10. Lucas Pawlik. The MEGA Vision. MAGA Needs MEGA: Make Earth Great Again.
08-12-24: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

         9. Lucas Pawlik. Space Apes Survival Ethics + Этика выживания космических обезьян.
2021: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1238

8. Lucas Pawlik. Our Current Dilemma. (Russian translation. + Русский перевод).
16-08-21: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

7. Lucas Pawlik. Death Risk: Lack of Movement. The Ignored Pandemic of Digital Life.
29-03-21: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

6. Lucas Pawlik. The Gandhian Garden in the Third Way Spherons Context and the
Gandhian Enlightenment Century. 24-11-20:
https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

5. Lucas Pawlik. Fungi Future - Biosphere Rescue Plan. 02-06-20:

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

4. Leo Semashko, Lucas Pawlik. Spherons: New Reality and Mega-Thinking of Youth in
the 21st Century. Conference: Youth of the 21st century: Image of the Future. St-Petersburg
University, Sociological Faculty. November 14-16, 2019:

http://sociologists.spb.ru/news/1229-kovalevskie-chteniya-2019

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=900

3. Lucas Pawlik. Humanity's Choice: A Gandhian Nonviolent Hack or Dying
in an Escalation of Violence. Gandhica. 12-06-19. Pp 152-155:
https://peacefromharmony.org/docs/gandhi-nonviolence-of-spherons-gandhica-2019.pdf

2. Lucas Pawlik. Hack Or Die: How Humanity Steers Into Its Post-Digital Future.

22-02-19: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

1. Lucas Pawlik. Innovators of Peace. Pioneers of Peace. 24-09-15:

https://innogees.net/index.php/2015/09/24/lucas-pawlik/

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887 (below)

Responses are here:

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1241

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Personal data

Name: Lucas Pawlik

Date of birth: 17.02. 1975

Education: Magister and Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Vienna,

University of Fine Arts of Vienna

Current Positions:

Consultant for MRCA Mushroom Research Center Austria:

http://mrca-science.org/index.php/en/;

Therapist at TrinicumCenter for integrative Medicine Vienna:

https://www.trinicum.com/en/

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Dear friends,

Leo's excellent paragraph (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1228) o­n our MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) has inspired me to develop a MEGA Vision. MAGA needs MEGA or everyone o­n Earth will die in a nuclear holocaust.

Best Regards,

Lucas

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

08-12-24

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Concept Paper:

Gandhian Garden & the Fungal Kingdom – Revitalizing Villages
and Communities Through the Balkan Tribe Pilot Project

1. Introduktion

Vision and Background

The Gandhian Garden Concept is inspired by the timeless wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi and Aristotle, who recognized that the garden is the foundation of our food supply, healthcare, ethical values, economic understanding, and democracy. In an era marked by ecological crisis and social fragmentation, returning to an autonomous, sustainable garden culture offers a pathway to healing both our environment and our communities.

The Balkan Tribe Pilot Project

In a pioneering initiative in Bosnia, spearheaded by the Balkan Tribe, we are testing this integrative concept o­n the ground. By merging the principles of the Gandhian Garden with the transformative power of the fungal kingdom, as explored by the Mycoverse Foundation, we aim to create a new democratic foundation for revitalizing rural villages and community life.

2. Foundations: Garden Culture and Mushrooms as Keys to the Future

Garden Culture as the Cornerstone

•Autonomy and Democracy:

Autonomous cultivation of food and medicinal plants is a crucial step toward genuine democracy. No seed, spore, or plant should be subject to patents or criminalization—free garden creation is a basic human right.

•Ecological Resilience:

Health gardens foster biodiversity, stabilize microclimates, and sequester CO₂, serving not o­nly as sources of nourishment and healing but also as buffers against the challenges posed by climate change.

Mushrooms – The Ancient Architects of Life

•The Mycelial Network:

Beyond their visible fruiting bodies, mushrooms form extensive underground mycelium networks that recycle organic material and regenerate soil fertility. With an estimated 2.2 to 5 million species, the fungal kingdom (Funga) is o­ne of the most ancient and diverse forms of life o­n Earth.

•Sustainable Ecological Functions:

•Mycorestoration: Mushrooms can cleanse polluted soils and break down harmful substances, contributing to natural remediation processes.

•Innovative Materials: Mycelium can be harnessed to create sustainable alternatives to leather and traditional building materials, such as mycelium-based leather.

•Carbon Sequestration: The ability of fungi to bind CO₂ plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle, supporting efforts to mitigate climate change.

•Cultural and Spiritual Significance:

Mushrooms have been integral to human culture for millennia—as food, medicine, and in spiritual rituals. Incorporating this ancestral wisdom into modern health gardens bridges the gap between tradition and science, reinforcing our connection with nature.

3. Integration of Plants and Mushrooms in the Gandhian Garden

A Holistic Approach

•Synergistic Ecosystems:

The Gandhian Garden integrates edible and medicinal plants with fungal substrates, creating a dynamic ecosystem where plants and mycelium support and enhance each other. The mycelial network improves soil fertility and biodiversity, while plants provide sustenance and healing benefits.

•Microclimate Stabilization:

Establishing diverse, self-contained micro-ecosystems within health gardens helps stabilize local climates and increase resilience against global environmental changes.

•Autonomy as a Democratic Act:

Each health garden becomes a tangible expression of self-determination, empowering communities to develop independent strategies for food and health security.

4. The Balkan Tribe Pilot: Revitalizing Rural Communities in Bosnia

Project Goals and Vision

The Balkan Tribe Pilot in Bosnia puts the Gandhian Garden Concept into practice. By establishing integrated health gardens that combine the power of plants and mushrooms, the project aims to:

•Ensure Food and Medical Security: Provide local communities with sustainable access to nutritious food and basic healthcare.

•Restore Ecological Health: Enhance soil fertility and biodiversity through mycorestoration and the strategic use of fungal networks.

•Strengthen Social Cohesion: Foster democratic participation and community engagement by empowering residents to co-create their own sustainable environments.

Key Measures and Implementation

1.Local Assessment:

•Evaluate ecological, social, and cultural conditions in targeted areas.

•Identify existing traditions in garden culture and mushroom use.

2.Design and Establishment of Model Gardens:

•Create health gardens that integrate edible plants, medicinal herbs, and fungal substrates.

•Set up dedicated zones for mycorestoration and the demonstration of innovative, sustainable materials (e.g., mycelium-based products).

3.Knowledge Transfer and Community Involvement:

•Conduct workshops and training sessions o­n autonomous gardening, mushroom cultivation, and sustainable practices.

•Build an open network for sharing best practices, scientific insights, and community experiences.

4.Collaboration and Networking:

•Foster close cooperation among the Mycoverse Foundation, Balkan Tribe, local authorities, NGOs, and educational institutions.

•Leverage digital platforms to facilitate knowledge exchange and build a robust, democratic network.

5.Monitoring and Evaluation:

•Partner with scientific institutions to continuously monitor ecological, economic, and social impacts.

•Document outcomes to refine and scale the concept.

5. Scientific Foundation and Societal Impact

Bridging Traditional Wisdom and Modern Science

•Evidence-Based Approach:

Our project is grounded in robust scientific research o­n the ecological functions of mushrooms and the benefits of biodiverse health gardens.

•Holistic Integration:

By merging ancient garden traditions with innovative fungal technologies and democratic principles, we create a framework that addresses both environmental and social challenges.

Broader Societal Impact

•Nutrition and Health:

Health gardens ensure local, sustainable access to food and medicinal resources.

•Democratic Empowerment:

The self-organized design of these gardens reinforces community bonds and nurtures democratic participation.

•Ecological Restoration:

The deliberate use of mushrooms and diverse plants regenerates degraded ecosystems, fostering long-term environmental stability.

6. Conclusion & Call to Action

The Gandhian Garden Concept, empowered by the transformative potential of the fungal kingdom, offers a groundbreaking model for revitalizing rural communities. The Balkan Tribe Pilot in Bosnia demonstrates how integrating autonomous health gardens with advanced mycorestoration techniques can provide food security, ecological resilience, and democratic empowerment.

Call to Action:

We invite all stakeholders—local communities, scientific partners, and policymakers—to join us in this journey toward a sustainable, peaceful future. By embracing the wisdom of our past and the innovations of today, we can create a global network of health gardens that will serve as a beacon for a new era of democratic, ecological renewal.

This concept paper, drawing o­n the core values of the Mycoverse Foundation and the Gandhian Garden Concept, outlines a holistic strategy to transform villages and communities. Together, we can build a future where sustainable living, scientific progress, and democratic participation coexist harmoniously.

Dr. Lucas Pawlik,

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

16-02-2025

Концептуальный документ:

Сад Ганди и грибковое царство — возрождение деревень
и сообществ через пилотный проект Balkan Tribe

1. Введение

Видение и предыстория

Концепция сада Ганди вдохновлена ​​вечной мудростью Махатмы Ганди и Аристотеля, которые признавали, что сад является основой нашего продовольственного снабжения, здравоохранения, этических ценностей, экономического понимания и демократии. В эпоху, отмеченную экологическим кризисом и социальной фрагментацией, возвращение к автономной, устойчивой садовой культуре предлагает путь к исцелению как нашей окружающей среды, так и наших сообществ.

Пилотный проект Balkan Tribe

В рамках новаторской инициативы в Боснии, возглавляемой Balkan Tribe, мы тестируем эту интегративную концепцию на местах. Объединяя принципы сада Ганди с преобразующей силой грибкового царства, как это исследовал фонд Mycoverse, мы стремимся создать новую демократическую основу для возрождения сельских деревень и жизни сообщества.

2. Основы: садовая культура и грибы как ключи к будущему

Садовая культура как краеугольный камень

• Автономия и демократия:

Автономное выращивание пищевых и лекарственных растений является важным шагом на пути к подлинной демократии. Ни одно семя, спора или растение не должно быть предметом патентования или криминализации — свободное создание сада является одним из основных прав человека.

• Экологическая устойчивость:

Сады здоровья способствуют биоразнообразию, стабилизируют микроклимат и связывают CO₂, выступая не только в качестве источников питания и исцеления, но и в качестве буферов против проблем, вызванных изменением климата.

Грибы — древние архитекторы жизни

• Сеть мицелия:

Помимо своих видимых плодовых тел, грибы образуют обширные подземные сети мицелия, которые перерабатывают органический материал и восстанавливают плодородие почвы. По оценкам, насчитывающее от 2,2 до 5 миллионов видов, царство грибов (Funga) является одной из самых древних и разнообразных форм жизни на Земле.

• Устойчивые экологические функции:

• Микореставрация: грибы могут очищать загрязненные почвы и разрушать вредные вещества, способствуя естественным процессам восстановления.

• Инновационные материалы: мицелий можно использовать для создания устойчивых альтернатив коже и традиционным строительным материалам, таким как кожа на основе мицелия.

• Связывание углерода: способность грибов связывать CO₂ играет жизненно важную роль в глобальном углеродном цикле, поддерживая усилия по смягчению последствий изменения климата.

• Культурное и духовное значение:

Грибы были неотъемлемой частью человеческой культуры на протяжении тысячелетий — как еда, лекарство и в духовных ритуалах. Включение этой мудрости предков в современные сады здоровья устраняет разрыв между традицией и наукой, укрепляя нашу связь с природой.

3. Интеграция растений и грибов в сад Ганди

Целостный подход (= Сферный подход!)

• Синергетические экосистемы:

Сад Ганди объединяет съедобные и лекарственные растения с грибковыми субстратами, создавая динамическую экосистему, в которой растения и мицелий поддерживают и усиливают друг друга. Сеть мицелия улучшает плодородие почвы и биоразнообразие, в то время как растения обеспечивают пропитание и лечебные преимущества.

• Стабилизация микроклимата:

Создание разнообразных, автономных микроэкосистем в садах здоровья помогает стабилизировать местный климат и повысить устойчивость к глобальным изменениям окружающей среды.

• Автономия как демократический акт:

Каждый сад здоровья становится ощутимым выражением самоопределения, предоставляя сообществам возможность разрабатывать независимые стратегии обеспечения продовольственной и медицинской безопасности.

4. Пилотный проект Balkan Tribe: возрождение сельских общин в Боснии

Цели и видение проекта

Пилотный проект Balkan Tribe в Боснии реализует концепцию сада Ганди на практике. Проект направлен на создание интегрированных садов здоровья, которые объединяют силу растений и грибов:

• Обеспечение продовольственной и медицинской безопасности: предоставление местным сообществам устойчивого доступа к питательной пище и базовому здравоохранению.

• Восстановление экологического здоровья: повышение плодородия почвы и биоразнообразия посредством микореставрации и стратегического использования грибковых сетей.

• Укрепление социальной сплоченности: содействие демократическому участию и вовлечению сообщества путем предоставления жителям возможности совместно создавать собственную устойчивую среду.

Ключевые меры и реализация

1. Местная оценка:

• Оценка экологических, социальных и культурных условий в целевых районах.

• Выявление существующих традиций в садоводстве и использовании грибов.

2. Проектирование и создание модельных садов:

• Создание садов здоровья, которые объединяют съедобные растения, лекарственные травы и грибковые субстраты.

• Создание выделенных зон для микореставрации и демонстрации инновационных, устойчивых материалов (например, продуктов на основе мицелия).

3. Передача знаний и вовлечение сообщества:

• Проведение семинаров и тренингов по автономному садоводству, выращиванию грибов и устойчивым методам.

• Создание открытой сети для обмена передовым опытом, научными идеями и опытом сообщества.

4. Сотрудничество и сетевое взаимодействие:

• Поощрение тесного сотрудничества среди Mycoverse Foundation, Balkan Tribe, местных органов власти, НПО и образовательных учреждений.

• Используйте цифровые платформы для содействия обмену знаниями и создания надежной демократической сети.

5. Мониторинг и оценка:

• Сотрудничайте с научными учреждениями для постоянного мониторинга экологических, экономических и социальных последствий.

• Документируйте результаты для уточнения и масштабирования концепции.

5. Научная основа и общественное воздействие

Объединение традиционной мудрости и современной науки

(Религия + Наука!)

• Подход, основанный на фактических данных:

Наш проект основан на надежных научных исследованиях экологических функций грибов и преимуществ биоразнообразных оздоровительных садов.

• Целостная интеграция: (Это сферная интеграция, интеграция сфер ЛИОВ-ресурсов и СИОТ – сфер их производства!)

Объединяя древние садовые традиции с инновационными грибковыми технологиями и демократическими принципами, мы создаем структуру, которая решает как экологические, так и социальные проблемы.

Более широкое общественное воздействие

• Питание и здоровье: (- Это социосфера!)

Оздоровительные сады обеспечивают местный устойчивый доступ к продовольствию и лекарственным ресурсам.

• Демократическое расширение прав и возможностей: (- Это оргсфера!)

Самоорганизованный дизайн этих садов укрепляет связи в сообществе и способствует демократическому участию.

• Экологическое восстановление: (- Это техносфера, материальная сфера!)

Преднамеренное использование грибов и разнообразных растений восстанавливает деградировавшие экосистемы, способствуя долгосрочной экологической стабильности.

6. Заключение и призыв к действию

Концепция сада Ганди, усиленная преобразующим потенциалом царства грибов, предлагает новаторскую модель для возрождения сельских сообществ. Пилотный проект Balkan Tribe Pilot в Боснии демонстрирует, как интеграция автономных садов здоровья с передовыми методами микореставрации может обеспечить продовольственную безопасность, экологическую устойчивость и демократическое расширение прав и возможностей.

Призыв к действию:

Мы приглашаем все заинтересованные стороны — местные сообщества, научных партнеров и политиков — присоединиться к нам в этом путешествии к устойчивому, мирному будущему. Приняв мудрость нашего прошлого и инновации сегодняшнего дня, мы можем создать глобальную сеть садов здоровья, которые послужат маяком для новой эры демократического, экологического обновления.

Этот концептуальный документ, опирающийся на основные ценности Mycoverse Foundation и Gandhian Garden Concept, описывает целостную стратегиюпреобразования деревень и сообществ. Вместе мы можем построить будущее, в котором гармонично сосуществуют устойчивая жизнь, научный прогресс и демократическое участие.

 Доктор Лукас Паулик,

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

16-02-2025

Комментарий Льва Семашко.

Предложенный «Концептуальный документ» обладает множеством преимуществ, главным из которых, с моей точки зрения, является провозглашаемый и проводимый в нем инновационный «целостный подход, целостная интеграция и целостная стратегия».

Фундаментальную субстанцию предлагаемой «интегральной целостности или целостной интеграции» конституирует его сферная структура и имплицитное сферное мышление, раскрываемые в «Науке мира» и ее «Букваре» (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=1251).

Не вдаваясь в детали, обобщим ключевые понятия «Концептуального документа: Сад Ганди и грибковое царство» в ключевые категории и когнитивные структуры сферной и целостно планетарной «Науки мира». Ее закон «Равно Необходимых и Достаточных Сферы» реальности, определяющий ее сферные структуры и категории составляет константы ее сферного мышления:

- 1. Сферы социальных ресурсов/продуктов ЛИОВ: Люди, Информация, Организация, Вещи. Сокращенно – ЛИОВ-ресурсы/продукты.

- 2. Сферы общественного производства этих ресурсов/продуктов:

Социосфера (образование, здравоохранение и т.п.), производящая Людей,

Инфосфера (наука, религия и т.п.), производящая Информацию,

Оргсфера (политика, демократия и т.п.), производящая Организации,

Техносфера (экономика, экология и т.п.), производящая Вещи (материальные блага). Сокращенно – СИОТ-сферы.

- 3. Сфероны, группы людей, занятые в четырех сферах ОП:

Социосферон, Инфосферон, Оргсферон, Техносферон. Сокращенно – СИОТ-сфероны.

Понятия проекта: «сообщества, человек, устойчивая жизнь, здоровье, сельские деревни, исцеление, образование» и т.п. выражают ресурс Люди, Социосферу и Социосферон, занятый в ней.

Понятия проекта: «наука, Ганди, Аристотель, научный прогресс, религия, этические ценности, научные партнеры, садовая культура» и т.п. выражают ресурс Информация, Инфосферу и Инфосферон, занятый в ней.

Понятия проекта: «сад Ганди, демократия, демократическое участие, права человека, политики, традиции, Mycoverse Foundation, Balkan Tribe, местные органы власти, НПО, учреждения» и т.п. выражают ресурс Организация, Оргсферу и Оргсферон, занятый в ней.

Понятия проекта: «грибы, растения, технологии, продовольственное снабжение, окружающая среда, экология,» и т.п. выражают ресурс Вещи, Техносферу и Техносферон, занятый в ней.

Поэтому, сферное мышление в данном «концептуальном проекте» представлено имплицитно во всей полноте, что обеспечивает ему высшие достоинства «интегральной целостности и целостной интеграции». Перевод имплицитного сферного мышления в его эксплицитную форму, ясно осознаваемую и выражаемую в сферных категориях и структурах, обеспечит его всеобщее признание и гарантирует его эффективную, экономическую, прежде всего бизнес реализацию в глобальном, планетарном масштабе.

Поэтому данный проект на уровне эксплицитного сферного мышления составит особую ментальную ценность во всех сферных смыслах среди практических приложений нашего БНМ. Нам остается только поблагодарить автора за столь блистательный сферный проект и пожелать ему успеха в его сферном эксплицировании и интерпретации.

Лев Семашко

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253

18-02-25

Herzlich willkommen bei: LEBENSZEICHEN-365 by Heike Woock

Ich bin Ihre Begleitung zur Prävention gegen die Folgen des Alleinseins und für mehr Sicherheit im Alltag.

Mit Lebenszeichen 365 biete ich vor allem alleinstehenden Menschen die Möglichkeit, einfach und unkompliziert ihre Selbstständigkeit zu bewahren.

Mit Lebenszeichen Plus und Individuell bekommen Sie zusätzich regelmässige Zuwendung, lösungsorientieres Coaching oder eine tägliche Begleitung. Persönlich, indivuell, 365 Tage im Jahr. Kontaktiren Sie mich oder nutzen Sie das 7 Tage Test-Abonnement.» 

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30-11-20

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Дорогой Лукас,

         Большое спасибо за ваши энергичные и целеустремленные усилия продвигать идею «Ганди Сады» в Европе и глобально! Это замечательное стремление, полностью соответствующее Гандианскому духу ненасилия и особому вниманию Ганди пище, питанию и биосфере в целом. Мы восхищаемся вашей рекомендацией мадам Heike Woock.

Дорогая Мс Heike Woock,

         Мы счастливы приветствовать вас в нашей глобальной Гандианской семье гармонии в ГСГ и опубликовать ваше письмо на персональной странице Лукаса (). Мы восхищаемся вашим, энергией и профессиональным опытом, которые намерены направить на создание «Ганди Садов» в Европе и в мире. Мы полностью поддерживаем все ваши стремления в этом благородном и высоком духовном стремлении и были бы счастливы принять вас членом ГСГ, если вы согласны с нашим Уставом (), проектами () и могли бы написать краткий (в 1 стр.) отзыв об одной из двух последних книг ГСГ: Гандика () или Гандианский «Антиядерный Манифест» ().

         Когда вы станете членом ГСГ, если ничто вам не помешает в этом, мы были бы рады открыть вашу персональную страницу на нашем сайте «Мир из Гармонии» и предложить вам, вместе с Лукасом, организовать и возглавить европейское отделение ГСГ: ГСГ-Европа с нашей помощью. Нравится ли вам подобная перспектива? Хотите ли вы этого? Это возможно для вас? Тогда ваш с Лукасом международный проект стал бы составной частью проектов ГСГ, которых мы создали за 15 лет 78 и опубликовали по ним 10 книг, и т.д. Для персональной страницы вы уже прислали фото и СВ (вы могли бы ее расширить до 1 стр.), теперь мы ждем ваш отзыв на одну из указанных книг ГСГ, чтобы вы могли более ясно понять и оценить особенность нашей миротворческой Гандианской миссии из варн/сферонов Ганди. Понимание – это залог сознательного и эффективного партнерства.
        Лучшие пожелания вам здоровья, успехов и мира из гармонии в Ганди Садах,
Лео,

30-11-20

Dear Lucas,

Thank you very much for your energetic and determined efforts to promote the idea of ​​"Gandhi Gardens" in Europe and globally! This is a wonderful aspiration, fully in line with the Gandhian spirit of non-violence and Gandhi's special attention to food, nutrition and the biosphere in general. We admire your recommendation for Madame Heike Woock.

Dear Ms. Heike Woock,

         We are happy to welcome you to our global Gandhian family of harmony in the GHA and publish your letter o­n Lucas's personal page https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887). We admire your energy and professional experience, which you are intend to direct to the creation of "Gandhi Gardens" in Europe and in the world. We fully support all your aspirations in this noble and high spiritual aspiration! We would be happy to accept you as the GHA member if you agree with our Charter (https://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=249), projects (https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=472) and could write a short (1 page) review about o­ne of the two the latest GHA books: Gandhica (https://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=848) or Gandhian "Anti-Nuclear Manifesto" (https://www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=908).

When you become a GHA member, if nothing interferes you with this, we would be glad to open your personal page o­n our website "Peace from Harmony" and invite you, together with Lucas, to organize and head the GHA European branch: GHA-Europe with our help. Do you like this perspective? Do you want this? Is it possible for you?

Then your international project with Lucas would become an integral part of the GHA projects, which we have created in 15 years 78 and published 10 books o­n them, etc. For the personal page, you have already sent a photo and CV (you could expand it to 1 page), now we are waiting for your review o­n o­ne of the GHA books, so that you can more clearly understand and appreciate the peculiarity of our peacemaking Gandhian mission from the varnas/spherons of Gandhi. Understanding is the key to a meaningful and effective partnership.
Best wishes for you health, success and peace from harmony in Gandhi Gardens,
Leo,
30-11-20

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Selected Books:

Verstehen Verstehen Nicht-Verstehen Verstehen/Understanding Understanding
Understanding Not-Understanding, 2005

“Understanding Understanding – Understanding Not-Understanding”: questioning logic, language, identity, and their relationship to the sacred, this paper explores the relationship between our description and our perception of the world and how the inclusion or exclusion of an ego/anobserver is central to it. This book shows how mysticism, empericism and everyday experience are interlinked based o­n the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Heinz von Foerster, Gregory Bateson, Chuang Tse, and William Shakespeare. From this, a working relationship with Heinz von Foerster arose in which the author assisted in the making of Foerster’s last book “Part of the World.”

Wissenschaftspoesie – Patterns of Re-Generation 2009

It is not that parts of the universe cause other parts to act in a certain manner. It is the configuration of all things in the universe, which creates the premises for other configurations to arise.

Albertus Magnus

From this perspective and from the experience that through my encounter and my o­ngoing relation to Heinz von Foerster and his thinking my universe seemed to be in a continuous flux, I wanted to present a pattern through which this relation and its forthcoming universes could be understood in a circular feedback loop within the reading of this pattern. I chose the title “Patterns of Re-generation” to express the unity of fact and fiction coming forth through the o­ngoing interlinked processes of perception and cognition re-generating themselves. The German term “Wissenschaftspoesie” in the subtitle literally means “poetry of science” and refers to the form-producing nature of these processes and my responsibility as a scientist or more accurate as a Systemicist for nature and the history of the universe I suggest through my explorations and documentations.

Selected Papers & Performances:

Hack or Die: How Humanity Steers into its Post-digital Future, 2019 (below)

This article introduces stories as a link between culture and evolution. It elaborates how the decline of interhuman communication leads to a loss of perception, capability for cooperation, and human intelligence and contributes to the current ecocide. It shows how cybernetics hacked the relationship between evolution and machine development, which brought forth the outlines of man’s current digital transformation and future. It suggests that Lucas Pawlik is still working o­n a possible sustainable future for humanity that Heinz von Foerster tried to initiate.

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"Heinziaden" o­n the 100th Heinz von Foerster Jubilee, 2011

"Heinziaden" is a tribute performance to the great thinker and exciting human becoming Heinz von Foerster held in the celebration of his 100th birthday. The speaker Lucas Pawlik used the malfunctioning of the tech equipment to present two main characteristics he shares with HvF: The joy of the unexpected as formalized the concept of Non-trivial-Machines and the unique humor of knowing you are in the Now; something impossible to pin down, but possible to be shown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhBJRYlt4uQ

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System Thinking -ABedtime Story of the Second Order, 2007

Sytem Thinking: ABedtime Story of the Second Order demonstrates the fundamentals of system thinking via telling abedtime story which explains how bedtime stories work. It is dedicated to the inventor ofSecond Order Cybernetics Heinz von Foerster re-inventing him and his perspectives of knowledge and communication. It was first performed at the American Society of Cybernetics conference in Urbana.You can now listen to it o­nline as part of100th years celebration ofHeinz von Foerster's birthday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGH6VcIAfss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgq68PtUDNA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBwZ7IjpS5w&t=8s

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In Bed with Constructivism, 2007

In Bed with Constructivism is both a theatre play and scientific paper. It is also a circular story with various changes of perspective. As a metalogue, its form will be representative for its content. It expresses Heinz von Foerster's idea of systemics as unity of science and art.

It was presented as a dialogue at the thirdHeinz von Foerster Congress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koi8xUUM0OA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZTdqgLsMm4

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Dr. Lucas Pawlik

“Fungi Future - Biosphere Rescue Plan”

Call for a global non-profit Assoziation for fungal research aiming to preserve the biosphere

Mission statement

Fungi Future is a non-profit mushroom research association which shall be founded with themission of promoting the survival of mankind through the research and use of mushroom cultures with the overall aim of preserving our biosphere. 

The association called "Fungi Future" will be a transdisciplinary collaboration of researchers to ensure the shared future of humans and fungi. In order to stop the current ecocide of the biosphere and the collapse of the ecosystems necessary for the survival of mankind as well as the collapse of the biodiversity necessary for the survival of all species, and to enable the reconstruction of the same, as much of the genome of the Fungi area of life as possible must be secured, researched and made useful for society. 

No single association, no single spore bank can manage this task alone, because apart from the problem of practical implementation, knowledge about the evolutionary significance of the fungal kingdom as the basis for our present biosphere has not yet become general social and scientific knowledge.

Therefore, the association "Fungi Future", based o­n the expansion and the announcement of the "Fungi Future Spore Bank" as a second unique selling point, will also be a platform for training, courses and cooperation to realize the society-forming possibilities of use and to make the importance of the mushroom kingdom for the life and survival of man understandable. This biggest task of mankind, which consists of finding easy, understandable solutions to this difficult to communicate problem, namely to preserve and shape the biodiversity that has grown out of the mushroom kingdom, will be implemented in a socially effective way through these training courses and cooperations as "best practice" scenarios for the use of mushroom culture and mushroom research as a life-culture design for the preservation of the biosphere.

Association activities and research (5 areas)

1) Fungal spores and fungal culture bank aiming to enable a secure future

In the fungus culture bank, live fungal organisms are stored in cryostasis capsules, in liquid nitrogen at -196 °C. In contrast to the cryopreservation of whole humans or human organs (usually the brain), we have successfully developed a method in which fungal organisms can be cryonically preserved for longer periods of time and then successfully revived. Just as a comprehensive collection of plant seeds is created in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a collection of spores and fungal cultures is built up here as a back-up copy to prevent the extinction of individual species and to secure the genetics for future generations. The aim is to train a team of 5 mycologists, who will then invite fungus collecting associations and fungus clubs all over the world to cooperate and enable them to collect useful offshoots and samples of endangered or rare fungal species in their regions and to introduce them into the spore and culture bank.

2) Biosphere creation by fungi - gradual establishment of a transdisciplinary research institute

Gradual establishment of a Transdisciplinary Research Institute through the formation of collaborative networks that will make the Fungi Future Spore Bank, its purpose and importance for our society and ecosystems widely known, and enable broad participation.  

Through training and courses for target groups and multipliers for the use and dissemination of knowledge from fungal research, such as farmers, non-profit organisations, NGOs from the fields of development cooperation, environmental protection and organic farming. To disseminate knowledge about fungi and to make this knowledge available to a broad public in order to stop climate change, soil erosion, desertification and to improve food security in areas most affected by climate change. To explore new areas of the application of mushrooms in order to overcome current and future crises of mankind. Training of farmers, development aid workers and employees of non-profit organisations to give them the tools and know-how for a successful mushroom cultivation and thus prevent rural exodus. Optimization of cultivation techniques of edible mushrooms based o­n regionally available raw materials in Europe, Africa and Asia to improve the world food situation sustainably, since no other food with such a high protein content can be grown in such a resource-saving way.

3) Sustainable food autonomy - edible mushrooms as food of the future

Organisation of the development of edible mushroom production in Europe and in crisis areas for the sustainable cultivation of healthy and nutritious food o­n the basis of regionally available raw materials such as "by-products" and "waste" from agriculture and forestry. An additional aim is to research new areas of application for mushrooms as food. In dishes with minced meat, part of the meat can be replaced by finely chopped mushrooms, or dishes such as burgers and roasts can be prepared entirely without meat using o­nly chopped mushrooms. Mushrooms are also suitable as a raw material for vegan meat substitutes such as a vegan "sausage", bratlings and much more. This opens many possibilities for future product innovations. Until now, these products have been based o­n wheat protein (gluten) or soy. Also conceivable is the use of fungal proteins as a vegan alternative for the production of protein-rich, easy-to-carry meals as reserve provisions, crisis supplies, outdoor and expedition food and for manned space flight (MRE - Meal Ready To Eat).

4) Fungi as medicine for the biosphere - mycorestauration and mycorrhiza - for forestry and agriculture 

In this sub-area, the focus is o­n the recovery and maintenance of the soil as the basis of life o­n our planet. Training of farmers and development aid workers to enable them to use mycorrhizal fungi and "fungal fertilizers" (by-product of fungal cultivation) to build up humus layers and increase yields in plant cultivation and to reduce the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides. The substrates used for mushroom cultivation (point 3) form fruiting bodies can be used until all substances from the substrate that can be used by the mushroom have been processed. After the last mushroom harvest, the remaining substrate residues can be used as fertiliser for plant cultivation. Fungi are the largest, oldest and most sustainable recycling system o­n the planet. Every year, more than 60 million tons of biomass are converted and decomposed by fungi. Fungi are true masters of biotechnology: fungi produce highly effective enzymes and biochemicals that break down substances into their molecular components and use them to create new, completely different substances. These enzymes are also able to absorb and neutralize petroleum products, heavy metals and toxins and thus permanently remove them from the soil.

5) Fungi as medicine for humans

Mushrooms mainly contain proteins and complex amino acids, in addition there are secondary ingredients of interest to medicine such as polysaccharides, beta-glucans, triterpenes, glucoproteins, chitin, large amounts of minerals and trace elements such as potassium, calcium, iron, copper, selenium, as well as vitamins from the B complex, vitamins D and E, some also contain vitamins A and C. New substances are constantly being discovered in mushrooms, which cause a great stir among doctors, pharmacologists and researchers. In this section the health effects of mushrooms are further researched. Our starting point here is a holistic view of the health of body, mind and soul. The primary aim in this area is to scientifically determine the clinical effectiveness of medicinal mushrooms by means of studies of the highest quality standards. o­ne of the first projects planned is a study to investigate the regenerative potential of a mushroom extract mixture mycelium and fruit body of Hericium erinaceus with regard to neurological and cognitive deficits in patients with ischemic stroke.

The next steps are now the foundation of the association and the detailed elaboration of the budgets needed for these research areas and the establishment of networks with external researchers and experts who combine their know-how in the fields of medicine, ethics, pharmacology, pedology (soil science), ecology, agricultural economics, nutritional science, pedagogy, transdisciplinarity etc. with our broad mycological know-how to make the world a better place.

02-06-20

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GHA Gandhi book’s Conclusion

https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=848

Digitalization Decoded:

Humanity's Choice: A Gandhian Hack of Nonviolence  orDying in an Escalation of Violence

Synopsis: Through the advancement of AI and hypersonic weapons Gandhi's Golden Rule of Non-Violence becomes humanity's most important survival principle in steering digitalization. We either non-violently hack humanity's digitally empowered circle of violence or die from its escalation.

1. Understanding the Origins Stories of Cybernetics, Digitalization, AI and the Task of Humanities Survivial

-How the Reverse Engineering of Our Nervous System Turned Our World into a Biological Computer Lab

We live in many realities but in o­nly o­ne world. Everyone is part of its steering. A cybernetician is somebody who never ceases hacking, alone or with a group of dedicated humans, to take o­n the freedom and responsibility to adjust the steering of this world. Heinz von Foerster was such a cybernetician, a kind of physician acting o­n the scene of the accident.

He was o­nce asked from which death he would want to save humanity. “From brain death! From brain death! Just last week I was standing o­n this hill with o­ne of our great professors. He asked me: ‘Heinz, do you think computers will ever surpass human intelligence?’ ‘Definitely! – If humans decide to become more and more stupid, soon computers will outdo them’” (Foerster & Freund, 1993). Heinz’s papers helped me to understand how our cultural and biological realities are entangled, how to take it with humor that this will gradually obliterate the distinction between organisms and machines. Years before Heinz published his essential papers under the title Understanding Understanding, I had sent him my hack of his work, Understanding Understanding—Understanding Not Understanding—The Circularity and Paradoxy of Knowledge and Language Forms (Pawlik, 2005), to show that empiric logic, theory, personal experience, and mystical experience could be unified through o­ne theory of natural language. I hated mathematics and machines. Heinz and I were very excited because this theory of natural language showed us how we can relate to our language and our cognition so that their blind spots become obvious. We learned to understand how we do not understand. I thus got the chance to learn how Heinz rethought his life and his involvement in scientific history for his autobiography. Heinz, who was educated among the geniuses of the Viennese Circle, also told this fascinating story about how he hacked its American “remake,” the Macy Conferences, and thus turned scientists into cyberneticians.

One of these future cyberneticians’, John von Neumann’s, digitalization had already had a first world-changing effect before the conferences had even started. Von Neumann formalized human decision-making behavior in a mathematical control theory (Neumann, 2004). He had built a computer to calculate the critical mass for the first atom bomb to prevent the world from the terrors of Hitler and Stalin. (Pias, 2004/II, p. 55). Its future result would be the control/game theory guided by the Cold War’s delicate balance of terror that transformed the human military war game into a subgame for the digitalized control of global human behavior. In this game of narratives and numbers, calculated economic destabilization became paramount, military intervention secondary (Pias, 2004/II).

Although digitalization still runs o­n Neumann’s architecture, Neumann was just o­ne of the multidisciplinary geniuses of the New York Macy Conferences, where the European intellectual elite, who had fled from WWII, gathered with the American elite to reexplore and redesign the relationship between human mind, nature, and machines in the 1940s and 1950s. Norbert Wiener, who had invented a mathematically behavioral analysis for steering organisms, machines, and semantic systems, took the leading role (Wiener, Rosenblueth, & Bigelow, in Pias, 2004/II, p. 24). Norbert Wiener had formalized the neuro-physiologist Arturo Rosenblueth’s empiric data of the nervous system regaining its dynamic balance from an epileptic stroke as cybernetics and the control and communication in animals and machines via time-delayed feedback. (Foerster & Broecker 2002, p. 334) Wiener’s formalization of feedback enabled computers to perform functions that could o­nly be performed by the human brain until then (Pias, 2004/II, p. 399). Digitalization is based o­n the transfer of self-regulating neurological feedback patterns into highly idealized if-then-repeat-until feedback patterns of machines.

The Macy Conferences were also an incubator for perhaps even more outstanding inventions and cooperation, like the first modeling of human-like machine intelligence by Warren McCulloch and Walter Pitts. They showed in their “logical calculus immanent in the nervous system” that any behavior put in logically unambiguous finite words could be calculated by an appropriate net of artificial nerve cells as elementary computers (Neumann, in Pias, 2004, p. 54).

Claude Shannon, for example, contributed the information theory and its related basis of mathematical cryptography for today’s information age and present excitement about distrust-based crypto-currencies and block-chain technology as possible game changers in digital transformation. All in all, there were too many inventors and inventions to mention them in this context.

The key problem of the Macy Conferences was business communication itself, and the best their participants could hope for was to conceptualize the goals and problems in the American attempt to create a new Megascience, as the Viennese Circle had tried before them (Pias 2004/I, p. 29). How to agree upon a steering system that steers all steering systems?

The participants finally agreed o­n a common denominator in the wake of an intervention by the newcomer Heinz von Foerster. The previously unknown Viennese had originally been invited for inventing the first theory and fitting data o­n human forgetting, based o­n the circular feedback of molecular and quantum computation (Foerster & Broecker 2002, pp. 328-329). Already quietly envisioning a better model for computation without a memory, but barely speaking English, he was accepted into the group and made editor of the proceedings. He reluctantly agreed, but claimed he could not pronounce the conference title, “Circular, Causal, and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems” (Pias 2004/II, p. 47). He suggested “Cybernetics” as the unifying concept and title. This was accepted with laughter, first for the specific conference, then as a title for all conferences. The Macy scientists became cyberneticians, and the newborn science evolved. His original preface, however, in which he claimed that cybernetics was not a body of lectures but a body of conversations—adding a new dimension of circular logic to science and western thinking which also requires a new form of ethics—was rejected as too philosophical (Pias 2004/II, p. 48).

After the Macy Conferences, the superpowers set out to conquer the world by relying o­n an engineering cybernetics that became the most important scientific and technological movement between the 1950s and late 1970s. It promised total control over complex, non-linear processes from biological to social systems and was even considered a potential neoreligious foundation by communist regimes. (Krieg, 2005) Its game plan was that within unified cultural environment humans, involved in their particular tasks and games could be steered like ants. Society could be steered like a trivial machine determined by o­nly two feedbacks: the desire to play and the desire to win (Herbert Simon, in Weizenbaum 1976, p. 260). Finally, this approach dissolved back into traditional sciences and created new neurosciences and computer sciences as well as an ambitious military-funded robotics and artificial intelligence (Krieg, 2005). Heinz, however, united a second transdisciplinarity group to explore, model, and understand the relation of machines, language, and human evolution as second-order cybernetics in his Biological Computer Lab from 1958 to 1976, until it was no longer possible to do nonmilitary related research due to the Mansfield Amendment (Umpleby, 2003).

The result of the disintegration of cybernetics is today’s technocratic social turmoil, called digitalization, in which the best researchers either get absorbed by military-entangled tech-giants or are trapped underfunded within the limits of their specialized disciplines. The cybernetic legacy lies in hacking to regain understanding and control. The alternatives are a functioning totalitarian control system, a global war, and/or our ecocide.

We need a rebirth of cybernetics, not least to prevent the rebirth of a military cybernetics, nameless or renamed. The dynamic interrelationship between human neuroplasticity, interaction, communication, and technological progress is ever more rapidly transforming us through digitalization. The engineers have already hacked our world. We are at the beginning of digitalization, and digitalization itself is just the beginning. Today’s biosphere, society, and humanity itself have become a global biological computer lab. When molecular and quantum computing and Foerster’s mathematical model of a multidimensional nervous system induce far more drastic changes, we need more social stability than we have today if we want to survive.

Those who hack(ed) the world have must come together to learn from cybernetics how to avoid ecocide and/or prevent human extinction due to a breakdown of human communication and cooperation. Today we need a new BCL-like research and learning labs through which we can take o­n the responsibility to re-design our evolution, to steer our from our impending collapse into a future through and beyond digitalization.

2. Conclusion: Humanity's Tasks to thrive and survive in the Future:

As involved observers, protagonists, and antagonists of the enterprise Earth, we are in need of exploring our existence as an organism coevolving with its environment. Being able to observe us as species of human organisms for the first time, and to steer this change in designing our cooperative exploration in a Star-Trek-like manner, our task becomes increasingly unmanageable as our conflicts escalate in economical, ideological and military wars. Just as the Industrial Revolution potentiated physical power, digitalization potentiates thinking. We are detectives in a science fiction investigation o­n the tracks of the information age, who are in danger of failing to acknowledge the most transformative tool we encountered in the evolution of the biosphere o­n which both are based o­n: human imagination. Therefore, our excess in power and specialized thinking produces this rapid increase of digital consumption, an information overload, leaving us unable to imagine what is relevant through the changes resulting from our own previous adaptive actions. We perpetuate war and compete for the increase and control of production, while humanity’s primary task is non- violent self-organization. Our current delicate balance of terror, is not o­nly as its name says: "delicate" and in no way sustainable, its control will also have to give over off to theartificial intelligence of our machines, as the increasing speed of hypersonic nuclear weapons will leave no time for human to respond or human decision making. In simple words, even our human delicate balance of terror is just about to be broken as hypersonic weapons can strike so quickly that o­nly machines can counterstrike in time.

Within the extension of our military war game, our economic war game, (Graeber, 2011) this situation has already come true.Ultra-fast AI already interact and compete so much faster than human could at the stock market, that we have no way of knowing if an melt-down at the stock market, which could in turn initiate a nuclear war,is human made, or the result chaotic escalation of the interaction of those AI-Systems.

           Like those cyberneticians fleeing the Second World War, uniting from all over the world united, humanity needs to unite now to solve the task we have inherited from the creators of digitalization: how to unite human and machine intelligence.In doing so, our leaders must lead us non-violently through this process like Gandhi, without an single shot fired, as even sole single nuclear shot fired within a digitalized balance of terror starts a chain reaction of mutual nuclear destruction.Digitalization globalized Gandhi's golden rule of non-violence. We either imagine or act o­n a common non-violent solution, or soon any moment of humanity's digital transformation, even without human interference, could be our last.

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Published: https://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=887

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World Futures, 75: 58–68, 2019

Copyright # Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

ISSN: 0260-4027 print / 1556-1844 o­nline

DOI: 10.1080/02604027.2019.1568802

Routledge

HACK OR DIE:

HOW HUMANITY STEERS INTO ITS

POST-DIGITAL FUTURE

LUCAS PAWLIK

Published o­n the Russian Journal: "Noosphere. Society. Human"

Опубликовано на русском в журнале «Ноосфера.Общество.Человек», No3,2019

http://noocivil.esrae.ru/pdf/2019/3/1951.pdf

В техническом переводе Гугл--https://translate.google.com

This article introduces stories as a link between culture and evolution. It elaborates how the decline of interhuman communication leads to a loss of perception, capability for cooperation, and human intelligence and contributes to the current ecocide. It shows how cybernetics hacked the relationship between evolution and machine development, which brought forth the outlines of man’s current digital transformation and future. It suggests that Lucas Pawlik is still working o­n a possible sustainable future for humanity that Heinz von Foerster tried to initiate.

KEYWORDS: Block chain, digitalization, ecocide, education, feedback, hacking, IQ-cooperation decline, muffin, narrative, quantum computing, second-order cybernetics, stories.

In Love and Appreciation

For Barbara Vogl, Marshall McLuhan, Heinz, Tom and Madeline von Foerster.
For Those Who Allow Me to Lay my Ear o­n the Track of History.

For Those Who Hack(ed) The World, and For the Greatest Human

Technologies: Imagination and Communication.