January 13, 2024
A bi-weekly conversation in Zoom, every second Saturday at 8am Pacific Time, inspired by the world building session with Trimtab Space Camp Mesosphere visionary Tony Patrick in 2020. In our conversations, we mused that we were a World Weavers Web, weaving synergetically as a synarchy, rather than in the dominant mode of dominating over nature as architects and builders, and collectively agreed to change the name of the group to World Weavers.
How can we be the authors, artists, and architects of our lives? By recognizing who we already are. We are all designers. We each have agency.
Inner Essence
We are living beings who express authority through the mind, authenticity through the heart, and autonomy through the body.
Authority (mind)
Authenticity (heart)
Autonomy (body)
Outer Expression
This inner essence is combined with an outer expression of life.
Each of us are a unique perspective and a singular collection of experiences in space and time. When we connect to everything around us, we discover our abilities of awareness through the senses, attunement through the spirit, and actualization through the soul.
Awareness (senses)
Attunement (spirit)
Actualization (soul)
Designers: Agents of Change
We are already in the process of designing the world around us. We are waking up to the collective influence we can have on the world as a species. With that awareness comes the ability to learn, to grow, and to mature into the opportunity and the responsibility to integrate with the complexity, diversity, and beauty of life all around us.
This is what it feels like to be alive, to understand that we have agency, to be agents of change.
Author, Artist, and Architect of Life
Authority (mind)
Authenticity (heart)
Autonomy (body)
Awareness (senses)
Attunement (spirit)
Actualization (soul)
Agency (life)
A Theory of Everything
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The inner essence is connected to the outer expression of the whole. The metaphysics is connected to the physics in a way that creates life.
Pataphysics is not a commonly used word. I have been using it a lot in my work, because I wanted a word that could describe what is outside of our memory of the past and the qualities of experience in the present. For me, it has become a word to describe the imaginative possibilities of the future. This ability to anticipate the future is what seems to make humans unique as a species. However, we might be wrong about that, because humans tend to be quite self-absorbed as a species and might be completely oblivious to the capacities of the life all around us. How could we possibly know?
Pataphysics is referred to as a “science of imaginary solutions.” In this phrase, the mind is connected to the heart in a way that mind and heart actualize systems as embodied solutions. The pataphysical is the realm of dreams, imagination, and possibilities that the heart reaches into to bring dreams, imagination, and possibilities into reality through our actions and interactions in the present.
Life Cycle
The life cycle begins with the body. As humans we create language by naming categories that separate the whole of experience into understandable parts: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, article, grammar, syntax, and sentence structure.
Life connects to action through the body.
Life connects to time through the senses.
Life connects to cognition through the mind.
Life connects to energy through the spirit.
Life connects to emotion through the heart.
Life connects to matter through the soul.
Life connects to the whole through both physics (time, energy, and matter) and metaphysics (mind, heart, and body).
Life Processes
Life exists only in the presence of qualia, in embodied action in the here and now, in the present.
Life is in the process of the exploration of time through the senses.
Life orients to the present through the quanta, through the context of the cognitive interpretation of the past.
Life is in the process of creation through the interaction of the spirit with the energy of values, purposes, and intentions.
Life reaches toward the possibilities of the future through the quest to understand the emotions, fulfill the desires, and direct the motivations of the heart.
Life is in the process of formation by bringing matter and culture into form, in reality.
Life integrates the whole of experience through the stillness of reflection on the process of incarnation that happens through syncretion, through the merging of the diversity and complexity of different cultures into one.
Life Senses
The body connects to the centre of gravity.
The senses are the body’s ability to savour life’s moments.
The mind is the body’s ability to understand the insights of life that are connected through metaphor to the sight of physical forms.
The spirit connects to the scent carried by the wind that represents the energy of the environment.
The heart connects to the emotional sense of intimacy represented by the sound of voices in conversation.
The soul feels the sensation of lightness and darkness, heat and cold, pressure and tension, pleasure and pain—all the experiences of being a physical body in a physical world.
The experience of being alive is the ability to perceive each moment as a whole, the stillness of conscious awareness at the centre, connecting the body to time through the senses, connecting the mind to energy through the spirit, and connecting the heart to matter through the soul.
The Question at the Heart of the Quest
There is a mystery at the heart of the quest of being alive. How do we live in integrity with the whole if we are only measuring what is observable, measurable, and quantifiable? If the metrics for success leave out the whole experience of being alive, the quest leaves out the vital ingredients of what it means to be alive if the majority of lived experience is qualitatively beyond what can be quantified.
Language divides experience into the parts of speech. Language itself is a disintegrating process.
“Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.” — R. Buckminster Fuller
To understand the whole of a living system, we recognize that the parts of the system are in relationship with each other such that, if any of the parts are missing, the whole ceases to behave as a living entity.
Body
Feature: Action
Sense: Centre
Essence: Inspiration
Expression: Syntropy
Experience: Present
Process: Qualia
Senses
Feature: Time
Sense: Savour
Essence: Interbeing
Expression: Synchronicity
Experience: Expression
Process: Exploration
Mind
Feature: Cognition
Sense: Sight
Essence: Intention
Expression: Synthesis
Experience: Past
Process: Quanta
Spirit
Feature: Energy
Sense: Scent
Essence: Intuition
Expression: Synergy
Experience: Interaction
Process: Creation
Heart
Feature: Emotion
Sense: Sound
Essence: Intimacy
Expression: Synesthesia
Experience: Future
Process: Quest
Soul
Feature: Matter
Sense: Sensation
Essence: Integrity
Expression: Synarchy
Experience: Culture
Process: Formation
Whole
Feature: Perception
Sense: Stillness
Essence: Incarnation
Expression: Syncretion
Experience: Reflection
Process: Life
A Bi-Weekly Zoom Meeting
Join us in our World Weavers conversations as we explore the inward journey into who we are as human beings and sensing, feeling, thinking, and acting carefully as we consider the world that we are weaving together for the generations to come.
We are experimenting with Substack as an alternative to the Google Group as a way to stay connected in between World Weavers meetings. Add your email to the mailing list for the World Weavers by subscribing to Trimtab.