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The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (ii)

Component Modeling A powerful modeling tool has been woven into this series thus far. It is the way of looking at the world through the six physical, emotional, and mental dimensions of the self-complex, with ecology, community, and culture as dimensions of the external world. Each of these layers has an interactive effect on theContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (ii)”

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (i)

Modeling One of the mind’s most potent capacities is the ability to create models of reality to understand themselves better, others, and the world. Through processes of abstraction, ways of looking at processes and systems can be created and exchanged that allow for the highlighting of certain aspects that may be invisible otherwise to increaseContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (i)”

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Active “Beliefing”

Active Beliefing Our beliefs act as boundary conditions for our senses of perception and interpretation. They are often grouped in clusters, with one set of beliefs about ourselves, others, and the world supporting additional beliefs. Some beliefs may be valid or useful, while others may be limiting or debilitating. Beliefs tend to be very highlyContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Active “Beliefing””

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Active Perspectives

Key to your perception is your perspective. Where you are located in the Universe and the ways you interpret what you are experiencing in the Universe are unique yet partial. As an aspect of the Universe, you will likely never be able to perceive the entirety of it. Instead, you can come to valid yetContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Active Perspectives”

Orienting by Desire: Using the Tools

Orienting by Desire: Using the Tools Look over your most recent iteration of your Visions and find one that most clearly displays a quality of Narrating. Once you have identified it, use the following questions to enrich your Visions. Storying: What is the story behind your Vision? What does your story say about you and yourContinue reading “Orienting by Desire: Using the Tools”

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Animating and Scaling

Our ability to engage in Narrating as a tool of the Gift of Set has two additional capacities that can either disable or empower our use of this tool. These are the ability to animate and scale our narratives. Our ability to animate relies upon our capacity to “freeze” images and ideas into static elementsContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Animating and Scaling”

Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Storying

Innate to humans is a capacity to create stories. When this arose is unknown. However, the capacity to take individuals, events, and emotions and like them together as a single thing, a “story” or ” narrative,” has become ubiquitous in human experience. Even when unconscious, our minds will create such stories out of dream experiences.Continue reading “Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Storying”

The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Introduction

In “The Hounds of Tindalos,” Frank Belknap Long proposed a division in time between “curved time” and “angular time.” “Curved time” was the conventional sense of time that humans, and presumably other biological organisms, experience. “Angular time” is experienced by a non-biological form of life that allows for giant leaps across space-time, jumping centuries andContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Introduction”

Orienting by Desire: Inevitability Thinking

As sensitivity to the concept of emergence develops, so can new ways of thinking about your Visions and turning them into realities. In a sense, you can begin to think about an effect or outcome first and then backtrack, looking for the conditions that would make this outcome inevitable starting now. In doing this, weContinue reading “Orienting by Desire: Inevitability Thinking”

The Elusive Obvious: Further Reading

Part II: The Elusive Obvious The Psychology of Man’s Possible Evolution by P.D. Ouspensky Rulebook for Arguments by Anthony Weston The Philosopher’s Toolkit by Julian Baggini and Peter S. Fosl Quantum Psychology by Robert Anton Wilson How to Re-Imagine the World by Anthony Weston Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Czikzentmihalyi Vital Lies, Simple Truths by Daniel Goleman A TheoryContinue reading “The Elusive Obvious: Further Reading”