Slow down and tune into our seismographs
In a dialogue with fellow scholars Thijs Lijster and Robin Celikates, Rosa imagines resonance as a descendant of Emile Durkheim’s notion of “collective effervescence,” the ecstasy shared by participants in music, sports, dancing, or spirituality. Rosa believes that attuning ourselves to this intense feeling of invigorating camaraderie is a necessar... See more
🏡 I Don’t Resonate With You
Whether we are aware of it or not, we step into any situation tuned in to some mood, a tone or frequency . When I act from contraction in my body – a clenched heart or a dense heaviness in my belly – I am often caught up in webs of stories (“I am scared, I feel resentful”) that limit the arena of my choice-making. Harmonizing the energy body is to ... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
At the most basic level, I think, vibing requires acknowledging an energy, one that cannot be measured or poured, but is powerful enough to render you breathless, or swallow you whole. It means not doing anything, and yet not doing nothing; refusing a schedule, ignoring your watch, but still filling days with intention, somehow.
Mary Retta • on vibing
Resonance is the answer because slowdown alone allows time to remain free of the sacred. Slowdown concedes the definition of time to acceleration—just pumping the brakes on the speed. Resonance, on the other hand, recognizes that time itself has something inherently sacred within it. Time itself is a mystery.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Hartmut Rosa’s three-dimensional look at resonance leads him to organize resonance around two axes: one vertical and the other horizontal. The vertical axis represents things like religion, art, nature, and history. We often feel a transcendent call in these locales.