Reflexivity of Method, Part 4: A Handbook in Motion

If the previous posts explored cuts, potential/instance dynamics, and metareflection, this final post in the series turns outward: method as evolving, never fixed.

Method as a living practice

Rather than a static set of rules, relational method is a handbook in motion. It evolves as we construe, reflect, and align across contexts. Each act of construal adds to the living practice, while each metareflection revises and refines it. The handbook is never finished; it is continuously written through engagement with reality itself.

Linking theory and practice

This series has been both reflective and practical:

• Series 1 (From Meaning to Matter) showed the theoretical foundation — reality as relational and potential-in-motion.

• Series 2 (Ontologies in Action) demonstrated how relational ontology operates in practice, from education to ethics, science, and collective life.

• Series 3 (Reflexivity of Method) foregrounds how we think and act relationally, making explicit the methodological moves that underlie theory and practice.

By situating method reflexively, we see how the act of thinking itself sustains possibility across scales.

Preparing for Myth as Construal

The final series, Myth as Construal, explores how collective symbols operate as methods of construal at scale. Stories, myths, and cultural symbols are not inert; they are architectures of relational alignment, guiding construals across generations. By practicing reflexive method now, we are equipped to see these symbolic forms not as fixed narratives but as dynamic, living construals that shape collective possibility.

The open handbook

This post — and the series as a whole — invites readers to treat method as an open, evolving practice. It encourages experimentation, alignment, and reflection, showing that relational thinking is not a set of procedures but a way of participating in reality itself.