Posts Categorized: Winter 2017

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An Expanding Identity

By Geoff Ainscow   “Where are you from?” It’s a question I’ve heard nearly every day for the last fifty years. The questioner, whose curiosity is piqued by my lingering accent, feels settled once they hear an answer because a location offers the mind a clue about who you are. Living in California and being… Read more

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Editor’s Note

Turning and turning in the widening gyre the falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned; the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. Surely some… Read more

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A Template for Miracles: Spontaneous Re-Missioning

By Steve Bhaerman No matter how you look at it, these are extraordinary times where we seem to face crisis at every turn. Interestingly, the word “crisis” first came into the English language in a translation of Chauliac’s Grande Chirurgie (Major Surgery) and it meant “the turning point in a disease.” Well, folks, the body… Read more

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Living the New Story of an Awakening World

by James O’Dea The new story is the story of wholeness. It is the whole story of you, the whole story of me, the whole story of us all. It is the whole story of our abuse and painful learning in the process of evolving and the whole story of awakening consciousness of who it… Read more

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  Is the evening news, celebrating the most shortsighted characters imaginable in modern history, getting you down? Then you may be a good candidate for a trial prescription of Deep Time. (Don’t ask your doctor) The Deep Time Walk is a ground-breaking project that addresses the mind-boggling, yet deeply anxiety-reducing, dimension of deep time by… Read more

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Quantum Seuss

Video by Nancy Margulies           Nancy Margulies is currently making a documentary film about the strength of the human spirit. Prior to retiring she facilitated visioning sessions and presented ideas using her unique form of graphic representation, Mindscaping. Nancy regularly collaborated with Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science…. Read more

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Let the New Story Begin

By Robert Koehler Oh, sacred planet! The crises humanity faces have been a long time in the making. Why are there 22,000 nuclear weapons on the planet, disappearing rainforests, oceans dying of plastic, a floating garbage dump in the Pacific the size of a small continent, 65 million refugees uprooted by war and looking for… Read more

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Making a New Cosmology Personal

By Karen Harwell We need a common and compelling vision of the nature of the Universe and the role of the human within it. Such a new cosmology must be grounded in the best empirical, scientific understanding, and must be nourished just as deeply by the vibrant cores of our planet’s wisdom traditions. Only such… Read more

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An Elder’s Take on the Election

by Renee Fisher A majority of Americans went to the polls this election year convinced that we were about to elect the first female president in history. Not only that, but someone who would continue the Obama legacy as well as the strides we had made in women’s rights and gay rights. We were smug… Read more

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Endpoint

Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of hope – not the prudent gates of Optimism, which are somewhat narrower; nor the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense; nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness, which creak on shrill on angry hinges (people cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through); nor the cheerful,… Read more