KALABALIKEN I BENDER
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalabaliken_i_Bender
Kalabaliken i Bender ägde rum den 1 februari 1713. Efter slaget vid Poltava 1709 flydde Karl XII tillsammans med några hundra svenskar och ett stort antal kosacker till Osmanska riket, där de tillbringade en lång tid, se Karl XII:s vistelse i Bender. Den 1 februari 1713 fick turkarna nog av gästerna och försökte med vapentvång förmå kungen att avresa.
Karl XII höll tillsammans med ett fyrtiotal karoliner stånd mot cirka 600 turkar innan kungen springande snavade på sina egna sporrar och blev tillfångatagen. "Folksamling" heter på turkiska kalabalık, vilket blivit ett svenskt låneord med betydelsen "förvirring" eller "stor oreda.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bender,_Moldova
In 1713, the fortress, the town, and the neighboring village Varniţa were the site of skirmishes (kalabalik) between Charles XII of Sweden, who had taken refuge there with the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa after his defeat in the Battle of Poltava, and Turks who wished to enforce the departure of the Swedish king.^[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything
An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything is a preprint proposing a basis for a unified field theory, called "E8 Theory",^[1] which attempts to describe all known fundamental interactions in physics, and to stand as a possible theory of everything. The preprint was posted to the physics arXiv by Antony Garrett Lisi in November 2007,^[2] and was not submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal.^[3] The title is a pun on the algebra used, the Lie algebra of the largest "simple," "exceptional" Lie group, E₈.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_J._Tipler
Frank Tipler uses the term Omega Point to describe what he maintains is the ultimate fate of the universe required by the laws of physics. Tipler (1994) has summarized his theory as follows:

• The universe has finite spatial size and the topology of a three-sphere;
• There are no event horizons, implying the future c-boundary is a point, called the Omega Point;
• Sentient life must eventually engulf the entire universe and control it;
• The amount of information processed between now and the Omega Point is infinite;
• The amount of information stored in the universe asymptotically goes to infinity as the Omega Point is approached.

According to Tipler's Omega Point Theory, as the universe comes to an end at a singularity in a particular form of the Big Crunch, the computational capacity of the universe would accelerate faster and faster. In principle, then, a program run on this universal computer could continue forever in its own terms, even though the universe would last only a finite amount of proper time.^[26]
David Deutsch incorporates the concept of Tipler's Omega Point as a central feature of the fourth strand of his "four strands" concept of fundamental reality and identifies some aspects of Tipler's physics as being correct...


http://ultrafractalwiki.fractalforums.com/Embedded_Julia_Set

http://www3.lu.se/info/lum/LUM_06_98/LUM6_05_botanister.html  
Vita huset i Botaniska trädgårdens sydligaste del är inte längre vitt. Huset är nyrestaurerat och under detta arbete kunde man konstatera att det ursprungligen har varit målat i en mild gul nyans. Vita Huset har därför nu förvandlats till Gula huset. En gång tillhörde det botanisterna; nu har dessa åter flyttat in.
Invigningen ägde rum den 15 maj. I byggnaden finns nu bibliotek, två kurslaboratorier, forskningslaboratorium, en stor föreläsningssal och datorrum. Man har bevarat eller återställt sekelgamla miljöer. Det finns en magnifik trappa innefattad av vinröda väggar.
När LUM besöker det har magnoliorna på framsidan börjat fälla sina kronblad; vita drivor tornar upp sig på gräsmattan.
Experiment krävde ny byggnad. Det är nu mer än ett sekel sedan Sveriges riksdag anslog 54.000 riksdaler för uppförandet av Gula huset. Det byggdes under åren 1889-91.
- Bakgrunden var botanikämnets förändring och de nya behov detta medförde...
http://www.botaniskatradgarden.se/
http://www.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=1383&visa=pm&pm_id=263
http://www.dedu.se/sfv/sv/syd/historik.asp?husid=385
Mitt i Lunds botaniska trädgård växer ett nytt Öresundssamarbete fram. Genom ett avtal satsar Lunds universitet, Öresundsuniversitetet och Sparbanken Finn på ett ”Öresundshus” som ska bli en mötesplats för forskare och näringsliv från hela regionen.
Verksamheten kommer att inrymmas i den så kallade Gula villan som ligger i Botaniska trädgården i centrala Lund.
Lokalerna ska rymma kontor och mötesrum åt bland andra Öresundsuniversitetet, svenska Medicon Valley, Öresund It Academy och andra regionala samarbeten inom design, logistik, miljövetenskap och livsmedel. Tanken är att en gemensam fysisk mötesplats ska gynna gränsöverskridande verksamhet.
– Det är mycket positivt att kunna samla så många Öresundsverksamheter i ett och samma hus, säger Göran Bexell, rektor för Lunds universitet och ordförande för Öresundsuniversitetet. Öresundshuset ska utvecklas till en spännande mötesplats för näringsliv, forskare och studenter från båda sidor av Öresund.

http://askaphysicist.tv/
Jan Graf von der Pahlen

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2011/february/sherman-drell-lecture-022411.html
When combat veterans tell their battle tales, the stories often are laced with themes of heroism, sacrifice and loyalty. But when Nancy Sherman listens to what soldiers and sailors have to say about the wars they've fought in, she often hears something else: Guilt.
"What is often missed by psychologists is that psychological anguish is sometimes moral anguish," she said during her lecture. And with that comes guilt – an emotion that Sherman said was rarely named in the dozens of interviews and conversations she's had with veterans.
"Guilt was often the elephant in the room," she said. "It wasn't labeled as such. But it was felt."

http://www.syncd.org/
There is a revolution going on in science. Mainly triggered through quantum physics, a new world view is on the way - into mainstream science and into mainstream in general. This shift challenges us to rethink our very notions of existence and reality.
SYNCD's mission is "to support this knowledge revolution by giving access
to these works created by today's world transformers."

http://www.iawwai.com/ProphesiesAreNow.htm
The Prophecies Are Now

There exists a compelling interpretation of the Prophecies contained in all the Worlds Great Religions that is totally convincing for the religiously minded and also the secular rationalist alike. We are living in a time like no other and the things which make the World, in which we live today, so special, unique and unprecedented have an uncanny correspondence with a consensus of predictions deriving from these Prophecies.

We are living in tumultuous times. A time of change and transition where we are witnessing cultural and technological progress happening at dizzying speed. All the while changes happening to the planet environmentally and political are ushering in a world that will be very different from what we know today. And not only is the pace of change frantic, the speed at which this global transformation is taking place is actually accelerating. So what is happening in the world? How can we understand this process that we are living through? What's going to happen next and where is it all leading?

http://www.iawwai.com/EveryoneIsGod.htm 

Wai Tsang

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_developmental_biology
it now appears that just as evolution tends to create new genes from parts of old genes (molecular economy), evo-devo demonstrates that evolution alters developmental processes to create new and novel structures from the old gene network
http://www.accelerationwatch.com/index.html
http://www.accelerationwatch.com/conferences.html
The Acceleration Studies Foundation (ASF) is presently engaged in the production of two conferences, the first annual, the second occasional.
The first, Evo Devo Universe, is currently an annual event (see Evo Devo Universe 2008 for details). EDU is an annual conference that networks scientists, philosophers, and systems theorists who study evolutionary and developmental processes in universal change. Perhaps, progress in exploring and critiquing such models may help us better understand and guide accelerating processes of planetary change, here on Earth.

Goals of ASF Conferences, Seminars, and SIGs (Special Interest Groups):

Beginning with currently acceleration-aware futurist communities, ASF is seeking to establish Special Interest Groups (SIGs) in the study and discussion of accelerating change at a selection of annual scientific, technology, business, and social futures conferences. We seek to:
Increase multidisciplinary research interest in accelerating change.
Develop and assist any existing conferences, programs, and institutions that are beginning to explore acceleration and phase transition metrics, mechanisms and implications.
Promote critical discussion of the phenomenon of local accelerating change as a universally-driven, apparently statistically inevitable developmental process (developmental singularity hypothesis) and one which may lead to autonomous, human-surpassing machine intelligence (technological singularity hypothesis).
Identify and network various writers, technologists, students, faculty, departments, and institutions which have demonstrated past evidence of interest in these topics.

Acceleration-Relevant Conferences

Below are a sample of conferences in eight broad categories which provide important background and context for models of locally accelerating change, many of which may be expected to develop some level of discussion of accelerating change and phase transition processes in coming years. If you discover other likely candidates, please let us know:

1. Astrophysics
2. Biology and Medicine
3. Business
4. Complexity Studies
5. Computer Science—Hardware
6. Computer Science—Software
7. Foresight and Futures Studies
8. Technology and Society

Scientific conference search: EventOnline.org
1. Astrophysics
Cosmology, and Astrobiology Conferences
A number of cosmic evolutionary models now incorporate exponential local change in various metrics, such as Eric Chaisson's free energy rate density (Cosmic Evolution, 2001). The multiple universes cosmologists, such as Lee Smolin and Martin Rees, are also beginning to formulate developmental acceleration models. Astrobiologists have also published a few papers on life as a multi-locally accelerating process, and the trajectory of that intelligence has major implications for SETI. With its tremendous annual influx of new astronomical data, strong theoretical complement, deep interest in the origins, structure, and future of life, and multidisciplinary approach, astrobiology (and a subfield, computational astrobiology) is quickly becoming the most important new academic community uncovering and confronting evidence of universal multi-local accelerating change (physical singularities within black holes are, of course, also in this category. Examples:

AAAS DoSER Conference: Cosmic Questions (Last: April 1999, Washington, DC)
American Physical Society (APS) (March 18-22, 2002 Indianapolis, IN; April 20-23, Albuquerque, NM)
Astronomical Society of the Pacific (July 13-18, St. Paul, MN)
Bioastronomy (July 8-12, 2002, Great Barrier Reef, Australia)
Black Holes III (May 19-23, 2001 Kananaskis, Alberta, CANADA)
Contact: Cultures of the Imagination (March 2-4, Santa Clara, CA)
ESA: First European Workshop on Exo/Astrobiology (May 21-23, Frascati, Italy)
Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics (Spacetime Structure) (May 21-25, Ann Arbor, MI)
NASA Annual Astrobiology Science Conference (April 7-11, Moffett Field, CA)
Pacific Coast Gravity Meeting, 16th (PCGM) (March 9-10, 2001 Santa Barbara, CA)
UW Astrobiology (August 5-8, Crystal Mountain, WA)

2. Biology and Medicine
Evolutionary, Developmental, Comparative, Theoretical, and Systems Biology Conferences
Evolutionary development, or "evo-devo," is the paradigm where evolution at all scales is understood to occur within, and be substantially constrained by a framework of statistically predetermined development (self-organization). Biological systems provide our best evidence and most detailed models for how to apply the lessons of developmentalism to universal change and the observed continuous local accleration of that change. Unfortunately, there is currently a significant conceptual gap between most evolutionary biologists, who frequently view change as a "random" or "accidental" process (with the exception of a minority who now combine insights in neutral theory and self-organization), and developmental biologists, with the latter generally having a much better understanding of universal change, able to discriminate the evolutionary (random) and developmental (causal, in a probabilistic sense) components of change in the systems they study. Assuming that the universe itself is such an evolutionary developmental system, much will be learned in coming years from uncovering the secrets of developmental biology. Indeed, two of the greatest remaining mysteries of scientific understanding, galactic development and embryonic development, may be more than superficially linked at a systems level. In general, developmental models are still only superficially applied to substrates above or below that of the biological organism, with a few notable exceptions, such as the emerging field of developmental genetic programming. Examples:

Ecological Society of America (ESA) (August 5-9, 2002, Tucson, AZ)
Internt'l Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology (ICMTB) (July 16-19, Hilo, HI)
Internat'l Conference on Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (ICSEB) (September 9-16, 2002, Patras, Greece)
Internat'l Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB) (November 4-7, Pasadena, CA)
Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) (January 26-29, Long Beach, CA)
Society for Developmental Biology (July 18-22, Seattle, CA)
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) (January 2-6, 2002, Anaheim, CA)
Society for Study of Evolution/ASN/SSB (June 26-30, Knoxville, TN)
West Coast Developmental Biology Conference (May 11-13, Lake Arrowhead, CA)

3. Business
Investment, Economics, Management, and Organizational Behavior Conferences
Like the semiconductor engineers since the 1960's, the general business community is now acutely discovering the impact of accelerating change since 1995, due to the explosive growth of the internet. As Andy Groves has said, "internet time" is real and here to stay. Yet the U.S. has also recently suffered a major financial bubble because we collectively misinterpreted signs of accelerating technologic change to develop an unrealistic expectation (mass delusion?) of parallel accelerating increase in market capitalization. As any careful investment analyst will tell you, these two emergent properties (business technology and market cap) are only rarely tightly coupled, and understanding their complex relationship within each investment environment is paramount. A few business consultants and theorists, such as Ichak Adizes, have been analyzing accelerating change as a fundamental constant of business transformation since the 1970's. It remains true that we will see explosive growth in this area in coming decades, as cheaper and higher bandwidth, storage, wireless access, pervasive computation, and other emergences shift our entire productive environment into technologic (not social) hyperdrive. One principle remains true: Shrinking the time necessary and relevant information available for all complex transactions is the most immediate path to improving business productivity. Examples:

Accelerating Change in the Information Economy (Feb 7-8, 2001 Los Angeles, CA)
Adizes Graduate School's Business Analysis Conferences (July and August 2001, Santa Barbara, CA)
Dynamic Visions (Reason Magazine) (February 19-21, 2000 Santa Clara, CA)
Probing the Future: Organizational Foresight in the Knowledge Economy (July 11-13, 2002, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
International InfoMesa Summit: Complexity and Business (August 27-30, 2001, Santa Fe, NM)
Nanotechnology Briefing (Red Herring) (Sept 24, 2001, Boston, MA)
Society of Quantitative Analysts, Annual Fuzzy Day Seminar (June 14, New York, NY)
Telecosm (Gilder/Forbes) (Nov 4-6, 2001, San Francisco, CA)

4. Complexity Studies
Complexity, Systems Theory, Information Science, and Nonlinear Science Conferences
There is a growing understanding of accelerating change within this community—but no specific conferences as yet. It appears that the broad area of complexity studies, while independent in initial stages of investigation, is eventually be subsumed into whatever discipline (cosmology, biology, computer science, physics, chemistry, linguistics, business, manufacturing, economics, ecology, sociology, urban planning, etc.) it chooses to study. That is both heartening and to be expected. Examples:

Complexity and Fractals in the Sciences (FRACTAL) (March 17-20, 2002, Grenada, Spain)
Discrete Chaotic Dynamics in Nature and Society (DCDNS) (Last: May 2000, Odense, Denmark)
Global Brain Workshop (July 3-5, Brussels, Belgium, VUB)
Foundations of Information Science (FIS)1996 and 1994 (June 11-15, Vienna, Austria)
Hawaii International Conference on the Systems Sciences (HICSS) (January 7-10, 2002, Waikoloa Village, HI)
IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) (October 7-10, Tuscon, AZ)
Internat'l Conf. on Scientometrics and Informetrics (ICSI/ISSI) (July 16-20, Syndey, Australia)
Internat'l Conf. on Perception and Action (ICPA) (June 25-29, Storrs, CT)
International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS) (July 8-13, Pacific Grove, CA)
Self-Organization and Evolution of Social Behavior (September 8-13, 2002, Ascona, Switzerland)
Singularity Theory (July-Dec, 2000, Cambridge, UK)
Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (SCI) (July 22-25, Orlando, FL)

5. Computer Science — Hardware
Solid State Physics, Microtechnology, Nanotechnology, Robotics/Embodied A.I., Automation, and Autonomous Technology Conferences
Continuing dramatic miniaturization and autonomy in technological systems has led some of these conferences to begin considering the long range trajectories, leading to speculation in nanotechnology futures. But the most far reaching implications, exploring the meaning of autonomous non-biological nanocomputation for local intelligence, are still in a rudimentary stage of discussion. The nanotechnology, embodied A.I.(robotics), and autonomous technology development communities may all be the most important public arenas for recognition and discussion of accelerating technological change in coming years. Examples:

ALA SmallTalk 2001: Microfluidics, Microarrays, BioMEMS (August 27-31, San Diego, CA)
BioMEMS and BioNanotechnology World (September 22-25, Columbus, OH)
DesignCon (Electronic Design Automation (EDA) semiconductor systems simulation & design) (Jan 28-31, 2002 Santa Clara, CA)
IEEE Internat'l Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (October 29-November 3, Maui, HI)
IEEE Internat'l Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 21-26, Seoul, Korea)
IEEE Nanotechnolgy (Nano) (October 28-30, Maui, HI)
IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control (IFAC) (July 21-26, 2002, Barcelona, Spain)
Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation (ISA) (September 10-13, Houston, TX)
Internat'l Conference on Computational Nanoscience (ICCN) (April 22-25, San Juan, PR)
Internat'l Conference on Evolvable Systems (ICES) (October 3-5, Tokyo, Japan)
Internat'l Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems (IAS) (March 25-27, 2002, Marina Del Rey, CA)
Internat'l Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (DARS) (June 25-27, 2002, Fukuoka, Japan)
NASA/DoD Workshop on Evolvable Hardware (EH) (July 12-14, Long Beach, CA)
Robo Cup Competitions and Conferences (June 16-23, 2002, Fukuoka, Japan)
SmallTech 2001: MEMS/Nano (September 18-21, Washington, DC)
Workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering (NE) (July 1-21, Telluride, CO)

6. Computer Science — Software
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (Artificial Life, Agents, Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Computation, Fuzzy Systems, Classical AI)
A small number of sessions at these conferences discuss the future implications of emergent computation, and some are beginning to systematically measure and consider the wider implications of continuously accelerating computational change. To my knowledge, none are yet measuring the increasingly autonomous (human-independent) nature of this change. However, due to direct experience with and implicit understanding of the wider implications of Moore's Law and substrate shift in the technological domain, the computer science and information techology communities have become by far the most acceleration-aware of all the professions. Examples:

ACM1: Beyond Cyberspace (March 10-14, San Jose, CA)
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (SAIS/AISTATS) (January 4-7, Key West, FL)
Artificial Life (December 9-13, 2002, Sydney, Australia)
Artificial Neural Networks in Engineering (ANNIE) (November 4-7, St. Louis, MO)
Autonomous Agents (May 28-June 1, Montreal, Canada)
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-EACL) (July 6-11, Tolouse, France)
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) (July 7-11, San Francisco, CA)
Earthware: A Good World in 2050 (Last: Oct 2000, Pittsburg, PA, Carnegie Mellon U)
Emergent Computing Conference Series (Last: July 2000, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom)
Evolution of Language (EvoLang) (March 27-30, 2002, Cambridge, MA)
Internat'l Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) (August 21-25, Vienna, Austria)
Internat'l Conf. on Intelligent Agents, Web Tech, and Internet Commerce (July 9-11, Las Vegas, UT)
Internat'l Conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Electronic Systems (KES) (September 6-8, Osaka, Japan)
Internat'l Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (June 28-July 1, Williamstown, MA)
Internat'l Conf. on Parallel Problem Solving From Nature (PPSN) (September 7-11, 2002, Grenada, Spain)
Internat'l Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) (Aug 4-10, Seattle, WA)
Language Technologies (NA-ACL) (June 2-7, Pittsburgh, PA)
Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) (December 3-8, Vancouver, Canada)
Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI) (February 19-21, Odense, Denmark)
IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion (July 8-11, 2002, Annapolis, MD)
IEEE Mobile Agents (December 2-4, Atlanta, GA)
IEEE World Congress on Comp. Intell.(IJCNN/CEC/Fuzzy Systems) (May 12-17, 2002, Honolulu, HI)
Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (August 2-5, Seattle, WA)

7. Foresight and Futures Studies
Foresight, Forecasting, and Speculative Futures Conferences
Futures studies includes a broad range of perspectives, including trend extrapolation, systems theory, and utopian, dystopian, and millenial scenarios. Is the technological singularity hypothesis just a millenialist fantasy? Certainly there is some millenialist component to the mythos, as Greg Benford and others have noted. Yet technological acceleration was extrapolated to an asymptotic "singularity" as early as 1902, by technology scholar Henry Adams. Accelerating change in our knowledge and technology has become increasingly obvious to human observers over at least the last two millenia. It is probably this broad social intelligence, at least as much as any other factor that has fueled the proliferation and increasing sophistication of our cultural eschatology (end of the world, millenialist) myths. The modern difference is that now everyone is starting to recognize accelerating change, no longer just the visionaries and philosophers. A few of these annual conferences, such as Foresight and TransVision, regularly discuss the technological singularity hypothesis. Examples:

BostonU, Center for Millennial Studies, Conference on Millenialism (Last: Oct, 2000, Boston, MA)
Conferences of the Center for the Study of the Long Range Future (Oct 2001, Boston, MA)
Extro (Extropy) (June 15-17, San Jose, CA)
Foresight (April 20-22, Palo Alto, CA)
FutureScope(WFS) (July 29-31, Minneapolis, MN)
Ideas at the Powerhouse (August 16-19, Brisbane, Australia)
PopTech! (October 19-22, Camden, ME)
PUSH (June 12-14, Minneapolis, MN)
TransVision(WTA) (June 22-24, Berlin, Germany)
World Science Fiction Society Convention (Worldcon) (Aug 29th-Sept 2nd, San Jose, CA)

8. Technology and Society
Technology Assessment, Technology and Public Policy, Science and Technology Studies, History/Philosophy/Sociology of Science/Technology Conferences
As Ray Kurzweil and others have long observed, the fields of technology assessment and public policy have long ignored the cultural, sociopolitical and economic implications of our record of hyperexponential computational growth. Historians, sociologists, and philosophers of science are becoming more amenable to studying the exponential and double-exponential growth in various domains of science and technology, but few yet see this process as leading to some essential or effective singularity (phase change, emergence), as viewed from the human perspective. Most likely, this is due to the lack of recognition of accelerating technological autonomy (encoded adaptive/algorithmic intelligence). This may change in the coming decades, as the rate of technological (but not human social) change continues to accelerate and become more human-independent. Examples:
AAAS Colloquium on Science and Technology Policy (May 3-4, Washington, DC)
American Sociologial Association (Aug 18-21, Anaheim, CA)
Camden Technology Conference (Oct 19-21, Camden, ME)
Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences (June 11-15, 2002, Honolulu, HI)
History of Science Society (Nov 8-11, Denver, CO)
IEEE Internat'l Symposium on Technology and Society (July 6-7, Stamford, CT)
Philosophy of Science Association (Nov 7-11, Milwaukee, WI)
National Association of Science Writers (February 13-14, 2002 Cambridge, MA)
Society for Philosophy and Technology, Biennial Conference (July 9-11, Aberdeen, Scotland)
Supernova (June 20-22, San Francisco, CA)
Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED) (Feb 20-23, 2002, Monterey, CA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_philosophy#Whitehead.27s_Process_and_Reality
In opposition to the classical model of change as purely accidental and illusory (as by Aristotle), process philosophy regards change as the cornerstone of reality–the cornerstone of the Being thought as Becoming. Modern process philosophers include Henri Bergson, Charles Peirce, John Dewey, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nicholas Rescher, and Gilles Deleuze. In physics Ilya Prigogine^[2] distinguishes between the `physics of being' and the `physics of becoming'.
The formal development of this theory begins with Heraclitus's fragments in which he posits the nous, the ground of Becoming, as agon, or "strife of opposites" as the underlying basis of all reality defined by change. That balance and conflict were the foundations of change and stability in the flux of existence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
Spiral Dynamics is a theory of human development introduced in the 1996 book Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Chris Cowan. The book was based on the theory of psychology professor Clare W. Graves.
Beck and Ken Wilber (with his integral theory) became interested in each other's work, resulting in Beck developing a branch of spiral dynamics that he calls Spiral Dynamics Integral.
Spiral Dynamics argues that human nature is not fixed: humans are able, when forced by life conditions, to adapt to their environment by constructing new, more complex, conceptual models of the world that allow them to handle the new problems.^[1] Each new model includes and transcends all previous models. According to Beck and Cowan, these conceptual models are organized around so-called ^vMemes: systems of core values or collective intelligences, applicable to both individuals and entire cultures.
In spiral dynamics, the term ^vMeme refers to a core value system, acting as an organizing principle, which expresses itself through memes (self-propagating ideas, habits, or cultural practices). The prepended and superscripted letter v indicates these are not basic memes but value systems which include them. The colors act as reminders for the Life Conditions and Mind Capacities of each system and alternate between cool and warm colors as a part of the model.^[2]
Within the model, individuals and cultures do not fall clearly in any single category (color). Each person/culture embodies a mixture of the value patterns, with varying degrees of intensity in each. Spiral Dynamics claims not to be a linear or hierarchical model, although this assertion has been contested.^{[citation needed]} According to Spiral Dynamics, there are infinite stages of progress and regression over time dependent upon the life circumstances of the person/culture, which are constantly in-flux. Attaining higher stages of development is not synonymous with attaining a 'better' or 'more correct' values system. All stages co-exist in both healthy and unhealthy states, whereby any stage of development can lead to undesirable outcomes with respect to the health of the human and social environment (see Shadow & Spin-off or Sub-Personalities).
First tier ^vMeme levels are focused on different themes for existence, and include almost all of the worldviews, cultures, and mental attitudes up to today. New systems build on adaptations of previous levels and seek to solve problems created by living in those earlier ways. (Attaching concrete examples to these levels of psychological existence is difficult and often misleading because (a) there can be multiple reasons for the same behavior and (b) centralization in a single level regarding all aspects of living is rare. Some advocates of Spiral Dynamics argue that these are ways of thinking about things, not types of people. However, Spiral Dynamics does explicitly define a category of people labeled "Spiral Wizards" who have attained equilibrium around "higher level" ^vMemes.^{[3]
Beige
    •    Summary: Archaic-instinctive—survivalistic/automatic/reflexological
    •    Time of origin: c. 100,000 BC
    •    Description: "Express self to meet imperative physiological needs through instincts of Homo sapiens."
Purple
    •    Summary: Animistic-tribalistic magical-animistic Tribal order
    •    Time of origin: 50,000 BC
    •    Description: "Sacrifice to the ways of the elders and customs as one subsumed in group." This is the level of traditional cultures.
Red
    •    Summary: Egocentric-exploitive power gods/dominionist
    •    Time of origin: 7000 BC
    •    Description: "Express self (impulsively) for what self desires without guilt and to avoid shame." Expressed by the mentality of street gangs, Vikings, etc.
Blue
    •    Summary: Absolutistic-obedience mythic order—purposeful/authoritarian
    •    Time of origin: c. 3000 BC
    •    Description: "Sacrifice self for reward to come through obedience to rightful authority in purposeful Way." Embodied by fundamentalist religions.
    •    Note: Amber is Ken Wilber's current name for this stage.
Orange
    •    Summary: Multiplistic-achievist scientific/strategic
    •    Time of origin: c. 1000 AD on (as early as 600 AD according to Graves and Calhoun)
    •    Description: "Express self (calculatedly) to reach goals and objectives without rousing the ire of important others." Expressed in the Scientific Revolution and the Industrial Revolution.
Green
    •    Summary: Relativistic-personalistic—communitarian/egalitarian
    •    Time of origin: From 1850 on (surged in early 20th century)
    •    Description: "Sacrifice self-interest now in order to gain acceptance and group harmony." Expressed in 1960s pluralism and systems theory.
Spiral Dynamics theory sees second tier vmemes as emerging levels that gradually move away from a focus on subsistence-level concerns of the First Tier, and towards a being-level existence. The existence of two different tiers of psychological development was introduced by the founder Graves. Cowan claims it is possible Graves introduced the tier system as a marketing instrument. Up to today there is no research evidence the two tiers exist. Cowan no longer supports the existence of two tiers but claims the only thing now known about the Yellow and Turquoise systems is that they are more complex versions of Orange and Green. The open-ended theory suggests that the levels Coral and beyond are not yet substantially formed and will solidify as a greater portion of society develops towards those memes.
Yellow
    •    Summary: Systemic-integrative
    •    Time of origin: 1950s
    •    Description: "Express self for what self desires, but to avoid harm to others so that all life, not just own life, will benefit."
Turquoise
    •    Summary: Holistic
    •    Time of origin: 1970s
    •    Description: A sacrifice self-interest system which is still forming.}
Cowan does not subscribe to these developments and promotes a version of the theory which he describes as remaining more faithful to the original research of Clare Graves and extending from it. He continues to use the term 'Spiral Dynamics' to describe his work since he co-created it... He has also suggested and additional second tier ^vmeme Coral which deals with the development of neurological capacities
http://www.spiraldynamics.org/aboutsd_overview.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Strogatz

http://op.se/ettan/extralasning/lordag/1.1347902-vem-var-karl-i-karlslund-eller-erik-i-eriksberg-
Stadsdelen Karlsund har fått sitt namn efter gården med samma namn. Ytterst är det apotekaren Carl Anton Lignell som i alla anspråkslöshet lånat ut sitt eget namn.
Han ägde apoteket Hjorten som låg nere på Storgatan, där Törners konditori ligger i dag.
När han sålde apoteketet blev har stormrik och köpte därför ett större hemman, Odensala 1. I början var det ju nämligen så att Östersund anlades på olika hemman som ingick i Odensala, som i sin tur låg i Brunflo socken.
Nåväl, apotekaren Lignell byggde upp sitt Carlslund till något alldeles extra. Egendomen omfattade hela det område som i dag kallas för stadsdelen Karlsund och markerna sträckte sig ända ned till Litsvägen.
Carlslund blev ett mönsterjordbruk och från mitten av 1860-talet beskrivs hur Lignell lyckats odla buskar och örter som annars inte kunde skådas på de här breddgraderna.
Till sina yttre konturer finns gården Karlslund kvar än i dag (i början av 1960-talet övergick man från att stava Carlsund med C, till K).
På gården finns ännu rester av fångstgropar för älg. De är förstås betydligt äldre än Lignell, men groparna har varit inspirationen till att kalla gatorna i området för Älgstråket, Jaktstigen och Drevstigen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagom
Lagom (pronounced [ˈlɑ̀ːɡɔm]) is a Swedish word with no direct English equivalent, meaning "just the right amount".
The Lexin Swedish-English dictionary defines lagom as "enough, sufficient, adequate, just right". Lagom is also widely translated as "in moderation", "in balance", "optimal", "suitable", and "average". But whereas words like "sufficient" and "average" suggest some degree of abstinence, scarcity, or failure, lagom carries the connotation of appropriateness, although not necessarily perfection.
The word "lagom" has no exact translation in English, although equivalent words exist in some neighboring languages such as Norwegian, as well as in some south Slavic languages, for example Serbian and Croatian taman or umjereno. The Norwegian words "passelig" and the more common "passe" are very similar, translating roughly as "fitting, adequate, suitable" in English. "Passe" can be used in every context where the Swedish "lagom" is used, e.g. "passe varm" (right temperature/adequately warm), "passe stor" (right size), etc.
The word "Lagom" (also spelled "lugum" or "lugom") also exists in Norwegian, in both Bokmål and Nynorsk. The connotations in Norwegian, however, are somewhat different from Swedish. In Norwegian the word has synonyms as "fitting, suitable, comfortable, nice, decent, well built/proportioned". While some synonyms are somewhat similar in meaning (e.g. "suitable" and "reasonable", "fitting" and "in balance"), many present in Swedish don't exist in Norwegian and vice versa. Norwegians also use the word with the two morphemes reversed, "Om lag", which means ; "just about", or "circa".
The concept of 'lagom' is similar to Russian expression 'normal'no' (нормально, literally normally), which indicates a sufficient and sustainable state, for example of one's livelihood. In Russian, the word is often used as answer to the question "how are you?".
The origin of the term is an archaic dative plural form of lag ("law"), in this case referring not necessarily to judicial law but common sense law. A translation of this could be "according to common sense". A popular folk etymology claims that it is a contraction of "laget om" ("around the team"), a phrase used in Viking times to specify how much mead one should drink from the horn as it was passed around in order for everyone to receive a fair share. This story is recounted widely, including on the website of the Swedish Institute.

Lagom can be used as an adverb, as in the sentence "Han är lagom lång" (literally "He is just the right height"). Lagom can also be used as an adjective: "Klänningen var lagom för henne" (literally "The dress was just right for her"), which would be equivalent to "The dress fit her". The adjective form is never inflected.
Lagom can be applied to almost all situations, from food and drink to copyright law and carbon dioxide emissions.

http://www.math.uconn.edu/~alozano/talks/infinity/paradoxuniverse.html
Both finite and infinite Universes seem somewhat counter-intuitive.

http://www.kikkerlandshop.com/1588h.html 

Der Wächter des Paradieses
Franz von Stuck



The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind is akin to that of the religious worshiper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but straight from the heart.

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man.

I do not believe in freedom of the will. Schopenhauer's words: “Man can do what he wants, but he cannot will what he wills” accompany me in all situations throughout my life and reconcile me with the actions of others even if they are rather painful to me.

One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. … I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such a feeling they would not be fruitful. I also believe that, this kind of religiousness, which makes itself felt today in scientific investigations, is the only creative religious activity of our time.



Albert Einstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_Comes_Mary
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Association
(Tandyn Almer)
Every time I think that I'm the only one who's lonely
Someone calls on me
And every now and then I spend my time at rhyme and verse
And curse those faults in me
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to give me kicks, and be my steady chick
And give me pick of memories
Or maybe rather gather tales from the fails and tribulations
No one ever sees
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
When vague desire is the fire in the eyes of chicks
Whose sickness is the games they play
And when the masquerade is played and neighbor folks make jokes
At who is most to blame today
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to set them free, and let them see reality
>From where she got her name
And will they struggle much, when told that such a tender touch of hers
Will make them not the same
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch
And when the morning of the warning's passed, the gassed and flaccid kids
Are flung across the stars
The psychodramas and the traumas gone
The songs are left unsung and hung upon the scars
And then along comes Mary
And does she want to see the stains, the dead remains of all the pains
She left the night before
Or will their waking eyes, reflect the lies, and make them realize
Their urgent cry for sight no more
When we met I was sure out to lunch
Now my empty cup tastes as sweet as the punch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqHhuNxzeN8
This is a presentation based on Dr. Calleman's break thru discoveries of the structure of the Mayan Calendar as it relates to the Evolution of Consciousness. "Ian takes a complex subject such as the Mayan Calendar and makes it very easy to understand on a personal level." He also clearly points out how the Schedule of Creation can be tracked when one looks at past historical events and relates that information to what to expect in the near future...
Since our minds are not constructed to handle the increasing stress that accompanies the accelerating evolution, we'll all go out of our minds. What's outside our minds? Intuition...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2053986_make-paper-fortune-teller.html
Tell someone's fortune. Hold the fortune teller in your hand and have them choose a color. Open and close the device one time for each letter in the color. Next, have them choose a number and then open and close the fortune teller the correct number of times, based on their number. Finally, have them choose one more number, lift the selected flap, and read the fortune.
People's names, animals, or any theme can be incorporated into the fortune teller for a little variety.
http://www.mathematische-basteleien.de/fortune_teller.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian_rhythm

The primary circadian "clock" in mammals is located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus (or nuclei) (SCN), a pair of distinct groups of cells located in the hypothalamus...
The SCN takes the information on the lengths of the day and night from the retina, interprets it, and passes it on to the pineal gland, a tiny structure shaped like a pine cone and located on the epithalamus. In response, the pineal secretes the hormone melatonin. Secretion of melatonin peaks at night and ebbs during the day and its presence provides information about night-length.
Several studies have indicated that pineal melatonin feeds back on SCN rhythmicity to modulate circadian patterns of activity and other processes. However, the nature and system-level significance of this feedback are unknown.
A great deal of research on biological clocks was done in the latter half of the 20th century. It is now known that the molecular circadian clock can function within a single cell; i.e., it is cell-autonomous.^[13] At the same time, different cells may communicate with each other resulting in a synchronised output of electrical signaling. These may interface with endocrine glands of the brain to result in periodic release of hormones. The receptors for these hormones may be located far across the body and synchronise the peripheral clocks of various organs. Thus, the information of the time of the day as relayed by the eyes travels to the clock in the brain, and, through that, clocks in the rest of the body may be synchronised. 
Circadian rhythmicity is present in the sleeping and feeding patterns of animals, including human beings. There are also clear patterns of core body temperature, brain wave activity, hormone production, cell regeneration and other biological activities.
A number of other disorders, for example bipolar disorder and some sleep disorders, are associated with irregular or pathological functioning of circadian rhythms. Recent research suggests that circadian rhythm disturbances found in bipolar disorder are positively influenced by lithium's effect on clock genes.<sup>[55]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrainment_%28physics%29</sup> 
Entrainment is the process whereby two interacting oscillating systems, which have different periods when they function independently, assume the same period. The two oscillators may fall into synchrony, but other phase relationships are also possible.
The system with the greater frequency slows down, and the other accelerates. Christian Huygens, a notable physicist, coined the term entrainment after he noticed, in 1666, that two pendulum clocks had moved into the same swinging rhythm, and subsequent experiments duplicated this process. Notably, the two pendula stabilized not in synchrony, but in antiphase. They satisfy the definition of entrainment because they have the same period, even though they have opposite phase. The accepted explanation for this is that small amounts of energy are transferred between the two systems when they are out of phase in such a way as to produce negative feedback. As they assume a more stable phase relationship, the amounts of energy gradually reduce to zero. In the realm of physics, entrainment appears to be related to resonance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronization_of_chaos
Synchronization of chaos is a phenomenon that may occur when two, or more, chaotic oscillators are coupled, or when a chaotic oscillator drives another chaotic oscillator. Because of the butterfly effect, which causes the exponential divergence of the trajectories of two identical chaotic system started with nearly the same initial conditions, having two chaotic system evolving in synchrony might appear quite surprising. However, synchronization of coupled or driven chaotic oscillators is a phenomenon well established experimentally and reasonably well understood theoretically.
It has been found that chaos synchronization is quite a rich phenomenon that may present a variety of forms. When two chaotic oscillators are considered, these include:
Identical synchronization. This is a straightforward form of synchronization that may occur when two identical chaotic oscillators are mutually coupled, or when one of them drives the other.
Generalized synchronization. This type of synchronization occurs mainly when the coupled chaotic oscillators are different, although it has also been reported between identical oscillators.
Phase synchronization. This form of synchronization, which occurs when the oscillators coupled are not identical, is partial in the sense that, in the synchronized state, the amplitudes of the oscillator remain unsynchronized, and only their phases evolve in synchrony.
Anticipated and lag synchronization. In these cases the synchronized state is characterized by a time interval... 
Amplitude envelope synchronization. This is a mild form of synchronization that may appear between two weakly coupled chaotic oscillators. In this case, there is no correlation between phases nor amplitudes; instead, the oscillations of the two systems develop a periodic envelope that has the same frequency in the two systems. This has the same order of magnitude than the difference between the average frequencies of oscillation of the two chaotic oscillator. Often, amplitude envelope synchronization precedes phase synchronization in the sense that when the strength of the coupling between two amplitude envelope synchronized oscillators is increased, phase synchronization develops.
All these forms of synchronization share the property of asymptotic stability. This means that once the synchronized state has been reached, the effect of a small perturbation that destroys synchronization is rapidly damped, and synchronization is recovered again. Mathematically, asymptotic stability is characterized by a positive Lyapunov exponent of the system composed of the two oscillators, which becomes negative when chaotic synchronization is achieved.
Some chaotic systems allow even stronger control of chaos. Both synchronization of chaos and control of chaos constitute parts of Cybernetical Physics.

In chaos theory, control of chaos is based on the fact that any chaotic attractor contains an infinite number of unstable periodic orbits. Chaotic dynamics then consists of a motion where the system state moves in the neighborhood of one of these orbits for a while, then falls close to a different unstable periodic orbit where it remains for a limited time, and so forth. This results in a complicated and unpredictable wandering over longer periods of time.
Control of chaos is the stabilization, by means of small system perturbations, of one of these unstable periodic orbits. The result is to render an otherwise chaotic motion more stable and predictable, which is often an advantage. The perturbation must be tiny, to avoid significant modification of the system's natural dynamics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetical_physics
Until recently no creative interaction of physics and control theory (cybernetics) has been seen and no control theory methods have been directly used for discovering new physical effects and phenomena. The situation has dramatically changed in the 1990s when two new areas emerged: control of chaos and quantum control.
In 1990 the paper ^[1] was published in Physical Review Letters by Edward Ott, Celso Grebogi and James Yorke from the University of Maryland discovered that even small feedback action can dramatically change behavior of a nonlinear system, e.g. turn chaotic motions into periodic ones and vice versa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.
Cybernetics is most applicable when the system being analysed is involved in a closed signal loop; that is, where action by the system causes some change in its environment and that change is fed to the system via information(feedback) that causes the system to adapt to these new conditions: the system's changes affect its behavior. This "circular causal" relationship is necessary and sufficient for a cybernetic perspective.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jyOAlQsekPlvQmluyXlU1gL60iQw

Human evolution speeding up: study Dec 10, 2007 CHICAGO (AFP) — The world may feel more and more like a global village, but its residents are increasingly genetically diverse thanks to the rapidly accelerating pace of human evolution, a study said Monday.

Geneticists say the huge explosion in our numbers in the past 40,000 years, since Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa to other continents, has resulted in a much faster pace of evolution compared to the previous six million years.
The pace of change has increased 100-fold in modern times compared to our distant past, and most notably since the Ice Age, 10,000 years ago, and has led to increasing diversification between the races.
"We are more different genetically from people living 5,000 years ago than they were different from Neanderthals," said John Hawks, an anthropologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who collaborated on the study.
The findings are based on analysis of data from an international genomics project. A team of scientists examined DNA from 270 individuals in four ethnically different populations to see how genetic variations or SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms) evolved over time.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, which holds that human evolution has slowed to a crawl or even stopped in modern humans, the researchers' analysis suggested that the process of natural selection has sped up.
"Rapid population growth has been coupled with vast changes in cultures and ecology, creating new opportunities for adaptation," the authors wrote in the paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"Human races are evolving away from each other," said Henry Harpending, an anthropology professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
"Genes are evolving fast in Europe, Asia and Africa, but almost all of these are unique to their continent of origin. We are getting less alike, not merging into a single, mixed humanity."
He said that is happening because humans dispersed from Africa to other regions 40,000 years ago and "there has not been much flow of genes between the regions since then."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/feb/06/first-panoramic-view-sun
The identical, refrigerator-sized probes, which were launched in 2006, follow the Earth's orbit around the sun, one leading far ahead of the other. Today [yesterday], the probes became directly aligned on either side of the star, giving scientists a unique opportunity to see it from every angle.
It is hoped the probes will help scientists understand coronal mass ejections (CMEs) – violent eruptions on the sun that can hurl a billion tonnes of particles at Earth at speeds of up to 450,000mph.
Satellites such as the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory give scientists an hour's warning of CMEs heading for Earth. The Stereo mission aims to increase the warning time to more than two days.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serendipity
Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.

http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-7-february/spontaneous-evolution-new-scientific-realities-are/
Fractal mathematics says: There is a pattern in the world, and there is a pattern to your evolution. Quantum physics says: Don’t focus on the material, focus on the immaterial realm. Energy is primal. The rule is that if a science on the lower part of the building changes its belief system, every science above that building block must incorporate it. Biology and psychology have not adopted the new understandings of mathematics and physics; they are out of scientific context and no longer scientific. Quantum biology, however, a new science, examines how energy affects biology, and consciousness is that energy. As for psychology, a material psychology based on chemistry and drugs needs to be replaced by energy psychology. We heal ourselves with our thoughts, our mind, our consciousness, which are more powerful than chemistry. It’s the invisible, immaterial realm that’s powerful.

 

Note About the beginning date of the Universal Cycle
I have probably contributed myself to the confusion that reigns when it comes to the beginning date of the Universal wave movement and have given different times for this. What we know is that the calendar develops according to nine wave movements, where the longest one goes back to the birth of the universe, and they all differ from one another with a factor of twenty. According to such a fractal view of the prophetic Mayan calendar system the ninth wave would then be only 234 days long made up of 13 different uaxaclahunkin (18 day) periods. This places the beginning of the ninth wave at March 9, 2011 and that of the preceding wave (Conscious Convergence) at July 17, 2010. These are points in time that are expected to mark significant frequency increases and accelerations of time.

As we approach the time when all the nine waves, developing at different speeds, will simultaneously come to manifest fully (28 October 2011, 13 Ahau) there is thus going to be quite complex patterns of overlapping of these waves. The Sacred Calendar rounds of 260 days will still have an unquestionable energetic existence and so these, as part of this overlapping, would continue the three stage rocket into the birth of the new world that started on 9.9.9 (Sept 9, 2009, please see http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/999_and_the_mayan_calendar.htm). For this reason the dates of the beginnings of the two next tzolkin rounds, May 27, 2010 and Feb 11, 2011, will also remain as important times for celebrating alignments with the cosmic plan and potentially very important for the preparation for the Conscious Convergence and the actual ninth wave respectively.
Carl Johan Calleman

http://www.returnoftheancestors.com/10-part-preview.html

http://www.noetic.org/noetic/issue-7-february/spontaneous-evolution-new-scientific-realities-are/
The upheavals that we presently see in our civilization represent a giant force of evolution that’s in motion. When we focus on any one of the current crises alone, we run the unfortunate risk of missing the forest for the individual trees, failing to recognize that all these crises collectively represent the evolution of community, not of the individual. What we’re evolving now is a super organism called humanity and a reality in which all of us know ourselves to be cells in the body of one living organism, the planet.