Also part of the path of discovery of where our cultures came from and the foundation we still need to learn from: The apparent Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes In terms of the ancient Greek history of our split consciousness marked by the emergence of modern science, between family order and societal order, … Continue reading Bronze Age roles of Hestia and Hermes
I’ve been having a very exciting time discovering and building on the many connections between my scientific method for studying the development and organization of Natural Systems, and the wonderfully radical scientific feminism of Pat Thompson’s “Hestian Home Economics” (1,2,3). They both center on what is at the heart of the liveliness of natural … Continue reading A Hestian Map – the sacred hearth not at home in an authoritarian world
Thinking about the global crisis, the people who feel it think so differently than those who don’t, and the solutions of the latter seem to be at the very root of the problem (problem A). We need solutions that would work in practice. That would take a real understanding of the problem and its origins. … Continue reading We have more than one problem
The radical separation of humans from nature, our being so self-absorbed and seeing nature as defined in our heads rather than the other way around, has been a deep mystery for a long time. My interest in it came from noticing how mathematics became our standard for representing nature but cannot describe or help us … Continue reading Betrayed by the power of our minds
I got a strong “like” from Mark Stahlman to my comment on Real-World Economic Review – issue no. 65. that led to A great longer discussion on the Cultural Anthropology of Knowledge on Open Anthropology . We start a series of excerpts, mostly my writings, with my comment to the economics review journal. J.L. Henshaw (@shoudaknown) … Continue reading Natural Systems.. meet many worlds of Cultural Reality