Monthly Archives: June 2018

Think further

Think further, For the Grandchildren. :- Doug.

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The real action

The real action For the Grandchildren is in the reaches of the interpersonal, the transpersonal, the morphological. :- Doug.

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Reach exceed humanity’s grasp

Your reach should exceed humanity’s grasp or what’s an elder for? Stretch yourself stretch us all to a human size :- Doug.

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Integral contraries

As we discover ways to the integrality of contraries, we can leave clues and maybe whole maps, so that when grandchildren reach this opening in their lives, they may find their way more quickly and go further than we, and … Continue reading

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One essence contraries

One essence of the work For the Grandchildren is to be able to make contraries (cf Blake) integral to one another. :- Doug.

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When I was a poet

When I was a poet maybe I am just now was when the poems sang their lives through me they don’t all lift me there but when they evoke the spray I go to sea the wild sea :- Doug.

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What do you wish?

What do you wish For the Grandchildren? :- Doug.

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It is more

It is more than finding heart and soul it is growing evolving humanity’s grandchildren root stem flower bee seed It is more It is more :- Doug.

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Out past the sky

Through the leaves Out past the sky Across elusive sills Play among The grandchildren :- Doug.

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Einstein’s circle of compassion

Albert Einstein’s famous quote about optical delusions, ends with him saying “This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free … Continue reading

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Send kindly thoughts

Send kindly thoughts open a kindly conversation :- Doug.

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Ways to be touched

Complexity seems to have a place too, an overarching place. For we know grandchildren and elders, sky and small critters, are all complex. Yet somehow are we all knowable. Complexity, rather than making all unapproachable, gives us innumerable ways to … Continue reading

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Given an opportunity

Given an opportunity —to elder— for the grandchildren many are called few have chosen :- Doug.

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Grandchild you are complex

Grandchild you are complex aspects and facets places and people discoverable and unknowable neuron sinew heart and sky :- Doug.

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Momentary peak experiences

It is the task of our course to give us momentary peak experiences to perceive reality more truly than in ordinary hours. :- Doug.

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The human coeur

If we are going to make a world hospitable for the grandchildren, it won’t be through physical constructs like planned cities, technological devices, drugs, even cyborgs. Rather it will be re-designing, or rather re-finding, the human coeur. :- Doug.

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5 minutes after your death

Imagine you observing the people closest to you, 5 minutes after your death; 5 weeks. Observe now the animals nearby, pets, wild animals, birds, insects at those same 5 minutes and 5 weeks. Now observe these same people and animals … Continue reading

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