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Charles Eisenstein shares wisdom regarding Money and Economics.  Directed and edited by Ian MacKenzie

1/20/2021

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There aren’t many stories of transformation among neo-Nazis, but the journey of Christian Picciolini is a remarkable exception.

1/10/2021

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Wisdom from Parker Palmer and Thomas Merton

1/10/2021

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From “Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander"
Parker Palmer:  
​As the Jan. 6 insurrection unfolded, I was shocked but not surprised. In March, 2016, eight months before election day, I published “Will Fascism Trump Democracy?”—and we’ve been in the foothills of fascism for the past four years.

I remain committed to civil dialogue across the lines that divide us, as I know is true of many of you. But that kind of bridge-building has never been easy—and it will get even harder in the near future, now that the MAGA president has disgraced himself.

I’m not talking about dialogue with a guy in a horned helmet, carrying a spear, painted up as if he were in a Mel Gibson movie. That’s above my pay grade. I’m talking about dialogue with people of the sort you and I have regular access to—colleagues, neighbors, friends, and family members who embrace MAGA beliefs. They aren’t violent people, but even in polite silence they shore up a movement that endangers all of us in ways I don’t think they understand.

Then, of course, there are online strangers. In response to my last post on this page, one reader replied with “Go to hell!”—not the first time I’ve been given that kind of travel advice since 2016. I admired her editorial brevity and exemplary spelling, both of which are rare these days. So I replied in kind with, “Already there.”

We all have vital local roles to play in restoring democracy—even the best leaders can’t do the job without us. But our task must be done from an inner place of nonviolence. For me, at least, that means a steady search for inner peace, even as I seek ways to bring peace to the world around me.

As I’ve been working my way thru a lot of inner agitation—the kind that comes to some of us when democracy and the rule of law are attacked—the words of my longtime mentor Thomas Merton have helped settle me. As I settled, I found a question that’s helping me hold what’s happening in a life-giving way. It reminds me to look for possibilities, not just problems, as I pick thru the wreckage of Jan. 6: How can I creatively engage family members, friends, folks online, and other MAGA adherents in the urgent questions of this moment, when democracy itself is on the line?”

That question puts me between a rock and a hard place, which feels like an honest place to be. On the one hand, I don’t want to miss the good that’s in most people, no matter how toxic their politics may be. On the other hand, I cannot play the game of “false equivalencies,” as if conspiracy theories like QAnon and “election rigging” are in the same league with demonstrable facts. Gray areas abound in life, but some things are either true or false, right or wrong.

At the moment, I have no clear answer to my own question. But because it feels life-giving to me, I’m not going to lay it down. I think it’s a question worth “living into” and maybe (to steal from Rilke), find myself one distant day living into an answer.
In the meantime, companionship and a sense of humor help!
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Advent 2 - Faith                                                                                (For Integrative Leadership for Men IL4M)

12/11/2020

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December 11th, 2020

12/11/2020

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Recent teaching videos

10/20/2020

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Here is a selection of teaching videos recently recorded for a variety of settings.  Each video addresses an aspect of the Journey.

An overview for Illuman National Gathering: Soularize

An Introduction to the 2nd threshold on the Journey: Impasse

Impasse as a point of no return

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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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