The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Dear friends, For several years I have been increasingly challenged, curious and evolving in my journey regarding equity, justice, and privilege. Recently I’ve read three articles that together offer a perspective that I experience as a watershed in this exploration. The first one offers a remarkably co-intelligent perspective on diversity, privilege and equity that I …
A big-picture, co-intelligent vision of diversity and privilege (Part 1) For several years I have been increasingly challenged, curious and evolving in my perspectives on equity, justice, and privilege. I recognize this as my own personal experience within a vast, complex societal evolutionary process filled with intensely difficult, necessary, dangerous, puzzling, potent and uplifting events …
Universal Intelligence There is something about the universe — an elegant order in the way everything fits and unfolds, an inexplicable beauty in its living patterns, and the mysterious depth and expressiveness of it all — that reminds us of the brilliance we see in the works of great artists, scientists, engineers, and saints. Some …
Intercentricity (Part 2b): Examples – From pluralism and education to power and democracy INTERCENTRICITY AND…. NETWORKS Networks are examples of social structures that are founded on centers and relationships instead of borders and separations. Therefore, many different networks can coexist in the same space. They are distinct at their centers but become increasingly mutually-permeating as …
Intercentricity (Part 2a): Examples – from activism to love and spirituality In my last post I introduced basic principles of intercentricity – a dynamic worldview of reciprocal aliveness. In this post and the next, I explore how that worldview plays out in a number of diverse realms. It’s a bit long, so I’ve divided it …
Intercentricity – the web of reciprocal aliveness (Part 1) Back in August 1991 – at the dawn of my co-intelligence work – I wrote an essay exploring the implications of seeing the world made up of source points of engagement and the webs of relationships that from – and fed into – those engagements. I …
Can problem-solving itself be problematic? (Sense-making, Part 6) This essay is largely a critique of how we tend to focus on problem-solving to address any undesirable situation. However, as I’ve been writing it, the whole issue has become increasingly nuanced and complex, such that I feel impelled both to keep adding more aspects to the …
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