IS: Entanglement of everything
Upcoming open events:
- Saturday August 3 (moved!) - Office Hours
- Saturday August 17 - Practice Dojo Connection Lab #2
- Saturday September 7 - Practice Dojo Connection Lab #3
Calls start at 1pm Pacific Time (4pm Eastern, 8pm UTC). Core Community Season 15 calls run Sundays through Sept 22.
I really enjoyed our Connection Lab last Saturday - what a kind and curious crowd! We isolated and practiced the skills of reflecting (what someone has said with both fidelity and personal translation) and revealing (emotional impact of the empathic connections we make) as important components of feeling deeply heard, and then combined them back into more organic relating. I appreciate the feedback from participants:
"A good experience feeling alive, enthusiastic and heard."
"I felt the culture, or vibe, was very good, that there was a lot of care and respect in this space."
"Very compassionate atmosphere!"
"The final more freeform practice felt like a casual, organic conversation with the intentionality turned up."
That last one especially tickles me. As we know from art forms visual, musical, and martial (and from the Olympic gymnastics commentators), mastery of any art journeys through the development of technical mastery but in the end looks almost effortless in its flowy ease.
Next lab will be August 17th.
CCC (core community call) had... what would I call it... kind of a "cracking open" feel to it. That's my take, pretty vague, and I'll leave it that way, but to the extent that an egg-shell metaphor implies breaking through to a different/deeper layer, I'll say that I value uncovering what's waiting beneath the shell — whatever that grows into.
I've also hung out in the Second Renaissance course (which I bet will be repeated) over the last two days, and so am feeling the afterglow of being with people that are finding each other and finding a meaningful story, making sense of this world and how we might relate to it in wiser, weller ways.
Intentional Ventures has some newfound concrete-ness and action potentials... and tomorrow will focus on relational reconnection, and the inner work that goes hand-in-hand with exterior action.
Adding these all up in my heart and head today... the "entanglement of everything" is thrumming in my awareness, calling to something that resonates deep in my being. I don't know how this mix of spaces and people and activities all adds up — at least I can't comprehend it in a way that my logical brain can master and control. The non-symbolic part of my system, though, feels connected somehow to all these threads... and the life flowing through them. I am, and you are, one node of consciousness (and many nodes, and none) in this tapestry of complexity, and somehow we can see and know that this web is fractal. Self-similar at many different scales... our actions at the level of our choices, they do twang through the threads of connection into the energy patterns of the larger systems of the zoomed out layers. The realness of oneness AND twoness simultaneously, is and always has been. Barely grasped/touched/contacted... faith nonetheless, in reality and in goodness (both placeholder words, actual fullness untranslatable).
Cheers,
James