interbeing
On a purely biological level, the birth process itself is the first instance of separation and individuation, a paradigm of the pattern that will later be manifest psychologically. The fetus initially exists as part, literally, of the mother’s body; then, at birth, it separates—differentiates—and comes into the world as a distinct individual entity
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You belong to the world
by Carrie Fountain
as do your children, as does your husband.
It’s strange even now to understand that
you are a mother and a wife, that these gifts
were given to you and that you received them,
fond as you’ve always been of declining
invitations. You belong to the world. The hands
that put a peach tree into the earth exactly
where t
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Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’ | Aeon Ideas
aeon.coBasically, there are different sources of movement that have been described as the personal unconscious (personal story); the collective unconscious (transpersonal and cross-cultural); or the superconscious (connected to energies beyond the self).
Andrea Olsen • The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
A beautiful quote from John O’Donahue, on friendship and conversations:
... See moreWhen was the last time you had a great conversation? A conversation that wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, but when you overheard yourself saying things you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that found places within you that you th
“ The world and the gods are dead or alive according to the condition of our souls .”
~ James Hillman
~ James Hillman
Facing the World with Soul
There is medicine for the long dark by recognizing this interpenetrating reality of identity
Otter Voice Meeting Notes
Francis Weller
Holy crap
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