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Those who see the universe as one, perhaps even as part of G-d, see humans as at home here, part of the all there is. Humans are descended from stardust. Others see man (often as male only) as thrust into a foreign and inhospitable place, here to subdue and suffer.

So we have those who think all creation is part of the same family tree, and those who think we are exiles in a foul and odious land. One wants to redeem it all, the other wants to defeat it all. Fairly antagonistic pictures: that may well be the difficulty they have in speaking with each other.

It is easy to say the first has a wider view and therefore is more likely to be the one which will gather them together. Is there another way to reconcile these brothers and sisters?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 605

What if our culture were the first in the modern era to sit in circles in silence and be comfortable with whatever emerges?

Please pass it on.

Hurricanes may perhaps be bringing us to this…. Yes?

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Sometimes lovers
listen one to the other,
sometimes they
look into each other’s eyes,
sometimes lovers
simply sit together:
so too with prayer.

:- Doug.

Blogs are not about rants, as much as some rant. Blogs about figuring out the world, ourselves, and how the two meet. Meet they will, meet they must, and we are drawn out by meeting: the world is made larger, so are we.

:- Doug.

Life obviously is impossible, yet here it is, all about us, within us. So then we’d ought to give things we perceive as impossible opportunity, things like OST.

:- Doug.

Reading scripture expansively, oceanically gives us wide range to dive in. This is beyond midrash, into becoming part of the sea that is all around us, in these passages. What do I mean as reading expansively? To hear the ocean of mystery lapping at our very skin. To hear the erotic in the second verse of Genesis, to know that G-d is creating not the world but me, that there is in me, in us, a darkness which shines and light which allows a different kind of work to be done. To read that I am Joseph hiding my goblet in my brother’s suitcase, just to test him, even though I know we are brothers–not putting myself into the story, but knowing this story is my own, calling me to the beginning where I started from, to the shining that is integral to me.

:- Doug.