In this 3rd excerpt we’re speaking of what constitutes our world. The socio-somatic-psycho-emotional filters we carry inside us through which we construct our world. This is a meditation on maps.
Wow! Thanks for this beautiful elaboration upon 'the socio-somatic-psycho-emotional filters we carry inside us through which we construct our world' and the 'meditation on maps'. It spoke to me in so many ways, including the ways you word it all.
The four ingredients offer a solid theory-praxis framework you both then wonderfully exemplify in your respective narratives. I laughed at Eric's account. I don't think I've ever before seen or heard someone share so precisely the workings of familiar inner narratives and dramas as they proceed, nor the different motivations and reasons for them. Lordy! I also much appreciated Amit's reminder we sometimes cannot see the wood for the trees thanks to those those pre-established maps that inhabit us.
The delightful, simple exercise offered to conclude is so juicy and accessible. I really do feel I have some new tools in my cartography kit.
Ah what wonderful praise! Makes me blush and makes me very happy. Yes, Erics account made me laugh too. I so recognise it, I do it all the time. The looking for and imposing meaning. It's wonderful and enlivening! Thank you.
I read only some of this in passing, since my time is limited at the moment. But I did want to mention in passing that grammar and syntax and basic language structure shapes our "world" far, far more than I suspect many yet realize. Is "the world" (kosmos) a verb or a noun? How do (or can) we know? These sorts of questions will likely first be directed by our grammar and syntax, not by observation or experience. But what are observation or experience? Do we know? Probably not, sadly. Would that it could be simple! LOL
Ah. This seems like a logocentric assumption? I would probably come down on the side where grammar and syntax is an emergent property of that elusive thing called life. Not the otherway around. But that's just the world I perceive I'm living in. Sequencing is important.
I really like the provocation of the world as verb though. That shifted something.
Wow! Thanks for this beautiful elaboration upon 'the socio-somatic-psycho-emotional filters we carry inside us through which we construct our world' and the 'meditation on maps'. It spoke to me in so many ways, including the ways you word it all.
The four ingredients offer a solid theory-praxis framework you both then wonderfully exemplify in your respective narratives. I laughed at Eric's account. I don't think I've ever before seen or heard someone share so precisely the workings of familiar inner narratives and dramas as they proceed, nor the different motivations and reasons for them. Lordy! I also much appreciated Amit's reminder we sometimes cannot see the wood for the trees thanks to those those pre-established maps that inhabit us.
The delightful, simple exercise offered to conclude is so juicy and accessible. I really do feel I have some new tools in my cartography kit.
Ah what wonderful praise! Makes me blush and makes me very happy. Yes, Erics account made me laugh too. I so recognise it, I do it all the time. The looking for and imposing meaning. It's wonderful and enlivening! Thank you.
I read only some of this in passing, since my time is limited at the moment. But I did want to mention in passing that grammar and syntax and basic language structure shapes our "world" far, far more than I suspect many yet realize. Is "the world" (kosmos) a verb or a noun? How do (or can) we know? These sorts of questions will likely first be directed by our grammar and syntax, not by observation or experience. But what are observation or experience? Do we know? Probably not, sadly. Would that it could be simple! LOL
Ah. This seems like a logocentric assumption? I would probably come down on the side where grammar and syntax is an emergent property of that elusive thing called life. Not the otherway around. But that's just the world I perceive I'm living in. Sequencing is important.
I really like the provocation of the world as verb though. That shifted something.