Homeostasis, Change, Addiction & Love

I’m curious why orgs and people fiercely protect outrageous poisonous bullshit that will kill them, while resisting change that is blatantly obviously healthy and liberating.

- So we’ll start from before there was anything.

Nothing

Taoists are good at nothing:Chuang Tzu said: “There was a beginning. There was a beginning before that beginning. There was a beginning previous to that beginning before there was the beginning.... Now I have said what I have said, but I don’t know whether what I have said will really mean anything at all.”

Thanks Chuang.Most helpful.

First Things

Try another Taoist, Lao Tzu:- “The Tao begets the One,The One begets the two,The two begets the three andThe three begets the ten thousand things.”

Fractal emergence – thanks Lao Tzu!

Fantasy Tree by ‘Little Stick’

Things

Alfred North Whitehead called ‘Things’ ‘spatio-temporal unities’.Cohesive evolving entities with a beginning and end, and an inside and out...

Living Things – Homeostasis & Paradise

Biologists use the term ‘homeostasis’ to describe any process that living things use to maintain internal stability. ‘Homeo’ means ‘same’, and ‘stasis’ means ‘state’.‘Paradise’ is a word used to describe an original ideal stable state. ‘Para’ means ‘around’, and ‘daeza’ means ‘wall’.

‘Circle of Angels’ : illustration for Dante’s Paradiso – Gustav Dore

Change & Evolution

Shit happensChange is the only constantHeraclitus said “You can’t step into the same river twice.” You are all rivers.

Disturbances & Tension

Do not disturb.Paradise is nice.

A random perturbation is a disturbance that an entity resists, survives, and returns to it’s original state.A structural perturbation requires that it completely change its identity to survive.

Stressful.

Raleigh-Taylor Instability – Athena 3D in Fortran 95

Conscious Things - Humans

Humans, the geeks of the animal kingdom, have opposable thumbs + a massive frontal lobe with which they evolved consciousness whose attributes include strategy, imagination, language, alienation and deception.Humans are the only species that can bullshit.

Opposable Thumbs – thop55

Human Homeostasis

Human consciousness, or ego, is a ‘thing’ which we may value above our physical survival. Humans will die for a cause, a belief or an idea.Sometimes they even kill themselves because they can’t stand all the bullshit.

Matrix Reloaded – The Wachowski Brothers

“With our thoughts we make the world.”

Buddha said “With our thoughts we make the world”.

Humans create imaginary realities that are homeostatic.

Note however that Banksy’s Buddha has a neck brace.

Our internal reality doesn’t always correspond with other realities.

Injured Buddha - Banksy

Samsara/Circles/Cycles/Circus

Samsara is the polarity to nirvana - birth death rebirth cycle whose focal point is your desire.Humans desire the same things over and over, and this cyclical pattern reinforces a notion of identity.Cycling round the same desire reinforces ego.Step right up.

Reels & Momentum

Round and round where it stops nobody knows.I worked in a steel cable factory. Once spinning on a good spindle, a 40 ton steel cable reel can be kept spinning with a flick of the hand.

Habits

You wear your habits.She’s wearing her habit.Habitat, habitation.The French “Ou habillez-vous?” means ‘where do you live?’With our habits we make our world.

PERCEPTION & MANIFESTATION (Where’s the Beer Store)

I was drinking so much that in my mind beer stores were gigantic. They dwarfed churches.

Addiction creates perceptual illusions, and it determines value systems.

Addiction

We’re all addicted to something that takes the pain away. Addiction is a destructive habit, a sick cycle, a feedback loop, that is very painful.

We’re all addicted to something that takes the pain away.

Addictive Organisations

The cycle of hunger, acquisition and relief creates homeostatic addictive organizations, nation-states and whole civilizations characterized by tyranny, denial and paranoia.

Cyclostasis

‘Homeo’ means ‘same’ and ‘stasis’ means ‘static’.This is a good description of things that have died.Addictive systems are cyclostatic.

Merry-go-round anyone?

Love

I’m defining love as the most intelligent evolutionary strategy possible. An intrinsic drive towards liberation, freedom from addiction. Love’s in the gaps between cycles.Love cracks the homeostatic, and kicks the habits...

Don’t kick nuns though. That’s not nice.

Love & Apocalypse

Apocalypse: ‘apo’ means ‘out from’ and ‘kaluptein’ means ‘cover’.It just means ‘uncovering’.Revelation is an intrinsic characteristic of love, so love is experienced as catastrophic by paranoid systems in denial.No denying....

Martin Luther King & Oscar Romero: Westminster Abbey

Thanks from the heart of my bottom!!