"DA COSA NASCE COSA"
Essy's wish for 'horsey humans' to grow in self awareness translates first as a desire to question those things that seem to have ceased to astonish us! Most of all; who we are, and who is our horse?
Where do we start in discovering us both?
Things to experiment with ....
- Use yourself as your subject for documentation - document your movements, actions, behaviour and conversations over a day, a week, a weekend. This is known as the art of 'Self-Ethnography' - the documentation and analysis of the self as a foreign culture. It means be fascinated in you!
- See your life as a film. You are the film-maker. Everything is a source. Your horse is a lead character. What role would you have him/her play? What character type must he fulfil? What part will you play? What's the beginning, middle and end? Is there an epic scene? What tragedy's befall you both? Who is the hero/heroine? What emotions and life lessons play out?
- Interact with your horse as if you are someone else! Pretend to be someone else. What would....... do in a given situation with a horse? Imagine you are in disguise.
- Alter your routines. Do things in a different order. With a different purpose. Arrive at a different time having taken a different route to the yard/field. Plan your time, or be totally spontaneous. Observe! Reflect!
- Attempt to see things from as many different angles as possible. What options you have before you. What are the many explanations you can come up with (then add another) for your horse doing or not doing something, as expected or desired?
- Use thought experiments. Ask yourself 'what would it be like to be a horse?' 'What would it be like to live in a stall, have someone on my back, jump fences, see behind me, be covered in fur?' Einstein used thought experiments to dream up the theory of relativity - an insight and moment of enlightenment that altered man's view of what was possible, forever!
In summary: Step 1 is about being willing to full experience and study things we don't understand, and to embrace that lack of understanding and enter into the unknown!
- See your life as a film. You are the film-maker. Everything is a source. Your horse is a lead character. What role would you have him/her play? What character type must he fulfil? What part will you play? What's the beginning, middle and end? Is there an epic scene? What tragedy's befall you both? Who is the hero/heroine? What emotions and life lessons play out?
- Interact with your horse as if you are someone else! Pretend to be someone else. What would....... do in a given situation with a horse? Imagine you are in disguise.
- Alter your routines. Do things in a different order. With a different purpose. Arrive at a different time having taken a different route to the yard/field. Plan your time, or be totally spontaneous. Observe! Reflect!
- Attempt to see things from as many different angles as possible. What options you have before you. What are the many explanations you can come up with (then add another) for your horse doing or not doing something, as expected or desired?
- Use thought experiments. Ask yourself 'what would it be like to be a horse?' 'What would it be like to live in a stall, have someone on my back, jump fences, see behind me, be covered in fur?' Einstein used thought experiments to dream up the theory of relativity - an insight and moment of enlightenment that altered man's view of what was possible, forever!
In summary: Step 1 is about being willing to full experience and study things we don't understand, and to embrace that lack of understanding and enter into the unknown!
"The closer man gets to the unknown, the more inventive he becomes
- the quicker he adopts new ways"
Buckminster Fuller
- the quicker he adopts new ways"
Buckminster Fuller
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