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An incomplete search for the meaning of ' | An incomplete search for the meaning of ' | ||
- | O Nobilissima Viriditas... “O most noble greenness, you whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no earthly eminence can comprehend.” Hildegard von Bingen | + | O Nobilissima Viriditas... “O most noble greenness, you whose roots are in the sun and who shine in bright serenity in a wheel that no earthly eminence can comprehend.” |
- | Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. [[Terrence | + | Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen. |
- | "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself. There' | + | "Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe itself.There' |
- | + | “(...) also honour the stability of the world: the orbits of the Sun and the Moon, winds and air, earth and water... We have no other foothold. If we give up this world we shall be destroyed by demons and deprived of the angels' | |
- | “(...) also honour the stability of the world: the orbits of the Sun and the Moon, winds and air, earth and water... We have no other foothold. If we give up this world we shall be destroyed by demons and deprived of the angels' | + | |
Viriditas, a word coined by Hildegard von Bingen and more recently used by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, describes the green force of life, expanding into the Universe. The final movement of Shattering Suns is a dance of life: a rhythmic outburst acting as a pendant to the opening, chaotic explosion of a dying star in the first movement. Mixed meters and fast, ascending scales combine to produce a feeling of rushing forward, joyfully, to greet the unknown. | Viriditas, a word coined by Hildegard von Bingen and more recently used by science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, describes the green force of life, expanding into the Universe. The final movement of Shattering Suns is a dance of life: a rhythmic outburst acting as a pendant to the opening, chaotic explosion of a dying star in the first movement. Mixed meters and fast, ascending scales combine to produce a feeling of rushing forward, joyfully, to greet the unknown. | ||
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+ | Art is that Ithaca | ||
+ | of green eternity, not wonders. | ||
+ | Art is endless like the river flowing | ||
+ | passing yet remaining; it mirrors the same | ||
+ | inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same | ||
+ | and yet another, like the river flowing. | ||
+ | -Borges, The Art of Poetry | ||
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Viriditas on flickr: http:// | Viriditas on flickr: http:// | ||
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trio viriditas – jazz... http:// | trio viriditas – jazz... http:// | ||
+ | Palaeo-viriditas: | ||
+ | Instead he proposes: | ||
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+ | In place of a single general-purpose intelligence, | ||
+ | ing artefacts. Such intuitive biology would have provided hominins with the type of expert folk-botanical and folk-zoological knowledge that is characteristic of recent hunter-gatherers. | ||
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+ | We must, however, make a distinction here between this type of ecological knowledge and the use of anthropomorphism..... Indeed, Kennedy (1992) argues that human beings in general are prone to a compulsive anthropomorphizing, | ||
+ | acquired and culturally transmitted – human minds appear to be pre-tuned for acquiring and processing information about animals and plants such that virtually no active teaching is required (Atran 1990:1994). Formal training appears to be generally rare among hunter-gatherer societies. | ||
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+ | He concludes: | ||
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+ | For almost the whole of the six million years of human evolution since the common ancestor, hominins have perceived, classified, | ||
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