Cellular systems have been a big theme lately. Living structure - units, multiplicities, unities. Membrane differentiating inside and out in diverse levels and planes. The cellular membrane is studded with thousands of receptors with which to interact with environment - different receptors paired with particular stimuli. Ectoderm wraps around and pinches off to form the skin, nervous system and senses. Microcosm reflecting macrocosm. Pressure receptors, temperature receptors, photoreceptors, chemoreceptors - and every structure being touched and moved by sound. Suspended in fluid. An ocean on land.
. Inside is teaming. Those cells making up all body tissues are outnumbered 10 to 1 by bacteria, fungi and a complex ecology of flora and fauna.
An orchestra of function expressing itself. Osteoblasts laying down bones - liquid crystal spiralic architecture - pulsing pink as vital new red blood cells well up from the marrow. Billions of cells bursting with life, enacting inner and outer processes, organizing in relationship to all the others. Image is of a neural stem cell.
. Inside is teaming. Those cells making up all body tissues are outnumbered 10 to 1 by bacteria, fungi and a complex ecology of flora and fauna.
An orchestra of function expressing itself. Osteoblasts laying down bones - liquid crystal spiralic architecture - pulsing pink as vital new red blood cells well up from the marrow. Billions of cells bursting with life, enacting inner and outer processes, organizing in relationship to all the others. Image is of a neural stem cell.
Soundtrack: Furrling Undulat (Lesson Edit)
Ancient wisdom expressed through system theory to construct a biopsychosocial model - 6 properties of systems (Tapp and Warner, 1985) are proposed. Wholeness, hierarchical organization, interdependence, self-maintenance, activity, and self-transformation. On every level as well as on the grand-unity scale there are wholes - the parts are wholes, made of wholes. Life is holy. Hierarchy as a word has a bad reputation currently but is simply expressing relationship between micro and macro. I have more say as to what this whole (self) does than does any given cell. With that, all parts (wholes) rely on all other parts (wholes) ~ if one part of the fractal were different the whole would be different. And the larger whole relies upon and is an intimate expression of the functioning of its parts (heterarchy). The systems contain feedback and internal sensing mechanisms to maintain the integrity of the internal environment as transformation of shape and state manifests as a continual interaction between many system elements. The system's capacity to transform over time in response to a dynamic environment - changing in both form and structure - is an essential component of the system's survival. A static system is dying.
Growth and learning proceed in waves.
Polyrhythmic
Life undulates
The theory of state dependent learning memory and behavior (Rossi 1993) proposes that liminal states, flow, play, trance, creativity and grieving are conditions which open the system to change. They are characterized by simultaneous perception of many things, and layers of overlapping meaning - fluid, swift, and open to both new discoveries and perception of similarity (Kubiel 1958). The 'Spell Drive' of Laban Movement Notation (LMA) is defined by "timelessness" which is also a defining characteristic of play (Brown). Irmgard Bartenieff (1980) called it hypnotic and said it "radiates a quality of fascination". Curious in the unfurling.
This music speaks in curious re-unfurling loops - each loop representing a small unit of behavior - the movement phrase (Shapero 1999). Complexity flows as an emergent quality in repetition which also establishes the container of safety to drop time and step into magical play as self-transforming process.
