There's always an irrevocable ambiguity within transformation. We probably haven't complete, I mean, completely transformed. And therefore, there's regret, we don't know what we've missed. But we are shocked by what we ended up losing. A lot of spirituality has a profound kind of ambiguity in them too. That ambiguity is the perfect place to project our presuppositions but also most frustrated by their inadequacy to deliver on their promises.
John Vervaeke, Zak Stein, and Nora Bateson discuss transformation and its complex, cross-domain dimensionality. This episode addresses topics such as how does transformation take place and in what contexts? How does western culture misunderstand transformation? How is transformation naturally interwoven within the larger narrative of our lives?
This conversation is brought to us by the Respond Network (https://rspnd.network). The Respond network is an initiative to address the meta-crisis by researching and cultivating wisdom. Respond is a network of researchers and practitioners who develop and deploy ecologies of practices (EoP) for personal and systemic transformation.
0:00:00 - Introduction, the Respond Network, Patreon
0:03:41 - Transformation Dimensionality
0:09:05 - Consequences of Transformation
0:13:13 - Transformation is not Chosen
0:19:11 - Virtue in Response to Fate
0:24:28 - Transformation is Ecological
0:29:41 - Re-Humanization of Transformational Spaces
0:32:05 - Necessary Tension within the Mythology of Hero
0:41:41 - Shifts in Intergenerational Transmission
0:44:08 - Ecology of Communication
0:50:58 - Necessity of Cultural Cognitive Grammar
0:53:20 - The Contextuality & Transferability of Transformation
1:08:23 - How Skills are Interwoven & Transferable
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