We all share connections with the same ancestors—consanguinity.
Read on to feel this, viscerally, as David Abram brings our interconnections and links with all around us vibrantly to life.
Animals: and consanguinity
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Quantum social change
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You-I-we determine what we see. We are in intra-action with each other and the world, realising a panoply of possible futures, independently and together. This matters—it affects how you-we-I interpret and act. What we are, were and will be is constraining but not determining.
Bracing: living in our climate
Planetary scale crises—climate, injustice, inequity, plagues—are creating great instability.
Yet, the very pressures of these issues may help us to grow up, individually and culturally, to be sufficient for the challenges that we’re facing.
Visions: can and do change the world
Stories from 2030 is about our world, climate crises, disruption, acceleration and transformation.
It is a follow-on from Visions 2100 which was launched at the COP21 conference in Paris in 2015.
Equinoxes: globally connected?
Seek disharmony for peace. Momentarily day and night are balanced at the equinox.
It’s been celebrated across cultures and time.
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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*
Seasons: sensing an aroma of change
We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are yet, in our pandemic we’ve been gifted connection to our ever-changing world. It’s a bridge to see beyond how we are.
Breath into February in this post.
We’re connected: why what we do matters so much
A single person matters? For climate answers? That’s a paradox and wisdom from shifting our perspectives, understanding we’re connected helps.
This is a shift to quantum thinking, making the problem bigger to address it.
Change: collective memories
Our shared memories, deep and seemingly historic memories are powerful. In creating positive change more potent, we’re more potent, than we think.
Blindfolds and balls part 2: Grandma goes technicolor
Future moments don't follow present ones like beads on a string. Effect does not follow cause hand over fist — Karen Barad* Quantum time. Is it actually useful?In blindfolds and balls, part one, we left a spooked to grandma. She’s seen balls go through open windows...
Blindfolds and balls: your grandma, grandkids and mindwarping solutions
Solving climate and equality crises takes a new script. That’s hard.
If we can expain quantum to our grandmas or grandkids our updated thinking patterns may stick.
Samhain: A halloween festival of change
We have gotten it all wrong. I-you-us, in our ability to matter and to make a significant difference for ourselves, for the crises around us, are not stuck in our ways.
Lights, camera, simplicity: short videos cutting through complexity
Simple please, not simplistic.
Easily said but hard to do in our complex world. Music, poetry, pictures can all help the narratives. Enjoy these short videos!
Infinite potential: Antony Gormley and places of transformation
We co-produce our present-futures.
Antony’s quantum cloud sculpture is particles and trajectories. You determine what you see and, similarly, are a co-producer of possible futures.
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)?
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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