Much depends on the strength of the lantern we hold up to see where we are, our surroundings and the possible paths through the deep woods around us. A dim lantern won't shine deep into the dark. It won't clarify the looming shadows.How do we make our lantern burn brighter and more stable, since all else will follow it?"What makes lanterns burn
I have to say it again: Neighborhood is the new wilderness. Love that. Wish I’d said it myself but I didn’t. I do want to go to the neighborhood wilderness though: build a little cabin . . . off-grid, wood stove, birds and animals, my sweetie. No I heard the phrase, almost in passing, day before yesterday from Peter Block in a
In challenging times like this, we need rich mutual connection at least as much as analysis.Analysis is interesting but not powerful. Connection shows us what's possible - possible for us personally and together. We need participation more than greater ideological clarification and purity. We need to hear and be heard, to build ideas together. It helps greatly to feel part of something
What’s this? It’s my system map of our current social situation. Looking at the relationship between elements often brings clarity because you see a system, a set of relationships, rather than just isolated parts. Your system map might be different and either of ours might change with time, but here’s how it looks today. The Purple and Green figures facing each other
Watching the Covid drama and it's many themes is like watching a blockbuster movie. Emotions flow through us quickly reflecting the drama we're seeing.But this isn't a movie. It's real life human drama. All dramas have twists and turns. Great dramas have enormous twists and turns that somehow also make human sense. Great dramas connect us to a transcendent dimension and to
The conscious meeting of the "I" and the "We" When the “I” and the “We” co-inhabit the room, a striking new evolutionary possibility opens up. I call it The Singular Place of Dual Blessing. -------------------------------- Though the word “we-space” has been around for a little while now, it turns out, as many have seen and as you’ll see here too, that the
(Part 1 of 2) When you don’t speak out it’s a millstone around your neck. It plugs into a sense of shame and unworthiness, the feeling that your voice isn’t worthy of being heard. From there it’s just a hop away to the sense that “my experience doesn’t matter.” And that’s almost the same as “I don’t matter.”We evolved in tribes and
Summary: Although we’re responsible for our health, in a dangerous time there’s a powerful pressure to hand it to the state.The state can’t take care of us.State control isn’t at an end. It may hardly be at a beginning.The way forward is based on a psychological / spiritual capacity that is outside of this closed-loop control system. Is any of this true?
It’s been a while since I’ve written. Truth is I was seriously rocked by the lockdown and the response to Covid. And that very much included my own response. I became mute and struck dumb. At first I couldn’t imagine why I wasn’t offering any writing or offering groups for the first time in years. It gradually became clear that I didn’t
There’s so much to say about the virus, it has so many dimensions. So I’ll keep it simple and share just two thoughts from today.Earlier this evening I was speaking with a friend in Poland about how it is for her. She was telling me that if feels like the end of the life we know, the one we’ve built together, all
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