Try a alterNative Perspective
Sometimes all we need is to look in a different way, and everything can change.
Look at how different the letters u & n are, or N & Z, or b, d & p.
They are exactly the same shape, with a very different effect on us.
With just a shift in orientation, in perspective, they become something completely different…yet still the same.
The most powerful personal change is like that too.
When you truly change your perspective, the whole world can change.
If you are not in charge of your mind and awareness at the level where you can move between perspectives freely, you have only one option: to live in, and ‘believe’ the socially presented ‘image of the world and the various situations in it,’ because you don’t know that you have other options, nor how to choose or use them.
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And most people are stuck there, without the freedom that comes from a naturally agile and dexterous alterNative Intelligence that can pave the way to true and lasting real change on any level of life that needs it. Such a person is left in one of two equally terrible positions:
- either believing a perspective is ‘really theirs’ and ‘really right’ when actually, it’s almost entirely inherited or adopted, and usually limited in scope eg colonial worldview; self critical absolute conclusions
- or stuck, utterly fixated on one perspective or view of a thing, and rigidly unable to see other equally valid images/perspectives no matter how many relevant features are pointed out eg gender ideology; political opponents; religious conflict; scientific dogmas
Both of these are terrible positions for a human being. Both are invisible prisons. Both positions are doomed to entropy, conflict, suffering and dead ends.
In a way, this is the real ‘matrix’ that people speak of:
It is the story of the world you perceive and believe, and the story of humans place in it; the stories of ‘what is success’ and ‘failure;’ beliefs of ‘what is a good relationship’ or a ‘good parent,’ ‘good man’ or ‘good woman;’ the story of ‘what should a human being DO to feel like they’re good and useful and part of the world?’
And more… the story and demonstrations of ‘how should we treat each other?’ ‘What is our position in relation to each other, and what is that based on?’ ‘How should childhood be spent?’ ‘How do we treat and relate to land, air, water, space, other creatures and plants?’ Even ‘what is good, what is bad?’
When we are living in or surrounded by behaviours and a worldview / perspective that is not true to our nature, we suffer.
It might be big or it might be small, but we will suffer, and no amount of money or success or sex or drugs or approval or material assets or distraction or avoidance can alleviate that suffering if we do not deal with the cause, even though they can provide great temporary ‘avoidance relief’ that can last decades.
The cause is a disconnection from our alterNative Intelligence and, from that, a disconnection from our own nature, each other, the land and spirit in a way that drives us mad, sad, or bad, and into acts of indecency and inhumanity: against others, the land, animals….and ourselves.
This is a very famous ‘optical illusion.’ Some people see an elegant looking lady looking backwards over her shoulder, others see an elderly lady hunched over in a shawl.
It’s not an ‘illusion’ though. The picture is both things. At the same time. Your mind can only ‘assemble’ one whole image at a time though: from the same data; the same picture.
Some people easily see the other image. Others need to have specific features pointed out before they go ‘oh yes! Now I see her!’
The other perspective was there all along though.
In the example of the letters of the alphabet, at least the shape ‘u’ had changed position before we see it completely differently as ‘n’. In this image, there are two very different ways to see the exact same image, without it needing to shift at all, and both ways are complete impressions.
The work offered here works like this. Looking at the exact same ‘thing,’ but from a different perspective, not just to see ‘different aspects of a subject you already have an image of,’ but to be able to assemble an entirely new image which is complete: a new impression, but very, very different to the one that was there but a moment ago.
You may need a few ‘features’ pointed out before your mind can ‘assemble’ the new impression, but it’s already ‘t/here.’
Your alterNative Intelligence is naturally capable of ‘assembling’ multiple perspectives on any number of things, just like in the picture example.
Using pattern, context, relationship and more, we build partial pictures of what’s before us, but we believe they are complete and accurate, because they reveal what seems like a ‘whole, stable thing.’
However, what we see first may well not be ‘the only thing there,’ where in the world, there are often far more than just the two options we see here, and it certainly may well not be the best, most satisfying, complete, or relevant, option… no matter how many people attest to it.
Everything on this site is to help ‘point out different features’ of everyday situations and things that are not just to give you ‘new quirks of thought,’ but to help you ‘assemble’ a completely different ‘impression/image’ from the same information, just like in the picture examples.
Each ‘new impression’ offered invites a different approach to hacking your way to your own alterNative Intelligence, and from there, you’ll see, and feel, a very different world, and see yourself very differently too!
But in truth… it’s always been t/here.
This is true for each of the main topics - Gender & Relationships, Language, ‘The First Word,’ ‘What it means to be Native,’ and ‘What’s Going On in the World?’, as well as the sub-topics: Ancestral Connection, Perception, Native Number, Sound, Alphabets, Rites of Passage and more!
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I used to be pleased to attend ‘alternative’ lifestyle events or to think of myself as part of the ‘alternatives’ - so much so I have owned the domain ‘alternativeanswers.net’ since 2004!
But then I found something deeper: that ‘alternative’ is a phrase made up by those who seek to claim the ‘centre ground.’ Or used by those who seek to avoid it.
But the ‘alternative’ is not the main event. It’s the ‘smaller, lesser choice’. It’s ‘the other one.’
I was no ‘alternative.’ Altered Native? temporarily, perhaps…. but no more.
hence : alterNative
Read more on Natural Decolonisation and White European Natives here (if it doesn’t click, it means the link isn’t live yet)
What is alterNative Intelligence?
“I realised that so many wholesome ‘alternative lifestyles’ were simply a return to a more Native way of living. I realised I was seeing a healing of the European Native Peoples and all of a sudden it’s fumblings and quirks became something 10x more beautiful.. ”
it didn’t seem to matter if it was a middle aged white collar male closing his eyes and getting lost in inner currents at a 5 rhythms session, or whether it was a young grass roots Manc lass getting excited over foraging and off grid living while her beary hairy man would be either mastering yurt care or modifying some mode of transport or another….inevitably involving wood, or whether it was some experimental healing, or alternative sounding or singing… it all had the same marker : a being moved by a silent yearning within, from a sense of not fitting or things not being ‘right’ as they are/were.
I Saw a alterNative Intelligence moving through each example.
A Native Intelligence that was inherent, natural, sensitive and pervasive.
An Intelligence that was emergent, not imposed;
Syn(es)thetic and whole-some, not disembodied and separate. bloggy blog
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