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2020-06-06T13:56:19+08:00
I don't necessarily feel the presence of mythical spirits or watcher
spirits, but I do take the human spirits that people embody to have
symbols or graphical logos for me.
The examples people set when I work with them have powerful symbolic
representations for me.
We recently have been reforesting, as well as doing smaller, more
'blitz' guerilla gardening actions.
The patterns of work we engage in has been radically communal and, I
think, has been a concrete demonstration of the practice of radical
social ecology.
The graphical plans we scribble, and the handwriting we do on small bits
of paper has lead to doodles and, even, writing in concrete we set.
For instance, this anarchist A I wrote in a fireplace we built :-)
To the idea of the personification of spirits, I personally do not know
of ever experiencing such a thing in my life, but, that said---if it
ever happened to me, I would certainly act rationally and incorporate it
into my worldview. I do think that there is a collective human
spirit---I am a pantheist of the Spinozan kind, I believe the universe
and everything in it is like a big, tremendous, divine organism.
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Our mind, in so far as it knows itself and the body under the form of
eternity, has to that extent necessarily a knowledge of Nature, and
knows that it is in Nature, and is conceived through Nature.
Proof.---Eternity is the very essence of Nature, in so far as this
involves necessary existence (I. Def. viii.). Therefore to conceive
things under the form of eternity, is to conceive things in so far as
they are conceived through the essence of Nature as real entities, or
in so far as they involve existence through the essence of Nature;
wherefore our mind, in so far as it conceives itself and the body
under the form of eternity, has to that extent necessarily a knowledge
of Nature, and knows, &c.
PROP. 30. PART 5. /Ethics/, Barch Spinoza (1677).