…for yourself.
- Get the idea of encountering: making common cause with the livingness (the welcome to freshness) of an other. Look here for ideas about types of other, ways of making common cause, and clues for benchmarking livingness.
- Invite or accept an invitation of an other to encounter. This may be formal or informal. Planned or spontaneous, One off or regular. Maybe its just you two. Maybe you together want to encounter a third. Some ideas for getting started are here.
- Take a stance, and start to dance.
- Afterwards, reflect on your encounter:
Was transcendent freshness actually present in the occasion and how exactly?
Signs of the actual, active potent presence of fresh include the following:
a. beckoning whiffs of beyondness (unexplored potentialities, unrealized potentialities unresolved puzzles)
b. unsettling knocks and nudges of interestingness (imprintings of what’s impressive, ticklings of what intriguing, touches of what’s intimate)
c. the appearance of new things: new perspectives, new notions, new relationships, new option, new others, new visions
d. exhibitions of hospitality, friendship and exploration in action
What made the occasion special? Consider:
a. that it was…at all;
b. that it was what it was: how relevant to the stream of urgencies in which it occurred; who or what the signs and expression that spoke to the livingness of each, and the encounter itself;
c. that it was what it was for us: how resonant with our livingness (welcome to freshness) going forward.
- Share your tips, stories and suggestions here about encountering with others. For instance, ideas of yet-unencountered others. Also, you and your encounter other will have been in the actual, active and potent presence of transcendent freshness. What is it up to?