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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 8:07 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 18

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 18 Science’s reluctant qualification of indeterminacy is quite a bit different from an acknowledgment of what I am putting forth: Which is that there might be a more valid understanding, or perception, by some conceivable other being or species, in which those elements of the universe we consider to be absolute can be seen to be non-existent or radically wrong. And beyond that ... the most important part of this ... that in comparison to whom, our interpretations of things are not seen merely to be to be biased as a result of our species identity, but that the very existence of these supposedly absolute things of our world are found to be projections, in their entirety and thus completely insubstantial, of our human psyche ... to be mere projections of our uniquely human perspective on things ... creations purely concocted of the elements of our unique distinction from Nature. That is a distinction, which I will not elaborate upon now, but which has us as supremely flawed in relation to the rest of Nature. This is something I have demonstrated in several of my works, in particular, Planetmates (2014b) and Prodigal Human (2016a). Furthermore, consider that physicists talk about the possibility of other dimensions intersecting our world. So these alternate realities share the same time and space ... or they share whatever Ultimate Reality we exist in ... with us.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 6:09 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xvi

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Wherever you look, the refusal to acknowledge consciousness or feeling awareness to an entity or thing allows unrestrained brutality and exploitation there. Hence, just as the civil rights of minorities, indigenous peoples, women, and children have been only gradually and reluctantly acknowledged over the centuries, so also the awareness and consciousness of the nonhuman world is not the place we start when thinking of it, however much that was the case for our original humans. Remember, for primal humans, the world is alive; consciousness and nobility is awarded planetmates; Nature itself, animate and inanimate, is intentional and aware. This is the way we humans saw the world around us for virtually ninety-five to ninety-nine percent of our history as a species. With civilization, however, and the burgeoning of an overweening ego and a controlling addiction, all of that changed drastically ... and conveniently. For the domestication of plants and animals that began… THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi
@beefedai.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 3:49 PM

Measuring Resilience: Metrics, SLOs, and What to Track During Chaos Tests

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@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 19, 2026, 2:36 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 17

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Other than the few like these, the great majority of less stellar scientists will acknowledge that Reality is indeterminate — as they are prodded, by the new physics, to admit — yet they will assume validity for their established understandings, in the face of contrary evidence, if not in the current scheme, then in some other and future one. Which they further presume will be built upon their current assumptions, which at most, at that time, will be refined in parts. So scientists assume the cosmos they peer into, measure, and study is the same one all other species apprehend. This is regardless the vast differences in the way that universe is perceived by the beings we know about or, for that matter, the scope of any particular species’ perception of it, which we know at least sometimes is far far more far- ranging, advanced, than ours. Despite these facts to the contrary, nowhere in science is it advanced that their interpretations of the cosmos are relative to humans only. Much more about that, upcoming. 2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 17
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 7:02 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xvi

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THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES Page xvi …earlier perpetrated The Burning Times and the murder of nine million women at the stake. Not to be disregarded, flawed scientific understanding of consciousness and feeling awareness attributable to our youngest has resulted in modern high-tech obstetrical birthing procedures, which have brutalized neonates and laid a foundation of horror at the roots of modern personalities. This has had incalculable results, as we see for one thing only, in the random and thoughtless eruptions of violence in modern societies and the abilities of organized violence, by nations and terrorist groups, to perpetrate wars, genocides, and other atrocities. Only reluctantly and gradually are newborns not being brutalized, slapped, wrapped, and isolated — as “modern” practices have heretofore dictated — and humane birthing and infancy methods been implemented. The persistence of the notion that newborns are not conscious, supported as it was in the beginning by science, is hard dying. For its part, feeling awareness and memory in the prenate — established now beyond any question — fails to put to rest other archaic thinking such as mistaken speculations about a link between myelination and memory. So ideas about an unconscious existence for fetuses, convenient as they are in facilitating our nonchalance about nurturing our babies while still in their womb, simply refuse to die the death they are due.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 18, 2026, 2:35 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES: Matter, Divinity, & the Path of Ecstasy* (2016) by Michael Adzema

Ch 2, p. 17

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2. DESTROYING WORLDS Page 17 However, remember that experiment with the particle and wave, where what we look for ends up being what we see. Ponder that and its implications. Now, think again for a minute, and you will realize that when science uncovers discrepancies or anomalies, incongruent with their abiding theories, the most they will acknowledge is that their concepts of the elements of the Cosmos are open to reinterpretation and re- inclusion in some other, some grander scheme which, they assume, at some point will validate them in some way they do not see right now. Nowhere do scientists concede their galaxies, black holes, atoms, matter, space, Big Bang, et al, are realities relative only to humans, for all we know. Or, for that matter, that they might not be existing outside of human perception. When it comes to that tree in the forest, there is never any question about it making a sound for scientists. It just does. Indeed, these are the assumptions scientists all make; except, that is, for a few remarkable ones like Einstein, whose vast perspective on it all led him to conclude there is a spiritual reality for it all beyond and outside of what science can know. Or Roger Jones, the author of Physics as Metaphor (1982) who pulled the blinds to the side on the ultimately empty and insubstantial nature of the concepts assumed in science, specifically its most substantial one, physics.
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 8:26 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* PREFACE, p. xv

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Consciousness, Begrudgingly Conceded You will notice a pattern in our acknowledgment of consciousness as existing in the world outside of ourselves — the nonhuman world: Consciousness outside of humans is a gradual and reluctant acknowledgement throughout Western history. Rooted as it is in medieval Christian notions of dominion over Nature and of humans as being uniquely endowed with souls, science is not the least guilty here. Indeed, its crimes in this regard are epic. The denial of consciousness in planetmates, which is embedded in science from its Newtonian beginnings, is the basis for our modern ability to thingify all of Nature as resources and items of consumption; thus allowing the torture and abuse of all planetmates to our ends — as food, as ingredients in manufactured items, as brutally treated and bloodily used test subjects, and worse. Pseudo-scientific notions regarding relative levels of consciousness in humans has supported the Nazi holocaust and slavery, as well; just as faux religious notions of the diminished status of females and the nonhuman world of Nature… PREFACE Page xv
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 3:05 AM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 2, p. 16

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Yet this is exactly the arrogance that prevails in all of our sciences. When we imagine other beings in our Universe, as we do in some of our arts, we anthropocentrically assume they would have human features, with only slight variations, with senses similar to ours and perceiving the exact same world, and that they would have evolved in some manner parallel to the way we did on Earth. That is forgivable in our arts and cinema, as in Star Trek and Star Wars, as they are not claiming to be science. But what is damning and is embedded within and constraining the purview of our sciences is this assumption that the Universe as we have come to know it through our science, with its space, time, stars, Big Bang, galaxies, dimensions, planets, and so on, is the Universe in some ultimate way outside of our humanly limited perception. What? You don’t think so? You think the cosmos we measure with our humanly-created technology and perceive with our human, our limited, senses, is pretty much like the one that exists outside our perception of it? That our perceived and arrived-at cosmos is the Cosmos? No doubt you think it has to be. You have never questioned it. I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 16
@sillymickel.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 4:20 PM

*THE SECRET LIFE OF STONES* Ch 2, p. 16

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I. BEING SHIVA — DESTROYING AND CREATING WORLDS Page 16 …totally unimaginable interpretations! As I said, our senses scan and pick out of an infinity of possibilities of what can be perceived. What it “notices” ... or “creates”? ... is relative to who we are as a species. Even the determination of that falling tree being an event is relative, hence questionable, ultimately. Relatedly, whether or not there is actually even a physical world in which it occurs is suspect and is something we will deal with at length and in due time in this book. The Bias Invisible in Science Regardless, the point of all this is that removing our anthropocentric blinders in this way we must conclude that the world, as experienced, is created of realities that are not only culturally constituted, as anthropologists point out. There are also biologically constituted realities. The “brute facts” to which D’Andrade refers are — nothing brute about them — biologically determined facts. How anthropocentrically arrogant for us to think that our brute facts are brute in some conceivable Ultimate Reality that all existing or conceivable living beings or entities share, meaning are able to perceive ... indeed are able to perceive ... pretty much the way we do!