Questions to Apitholo #28

Further questions to apitholo, about apithology and humanity inquiry ...

Question #28 – Can one learn apithology by reading more about it?

In answer to the actual question posed, reading more about apithology will not enable you to learn apithology. In fact, we have found that reading more writings within the apithology discourse, without an accompanying embodied practice, actually limits one’s future understandings. There is, in the assumption of the ‘competent reader’ a failure to understand the premise of generative learning (and generative writing).

For this reason, in learning how to learn apithology, there is an essential preliminary skill of learning to read generatively. Not only does this enable more beneficial reading generally, it provides access to the field of apithology as an embodied discourse.

This leads to many more interesting questions: about the forms of apithology instruction, the construction of language in generative learning, the relationship between syntax and cognitive structures, and the poetry of the formative in taking us outside of ourselves.

The good news is a course on 'How to Read Apithology' is to be offered by apitholo momentarily.

The question, though, also raises a another query about our intention of discovery in the unfamiliar. If the aim is to know 'about' something, externally from a safe distance, unaffected by the experience, except selectively from within our own conception; then reading about the embodied experience is decisively effective.

Rather than becoming prepared to receive, we can engage in an 'anticipatory aboutism' as the learned pattern of how to perceive.

Just like meeting a stranger while holding a uninformed pre-conception, we can instead be open to reconciliation of the actual with the pre conceptual. Rather than find what 'we already knew it to be', the open engagement with the generative demands we await the finding more patiently.

It is for this reason that reading new thought, with the same mind, preludes the reader from both a gaining from the reading, and a later impartial unpremeditated experiencing.

Might it not be better, to learn to appreciate, before deciding pre-emptively, how what there is fits within our conception, selectively?

As the apithoria says: “Expanded vistas of perception, can begin with a single word, heard with reception.” - willvarey

Apitholo ~The Centre For Humanity Learning

"Pathways for the Humanity Contributive"

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