The Joyous Struggle | Jonathan Rowson | Substack

How do we get beyond the social and cultural differences noted at the beginning of this chapter, to meet the demands of the critical transitional challenges posed by existential issues such as climate change, inequality, energy transition, the need to educate and provide health support to billions, etc, and to reach the more fruitful ground of tang

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I suggest we should begin with our experience of vitality, our capacity for love and with our attraction to beauty, and through them, see what kinds of worlds we might together imagine into being.

Changing the way we fundamentally perceive and experience reality requires seismic shifts in the collective imagination; the difficulty being that our systems of sense-making are deeply entrenched within us; separating ourselves from them is, by definition, existential. Developing our capacity to hold the fear that comes with this, sitting with it ... See more

Systems-emergence solutions are nonlinear and decentralized; change requires finding places to experiment within subsystems to shake them up and cause ripple effects (Boulton et al., 2015). Systems-emergence work does not attempt to describe the characteristics of a healthy system, but it often does describe the outcomes the system should be able t... See more

we are all called to a deeper awareness of time, consciousness and Eros to reconnect with reality at its source, while in practical terms we are called, in effect, to build a bridge into the fog.