The reason we distrust politicians
The reason we distrust the politicians is that they first distrusted us.
:- Doug.
Archive for April, 2016
Conversation is the world:
Conversation is the world: all creation reaches to touch and move what is there. So much so we see the spirit of the world seeking foremost the conversation of all with all. Being and doing are reconciled. We only exist in conversation, so that the doing of conversing is our very being.
:- Doug.
Pass around cloths exercise
Pass around various cloths for people to touch: invite a conversation about how they are like conversation. Then, how they are conversation.
:- Doug.
Over the eons
See how conversations have unfolded over the eons: from the imagined grunts of cave people, to two people watching the stars, to our tribe around the campfire, to towns and councils and congresses, to letters, to telephones, to the Internet. Our world grows smaller as the reach of our conversation grows larger.
:- Doug.
With a tick and a tock
Time is what we measure with a tick and a tock. No two ticks are the same; all tocks are relative to what we do with them.
:- Doug.
Three
1. All life is conversation.
2. Conversation is the coordination of actions.
3. By coordinating actions we bring forth a world.
:- Doug.
Footprints in the Windsm # 1590–The tapestry in which we are embedded
Footprints in the Windsm # 1590
We exist in conversation and we continually weave the tapestry in which we are embedded. We bring forth our pathways by speaking them.
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Is coordination of our actions
Conversation is coordination of our actions; so silence, dance, touch can be conversation. Consciousness is exactly what it says—knowing together, socially as it were.
:- Doug.
Just as long as you?
What is going to be there just as long as you? Your lungs? Your legs? Your mind? All can leave some of us. Will it be you? What is the real you?
:- Doug.
Beyond common ground
In view of folks’ trepidation, how call it out to play? We must risk to invite. Put ourselves on the line. Find common air. Beyond common ground, common breath. None of us knows, but each of us experiences. Let’s get beyond head beliefs and supposed knowings to what touches us, what moves us to our best.
:- Doug.
Afraid to name it
People I think are afraid to name the numinous, own it, play with it. Afraid of stepping on others’ toes, of raising others’ ire, over something that does not fit with the others’ belief system. It is more than we don’t know what they really believe (this is a vicious circle then, too), and we do not wish to offend: no, there is a real physical danger these days with religious extremists turning to terrorism to rid the world of all others.
:- Doug.
Teaching the numinous
So it is not about teaching the numinous to others, but touching what is already there, evoking it, calling it out to play.
:- Doug.
Deeper means more than two
Deeper conversations seem to involve more than two persons—even if only two are present.
:- Doug.
That intensely alive unknowable thing
Conversation is that intensely alive unknowable thing that contains all.
:- Doug.
Misusing goals
A problem with goals is not that we use them at all, but that we misuse them by thinking they are the ultimate good or at least ends of life.
:- Doug.
Tuned to hear
World conversing with me
And deeper
And higher
With you too
Had we ears tuned to hear
:- Doug.
wraps me in its intrigue
Every day I see something new. In this way life pulls me on, wraps me in its intrigue.
:- Doug.
