I've been doing some hardcore gratitude ritual work lately and pretty quickly I realised that if I was grateful for anything I had to be grateful for everything (because it's all interdependent). Which has lead me to challenge myself: can I be grateful for this horror? how about this? ... and this?
But it didn't occur to me until reading your post that I should flip the equation: everything should be grateful for me too.
thanks for sharing, Rebecca. Really interesting move. I wonder if you can go into a feedback loop or fractal with this: kind of like the "I see you seeing me seeing you..." but gratitude-flavored.
This is solid. Appreciate the good reading and reflection. My own approach for years has involved intensive engagement with and reflection on the firsthand sense and experience of creative work, specifically writing and music, as a collaboration with the daemon muse, with the whole concept most pointedly held within the space of "as if" and spooling out within the halls and corridors of Chapel Perilous. It all resonates vividly with the outlook you've described here.
I find myself seriously playing with these magical maps and lenses more often now, adopting the Vervaeke frame-shifting and frame-viewing as a required "woodar" process of epistemic hygiene (humility) within an ecology of practices. Without humility though, there's a great risk of becoming locked on a favourite lens or hammer-nail dyad. When multiple maps/lenses provide congruent insights, that's when I take note to pay even more attention and inquire further with open curiosity.
I've been doing some hardcore gratitude ritual work lately and pretty quickly I realised that if I was grateful for anything I had to be grateful for everything (because it's all interdependent). Which has lead me to challenge myself: can I be grateful for this horror? how about this? ... and this?
But it didn't occur to me until reading your post that I should flip the equation: everything should be grateful for me too.
Thank you.
I love this direction of inquiry for you.
thanks for sharing, Rebecca. Really interesting move. I wonder if you can go into a feedback loop or fractal with this: kind of like the "I see you seeing me seeing you..." but gratitude-flavored.
This is solid. Appreciate the good reading and reflection. My own approach for years has involved intensive engagement with and reflection on the firsthand sense and experience of creative work, specifically writing and music, as a collaboration with the daemon muse, with the whole concept most pointedly held within the space of "as if" and spooling out within the halls and corridors of Chapel Perilous. It all resonates vividly with the outlook you've described here.
I find myself seriously playing with these magical maps and lenses more often now, adopting the Vervaeke frame-shifting and frame-viewing as a required "woodar" process of epistemic hygiene (humility) within an ecology of practices. Without humility though, there's a great risk of becoming locked on a favourite lens or hammer-nail dyad. When multiple maps/lenses provide congruent insights, that's when I take note to pay even more attention and inquire further with open curiosity.