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MAKING SENSE OF THE HUMAN-PLANETARY CONDITION
Demystifying the Past,
Unraveling the Present and Anticipating the Future
- Introduction
- Mission Statement
- Emergent Culture the Philosophy
- Why knowledge of Socio-Cultural Dynamics is a matter of Concern for all
- About the founder and author of the Emergent Culture Website
THE PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE
Putting the Pieces Together
Emergent-Culture.com is structured to help provide a clear, coherent and engaging “big picture” assessment of the Planetary – Human Condition.
The Emergent-Culture platform is designed to inform, instigate and motivate solution oriented collaboration on the issues deemed hazardous to culture(s) and the planetary ecology we are part of.
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Giving Coherence and Meaning to early 21st Century Cultural Developments
A new culture is yearning to be born. A culture based on values that will carry us forward into a world fraught with increasing challenges. There are however a few great obstacle in the way of this new culture.
Those obstacles are the inertia of history, habit, tradition and the leadership agencies who presently hold the reigns of power.
The consequences of that inertia are staring us square in the eyes at this very moment as our scientists and concerned citizens sound the alarms of ongoing and impending natural and social catastrophes if we don’t change our ways.
As it is humanity is beset by problems of every sort that will keep growing until our leadership institutions focus our resources (tax money) on the common good.
The Emergent-Culture website exposes the problems by revealing the socio-cultural mechanisms that keeps emerging culture from taking root and thriving. Emergent-Cultue.com also offers solutions to overcome the inertia and active suppression of emerging cultural values and practices.
Emergent-Culture.com is divided into six primary facets. Each section has a particular focus.
Each section helps the reader understand the key domains of Western culture and the socio-cultural forces driving either socio-cultural stagnation or revitalization. Social stagnation is the province of the prevaling culture and social revitalization is the mark of emerging culture
[UPDATE]: The developing Occupy Movement is precisely what Emergent-Culture.com is all about. Emergent-Culture.com has been calling for a unified effort to change the disastrous policies of Govcorp. Govcorp is a handy abbreviation that reflects the merger of Government and Corporations. I called for a movement to unite all good will movements two years ago in an article of the same name as the only viable solution to the global predicament. The Occupy movement seems to be morphing into a People’s Congress and that is exactly what I called for in my call to action.]
Aside from my focus on the socio-cultural dynamics of prevailing and emerging cultures and the global crisis, there are two specialties subjects of mine.
One is the section on the Art and Science of Synchronicity and the other pertains to the growing 2012 phenomena. 2012 is meaningful if only because humanity stands at a crossroads of unprecedented magnitude.
If you have questioned your culture and are not satisfied with
its answers and solutions then you are a member of the
cultural movement this website dedicated to.
Emergent-Culture.com’s mission is four fold.
To monitor, report on and nurture the emergent culture movement.
To monitor and report on the transition from the Current World System to Planetary Culture.
To elucidate the overriding socio-cultural dynamics of the Current World System.
To research, promote and develop humanitarian and ecologically sensitive modes of culture.
THE SIX SECTIONS OF EMERGENT CULTURE.COM
Links to each section are found on each page of EC.com
in the primary navigation bar found underneath the banner at top of pages. Each sectiondescription also includes a link to that section.
Note: Most articles on emergent-culture.com are to be considered unedited excerpts from chapters of books I am developing.
Book 1 on The Legend of 2012: subtitled: Imperial Civilization has Run Its Course; The Emergence of a Planetary Culture is Upon Us, will be published later this year.
Book 2 on Tzolkin Cosmology: subtitled: The Greatest Natural History of All Time Rediscovered, will be published in late 2013.
E M E R G E N T
SECTION 1: Emergent deals with the most vital visions and solutions to the notion of cultural renewal and improvement. Our hope of a better world lies with the emerging cultural values of egalitarianism, gender balance, non-violence and ecological balance.
Like any other organism or system, culture must be revitalized in order to offset the inevitable buildup of obsolete, stagnant and toxic cultural practices. Learn about what’s up and coming, help spread the word and get involved.
T H E G L O B A L C R I S I S
SECTION 2: This section deals with the consequences of Western civilizations core cultural practices. I explore the dynamisms at work and the decisions we will have to confront either by choice or by neglect as the problems begin to hit closer to home.
At least once a month a I Issue one of my variously titled Global Awareness Summaries. A round up of the most telling events and trends in the social, economic, environmental, national and international realms.
K N O W Y O U R C U L T U R E
SECTION 3: Those of us alive today are the inheritors of a cultural process that is over 5000 years old.
You can be sure that what you were taught in school about Western culture is a whitewashed version of history.
In this section you will learn about the social-cultural dynamics that create all of the artificial inequities you see in the US and abroad. You will learn about the dark underbelly of Western history. Learn about your culture and help reform its injurious ways.
THE ART AND SCIENCE OF SYNCHRONICITY
SECTION 4: The section on Synchronicity is my attempt to place the concept of synchronicity on a scientific foundation. Carl G. Jung only defined what characterizes a synchronistic event. He conjectured that there might be a deeper order of reality underpinning synchronistic phenomena.
My work on the Art and Science of Synchronicity reveals the underpinnings and mechanisms of synchronicity. Learn about what I think is hands down the Greatest Natural History Discovery of ALL TIME!
T H E L E G E N D O F 2 0 1 2
SECTION 5: I have been studying and tracking the 2012-Mayan Calendar phenomena ever since it first came onto the public mind field in 1987.
There is an enormous amount of confusion, sensationalism and misunderstanding surrounding the closure of a Maya time cycle on Dec. 21, 2012 and the nature of the Maya calendrical system itself.
My work on the Art and Science of Synchronicity is based on my pioneering work on the heart of the Mayan Calendar—the Tzolkin Cycle.
The ongoing and developing Occupy Movement is the seedling of what I mean by a Planetary Culture. As we progress toward the Solar maximum of 2012-13 we will continue to see an intensification in all areas of our experience. We are witnessing what the Legend of 2012 is all about.
C U R R E N T E V E N T S
SECTION 6: This section covers the developing stories with a potential for either negative or positive large scale social and biospheric implications. This facet tracks the overarching macro-trends reshaping our world.
UPDATE: Presently the most important planet wide and socially relevant current event topic is the formation and development of the Occupy Movement aka the emergence of a Planetary Culture.
WHY KNOWLEDGE OF SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMICS IS A MATTER OF CONCERN FOR ALL
Making sense of Western Civilization.
What is culture? Is culture a trap?
How do cultures develop, grow, evolve and die?
How does culture shape us? How do we shape culture?
How did the human world get to be the way it is and does it have to stay this way?
These and other important questions about culture are the focus of Emergent-Culture.com
The culture of focus is the mega-culture of Western Civilization. This is not due to any enthnocentrism of mine, but rather it is the culture I have inherited and find myself in the midst of. I use the terms Western Civilization and Western Culture interchangeably.
Western Civilization is the cultural inheritance of at least 50% of the worlds population. Western Culture by virtue of its legacy and present condition may also be considered as our master and chains.
Emergent-Culture.com is dedicated to assist you in the understanding and transformation of the culture you have inherited.
If we wish to create a better future for ourselves and all concerned, then learning the ropes of socio-cultural dynamics is must for any individual or group striving to promote socio-ecological justice.
Cultural engineering is not a college course, but the term serves well to define what the political and religious leadership of Western Culture has practiced for thousands of years. At present our culture is manufactured in assembly line fashion on Capitol Hill, Wall Street, Madison Avenue and Hollywood.
Emergent Culture Philosophy
Nature, community, the arts and spirituality were once the fountainhead of all cultural creativity and inspiration.
Emergent Culture as
Regenerative Dynamic of Culture
we consume nor the socio-economic status
The emergent culture dynamic roared to life during the 1960′s. It is true that emergent culture as identified by Williams is always forming to one degree or another. What was significant about the 1960′s was the magnitude of popular support for cultural revision.
At that time we saw the birth of the ecology movement, the second wave of feminism and the rise of significant public sentiments against the four-horned beast of rapacious militarism, plutocratic governance, Western imperialism and mindless consumerism.
The unprecedented evolutionary importance of emergent culture becomes self-evident when one compares the emerging cultural values and offerings with those of the prevailing culture .
About the Author and Founder of Emergent-Culture.com
Greetings and Welcome! Planetary Citizen Rohaan Solare at your service. Cyber-networking my way around the world wide web and nourishing the emergent culture movement of the nascent Planetary Culture as it strives to take hold and offer a vision of a future we can look forward to.
Investigative Journalist, Researcher, Holistic Cosmologist, Socio-Cultural Theorist, Maya Meso-American Calendrical Expert, Mythosophist, Landscape Architect, Founder of Emergent-Culture.Com
My cyber-publishing initiative is the result of a question I asked myself over twenty-five years ago when I was a psychology major at a Northern California University.
The question was….
“How did the human world come to be what it is today?”
In other words, what are the factors that condition cultures into being what they are and in particular Western culture? Then a curious thing happened to me on my way to higher education. I came across two books that would demolish what I had learned thus far about the nature of the culture I had been born into.
The first book was written by a man who 23 years after his death is still considered to be the world’s foremost authority on comparative worldviews as conditioned by religious thought – Joseph Campbell.
Joseph Campbell’s work would overturn the worldview I had inherited and thus compel me to develop my own based upon my understanding and direct experience of the world versus what I had been told about the world.
The other book that would greatly alter my perception of the world is entitled ‘Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television’, written by former advertising executive Jerry Mander.
In his landmark book Mander demonstrates how television is one of the greatest threats to our social freedoms and to our physical, mental and emotional well being. The other all encompassing casualty of television would be culture in general.
Mass culture would become a sales pitch and an unending series of disconnected hyper-stimulating images all designed with the intent to induce mindless consumption of products and system serving ideas.
The fruits of such a culture would be over-consumption and all of the attendant socio-ecological and economic ills glaring us straight in the face at this very moment.
Mander’s research undermined the credibility of BIG Business and BIG Government in one fell swoop.
I came to understand television as an instrument of social control and exploitation by those in power over those unaware of the true nature and purpose of not only television, but of print and radio broadcasting as well.
After reading those two books and in conjunction with my own observations of the society in which I lived… I could not help but think that I had been born at a time when society had become nothing more than a mere resource to be mined and controlled at will by the religious and secular leadership.
I also came to learn that the field of psychology supplies the necessary knowledge needed to better manipulate the unwary citizen and consumer of mass media information.
I did not want to contribute in any way to a cultural system that preys upon and mercilessly exploits its own people or any people for that matter.
So I left institutional learning and entered into a 25 year journey of self-education in world history, the brain-behavioral sciences, the multi-disciplinary field of cultural anthropology and a smattering of sciences with the I hopes that I could make sense of the human-planetary condition.
Emergent-Culture.Com is the result of my time spent researching how the human cultural condition came to be what it is, 
what keeps it the way it is and what we might need to do in order to bring about the kinds of changes demanded by our present circumstances. It is my firm belief that a solution to a problem comes into focus only when the problem is thoroughly understood.
In closing, I want to thank the reader for taking the time to get acquainted with me. My hope is that my personal sharing will enrich your appreciation of my initiatives
Thank you for visiting and please come again.
Rohaan Solare
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Anticipating Personal and Collective Shifts in Relation to MMAC Time Science
The word shift is commonly used in reference to the motifs associated with the 2012-“End of the Mayan Calendar” phenomena (2012-MC). The expectations of those most realistically attuned to the mytho-symbolic significances of 2012-MC sense that there are large scale socio-cultural shifts in the works. Emergent-Culture.com is essentially dedicated to the planet wide socio-cultural movement (planetary culture) that I believe lies at the heart of the “co-incidence” between the end of the 5125 year Maya Long Count Cycle and the unprecedented levels of socio-economic turbulence seen all around the world.
The notion of mere “coincidence” is dispelled once one understands what the Ancient Mesoamericans (Maya, Toltecs, Olmecs, etc) discovered about the nature of time and reality. I use the the term Ancient Mesoamericans because precolumbian Mesoamerica was home to upwards of 80 different tribes and most followed the same calendrical system. Additionally the Maya were not the first to use the core of the Mesoamerican calendrical system—-the tzolkin cycle. Although they were the ones who developed Mesoamerican calendrics to its highest degree. I also prefer to use Ancient Mesoamericans because it helps differentiate between present day Mesoamericans and those who lived in Middle America prior to the European invasion.
Since it was the ancient ones who were responsible for the development of Maya-Meso-American Calendrical system. (MMAC)
And What is Time?
In the Western world time is a very muddled concept. Western science is only now beginning to acknowledge that their classical conception of time is ill defined, overcomplicated and just plain wrong. Have a look at Wikipedia’s treatment of time to get a taste of what I mean. Time has been so misunderstood that Western scholars have written entire books about the subject without reaching any kind of conclusion or consensus about what time is.
Those of you familiar with my writings on time and Mesoamerican calendrics (calendar/time science) know that from my vantage point, time is nothing more than movement and that’s how the Ancient MesoAmericans (AMA) saw it as well. Albeit a special kind of movement.Something I call ordered movement. There are various definitions of time and many are useful, but I’m talking about time in the most fundamental of terms. Time is not the fourth dimension as Einstein believed.[…]
[NOTE: The foregoing paragraphs serve as an introduction to a chapter on my developing book on The Legend of 2012. The remaining text below this note is the tail end of the chapter where I show how one may apply MMAC time science to one’s life in order to anticipate significant personal life events, and as a way to self validate what I consider to be the most profound and universally relevant cosmology (worldview) presently available. It is universally relevant because it applies to everyone regardless of whether one believes in it or not. It is universally relevant because it’s a mesocosmically scaled cosmology and that means that you don’t need to understand equations or use special tools to observe and appreciate, e,g. microscope, telescope.
The chapter goes on to develop the idea of time as ordered movement/change and of how the earth’s basic movements translate into the scheduled and sequential movements of all organisms. The mechanism is detailed down to the DNA molecular level in an attempt to show how all of life unfolds to the beat of some cosmic piper. The piper’s “musical score” is intrinsic to the earth’s movements, the workings of DNA code and all human activity in general. I suggest that the Ancient Mesoamericans discerned the cosmic score from their study of astronomical and earthly cycles both overt and subtle. Some cycles are so subtle that no other culture discovered them. The most subtle of these cycles were encoded into their Tzolkin cycle calendar.
I also relate the tzolkin and genetic codes and then show their relationship to the implicate and explicate orders that the Physicist David Bohm describes in his Holomovement cosmology. This article focuses on a particular type of movement we call a shift or transition. These shifts happen at predictable time scales because the growth and development of all organisms happen according to timing constants built into the very fabric of our reality. It seems that the AMA discovered those constants. The following excerpt tells you how to apply those constants.] click here to read entire article
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