This is where grieving comes in: it says This, the what is, is a shame, something to cry over, not how it should be, not how it could be. It gives us a heaven to reach for. Then imagination comes in and extends this, saying, This is possible, there is more, what we can imagine spirit can engender. It gives us emergence, something more: beauty, truth, goodness.
:- Doug.
Imagination. Is imagination spirit? Imagination is free as G*d is free, free to see something that is not yet here. Free of culture, regime, milieu. Imagination creates, as G*d creates, out of what is here, out of whole cloth. Imagination speaks to imagination as height speaks to height, depth to depth, spirit to spirit. Imagination loves as G*d loves, wildly loves. Imagination is prodigal as the prodigal father. Imagination gathers as does the hen her chicks. Imagination is vulnerable as the babe, weak as the prisoner crucified. Imagination goes to the extent of the universe and further. Dreaming & imagination call to mind all divinity.
While I do not know if they are the same, we are free to use one as alias for the other.
:- Doug.
See, this is a little change which is big: we can make change. It is little because it is what we already knew: a few of us can take our situation into our own hands and build a better playground, plant a garden, care for a person in pain. It is big because it is a change in how we daily see ourselves and our place in the world: a change from done to to acting with; a change from me to we.
:- Doug.
The work we are doing takes a certain level of imagination—do you have it?—or at least a quality or direction of imagination. Thus, instead of the imagination of worry or fear we turn to the imagination of possibility. The work is indeed upon imaginations.
:- Doug.
The whole of creation is braiding rugged individuals into caring community.
:- Doug.
The new person is not centered physically but consciously. We are conscious of 1. Being part of a whole 2. Acting with 3. Giving our particularities and peculiarities 4. Hearing & being heard 5. Growing 6. Movement with 7. Joy 8. Creating 9. Significance 10. Purpose 11. Cosmic reach 12. Stretching 13. Imagining 14. We shall seek our fulfillment in the fulfillment of the all there is.
:- Doug.
The time has come to weave the mighty together—the Tigris, Euphrates, Ganges, Niger, Mekong, Yangtze, Danube, Plata, Nile, Indus, Rio Grande, Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado, Columbia, Amazon—and see whom we might be.
:- Doug.
The vision is: People rolling up their sleeves to make happen among them what they love, in this circle, this neighborhood, this hemisphere. People leaning in, hearing and heard. People with heads and hearts and hands open wide. People more than people. We are growing more than people here.
:- Doug.
We have replaced contracting with consuming. Contracting is meeting to get something done—we will work together in an agreed upon way to attain something.
Consuming ends in being consumed—look at our people trapped in huge all-consuming bodies and tell me it is not so. Look at our money system foreclosing our homes and taking our labor.
We no longer approach the world as neighbors—as agents acting upon the world—as life-givers, but as victims, as done-to couch potatoes.
If we want to be more, we must meet more, do more, come together.
:- Doug.
We have been individuals: we are now called to become whole.
:- Doug.
How in these hard economic times do we change the character of humanity? Change its heart?
:- Doug.
We do not have imaginal discs: we are human, not insects. But we have imagination and spirit which in the human amounts to the same thing, and it is this that is the seed of our next nature.
What is the evidence I have of this? The laboratory of life and of Open Space: people working together accomplish more, change themselves, change the world: in character, not just degree. Tsunami, hurricane, 9-11 are transformed into new resolve and love outpouring. Persons telling their pain leads to peoples taking action for them all together. No longer particles grasping, people become whole, unified in their variegated skills and passions.
:- Doug.
More than security we want certainty. When we are feeling insecure, we want to make sure that our next step is on some certainty. Security is only an interim position: if we cannot have this certainty, then at least we can be secure: we can curl up into a fetal position and not go outside. So we need to experience certainty to be able to step into the world and the present.
:- Doug.
Today, people are wringing their hands that their investments lost 12 ¼% of their value. What if your poetry lost 12 ¼% of its value? Or your time given to a specific homeless person? Or your love?
:- Doug.
What we are doing with any local enlarged conversation is working on the sidereal scale: we are transforming humanity into something larger, different in kind not just size.
Different in nature. Touching something larger than one life, larger than a multiplicity of persons, of a new quality: whole, inclusive, working.
:- Doug.
There is something among us that already lives. From this imaginal disc we grow.
:- Doug.
Learning teamwork is going from walking to a bike with training wheels
Discussion is to conversation as tadpole is to frog
Human is to the trans-human as cloud to clear sky
What we work for is a new human kind
Kind
:- Doug.
What is the world I see? Actually not a world but a people: connected with life blood at the center, reaching out to embrace.
One, variegated. Living in song and story and poetry. Working together from the heart. Bringing forth good.
Leaning in toward one another: heard. Touching: touched. Rolling up sleeves, plunging hands into mud, building a human-faced world. Flashing. Lifting the weakened, feeding the hungry, using the imaginations, wisdom and passion of each: poor, humble, rich, known, unknown. Unfolding a new species—fully collaborative, our blood vessels tying us together by what flows through, calling on each other—larger than the total of our multiplicities, bringing forth the larger than life, a species beyond imagining.
:- Doug.
We see into existence
The imaginative world
Vision & love are one
:- Doug.
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