Ana María Llamazares – From the Clock to the Lotus Flower. Metaphors for navigating the shift in paradigms

Which metaphor is shaping your life right now: the clock that measures and controls, or the lotus that grows from the mud toward the light?

Metaphors are powerful symbols for transformation. They are not just images that constellate a network of concepts, values, and emotions shaping how we think and exist in the world; more importantly, along with the butterfly effect, they act as attractors that allow us to envision possible future horizons.

Fifteen years after its initial release, the book "From the Clock to the Lotus Flower. Contemporary Crisis and Paradigm Shift" by Ana María Llamazares has been reissued in Argentina. It describes the shift in paradigms as the backdrop to the contemporary crisis, offering insight not only into the deeper reasons behind the collapse of the "clockwork world" but also revealing the essence of new ways of living, knowing, and finding meaning—forms that are emerging from the mud, much like the lotus flower.

In her talk, the author will use a symbolic lens to explore the meaning of these two great metaphors—the clock and the lotus flower—which form the imaginative foundation of our current worldviews. She will also address the implications of the threat posed by unregulated AI within this process of shifting paradigms and consciousness. Just as on the book’s cover, the butterfly—a symbol of transformation—coexists with what is known as the "Lorenz attractor," a shape from chaos geometry that illustrates how small changes can produce massive effects.

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About the speaker:

Ana María Llamazares is an Argentine anthropologist and epistemologist who studies symbolic languages and the evolution of consciousness. A retired researcher from CONICET (Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council), she teaches systemic-complex thinking in the Doctoral Program in Medical Sciences at the University of the Hospital Italiano in Buenos Aires. She has also given classes and workshops in private and public settings, including national universities in Latin America and Europe and the University of Cambridge.
In recognition of her contributions to anthropological studies in Argentina, she was named an Honorary Member of the Azara Foundation for Natural History. She is also a member of the Pre-Columbian Studies Group of Barcelona and of the Spanish-language committee of the Scientific and Medical Network.
Her main books include:

Del reloj a la flor de loto: Crisis contemporánea y cambio de paradigmas (From the Clock to the Lotus Flower: Contemporary Crisis and Paradigm Shift)
Diálogos para la convergencia espiritual: La sabiduría de los Ermitaños (Dialogues for Spiritual Convergence: The Wisdom of the Hermits)
Símbolos de lo sagrado: El poder visionario de las imágenes chamánicas (Symbols of the Sacred: The Visionary Power of Shamanic Images)
Las heridas de Occidente: El poder sanador del chamanismo en el mundo contemporáneo (The Wounds of the West: The Healing Power of Shamanism in the Contemporary World), forthcoming this November in Barcelona

She continues to lead courses, lectures, and seminars on the contemporary crisis, new paradigms, and transdisciplinary holistic thought.

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