The distinction between Hellenistic and Judaic forms of heroism emphasizes the significance of private, intimate spaces for heroic acts. While Hellenistic heroism is associated with public recognition and grand acts, Judaic heroism involves unseen acts in small family dynamics or alone with God. By prioritizing private transformation over public recognition, true transformative action occurs in intimate and non-public settings. Focusing on personal growth in private can lead to more meaningful societal change compared to seeking public heroism without addressing internal transformation.
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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