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I Am: an Embodied Pattern Language

I’m not sure where to begin, or to end, as it is. Somewhere in between beginning and ending is where Being resides, where I find my aliveness, my “I Am”. At once chaotic and pointless, while also salient and meaningful. Everything is changing all of the time! There is nothing new under the sun. There is something to be said about finding a place for communion somewhere in between the poles of definiteness. Down in the weeds of the deeply uncertain.

After all, what is a story with no beginning and end? How are we to know where the characters are coming from? Or going to? What is their motivation? What gives context to their world? To their existence? Without a point of origin or a conclusive point, how does conflict arise and tension resolve? I’m not speaking to some abstract never-ending story, but to the very real nature of our everyday lived experience. Our point is origin (before birth) is withdrawn from us, as is our time of death. There is no obvious point, no clear direction things are going. All of that we must discern for ourselves from the signs embedded into our environment. We must assemble an understanding, come to certain assumptions, make decisions about what is real.

Container Seeds

Tools for Life

Container Fluidity is a Tool for Life. It is a tool, that once embedded, will never stop being useful throughout ones life. It will have a use in any context. Until one dies or loses access to the tool. What's contingent here, is interest. One must first be interested in order to gain access to the utility. This is an aspect of what defines a Tool for Life. It lasts a lifetime, so long as it’s interesting.

It must be interesting because while it does utilize unconscious processes, it still requires conscious engagement to be the tool. Otherwise it becomes the weapon, as it is an aspect of being which remains present in development whether paid attention to or not.

Container fluidity is also an inborn landmark in lifespan development. It has been a great contributor to the human species becoming what it currently is. It is a tool which has been hand-crafted by life itself through eons of adaptation, to be in service to the flourishing of life’s ecology. This is another aspect of what defines a tool for life. It is a tool which is innately in service of life, thus is generative of value for others.

It must provide value for others as well as the self

Co x 4 or Co-Squared

As a presentation to the Stewards Circle, lay out the framework of the Co-Square as a potential inroads to circle and square (container) ontology, defining stewards as representatives of a space and primary interlocutors in a cultural artifact.

As a one player, it is a matter of dividing contexts and then recreating the self in each space. All activity ought be recreational. All acts of self-transformation ought be facilitated by play in relation to a stable ground.

Don’t carry the old self into the new container. Carry the central body as a mobile ground. Recreate the self as a set of local avatars within the space, which you can then generalize to a special context of the Central Body in the form of a Guardian.

The Groundless Ground

Using training wheels on a path of progressive overload as one elevating their baseline of complexity management through a stepped series of more inclusive “grounds”, or centers of activity. The more inclusive the center of activity, the more complex enactment being directly mediated by the practitioner.

Resolve into dissolution of the rules, guidelines and expectations that were used to get you there. These have been training wheels designed to deliver you to the arena. You use them until they break (formal rule), and when they break you know you have arrived in the arena. Now you use the tools that the toys have become and commit to a campaign of clarity, communication, coherence and coordination. This orientation will keep us synchronized as we devise our mobile grounds and practice our co-articulation a unified expression.

EDC/EDU: Every Day Carry, Every Day Use: Artifacts and Education

Whether consciously or unconsciously, artifacts are carried by the body. They are additive to it, met by extensions from it.

Quest for the True Self

Shadow Selves, Selves, Second Selves, Whole Selves, True Selves

The Spiritual Mountain Range

The Hero’s Pilgrimage

cast of characters

projectives

Whole self parts work

energetic archetypes

collaborative feedback, reciprocal opening and closing

EDC/EDU

Attention, Awareness, Activity, Activation, Artifact

Switches and dials, Sparks and Sticks, artifacts

Qualifications of a “New Religion”/Mass Cultural Wisdom Tradition/Group Survival Strategy

As per Jared Morningstar

First off, cannot differentiate the religion from the culture. It is a dimension, not a whole part. We regard as Whole Parts simply for training wheel purpose. The religion must possess embeddedness and extension with the other dimensions of the culture. This is part of the transformative paradigm shift, not a simple reinvention of the wheel.

Orienting mythos with archiytpeal personages, wisdom parables, ethical teachings

offers oientation and common touchstones

scripture must have authentic “holy” quality, be intuitively compelling

not trite or blasé

Guardians of the Sacred Flame

Ahrke

Weave together collection of individual and collective practices

common experientiel foundation for community

leads to effects such as

spiritual insight

deepened ethical commitment

Living Language

Listeners Language

Lovers Language

Articulate a compelling cosmology

provides sense of significance to the individual

and to the cosmos in general

iGame

God Game

Art of Game

War of Art

Provide substantial coherence to all of the above

provides sense of holy and wholeness to the tradition

Value of G

Inclusive distance between Ground and God/Good/ess

Grace Point

Spindle Properties

Multi-thread process

Multi-stack process

iTower

Must not be a wheel reinvention, rather a transcendence of its fundamental limitations

from circle to eidos

truly universal and expansive

arrive at a new horizon of inclusive transcendence

iDOS

must aim to be capable of including the entire worlds population +

must understand that it will not actually include the entire population, and it must be ok with that

but must be willing and capable nonetheless should the Other desire support

The Perfect Tension

The Spark

The Law of Two

Fire Logick

The Listener’s Language

The Lovers language

The iGame

The Art of Game

The Guardians of the Sacred Flame

The Contract of Condition

Principles

Priorities

Pathways

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