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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1259

Here is our complexity. We are woven together. Our roots are in this ball of earth, our wavy ends extend up and out and across and entangle with each other. We are individuals and yet there is this entangling going on: we need each other. What is that all about? More importantly, how do we make that work? In little and big ways: in families, in social, religious and work settings: how do we live together? How can we understand these things tugging apart and together at once, and how do we make that life-giving?

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Bohm seems to be about correcting our seeing by getting thought out of seeing’s way. Many times professionals think that if people knew the “facts,” the theory, the overall picture, they would change what they do. Both assume that knowledge has the primary effect.

Perhaps life is more than this. Perhaps we need to actually attend the doing and the choosing of the doing.

Knowledge has the effect of freeing us, giving us choices. Yet we still need to hear the invitation and to feel the call. The brain needs legs and hands to start spinning and molding its world.

:- Doug.