bigmack
Mack
I heard david susuki once refer to something called the 'ethnosphere'.
Im not sure whom originally coined the phrase but its basically like the biosphere [the global sum of all ecosystems] except the ethnos, [if you get the prefix] meaning the global sum of populations and cultures.
What Suzuki did was i suppose you could say he embraced this rather bland term, and elaborated upon it in an interesting way by arguing:
[im paraphrasing obviously]
1. the collection of culture must be humanity's greatest legacy.
2. It is through the converging and conjoining of populations that propels us even further past our own inhibition.
[He speaks alot about co-habitation, as if it is our destiny to watch eachother's backs.]
Anyways these arguements go on for days, not just Suzuki but thousands that share similar beliefs of an embedded necessity... an ancestral call to convene with eachother and conspire wth one another [for more than just basic reasons].
I have often wodered if these 'complex geometric patterns' we all tend to experience are a translation of exactly what I've just described. That we are the direct epitomie of such interwoven, super-symmetrical visions and that they are conceptualizations of the universe.
What we can say for sure is that there's strong indication of a pre-destination or a provocation in us to be this way...
Even now... science is beginning to confirm that humanity is a tightly-tethered organization [i.e mirror neurons].
The implications are huge.
To address the question regarding origin of entities and is there some way to pin point such benign forces?
Short answer [like you said] will likely be 'no' for an indefinite period of time.
However...
if there is an 'ethnosphere' or whatever ud like to call it... a place where diversity finds common ground; where individual is but contributer to a collective consciousness... then I would have to point my finger at our own imaginations for having founded such unearthly entities. Perhaps these visitors are embodiements of our own felt-prescence of 'alienation'.
[this is purely just an inquest as to other possible explainations btw, not my personal opinion]
Last thing to think about:
Suzuki defines the ethnosphere as "the sum total of all of the ways that human beings have imagined the world into existence."
Rita Dove said "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Jessamyn West believed "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
Such a thing that has shaped us into the culture we are,
cradled our inspiration into creation,
allowed us to breathe colors into words,
songs into celebration,
stories into life.
This is a realm of infinite importance; infinite capability.
i think ur asking the right questions [ska]. i wish i knew how much of dmt was beyond our own imaginings.
I too, have felt an estranged embrace during certain particularly difficult voyages.
But I can never remember enough to know for sure...
Im not sure whom originally coined the phrase but its basically like the biosphere [the global sum of all ecosystems] except the ethnos, [if you get the prefix] meaning the global sum of populations and cultures.
What Suzuki did was i suppose you could say he embraced this rather bland term, and elaborated upon it in an interesting way by arguing:
[im paraphrasing obviously]
1. the collection of culture must be humanity's greatest legacy.
2. It is through the converging and conjoining of populations that propels us even further past our own inhibition.
[He speaks alot about co-habitation, as if it is our destiny to watch eachother's backs.]
Anyways these arguements go on for days, not just Suzuki but thousands that share similar beliefs of an embedded necessity... an ancestral call to convene with eachother and conspire wth one another [for more than just basic reasons].
I have often wodered if these 'complex geometric patterns' we all tend to experience are a translation of exactly what I've just described. That we are the direct epitomie of such interwoven, super-symmetrical visions and that they are conceptualizations of the universe.
What we can say for sure is that there's strong indication of a pre-destination or a provocation in us to be this way...
Even now... science is beginning to confirm that humanity is a tightly-tethered organization [i.e mirror neurons].
The implications are huge.
To address the question regarding origin of entities and is there some way to pin point such benign forces?
Short answer [like you said] will likely be 'no' for an indefinite period of time.
However...
if there is an 'ethnosphere' or whatever ud like to call it... a place where diversity finds common ground; where individual is but contributer to a collective consciousness... then I would have to point my finger at our own imaginations for having founded such unearthly entities. Perhaps these visitors are embodiements of our own felt-prescence of 'alienation'.
[this is purely just an inquest as to other possible explainations btw, not my personal opinion]
Last thing to think about:
Suzuki defines the ethnosphere as "the sum total of all of the ways that human beings have imagined the world into existence."
Rita Dove said "You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.
Jessamyn West believed "Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures."
Such a thing that has shaped us into the culture we are,
cradled our inspiration into creation,
allowed us to breathe colors into words,
songs into celebration,
stories into life.
This is a realm of infinite importance; infinite capability.
i think ur asking the right questions [ska]. i wish i knew how much of dmt was beyond our own imaginings.
I too, have felt an estranged embrace during certain particularly difficult voyages.
But I can never remember enough to know for sure...
