Permaculture, the science, understanding & practice of life

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• starting from life as the ordering principle of this universe, i(we?) could apply quantum physics to all aspects of contemporary science
• re-unite matter to spirit
• re-unite man to nature
• re-unite man/woman to him/her-self&his/hers here&now-surroundings
• life=
• ilya prigogyne's dynamics of “inanimate, inorganic” matter
• spreading out from there to animated life in the universe
• negentropy vs entropy, life over death
• the meeting (finally!) of ancient knowledge&modern quantum science
• 5, 7, 24(stephen hawkins) dimensions ? consciousness going from one to the other ?
• spirals, fractals, as above so below, ….
• different levels of consciousness, mysticism, …
• a unified field theory,
• the futile search for the higgs boson,
• cold fusion,
• 0-point-energy,
• the gaia hypothesis (securely verified since lovelock&margulis)
• natural&cultivated eco-systems now&through his(her)story
• water, a bridge between dimensions, life-giving, dynamic, clustered, information-bearing, cycle of water, ….
• trees, symbols of our link above, creators of fertility
• was/is man a carnivore, a fat/sugar/salt-ivore, an omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, ?
• actual health&wellness consequences of imbalanced diets&lifestyles
• climate change, mass extinctions, ice ages, …
• resources (ab)used by man the last 300 years, and the actual consequences
• soil life
• bacterial life
• mushroom life
• the cycle of (mostly carbon)transformation
• positive mutual re-inforcements in the practice of agricultural perma-culture
• systemic co-creation as the creative life force
• regenerative agriculture in a post-capialist situation
• plant combinations towards symbiosis
• man wants a garden vs nature grows forests, savannas, ..
• the permaculture movement anno 2012
• daily&collective perception&design as a grassroots university of life
• csa's,
• food coops,
• donation towards a renaissance of generosity
• seed exchange
• farmers without land (brasil&elsewhere)
• city farming
• abundance as a basic life pattern in nature, waiting for man to re-discover it
• plant&animal(&human) eco-systems, durable or colonial-exploitative ?
• biodiversity
• deep ecology, footprints
• human life from prehistory (her-story?), through the agricultural/monotheist (his-story?) phase, ripening anno 2012 towards our-story
• inclusiveness vs exclusivity
• integration vs extraction
• yin&yang as alternating steps of creation
• yin-yang-taotamas-rajas-sattvamale-female-human ?
• compare the relative balance of the east&south to the rigid “rationalism” of the west&its material results, positive&very negative
• make an inventory of (human-)life threatening results from his-story (5000bc to now, with extra damage because of extra power from fossile fuel use)
• the 6th mass extinction, man-made ?
• write a history of the commons, of the seeds for a local social-economic renewal of global humanity
• women's role in this renewal
• transition town movements, vagrants, wwoofers, the new nomads as seeds for a new society
• human permaculture, new tools for a new humanity
• the psychology of transition&the resistance to change of herd animals
• act local, think global
• diversity of crafts&knowledge anno 1950 vs one-job-buy-the-rest-with-money sterile mono-culture anno 2012
• meditation to get to our (empty) center
• new social games as antidote to actual de-personalisation
• the invisible links underneath the actual collective human suicide (lemming behaviour)
• living for the eyes of the neighbour(bourgeois-capitalism)
• money as debt
• speculative financial bubbles
• the 270-slave situation in the west
• alienation
• sexual perversity due to the patriarchal family model
• sexual roots of fascism
• corporatism, a blessing locally, a blight globally
• scale imbalances due to virtual money hoarding&creation
• mind-control phantasies of those who think they are in power (9-11/iraq/iran/drones/haarp/chip-id/vaccins/robo-cops/media-control/…)
• the extended family as a continuation of ancient common sense,adapting to all kinds of external exploitation/pressures
• the restricted one/two parent family, a very unrealistic consumption&control model anno 2012
• love between free human beings in an unfree society ?
• sanity in an unsane environment ?
• trying to solve the problems with the tools that created the problems
• children as/or pets/idols ?
• responsability for the new human lives we put on earth
• lifelong parenting in a world of “temporary” couples ? each kid having 4 to 20? successive parents&fosterparents ?
• education towards a universal humanistic model, or towards adaptation to fashionable models ?
• life stages as seen through pre-history+history&as seen in different cultures
• initiation rites, shamanic roles as steps towards social (re)integration
• utopian dreams as seedbeds for actual change(les sentiers de l'utopie)