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Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms)

Message Blair Gelbond

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"The Breeze at Dawn" by Rumi

"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you
Don't go back to sleep!
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep!
People are going back and forth
across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,
The door is round and open
Don't go back to sleep!"

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"Without humor, poetry and clarity, we might as well throw in the towel"

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"The fact [is] that [atoms] are mostly (99%) made up of empty space. If we look closely enough, we find that the matter of the world is largely lacking in matter."

"There are spiritual lessons to be drawn from our understanding of the emptiness of atomic reality. For one thing, we all have a lot less stuff than we thought we had.

"Furthermore, if our bodies are made of atoms, and atoms are mostly empty space, then what is holding our clothes on? Not only does the emperor have not clothes, the clothes hardly have any emperor."

Wes Nisker: The Big Bang, The Buddha, and The Baby Boom

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"Integrative and Control culture have very different ways of seeing the world. Where control culture has been obsessed with building walls, integrative culture seeks to dissolve these boundaries and see the commonality we share"

"In Control culture, the universe is split into opposites: Integrative culture sees the universe as an undivided whole. Control culture sees the world as static matter; integrative culture regards the world as energy in process. Where control culture values hierarchy and authoritarian leadership, Integrative culture values democracy and an egalitarian orientation.

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I work as a psychotherapist with an emphasis on transformational learning - a blend of psychoanalytic and transpersonal approaches, and am the author of Self Actualization and Unselfish Love and co-author of Families Helping Families: Living with (more...)
 

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