01 — Nebula (Haze) Despite what our eyes might miss through the obscured haze around us, their are countless encounters waiting to be discovered within it.
02 — Fortitudo (Nerve)** The courage to wander into the 'haze' despite its many unknowns.
03 — Intuor (To Wonder) An unbridled imagination that engages the familiar in unfamiliar ways. In creativity, this is considered a divergent way of seeing and thinking.
04 — Dubito (To Doubt) A willingness to question how things function. It’s the ability to test the larger purpose of ideas, or our rationale towards them.
05 — Praesumo (Bias) Beware of biases. Minimize immediate judgments on issues and observations that lie outside one's domain.
06 — Ancipitus (Folding) Building the bridges, or the mental folds between viewers and the viewed. The Act of the 'Fold' is a vital in immersing into the unseen influence. Or the images and artifacts of different times and places. It is part of Da Vinci's salvo to see beyond the self.
07 — Moveo (To Move) A physicality to engage in the world and produce things from it.
08 — Adversitas (Adversity and Antidote) As Nietzsche once famously argued, the fullness of life is not given, but is carefully routed through both its many differences and similarities.
09 — Omitto (Disregard) The great physicist Richard Feynman once declared; pay no notice to other’s work or disregard for it — allow yours to thrive among theirs.
10 — Ratiocinatio (To Form Reasons) Creating and building a contextual intelligence, or ways of seeing the links and relationships from other times, places, and ideas.
11 — Omnino (Wholeness) A commitment to intertwine seemingly opposing ways and values into vast new wholes.
12 — Excogitatio (Other Thought) Exo means out, while Cogitatio is thinking. Together they translate to thinking outside — or otherness. Psychologists might refer to this as a Theory of Mind — or to realize the unseen influences in others. I’ve often referred to it as the Third Self, or seeing as Strangers to Ourselves.
