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Imagined view of the
wave nature of life with time on the x-axis
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RHYTHMS IN HUMAN NATURE
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People vary greatly in the number of mini-cycles that come together to
constitute their love lives or wisdom quests. The duration of the
individual cycles and the overall pattern, as well as its
susceptibility to perturbation depends on individual differences in
constitution, upbringing and education. And chance plays a part.
Despite our individual differences, the component rhythms of love and wisdom do not play out at all possible tempos in everyone. They cluster within certain common frequency bands.2
These frequency bands reflect the rhythms of nature to which we were tuned by our early evolution. That is to say, by long processes of selection, organisms have come to mirror the rhythmicity of the earth environment. Its planetary movements, tectonic rumblings, magnetic moments, flowing water, cyclonic winds and radiant solar energies pulse through us.
Despite our individual differences, the component rhythms of love and wisdom do not play out at all possible tempos in everyone. They cluster within certain common frequency bands.2
These frequency bands reflect the rhythms of nature to which we were tuned by our early evolution. That is to say, by long processes of selection, organisms have come to mirror the rhythmicity of the earth environment. Its planetary movements, tectonic rumblings, magnetic moments, flowing water, cyclonic winds and radiant solar energies pulse through us.
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We live in far-from equilibrium conditions. Tipping points occur in
life. But not all tipping points are turning points. A tipping point
becomes a turning point only when the sensitive nonlinear
bio-oscillating systems of which we are composed respond to
perturbations with rhythmic restoration in love or wisdom. We can
speculate that this happens because:
1. Our thoughts and actions and all their cerebral, neural,
humoral and skeleto-muscular components are designed to
move in specific frequency bands with phase relationships to other
oscillators,
2. That these unfold as events in a field of nature that is itself resonant,
3. That reality is structured in such a way as to generate reso-nances and dissonances that tune human nature (and all living natures) to the environment and to each other, and that
4. Love and wisdom are the highest expressions of these dy-namics because they command the adaptive peaks of our most consequential solitary and social undertakings.
2. That these unfold as events in a field of nature that is itself resonant,
3. That reality is structured in such a way as to generate reso-nances and dissonances that tune human nature (and all living natures) to the environment and to each other, and that
4. Love and wisdom are the highest expressions of these dy-namics because they command the adaptive peaks of our most consequential solitary and social undertakings.
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© Ira Rosenberg, 2009. Some rights reserved. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License Please credit me for use of my material”