Intentional Society: Transmission
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What is the sound of silence? What picture can a thousand words paint? What transmission of heavenly glory can come through a finger?
None, and yet, resonance is available — excitation of same or similar notes across different experiences. Sometimes the gap is a chasm, as alien as Darmok and Jalad. And sometimes the resonance is vivid and instant, as we relive our own feeling-memories in comprehension of another's.
I can't transmit to you in words the fullness of what it was like to be in we-space last Sunday. Or what nature of understanding and kinship we touched in Circling on Tuesday. (Or of 3+ other IS crews this week I'm not in.) I can point to something, if you're already familiar with that something enough to resonate with your own experience of it — and if enough signifiers and signposts line up to assure that the analogy is true and not a false projection.
To generalize grossly by referring to an Intentional Society "way of being", I deeply wonder what transmission that way is calling us to. It's a tall order: religions, philosophies, societies, and egregores have been more-or-less-unconsciously optimizing for thousands of years, and the paths to wisdom still remain difficult to access. It's not even just memes or memeplexes, it's deeper still — in a seeing that frees us, those subject-to-object frame-shifts that unlock the kind of experiences and capacity that this "way" requires.
Those seem to take years, decades even, of growth and yet... if it were the way common to society, it would be readily absorbed and the new normal. A real wisdom age. If we start now, the differences will keep accumulating, radiating from every node in the spreading network of self-transforming culture. I/you/we don't have to do it all alone. (Which is good because we can't.) We participate in the already-swelling wave of adaptive emergence of the next co-evolution of minds and matter.
Can you, can others, read that and believe it? No. But you can experience it, and/or experience that culture it cultivates. "He who has ears to hear, let him hear."
Cheers,
James