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Conversation holds mystery and it runs through every movement.

:- Doug.

Abductive process, grab it and go, is important. We need to recognize we use it all the time, and we need to give it respect in larger decisions. It requires work and precision: digging for all the factors that affect us in this moment. It needs many minds and more context all the way through—we cannot just say That’s my answer and I’m sticking with it.

:- Doug.

Purpose, Gregory Bateson points out, can throw a monkey wrench into the works. Not that we should not have purpose (better than goals), but we need to include the warmer things like the creative and the dream and the unconscious and the allowing and the flow, and we need at the same time to work for these things. Not an easy work, especially in a culture that idolizes goals and money and numbers.

:- Doug.

The whole must be sought and involved: the purposive with the creative, the working with the allowing. It demands of us work, this business of finding and engaging with the whole, not merely study. The key: with. Nothing, no one, apart and above. Nor alone.

:- Doug.