Card Sessions: Purpose

John Kellden
3 min readNov 18, 2020

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In a network, life as signs, sense making, paradigmatic annealing, circles and human becoming.

Usually, one of the five psycho-spiritual modalities below will resonate more strongly than the other four.

It’s no big secret that I’m more of a first modality kind of human: life and signs, co-extending, co-evolving.

Card: Work
Work is the most
misunderstood
form of meditation.

Work: Stewardship, Taking Thought, Engagement and Return on Engagement.

In the intersect of purpose (as if), experiences of purposefulness (as is) and relational meaning-making: work. Work as a subset of play and play as a subset of play^n.

Knowledge Gardening as a Generative Sequence
meditation, patterning, insight, POODDEAU(convivial OODA), contextual intelligence, conversational intelligence, return on engagement

My legacy and claim to immortality, will be my 87 million cards, neatly packaged together with a large finite set pattern, pattern language, augmenting a requisite variety of paths and generative sequences between situational awareness and preferable outcomes, transforming problem spaces and homesteading possibility spaces.

Life as signs, sense making, knowledge, circles and human becoming.

Life As Signs

Life as biosemiosis, semiosis and text: life and signs, co-extensive, co-extending and cultivating a more nature, more human becoming.
1. Possibility Space
6. Today
11. Metalogue, Conversations, Discourse
16. Hypertext, Distributed Documents
21. Cards

Life As Meaning-making

Life as sensemaking and meaning-making:
2. Images
7. Taking Thought, Social Cognition
12. Gatherings, Events, Card Sessions, Knowledge Navigation Labs
17. Flow
Knowledge flow, multi-order cybernetics
22. Purpose
Als ob. As if. As if our sensemaking and meaning-making, is meaningful, as if there’s purpose to our paths.

Life As Perspectives

Life as paradigmatic annealing amidst change:
3. Knowledge
8. Paradigm
13. Perspectives
18. Change
23. Play

Life As Circles of Concern, Confluence & Concrescence

Life as social, as circles ….
4. Social
9. How to play
14. Preferable Outcomes
19. Participatory Inquiry
Turning media into social media, turning social media into social social media.
24. Questions

One could argue that this sequence can as meaningfully start with the last step, if only tacit, implied, seen and understood as a given.
Are we social?

Life As Scenes & Scenius

Life as human becoming:
5. Scene
Scenius, culture, zeitgeist, plateaus, local optima, narratives, plenitude, …
10. Paths
15. Considerations
20. Character
Rigidity and adaptability.
What is its true nature?

“What’s identity…”?
@johnkellden riffing on William Shakespeare

25. In A Network: Thrivability

A Resonant Gathering Named Purpose

Usually, one of these five five psycho-spiritual modalities will resonate more strongly than the other four.

It’s no big secret that I’m more of a first modality kind of human: life and signs, co-extending, co-evolving.

My legacy and claim to immortality, will be my 87 million cards, neatly packaged together with a large finite set pattern, pattern language, augmenting a requisite variety of paths, between today and preferable outcomes, homesteading possibility spaces.

Each and every human being have a claim to immortality, a core seed that when sprouting, turns each and every individual, beautiful beyond belief.

Suffering is that fertile soul that produces beauty.

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John Kellden
John Kellden

Written by John Kellden

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