Participant: Ximena Dávila Yañez
Affiliation: Escuela Matriztica de Santiago
Format: Plenary Speech

What is in the substratum of our thinking, doing and feeling? How to think the thinking we think?How do we feel what we feel?

From the moment that we are born we transform ourselves with others, immersed in cultural conversations that fragment our world. We grow up thinking that there is an inside and an outside; there is an independent reality; cause and effect; duality of non-related opposites; independence between subject and object; mind and body separated in a painful fragmentation. In the end, we live a co-existence of dualities and fragmentations in our daily living. It is in that place-non-place, in that time-non-time that the happening of unitary epistemology can be seen. How?

We all have been born in the implicit trust, given our biological structure, that there will be a world that will receive us with loving tenderness. However, this is not always the case. In this fragmented manner of living all possibility of coherence with the natural world and the relational worlds is broken. So nowadays, we try to live and to live together, in a manner that may give us signs of a thread that unifies our existence; as Bateson would say, the pattern that connects us.

Along with Humberto Maturana we have developed, over the past 12 years, a experiential-explicative proposal that reveals that the guideline that connects us exists, and that it has been present within each one of us through our biological human origin, and this pattern is love. Loving as living beings in the continuous conservation of living in unity with our niche; loving as a fundament of the unitary epistemology of all knowing and the pattern that connects all, living together in well-being.