This is liminal territory. New life is emerging. Our old maps don’t work anymore. Welcome to “confusionism”, as Gabriel Lovemore calls it. He says, “Confusion is not comfortable. But certainty is the obstacle. When we think we know, we stop receiving. The cup is already full. ‘In deep transformation, in systemic change, dead knowledge gets in the way. What we need is not more information. “What we need is the capacity to sense what’s actually happening before our mind gets a chance to...

I’ve had my personal version of a life-changing, deep disillusionment. We’re in the chrysalis, in a VERY challenging and transformative passage, with real life and aliveness possible on the other side. I’ve walked, and continue to walk, that journey and know that territory personally. The cultural paradigm I grew up in was very traditional, competitive, judgmental, right-wrong, external-authority, masculine/patriarchy-based. Growing up, I didn’t question it. I just took it as the way...

Here is evidence of coherence in spite of all the contrary appearances. Our paradigms are shifting. This is progress, because what got us here can’t get us “there” (where we want to go ). Have you heard this phrase? “TINA: There Is No Alternative .” If you haven’t heard it explicitly, do you know it’s the underlying foundational belief that runs our current culture and systems ? It was popularized by Margaret Thatcher and reinforced through the Reagan era. It expresses the paradigm...