The Direction of Intention

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I’ve been thinking about the term “domestication” because I love it for this meditation on power. We come into the world as a wild-child, without any framing, and like a puppy, we are trained. We pick up language and to a certain extent the structure of our language frames our perceptions of the world: does your language emphasize nouns (things) or verbs (actions)?

We learn how to get our needs fulfilled and how to get attention. It is in this process that we are oriented to value sets, we begin to inherit/develop our “communication styles,” we separate and have the distinct impression that we are separate from all others. For a while we are unique and precious in our own eyes.

Our body is our first border. We know ourselves through our body. We form beliefs (Identity) about our bodies– things like “your nature is good,” or “your nature is corrupt” – these beliefs are body beliefs and inform our relationship not only with our selves but also with how we understand our relationship to the world. It is the epicenter of our understanding of “goodness” or “place.” It is our direct link to ancestry, hopes and dreams, pleasures and pains. It is the foundation stone to the-story-you-tell-yourself-about-yourself.

The underlying assumption is that you relate to others based on your relationship to your Self. It is impossible to talk about the relationship to other (which defines your relationship to power) until you surface the point of view from which you are relating.

So, making the unconscious conscious, a treasure hunt of awareness for your values, your stories about how they came to you, your capacity to see and be seen, discovering and uncovering the geography of your domestication, understanding the self as a “body revelation” is necessary to get to the place where you can understand why power with others generates power and why power over negates power in yourself and others.

If your way is learned (as opposed to “true”) then that must be the case for all other people. And it makes other ways of being possible.

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