Category: Earth

• Nature is Self-Organizing

  When driven into far-from-equilibrium conditions, systems do not just break down, they generate new structures that pull higher forms of order out of the surrounding chaos. It is as if nature reaches into herself and draws forth structures that reflect the inherent potential of the system for higher orders of self-organization.  Duane Elgin, Systems theorist,…

  David L. Smith

  March 27, 2023

  Belief, consciousness, Cosmos, Earth, Ecology, evolution, Humanity, Nature, Science, society, Transformation, Values

  breakdown, chaos, equilibriun, form, order, potential, self-organization, sphere, structure, system

• Reality: A Personal Construct

  Our perception of reality is a consensus construction, a complex of agreements about how things are based upon shared experiences, the stories we’re told and the images that normalize meaning and values within the group.  To affirm our reality and maintain order and stability in our lives we look for, find and support the people,…

  David L. Smith

  March 24, 2023

  Belief, biology, consciousness, Earth, Education, evolution, Humanity, Nature, Perception, Political, Science, society, Spiritual, Transformation, Values

  body, breakdown, cancer, capitalism, competition, consciousness, construction, cooperation, depression, die, economy, environment, evolution, good, grow, harmony, materialism, order, Perception, socialism, society

• Molecules in a Cup of Water

  There are more molecules of water in one cup of the stuff than there are cups of water in all the world’s oceans. Every cup that passes through a single person and eventually rejoins the world’s water supply, holds enough molecules to mix 1,500 of them into every other cup of water in the world.…

  David L. Smith

  March 20, 2023

  Cosmos, Earth, Nature, Science

  beverage, cup, drink, glass, ice cube, Joan of Arc, kidney, ocean, person, physicist, physics, Socrates, soda, Tyson

• The True Peace

  What is Life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. The True Peace.  The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within…

  David L. Smith

  March 13, 2023

  consciousness, Cosmos, Earth, God, Nature, Spiritual

  Black Elk, breath, buffalo, center, feather, flash, grass, life, men, nation, night, oneness, Sioux, soul, spirit, sunset, universe, winter

• Planetary Stewardship

  We must move beyond democracy to biocracy, beyond loyalty to our own tribe to a view of ourselves as citizens of planet Earth… We must begin to see ourselves as interrelated and interdependent with the animate and inanimate elements of our planet and begin to follow earth’s house rules of limited use, recycling, and long-term…

  David L. Smith

  February 10, 2023

  consciousness, Earth, Ecology, evolution, Humanity, Love, Nature, Perception, Science, Transformation, Values

• Variety Promotes Stability

  Evolution protects what is stable and works well, yet is open to change when instabilities arise, using change to create both new unity and new variety — that gives nature the resilience to survive disasters. It is Gaian wisdom to balance variety and use it creatively in forming highly stable ecosystems. The greater the variety…

  David L. Smith

  January 30, 2023

  Earth, Ecology, evolution, Nature

• The Love of Farming

  Why do farmers farm, given their economic adversities on top of the many frustrations and difficulties normal to farming? And always the answer is: Love. They must do it for love. Farmers farm for the love of farming. They love to watch and nurture the growth of plants. They love to live in the presence…

  David L. Smith

  January 20, 2023

  Earth, Ecology

  animals, children, farm, independence, outdoor, plant, plants, weather, work