For once in my life I was not ironic.
Since childhood, I have constructed a life philosophy and later a
heuristic living ontological theory that is all about direct
self-accountability within an autopietic transformation. One can blame
no one but himself/herself.
I am not sure I rely on the mechanic or surgeon: I think I choose to go
to them when something is wrong with my car or body and to hire them to
help me help myself: more like giving a hook rather than fish.
Human existence belongs to the person who embodies it and to him/her
alone. Others can assis if they wish. But they cannot live another
person's life. This is the reason for my construction of a wholly
embodied and embodied psychology/heristics of human exidstence.
I am somewhat critical of the ideas of neighbourhood: I think we are
neibourhoods of individuals in the world interrelating for the
construction of best neighbourhood we can construct in the taxes/deeds
that we pay.
Alan asked us to forward his email and then when we did not did it
himself. This prompted my reply.
I think this is enough for now. I am in the process of putting
together and completing a play and an academic book and perhaps proze
fiction/novel on it, mostly using transforming, living and unfolding
blogs thayt stretch over and within time and space.
Alon
Quoting Brian wakeman <[log in to unmask]>:
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Sorry I can't let this one go without raising a query.
>
> Is this right in your experience?
>
> "Never ever rely on others"
>
> Part of the risk in living is "relying on others".
> We are all fallible, and perhaps have been hurt and
> let down by relying on others......
>
> but...... I have to rely on others e.g. in loving
> relationships; for technical help beyond my skills:
>
> - my motor mechanic when I can't change a clutch
> - my surgeon when I agree to an anaesthetic
>
> I know they may let me down, I may be disappointed, or
> even be angry......but I have needed to invest trust
> in people.
>
>
> I guess it depends on what Alon means by "rely on".
>
> Were you being 'ironic' Alon, perhaps?
>
> I note that Alon has relied on Jack or Marie to
> forward his e-mail. What's going on here?
>
> Have I missed the point?
>
>
> Regards
>
> Brian
>
> --- Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Re- > I'm responding from my home computer, which
>> the BERA server rejects, so
>> > perhaps you or Jack or Marie could forward this on
>> to the others?
>>
>> Alan - I let you fulfill the most important idea in
>> my heuristics of
>> human existence. Never, ever, rely on others.
>> Always rely on yourself
>> and yourself alone. And do it. Thank you for
>> forwarding this.
>>
>> Am I learning to become an educator or am I not???
>> Alon
>>
>> Quoting Alan Rayner <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>> > ------------ Forwarded Message ------------
>> > Date: 14 December 2006 09:01 +0000
>> > From: "A.D.M.Rayner" <[log in to unmask]>
>> > To: BERA Practitioner-Researcher
>> > <[log in to unmask]>
>> > Cc: Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]>, Jack
>> Whitehead
>> > <[log in to unmask]>, "A.D.M.Rayner"
>> <[log in to unmask]>, Marie
>> > Huxtable <[log in to unmask]>, Ted Lumley
>> <[log in to unmask]>,
>> > [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: Re: Educational
>> >
>> > Dear Alon,
>> >
>> > I'm responding from my home computer, which the
>> BERA server rejects, so
>> > perhaps you or Jack or Marie could forward this on
>> to the others?
>> >
>> > Yes, I like 'ings' too.
>> >
>> > Flows are 'dynamic relational', always with
>> reciprocal inner (concave) and
>> > outer (convex) distinguished and coupled through
>> intermediary aspects (e.g.
>> > when 'I walk across a room', there is a reciprocal
>> reconfiguration of the
>> > inner space that my skin outlines with outer space
>> that my skin inlines',
>> > just as there is a flow of water around a boat
>> that reciprocates its forward
>> > passage). They do not involve the movement of a
>> spatially dislocated object
>> > from A to B as a linear progression in a Euclidean
>> 3-dimensional framework
>> > (this being a dimensionally collapsed view of
>> Nature, with space and time
>> > abstracted as empty outsiders). They involve the
>> reciprocal coupling of
>> > concave and convex domains in non-linear (curved)
>> energy-space.
>> >
>> > Insofar as flows have 'purpose', this is to
>> sustain dynamic equilibrium, via
>> > a continual 'living' process of 'attunement' or
>> 'harmonization' (in physics,
>> > called 'resonance'), as when a hurricane transfers
>> heat from tropical to
>> > temperate latitudes (note that a hurricane cannot
>> be considered as an
>> > 'object' independent from the atmosphere of which
>> it is a dynamic inclusion,
>> > anymore than a human body can be considered as an
>> object independent from
>> > Nature). So, the Severn Bore, for example, is
>> quite different from the
>> > Kiekergaardian bore; it is a flow form that
>> sustains dynamic equilibrium.
>> > And so are you and I.
>> >
>> > Below I am pasting in some writing from Chapter 9
>> of 'Natural Inclusion',
>> > which develops some of these themes in relation to
>> management and
>> > educational practice.
>> >
>> >
>> > Incidentally, I have just come across a book by
>> Petruska Clarkson called
>> > 'The Achilles Syndrome: Overcoming the Secret Fear
>> of Failure' (1998,
>> > Element Books). It describes my personal distress,
>> arising from my childhood
>> > and adolescent experience of 'education', and my
>> associated 'Achilles Heel'
>> > or 'Secret Flaw', perfectly (also alluded to in my
>> novel, 'Design Fault',
>> > see http://people.bath.ac.uk). It contains the
>> following, telling sentence:
>> >
>> > "Another important reason for the prevalence of
>> the Achilles Syndrome are
>> > the inadequacies, deficiencies, absurdities and
>> cruelties of our educational
>> > systems"
>> >
>> > If ever there was validation of the need for
>> living educational theory, this
>> > is it.
>> >
>> >
>> > Here are seven characteristics of the 'Achilles
>> Syndrome' (linked also to
>> > what is more popularly referred to as 'Impostor
>> Syndrome', but I think the
>> > Achilles version is deeper and more Archetypal).
>> All apply well to me.
>> >
>> > 1. A mismatch between externally assessed
>> competence or qualification and
>> > internally experienced competence or capability,
>> leading to feelings of 'I
>> > am a fraud';
>> >
>> > 2. Inappropriate anxiety or panic in anticipation
>> of doing the relevant
>> > task;
>> >
>> > 3. Inappropriate strain or exhaustion after the
>> task;
>> >
>> > 4. Relief instead of satisfaction on completion of
>> a task;
>> >
>> > 5. Inability to carry over any sense of
>> achievement to the next situation;
>> >
>> > 6. A recurrent conscious or unconscious fear of
>> being found out, and of
>> > shame and humiliation;
>> >
>> > 7. A longing to tell others about the discomfort
>> but the fear of being
>> > called weak or unstable. This sense of a taboo
>> adds to the strain,
>> > loneliness and discomfort
>> >
>> >
>> > You might find the following passages of Chapter 9
>> of interest also in this
>> > light. I think they're also very relevant to
>> Marie's work with 'giftedness',
>> > and how giftedness is abused in our current
>> systems, leading to the
>> > predominance of 'concrete blockheadedness'.
>> >
>> >
>> > Warmest
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> >
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> >
>> > Inclusional Implications of the Boundless 'Fifth'
>> Dimension: Curing Cosmic
>> > Cancer
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Perhaps it was unwise of Mother Space, in her
>> everywhere-Divine Wisdom, to
>> > enable any of her diverse local expressions to
>> become aware of its awareness
>> > of itself. But if there is to be creativity at
>> all, any possibility of life
>> > and evolution, maybe such possibilities must also
>> be entertained. The
>> > trouble is that such a form of expression could
>> develop a Mind of its Own to
>> > declare itself an independent entity and so make
>> an enemy of its
>> > neighbourhood, setting the scene for invasion of
>> its birthplace, determined
>> > to take over vacant possession.
>> >
>> > Maybe it was this declaration of independence,
>> through an ever-hardening
>> > belief in its own free will or purely internal
>> purpose as 'first cause' of
>> > its own actions, associated with its ability to
>> make absolute judgemental
>> > choices, that brought about the Fall of One such a
>> form from Merciful Grace.
>> > The difficulty lay in its declaration, as an
>> abstraction of its Mind alone,
>> > not the actuality of its inescapable inclusion in
>> interdependent
>> > relationship by and of All, space included. For,
>> by no stretch of
>> > imagination is this form truly able to act or be
>> acted upon as a superior or
>>
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> Brian E. Wakeman
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