Thank you for sharing, always appreciate your writings and insights. I had a version of this paper from Milojevic and Inyatullah awhile back from ELSEVIER that was only 12 pages in length....
"Narrative foresight focuses on the stories individuals, organizations, states and civilizations
tell themselves about the future. Narrative foresight moves futures thinking from a focus on
new technologies and generally to the question of what’s next, to an exploration of the
worldviews and myths that underlie possible, probable and preferred futures. It is focused
on transforming the current story– metaphor or myth– held to one that supports the
Narrative, and the compulsion to continually create stories, is situated in the left hemisphere (roughly speaking - I am aware of the increasing complexity and nuances of neuroscience on the brain hemispheres).
My occasional experience during transcendental meditation, which uses a two-syllable meaningless mantra-word to minimally engage the left brain and thus quieting it, however, is that narrative and the ego/self is dependent on the left brain. Meditation releases one from it. And a whole realm of being, of interconnectedness, which is timeless and beyond narrative, opens up.
What are the implications of this, then, for 'futures'? When part of the human experience is also the potential to experience timelessness and complete interconnectedness, interbeing? Where narratives cease to exist?
I'm glad to hear you're doing better!
Thanks Bryan!
Nice to hear from you, Maree. Thank you for sharing.
Keep looking after yourself, Maree… sending you strength and hugs
Thank you Tricia ❤️
Thank you for sharing, always appreciate your writings and insights. I had a version of this paper from Milojevic and Inyatullah awhile back from ELSEVIER that was only 12 pages in length....
"Narrative foresight focuses on the stories individuals, organizations, states and civilizations
tell themselves about the future. Narrative foresight moves futures thinking from a focus on
new technologies and generally to the question of what’s next, to an exploration of the
worldviews and myths that underlie possible, probable and preferred futures. It is focused
on transforming the current story– metaphor or myth– held to one that supports the
desired future."
Ah sounds like I have a different version. I'll check the one you have - thank you!
Narrative, and the compulsion to continually create stories, is situated in the left hemisphere (roughly speaking - I am aware of the increasing complexity and nuances of neuroscience on the brain hemispheres).
My occasional experience during transcendental meditation, which uses a two-syllable meaningless mantra-word to minimally engage the left brain and thus quieting it, however, is that narrative and the ego/self is dependent on the left brain. Meditation releases one from it. And a whole realm of being, of interconnectedness, which is timeless and beyond narrative, opens up.
What are the implications of this, then, for 'futures'? When part of the human experience is also the potential to experience timelessness and complete interconnectedness, interbeing? Where narratives cease to exist?