| Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions By L. S. Heatherly I A psychiatrist who once had a wide following died April 27th of this year. Yours Truly knew nothing of Stanley I. Greenspan. Reportedly, he was at the forefront in the 1970s and beyond of a movement that saw human interactions and loving relationships as the foundation for a child's emotional and intellectual growth. Looking around us today at the unprecedented fragmentation, disintegration and surrogation, at the the electronification, cyberization, virtualization, of human interactions and loving relationships; we might wonder, and need to ponder, what happened to this restoration movement. Gosh! How did he come to rediscover what was, once upon the times, and in the family-village places, common sense! What was, and is, the most loving essence of the human condition, of human sociality, for eons! That, back then, it took an eminent psychiatrist and a movement to inform us of this! To inform us that human interactions and loving relationships are the central basis for childhood development! And now, we have scarce hope of restoring this traditional common sense Just imagine, it took a movement to attempt the restoration of the core basis of human culture and society! Could it be that he saw all around him a deficiency in these! Imagine that the movement failed; as it did. Now, imagine the seemingly unimaginable! Imagine that we shall come together to apprehend and embrace this vital common sense! Imagine we cared and dared to know how and why this movement failed! Imagine that we shall rededicate our lives to restoring the sanctity of natural childhood. Imagine that we shall protect and defend our children's birthright to be the children of Mother Earth and her natural, unadulterated human nature, unfolding within a natural childhood. It is sad and disturbing to see, to what new, lower levels "genius" now falls in its artificial rise, its separation from the natural human condition. Artificial genius, intelligence and activities now accelerate their rise amidst the Modern fall of natural intelligence, consciousness and activities. This we, through formal education, loosely and recklessly for over 150 years, now, call Progress. Oh, how we desperately need more undegreed, independent thinkers like Will Rogers, Thomas Paine and Jean J. Rousseau! This is one hallmark of our Modern Tragedy, both marking and exemplifying our Age. This unfortunate man midst our pollutions of humanity, a genius by contemporary standards, conceivably, died from more than "complications from a stroke" -- a stroke merely involves the brain of a mere human organism! What about the man, the male, human being? What about the man's heart, life, and spirit? How about reporting to the public what happens to human beings during the Modern process of dying! Tragically, such fuller reporting is beyond what is considered appropriate; it is forbidden! Alas, only rare souls will dare to investigate true, natural human living and dying -- to investigate what human life really is; to investigate the sociocultural follies that really are, increasingly, killing us! We who, once upon true time and place, were full, whole human beings in unity and sustainabilty within Earth-life! Modernity's science and medicine want to report, and impart to us, their knowledge of human tissue, cells, organs and organisms! Whence the truthful and wise human beings so commonly found in more natural and traditional societies? Whence the plenitude of organic, communities, in respectful obedience, knowledge and harmony with evolved, human nature, culture midst all Earth-life? Death from a broken heart is very conceivable, but forbidden to utter: Its conceivable, even likely, to free thinkers, that people get strokes, cancer and heart disease from the progressive breaking of the human heart and spirit! What, after all, is the deep source of Modern stress! Could the real, deep, natural truth be that this man, who saw the light concerning children's growth and well-being; but, still, despite his heroic vision and work, had to endure the ongoing pain of observing the ongoing decline of that enlightenment he professed; and had to witness the displacement, of those very human interactions and loving relationships via the rise in artificial, electronic, cybernetic, virtual, and diverse, unclose, nonloving forms of human interactions, relationships and vicarious forms of these! Could it be that he died of a broken heart and spirit! II Starting, perhaps in the 1980s, movies became filled with scenes of parents and children saying the words, "I love you." This reveals, to anyone willing and able to see, that as the manifold acts of love are removed from our lives; the need to assert love with words arises through the subliminal awareness of love's declining presence in our lives. Its nothing less than the verbalized denial of the decline in the manifold acts and relationships of love. This revelation is also the starkest indication that the Age of Linguistics, and the hermenuetical thesis are false and destructive to humanity. During the 80s, and earlier for some, we arrived to where we could no longer completely block and deny the decline in love. At some level, we became aware of our social and cultural failure to love and be loved as much as humans innately deserve. Through our diverse, commercial oppressions, we cannot walk the walks of love, cannot do the manifold acts of love, cannot have the full relationships of loving each other; thus, we inevitably, try to compensate for what is missing by saying what should be happening. * * * * * * * * * Heart, Love and Mind Love is phenomena of the heart, compelling actions; Love, as phenomenon of the mind, remains ideas and words. Love entails behavioral relationship, it is behavioral embracement: growth of human being. Love spoken as affirmation, may also act; but entails, compels, or effects, via mere words, no sharing behavior. * * * * * * * * * * Original Sin: Rationalization of Love We rationalize this false belief: the saying of love makes it so, makes love there, where it rightfully should be: in accordance with innate, natural, human nature, in accordance with sustainable, natural human culture, family, community, society, life way and Earth's human habitat-ecosystems. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Life and Love I One does not have to verbally affirm true love, when one has true, loving life! We love, therefore, we are. We live as humans be(ings), therefore, we love. All Rights Reserved 2010 |
May 13, 2010
Child Development and Love Vs. Sociocultural Delusions
Apr 29, 2010
Art, Nature, and Intelligence
By L. S. Heatherly
We use the words, art and artist, often, and in only one
sense of reality. Beyond our expedient, illusional reality, there
is a deep, pure, human art only reachable, during states of
cleansed, restored, primordial consciousness; only
reachable through traveling back in time and being,
back into natural human being and Earth-place.
Back there, in fleeting recovery of our primordial being,
we restore some reunification with our original, human
essences still in ecological balance, still there deep down
in the primordial self, still authentic to us, as a species
of our evolved, two million year-old, human family.
We are pulled by the call of the wild back into this true, human
art--into some recapturings of our whole, pure self--but only
upon such inspired, restorative, and healing journeys.
And, the farther we travel back into our natural, human
self-life-world, the more pure art -- the artifacts of pure, whole
self--we discover to be excavated, and restored back into our
human lives and souls, now debilitated with infection, now
diminished by scar-tissue, surrogative behavior--due to invasive
pollution-toxins--the artificialities of civilization.
The truest, purist, most genuine, human art is that which
restores humanity and Earth-life as one. It reimplants, it
reinhabits --in consciousness or deed-- the human soul,
in some measure, to its natural state within Earth-life.
We enter again our Earthly evolutionary flow;
our natural humanity flowing within Earth's evolution.
Dwelling again midst life on Earth,
We restore to us the only life we can, ever,
richly experience in an ecological reality;
can ever perennially reproduce for posterity
in autonomous,eco-community habitats.
Those looking for remnants of life on Mars or moons
are in denial about the meaning and value of life:
a deep, wide eonic process, creating succeeding species,
and changing them to fit within the whole process of evolutionary life.
Such specialists have been specialized out of the ability to
understand and behold what human life really is.
They have specialized their vision with artificial scopes,
as well as their perception and intelligence, with these and
many other artificial activities, objects and phenomena.
Can artificial, adulterated understanding, vision and intelligence,
engaged in artificial, human culture and society, bear any
promise of understanding two pure, natural things, called Life
on Earth and her Humanity! The sight, senses and mind of
science and art, as well as their fostered, 'civil' institutional
enterprises, become blind to real, natural, evolved
Living Nature, blind to real, natural intelligence and
consciousness: thereby, they become blind to real sustainable,
natural, human culture.
Copyright 2010 All rights reserved
True literature is marked by its piercing into the hearts,
lives and very souls of its closest readers:
accomplishing with mere written words,
some of what others do
through communal actions,
loving relationships
and family blood.
Copyright 2010
We use the words, art and artist, often, and in only one
sense of reality. Beyond our expedient, illusional reality, there
is a deep, pure, human art only reachable, during states of
cleansed, restored, primordial consciousness; only
reachable through traveling back in time and being,
back into natural human being and Earth-place.
Back there, in fleeting recovery of our primordial being,
we restore some reunification with our original, human
essences still in ecological balance, still there deep down
in the primordial self, still authentic to us, as a species
of our evolved, two million year-old, human family.
We are pulled by the call of the wild back into this true, human
art--into some recapturings of our whole, pure self--but only
upon such inspired, restorative, and healing journeys.
And, the farther we travel back into our natural, human
self-life-world, the more pure art -- the artifacts of pure, whole
self--we discover to be excavated, and restored back into our
human lives and souls, now debilitated with infection, now
diminished by scar-tissue, surrogative behavior--due to invasive
pollution-toxins--the artificialities of civilization.
The truest, purist, most genuine, human art is that which
restores humanity and Earth-life as one. It reimplants, it
reinhabits --in consciousness or deed-- the human soul,
in some measure, to its natural state within Earth-life.
We enter again our Earthly evolutionary flow;
our natural humanity flowing within Earth's evolution.
Dwelling again midst life on Earth,
We restore to us the only life we can, ever,
richly experience in an ecological reality;
can ever perennially reproduce for posterity
in autonomous,eco-community habitats.
Those looking for remnants of life on Mars or moons
are in denial about the meaning and value of life:
a deep, wide eonic process, creating succeeding species,
and changing them to fit within the whole process of evolutionary life.
Such specialists have been specialized out of the ability to
understand and behold what human life really is.
They have specialized their vision with artificial scopes,
as well as their perception and intelligence, with these and
many other artificial activities, objects and phenomena.
Can artificial, adulterated understanding, vision and intelligence,
engaged in artificial, human culture and society, bear any
promise of understanding two pure, natural things, called Life
on Earth and her Humanity! The sight, senses and mind of
science and art, as well as their fostered, 'civil' institutional
enterprises, become blind to real, natural, evolved
Living Nature, blind to real, natural intelligence and
consciousness: thereby, they become blind to real sustainable,
natural, human culture.
Copyright 2010 All rights reserved
True literature is marked by its piercing into the hearts,
lives and very souls of its closest readers:
accomplishing with mere written words,
some of what others do
through communal actions,
loving relationships
and family blood.
Copyright 2010
Apr 14, 2010
Truth: Waitings and Countings
By L.S. Heatherly
Truth: Waitings and Countings
The truth has its countings that ring
Of what human story and consciousness would sing.
Ruffled of feather, She's a fettered, violated thing;
First Caged Bird, lifting no spirit on freedom's wing.
Emboldened 'neath swollen, infected societies,
Truth waits the countings of primal, human pieties:
She waits out slashing strikes of machine and pen;
Awaits re-emergence of red-blooded, green-minded men.
Down for counts, by blows; history's march is swift;
Truth is counted out, and buried by myth.
She waits out civil, anti-nature, of history's hoof;
Awaits ever-young nutrients of pristine youth,
Our Lady, commands all battles for liberty,
Secures her blessings: Earth's human, cultural body of We.
Through unpolluted, archetypal patterns of youth,
She wins primal, true relatings of humanity.
She sees Modern mind takes flight from natural light;
As high-tech art tunnels human seeing.
Innately false: its flashes invade the primal night;
As we await our re-becoming of human being..
She sows and waits: freedom's resprouting in her loam
To break-back-through to human nature's home:
To our growth-blueprint-matrix-medium-culture,
To innate, eco-socio-cultural-nurturings of love--our nurturome;
To our blueprints, our spelling bee of human right
The essential activities that read
The second book of human life,
Its timeless creed of social-cultural deed.
She awaits our discovery of her cognition-seeds:
In the "Book of Human Life":
Volume one: genome-brain-body,
Volume two: eco-social-cultural deeds--
From growth's sequences, selections, tellings,
Of Earth's human structures-functions-dwellings,
The habitat of eco-social-cultural youth,
The united, natural selections, the countings,
The creations, of Life's nature-human truth.
Copyright 2010 L. S. Heatherly
Truth: Waitings and Countings
The truth has its countings that ring
Of what human story and consciousness would sing.
Ruffled of feather, She's a fettered, violated thing;
First Caged Bird, lifting no spirit on freedom's wing.
Emboldened 'neath swollen, infected societies,
Truth waits the countings of primal, human pieties:
She waits out slashing strikes of machine and pen;
Awaits re-emergence of red-blooded, green-minded men.
Down for counts, by blows; history's march is swift;
Truth is counted out, and buried by myth.
She waits out civil, anti-nature, of history's hoof;
Awaits ever-young nutrients of pristine youth,
Our Lady, commands all battles for liberty,
Secures her blessings: Earth's human, cultural body of We.
Through unpolluted, archetypal patterns of youth,
She wins primal, true relatings of humanity.
She sees Modern mind takes flight from natural light;
As high-tech art tunnels human seeing.
Innately false: its flashes invade the primal night;
As we await our re-becoming of human being..
She sows and waits: freedom's resprouting in her loam
To break-back-through to human nature's home:
To our growth-blueprint-matrix-medium-culture,
To innate, eco-socio-cultural-nurturings of love--our nurturome;
To our blueprints, our spelling bee of human right
The essential activities that read
The second book of human life,
Its timeless creed of social-cultural deed.
She awaits our discovery of her cognition-seeds:
In the "Book of Human Life":
Volume one: genome-brain-body,
Volume two: eco-social-cultural deeds--
From growth's sequences, selections, tellings,
Of Earth's human structures-functions-dwellings,
The habitat of eco-social-cultural youth,
The united, natural selections, the countings,
The creations, of Life's nature-human truth.
Copyright 2010 L. S. Heatherly
Mar 29, 2010
Heart Of Gold
By L. S. Heatherly
The first hearing of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" can be
a musical, even spiritual-ontological, milepost in one's life:
a flashback illumination, a residual trance of thought and emotion.
Being engulfed by golden purities of voice, lyrics,
and instruments, perfectly orchestrated into an arrangement,
is rarely captured by musical-song artists.
The beats and rhythms, the instruments and lyrics;
the arrangement unifying all into an inundating flow of
unclouded, human vision, closely effecting a
primordial experience, stirring one very essence of the
human condition, and recording the state of that vital
essence as experienced in our Age!
All this, in metered union with the golden voice
of one man, re-capturing the spirit of Youth afloat,
un-docked, flowing alone, in the growing, unbonded,
searching sea of love -- Modern un-mated adulthood.
Young's rendition of his "Heart of Gold"
returns any true listener, with his humanity still in gear,
to the very essence of one stage of human development,
so distinctively marking one socioculture,
ambiguously called, "civilization."
Through this masterpiece, we relive
the cutting sociocultural blades and binding chains,
imprisoning Youth itself in an un-natural and artificial dilemma.
We hear an artist gracefully, and beautifully, bearing witness:
to an alien, invasive, pseudo place, time and being of the human
condition, for which humanity's children and adults pay:
in the blood and traumas of their lives, families, cultures,
societies, ecosystems, spirits and souls.
To any naturalistic, philosophical soul
it rose to one song of humanity, a sad, forlorn complaint
about the complex obstacles and adulterations
eclipsing any natural, noble pathway of Life in our Time.
Damn! Truth be dug and told:
songster and philosopher
not only merged to score for music;
but scored for the human soul:
one small triumph for humanity!
In our Stormy Age of ego and personality,
true artists make Land,
and take one small step
onto the shores of human sunlight.
Copyright 2010, L. S. Heatherly
The first hearing of Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" can be
a musical, even spiritual-ontological, milepost in one's life:
a flashback illumination, a residual trance of thought and emotion.
Being engulfed by golden purities of voice, lyrics,
and instruments, perfectly orchestrated into an arrangement,
is rarely captured by musical-song artists.
The beats and rhythms, the instruments and lyrics;
the arrangement unifying all into an inundating flow of
unclouded, human vision, closely effecting a
primordial experience, stirring one very essence of the
human condition, and recording the state of that vital
essence as experienced in our Age!
All this, in metered union with the golden voice
of one man, re-capturing the spirit of Youth afloat,
un-docked, flowing alone, in the growing, unbonded,
searching sea of love -- Modern un-mated adulthood.
Young's rendition of his "Heart of Gold"
returns any true listener, with his humanity still in gear,
to the very essence of one stage of human development,
so distinctively marking one socioculture,
ambiguously called, "civilization."
Through this masterpiece, we relive
the cutting sociocultural blades and binding chains,
imprisoning Youth itself in an un-natural and artificial dilemma.
We hear an artist gracefully, and beautifully, bearing witness:
to an alien, invasive, pseudo place, time and being of the human
condition, for which humanity's children and adults pay:
in the blood and traumas of their lives, families, cultures,
societies, ecosystems, spirits and souls.
To any naturalistic, philosophical soul
it rose to one song of humanity, a sad, forlorn complaint
about the complex obstacles and adulterations
eclipsing any natural, noble pathway of Life in our Time.
Damn! Truth be dug and told:
songster and philosopher
not only merged to score for music;
but scored for the human soul:
one small triumph for humanity!
In our Stormy Age of ego and personality,
true artists make Land,
and take one small step
onto the shores of human sunlight.
Copyright 2010, L. S. Heatherly
Mar 16, 2010
Circles of Life Vs. Civilization
By L. S. Heatherly
Whence cometh the idea we can make newness from
oldness?
Newness, and the idea of it, overwelmingly originate as
civilization's, digressions from human life's natural, slow-
changing --natural adaptational, and selectional -- human
nature, being, spirit, reality, socioculture, well-being and
sustainability.
But, still, before the human species' recent 'civilized' departures
from natural, human evolution, the story of Earth-life's evolution
is itself a story of making new species out of (old) existing ones.
In the social mammals, primates, and especially human-primates,
it occurs through very slow, incremental selections for, and
adaptations to, changing physical and sociocultural conditions for
well-being, reproduction, and evolutionary sustainability.
In Earth's evolution of human species, natural radiation in the
atmosphere produces some new mutations in our DNA and
genes(the building blocks of organic life) joining some other,
earlier mutations stored for possible, beneficial need and use.
These new elements of matter are received into an inextricable,
interactive, bonded unity with eco-social-ontological-cultural
phenomena --our human nurturome --selected by the natural,
human family and extended family-community.
Thus, the beneficial, new genes, genome and other DNA related
(e.,g., epigenes) elements (newness) chosen by (Darwin's
or Darwinian) natural, material-organic-genetic selection for
participation in the material, human realm or world are received into
a unified field -- human self-life-world-- consisting of these genetic
selections and of (Heatherly's or Heatherlyian) beneficial, natural,
non-organic-behavioral-cultural selections chosen by natural
humanity's medium-matrix-culture-complex- environment
(human nurturome) of co-operative-loving-nurturing-
developmental behavior and relationships.
The above story of evolving (new) human species (or maintaining
old species), comes to an end with civilization; wherein the evolved,
natural, human lifeworld and self are no longer within the distinctive,
natural process-system, the structure-function-dwelling, of Earthlife's
evolution of primate and human-primate species. In civilization, the
creative ways of Earth-life's evolution through natural selection and
mutation are gradually displaced by artificial selections of artificials
created by humans fallen from the natural, true human path. These
invasive, alien artificials benefit short-term desires of elites
(for un-natural power-domination) at the expense of the short and
long-term needs of the bulk of the species--the need to stay the path
of human growth-fulfillment-perpetuation, to stay the path of
humanity's eco-family-community development, well-being and
evolutionary sustainability.
Whence the idea the new can renew itself?
With Springtime, the season is not renewing itself,
springtime. It is renewing, in one real sense only, one
circle, or cycling, (the seasons) of life. Afterall, where is the
beginning of any circle-- can a circle have a beginning? It can
and does: if the circle is only a circle in appearance; while
being, in precise human reality, a tightly formed spiral of
incrementally changing, constituent nature through natural
selection. With the seasons of yearly life, witnessed and
experienced by humans and other self-conscious life, Spring
is characterized, and distinguished, by its surges of life from the
dormancies of life, being of special import to the conscious and
self-conscious species. The point in the circle of the yearly
seasons -- the point and period of re-surging life-- is denoted
(and before language, noticed) as the re-surging, the re-
springing of life from the yearly dormancy of life.
*** *** *** ***
Organic-Material DNA and Eco-Sociocultural DNA
Those phenomena generally appearing to humans as
circles or cycles, are, in precise human evolutionary reality,
spirals within our human species' spiral, which slowly spiraled
from previous human species spirals, which, in turn, spiraled
from our predecessor species of primates, spiraling from
earlier forms of social mammals preceding the social primates.
The evolution of social-sexual species-life is not that of slowly
evolving lines; but, instead, that of slowly changing and
branching spirals from the first form of such life.
In sociocultural primates, and especially in human species,
evolving life creates a sociocultural spiral, gradually bonding in
interactive, inextricable unity with the material, genetic spiral
of DNA -- a double spiral of both genomic and nurturomic
blueprinted instructions, reproduced and transferred to
successive generations. This is nothing less than a fundamental,
and revolutionary second form of evolving life: from just one
spiraling strand of material, organic, evolution into two intertwined,
interactive spiraling strands -- the basis-mechanism-process-
system of evolutionary socioculture.
Can a rebirth occur after a birth? In our present use of
English, when a person or human phenomenon looses enough
of its essential and vital nature to threaten its existence, it, at
times, even if only in plausible theory, experiences a rebirth--
recovering essentials and vitals of its innate nature.
Single cell organisms, and other pre-sexual life forms, reproduce
themselves: at the time when they innately 'know" (genetically)
they are becoming increasingly less able to sustain life; they then,
through life-force, reproduce their form of life with a new organism
modeled (genetically programed) upon itself."
*** *** *** ***
The Arizona Monsoon (a season or time of rainfall )
traditionally begins when atmospheric conditions are
present for its manifestation. About three years ago, the
Weather Reporting Service decided to make it a calendared
phenomena-- an occurrence within the phenomena of the
calendar. Instead of measuring the amount of humidity and the
dew point-- its beginning being marked as the 3rd or 4th day
that the dew-point is over 40 degrees; they, in effect said: its
easier to mark its beginning at a point on the man-made
calendar, on June 15th, lasting to Sept 15th. Never mind the
factual, observable conditions of nature's atmosphere and
weather; and never mind that we will rarely get rain as early
as June 15. The monsoon, nevertheless, will, henceforth,
conveniently be marked to begin and occur when our
calendar says so.
A laughing matter to the keen observer of Mother Nature;
but, history shows how easily laughter changes to tears.
All conquests of Living Nature, her human nature and
natural, human community-socioculture are filled with laughter
and bravado; then drowned in floods of tears flowing as
natural consequence of violations of Earth-life's evolved,
nature and human nature.
Science, and other human arrogances march on, carrying
natural humanity toward still another, but unprecedented,
human decimation. A rose by any other name, eventually
becomes misunderstood into ambivalence, when under the
weight of convenient, changing denotations and perceptions.
Convenient, verbal denotations have their way of blurring,
then transforming, natural perception, as well as, conception
and intelligence.
Copyright 2010 L. S. Heatherly
Whence cometh the idea we can make newness from
oldness?
Newness, and the idea of it, overwelmingly originate as
civilization's, digressions from human life's natural, slow-
changing --natural adaptational, and selectional -- human
nature, being, spirit, reality, socioculture, well-being and
sustainability.
But, still, before the human species' recent 'civilized' departures
from natural, human evolution, the story of Earth-life's evolution
is itself a story of making new species out of (old) existing ones.
In the social mammals, primates, and especially human-primates,
it occurs through very slow, incremental selections for, and
adaptations to, changing physical and sociocultural conditions for
well-being, reproduction, and evolutionary sustainability.
In Earth's evolution of human species, natural radiation in the
atmosphere produces some new mutations in our DNA and
genes(the building blocks of organic life) joining some other,
earlier mutations stored for possible, beneficial need and use.
These new elements of matter are received into an inextricable,
interactive, bonded unity with eco-social-ontological-cultural
phenomena --our human nurturome --selected by the natural,
human family and extended family-community.
Thus, the beneficial, new genes, genome and other DNA related
(e.,g., epigenes) elements (newness) chosen by (Darwin's
or Darwinian) natural, material-organic-genetic selection for
participation in the material, human realm or world are received into
a unified field -- human self-life-world-- consisting of these genetic
selections and of (Heatherly's or Heatherlyian) beneficial, natural,
non-organic-behavioral-cultural selections chosen by natural
humanity's medium-matrix-culture-complex- environment
(human nurturome) of co-operative-loving-nurturing-
developmental behavior and relationships.
The above story of evolving (new) human species (or maintaining
old species), comes to an end with civilization; wherein the evolved,
natural, human lifeworld and self are no longer within the distinctive,
natural process-system, the structure-function-dwelling, of Earthlife's
evolution of primate and human-primate species. In civilization, the
creative ways of Earth-life's evolution through natural selection and
mutation are gradually displaced by artificial selections of artificials
created by humans fallen from the natural, true human path. These
invasive, alien artificials benefit short-term desires of elites
(for un-natural power-domination) at the expense of the short and
long-term needs of the bulk of the species--the need to stay the path
of human growth-fulfillment-perpetuation, to stay the path of
humanity's eco-family-community development, well-being and
evolutionary sustainability.
Whence the idea the new can renew itself?
With Springtime, the season is not renewing itself,
springtime. It is renewing, in one real sense only, one
circle, or cycling, (the seasons) of life. Afterall, where is the
beginning of any circle-- can a circle have a beginning? It can
and does: if the circle is only a circle in appearance; while
being, in precise human reality, a tightly formed spiral of
incrementally changing, constituent nature through natural
selection. With the seasons of yearly life, witnessed and
experienced by humans and other self-conscious life, Spring
is characterized, and distinguished, by its surges of life from the
dormancies of life, being of special import to the conscious and
self-conscious species. The point in the circle of the yearly
seasons -- the point and period of re-surging life-- is denoted
(and before language, noticed) as the re-surging, the re-
springing of life from the yearly dormancy of life.
*** *** *** ***
Organic-Material DNA and Eco-Sociocultural DNA
Those phenomena generally appearing to humans as
circles or cycles, are, in precise human evolutionary reality,
spirals within our human species' spiral, which slowly spiraled
from previous human species spirals, which, in turn, spiraled
from our predecessor species of primates, spiraling from
earlier forms of social mammals preceding the social primates.
The evolution of social-sexual species-life is not that of slowly
evolving lines; but, instead, that of slowly changing and
branching spirals from the first form of such life.
In sociocultural primates, and especially in human species,
evolving life creates a sociocultural spiral, gradually bonding in
interactive, inextricable unity with the material, genetic spiral
of DNA -- a double spiral of both genomic and nurturomic
blueprinted instructions, reproduced and transferred to
successive generations. This is nothing less than a fundamental,
and revolutionary second form of evolving life: from just one
spiraling strand of material, organic, evolution into two intertwined,
interactive spiraling strands -- the basis-mechanism-process-
system of evolutionary socioculture.
Can a rebirth occur after a birth? In our present use of
English, when a person or human phenomenon looses enough
of its essential and vital nature to threaten its existence, it, at
times, even if only in plausible theory, experiences a rebirth--
recovering essentials and vitals of its innate nature.
Single cell organisms, and other pre-sexual life forms, reproduce
themselves: at the time when they innately 'know" (genetically)
they are becoming increasingly less able to sustain life; they then,
through life-force, reproduce their form of life with a new organism
modeled (genetically programed) upon itself."
*** *** *** ***
The Arizona Monsoon (a season or time of rainfall )
traditionally begins when atmospheric conditions are
present for its manifestation. About three years ago, the
Weather Reporting Service decided to make it a calendared
phenomena-- an occurrence within the phenomena of the
calendar. Instead of measuring the amount of humidity and the
dew point-- its beginning being marked as the 3rd or 4th day
that the dew-point is over 40 degrees; they, in effect said: its
easier to mark its beginning at a point on the man-made
calendar, on June 15th, lasting to Sept 15th. Never mind the
factual, observable conditions of nature's atmosphere and
weather; and never mind that we will rarely get rain as early
as June 15. The monsoon, nevertheless, will, henceforth,
conveniently be marked to begin and occur when our
calendar says so.
A laughing matter to the keen observer of Mother Nature;
but, history shows how easily laughter changes to tears.
All conquests of Living Nature, her human nature and
natural, human community-socioculture are filled with laughter
and bravado; then drowned in floods of tears flowing as
natural consequence of violations of Earth-life's evolved,
nature and human nature.
Science, and other human arrogances march on, carrying
natural humanity toward still another, but unprecedented,
human decimation. A rose by any other name, eventually
becomes misunderstood into ambivalence, when under the
weight of convenient, changing denotations and perceptions.
Convenient, verbal denotations have their way of blurring,
then transforming, natural perception, as well as, conception
and intelligence.
Copyright 2010 L. S. Heatherly
Mar 2, 2010
Back to the Land, Children, Love, Freedom
A Declaration of Childhood's Natural Rights
Bring the Earth's bountiful, land and children together!
We shall re-seize nothing less than lush, green,
human redemption!
It is only by bonding our children during early
childhood to Earth's life, and her ecosystems;
Only by restoring the child's intimate
relationship with Mother Earth;
Only by restoring this childhood relationship that has
created, fulfilled and sustained us in Earth's play of life;
Only by restoring our natural, innate human nature
during our children's formative years;
It is only, therein, that humanity restores,
conserves and sustains its future on Earth,
the jeweled home and cradle of life.
It is only through childhood's re-nurturalization, and
re-naturalization of human nature, spirit, being, culture
and lifeway that civilization's fallen humanity finds redemption-- finds
restorations and conservations of its natural soul and culture.
II.
May a vision be beholden upon us: the Back to the Land
Movement was, and remains amongst us today, the
legitimate and good heart of the Counterculture Movement
of the 1960's and 70's. The Land Movement is interactive and
bonded, through Nature herself and her human nature, with
the Environmental Movement.
Both Movements will continue to play foundational roles in
regenerating -- in re-naturalizing and re-nurturalizing -- the
human nature, being, spirit, family, community, culture, economy
and lifeway that Earth-life evolved for our two hundred thousand
year-old human species.
Whatever rediscovery, restoration, and conservation
of these natural nurturings,
Whatsoever these diminished and adulterated,
manifold forms of human love!
These elements of our human
nurturome (sacrificed on the alters of civilizations'
power-wealth-domination ethos and empires):
These recapturings will be the measure of our success at ameliorating the diverse
scourges, now coalescing as a looming, human decimation/extinction
Every civilization has, largely, fallen or been dispersed back into
village or nomatic lifeway, ultimately, not from insufficient
military, nor exhaustion of natural resources; but at the deepest
level -- the exhaustion of love-nurturings of natural childhood:
this nature-human, manifold love is the basis of natural, sustainable culture.
Behold children removed from Earth's natural land; and, therein,
behold battlegrounds of a human circus-zoo, its chains binding the
originally free, human heart!
Humanity declines from the cooling of the human heart,
from the diminishment of the very roots of the human
family, found in primordial depths of our heart and soul.
The infection and debilitation of natural, human love
by artificial, pollutant, behavioral-cultural toxins,
at the deepest, root level -- in our human infants and
children -- remains the true source of our fall from Life's
evolved, bequeathed, human grace.
Civilization, by its artificial nature, removes us from our natural
evolved, manifold forms of human love and relationships bonding
us into loving identities with each other, and other forms of
Earth-life.
Our natural ways of living and being, springing from the
heart, and engaged in union with the land and its abundant life
-- our humanity's heartland -- have created and carried us
through the eons.
As our DNA and human genome have carried our brain-body
organisms; so, too, these manifold forms of love, constituting
our human nurturome, have received, bonded, and inextricably
interacted, intergrown, interdeveloped, and intersustained our
human organisms as human beings!
We are life beyond flesh and reptilian instinct-- onward into our loving,
self-conscious humanness! Selections gathered for human being, spirit and soul.
Love, in eco-families and eco-communities, is the soul of all our human matter.
Differences in ideas about civilization's society, life and world
are over-ridden by the heart and soul.
This is a mark of humanity.
Natural, authentic, human love is revealed as the human spirit's
overriding victories over greed, artificial ideologies and enterprises.
Wheresoever, and whereupon, this true, human love successively falls
short of our humanity's minimum daily requirement; civilization's malnourished,
sociocultural mind-bodies are, thereupon, exposed, revealing its falterings at
bearing and sustaining our evolved Earth-life's humanity and soul.
Bring forth children nurtured in nature-human awes and wonders,
in naturally beholden phenomena of joyful, loving relationships
within Earth's life and land, within her human heart and soul;
Bring forth, herein, the only real Green Movement:
the greening of each generation of youth's human heart!
Copyright 2010 L.S. Heatherly
Feb 4, 2010
Whence the Original, Authentic, American Humanity?
By L. S. Heatherly
Cultural maladies that infect a socioculture (our America)
should be treated, healed, or resolved in some manner. There
should, at least, be general closures, treatments and recoveries.
In the U.S., we have,
at least, significantly resolved the oppression concerning blacks,
other nonwhite races, and women. We have morally-socially-
spiritually resolved, as a country, next to nothing concerning at
least five decades of other maladies: the Vietnam and related military
follies, the Oligarchic and Plutocatic-based oppression and poverty of the
masses, and the oppression-destruction of other Earth-life, their
ecosystems and habitats(of which we are an inalienable part).
Moreover, we have not even navigated to any general closure, not
even to any sound ameliorations, of these sociocultural debilitations.
As the number of untreated, social and cultural diseases increase;
so does the debilitation of our general welfare, present and future;
and, moreover, U.S. and Westernizing, sociocultural sustainability
itself.
Even as we sink (2009) further into the worst recession/depression since
the Great Depression; the super-rich continue to trick, delude and
plunder the masses. This unprecedented Plutocracy and Kleptocracy
is rendering the people and their supposed representatives increasingly
helpless, will-less and largely clue-less regarding the debilitations of their
innate human rights, loves, relationships and general welfare. The ongoing
explosion of new high-technic forms of dehumanization, inequity and
oppression has, in a long-running systemic manner, outflanked
the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the US Supreme Court,
as well as, local and national governments, and their Political
Systems, Judicial Systems, Law Enforcements, Educational Systems,
Health Systems. Likewise outflanked are regional and international,
organized religions, civil compassions, social advocacies, charities
and philanthropies. Our real, authentic lives have been sucked into machines
and darkly magical screens that amount to a artificial black hole, which our
infected, diminished humanity is unable to perceive and diagnose as such!
Our social institutions, from the basic unit of socioculture, the family,
outward through all so-called civilized humanity, have institutions
become so rigid, regimented, electronicized and virtualized
that their policies can only be explained as a codependency.
They are codependent on the addictions
they profess, in part measure sincerely, to struggle against.
We need an unprecedented, deep, human revelation and deep, human
revolution, generating a gradual restoration of natural human
consciousness, thought, vision, and love coming from within as
revelation and re-birth of how, what, and why we are, as human
beings, on a planet jeweled with Earth-life, cradling a human
species over two hundred thousand years-old.
We have come a long, magnificent way. Now is not a time for
audacious hope based on ungrounded, oratorical optimism. Now
is the time for the highest courage and vision-- the courage to behold
with painful clarity the unprecedented abyss of growing scourges
that threaten to sweep all humanity from its Last Human Spring
into a Last Human Winter, an unprecedented human decimation.
Only from this high courage, breakthrough-clarity of vision, and
restored manifold forms of natural, evolved, human love and
compassion can we breakthrough artificial shams into the vision,
the revelation, of our original, human purpose, fulfillment,
well-being, and sustainability, authentic to a most pre-1970's
American
We, likely, now, have been, since the 1960's, in our Last Human
Spring. Once the re-springing of our human essences is achieved,
against all odds, in eco-families-communities spreading
across the globe; Then, we, must cultivate our Springtime into a
Human Summertime worthy of many millenia of harmony amidst
the most precious treasures of Earth-life, of which we are one,
and their ecosystem-habitats. We are the responsible jewel of
Earth-life that is destroying so much of ourselves and other
jewels of life. This is a time for embracing the manifold, most
natural and joyous forms of love and loving relationships that
have carried and sustained us through the eons of Earth-place
with all Earth-life beings.
The revelation, vision, and work we must now re-embrace is
that of restoring natural, human culture. This is to say, we must
gradually restore our human nurturome, the mechanism and
blueprint that regenerates human families, communities and
societies through its natural interaction with our human
organisms, their human genomes and their partnered ecosocial,
ecocultural and ecological systems in Earthly sustainability.
This human nurturome
grows, fulfills and reproduces for each generation the manifold,
natural sociocultural selections representing, manifesting and
constituting human love, compassion and cooperation. Our human
nurturome provides the Nature-tested instructions for achieving
the behavior-relationship-cultural-habitat characteristics
constituting normal full, human evolution, human development
and transference(reproduction) of these generation to generation.
Human beings are not just brain-body organisms generated by
their genomes' instruction for these organisms. Everything else
about our humanness, about human beings beyond our organisms,
is recreated in every generation by our evolved, natural
nurture-culture -- by our human nurturome. Civilization, the
invasive, alien and artificial antithesis of natural socioculture,
diminishes and adulterates our nurturome with surrogative,
alien, artificial objects/phenomena.
Where are our Thomas Paines, our Jeffersons, our J. J.
Rousseaus, our Ghandis, our Tecumsehs, our M. L. Kings,
our Carlyles, our Thoreaus, our Mark Twains? Where are the
American People as a self-conscious whole, democratic nation?"
Where is our original, Earth-based Humanity? Where are our
defenders of the whole human species? Where the trail blazers leading
the authentic human trail and expedition on this jeweled planet Earth?
Who reveals and teaches the true human path back to our age-old,
time-proven Earthly selves, to our truth, our goodness, our beauty, our
authentic human nature, identity, being, spirit, reality, cultures,
lifeways, villages, childhoods, families, communities, human eco-habitats,
our cooperations springing from manifold loves, our pervasive,
intercultural, human Golden Rule?
(Edited from a letter originally sent to Darryl K. House in
August '09. It is a profound compliment to a rare man: that
this Author, Yours Truly, writes passages to Mr. House that meet
the high standards set for my published works. Such a man, surely,
must live in some sort of paradise; as surely as I know he is
partnered there, with a rare woman, called Teri.)
Copyright 2009 L. S. Heatherly All rights reserved
Cultural maladies that infect a socioculture (our America)
should be treated, healed, or resolved in some manner. There
should, at least, be general closures, treatments and recoveries.
In the U.S., we have,
at least, significantly resolved the oppression concerning blacks,
other nonwhite races, and women. We have morally-socially-
spiritually resolved, as a country, next to nothing concerning at
least five decades of other maladies: the Vietnam and related military
follies, the Oligarchic and Plutocatic-based oppression and poverty of the
masses, and the oppression-destruction of other Earth-life, their
ecosystems and habitats(of which we are an inalienable part).
Moreover, we have not even navigated to any general closure, not
even to any sound ameliorations, of these sociocultural debilitations.
As the number of untreated, social and cultural diseases increase;
so does the debilitation of our general welfare, present and future;
and, moreover, U.S. and Westernizing, sociocultural sustainability
itself.
Even as we sink (2009) further into the worst recession/depression since
the Great Depression; the super-rich continue to trick, delude and
plunder the masses. This unprecedented Plutocracy and Kleptocracy
is rendering the people and their supposed representatives increasingly
helpless, will-less and largely clue-less regarding the debilitations of their
innate human rights, loves, relationships and general welfare. The ongoing
explosion of new high-technic forms of dehumanization, inequity and
oppression has, in a long-running systemic manner, outflanked
the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the US Supreme Court,
as well as, local and national governments, and their Political
Systems, Judicial Systems, Law Enforcements, Educational Systems,
Health Systems. Likewise outflanked are regional and international,
organized religions, civil compassions, social advocacies, charities
and philanthropies. Our real, authentic lives have been sucked into machines
and darkly magical screens that amount to a artificial black hole, which our
infected, diminished humanity is unable to perceive and diagnose as such!
Our social institutions, from the basic unit of socioculture, the family,
outward through all so-called civilized humanity, have institutions
become so rigid, regimented, electronicized and virtualized
that their policies can only be explained as a codependency.
They are codependent on the addictions
they profess, in part measure sincerely, to struggle against.
We need an unprecedented, deep, human revelation and deep, human
revolution, generating a gradual restoration of natural human
consciousness, thought, vision, and love coming from within as
revelation and re-birth of how, what, and why we are, as human
beings, on a planet jeweled with Earth-life, cradling a human
species over two hundred thousand years-old.
We have come a long, magnificent way. Now is not a time for
audacious hope based on ungrounded, oratorical optimism. Now
is the time for the highest courage and vision-- the courage to behold
with painful clarity the unprecedented abyss of growing scourges
that threaten to sweep all humanity from its Last Human Spring
into a Last Human Winter, an unprecedented human decimation.
Only from this high courage, breakthrough-clarity of vision, and
restored manifold forms of natural, evolved, human love and
compassion can we breakthrough artificial shams into the vision,
the revelation, of our original, human purpose, fulfillment,
well-being, and sustainability, authentic to a most pre-1970's
American
We, likely, now, have been, since the 1960's, in our Last Human
Spring. Once the re-springing of our human essences is achieved,
against all odds, in eco-families-communities spreading
across the globe; Then, we, must cultivate our Springtime into a
Human Summertime worthy of many millenia of harmony amidst
the most precious treasures of Earth-life, of which we are one,
and their ecosystem-habitats. We are the responsible jewel of
Earth-life that is destroying so much of ourselves and other
jewels of life. This is a time for embracing the manifold, most
natural and joyous forms of love and loving relationships that
have carried and sustained us through the eons of Earth-place
with all Earth-life beings.
The revelation, vision, and work we must now re-embrace is
that of restoring natural, human culture. This is to say, we must
gradually restore our human nurturome, the mechanism and
blueprint that regenerates human families, communities and
societies through its natural interaction with our human
organisms, their human genomes and their partnered ecosocial,
ecocultural and ecological systems in Earthly sustainability.
This human nurturome
grows, fulfills and reproduces for each generation the manifold,
natural sociocultural selections representing, manifesting and
constituting human love, compassion and cooperation. Our human
nurturome provides the Nature-tested instructions for achieving
the behavior-relationship-cultural-habitat characteristics
constituting normal full, human evolution, human development
and transference(reproduction) of these generation to generation.
Human beings are not just brain-body organisms generated by
their genomes' instruction for these organisms. Everything else
about our humanness, about human beings beyond our organisms,
is recreated in every generation by our evolved, natural
nurture-culture -- by our human nurturome. Civilization, the
invasive, alien and artificial antithesis of natural socioculture,
diminishes and adulterates our nurturome with surrogative,
alien, artificial objects/phenomena.
Where are our Thomas Paines, our Jeffersons, our J. J.
Rousseaus, our Ghandis, our Tecumsehs, our M. L. Kings,
our Carlyles, our Thoreaus, our Mark Twains? Where are the
American People as a self-conscious whole, democratic nation?"
Where is our original, Earth-based Humanity? Where are our
defenders of the whole human species? Where the trail blazers leading
the authentic human trail and expedition on this jeweled planet Earth?
Who reveals and teaches the true human path back to our age-old,
time-proven Earthly selves, to our truth, our goodness, our beauty, our
authentic human nature, identity, being, spirit, reality, cultures,
lifeways, villages, childhoods, families, communities, human eco-habitats,
our cooperations springing from manifold loves, our pervasive,
intercultural, human Golden Rule?
(Edited from a letter originally sent to Darryl K. House in
August '09. It is a profound compliment to a rare man: that
this Author, Yours Truly, writes passages to Mr. House that meet
the high standards set for my published works. Such a man, surely,
must live in some sort of paradise; as surely as I know he is
partnered there, with a rare woman, called Teri.)
Copyright 2009 L. S. Heatherly All rights reserved
Jan 28, 2010
Zeitgeists, J. D. Salinger and Literature
By L. S. Heatherly
Nearly all this nonfiction Author, blogging here, knows,
of Salinger and his works is from the following:
Just saw (on PBS News Hour) an Author of 20 books and one other
literary fellow's comments on Salinger's death at age ninety-one.
In part:
60 million books sold; many as required reading for decades; now
mostly in high schools; took a swipe at David Copperfield in first
paragraph of Catcher in The Rye; nothing since age 45; loved
writing but hated publishing and public spotlight; represented
disaffected youth; but said: "here's the truth anyway."
The last three apply to Yours Truly; excepting a deep obligation
and need to reach one soul's revolutionary zenith, one soul's
breakthrough-level of thought, before writing the thoughts
and the message, "here's the truth anyway," to the people --
keeping it on the walls of the mind, till thought reached its
zenith-plateau, reached its vision of humanity cradled within
all Earth-life. A longer journey to travel, a more distant
destination. It was always, and remains for any authentic,
human, revolutionary vision, the pathway of thought into
enlightenment and revelation; not thinking itself; not the bits
and pieces of truth, the shards; and not writing itself.
He lived a private life in a small house since age forty-five.
One fellow said: Salinger "found a zeitgeist" a voice for many youth
of his time. The Last Human Spring was in search of some sort of
zeitgeist: but one for a humanity moving, increasingly, into
endangerment; while knowing full well humanity has long
been, and is, too lost to hear its thoughts and vision in our Time,
and, likely, in any Age to come. But, still, the truth counts;
disregarding its reception: inspite of its very slight chance of
being received but by a few. Thus, being slightly akin to
Salinger: ... .... Human Spring says "here's the truth anyway."
Countings of Truth
Truth counts for something: as long as there is another human
being receiving the light and warmth of Living Nature's original,
human words of truth and love;
Truth even counts for something; as long
as a family of self-conscious chimps or bonobos speak
prehuman speech, exchanging and sharing the bliss
and glory Earth-life has created.
Self-conscious Truth not only counts; it is everything.
It is all that has ever been; or ever will be.
Lacking this Truth, this Reality;
all else is lifeless matter or reptilian
snap of jaws, digestion, absorbtion, excretion.
All else waits in a cold universe
for Meaning to emerge in Life;
waits for the spark, for the fire,
for the warmth and the light;
waits for the only experience of purpose,
verified and fossilized by trails,
by paths of Time, Being and Earth-life --
into purpose, we emerge to know as Love.
***** ***** *****
All of history's authors, scholars, poets, songwriters, filmmakers,
theologians, preachers, et., al., have failed the main task, and the
rightful duty, of knowledge and literature: to save civilization
from its fallen self: to redeem it, albeit, partially.
All rights reserved
Nearly all this nonfiction Author, blogging here, knows,
of Salinger and his works is from the following:
Just saw (on PBS News Hour) an Author of 20 books and one other
literary fellow's comments on Salinger's death at age ninety-one.
In part:
60 million books sold; many as required reading for decades; now
mostly in high schools; took a swipe at David Copperfield in first
paragraph of Catcher in The Rye; nothing since age 45; loved
writing but hated publishing and public spotlight; represented
disaffected youth; but said: "here's the truth anyway."
The last three apply to Yours Truly; excepting a deep obligation
and need to reach one soul's revolutionary zenith, one soul's
breakthrough-level of thought, before writing the thoughts
and the message, "here's the truth anyway," to the people --
keeping it on the walls of the mind, till thought reached its
zenith-plateau, reached its vision of humanity cradled within
all Earth-life. A longer journey to travel, a more distant
destination. It was always, and remains for any authentic,
human, revolutionary vision, the pathway of thought into
enlightenment and revelation; not thinking itself; not the bits
and pieces of truth, the shards; and not writing itself.
He lived a private life in a small house since age forty-five.
One fellow said: Salinger "found a zeitgeist" a voice for many youth
of his time. The Last Human Spring was in search of some sort of
zeitgeist: but one for a humanity moving, increasingly, into
endangerment; while knowing full well humanity has long
been, and is, too lost to hear its thoughts and vision in our Time,
and, likely, in any Age to come. But, still, the truth counts;
disregarding its reception: inspite of its very slight chance of
being received but by a few. Thus, being slightly akin to
Salinger: ... .... Human Spring says "here's the truth anyway."
Countings of Truth
Truth counts for something: as long as there is another human
being receiving the light and warmth of Living Nature's original,
human words of truth and love;
Truth even counts for something; as long
as a family of self-conscious chimps or bonobos speak
prehuman speech, exchanging and sharing the bliss
and glory Earth-life has created.
Self-conscious Truth not only counts; it is everything.
It is all that has ever been; or ever will be.
Lacking this Truth, this Reality;
all else is lifeless matter or reptilian
snap of jaws, digestion, absorbtion, excretion.
All else waits in a cold universe
for Meaning to emerge in Life;
waits for the spark, for the fire,
for the warmth and the light;
waits for the only experience of purpose,
verified and fossilized by trails,
by paths of Time, Being and Earth-life --
into purpose, we emerge to know as Love.
***** ***** *****
All of history's authors, scholars, poets, songwriters, filmmakers,
theologians, preachers, et., al., have failed the main task, and the
rightful duty, of knowledge and literature: to save civilization
from its fallen self: to redeem it, albeit, partially.
All rights reserved
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