notes towards a flexistential cookbook - frames
by jeffrey gormly
It is enough for a thing to be possible for it to be believed. Voltaire
Here, a man attempts to explain about the [frame] around their communication. It is an invisible [frame] through which his words flow and have meaning according to agreed linguistic denotations and structures. Our hero alternately speaks from within and without his [frame: speaker|teacher|author|knowledge bearer], drawing attention to it/them [frames] by rattling them, and adjusting also the volume on his own presence to demonstrate how reality itself is an amplification of his|their|our own thoughts, mediated by our|their [frames].
Now I draw analogy with a stage. Theatre, crucible of transformation, is a [frame] within which we may create alternate|ive reality, and it is real, as long as it lasts, because we believe. This crucible is a magnifying device for production of pure attention, distilled and rarefied, by dramatic theatre tension machine, and in its most reflexive moments it draws our notice to our own reality-producing ability, so that when we leave we no longer see reality, but a tangling weave of shimmering [frames].
What does this act of faith accomplish? Apparently, ‘that condition that we be willing to let it [happen]’ Gregory Bateson
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