Systemic Consciousness and Local Focus

Happy New Eon! As we transit from one eon to the next, a report on the current state of the evolution.

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Once, in our ceramic-making small enterprise, there was a young man who decided he would invent a system for speeding up the drying of the clay slip during the casting process so that he could cast more pieces per day. This resulted in many cracked pieces coming out of the firing. The ceramic-making process can be unforgiving as every action affects events within a holistic process. It does not work for each process to have an independent measure of success outside of its effect on the larger process. One must always maintain a systemic consciousness of the purpose which is to produce a beautiful work of art or useful object.

Our lives are our works of art.

Systemic consciousness is an ever-present awareness of the whole system, its effect, and its purpose. Throughout history, this awareness has been identified in multifarious cultures as being one with everything