03-11-2006, 12:52 PM
THE IDEA OF NOT BEGINNING IN A SHARED WORLD
The idea of not beginning in a shared world.
Not so beginning, because the world of the subject is autonomously extruded.
The sharing that such subject can have with you, being not of a world, but being of an action of world creation.
What is the action of world creation which a student engages in? What is the action of world creation which we engage in? How can the two actions coexist, such that there is mutual empathy, such that communication can subsist in that empathy?
What is the stream of collective things in which each such action finds its locus and metier?
If we were to use social stories to explain all this, then in what metaphors could the story consist?
Say, in what streams are we and the other embedded? Are they rivers, or roads, or tracks, or railways, or oceans, in the air or in space?
What are the vehicles of selfhood we and they have in these streams, how are these vehicles managed?
What if the stream in which the subject occurs is as a river, and their vehicle in that stream is a coracle?
What if our stream is a railway or a road, and our vehicle a train or carriage, or a bus or car?
What if their stream is space, and their vehicle in that space stream, simply beyond our imagination?
What is the abstraction, the living abstraction we might empathetically share, which mutually cognises, our occurrences as embedded in alternate streams, and our vehicles of selfhood as variously appropriate to negotiating what is encountered in them?
When we look through the eyes of the other, what is the prism which reveals us as the same in our differences?
What is the vision we have in such moments of eye contact?
The idea of not beginning in a shared world.
Not so beginning, because the world of the subject is autonomously extruded.
The sharing that such subject can have with you, being not of a world, but being of an action of world creation.
What is the action of world creation which a student engages in? What is the action of world creation which we engage in? How can the two actions coexist, such that there is mutual empathy, such that communication can subsist in that empathy?
What is the stream of collective things in which each such action finds its locus and metier?
If we were to use social stories to explain all this, then in what metaphors could the story consist?
Say, in what streams are we and the other embedded? Are they rivers, or roads, or tracks, or railways, or oceans, in the air or in space?
What are the vehicles of selfhood we and they have in these streams, how are these vehicles managed?
What if the stream in which the subject occurs is as a river, and their vehicle in that stream is a coracle?
What if our stream is a railway or a road, and our vehicle a train or carriage, or a bus or car?
What if their stream is space, and their vehicle in that space stream, simply beyond our imagination?
What is the abstraction, the living abstraction we might empathetically share, which mutually cognises, our occurrences as embedded in alternate streams, and our vehicles of selfhood as variously appropriate to negotiating what is encountered in them?
When we look through the eyes of the other, what is the prism which reveals us as the same in our differences?
What is the vision we have in such moments of eye contact?