Do you grok me? Share your experiences of grokking each other, here at ACC

Dearest All.........

I love this new word I learned recently. Grok..grokking. I did not know the word existed until this year of 2012.

To grok ( /ˈɡrɒk/) is to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land. In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed. From the novel:

Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as colour means to a blind man.

The Oxford English Dictionary defines grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with" and "to empathise or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment". Other forms of the word include groks(present third person singular), grokked (past participle) and grokking (present participle).

In an ideological context, a grokked concept becomes part of the person who contributes to its evolution by improving the doctrine, perpetuating the myth, espousing the belief, adding detail to the social plan, refining the idea or proving the theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok

I have had many, many experiences of grokking. I see grokking happening all over the place here. I think I have grokked all my life......I just didn't have the words for the concept.

I am grateful for all the grokking that goes on here, and the growth and wisdom that it has co-created within me.

I toast you all, and all your lovely grokkiness.

Please share with me your experiences. I love those kinds of stories. They are food for my soul.

Let's create a grok festival.

Be Your Higest Idea of Yourself....Grok someone today....grok someone you love......or better yet......Grok someone that you do not love............

Lori Scott Kaiser

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Permalink Reply by Lori Scott Kaiser on November 23, 2012 at 6:41pm

I am dancing as we co-merge Feather.

Isn't co-creation grand?

I love you

Lori

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Permalink Reply by Peter Panayiotis Karanikas on November 23, 2012 at 6:55pm

I think the word you're looking for Lori is meld.

Or confluence.

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Permalink Reply by Lori Scott Kaiser on November 23, 2012 at 7:20pm

Yes, that's it, but now we have two words, as we co-merge without words lol. As a wordsmith, I like that.

Love Lori

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Permalink Reply by Eddie on November 23, 2012 at 6:43pm

how about an abbreviation?----

EMG

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Permalink Reply by Lori Scott Kaiser on November 23, 2012 at 6:48pm

Good, but sounds a little too much like an abbreviation for diagnostic imaging to me, ie ECT, EKG, EEG, MRI. Just my nursing background resonating lol.

Lori

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Permalink Reply by Eddie on November 23, 2012 at 6:54pm

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Permalink Reply by Feather Winger on November 23, 2012 at 7:01pm

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Permalink Reply by Eddie on November 23, 2012 at 7:01pm

The emg nurse says----

awwww look at the cute little monkey

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Permalink Reply by Lori Scott Kaiser on November 23, 2012 at 7:21pm

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahhahahahha

You made my belly sore!

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Permalink Reply by Bonnie Smith on November 24, 2012 at 10:44am

Like.

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Permalink Reply by Lori Scott Kaiser on November 23, 2012 at 6:46pm

Speak up Eddie, so that all may hear. The time for secrets is falling away. The time to shine our light as brightly as we can, in any way that is gifted to us......is now.....

Lori