Cyclone Dreaming 16 – Cyclone Dreaming

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Cyclone Dreaming The universe that we observe is, according to Quantum physics, one of an infinite number of possibilities. Yet, that it exists at all is nothing less than astounding, depending as it does on the coincidence of so many precise conditions that it cannot be accounted for by chance, and implies the organising activity of consciousness and choice. Some physicists speak of an Anthropic Principle, saying that the universe exists as it does because it is chosen by the observer. Others speak of a self‑organising universe that comes to know itself in the self‑reflective mind of one or more of its diverse self‑manifestations. The cosmology embedded in myths about ancestors who created – by a series of violent acts – the landscape and all its life forms, including human beings and their complex interrelationships with everything in the cosmos, resonates perfectly with a quantum view of the universe. What we have always known by intuition is affirmed by modem science, which cut itself free of mythology by embarking on a program of observing the world in order to know it. At its cutting edge it has arrived at knowledge so paradoxical – the no thingness of the universe ‑ that it can be a gateway into genuine mystical experience. The self-organising no‑thingness of a cyclone could hardly be surpassed in this landscape as the totem that generates awe (what used to be known as "fear of the lord') and draws us into a cooperative role with the cosmos. A civilisation whose relationships have brought the earth's dynamic systems to the verge of chaos in little more than two centuries is not in a position to assert that its predecessors' claims about their relationships with the land and its biomass is just a lot of old dreaming. We may find, if we have the courage to try, that we too can dance the rain. 

CYCLONE DREAMING is the insight that recognises the cosmic significance of events in our environment; and the commitment to act/change within the limitations of the cosmic process as it manifests itself in this particular place over time.