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RHYTHMS IN HUMAN NATURE
Mini Turnings, Vulnerable Moments and Turning of Turnings
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Mini Turnings, Vulnerable Moments and Turning of Turnings
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Sex, belonging, touch, and affiliation all move in the rhythms of
approach and separation built out of briefer units tied to frequencies
in nature. When new life is conceived, always in closest approach, it
develops with its own rhythmic course in a process full of frequency
dependent stages leading to a specific gestation period followed by
birth.
Some species only come together to mate. Others express approach/separation as they sleep and rise, feed and rest, travel and settle, attack and defend together. Sometimes the approach and separation occur in great flocking or herding populations.
In
existing
human hunter-gatherer bands, group members separate to forage and hunt
and then come together in the home camp to share food, maintain family
life, socialize and sleep. Since the base-camp and the feeding range
are often seasonal or even more temporary, the oscillations are tied
primarily to the group members themselves, not to the place the group
occupies; they approach and separation from and to each other; the
particulars of the places can change but the good order of the troop
persists.
Sam Keen caught the sense of the polar rhythms of approach and separation well when he wrote in The Passionate Life, “Loving is a continual dance between bonding and returning to our boundaries, coming together and going apart."1
Distance and closeness enter not extrinsically but at the heart of the rhythm of nature itself.
Some species only come together to mate. Others express approach/separation as they sleep and rise, feed and rest, travel and settle, attack and defend together. Sometimes the approach and separation occur in great flocking or herding populations.
In
existing
human hunter-gatherer bands, group members separate to forage and hunt
and then come together in the home camp to share food, maintain family
life, socialize and sleep. Since the base-camp and the feeding range
are often seasonal or even more temporary, the oscillations are tied
primarily to the group members themselves, not to the place the group
occupies; they approach and separation from and to each other; the
particulars of the places can change but the good order of the troop
persists.Sam Keen caught the sense of the polar rhythms of approach and separation well when he wrote in The Passionate Life, “Loving is a continual dance between bonding and returning to our boundaries, coming together and going apart."1
Distance and closeness enter not extrinsically but at the heart of the rhythm of nature itself.
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