I am reading an article by Evan Thompson, Empathy and Consciousness, found in the Journal of Consciousness Studies. A few passages have gripped my curiosity and invited my attention to wander off with their content: “According to John Morgan Allman (1999), it was the formation of the extended family as a social support structure for […]
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Losing Our Way of Life
One of the books I’m playing in right now is Calling the Circle by Christina Baldwin. This passage brought to mind several conversations I’ve had with people recently… so I offer it here: “As we grapple with the awareness that our personal lives cannot be separated from the life of our times, we are forced […]
Opening, Awakening, Listening, Offering
Are you ready to invite the learning of un-limited listening?Are you ready to invite the learning of un-limited sharing? Let us invite an opening of spacefor clarity in the field of relation. May we use our “believing ears”our trusting hearts,and our embodied beingto listen for the deep story, the teachingof our own personal wisdom,of the […]
Patterns in Curiosities
I noticed a pattern yesterday. I ran across an old blog post that I wrote after attending a gathering around the theme “Opening Space for Giving to Flourish” that had parts in common with some of my reflections after the evolutionary salon. I noticed that in the presence of such an inspirational group of people […]
TRUTH SIGNS
I like to collect what i have come to call “Truth Signs”… words or even images that point me in a direction that i want to go…. lighthouses if you will. Below is a favorite of mine ! This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give […]
Wisdom’s Presence
Chris Corrigan writes: I am most interested in ways of being together in groups, communities, families and other aggregations, but also in what wisdom looks like in the structures that support those groups, structures like money, power, the natural world and information. My mind then shifted to thoughts about presence. At the salon, my awareness […]
Intentional Space
These days since the Evolutionary Salon have been a slow, steady spiral spinning inward upon its learnings, gathering nuggets of inspiration and discovery and integrating them into the rapidly buzzing outward flow of the spiral growing along the edge. I touch ground for moments to write. I offer here pieces as they come, some of […]