Replying to LO26804 --
Dear Lana, dear At, dear Learners,
You know I have only once in a business context been in as a
observor/facilitator/learner on a 'vision thing'...by and large it was
people standing up and telling other people how they were going to make a
lot of money in the next few years and retire to do something really
meaningful with their lives...years later I wonder if they did...
Now for something completely different (?) ....Some people say that
Rousseau's genius for a 'vision' he had came from his complete and perhaps
necessary inability to accept the perfect workings (desert technology;-)
of larger nature's course to his own relation to life's landscape.
>>A vision, to me, sets out a larger purpose, in
>>which the actual mission or commands may or
>>may not be clear or specified right away.
>As I understand it, I would call the "larger purpose" (or more precisely
>"whole purpose") the mission. The dictionaries tell that vision has some
>six different meanings, from "faculty of seeing" through "imagination" to
>"foresight". I think that it is the "calling of the foresight" which makes
>it so tempting to give vision a purpose. It is like the calling of the
>horizon where the desert and the sky join -- it keeps me on with going
>which is tough without ever commanding me.
'Calling of the foresight' At? This makes me think of 'inner recursions'
This image of 'horizon and shore' reminds me of something I read
recently...something in Christopher Alexander's work...which leads me to
ask if this changing of focus travelling through and upon a (r)evolving
landscape (metaphor) ...is it caused by, encouraged by, the fractal
natures of this, our inside-outside world? Is this what makes the
transition from word to image in the mind a possibility...a calling forth
(again) of what was present? What are the concrete links between our
languages (including models, images, maps) and our concrete world (...I
mean 'concrete' as in non-abstract as opposed to a 'concrete jungle') I
guess I am asking, How fractal are our visions? Is it about 'how' and
'why' things "Fit" (fitting = art, Bohm)
Love to both;-)...as I just notice Lana's post was ...calling (of) the
foresight of At.
Andrew
Andrew Campbell
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