Category Archives: Eldering
Maslow says study
Maslow says to learn to be healthy, to be self actualized, we must study those who are. Let’s look for other elders and learn from them, befriending them. :- Doug.
Make ever finer
Eldering has no end humans make ever finer :- Doug.
The real action
The real action For the Grandchildren is in the reaches of the interpersonal, the transpersonal, the morphological. :- Doug.
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.
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
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.
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.
Out past the sky
Through the leaves Out past the sky Across elusive sills Play among The grandchildren :- Doug.
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
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
Given an opportunity
Given an opportunity —to elder— for the grandchildren many are called few have chosen :- Doug.
Grandchild you are complex
Grandchild you are complex aspects and facets places and people discoverable and unknowable neuron sinew heart and sky :- Doug.
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.
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.
Far-sight and insight
Elders exercise far-sight and insight. :- Doug.
Grandchildren’s issues and opportunities?
What are the issues and opportunities for the 300 year grandchild-elder? :- Doug.