Notes from March 2, 2025

Being with Chaos (part II)

Hi everyone,

here are our notes from our last meeting on March 2nd:

Reading

“‘To be’ is to be connected,” said Alfred Korzybski. Without the opening towards the unknown there’s no freedom.”
Basarab Nicolescu

Chaos II: Dispersing and Focusing Energy

Chaos is the inaugural soup: It harbors all the pieces that compose us.

We are elementals with consciousness,
consciousness as the ability to perceive and to create order (kosmos, the mythological counterpart to khaos).

How are we being in a world known as chaos:
How are we informed by it, and how do we relate to it?

Because we are order-oriented, meaning-making beings, chaos often feels uncomfrtable to us - unsettled, unnatural, unwise. Chaos can feel threatening and ungrounding, violently intruding and disregulating, and its effect on our perception of reality is confusion.

Confusion is the experience of dispersing energy: Attention flowing from a center point into too many different, sometimes opposing directions. We can observe this daily in o…