Quantumay.
(Presentation of Rainer Hauser, SDG 0: Peace. ICSD-24 sept. 19th. Poster session 6-C.)
Good day to all. Happy to talk with you from the South. I am in Chile.
"Each phrase must embrace sky and earth, stop the flow of the ten thousand ravines and riding the waves follow the tide". (The blue cliff records. Shambala ed. NY, 1984).
It won´t be inappropriate to quote this Zen teaching at the beginning of my intervention, because it responds well to the magnitude of our aim to awake the collective unconscious of all, in magnetic resonance with the quantum nature of our times, giving each one of us the meaning to resolve the polycrisis, that notwithstanding the detached, objective and scientific behavior we assume in circumstances like the present one, we are on, and for a still a moment we will continue to be. We hope…
And if it could be a complex matter, to be aware of the quantic nature of our exposé, not to mention the material aspect of its realizations, let me give you some ideas:
1. To be and not to be at the same time.
2. To be here and there (and nowhere).
3. To be right and wrong (which means to be left and right…).
4. To which we must add, wildfires that are very civilized, natural disasters caused by industry and wars made in the name of peace.
5. And last but not least, the call of UN general secretary, A. Guterrez: “we have to give a quantum leap in our forms to think and to do things”.
So let us play, this game, with no rules others than the rhetoric effort to talk with who is not present with words nourished in education, who whatever could be said , can't go astray of the saying of the old sage Democritus, when he stated with an endurance of some 2.500 years now, that "all that exist in the universe, is the fruit of hazard and necessity".
One is all.
And I say this, because the same exercise that I'm doing, is in itself a product of this entanglement of particles or vibrations, as you could say of the use values, or exchange values, that make us and our productions, merchandises, that hide very consciously its history in the immediacy of its image, as well as the enormous negative effects of its production on the planet.
Nearer to us in time, -and if we consider the very strong noise of the bombs, as some couldn't impeach to feel in space-, in the twelfth century, Al Rumi from the gardens and water ways of Bagdad, said with insuperable reason, as anyone could subscribe: "we are not a drop in the ocean, we are the ocean in a drop".
Of course, having not the humanity of vision at this moment, fully mediated by all kinds of non-human technologies, I couldn't be sure that as an expression of living humanity, you are listening to my words, not to say of realizing the metonymy of its meaning, or that once riding the wave of science, are we still able to follow the current of our dreams. That's why, imagining once that a gentle spark could be light in the middle of the night, is on the emotional field that we've to place the first stone of universal conscience... peace, Ahimsa, detached of meaning, simply non opposition, by itself, neither this nor that: peace.
There's not however an intellectual difficulty which make the non-acceptance of peace. The existence of alienation, the loss of ourselves, as we lose the others, in the losing of nature. And in this era of technology, we have reached a point and a moment, in which all things are transformed, change, mutate. For this moment that claims for meaning, in an apology and a call for synthesis between our ancient and actual, authentic and unauthentic cultures, with a resounding echo of quantum theory and the tongue of Mapudungun, I called Quantumay.
Anyway, some references to the usual way of classical, or linear understanding, should be stated in regard to the factual development of our proposal. And if we chose not to consider quantitative data to make our experience comprehensible to the usual understanding of objectivity, let´s remind that this could not necessarily be so, because as the French psychanalyst Jacques Lacan, remind us: “For accuracy is distinguished from truth, and conjecture does not exclude rigor. And if experimental science takes its relationship with nature from mathematics, this is still problematic (…) Because experimental science is not defined so much by the quantity to which it is applied, but by the measurement it introduces into reality”.
The French poet Paul Valery, wrote in 1948, (which the UNFCCC, SR 1,5° IPCC, 2018 quotes at its exergue): “If we consider the future, the most important is not to make it better, but to make it possible”.
Anyway, as we have already said, in the DCYA/FAE/USACH, we are in a process to implement and develop our principles of considering ethics at the core of our educational process, and as we have already stated too in the abstract who stands for our presence, we have realized that no ethics is even thinkable, whatever our conception of good and bad were, if we are not alive. If in listen to this statement you are moved to laugh, for its obvious evidence, we´ll feel that a first step has been accomplished. And yes, we are in a dynamic that is far from a result by the one we could be prized. Unless we deserve it for continuing our simple and total effort, to attain this point of synthesis of theory and practice, in which we are trying to be…
We continue to just sit in Zazen (Shikantaza) every week. We have made some videos trying to foment the idea of practicing peace of mind through no-thinking, as something education of all needs.
A text, who tells the history, development and evolution of Talanoa Dialogues that we made last year is in the process to be published. A special realization of Talanoa Dialogues has been programmed too, to take place in October the 19th. In One more month from now.
We have discussed in the DCYA and approved initially as a plan to teach, the principles of a diagnose on Climate Crisis, (Campo Klima), as a program of exposition, dialogue and transformation, that is in course of realization.
The academic dialogue in the department has chosen to introduce the model of the Scientific Atomic Society (thebulletin.org), because it shows as well the three dimensions of militarism, climate crisis and disruptive technologies, are a correct and comprehensible classification, of the main three areas of human activity in which are concentrated the different ways in which the economic powers that rules us, manifests in the politic and judiciary superstructure of society, putting all existence of life on earth, nearer than ever to the point of extinction, as the Doomsday Clock, of theirs, shows.
We can find a certain comparative relief, in seeing how the world has been going in many ways, far more astray that we have, but is still preferable to take note of the value of the little accomplishments, we could make to nourish hope.
And if from long ago we know that all our devices are being monitored and we have to be very polite in which we say, not to indispose the chosen corporations that graciously finance our universities, and make possible our academic institutions, as war has become a much more interesting business, we should be more and more careful, because the Artificial Stupidity Systems (ASS), could automatically send us a drone to kill us by mistake.
And if I approach the end of these words with irony, let us remind that it could be not the most far from rendering the reality. Yesterday we assisted to a new step in terror and a significant one in the global war that no one of us can even imagine, and we all try to ignore, with the explosion of 3.000 personal pagers in Lebanon, who will made impossible nothing but more wars.
As far as we could arrive, we will continue to renew with ourselves in the space where the collective history of humanity builds its dreams without having the notion of opposition, as Freud taught us, finding relief in what has always been.
There will be, nothing new in what I´ve said. And as psychoanalyses said clearly, it will all depend in your already openness emotionality to accept it. Let´s finish then by where we start, with a reference to the other. Time, places, forms of exchange, cultures. The well-known sacred syllable of the Hindus AUM, who stands for the three divinities of Vishnu, Shiva y Brahma, or the three times of future, past and present, or still, the three stages of awake, sleeping and dreaming, is said to be followed by Turiya, which is the silence who follows its emission. As this silence who follows.
Muchas gracias.
Santiago/New York 19/9/2024.
