Alon, Alan, Jack and All,
Thanks for the correction folks.........
but after forty years in education with my values
tested in the practical realities of life with
children, parents and colleagues......I still feel I
am inter-related with others...mutually dependent on
each other.....like parts of the body that are a
diversity but unity.....functioning for the greater
good by being committed to each other....appreciating
each other...rather than competing, aggressive, self
dominated....it comes at a cost of course ...being
hurt...feeling let down.....seeing the 'entropy', the
capacity of things to fall apart at work in
relationships and institutions...but that's the
sacrifice of a grander vision of human beings.......
beyond individualism....imperfectly expressed in the
'agape' of my local community.
I guess part of the problem is my limited
understanding of the vision that you are intimating
in your second sentence, Alon.
Regards
Brian
--- Alon Serper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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
>
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Brian E. Wakeman
Education adviser
Dunstable
Beds
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