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Life as Art: The Legacy of Lynn Margulis

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In the wake of Margulis's work, it is clear that relentless competition is not the sole theme of life. We have to acknowledge symbiosis as a key operating principle of life on Earth and install that operating principle within our culture. (more)

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The Unsung Intelligence of Life's Web

Simon G. Powell
simonthumb.jpgThe closer one examines life the more apparent does natural intelligence become. Like brilliant ideas and hypotheses made literal flesh in space and time, natural intelligence is what you see when you look down a microscope at a cell. The genetic code is itself an expression of natural intelligence. Codes are the hallmark of intelligent activity. Nature got there first.  (more)
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Do Visionary Shamans Dream of VALIS?

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Most people know Philip K. Dick through films like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, and A Scanner Darkly, which were all based on his writings. The Matrix and Vanilla Sky also owe a debt to his work. What is not so well known is that he spent the last decade or so of his life struggling to come to terms with a series of visionary experiences. (more)

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Synchronicity and Emergent Self-Organisation

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The notion that I entertain in this essay is that synchronicities are real and that they evince a hitherto unacknowledged instance of self-organization. (more)

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Nature's Providence and the End of Smug

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We have big heads. Large crania. These house big brains and also, it must be said, unlimited smug. Smug of such abundance that we tacitly promote ourselves as the greatest thing on two legs, the greatest species that ever ruminated on Earth. (more)

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Valis, Zebra, Gaia

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The sophisticated mimicry we find among insects and animals might also exist on a hidden, higher scale. Via synchronicity, the natural intelligence of life initiates a kind of informative dialogue... (more)

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Psilocybin and the Concept of Natural Intelligence

Simon G. Powell
shellthumb.jpgAt any one time we are all tuned in to certain channels of information -- a TV, radio, or internet channel, a book, a newspaper, a dialogue with another person. Psilocybin can tune us in to a hidden broadcast channel -- natural intelligence -- the only paradigm with a future. (more)
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