Participatory Inquiry, episode 32: Provision
In transition, a story told about a future event held in the individual hearts and collective intelligence by a group of story-listeners gathered around a campfire.
Oh, good, you made it here in one peace.
Card: Descension
time is
happy
descent
affordance
You’ve found some of the others and together, you’ve made a makeshift camp in the outskirt of the village.
“…along with the other animals, the stones, the trees, and the clouds, we ourselves are characters within a huge story that is visibly unfolding all around us, participants within the vast imagination, or Dreaming, of the world.”
— David Abram
Some of your stories are about what pieces of the puzzle, what parts of the predicament, what threads to rekindle and re-weave — is yours, individually and as a group, to bring to the whole.
“The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost; for none now live who remember it.”
— Galadriel, J.R.R. Tolkien
Other stories are all about what is needed in the village.
“Sometimes, you can actually bring home something that is food, food for the human community that we can sustain ourselves on and go forward.”
— Terence McKenna
A third theme, a third part of your stories, is how to best return to the village, what gear to bring, what gear to leave behind.
“It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Last but not least, a fourth thread running through some of your stories, is how to best provide for your group, how to add a smidgen of practical wisdom your knowledge.
Knowledge, re-aligning with people, purposefulness and planet, striking an evolving, dynamic living balance, between the needs of the few and the needs of the many.
“Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability,
which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.”
— Alfred North Whitehead
There’s a fifth theme, not always visible, hidden in plain sight, now and then a glimpse — a golden thread.
“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere — on water and land.”
— Walt Whitman
Here, there and everywhere, people are waking up, gathering at makeshift camps, making provisions, crafting new gear, weaving new stories.
The world is changing. We feel it in the water. We listen to Gaia and her songs.
We sense a newfound vibrancy in the air. Much that once was is rekindled;
for some now live who remember it.
@johnkellden riffing on J. R. R Tolkien
Card: Context
The big lie of big data is the
assumption of averages to the
near full exclusion of experiences.
Provision: Content, Context and Conversation
The only verb you need to understand, in order to understand around 80% of all the content, context and conversation in CMM, is “provide”.
Provide
1. Make available for use; supply.
“these online places provide a much appreciated service in this
day and age of abundance of content and scarcity of context”
Similar:
supply give issue furnish lay out come up with dispense bestow impart produce yield bring forth bear deliver donate contribute pledge advance spare part with allocate distribute allot assign put forward put up proffer present extend render fork out ante up pony up
Opposite: refuse withhold
2. Make adequate preparation for (a possible event).
Participatory Inquiry, episode 32: Provision
