The discipline of ‘biomimicry’ takes its name from the Greek word ‘bios’, life and mimesis, which means to imitate.  “Learning to do what life has learned to do” and reminding ourselves of those geniuses in the Natural world, is the great task of the modern world, according to Janine Benyus, the grandmother of Biomimicry.  The practice of Biomimicry asks the question: How has nature already solved many of the problems human beings are now facing?

The story of Biomimicry may be the oldest story, dating back to our earliest Ancestors, 3.5 billion years ago, when life began.  Organisms which are billions of years old had to learn how to evolve and begin to solve the problems of survival, such as, desalinizing water (through the membranes of a certain kind of insect), using CO2 as a building block (the skin of a Galapagos basking shark), gathering the sun’s energy (plants and a whole host of organisms), gathering water from fog (bumps on the wing covers of flying insects), insulating electricity (the eel), reducing drag time (scalloped fins on certain sharks), and utilizing swarm technology to minimize peak power usage-(ants and bees).

The new Mythos of ecopsychology as well as ecosystems technologies are utilizing “Natures Operating Instructions” (Kenny Ausebel, founder of Bioneers), to learn to do what life has learned to do so beautifully.

There is an apparent link in depth psychology, to an understanding of our own instinctual natures.

In “Man and his Symbols”, C.G. Jung wrote:  “Just as the human body represents a whole museum of organs, each with a long evolutionary history behind it, so we should expect to find that the mind is organized in a similar way. It can no more be a product without history than is the body in which it exists. By “history” I do not mean the fact that the mind builds itself up by conscious reference to the past through language and other cultural traditions. I am referring to the biological, prehistoric, and unconscious development of the mind in archaic man, whose psyche was still close to that of the animal.
This immensely old psyche forms the basis of our mind, just as much as the structure of our body is based on the general anatomical pattern of the mammal. The trained eye of the anatomist or the biologist finds many traces of this original pattern in our bodies.”

The nanotechnologies of the past and future are coming together, as we weave new technologies together  and with the the Earth’s ancient Elders.