Cultural expectations often encourage progress but resist aging, leading to a feeling of being held in one's twenties and thirties. This pressure to keep progressing without growing old can be seen as torturous and can strain individuals. The culture values individualism but also expects people to fit into the societal 'factory', where one is valued only as long as they can contribute effectively.
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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