By Jim Selman |
Bio
It seems to me that there are three
fundamental relationships that we all share as human beings: 1) our
relationship with ourselves and other people, 2) our relationship with
our circumstances, and 3) our relationship with time. When we are
inflexible or stuck in habitual ways of being in any of these areas, we
become trapped in a condition from which we cannot extract ourselves: we
are caught in a ‘self-referential’ spiral in which the more we attempt
to improve a situation, the more intractable it becomes. In the extreme,
this condition becomes an addiction— whether to a substance, a behavior
or an ideology.[
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By Jim Selman |
Bio
Do you know that terrible sinking feeling when
something really bad happens that you didn’t expect—something that you
know will have a major and probably permanently negative impact on your
life and the lives of those you love—and there is nothing you can do
about it?[
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By Jim Selman |
Bio
Last Friday night I had the pleasure and
the privilege of attending an “
Awakening
the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” Symposium, an event offered by the
Pachamama Alliance. This short program has each of us examine ourselves
and our relationship to a world “in crisis”. The purpose of the
Symposium and the Alliance is to change our collective vision (dream)
and to “bring forth an environmentally sustainable, socially just and
spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet” as the guiding
principle of our times. Lynne Twist, the author of
The Soul of Money,
an old friend and constant source of inspiration, led the evening.[
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