Category Archives: Fields

Theology AND Cosmology!

AT LAST! The religious tradition of Europe and ‘The West’ (closed-minded as it mostly is) and [Listen to the link just over 1 min, ’til the second burst of laughter] the scientific tradition of Europe and ‘The West’ (closed-minded as … Continue reading

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A Glance Back at My Shamanic Path

I feel it’s all coming together for me, here near the end of my life, although not in a way that I had foreseen.

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Seeing the Light…

For almost a year now I have been able to move into optimism as needed. Optimism similar to Joanna Macy’s Active Hope. But my stance, to this point, has been: “I’m paying attention and I’m ready. Along with all of the bad … Continue reading

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~A New Life-Chapter~

You know how things change… sometimes it’s slow, and then you look around and IT’S DIFFERENT? What I’ve been doing on this website up to this point feels like it’s in the past. Not irrelevant. I wouldn’t think of taking … Continue reading

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Distracted?

Or Terrified Beyond Words? I feel good about what I wrote in the first six posts of this year. And then I stopped. I feel good about that, too.My emotional life, my intellectual understanding, are part of a larger flow … Continue reading

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Synchronicity, Serendipity, Epiphany & Apophenia

I started my March 30 post with the familiar ironic trope, “just a coincidence…” There, the reader could believe that I think it is more than a coincidence, while not needing to take a position herself. Now I want to address … Continue reading

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Stephen Jenkinson on Our Dying Culture, pt. 2 & 3

So this is my journey, at this point. Paul Gilding has inspired me not to feel marginalized. Not to slink around as if I was carrying a bunch of crazy ideas, rather than having a partial grasp of what will … Continue reading

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For my Aug 8, 2010, presentation on Awakening Universe Emerging Personhood

Most of all, I want to share Mary Conrow Coelho’s gestalt, her over-all sense of how things are developing. That rises out of the details, of course, but I don’t want to get captured by a focus on any one … Continue reading

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Mary Coelho’s AUEP, Ch. 3

You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes and humans. –Brian Swimme This is a challenging chapter for me. I’ll start with the Hologram, where I have some sense of understanding. Most of … Continue reading

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Mary Coelho, Preface – Ch.2, Prep for 7/25

Since last I posted here, I have truly assimilated the fact that many of my friends are challenged and even daunted by Mary Conrow Coelho’s book, Awakening Universe, Emerging Personhood: The Power of Contemplation in an Evolving Universe. So, before … Continue reading

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