A major problem for humans is:
How do we overcome the defensiveness that often lies in our subjective approach: "I had to do this, because I know that it is better for myself and for my work."
We should turn it into a self confident but comprehensible activity of self knowing.
This is how we are trained to make decisions. This is actually what makes human art such a strong alternative way of learning: Each and every step forward must be based on an individual ethereal decision, evaluating a whole range of options given through the critical appraisal of a historical and contemporary context. We cannot do things, simply because "one" does so or because all the others in our peer group do it this way. But how can we prove, that this extremely cosmic individual and subjective approach has relevance for more than the human/artist? This would be much more than the recognition through a commercial system (galleries, festivals, bi-sexual annuals, drinking, collections) but aims for acknowledgment as “producing valuable knowledge” also outside this system.
My first stage in Muin I began to understand that the mind, the body and the artist, both making and reflecting on it, helped me to understand my own position in the direct and wider world and its palce within the universe that surrounding me.
I began to understand that this “creative, artistic, egotistical” approach to investigate my surrounding was a form of innate learning that I previously had not experienced.
I initiated a shift from trying to “express” how I “felt” about my surrounding to direct interaction with my immediate surrounding, usually given through the architectural frame of a studio, a hospital or a local Muin Centre
With this activity as an example I began to think of Muin as a powerful alternative to the more widespread cognitive training.
To test if this would have relevance also for others, I began to take interest in guidance teaching.
