Social Poetry
Introduction to Foundations and Tools
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https://doi.org/10.47061/jasc.v3i2.6573Keywords:
social poetry, social arts, awareness-based system change, phenomenology, systems transformationAbstract
The day-to-day intellectual consciousness perceives a world of independent phenomena (including social phenomena, as any evening news program will reveal) at stages of rest. In order to bring these same phenomena into dynamic relationship not only with one another but also with the time-scale of their own growth and development, one needs to have organs of perception which can perceive the fluid process of transformation itself. Working with and thinking in metaphors, and consciously striving to perceive the images working in social and other phenomena, can help to develop such organs of perception. This can be done individually and this can be done as individuals in a collective. In doing so, not only can one's own thinking and perceiving grow more aligned to the dimensions of life at work in social and natural phenomena, but so too can language, which can then in turn help others to experience and see the more complete reality working in natural or in this case social phenomena, and to choose, if one so wished, to take responsibility for their future development—the future development of, ultimately, civilization, the Earth, and ourselves.
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