Permaculture, the science, understanding & practice of life

abundance_as_a_basic_life_pattern_in_nature_waiting_for_man_to_re-discover_it

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:13:37 +0000

Abondance - abundance

1. confiance- trust

2. donner sans compter sur le retour- give without counting on a return

3. au delà du soi- beyond the self

4. se voir comme faisant part d'un groupe, d'une communeauté, la plus large possible (inclusion au lieu d'exclusion)- to consider yourself as part of a group, a community, as wide as possible (inclusive rather than exclusive)

5. partir d'une base positive, non d'un manque, d'un besoin- start from a positive basis, not from a want, a need

6. ne pas aller emprunter, prendre, voler ce qui est nécessaire au démarrage= no debts, taking from another, stealing to get what is needed to start

7. regarder vers sa famille, son groupe, sa communeauté pour y trouver les moyens et outils et conseils nécessaires- look towards the family, the group, the community to find means, tools and council necessary for the project

8. participer dans/avec des projets ayant les mêmes bases positives- take part in projects with similar positive bases

9. ne pas se poser des buts à atteindre- not give yourself aims to reach

10. opportunisme écologique= aller avec ce que la nature, le sort, les “coincidences” nous apportent- ecological opportunism=go with what nature, fate, coincidences bring to you

11. utiliser et ré-utiliser tout: les “restes” des autres- utilise&reuse all=everything others throw away

12. développer la chaîne de transformation avec tout matériel- develop the chain of transformation of every material you can lay your hands on

13. appliquer les critères écologiques à toute la chaîne; de production via transformation et transport vers consommation et recyclage- apply ecological criteria to the whole chain of production through trtansformation&transport up to consumption&recycling

14. s'en tenir à une transparance péniblement honnête, l'humour aidant à avaler certaines pillules amères- keep up transparence, even if painfully honest, humour can help to digest bitter lessons

15. dans toute entreprise inclure les autres, compter sur eux, les consulter- include the others in all undetakings, count on them, consult them

16. développer au max ses compétences personelles et les offrir autour de soi- develop to the utmost one's personal competences and offer them around to people

17. essayer de garder une présence fiable à travers le temps et les circonstances changeantes- try to keep up a trustwothy prersence through time&changing circumstances

18. avertir ceux qui comptent sur toi d'éventuels retraits, refus, doutes, incapacités personelles- warn those who count on you if you retreat, refuse, doubt or are incapable of things collectively promised

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:10 +0000

Webinar: Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History 2012

== WHAT'S UP? == Czech version - česky

Presentations and discussions on the relevant philosophical-spiritual-historical topics that are present in the work of the same title written by Elías Capriles, a professor of history and philosophy, and a long term student of various vajrayana buddhist and atiyana-dzogchen masters, including Dudjom Rinpoche, Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, Thinle Norbu Rinpoche, Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche etc., spending over 6 years in a personal retreat in the Himalaya mountains, doing there atiyana upadesha practice based on receiving pith instructions from the masters. The final session with Elías Capriles over Skype took place in December 17th. Most of the sessions are available below in the archive with recordings.

DATE OF NEXT MEETING

- The webinar cycle is finished, no more meeting is scheduled now.

TOPIC OF THE SPECIAL MEETING WITH ELÍAS CAPRILES

Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History

For a brief condensed version of his texts have a look at the triptych of his articles from the proceedings of the 2010 transpersonal conference: http://ita2010.com/downloads/en/eng_17th_Conference_Theses.pdf.

HOW TO JOIN?

The sessions used the AnyMeeting webinar platform and the last Q&A session with Elías was made over Skype.

CONTACT: martin.malec@email.cz, tel. +420 737740166, skype: noname.tm, GTalk: brozkeff@gmail.com

WHY AM I DOING THIS?

Because I am excited about Capriles' work, and being myself a practitioner of Dzogchen teachings transmitted by Chögyal Namkhai Norbu rinpoche I like very much the attempt to use this standpoint for looking at Western philosophy, ideology and more or less hidden metanarrations that drive our society at this time. I belive it could be useful for others too.

Facebook event

Chat

Pages dedicated to the past meetings with chosen topics, quotations, recordings etc.

1st meeting (Tuesday 2.10.2012 16.00-18.00) Topic: Degenerative view of history and the end of kaliyuga. (Notes available)
2nd meeting (Tuesday 9.10.2012 16.00-17.30) Topic: Higher conditioned states. (English audio recording available)
3rd meeting (Tuesday 16.10.2012 16.00-17.30) Topic: The Undoing of Delusion. (No recording)
extra session - public lecture (Tuesday 16.10.2012 16.00-17.30). Topic: The return of the Golden Age and contemporary socio-spiritual degeneration (Czech audio recording available)
4rd meeting (Wednesday 31.10.2012 20.00-21.00). Topic: Abundance and lacking. (No recording.)
5th meeting (Wednesday 7.11.2012 20.00-21.30). Topic: Benefits of psychedelic drugs consumption for the spiritual path. (Czech Audio+video recording available.)
6th meeting (Wednesday 14.11.2012 20.00-21.30). Topic: Transpersonal psychology of Stanislav Grof. (No recording)
Special: Session with Elias Capriles, Monday 17.12.2012 18.00, Skype. Replies to selected questions. (English audio recording available)

Elías Capriles (on the left) and Chögyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche (17th October 2012):

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

Contact

PLUKRIJP v.z.w.

Bij Frank en Martine Ruymen & kids

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diversity_of_crafts_knowledge_anno_1950_vs_one-job-buy-the-rest-with-money_sterile_mono-culture_ ...

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:16:03 +0000

Diversity of crafts in 1950 vs One-job-buy-the-rest-with-money sterile mono-culture 2012

work-in-progress by Martin Malec 2012/06/21 14:41

In times long past most of the population made very diverse tasks in their everyday life. It was necessary to do many things ourselves that now can be easily purchased or ordered as a service from some professional.

These tasks vere much more diverse than are tasks of nowadays.

Now such a 'diversity' means

'the know how to offshore money in Belgium AND in France AND in USA', or,
'investing in bonds AND stocks AND commodities', or,
'operating MS Windows AND Mac OS X'.

The capacity to do some manual craft is virtually non-existent, at least with the majority of the population working in the “tertiary” sphere of so called “services”. With only 2 % of the population in the agriculture (seeing the field from the tractor) and less than 15 % in the classical industry, most of us sit in an office, doing “diverse” tasks like:

sending emails
receiving emails
browsing websites
reading websites
printing a memo
attending a briefing
discussing a new business strategy
stealing know-how from the competition
acquisition of new clients, etc.

When it comes to making furniture, building a house, plumbing, repairing a car, making tools, etc., most of us sticks to going to the nearest Wal-mart/Carrefour/Kaufland/BauMax or other similar megastore, or, ordering a professional who will do it for us.

Such reliance on others is called a “division/distribution of labour” by task, and is considered as the elementary thing that allowed us to focus our personal energy on one task, therefore drastically increasing efficiency and advancement of methods, knowledge, etc.

This is perfectly valid and having little side-effects, when we consider as the unit of relative relf-reliance with mutual interchance a small community like a village, partially also multiple adjascent villages, maximally a smaller town. Going further and expanding the sphere of mutual interdependence on more and more specialized products and services increases overhead and dependence on other factors, like external energy (fossil fuels, for example), paths and transportation, continuous and uninterrupted flow of such imported supplies and services and so on.

A great success of the children of the classical colonialism was that man discovered, that labour can be offshored, but the pleasure from the results of such labour, can be kept “at home”.

human_permaculture_new_tools_for_a_new_humanity

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

Cours permahumaine 2012

1. pourquoi ?

L'ancien modèle de vie (famille/travail/église) ne fonctionne plus

beaucoup de jeunes se retrouvent avec une éducation générale large et profonde, mais sans débouchés ou expérience pratique ou base philisophique de vie

les vestiges d'un bon sens ancestral sont encore là, mais disparaissent vite/une re-connection est possible

nous atteignons les limites de notre course effrénée à la mobilité, à la surconsommation, au confort à tout prix

fin de l'ère du pétrole
fin des billets d'avion subsidiés
fin de la diversité (global mc donalds), donc un tourisme de masse de fuite
globalisation matérialiste imposée par les multinationales=partout le même décor artificiel

ayant perdu le sens de leur vie, beaucoup de gens vivent en crise d'identité jusqu'à leur mort

besoin de spiritualité réelle
besoin, d'expériences profondes vécues
succès des modes, religions, sectes qui offrent des convictions fondamentalistes, un sens du groupe (nous vs eux)

2. Potentiel actuel développé depuis les années '60

vivre autrement=collocation, communautés, écovillages, ngo's,… tant de nouveaux modèles échappant à la solitude de la famille à 1 max 2 parents
manger autremernt=
bio,
perma,
végé,
macrobio, …
tant de visions différentes du viande/chou/patates d'antan
penser autrement=
co-création,
synergies,
écologie,
physique quantique,
l'acceuil des modes de pensée des chinois, hindous, indiens, africains, ….
communiquer autrement=
thèse+antithèse amène synthèse,
communication instantanée et globale via internet,
communications sans présence physique (virtuels)
avantages et désavantages,
possibilité de reporter sa réponse à plus tard, …
agir autrement=
co-création
non-commercialisme des innombrables associations (ngo)
fin de la compétition comme modèle de vie
années sabbatiques, prépension, loisirs, ….
agir dans le respect de l'autre
politique autrement
alliances
consensus
fin de la corruption en vue ??
partis +/- verts, écologistes ?
occupations de lieux publics
marches des indignés
démonstrations plutôt que grèves
désintéressement général de la politique classique (“tous vendus”)
risque d'un virement à l'extrème droite revendiquant un “leader”
position sociale autrement
concevoir de sa vie comme d'une œuvre d'art
liens changeant plusieurs fois/vie=mariage, job, loisirs, ….
formation continue via cours hors-école
fonction des grand-parents pour garder les petits enfants
vivre au delà des antagonismes=conscience globale en chantier
tolérance de différents styles de vie

3. qu'est-ce que la perma humaine ?

Apprendre à vivre la diversité, c * o-agir, tenir compte du “feedback”
- besoin d'accepter la bio-diversité, tolérance ou même recherche des différences, développement d'un mode de vie dynamique adaptable aux changements continus
Ouverture de possibilités de découvertes individuelles et collectives, échecs amenant une compréhension plus profonde, création de nouvelles fonctions pour l'humain, (re)découverte du sens de la vie
Physique quantique amenant un changement de paradigme,=
- tout est connecté(non-localité)
- vivre ici et maintenant(non-temps, les champs morphogénétiques)
- clarifier ses intentions(principe de l'insécurité Heisenberg)oin de spiritualité réelle
besoin, d'expériences profondes vécues
succès des modes, religions, sectes qui offrent des convictions fondamentalistes, un sens du groupe (nous vs eux)
- le monde comme un être vivant (gaia hypothesis, bio-photons, l'ea u vivante)
- créer les circonstances où ce qui veut arriver, arrive/ y collaborer(non-causalité)

4. Ancien vs nouveau monde

Avoir raison
Arriver ensemble à une compréhension
Imposer son point de vue
Chercher à voir de plus haut/petit/quitter les points de vue fixes
Catalogues (aristote)
Idées (platon)
Quelque chose « est »
Tout est devenir incessant
Stabilité matérielle
Alternance yin/yang incessante

5. x

spirals_fractals_as_above_so_below_tabula_smaragdina

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

As above, so below -- Fractals -- Spirals -- etc.

http://www.alchemylab.com/smaragdina.htm

Tabula Smaragdina

A translation of Isaac Newton

Tis true without lying, certain most true.
That which is below is like that which is above that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
And as all things have been arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nurse.
The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
- Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
It ascends from the earth to the heaven again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
By this means ye shall have the glory of the whole world thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
- Its force is above all force. for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.
So was the world created.
From this are and do come admirable adaptations whereof the means (Or process) is here in this.
Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended.

Reference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

start

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:26:36 +0000

This wiki was created in 2012 for Frank Ruymen at Plukrijp in Belgium to create draft of a book he planned to collaboratively create, called “Permaculture, the science, understanding & practice of life: Dedicated to Gregory Bateson's 'Steps to an ecology of mind'”. Apart from the preliminary table of contents and a few texts it never happened and unfortunately will never happen after Frank passed away. Since even Plukrijp website is no longer online check at lease my Masters' thesis about Plukrijp at https://brozkeff.net/thesis as it is a complex story of people and way of living at that permaculture community in 2012, at the time this wiki and project were also created.

In addition to this project the wiki was used in 2012 as a place for storing notes from a study group and webinar with Elías Capriles.

WEBINAR: Beyond Being, Beyond Mind, Beyond History 2012

A philosophical study group/seminar done in 2012. Permaculture and Sustainability from the standpoint of Eastern thought (Buddhism and Dzogchen), mostly reflecting work of Elías Capriles.

Continue to the webinar main page

— Martin Malec

The PLUKRIJP archives - random notes from Frank Ruymen

After Frank Ruymen's death unfortunately the Plukrijp community went away. Frank gave me in 2012-2015 several documents and drafts of notes. As I go through my archives and notice something worth sharing I decided to share some interesting notes in this section. –MM

The Plukrijp Archives

BOOK draft: Permaculture, the science, understanding & practice of life: Dedicated to Gregory Bateson's 'Steps to an ecology of mind' (Frank Ruymen)

NOTE: This project started by Frank Ruymen in 2011/2012 but was never finished. It serves here mostly for archival purposes. –MM
Please feel free to start contributing – all the (sub)chapters listed further on this page are links to (empty) pages to be filled with meaningful content. Consider adding relevant sources and linking them at the end of the article
Share with whoever you think
Consider each line as the subject of a collective mind map (spin-thinking) we could work out together
Each topic can be the subject of a perma-lesson at Plukrijp (daily 7.30 – 9.00) on your request
Many documentaries, books&articles are available at Plukrijp
We enjoy what you create anywhere, anytime, …
You can discuss the mindmap and ToC on the Discussion page

— love & unity, Frank Ruymen & co.</WRAP></WRAP>

Raison d'être

… to allow to really understand …

Permaculture is the “permanent culture”, which is almost the opposite of the current culture…

Mind-map

The mind map is updated independently on the actual content on this wiki, so it may become outdated. Consider the “hierarchical structure” as merely provisional and very rough, with many things relating to many other things, etc. Maybe you could propose a better system of ordering the issues covered there?

Source code of the mind-map (FreeMind), Flash version

Dimitri started another mindmap from scratch, trying to be more systematic.

PHYSICS -- Life as the ordering principle of life of the universe: The encouter of quantum science with ancient wisdom traditions

NATURE

the gaia hypothesis (securely verified since lovelock&margulis)]]
- The Revenge of Gaia (Lovelock)
- The Declaration of Dependence (Šmajs)
the cycle of (mostly carbon) transformation
positive mutual re-inforcements in the practice of agricultural perma-culture
plant combinations towards symbiosis
man wants a garden vs nature grows forests, savannas, ...
biodiversity
History

HOMO OECONOMICUS

Homo œconomicus
integration vs extraction
- the 270-slave situation in the west
- The economy of production and the economy of extraction
corporatism, a blessing locally, a blight globally
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 global economy before and after 1971
compare the relative balance of the east&south to the rigid "rationalism" of the west & its material results, positive & very negative
inclusiveness vs exclusivity

HOMO SAPIENS aut HOMO STULTUS?

Agricultural permaculture

Problems and solutions

Psychology

Family

Society

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the_270-slave_situation_in_the_west

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

The 270-slave situation in the West

Our dependency on oil and other fossil fuels got into such a situation that one can compare the energy used by each of us to 270 ancient slaves working day and night. (The exact number and calculation should be verified and sourced later.) In any case, be it 10 or 50 or 300, all these numbers clearly show how much work is being done by such energy instead of manpower, animal power or any other naturally existent and “sustainable” power available.

While the term “permaculture” should refer to the non-dependency on fossil resources and using only the energy that is being produced by the actual sunshine, photosynthesis etc., the “transition movement” should be the way towards this target, with tracing the most coarse and later finer sources of oil dependency, finding alternatives to it. Often it is and will be sort of returning to the old, now abandoned traditional methods (because there is just nothing to be improved on them, because they were using the natural capacities directly, and any indirect method always decreases the efficiency). Sometimes we can combine - at least in the transition period - some modern technological discoveries with the natural processes, and drastically lower the external energy input while relatively keeping the comfort we are used to - by properly designing the methods, technologies, etc.

Links

http://europe.theoildrum.com/node/5388

the_declaration_of_dependence_smajs

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

Declaration of Dependence

Josef Šmajs et al.[1]

Fearful for the preservation of a future for mankind, we wish to express our concern about the way the current globalizing culture (civilization) is, by means of its expansion, destroying the Earth and any prospects for the lives of future generations. It is demonstrably the case that the Earth is not the property of the human race and that humans are in no way superior to nature. Despite this, our culture is irreversibly destroying the majestic creation that has been shaped by territorial evolution over billions of years; it is exhausting the Earth’s non-renewable natural capital, exterminating living organisms and vast ecosystems that are millions of years old, as well as disrupting the global life system. It is eliminating the natural conditions which witnessed the origin of the human species and to which we are still biologically related. It is high time that the short-sighted and self-satisfied admiration for everything human and cultural was brought to an end and that instead we start to preach both admiration and humility in the face of the fascinating evolutionary complexity of the Earth, which is the only possible host system for our culture. In the age of globalized culture we must abandon the predatory approach to nature that was once so useful for the rapid expansion of local cultures in a healthy biosphere. No biological species, not even our own,which was instrumental in creating culture, is able to conquer nature. The genomes of biological species represent only a fraction of the evolutionary wisdom of life and our theoretical knowledge is incapable of grasping its complexity. The biosphere is the cradle, home and grave of mankind, and human culture has to subordinate itself to it.

Nevertheless, unless we end the conflict between an anti-natural culture and the Earth, the habitability of our planet will deteriorate and the whole human species could be subject, through its own fault, to premature extinction. General intellectual contemplation, which in ancient times focused on wonder, in the Middle Ages on humility and in the modern period on doubt , will now be centered on a fear for our survival. The new, evolutionary-ontological understanding of the world therefore challenges us to acknowledge the imperative value of nature and the nature-dependent, merely instrumental value of culture.

In line with the foregoing considerations, we would like to emphasize the following:

1. The biosphere in its totality is the smallest relatively autonomous system capable of long-term development over time. All of its subsystems, individuals, populations, biocenoses and culture are temporary and conditional, and are existentially dependent on the creativeness and prosperity of the biotic whole. Even the harmonious upbringing of our children presupposes the presence of an impersonal mother nature alongside their biological mother.

2. Nature is contained not only in our external environment but also in every one of us. We are one of many species of the planet Earth which are of evolutionary origin and which are in harmony with the biosphere. However, we also know that we are an exceptional species, the only one that has ever created a culture, because, in harmony with our genome, we have ignited another evolution, the oppositional cultural evolution.

3. The once inconspicuous cultural evolution now threatens the future of mankind due to its predatory orientation, masked behind affluence and the expansion of consumer technology.This is because culture is neither a cultivation of nature nor a continuation of its evolution by other means. It is an artificial physical system with its own internal information; this information is not, however, genetic information, but a human intellectual culture.

4. This spiritual culture, the imagined genome of the cultural system, is not as wonderful and exalted as it once seemed. Since it is rooted in the human genome and since its partial components are still liable to the predatory philosophical foundations of ancient cultures, it is species-selfish, limited and short-sighted.It helps to expand a cultural system that ravages the planet irreparably.

5. In the last three hundred years in particular we have succumbed to the temptation to give preference to developing those human abilities and powers – cool symbolic communication, partial scientific rationality and economic calculation – that result in a growth of material riches and secular power over both humans and nature. The end result of this is a global technosphere unadjusted to natural reproduction. 6. In a comparatively short period of time we have ravaged easily accessible natural assets, such as forests, ores and liquid fossil fuels. The planetary expansion of a technically developed culture has been achieved only at the cost of occupying the Earth ourselves and damaging it for other living systems. Through our contemporary culture we are the only cause of the mass extinction of biological species that is now underway. And we, too, are a species endangered by our own culture.

7. Since the laws of conservation of mass and energy apply to the whole universe, cultural existence can originate only by destroying the older natural existence. The expansion of an artificial cultural existence brings about a dangerous retreat of natural existence and the disappearance of the Earth’s original natural order .It is with this natural order that evolution has also harmonized the human organism. Cultural existence does not originate through positive destruction of nature but through negative technical destruction, and is dependent and transient; it is not harmonized in evolutionary terms with mankind. Nature can neither integrate it nor support its evolution without mankind.

8. The predatory spiritual foundation of culture (the predatory paradigm) disseminated by contemporary science, education and politics must be replaced by respect and reverence for nature, by a biophile spiritual paradigm. The never-ending political arguments about the correctness of either right or leftwing orientation hide the seriousness of the conflict between culture and the Earth, human biological invariability and dependence on nature. It prevents a change in direction of culture to the benefit of cooperation with nature from gaining ground.

9. Natural evolution also evidently pilots the success of the human biological evolutionary construction. This test is, however, an indirect one; it is performed by means of human creations, i.e. the compatibility of the functions and body of culture with the biosphere. A cultural system that exceeds a notional limit of stress exerted on the Earth, and which is over-extensive and anti-natural, will inevitably cease to exist, and mankind along with it, irrespectively of its technical and informational level. 10. The Earth’s host system may tolerate and feed the allochtonous cultural system in the long term only if the inanimate culture system achieves maturity over time – if it grows, like the biosphere, in qualitative terms only. And this means intentionally bringing contemporary culture’s metabolism, which is un-adapted to nature, nearer to that of living systems. Otherwise we will exhaust natural raw materials and fuels unnecessarily rapidly and infest the planet with waste and products of culture that are incompatible with nature.

11. In a situation where it is impossible to demonstrate either somatic or mental improvement of humans through culture, the purpose of culture cannot consist merely of growth of manufacturing and consumption, in a notional utility that we cannot even define. It cannot consist of dubious profit which we cannot equitably distribute. It must comprise the health and welfare of humans inside a healthy biosphere. Even though we have a natural right to live and realize our potential as appropriate, i.e. to create and develop culture, we must abandon its current aggressive strategy. For the near and remote future alike we need a healthy and habitable Earth.

We therefore invite the public to reconsider the relationship between nature and culture, and to be cautious about the wider and more remote consequences of mankind’s creations. Anti-natural culture is nowadays expanding at an ever faster rate. It brings previously unknown affluence to the technically developed part of mankind, but it doesn’t remove poverty, war, violence and inequality. As a whole it functions as the largest destructive power on Earth. The more we cooperate globally, the greater the harm we do to nature. Since culture destroys things which are not of our creation, it can also destroy everything we have created ourselves. Contemporary culture can be adapted to the Earth and to the human biological essence only if we approach it as an artificial, non-biological structure with inadequate internal information. The biophile reconstruction of culture which awaits us therefore represents a challenge to all responsible people on this planet – scientists, politicians and laypersons alike. They will need to think, act and make decisions while bearing in mind that the Earth is the only inhabited planet in the universe as we know it today, and that it is a precious, original piece of this universe, which transcends both us and culture and which we have no right to devastate. It is high time we returnthe Earth to its sanctity, its long-overlooked evolutionary and informational value, its subjectivity that is superior to humans. We may have created huge technical systems and developed information networks, but the natural order of both inanimate and animate forms which we have lost cannot be re-created, even by natural evolution. If we want to survive on the Earth, we have to be wise and give way to nature. The age of the symbiosis of culture and nature still lies ahead of us.

With every breath, every sip of water, and every bite of food we take, we depend on the healthy, unpolluted Earth.

Reference

Šmajs, J. Filosofie – obrat k Zemi. Praha: Academia 2008
Šmajs, J. Evolutionary Ontology. Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi 2008
Šmajs, J. Ohrožená kultura. Brno: Host 2011
Šmajs, J. The Threatened Culture. Prešov: Slovacontact 1998
Šmajs, J. Kultura pod ugrozoj. Novosibirsk: Akademija Nauk 2011
Šmajs, J. Potřebujeme filosofii přežití? Brno: Doplněk 2011.

[1] The following people participated in the shaping of this text: Antonín Bajaja; Bohuslav Binka; Petr Blahut; Etela Farkašová; Milena Fucimanová; František Houdek; Vladimír Choluj; Petr Jemelka; Ivan Klíma; Aleš Máchal; Vratislav Moudr; Gustav Rosa; Jiří Sedlák; Zuzana Škorpíková; Jan Šmarda; Gerlinda Šmausová; Pavel Trpák; Marek Timko; Emil Višňovský.

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:38:16 +0000

The meeting of ancient knowledge and modern quantum science

After a 300+ year detour into rational materialism humanity seems to be ready to see the dead-end of it
peak-everything, climate change, unlivable cities for +50% of world population,…
ancient wisdom has not totally been lost: China,Japan,India, tribal societies, …
western science knows since 1905 that the material world can not be found, that all is frequency, spin, knowledge, consciousness
quantum physics, quantum mechanics, quantum biology, all point the way towards a new understanding of life&matter, and of humanity's role in it

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:39:03 +0000

Tools needed for a perma-garden - outils/tools

1-12-11 - perma-cours-outils

1. besoins pour atteindre une autonomie relative en harmonie avec la terre

récolter bulbes=fourche-bèche
creuser=bèche/pelle
ramasser/rassembler=rateaux divers formats
transporter=bacs, cageots, cordes, big bags, brouettes, remorques
penser le travail avant de le commencer
eau=pompe+tuyaux
gratter=cultivateurs diverses largeurs
biner=binettes idem+à roulaux
faire des trous=piques, screw
retourner/aérer la terre=pelle, grelinette, charrue(avec traction ?)
herser=herse(avec traction ?)
couper herbe=faux, chèvre, tracteur à poules/lapins, tondeuse
soulever=fourche
couper bois=scies, hâches, broyeur
+matériel pour entretenir cela=marteau, râpe, burin, brosse métal,

2. besoins habitat

pierres=ciment, sable, argile, bétonneuse, truelles diverses
plâtre./enduit=truelles diverses, bain, …
marteau, scies, tournevisses, chignole, clous, visses, boulons,
électricité/internet…

3. stockage/disposition

en cercle écologique=trajet quotidien pour prendre/utiliser/remettre à leur place/…
endroit sec, hors sol
protéger de la pluie/vent/enfants/poussière/…
réparer quand cassé, pas “”plus tard”

4. entretien

propreté=pas ranger plein, de boue, sècher le métal
gratter/brosser 1x/an
huiler 1/an
identifier propriété ?
peinture de ce qui est rouillé
outils pour aiguiser, souder, chauffer/enclume
frène=matériel idéal pour les manches

5. qualité ?

Anno 2011 vs anciens outils= grande perte de qualité
rechercher: durabilité, multifonctionnalité, adapté à la force humaine, technologie douce
ou trouver ?= brocantes, grand-parents, greniers, cabanes jardin, caves, …

6. Partager ?

Réseau mutuel riche à créer
qui casse, remplace et garde le cassé
gestion des outils prêtés, empruntés
location extérieure d'outils qu'on utilise peu souvent

7. x

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anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 31 May 2016 00:21:09 +0000

Wu-wei / kadak and lhundrup / primordial emptiness with infinite potential

An important remark

All the various types of teachings and spiritual paths are related to the different capacities of understanding that different individuals have. There does not exist, from an absolute point of view, any teaching that is more perfect or effective than another. A teachings value lies solely in the inner awakening which an individual can arrive at through it. If a person benefits from a given teaching, for that person that teaching is the supreme path, because it is suited to his or her nature and capacities. There is no sense in trying to judge it as more or less elevated in relation to other paths to realization. –Chögyal Namkhai Norbu

Therefore,

teaching about emptiness, potential of manifestations, nature of mind etc. etc. can be supreme for some, but useless for many others who don't understand it, who cannot grasp the essence of such a message. It is necessary to have also other ways how to teach how things are…

Anyway, for those able to grasp this level of explanation:

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Therefore,