{"id":3138,"date":"2013-09-02T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2025-10-11T14:53:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:53:29","slug":"metaphysical-art-explained-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3138","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysical Art Explained\u2028: Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are innumerable stories. It&#8217;s a more complex form of individuality. This unique person meets that one, the dynamic takes some twists and turns. It all unfolds within a circle of other individuals with their own quirks, and a setting, club, organization, with its own norms. All this happens in a larger culture and time in history that adds its own circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/cartoons\/mandalas\/explanations\/story.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly, we live as stories, not as abstract categories. People most naturally think as stories\u2014it&#8217;s traditional schooling that has distorted our more organic mental life so that we think in terms of separate categories, abstractions, interacting with others in a dry mathematical way. Truth is that in every interaction there are many textures that remain unknown, such as how A feels about B. That in turn is affected by many variables\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=292\">see my papers on my website on &#8220;tele&#8221; or the foundations of rapport<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How we feel about a person dictates unconsciously how we interpret that person&#8217;s behavior\u2014cute, tiresome, darling, overbearing, whatever. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are innumerable stories. It&#8217;s a more complex form of individuality. This unique person meets that one, the dynamic takes some twists and turns. It all unfolds within a circle of other individuals with their own quirks, and a setting, club, organization, with its own norms. All this happens in a larger culture and time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3139,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3138\/revisions\/3139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}