Imbolc Waning Cold Moon
“It is clear Charles, you know where you are going, and knowledge is the fuel.” a fellow Woolly
Have you ever heard of the Johari window? Here’s a graphic that illustrates it. The white or open box represents common information shared between yourself and others who know you. The reddish brown box contains the stuff of which you are aware, but have shared with no one. The third box is the one I’m interested in here, the green box. It contains material not known to you, but known to others. This is information to which you are blind for one reason or another, yet is apparent to at least one other.
This comment from a Woolly falls in the blind box for me. Or maybe not. A bit hard to tell.
It did make me reflect. If someone else thinks where I’m going is clear, why would they think that? Do I really know where I’m going? Why is knowledge the fuel?
Here’s what came to me, after rolling the idea around for a week or so.
Long ago, perhaps in adolescence, the notion of a liberal arts education became central to my personal project. How did it get there? It may have been my parents, could have been teachers, might even have been a minister, perhaps all of these plus things I read. The notion of a broad and deep education in the humanities, an education that began at least by the time of college. There exposure to the great ideas, to the breadth of the human experience, to literature, art, music, theatre would open up a way of perception. Perception that would inform life, even create a life.
There’s a lot more to this, but I’m tired. Later.