I am about to embark on a conversational journey with other fellow travellers in exploring a new way of engaging with the notion of wholes, life, feeling, beauty and being…. and in the doing perhaps reaching towards a Gebserian (The ever present origin) notion of integral consciousness.
Bonnitta Roy is our pirate captain taking us into unknown waters:
“The Magellan Courses is a curriculum of studies across domains that engage an emergent type of post-rational reasoning. What makes this type of reasoning post-rational, is that, unlike all levels of rational thinking, it does not originate from dualistic categories, but rather from onto-logical ones. The term “onto-logical” references thinking that arises whole, from the creative source of being (in-becoming), and retains the structure of dynamic wholeness, rather than being split up by the rational mind into opposite, albeit complementary, pairs. Therefore, instead of reasoning in terms of static conceptual categories, onto-logics engages dynamic properties and their relations, building systems from originary generative processes. These generative processes can be linked to the kinds of structures that arise in the conceptually dualistic, rational mind, by referencing the nature of order internal to the creative whole. The nature of order in a generative process, is never dualistic, because it itself is a living, dynamic whole system.”
I will be exploring the Christopher Alexander stream based on his books The Nature of Order: An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe.
While I am waiting for his books, I have discovered this presentation on his life works which has given an overview but I am waiting to dive into his own texts.
The task – to post excerpts from my reading and then to comment on these and invite comments from my co-travellers.
Sue Stack 