THE PLANETS
Galen, Fortune covered that in Chapter 20 of the revised edition:
– Earth rules the dense physical
– Moon rules the etheric, which in Fortune’s cosmology is the upper half of the physical plane.
– Mars rules the lower astral plane
– Venus rules the upper astral plane
– Saturn rules the lower mental plane
– Mercury rules the upper mental plane
– Jupiter rules the lower spiritual plane
– the Sun rules the upper spiritual plane.
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I find big things easier to comprehend than little things. Since most people (in the Western world at any rate) are just the opposite, I’m always going against the grain. I can’t find any corroboration for my view that it is very easy to correct Earth’s climate and other critical woes if we think big enough. And it’s tempting to go off in a corner and leave the world to its dealings.
Despite what astronauts say about Earth’s unity, beauty and fragility when seen from afar, policy to give meaning to that vision is absent. The awe-stricken astronauts were working at the level of sensibility and feeling, and these are never the concern of policy.
After I wrote my first blog post (“How To Do Everything,” below) I heard about the book “Endgame” by Derrick Jensen, for which the author won The Press Action Person of the Year award. Although I’m puzzled by Jensen’s radical views and by the acclaim given him, what he wrote stopped me in my tracks. Could it be that I received no corroboration for my views because there was none to be found within the broad culture?
Among the premises in Endgame :
Premise Twenty: Within this culture, economics—not community well-being, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself—drives social decisions.
I reread my post, and the main fault I now find with it is the perhaps naïve assumption that it lies within the power of government to save the planet from the dire consequences wrought by industrial civilization. Ain’t gonna happen, most likely.
But I question whether direct acts of violence against civilization (as Jensen advocates) is the answer – these will most likely happen anyway -- or whether it is feasible, as an alternate strategy, to take peaceful but subversive actions to protect and restore the planet. As an example, what if it were feasible to cover dysfunctional paving everywhere (paving that does not use the sun’s energy to do anything useful) with vegetation (a simple, non-technologic solution to climate change)? It can’t be denied that looking at Earth as a seamless orb that depends on vegetation for its survival is something that civilization has proven hopeless at doing.
During the coming year I want to investigate, to my satisfaction, how or whether the broader society, driven by a revolution in the humanities and the arts, could potentially reverse this direction. (Examining the feasibility of a worldwide survey of land-use plans is one possible way to start.)
Can what is harmful in civilization be transcended through civilization itself?
Despite what astronauts say about Earth’s unity, beauty and fragility when seen from afar, policy to give meaning to that vision is absent. The awe-stricken astronauts were working at the level of sensibility and feeling, and these are never the concern of policy.
After I wrote my first blog post (“How To Do Everything,” below) I heard about the book “Endgame” by Derrick Jensen, for which the author won The Press Action Person of the Year award. Although I’m puzzled by Jensen’s radical views and by the acclaim given him, what he wrote stopped me in my tracks. Could it be that I received no corroboration for my views because there was none to be found within the broad culture?
Among the premises in Endgame :
Premise Twenty: Within this culture, economics—not community well-being, not morals, not ethics, not justice, not life itself—drives social decisions.
I reread my post, and the main fault I now find with it is the perhaps naïve assumption that it lies within the power of government to save the planet from the dire consequences wrought by industrial civilization. Ain’t gonna happen, most likely.
But I question whether direct acts of violence against civilization (as Jensen advocates) is the answer – these will most likely happen anyway -- or whether it is feasible, as an alternate strategy, to take peaceful but subversive actions to protect and restore the planet. As an example, what if it were feasible to cover dysfunctional paving everywhere (paving that does not use the sun’s energy to do anything useful) with vegetation (a simple, non-technologic solution to climate change)? It can’t be denied that looking at Earth as a seamless orb that depends on vegetation for its survival is something that civilization has proven hopeless at doing.
During the coming year I want to investigate, to my satisfaction, how or whether the broader society, driven by a revolution in the humanities and the arts, could potentially reverse this direction. (Examining the feasibility of a worldwide survey of land-use plans is one possible way to start.)
Can what is harmful in civilization be transcended through civilization itself?
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PLopez (plopez1009@gmail.com)
Dear Patricia Lopez,
My name is Trevor Burrowes. Originally from Jamaica, I've lived on and off (far more off than on) in EPA since 1971.
During the 80's, a friend in academia mentioned, in glowing terms that got me hooked, the Charles Weeks Poultry Colony remnant area (now sort of what's become the meaningless term "the Weeks Neighborhood"--a nationally unique neighborhood that has been eviscerated to make room for CAN DO and other developers to max out on whatever they wish to do there.) This led to the formation of East Palo Alto Historical and Agricultural Society (EPA-HAS) in 1990. Among the signature achievements of EPA HAS are the following two documents:
The Weeks Neighborhood Plan
http://www.urbanecology.org/downloads/WeeksNeighborhoodPlan.pdf,
City of East Palo Alto Historic Resources Inventory Report
https://www.cityofepa.org/sites/default/files/fileattachments/community_amp_economic_development/page/2961/full_report.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1CMtf96U5TlVnt33w6bMyqaclICnF-0U3NAutHLyCN-vvOTxn2RgUba4Q
The Weeks Neighborhood Plan was never ratified, and Duane Bay (as well as Patricia Foster (who worked as EPA HAS outreach person) both became politically powerful after my removal from EPA HAS. Among the betrayals of people hard, visionary labor, Patricia's and Duane's must be foremost on the list. I believe Patricia was responsible for the host of big box charter schools in the neighborhood, and Duane for rendering the zoning and the borders meaningless. The EPA Historical Survey, in turn, was buried so deep that it took skillful librarian Kelly Reinaker to find it. Both documents are now in the EPA Community Archive Program.
I understand that the Mayor says there will be a revision ofthe General Plan in the next two months or so. That would be too soon to sense of the horrible mess being made of the developmet scenarios for the Weeks and Emerson areas.
But for your comments, I would never have dreamed that Jerry had any involvement in the mess. And don't even mention Gregory Fischer! I kike Jerry and hope he'll experience some soert "Saul on the road to Damascus" moment. But I'm not holding my breath.
Thank so much for your clear and courageous (and unique!!!!!) voice. I'd be very happy to help you online--I live in NM--in any way i CAN
What's up Jerry!?
I am not sure why you think it's okay to send an invitation to your meeting on the same day the meeting is happening.
Is this your way of trying to piss people off!
Most, if not all of the people that I have emailed live in this community. And I'm trying to send whatever information I have or learned about on what's going on in EPA. In return it is passed around in town.
You work for Harvest which is one of the biggest developer that's trying to push their agenda in our community. You're paid to be nice. Therefore, I truly believe you should apologizes to everyone for the mix up!?!
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