Part III of this article series, plus an accompanying Zoom talk scheduled next week. On December 19th, join me for an exciting new seminar, "Re-Visioning History: Groundwork for New Models of Consciousness Unfoldment."
Hey Daniel! Great question. I think, when it comes down to underlying principles and outcomes, the new temporal imaginary would be the most effective way we could begin to 'live' the new mutation, or new worldview. It would mean a fundamental re-orientation from spatial thinking and Cartesianism which has been our foundation since the Renaissance. It would also mean the beginning, not the end, of thinking, which will have become what Edgar Morin describes as 'complex thinking.' If we're living in a Janus-faced period, as Gebser says, or the 'interregnum' of Gramsci, then the new temporal imaginary helps us begin to sift the old from the new, and, hopefully, tip the scales towards the strength of the new. It's not that it's really a battle between the old consciousness and the new, but that the new consciousness helps us overcome ourselves in a way that's fundamentally transformative rather than merely destructive and implosive. Hope this was decent food for thought. Again, great question. The kind of question that merits frequent revisiting.
Thankyou. I like it. To summarise what I think you are saying: Bringing about a new, potentially non-linear relationship to time and space will help to support the shift away from cold rationality and progressivism towards complex thinking and avoid destructive regressions into modernistic patterns.
What would you say is the purpose of inhabiting a new temporal imaginary? What would be the desired outcome and what would it facilitate?
Hey Daniel! Great question. I think, when it comes down to underlying principles and outcomes, the new temporal imaginary would be the most effective way we could begin to 'live' the new mutation, or new worldview. It would mean a fundamental re-orientation from spatial thinking and Cartesianism which has been our foundation since the Renaissance. It would also mean the beginning, not the end, of thinking, which will have become what Edgar Morin describes as 'complex thinking.' If we're living in a Janus-faced period, as Gebser says, or the 'interregnum' of Gramsci, then the new temporal imaginary helps us begin to sift the old from the new, and, hopefully, tip the scales towards the strength of the new. It's not that it's really a battle between the old consciousness and the new, but that the new consciousness helps us overcome ourselves in a way that's fundamentally transformative rather than merely destructive and implosive. Hope this was decent food for thought. Again, great question. The kind of question that merits frequent revisiting.
Thankyou. I like it. To summarise what I think you are saying: Bringing about a new, potentially non-linear relationship to time and space will help to support the shift away from cold rationality and progressivism towards complex thinking and avoid destructive regressions into modernistic patterns.
Hi Jeremy,
congratulations for you ongoing Oeuvre for novelty and deep aperçu.
Are you familiar with Yasuhiko Genku Kimura' s" The Age of Imagination" approach?
All the best!
Fran