If we are consciousness that has access to the coherence of individual memory and present awareness in the zero point field, we are the physical interface for space time as it is unfolding.

• Zero-point energy - Wikipedia
• The Field - Lynne McTaggart

Death unplugs the body from awareness of the zero point field, but consciousness persists in the quantum.

Death, then, is a transition between states of consciousness.

Mark Wagnon, in our conversation with Langdon Roberts and Jim Shroads, was explaining how consciousness can become aware of other dimensions that are our current reality. However, our senses are not attuned to recognize the frequencies of the wave patterns.

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As I understood it, consciousness is the steady state of the universe. There are no waves in consciousness. Rather, consciousness perceives waves and motion through experience.

We compare time to a line and plot events on a timeline. It is a primitive abstraction that distorts our understanding of reality.

We can think of channels of information in the same way we build software that abstracts time as a play head on a VCR that detects and decodes information from a magnetic tape that passes over the surface of the play head at a constant speed.

However, in a flow state, it is possible to experience time as if playback is sped up or slowed down.

Our meeting yesterday was about group flow states. Unfortunately, the video recording of that meeting failed to record the audio, capturing only the video.

If we could access the zero point field, theoretically, we could have access to the full resolution of universal experience.

The universe is not only the substrate of life, the ground of being. The universe is the recording device of all of reality in full resolution. We are the play heads of reality.

Together, we weave worlds. Through consciousness, we create worlds by accessing memory and projecting possibilities into the future.

Mythopoeia

Non-fiction is recorded reality. Fiction is reality that is yet to be. With a multitude of play heads, we are weaving reality as a collective consciousness. God, you could say, is the universe, the book of life. God makes us and we make God through the intimate connection of oneness with the universe. There is no separation.

When we say that God is the ground of being, we are referring to gestalt theory and the figure-ground relationship. We are beings, the figures. God is the substrate on which our beings exist.

We can understand the figure 8 because of the contrast of the shape against the ground of the paper on which it is written or printed. If we rotate the symbol onto its side, the meaning changes to infinity.

We went to the Apple Barn yesterday. Together, we participated in the shared experience of our connection with nature: family, friends, sunshine, weather, trees, fruit, trampolines, swings, ponies, goats, chickens, rabbits, llamas, slides, pedal karts, apple cider, popcorn, picking fruit, roasting corn, walking pathways, eating ice cream.

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I was talking with a friend about her conversation with her daughter about life and death. When we die, our bodies become part of the circle of life. Her daughter cried at the thought of dying and becoming food for the trees.

But that is not the end of the story. How do you explain the zero point field to a five-year-old?

My son-in-law shared a video about harmony. Then I shared the experience of flow as I play piano. But this has only been achievable by gaining some measure of mastery with the instrument. I have not yet achieved the level of mastery to which I aspire, but I continue to learn from other musicians through attempts to reconstruct chord progressions by carefully listening to recordings and attempting to imitate the sounds, melodies, harmonies, cadence, and rhythms.

I know I still have much to learn, but I enjoy the process and the feeling of accomplishment that comes when I can play by feeling the music, when I transcend beyond thinking about the mechanics of hitting the right notes at the right time.

We often perform life as an orchestra, playing exactly what has been written and following the leadership of a single conductor.

But life is more like jazz, an improvisation that involves a high level of mastery that allows musicians to listen to each other and respond in the moment to the complex chord progressions, melodies, and harmonies.

The next set of conversations that YouTube suggested was about quantum computing.

We are learning to weave together our experiences through conversation. We are discovering a harmonic resonance as we discover common values and intentions.

What we hope emerges from our growing awareness of our oneness with all of life as a group flow state, the ability to navigate metaphysical gravity.

Light is a form of radiation that moves out from a sphere in all directions. Light casts a shadow, if objects obstruct, reflect, bend, or absorb the light. This can result in distortions of perception.

Gravity casts no shadow. Love is metaphysical gravity.

• Cultural Evolution, Social Physics, and Metaphysical Design
• Proposal

And when we speak of that which will last, of what remains when all else divides, dies, decays, and disintegrates, we find the human common denominators.

And these three remain: faith, hope, and love. And the greatest of these is love.

Faith Hope Love

We are the builders collective. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

• Design for Resilience
• Design Science Studio

We are World Weavers, but I still resonate with the original name of our group, the World Builders. We are building the kind of world we would want to live in, a world that works for all of life, a world of love.

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Who are we becoming?

We thought we were separated, divided, individual, independent, alone.

We are living. We are dying. We are learning. We are explorers. We are inventors. We are tool makers. We are story tellers.

We are laughing. We are crying. We are joyful. We are suffering. We are thoughtful. We are emotional. We are rational. We are irrational. We are fearful. We are violent. We are empathetic. We are loving.

We are stardust. We are quantum mechanics. We are physics and metaphysics. We are beginning to understand so much. We actually know very little.

We are awakening to the systems that we designed that cause our own suffering. We are beginning to recognize that there is no other. There is only us. When one of us is in pain, we all suffer. When we experience joy, we all celebrate.

We are a thin layer of life on a small ball of molten rock spinning in constant motion around a star spinning around a galaxy. We are held in the tension of the gravity that pulls us together and the expansion that pushes us apart.

We are time and energy and matter. We are entropy. We are syntropy.

We are in conversation with reality.

We are dividing cells. We are integrating ideas. We are thesis and antithesis. We are synthesis.

We are the behaviour of whole systems unpredicted by the behaviours of their parts. We are synergy.

We are relationships of energy. We are conscious awareness. We are this moment. We are everything happening all at once. We are weaving a world of experience through perception, cognition, emotion, and action. We live with a memory of where we have come from, in the presence of where we are, in anticipation of where we will be. We are formed by language in intimate relationship with all that came before, all that is, and all that will be.

We are the seed of an idea. We are a seed of life floating in the garden of space. We are not on the earth. We are earth. We are the incarnation of the genesis of the unfolding and enfolding of time, energy, and matter.

We are interdependent and interconnected.

We are the medium. We are the message. We are the interface.

We are a creative, collaborative, self-organizing learning community. We are exploring how we imagine, design, and build the future together. We are the builders collective. We are investing our time, energy, and resources in reimagining our social architecture.

We are the invisible made visible.

We are universe.

We are one.

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Presented by Design Science Studio at the Buckminster Fuller Institute in partnership with habRitual + The Emergent Media DesignLab at the University of California, Irvine.

Supported through the Patronage of Mansoor Vakili

Overview

We are pleased to announce the inaugural Living Systems Art + Design Collaboratory.

This new program provides funding for artists and designers to support the development of creative projects that explore living systems. The Collaboratory works with 30 designers and artists to design projects that aid people in perceiving the biological, cognitive, social, ecological, philosophical, spiritual, mathematical, political and technological dimensions of life as a unified whole as inspired by living systems.

“Everything is a System”

Systems philosophy helps us to understand that humans occupy a self-organizing living system (our planet) with an inherent capability to sustain life. Living systems are cognitive entities with an inherent tendency to structure themselves in nonlinear network patterns capable of performing highly complex functions with minimum effort.

Observations suggest that people tend toward two different perceptions; linear and nonlinear thinking. There is a deeper simplicity within the living world. Human beings are an interconnected and inseparable part of this nonlinear living system, but if observations suggest that we too often employ strategies of linear perception, thinking and relationships that risk making the human network unsustainable.

The nonlinear nature of the digital era is an indication of the emergence of the planet’s ongoing process of self-organizing and self-awareness. For humanity to synchronize with this process we must simply look to systems theory and network theory (which provide the essential and universal behavioral patterns of living systems) as guidelines for harmonic and creative participation with our living planet.

Learn more about the Living Systems Art + Design Collaboratory

Living Systems Collaboratory was originally published in Co-Operating Manual on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

We are in a time of radical systems change.

As we question our social and financial systems a new movement seems to be emerging everywhere.

A REGENAISSANCE.

A new narrative of our future that is interwoven with Nature and that leaves no one behind.

Overview

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) in partnership with habRitual is calling all creators: fine artists, designers, performers, philosophers, ecologists, systems thinkers, data scientists, and others who resonate with this prompt to create art that explores the principles of Design Science.

Buckminster Fuller was inspired by nature, and we currently know more about living systems than we ever have. Whether you are visualizing what society aligned with the principles of nature will look like or creating technology that will help us get there, we invite you to join our community of collaborators. Through creative expression, members of this program will co-create in service of a world that works “for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone”.

We welcome creators to apply to join the Design Science Studio and embark on a facilitated journey to use principles of nature, science and design to imagine a future that is regenerative and just.

Creators in the studio apply their whole systems knowledge to create (r)Evolutionary art, experiences and messages for a regenerative future that works for 100% of life.

What is the Design Science Studio?

The Design Science Studio is an educational incubator for art that explores Buckminster Fuller’s principles of Design Science to propel us into a regenerative future. The program will begin with a curriculum that introduces the system view of nature that Bucky cultivated, and spotlights creative applications to spark and enrich ideation. We will then transition to a collaborative development period that initiates community-building with other creators, sharing knowledge and ideas about Fuller’s principles and Design Science, and supporting each other in the creative process. The program will culminate in a series of digital showcases. Selected projects will be featured periodically on the BFI website, sold on the BFI marketplace with profit-sharing, and displayed in our online exhibitions in topia, new art city and more!

A developmental incubator for ART inspiring a regenerative future that works for 100% of life.

Art that empowers global creators to imagine a regenerative future that ignites and catalyzes inspiration, conversation, and action leading to a world that works for all.

Our first selected cohort runs August 2020 — March 2021.

We have an incredible crew aboard.

Learn more about the Design Science Studio.

Design Science Studio was originally published in Co-Operating Manual on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.