Individuality
Because
fractals are patterns that cyclically repeat, taking the same form at
infinitely larger and smaller scales, any point, in fact, every point, that you
would isolate, identify, focus on, is the center. Every point is the center.
What this model shows more than anything, again and again, is that you matter.
Your decisions matter, all your decisions matter, because action is the
nourishment of the social world. What you support financially and with your
participation determines what is able to continue Your internal world matters, your patterns, fears, traumas,
dreams, mental health.It all matters because you will propagate yourself in everything
you do. Jamie Janover says that his favorite example of a fractal is that
people come out of other people. So do
organizations, businesses, governments, media. It is all self-propagating.
If
we are representative of our specificity, learning ourselves, following the
grooves it has left on us is coming to understand our particle of the wave of
the world at the historic, geographic intersection of our specificity.
Buddhists call this samkhara. The process of coming to know yourself better, of
coming into yourself is actually excavating this heritage. Feeling its imprint
upon you, the way it has carved the contours of your individuality is the
process of transmuting the elements of the dialectic that converge within the
microcosm of your specificity. This global justice comes through yourself,
through knowing yourself better. Whatever fear, anger, trauma, joy, creative
light lives inside your heart, go to it. Profoundly. Somewhere in there lies
your calling. In these depths, you discover your gifts, your true passion, your highest self
and what it is that you really want for yourself, so you know what you want to
see reflected in the world, so you can bring it into being.
In
terms of a pluralistic vision of Global Justice, you doing exactly what you
want to do, in at least some areas of your life, is possibly the most important
thing you can do to bring about global justice in our life time on this
planet.. For it is through you bringing your vision into the world that you
create the world that you want to live in. And through more and more people
realizing their life’s path, we are collectively creating the reality we all
want to live in, a world woven of our highest excitement and reflecting our
most unique and meaningful creativity. Teaching science to kids, immigrant
rights, a music venue- whatever it is, if enough people share that vision, if
the way that it is coming into being meets the emotional or pragmatic needs of
the people involved or the context it is attempting to serve, then it will be
nourished and able to continue on. And this resonates through every scale of
our decision making. The more that you support the kind of activity you want in
the world, the more sustaining that waveform is.
There
is a historical context to the experience and importance of individuality. We
imagine that in the eras before modernity, back when the boundary condition of
world view was direct experience,
human beings more often shared a cohesive cultural experience with those
around them. Their lives adapted to and emerged from a particular eco-system.
Their was language composed from its sounds; their homes were drawn from the
materials of its landscape. Their bodies were nourished by life’s seasons Their ailments came from that ecology
and the treatments were provided by that environment. We imagine that in their
tribal organization the traditional delineation of roles formed an organismic
whole. Members embodied social archetypes, the sum of which comprised the full
wheel of potential human experience. The anthropological record tells us these
cultures had rich traditions. Philosophies, arts, sciences and mystic practices
that structured human expression, providing the loom that each successive
generation wove upon and innovated
within. We can see their lives almost as embroidery; feeling the texture of
their collective expression as a unified tapestry woven directly from the
landscape by many human hands.
We
have gone through a long and painful process of individuation,. We have been
torn from our original ecologies or seen them desecrated and destroyed. We have
been severed from collective ties, communal living and all the feelings of
safety, belonging and being cared for that provided. Our labor is alienated.We
are detached from the cycles of the natural world, left without models and
mentors to guide us into adulthood, to teach us the meaning of things, to teach
us wisdom.
We
are individuals now. The contemporary nature of information barreling all the
specificity of specificity of who a person is and is supposed to be given their
position in the cross fibres. Information about everything the world was, and
everything the world is pushes against the individual, against this one point,
this one perceptual center of the entire fractal whole. The intense pressure
creating the experience of individual-ness itself, compressing into that
mysterious play of nature and nurture, that infinite swarm of micro-processes,
praxis, internal worlds and external interactions, compressing. The immense
pressure of it exerting the force that defines and delineates the very skin of
the individual. So that from that one point, from all that has been compressed
inside, the individual responds from their Structurated specificity, externally
expressing all those forces, all that makes them who they are. They express a single
point embroidery. Their very being itself
expressing that single point embroidery- part of the global tapestry. A
hyper-context of experience on this earth. This is the fractaling down of the
whole world inside of us.
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