I'm finding that meditation helps me to open up to real connection to others, with efforts at total forgiveness of self and others........it (this opening up)is ongoing but essential so that I feel some sense of meaning.

The papers AI has put out all have stuff about connection and they are particularly important for us as Americans who are often isolated in one way or another to read; I am rereading them because you are showing the dynamism in being in relationship, that is being connected, and how that can always change into a more "effective act" as you say. I believe this........rereading your stuff and then re-acting (acting again in each changed context) so I perceive differently is helping me activate my creativity.......slowly but surely.......

We are always creating from each experience (Whitehead called them actual occasions) Actual occasions combine in us in "felt sense" unities that then form prehensions for next act of creation towards the next actual occasion. I'm learning this language myself. But I like it because it is something to point to already formed by Whitehead. He caused much flux and so did Hartman. People are still trying to figure them out,but to do so the part that gets us understanding comes from our own embodied experience, not that from collected abstracted "facts" about something we haven't yet embodied. Varela, Thompson and Rosch wrote about this in the Embodied mind. To See summary of this book I'll send this later. It helps frame much of our discussion.

A lot of what use to be thought of as metaphor is turning out to be reality as we discover more about bio-fields which connect us. It's more than flux, it's changing realities as we each create anew, moment to moment.

how can metaphor be reality? maybe the related question is how does metaphor play a role in living process?

Metaphors are ways of talking about things that we don't understand well. They express some aspect of what we think be it feelings, images or whatever and that's the best we can do. However as more knowledge comes into being, we can speak of it more directly than we were with metaphor. The metaphor in living process can be useful because when trying to capture what we are experiencing within our "in-formed" felt sense, metaphor, images work better because what we are pointing to, the reality it points to, is made up of infinite relations like what we experience in a great piece of art.