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Tons of experiences. The notion is constant for me, and a matter of semantics 
defined by one's cultural programming.  

As far as published works that espouses theory justifying such ideas: john 
lovelock is the one who pioneered Gaia as an academic (post-enlightenment 
occidental) concept. He has a written a few books on the topic. If you want 
to go further into the rabbit hole i strongly recommend anything by fritjof 
capra. He's a particle physist / systems theorist made famous by his book 
linking oriental spiritual concepts to 20th century discoveries in physics. 
He is hellbent on reforming that Cartesian assumption that spirit and matter 
/ mind and body are seperate, an leading to a fixation on understanding the 
parts and disregarding the whole, of which has been reigning for ages as the 
only valid scientific approach.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jager <dfjager@yahoo.com>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] "all of Nature has mind and memory"

I've had once an experience in the polders of the Netherlands, where I felt 
the whole river-delta system of the Netherlands was an 'entity' on its own. 
(And No, I wasn't taking anything at the time).

So the idea that "everything in existence has a consciousness" or "everything 
in existence is alive" does not seem too far fetched for me.

This may be hard to prove, but not nearly so hard to understand if one 
observes closely or experiences Nature deeply.

Anyone have other experiences about this to share?

Daniel


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> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:15:29 -0500
> From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
> Subject: [permaculture] "all of Nature has mind and
> memory"
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> ?"Truly I say to you, that spiders and flies, stones and
> sand shall
> cry out against the impious, and shall demand justice!"
> There's a type
> of panpsychism implicit in Judeo-Christian-Islamic
> eschatologies. We
> are being watched. Watched by animals and even by inanimate
> objects.
> At the end of time the whole of Creation will testify
> against Man. So
> all of Nature has mind and memory."
> 
> St Symeon the New Theologian
> 
> [found on Facebook]
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