Re: Our finite realities

[B-W <ban@dcn.davis.ca.us>]

Roger Key wrote:
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 Meeting the people where they are means we must
> take on the role of accepting their reality as the only reality and then
> seeking to understand their reality, make it real for us.  We can then
> stand in their reality and look to our reality and possibly see a route by
> which we may get there, with our new friend by our side.  This means we
> MUST accept that all other realities are valid and, well, real.  We cannot
> stand on a metaphorical, higher plane and point out how stupid others are
> for holding realities that do not match ours and our scientific facts (not
> truths - fact and truth are very different)
> Those of you who know me may know that I have a growing interest in
> language and how this language may hold us back from seeing new
> possibilities and realities.
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In reality, it seems to me (ISTM) that taking on the role of another as
the ONLY existing reality is an exercise in madness, that would rob one
anyway the ability of being able to see his own previous authentic
reality.
ISTM that honest dialogues are only possible without either party giving
away personal integrity, using a language that promotes new
possibilities for journey into perpetually renewing realities.
P. Ban

[Moderator's $0.02 USD:  Isn't life a continual "outgrowing" of pervious
realities?  What came out of the UK conversations was that as we move
up that "SoPK understanding" graph from 0,0 towards 10,10 -- we seem to
lose the previous realities the further we get from them -- and the more
our language evolves.  True dialogue, as you point out, becomes more critical.
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