our relationships with the plants and animals and all
the other elemental presences (soils, rainclouds, rivers...) who
support and nourish us? It can only be because somehow we're
oblivious to that direct, unmediated layer of carnal exchange which
is always already going on - because we're oblivious to the bodily
level of our existence. It is my body that steadily drinks of the
oxygen breathed out by all the green and growing plants, and
my body that breathes out the carbon dioxide these plants
steadily draw upon in order to photosynthesise and flourish. It is this body, this muscled flesh that rests in intimate relationship
with the tree-trunk I’m now sitting on. From walking barefoot in the
garden or wandering through all these arroyos, my toes are well
acquainted with the life and texture of the soil. But we don't live
our body's life anymore. We live a life of abstractions, of mental
cogitations massively influenced by all of the human-made
artefacts and signals that surround us. We're incessantly reflecting
off of our own reflections. We have been taught NOT to trust our
senses, and our direct sensory experience. The senses, which are
our most instinctive animal access to the world - our eyes, our ears,
our tongue, our nostrils - these magic organs open us directly onto
the more-than-human field! Yet we’ve been taught not to trust any
of these powers; we're told that the senses lie, we're taught in
school that the senses are deceptive.
David Abram during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...
Alliance for Wild Ethics || The Perceptual Implications of GAIA
Never forgetting of course our species fascination with slowly falling snow and the recent Smithsonian article entitled...SNOWFLAKES MAY HAVE DIFFERENT DESIGNS, BUT THEY ALWAYS HAVE SIX SIDES which I posted here @ZAADZ.
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e last night published an online Telegraph article entitled -
Even I’m starting to wonder: what do this lot know about anything?
The state of play of the "dysfunctional " UK Government Coalition and Opposition - so to speak - can best be described in Charles Moore's own words from the above article ...
"So this gerrymandering with jerry cans, along with the rows about pasties, dinners for donors and granny taxes, sheds light on the present discontent. People detect selfishness.
As modernisers such as Mr Maude rightly never tire of pointing out, voters judge politicians more on motive than on policy. It may sound an odd thing to say on the day after George Galloway got back into Parliament, but what people crave is authenticity. They do not need to like their leaders, or agree with them, but they do want to understand why they are doing what they are doing, whether they care about the country they govern.
It was Tony Blair who seemed to answer so brilliantly this longing for authenticity, and the disappointment which voters later came to feel about him still affects everything. Inauthenticity hangs over British politics like smog."
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- "There is no matter as such.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which
brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most
minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind
this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.
This mind is the matrix of all matter."
So could I deduce that quantum mechanics actually describes brain
activity, a cognitive illusion that interprets nature from observing as
an experience of seeing with objects labelled as "electrons", "protons"
etc, even more recently as large molecules?? If so then will the final
explanation of the cosmos come from discoveries of cognitive
neuro–science and not from physics?? Do we indeed carry time and
space ( space[TIME] ) like the shell on the turtle? So call it headless,
call is what you will, we are just consciousness with a little dangly
thingy as me as sub-consciousness? Just a thought.
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of supporting
Research and Development flying programmes from Farnborough
and Boscombe Down and the early Concorde flight trials. [IT] was in
1967 that I completed my Joint Military Fighter Controller/Civil Area
Radar Controller training at Southern Radar RAF Sopley and in 1968
provided Summer Leave Relief on secondment duties from LATCC
London Radar.
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, officials have suggested that Vladimir Putin may use the May 9 holiday to repackage the war in Ukraine. Dramatic options include escalation through a formal declaration of war or general mobilisation – or de-escalating by proclaiming victory. Alternatively, Putin could offer up a “sandwich”, as one analyst put it, that praises the Russian army’s “victory” while preparing the population for a grinding and painful conflict as status quo. Ukrainian officials in particular have warned that Putin is planning to announce a mass mobilisation, or even to declare war against Ukraine, calling up personnel and resources that were untapped under Russia’s so-called “special operation” that began on 24 February.“Russia has already moved to covert mobilisation and is preparing to announce open mobilisation in the near future,” said Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence, in an interview this week with the Ukrainian news outlet New Times. “I’m quite curious: how will they explain this to their own people?”
Andrew Roth THE OBSERVER for THE GUARDIAN
Since the beginning of the millennium, when Vladimir Putin took power in Russia, authoritarian leaders have come to dominate global politics. Self-styled strongmen have risen to power in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Brasilia, Budapest, Ankara, Riyadh and Washington.
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