This strikes me as important to bootstrapping and to constructivist
learning, which, in some sense, is what bootstrapping is all about.
http://www.uia.org/uiadocs/noospher.htm
"The gathering of people in Budapest was effectively the first attempt to
give form and relevance to the archetypal "policy-making" encounter
explored in Herman Hesse's Magister Ludi and other less known works (cf
Alan Dean Foster: Game Players of Zan). The concern was to build an
alliance of art, literature and spirituality in response to the challenge
of both human survival and evolution, whether individual or collective.
The distinguishing feature of the gathering was the manner in which
insights from the process of artistic creativity were embodied in the
organization and processes of the event -- considered as the "material"
constraining and inspiring the artistic possibilities of the moment. The
intent was to use the gathering itself to engender an "elixir of
transformation" from which wider society could benefit. This could only be
done by acting with presence in the moment to give appropriate form to what
could be more widely shared.
The gathering acknowledged the trap of conventional meetings in which
representatives of various perspectives make presentations in an effort to
design and colonize the future of others who cannot be present. The failure
to creatively manifest new behaviour and organization in such meetings has
been reflected in the subsequent failure of their work in responding to the
challenges of wider society. Recognizing that a "A trap is a function of
the nature of the trapped" (Geoffrey Vickers), the transformative challenge
was seen to lie in co-creating in the present. Instead of seeking to avoid
this trap, the meeting sought to integrate the behaviours associated with
the trap into new understanding.
Explanations of such a catalytic event are themselves misleading traps. Any
such attempt -- as an ex-planation --effectively displaces the focus of
attention out of the grounded plane of the present moment from which it
derived both its essential meaning and its wider significance. How indeed
does art both carry the insights of the spirit and entrain more fruitfully
transformative behaviour -- and the social and conceptual organization to
sustain it?
The diversity of perspectives present in the configuration of insights
assembled at Budapest was therefore a challenge to any understanding of
what was occurring. Any understanding depended upon the capacity of the
attentive individual to integrate this diversity into a meaningful pattern
whose nature necessarily transcended those perspectives. The transformative
effect of the gathering lay in the manner in which a participant's
awareness was entrained by the interference effects, harmonies and
oppositions that gave structure to that configuration of perspectives.
The "effect" of the gathering on wider society lay in the transformation it
engendered in those who subsequently endeavoured to understand what had
occurred in the light of the various "products" that appeared to emanate
from the gathering. In several senses, it was the meeting itself that was
both "the message" and a transformative catalyst."
PREAMBLE
PERSPECTIVES AND SOUNDINGS
Musical perspective
Singing perspective
Dramatic perspective
Kinaesthetic perspective
Poetic perspective
Artistic perspective
Gastronomic and olfactory perspective
Humour perspective
Magical perspective
Weaving perspective
Geometric perspective
Angelic perspective
Alchemical perspective
Spiritual exercise perspective
META-DISCIPLINE: DISCIPLINING THE DISCIPLINES
SONGLINES AND INTERFERENCE HARMONICS
Aesthetic frameworks
Challenge of human survival
Substituting aesthetic organization for economic organization
Songlines of the noosphere
Aesthetics of differences
COMPREHENDING THE LANGUAGE OF PATTERN SHIFTING
Limitation of vision-based metaphors
References
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