May 7, 2023 17:51
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English term

Life echoes in these reverberant, consilient ways

English Art/Literary Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. consilience between views by Lynne Twist and Christina Figueres - Tom Rivet-Carnac
Dear colleagues,
I find it a bit difficult to understand what the author means by “Life echoes in these reverberant, consilient ways” towards the end of the passage below, which is about the view by Christina Figueres and Tom Rivet-Carnac.
Thank you for any suggestion and for your patience!
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Activist and author Lynne Twist (2017) has noted three toxic myths of modern society, views that are widely held, yet not just inaccurate – but lethally so: 1) scarcity: there is not enough; 2) more is better; and 3) that’s just the way it is. (...)
As I heard those words she spoke during a wellness seminar where we were both teaching in Costa Rica, the lessons from another citizen of that courageous and innovative country, Christina Figueres, along with her colleague, Tom Rivet-Carnac, reverberated in my mind. (...)
Three mental attitudes or mindsets, in their view, are needed to help humanity achieve the needed practical steps to reverse climate change: 1) optimism; 2) abundance; and 3) regeneration. Finding the consilience between their two approaches, we can see that: a) with optimism we can see options that were not initially in view and regain a sense of hope and a practical path with purpose; b) with the mindset that the world, with reciprocal ways of being with nature, can be both sufficient and filled with abundance; we can then c) release our approach from sustaining a growth-at-all-costs goal to one of regeneration, and then liberate a built-in reciprocity of how we consume and produce on our planet.
If we come to realize these three dimensions of our overall mindset (which I couldn’t help placing into the acronym, OAR), we can row our boat with optimism, abundance, and regeneration down the river of integration; the flow of harmony in the world. In this perspective, we become grateful for life. *** Life echoes in these reverberant, consilient ways *** when we open to its mysteries and the reality of the often-invisible threads that weave us together in our intraconnected wholeness

Discussion

philgoddard May 8, 2023:
'Echoes in a reverberant way' is a tautology. This is very poor-quality writing.
haribert (asker) May 7, 2023:
Dear Lisa, thank you so much for your contribution maybe you can post an answer..
thank you again!
Lisa Rosengard May 7, 2023:
I suggest it means that life echoes in ways which re-sound and correspond with one another. Consilience is a concurrence or a harmonious agreement, in the given example in connection with areas of topical interest and shared perspectives.

Responses

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Life sounds back at us in ways that are self-reinforcing and strong/vibrant

The real clue to the sentence is its second half: the connective threads and idea of a larger, vivid whole.
Note from asker:
Thank you so much, Peter, for your help!
Peer comment(s):

neutral philgoddard : But what does this mean? I think the source sentence is largely nonsense, and therefore impossible to paraphrase.
4 hrs
agree Anastasia Kalantzi
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thank you so much, Peter, for your contribution!"
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