We share the same body and the same self. Earth now is revealed as a vast being who is the ground of our perceiving, dreaming and thinking. We are discovering that we are already in what the phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty has called the “Collective Flesh,” the world itself as an intelligent body. But we have protected “our skin” and “our space” at the expense of our own lives.
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Our skin is a membrane that connects us with the world around us, just as the space between you and me actually connects us as well. we must affirm that the world is a being, a part of our own body.” as part of the landscape and the ecosystem, because the beauty and complexity of nature are continuous with ourselves. requires a kind of vision across boundaries. We must retrieve the magic of the ordinary and rediscover sacredness in each thing.Īccording to Paul Shepard, “Ecological thinking. Jail here is not our daily lives but the alienated relationship to the world of the familiar. Gurdjieff once said that the only way you can get out of jail is to know that you are in it. Our minds and bodies need to be refreshed they need to be restored to each moment. Many of us, no matter the skin color, no matter the culture or epoch, have found that we have to leave society to retrieve our innocence. What I mean by nonduality is that we are intimately connected. One of the ways we can characterize what Black Elk called “a sacred relationship” is by the term nonduality. is to be found by each of us in the direct experience of silence, stillness, solitude, simplicity, ceremony, and vision. The wisdom of the peoples of elder cultures can make an important contribution to the postmodern world, one that we must begin to accept as the crisis of self, society, and the environment deepens. In her book The Fruitful Darkness, American Buddhist teacher Roshi Joan Halifax offers some wisdom on how we might recognize and honor our shared existence: One of the gifts of liminal spaces is that they soften the boundaries between ourselves and others, revealing our interconnectedness in the present moment in new ways and in the simplest of things. Without standing on the threshold for much longer than we’re comfortable, we won’t be able to see beyond ourselves to the broader and more inclusive world that lies before us. Into this liminal realm, between the known and the unknown, we are invited to enter if we are to learn more of the way forward in our lives as individuals and as communities and nations. What if we can choose to experience this liminal space and time, this uncomfortable now, as a place and state of creativity, of construction and deconstruction, choice and transformation –Sheryl Fullerton ( Wednesday) There is deep beauty in the darkness, in the unknowing, in the indescribable, if only we can open ourselves to its purpose. Then some indescribable light fights its way through the impenetrable dark. Hardly anything turns out the way you expected it to, and you’re frequently ready to write life off as too paradoxical and too difficult to endure. Liminal space is where we are betwixt and between, having left one room or stage of life but not yet entered the next. But, you have to be ok with waiting, and not knowing, and let being in the liminal space do its magic.Summary: Sunday, April 26 - Friday, May 1, 2020 If you embrace it, it’s where transformation takes place. It’s uncomfortable not to know what is next. It’s uncomfortable to be in the in-between spaces. When an election happens on a Tuesday, and it’s still not resolved on a Thursday, it’s uncomfortable. When you show up as a White person in discussion with Black colleagues about racial equity and say something deeply stupid or hurtful, it’s uncomfortable. When you get fired from your job and start thinking about what is next, it’s uncomfortable.
When a parent dies, and you re-evaluate your priorities, it’s uncomfortable.
When your company fails, and you are thinking about what to do next, it’s uncomfortable.
When you sell your company, leave, and think about what to do next, it’s uncomfortable. In our opening discussion, we touched on the importance of being uncomfortable. I’m participating in the first annual DEIS Practicum with Rodney Sampson of Ohub today. Liminal space is where all transformation takes place, if we learn to wait and let it form us. A liminal space is the time between the ‘what was’ and the ‘next.’ It is a place of transition, a season of waiting, and not knowing. The word liminal comes from the Latin word ‘limen’, meaning threshold – any point or place of entering or beginning. Today, most of America is in a liminal space. I’ve personally been in a liminal space for most of 2020.
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