Category Archives: Fields
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
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 … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Overview of 4 Summer Sessions
Looking into the future, the outline of my summer presentations about Mary Conrow Coelho’s Awakening Universe Emerging Personhood: The Power of Comtemplation in an Evolving Universe appears with more clarity. This develops from my post of May 27. July 11 … Continue reading
Mary Coelho & Transition Town: Prep for 7/11/2010 at TCFM
(I am fleshing out the first part of the outline you can find in my previous post.) This is the ground I currently imagine I will cover. What actually happens…we’ll see. My outline We are at a pivot point. The … Continue reading
Proposal for a Summer Seminar
An inspiration from this morning’s meditation. I offer it as a heads-up” especially to my elders, but also to others who have expressed interest in Mary Conrow Coelho’s Awakening Universe Emerging Personhood: The Power of Comtemplation in an Evolving Universe … Continue reading
Gaia Voices 