induce the highest level of consciousness, experiencing the magic of life as a human being (transcending upto higher levels). That is a synergetic game of all that is representing a human being and its surroundings during life.

The mental aspects in a 3 dimensional constructures – Gebser – implies more or less the knowledge or in a more scientific way what it is and because of the 3 dimensions it means that duality can be dropped in the way thesis and anti-thesis induce a synthesis what attains both dualities in life – the 2 dimensional mythical aspect of how to deal with dualities – and become one or more congruent with his/her source, the monadic style of living, the synthesis of all dualities, “matter & energy“ included.

So during the mythical stage the 2 terms of systatis and synaeresis are really important, because your whole life is about perception and interpretation and your aim of what to do with it and what you cab do with it (teleologically speaking). The synergy within the processes of individuation and collectivum what also 1 entity at the end, 1 monad representing. The level of being an observer without being or taking part of the observed, where individuation and collectivum are 1 whole.

Remembering Jung’s 2 structure world within dualilty of consciousness and unconsciousness conjoining into 1 integral consciousness by interacting and intercommunicating – you may see it as a extension of the structure of the consciousness – while Steiner and Gebser take a starting point from 1 simple structure with several dimensions and intensities or modalities such as the more physical – autopoiesis – and the metaphystical – concrescence – dimensions, translated into the synergetic process of transcendence.

(re-sourcing : Matthew Segall) 

Systasis & Synaeresis (2)

The integral structure of the consciousness

Earlier I explained the difference of visions between Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner. Whereas Jung dealt with 2 worlds – conscious/personal and unconscious/shadow – Steiner based it upon one source with several dimensions and structures, so does Jean Gebser :

“There is no so-called unconsciousness. There are only various modalities (or intensities) of consciousness; a one-dimensional magical, a two-dimensional mythical and a three-dimensional mental consciousness. And there will also be an integral four-dimensional consciousness of the whole.”

A modality is synonymous to a dimension, some kind of structure with its own specific functionality, as far as I read it in his description. In this way I read the word “synergy”. Synergy emerges when several energies cristalize, whereas they have the functionality to contribute to the continuity or survival of the organism or system. Reconsidering the term “autopoiesis”, can I mean here a network of constructures or is this too mechanical, too physio-biological ? Events of energies as cristalizations may not be considered as networks in the way the Chaos Theory does. Because there is no matter in this flow beneath energy and information.

So it is more than clear that transcendence to higher levels of your consciousness is an integral activity, activating each part within the spectre of Intelligence to gain higher levels of consciouseness and because of the activation new functionalities exply, unfold implicated orders (Bohm). Otherwise it is another expression for the human unique talent out of its potential. Perhaps integration isn’t even a sufficiently powerful word; maybe induction is. I even may neglect them both and focus on the term “transcending” to a higher level of consciousness.

So gathering the knowledge of systasis, synaeresis and synergy, I conclude that esoterically speaking, synergy emerges at each level, in a microscopic and in a macroscopic world. Even free of precondions when we regard the energetic dimensions. This possibilitity exists also – according to me – within the spectre of intelligence. This implies that the result or product of synergetic activities are new orders, more simplex and less complex, more translucent and less troubled views. Transcendence as a process or unique activities by the skills of actualization – synergy – emerging out of potential, embedded in the whole Spectre of Intelligence with the final result of the most simplex structure of consciousness.

So Gebser says :

“Synaeresis fulfills the a-perspectival integrative perception of systasis and system and is a precondition for diaphany, which is able to be realized when, in addition tot systasis and system – the symbol with its mythical effectivity – and magic symbiosis are included, that is to say, present.”

Note : “Integral & Individual” = integredividual (moì) or integrative

Varely and Whitehead display a clear understanding of the need for a synaeretic mode of perception that breaks free of spatial categories and systematization endemic to the mental structure. The related processes or constructurization of autopoiesis and concrescence bring together each of the new structures or orders of consciousness.

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Systasis & Synaeresis (1)

The integral structure of the consciousness

By trying to exemplify the transparency and wholeness – typifying the integral structure of consciousness – Jean Gebser introduces 2 terms : “systasis”, meaning “the conjoining or fitting together of parts into integrality” and “synaeresis” – “the conjoining or fitting together of 2 seperate perceptions within the same unity”. This and more you may read in my newest book.

The wholeness is the integral level of your consciousness, where e.g. kind of perception bring the higher, integral interpretation. That’s the world of “All-and-Nothing”, according to Dabrowski level #5, according to Spiral Dynamics’ level of “Coral Red”, corresponding with #9, which represents the wholesness of the process of Healing – Gurdjeff´s & Ouspensky’s enneagram. It’s therefor impossible contemplating these 2 words separately.

Viewing an organism as a special kind of system that excludes no subjectivity and thereby no emotions. Systasis grants the parts of a system a transparency, allowing the organism to be understood as a subject perpetually becoming whole. This is – according to Jean Gebser – a remarkable difference with the definition of a system in a generally speaking. The system that represents “The Individual and introspective Autopoiesis transcending into or together with the Collectivum and extraspective Concrescence” is the integral and a integrative conjunction.

This what systatis means to me in a broader way. When I compare systasis with autopoiesis, then it looks – by the word ”part” – that systasis is more objective, a more composing process by parts from outside into the borders of e new, integral system, while autopoiesis is working from inside out based upon self-(auto-)reproduction from a view of networking, whereas autopoiesis looks more organic, more subjective and so even more emotionally driven. So that’s why I like to say it is composing 2 different “systems” which transcendent to a higher integral level of consciousness.

How do I integrate the word “synaeresis” in this description ? Basically the meaning of the word is simply : “perceiving in a new way after 2 seperately being perceived objects/subjects/parts have conjoined (systasis)”. Phonetically let’s take the example of the letters “p” and the ”h”, pronounced as “pi” and “aadg” after conjoining them into –ph-, “phi” is heard. Instantly I can not find out if this phenomenon – “synaeresis“ – is appointed to 1 dimension of perception, in this example “the audibility”.

Is this a kind of prove that human is unable to define a phenomenon by 1, 2 or perhaps a combination of 3 dimensions of perception tools ? Is this where lays the power of intuition within : “touch – matter” / “smell/taste – molecule/ion” / “hear – vibrating molecules” – “see – frequency” / “intuition – resonance” ? Is intuition or sympathy – Henri Bergson – a kind of tool or to be  developed skill that may help human himself – “individuation” – to perceive and interpret other human beings and their surroudings – “collectivum” – in a more proper way; free of disturbance and noise so more pure as an energetic entity ? Does this also imply that the learning process for human – getting conscious – is an ultimate way by using all perception tools during the 4 phases of learning, simply translated into ”learning-by-doing & (self-) reflection”, so by experiencing phenomena as a whole ?

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Synergy (2)

Efficiency and Economics

The Autopoiesis Theory is based upon the unusual definition for the organization for life itself. “Autopoiesis is the minimum set of production rules conform what life emerges and to maintain itself”. It is thereby strongly focussed on the information aspect of the theory. As a matter of fact life implies irrefutably matter aspects here on earth. So life is not just an abstraction or reduction by neglecting the physical part of it. Second the definition of autopoiesis gives a limitation and deficiency of what life really is; the meaning of life.

Where the 3 Chilean biologists Varely, Uribe & Maturama were trying to see these set of rules free of its structure. Their researches show us that functionalities can be applied in many efficient and inefficient ways by organs or systems. Efficiency means authenticity and natural behavings. While inefficiency means conditioned hehavings by the organ of human being; there is no balance between individuation and collectivum. Survival here means playing the political game of manipulation for personal interests, free of the aspect of the will for survival – “l’élan vital” ~ Henri Bergson. That’s the way most politicians and bancers are acting.

It doesn’t matter if we discuss the microworld of amoebas or our own society on meso level in comparance with the cosmos as the macro structure. The biological life is in analogy with networking. It’s – yes – about Matter, Energy and Information – the MEI-concept. Although is appears to be that human is – within its original blueprint – unchangeable and will it take perhaps over hundred thousands of years before changes are adopted within human’s blueprint – an evolutionary autopoiesis. Autopoiesis, firstly manifesting as a dissipative structure within the flow of matter, energy and information, where macroscopic behavings are unpredictable regarding the microscopic behavings, finally gaining the highest level of efficiency based upon a probability of its predictional horizon with intended purposes – the Attractor.  

Being aware of these limited aspects for the definition of autopoiesis we can reconsider the flow of matter, energy and information. The self-regulation – “MorphoGenesis” (René Thom) – leads to the form or structure with the highest level of efficiency. It’s again the implicate order (David Bohm), whether talking about biological organs or talents and qualities of human beings. Being fractal the differences within the talents of human beings determines the identity out of each individuation (Gilles Deleuze). All these individuals together the identity of an organization emerges. The way this organization communicates with its surrounding, expresses itself based upon the (higher) values can be identified as the culture.

When we are talking about synergy, we deal with aspects as I described. So synergy is based upon new germs, new orders out of chaos during discontinuing processes and interactions between organs, human beings and organizations. Assure yourselves that there is more than the mentioned energies, indeed human beings are spiritual beings. The realm of spirituality bring lots of them to new orders, to new ways of thinking and living.