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way up, way down, one and the same. Heraclitus of Ephesus
Man belongs to nature, not something that is out of this, so this differentiation is relative only to the set of interactions that take place between human beings and all beings who inhabit this planet, to the space we share. The study of this interaction is what we call ecology, a term composed of the Greek words oikos (house, dwelling, home) and logos (study or treated). Why Ecology is the study of living beings, environment, distribution and relationship between them, which can be understood as a biology of ecosystems.
Man is a species with greater processing capacity of the Earth, which involves acts of creation and destruction associated to their survival. To have been conceived as a sort of "superior" to other living beings, has spent centuries trying to bring all there is to their interests, and see everything outside your physical body as a mere resource to be used. This anthropocentric view has been leading our civilization markedly since the Renaissance, where the word "humanism" began to be seen as the most sublime. It is not difficult to realize that it has determined the position discriminate against other living beings, while "humanism" refers to all ideas and concepts that include the sublime of the entity "man" above all the living creatures.
Today, it is necessary to envision a concept of man as a conscious, responsible for the maintenance and care of their environment, while their intelligence, networked noospheric allows you to work in order to the coexistence of all living beings that populate the planet. Given this vision, we discard the word "humanism" and seek a more inclusive vision.
consciousness for which we advocate has more to do with feeling part of an infinite interconnected system of things, where all collaborate and cooperate to promote a life harmonious life, apart from the old patterns of competition and struggle for survival that gave us the obsolete Darwinism.
If we think of life as a network, we could only speak of co-evolution and that means not seeing a linear process, from lower to higher, but as a joint trip in which we're changing and adapting together, not driven by the engine of competitiveness, but by cooperation, not the fight but by integration. And in this sense, the evolution would be a process of transformation and complexity shared.
Recent studies of the immune system , Formerly thought of as a system that remains at the "defensive" to "react against outsiders" - have come to the conclusion that this is actually a network that interacts with the environment by integrating itself with everything that relates . Rather than "react defensively," reinstates all within their own identity, balancing and maintaining optimal network performance. (1)
also linear evolutionary ideas conceived by macro-organisms arising from the micro-organisms such as higher evolutionary state, are wrong if we place ourselves on a non-linear or network. In this case, we corroborate the ancient cosmologies describing the microcosm and the macrocosm part and not as separate spaces. Micro and macro are just different perspectives of viewing the same thing. The macro is the view from the inside out, and micro is from outside to inside. The one is inherent to the other, are not separate things. To say that a human being as a whole is just over one of its cells is reduced vision. If each cell is our pattern of life (DNA), then each cell of man is his own essence, and therefore the same, what varies is the degree of structure, always with respect to a perspective vision.
is like saying that a tree is a trunk, branches and leaves. We're not seeing, however, its roots, which radiate in the ground spatially becoming even bigger than the tree itself "visible." And the tree is also a seed, even this potentially fertile flower which is vibrating your spirit.
The human insists only interpret the world from the visual appreciation of the things that allows you to their limited perception, and then develops concepts to justify his interpretation, even though we know that visible light is less than 5% of the electromagnetic spectrum. We can not see radio waves or X rays, or infrared. We can not see the electromagnetic field of things. For example, paint a human figure as an elongated trunk, head and members, when we are rather at the level of energy, a flat field with an electromagnetic field similar to that of the earth, which could be described rather as a kind toroid traversed by a tubular space.
Traditional Chinese medicine, it takes centuries to heal people through a conception of the body as a network of meridians through which energy flows, a network that does not match with any physical structure as it relates to energy visible. The power grid is constantly interacting with everything and is in equilibrium with their environment when the channels through which energy flows are not blocked, ie when it is open to let through by the energy of life in all its fullness. This medicine is based on a holistic conception of existence, where man is one with his surroundings and everything that enters or exits the fluid is not inclusive but contains all and call energy.
The Hindu practice of Yoga poses to the human body pierced vertically by a central axis called Sushuma energy, and two called Ida and Pingala, which are winding through the Sushuma. Throughout these are distributed chakras, which are wheels or vortices through which our energy is connected with universal energy. (2) When the nadis Ida and Pingala are balanced, energy flows freely through the Sushuma and this is leading to awaken Kundalini, the serpent that sleeps at the root chakra, which means that our consciousness is unified with the whole dissolving the polarity. Hence, the word yoga in Sanskrit means union .
What I mean by this is that it makes no sense to cling to purely materialistic conceptions of who we are, because this puts us in positions that limit perception. Our studies should not rely on visual or physical evidence only, we are much more than just a body "separate." Anyone who understands this point, you're ready to dive deeper into the knowledge, and participate in the revolution of consciousness that is now happening.
roots duality
For what remains mired in its ignorant man superior position of being separate from nature, should be found in the roots of the Ego. What the ego is, in itself, comes from the recognition of duality. It is the sense of separation between self and other, between inside and outside, between man and nature, between the upper and lower.
Consideration should then how is the human perceptual process, how this develops. There is the idea that after the emergence of abstract thought (3) starting this division. The language is able to re-introduce the world. This then begins to be a projection in the mind of man, the world as "the thing thought." As this perception to be obtained is identified with "the ego to think," therefore, is separate from "the thought."
Upon discovering this power to re-present the human assumes the role of demiurge, and start playing with an intentionality directed by transforming the mind. The duality puts us in a battleground. Here you can glimpse clearly the key to what keeps us trapped in duality. We tend to identify with only part of all, the most active, based on our sound device, which pushes us towards a materialist logic.
But if we think the microcosm as a projection of the macrocosm, and vice versa, we see that the way we interpret the world, not a world in itself but a projection of our own. The duality is not the existence of separate entities or two sides of the same thing but a continual flux.
Then we would have to assume that consciousness is not a human attribute but a function of the whole of which we are part. We do not think the world but the world thinks itself through us. Anyway, this function of self-knowledge is not essential to language as the rational processes that run across this, can not fathom the unit to operate with a mechanism of polarization.
Whenever we conceptualize, we are "fixing" a reality that is by no means fixed. We say that a thing is "when it has ceased to be. Thought is a linear and cumulative process, while the reality is not. It responds more to processes of transformation whose structures are continually re-creating in a vacuum, in a fluctuating interaction, so it is impossible to separate things from one another, without lying.
If everything is an ever-changing interactive network, how can we identify a part of that network without fall into a subjective view? At this point, how we conceptualize "the party" will only exist with respect to a temporary circumstance and a relative perspective. Thus any description of something we can do is only an abstraction, a subjective representation outside and others that something static, with respect to the first.
The river is never the same river. (4) is not a "thing" is a living organism composed of countless organisms. Configuration is a place where countless living beings. The river is the water, electricity, is the fish and plants, is the land that limits the stones quiet of its edges or flowing with water, toss it is the fans, the stillness that sleep, the sky that it reflects the light that allows us to see the river are eyes attest, is the animal skin that feels its humidity, is the memory, is the idea, the dream, is the question.
Earth is a complex living organism as complex as each of its members: the micro-organisms, macro-organisms, inorganic beings, and functions as a fully conscious. If we identify with only one hand, we will not see the perspective of the other parties, therefore we get a relative and limited vision. The mere fact able to conceive a vision from an infinite perspective, rejecting the anthropocentric, and puts us in an advantageous position with respect to the opening of perception and consciousness. María Villares
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Many Stones, May 2011 España.13 (1) Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life. Part Four: The birth of a world, Cognitive Immunology.
(2) Interestingly, this chart is very similar to the symbol of the caduceus of Hermes, and the DNA.
Another interesting, recently a doctor discovered that the heart of Valencia is a band helically wrapped upon itself.
(3) The power of abstract thought has led us to treat the natural environment-the web of life, as if it were built piecemeal, to be operated by different stakeholders. Moreover, we have extended this vision fragmentary human society, dividing it into different nations, races, religions and political groups. The conviction that all these fragments-in ourselves, in our environment and our society are really separate has alienated us from nature and our fellow men, decreasing unfortunately. To regain our full humanity, we must regain our experience of connectedness to the whole life story. This reconnection-religio in Latin, is the essence of the spiritual foundation of deep ecology.
Fritjof Capra The Web of Life
(4) potamois per emvainomen them, and not emvainomen tech, tech, and not eimen eimen tech. En el mismo río entramos y no entramos, pues somos y no somos [los mismos]. Heráclito de Éfeso
María Villares 
