Media Ecology in the Middle of the World

"This was is my first successful implementation of html and at least in part one of the primary inspirations for this blog project: A media ecology project related to my travels and work as a communications liason in Ecuador between 1998-2001. (click on the image-not up and runnung yet ) It too like the media and identity project are still in development" -Terry

Galapagos

One of those life changing experiences. After visiting the Galapagos Island I will never look at the world the same way again. Neither did Charles Darwin. So much has happened that Darwin could not have known about. What would he think today about the world he created. One divided between two world views that of god and man and nature?

Before there was a Darwin and the Galapagos there was Plato and Time

Time, the Moving Image of Eternity.In his dealing with Time, Plato holds one of his great visions:When the father who had made it saw it set in motion and alive, a shrine brought into being for the everlasting gods, he rejoiced and being well pleased he took thought to make it yet more like its pattern.

So as that pattern is the Living Being that is for ever existent, he sought to make this universe also like it, so far as that might be...Now the nature of that Living Being was eternal, and this character it was impossible to confer in full completeness on the generated thing. But he took thought to make, as it were, a moving likeness of eternity; an everlasting likeness moving according to number _ that to which we have given the name Time.For there were no days and nights, months and years, before the heavens came into being, but he planned that they should now come to be at the same time that heavens were framed.

All these are parts of Time, and "was" and "shall be" are forms of time that have come to be. We are wrong to transfer them unthinkingly to eternal being..."was" and "shall be" are properly used of Becoming which proceeds in time for they are motions. But that which is for ever in the same state immovably, cannot be becoming older or younger by lapse of time;...the moving things of sense have come into being as forms of time, which images eternity and revolves according to number.- Timaeus 37c-38a.

Time is created, not part of Being but of Becoming. Or rather, Becoming and Time are alike imaged. Time images the eternal, in which there is no past or future.In one sense this is very modern. Time is not absolute but secondary and derived. In another sense this is not relativity however, as space in Plato is not here involved with Time. However, if I were allowed to carry his thought on I would say:

1. Space is the receptacle of Becoming. (Plato) 2. Becoming is in Time. (Plato)

3. Hence space is in a sense also the receptacle of Time

Health activism- Dr Allan Counter

Dr Allen Counter

"When I was living in Ecuador Dr. Counter made visits to study mercury contamination among the children and adults in our mining community of Nambija. There he is in the photo on the left on the road leading into Nambija. I joined Dr. Counter and his associate for dinner at the Hotel Libertador one evening. I believe he is a true humanitarian and I wish him well wherever he goes.

To see for yourselves what a world class name dropper I truly am follow the link below his photo to read about an extremely distinguished career that should serve as a role model to us all. Be sure to click on his CV link too."-Terry