ABSTRACT
This chapter is about connectedness in all its forms—positive and negative—and how wrestling with seeing the world in terms of “both–and” leads us to the third consideration of “also”, which enfolds the “both–and”, enabling us to reveal to ourselves our personal and collective accountability for the local and global state that we have co-created. Human experience is explored using four different lenses: person, context, system, and connectedness with source, which combine to enable one to interpret one’s own behaviour in role. Both the positive and the negative narratives illustrate the personal, contingent nature of human beings: our need for food, air, water, the company of others, continuity, and so on. Every civilisation has developed narratives and myths about good and evil that give shape to what has been identified intuitively across a population. These are used to bind the people together, shaping their sense of identity and of belonging.
