What is development? Is it not
the fulfillment of a life; and does not this apply to every
living system in its cycle from birth to death?
Consider the range of human activities in the past (if you
can think of another please let us know):
Having and nurturing babies| making homes and preparing and
processing food| husbanding animals| growing crops| hunting-gathering|
building houses, furniture, bridges...| being poets, storytellers,
musicians| talking philosophy and politics| dancing.
These are 9 activities of homo sapiens to this point; and,
at one stage or another, each may be fulfilling. At this point
of the new millennium, with conditons never before know, perhaps
the pivotal skills are Communicating and Understanding Ourselves.
To accompany these skills there are meta
skills : -
Learning
How to Learn;
Learning to gain a heuristic
view of our progress;
Learning to perform Inner Work.
These skills and meta skills operate in an atmosphere in
which all learning is co-learning. Even as we sit alone,
at a computer,
we are signalling; and also receiving signals. These
signals are information and it is about us, co-learning
occurs.
Human pineal gland. Source of next evolutionary step?
(Photograph by: Lennart Nilsson, 1974.)
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