The garden of artistic knowledge includes and values
all forms of creative expression, formal and non — and is
their source as well as the place from which new growth and regeneration
proceed.
Amongst those within this garden, it is equivalent
to Science and Philosophy combined. The lenses grown and traded
and elaborated here function as a living transport of novelty, joyfulness,
play, reflection — many domains of crucial relational activity
and exploration lie almost entirely within this garden.
The assemblies and organs here are easily co-opted
by other gardens whose goals are more predatory, and concerned with
direct domination of terrain, such as science, religion, philosophies
(especially commercial and political organs of these gardens) and
the common-knowledge garden of ‘fact’.
Like a precious element in the cogniscium of our species,
this garden produces entirely new and novel metaphors, with the
power to radically altar our own experience. Here too, there are
dominant organs, and elements that act like their domination-bent
counterparts from other gardens... for example, there is ‘art’
that attacks what is most valuable about art — such as art
in service of copying itself, or in service of copying something
rather than providing novel access for all participants. Organisms
are more important than art, and where it steals their terrain,
or threatens it with support of artifacting — this violates
its purpose as expression and turns it into a self-interested weapon,
or a mercenary at the hire of a similar momentum.
Each of the gardens bear elements of this species,
but some favor them. The garden in question is primarily favors
their antidote — playful and formal explorations, practice,
celebration and experience of creative relation. Sometimes spontaneous,
such as the play of children — and sometimes formal, such
as the mixture of history, philosophy, method, orchestra, dancers,
audience, composers &c that emerge as an actual performance.
This garden comprises something akin to oxygen in
the cognitive bloodstream of our species. When it is not free to
emerge in a supportive environment that does not immediately judge
or threaten or ‘buy it out’... we suffer from something
akin to what we call cyanosis, in medicine — the loss of bloodborne
oxygen causes us to perish inside — and turn blue.
Selected noticings about this garden:
aR is precedence-oriented toward expression and exploration
of mysteries of source, moment, and schema. It is concerned with
questions, and can be seen as a subset of pHilosophy — yet
this is true only from the perspective of pH itself.
aR is a modulant cultural transport of human emotional
and psychological unity — yet since these are not actually
separable domains of our selves or cultures, this transport has
direct and real effect on our biology, our metabolism, and every
aspect of what we value.
aR is one of the gardens that other gardens compete
for dominance of, primarily because it is a transport of unification,
and thus of ‘celebration of exploring together’. For
this reason this entire garden suffers a constant war of deadly
attrition in its attempt to sustain its core against the incredibly
powerful human cognitive momentums that vie to ensnare it, and turn
it to their profit as another aspect of their terrain dominance
which is a dominance over transports.
aR is ‘most alike’ with out experience
of awareness, learning, relation, dreaming and interaction as children
— before we were exposed to the other gardens. In this sense
it is perhaps the most vulnerable to co-opting, silencing, obligations
of distressing opposition to itself, and myriad other realities
of human experience akin to those we experience as children arriving
in a world of pre-tokenized knowledge.
aR is as much a way of learning as any other
garden. It is unique in that its expressions, often momentary —
are founded in an essential gesture that desires relation. aR is
a garden of ways of creating ways of unifying and exploring together,
and fruits that aid and remind us of the magisterial beauty hidden
in the gardens emerging from our playful exploration, celebration,
and expression of our unique and common experience of living.
aR does not in essence tend to seek the production
or dissemination of copied ‘product’. Although our common
experience would deny this,
that experience is often comprised of a more co-opted organ of the
garden, and is not representative of the garden itself.
aR is the
most magico-poetic of the available gardens in our model. There
are organs in other gardens, or assemblies of organs that may radically
exceed this... but they will nearly always draw heavily on the resources
and potentials of aR, specifically and generally.
It would
not be surprising to discover that the earliest elements of human
sentience arose as a sort of combination of precursor forms of aR
and sPirituality.
