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Jul 1·edited Jul 1Liked by River Kenna

Think it's worth fleshing out Chamberlin's geological argument that was detailed in his essay on "The Psychozoic Era", which I've sampled from this PDF link: https://arboretum.wisc.edu/content/uploads/2015/04/32_ArbLeaflet.pdf

> What was new was Chamberlin’s argument that human domination of the earth had brought us into a new geological era—an era that deserved recognition not because humans were numerous or had invented grand opera and the stock exchange, but because they had significantly and demonstrably altered geological processes. [...] He understood that human influence would not diminish: “The entire land life is being revolutionized by man’s agency and to a very considerable extent, that of the waters. …That he will ultimately modify to a considerable degree marine life, scarcely admits of question.” As to the aptness of the specific term “Psychozoic”, Chamberlin notes “The fact that [his] influence springs from man’s intellectuality, more than from his animal force, renders the term Psychozoic a fitting one.”

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What recommendations do you have for corporations, as opposed to individuals, who would like to "become psychozoic"? Is there a way for companies to escape the profit incentive and somehow create an environment conducive to Metis (especially a companies such as a real estate developers that are physically creating the world around us) ?

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I'd love to have conversations w actual business folks to hash some of that out, but I think the beginnings of a thread to follow are in the Sand Talk quote -- finding ways (especially internal to the organization) to encourage looking beyond Things and into the connections between them. --That plus a general ethos of working as Whole People, rather than only bringing certain parts of us to work and suppressing other parts until clock-out. (I think there's some hints on that in my article on soul-making productivity, but yeah, very nascent area)

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Funny that this quote “into the breach dear friends” came to me upon reading this.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56972/speech-once-more-unto-the-breach-dear-friends-once-more

A few friends and I are exploring the question can a flower bloom in the battlefield?

Psyche wedded to Eros descends to the underworld for half the year. We deal in the subterranean aspects of our psyches when we include the deep roots of letting be and kenotic opening into the receptive openness and vulnerability that comes in a nondoing state of expanded aware inclusion with focused activity in the moment.

We hate the stuff we’ve done/continue to do and allow. It’s a separation distortion of dynamic aliveness through separation consciousness. The underlying Essential is the power to Be which includes Being alive and active in this world but not of it — which would include this radical departure from the Anthropocene conditioned generally accepted worldview to the unconditioned unconditional dimensions of our consciousness actively working in every psyche open to it — which can come from the demands of the environment and crises.

Either helplessness/rage or panic seem to dominate the discussions about the crises we face and deny and so our participation and responsibility to essentially engage isn’t available.

So much of it involves how/who/what we are Being in the nondoing allowing side of the creative dynamism then free to spontaneously arise as action in our inner state of openness.

We have so devalued the right hemisphere, especially in the west, and our journey toward whole brain functioning whereby the gap or divide between right and left is bridged or breached as they commune-icate with each other by virtue of our ability to quieten the agitation in our systems. It’s a whole system LightHearted approach.

Stillness and dynamic movement, Silence and expressive action are not in opposition but are dynamic poles that function together in creative dynamism. Cushion and action, psyche-somatic resonant living in open contact that’s safeguarded by what Is. We die but also can’t die as we are Life Itself.

Awakening as deep aliveness transforms transmutes transubstantiates transmogrifies — from the depths to the heights and expansively throughout all creation as each of us finds our way Home Here.

It’ll bow us down, face down on the mat crying out uncle and raise us up to the Real unimaginably — far better and more thoroughly than we could ever hope for, it’s just not so easy.

The fruitions are worth whatever it takes, and it takes everything we are and have giving us everything that it is and has — it’s a mutually reciprocal beneficial arrangement between us and the transcendent us. It’s so ego-dystonic.

It’s the tonic, elixir and nectar we need and it’s free, right within us, everywhere, always.

How valuable is it to us, really? Of there ever was a time to tell the truth, such a way shower, it’s in how much we value it coming alive within us. The crises we’ve created are demanding it.

Instead of going psycho we could be psychozoic; we have the potential to Be living embodiments of infinite potential arising into expression continuously right within us dynamically intra-connected with all that Is. Our systems are designed for it.

We leave have left the animate behind. The anima, the very sacred holy breath of Life. We are killing our selves and our habitat as a result. Perhaps this is a useful lens in our discourse:

The Revolution Will Not Be Psychologized:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-emerald/id1465445746?i=1000600711232

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