THE EARTH OF GEOPOETICS: A LOOK AT NATURE

THE GEOPOETICS CENTER

Draws together trans-disciplinary, cross-cultural resources.

Offers life-changing conversation, encourages creative thought.

Provides organic, holistic problem solving, change agency, creativity counseling.

Builds community through class-offerings and programs.

Because Geopoetics includes and applies to all aspects of life, The Healing Seed Center for Geopoetics serves people, relationships, companies, non-profits, communities and the world.

Using the principles of poetry such as economy, structure, inclusion, limits and complexity, the Geopoetics Center guides people to accommodate multiple systems within a whole at all levels of life on earth.

In 1998, I read Fritjof Capra's Web of Life. I was living in a small cabin in the Pacific Northwest at the time. It was the year I spent alone, venturing into the human world four days a week to teach adult basic education at a nearby college. In that solitude, I moved amid the layers of being, from the mundane to the numinous, discovering everyday the vastness of human experience. Reading Web of Life, I rejoiced at Capra's melding of the natural sciences. I wondered, though, where do human thought and emotion come into play in this? Certainly, if all is connected, then our internal processes and those of all living (and non-living) things are also part of this great web just as mysticism mirrors physics in Tao of Physics. Also, it follows that the soft sciences addressing these internal processes integrate with the hard sciences, but how? I sent my question to Dr. Capra. He replied, in hand-writing: "What a wonderful area for you to explore." The Healing Seed Center for Geopoetics is the result of his encouragement.

                                                                                    Laura Hope-Gill, Founder

See how in nature everything begins, falls apart, comes together, really falls apart then comes together in a new way? This is alchemy. It is in projects, relationships, biological processes, spiritual texts even. In living with knowledge of this process, people can align their lives with the natural course and emerge through change gracefully.

1. Calcinatio: the beginning

2. Dissolutio: the loosening, the dissolution of one thing in another, such as the creative.

3. Separatio:  the separation into parts, as when in a relationship someone needs "space" to catch up with him or herself, to remember who he or she is before moving forward.

4. Conjunctio: the coming together, the reunificaiton of parts. As when a project "comes together" or a solution emerges.

5. Mortificatio: When the thing that seemed to have come together undergoes a great challenge, as to an idea, project, relationship or any process.

6. Putrefaction: When everything in a process seems hopeless, dead, beyond repair, it must be left alone.

7. Fermentatio (also, Resurrectio): When what seemed to be dead beyond repair awakens again, even better than it was before.

That's the ancient alchemical process. Everything moves through it. Knowing this process, people can anticipate the next stage and know that it, too, is transitory.

This structure appears in poems and music, as well as in the history of paradigms and life. It is the golden ratio in action. just as poetry, art and music resolve tensions and antitheses through a creative synthesis, in Geopoetics, people discover the dynamic system of nature within human life and events, dissolving the boundary between self and world and discovering the unity among peoples and systems of thought.