Paradigm Alterations

For whatever reason our species has come to try to force the single plane of the expanding universe that we generally have the ability to experience into our perceivable control and expectations… This is interesting, considering that our consciousness and freewill have the ability to change the way that systems or components of systems present simply by observing them. In this post, I’d like to to explore this wormhole and show how it applies to our system at Naked Grazing.

Just to bounce some concepts around, here are some thoughts to mentally masticate. Perhaps, quantum theorists are correct in proffering the idea that there are feedback loops in time-space; where future influences past as much as past influences future.

Perhaps the Biblical poets are correct in detailing the fall of mankind when we rebelled against our roll as caretakers in the grand design and chose to make ourselves cheap gods, the diet cola deities, shrinking ourselves to be masters of a plane of time-space where we thought we could hole up and hide out from Creator.

Perhaps the poet who crafted Job, in his allusion of Leviathan, correctly described the universe as wildly beautiful, beautifully dangerous and dangerously wild; and things can and will go wrong for us in spite of other wisdom literature teaching prescriptive processes for a safe and prosperous life. If you do ABC then XYZ will return to you, karmic in reciprocity, and often true but not always.

Perhaps we cannot so easily separate ourselves from the system, from the Creator or from consequences.

Perhaps nothing is tidy, linear, square or controllable.

Perhaps we’re afraid of things we cannot control.

Perhaps fear is the driving force behind our culture.

Perhaps guilt fuels the fear, and our ignorance is become willful stupidity.

Perhaps this makes us cowards and bullies.

Perhaps the feedback loop of fear and control are an exile we need to be rescued, wrapped in a warm blanket and repatriated from.

So let’s bring this concept in to relevance to our paradigm… I once heard someone say “just because something is common doesn’t mean it is normal or natural.” Control seems to be the common practice in agriculture. Controlling everything around me is exhausting and let’s face it, impossible. I can barely control myself, much less any other component of an extremely complex system consisting of billions of other organisms interacting and perpetuating life.