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Respect: Our bodies work without asking any assistance of our waking consciousness, of our thinking minds. Any one of our organs is more complex by far than the most complex computer ever invented. Each of our organs knows how to run and repair itself and work in harmony with all other organs. The planet Earth acts intelligently in the same way. The sooner we humans recognize and respect the Earth as an incredibly complex self-organized living being, the sooner will we gain enough humility to stop believing we know how to manage it. If we stay on our present course clinging to our belief in our ability to control the Earth while knowing so little about it, our unintelligent interference in its affairs will not kill the planet, but will very likely kill us off as a species.
Survival: A self-creating system is self-producing and self-maintaining. It must constantly renew itself in order to stay the same. A human body renews most of its cells within each seven years of an individual's life and renews its molecules far more rapidly. Yet the individual pretty much remains the same individual. The form remains but the materials recycle. Life is the essence or process of the whole living being. Organisms create their environments and are created by their environment. Life is a continuous unstoppable activity of mutually creative interaction between parts and between surrounding assemblies of parts and wholes. We cannot divide physical reality into life and nonlife. What we tend to call physical reality is in essence experiential reality. To see and experience the earth as a self-creating living entity is to replace the erroneous prevailing concept of the Earth as a complex nonliving mechanism. Such rethinking may allow the human species to continue to exist a little longer.
THE LIVING UNIVERSE
Embeddedness: The living Earth and its solar system is embedded within a living galaxy which is itself embedded within the living Universe or Cosmos. Experiential physical reality as a whole is one active continuous living process--a vast self-creating, self-perpetuating living system.
Waves: Our physical reality emerged from a powerful energetic wave in the primal homogeneous sea of energy source points. From this original single undivided zero-point energy field initially in equilibrium, the dualistic nature of our physical reality was manifested. Once excited into activity, spinning spherical energy waves emitted from energy source points reinforced each other manifesting into spinning concentrated energy forms we call matter. Other waves tended to cancel each other manifesting a vacuum, an absence of visible matter, what we call non-occupied curving seamless homogeneously energy filled space.
Whirlpools: Such intensive unevenness occurred that the excited disturbed spinning energy would curl in on itself manifesting itself into whirlpool forms moving and rippling across the field of energy source points. These whirlpools or vortices exhibited a dynamic, non-equilibrium balance between forceful expansion resulting from wave reinforcement and gravitational attraction resulting from wave cancellation. Whether short or long-lived, these spinning vibrating vortices are the simplest forms of self-organizing entities that continually create themselves and are thus considered proto-life entities.
Condensed: These whirlpools coalesced and condensed into subatomic particles, atoms, and molecules and these in turn formed into whirlpool galactic clouds and ultimately into galaxies, stars, planets, and planetary environments. Tiny and huge whirlpool entities thus co-created an increasingly complex active evolving self-creating physical reality. For we humans, it is an experiential reality because we would not know of it or even exist if our environment did not flow through us.
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