Tao of snoring?

Exploring Representation of the Tao in 3D (Part #10)

As argued separately, snoring offers a provocative metaphor of relevance to insight into the nature of the Tao (Snoring of The Other: a politically relevant psycho-spiritual metaphor? (2006) as submitted to the International Conference on "Engaging The Other": the Power of Compassion (Kalamazoo, October 2006). This included sections on

Although obviously a form of communication, snoring could be considered to be the antithesis of any aspiration to multivocal poetic improvisation. This is despite dormitory accommodation offering "multivocal" forms with distinctive rhythms, possibly to be understood as "poetic", if not creatively "improvised".

However snoring offers unusual clues to the relationship between what is valued and what is deprecated -- given the manner in which the snorer may be unconscious of that communication and even deny its existence. With the common reference to people and groups being "asleep", this offers a useful self-reflexive challenge to the paradoxical dynamics of awareness of one's personal condition. Reference is made there both to the Tao symbol and to the Lauburu.

Adaptation of To symbol to cognitive challenge of snoring

Another metaphor offering similar insight into the paradoxical nature of alienating communication is that of odour, as separately (Epistemological Challenge of Cognitive Body Odour: exploring the underside of dialogue, 2006). Both metaphors are indicative of how failure to understand how one may be part of the problem may ensure failure to understand the nature of the solution required.