Our Promethean Conquest

samsaranmusing:

mikadouglas:

The change of heart starts with you.  Don’t just do words, do good.  Then do it again…

Oh, Baruch you 17th century pantheistic hippie …

byronic-dreams:

Gustave Moreau: Prometheus

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samsaranmusing:

Wave Interactions: Taoism is known as “the water way” because the Tao is often spoken of in terms of flow, the flow of events and the flow of energy through the matrix of space time. Like waves in water or other media waves within the Tao react to one another and diffract and diffuse. In all wave forms there is the passive portion and the active portion.  The yin and the yang.  In physical waves the active portion is the breaking edge of the wave otherwise known as a “cusp”.  This is where things happen.  However, they happen based upon the flux of the passive portion so one can predict what will transpire in any given circumstance by studying the wave where it is NOT breaking. The same goes with life.  Know where the lines of force are and use them to your advantage and avoid directly opposing them. We can draw another example from martial arts.  When an opponent attacks we do not meet his force directly with our force; instead, we deflect his force and momentum and use it against him.  In this way a smaller opponent can best a larger foe. This is the way. This is the Tao.

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samsaranmusing:

RACE MEMORY - REFLECTIONS ON CARL JUNG AND THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY: The beautiful Monarch Butterfly has a singular migration. The fragile creature, unique in nature, has a migration pattern which causes it to migrate from Canada to the forests of Mexico. Now, what makes this migration unique is that, while the southern leg of the migration is done in a single generation, the northern leg of the migration takes three generations to complete. Thus, individuals starting north from Mexico will never make it to Canada. Each butterfly is just a machine with sole purpose of housing and transporting genetic information.

Coded within the DNA of these animals is the destination, route and a self correcting navigational system. They appear to navigate by a combination of solar positioning and landmark recognition. The insect’s brain is no larger than a pin head yet, they are capable of making this three thousand mile journey in three generations. There is no individual memory of the route, no learning and no reasoning involved. What does this tell us? Simply, that within the DNA complex information regarding the external world can be encoded.

Carl Jung wrote about the existence of “race memory” in humans. This is largely dismissed in our times as “supernatural” and so, not a proper subject of scientific study. However, we are learning that much of the complexity of DNA cannot be explained. Is it possible that, within the helix, we have five million years or more of cumulative information which is waiting to be decoded?