Conviction to evolve with each other in Sympoiesis

Life on earth that includes human people in any tolerable way is over, that apocalypse really is now.43 Neither position of hope nor despair would direct humans to find connections of the existence on earth with companion species, the string figures for Prof Dr Haraway. The ‘Posthuman Turn’ and the Anthropocene evoke further time of difficulties for human’s life as commonly known, the first proposes a revision to the human as a whole from a multidirectional perspective, and the second is a boundary that mark an inflation point for human existence. Extending on Haraway’s definition of the Chthulucene, the epoch of for learning responseability on the damaged earth and the time of new beginnings for the Chthonics (the beings of the earth), she proposes SF (Science Fiction, Speculative Fabulation, Speculative Feminism, Science Fact, So Far) as a method for tracing thus connections that exist between humans and nature, the String Figures that form patters and assembly and require responses, passing on and receiving from companion species, making and unmaking.44 Hence, SF is a practice and a process of becoming-with each other in communication and evolution as a response to the fears of the Anthropocene and Capitalocene.

The purpose then is to recognise and make connections, to create new ones and ultimately to make kin with earthy beings, the latter referring to something other/more than entities tied by ancestry or genealogy as a practice of learning from each other. Making kin is to be responsible of each other and coexist together in multispecies kinship including human and other-than- and more-than-human beings.45 Haraway proposes Sympoiesis as the model system of interconnection, learning from and making with each other as multispecies symbionts.

The term sympoiesis refers to ‘a collectively producing systems that do not have self-defined spatial or temporal boundaries where information and control are distributed among components. The systems are evolutionary and have the potential for surprising change’.46 In other words, sympoiesis is a simplified word referring to a system of ‘making-with’ each other in collaboration, as non-earthlings never are and act alone. Therefore, making kin is the methodology for restoring refugia in sympoietic-collaboration system, a biological-evolutionary-developmental ecology, for indigenous people it is a return to a natural instinct of being in a wisdom response to this time of difficulties on earth.

The consumption of Ayawáskha questions the reality in which human have existed and enables to selfredefine it. It provides with the opportunity to become other, a different being. This requires the refusal of what have marked the existence of humans until now, to reject what is against of a multispecies existence in collaboration, against to the essential condition of nature systems, against the capacity of making connection with each other, against the natural visionary instincts of the mind, and against the capacity to recognise nature as a continuum of human existence and other existences.

Ayawáskha enable to perceived what is limited by being human, it restores thus connection in the brain to bring the frightful memories of being human and emotion that comes with it, taking the mind to a process of working with thus feelings and questioning human identity, though its deepest fears, omitting its ego to find itself, repenting from its actions, and willing to evolve. Lastly, purging is the final state of the mindand-body cleansing, the division between the past being and new being. By accepting the natural instinct of purging as symbolic act of releasing what it not needed, it marks the death of the human as it is known, freeing the mind and body from their limitations, and enabling to be what it is wanted to be. That is what the consumption of Ayawáskha means for indigenous people.

…I can see something now …Is it someone? It is Fire ... ... and Something is burning

The brew is making effect, I feel dizzy, confuse and scare. Some people is still sitting around the fire in the chagra admiring the night, I can’t stand it anymore, I need to go inside… to the Maloka

Contents:

Beyond the pure function of a shelter

The Psychotropic Practices of Architecture

The Purpose of Entheogenic Design

The Purge, Being after Death

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