A friend sent us an article by Helena Norberg-Hodge on the culture of Ladakh and its evolution from pre exposure to modern culture to the present and its continuing development.
Helena's perspective and work is wonderful both in its spirit and its breadth and depth. It also reminded me of a model about competence. In any context that we survive in, we adapt and develop some level of unconscious competence through that adaptation. As the context changes, we need to adapt again. Now arises the issue of what attributes we keep from our previous adaptation. Specially since we are often not consciously aware of what is truly of value in our adaptation. So, we have the opportunity to become more conscious about our previous adaptation as a way to decide what we need to keep and what we need to change. And in our adaptation to the new context we are also developing unconscious competence to the new environment. This process of adaptation is also evolving for us. We are becoming more conscious and intentional about how we adapt and what we adapt to and in what manner. And, of course, we are limited by our abilities and our capabilities in fully understanding this mystery of which we are a part.
These notions still feel a bit embyronic at this point. They need a bit more development.
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