Participatory Inquiry, episode 101: Archetypes of Intention

John Kellden
4 min readJul 18, 2017

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“In a network, in transition: our awakening to our own innate sovereignty, is advanced by our understanding not only culture and our place in it, not only nature and our seamless connection to ecosystems, but to our ongoing awakening as a co-evolving process of metalogue and living language.”
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Our language is our social tech, as well as an aid in our expressing our own unique experience of awe. Our archetypes of intention, is always and already turning our language, into living language, into an ongoing, evolutionary enactment.

Belittling Ourselves

Belittling ourselves is the Anti-Pattern, to the Archetypes of Intention Pattern. Belittling ourselves, over time, begets:

  • contentment
  • denial
  • confusion
  • a sense of unfulfilled longing for trust
  • a skillful, quietly desperate resistance towards behavioral change

Forming a set of patterns commonly known as behavior.

Reframing Things
Reframing things is one approach to help us get unstuck. First, we need to return to our here and now, a returning coming to our senses.

…and, then, …

…and, then we perceive, observe, orient, design, learn, enact and perceive, again…

Archetypes of Intention

Archetypes of Intention, applied, over time, is co-extensive and co-extending with our re-arranging all the Footnotes to Plato, in ways that lead beyond the Comfort Zone Caves. The comfort zones caves that we made by our own ongoing investment and attachment to our Belittling Ourselves patterns, that we are free to see differently, in ways conducive to noticing how they become un-made.

We made this! We un-made this!

Archetypes of Intention, over time, at scale: Spirit-Shard Evolution

Belittling Ourselves, over time, at scale: Religion

“Religion carries two sorts of people in two entirely opposite directions: the mild and gentle people it carries towards mercy and justice; the persecuting people it carries into fiendish sadistic cruelty. Mind you, though this may seem to justify the eighteenth-century Age of Reason in its contention that religion is nothing but an organized, gigantic fraud and a curse to the human race, nothing could be farther from the truth. It possesses these two aspects, the evil one of the two appealing to people capable of naïve hatred; but what is actually happening is that when you get natures stirred to their depths over questions which they feel to be overwhelmingly vital, you get the bad stirred up in them as well as the good; the mud as well as the water. It doesn’t seem to matter much which sect you have, for both types occur in all sects….”
― Alfred North Whitehead

Archetypes of Intention
Our own unique combinations and constellations of archetypes are all alive and well in our minds. We are always in a state of coming more fully alive. At the core of our joy, resides the deep inner knowing, that our individual intention, when unfolding our own unique journey, is always and already weaving together essential character: virtue and evolutionary purpose: path. The weaving itself — our experiencing our own unique moments of 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: Intention

Intentions evolving with
enabling others to grow.

Intentionality: Circles of meaningful connectivity.

Synkinaesthesia = Awe x Application

Our archetypes of intention, serve no other purpose than our awakening to our own innate sovereignty.

Verbs: Mind, Cultivate and Matter. Three proactive, abductive, enkinaesthetic and evolutionary presencing verbs. Synkinaesthetic perception is something you do.

Awe = Mind

x = Cultivate

Application = Matter

Application: Archetypes, Intentions and Learning Into Aliveness

Structure
Our archetypes of intention, is to purposefulness of structure, what learning into aliveness is to human evolution of complex responsive processes.

Process
The flow, the understanding your own generative review, is your learning into aliveness, your awakening to the fullness of your becoming.

Flow = Structure x Process

See the post “and” for one way to understand the “x” in the equation.

Participatory Inquiry, episode 101: Archetypes of Intention

Janko Ferlič

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John Kellden

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