Our Kaleidoscopic Future

Can we find a new way of thinking? Yes, and we already are.

The path towards Kaleidoscopic Cognition

There are multiple doors into meaning. We are the keys to one another’s doors; we find our rhythm and presence in the flow of one another as we share ways and open doors. It can be as simple as a word spoken to someone at the grocery store. It can be a lifelong passion, career or creation. It can even be the way we talk to ourselves.

We Contain Multitudes, We Are Multiplicities

In sharing our paths, we share new ways of unlocking the world around us. This has been true for at least as long as we’ve had poets, and yet we still do not have a shared worldview that can accomodate such radicality and wildness in everyday life.

That’s why the next big shift could be a shift in the way we think. In short, we could begin to think in multitudes and multiplicities rather than binaries. We could move into forms of Expansive Thinking (what I often refer to as Kaleidoscopic Thinking or Constellatory Cognitions) that offer new forms of connection, hold the pola…