ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Out of the Helix</TITLE> <META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Gary Williams"> <META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Out of the Helix, Spiral Pulse Press, Permaculture, Cultural, Transformation, Healthy, Sustainable, Gary Williams"> <META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Out of the Helix by Gary Williams, a book of essays on Social or Cultural Transformation. Each essay has a different focus, including agriculture, economic systems, rivers, symbols, communities and relationships."> <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="9D28E8473878440DB7429DE54A8C6936" /> </HEAD> <!-- main body starts here --> <BODY LINK="#000000" VLINK="#000000" ALINK="#000000"> <!-- title and buttons --> <DIV ALIGN="CENTER"> <TD COLSPAN="3"><A HREF="index.php" onMouseOver="document.changeImage.src = 'Border/buttons/home1.gif'" onMouseOut="document.changeImage.src = 'Border/buttons/home.gif'"><IMG SRC="Border/buttons/home.gif" name = "changeImage" BORDER=0></A> </DIV> <TABLE CELLPADDING="20" WIDTH="70%" ALIGN="CENTER" CELLSPACING="0"> <TR BGCOLOR="#2E8B57" ALIGN="CENTER"> <TD ALIGN="LEFT" HEIGHT="175" WIDTH="200"><IMG SRC="Border/A-COVER1.jpg" HEIGHT=175></TD> <TD><IMG SRC="Border/TITLE.jpg" WIDTH="550"> <BR><BR> <A HREF="outofthehelix.html"><IMG SRC="Border/buttons/BOOKBUTTON1.GIF" BORDER="0"></A> <!-- previously called Out of the Helix.html --> <A HREF="Chapters.html"><IMG SRC="Border/buttons/CHAPTERBUTTON.GIF" BORDER="0"></A> <A HREF="Gary.html"><IMG SRC="Border/buttons/AUTHORBUTTON.GIF" BORDER="0"></A> <A HREF="Order Page.html"><IMG SRC="Border/buttons/ORDERBUTTON.GIF" BORDER="0"></A> </TD> <TR BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <TD COLOR="#FFFFFF" COLSPAN="3"> <!-- begin this page information --> <H1> A Book of Essays on Cultural Transformation </H1> <IMG SRC="Images/A-Duncan-Meta.jpg" WIDTH=300 BORDER="0" ALT="" ALIGN=LEFT> The essays in this book are all about social or cultural transformation. They suggest a different way of looking at some aspect of our lives, an alternative agriculture or economic system, a different way of viewing the world or our relationships with each other. Each is a separate essay, written at a different time over a period of about five years. However, they have a similar format and share common themes. There are patterns throughout the essays that link them together and suggest a wider commonality from an underpinning worldview. <P> There are repeating themes of a dynamic pulse of divergence and convergence, of differentiation and continuity, of systems within systems that have fuzzy boundaries and a meta-stabilty through inter-linkage. The symbolism used is of open spirals rather than closed circles or straight lines, of pulsating flows where there are both identifiable objects and the inter-activity of events. The aims are about creative participation and enhancement, where there is acceptance, responsibility and respect. Life is seen as involving complex dynamic balancing that arises from inter-dependence and feedback, but with pulse exchanges and sudden transitions. <P> This book is about our potential. It is not about life as we live it now, or have lived it, but how we might live. It looks at our world as it is, to see a different world. <P> It is about us living more vibrantly and creatively, by accepting the dynamic and interconnected nature of life on our planet, and living in more complex communities and with more complex relationships with our environment and the wider world. It is about a way of life that we have the potential to develop but have not achieved. A social and cultural transformation that changes the 'state' or arrangements of our communal lives, a transforming shift to a higher level of complexity, a more densely connected and intensely patterned life. <P> <CENTER>******************************</CENTER> <UL> <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Religion.html">Religion</A></B><BR> Spirituality in a crowded, artificial, technological world <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Economics.html">Economics</A></B><BR> Explosive growth to collapse <I>or</I> Maturity of interconnection <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Cosmology.html">Cosmology</A></B><BR> Big Bang .. to .. a whimper <I>or</I> Eternal recurrence <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Physical.html">Physical Systems</A></B><BR> Waves or particles - at the edge of chaos & catastrophe <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Rivers.html">Rivers</A></B><BR> Pulse dynamic - Meta-stability - Scale repetition <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Symbols.html">Symbols</A></B><BR> Converging & diverging spirals - crosses of linearity <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Communities.html">Communities</A></B><BR> Individual subdivision <I>or</I> Integrated living <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Relationships.html">Relationships</A></B><BR> Cultures of dominance or partnership - Power & Sex <LI><B><A HREF="Chapters/Agriculture.html">Agriculture</A></B><BR> Dependence & toxicity <I>or</I> Sustainability & nutrition </UL> <DIV ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="Images/A-Apple-Shell.jpg" WIDTH="300" BORDER="0" ALT=""></DIV> <!-- Links around the website --> <P><P><HR> <CENTER> <A HREF="outofthehelix.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Book</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="Chapters.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Chapters</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="Gary.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Author</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="Order Page.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Order</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="Links.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Links</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="Sitemap.html"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Sitemap</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF="index.php"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">Home</FONT></A>&nbsp;&nbsp; <A HREF= "mailto:%67%61%72%79%40%77%61%74%65%72%73%63%61%70%65%2E%63%6F%2E%6E%7A"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#708090" FACE="sans-serif">&#x43;&#x6F;&#x6E;&#x74;&#x61;&#x63;&#x74;&#x20;&#x55;&#x73;</FONT></A> </CENTER> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML> <!-- claire's notes: find out what the symbols are in HTML - to hide email addresses from robots: http://www.een.bris.ac.uk/cost288/news8.html <IMG SRC="D:/Book/Scan/A-Duncan-Cart-YN1.jpg" WIDTH="500" BORDER="0" ALT="" ALIGN=LEFT><BR> BGCOLOR=#2E8B57 for a mouse over <A HREF="outofthehelix.html" onmouseover="document.changeImage.src = 'Border/buttons/BOOKBUTTON1.GIF'" onmouseout="document.changeImage.src = 'Border/buttons/BOOKBUTTON.GIF'"> <IMG SRC="Border/buttons/BOOKBUTTON.GIF" name = "changeImage" BORDER=0></A> <A HREF="Chapters.html" onmouseover="document.changeImage4.src = 'Border/buttons/CHAPTERBUTTON1.GIF'" onmouseout="document.changeImage4.src = 'Border/buttons/CHAPTERBUTTON.GIF'"> <IMG SRC="Border/buttons/CHAPTERBUTTON.GIF" name = "changeImage4" BORDER=0></A> <A HREF="Gary.html" onmouseover="document.changeImage2.src = 'Border/buttons/AUTHORBUTTON1.GIF'" onmouseout="document.changeImage2.src = 'Border/buttons/AUTHORBUTTON.GIF'"> <IMG SRC="Border/buttons/AUTHORBUTTON.GIF" name = "changeImage2" BORDER=0></A> <A HREF="Order Page.html" onmouseover="document.changeImage3.src = 'Border/buttons/ORDERBUTTON1.GIF'" onmouseout="document.changeImage3.src = 'Border/buttons/ORDERBUTTON.GIF'"> <IMG SRC="Border/buttons/ORDERBUTTON.GIF" name = "changeImage3" BORDER=0></A> -->