Coming Back Home ... Again

Hello folks,

I do hope some of you are still tuned in ... I know I've taken quite an hiatus, but a lot has happened. When Katrina hit the Gulf Coast I was also personally hit by a storm of similar magnitude ... but my storm was an internal sweeping away and flood. So it's been rebuilding time for me and that's where I've been.

Today I'll just give you a quick insight with regard to the last month's contemplations and conjurings.

First, I've been occupied with the idea of "intersubjectivity" as applied to the transpersonal search for about four years now ... since I began writing the dissertation for my Ph.D. in Business (for those trivia buffs out there: "Towards a Theory of Transpersonal Decision-Making in Human Systems: A Neurolinguistic-Phenomenography"). The core concept I considered and researched was that of 'intentionality' and subsequently 'trans-intentionality'. This led me to the deep question about subjectivity vs. intersubjectivity. That's been therefore brewing ever since. (BTW the results of the research astounded me and floored me simultaneously - it would be fair to say that the process involved in writing the dissertation rocked me to my foundations).

Anyway the storm that had been brewing hit around the end of last month in full-force and it was a thrill ride on the inside. Grand sweeping generalizations were swept clean away and what came flooding in were specifics about the nature of the constructs I held and I believe we (as a species) hold that simply bowled me over! This moves me beyond the simplicity of inter-subjectivity as I've been holding it to a whole new dimension. The concepts of social ontology don't go nearly far enough to explain what seems to me now to be true ...

So I will come back to you all again (assuming there's a you all to come back to) and share some of my insights ... let's plan on 'speaking' again at the beginning of next week ...

Best regards,

Joseph Riggio
Architect and Designer of the MythoSelf(TM) Process

(From sunny NJ)