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We need a New Mind to Understand Life |
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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To understand the ways of life-itself as organism, we need a new mind: a fullness
of perception that can only be shared through sign systems like art, new
kinds of formalisms, and "felt sense" knowing that reaches beyond the
reality of the tangible. Here at TAI, we point to the realms of heretofore unknown
forms of energy, hidden processes, and systems of order being revealed
in research as recently as the past two-three decades. Such findings
have been largely marginalized because there has been no way to talk
about what is being revealed within the confines of our dominant
culture, scientific materialism.
See the article by Mae Wan Ho at to learn more about what is being found about life and organisms. (home page)
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Tuesday, 31 August 2010 |
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There is clearly a crisis in leadership and what do you think might help? Solitude - introspection, knowing yourself. This isn't easy in today's world and this speaker at West Point, of all places, makes many surprising points for why and how it can be done.
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Monday, 21 June 2010 |
It's a birdsong morning. Didn't get to sleep much this night but as I waited for Norm to fall asleep after numerous awakenings, I heard a Cardinal singing a solo outside the window. It's June 21, Solstice and how wonderful that I'm alive and welcoming in the summer. I breathe deeply with what feels like a new awareness of air filling my lungs fuller than I can remember. I feel expansion coming from within.
Now let me tell you, this day, Norm was sitting watching me play a game of gin rummy with a friend and when I kept losing, he said, intend the cards you need and see what happens. Well I won the next three hands. What happened? Did I just become more focused and attentive or did my holding the space for the intension bring about a magic shift in the cards so the very card I needed would appear? I wonder if gamblers know about this magic? I bet the good ones do.
So since I've been spending a large portion of my time caring and attending and intending for Norm I'm learning magic is in every day in some form. This father's day day was quiet, late rising and then special gifts would arrive. Calls from three of Norm's sons and what wonderful conversations they had, like they were getting to the heart of communicating. Concerns all around about the world, how much longer it can take our discords and injustices.
And I hear a dove cooing outside my window now. It's as if the house is surrounded with birdsong lifting my spirits to the dawn arriving and the standing still of the earth's turning. Pendulum swinging. And back we go the other way, away from the light. I hope we can enjoy a few more sunny moments and more birdsongs. I hear the words of a Sufi master saying the beloved is everywhere revealing herself so we can fall in love every moment and be in our beloved filled with joyful bursting hearts overflowing. Happy Solstice
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
Skye Hirst, March 2010
Last night when I couldn't sleep I wrote about my life with Norm. It will soon be 24 years we've been together this life time. I recalled so many moments and stories that I was swamped, but what I realized was how a life can be so full and yet it seems can end without so much of a notice. Maybe it is the ego that wants to believe we matter, but with what I've learned over the years is I know we matter to the very fabric we are conceived in.
The love fabric, its an awesome fabric without end that folds and unfolds in on itself vibrates and oscillates in all directions forming and un-forming the various relations of relations, you and me and all the particulars of creation as needed. This quantum reality is unmanifest as we commonly think of manifested reality. It's not materialism. It creates in ways we seem to know very little about til now.
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Monday, 08 March 2010 |
O.K. It's time to focus... to find that world inside myself to know it, to find my rudder for finding effective action. I've been telling this to my clients for decades. Then today, I remembered something, how to do it effortlessly.
It's what I call finding your "home place." Ever notice when you're standing around with coffee in hand at the office talking with someone that you have a way of standing that is comfortable to you, familiar. It might be with hand on hip, in pocket, one leg bent while the other one stretches out to the side or in front of you. Take a minute – when you sat down to the computer, did you get the chair just the way you want it? Well in this way, you are finding your home position in your body, not anyone else 's. If you listen for a bit by tuning into yourself this way: where are my feet, can I feel the chair back hitting my back, my hands on the arm-chair. Allow 30 seconds to settle into your body. How does it feel? What does it need to feel more comfortable? There got it?
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
Skye Hirst, March 2010
"However," Norm says last night at dinner following a long discourse of mine about some insight I had drawn from my work coaching with clients over the years.
I felt negated, slapped, caused to pause and consider something else about what I had concluded. However, is a word with great power I realized and I awoke this morning to consider it a little deeper.
What did that word bring alive in me? First it was my ego bristling feeling Norm was some how negating my experience or trivializing it. Then knowing Norm, he was innocent of such intention. So looking deeper, I asked what his however meant? His shared view was that there were issues of organizing principles that would explain further my experience, not negate it.
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"If you can't see God in all, you cannot see God at all." |
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Friday, 26 February 2010 |
Skye Hirst, February 2010
Today this February winter's day I sit looking out at the snow covered trees, blue sky of Maine and feel the creative bursts of hope come alive in me to try to capture something that has so alluded me, the life-time work of my husband inquiry into how life-works. He has been in poor health for some time and is in a rehabilitation center, hopefully coming home next week being stronger and ready to resume his life with me as husband and partner in this journey we have taken both separately and now together for the past 24 years.
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