Giving thanks....again and again!

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Giving Thanks

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Paradigm shift - Reconciliation

          This is a diagram of a paradigm shift.....http://www.thwink.org/sustain/manuscript1/index.htm

Thomas Kuhn talked about this in the 60's   He intellectually talked about what was going on.....how we are stuck.  How we change, and grow....that is ,in this rather dysfuctional world...

THIS is a diagram more about an idealized personal process  http://www.tomorrowmakers.org/journal/2009/4/9/following-the-paradigm-shift.html   I like the harmonization between insight, logic and action.  All seem necessary - the coordination of them seems critical.

Quigley wrote about the evolution of civilizations, and  Joseph Carroll wrote about Literary Darwinism ( or evolution, or change) 

http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/what-is-literary-darwinism-an-interview-with-joseph-carroll/

http://neuronarrative.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/survival-of-the-kindest-an-interview-with-dacher-keltner/

Does this remind anyone else of the Tower of Babel?   ah yes.

all this simply comes to the point....of our modern crisis. 

I love the Hero story;  yet in our modern days - without more traditional community supports, this can lead to separation from the family. 

just think of these two heros..

..  vs. 

Who is the hero to the child?  Their Parents, of course!  Reconciliation with this early God-image and the reality of human beings who have various faults is a big job~!    

Hellenism- Hero and Individuation  vs   Hebraism - Jacob and Esau,

reconciliation  and reidentification with the parent figure 

How about the unification of THESE two heros?

  and  

Although Esau said he "saw the face of God "  in the face of his brother, later events might suggest all was not totally reconciled.  Still, this was the beginning of "Israel", a start away from  Babel, and back toward the Garden of Eden, where God could dwell with mankind.

I would put forth...that we are looking for the development of Penelope....the faithful wife of Odysseus, who not only waited - but kept the Kingdom for her King, with great cleverness and fortitude.  And of Susanna, in the Hebraic story of Susanna and the Elders, and of Esther, etc.   Dame Julian of Norwich talked of the Mother God  ...  and a contemplative order founded after her teachings has both men and women   http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/17426.htm

God is Not just our Father;  God is our Mother....and our harmonized Parents....

we are looking for Heavenly Parents, in heroic RELATIONAL form

- in human form, here on earth

 and

We need women.....to become heroic women, mothers, daughters, sister.  Women in the dynamic of relationship...where they can bring that motherly essence, and reconciliation

The MOST revolutionary thing, is a woman....being a woman.....   

Currently EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS, THE By Carroll Quigley see related

Happy 21!!

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Individuation

    ah yes.....    mom changes position!   advocate, always.  advisor, stepped back a bit.  the process? Individuation!

we go through it....again and again!  welcome to adulthood guys!~  my guy, sam  gets 21 soon.  away from home. Oh well.  he will be back as we ....officially....give thanks.  Glad for that.  We went to New York City last weekend....to celebrate!  3 moms, 3 girls, 2 birthdays....lots of love and memories

Why does it seem new each turn of the wheel?   so....thanks for kids!  as they mature, we remember! 

http://www.psychoideology.com/The-Hero%27s-Journey.html   Carl Jung formulated our current, western formulation.

It is  The hero's journey.  let's begin!   seeing the Met museum of art with many young friends last weekend....lovely time!  

primitive Greek urns.....   not so remarkable.  not unlike much native American art, and others.  geometrical, nice.  about 700 BCE   

THEN.....the jump!  starting around 500 BCE  -    the uniqueness of each individual came out!  you would recognize them today, if you saw them.  VERY different!

the difference?  the HERO! 

 it was the axial age, the convergence of many lives....where men were willing to 'fight the gods'  or the paradigms of their day, for what they knew to be true.  Perhaps they thought something like this...

 ⁷And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

 ⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

 ⁹Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you. (Philippians 4:7-9, King James Version)

Somehow, we began to think.  About EACH OTHER!  and kindness.  And it became worth it....to steal fire from the 'gods'....not in arroagance  But in Love....so the people wouldn't be afraid of the dark, and wouldn't be cold in the night.  amazing. 

And we found they were NOT gods, but saw divinity in each other

saw him too, at Rockefeller center!   amen and aju!

Foundation of Faith, the journey

Foundation of Substance, the reason for the journey

Currently Joseph Campbell - The Hero's Journey By Joseph Campbell (III), Jean Erdman, George Lucas, Peter Donat see related