Category: evolution
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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,…
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Old Thinking / New Thinking
Old mind thinks: How do we stop these bad things from happening? New mind thinks: How do we make things the way we want them to be? Old mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do MORE of it this year. New mind thinks: If it didn’t work last year, let’s do something…
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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…
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The Universe in a Chair
When we look at a chair, we see the wood, but we fail to observe the tree, the forest, the carpenter or our own mind. When we meditate on it, we can see the entire universe in all its interwoven and interdependent relations in the chair. The presence of the wood reveals the presence of…
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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…
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Communication and Ecology
The universe consists of acts of communication… This sacred communion, this being-sharing of all the systems and systems of systems of which the cosmos is composed, is what we mean by ecology. It is the ecology that undergoes evolution and complexification and increasing consciousness… ecology is, in fact, the name of the whole game. It…
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