The reason for biodiversity is simple, and the concept of entropy is proving more and more to be a falsehood. Everything that is possible must be expressed, and everything that is expressed must be expressed in the context of every other possible thing. If you remove or block any single thing (if that were even actually possible) everything would be destroyed. Decay in the pull of that one impossible thing like a probabilistic black hole, but there is no impossibility. There is only Tao.
The reason things seem impossible, or can seem impossible, is the context in which they are possible is being resisted. We attempt to jump the gun, push the river, jump the shark in contemporary story teller jargon. We try to dictate terms according to some half baked notion of reality and our selves as they supposedly exist in the model of reality according to us.
Everything has its own story, and that story is only heard when we quiet ourselves and listen. Evolution works the same way. They are discovering more evidence that evolutionary changes happen because of changing need, and can happen in the course of a single generation, or a few short generations. The mechanistic cooking process of natural selection as it was previously understood is not an absolute truth if it’s really true at all. Those things that evolve most readily are those things that listen the best. Bacteria with their quorum sensing, viruses with their sensitivity, plant life with their various forms of chemo-sensitivity, even quantum sensitivity in the case of photosynthesis. Insects, with their seemingly hyperactive sensory systems, to human thinking almost seem to be nothing but sensory system, but they evolve many times faster than we do. Where this adaption fails is when the organism meets the footprint of resistance laid down by human beings. Our controls which we implemented for no other reason than to make ourselves more comfortable.
I ponder communities as “listening” bodies — acting as one organism in order to “hear” better.
The original term mythos was a reference to talking. What communities talked about, memetics. We ignore these forces now. We don’t actually invent or consciously decide what our memes will be. They are often notable for their simplicity, even dull witted simplicity. They aren’t arrived at by communal preference are they?
Talked about and remembered…
What we talk about comes from what we react to. What living has forced us to be conscious of like the insanity of our business as usual society for example. People often express the opinion that religion and the gods survived as a cultural fixture because humanity wanted them to, assume that they liked it, that it gave them comfort. This is a poorly informed opinion. It was just as common to dislike or even disbelieve in the gods in ancient times as it is now, but it remains the medium through which people talked about and understood life.
In Taoism they do acknowledge gods though the gods or relationship with gods are not a part of Taoist thinking proper.
Yea, people haven’t changed. There will always be some hardcore believers, but others that don’t care.
The bad joke on the non-believers is it doesn’t matter if you don’t care. There is still a reality behind it, a reason why it persists despite how passionately one may choose to ignore or oppose it. In Taoist thinking, the gods are people, perhaps more in harmony with the Tao and thus capable of a greater influence over the behaviour of the Tao in general. But they are no more the boss of the Tao than you and I are, and Taoist rituals, as they relate to gods or more community cohesive ceremonies, promote a sense of connection and respect between all living things which includes the gods.
They simply understand its uses better.
Like giving a celebration for a leader who actually earns it, say Martin Luther King Day. I won’t be surprised if they instate a Nelson Mandela Day if they haven’t already.
Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.
Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~