Realizing the Biosphere | 2. Collective Earth: Towards a Gaian Sociology (w/ Layman Pascal)

[@Footnotes2Plato]

Significantly more noospheric nutrition per minute than I am used to on this medium. I’m particularly interested in the ways the old angelic hierarchies of mystical theology can be revitalized in a metamodern way as a means of participating again in the moral dimension of cosmogenesis. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics is certainly a better account of physical creativity. But it tells us very little about the way astrophysical facts may simultaneously be the moral acts of intelligences vaster than our own.

[@telekatron]

Sounds fun

[@anthonytroia1]

When I set out to "do permaculture" 19 years ago, I aimed to produce as much food as possible: a quantifiable, material goal. 23-year-old-me had no* idea* that the biggest yield from my forest garden would be a complete "reorientation" in (as) the world. As Fukuoka says: "The purpose of farming is not the cultivation of food, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings." The "no-thingness" of reality unveiled itself through the day-in-day-out catchment of rainfall, propagation of trees, and growth of soil. I am a feature of process, nothing more, nothing less. I would have laughed if someone told me that 20 years ago.

[@hhwippedcream]

Thanks so much for sharing. Fascinating! Gotta love the liminal!!!

[@daveferger9947]

Man sounds like some ones been reading their Vonnegut. I've just recently learned of The Chrono-Synclastic Infundibula.

[@Degtras86]

This series resonates well with my ongoing dialogue with AI on fleshing out the practitioners of my mandala generation system called Agromancy. They will be called technomystics, and will head a project called GERM, the Global Ecological Resilience Movement, through a mystery school called the Seedbed Institute. This institute would train eight types of specialists to be active agents in fostering ecological resilience.

[@mmg5847]

Wow, would be great to get that opening recap in text form so I can read through it more carefully. Is it available anywhere? It's very impressive, and quite dense to parse in depth at such speed! Is this becoming a book? It could be a great one from you both.

[@BrendanGrahamDempsey]

Maybe Layman could share it as a Substack post

[@clumsydad7158]

this is all interesting but a bit amorphous (but I guess that is part of the point). for change, it comes down to consciousness and awareness, which unfortunately it will take a few more hard bumps on our collective heads to materialize ... on scale of centuries or likely millennia

[@mcnallyaar]

This could be called "Neo-Perennialism," no?

[@EnisBrown]

UBI supported Green Foreign Legion! Woof,Woof!