What does ordered chaos mean to me?
It feels similar to when things get out of hand in my drawer, cupboards etc. there is something that screams for order to be brought back again. Things however don't stay that way for too long and the process repeats itself again and again in life. The process of cleaning up the mess say in drawers, for me creates an even messier situation until order beings to unfold.
fractals as patterns of complex systems
Truly amazing the reproduction of self similar structures such as cloud, snowflakes, mt. ranges, river networks, down to broccoli and blood vessels to name a few. So that by taking a small piece away and examining it, one will find it replicates the larger pattern. I have seem rivers from the airplane that create such incredible pathways, but I never realized that they were replicated patterns. The Chinese in a similar way, realized we as humans were a microcosm of nature. That we had all the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water similar to that in nature. They then corresponded an element to an organ, and drew the qi and blood circulatory systems that pulled it all together.
Consciousness out of chaos
Jung realized that the psyche functions both in the time space continuum through the conscious ego, and also simultaneously in a psychic continuum that is totally unconscious. The bridging of these two very different arenas seems to bring a consciousness to the unconscious. Let me explain. How can we throw the coins for the I Ching - very randomly - chaotic if you will and write down a very orderly set of lines for a hexagram and have it speak directly to your personal situation. This is a way of letting the unconscious come through using the random throwing of coins (which is also not thinking and letting the information flow)
Cat static
Oh for sure we Minnesotans know about static electricity in our dry, heated winter homes. You don't need to do any dragging, just a few pets will bring about a zap or two and that's the end of that interaction with Lucy the kitty.
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I completely forgot about fractals as human beings and the relationship to five-element theory and all that. so much chinese medicine school and one begis to think the five elements only really exist in the human body. so it's nice to be brought back down to reality again and remember the theory stemmed from the ways of the world. what a wonderful comparison! fractals really are everywhere!
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