I am in agreement with you, Denis, that there is a "deep silence" that shrouds
this critical discussion of how people seem to act in consort with their
proclaimed cognitively-argued values but often in clear, at least to others,
discordant ways that suggest unearthed and unself-examined emotional confusion
about earlier learned ways of seeing and being?
This is the "tough stuff" for each of us and I wish that in all my experience
it didn't end up being the most critical part of the communication breakdowns
that consistently derail great commons thinking with potential great ideas and
projects, but in actual practice is what often happens most. I'm amazed and
disheartened by the clear "integrity" breaks that manifest from this
discordance, often resulting in the communication breakdowns that derail our
getting through these issues to the other side, in any healthy and sustaining
way.
In reference to Anna's response to Willi's claim that the necessary
"independence in the local economy" trumps these discussions, I am much more
aligned with Anna that without this work of imagining all of the underlying
obstructions to this more equitable and even more loving world, you probably as
a commons, will likely never get there. We have seen this countless times in
countless revolutions, where the bullies still triumphed by being bullies, even
if under differently envisioned cognitive ideals. The ideals didn't ultimately
matter, the emotional "coherence" with those ideals and dealing with others
with that coherence, did.
That's an emotional reality. It is taught by societies' inequities and
cruelties while young I would argue, in order to counter the more innate drive
for "fairness" and equality that I have found unerringly in all the thousands
of very young children I have met and taught. It services the rationalisation
of our own privilege, to allow it to continue in one form or another, without
deep examination about that rationalisation.
I understand that internal need created by the initial "innocence" fracture,
taught in sexist, racist. classist societies that want to maintain that
inequitable status quo, but I don't think we can continue to suggest we can
truly get anywhere different if we don't start acknowledging and addressing it,
in all of us who came from those kinds of societies.
It is therefore, and unfortunately because truly difficult work, not at all
peripheral to these essential questions of sustainability and healthiness of
humanity and the planet, but the core issues to address in truly getting to
anywhere socially, economically and emotionally different.
But admittedly, some of the hardest work to do....:-)
Denis, you are apparently in "West London"? Let's meet sometime and talk more
about this and your psycommons work?
June
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From: Denis Postle <d.pos...@btinternet.com>
To: p2p-foundation@lists.ourproject.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 5:38 AM
Subject: Re: [P2P-F] Fwd: Matriarchal Studies
On 16/08/2014 18:22, June Gorman wrote:
the key -- and I have found this to be the hardest for those trained well in
cognitive displacement of inner heart "knowing" -- is to actually understand
this emotionally, not just cognitively. That's when actual human relationships
are transformed, when we forge the paths of learning from each other that do
not deny our different ways of understanding, but actually balances them so we
can hear the gifts offered by that very "difference". Over cultures and
histories, as well as genders.
>
>
>Anyway, critical to deconstruct as it so often is the underlying root of much
>of the dissension and "will to power over others" that is taught at the root
>of patriarchy but not, as this piece suggests and all my historical work has
>found as well, at the "power with one another" model at the ground of
>matriarchy.
>
>
>The key is to teach that at the level it is most understood, the level of the
>emotional heart, critical to any successful parenting of any human life and
>ultimately the planet that supports that and all life.Hi June, this is a very
>welcome statement for the list.
If I was to coin a bit of a provocation based on it - the extent
to which the cognitive and action aspects of our lives are
driven/shaped by our imaginal and embodied emotional agendas do
seem to me to generally remain out of reach in the conversations
here. But then as I well understand, this is partly due to the
professional capture and sequestration of psychological knowledge
by pharma and medicine. We embrace physical fitness but psy
fitness still seems trapped behind the 'mental illness' fiction and off
the activist and academic life agendas.
For some constructive examples of how this stranglehold on psy
fitness can be contradicted, listers might like to see my FREE ebook
library, especiallyJohn Heron: Psyche and Personhood and the two videos about
the psyCommons on http://psycomm...@wordpress.com.
Greetings
Denis
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