HEART OF CRISIS
Heart of Crisis works with a seven pointed map of crisis. Our aim of working with this map is to be more able to metabolise crisis and collapse and be able to find our individual and collective agency.
CRISIS 1 - CRISIS OF AGENCY
Our perception is that the forces of collapse are precipitating various, interlinked crises of agency.
This crisis of agency span individual choices, of how, and how much to shift the base-line of our own cultural landscape, how to respond to crisis, and collective agency.
Where and how am I putting my energy to create new culture and support actions and operations that are, to my seeing supporting humanity and life? Where am I trapped in stories of needing to perfect to implement change?
This crisis of agency is also a crisis of decision making and a crisis of power. How do we make decisions and where do we make decisions from?
Where are we balancing the needs of a project or operation with the humanity of those people involved in it?
Are we making decisions individually or collectively, and what are those decisions rooted within?
How do we make decisions at all when we are living in a climate and culture of increased polarisation, opinion, and tension?
This crisis of agency is asking us to approach individual and collective actions and operations in new and experimental ways, necessitating a various degree of trial and error, experimentation and calibration.
CRISIS 2 - CRISIS OF RELATIONSHIP
A crisis of relationship and responsibility is a naturally occurring crises born out of the tension of living between cultures.
How do we hold boundaries with existing culture to create space for new culture to emerge?
How do we do this individually and together?
How do we skillfully articulate and communicate change in culture that invites people along the journey of cultural change with us, rather than creating more seperation?
How do we hold the tension point of being in ‘the space between’, and see ourselves relationally as all in such a place, to a greater or lesser extent?
This crisis is a crises of divergence. A crisis of multiple forms of relationships emerging from the soup of collapse, and having the skill to navigate them.
This crisis is often a crisis of the heart and of the emotional body.
This is a crisis of capacity, of the body and the nervous system to hold tension. This a crisis of relational experimentation and a crisis between genders and gender roles, different races and cultures.
This is a crisis of the definition of love and the embodiment of it. It is a crisis of the language used within relationship, and how language is rooted.
CRISIS 3 - CRISIS OF COMPLEXITY
This crisis is a crisis of increasing complexity, information, and the synthesis of intelligence.
Increasingly, we are living in both cultural and relational complexity.
This crisis asks us the question of how we hold the multiplicity and diversity of life? It asks us how we work with complex ideas, impacts and webbed relationships that cannot be reduced to simple sound-bites and rhetoric?
It asks us how we live, when we are living in a world where we are webbed increasingly in the cloud, across time zones and continents, and the impact that has on the relational web in place?
It asks us how we are in connection with place, resource, land, and the right use of it?
It is also a crisis of intelligence and adaptability of thought, how we synthesises information and apply it towards manifesting in the heart-crack.
CRISIS 4 - CRISIS OF ORIGINALITY
This crisis is a crisis of expression, a crisis of internal conflict about how to be human, a crisis of originality. In a culture that encourages us either to collapse into homogeneity, or to fit into small boxes, this is a crisis of how to artistically individuate and originate.
This is a crisis of humanity, and how we value and hold diversity in the whole. It is a crisis of how art and creativity inform culture and how culture informs art and creativity.
This is a crisis of conflict and harmony, and how to find harmony through conflict. It is a crisis of beauty and awe that live beyond polarities.
This is a crisis of daring to attempt to create the new and the consequences of this.
CRISIS 5 - CRISIS OF TRUTH
This is a crisis of the role that science and technology, precision and application play in culture and humanity.
How is science and technology being applied to human life and relationship? Where is it supporting our common humanity, and where is it supporting seperation and mummification?
Where is science technology supporting new cultures to bubble and biome, and where is it supporting culture to become calcified, online and offline?
This is a crisis of consumption and disconnection, of the relationship between observation and perception, a crisis of science and spiritually, between the seen and the sensed worlds.
This is a crisis of social technology and the social technology we have to bring groups and orientate them together.
This is a crisis of how we receive, metabolise and apply information from our inner and outer
worlds. It is a crisis of mental adaptability or the absence of it.
This is a crisis of surveillance, autonomy and privacy and the application of science for safety, control or expression.
This is a crises of the microscopic and the macroscopic and how the two related and dance.
This is a crisis of alchemy and extraction and of psychology and the application of psychological studies on humanity.
CRISIS 6 - CRISIS OF IDEOLGY
This is a crisis of ideals and of how we move towards a vision of a world and culture that we do not feel we are living in now. This is a crisis of the difference between living values and calcified dogma.
This is a crisis of dehumanisation along ideological divide and the fractal nature of desire, what we want for our own lives and from others, and how we go about advocating for it, in our relationships, online, through politics and through.
This is a crisis of tension of passion rooted in what we believe — how people should behave and behave to others.
This is ultimately the crises how how humanity should live, relate and exist.
CRISIS 7 - CRISIS OF EMBODIMENT
This is a crises of the body, our relationship with our own bodies and with other people’s bodies and nervous systems.
This is a crisis of sound, and of vibration and how sound and energy lives between bodies. It is a crisis of stasis, sedation and stagnation.
This is a crisis of cultural numbness and inability to sense and feel, and a culture that is vibrationally unalive and somatically activated.
This is a crisis of form, and how form is created, and what form is created around and from and how form lives and breathes.
This is a crisis of depth and superficiality, and of separation from land, body, soul, ancestry. It is a crisis of relationship with matter, and of how we occupy, use, and work with it.
This is a crisis of the divergent manifestations of spirituality, how they are organised, and how soul and life are housed in the body and arising from the body.
This is a crises of ritual, and how life is organised through ritual, through thresholds. It is a crises of human divinity, embodiment and human gnosis in conflict with ideologies and values.
It is a crises of individual and collective mobility in connection with or separation with life.
