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PRAXIS

The generation of fractals is a mirror of the learning process. It is time-consuming, dependent on chaos and requires many iterations. For every "YES" there are a thousand "NO's".

When we learn anything, we come into relationship with the unknown. This relationship is formed as we grow. If those around us enabled us to make our own choices, make mistakes, contemplate our actions and find our own solutions, to be free to explore life without punishment or criticism, then our relationship to the unknown would remain as it were when we first came into this world - a relationship of curiosity and wonder! However, the reality of social conditioning and the education system of modern society means this is not the case for most of us.

The process of learning can be represented in this one phrase; "For every “Yes” there are a thousand “No’s”. If we in anyway resist the “No” (the Unknown), then learning and growth can not happen. In the larger perspective of life, when we are learning a skill or new area of knowledge, what we are actually learning is to melt resistance to “not knowing” ...and not knowing is essentially "chaos"! In the primal rhythm process, there are many ingredients that have to line up for a “Yes” to manifest. Hardware (skills and knowledge) and software (awareness) both need to self-organise into an experience that we can trust as being congruent. To arrive at a "Yes" requires many iterations of stepping into experience, hitting a wall, contemplating what happened, formulating an alternative approach and trying again. This is "Praxis"; a process founded on admitting and surrendering to "Chaos" and allowing a deeper intelligence emerge.

"Union with the Divine, can only be explored through praxis due to the inability of the finite mind (and its tool, language) to comprehend or express the infinite." (Matthew Fox)

"Praxis may be described as a form of critical thinking and comprises the combination of reflection and action. Praxis can be viewed as a progression of cognitive and physical actions:

Taking the action
Considering the impacts of the action
Analysing the results of the action by reflecting upon it
Altering and revising conceptions and planning following reflection
Implementing these plans in further actions

This creates a cycle which can be viewed in terms of educational settings, learners and educational facilitators."

Praxis is the infinite loop of experience, contemplation and realisation that is the evolution of human intelligence. In rhythm, the depth of learning and the accumulation of wisdom is dependent on the ability to surrender to not knowing (chaos) in our experience. It is also the depth of honesty we can find in the contemplation phase of our praxis. As the contemplation phases become very precise, the act of "clairvoyance" begins to emerge in the rhythmic experience itself. One can not only see the sensory and extra sensory truth of our own rhythmic reality but also those of others participating in the same rhythmic field. It is this clear seeing in experience that enables the perception of universal rhythm consciousness to guide us. Often the first step to perceiving URC is in contemplation after the experience or when participating in the periphery, or even momentarily stepping away of a rhythm circle to witnessing the energy field when someone else is leading. As the collective praxis unfolds and recognition becomes anchored, an individual can begin to sense and see URC even when they are actively leading a rhythm process or playing a drum. At first there must be an initiator, someone to start the fire so to speak, but very soon the collective becomes the primary teacher. The awareness of the collective is quickly assimilated by the individual, and with repeated exposure to this type of learning field one comes into contact with one's own inner antennae thus, enabling them to independently trigger and maintain a powerful field of URC.

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PRAXIS

"Union with the Divine, can only be explored through praxis due to the inability of the finite mind (and its tool, language) to comprehend or express the infinite." (Matthew Fox)

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"Praxis may be described as a form of critical thinking and comprises the combination of reflection and action. Praxis can be viewed as a progression of cognitive and physical actions:

Taking the action

Considering the impacts of the action

Analysing the results of the action by reflecting upon it

Altering and revising conceptions and planning following reflection

Implementing these plans in further actions

This creates a cycle which can be viewed in terms of educational settings, learners and educational facilitators."