The Power of Not Knowing
I’m learning to crab walk. I decided to try something new to combat my reduced physical activity that began with working from home a few years ago. I chose an exercise program that includes a lot of familiar activity, and a little bit of unfamiliar activity. Most of the unfamiliar activity came naturally to me, but the crab walk seemed to break my brain at first. I found myself connecting this to some of my worries of late. As the geopolitical contexts of our lives are changing drastically and rapidly right now, I’ve been worrying that the approaches we’ve been taking toward our relationships and communities and visions of shared healthy peace will not be enough.
Ripples and Rumbles: Being and The Cloud of Unknowing featuring Sue Mehrtens
“The Unknown is real, and we have to face this and be okay with not knowing. Using a term mystics employ, we must appreciate the ‘cloud of unknowing’ and face the fact that we are not in control here, that Nature knows best and that our society would function far more efficiently if we followed Nature’s ways.” ~ Sue Mehrtens
The Monsters in the Curtain
Systems came out of the imaginations of people and are created through millions of everyday actions of people (including everyone reading this blog), and that means it is possible to imagine other realities into being. This is not the way things have to be. Humans have imagined and then created all sorts of different systems, and that can continue, but only if we don’t fall into the trap of thinking the way things are is the only way.
Ripples and Rumbles: Disorientation and Imagination (Getting Lost in the Wild Mystery), featuring Amani Will
What if we experienced disorientation and imagination as an opening, a chance to see what’s been unseen?
Ripples and Rumbles: Sensing Liberation in the Body, featuring Sage Hayes
What is the special knowledge we gain through our senses and our embodied experience about being alive, what’s important, and how to be in connection with ourselves and other beings?
Ripples and Rumbles: Knowing From The Edges, featuring Kai Cheng Thom
Who is invited into the dominant story, and who is outside? The view from the edges can foster a fierce and alchemical knowing, a different way of understanding what happens around and within us. What can be known in the shadows…when we dive deep into the places in ourselves that scare us, that we hide […]
Permission to Lose Your Way
The idea that people should be experts and should know how to fix things actually sets us up for more failure. There is no one right way to deal with complexity. And in fact, many of the best and most transformative ideas have come out of so-called mistakes, or “wrong turns” that brought us to beautiful clearings that we didn’t know existed.