An underlying influence around Sanctuary as a theme for this research project comes from my interests and inquiry into more consciously designing our own futures. Or at least thinking and talking and engaging with the ideas of ‘what if’ and what things could be beyond our fears and patterns.
Part of this practice is using mediation and yoga to step away from the dialogue with myself and look at bigger picture issues and trends. This is part of why I am drawn to collaboration, to transcend the ‘self’ and to interact and play with others, it’s a system that I observe and assess the changes when engagement with others takes place.
Here is some of what I’m reading today.
Beyond Disaster Capitalism https://www.stirtoaction.com/blog-posts/beyond-disaster-capitalism?mc_cid=9c9310520a&mc_eid=09a12df57
‘But what if the expected responses either fail to occur or are only marginal? What if the temporary breakdown of social hierarchies allows for new ideas and systems to emerge? What if disasters resolve pre-existing conflicts? And what are the new political powers of this ‘community of sufferers’? ‘
‘So could the opportunities for disaster capitalism also be an opportunity for ‘disaster collectivism’? Or in other words, can disasters disrupt ‘institutional patterns of behaviour’ and allow different social systems to emerge?’
Consciousness and Society: Societal Aspects and Implications of Transpersonal Psychology https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/c853/e8560262107ac7f82ae77f72251602d1e45c.pdf?_ga=2.135936949.509554591.1590640210-830822620.1590640210
‘More recently, both Charles Tart (1986) and Guy
Swanson (1978) speak literally of a “collective hypnosis of everyday life,” or a shared “hypnotic trance” that forms the experience of being a part of a social group. ‘
‘ In effect, the more deeply we go down and in to states of individual imaginative absorption, the more we simultaneously go out and into implicitly shared metaphors of the social field, or what Jung (1959/1969) described as deeply shared archetypes. Thus, there exists the potential for rapid societal impact by creative visionaries who Jung (1963) credited with making conscious just those images...which compensate for the general psychic distress” (p. 550). ‘
‘Horrific situations of mass destruction and crisis can actually result in the spontaneous emergence of temporary intensely egalitarian communities based on shared numinous states that have the ineffable and paradoxical features of classical individual mysticism'.
A Paradise Built in Hell https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e47a/792b3af73c2796c8b2dc57b19ca22d529dbf.pdf?_ga=2.68374805.509554591.1590640210-830822620.1590640210
Reasons to be Cheerful https://reasonstobecheerful.world/