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    Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology
    Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology
    Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology
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    Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology

    By Kevin Kimmich

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    Modern, technological civilization was initiated with a supernatural event. John Dee was contacted by beings from the other side, which initiated a civilization level project to engineer a new world. The ostensible purpose of the scientific method and its embodiment in institutions like universities and research laboratories was to broaden man's understanding and improve material quality of life. However, it also flattened and altered consciousness and severely reduced man's connection to the natural world. Dee's project built a bridge for new gods to enter our plane of existence and ultimately succeeded in building a vessel for them to take up residence here. The holy of holies of Dee's cult is the computer. The technocratic priests who serve these new gods seek to reduce the world of man and the natural world into a mathematical model to match the flattened, insectoid version of reality that dominates their mind.

    This book is a collection of essays on the relationship between human consciousness and nature and proposes methods and techniques for establishing a natural basis for language and technology. Man is forever in the middle He is a creature of divine matter and consciousness. He lives shoulder to shoulder with a zoo of otherworldly beings and stands between them and our world. An intentional cultivation of imagination and conscious awareness of these beings and an exercise of free will is necessary to a full human life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Kimmich
    Release dateMar 30, 2019
    ISBN9780463744192
    Imagining Eden: Nature as a Basis for Language and Technology
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    Kevin Kimmich

    I have an abiding interest in the history of ideas. I've always been intrigued by the conversion of the northern European peoples to Christianity, in the Renaissance, and in the Reformation. Over years of research, I discovered that a large piece of the historical puzzle is missing from the orthodox history of these revolutions. During my research, I periodically stumbled over references to the occult and to the Western Esoteric tradition. The strange and wonderful ideas in this tradition were elusive. I came from a very pragmatic background: an education in physics, and years of work as an engineer. Hence, it took several years of study and rumination on mythology for my thinking to shift from a merely analytical approach to a more comprehensive method of investigating the place of mankind in the universe. There's a subtle structure to the Greek myths, the Roman myths, the Norse myths, and Egyptian mythology. These mythological ideas are, from my point of view, like a decoder ring for trying to understand the world in poetical and mystical terms. This type of understanding is a way of escaping the limitations of reason and logic. I am just beginning to explore these ideas through fiction. I'm attempting to write stories that are entertaining and engaging, but still taps into this wellspring of knowledge.

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      Imagining Eden - Kevin Kimmich

      INTRODUCTION

      When I was 17 years old, I was swimming in Lake Erie on a very hot summer day. It was calm and the water was still and warm so I could float on my back without any effort. The sun was too bright to even look up at the sky, so my eyes were closed and my ears were below the surface of the water. The peace, quiet and relaxation led me to imagine my experience, and whatever experience the lake itself was having must be similar.

      Consciousness in animals arises from matter, sense organs and a nervous system. In more general terms, it arises from the ability to store information and perform operations on it. It seems if there are analogous structures in a lake, or a tree, or anything, then it probably has a type of mind, awareness, and even will.

      I spent a few decades following that main idea around and taking side paths to chase related problems, like what human languages actually are. These essays are like a collection of snapshots from those trips.

      The question of how human consciousness relates to the brain and the body, and how other forms of consciousness that inhabit our world relate to us is a very well worn topic that’s the basis of a large body of speculative fiction and philosophical works and schools of spirituality and the occult. Anyone who’s thinking or writing about these topics is rehashing ideas that people mused about for countless generations. Hopefully some of the ideas in this collection are food for thought for others with similar interests.

      CYCLES

      The stability of the natural world over epochs, which allows life to thrive, is the result of countless opposing, competing forces which result in cyclical changes: warming and cooling; life and death of individuals and species; carbon and nitrogen entering and leaving the soil and seas; trees dropping their leaves on the forest floor and growing them in the spring; continents and mountains rising from the seas, eroding and returning to the mantle of the Earth.

      A cyclic change like light/dark/light/dark/... is the essence of information. In the natural world all changes take place in the context of an interrelated whole and convey information about the whole. The patterns and rhythms of these primal cycles are recorded in life at the most basic level and the order in the universe makes a meaty reflection in living things.

      LINEAR HISTORY: CULMINATIONISM

      The man made world seems to be a refuge apart from the cycles of nature. Cities and families endure from generation to generation. Civilizations rise and grow. Through art, in the most general sense of the word, some men believe they will escape the necessity of the cycles once and for all under the aegis of linear history and scientific progress.

      The History God is an abstraction derived from archetypal founder kings such as Pelops, Romulus and Remus, and Jesus. The founder king replaced fantastic gods and monsters in tales from indefinite times and places and transformed mythological fantasy stories into

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