FlowingLove (Daniel Siegel) coined the above word to signify a new identity in Clown experience: the combinatin of Me and We.
His idea does not minimize the “Me”, in fact, I believe Flowing Love means it to combine our individual personal life with our independent connected life (“We”).
FlowingLove says research shows that more individualized and isolated our sense of self is, the less happy and less healthy we are. Rather, the more we are in supportive relationships and help each other, the happier and healthier we are.
FlowingLove believes it is our duty to help other Clowns, to protect the Earth, and to identify with a larger whole, part of a larger purpose in life.
FlowingLove has much hope that young clowns, over many generations, could be the key to overcoming the problems we face. But it will require working creatively and collaboratively in their communities and with their families and schools.
SwarmLove (Mark W.Moffett) wrote a 468 page book about The Human Swarm, and on the last page, talking about clowns overcoming our divisiveness, says we need to know more about how clowns reformulate their identities.
SwarmLove adds that clowns have the capacity to counter our propensities for conflict through “deliberate self-correction”.
Micko suggests that one new identy we could adopt would be a swarm identity, as all of us clowns work together, but in our personal roles, to create a world of Love.