Haley Conroy - 2/2/23 - What is a cosmic web? - (Chosen Blog Topic)

 I want to incorporate the cosmic web metaphor into this blog platform since it is something I have discussed in the past semester in my Religion and Ecology class with Dr. Redick. The metaphor depicts mainly that humans have a complex relationship with ecosystems.This relationship can be examined of course from many different viewpoints as inferred as a web. It is important to acknowledge that this relationship has taken much time to evolve. Dr. Redick used the phrase, “cultural elaboration” to explain this complexity I just mentioned of the relationship between humans and their corresponding ecosystem. From a religious perspective, these elaborations may be understood to be implicated in the alteration or creation of worlds. To make a connection with one of my previous course readings, the main similarity between the cosmic web and the Ecology of Eden is that Eisenberg’s central argument is that our relationship with nature cannot help but be complicated. This message is frequently portrayed in enviornmental texts.The cosmic web acts as a model for how multidimensional and dynamic the terms within the web truly are. There are a lot of different words in this web that help us understand how we relate to the world. The cosmic web is categorized of the following resonators and I have added some relating definitions/terms: Soma: greek term for body with many connotations, Pyros: fire, energy, change, movement, act of will, Chronos: time, moon cycles, ocean cycles, segmentation, Ouranos: sky, heaven, sun, moon, stars, clouds, wind, rain, Genos: sort, kind, class, offspring, Psyche: emotion, intellect, stress, passion, Gaea: earth, rivers, lakes, mountains, geographical regions, and Polis: city, societally, tabos, rituals, other people, tribe, clan. This cosmic web is very interesting to me because prior having Dr. Redick as a professor, I had only heard a few of those resonator terms. Categorically speaking of course words mean different things to different people and an individual can interpret conversations differently. If we think of language, it tells us the same thing about our thoughts since it is in a constant state of change and renewal. Empirical language can only be the result of creative language or speech and categorically stating empirical language is not authentic.

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