Resonance. This has become a growing theme among leading thinkers and researchers of our day, from Nancy S. Love’s 2007 book on political theory, Musical Democracy; to Barbara Fredrickson’s neurological studies of interpersonal resonance where people’s affection and trust are shown to grow as they successfully and repeatedly resonate in terms of brain activity while interacting with one another (popularized in her book Love 2.0); to Daniel Siegel’s theory of inner health and growth; to the rise of studies of complex systems and ecologies. And then there’s the parallel discussion about
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