Planet — Jupiter
Metal — Tin
Colors — Blue and orange
Life Process — Warming
Counterlife Process — Combustion
The student finds his/her feet and participates in the structure of the organization, feels safe in the organization of knowledge, is led into various learning experiences.
Fire is the primal tool, that which separates the human from the natural world. The window shows a bright flame held in a kind of crucible or chalice. By making a fire in the dark forest we can feel safe in the world. We might glimpse the eyes of the night beasts but we are warm and secure. By entering into the body of an organization, e.g. Freeman College, the student needs to adapt, adjust: perhaps certain strong individualizing tendencies need to be modified. Inception into a structure implies adaptability. Without organizational knowledge no learning can take place.
The downside of adaptation becomes collusion and a consequent loss of identity. This is the counterlife process that leads inevitable to combustion.
From the moment we wake to the moment we go to sleep, total conformity is expected of us. The human domestic animals, homogenized, manipulated and de-educated, are supposed to shuffle through life en masse, bleating or being silent when we are told. This uncomfortable state of affairs, this annihilation of identity, leads to outbursts of violence, to a deep-seated rage, spontaneous and not directed at anyone in particular.
Metal — Tin
Colors — Blue and orange
Life Process — Warming
Counterlife Process — Combustion
The student finds his/her feet and participates in the structure of the organization, feels safe in the organization of knowledge, is led into various learning experiences.
Fire is the primal tool, that which separates the human from the natural world. The window shows a bright flame held in a kind of crucible or chalice. By making a fire in the dark forest we can feel safe in the world. We might glimpse the eyes of the night beasts but we are warm and secure. By entering into the body of an organization, e.g. Freeman College, the student needs to adapt, adjust: perhaps certain strong individualizing tendencies need to be modified. Inception into a structure implies adaptability. Without organizational knowledge no learning can take place.
The downside of adaptation becomes collusion and a consequent loss of identity. This is the counterlife process that leads inevitable to combustion.
From the moment we wake to the moment we go to sleep, total conformity is expected of us. The human domestic animals, homogenized, manipulated and de-educated, are supposed to shuffle through life en masse, bleating or being silent when we are told. This uncomfortable state of affairs, this annihilation of identity, leads to outbursts of violence, to a deep-seated rage, spontaneous and not directed at anyone in particular.
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