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Session Overview
Humans as biological organisms consume, store, and use energy as a natural process of living. The mind and nervous system coordinate the functions and activities of the body, and are wired by genes and by our experiences to survive and navigate the world. How much power do we have to control and direct the mind and body? If the unconscious mind manages most of our reality, what are some ways we can engage consciously with those systems to recondition one’s own patterns of thoughts and actions? What are some techniques for harnessing and coordinating our immanent “life power” for optimal personal, relational and communal outcomes? What are the consequences of not gaining self-development, self-awareness and personal power, and how does that play out in social and political levels? This talk will delve into the sometimes-mystical-seeming powers of human beings to engage successfully and meaningfully with the world.
Guests
Caroline Savery
Caroline Savery is a writer, producer and organizational designer/strategist based in Denver, Colorado. She is a cofounder of Cosmos.coop, a platform co-op serving visionary creatives. She has worked in the field of cooperative and nonprofit development since 2011, supporting organizations such as Nourish Community Market, USA Cooperative Youth Council, Denver Permaculture Guild, Bikes Together, and the Colorado Co-ops Study Circle. Prior to that she was the producer-director for The Sust Enable Project, a visionary “meta-mentary” about evolving definitions of sustainability. She devotedly practices observation, experimentation and design in all aspects of her life–mainly via wilderness, permaculture and Buddhism.
Marco V Morelli
Marco V Morelli is a founding editor and the creative director of Metapsychosis Journal. He studied Philosophy and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, and worked for Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute from 2003 to 2007, co-authoring the book Integral Life Practice. His podcast, Infinite Conversations, is hosted at InfiniteConversations.fm. He is currently at work on a new book of poems, stories, and essays titled I AM THE SINGULARITY.
Episode Notes
A Big THANK YOU to our Special Guests:
Asia Dorsey
Kritee Kanko
Eutimia Cruz Montoya
Stephan Polka
Thanks, ladies (and you guys) for an unexpected but uplifting little chat.
Being something of the “resident curmudgeon” of sorts, I don’t often have very high expectations of such events, but there was enough substance here to sit up and take notice of.
My take-aways:
Life is live. It has no need of power. Life is real-time potential for the possibility of all possibilities, not a tool for insecure.
Power is important for those not in touch with Life. It is what those feel who have lost their vital connection to Life.
The exhilaration we get from Life is not just a cognitive-affective kick, it has a definite – essential? – bodily component to it. We must act and engage – physically, bodily, emotionally … well, totally – in the world if we are going to make a difference.
The Spiritual – or, non-physical but more than emotional-intellectual, if you will – is a, if not the driving force. It’s time we all just accepted that.
We have much to learn, but we are also suffering from a dramatic shortage of teachers. It’s time for the reticent and reluctant to step forth.
Most welcome was the consistent and encompassing plea for local, community-based, here-and-now action: get together, act together, eat together, don’t just talk with each other. (Or, as I like to phrase it: you are where you are whenever you are, and that’s where you are needed most.)
There are a gazillion, if not infinite, paths to wherever it is we need to be going. There are even more ways to talk about it. We’d probably do well to listen more to what others are saying to us than paying attention to which words they happen to be using.
There was more, that’s for sure, but that’s the short list from an hour or so well spent.