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Soil as I’ve never thought of it before. The complexity of it and interconnectedness of it. Here lies the science behind biodynamic farming, the homeopathy of it developed by Rudolph Steiner (yes of the Waldorf schools). Published in 1989 the techniques described here are so far from our industrial chemical farming that it is clear they’ve been actively suppressed. No surprise there. Relates how the father of chemical agriculture, a chemist decided that plants survived on only 3 chemical nitrogen, phosphorus and potash the NPK chemical additives. Having completely ignored the role of humus it took another ten years for this scientist to realize he was wrong, but too late; much money was already being made on the chemicals and the destruction of soil and subsequently soil health, food quality and human health was well underway. All due to the compartmentalization of knowledge.
At much the same time a British colonel stationed in India, Sir Albert Howard rediscovered the value of humus as used in India and along with Lady Eve Balfour started the organic movement in England which was then picked up by J. I. Rodale in the States. Still to no avail as we know. But at least discoveries continued and organic farming maintained a toehold.
Written as a series of visits to leaders in the field and their farms to discover how biodynamic theories are put into action the book fleshes out the science of each visit and how it relates to create a whole that is astonishing in its breadth.
Fresh cow manure stuffed into desiccated cow horns buried for a year creates a humus so potent that a fourth of a cup stirred into 3 gallons of rainwater would revitalize an entire acre. Much method in the stirring of this homeopathic preparation 500. The first of 7 such esoteric mixtures. The stirring invoking energies of the cosmos to enter into it as well as the intentions of the stirrer. A vortex is created in one direction then reversed to elicit chaos. For an hour this brew must be stirred. Then it is sprayed onto the field.
Moonshine and particular calendar days relating to constellations also play a part in when potions are applied and seeds started, cows are bred etc. The “biodynamic calendar of sowing” nailing down all these auspicious days.
Others carried on Steiner’s work creating compost on a city wide scale in San Francisco. The better to enliven the microbiota in the soil. Australia was the first to put into practice on a broader basis the application of Steiner’s preparations due to a documentary shown on TV highlighting impressive results to the fertility of the land. Rotation of crops also played a part.
A chapter on the Hunza and Hunzakuts known for their health and longevity serves to demonstrate how those who live an entirely sustainable organic lifestyle are free from disease living a robust and healthy life long into old age. The secret of their health—powdered glacial rock containing all the minerals required by plants. It was also in the water, the vortex of its movement that provided clues to the colloidal chemistry that were the sources of life. The study of chelation by Albert Schatz in turn reveals how soil humus extracts minerals. Chelating acids are created by bacteria in the soil and this is how plants can take up the minerals. Such discovery was of no interest to the U.S. agricultural industry and it was in an Indian publication that his work was published.
We are also introduced to a Dan Carlson who discovered that certain forms of music — jazz or Ravi Shankar — prompted growth in plants at four times the normal rate while hard rock killed them. But his fast growing vine not being edible was of no monetary interest so he entered it into the Guiness Book of Records. He was also able to influence the plants characteristics by informing them they no longer needed thorns or meditating on what color he wanted the blooms. Other such botanical feats of growth also described.
The work of Wes Jackson focuses on the effects of weeds used as companion plants on crops. How weeds improve the soil loosening it and adding humus for the benefit of the crops while also providing mulch services to protect from drought.
Dust i.e. azomite. Works like fertilizer. Plant discoveries continue to slay long held assumptions. This one pertaining to how plants can ingest much larger particles than originally thought.
A curious chapter describes how a man from India is touring the U.S. demonstrating that the atmosphere can be purified by creating a little fire to burn cow dung, Basamati rice, ghee and a pinch of sandalwood inside an inverted copper ziggurat shaped bowl. Found to neutralize radiation and other pollutants. Those present feel the air becoming fresh again. The smoke gathers the molecules and neutralizes them.
Even stranger was a method described to get rid of mice and other pests prescribed by Steiner. The method requires that a mouse be skinned and the skin burned. Then the ashes peppered over the field where the mice are not wanted. Done when Venus is in the sign of Scorpio. The same for getting rid of insects. Their sensitive antennas pick up the infrared bands. The effects of the treatment is described as a counter force to the life force of the insect that prompts it to vacate. Observation speculates that the insects communicate and react to different prisms of light.
Monks meditating in stone towers collect cosmic paramagnetic energy and focus it onto their fields to increase paramagnetic waves in the soil as theorized by Professor Philip S. Callahan. The plants grow bigger for it. A farmer and a business man partnered to try out this method to good effect with 17 towers placed around their fields.
A woman Machaelle Wright of Perlandra gets in touch with Deva spirits just by going in the field and declaring her intention out loud asking the deva how to rebalance a plant that is beset by aphids and such or brokering deals with pests that they can eat the cabbage at the ends of rows.
The final chapter introduces us to a Russian energy worker with telekinetic powers, Alla Kudryashova, who is able to imbue water with healing properties that can also be applied to agriculture and livestock. Studies were done demonstrating her considerable impact on the growth of broiler chickens, wheat and beets. She was also able to fix delicate machinery prompting those studying her to wonder if the spiritual dimension existed not just in live material, but in a dimension of its own. Shamans would say she was using direct revelation to harness this power.
These last two women parallel Steiner’s spiritual dimension in his work involving intention.
By the end of the book I was convinced that biodynamic farming was the optimum way to collaborate with the intelligence of plants, soil and the planet. We have truly underestimated this intelligence in our arrogance to improve on creation much as we have the intelligence of the body and the connection to spirit. Written in 1989, plenty of time for people to have further studied what was introduced here.
"La complessità non è la complicazione. Ciò che è complicato può essere ridotto a un principio semplice e se la situazione fosse solo complicata, cioè intricata e multidipendente, forse sarebbe sufficiente effettuare delle riduzioni ( atomi-particelle, fonemi del linguaggio, basi del codice genetico ecc.). Questo approccio però purtroppo non spiega nulla anche se spesso pretende di spiegare tutto. Il problema vero è che è inutile cercare di convertire ciò che è complicato in regole con una base semplice, ma si tratta invece di accettare il fatto che alla base di tutto c'è la complessità"
Une photo que j'aime bien pour cette agitation qui prend une forme étrange. Le flou est juste à gauche. Tout paraît veiné de brun.
"The Complexity of Today's Global Threat Environment" Clark Ervin, Jacqueline Rice, James Comey, Wolf Blitzer
Greenwald Pavilion
Complexity simplified. Selection Complex. Framed within yet all is within a frame. Frame of colour or framed in capture. Captured by the complexity of ones mind or the confusion of existence.
I'm not sure what this was. A corn binder perhaps? Anyway, it's most recent use appears to have been as a hiding place for an American Robin's nest.
I was caught by the scaffolds and the red-white pole. This photo was took during daytime of Sapporo annual 雪祭(yuki matsuri). Fasinating work but dead after it has been used.
Technologists started wrangling with complexity before anyone else. The wave of complexity, change and coevolution that is now cresting across the business world first appeared in the technology realm, as computer scientists wrestled with complex software design problems and struggled to interconnect multiple systems into large-scale “systems of systems.”
Two particular approaches that developed since the 1950s have allowed technologists to create citylike software systems that function like complex adaptive systems, where the elements of the system can learn, adapt and coevolve like a biological community. One is an approach to work, called agile software development, and the other is a structural design approach called service orientation. Both of these approaches emphasize continuous learning, adaptation, and distributed control, rather than planning, prediction and central control. They are specifically designed for managing work and services in fast-changing, complex, uncertain environments.
The team captain gets ready to answer some questions following their victory against coL Sunday night.
I have been listening to this lovely Telugu song during this weekend. Thought I would share this along with this image.
Please do enjoy the song in the link below
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LXWiN2Jql8
Please view the image on black too (press L)
This is a bit like my life at the moment: lots of different strands intertwined, not clear where one starts and another ends - but it is holding together for now!
“Meu caminho é cada manhã
Não procure saber onde vou
Meu destino não é de ninguém
Eu não deixo os meus passos no chão
Se você não entende, não vê
Se não me vê, não entende
Não procure saber onde estou
Se o meu jeito te surpreende
Se o meu corpo virasse sol
Minha mente virasse sol
Mas, só chove e chove,ou
Mas, só chove e chove, chove
Se um dia eu pudesse ver
Meu passado inteiro
E fizesse parar de chover
Nos primeiros erros
O meu corpo viraria sol
Minha mente viraria
Mas, só chove e chove
Mas, só chove e chove”
Kiko Zambianchi, IN: “Primeiros Erros”
Camarillo, California. My car needed to get smog-checked, so I moved my morning walk to nearby industrial park. A very windy day.
Amazing the complexity of the modern compound bow is simply amazing the accuracy that can be achieved with a competent shooter!
What our ancient American Indians wouldn't have given for this technology!
June 2021 archery shoot in Nevada City, California
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This is my old reliable Iris Germanica 'alcazar,' the historic iris that was gift in 2005 from Larry and Flo and which has brightened and scented the front entrance to my house every spring. It just bloomed this morning.
Once again I apologize for not visiting. Things are crazy busy with work, and poor little Zoe Bear is having yet another issue that I'm dealing with. Please wish her well. Hugs to you all.
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by HCFA (www.hcfa.com.sg) completed in 2013
Front Perspective, cascade coil with honeycomb panel awnings finished in titanium zinc
Vendor's booth early in the morning, Bloor and Bathurst, Toronto.
Mamiya 645 AFD with ZD digital back. 1/6" @ f/8, 35mm f/3.5 lens. ISO 50, WB flash.
Custom B&W conversion in Photoshop.
To quote from the Wells Cathedral website:
The scissor arches, which often visitors believe to be later, modern additions were constructed from 1338-48 as an engineering solution to a very real problem.
By 1313 a high tower topped by a lead covered wooden spire had been constructed but as the foundations were not stable large cracks began to appear in the tower structure.
In fear of a total collapse, several attempts at internal strengthening and buttressing were made, until the famous ‘scissor arches’ were put in place by master mason William Joy as a final solution.
“Sounds of Complexity” is an artistic project that moves
from the field of cognitive science and neurosciences.
It’s an audiovisual performance in which the sound ma-
terials and the visual mappings are the consequence of
very complex and stratified processes that hardly can be
represented with symbolic forms in our world. It’s an at-
tempt to make audible and visible the dynamics and the
interactions that for their richness, variety and complexity
are unheard and invisible.
The audio material of the performance derives from the
analogic recording of cerebral activities through an ana-
logic elettroencephalograph (EEG) and corresponds to the
discharges of billions of neurons situated in the sixth layer
of human cerebral cortex, disposed vertically respect to
the scalp.
The crude sound of brain is translated in an audible fre-
quencies through techniques of pitch shifting; such mate-
rial is then processed digitally in real time and the cor-
responding frequencies transformed in a Cartesian space
to form visual trajectories projected on 3 screens that
react dynamically.
This is a frame from a video. You can watch it on Vimeo.