How ready is the world? If we look at social life, we could maintain that for all we need is available. For all sorts of questions and problems, there are specialists, procedures and solutions: To cure disease, there are doctors and therapists, to resolve conflicts, there are judges and arbitrators, the (sometimes difficult) collaboration to improve, there are supervisors, to cope with financial constraints, there are debt counselors, to help children with deficits to help, there are special teachers, and to get to his higher self, it is even now for spiritual service.
Above all, there are a lot of "concepts". One speaks of "strategic plans", "Evaluation Techniques", "crisis management", "fate learning" and even "grief management". It is about certain "methods" that have to be handled mentally clear - they are always manageable and include at least three "steps", sometimes just twelve - and therefore operable in different situations. Known from the corresponding concept, one can apply it.
Even the language suggests, however, be sought on what level the solutions. Words such as strategy, management and techniques for example, have a common core meaning - they assume that one's life in control of IT. Now it seems to me to be right that it also reflects on the life and tries to behave accordingly. Once However, we think that this all mysteries of life can be solved, you create an even bigger problem.
And the even bigger problem could be described as follows: hopes, which are summarized conceptually explicit and assessable expectations, hopes to be heard. The essence of hope is open, closed, the nature of expectation. The legitimate need for methodical, some problems about concepts to get a grip, has a shadow that is sometimes overlooked by supervisors, consultants or service providers. The conceptual thinking, to put it simply, is always a result of yesterday - it is based on one side to something We already know what is so from our experience.
The matters and things in life that are on the rise, can not in principle be taken of concepts. You are always new. And news - one could say at this point of events: something "happening" itself - is the wonderful effect that they radically change existing concepts immediately. The new course, always fits in the old, which is no doubt, but never in our ideas of the old. What we think, what constitutes the past would have, in fact change constantly, according to the present. Concepts, especially when, for ideological reasons, may not be called into question, are persistent phenomena, the first of uncertainty for lay people (they do not look through) and secondly to offer the professionals a comfortable chair.
Everyone has problems. Without problems if life is meaningless. Now it seems to me to be such that in the immediate vicinity of a person with problems, so if you face to face is that this person will always be unique and unique. Bernard Lievegoed - he was also a doctor - there once told me: "People with cancer do not exist, there are at most people who deal in their way with the disease called cancer." And even more radically about AIDS: "AIDS patients are a social invention. A new social development is defined by a so-called individual disease away. What is new is not seen because the old way of thinking stands in the way. "
What's New includes with respect to AIDS can not be done at this point. My concern is to emphasize that the direct proximity to a human with problems always leads to the familiar categories to prove even less relevant. Every problem in life is basically the path of a particular person associated with a (well, we say: biographical) question, which, like a puzzle, or maybe better: seems a mystery in the room nearby. (Yes, you could by a speak biographical question should, however, make it into a new "subject": the problems of life in this sense always interdisciplinary)
I know only one word that implies at least minimal, such as that meant "biographical" operations are to be understood.. Rudolf Steiner has said that it could even be a time in the "Initiation is the principle of civilization," the. So initiation ... In his promising ideas - from concept can not talk really at this point - could it be that nursery schools, banks, businesses, hospitals and railway stations are becoming places of initiation. To achieve this, however, would have freedom-of-close to be created, space is thus dispensed with, in which sensitivity to concepts. In these areas, it was more about, to look at the delicate matters of the heart, and listen to what is coming.
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