September 2017 Book Club

   September 13, 2017
   September 13, 2017
   John Michael Greer
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   This week's post is the third  of a monthly series of open-discussion posts
   focusing  on books  I've written.  Our  theme for  the present  is my  book
   Mystery Teachings  from the  Living Earth, and  this week  we're discussing
   "The Second Law: The  Law of Flow" (pp. 26-35). I'd like  to ask readers to
   keep their questions and comments focused  on that chapter and the ideas it
   contains; we'll have another Ask Me  Anything post later this month, and of
   course a substantive monthly post or two in due time.

   In place of an outline, here's the Second Law, as it appears in the book:

   Everything that exists is created and sustained by flows of matter, energy,
   and information  that come from the  whole system to which  it belongs, and
   return  to  that  whole  system.  Participating  in  these  flows,  without
   interfering with  them, brings health  and wholeness; blocking them,  in an
   attempt to turn  flows into accumulations, causes  suffering and disruption
   to the whole system and all its parts.

   The rest of this section of the book expands on the concept this definition
   sketches  out. Questions?  Comments?  Discussions? Have  at it-subject,  of
   course, to the usual rules.