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Bertus's avatar

Immediate recognition here. You describe roughly the right hemispheric way of being in the world, being part of the place. Your six observations ring very true to me. This stood out: Endless complexity of thought seems grounded in a more stable configuration of feeling spaces. I don't think it is proto in the sense of primitive though. To me it is the embracing, larger communication that permeates the place.

The word precise leaps at me as too easily translated as a form of focus. I feel the opposite is happening; a relaxing of focus that allows to come closer, allows more intimacy through large surface openness, not narrow, precise attention. In practice, precision is about proximation, not the theory of exactness. Hope this doesn't sound as a total paradox. Words are not suited for this.....

One more thing, I wondered if you have experimented with people drawing, painting, expressing their feeling in other ways than words? Colour, texture, sound, size, shape, movement....

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Faith Worley's avatar

WOW this is so fascinating, and also exciting. I can’t wait to hear more, especially about the process of bypassing the swamp of stories and judgments and connecting with the raw feeling hidden inside them.

I don’t have any suggestions for improvements on your writing–your ideas were clear, straightforward, and well explained, and my brain was happy to read them.

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