Merlin Sheldrake's book opens a whole new world to explore, with his well researched and beautifully written story of how fungi rule the lives of all sorts of species in complex ways, offering radical solutions to the environmental destruction caused by a highly intelligent and not so wise species called homosapiens. .. yes folks, that's us!
Now, to be clear, Merlin the Magician learned a lot from his birth and on to the present time, having imbibed deep wisdom at the breast from his Mum, Jill Purce, world renowned author and expert on family constellation therapy ... and his Dad Rupert an heretical biologist from Cambridge who famously went head to head with humourless evolutionary biologist Dawkins, much published with his illogical insistence on Atheism and slated by Rupert who saw other worlds, possibly with the aid of mind altering substances. .. all the rage in his youth, with friends like Terence McKenna, Aldous Huxley and all the cosmic wanderers of the 50s, 60s and early 70s. .. Rupert's big idea was morphogenisis which upset the scientific elite of the day, who were stuck in scientism, now seen as limited, left-brain nonsense, insisting on evidence which could be measured and managed and missing the point that the observer is not separate from the thing observed, leaving huge gaps in any understanding of the universe, these days known as dark matter and dark energy ... basically theoretical constructs pointing towards that which we have yet to discover, if ever ... awaiting the light to illuminate the dark and so on ...
Complexity, of course, is not just complicated or even very very complicated. It's in another category entirely. Let's say since everything connects to everything else in the universe and linearity is a simplification to explain cause and effect in a straight line for a purpose ... we easily fall into delusion and miss the reality that straight lines are never found in nature ... only loops, spirals, curves self-organising systems, everything evolving from energy to form, decaying, reforming with and without the attention and intention of human minds ... no wonder arrogant humans through linear time appear to create amazing things with the potential to improve our lives and destroy them too ... nuclear power for electricity for heat and light ... and to wipe out whole cities in Japan and potentially the Earth, currently the only planet known to us as home ... though some suggest otherwise due to astral travelling ...
Meanwhile, in Weardale, snow settles on the ground in April to remind us that global warming is not a simple issue ... it looks beautiful in the early Sun which rises demanding early walks on the Sunday after Easter, before a trip to Hexham over the hills for minor mischief to encourage fellow humans wishing to stand in the Park to gather and shake hands as if that was normal ... more connections ensue, other stories emerge, each true to those espousing them and the listener, warming to the teller, paying close attention to the tale, builds another layer to his world story ... still completely unconvinced, by the way, that the great conspiracy against humanity, led by whoever, is to be bowed to ... ethics come into play, each human in the end, at their very core, knows right from wrong ... call it soul if you like, though scientists have yet to identify where that exists ... know thyself is the first task, our deep psychology producing the illusion of separation ... and the joy of playing human games free from Fear ... escaping the traps of solipsism and sophistry, allowing the complicated and complex to be without the need to explain it all, or any of it ... relax!
Sun rises on another day, this one promising a route map out of lockdown U.K.. .. let's see how that goes ... Royal games take over the narrative as the 99 year old cranky king who never was, lies in state with more divide and rule for the peasantry to amuse or offend us ... can't we just chill out, find allies from any source, shake hands and simply agree on what unites us?
Feel free to keep asking better and deeper questions, of course ... as far as this old blogger is concerned, the answer's yes ... just be kind, starting with yourself and moving out like a wave ...
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