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# Summary
The text recounts the author's experience with marriage counseling where a Native American counselor named Trudy shared her culture's perspective on relationships. Trudy portrayed a relationship as a ship that two people build together for the duration of their voyage, which can last a week, a year, or a century. In her tradition, each person has their own canoe, and when two people decide to form a relationship, they lash their canoes together and begin to build a larger structure. This ship represents the relationship they've built together, and the canoes they brought onboard represent their individual identities. If the relationship, or "ship", becomes untenable, each person takes their canoe and sets off on another adventure. This metaphor shaped the author's understanding of relationships and was a major influence in the counseling sessions with Trudy. In the author's view, this metaphor extends to many other aspects of life, not just marriage. He likens the concept of the "ship" to astral ships, which are purpose-driven or purpose-orientated ships. Just like in a relationship, the crew and captain of an astral ship orientate around a purpose. This ship is a structure which has permanence, outside of which individuals come and go. It has a legal persona, energetic persona, and structural persona that allows it to have a being in the world outside of the individual specifics of who's involved in it. This structure allows it to undertake responsibilities in the real world. The author believes this concept of astral ships is relevant to many areas including governance, law, and culture, and has the potential to have a real-world impact, such as purchasing a property or changing the law.
# Tidied Transcript
This story provides an interesting perspective on the concept of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's Astral Ship. It is a narrative about an experience I had during a series of marriage counselling sessions with my then wife, who was deeply involved with a spiritual group. In this context, I found myself transitioning from the world of medicine and science into New Age practices. This wasn't my first time in such a space; however, this experience was more New Age-like than the anarchistic, festival-like spaces I had previously engaged with. Our counsellor was a woman named Trudy, who was of Native American descent. She shared a story from her culture that has stayed with me since then. The story described a relationship as a ship that two people built together for the duration of their voyage. This voyage could last a week, a year, or even a hundred years. The traditional view in her culture was that every human had their own canoe. When two people decided to form a relationship, they would lash their two canoes together and gradually build a larger structure. This structure was expected to be strong enough to carry their canoes, symbolising their individual lives. Trudy emphasised the importance of keeping their individual canoes on board, allowing each person to leave the relationship if it was no longer viable and move on in safety and security. This story greatly influenced the way we approached our couple's therapy, framing our understanding of relationships. It resonated with me, and I believe it to be a powerful and useful narrative. It also aligns with Schick's concept of the Astral Ship as a class of many different types of ship, suggesting that a relationship between two people in a marriage is one form of an Astral Ship. An Astral Ship is a purpose-driven entity. The crew and the captain orient around a purpose, and the alignment of the crew members' purposes for the duration of the voyage, and possibly several voyages. The Astral Ship is a Dao (decentralised autonomous organisation) and a company, with permanence outside of which individuals come and go. This story has helped me understand the concept of Astral Ships better and has sparked my interest in exploring the etymology and different types of ships. The term 'Astral' refers to the abstract, mathematical, virtual structure, while 'Ship' encapsulates the digital institution, a collective being in the world. Together, they form a compelling, slightly humorous concept that beautifully encapsulates the abstract Platonic structural astral notion. In conclusion, this story has enhanced my understanding of the Astral Ship concept in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and has inspired me to delve deeper into this fascinating topic.
# Keywords Marriage counseling, Native American culture, Relationships, Metaphors, Ships, Canoe, Astral ship, Purpose, Crew, Captain, Responsibilities, Real-world impact
# Graph
digraph { layout=fdp; "Marriage counseling" -> "Relationships"; "Native American culture" -> "Metaphors"; "Metaphors" -> "Ships"; "Ships" -> "Canoe"; "Ships" -> "Astral ship"; "Astral ship" -> "Purpose"; "Purpose" -> "Crew"; "Purpose" -> "Captain"; "Astral ship" -> "Responsibilities"; "Responsibilities" -> "Real-world impact"; }
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