what makes culture possible?

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Permalink Reply by Emily Kate Boyd on June 29, 2011 at 6:29pm

Victoria, how does health impact culture as a variable (x)? If my hypothesis is correct that is.

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Moon on June 30, 2011 at 4:37pm

Emily, thank you for posting such an interesting inquiry.

First I want to say that here at Permission to Heal, Health is the context that gives the culture, behaviors and actions of this particular community. It is not an outside force acting upon us or our culture; it is the air we breathe here. What is a bit contradictory about what I have just said is that we talk about health here, whereas we do not need to talk about air in order to use it.

But the reason we do this is because the default speaking around health has been predominantly disempowering out in the world, so I found it important to provide a space for people to practice an empowered health conversation so that it does eventually become as natural as breathing and actually starts to go to work on us, shaping our thinking and behavior and thus our culture, including the culture outside this community.

How I feel voice relates to all this is SOUND IS THE CREATIVE FORCE OF THE UNIVERSE.

And voice is our distinct expression of sound as human beings. Meanwhile, culture is set behaviors and practices shared by a particular group of people, which is also distinct to human beings. So although voice gives and makes up culture; our culture pulls for a particular voice and conversation. What there is to discover and be responsible for is the context that gives all of this. One such context that everything could fit inside of that would simply get us tapped into what feels right, natural and empowering is HEALTH. Not like it's good or right, but as a matter of our own creation and invention, and for no reason other than we say.

So with that, I think a more appropriate algorithm would look something like this:
x(V)=C

X could be anything but at PTH it is Health. Health is the context that gives and amplifies our (V)oices determining our (C)ulture. This is just my take. I hope it communicates.

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Permalink Reply by peacepioneer on November 3, 2011 at 12:14pm

HI Emily,

I have been developing some ideas around culture, and the need to support culture that reflects my own values as a peace centered person. To wit:

 

Culture is birthed from horticulture.  Cultured vegetables gave us high quality nutrition when the seasons did not allow for fresh vegetables.  Culture is reborn continually through our food ways, and the oral tradition of sharing recipes and preparation techniques.  Culture also tells us why we do things the way we do, if you can discern the messages contained.  Notions of culture associated with non-essentials such as cars, musical genres, and destructive activities, (war for example),  are imitations of culture.  In reality, they are mental constructs designed to distract our energy from reality.  The intention of such cultures of illusion is to sell us something that we do not need for our existence.  That is the mission of advertising as well.

 

In the wisdom traditions of our ancestors, reality always trumps illusion.  The tradition of the wise one is to speak with truth and love to the ears that can hear.  Speaking truth to power within ourselves.  It make take time for reality to shine forth, so keep watering those seeds of life, and remember that you are not alone in this quest.  

 

Culture is held in common, intangible yet as real as any other human creation.  Food is the key.  Gandhi taught that the quickest way to change consciousness is to change one's diet.

 

Only when bellies are full of quality nutrition can people create culture.  In the same way, time is really the first dimension.  Without time, other dimensions cannot be measured and understood.  Time behaves exactly as we expect it too, being a reflection of our own beliefs about time.  

 

So to culture expands to fit our personal definition of what is culture.   It is our creation, meaning those who celebrate a culture create culture.  You have gotten the ball rolling here by inviting us into this beautiful and important realm.  I would suggest the way to begin is to ask:

 

"What are the elements of the culture in which I choose to exist?"  

 

Any formula or mathematical approach to discovering culture will land you in the realm of the inorganic machine world.  If we are reduced to a mathematical explanation of existence, we lose our humanity and any chance to discover a new culture that encompasses of who we CAN become.  

 

I am probably way out on a limb, and before I quit sawing off my intellectual perch, I would like to invite you to continue this conversation by way of listing the attributes and elements of the culture we wish to create.  As elements are revealed and discussed, perhaps we can forge a vital and inclusive consensus of what our culture truly is, and not some marketing bullshit or clever disguise for purposes of deception.  (still sawing!)

 

I would like to further encourage participants in this great discussion thread to affirm what our culture is, instead of what it is not.  I think it is relatively clear on what we are not.  

 

Example!  I affirm and agree that my culture respects all life, and celebrates our co-interdependence on the earth and all living beings great and small.

 

ps.  A manifesto is not my goal, although I am not against them.  Words are a byproduct of culture, not the other way around.

 

And now I am free falling, hoping that some one will pick up this thread and tie it to the tree of life before I am flattened by silence....    ALOHA!  Will 

 

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Moon on November 3, 2011 at 12:43pm

I love your response, Will. Although, I will say that I disagree with you on one thing and I'm pretty sure Tesla, Einstein, Viktor Schauberger, or Viktor Kulvinskas would be with me on this: that any mathematic approach lands us in the "inorganic machine world." It is our choice where we land. Numbers, formulas, like culture, also came from nature. And they are a way to get us engaged in the workings of nature...if we choose to use them that way. What I hear you saying is that we mustn't get stuck with our answers when how we apply our answers makes the difference. Thank you for your well-thoughtout response. It's intelligent and comes from someone who clearly cares for a Reason.

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Permalink Reply by peacepioneer on November 3, 2011 at 9:48pm

Howdyback,

I don't know about those other fellows, as I can only speak with my own voice.  It is not a matter or where we land, it is about where we live, where we play.  Culture comes from the heart, and as such, can be expressed through the mind, or not.  We share because we love, and that builds bonds that bridge the generations.  

 

Sometimes it is best to let the mystery be mysterious....

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Moon on November 4, 2011 at 4:34pm

Will, it may be best to let the "mystery be mysterious," but that doesn't mean we don't still engage with the "mysterious." Of course, we don't need to analyze, reduce and take on other mind-driven approaches, but for some people, that's where they must begin or where they feel comfortable. This has it's place; for others it's different. And when we honor how everyone best exercises their mind, we begin teaching things like mindfulness in our schools rather than just numbers, and we don't end up mindlessly making bombs to protect ourselves from a perceived or imagined "enemy." Instead we utilize renewalable energy sources that have neutral or even a beneficial impact on the environment and that sustain a society that works for everyone. And this society Works because it is willing to work with something Greater and even "mysterious." This is already happening. 

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Permalink Reply by peacepioneer on November 6, 2011 at 10:18am

Hi V,

WaHOOLAAAAH!  (My new native language word it means ALOHA, and ALL capital letters denotes shouting, like communicating over a distance. )  The mystery is inside of us, too.    oo

 

A GREEN TEAmmm?  mobile apps native environment whatever is the term for "like I don't know" such as the mystery. I am surrounded by mystery and, and then there is what I know.  That is where I keep the mystery

 

Since we are all peers, (except when one is experiencing specific organ failure), I leave the mystery on the alter in my mind, Sister Mother Goddess Crone lives there to, elevated to the "eleysian" fields that are real in this dimensional grid work master plan.  That particular dog don't just hunt where the mystery unfolds, because in the black and white world (BOWWow), there is only master and servant.  Captured in the nets of slavery, for debts of time and treasure.  Just like sardines, people everywhere trapped in duality, not feeling the other....

Now, outside is our world, and our work.  I am so blessed to be farming for another year.   Truck market is the level, with the soil of champions.   Now sand and manure can become something that feeds us all.  The farm teaches us how to apply the 5 element toward the supernatureal.

I am texting in a new tongue, for the young tungs to taste.  

 

Food is one of the 5 Elements of life on earth.  It is a ring locked in time, to many rings. Think about five things that go together really well, and you will understand the 5 elements, or element5.  All life depends on the skin of the earth, the metabolic layer of our planet. We are all living downwind from everyone, and our generations know all of the earth’s people.  More than a few live without eating meat, consuming food from the metabolic layer in a direct fashion.  There, I have let the cat out of the bag.   Take that, fashionistas!

 

Food   Clothing   Shelter   Air   Water

We need, the earth provides the elements, and we CREATE WITH THESE !

 

CREATE WORDS!  CREATE WORLDS!  CREATE  FARMS!

words are words, and the word water won’t get you wet

 

So,  CREATE A GARDEN!   FEED YOUR SOUL!

 

V,we are all judged, we are our own judge as well

that is why we are soo good at judging each other

and by judging myself and honestly

every day

without flinching

i see my true face

and recognize a glimpse what true love is

 

being true

to ourself

becoming the one

aware of the one

one love

oH!

 

I ama certifiable, that is why I take the 5 element (TCM applied to the native + love = 5 element, or 53lement) knowledge base as useful, as the earth demands her own tax (taking of) and she needs instructional folks who can communicate to everyone on the wwww.uno

 

It is time to put carbon into the soil.  Duh...

download this and elevate everyone who has ears to hear and be here on the earth.  The war is over.  let’s heal our brothersisterschildrenmotherfathers!  YEAH!

 

with blood and treasure, and the earth as my measure

 

may the godgoddess prevail 

 

with all creation

 

thru every nation

 

all time and elation

 

from inspiration!  

 

TO HEAL THE NATIONS!

 

 

IAM GRATE FULL FOR YOUR jOURNEY

 

AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MYSTERy

 

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HORIZON

 

ONE UNIVERSE MEANS ALLL

 

AND EVERYTHING ELSE!

 

            peace V,    

         (+V**2)

Thank you V and life,  I totally agree, 

 

it’s like, gee, you are you

 

(G-U-R-U)

there you are!

 

WOMandMAN have we be sent thru time

 

Humanity has two voices

Woman and Man

 

Separate and equal, some ways more than others

 

to elevate ourselves upon the stones, 

 

to teach or destroy, each free to choose, 

 

to build up or tear down

the time and resources of all life

for the healing or killing

it is a simple choice

we all make it every day when we eat

 

ahh, there it is, right in front of us, our mouth

 

out of the mouthes of babes  

 

She Knows.....  i listen.  

 

That is why we have two ears, i 'spect.  (farmese for "I suspect", with special emphasis on the post sputum fragranticus)

 

 

wwww.uno

dos

uno

dos!!!

 

More on the farm restoration as I am finish the farmhouse first, and clean the toxins from the land.  OOOWWW is right.  I have activated my farm team, and we are locking in the legals of the farm for 7 generations.  Reclaiming the hidden power of the soil, restoring the waters, and balancing nature so that  our  future generations will walk barefoot as ambassadors of the peace within.

 

Ps  what they say about me is true, and I know it too.   Will

 

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Victoria Moon on November 7, 2011 at 4:39pm

Delicious, Will. Thank you for this intelligent and beautiful expression. A new culture arises in the words you have shared here and it is truly satisfying. When it comes down to it we either take it upon ourselves to CREATE culture or we become scavengers or hoarders of a culture that never fully supported us in the first place. It is indeed time to awaken to our power to shape the very mechanism by which we operate in the world. The power is in OUR VOICE, OUR WORDS and OUR WILLINGNESS TO LIVE FOR WHAT WE SAY IS WORTH IT. I am very present to all of that after reading this generous response.

~Namaste~

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Permalink Reply by peacepioneer on November 8, 2011 at 11:01am

 .:.  ALOHA ! .:.

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