Each of us is a vessel for the conservation of a plethora of unique potentials for intelligence and ability that our cultures can neither imagine nor invoke. Most of these have to do with peculiar forms, purposes and bodies of relation. That is to say: being together in many different ways.
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These are waiting inside us for signals from contexts we become involved in or create. These signals do not come. The contexts we find in our cultures are, in most cases, the polarized opposites or caricatures of those that would invite us into healthy and open development. The underlying culture schemas from which our cultures and most of our subcultures descend are fundamentally toxic.
And it is precisely this invitation to development that we deeply and naturally crave. We may seek it from love, adventure, intoxicants, trance, art, recklessness, sex, meditation, narrative, music, religion… and however noble these may or may not be… what we are actually craving is contexts that awaken and develop the carefully conserved treasures of our personal and collective human inheritance.
We want to be invited into developmental efflorescence.
