Dear Ones..
What a joyful connection we had today over our cuppers of Adaptivi-TEA! Thank you for valuing this exploration of a very important subject about now.. that is, how to “grow or die” as a species.. and the adaptation process that is required to grow and thrive now! We looked at some of the material from the book Complexity: the Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by Mitchell Waldrop. The main take away from that was: “The world has to choose to adapt itself to perpetual novelty and unpredictability at the edge of chaos to make the quantum leap to move past an extinction event.” We shared about how we need to grow and change in order to support our survival as a species. We shared various processes we have adapted around and to, during this collective initiation called a pandemic. We also shared adapted recipes etc. which we hope Argon will share one of his amazing 13 moon Sacrament trays for your enjoyment. Amber Lightfoot is sharing her Magicians list as you will see below.. as we are in step #9.. which is Chaos right now.. so we can celebrate..the final step of change/completion is imminent!!So much love to all of you..
Holding you in the One heart..
Ariel
Adaptivi-TEA Soul Salon
Adaptation or Adaptivity is defined as: Something that is adapted, a new adaptation of an old recipe specifically : a composition rewritten into a new form a screen adaptation of a novel. 2 : the act or process of adapting a process undergoing adaptation : the state of being adapted, adaptation to changing circumstances. A change in structure, function, or behavior by which a species or individual improves its chance of survival in a specific environment. Adaptations develop as the result of natural selection operating on random genetic variations that are capable of being passed from one generation to the next.
Where we find ourselves right now on planet Earth is in an accelerated pattern of “grow or die” with the necessity of rapid adaptation now becoming literally a survival tool. That is, rather than adaptation taking centuries to work itself out, we are being pushed into an adaptive process that Illa Prigogine, a physicist, called, Dissipative Structures, wherein a system was observed to go into chaos just before it evolved into a higher level of order. That is a adaptive way of looking at the apparent disorder of the chaos we are a part of. To see it as a stage just prior to moving into a higher level of order, (rather than just random chaos) allows for us to adapt more quickly, consciously choosing to change those aspects of our structure, function or behavior which have been mal-adaptive and destructive to the eco-system to the whole that we are an embedded and intrinsic part of as human beings.
“Complex systems have acquired the ability to bring order and chaos into a special kind of balance. This balance point is a phase transition called the edge of chaos.. where the components of a system never quite lock into place, and yet never quite dissolve into turbulence either. The edge of chaos is where life has enough stability to sustain itself and enough creativity to deserve the name of life. The edge of chaos is where new ideas and innovative genotypes are forever nibbling away at the edges of the status quo, and where even the most entrenched old guard will eventually be overthrown. The edge of chaos is the constantly shifting battle zone between stagnation and anarchy, the one place where a complex system can be spontaneous, adaptive and alive.
In the fossil record, the process of change shows up as long periods of stasis followed by rapid evolutionary change, exactly the kind of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ that many paleontologists, claim to see in the fossil record. These rapid changes lie behind the great extinction events of the earth’s past where whole groups and species vanish from the record. Given the present trajectory, as a species we will either create this kind of extinction event, or adapt very rapidly by making a quantum leap at the edge of chaos. Under the present conditions we are in, the world has to choose to adapt itself to perpetual novelty and unpredictability at the edge of chaos to make that quantum leap.”
By Mitchell Waldrop)
Let’s look at that more closely. What does it mean to adapt ourselves to perpetual novelty and unpredictability at the edge of chaos? What would our lives look like if we, as we choose to do that?
As human beings what aspects of our structure, function and behaviors are calling to be consciously looked at and changed so that we can be a part of moving into a higher level of order?
“In this global transition we are engaged with, the trick is to make sure that wherever ‘there’ is, is a world worth living in. A sustainable human society could easily become some Orwellian dystopia characterized by rigid control and narrow lives for most beings. What it should be is a society that is adaptable, robust and resilient to lesser disasters, that can learn from mistakes, and allows for growth in the quality of human life instead of just the quantity of it. The real solution will require the renunciation or transformation of our traditional appetites to outbreed, out consume, and conquer our rivals. If we are to survive, we must learn how to restrain our appetite for material goods and substitute more spiritual appetites.” From Complexity by Mitchell Waldrop
How do we humans need to grow and change spiritually in order to support our survival as a species? What would that look like for each of us personally?
And finally let’s look at the light hearted side of adaptivity. What have you adapted in your life, from a novel, to a recipe, to a spiritual practice that you would like to share with with us as to what that process of adaptation FELT like? How did you grow from that process?
