Your Name | Christopher Roig-Ramos |
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Cohort Assignment | Europe, Africa, and the Middle East with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | I am at a time when this is an open question. The elements that inform this question are my wish to : |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | This is also an open question, my varied experiences and versatility make it difficult for me to define a specific role. I enjoy both being part of a project, on the inside, as well as accompanying people in their projects, on the outside. My keen interest in researching emerging fields and making them more accessible is likely a part of the answer. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | Clarifying my role. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | Continuing on a path of increased mindfulness, with a heightened ability to maintain presence in challenging circumstances. |
5. And for professional growth? | Finding and working with a developmental community. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | A variety of experiences aimed at contributing to a better world, be it through technological, economic or social innovation / evolution. Alongside this a more personal journey working on the body-emotion-mental-energy dimensions. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | Philosophy (notably Stoicism and Buddhist and Taoist philosophy), Psychology (Jung, Rogers, Mate, Kegan), Mindfulness (Watts, Harris, Varela), Anthropology, Sociology (Rosa), History (Harari). |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | Experience or consciousness is the setting of a paradox between a timeless dimension ('vertical time') which is accessible by accepting the ungraspable nature of experience and surrendering to it and a time-bound dimension ('horizontal time') in which life's imperatives - continuation and evolution - require making sense of experience for the sake of agency. Resolving this paradox is possibly the ultimate reconciliation. Short of that, experience is a back-and-forth between both dimensions, the elegance of which can be said to be an art of life. |
Date Created | February 21, 2024 |