Bruce & All: My Peace/Future Studies class along with Mythology is keeping me pretty busy; I'll get my tags in as soon as I can. My orientation/opinions/tags tend within STEAM over STEM as in AHH!; arts, humanities, history.

My final project in Future Studies is a proposed holistic 1-12 education with a simple overview of the primary sciences such as the sociology of knowledge, history, physics, geology, the anthropology of religion; and the arts, literature, music, theatre and painting; these are best together as S.T.E.A.M with the blossom of Culture. As S.T.E.M, only a thorny stick is provided the student/citizen of the future.

Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, humanities, history and Math are required for a true human response as Politics in a Global Internet Democracy. The rest is self education as a life long project.

Making Our Planet Flower is the hoped for result.

Bloomin' nuts as always;

Fred M.

Some sources:

“Foundations for Social and Biological Evolution; progress toward a physical theory of civilization and of speciation” A. Iberall, D. Wilkinson, D. White. Cri-de Cour Physical-Philosophic Series; Cri-de Cour Press. 1993

Pg. 128

“In the Spring 1993 issue of Comparative Civilization, we- Iberall, Wilkinson- were finally able to reach a simple working definition for “culture-civilization”, the precursor to civilizations. The basic idea is that when two or more cultures have to coexist contiguously or in the same territory, with frequent interaction, and they all work hard to preserve their own cultures within the framework of interaction, they begin to develop the elements and institutions of civilization, e.g., founder myths, language, religious beliefs, sharply defined value systems, etc.”

“The Collapsing Universe; the story of Black Holes” Isaac Asimov; Walker and Company, New York 1997.

Pg. 35

“At the start, the material out of which the planets were formed was a vast mass of gasses and dust. Most of this material was hydrogen, helium, carbon, neon, oxygen, and nitrogen, with hydrogen making up perhaps 90% of all the atoms. All of it, slowly swirling in separate turbulent whirlpools, slowly came together under the weak, but ever sustained pull of the mutual gravitation of all the atoms and molecules.”

“Science and the Akashic Field; an integral theory of everything” Ervin Laslo, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont 2004.

Pg. 83

“Whole System Coherence:

The coherence of the organism is quintessentially pluralistic and diverse at every level, from the tens of thousands of genes and the hundreds of thousands of proteins and other macro molecules that make up a cell, to the many kinds of cells that constitute tissues and organs. There are no controlling and controlled parts or levels; all components are in instant and continuous communication. As a result the adjustments, responses, and changes required for the maintenance of the organism propagate in all directions at the same time.

This kind of instant, system wide correlation cannot be produced solely by physical or even chemical interactions among molecules, genes, cells, and organs. Though some biochemical signaling-for example of the control genes-is remarkably efficient, the speed with which activating processes spread in the body, as well as the complexity of these processes, makes reliance on biochemistry alone insufficient. The conduction of signals through the nervous system, for example, cannot proceed faster than about twenty meters per second, and it cannot carry a large number of diverse signals at the same time. Yet there is evidence that the entire organism is subtly but effectively interlinked; there are quasi-instant, non-linear, heterogeneous, and multi-dimensional correlations among all its parts.”

“While the Gods Play; Shaiva oracles and predictions on the cycles of history and destiny of mankind” Alain Danielou, Inner Traditions International, Rochester Vermont 1987

Pg. 63

“Nature and Perception:

Absolute Being is the only reality. It is external to existence, to the worlds it invents. It is neutral, nonactive, without substance, duration, or place, and is beyond the perceptible or conceivable. Although indescribable, it is called Parama-Shiva (beyond the creative principle); although without dimension, Para-Brahman (the beyond infinity), although impersonal, Paramatman (the beyond self).

It escapes human understanding, it is not identifiable. It is not part of the Tattvas, the definable. It is outside what has been created. It cannot be represented by any symbol, verbal or visual. “Absolute Being is beyond Prakriti (nature), substance, and creation; it is without form, color, name, evolution, or effect; does not suffer deterioration; is indestructible and unchanging. All that can be said of it is that the universe rests on it (Vishnu Purana, 1, 2, 10-13).”