week eleven

i know i'm a living system because: 

i don't actually know, but i feel myself a part of a vast and intricately interwoven living system. one which i interact with and which interacts with me. as it seems that every part represents the whole, i would assume that i, myself, am also a living system. another vast and intricately interwoven cooperative creation. and as i feel the trees and the mountain leaning in to smile with me, so much gratitude rises within me for this amazing being which we are.

biophysics and oriental medicine:

this is a little tough, because i'm still having a hard time figuring out exactly what biophysics is, except for various parts of a variety of disciplines. is there an overriding theme? wikipedia says biophysics investigates biological systems. chinese medicine is obviously also involved in investigating and interacting with biological systems.  and chinese medicine is also a synthesis of various disciplines - nutrition, qi gong, tui na, acupuncture, herbal medicine, personal and lifestyle counseling. in chinese medicine the tiniest acupuncture point can both represent, and when activated, transform, the entire being. maybe this is something biophysics in interested in also, with their investigations into dna and cell functions. chinese medicine gets the whole picture, the overriding oneness. and it also likes to break things down into parts - the yin and the yang, and the five elements forming all that is, the many different kinds of qi and substances. in this way there may be a similarity with biophysics, or where biophysics may be going. with such a nebulous definition, maybe biophysics is still defining itself and open to potential influences from chinese medicine and other holistic models of our world. 

week ten

my e-prime day: 

in this moment my fingers tap keys on this plastic, electrified thing called a computer. little black symbols appear in the white space on the vertical screen in front of me. sometimes littler red dots appear under the symbols showing me that either my typing or my spelling needs to change if i want these symbols to appear logical and understandable to other humans who might look at them in an attempt to receive communication.

while i type, my friend keeps sending me listings for houses he might want to rent on this same computer. i look at them and feel the both the excitement and ridiculousness of searching for something. the constant external seeking.  feeling a personal opinion, that we humans often choose to seek rather than actually fully live, truly find. 

thinking about some native languages. how what we call nouns don't exist. every "thing" has verbal expression not as a being, but as a doing. what we would express as nouns get described through what we would call verbs in some native languages. so the word or words for each "thing" carry the lifeforce of the "thing" and embody it's expression more fully, as a more holistic representation of the "thing" our language would influence us to objectify. seems like it could make e prime a little less necessary.

synthesizing east and west:

i don't exactly get the question here. but, really, i'm feeling that east and west are already synthesized. the oneness exists and it's just our awkward, western human minds which have chosen to look at things from very limited viewpoints. now we're experiencing the playful joy of reuniting them in our own consciousness.