Sunday, April 17, 2016

On the nature of the seed

It seems to me that those who would launch any new enterprise would do well to consider the nature of a seed. The ancient traditions teach that life is the blending between information (spirit) and the material. Mother and father. Mater e pater, in the Latinate. Matter and pattern.

Considering this, what exactly is a seed? It is a small bundle of information encased in a dense envelope of nutrients and energy, adequate to the task of building the bare framework of an organism capable of sustaining itself in the external environment, and programmed to activate when the conditions are ripe, and consume its store of energy in a pulse of rapid growth.

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