Due to certain quirks in our awareness, we spend most of our lives in physically uncomfortable positions. Hunched over computers, twisted up in couches, and standing on public transit, we create networks of habitual tension due to a lack of awareness of our physiology. The answer to this process of unconscious habitual tension is toContinue reading “Tactics of Rulership: Tension, Mobility, and Compensation”
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The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading
Part III: The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell The Structural Study of Myth by Claude Levi-Strauss The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious by Carl Jung Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy by E. D. Hirsch Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson Continue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Further Reading”
Orienting by Desire: Cycling Through the Curved Qualities
Exercise: Cycling Through the Curved Qualities Having now covered five “curved” qualities of the Gift of Set and fifteen tools that utilize these features, let’s take a practical run through them all. This is only one pattern with the tools and qualities; other orders can be developed. Those of you who choose to develop otherContinue reading “Orienting by Desire: Cycling Through the Curved Qualities”
The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Germinating
Germinating The final curved quality of the Gift of Set I will discuss is its capacity to create emergent systems. The best metaphor for this is that of plants germinating, which requires an interaction between a seed and a soil matrix. In addition to the direct metaphor of Germination, it also provides additional considerations, namelyContinue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Germinating”
The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (iii)
Conscious Abstracting You are bombarded with more information every second than your nervous system can cope with. Most of this happens below the threshold of your awareness. Within your awareness, you will need to develop skills at recognizing what is important and, perhaps more critically, what is not important for you to pay attention to.Continue reading “The Curved Qualities of the Gift of Set: Modeling (iii)”
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: 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: 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”
Orienting by Desire: Systemic Visions
Take a look over your Visions so far in all six dimensions. How do your individual internal aspects, physical, emotional and intellectual, operate as systems? Are there ways in which “parts” of these systems could be swapped out for better “parts” leading to translative improvements? What things could be brought into a systemic relationship withContinue reading “Orienting by Desire: Systemic Visions”
The Elusive Obvious: Translation and Transformation in Systems
When functioning, systems operate with general efficiency within the context in which they operate. However, any system can be subject to stress, threatening the overall system with collapse and dissipation. Most systems have two means of coping with stress being applied: translation and transformation. When a system adjusts to stress via translation, it maintains theContinue reading “The Elusive Obvious: Translation and Transformation in Systems”
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