Please, don't feel guilty - as you contributed to the experience of how we can and probably should be living.
It is indeed more than enough! I have organised a kind of Flemisch version of what you describe. If we get some subsidies, we will go the route of integrating more of art!
Such feelings and experiences will be good nurture and compost for the greater good in the work we are all called to do.
Sure, it is surely necessary to at least try to start from a different kind of place, a different form of feeling - for me I see it as the new culture, with all that that entails.
Maybe we can all organise our gatherings in this way?
In your earlier post "The Flip, The Formation, and The Fun," you wrote about how we need a new metaphysics and metaethics, and a new metapolitics to emerge from them. And you quoted Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”. And here you are, dancing with mountains! In this post you describe how Naduve "made plenty of space for others... the importance of aesthetics... the widespread feelings of affection and care." And you wrote "I should also mention the form of love known as Philia."
Another related idea comes to my mind: philoxenia (φῐλοξενῐ́ᾱ). And I think it captures a lot of what many separate voices, which may bear superficial differences, are all working toward in diverse ways. In "Reaching Out" Henri Nouwen spoke of the importance of creating a "free space" for the other. In "Opening the Eye of Value During the Metacrisis" Zak Stein spoke about the rites and rituals of caregiving. Philoxenia can be like a skeleton key - it is able to open a pathway into conversations about axiology, about values... even for those who may otherwise be hesitant to begin such conversations, owing to a deep (and and often justifiable) skepticism of where they might lead.
Jonathan, it was such a joy to connect and journey with you at Naduve. You've metabolised and articulated this experience in such a moving way!
Please, don't feel guilty - as you contributed to the experience of how we can and probably should be living.
It is indeed more than enough! I have organised a kind of Flemisch version of what you describe. If we get some subsidies, we will go the route of integrating more of art!
Such feelings and experiences will be good nurture and compost for the greater good in the work we are all called to do.
Sure, it is surely necessary to at least try to start from a different kind of place, a different form of feeling - for me I see it as the new culture, with all that that entails.
Maybe we can all organise our gatherings in this way?
Thank you Jonathan. I'm so grateful your words have misbehaved...
In your earlier post "The Flip, The Formation, and The Fun," you wrote about how we need a new metaphysics and metaethics, and a new metapolitics to emerge from them. And you quoted Emma Goldman: “If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution”. And here you are, dancing with mountains! In this post you describe how Naduve "made plenty of space for others... the importance of aesthetics... the widespread feelings of affection and care." And you wrote "I should also mention the form of love known as Philia."
Another related idea comes to my mind: philoxenia (φῐλοξενῐ́ᾱ). And I think it captures a lot of what many separate voices, which may bear superficial differences, are all working toward in diverse ways. In "Reaching Out" Henri Nouwen spoke of the importance of creating a "free space" for the other. In "Opening the Eye of Value During the Metacrisis" Zak Stein spoke about the rites and rituals of caregiving. Philoxenia can be like a skeleton key - it is able to open a pathway into conversations about axiology, about values... even for those who may otherwise be hesitant to begin such conversations, owing to a deep (and and often justifiable) skepticism of where they might lead.