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Entangled
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What a year: Worldwide, we’ve all shared common experiences with COVID. For the first time, it is clear we are all interdependent, interlinked and entangled.
Just turned one: what questions are we asking?
it’s been an amazing year. I’m here to engage and integrate, as best as I can. To assist ourselves recognize and honor the beauty emerging, the collective possibilities for answers and a thriving world for all sentient beings.
Surfing simultaneous states: Beauty, fear, joy and despair
Windows may be opening. Like me, you’ll have experienced joy and despair all at the same time. Maybe our feelings, our emotional states, are all true. All simultaneously present. From torment and unease, to satisfied and joyous, touching blissful and enlightened. What does this look like (and what’s the science)?
Four openings: corona and climate hope
In these corona’s of crises, what is connecting and crystalizing while we are confounded and crying? There’s a creative cycle to the new. Here’s Yuval Noah Harari, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Zak Stein and Nick Cave with four deep and insightful pieces, relating to coronavirus and our climate, collaboration. Read on for connecting steps and transformations potentials.
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Our world is changing. Our thinking patterns are shifting. To answer our pressing emergencies and, fortuitously, engaging in this brings an aliveness like nothing else.
We’re a worldwide civilisation now and can consciously engage in creating thriving, just, sustainable futures for everyone. Yet, sometimes, this seems like a very lonely path…
We hope this site helps us all accelerate positive shifts. Amplification, re-storying and sharing awe…
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Our future, ourselves, our planet and our stories, it’s all entangled ― Festina LentÍvaldi*
The Window: love in the time of corona
With coronavirus, it is abundantly clear we are globally connected. At the same time, there’s a window, closing, opening—this is our moment. Transformational possibilities. Please help curate them! Submit your virtual and metaphorical windows here.
Climate change: A relationship problem
You are alive at the most important moment in history. In this interview, Karen O’Brien and Terry Patten explore what it takes to overcome collective trauma and usher in climate solutions. How might our hearts break open and not breakdown? What does it look like when we widen the solution space?
Integral theory: surprisingly simple, elegant
The word integral means comprehensive, inclusive, non-marginalizing, embracing. Integral approaches to any field attempt to be exactly that: to include as many perspectives, styles, and methodologies as possible within a coherent view of the topic—Ken Wilber Integral...
sp/ns 2: A story upgrade
We need cut through, insight and scaffolding to explore and enable our potentials.
But simplistic solutions fail with today’s emergencies. What about exploring the sublime? The new and upcoming entangled futures? The archetypes we often miss that frame and guide or thinking?
Simple please, not simplistic no.2 Short videos, playlist and photo gallery. Enjoy!
Attractors: strangely, we keep getting pulled in
We already have all the solutions we need to ensure flourishing, alleviate oceans of suffering for all sentient beings and answer pressing emergencies such as climate. Yet, we act too slowly seemingly beholden to outdated ideas. There’s a strange attraction to our old archetypes. It’s time for an upgrade! What do the new ones look like?
Trust, reciprocity and communication: collaboration bases
Our ability to cooperate is one of our most striking human features. We’ve been fixing issues like climate, collective action problems and dilemmas, throughout history. Emergency help is here, fortunately. We’re all entangled with these crises yet we have the collaborative capability solutions too.
sp/ns: simple please, not simplistic
We need cut through but simplistic solutions fail to answer our climate, equity and empowerment emergencies. How about sp/ns—enjoy the videos, audio and gallery below.
Imagination: keys to a quantum leap
Imagine other ways of living. It’s surprisingly hard, delightful and imperative to have stories on how we dealt with our climate emergency, creating enlivening, viable-for-all futures. It’s a quantum change.
Future stories: Chile, climate and conciousness
Santiago, Chile exploded. We’re all entangled. Can we help weave the pieces, protests, pain and possibilities together? Create flourishing just lives for all? What stories must we write?
Festina Lente
Make haste – slowly, powerfully, minimally
“Hasten slowly” said Augustus. Oh, this is hard. To imagine what can be created, to hold back, to act; to engage means delving into both despair and hope. That’s where we’re challenged to see the powerful in what we do which is always minimal and micro. Feeling adequate in the face of manifest inadequacy. Weaving together the pieces that hasten, slowly and steadily, benevolution.
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Feature by Julianna Gwiszcz, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND; see individual posts for other picture credits.