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The
Sustainability Principle of energy is a guide founded in the great
principles of physics and the insights of neural psychology that enables
us to transcend the limitations of our ego and act in more sustainable
ways.
It is an
eminently practical tool that a child of ten can use. Its main requisite
is a sense of compassion with its associated spirit of inclusiveness,
inquiry, reflection and honesty. It is a guide in physics and a
psychoanalytic tool that enables us to evaluate the relative
sustainability of individuals and groups.
Its application
requires the constant, compassionate employment of two intimately
related questions:
In what ways
might my use of this symbol possibly deny change?
In what ways
might my use of this symbol possibly deny stewardship?
The change
referred to is the universal constant change, of which we are integral.
The stewardship
referred to is our role as actors amidst the universal flux conserving
the balances and flows that sustain humanity.
Our integration is such that our
acceptance of change cannot be understood without our acceptance of
stewardship of our actions. Thus the use of the stewardship/change
symbol.
Common
examples of denial of change include:
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Confusing
ways of thinking with states of being.
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Confusing
energy with one or more of the forms it may be manifest as.
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Confusing
energy with its measure (power).
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Confusing
power with a form e.g. electricity.
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Obscuring changes of state (typically omitting the use of the
up/down symbols).
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Projecting
the problems caused by our failure as stewards onto energy and its
major manifestations (typically omitting the use of the use symbol.)
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Promoting the
belief that humans can create, sustain, renew, generate, waste,
lose, destroy or in other ways alter the nature of energy.
The constant
application of these two profoundly related questions is required because
as evolving beings we continually
become aware of new perspectives, states, flows and forms of energy. What may
be a sustainable use of a symbol yesterday may not be so today.
The value of the Sustainability Principle of
Energy is best understood in its practical application –see the
Sustainability Index of our prime symbols used in acceptance and denial.
Page last updated:
Aug 2010
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