The 3 person perspectives in volution

I just had this thought the other day that seems to make sense.

The image illustrates this process that I describe in the volution thesis - when we look to expand our consciousness we have to heal past trauma in parallel (as at https://www.volutiontheory.net/…/…/3/3/an-octave-perspective):

In this section I originally wrote:

"The light of the new information triggers an expansive drive for greater agency and freedom, while at the same time love and understanding are needed to embrace and integrate the past. These two fundamental dynamics that happen in parallel to each other reflect two of the main drives of a holon (see above) that Wilber (2005) describes, agency and communion."

I am going to add:

"This stretching for the light, reconnecting with love and being in the middle of that, could be seen as an expression of the three person perspectives of language. Reaching out to something outside of us, an “it”, is a third person expression, reconnecting with love to past trauma in us to put humpty-dumpty back together again is engaging in a relationship with a second person “you” to make a “we”, while the first person “I” sits at the centre of this dynamic. In this way the three person perspectives can be seen as part of the dynamic volution of life, not simply categories of perspective."

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Volution in Calligraphy

I came across this beautiful calligraphy by Francois Cheng while visiting Reims Cathedral in France. It was part of an exhibition that included Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. For me, it captures beautifully the volutionary dynamic, with a torus and emanation at the centre. This was the text he had put below it (translated from French, see photo of original below).

"Life creates life / and it will never end"

This famous phrase comes from one of the Great Commentaries on the Book of Changes. Like Tai Chi Chuan, calligraphy allows those that practise it to reconnect with the Breath and to revitalise oneself in the universal current of life. 

The practice is spiritual. The calligraphy triggers a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, the finite and the infinite. The line leads to the welling up of an interior world.

I wanted to depict this elan.

In the second character, identical to the first, the vertical line has what painters call a "blanc volant" (literally, "flying white"). It is a spontaneous form which comes from the running out of the ink during the composition. 

For a calligrapher the "blanc volant" is an opportunity: it allows the circulation of the Breath in the line itself.

This is how life creates life: the promise is eternal.

(From Et le souffle devient signe by Francois Cheng)

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Aspects of Energetic Architecture

This video, from my Ubiquity Transformational Leadership course (https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/transformational-leadership), describes the various aspects of an energetic architecture in collective systems - what it is composed of and how can you assess its fitness to achieve its purpose. It is based on my work as an ECOintention Practitioner (formerly ECOtherapy) - see http://www.ecointention.com/index_e.htm.  See also An Introduction to Energetic Architecture if you want more context.

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Jude Currivan on The Cosmic Hologram

Here's a video of Jude talking about her latest work that deeply informed volution theory. Jude was my major advisor for the PhD dissertation. She has a great online course on this available at Ubiquity University - https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/the-cosmic-hologram.

https://www.scienceandnonduality.com/ Jude Currivan presents an emerging view of information as physical reality, forming patterns at microscopic and galactic scales that are the same, making predictable patterns in ecosystems, human behavior, even conflicts like the Iraq War.

An Introduction to Energetic Architecture

This is a session from my Transformational Leadership course that introduces the concept of there being an energetic architecture to large scale systems - a subtle dimension of their existence where the information is expressing itself as energy as it crystallises into relational experiences and visible matter. For the full course, see https://www.ubiquity.courses/p/transformational-leadership.

The Energetics of the Collective

This is a talk I gave for the WeSpace Summit, describing my understanding and experience of working with the information and energy of large-scale natural and human systems (e.g. large areas of land, organizations, groups). 

A talk I gave for the WeSpace Summit, describing my understanding and experience of working with the information and energy of large-scale natural and human systems (e.g. large areas of land, organizations, groups). See https://www.thewespacesummit.com for more talks in this series.