Ken Christenson
Author's posts
Mar 18
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 8 of 8 – Science Infected by Love of Nature: the Unstoppable Contagion
Jan. 2010 THE LAST NICHEGaia: the hypothesis that the living and nonliving components of earth function as a single system in such a way that the living component regulates and maintains conditions . . . so as to be suitable for life; also: this system regarded as a single organism. …
Mar 02
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 7 of 8 – How do you Hug a Cladistic Tree?
. . . When the lateral roots of two Douglas-firs run into each other underground, they fuse. Through those self-grafting knots, the two trees join their vascular systems together and become one. Networked together underground by countless thousands of miles of living fungal threads, the trees feed and heal each other, keep their young and …
Jan 27
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 6 of 8 – Intimacy is Immortality
Unlike monkeys, humans also use mirror neurons to directly imitate actions and understand their meanings. … Gallese and Rizzolatti found that when people listened to sentences describing actions, the same mirror neurons fired as would have had the subjects performed the actions themselves or witnessed them being performed. — David Dobbs [1] The first thing …
Jan 26
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 5 of 8 – Humans and Nature, and The Watcher
Thur. Aug. 9/07 When You’re Not Lost To tell your own story As if it’s real Is to be lost. This is allowed When you and your audience Both know when you’re lost As well as you know when you’re not. Only stories can have such endings. Not knowing. I have argued this …
Jan 18
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 4 of 8 – Intimacy with Ideas is ‘Awesome’
Thurs. July 26/07 Ageless and TirelessThe heat drains.The cold braces.Our bodies know what to do. In what distant placesAnd what special climes,Over what vast timesHave they learned this?The knowing bodyThat rises each morningAnd sleeps every nightIs agelessAnd tireless. Let’s take a closer look at this verse that comes at the end of ‘The Journey Step 3’. In …
Jan 15
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 3 of 8 – Love Deepens
This is the third in what will be a series of twice-weekly posts in which I’ll question the possibility, explore the difficulty, and argue for the mobilisation potential, of understanding the systems of Nature on a personal level. Please use the links at the top of the page to read the earlier ‘steps’. Thus, when you practice just sitting …
Jan 11
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 2 of 8 – Love Grows
This is the second in what will be a series of twice-weekly posts in which I’ll question the possibility, explore the difficulty, and argue for the mobilization potential, of understanding the systems of Nature on a personal level. Please use the links at the top of the page to read the earlier ‘steps’. Tues. June 12/07 ‘Cookie Time’ with …
Jan 03
The Journey (to Find a Pathway to Global Climate and Conservation Responsibility) Step 1 of 8 – Love is Personal
This is the first in what will be a series of twice-weekly posts in which, using both science and poetry, I’ll question the possibility, explore the difficulty, and argue for the mobilization potential, of understanding the systems of Nature on a personal level. 9 A flesh-cutting net holds Life’s Canopy Through ever-now ages of spreading …
Dec 27
One Time: No Future Without Understanding the Deep Past as a Visceral Present
“I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection, in order to mark its relation to man’s power of selection. We have seen that man by selection can certainly produce great results, and can adapt organic beings to his own uses, through the accumulation …
Dec 24
One From the Start
A Christmas message from a Buddhadharma practitioner. At this time, when the sun is returning after deepening darkness, we are being invited to reach into our own silent depths, and here to find the embers of sharing and love. We are invited to find and nurture them, that they might contribute to a Global Spirit …
