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Deeper, we need it to be about building the preferred future into the grandchildren. :- Doug.

In what ways are you growing? In what ways does the world look differently to you from how it did a few years ago? :- Doug.

This is the lever long enough: What sort of humanity do you choose? :- Doug.

Now that we’ve learned to keep on growing, to see bigger, and to play, we need to apply these things to the question: What sort of humanity will we choose? :- Doug.

Eldering is in large portion a task of imagining. Imagining yourself into the grandchildren’s world, imagining a future discontinuous with the present culture. :- Doug.

There are today few elders because we do not choose; few choose because we do not imagine. :- Doug.

Past adult we need a different measuring stick. For instance, speed, ability to move fingers or juggle numbers, eyesight have no place. Insight to a larger world, spiritual unfolding, and mediating between numinous and mundane are examples of eldering. Measuring … Continue reading →

Elder is a step past adult. :- Doug.

Whether or not we can converse with a grandchild-elder, we take upon ourselves the transcendence of ourselves. :- Doug.