ECOS Analysis: The Milky Way Galaxy
Fun fact: I have a underlying fascination for astronomy. The brilliance of stars and their colossal size and distance always boggled my mind. So, I thought I’d try to analyze the Milky Way using the ECOSystem. Here’s what I came up with: 🟣 Soul (Intention): A couple different perspectives: - Human Centric: It is our home. It’s purpose is to balance star systems so we may exist - Star Centric: It’s intention is to birth stars from whirling gas clouds - Universe Centric: It’s intention is to balance neighboring galaxies, as their gravities pull on one another 🔵 Direction (Goal): Create star systems, foster complex life forms, zoom through space 🟢 Creative (Expression): Spiraling arms and a brilliant black hole holding it all together 🌕 Performance (Metrics): How fast it’s traveling, how many stars are being born/dying, chemical composition 🟠 Conservation (Resources): dark matter, nebulous gas clouds, gravitational potential, etc 🔴 Operations (Work/Execution): gravity binding stars together, supernovas recycling elements into new generations ⚪ Observation (Lens): Humans observing with telescopes, spiritual entities observing outside space and time REAL audit: - Resources it used: Gas clouds, dark matter, gravitational energy - What it Expresses: Spiral arms, starlight, radio/infrared emissions - What makes it an Asset: Potential for habitable worlds, cultural inspiration - When it could be a Liability: Instability over billions of years, cosmic collisions This exercise showed me the tension between 🟣 Soul and ⚪️ Observation. In the example with the airplane seatbelt symbol, the intention seemed fairly simple: to keep people safe. But when we’re looking at an example on a massive scale (like a galaxy), then the intention starts to become fuzzy. So, Observation is helpful because it provides context to the system. Depending on the context, intentions may look different (which is something I’ve seen in interpersonal relationships).