Remember this experiment? This failed experiment?

https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2080246967712596474?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ

But isn’t that the point of an experiment, to see what else must be addressed in the next experiment?

Here’s an interesting six-year-old take on Biosphere 2’s two year human and technological drama:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/jul/13/spaceship-earth-arizona-biosphere-2-lockdown

And here’s a video of what to expect from the movie. Have not watched it yet.

It would be interesting to get Elon to look at what happened, and why. I bet he would say instantly that because it was a closed system, of course it wouldn’t work.

For me, ever since I awakened to my own inner life, including my shadow, which I had been projecting out onto the world, OpenSpace has always been a verb.

OPENSPACE IS A VERB

Actually, the very first magazine I ever produced was even called OpenSpace, back in 1978.

 

Last night, at our twice monthly Community Dinner — open to neighbors, relatives, friends, and strangers who express an interest — two people participated who have not come before, Holly and Rukus (left and right, at opposite end of table) — plus my older son Sean, here from Colorado to visit younger (paralyzed, nerve-damaged) son Colin and myself for a week — and the intense conversation that ensued grabbed us all for nearly two hours — mostly having to do with the immense variety of ways people did and do and have and might come together to actually live “in community” — past, present, and future, here and elsewhere. Because, as everyone agreed, so many many people these days are and/or feel so isolated, lonely . . . loneliness is a silent, invisible malignant virus infecting contemporary life in America.

Individual vs. Community is one of the “pulsing presence” polarities I am fond of contemplating, and at times addressing, in experiments like the this one in which I have lived in since before it gradually evolved, beginning in 2009, into our tiny three-home-plus-gardens paradise,  Green Acres Permaculture Village, inside Green Acres Neighborhood, in Bloomington, IN.

Yesterday evening I found myself telling Rukus, a very dynamic woman who has lived through hell and come out the other side, now wanting to help undo for others what was done to her, that when you do create your own community, make sure its boundaries are permeable. Make it like a biological cell with a membrane, through which all sorts of energies are allowed to flow through.

The failed Biosphere 2  experiment is extremely instructive. Reminds me of  . . .

 

The same thing could happen here on our tiny biosphere, Earth. Many of us were and are thrilled and very very surprised that it hasn’t happened already! And figure that there must have been some kind of divine (or ET? “or does “divine” really mean ET?) intervention else our beautiful Earth would have already been blown to smithereens.

 

Let us remember, yes

Let us re-member

Re-member ourselves

Put ourselves back together again

Each one whole, holy,

All together

NOW

HOW?

Release FEAR. (False Evidence Appearing Real).

Fear contracts.

Love expands!

Let us direct our creative attention

to LOVE

centering in the heart

OPENING!

deepening into the oceanic depths

expanding into the mysterious vastness

holding, nourishing

THANKING!

this

sacred space

this

DIVINE EMBRACE