In this article we will see how we can develop new
inventions in tune with nature, by changing our thinking
so it is flows more like water, harmonising itself with nature.

So, we know that nature is rebelling and we cannot carry
on using polluting technologies. But it is not the pollution
that is the real problem. It is not the technologies that create
the pollution that are the problem.

It is our thinking that created these technologies. I think
everyone can agree that we need to find a way of creating
industrial technology that is in harmony with nature.

So we need to really look at this issue. And this means
accepting that human thinking is the prime problem, and
also the only solution.

The thinking that has made our polluting technologies
is a relatively dead abstract thinking, fixed and rigid.
Rather rock-like in a sense.

So what is this thinking like and where does it come from?

This thinking is the thinking of Western Science, which is
quite recent historically. It is a paradigm that breaks up
matter, extracts the energy and throws away the waste
into the earth's air, water and soil.

The father of modern science was Galileo Galilei (b.1564 - d.1642).
He created a method for the study of inorganic physical things
and processes. He applied only number, weight and measure,
so that valid results can be repeated reliably. In short, he
studied quantity, but not quality.  It is a thinking that concerns
itself with details and tends to forget the living context.

Over the centuries this approach has been accepted by the
West and parts of the East as the only true scientific method.
It is perfect for studying the physics of inert, non-alive
objects and processes.

Our great cultural mistake is that this method has been
applied to living nature, which is very much concerned with
quality and life. It has meant we have killed living things
in order to study their details. And then we have forgotten
that the life is the main thing! Living things are not to be
understood only by being measured.

The powerful technology that has arisen from Western Science's
thinking has been used to subdue and manipulate the living
world, as we can see all around us. Great advances in medicine,
science, travel, and communication have come at the cost of
death dealing pollution and weaponry, caused by a thinking
that smashes matter to extract energy while throwing away
wastes.

Inventions are always similar to the type of thinking that
creates them. They have to be. Dead thinking must create
death. Like creates like. And living thinking will create life.

There are other accurate systematic methods for studying
the living organic world, especially one pioneered by Johann
von Goethe (b.1749 - d.1832), which asks us to develop a
scientific
imagination that lives into nature with clear observations
through time, resulting in precise information taking quality
as well as quantity into account.

It is time we seriously took up a thinking that understands
living nature.  After all, we are embedded in nature, and we
can create technology in harmony with it. This is an urgent
requirement for this century.

It is time we stepped up from rock-like thinking to a water-like
thinking that can create livingly out of nature'sintelligence.

Instead of our culture being fascinated by matter we need to
be fascinated by life!

Let us look at a simple plant to get a glimpse of nature's amazing
technical intelligence. So, let's consider the water iris. Its flower has
six beautiful curved petals, three rolling down, three rising up in
blues and yellows with a light green stalk and vertical leaves,
and a soft subtle scent.

Yet this plant is a small, super-effective factory that:

  1/ makes sugars out of sunlight.

  2/ transforms carbon dioxide into oxygen.

  3/ cleans the water it drinks, passing it into the air.

  4/ helps micro-organisms enrich the soil.

  5/ is alive!

  6/ reproduces itself.

  7/ has a sublime geometric form.

  8/ is beautiful living art, an inspiration to millions.

No technical inventions of human beings can do this.

All of nature's creations and their deeds, working together,
are filled with an intelligence, a wisdom that we are only
beginning to understand. Such a perfect and living technical
design solution is something we humans can only dream of
creating. Yet this is the sort of example we must aspire to.

And imaginative, flowing, metamorphosing living thinking, learned
from nature's way of being, will inevitably create living non-polluting
solutions.

It may well be our salvation.

With best wishes

Iain Trousdell
Co-Founder and Keynote Speaker
The Healing Water Institute
www.healingwaterinstitute.org

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