![]() Our overarching economic system sacrifices the good of people and the earth to the goal of achieving short-term profits. Moreover, we are embedded in larger systems that do not encourage beneficial relationships. When we come together in community, our own needs, goals, and communication patterns often clash. We hold onto painful memories and anticipate future hurts. Why are human relationships so difficult? We each carry the imprints of our early experiences, and often respond to current situations with the negative patterns of the past. That statistic represents an enormous amount of shattered dreams, personal pain, and wasted resources. Our needs and goals often clash, and we don’t always have the tools we need to resolve conflicts.Īccording to Diana Leafe Christian, author of the key book on intentional communities, Creating a Life Together, 90 percent of intentional communities fail-largely because of conflict. Our understanding of soil biology or water harvesting techniques is often far more advanced than our skills at making decisions together. We each have our own needs and goals and complicated life histories and styles of communication. We don’t have to worry about whether this particular rose holds a grudge against that individual garlic for something insensitive it said to her. Roses love garlic-or so says the title of a key book on companion planting. Patrick Whitefield, author of The Earthcare Manual, called permaculture “the art of designing beneficial relationships.” We look at plants in the garden not in isolation but in terms of how they affect one another, how they interact, how the pathways and beds determine the flow of our energy in caring for them, how they can provide fertility or protection for one another, how we can get multiple yields from each element.īut relationships between plants, insects, soil, water, and micro-organisms, complex as they may be, are relatively easy to deal with. It originated in the ’70s with Australian ecologists Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, who were looking to create a “permanent agriculture.” Now it has become a worldwide movement, and expanded to encompass “permanent culture.” Permaculture is a system of ecological design that looks to nature as our model. People often think of permaculture as another system of gardening or land management, but it is far more. And start practicing bisociation towards new patterns of things to come.Within the permaculture movement, more and more of us have been looking at aspects of something we’ve come to call “social permaculture.” But what is that? Awaken your eagle eyes so that surprises can be transformed into something valuable. So, if you wake up tomorrow and if you decide to do some edge work, make sure that you position yourself in the flow and become a co-worker with the creative force of evolution. ![]() In my experience, this means dancing between the rational concrete mind and the intuitive abstract mind so that new matrixes of meaning can emerge. For this to happen edge workers tend to move from thinking on a single ‘plane’ to the creative act of thinking on multiple planes. In bisociation, you basically bring together two ideas or things that seem to have nothing in common and see what results you get. Proposed by Koestler in his book The Act of Creation, bisociation can be described as a “spontaneous flash of insight.which connects previously unconnected matrices of experience”, in other words, the Aha moment! The concept of bisociation involves connecting two seemingly unrelated things into a new matrix of meaning. ![]()
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