Patagonia Flower

For the reflection paper, the natural object I am choosing is a Patagonia flower. I chose this object because I have done landscaping for several years and it is my favorite type of flower. The influence of behindness, withinness, and otherness has an impact on society that should go unnoticed. If I am picking the dead petals off the flower from viewpoint, I cannot see behind the flower at the specific point in time. This is because the stem is blocking my view. This portrays behindness because behindness can be identified as concealing the thing that is behind the thing. From experience, I cannot see directly behind the stem because the stem is blocking my path of sight. With years of experience, I have an idea of what the image is behind the stem. I will never be perfectly sure because the stem is withholding me from seeing behind. Sometimes there may be a weed behind the flower, but I may not see it because the weed is behind the flower. Next, Withinness is the idea that the natural object refuses us from seeing it. Withinness prevents me to see what is taking place inside of the flower. The only way I would be able to find out is either with experimentation or by killing it, which goes against the third meditation.

First, beyondness withholds the future from humans. The Patagonia would hold beyondness if it was in a flowerbed. It would restrict me from seeing the tops of other flowers because it is blocking my horizon. Second, beneathness is like a story from the past. The roots of the patagonia would be considered beneathness because it is below our feet. The dirt prevents humans from seeing how the roots grow without removing the flowers from the earth. Otherness is the nature and the divine. Humans may not be able to understand the Patagonia, but we must respect it because the spirit created it and it has a purpose for being on this