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GAIA - over 13,000 Allies...The Journey Continues

6/20/2020

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Multilingual GAIA (short version) from Presencing Institute on Vimeo.

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The Heart of the Matter & The Law of Three

6/14/2020

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1. Affirming
2. Denying 
3. Reconciling

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The heart “carries” the reconciling force.  Perhaps another way of saying it is that the heart is the "part" where the 3rd force can more readily enter the human consciousness. (Or perhaps the 3rd force is the “soul” that wants to surface and reconnect to the Divine Source!)  In terms of the Journey, the 1st Quadrant — “Story” is intended to open up ones’ current LENS with an invitation to surface story as it is currently being lived.  

Then, after engaging with the disruption or the constricting nature of that story and crossing the threshold of “Blessing”, the layers begin to be pealed away beginning with the mind THEN THE HEART.  (remember… this movement seems sequential but not lineal) The field of openness becomes a place of tending to the soil of the emerging non-dual consciousness getting closer and closer to the precipice of Impasse.  

​So, the reconciling force is active at each “place" on the Journey! From beginning to continuing.  Of course the convener or elder ally, having experienced the movements, is able to hold the whole of the process in one frame in remembering and anticipation of the movements of opening to increasing freedom.
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Morning Prayer

6/12/2020

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Prayer for courage 
Courage comes from the heart 
and we are always welcomed by God, 
the Croí of all being. 

We bear witness to our faith, 
knowing that we are called 
to live lives of courage, 
love and reconciliation 
in the ordinary and extraordinary 
moments of each day. 

We bear witness, too, to our failures 
and our complicity in the fractures of our world. 

May we be courageous today. 
May we learn today. 
May we love today.  
Amen. 
Amen.

The Irish word Croí (pronounced ‘Kree’) means ‘heart’ and is the name for the chapel space in Corrymeela, a beautiful circular place of prayer, built into the ground, with a living roof and echoes. In the Croí, we have prayers, we had dialogues, silence, and our morning and evening liturgies.
Padraig O Tuama. Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community .

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Threshing

6/12/2020

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Sitting with Rumi on the edge of impasse—T2
​(or is it inconsummation—T3, or perhaps identity—T1).  
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Here, at these Thresholds
the chaff of "knowing"
is carried away by the wind...
as the heart of the matter
falls to the threshing floor
the helpers come to
gather us up so 
that we may become
bread for the world.

Zero Circle, Rumi
Be helpless, dumbfounded,
Unable to say yes or no.
Then a stretcher will come from grace
    To gather us up.

We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty
If we say we can, we’re lying.
If we say No, we don’t see it,
That No will behead us
And shut tight our window onto spirit.

So let us rather not be sure of anything,
Besides ourselves, and only that, so
Miraculous beings come running to help.
Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute,
We shall be saying finally,
With tremendous eloquence, Lead us.
When we have totally surrendered to that beauty,
We shall be a mighty kindness.
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Waiting for a Whisper

6/7/2020

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I believe the law of 3 is at work in the movement to abolish the police. The three moves (forces) are Affirming-Denying-Reconciling (also life-death-resurrection). The denying force - has to (IMHO) get stronger before the reconciling force emerges. It is the way of "things". I will "stand" with those who have the courage to endure the NO until a new, as of yet unseen, WAY emerges.

This brings to mind a favorite poem by such a courageous poet, Yehuda Amichai: 

The Place Where We Are Right

From the place where we are right
Flowers will never grow
In the spring.
The place where we are right
Is hard and trampled
Like a yard.
But doubts and loves
Dig up the world
Like a mole, a plow.
And a whisper will be heard in the place
Where the ruined
House once stood.

Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000) was an Israeli poet. He was born in Germany, then immigrated with his family to Palestine in 1936. He fought in the Israeli War of Independence as a young man, but became an advocate of peace and reconciliation in the region, working with Palestinian writers. He was 'discovered' in 1965 by Ted Hughes, who later translated several of Amichai's books. (From the Wikipedia article on Yehuda Amichai.)
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  • OFFERINGS
    • Allies in Practice
    • Integrative Leadership For Men (IL4M): 2-Year Program
    • Spiritual Direction
    • Pilgrimage to Uganda
    • Center for Purposeful Leadership - Collaborators on The Journey
    • Sacred Discourse
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    • Terry Chapman
    • Carolyn Baker
    • Claudia Eisinger
    • Tom McSteen
    • Craig Neal
    • Patricia Neal
    • Caleb Rukundo
    • Jan and Jeff Steckley
  • JOURNEY
    • Overview
    • Orientation
    • Sharing Your Story >
      • The Invitation
      • 1st Threshold: Loved - Worthy
    • Opening Mind and Heart >
      • 2nd Threshold: Held - Encouraged
    • Encountering the Sacred >
      • 3rd Threshold: Sent - Gifted
    • Co-Creating Destiny >
      • 4th Threshold: Return - Renewed
    • 7 Guiding Questions for Journaling
  • Musings
  • Resources
    • March 2020 Purposeful Leadership in Disruptive Times
    • May 2020 Purposeful Leadership in Disruptive Times
    • Spring 2020 The Journey of Grief Learning Platform
    • Practices
    • Emerging Social Technologies
  • CONNECT
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