2022 Gebser Conference Glenn Aparicio Parry

Описание: Original Love:
An Interpretation of Gebser in Light of Our Changing View of Mother Earth
What does love have to do with Jean Gebser’s unfolding structures of consciousness? Everything, it seems. Our original, archaic consciousness was indivisible from a loving Mother Earth. The first hint of disconnection gave birth to a magical consciousness that sought to reunite us with all of nature through vibration, prayer, song, and later language; mythical consciousness arose so that we could remember our oneness with all living things through story; and rational consciousness was initially born as an expression of love, beauty, and harmony. It is only when rational/linear consciousness became sufficiently degraded that we began to imagine the human as separate and transcendent from nature. It was that separation that gave birth to the illusion of linear time and irreversible human progress independent from the progress of Earth. Such hubris has put our own survival and that of many other species in jeopardy. An integral consciousness that remembers the arc of evolution and reimagines what it is to be human is now imperative. Gebser’s vision (similar to other visionaries that were his contemporaries such as Sri Aurobindo and The Mother) implies a future human—and a future redefinition of love that is based not on romantic love between humans, but on love for all living things. Such love will be no longer identified with the physical human body but the body of Mother Earth. The current trend of gender fluidity is a harbinger of this greater shift now underway, foretelling a time when the future human will be non-gendered, one with the Earth and cosmos once more.
Glenn Aparicio Parry, PhD, of Basque, Aragon Spanish, and Jewish descent, is the two-time Nautilus award winning author of Original Politics: Making America Sacred Again (SelectBooks, 2020) and Original Thinking: A Radical Revisioning of Time, Humanity, and Nature (North Atlantic Press, 2015) and is currently working on Original Love, the third book in the trilogy. The founder and past president of the SEED Institute, Parry is currently the president of the think tank: Circle for Original Thinking www.originalthinking.us and is the host of the Circle for Original Thinking podcast. Parry organized and participated in the groundbreaking Language of Spirit Conferences from 1999–2011 that brought together Native and Western scientists in dialogue, moderated by Leroy Little Bear. He regularly moderates dialogues for the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of which he is a member. He is also an avid outdoorsman who enjoys hiking and fly fishing. He lives in northern New Mexico in a fairly remote area amid wild horses together with his wife Tomoko, dog Momo, and cat Cappuccino.