Questions to Apitholo #22
Dr. Will Varey 
Further questions about apitholo, apithology and humanity learning ...
How should a person ideally prepare themselves to receive this work?
Answer: This was our favourite question from the open forum Event last year. The question has many elements in it that are asked well. The answer (as is often the case in apithology) has two horizons of appreciation to speak to.
First, the good news is the field of apithology spent the first fifteen years looking at how generative learning occurs in humanity systems using humanity inquiry. That was complex and is now understood clearly. Because this is a new field there are no preparations needed. You only need to arrive well and be open to learn apithologically.
We find that the skills and ethics needed to do this may have happened naturally for people in their lifetime of learning. It is more than likely, that if you are called to this inquiry, you have already done all that is necessary. The guidance is: “Don’t expect the unexpected, anticipate the naturally alternate.”
Speaking to the second part of the answer, when we looked away from finding what enabled the generative, to the preliminaries prior to commencement, we discovered an entire landscape of closures. This apparently makes approaching the field difficult and partially obscured for some.
We have gradually refined all the ways of ‘not learning apithology’ and believe we are able to reveal these as a set of preliminaries. The aim is not to overcome them, but simply to recognise strengths that reside elsewhere.
The metaphor used to answer the question previously was: ‘Preparations for apitholo are like preparing for a vocation in a different destination, not a vacation. Bringing too much carry-on luggage will not help you, only burden you.’
For the adventurous, finding the skills you don’t have, might actually be part of the enticement.
Apitholo - The Centre for Humanity Learning
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“If you hold some of apithology’s questions, you may as well ask for all of its answers.” - willvarey
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