Card: Synkinaesthesia
outline of parts
In this example, I’m going through the Synkinaesthesia card, outlining its constituent parts.
Each and every one of the cards, can be understood by outlining their constituent parts, with cards, card decks and card sessions turned artifacts, providing functions at scale through an underlying large finite set pattern, pattern language.
With language as UI and conversations that mind, cultivate and matter, as UX.
Play^n is instigation of small group genius, game^n is interface (UI, UX) and win^n is preferable outcomes in a context of intelligence turned ability, in service to one trillion trees, one million villages and one thousand eco-cities, seven generations to come.
… cards, boundary objects, large finite set patterns …
Boundary Objects: Awe
Awe carries two sorts of people in two entirely
different directions: the open-minded people
it carries towards nature and generativity;
in the judging people it brings a retreat into
old polarized beliefs, coping patterns and
comfort zone behavior.
Mind you, though this may seem to justify our
Age of Awakening, our observation that old
belief systems are nothing but an organized,
gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race,
nothing could be farther from the truth.
They possess these two aspects, the polarizing
ones appealing to people stuck in tribalism and
fear; but what is actually happening is that when
spirit touches our soul, mind and desire, our
nature stirred to its depths over questions which
we feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the
bad stirred up as well as the good; the mud as
well as the water.
It doesn’t seem to matter much which belief system,
for both types of reactions occur in our own unique
individual mix and generative sequence, in each
moment and in all people so touched.
@johnkellden riffing on Alfred North Whitehead
Card: Synkinaesthesia
Mind evolving, with our thoughts and felts turning increasingly proprioceptive, with phronesis guiding our performance, virtues turned paths, lines of emergent, unfolding, cultivating, extending and evolving participatory inquiry, with life and signs, co-extensive, inviting and co-arising: embracing, enacting and stewarding the dialogical nature of the pervasive thinking, feeling, gathering and enacting of being, in service to the immanent and regenerative co-agency of evolution.
The hypothesis is in the first two words:
“Mind evolving,…”
Mind Evolving
As a text turned Card, this is me playing the Intelligence turned Ability equivalent of the opening chord in A Hard Days Night.
And, yes. Sometimes when I craft new cards, and/or update/upgrade Cards, Decks, Sessions, Labs, together with evolving and refining and extending the underlying pattern language, I listen to the Beatles, at 800% slower.
https://ctshf.pressbooks.com/chapter/evolution-in-the-minor-key/
Each and every moment in life, when the world calls on you to step forth and shine — you should play (with a little help from your friends) a unique chord, that resonates with the fulllness of your becoming, a chord that carries all the way to the back of the audience.
— Play?
— Yes.
Now read, deeper still, a reading into aliveness, a yes indistinguishable from mmh, yes:
Mmh, yes
Then I’d taken the kiss of seedcake back from his mouth
Going deep South, go down, mmh, yes
Took six big wheels and rolled our bodies
Off of Howth Head and into the flesh, mmh, yesHe said I was a flower of the mountain, yes
But now I’ve powers o’er a woman’s body, yesStepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping outTo where the water and the earth caress
And the down of a peach says mmh, yes
Do I look for those millionaires
Like a Machiavellian girl would
When I could wear a sunset? Mmh, yesAnd how we’d wished to live in the sensual world
You don’t need words, just one kiss, then anotherStepping out of the page into the sensual world
Stepping out, off the page, into the sensual worldAnd then our arrows of desire rewrite the speech, mmh, yes
And then he whispered would I, mmh, yes
Be safe, mmh, yes, from mountain flowers?
And at first with the charm around him, mmh, yes
He loosened it so if it slipped between my breasts
He’d rescue it, mmh, yes
And his spark took life in my hand and, mmh, yes
I said, mmh, yes
But not yet, mmh, yes
Mmh, yes
Mmh, yes
— Kate Bush
Back? Excellent. Notice how the clouds have cleared, with Howth Head and Gleneagles now both in clear sight:
Playfully Changing the Prevailing Climate of Opinion: Climate change as focal metaphor of effective global governance
At the time of writing, the urgency of a response to climate change is expected to figure in the declaration of the forthcoming G8 summit (Gleneagles, July 2005). But the leaked draft text for the July summit at Gleneagles was denounced by environmental groups for lacking substance. It was described by Greenpeace as “a mush of warm words carefully crafted by civil servants to make sure no one is committed to anything” [more]. Indeed the politics are such that it is expected that the only outcome will be ineffectual pious intentions and tokenism — with little genuine strategic direction and implementation.
What if you can make good use of your opinion, by placing proprioception of thought right next to it in your mind?
What if such opinion, turned taking thought, can help unfold lines of inquiry along synkinaesthetic vectors?
…with our thoughts and felts turning increasingly
proprioceptive…
Figuring Out Aspire, Achieve and Arrive
This is essentially, figuring out your own optimal way to achieve (yang, effort) and/or arrive at (yin, surrendering to what is) proprioception of thought.
https://dbohm.com/david-bohm-on-proprioception-of-thought/
…with phronesis guiding our performance…
Performing phronesis: On the way to engaged judgment
“Practical wisdom and judgment, rather than seen as ‘things’ hidden inside the mind, are best talked of, we suggest, as emerging developmentally within an unceasing flow of activities, in which practitioners are inextricably immersed. Following a performative line of thinking, we argue that when practitioners (namely, individuals immersed in a practice, experiencing their tasks through the emotions, standards of excellence and moral values the practice engenders or enacts) face a bewildering situation in which they do not know, initially at least, how to proceed, the judgment they exercise emerges out of seeking to establish a new orientation to their puzzling surroundings. They do so through actively trying to be in touch with their felt emotions and moral sensibilities, while attempting to articulate linguistically the feelings experienced in order to get a clearer view of relevant aspects of the situation at hand. Coming to a judgment involves moving around within a landscape of possibilities, and in so doing, being spontaneously responsive to the consequences of each move, and assessing which one (or combination of moves) seems best in resolving the initial tension aroused in one’s initial confusion.”
…virtues turned paths…
8bn Human Ways to Turn
There’s 8bn different, uniquely human ways to turn. I could obviously outline my own way to turn, and the serendipituous meanderings of others — but you would still have to figure out your own turns.
What I can do though, is to point you to s-curves, if noticing turns in the external world is part of your thing — and generative sequences, if you feel like applying a select part of yourself, proactively, abductively shaping the future is more your cup of tea.
https://johnkellden.medium.com/card-sessions-tracing-lines-c61d4ab29f0e
…lines of emergent, unfolding, cultivating, extending and evolving participatory inquiry…
No Human A Stranger
No human is a stranger to this. This is the part of this Synkinaesthesia Card, the Access Affordance to a Pattern of Relationship, that everyone always and already is in full swing doing, anchoring in our own way, our spirit, soul and mindful mind, into embodied practice.
A Mind Went Forth
https://johnkellden.medium.com/card-sessions-mind-went-forth-e03bb3bdd501
…with life and signs, co-extensive, inviting and co-arising…
Magic Outside Your Comfort Zone
This is the magic that resides one tiny, heartfelt embraced step outside your comfort zone, rediscovering nature, your own essential character nature within, and the awe of rediscovering the seamless web and fabric of nature, without.
https://johnkellden.medium.com/understanding-episode-6-ecology-88ca9ff12b6c
…embracing, enacting and stewarding the dialogical nature of the pervasive thinking, feeling, gathering and enacting of being…
Way Station
This is the rest of the Universe meeting you halfway.
A Pronoid Co-Inspiracy, acknowledging your every effort, by nudging you along a vector, that, should you willingly choose to walk it, or better still, go jointly sauntering, the steps will from now on turn a luminous path.
Learning Into Aliveness
Is this is metaphor? Yes, and, after a while, as you learn into aliveness, increasingly inviting a happy descent of the spirit-shard and soul in your embodied self, your minds eye will eventually discern the path just as clearly as you see any other desire path through the garden.
https://johnkellden.medium.com/card-sessions-unfolding-wholeness-770319b9ca28
…in service to the immanent and regenerative co-agency of evolution.
The Immanent Grove and Our Joint Sauntering
This part, moving closer and closer to your preferable outcomes, is simpler than most would believe.
The Immanent Grove, the Garden of Eden, never went away.
We did. We can return at a moment’s notice.
A conscious embrace that over time evolves to a surrendering
to what is — and you are already there.
It was just your thoughts, your belief that you had to play the Game of Separation for a brief spell, that kept you from seeing the Garden.
The generative closure part, the
…regenerative co-agency of evolution.
Bodhisattvic Bonus Bread-crumbs
is an optional, Bodhisattvic bonus round. Returning to the others back in the Village, telling them you found your way back to the Garden. Since most of them will find it hard to believe you, it might be prudent at times to leave breadcrumbs, both for yourself and for others, forming
Desire Paths Turned Luminous Through Joint Sauntering
Or you could call them Chreods. Or Dharmic Path. Or Luminous Path. Doesn’t really matter what you call these paths.
Card: Three Dimensions
sudden, gradual
and smooth
discovery
Three dimensions — sudden, gradual and smooth discovery
Sudden discovery: Evolutionary Novelty
This is so important to God, the Universe and All That Is — that she helped Horace Walpole coin a new word, serendipity, formed out of a story, The Three Princes of Serendip.
Gradual discovery: The Quest
See Ursula K. Le Guin, Doris Lessing, Joseph Campbell and Dane Rudhyar for the comprehensive road map cues and bread crumbs available for our every gradual discovery.
Smooth discovery: Synkinaesthesia
To be precise, our smooth discovery is a boundary turned living, dynamic, evolving boundary, in the intersect of enkinaesthesia (map, landscape, territory) and synkinaesthesia (legend, path, chreod).
The generative review of landscape and situational awareness, situational awareness and paths through our landscapes, is co-extensive, co-extending and co-evolving with anticipatory systems intelligence.
Card: Anticipation
Anticipation is noticing the glitch between how people think and how nature works, and understanding it consciously, as if for the first time.
Anticipatory systems are to intelligence, what joint sauntering is to ability.
The path is made by walking. The luminous path is made by joint sauntering. I just took a few lines for a walk, and shared the outline, that we might perform joint sauntering. Nothing more, yet nothing less.
Synkinaesthesia
Synkinaesthesia is to field and umwelt, what joint sauntering is to luminous chreods. Emergent, unfolding desire paths and transition pathways.
“Trust movement.”
— Alfred Adler
Q: …and then what?
A: Generative closure.
Trust movement; movement, trust
The “…and then what…” can be seen and understood as embracing “…each and every humans reach should exceed her grasp…”
Q: …and then what?
A: Generative closure.
U: Becoming f(understanding, understanding understanding)
Understanding Understanding Understanding
For the precise, contextually relevant vector, notice where you are finding yourself together with others, somewhere between situational awareness and preferable outcomes.
The Core Challenge
The premise for our behavior is life and signs, co-extensive, with life and signs forming our umwelt, our niche lifestyle bubble, the world as it is experienced by our own individual self as a particular organism.
premise > behavior > feedback > agency > ecosystemic situational awareness
In Time
A five-fold dialectic co-extending with time as a function of Chronos and Kairos.
POODDEAU
Perceive, Observe, Orient, Design, Decide, Enact (5E Cognition), Act and Unfold, over time:
“The misconception which has haunted philosophic literature throughout the centuries is the notion of ‘independent existence.’ There is no such mode of existence; every entity is to be understood in terms of the way it is interwoven with the rest of the universe.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
Media is entangled with our behavior
The bomb has already imploded and we are the Shared Misery Reinforcers inside Proprietary Platform Programming Social Cognition Abattoirs. As a thought experiment, try saying “hi” to another human inside a group where you are both member participants. See?
”>” = media
The misconception described by Alfred North Whitehead together with a set of related others, are carried over and further fragmented, devolved and vulgarized, by first hierarchical media (religion and state), mass media, then proprietary platform programming media (social media) and then the mostly reactionary memetics of “ordinary uneducated” people, appropriating media in a context of greed, fear, apathy and shared misery.
We play to lose
Shared misery inside proprietary platform programming.
We play to win
Negotiated self-interest: school of hard knocks, life as if by design and eventually, hopefully, mastery.
We play^n to win^n
Synkinaesthesia is to play^n, what enkinaesthesia is to game^.
We play^n and immerse ourselves in game^n in order to win^n.
Win^n is emergent purposefulness at scope, scale and seven generations.
https://johnkellden.medium.com/understanding-episode-5-review-13b981c0feb5
