#2 Orabella
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‘Orabella’s Moment’
Anne of Carversville hasn’t posted Elizaveta Porodina’s images of Bella Hadid’s Orabella ‘skin-nourishing’ fragrances campaign until today.
Thousands of them have been poured onto the Internet in the last month, and there’s no need for us to add to the digital proliferation, without having something half-relevant or better to say about. Given the cosmic energy of these two uber-creative humans, Anne had every confidence that we would get to now.
Saturday morning, June 22, 2024 is ‘now’. The science of Bella’s ‘Orabella’ is a breakthough formulation.
Reading an Apple News article ‘Human Consciousness Is an Illusion, Scientists Say‘ became the door that opened posting Bella’s Orabella images. To be clear, only some scientists say that the whole idea of consciousness is an illusion or a sham.
Others believe the entire universe may have an internal mind, and the phrase ‘we are all connected’ is meant to be taken literally. The belief is named panpsychism, a term coined by the Italian philosopher Francesco Patrizi in the late 16th century.
Patrizi did not invent the concept, however. Ironically, his mission was very similar to my own.
Anne has been on this quest since my high school days decades ago and AOC often refers to my lack of understanding about the devolution of Greek thought from Socrates to Plato to Aristotle.
Especially on the subject of women.
Destroying Our Collective Humanity
One of my greatest fears in life is that men [mostly] will destroy the history of ‘us’ and our collective humanity.
This sense of foreboding began on March 1, 2001 when the Taliban announced in Afghanistan that they would destroy the Buddhas of Bamihan, an important destination along the famous Silk Road.
It went into hyper-drive on September 11, 2001 in a deeply personal experience, and has never left me.
The sadness became acute again over the inconceivable suffering of ordinary people in Gaza and Israel since Oct. 7, 2023.
Of course, this deep and daily human suffering is more important than Anne’s equally-deep sadness over the destruction by Israel’s IDF of not only hospitals and schools, but also the oldest religious and secular sites in the world.
This religious and secular history of who WE are as a human family is precious and under constant excavation in the region. Goddess worship has a rich history in this region, and I can easily imagine Israel’s uber-religious right-wing, who is currently working to take away rights from Israeli women, seeing this war as an opportunity to not only destroy Palestinian religious sites but even earlier ones connected to panpsychism.
Al Jazeera has called the destruction a ‘cultural genocide’ and AOC embraces this term as being sound. According to the IDF, if possible Hamas fighters are holding up in an ancient site, they will blow it up. Theoretically, the Israelis are prepared to raze the entire region, under Netanyahu’s mission to stay out of jail.
The 1177 B.C. Collapse of Civilizations
What is new to me this week — and I have no recall at all of knowing or hearing about this cataclysmic event in history — is the near total collapse of civilizations in the Mediterranean. For example, I’ve written about the Greek earthquakes without knowing that they were part of a larger regional event.
It’s only because AOC is writing about the early human trade routes, that I opened my brain to this new historical reality when it confronted me. ‘Speechless’ describes my reaction.
Given the reality that Aristotelian thought — the foundation of western civilization — debased women, AOC has always sought to probe for an understanding of why. For Aristotle, an embryo becomes male when it grows in an optimal environment in a womb. In those cases where a womb is too cold, or the woman eats a poor diet — or the wind is blowing from the south — then the embryo is poorly nourished and not brought to its ‘proper form’. Then, the embryo becomes female.
Aristotle advises that we must look upon the female as ‘a sort of natural deficiency’: ‘The female is, as it were, a mutilated male.’
