Shamans, keep dancing upon the edges of chaos!

Researchers in Göttingen have shown how avalanches of neuronal discharge occur in the brain. Many systems of nature automatically head for a critical state which can be characterised as an extremely unstable equilibrium. For example, if sand slowly trickles onto a surface, it will pile up until the slope of the sand pile is so steep that avalanches of sand occur and tumble down the slope. In doing so there is no typical avalanche size. In a defined period of time, many small avalanches or, in other cases, just a few big ones may occur in a random sequence. The build-up of tension in the continental drift of the earth’s crust and the consequential discharge resulting in an earthquake similarly demonstrates this ‘self-organised criticality,’ as the lingo puts it. In 2002, a staff of researchers including of Michael Herrmann had already proposed, based on theoretical calculations, that the transmission of signals in the nervous system also follows this principle

A concept to fall back (or leap forward) on: Shamans and natural systems including - or even especially - our brains are most effective while balancing upon the edges of chaos. Shamans catalyze chaos and chaos tumbles shamanic shifts into ordinary reality. But we must keep dealing with those avalanches and dancing upon the borders...of ordinary and non-ordinary...of singularity and order...shamanizing boundaries into bridges then facing new chaos.

~ Rezzee

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