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What voices in our time-community ought to demand to be heard? The voices for community, for cooperation, for whole-making?

:- Doug.

Longer conversations give us all a bigger picture and greater depth.

:- Doug.

Competition and cooperation do dance together.

:- Doug.

Let us weave each other into the tapestry whole.

:- Doug.

The world is probably against you
(We can confirm what you’re seeing)
Cooperating to change how you see us
Grabbing another beer &
Switching on the game on TV
Will only dull your sensation
But not send away Us

:- Doug.

What might possibly be beyond consciousness?

Today we are discovering our evolution from the Great Radiance (there was no atmosphere to convey any Bang sound) through planets and microbes through plants and animals to consciousness. So if we are coming together, becoming ever more complex and interwoven (humans can no longer live alone), what is the stage after consciousness? It might just be the growing together, dancing together, individual shining within and among group radiating, group radiating helping individuals to shine, each knowing all knowing each beyond brain cells to the point where knowing and consciousness fall away in simply being one and many being.

Or it might be something else entirely. How can the cell know of the woman, the seed of the sycamore? And yet they stir.

:- Doug.

The wind it is
stirs things up
sends oxygen our way
from trees and plants
blows our carbon dioxide
back to them
sends us the rains
then sends them on their way
the wind it is
sends us shape-shifting clouds
we can dream upon
if we make some time
the wind it is
calls to us
whispering, keening
converses with us
the wind it is
about which we seldom
pay attention
pay attention
the wind it is

:- Doug.

Whole-making: wholes we are, wholes we are growing, already wholes becoming more whole, bringing in all individuals, nurturing them, individuals creating more whole.

:- Doug.

Where is the highest dissonance? Today great dissonance is created by the anger of the tea party movement. How can we use that energy to create dialogue? Why would “they” want to dialogue? Why are they angry? Can we put our finger on the exact fears? What good is the anger? What is on the other side of the anger? How can we meet each other, without competition, constructively, hearing out one another?

:- Doug.

Questions find our energy, that energy then bounds the space for our conversations.

:- Doug.

We can do something, let’s do it.

:- Doug.

Grace gathers us all to her table, makes us one family. Gathering makes one.

:- Doug.

With your fingertips
an infinite stream of life
to lightly touch
Ask a question, tell a story:
Invite conversation

:- Doug.

Why should touching God demand years of practice and guides? Many have been touched without these. Holiness seeks all heart.

:- Doug.

I met a man yesterday who in the twentieth year of his retirement, despite, maybe because of, physical disabilities, reads a book a day. His mind is sharp, his handshake firm, and he smiles a lot at a world he finds fascinating.

:- Doug.

We is better than any individual: We honors each individual. We honors the voices unheard, the larger voice we do not always wish to attend, the voices and voice calling us to be better, to seek the good of all.

:- Doug.

There is a oneness which I have seen and experienced in contemplation which calls us to the higher, which is always compassion. We converse out of compassion, compassion calls us to converse. If we work out a theological politics which calls us to hate, this is far from God, Christ, Jesus, Muhammad, and Abraham. This is far from our highest transcendent humanity. What is the best we can be? Certainly we can do better than to hate.

:- Doug.

We can meet, we have met. There is that thin spot where the holy and the mundane touch, as on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as in the narrows of the hourglass, as in the contemplative sitting beside. And so we can become intimate, even if without words, without thoughts, without images.

:- Doug.

What is right for Bob? What would make his moments and hours better, relieve his pains of whatever nature? From his point of view? What if you were someone else’s child visiting him while you were visiting theirs? Does it hurt if he has a phone or a daily hamburger? What difference if he does not eat his vegetables?

:- Doug.

Let us have compassion for G*d.

:- Doug.

We meet the divine in other humans, and in this way, the divine is persons.

:- Doug.

What would family wholeness look like for your family?

:- Doug.

Much of what does not work in our world is top down. This is where community disorganizing can do its good work, helping us to start at the roots and grow up.

:- Doug.