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Gary F. Green II, PhD's avatar

I love reading this, and couldn’t help but hear “conjure” in my mind, as well as thinking of asé - from African spiritualities - as the life force we exchange between each other in the syntropic process. I love what you’re up to, my friend ✊🏾

One question arises: how would you define “justice” in this framework, particularly with attention to the physiological dynamics that exist re: syntropy outside of our (faulty) moral frameworks?

Jeremy Prince's avatar

@Gary F. Green II, PhD, as promised!

And I even spent the last little bit sharpening my comparison to asé and Ubuntu.

https://ebyonim.substack.com/p/tzedek?r=499ci&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Jeremy Prince's avatar

Dr. Green! Man, that connection to asé and conjure is exactly the frequency this Archive is trying to tune into. You’ve hit on the precise tension I’m exploring.

In this framework, Justice (Tzedek) is the structural integrity of the flow. Outside of our faulty moral frameworks, justice is a thermodynamic and physiological necessity: it is the circulation of the asé. If we define Syntropy as the convergence of life-making forces (ha-Elohim), then tzedek/justiceis the protocol that ensures that convergence doesn't get blocked by the pathogens of accumulation.

Think of it as some kind of covenantal immune response: a body dies when one organ decided to 'own' all the blood. That’s entropy. Justice is the physiologic intervention that performs the reset (the Jubilee/Yovel) to ensure the blood gets back to the limbs. Imagine it as almost vascular in nature. Hoarding resources (i.e. wealth) and siphoning coherence out of a system or a body is like plaque buildup in the arterial network. Too many resources accumulated in a few spots and you’ve got cardiac arrest.

And then speaking of hearts, YHWH Eloheinu (the convergent verb of asé bending toward emancipation and justice) 'ponders the heart' not to check our manners, but to measure our coherence with this Living Verb. Authentic dispossession registers as a specific frequency of negentropy. When we cancel debts and share bread, we are 'conjuring' the presence of YHWH by restoring the integrity of the field.

We aren't being 'good'; we are being functional. We’re passing the diagnostic, the systems check (tov in Hebrew). In this way our mission is to continue debugging the mind-virus of empire and switching the original operating system of the Covenant back online.

Also, I’ve been working on my next lexical release… on justice (tzedek), so your question is well timed! 🤓🤣🤯

Gary F. Green II, PhD's avatar

Yea, this is good. We are definitely swimming in the same seas, and it is exciting to read your developments. 🫱🏻‍🫲🏾