****the following is something like a manifesto. try it on.****
A biological godhead is the answer to the devouring vacuum of light and energy-- a white hole-- that science gives us, in which everything dissolves into an incandescent blaze of 'too much information'-- the existential state that has come to dominate since World War II. It is in this state that ecocatastrophe expands boundlessly.
Ecology is the necessary god-idea of our time and henceforth-- necessary because of the failure of the human species to commit itself to saving the Biosphere from humanity. Ecology is the touchstone, the foundational idea of any legitimate civilization.
Ecology-as-godhead is radically polymorphous and global-- as with the Vacuum, but with the difference that it represents the Life-organism that has evolved for billions of years on Earth, while the Vacuum has broken with it, forming a murderous machinery that can only destroy the Life-organism.
Ecological Romanticism connects the inner mythic realm of the spiritual imagination with the outer, scientific reality of all living organisms forming a whole. It is a coordination of Romanticism and Biology. It is the rich romance of Life fighting for survival against a lethal evolutionary development that threatens the whole, by using the full vitality and constitution of the human psyche toward the rescue of Life.
Nature is sacred. Ecological security is a sacred directive. Ecological Romanticism is a means to fight the threat.
****This is very different from what I usually write. It's a sort of foray in a tangential direction. It isn't a completely rational statement and I'm groping for coherence but not quite reaching it. But it's substantial, and has a useful effect, I think. It's a step toward something, which I hope I can discover.****
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Earth Day, 40 A.E.
April twenty-second in the fortieth year of the Age of Ecology.
Ecology is the touchstone of everything, now, of everything we feel and think and do.
The Ecology Movement is the significant mass movement of our time.
Have a very deep Earth Day, Deepster.
Ecology is the touchstone of everything, now, of everything we feel and think and do.
The Ecology Movement is the significant mass movement of our time.
Have a very deep Earth Day, Deepster.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Same-haming the Drygand
(word-meanings to follow)
When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand and then gave it to him, the Stone came into him and he became the mighty Halleth of the Edhli, to ward it and ernern it from the Dilgoth. The Twayne then were made the first of his kynechts, and in time, many of the Alfar became his Alf-kynechts, thanes in dienst to the Edhli, having sworn troth to the Sake of Edhli-frith and showed by their deeds this troth.
When an Alf swears his troth before the Drygand, he gets from him the Lodestone, in a drench of grene-fyre. And the Stone then comes to sit in his marrow, and the Edhli-wisdom of the Wolken and the Forn-wields of the Drygand flow from the Stone and come to fill him. And a token of this inner Cherrenge is seen in the Drygand-hame that shows as fur or feather or scale over him, at some times, foremostly while one is in the Twyrymet. And this is called "same-haming the Drygand", as the Drygand can look like any living thing or blend of them.
To have the Drygand-hame shows that one has taken to himself the Lodestone and sworn the Troth and become a true Alf and halleth. This does not mean that one has tamed the Drygand and taken to oneself thereby his wields, but instead that one has been taken by the Drygand as his own kynecht, but a free kynecht, a thane, not tamed by him either, but rather hamed by him.
hame= what covers the skin.
Drygand= the pan-chimaera.
halleth= holy warrior.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
ernern= rescue.
Dilgoth= the Extinction Event.
kynecht= knight.
dienst= service.
the Sake of Edhli-frith= the Ecology Movement.
Wolken= the Edhli-mind which hames the Earth.
Forn-wields= ancient powers.
Cherrenge= the conversion.
Twyrymet= where Edhli and Immynd (imagination) blend.
When the Twayne brought the Lodestone to the Drygand and then gave it to him, the Stone came into him and he became the mighty Halleth of the Edhli, to ward it and ernern it from the Dilgoth. The Twayne then were made the first of his kynechts, and in time, many of the Alfar became his Alf-kynechts, thanes in dienst to the Edhli, having sworn troth to the Sake of Edhli-frith and showed by their deeds this troth.
When an Alf swears his troth before the Drygand, he gets from him the Lodestone, in a drench of grene-fyre. And the Stone then comes to sit in his marrow, and the Edhli-wisdom of the Wolken and the Forn-wields of the Drygand flow from the Stone and come to fill him. And a token of this inner Cherrenge is seen in the Drygand-hame that shows as fur or feather or scale over him, at some times, foremostly while one is in the Twyrymet. And this is called "same-haming the Drygand", as the Drygand can look like any living thing or blend of them.
To have the Drygand-hame shows that one has taken to himself the Lodestone and sworn the Troth and become a true Alf and halleth. This does not mean that one has tamed the Drygand and taken to oneself thereby his wields, but instead that one has been taken by the Drygand as his own kynecht, but a free kynecht, a thane, not tamed by him either, but rather hamed by him.
hame= what covers the skin.
Drygand= the pan-chimaera.
halleth= holy warrior.
Edhli= the Biosphere.
ernern= rescue.
Dilgoth= the Extinction Event.
kynecht= knight.
dienst= service.
the Sake of Edhli-frith= the Ecology Movement.
Wolken= the Edhli-mind which hames the Earth.
Forn-wields= ancient powers.
Cherrenge= the conversion.
Twyrymet= where Edhli and Immynd (imagination) blend.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
The Wealddom of Edhli
...or, The Sovereignty of the Biosphere.
The Edhli is stably self-regulating, and does this the best it can be done. Humans usurp its sovereignty, however, and create ecocatastrophe, damaging the entire life-system of Earth and driving its natural cycles into extreme states of fluctuation and collapse.
The human species must recognize its usurpation and return sovereignty to the Edhli, of course. In a sane planetary civilization, government would be an agent acting on behalf of the whole Edhli. When government is not the champion of the Edhli, then its legitimacy would be forfeit.
The Edhli is stably self-regulating, and does this the best it can be done. Humans usurp its sovereignty, however, and create ecocatastrophe, damaging the entire life-system of Earth and driving its natural cycles into extreme states of fluctuation and collapse.
The human species must recognize its usurpation and return sovereignty to the Edhli, of course. In a sane planetary civilization, government would be an agent acting on behalf of the whole Edhli. When government is not the champion of the Edhli, then its legitimacy would be forfeit.
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