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I would like to speak to the voice of the Auto...Auto.......Auto....Poet.....?

In Reference to:
Autopoiesis and Practice

I would like to speak to the voice of the autopoiesis agent inside me.  I would like to speak to that within me which is actively creating me.  Hmmm.... weird... and cool.  I like the feeling I get when I make this request.

I would like to hear a discussion on the ability to learn as a form of intelligence in and of itself.  Can I operate with a turquiose capacity to learn things?  Let's say that it will take me five years to become a concert pianist.  It will only take most humans less than two years to learn to walk.  Is the autopo... autopoet in the child more developed?  Is the child in me a more advanced learner than my dominant self-sense allows me to be? 

What if I could get in touch with the everpresent childlike innocence everytime I confront a challenge?  Could I learn faster?  Here's an anecdote:

I went to a Native American Church ceremony that a friend of mine hosted.  We stayed up all night in a teepee, playing drums, singing songs, speaking respectfully and directly to "God," and consuming peyote.  The state change was so profound, I felt an overwhelming compulsion to sustain it for as long as possible.  I fixated on the idea that I would refrain from speaking to another human for a full week and determined to continue with my day to day life without avoiding any interaction.  I spoke to myself when nobody was around.  I spoke to my dog.  Smiled and nodded and did charades with bank tellers, store clerks, friends and family. 

A childlike innocense rose to the surface of my exterior and interior during this period.  Low and behold, I learned to ride a unicycle in 3 hours of practice at this time.  I had practiced riding a unicycle many times before in my life but never succeeded until this focused, relaxed, innocent attempt.

Ken Wilber said that when we ask to speak to the voice of the concert pianist he is not available to us because it takes most of us an average of 5 years to develop him within us.  However, I've always been a closet musician with fantacies of coming out with a saxophone, or a drum, or a microphone.  The other night, I woke myself laughing amidst a dream of playing the saxophone on stage at jazz concert.  Several years ago, while briefly exploring a freestyle rapping interest, I had a dream in which I was rapping freestyle at length to some heavy set, southern black women who didn't think this cracker was a rapper.

So the question begs the answer.  Within the subtle state, is the concert pianist more available?  How can state mastery affect my ability to move through stages more quickly?  How does this work?  Wilber has talked about the "greasing the skids" effect of meditation on development.  Countless books have been written on "Zen and the art of...(you name it)"  An athlete's being "in the zone" seems a coloquial description for playing and meditating simultaneously.

Learning to engage multiple states of awareness while simultaneously engaging anything else we are endeavoring to develop inside and out, along any line of intelligence surely will help us develop more rapidly, perform better at any level, and make our experience more integral and enjoyable. 

Of all the voices clamoring for attention in our self sense each day, may they hush to a low murmor when the voice of the autopoietic(?) arises to speak from his deep contemplation.  May the autopoietic grow in capacity within us with each passing day...

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may i please play like a concert pianist ?


i like your question "within the subtle state, is the concert pianist more available?" and the answer would be "absolutely because we can do ANYTHING in the dreamstate"

what ken was talking about however, is that when doing big mind exercise, we can speak as different aspects of ourselves that already exist but not those that haven't yet been developed ..

perhaps the concert pianist example is better stated as you cannot play the piano as a concert pianist if it isn't yet developed (instead of saying u cannot speak as the concert pianist)