Veridian Clarity
From 2020worldpeace
Veridian Clarity is the state of awareness which comfortably places the subjectivity in the living wonder of the world. Informed by knowledge of the natural world, supplemented by personal investigation, and formalised in one’s placement in it.
Knowledge of the interaction of living organisms, the water cycle, life cycles, from minute bacteria to entire global ecosystems, from the germination of a single-cell to a complex, million-million-celled entity, the mutable boundary between chemical and biological, the mysterious interaction of biology and mind, the five billion year history of life on Earth, the interaction of super-organisms, all contribute to appreciation of the natural world.
Personal exploration in the natural world, generating questions from a healthy curiosity, responding to the environment, to animals, to plants, learning about one’s own interaction with nature, recognising one’s effect including pollution, all extend awareness into the subjectivity’s own nature.
The veridian clarity is achieved once knowledge and personal investigation is coupled to one’s will in placement. This last is critical. It is not objective, but must necessarily place the subjectivity in nature. This placement could be a Buddhist’s deep appreciation or a child’s willingness to get his hands dirty. Veridian clarity is the particular state where a subjectivity realises his place, regardless of the level of knowledge or degree of personal exploration, as being a human. This confers a responsibility upon him or her to live within the world in a harmonious way, and places emphasis on sorting out the human condition first. Only then may s/he approach rectifying cultivational practice (cf Rurification), resource extraction (cf Paying For Trees), and ecological sustainability (eg Watercycling).
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