Jul 12, 2023 17:05
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Dear colleagues,
I’m not completely sure about the meaning of "live into" in the sentences below, taken from a book on intraconnection.
Thank you so much for your help!
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Maintaining a differentiated inner “me” while also cultivating a relational “we,” in its widest expanse from interdependent to metapersonal, would combine the differentiated and the linked aspects of self-construction – of adjusting our lens from narrow to wide, embracing our various circles of belonging. Yes, who we are is the totality of our belongings in our connections, our we – and who we are is our inner bodily experience, our me. Perhaps we might call *** such an integrated way of living into our range of centers of experience *** an “intraconnected self-construal.”
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As a story-telling species, then, we can reflect on where we are and even come to recognize – to re-think – how our own modern narrative of self, identity, and belonging have led us astray from living a life of health. We can intentionally course-correct; it is not too late. Awakening to our mistaken identity as a solo-self, we can now construct anew what the term “self” really indicates: inner, inter and intra facets of sensation, perspective, and agency. We can cocreate this awakened story as we move ourselves, with intention, openness, care, and collaboration, into a future that is not something we passively report about but that *** we can live into *** and create with purpose and meaning.
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Narrative itself is neither good nor bad – stories are the way we remember and construct our lives; it is the nature of those stories, not the narrative process, that will determine our present and our futures. What will be the new story of our human family emerging in these challenging times? What integrative narrative of our lives as a family of nature – beyond members of our personal family and even of our human family, as an intraconnected family of all life on Earth – *** can we feel and live into? ***
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I’m not completely sure about the meaning of "live into" in the sentences below, taken from a book on intraconnection.
Thank you so much for your help!
*****************
Maintaining a differentiated inner “me” while also cultivating a relational “we,” in its widest expanse from interdependent to metapersonal, would combine the differentiated and the linked aspects of self-construction – of adjusting our lens from narrow to wide, embracing our various circles of belonging. Yes, who we are is the totality of our belongings in our connections, our we – and who we are is our inner bodily experience, our me. Perhaps we might call *** such an integrated way of living into our range of centers of experience *** an “intraconnected self-construal.”
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As a story-telling species, then, we can reflect on where we are and even come to recognize – to re-think – how our own modern narrative of self, identity, and belonging have led us astray from living a life of health. We can intentionally course-correct; it is not too late. Awakening to our mistaken identity as a solo-self, we can now construct anew what the term “self” really indicates: inner, inter and intra facets of sensation, perspective, and agency. We can cocreate this awakened story as we move ourselves, with intention, openness, care, and collaboration, into a future that is not something we passively report about but that *** we can live into *** and create with purpose and meaning.
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Narrative itself is neither good nor bad – stories are the way we remember and construct our lives; it is the nature of those stories, not the narrative process, that will determine our present and our futures. What will be the new story of our human family emerging in these challenging times? What integrative narrative of our lives as a family of nature – beyond members of our personal family and even of our human family, as an intraconnected family of all life on Earth – *** can we feel and live into? ***
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Jul 12, 2023 23:24: philgoddard changed "Field" from "Social Sciences" to "Other" , "Field (write-in)" from "narrative" to "(none)"
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Nicholas Laurier Eveneshen
Portugal
Portugal
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English
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Portugal
DE-EN Linguistic Specialist, MA
Native in: English (Variants: UK, US, Canadian) 
Works in: German to English, English
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become integrally a part of (via a subjectively determined creative act)
The author seems to be creatively, emphatically calling for a renewed understanding of subjectivity as the pinnacle of human experience, underpined by a rheotical focus on "narratives" and storytelling. So, "live into" would then mean something along the lines of really being involved, in a fundamentally subjective sense, in the stories you create and tell about yourself and your surroundings, the "we" and everyone else around it.
With this kind of emphasis on agency and the potential thereof, you might already know about but be nonetheless interested in something like philosophical existentialism, which deals with subjectivity and its implications (generally finding its pique in the mid to midlate 20th century, though its roots go back earlier; link to a general Standford link on it, below).
I hope that helps, and the text sounds interesting!
With this kind of emphasis on agency and the potential thereof, you might already know about but be nonetheless interested in something like philosophical existentialism, which deals with subjectivity and its implications (generally finding its pique in the mid to midlate 20th century, though its roots go back earlier; link to a general Standford link on it, below).
I hope that helps, and the text sounds interesting!
Note from asker:
| Thank you so much, Nicholas, for your help! You're right: the text is very interesting! |
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you so much, Nicholas, for your valuable help! Many thanks also to Oliver for his contribution!"
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