ABSTRACT
One of the most distinctive features was that a number of transformative farmers have taken the turn full circle back to incorporating old ‘organic’ components with new knowledge: confirming a conversion to an emergent mind. Thence came the rise of large-scale political and social systems, all an increasingly far cry from our genetic evolutionary package as hunter-gatherers embedded in the organic mind. Through the long process of evolution and coevolution there arose the emergent property of the mechanical mind. Therefore, part of an accompanying post-mechanical, post-ancient organic mind: the emergent mind, comprises a realization that we humans are indivisibly part of all life and Earth’s living systems. Leading up to the Renaissance and Reformation there was a coalescence of powerful forces in Western culture that weakened the remnants of the organic metaphor and opened the way to an inculcation of the mechanistic metaphor.
