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How to Create That-Which-Is-Not-Yet @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

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How to Create That-Which-Is-Not-Yet @ Comprehensivist Wednesdays

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To develop our comprehensivity, our interest in broadly and deeply understanding our worlds and its peoples, we actively consider the learning of other traditions and their ideas which may initially seem very strange to us.

This event will continue a previous exploration on change in our lives. We will quickly come to focus on the issue of how we create that-which-is-not-yet.

To help participants engage this alternative way of thinking about the changes in our lives, I prepared the following essay: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/2021/04/how-to-create-that-which-is-not-yet/

Reading the essay will help participants grapple with this unusual way of thinking about how change occurs in our lives.

This idea builds on part of a previous event on "Rethinking Change and Evolution". However, there is nothing from that event that you need to understand to fully participate at this event. If you are interested in those preliminary connections, you can watch the 1h 5m video from the prior event at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyr7x0hPFOY

Welcome to the series "Comprehensivist Wednesdays". Transdisciplinarity, Renaissance humanism, homo universalis, and Polymathy are some of the ways of describing this approach which Buckminster Fuller called Comprehensivity and described as “macro-comprehensive and micro-incisive”.

An introductory series of videos from past events can be watched at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkCiNL_gZp2chIX3Hk5gHXf9bzxcjVxNA

CJ Fearnley's site "Collaborating for Comprehensivism" has more information on the idea: https://www.cjfearnley.com/CfC/

July 15: Why Be a Comprehensivist? — a Panel Discussion. http://y2u.be/qjwTy6pGkNA
‪July 22: Louis Sullivan’s Ideas: Art of Expression & Form Follows Function with Architect Sherri Tracinski & Shrikant‬ https://youtu.be/oM8vbQQ-4MU
‪Jul 29: Humanity's Great Traditions of Inquiry and Action with CJ‬ Fearnley http://y2u.be/8RuHE_3FMUs
‪Aug 12: The Necessities and Impossibilities of Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/u6372Te2YA8
‪Sep 16: The Fundamental Role of Story in Our Lives with CJ Fearnley https://youtu.be/4UvDO2z0bjo
‪Oct 14: The Comprehensive Thinking of R. Buckminster Fuller with CJ Fearnley http://y2u.be/sPjcJjnHzKU
Nov 18: The Value of The Ethnosphere with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgxwR29_WY
Dec 16: Value of Multiple Working Hypotheses with CJ Fearnley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpIHsVIzGlw
Jan 13: The Inductive Attitude: A Moral Basis for Science and Comprehensivism with CJ Fearnley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5dv4daAxL4
Feb 17: Mistake Mystique in Learning and in Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awxp5owgjiI

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