reorienting communication

May these words come into resonance with the internal voice, body, and environment of the reader:

Oh! and I invite you to read aloud if you like.

There are layers of collective narratives that weave their way through and shape the tapestry of our personal narratives. However, “The stories endlessly repeated by the scribes of Empire become the stories most believed”… “As truth-tellers reach a wider audience, the myths of Empire become harder to maintain”. (David Korten, The Great Turning From Empire to Earth Community: Yes! a Journal of Positive Futures p. 17). The language of existence is beyond that of any definition or symbol. The mystery meets the known: “Whenever we slip beneath the abstract assumptions of the modern world, we find ourselves drawn into relationship with a diversity as inscrutable and unfathomable as ourselves” (David Abram, foreword xiii the moon in the well). This awareness of wonder is not something we grasp, yet may share in experience. Currently, with the infinite reach technology and open source information seems to extend, it is orienting to ground into the context of our own physical bodies and how we experience language. “Digital culture is inherently global”…“the culture of the (physical) book is inherently cosmopolitan”…“oral culture is inherently local in its orientation” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 94-95). Much like words, the process of materializing comes to life by the essence in which it was made apparent. “From the ancestral point of view, tools made from natural materials, such as Maui’s bone fishhook and Coyote’s flint knife, emanate character and purpose. A carving tool might be so full of its own sort of personhood that the carver refers to it as “he” or “she”. (Erica Meade, Intro, The Moon in the Well pg. 14). Language can be like tools that shape the flow of energy. From policy to roadways, consumption to landfills, and emotional articulation to perception, we shape the flow only to the depth of our relationship with our local environment. “For like any living being, earth’s metabolism depends upon the integrated functioning of many different organs, or ecosystems… so the planetary metabolism is thrown into disarray when each region is compelled to behave like every other region – when diverse places and cultures are forced to operate according to a single, mechanical logic, as interchangeable parts of an undifferentiated, homogenous sphere.” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 92). Restoring relation begins with the inspiration to do so.

Question: What inspires people to face their fears? Any personal or examples or stories?

For me so far it is understanding that I am the only one who experiences what I experience the way that I experience it, and so I am the only one who can respond directly to that.