Fascinated to see this, Sofia, especially this week when I have drawn links between co-operative inquiry, prayer, worship etc in this weeks post on Learning How Land Speaks https://peterreason.substack.com/p/the-co-operative-inquiry-group. We have often argued that all forms of human action can be conceived in terms of inquiry. For example, John Crook, Buddhist scholar and teacher, writes of Buddhist as a form of subjective empiricism, and that the process of meditation is best seen as an inquiry into Mind. Look forward to more from you on this thread!
I often write about, and experience, altered states of consciousness. (I think I have a chapter in at least three of my books about trance and ecstatic states). Most often than not, what I really experience through this living inquiry, are NOT highly dissociative, cathartic or intense trance states (not judging here); rather feeble whispers from different layers of the body-psyche in relation with. Like a silent nudging or a mild textured silence. It can be accessed with a tree encounter or by reading a book or research paper (under a tree). The point is.. it tenderly affects, and opens. Reflecting back at this instinctive wording, connecting research to prayer, I guess (I really dont know.. i'm really just guessing here) that this porous state of inquiry (as a different polarity from the dry metrics of western truth) gives space to other ways of retelling the world. With tender affection.
Fascinated to see this, Sofia, especially this week when I have drawn links between co-operative inquiry, prayer, worship etc in this weeks post on Learning How Land Speaks https://peterreason.substack.com/p/the-co-operative-inquiry-group. We have often argued that all forms of human action can be conceived in terms of inquiry. For example, John Crook, Buddhist scholar and teacher, writes of Buddhist as a form of subjective empiricism, and that the process of meditation is best seen as an inquiry into Mind. Look forward to more from you on this thread!
Oh! Symbiotic reverberation! Thank you Peter 🙏
I often write about, and experience, altered states of consciousness. (I think I have a chapter in at least three of my books about trance and ecstatic states). Most often than not, what I really experience through this living inquiry, are NOT highly dissociative, cathartic or intense trance states (not judging here); rather feeble whispers from different layers of the body-psyche in relation with. Like a silent nudging or a mild textured silence. It can be accessed with a tree encounter or by reading a book or research paper (under a tree). The point is.. it tenderly affects, and opens. Reflecting back at this instinctive wording, connecting research to prayer, I guess (I really dont know.. i'm really just guessing here) that this porous state of inquiry (as a different polarity from the dry metrics of western truth) gives space to other ways of retelling the world. With tender affection.
Deeply appreciating your brilliance and your heart, friend. Always grateful to read you. ❤️
Thank you dear Erin ❤️🙏 Much love to you❤️
Speechless. Extremely intriguing & ready to read more. 💙
Thank you for the resonance, Margaret 🙏 I would suggest, if you have time and availability, to dive into a humble fruit of this practice, Orada's essay: https://www.academia.edu/105172863/Our_Lady_of_Orada_The_Eco_Mythological_Mountain_Bloodline_Sofia_Batalha