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Inventer et imaginer de nouveaux mondes

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Inventer et imaginer de nouveaux mondes

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Simuler et réaliser de nouveaux mondes

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Walking back and forward

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Participants
Alone or with others.
Space
Outdoors.
Roles
What you need is to have someone taking care of time and fire. This can be guarded by one person or two or you could aslo score it more complexely so that with each round this task is rotating.
Material
Wood for the fire.
Preparation
Make a fire.
Duration
Feel free to adapt duration and temporaral focus according to the context you are in.
Core Q

Use

Meditation to project into the future from the past.

Protocol

1

In silence squat and stare into the fire for 10 minutes.

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In silence walk in a circle backwards around the fire:

  • doing this watch always into the flames, never get your eyes off it: think of what lies behind you in time: you can focus and agree beforehand hat the time frame is: the recent period of time, one year, several years, decennia, generation/s.
  • walk backwards for 40 minutes without break.

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In silence squat and stare into the fire for 10 minutes.

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In silence walk in a circle forwards around the fire:

  • doing this watch always into the flames, never get your eyes off it: think of what lies ahead of you in time: you can focus and agree beforehand hat the time frame is: the recent period of time, one year, several years, decennia, generation/s.
  • walk forward for 40 minutes without break.

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In silence squat and stare into the fire for 10 minutes: THEN SHARE WHAT RESONATES THE MOST from both: walking backward & forward and what this evokes as wish for you for the future (close or far).

However, also while keeping fire (throwing new pieces of wood onto the flames / ashes) and / or time (alarm, hour glass, other measuring instruments or parameters) keep looking into the light of the flames !!!

Credits

Isabel Burr Raty passed these instructions on to Heike L. orally in the context of To Do OR not To Do -- Resistance & Care (2020). Since then Heike enyoyed re-doing this, and wrote the instructions down. http://www.open-frames.net/OTCOE/TO_DO_OR_NOT_TO_DO_--_Resistance___Care/176

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