EdenSpace: Creating Spa-Like Environments
How do we create an embedded consciousness within an aesthetic that serves to brings us to a higher, more enlightened level of existence? The human element is to make a home for the human soul: plants gardens and fountains. This serves to facilitate a revelatory framework that allows us to proceed at a maximal rate up the learning curve of life, to overcome our tendencies towards self-destruction. We are moving towards realm of form and moving away from the realm of illusion and thus there is a learning to this process experiencing life, learning from one’s mistakes and then expanding one’s perception of things within the phenomenology of life. When the soul is at rest, we can act from a deeper place—a sacred space.
Aesthetics and Beauty
Aesthetics has a big impact in how we think. A more generalized aesthetic of beauty may extend beyond purely being in the eye of the beholder. A certain beauty is embedded within the elegance of life the intersection and interaction of trendlines and cycles with each other to create complex feedback loops. Beauty is in the integrity of the things out there, and how they come together to create this whole aesthetic of nature, upon which we call home and take comfort in. When we percieve wholeness in the natural world, we feel that we want more of that within our built environments. Become conscious of how the built environment affects you, and perpetuates cultural values. The Zeitgiest the cultural consciousness manifest in the built environment. .
Do our modern values fit within this forward thinking aesthetic-ethos--an aesthetic of harmony and interrelatedness, which has a sense of wholeness to it? A gentle nudging of the modern human mind is needed to get into a more organic based frame of thinking.
The Cultural-Aesthetic Experience
Become conscious of how the built environment affects you, and perpetuates cultural values—the Zeitgiest. The built environment is constantly effecting us. We are co-evolving with the built environment as it expands exponentially in the form of human sprawl into the surrounding environment. Are we co-evolving in a positive way or are we becoming psychically malformed and disfigured, distant from our essential humanity?
· Runaway exponential growth defines the quantitative measures of modern progress.
· The media reflects the clown-house reality of what we have become.
· Inappropriate technology--when technology such as through television, cars and air conditioning, degrades the quality of life for all parties involved.
The Subjugation of the Authentic Self
Modern reality is circular: subjugation of personal choice and free will to the imperatives of the marketplace. Replacement of free will with a drug-induced numbness upon which people are easily convinced that they still have free will when they don't. The passive state that results from drug induced numbness conveniently ensures a cycle of denial which affirms prevailing social values (coopted by those of the marketplace through the rise of the commercial pseudo-culture).
Studies indicate that drugs Proziac greatly diminishes sexual desire. My assertion is the generalized affect of modern life is to diminish not only sexual desire but an overarching interconnectivity in our relationships. This keeps us from fully acting from a place of intense meaning and passionate desire.
One-Dimensional Reality
We are so psychologically attuned to where we are right now that we have no sense of the past and its significance on our present experiences. This is called an ahistorical world view by some social critics. This world view denies the value of the past, because the pace of change is so great in the present that the events of the past pale in relation to the exponentially expanding gigantism of the present reality. This world view has resulted from the rise of the scientific materialism that has not only dismissed the relevance of the spiritual and the cultural from our lives, but has also sought to emphasize the powerful new technologies that helped to pave the way for an new more rational and efficient process of doing things. These newfangled ways have also helped to move us away from the understanding of how we are tied together with our world.