Comments - Sense of Place ... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T02:23:06Zhttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A55&xn_auth=no The very concept of a S…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2018-11-26:5313775:Comment:344372018-11-26T20:58:00.134ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The <em><strong>very concept</strong></em> <strong>of a</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1426244360737144" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Sense of Place</a></strong> as understood by my</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> The <em><strong>very concept</strong></em> <strong>of a</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1426244360737144" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sense of Place</a></strong> as understood by my</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> friend </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">and colleague, <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/volcanos-earthquakes-amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rex Beddis</a></strong>,</span> <span style="font-size: 14pt;">was undoubtedly manifested</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the <strong>Genious of Place which [<a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-is-is" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IS</a>] in</strong>[<strong>DEED</strong>] <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/our-operating-systems-are-failing-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LOVE</a></strong></span></p>
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<p></p> The World of Epigenetics Co…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2016-02-08:5313775:Comment:203812016-02-08T06:52:43.280ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://conceptualrevolutions.com/2016/01/24/rna-modifications-mapped-major-epigenetic-breakthrough/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The World of Epigenetics Continues to Amaze</a></strong></span></h2>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">With the mapping of RNA modifications of the base A, the world of epigenetics has just got bigger. </span><span style="color: #000000;">As technology allows researchers to study, gather…</span></p>
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<h2><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><a href="http://conceptualrevolutions.com/2016/01/24/rna-modifications-mapped-major-epigenetic-breakthrough/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The World of Epigenetics Continues to Amaze</a></strong></span></h2>
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<p><span style="color: #000000;">With the mapping of RNA modifications of the base A, the world of epigenetics has just got bigger. </span><span style="color: #000000;">As technology allows researchers to study, gather data, and make more complete accurate </span><span style="color: #000000;">conclusions, science of <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1155616254466624" target="_blank" rel="noopener">epigenetics</a></strong> will revolutionize civilization and bring extensive <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/photo/understanding-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">understanding</a></strong></span><span style="color: #000000;"> on how genes are expressed.<br/><br/><span style="color: #000000;">The <em><strong><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26887/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">science of epigenetics</a></strong></em> took another exhilarating step forward, recently, to better describing </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">our genetic expressions. A study by <br/>Dan Dominissini, Chuan He, and Gidi Rechavi published in</span></span> <span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/44908/title/RNA-Methylation-Dynamics/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Scientist Magazine</a></span></strong> showed for the first time that nucleotides in RNA may be modified by </span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="color: #000000;">methylation; these modified nucleotides also affect genes’ behaviours.</span> <br/></span></p>
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<p></p> It is my body that steadily…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-03-07:5313775:Comment:163002014-03-07T21:39:41.188ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><strong>It is my body</strong> <span><strong>that steadily drinks of the oxygen breathed out by all the green and growing </strong></span><span><strong>plants, </strong></span><strong>and my body that breathes out the carbon dioxide these plants steadily draw upon </strong><strong>in…</strong></p>
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<p><strong>It is my body</strong> <span><strong>that steadily drinks of the oxygen breathed out by all the green and growing </strong></span><span><strong>plants, </strong></span><strong>and my body that breathes out the carbon dioxide these plants steadily draw upon </strong><strong>in order to </strong><strong>photosynthesize and flourish</strong>. It is this body, this muscled flesh that rests in <em><strong>intimate relationship with the tree-trunk I’m now sitting on</strong></em>. 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 artifacts and signals that surround us. <strong>We're incessantly reflecting off of our own </strong><strong>reflections</strong>. <em><strong>We have been taught </strong></em><em><strong>not to trust our senses, and our direct sensory experience</strong></em>. 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. </p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48582.The_Spell_of_the_Sensuous?ac=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Abram</a></strong> during an interview with Derrick Jensen entitled ...<br/> <strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.wildethics.org/essays/interview_derrick_jensen.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alliance for Wild Ethics</a></strong> || <strong>The Perceptual Implications of GAIA</strong></p>
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<p><span><strong>Philosophers, geographers, and psychologists</strong> <em>have all pursued the haunting but somewhat ethereal</em> “<strong><a href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/geography_local?utm_source=Social+Media&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=FB-News" target="_blank">sense of place</a></strong>” that <em><strong>we humans seem to share in the deeper reaches of our minds</strong></em>. The culmination of sensory experience, memory, and terrain, a sense of place is…</span></p>
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<p><span><strong>Philosophers, geographers, and psychologists</strong> <em>have all pursued the haunting but somewhat ethereal</em> “<strong><a href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/geography_local?utm_source=Social+Media&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=FB-News" target="_blank">sense of place</a></strong>” that <em><strong>we humans seem to share in the deeper reaches of our minds</strong></em>. The culmination of sensory experience, memory, and terrain, a sense of place is perhaps most easily conveyed through and contained in the combination of taste and smell, our broadest avenue to a storehouse of memories.</span></p>
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<p></p> In the context of the fact t…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-02-16:5313775:Comment:129222013-02-16T12:21:47.969ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p>In the context of the fact that <strong>ENERGY is neither CREATED or DESTROYED</strong> and that as Brian Cox has declared - <strong><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012w75j" rel="noopener" target="_blank">SCIENCE has a responsibility to explain SPIRITUALITY</a> - </strong><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-parallel-worlds" rel="noopener" target="_blank">The PARALLEL WORLDS</a> <em>of environmental sensitivity</em></strong> - which…</p>
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<p>In the context of the fact that <strong>ENERGY is neither CREATED or DESTROYED</strong> and that as Brian Cox has declared - <strong><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p012w75j" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SCIENCE has a responsibility to explain SPIRITUALITY</a> - </strong><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-parallel-worlds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The PARALLEL WORLDS</a> <em>of environmental sensitivity</em></strong> - which Professor Cox has explained in the second episode of <strong>Wonders of LIFE</strong> - conjure up, <em>in some "sense of place"</em>, an explanation as to why <strong>the various sages</strong> that <em><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/passing-the-torch" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed the torch</a></strong></em> <em>during the <strong>journey that was</strong></em> <strong>ZEN</strong> from India to Japan - <em><strong>truly understood</strong></em> that the <strong>NEVER changing amount of ENERGY</strong> of the universe came from <strong>NO THING</strong> and will eventually return to <strong>NO THING</strong> • <span>and as the ZEN Master Huang Bo so succinctly proposed ... <br/><br/></span><strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/the-art-of-zen" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NO THING is BORN NO THING IS DESTROYED</span></a></strong></p>
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<p></p> Gordon Brown - the man who c…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-16:5313775:Comment:115102012-06-16T08:49:23.804ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9334866/Gordon-Brown-France-and-Italy-may-need-a-bail-out.html" target="_blank">Gordon Brown</a></strong> - the man who claimed "<strong>to have <em>ended the cycle of boom and bust</em> for the UK</strong>" - <strong>Didn't he also save the world as well from ALL of its financial woes?</strong> - is here again at the …</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9334866/Gordon-Brown-France-and-Italy-may-need-a-bail-out.html" target="_blank">Gordon Brown</a></strong> - the man who claimed "<strong>to have <em>ended the cycle of boom and bust</em> for the UK</strong>" - <strong>Didn't he also save the world as well from ALL of its financial woes?</strong> - is here again at the <strong><em><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9335043/Debt-crisis-tensions-mount-as-Angela-Merkel-attacks-French-economy.html" target="_blank">penultimate moment</a></em> of the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financialcrisis/9335072/Debt-crisis-Banks-prepare-for-worldwide-chaos-after-weekend-election.html" target="_blank">Euro Crisis</a></strong> expounding the fact that IF the G20 doesn't get its act together to help keep the Euro alive we shall all be faced with potential bailouts for France and Italy as well.</p>
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<p><strong>Surely its the <em>founding members</em> of the Euro project - Germany, France and Italy - who should now be realising that the wheels are falling off the charabanc because they chose not to fit tyres to the wheels in the first place.</strong></p> PERCEPTION IS indeed THE MEDI…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-02-08:5313775:Comment:102772012-02-08T13:01:07.244ZMichael Grovehttp://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><strong><a href="http://spiral-dynamics.wholelifewholeworld.com/2011/01/19/ground-breaking-blog-the-dual-the-non-dual-and-the-big-missing-piece/" target="_blank">PERCEPTION IS</a></strong> <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">indeed</a> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">THE MEDIUM…</a></strong></em></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://spiral-dynamics.wholelifewholeworld.com/2011/01/19/ground-breaking-blog-the-dual-the-non-dual-and-the-big-missing-piece/" target="_blank">PERCEPTION IS</a></strong> <em><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">indeed</a> <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_self">THE MEDIUM</a></strong></em></p>
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<p>Bridget Riley is about <strong>the changes - progressive, sometimes abrupt, sometimes <em>apparently disastrous</em> -</strong> that can take place in <strong>a given situation.</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>situation</strong> is <strong><em>presented in the</em> <a href="http://my-head.zaadz.com/blog/2006/6/understanding" target="_blank">simplest possible terms</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><em> John Russell - Sunday Times - September 1963</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>One of the most distinctive characteristics of <a href="http://www.mishabittleston.com/artists/bridget_riley/" target="_blank">Bridget Riley's art</a> is that it <strong>"insists"</strong> with such concentration that it changes sensory response into something else. <br/> <br/> The experience which Riley <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n13/schw01_.html" target="_blank">offers</a> is closely related to the expression of emotion or, more exactly, to the creation of visual analogues for sharply particularized states of<br/> mind. <br/> <br/> The very intensity of the assault which her painting makes on the eye drives it, as it were, past the point at which it is merely a matter of optical effect. <br/> <br/> It becomes acute physical sensation, apprehended kinesthetically as mental tension or mental release, anxiety or exhileration, <strong>heightened self-awareness</strong> or <strong>heightened awareness of unfamiliar or even alien states of being.<br/></strong> <br/> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Riley" target="_blank">Bridget Riley</a> Catalogue introduction - David Thompson<br/></em> <em>Venice Biennale, June 1968</em></strong></p>