Good
question.
Does
living
a
transformed
life require you to become
a master
of delivering its
rich
body of distinctions? In other
words
if you're unable to
present
an intelligent, witty discourse recounting all the distinctions
accurately for the audience in a packed lecture theatre on an
Ivy League college campus, can you claim to
live
a
transformed
life? Pursuing these
inquiries
reveals one of the most profoundly
marvelous
ways
Werner's work
works
(and of
the way
it doesn't).
Here's my take on that: I understand
water
(don't we all?). I understand it's the second phase of matter (of
solid, liquid, and gas, it's liquid). I understand my body is 60%
water,
and a molecule of
water
comprises
two
atoms of Hydrogen combined with one atom of Oxygen
(hence
"H2O")
etc etc ... And yet I don't need to understand
any of that to
experience
being
wet
when I
dive
in.
Werner's
promise for the
Leadership Course
(for example) is "You will leave
this course
being a leader
and exercising
leadership
as your
natural
Self-expression
in any situation and no matter what the
circumstances.".
There's no mention of understanding
leaders
(it's not on the agenda: it's not required). Even distinguishing
distinctions of
true
leadership
is secondary. Its method is akin to
discovering
what
being
wet
is, by
diving
into
the river.
The work
is
experiential
in
nature
("contextual"
if you prefer). You could leave your understanding in the lobby at
the onset where it will remain for you to retrieve again
afterwards - just don't be surprised if you decide not to.
On this score I'm willing to bet
big
(to support this assertion I'm willing to ante up the entire
farm):
what inhibits, precludes ie what
gets
in
the way
(indeed, what's
gotten
in
the way
for centuries) of not just you and I but the entire
human race
living
what's
really
possible
for us, is we stay stuck in the same tired, old paradigms which
mistake the steak for the menu - in other
words,
which obfuscate
real
life and
living,
with the mere symbols, pictures, and
interpretations
of
real
life and
living.
To
get
to
the heart
of this and the
hows
and the wherefores of
why
we stay stuck there, is to
get
to
the heart of Werner's
work.
But if you do pursue this
inquiry
and instead of ending up
transforming
your life, you end up with a deep understanding of
transformation?
that's the same
trap:
way
too much menu, not enough steak.
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