… introducing non-linear thinking to the Post-Apocalyptic Age of Decent.

 

xxxxxxxxx   PREFACE   xxxxxxxxx

A false ecological sense of permanence with concepts of linearity
have created a monoculture of uniformity and senseless, Artificial Intelligence.

As soon as we recognize that we are just a co-author of our life
it becomes clear that our ‘reading & writing’ skills are
confined to a linear, hierarchic paradigm of anthropocentrism,
and that our mental capacities are utterly compromised
by a senseless intelligence that continues to dictate a lot of
socio-ecological nonsense.

The myopic perception and intellectual shortcomings
have caused all kinds of ecological incongruities
and subsequently, great social-emotional dissonance among us.

Within the social context of our species, mental conditions can
spread like a virus and become epidemic, or even a pandemic.

To understand the ecological realities and to correspond with
our environment, we have to overcome the pandemic effects of
our mental discordances & imbalances.

Realizing that our anthropogenic world is in an irrevocable decent
is a traumatizing experience.

Only by relearning to ‘read & write’ the socio-ecological narrative
of our life in a non-linear, more organic way,
we are able to regain our long-lost sapience,
the common sense of humanity that has helped us so far.

Here the apocalyptic end of human history transcribes into
a new, non-linear narrative where you, the reader, is invited
to become a co-writer of OUR-STORY,

xxxxxx   – a more ‘wholesome’ story !   xxxxxx

    

 

 

 

 

 

…transcending to the next level of non-linear, dynamic thinking…

Caveat lector:  
Rather than trying to construct a particular awareness or to manipulate a certain consciousness, here the reader is invited
to join a common ‘stream of consciousness‘ that nurtures the eco-dynamic sensibilities of our Social-Emotional Intelligence.
There are at least two ways of reading this text.  All my writings can be read as a ‘self-contained’ introduction to a thought, idea or theory or,
– alternatively & preferably – can be taken as a ‘hub page‘ into the subject matter.  One may regard them as a vade mecum that goes hand-in-hand with other
publications here & beyond which may be consulted for further analysis or explanations, and/or use the words as vertexes or nodes of a much larger network
of ideas, ultimately leading into the realm of collective consciousness.   (Indra’s Net)  In order to accommodate this second approach I keep the level of
‘redundancy’ higher than absolutely necessary. So the attentive reader should not be annoyed by these repetitions or reiterations, they are in fact
intended reflections of the contextual environment.  This is contemplative writing for the mindful reader, so please take your time and try to ‘think more slowly’.
The sometimes very abstract thematic requires a more metaphorical language with peripheral words & images.  This layout allows not only ‘mental breaks’
but also eases the navigation should the reader choose to leave the page or paragraph and return to it later.  As in all my writings, the reader can choose
where to begin, end or deviate …                                       … because eventually, everything will fall into place anyway.

 

 

Turns out, Covid-19 is not only a serious challenge for the immune systems of our species, but it also reveals enormous
deficiencies in public healthcare, and exposes all kinds of socio-economic misconceptions and cognitive limitations.

Mentally stuck in 19th-century’s science & technology, which are still governed by the right & wrongs of the monotheistic
beliefs, or similar anthropocentric philosophies, it is impossible to ‘understand’ the evolutionary relevance of viral diseases.

Sophisticated manipulations of cognition and the systematic indoctrination of our schooling system
have transformed education into a conditioning process.[1]

With an array of reward & punishment techniques, we forged complacency, acceptance & consent, coercing people
to flock under the banner of anthropogenic Righteousness.

By transcribing our sense of pain into an ultimate fear factor – the Angst of an unsanctioned death – we created a
perfect ‘interface’ for the heteronomous Terror Management & Control of our socially engineered societies.

This culture of fear can only exist in an ultra-competitive environment,
and just survives under the stress of constant confrontation & animosity !

 

Since biblical times the greatest antagonists are the forces of Nature. Our existence became a constant struggle
with the Dynamic Changes of Mother Earth and remains a never-ending battle versus the chaos & dirt of wilderness,
a fight against the terror of the animalic and the oddity of illegal aliens.

This ‘Natural Dynamic‘ seems to be limited to a black & white view, to friends & foes or a digitalized world
of algorithms, and appears to be reduced to the creation of growth or just a suffering from deflation & destruction.

Of course, this attitude has not only influenced science & technology but also permeated our
perception of medical research, health care & prevention.

Illnesses & diseases are primarily perceived as an adversary of mankind, we simply demonize & attack them before we ask
for their reason in life – our life – and what purpose they serve. Human arrogance is tied-up fighting the symptoms
rather than looking for causes & consequences. In our ignorance we rather act first and ask questions later,
or – out of sight out of mind, in repression & denial – we forget about it completely.

With this insensitive & inconsiderate behaviour, we first lost sight of little things like bacteria, viruses & fungi,
followed by insects, algae & lichen, the things we considered to be nonexistent, irrelevant or presumably inferior to us.

Then, by adding the exorbitant claims of value, rank and divine authority to the ‘fire‘, we created this depraved,
anthropocentric monoculture with a mentality of great ignorance towards the larger, ecological concepts & dynamic of life.

This narrow-minded and biased perception of reality affected not only our entire cognitive development,
but also rendered scientific research and education oblivious to the synergetic dynamic of life,
and so with corrupted our socio-economic frame of mind – and so our ecologic insanity took off…

 

The divine entitlements to dominate, tyrannize & bully the ‘Rest-of-Creation‘ prevents us
to adapt to the circumstances and to synchronize our actions with our environment.

According to C.G.Jung, this mental infestation behaves like a viral infection and has now evolved into a mental pandemic,
affecting all forms & levels of our thinking and – as we are learning today – is even compromising the makeup (DNA)
of our intelligence and causes psychogenic diseases of all kinds.

With the reckless expansion and the irresponsible growth of our technology we ‘saturated‘ our ecosystem
with etiologic agents and Neurotoxins causing incomprehensible neurodegenerating diseases [2]

Social-emotional numbness, combined with self-centred arrogance and contempt of the eco-dynamic nature of life
have caused a rapid decline in the sapience of humanity.

 

Hubris comes before Nemesis !

Centuries of cancerous growth, immature behaviour and senseless hostilities towards our own kind & habitat
has now provoked a major immune response of our planetary ecosystem.

And again, what is our species doing ?

 

– What we know best, fighting the forces of Nature !

Hoping for a different outcome, – maybe this time.

xx ! x War against nature: ontology, cognition and a constricting paradigm  !   → xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before the ‘arrested development‘ of our social-emotional sensibilities,
when we had to be more in sync with our own kind & habitat,
when animals & plants talked to us like brothers & sisters,
we used to pay more respect & attention to our host.

We were listening to our ancestors and the ‘voices‘ around us,
we watched where we were going and trod carefully.
We were reading the tracks and the ‘signs’ above & below our path,
Mother Earth & Father Sky provided plenty of food for belly & thought,
fresh Water, clean Air and rich Soil filled us with Inspirations.
We responded Intuitively and complemented the whole with our Imagination.

 

Of course, we could not afford to live any other way, neither can we today !

 

The herd-, swarm- or flock-mentality of our species, with all its social-emotional sensitivity,
developed the mental faculties of abstraction.
This ability facilitated a more sophisticated form of communication that is unique to our species, gave us
a Language that names things, can transform feelings into emotions and transcend phenomena into meaning.

The Abstraction of
Intuition, Inspiration & Imagination
correlates & comprises
the co-creative Foresight of our ecosystem
with our Insight into the Psyche.

 

When things got named and anthropomorphized, when animals, trees and even landscapes began
to ‘talk’ to us, our empathy with ‘the Others’ extended into our habitat.
This new recognition of our surroundings, together with the reflection of our Self in the ‘Other‘, prompted
new differentiations & distinctions, a subjectivity vs. an objectivity, the individual vs. the collective,
where humanity as a collective became a distinctive part of the commons.

 

This ‘Mirror stage’ of our species awakened a new sense of belonging to Mother Earth, our planet as a whole;
we began to recognize our close interrelationship with the environment, and to realize our great,
social-economic dependency on our ecosystem.

Let’s not forget that this Awakening already inseminated a misconception about our Self,
a ‘me’ illusion that ‘set-the-stage’ for the great, miconceived Self-Awareness that evolved
into anthropocentrism and is now at the heart of all our philosophies & belief-systems.

 

 

Busted !

 

 

 

 

 

The nature or character of our Planet is alive,
fertile and of paradisical abundance.

All well-being consists of a nourishing & reciprocal relationship, 
it requires respect, sensitive cooperation and responsible participation.

 

 

Our ancestor’s intimate relationship with their environment wasn’t just limited to sympathy and
’empathy toward things’ as in – ‘Mono-no-aware‘, it was also an ultimate source of inspiration & knowledge.

Nature became our great mentor.

 

 

From early on, before the invention of written language
and the more complex mythologies of civilization took over,
we lived within an animistic world,
that was guided by a ‘primordial‘ spirituality [3]

Before we divided Heaven & Earth,
broke everything down into physical & intellectual properties,
our species considered itself an integral part of the Whole,
just a component of a living organism,
the ecosystem we always called home.

Translating & interpreting the signs & phenomena of the elements & scenery,
speaking & understanding the ‘language’ of plants & animals was as important as
communicating with the members of our family & tribe.

The observation of plant behaviour and the tracking of wildlife by our hunter-gatherer ancestors is
considered to be the beginning of systematic research and the implementation of scientific reasoning.[4]

Reading the ‘signs’, recognizing patterns & relations and predicting future outcomes
required an educated mind and historic knowledge.

 

From the elders & medicine men to the shamans & druids,
from the senators of Rome to the sheikhs of the Arabs,
the brightest and most experienced minds of their time
were the guardians & caretakers of this knowledge & wisdom.

For thousands of years, generations after generations,
this ‘sacred’ communion with Mother Nature was able to maintain
a balanced & harmonious relationship to our environment.
We congregated as a collective and co-responded in a sensible & respectful way with the commons.

 

The systematic acquisition & sharing of skills & knowledge
and their facilitated transfer to our children and children’s children
added a Generational Intelligence  [5]
to our intrinsic Social-Emotional-Intelligence
and gave us so the sapience or wisdom
that made our species such a success story.

 

 

 

With the systematic attainment & conveyance of knowledge & skills came
a more sophisticated food production and a rapid increase in population.

The change in diet & nutrition [6] did not just change our brain activity and cognitive functions
but also affected our entire social behaviour & socialization process;
we developed more complex languages with more intricated stories that created new,
more complex societies [7] with new ideas of common heritage, purpose & culture.

Growing out of its infancy, our species slowly matured into an age of self-realization & self-actualization,

the Adolescent Mindset of Humanity.

 

The simple multisensory Object Recognition had evolved into a more attentive perception,
– the apperception that developed our Collective Perception [8],
and began to add the subjectivity-of-Individuality to the co-creative interactions.

A more complex differentiation & segregation, the separation of things & phenomena and the detachment
from ‘Mother’ nature began to create a new kind of relationship to habitat & environment.
We created new norms, terms & conditions for our behaviour and interactions
with the ‘Non-Self‘, the Other, the Not-Me world.

Science and Buddhism agree

The growing complexity of the social-ecological issues required, not only the reorganization & restructuring
of our traditional ways of thinking, but also new strategies to harmonize our actions
with all the new deities we ‘encountered’ on our journey.
Since all knowledge- & wisdom-transfer – across society, up & down the generations – was done orally,
our abstract thinking was running full steam and old philosophies & cosmologies
created all kinds of new mythologies. [9]

 

Spirits, daimons and other supernatural beings evolved or ‘translated‘
into gods & goddesses, demigods and other immortals.

Besides the anthropomorphization of natural phenomena, we added or applied
all kinds of human emotions & traits to these, our Deities.
These ‘Higher Beings’, an abstraction, or product of our advanced ability
to think in abstract terms, replaced our natural environment as the great
teacher & benefactor;

 

Our transition from hunters & gatherers to herders & farmers presented great challenges
to the intrinsically collaborative thinking of our collective intelligence.

Everywhere along the great rivers of our planet, wherever a fertile soil and freshwater supply promised
good crop and prosperity, the people settled down and established their new farming communities.
Working the fields & gardens, taking care of land & cattle, together with the processing,
storage & distribution of the harvest, required all kinds of new specialized skills & traits.

The technological advancements of the Bronze Age were enormous ‘life changers’.
After weaving, pottery and carpentry, the smelting & forging of tin & copper added much
harder & durable tools & hardware to the technologies, boosting the engineering & construction of
buildings & technical facilities, and made the production of new instruments & devices just possible.[10]

With the adolescent awakening of our species came greater individual self-awareness
and with such assertiveness, we began to outgrow our confidence as a collective.
Gifted or chosen by the Gods, the knowledge, qualifications & skills of an individual determined
its role or place in the community; Schooling & training, especially in reading & writing
for administrative positions, became increasingly important.

These first, ‘specialists’ began to form their own societies within their communities. Their ‘trade’ value
in knowledge & skill elevated their social status above that of an ‘ordinary’ field worker
and so established the first level of a still simple social stratification.

Sharing responsibilities & workload was nothing new for these early, non-stratified, egalitarian
or acephalous communities, but the transition into a more complex, technology-driven agriculture
brought radical changes to the socio-cultural fabric of humanity.

Besides the traditional community ‘management’ of elders & chiefs, a new body of ‘counsellors’ emerged.
The shamans & medicine-men became astrologers & priests, scribes & alchemists,
the philosophers & psychologists of their time and the mediators between the people
and the super-natural world of their Deities.

This group provided the social engineering, the divine guidance & leadership, and eventually produced
the ‘Law of the Land‘ and with it the lordship to protect & enforce it.

The top level of the hierarchic world order was established.

 

Adolescent self-reflection & self-definition is easily manipulated & compromised,
then turns into the narcissism that loses humility and sight of All-Others.

Pride & vanity precede arrogance & ignorance.

 

Where we had a complex, environmentally responsible self-actualization thru reflective, autonomous thinking,
we began to deprive the individual of his self-determination by rationalizing a guidance from above,
the governance by the chosen-ones and other ‘divine’ representatives.

Man declared themselves the standard of all measures, [11]
Deeming to be the most valuable of all species,
all our thought & ideas, every consideration began to gravitate around man’s supremacy.

Nature’s abundance was degraded to the ‘lowest common denominator’,
condemned to the bottom of the heap.

This is where our hostility towards All-Others began,
and the ethics of exploitation & subjugation was born.

 

A scheme of a pyramidal world structure was superimposed onto our inherently, lateral social orientation.

Our intimate, social-emotional interconnection with Mother Nature slowly shifted away towards
a new abstract institution of divine law & order, – OUR Gods.

Cutting down forests, breaking the earth and domesticating animals for ‘food’, was often seen as
a violation of the spirits or desecration of mother nature.
This violation of our environment or ‘original Sin‘ has weighed heavily on our conscience,
burdened us with guilt & regret and has traumatized us deeply ever since.
All subsequent mythologies, philosophies & religions, as well as modern psychoanalysis
had to deal with this socio-emotional fall-out.

 

First, the separation from our natural habitat was a slow & gradual process that has stretched
into the modern age where industrial civilizations clashed with indigenous peoples.

As long as the human world population was sparse and the Neolithic Revolution occurred independently in
separate parts of the world, the impact on the environment was dampened by
ecological restoration practices and limited by natural regeneration processes.

In the beginning, the mental disassociation from the environment could be rationalized
by some new abstract constructs and/or an authorization by the Gods.

Experience and common knowledge got overthrown & replaced by the growing belief in the creational powers
of man under the leadership of some selected geniuses or ‘chosen ones’.

With the emphasis on the divine entitlements of our species,
concentrated around exceptional individualism,
came a decline in social affinity and a dissolution of community.

Slowly but steadily we lost sight & sense of the Whole Entity
and began to forget about synergy & co-creativity,
the main characteristics of interrelation & kinship.

 

 

With growing disrespect towards organic competencies and a general disregard for natural occurrences,
we began our social-emotional desensitization which eventually cost us our intellectual integrity. [SEI]

Ignoring the bio-dynamics of ecological synergy, we started to follow just abstract ideas or
theoretical concepts; by applying our – now ‘Artificial’ -Intelligence and our new, ingenious technologies
we began to construct our very own, linear, hierarchic ‘universe’.

This adoration for man-made things combined with environmental negligence
and ecological incompetence put us on a track of excess & dissonance.

 

As a man’s lifetime added new measures & urgencies to cosmic & global events,
our life became a more & more competitive race against the dynamic & synergy of Nature.

Opposing or contradicting the ‘hand that feeds you’ has always raised the level
of emotional discomfort in social beings, and when overstressed,
leads to more severe forms of social-emotional inconsistency & imbalance.

This emotional & cognitive dissonance became the new standard of reasoning.

Nothing comes out of nothing !
Phenomena will not just arrive from nowhere
they do not appear without a warning.
All things develop & evolve constantly,
not just in the Here & Now.

A phenomenon never comes alone,
in any event, there is an entourage effect,
causing new phenomena to arise,
constantly and at all times.
Everything is always creating something.

 

Speaking to the analytical mind, here we are not talking about a linear, consecutive, causal chain of events,
but an infinit, multidimentional network of phenomena, where everything is correlated, interconnected and
of interdependent origination : 
              - if this exists, that exists; if this ceases to exist, that also ceases to exist -
Like nodes in a network, all phenomena are complementary, interrelated and of equal relevance somewhere in
the past, present & future. As the network constantly expands and conditions & circumstances affect the outcome,
the phenomena might have similareties, but are never the same.
The observations here need to be understood as a synopsis of the net-at-work, as a whole, and seen as reflections
and reverberations of some key-phenomena, in particular.
Elucidating them in context & correlation with certain circumstances & conditions should help to reveal their
relevance for current apperception & conceptualization.
Deciphering the entanglements requires the reflection & participation of the reader!
                                                    Indra's Net

 

 

 

 

The dynamic of misconceptions in our Healthcare systems

—  – where ‘Our’ Health is an ecological issue as well as THE social-emotional concern of the century.  —-

For the longest time, the evolution of our social-emotional-intelligence
coincided with our socio-economic development,
corresponded with our food production
and was in consonance with the eco-dynamic of Mother Earth.

As long as the new sedentary communities maintained their common sense, their collectivity and egalitarian
structure,  an ecological dissonance was curbed or non-existent. [12] [13]

But as our ancestors began to stake out their fields & gardens, other issues began to arise;
– a general concern about the responsibilities & benefits in agronomics, and a particular interest in
the administrative roles & powers in these enterprises, required a redefinition of Ethics & Belongings.

With language & logic we altered perception & consciousness.

Just the rearing of animals and the cultivation of gardens
gave ‘having, possessing & keeping’ a new meaning & significance.

The fateful misconceptions of appropriation & ownership
have not only altered our entire socio-economic apprehension
but also developed a remarkable dynamic in our healthcare systems.

Where offsprings or children belong to their parent-organisms, it makes perfect sense that new inventions,
conceptions or creations belong to their designers or creators and are therefore their responsibility.

Since no individual or even unicellular organism
can exist on its own or in a ‘vacuum’,
early farmers understood very well that
herds & fields belonging to the community
and that ‘it takes a whole village to raise a child’
or to bring in a harvest.

 

 

 

But, in the new context of permanent settlements with increasing populations, new work specialization
and a division of labour with all its new social evaluations & classifications, something like ‘possessions’
became a major determinant in human relations, transforming everything from knowledge & ideas
to water, fields & livestock into commodities & properties.

Tangible or not, all things, including human lives became a commodity.

Just the introduction of the abstract concept of ownership with all the consequential redefinitions
of mine, yours & ours, transformed our entire perception of being a part-of – to – having-a-life.

Lines were drawn, not only into the sand,
but right thru societies and across our existence itself,
separating our Life from the Afterlife.  

 

Fencing-off fields and walling-in our belongings,
separating & dividing the righteous from the mean-minded,
and the ‘Haves’ from the ‘Have-Nots’,
became the main occupation of men
and an obsession for many.

And then, when the accumulation of wealth translated into the meaning, purpose & value of our existence,
when the protection & defence of our hoardings became a collective anxiety and an element of survival,
the consequences were catastrophic. Our species entered a cycle of perpetual war,
fighting for –or– against every other thing out there & around.

Now, the privatization of all common-wealth & public domain,
with all its divine justifications and ethical sanctioning,
has authorized an impudent & offensive behaviour towards all others,
a disastrous misconception with dire consequences.

It is hard to tell if it were the intellectual or the tangible properties that preceded
the principles & entitlements of the stratifications that followed.

Our social-emotional-intelligence, the ‘powerhouse’ of our species was compromised,
an emotional illness had taken hold of our minds and our sentience & sapience began to dwindle.

Increased population density not only affected a faster spread of knowledge & technology,
but also promoted the transmission of intellectual nonsense and mental diseases.
With this impaired intelligence and compromised mentality
we opened the floodgates to numerous misconceptions,

—… and everything ‘down that line’ began to contradict the dynamic & flow of life…  got stuck in sickness !—

 

  Of course :                           

 

 

 

 

 

With these social-emotional deficiencies and intellectual shortcomings,
the road to Babylon was paved.

The efficiency of monocultural cultivation and trade specialization became
the driving factor of the new anthropocentric economies.

Undoubtedly, written languages boosted the efficiency & accountability in trade & technology,
but fell short to develop, or even maintain competent & congruous social-emotional interrelations.

Summarizing complex & dynamic phenomena in a few lines of words & numbers on some plate or papyrus,
introduced a reductionistic way, a new kind of scientific method or modelling that reduced knowledge
and experience to only that what is measurable, verifiable and truly static – of course.

With these definitions, parameters & limitations we created the algorithm
that are now reducing our lives to some digital flickers on a screen.

 

But the terms & rules of assessment were carved in stone, dictated by an abstract ideology or authority
that had no, or very little correlation with the actual circumstances or dynamic of real life.

These laws of appropriation, with all their restrictions, new classifications & stratifications had a
disintegrating effect on our Social-Emotional-Intelligence, transforming organic, social networks
into more artificial structures with significant social & economic ramifications.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As the correspondence with our natural environment broke down or got lost in translation,
all aspects of our conscious thinking and subconscious emotions got affected or manipulated.

Most notably is the interpretation of eco+nomy where our common habitat, our planet, is partitioned into
a bunch of properties that are individually managed in complete discordance with any eco-dynamics and
in disregard of the environmental circumstances, ignoring all socio-eco+logic reasoning and common sense.
xx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-(where ‘common‘ is in contrast to ‘individual’ sense!)

 

 

As languages shape our minds and our embodied– & grounded-cognition, these misinterpretations
of eco-dynamics have constrained & misguided our entire cognition and infested all aspects of our lives.[14]

Together with the taming & domestication of ‘wilderness’ came a new sense of dominion over
the natural world (Genesis 1:28), a degradation of all non-man-made things and the vilification
of all forms of natural ‘disorder’ or chaos.

Improved coordination & division of labour allowed a rapid growth of diverse & complex communities.
But now the achievements of the collective were attributed to some, or a small groups of individuals,
the heroes & idols of the community. Those individuals began to establish new kinds of leadership & elitism 
by dividing & stratifying societies into echelons, castes or classes.

 

 

When population density became a serious stress factor [15] and, in combination with environmental scarcity,
lead to more social-economic inconsistencies & conflicts [16], all these socio-economic changes needed
mythological or spiritual reflections & justifications.

Adjusting traditional values, ethics & beliefs or even changing a paradigm is a difficult process
that takes time and requires a lot of skills & sophistication.

In order to ‘sell’ their new, social-economic models, the leadership had to break our
social-emotional integrity, sever our spiritual bond with ‘Mother’ Nature, and then replace everything
with the altered design of a newly engineered, social-economic belief system.

Cognitive, emotionally & ecologically in discordance with ‘our own’ nature,
our species ventured into a series of socio-economic ‘experiments’ & trials.

Idealizing [17] the new theories of divine entitlement & stratifications, the ideas of anthropocentric ethics,
values & principles began to corrupt our way of thinking and to dominate our philosophies.
The following socio-economic models, all in need of some kind of spiritual or divine justification,
began to form new schools of thought that tried to merge the new terms with idealism & materialism.

 

What emerged was an amalgamation
of the greatest misconceptions
our species ever had in mind.
The Genesis of the Mosaic Laws,
the nucleus of Abrahamic monotheism
became the consecration of monoculture
and its hierarchic world order !

 

 

 

Elevated to a new kind of spirituality,
this belief system or Religion contaminated all aspects of life.

From the way we see ourselves & treat each other
to our relationship with the environment and the dynamic of life,
everything began to derail from thereon.

Now that our socially engineered paradigm is crumbling
and our host is rejecting us,
how are we going to respond ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Caveat lector:   Here I need to remind the attentive reader that this particular article is all about immunology, and our ability to cope with Covid-19 and other immune responses and defence mechanisms of our planetary ecosystem. It is in the nature of a non-linear, wHolistic analysis, like this, to create a ‘mindstorm’ of correlations, retrospections & cross-references, and to engage the mind of the reader by illuminating the contextual environment and other parallel phenomena. This way of thinking requires mental plasticity, a corresponding attitude and  intellectual participation.  

 

Now the Covid-19 Pandemic
reveals a Linear, Hierarchic Paradigm
at the End of its own Definition,
where ‘Beginning & End’ are just an abstract Demarcations
of some ill-suited & incongruous Presumptions
that have caused grave Misconceptions about the Dynamic of Life.

 

 

The privatization of the common-wealth & public domain has not only transformed us
into a sociopathic species, but also corrupted all aspects of our lives.
The commodification of people and the commercialization of science & education
had a devastating impact on our healthcare systems.

For 8 billion people our common wealth became sparse and the world turned into a highly competitive
marketplace where every individual is obligated to fight for their place in life.
Because the preservation & conservation of our habitat, and the maintenance of healthy water,
air & soil were just too costly and not ‘profitable‘ enough, prevention & precaution
became an inconvenient nuisance for our economic insanity.

With some counterfactual,- conditional thinking we developed dualistic concepts
of Good vs Evil and a Beginning & End which, together with some dubious justifications
of original appropriation and the belief in a divinely ordained hierarchy of things,
became the false premises of all our thinking and the axiom of anthropocentrism.

Since this dualistic worldview added illnesses, diseases and other disorders
to our long list of enemies, our economic madness made the ‘eternal’ warfare against
all such infirmities an extremely profitable enterprise.

 

When this dissonant mindset impinged our analytical thinking, all our inquest & research assumed a more
defensive character, and became rather invasive & destructive than compassionately & respectfully intrigued;
Our scientific methods got contaminated by cognitive assumptions and anthropogenic bias.

 

Instead of preserving & maintaining the ecological balance & health, preventing the pollution & destruction
of our environment & habitat, we react defensively and engage in a fight against nature.

With the anthropocentric principles, ethos & dispositions being the measure of all things, it is undeniable
that all our economic & academic thinking is corrupted, marshalled & predominated
by the linear, hierarchic paradigmata (and algorithms) of modern civilization.

In one way or the other, the nucleus of our research & development is contaminated with ideas,
formulas & theorems that are absurd, insensible and, in-light-of the devastation our species
leaves behind, completely insane.

 

The algorithm we apply
in science & technology
are just some finite formulas
that follow senseless economic rules
which are completely out of sync
with the dynamic of real life.

 

 

 

 

Our cognitive-emotionally impaired intellect is now trapped in a linguistic perception, restricted by
abstract laws of ‘logic’ reduced to a Science of marginalization and the dialectic of ‘FALSE & TRUE’,
with a rationality of tangible results and final conclusions.

In discordance with the Dynamic of Nature and inundated by the dynamic of misconceptions,
humanity is perceiving most natural interferences as an abnormality or disease
and is promptly going to fight them.

xxx“Kill them before they grow!”xxx

 

But going to war against
something we don’t understand
is like the ‘tilting at windmills‘
by Don Quixote.

Not understanding means:
not comprehending what is apprehended.

 

Where economic reasoning restricts & limits
the sharing of information or communication,
misunderstandings, misinterpretations and false assumptions become the ‘rules of action’.

The anthropocentric ignorance & hubris has crippled our Social-Emotional Intelligence,
‘blinded’ & benumbed all our senses and rendered our species ecologically dysfunctional.
The social-emotionally impaired mindset with all its socio-economic misconceptions has corrupted
one of our most important ‘survival’ or life-skills, our ability to communicate,
share & interact with our environment.

We need to understand that the common phenomena of communication, the exchange or transmission of
information, is not just limited to interhuman activities, but applies to the entire network of organisms,
the biocenosis that composes our species within, and as part of its habitat.

An evolutionary perspective on the universal role of neurotransmitters may help us
to understand the interactions between organisms in a particular ecosystem (biocenosis)
– from microorganisms to plants & animals.

 

Such environmental interactions include interspecies communication, biosemiotics and all
the neurotransmissions [18] of the living world; – this is where Trees Talk and we send messenger RNA’s
to correspond with certain genes to stimulate our immune response,

– Our responding to Covid-19, – clumsy & violent as usual !

 

But the systemic mistrust and aggressive competitiveness of an insane economic thinking
has taken us to a place where a lack of faith in the eco-dynamics of our planet,
and a fear of ‘All Others‘ governs our rationality.

A manipulated or contaminated Apperception perceives the contrasting & undefined, the untamed & uncharted
wilderness as a threat, and makes us rather afraid of the unordinary & unknown chaos than curious or intrigued.

This fear of ‘All Other‘ makes it easier to detest strangers, foreigners or aliens,
it creates the malevolent beasts, barbarians & enemies we want to fight,
and gives us all the ugly monsters, the vampires, Orks & Zombies we love to kill.

 

All the strange & unknown things out there,
all these incomprehensible & misunderstood
phenomena in & around us,
make us uncomfortable and
‘put the fear of God into us’.

Unreasonable suspicions, anxieties & fear,
rule our thinking and guide our actions.
This paranoia has turned
common ground & knowledge into 
commodities that can be traded & pawned
like any other stolen goods.

 

Instead of cooperating & responding by sharing & exchanging goods & information,
we rather kill relationships by reacting aggressively & defensively.

Our entire species is driven by anthropocentric delusions & irrationalities, assuming a world given to us,
maybe for safekeeping but nevertheless ours to have & exploit !

But the reality is that our very own human microbiome is just a minor participant in a much larger
biocenosis and that even our bodies are outnumbered by Non-human microbiota.

 

 

Unfortunately, this, our commensal & mutualistic symbiosis is systematically ignored and, stupidly enough,
our bio- or eco-dynamic relationships are still not part of academic conversations but rather a subject
of our constant warfare against the ‘Rest of Nature’.

Now our long list of archenemies is not just including the heathens & barbarians from behind the wall,
but also the bacteria, viruses & fungi of our habitat.

Education, research & science are manipulated, corrupted & bias, distorted by
the commercialization and profiteering of a warped economic thinking.

All our concepts, principles & methods are fundamentally flawed, misleading and eco-dynamically unsound
and unsustainable. Common knowledge and historic data are manipulated, reports & observations are suppressed
or censored by the prerogatives & copyrights of Abrahamic righteousness.

Stressed-out & overwhelmed by rapidly advancing technologies and ever-increasing populations,
we depleted our common sense, displaced [19] our environmental identity and lost our perspective & integrity
as a community of people; fell apart as a Social-Emotionally Intelligent species.

By replacing sapience with impercipience & hubris we became estranged from reality,
ecologically illiterate [20] and socio-economically psychotic monsters.

We created our own artificial intelligence,
an authorized design
with intended breakpoints and expiration dates;
All for bigger profits.

 

 

Of course, this anthropocentric, acquisitive mindset, with all its social-emotional shortcomings
and cognitive-intellectual impairments, debilitated our environmental functionality, our semiotic ability
to communicate or exchange thoughts, not only with other members of society, but with all
the collaborators of this ecosphere we call home and named Earth.

This dissociation from reality caused a lot of misunderstandings, incongruities and misconceptions.
Self-absorbed in this immature, adolescent mindset we assumed a maleficent environment and our respect
for the natural forces turned into resentment & anger.

Ageing & death, now synonymous for pain & dispair, became our archenemy 
and has been excessively used to terrorize people into submission.

Controlling our interpersonal communication, limiting, restraining & censoring the flow of information
appeared to be the way into the collective mind, the key to public perception & opinion.
This opened ‘Pandoras Box‘ , and all the Gods blessings – our common sense –  left us;
                                                           – just leaving a ‘hope-for-better-days‘ behind.

 

The art of social-emotional- and lateral-communication gave way to  hierarchical report & command,
where our ‘response-ability’ was reduced to a compliance with the ethics– & ‘authorities-of-the-day’,
                           – responsibility became an act of duty & obedience.

Restricting & corrupting the free flow of information, in complete dissonance with
the Dynamic & Flux of Life [21], has now systematically dismantled any reciprocal relationship
with our environment and severed all kinds of interspecies communications.

 

Opposing the ecological balance or deviating from the natural equilibrium
has not just poisoned our environment but made our entire species
mentally & physically sick and neurologically unfit for this ecosystem.

And as thoughts & knowledge became intellectual property,
scholastic & academic research followed suit.
This corruption of our minds has affected all levels of analytical & creative thinking.

Now we are unable to see the ‘ecodynamic’ entanglements
nor do we sense our obvious interrelationship with the whole.

As we struggle with our emotions and relationships our common affairs become unmanageable.

We can not read the writings on the wall
and don’t understand the signs of the times.

x x Now it is just us AGAINST the rest of the world;  xx

xxxxxxxxxx– and nature is just responding ! xxxxxxxxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

evolutionary – interventions

 

 

Signalling, understanding & corresponding are terms of communication.

Communication is never a singular event or phenomenon, it comprises a multitude
of concurring interactions & feedbacks in a co-occurrence network or community.

In fact, the constant flow & exchange of information, including all the electrochemical
or neurological processes in & between organisms constitutes the Synergy of Life.

By ‘reading’ signs & signals the individual collects information from the past & present.
Sharing, comparing & reflecting these data with other members of the community initiates
the analytical & cognitive processes that made our species so successful & sapient.

Network communication and collective collaboration
always generates the emergence of something
more synergetic & wholesome than just the sum of its parts.

 

 

These neural processes give us perception, reasoning and common sense, they coordinate
not only our movements & behaviour but also all our interactions with the environment.

And this is where we went wrong.

The anthropocentric nature of the linear, hierarchic belief system corrupted our thinking,
infested our minds, and debilitated our social-emotional intellect.
Like a mental virus or meme, this social-emotional discomposition or disease has now spread
horizontally throughout the population and vertically up & down the generations.
From spirituality, politics & economics to education, science & healthcare, all aspects of life
are affected by such cognitive, intellectual & emotional dissonance & deficiency.

In this interconnected world where our lives are not only intertwined with 8 billion other human beings,
but also completely entangled with the rest of this global environment. Our mental & emotional health affects
more or less all bio-physical & chemical processes & systems on this planet.

All communication networks and interspecies interactions,
especially the natural correspondence with our environment,
have been systematically sabotaged, falsified or dismantled,
all with devastating consequences for societies & habitats.

 

 

The systemic communication breakdown caused widespread social disintegration
and affected all correlated & corresponding micro– & macro-organisms coequally.

This monocultural self-segregation from the natural dynamic & synergy of life
incited a human exceptionalism [22] that has dominated all our philosophies & ethics, ever since.

The deliberate disruption of the flow or flux of life has not only arrested
our socio-psychological  development but also damaged our cognitive functions
and our abilities to interact & communicate with our environment in a sensible way.

When our leaders – the intelligentsia, academics & scholars of society – began to neglect the collective
and focused on the ‘Bettering of the Self’ exclusively, we got our heroes & idols but started to lose
the multi-perspectivety of our common sense; we began to lose all those social abilities
that made our species such a successful cocreator & collaborator.

Our enginuety was so absorbed by the growth & advancements of the human virtues [23]
that our ‘vision‘ got shortsighted and blurry around the edges.

Now we have lost sight of the contextual complexity of things.
Collectively we have numbed our senses, are emotionally unable to comprehend
all the affinities, interrelations & entanglements that transcend us
beyond space & time and that keep the Whole together, balanced & healthy.

And just as ‘keeping your eyes on the prize‘ can be deceptive,
so have our experts & specialist ‘missed the forest for all those trees‘…

 

Since everything is connected to something
and therefore interrelated to everything else,

– the indoctrination of our socio-psychological mindset devastated all our mental & physical preconditions
and replaced them with a new kind, or rather artificial mentality that generated enormous
social-emotional distress and additional psychosomatic  infirmities.

Dissipating mental immunity together with a diminishing common sense had a very tangible but rather
devastating effect on our mental & physical health that caused a lot of systemic social misconduct,
and widespread environmental misbehaviour.

With his toxic mentality we ‘poisoned’ everything from emotions, ethics & perception
to rationalization & justification, we polluted our habitat and ourselves
with the ideas & beliefs that everything was created for our disposal and that we deserve endless
credit with the ‘Almighty’ as long as we follow His One-and-Only Order-of-Things,

XXX– ‘NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM‘ –XXX

Now, a word regarding our analytical thinking and the scientific methods:

With all this in mind, we developed a ‘moral agency‘, the ‘high grounds’ that put us on top of
the food chain and justifies the rights of appropriation & domination from the top down.
All our anthropocentric behaviour is based on the notion of divine entitlements
where intellectual rights and proprietorships have created extra liabilities, prohibitions
and access restrictions for the less fortunate, have-nots & trespassers of society.

The Mosaic, monotheistic experiment, to ‘re-engineer’ a foraging & sharing community into
an agricultural society, caused great social-economic inequalities & discord that has lead
to endless warfare among the people, and created constant hostilities towards all ‘OTHERS’.

With growing eco-logical & cognitive dissonance, a grotesque form of eco-nomic thinking emerged,
something where wealth, power & control became the motivator & stimulus for the new,
consumeristic & acquisitive societies.

Life in a hierarchically stratified society is a race to the top at best,
and a brutal struggle for survival for the most part.

The systematic social-emotional detachment from our own kind, combined with the dissociation [24]
from the environmental realities triggered a multitude of defence mechanisms in the individual
and so with generated multiple cognitive & neurological dysfunctions in the population.

From compartmentalization [25], rationalization & repression to projection & denial,
all these psychological processes have affected our overall physical or somatic  well-being
more than we are willing to admit, but are evidently reflected in our behaviour & intersubjectivity.

War & domestic violence, all kinds of abuse & discrimination,
forced displacement & homelessness, poverty & famine
did not just traumatize our ancestors
but also shaped the socio-economic development
of our species more than we dare to see.

And then there is the epigenetic or transgenerational transmission of distress & trauma.
Like a viral infection, these collective traumatizations [26] are carried-over
and passed down from generation to generation.

In the ‘Wisdom of Trauma‘, Dr. Gabor Maté shares a new vision: A trauma-informed society in which parents, teachers, physicians, policy-makers and legal personnel are not concerned with fixing behaviours, making diagnoses, suppressing symptoms or judgment, but seek instead to understand the sources from which troubling behaviours and diseases spring in the wounded human soul. He points us to a path of individual & collective healing.

The fact is, that despite all our technological advancements we have never been able to overcome
our social-economic incongruities or even recognize the severity of our environmental transgressions.
On the contrary, technology & population have totally outgrown all our physical & mental capacities,
all common sense is in disarray, and our intellectual incompetence is repeating
the old mistakes over & over again.

The monocultural belief system is rather preoccupied & obsessed with singularity & uniqueness
then it is interested in communality or considerate of interrelations & complexity.

All postulates or assumptions of the linear, hierarchic world-order or paradigm are rather structured
on inequality & differences than on diversity tolerance & acceptance.

Consequently, almost all our evaluations, justifications & comparisons are done in accordance with
the mental representation & apperception of our current archetypal world-view.
By just gauging, isolating & classifying a phenomenon, our critical & analytical thinking or ‘scientific research’ 
is missing many correlations, entanglements [27] and the countless, coincidental effects of the Whole.

This belief system, anthropocentric at its core, perceives diseases, viruses & bacteria
as antagonists and a great threat to everything we have declared life-worthy.

Mentally still stuck in the darkest of ages, unable to control our amygdala
or even manage our Emotional Intelligence [28], our fight, flight or freeze-mode kicks-in
and we continue to act like imbeciles.

The frantic mob of a degenerated society is on a constant warpath,
always desperate to fight FOR or AGAINST something,
from God & fatherland to bacteria & diseases,
from rights & freedom to insects & chaos,
nothing is exempt.

From herbicides, pesticides & fungicides
to chemotherapies, antibiotics & antiviral-vaccines.
From nuclear bombs, hypersonic-missiles & killer-drones
to the war-on-terror & drugs, to trade embargos or economic sanctions.
In one way or the other, all our lives revolve around some sort of fighting;
The evil enemy, the most lucrative invention of the sick-minded.

…and there we go,

 

approaching Life,

wear a …

 

 

 

 

Covid-19 vs. Healthcare,
an abstract construct of anthropocentric ethics.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxvs. Environmental Ethics ?xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

All those historic and actual incomprehensions & misconceptions have left their mark
on our so-called ‘healthcare systems’.

Since most of our correlations & cooperations became subject to profitability,
and our socio-economic stratifications [29] imposed their ranking systems on science & education,
most of our authorized research & developments got compromised
and thus warped all that knowledge & expertise into implicit & cognitive bias !

 

And the in-group ~ out-group-bias of our ‘social’ networks just amplifies
our contempt towards all Others and/or loudens our anthropocentric self-pity.

Privatized skills, knowledge & education,
just shared or traded among the privileged & qualified,
can only have a self-deceiving effect on society.

When we repudiate collectivity as a fundamental human condition
and dismiss equality & common ground as folklore
or deemed it rebellious & offensive against the divine order-of-the-day,
we infused our science with bigotry.

Translating this mindset into medicine or healthcare, we rather find a bunch
of ‘sickening’ institutions than comforting or healing solutions.
Here we have rivalling universities, contesting faculties, and viciously competing
pharmaceutical corporations,- the demise of any honest health care.

As people are appealing to an almighty God and/or the ‘authority’ of Science, they are just
clinging to the propaganda of faith & hope that has saturated all aspects of our lives.

A dogmatically driven and uncontrolled population growth is not only responsible for increasing political discord
and environmental degradation but is also putting the individual into constant social-economic distress.

Centuries of traumatization & distress have transformed our social & caring species
into a bunch of ignorant, violent & sociopathic sickos.

With our mental & emotional health deteriorating and our environmental & ecological sensibilities dissipating,
we are no longer able to maintain healthy relationships or act environmentally responsible.
That’s where we ravage, abuse & exploit, not only men & planet but Life itself.

Overwhelmed & exhausted by exponential growth & expansion, we are looking for comfort & solace
in anachronistic beliefs and outdated philosophies. We are seeking answers in science & technology,
all without changing or correcting the underlying & fundamental paradigmata & criteria.

 

We got stuck in a vicious cycle of moving faster & faster
by ‘cutting corners’ and avoiding ‘expensive’,
time-consuming diligence;
– and Slow Thinking became less & less popular.

Then, after each crash,
our obsession with growing bigger & ‘better’ continues,
we are looking for more profits by avoiding sustainable quality
and circumventing in-depth verifications.

 

The results are shortsighted, insufficient & mediocre at best.

 

As it is absurd to think that our insane financial debt can ever be ‘paid off’,
so is a redemption of our environmental, ecological or climate debt
just another delusional concept of our psychotic mindset.

 

… but Nature ‘ticks’ differently.

 

Real, organic Life is a concerted effort,
always moving towards the equilibrium,
where all acting influences & forces are reciprocated & counterbalanced,
all ecosystems are constantly adjusting & restabilizing their motion,
evolving in dynamic conservatism.

 

XXXxxxx From ‘Conservation’ in psychology to the conservation of energy. xxxxXXX

 

Don’t forget that in real Life nothing get’s lost,
everything is converted, transformed & recycled.

But still, we believe in an End,
we assume that we can make things vanish or disappear for good.
We eliminate filth, kill weed and destroy our enemies,
we fight disorder & diseases, – be it cancer or
SARS-CoV-2.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One universal Health

Here & Now at the Nexus of a viral disease,
 enormous ecological distress and faltering healthcare systems,
the social-emotional deficiencies of our intelligence become obvious
and our lack of social-economic cohesion
is just mind-boggling.

The oldest kind of empathy is contagious fear,
widely used in psychological warfare and marketing,
this panic virus has plagued & traumatized us for generations !

If our social-emotional-intelligence would have been still intact,
we could have seen ‘the writings on the wall’ a long time ago,
but in our anthropocentric hubris, we ignored the warning signs,
chose not to listen to the voices of reason and are now surprised by
the relentless repercussions of our abused & overcrowded planet.

Even the smartest of the smart, our ‘leaders’ & experts of society are unable
to comprehend the multifariousness & complexity of Mother Nature’s consequential response.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Only a nonlinear, more dynamic approach, a Philosophy-in-Motion,
can provide the perceptual changes that are necessary to
adjust our interrelationship with the socio-ecological landscape of today,
and give us a psychological or social-emotional continuance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is where we reached another juncture in linearity !

Another chance to branch-out and choose our way :

 

 

 

 one way

 

Mental epidemics in a time of viral infections

 

the other

 

The Next, – let’s see the writing on the wall and …

we continue our discourse with a look into a more co-productive,
eco-dynamic way of thinking, a more interdisciplinary scientific method. [37]

The ‘survival’ of humanity, or better, our human spirit,
depends on the rehabilitation of our common sense
and our ability to De-Anthropocentralize our thinking.

^{(Yes, there is a spiritual aspect to all of this !)}

 

To co-create and collectively marshal
the complex & fluent solutions,
it is necessary, not only to change
our entire anthropocentric ethics,
including our definitions of health, [38]
but also to transcend ‘Our‘ Life
into the Communality of Nature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All our current methods are failing,
the socio-economic models seem to be inadequate,
scientific research has lost touch with reality
and there’s hardly any healthy organism around.

A complete systemic breakdown with no way out,
at least not on this level of consciousness,
just a Dead End and the Hope for better days;

Unfortunately, our anthropocentric, linear approach to consciousness has confused our thinking tremendously.
Too often consciousness is perceived as a human trait or property, something that can be attained or obtained
by an individual, rather than being a correspondent of the collective that interrelates the one with the common.
This misconception feeds the perceptual biases of a dualistic worldview that not only discriminates
between the conscious & unconscious but also constructs all those hierarchical socio-economic schemes
that continue to violate the eco-dynamic balance of our habitat.

We should ask ourselves:
what would Nature do to correct the course of evolution,
to restore the equilibrium of this biosphere ?

Nature has taught us everything there’s to know on this planet,
still, we couldn’t read nor understand the warning signs.
How ‘illiterate’  have we become !

From Homo Sapiens to Homo Insipiens in a few millennia !

 

How can we respond
to the impending demise of the anthropocentric culture
or even the extinction of our human species
in an intelligent and sensible way
without losing our mind ?

 

It is senseless to regurgitate the outdated philosophies & belief-systems
that got us into this predicament in the first place.

What we need is a new, interdisciplinary, more eco-dynamic, wHolistic approach
that commences at the philosophic-linguistic level of communication
when we De-Anthropocentralize our Self
and Re-Communize ourselves with the Common.

Most people forget that intelligence, consciousness & perception are inseparable
and emanate from collective consciousness & perception. [39]

The linear, hierarchic mono-cultures of anthropocentrism, not only ruined our Selves and our habitat
but also profoundly & deleteriously affected our relationship to life.

Since our enculturation & socialization are the essence of language & communication,
a paradigm shift or ‘Revolution in the Way we Think’, – as Kant called it,
will emerge from perceptual changes and their ‘transcription’ into linguistic semantics. [40]

 

To reflect and to be true to the eco-dynamic,
transformational changes of a ‘Philosophy-in-Motion’,
our ‘Next Chapter‘ has to be penned & composed
on a ‘different level’ of thinking,
in a mindfulness that adds an extra key
to the common orchestration;

Non-linear, wholistic & contemplative in character,
all content rhymes with Organic, Dynamic & Synergetic,
and provides an adequate literacy for networking,
team effort and collective thinking.

 

 

Anthropocentrism is much more than just a misconceived perception [41]
There are many levels above, beneath & beyond the familiar ‘terrain’.xx

At the core of our social-economic misconceptions, we find grave ecological misconstrusions,
countless misapprehensions about our environmental relationships
and tremendous emotional incompetence among the people.

 

The incalculable ‘Chaos‘ of Life requires
a much more comprehensive guidance system,
a more organic ‘Modus Operandi’
that is complementary to the
multifariousness & dynamic of reality.

Navigating a ‘Jungle’ of this complexity
needs a new type of ‘Roadmap’
and a different kind of ‘Compass‘
that is moved by ‘Compassion‘
and Social-Emotional-Intelligence.

 

Embarking upon the revival & healing of our social-emotional-intelligence,
reentering a Life that is rather about Being than Having,
the ‘Next Chapter‘ takes a new, non-linear approach,

 

Since all issues are somewhere connected or somehow entangled,
the answers require a multifarious, non-discriminatory approach,
need a new, more dynamic way of discourse & communication
that considers & amalgamates all social, emotional & economic particulars
and reflects the fluency in ecologic solutions.

Other than the hierarchical models of Social Darwinism,
the evolutionary importance of variability, assimilation & innovation
is rather suggesting horizontal cooperation as the basis of
phenotypic plasticity, transformation & adaptation.

The new way of thinking:

First we need to heal, mend or reboot our:

 

Our ‘Oneness‘ with Life is always a collective experience

 

 

But since people got stripped of their agency, or ceded control of themself to forces beyond their own self,
they feel isolated, abandoned & lonely at best, which in return brings on emotions of inferiority,
resentment & frustration with a strong longing for ‘caring leadership‘. [41]

 

 

 

Now that we have weaponized our entire critical thinking and everything from knowledge to scientific research
is occupied by some kind of fighting for survival, we reached the end of our story,
our history where there’s nothing left but a destroyed environment,
a constant fighting with the consequences of our misconceptions,
and an increasing struggle with our Selves and our very own ‘brain-children’.

These anthropocentric biases have contaminated our mental capacities,
transformed us into a species of sociopaths by depriving us of our social-emotional sapience,
and compromised our entire psychosomatic makeup.

The ensued mental & physical impairments caused serious misunderstandings & misinterpretations
of the more complex, environmental concepts & structures, rendering us ecologically incompetent
to respond to the profound, evolutionary changes ahead.

With our discriminating & categorizing perception, we concentrate on details
and respond to isolated ‘events’ in a very restrictive way; Inductive or deductive reasoning,
which is so typical of our linear, hierarchical predisposition, reveals nothing more
than what the infirmities of our anthropocentric minds have concealed from us so far.

The concept of separate entities contradicts anything & everything there is in real life.

From submicroscopic viruses to whales and the armillaria ostoyae, the largest organism on this planet,
all things are related and interconnected; complexity can not be broken down
into manageable chunks without losing perspective & comprehension.

So, when we intellectually separate symptoms from causes, one event from the other or the here & now
from the past & history, we deliberately ignore, disregard or contradict all ecological realities
and end up in a ‘fool’s paradise’ of economic delusion.

 

All our bodily functions, from the integumentary-, muscular– & cardiovascular-system to the digestive-,
endocrine– & lymphatic-system etc., are inseparable from our nervous-system, our immunity
and the overall health of our families, communities – AND OUR ENVIRONMENT !

This collective functionality of our Psycho-Neuro-Endocrine-Immune or P.N.E.I – System extends far into
our mental & emotional well-being [49], and in its psychobiological complexity is designed
to maintain the socio-ecological, (homeostatic) equilibrium with our environment.

But, even being the most important component or facilitator of our social & environmental interrelationship,
it is still one of the most neglected issues in technological and scientific research & development.

Without our Social-Emotional-Intelligence and the healthy functionality of our P.N.E.I.,
all our intellectual capacities are either poisoned by economic nonsense or contaminated with
anthropocentric imperatives and unable to cope with the detrimental consequences of our ecological rampage.

 

 

Not only did we lose sight of the ‘Big Picture’ and our comprehension of the whole,
but we are no longer able to feel a communion with our environment
or have a sense of the greater correlations & entanglements in life.

… and with our impaired cognitive functionality, we continue
                                                        to repeat the same old mistakes over and over again …

A more perceptive observer can sense that our social-emotional interconnectivities are warn apart,
our communication networks are corrupted or deficient on all levels of conjunction,
and our entire relationship with the organic webwork of life is profoundly disrupted or utterly dysfunctional.

 

Hope is a potent but highly addictive ‘potion’ of abstraction !
Mentally & emotionally very contagious,
and in combination with anthropocentrism,
Hope is now endemic to our species.

 

 

 

 

The concept of Hope is an integral part of anthropocentric monotheism,
is a linear construct around the idea of a life restricted by Beginnings & Ends;
Hope is a social-emotionally reengineered belief system that supports a hierarchic order
where it is up to the individual to work or fight its way out of the misery in the Here & Now.

Creating the ‘Garden Eden’ and then denying free access to the paradisic abundance of nature
evoked a deep desire for a return or reunification with the ‘rest of creation’;
x  x x x  x x  x x x x x   x x x x x   – Religion from religare: re (again) + ligare (bind or connect)

The spiritual disconnection from the eco-dynamic synergy of our natural environment
has caused immense cognitive & emotional distress & imbalances.

This ‘birth’ or primal trauma of the Abrahamic religions had a profound effect on our perceptual experience [50]
and altered our relationship to life & environment fundamentally::
 x                                                 ~ Abandoned and thrusted into a life we did not choose,
x                                                  ~ entrapped in the time & space of a hostile environment,
x                                                  ~ with a constant desire to struggle our way out of this Here & Now;
Since then we are always looking for a ‘greener’ pastures on the other side of the fence,
for some kind of Salvation or Afterlife beyond the boundaries of the linear, hierarchic construct.

 

 

Beginning & End, the Last & the Final are linear, anthropocentric concepts
that permeate all our thinking and became the measure of all our things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, that we lost our ecological relevance
and the eco-dynamic is putting us in our evolutionary place,
human civilization is writing its last episode.

I’m trying to overcome the anthropocentric biases by conceptualizing
the Next Chapter
in a non-linear, non-hierarchical narrative.

 

24 centuries ago Plato argued that with philosophy we learn to die.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, that our old, anthropocentric belief systems,
theories & philosophies are worn out and the ‘lines are frayed’,
what are we going to do with all those loose ends ?

 

 

Our socio-psychological impaired species suffers a severe case of permanent stupor,
a lethargic inertness that has mutated into a taint.

 

 

Here we gear into a new kind of eco-psychology that shifts onto a new ‘level’ of philosophic engagement;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, a purely abstract idea of proprietorship, a linear concept that outlines and
divides our whole existence by theorizing Right & Wrongs, Beginnings & Ends,
by separating the Have from the Have-Not, has trapped us in our anthropocentric Self,
corrupted our way of thinking and tainted our abilities to communicate and interact
with each other and our environment.

Our non-linear, collective consciousness was substituted
by the parameters & restriction of linear consciousness.

 

‘Possessed’ by ideas of mission, ‘purpose’ and patriarchal values, almost every other
natural phenomena has been perceived as an offence or turned into a traumatic event.
The animalic, wilderness & chaos of nature became Humanity’s worst enemy,
prompting the Good & ‘Righteous‘ of us to launch senseless & eternal wars
against the ‘Nature of Things’, and the eco-dynamic in Life;

by defending our ‘God-given Rights’ we alienated ourselves
from our environment and our fellow men ! [55] [56]

 

 

In the Chaos & Wilderness of real Life, nothing is linear or separated from the whole,
everything is interdependent and in motion. Thus it makes sense that, amongst all Other,
we are just another social being with the inherent capacity to communicate & associate
with our environment, and the rudimental disposition to act in accordance with
the ‘common sense’, and the interests of a social group

Individual Intelligence is just an abstract idea,
a dysfunctional construct and misconception
that did not stand the test of time
and has caused a lot of distress & devastation.

Mindfulness doesn’t begin or end in the head of an individual,
it is a collaboration and dynamic exchange of thoughts
within the collective experience as a whole.

 

Throughout the millennia, our sapient species has learned that there are no independent events
or unrelated phenomena, that nothing in life is linear or hierarchic, and that everything & everybody
is interconnected & entangled with the ‘Rest of Creation’.

 

 

Our entire cognitive development, all our learning, conditioning & comprehension is emulating nature’s way,
we imitate or mimic our environment as we ‘perceive’ it, or presume it works.
To collaborate with the dynamic of this world we have to recognize and adopt the wHolistic principles of Life,
we need to ‘get in tune’ with the harmonies of nature, adapt to our habitat and mirror the dynamic
movements & patterns of our eco-system;

… and as the word implies,
an Economy only works in Concordance with Ecology.

 

This is where the plasticity of our mind comes into play,
where the ingenuity of our individual intellect needs
to correspond, coordinate & conspire with All-Others,
and where it requires Social-Emotional Intelligence
to form & orchestrate a Collective Mind-Work.

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